Hershey News 1958-09-25

              HERSHEY NEWS
Vol. 6 HERSHEY, PENNSYLVANIA, SEPTEMBER 25, 1958 No.' 39
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THE COMMUNITY'S BIG NEW EMERGENCY AND RESCUE TRUCK, officially
housed and dedicated last Thursday evening, was on display on the plaza of the C-orn-,
munity Building all day prior to the dediea don ceremonies. In the photo above, three
members of the community get first-hand information on the vehicle's equipment..
From left are Scandiano Bechini, Dale-Heis, -Reid Henderson and firemen 'Kenny Gar-man
and C. L. Garman.
'BELOW—At ceremonies at the fire house, C. J. Speicher, center, turns over, the.
keys to the emergency and rescue truck to Fire Chief Eugene Gray. Left to right: Fire
CA;ualpwly. Fu om any President Felton
Ebersole and J. C. Hess.'
Antique Automobile M eet Set For Hershey
Gleaming and proud, de- cars will begin arriving on
spite their age, several hun-dred
antique cars will be on
display at the annual Fall
Meet of the Antique Automo-bile
Club of America at Her-shey
Stadium October 3
through October 5.
The gathering of old time
gas buggies many dating
back to the early 1900's—is
sponsored by the Hershey Re-gion
of the AACA.
D. Ray Miller, director of
the meet, has announced that
Friday, October 3. Early ar-rivals
will be stored under the
stadium seats overnight.
The Saturday, October 4,
program of events is open to
the public at no admission
charge and will get under
way with the judging of the
vehicles at 11 a.m. There will
be costume judging at one
p.m., followed by , a high-wheeler
race for the George
M. Hughes Trophy at two
p.m.
The day's festivities will
conclude with an AACA ban-quet
at seven o'clock in the
Community Dining Room.
A breakfast run, covering
twelve miles, will begin the
Sunday events, and the cars
will again be on exhibition at
the stadium after ten o'clock.
Active in the planning for
the meet, along with Miller,
are Stanley Groy, secretary
of the Hershey Region, and
Thomas Williams, activities
director.
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Infer-Club Speaker
DR. EUGENE P. 'RERUN, as-sistant
executive secretary of the
Pennsylvania State -Education
Association, will address the sixth
annual inter-club meeting of Her-shey's
three service clubs —
Lions, Optimists and Rotary —
in the Community Building Din-ing
°Room on Monday, October 6.
Charles Bikle, president of the
host Optimist Club, will preside
at the dinner 'meeting which will
get under way at 6:30 p.m.
Dr: Bertin, who will Speak on
the theme of "Highlights and
Overtones," is a native Permsyl-
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Rescue Apparatus
Is Dedicatecl To
Serve Communily
Hershey's newest piece of
protective apparatus, - the
Hershey Volunteer Fire Com-pany's
- custom-built emergen-cy,
and rescue truck, was offi-,
cially housed and- "dedicated"
by the residents and industry
of Deny Township to better
serve our community" last
Thursday. evening, September
18.
Speaking at the ceremony
held in -front of the fire hall,
Clarence J. Speicher pointed
out the parallel quality of the
company's fine equipment and
its dedicated personnel.
Speicher, who headed the
campaign for funds to pur-chase
the emergency and res-cue
truck, also paid high trib-ute
to the people and indus-tries
of the community who
historically have given gener-ous
support to the volunteer
firemen and ambulance corps.
Similar sentiments were
expressed by the Rev. William
Sheldon Blair, fire company
chaplain, during the housing
ceremony. Rev. Blair gave the
invocation and benediction.
Serving as master of cere-monies
was Fire Company
ident Felton W. Ebel mAth,
Fire Chief Eugene Gray re-ceived
the keys to the new
truck from Mr. Speicher. •
The big "mercy wagon,"
seven tons-plus of emergency
and rescue equipment, is de-signed
to serve -in many types
of accidents and disasters and
carries four ambulance type
litters and 31 blankets. It is
equipped with an E & J re-suscitator
and first aid sup-plies.
Rescue devices. carried by
the truck will extricate NiC-tims
from smashed vehicles,
collapsed walls and buildings,
and other situations.
A Port-O-Power rescue tool
kit provides power tools for
forcing wreckage apart to re-lease
trapped victims. The
Port-O-Power outfit and E &
J resuscitator were gifts of
the fire company- ladies auxil-iary.
Another rescue device is an
electric saw- for cutting metal,
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