Hershey News 1962-03-01

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Vol. 10 HERSHEY, PENNSYLVANIA, MARCH, 1, 1962 NOS
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TOURING The Hershey Chocolate Corporation on the school tour
program of visits to industry provided by the Central Pennsylvania
Chapter of ACES are students from the senior class of Hershey
High School. In the photo, Richard Bacastow points out to the stu-dent
group some of the processes of chocolate as depicted in the
Visitors' Department. Richard A. Zimmerman, Administrative As-sistant
of the corporation, was host to the group and their instruct-ors,
Miss Anna M. Shankweiler and Mrs. Ruth Saufley. Students
from Milton Hershey School toured the plant at an earlier date.
Senior Classes Tour
Chocolate Corp. On
Pa. ACES Program
The senior classes of M. S. Her-shey
High School and Milton Her-shey
Schools recently participated
in the school tour program of visits
to industry, conducted annually by
the Central Pennsylvania Chapter
of ACES. The Americans for the
Competitive Enterprise System,
. Inc., provide this specific occasion
for high school seniors to take an
analytical look at our American
business system in action.
The tour was preceded by a
classroom discussion period with
Melvin J. Freeman, Executive Di-rectors
of the Central Penna. Chap-ter
of ACES on the day prior to
their scheduled tour, covering basic
economics of running a business
and what to look for on their tour.
Following the "behind the scenes"
visit of Chocolate Corporation, the
students were given a discussion
period with a representative of the
Hershey .company to answer any
questions about the tour.
Dauphin County Band
Festival To Be Held
Plans are being completed for the
annual Dauphin County band festi-val
to be held this year on March 3,
at 8:00 in the Milton Ilerbhey School
auditorium at-Hershey. Guests con-ductors
for the festival will be Mr.
Maurice Taylor. of Montrose, Penn-sylvania
who will conduct the senior
high school band, and James Steffy,
director of bands at Susquehanna
University, who will conduct the
junior high school band.
More than 250 young muicians will
represent their schools in the festi-val,
according to Ray B. Miller,
host 'for this year's -festival. The
festival program will be equally
divided between a junior high school
band and a senior high school band
composed of• students representing
most of the junior and senior high
bands in Dauphin County. The pur-pose
of the festival, according to
Miller, is to give outstanding young
musicians a chance to participate
in an "All Star" performing group
under the direction of outstanding
conductors.
Council Of Chrrch
Women To Observe
World [My Of Prayer
Theme for the annual observ-ance
of the World Day of Prayer,
by the Hershey Council of Church
Women will be "For God So Loved
the. World," it was announced by
Mrs. J. R. MacDonald, chairman
of the prayer committee.
A twenty-four hour prayer vigil
will begin at 7:30 p.m. on Thurs-day
evening, March 8 in the All
Saints t piscopal Mission with con-tinuous
prayer and worship until
Friday evening, March 9 at 7:30
p.m. The last half hour from 7
to 7:30 p.m. on Friday will be held
in the Chapel at the Evangelical
Lutheran Church of the Holy Trini-ty.
Everyone is invited to attend
and it has" been arranged that a
prayer leader will be present
throughout the 24-hour prayer
period.
At the conclusion of the prayer
vigil, Dr. Raymond Veh, Editor of
"Builders", a youth magazine, will
speak to the public on prayer. Mrs.
J. R. MacDonald will preside at the
service and the Rev, Robert M.
Lezenby of the Holy Trinity Luth-eran
Church will have charge of
the offering and the Benediction.
A special service for children
of primary and junior age will be
held at 7:30 p.m. in the Children's
Department of the church under
the direction of Mrs. Austin Ceiling
tyl Miss Betty Bartels.
Hershey Telephone
Co. Announces New
Toll Charge Plans
The Hershey Telephone Company
and Bell Telephone Company of
Pennsylvania announced recently of
plans to eliminate the 15 cents charge
between Hershey and Harrisburg,
effective April 20, 1962. Also, the
10-cent toll charge between Her-shey
and Shellsville will be elim-inated.
Kenneth V. Hatt, Manager and
Comptroller of the Hershey Tele-phone
Company stated that a modest
increase in local service rates was
proposed to partially offset the loss
in toll revenues and for investment
in plant facilities required to make
the changes.
HERSHEY CHOCOLATE CORPORATION employees have again received the Pennsylvania Manu-facture
Association's highest safety citation, the "Million Hour Plaque" in ceremonies held recently
at the plant. This is the 5th award for the corporation employees who were granted the award for
1,210,996 consecutive man hours without a time loss accident. Presenting the award for PMA, is Mi.
James Malone, president; and accepting for the Hershey Plant is Samuel F. Hinkle, president.
Looking on are (left to right) R. Sterle Sponaugle, President of Local 464, ABC; Robert M. Bucher,
Superintendent of Production; George Bohner, Plant Engineer and Chairman of the Safety Commit-tee;
and George Hall, Chocolate Corporation President of Local 464.
CHAMPIONS HONORED — Tommy Litz (left) Hershey's National
Junior Men's Figure Skating champion, and Jackie Henry (second
from right) Hershey's Middle Atlantic AAU Open Diving champion,
were honored by the Ilershey Rotary Club at a recent club luncheon
meeting. The youthful champions are shown here with their respec-tive
coaches, Felix Kaspar, Hershey Skating pro, and Miss Kathy
Lewis, Hershey Community Club assistant swimming coach.
Hershey Girl Scouts
Plan Public Exhibit
In celebration.of Girl Scout Week,
Hershey Scouts will participate in
the National Roundup Projec t,
"Picture Your Home Frontier," by
staging an exhibit at '..he Social
Room of the Community Building
on Saturday, March 10, from 1 to
4 p.m. The public is invited to at-tend
the exhibit and see what Scout-ing
means to the girls of Hershey.
Their accomplishments reflect your
interest and cooperation and en-courages
the Scouts to greater
achievements of the wholesome
ideals set forth by the founders of
Girl Scouts 50 years ago. •
Each of the 36 local Scout and
Brownie Troops have been asked
to enter a display of original work.
Advance reports from the busy
troops promise a most varied ex-hibit
of sketches, paintings, photo-graphs,
di splays depicting all
phases of community life in its
earliest days, craft work in Indian
and Pennsylvania Dutch themes,
posters featuring current-day ac-tivities
of our community, troop
demonstrations a n d displays of
scouting projects.
Committee chair man for the
event is Mrs. Edwin Zechman, co-chairman,
Mrs. Leon Wrona, with
Mrs. Isaiah Bomboy, Mrs. Delmar
Grove, Mrs. John . Hershey, and
Mrs. Charles Muench, Jr., complet-ing
the cominittee.. Mrs. J. M.
Shenefelt is serving as art con-sultant-
and advisor for the project.
Mrs. Douglas Henry, chairman of.
the Juliette Low Committee has an-.
flounced that, in conjunction with
the displays of the different phases
of Girl Scouting, there will be
Juliette Low tables where each
troop may arrange its own cere-mony
of presentation towards this
special fund called "Dimes for
Daisies."
All Girl Scout and Brownie troops
will attend religious services at the
Evangelical Lutheran Church of the
Holy Trinity at 7:30 p.m. or at the
St. Joan of Arc Catholic Church at
7 p.m. on Sunday, March II.
Parents and friends are invited to
attend.
Elected
At the annual meeting of
the Hershey Estates held on
February 6, 1962, six direct-ors
were elected, including T.
R. Banks, J. E. Bobb, S. F.
Hinkle, W. R. Mayer, J. B.
Sollenberger and A. R. White-'
man S. F. Hinkle and W. R..
Mayer are newly elected di-rectors.
The board elected the fol-lowing
officers of the Her-shey
Estates, J. B. Sollenberg-er,
president; T. R. Banks, J.
E. Bobb and A. R. Whiteman,
Vice Presidents; Secretary-
Treasurer, W. R. Mayer; and
Kenneth V. Hatt, Comptrol-ler.
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