Hershey News 1963-01-10

              HERSHEY NEWS
Vol. 11 HERSHEY, PENNSYLVANIA, JANUARY 10, 1963 No. 1
GRAND PRIZE Winner in the Christmas Home Decora-tion
Contest sponsored by the Hershey Rotary Club was
Ammon Patrick of Hummelstown Route 1. Mr. Patrick
this year came up with an artistic lighting display to cop
the top prize of $50 dollars which is offered yearly by the
Rotary Club. Judging by a Rotary committee was done
over the Christmas holidays.
Prayer Services Are Being Held This Week
Sixty-eight Neighborhood Pray-er
Meetings are being held this
week throughout the community
in conjunction with the annual
Week of Prayer sponsored by the
Hershey Ministerium.
The cottage prayer meetings will
be held tonight, Thursday, January
10 and tomorrow night, Friday,
January 11 from 7:90 to 8:15 p.m.
A complete listing of the hosts and
homes as well as the leader for each
prayer meeting were distributed
through the local churches.
The Week of Prayer will be con-cluded
with a worship service to be
held on Sunday evening, January 13,
1963 at 7:30 p.m. in the First Evan-gelical
United Brethren Church.
Speaker for the evening will be the
Reverend W. Charles Hodgins, Rec-tor
of St. Johns Episcopal Church in
Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Also
participating in the service will be
the local clergymen.
A native ,of Tipperary, Ireland,
The Rev. W. Charles Hodgins re-ceived
his Masters degree from
Trinity College in Dublin and was
ordained to the Anglican priest-hood
by the Bishop of Liverpool.
He served in His Majesties Forces
from 1941 to 1945.
The Rev. Hodgins also served as
Rural Dean of North Forest, Glos-cester,
England, before coming to
St. Johns Church as Rector.
Home Decoration Contest
Winners Announced By
The Hershey Rolary Club
Hershey Rotary Club has an-nounced
the award winners of their
annual Christmas Home Decoration
Contest which was held during the
holiday season with the judging tak-ing
place on December 26th. Awards
were made by the committee which
was headed up by Dr. John J. Lu-cas,
past president of the club.
Grand prize winner was Ammon
Patrick of Hummelstown Route 1.
Mr. Patrick received $50 for his light-ing
display.
Best window and doorway — first
prize of $20 went to Joseph J. Pi-coni
of 443 Maple Avenue; second
prize, $10, Dorothy M. Webber of
1342 East Derry Road; third prize,
$5, Alger Gilmore of 545 East Derry
Road.
Honorable Mention — R. Stearl
Sponaugle, 313 Park Avenue; G. R.
Sponaugle, 115 Para Avenue; Lester
W. Abel, 143 Oak Lane.
Best Lighting Display — first
prize of $20 went to Leroy Bach-man
of 553 East Derry Road; second
prize, $10, Robert W. Smith of 761
Linden Road; third prize, $5, Leroy
Shertzer of 1527 East Caracas Ave-nue.
Honorable Mention — James M.
Van Scyoc, 1359 East Caracas Ave-nue;
John E. Thomas, 840 Linden
Road.
Originality — first prize of $20 was
presented to Richard W. Van Reed
of 220 Cedar Avenue; second prize,
$10, Paul R. Willard of 140 Cedar
Reminder On New Postal Rafe Changes Now In Effect
With the beginning of this new
year, Postmaster Merle Seavers
ask the Hershey News to remind
all the area residents of the new
postal rates that becotne effective
on Monday, January 7.
First class mail: surface — let-ters,
are five cents an ounce and
post cards, four cents. Air Mail let-ters
are now eight cents an ounce
and post cards sent by air, six
cents. Unsealed greeting cards are
at present four cents.
Mailers are warned that insuf-ficient
postage will be collected
from the addressee or the letter
will be returned to the sender.
There will not be an increase in
parcel post rates at the present
time.
The extra charge of one cent for
stamp booklets containing the five
cent and eight cent denomination,
has been dropped it was announced
by Postmaster Seavers. The book-lets
are now being sold at their
face value at $1 and $2 respective-ly.
Mailers are reminded to affix an
additional penny stamp when using
4c stamps to send first class let-ters,
and likewise the same when
using the 3c postal cards.
In addition, residents are remind-ed
that minimum size for all mail-ing
envelopes is now 4"x31/4".
PRINTING pOSTERS to be placed about town advertising their pancake supper, are members of the
Hershey High School Exchange Club (left to right) Carol Warrington, Bobbi Fischer, Peggy Shenefelt,
John Shepherd and Bruce Gelsinger. The pancake supper and bake sale to be held on January 19 in
the Derry Twp. Elementary School, is being planned to help finance the club trip to Ridgewood, New
Jersey in March. Time set up for the supper is from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Charges: Adult tickets, 0.00;
Student tickets, $.50; and Children under 6, free. A scrap paper drive has been set up for February
to help pay for the trip. Officers of the club include Ronald St. Sing, president; Patricia Horst, secre-tary;
and Sandra tiller, treasurer.
SILHOUETTES, an artistic display by Miss Virginia
Stravvderman of 320 Governor Road, took top honors in
the artistic class in the annual Christmas Home Decora-tion
Contest. A second grade teacher at the Derry Town-ship
Elementary School, Miss Strawderman has won
numerous prizes in the yearly contest with two grand
prizes to her credit. She was the grand prize winner last
year with a different theme of silhouettes.
Avenue; third prize, $5, Carlos Ad-ams
of 321 East Granada Avenue.
Honorable Mention — Thomas L.
Leaman, 405 Elm Avenue.
Most Artistic — first prize of $20
was won by Miss Virginia Strawder-man
of 320 West Governor Road:
second prize, $10, John Me_szarcts of
342 West Caracas Avenue; third
prize, $5, Elwood W. Meyers of ni
East Areba Avenue.
Milton Hershey School cottage or
farm home display — first prize,
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$10, Farm Home - Arcadia; second
prize, $5, Farm Home - Maple Lawn;
third prize, $5, Cottage - Oakleigh.
Honorable mention — Cottage-Dog-wood
and Farm Homes - Sunset and
Rosemont.
Judges for the contest included
Clyde P. Stacks of the Milton Her-shey
School staff and a member of
the Rotary Club of Palmyra, chair-man,
assisted by John Lucas, Earl
S. Spangler, Donald B. Chubb, Ken-neth
V. Hatt and Brent I. Hancock.
BABIES—Two registering in the Tax Exemption Club and one little
"Mr. 1963" are shown here with their Mothers a few days following
their arrival. The last-day-of-1962 Tax Exemption Club babies are
Kathy Sue (left), daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Max V. Weary of 252
West Cherry Street, Palmyra, born at 3:57 p.m. on Dec. 31st; and
Steven Alan (center), son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Iloerner of Ann-ville
Route 2, born at 7:13 p.m. on the 31st. New Year's Day
honors go p Paul Henry (right), son of Mr. and Mrs. David
Mason of Commercial Avenue, Middletown, who was born at 10:11
p.m. on January 1, 1963.
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