Hershey News 1958-10-16

              HERSHEY NEWS
Vol. 6 CD HERSHEY, PENNSYLVANIA, OCTOBER 16, 1958 No. 42
Present Hershey Chocolate Corporation
With , Fifth Million-Hour Safety Awards
For the fifth time since
1952, the Hershey Chocolate
Corporation employees have
worked more than a million
hours uninterrupted by 'a dis-abling
injury.
On August 1, the Chocolate
Corporation completed 1,280,-
210 continuous hours of op-eration
without a lost-time
work injury to an employee.
The latest record period be-gan
last May 15.
The Million-Hour Plaque,
highest safety Citation of the
Pennsylvania Manufacturers'
Association, was presented to
the Chocolate Corporation on
Monday by James F. Malone,
executive vice-president of the
PMA Casua Ity Insurance
Company.
Accepting . the award in
recognition of the safety ac-hievement
of the Hershey
- employees was Samuel F.
. Hinkle, Hershey Chocolate
Corporation president.
In announcing the award,
Malone described the Hershey
Chocolate Corporation as a
"consistent national leader in
industrial safety, with a long
list of prior top safety honors
won from the National Safety
Council in competition with
other food section firms."
Corporation President
Hinkle credited the latest
achievement to "the sincere
belief of all Hershey em-ployees
that safety is a part of
their job, and particularly we
cite the Members of the gen-eral
safety committee and the
advisory safety group who
have spearheaded our safety
drive throughout recent
years."
With this award, the Her-
MILLION-HOUR PLAQUE, highest safety citation of shey Chocolate Corporation
became on]; the fifth of more the PernanufacttirQrs' Associatica.,zza3-Aztaw
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for its employees' achievement of 1,280,210 continuous win this coveted plaque in the
hours of operation without a disabling injury. Here, four-year history of the in-
James F. Malone, executive vice-president of the PMA suiance firm's award pro-
Casualty Insurance Company (at left), presents the Mil- gram.
lion-Hour Plaque to Hershey Chocolate Corporation
President Samuel F. Hinkle (at right) as George T. Boh-ner,
chairman of the corporation's General Safety Com-mittee,
looks on. The outstanding industrial safety rec-ord
was attained during the period from May 15 to
August 1.
NEWLY ELECTED OFFICERS of the Milton Hershey
School Alumni Association are shown at the close of the
annual Homecoming business session last Saturday
morning in the Little Theatre of the Community Build-ing.
Officers for the ensuing year are (left to right)
Robert Beitzel, Lancaster, president; Wade Hancock,
Baltimore, vice-president; William Schmehl, Hershey,
treasurer; Charles Smith, Fort Loudon, president-elect
(to become ,president in 1959-60) ; and Kenneth Hatt,
Hershey; secretary.
Present for the award cere-monies
in the corporation of-fices
were the members of the
general safety committee, the
safety advisory committe and
corporation officials. Repre-senting
the Pennsylvania
Manufacturers' . Association
along with Mr. Malone, were
Paul J. Sherwin, manager of
safety engineering; F. W.
Musselinan, legislative repre-sentative;
Joseph K. Berry,
district manager; and Fred
T. Clark, safety engineer.
The 'safety committee of
the Hershey Chocolate Cor-poration
is a member of the
National Safety Council and.
the Pennsylvania Motor
Truck Association. The com-mittee,
headed by Chairman
George T. Bohner, includes:
L. 0. Umberger, secre-tary;
R. M. Bucher, R. S.
Flowers, R. J. Heagy, H. S.
Mohler, L. C. Smith, Jr., J.
M. Solada, C. J. Speicher, H.
A. Vernet, Jr., and W. K.
Wagner. J. G. Robertson is
safety inspector.
Medal associates are Dr.
John 0. Hewlett and nurses
Mrs. Verna Strine and Mrs.
Helen Doyle.
Serving on the safety ad-visory
committee and for-warding
suggestions and rec-ommendations
to the safety
committee is a six-man group
headed by Donald Shay and
including Russell Heagy, Wal-ter
Bowman, Corinto Plebani,
Fred Chiarma and Russell
Gingrich.
Welfare Fund Drive
Launched This Week
The 1958 united welfare
campaign was off and rolling
this week among Derry Town-ship
industries, businesses
and school systems.
Again offering the conven-ient
payroll deduction plan
which has proved its popu-larity
in past campaigns, the
"United Way" of combining
charitable giving helps to
support many agencies and or-ganizations
which are im-portant
to our way of life.
The campaign, sponsored
by the Derry Township Wel-fare
Board in collaboration
with the Tr -County United
Fund, was launched by the
Hershey Estates and the Mil-ton
Hershey School on Wed-nesday
and by the Hershey
Chocolate Corporation today
(Thursday).
Other firms and organiza-tions-
participating in the in-plant
campaign for contribu-tions
are the H. B. Reese
Canny Company, Acme Food
Market, Derry Township
Schools, Miller Brothers,
King Kup Candies, Inc., and
M. L. Haldeman.and Son.
A total of 39 charitable,
welfare and character build-ing
agencies will benefit
ë. und, whi 27 similar or-ganizations
combine their ef-forts
through the Lebanon
6 a
Halloween Frolic
Plans Announced
Carl E. Stump and Carl A.
Curry, co-chairmen of the
planning committee for the
PTA-sponsored Halloween pa-rade
and celebration here, ex-tended
an invitation to the
general public to take part in
the big Fall fun festival.
The Derry Township Hallo-ween
parade is set for the eve-ning
of Thursday, October 30.
Mrs. Richard Johnson,
chairman of the judging com-mittee,
said the sponsoring
organization is hoping that
many floats will be entered to
add color to the parade, along
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County Community Chest.
Persons designating the
Lebanon County Community
Chest in making their con-tributions
in the local cam-paign
will have their contri-butions
assigned to that
agency.
As the business-industry
drive got under way here, let-ters
urging support went out
to employes from D. Paul
Witmer, chairman of the
Board of Managers of the
Milton Hershey School; John
B. Sollenberger, president of
Hershey Estates; and Samuel
F. Hinkle, president of the
Hershey Chocolate Corpora-tion.
All three emphasized the
importance of. the drive.
Mr. Witmer pointed out the
nvenience et lumping char-itable
giving into one organ-ized
plan—either through the
payroll deduction system or
by cash contribution—mean-while
helping a great,. many
persons.
In Mr. Sollenberger's letter
to Hershey Estates personnel,
he noted that last Year 64 per-cent
of Hershey Estates em-ployes
subscribed during the
campaign and urged even
greater .participation. He en-dorsed
the "United Way" as
the "best method of helping
many worthwhile organiza-tions
and institutions."
Mr. Hinkle's letter called
the campaign "one of the most
worthwhile and important
projects in which we share a
common interest. . . I like to
think that Hershey employes
will measure up to the chal-lenge
of this worthy cause by
being as generous as possible
to those who are less fortun-ate
and in need of assistance."
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