Hershey News 1959-03-12

              HERSHEY NEWS
Vol. 7 HERSHEY, PENNSYLVANIA, MARCH 12, 1959
PROCESSING 'GROUP INSURANCE CLAIMS and dispensing .information keeps this
office busy. Here,- Mrs. Minnie Lex of the Hershey Chocolate Corporation's Wrap-ping
Department (at left) receives an insurance policy from Mrs. Judith Dourte (seat-ed),
-while Milton J. Shaeffer, a Hershey Estates Garage employee, discusses insur-,
ance matter with Mrs. Doris Gerlach. Mrs. Lex has been employed by the Chocolate
Corpor.ution for elev y oars, while:Mr. Sliatefleoftistra,35-year employee
Garage. The insurance office staff -is headed by W. Royce Ward and, although located
in the Hershey Chocolate Corporation office building, it administers the group msut-ance
program for the Chocolate Corporation, Hershey E s t at e s and Milton Hershey
School.
Concert Tour For School Orchestra
The Hershey 1il.1 School
Orchestra is preparing for its
second annual Spring Concert
Tour which will take titlace on
March 16 and 17.
The tour will take the Her-shey
organization to Bald
Eagle-Nittany High Sch6o1 at
Mill Hall for an assembly con-cert,
then on to Renoyo for an
evening concert for , the com-munity.,
,
One of the highlights will
be a two-hour concert clinic
sponsored by the Music De-partment
of the Pennsylvania
State University and present-ed
by the -Hetshey High
School Orchestra before the
present and future' music
teachers. ,
The orchestra, conducted
by Miss-Jane I. Ethel, numbers
52 members. The concerts will
feature Rodney Stoessel as
piano soloist, Richard Hiler as
trumpet soloist:and the string
ensemble.
Reid Henderson Mary Ann Donovan
Reid Henderson and Mary Ann Donovan play the
lead roles in the Hershey Junior College Players' pre-sentation
of "Bell, Book and Candle." The production
will be presented for the public on March 194ari4 20 in
the Little Theatre.
Hershey High' Musician
Gets' State Band Honor
:Richard Hiler, son of Bruce
Hiler of Hershey -Route 2, has
been selected to play first
trumpet in the Pennsylvania
All-State Orchestra. in Scran-ton-
on Thursday, Friday, and
Saturday of this week: • •
The young trumpet artist is
a- Junior at Hershey :High
School, where he is-a member
of the orchestra, band,, and
chorus.. He is president -of the
3chool!s 'Music, Club..
. This past. summer he at-tended
a six week 'music
scboor on the PennOvania
State University campus. •
•
Horticulture Society's
New. Officers Elected
Mrs. Richard Bacastow was
elcted president 'of the Her-shey
Horticulture-Society at
the March Meeting of the or-ganization.
She, succeeds Mrs.
Ralph 'Horst: '
-Other officers elected dur-ing
the session -were Mrs. J.
L. Stahl, vice-president; Mrs.
MarvIn Cohen, corresponding
secretary; Mrs.•Paul Seavers,
recording secretary; and Mrs.
Milton Miller, treasurer.
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Hershey's Group Insurance Program
Reached New High Mark During 1958
Statistics have just been
compiled and released by the
Hershey Chocolate Corpora-tion,
Hershey Estates and the
Milton Hershey School re-garding
claims paid to their
employees and eligible depen-dents
under the comprehen-sive
group insurance plan car-ried
for the benefit of the em-ployees.
These claims reached the
staggering total • of more
than $6,700,000 since the
plan was initiated in 1939.
The 1958 premiums cost.the
companies nearly $1,00,000.
The figures are for the com-prehensive
- group - insurance
plan only and do not include
the companies' contributions
to the retirement program.
The program includes life
insurance, accident and health
weekly benefits, and hospital
and surgical coverage. It is
underwritten by the Metro-politan
Life Insurance -Com-pany,
and the entire cost- is
paid by the employers. - •
*At Hershey ' Chocolate
Corporation there was a
total of 2,838 claims paid
dating 1958, while Hershey
Estates reported 685 claims
and the Milton Hershey
School paid benefits on 292
claims. The insurance of-fice
is presently writing ap-proximately
5,000 benefit
checks a year.
The -largest hospital bill
paid during the year, was $2,-'
474.80, while the largest
amount of weekly disability
benefits paid under the pro-gram
was $1,040. There were;
many surgical bills which
reached the maximum amount
of $300.
The dollar amount paid dur-ing
1958 is the largest for any
year since the program was
begun in 1939. Officials of the
companies stressed that the
dollar amount of claims was
skyrocketing, and that the
,total premium for 1958 was
more than three times the
cost predicted when the bene-fits
were liberalized in 1954,
Students Display Exhibits
At Hershey Science Fair
criepe„„e„ pro-,
_wets on such diverse 'subjects
as rocketry, resonance, taxi-dermy
and carnivorous plants
were- exhibited by Hershey
senior and junior high school
students last Friday.at a sci-ence
fair. Winners were quali-fied
to-enter the Capital Area
Science Fair at Zembo Mosque
April '4-8.
At the local school's prelim-inary
fair on Friday, prizes
were awarded to two students
in each senior high School sci-ence
cat egor y, with four
prizes awarded in the junior
high division. •
Projects of all descriptions
were exhibited.
A three-stage missile ex-hibited
by Dennis 'Lauder-milch
was awarded first place
in the Math and Engineering
dents. The award winners:
Senior High Division
Math and Engineering —
Dennis Laudermilch, three-stage
missile; William
Charle s, demonstration of
analog and digital computers.
Chemistry — Anne Koons,
electrolysis of sodium chlor-ide;
Sally Meckley, chemistry
of coal.
Physics — Thomas DiStef-ano,
resonance; David Bikle,
Foucault pendulum.
Conservation = Lewis
Maurer and John Clouser.
Biology — Marena Tighe,
honey exhibit; Robert Kirk-patrick,
taxidermy.
Junior: High . Division
Carol Warrington, the cell;
David Snyder, remote weather
vane; Gary Paul, finding area
of square; Genee Garman,-
category for senior high stu- carnivorous plants.
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