Hershey News 1962-12-06

              HERSHEY NEWS
Vol. 10 ® • • *HERSHEY, PENNSYLVANIA, DECEMBER 6, 1962 No. 24
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VARICOLORED decorations create a warm Christmas scene at
the East End's entrance to the Hershey Chocolate Corporation.
This night shot by photographer Bob Warrington shows the entrance
and the decorations on the east side of the Engineering and La-boratory
building. Folks entering Hershey from the east on Choco-late
Avenue are afforded an excellent Christmas panorama, what
with the decorated trees and homes along the Avenue.
Highmeadow Camp To
Be Opened Next May
R.,.cogruirtg the growing interest
In family camping, ten acres of
meadowland adjacent to the Swa-tara
Creek two miles northwest
of Hershey has been designated as
tie Hershey Highmeadow Camp.
With complete facilities for tent
camping, the site is ideal for the
family that enjoys the freedom
from the hustle and bustle of
everyday life, yet is within easy
distance of the summer playground
of Pennsylvania.
Campsite facilities, with 50 sites
on the 10-acre location, include
tables, flush toilets, showers and
firewood, with fishing and boating
available on the nearby Swatara
Creek.,
The cost will be $2.00 per family
per night.
The new tenting site, which will
be opened May 1, 1963, is situated
a short distance from the intersec-tion
of old Route 422 and Route 39
(the Airport Road west) near the
Reading Railroad's underpass.
An attractive map has been pre-pared
for distribution to tenting
enthusiasts, indicating that the sea-son
will be from May 1 through
September 30.
Postmaster Urges Early
Mailing For Christmas
Postmaster Men W. Seavers said
today, "Right now is the time to
start your Christmas cards and gifts
on their way."
Postmaster Seavers also suggests,
"Be sure to send your Christmas
cards by FIRST CLASS MAIL, us-ing
the attractive NEW 4c CHRIST-MAS
STAMPS.
It's especially important to in-clude
your return address on every
Christmas card envelope."
Your local office will remain
open all day for service on Satur-day,
December 15th.
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GOING UP for the last time, the familiar plastic Christmas
decorations were installed at the famous Chocolate crossroads by
Eugene Gray (on top of ladder) and Allen R. Bohr. Procured for
the 50th Anniversary Celebration of Hershey, the decorations will
give way to progress what with new street lights planned for Choco-late
Avenue. By coincidence, Bohr also assisted in erecting the 50th
Anniversary decorations.
Christmas Party
For The Hetirad
Hershey Employees
Retired employees of Her-shey
will be honored at the
annual Christmas Party to be
held at 6:00 p.m., on Monday,
December 17, in the Hershey
Community Building.'
Letters of invitation have been
mailed to the retired employees
by S. F. Hinkle, Chairman of the
Board and President of Hershey
Chocolate Corporation; Arthur R.
Whiteman, President, Hershey Es-tates;
and James E. Bobb, Chair-man
of the Board of Managers,
Milton Hershey School.
"One of the mRst inspiring times
of the year, the Christmas Season,
is fast approaching," read the
letters, and continued: "With this
season comes an invitation for you
to be our guests at the annual party
held in your honor. It is a time
when we look forward to renewing
our acquaintances and friendships
of many years standing."
The invitations- indicate that the
retired employees will enter the
Community Building through the
Community Theatre entrance on
Caracas Avenue. The lot directly
across the street will be available
for parking.
Following dinner, a program in
the Theatre has been planned. The
scheduled events should be com-pleted
about 8:45 p.m., the letters
point out, so as to assist the re-tired
employees to make transpor-tation
arrangements.
Postal cards were enclosed with
the letters, and are to be returned
by December 7; so that tickets and
additional information abOut the
evening's activities can be sent to
the retired employees.
Concluded the letters: "We sin-cerely
hope you can arrange to be
with us. The party presents an ex-cellent
opportunity for all of us to
share the fellowship of dinner and
entertainment with lif e-long
friends."
Hospital Has
Switchboard
Installation
The Hershey Hospital, through
the facilities of the Hershey Tele-phone
Company, has recently re-vised
and expanded hospital tele-phone
facilities.
A new switchboard, manufac-tured
by Automatic Electric, was
installed.
This board has a capacity of
twenty trunk lines with a maxi-mum
of one hundred hospital sta-tions.
At present, the equipment
is being utilized with ten trunk
lines and approximately fifty hos-pital
stations.
For the convenience of patients,
telephones have been installed in
each •patient room and patients
may dial directly any numbers in
the Hershey local calling area.
An automatic dial system has
been incorporated so that hospital
personnel may dial various de-partments
within the hospital.
At the same time, a paging sys-tem
was installed.
PATIENCE and technical know-how on the part of photographer
Bob Warrington resulted- in this excellent shot of the Chocolate
Corporation Office Building's Christmas Decorations. Using a Speed-
Graphic, Bob took a daylight shot around 4:30 p.m., (1/25 at 1/8)
then took the lights around 5:15 p.m. (2 min. at 1-32) on Plus-X
film. Congratulations on a fine double exposure, Bob.
CHRISTMAS GIFT
Fight TB
With Christmas Seals
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NEW SWITCHBOARD and paging system at the Hershey Hospi-tal.
Administrator Welch England and operator Mrs. Jane (Warner)
Curry demonstrates the Automatic Electric equipment. Telephones
have been installed in each patient room and the patients may dial
directly any numbers in the Hershey local callig area. The new pag-ing
system, with the microphone conveniently situated for the oper-ator,
has been highly praised by the hospital's staff and professional
personnel.
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