Hershey News 1964-04-02

              HERSHEY NEWS
Vol. 12 HERSHEY, PENNSYLVANIA, APRIL 2, 1964
EASTER MESSAGE at the annual Sunrise Services in the Hershey Gar-dens
was presented by the Rev. Elmer II. Horst, pastor of the Fish.
burn Evangelical United Brethren Church. Worshippers throughout
the Hershey area enjoyed the lovely Easter morning sunrise herald-
Lag the coming of Easter. From left to right are The Rev. Thomas
W. Guinivan, The Rev. Robert M. Lezenby, The Rev. H. Walter Web-ner,
The Rev. Kermit L. Lloyd, Rev. W. Lyndon Hess, The Rev.
Elmer H. Horst and The Rev. Ira 0. Reed.
Target Date For First Bloom Of Tulips Is April 19
John P. Meszaros, Director of
the Hershey Gardens, has an-nounced
April 19 as the target date
for the first bloom of the early
tulips such as Kaufmanniana, Gre-gii
and Fosteriana. Looking their
best about the same time will be
150 varieties of daffodils (Narcissi)
ranging in color from white, pale
yellow, pink, golden yellow to deep
orange and orange red..
Front April 26 to May 17, the re-mainder
of the 30,000 tulips, 500
varieties, are expected to be at
their best. Among these are Double
Early, Peony, Lily-Flowered, Par-rot,
Darwin, Cottage and Triumph
species.
Again this year, visitdrs will mar-vel
at the delicate fringed petals
of the Orchid Flowering tulips.
Joining the color parade of reds,
dazzling yellows and charming
whites are the pretty pinks and
lovely lavenders. Contrasting focal
points of color-are created by the
bicolors and near-black.
Of special note are the beds of
tulips designed as a Windmill, Tu-lip
Flower and Wooden Shoe. Each
bed is planted with tulips of the
same bloom period. The Shoe and
Flower beds bloom early, and the
Windmill blooms toward the end
of the tulip season.
Forty varieties of hyacinths with
their colors of white, yellow, pink,
red lavender, blue and orange, will
also be in full bloom.
There's no need to tip toe--theu
the tulips because the wide walks
are deep carpets of grass. Flower-ing
shrubs, forsythia, quince, azal-eas
and magnolias add pleasant
backgrounds that delight the photo-grapher.
The newness of spring is
everywhere in the green leaves of
white birch and maples, in the
maroon red of the new rose leaves,
and in the multi-shades of ever-greens.
Visitors are welcome to enjoy
this colorful tulip display daily
from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. at no cost
for admission or parking.
Rotary Anns To Be Entertained At Rotary Conference
One of the highlights of the 50th
Annual, Rotary Conference of Dis-trict
739, to be held in Hershey on
April 12 and 13, will be the luncheon
for the Rotary Arms at the Hotel
Hershey on Monday, April 13.
At the luncheon the ladies will be
entertained by Miss Ruth Kyler, Mez-zo
Soprano, who will tell the story
and sing arias from the opera "Mad-ame
Butterfly."
Miss Kyler began her career as
a pianist and started concert work
at the age of nine. She was trained
by local teachers and was graduated
from the Eastman School of Music.
As a student at Eastman she ac-companied
many singers, including
Robert Word, whose opera "Cruci-ble"
won the Pulitizer Prize in 1950.
Miss Kyler later injured her right
arm and gave up piano to study
voice. She became a student of
Frank LeForge, from whose studios
came great voices such as Lawr-ence
Tibbett, Lily Pons, Cassell,
Crooks and others.-
Miss Kyler is now associated with
Eleanor McLelland, a teacher of
Roberta Peters and Eileen Farrell.
After the luncheon, buses will take
the Rotary Anna to one of the beau-tiftd
new homes for the boys of the
Milton Hershey School. They will
also tour the newly renovated and
redecorated Fannie B. Hershey
Memorial School.
The public is cordially invited
to attend the Rotary worship serv-ice
Sunday evening, April 12, at
7:30 p.m. in the Community The-atre.
The Milton Hershey School
Glee Club, under the direction of
Virgil Alexander, will provide the
sacred music and the speaker will
be Dr. Richard II. Crawford,
Executive Secretary of the York
County Council of Churches.
No. 7
A. G. Breidenstine To Speak At National Library Week Dinner
An illustrated lecture on Russia
will be given by Dr. A. G. Breiden-stine,
dean of academic affairs at
Millersville State College, at the Na-tional
Library Week dinner to be
held on April 14.
Th dinner which is scheduled to
begin at 6:30 p.m. in the Early Cen-tury
Room of the Cocoa Inn, is
chairmanned by Mrs. Robert
Schock. Mrs. Schock has announ-ced
that tickets for the affair will
be $3.00.
"Reading is the Key" is the theme
Hershey Figure Skating
Club To Present Ice Show
"Spanish Fiesta," Hershey Figure
Skating Club's 30th annual ice pro-duction,
will be presented at the Her-shey
Sports Arena on Friday, April
17 at 8 p.m. and Saturday, April 18
at 1:15 p.m., it was announced to-day
by Richard Hummel, club pres-ident.
Guest starring in the production
will be Tommy Litz former Hershey
club member who received world-wide
acclaim recently when he
placed 6th in the Olympic champion-ships
at Innsbruck Austria and the
World Championships at Dortmund,
Germany. At Dormund he was call-ed
the finest freestyle skater in the
world and awarded a first place in
the free skating phase of the com-petition.
Litz has since turned pro-fessional
with Ice Capades, but was
granted permission by his new em-ployers
for a final appearance with
members of his home club.
A cast of more than. 200 skaters,
all members of the Hershey Figure
Skating Club's junior and senior di-visions
,will participate in the color-ful
show which is produced and di-rected
by Felix Kaspar former
world's champion and senior pro-fessional
instructor at the Hershey
rink. Kasper is assisted by Miss
Joan Seddon, former British North-ern
and Midland Ice Dance Cham-pion.
The event, sanctioned by the Unit-ed
States Figure Skating Associa-tion,
is one of the biggest and finest
amateur ice shows in the East. Tick-ets
are available from club mem-bers
or at Hershey Sports Arena
box office at $1.50 for adults and
$1.00 for students and children.
There are no reserved seats.
New Parcel Post Rates
New domestic parcel post rate
increases were effective April 1.
The parcel post increase — -ap-proved
recently by the Interstate
Commerce Commission and ave-raging
about 13.1% — is expected
to yield about $75.4 million annual-ly.
The higher rates do not effect
air parcel post or international
parcel post. The last parcel post
increase was on February 1, 1960.
Hershey Center Offers Course In Ballet
An eight-week course in Ballet will
be offered by the Hershey Com-munity
Center for girls 8 to 12 years
okl from April 16 to June 4. The
course will be held at the Cocoa
Avenue Plaza on Thursday from 3:30
to approximately 4:15 p.m.
No fees are required to join the
dancing class, but all entrants must
register at the Community Center
desk prior to the opening of the
course. Registration must be com-pleted
between April 6 and April 15.
The Ballet class is open only be af-filiates
of the Center with registra-tion
limited to 20 students.
The course is designed to instill an
appreciation of Ballet as one of the
arts. It will function primarily as an
introduction of basic techniques and
movements. No previous experience
is necessary, although those with
some prior experience are welcome
to register.
Mrs. Robert Rice of Hershey will
be the instructor of the class. Mrs,
Rice has had extensive training and
experience in teaching tbruiem and
dame.
for the annual national event to be
held the week of April 12 through
April 18.
An Art Exhibition with the work
of local artists on display will be
held during the week in the Hershey
Public Library. Chairmen of the
art exhibit are Miss Eleanor King
and Mr. William Batchelor.
Carol Frazier a freshman student
at the Hershey Juniofi College has
been named "Librarian-For-A-Day"
by the NLW Committee. Carol will
serve as the librarian in the Hershey
Public Library on April 14.
A Book Review will be given by
the Rev. Karl Flocken of Hummels-town
in the Little Theatre of the
Community Center. Mrs. Robert
Sinclair is serving as chairman of
the Review which has been schedul-ed
for 8 p.m. on April 15.
The pre-school and primary chil-dren
of the community will be en-tertained
at a story-telling and book
review session on Saturday April 18
at 10 a.m. in the Little Theatre of
the Community Center. Mrs. Paul
Heaps librarian, will be in charge
with the assistance of Miss Carol
Frazier.
A Combined Open House at the
Milton Hershey School Library and
the Hershey Public Library will be
held from 2 to 4 p.m. on April 19.
Mrs. Richard Rudisill will have
charge of the open house at the Mil-ton
Hershey School and Mrs. Ham-ilton
Pickering is chairman at the
Public Library.
Mr. Edwin K. Zechman, president
of the Friends of the Hershey Pub-lic
Library, has announced that a
membership drive is currently in
progress and will continue through
National Library Week. Membership
drive chairman is Mr. Dennis Cas-telli.
Mr. Zechman also has charge
Dr. A. G. Breidenstine
of a display to be placed in the win-dow
of the Hershey Drug Store.
Committee members include The
Ven. Kermit Lloyd, chairman; Den-nis
Castelli, Eleanor King, Mrs. Rob-ert
Schock, Mrs. Richard Rudisill„
Mrs. Gerald Long, Mrs. Hamilton
Pickering, Richard Bacastow, Ed-win
Zechman and Mrs. Paul Heaps.
HONORED at a recent dinner was Tommy Litz, former national
figure skating champion and a competitor in the Olympic and
World Competitions. Tommy placed sixth in both events but won the
free skating portion of the World meet at Dortmund, Germany.
Left to right are Lloyd B1Mco, general manager of the Sports Arena;
Litz; Dick Button, former World, Olympic and National figure skat-ing
champion who said Litz is one of the greatest free skaters the
sport has ever known; and Richard Hummel, Figure Skating Club
president.
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