Hershey News 1958-11-27

              HERSHEY NEWS
HERSHEY, PENNSYLVANIA, NOVEMBER 27, 1958
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SMALL BOYS, BIG RINK—Dunc Fisher, Jr. (left) and his skating buddy, Andre
Mayer have plenty of skating room as they were the first to try out the new out-door
ice rink at the Hershey Sports Arena on Monday. The two four-year-olds are
the sons of Hershey Bears hockey stars D unc Fisher and Gil Mayer. The outdoor
rink will be opened tomorrow (Friday) evening by Hershey officials, with Ice Follies
representatives on hand for the event. B uilding in background is a park pavilion
being converted into a skaters' lodge for the convenience of users of the rink. The
new skating facility will be a useful adjunct to the present Arena setup.
STUDIOUS TWO-SOME—William Meyers (seated), son
of Mr. and Mrs. Elwood W. Meyers of 231 East Areba
Avenue, and Richard F. Doyle of College Hall, son of Mrs.
Elsie M. Doyle of Harrisburg, have been named 'semi-finalists
in the 1958-59 National Merit -Scholarship com-petition.
The local students are among 10,000 of the
highest scorers on the qualifying test of educational de-velopment
given in over 14,000 high schoOls last April.
Meyers and Doyle are ineligible to receive the scholar-ships
offered in the competition because they are al-ready
taking their freshman work at Hershey Junior
College although, technically, they are members of the
1959 graduating classes of Hershey High School and the
Milton Hershey School, respectively. However, educa-tion
officials pointed out that their achievements will
serve as excellent qualifications for their acceptance by
other colleges after they complete the first two years
here.
Rotary Club Plans
Amteatiging 01
Yule Decorations
The home Christmas decor-ators
of Derry. Township will
again be eligible for awards
after their creations are view-ed
by a panel of judges be-tween
Christmas and New
Years, the Hershey Rotary
Club has announced.
The judges — not yet se-lected
-- will evaluate the
home Christmas decorating
for awards in five categories.
• In addition, a grand prize
of fifty dollars will be offered
again as the top award in the
contest. The grand prize was
won last year by Mr. and' Mrs.
M. Luther Haldeman, 440 Elm
Avenue.
First prizes of $20, second
prizes of $10, and third prizes
of $5 will be awarded in each
of the following categories:
Best window or doorway.
Best lighting• display.
Most original.
Most artistic.
Also, a first prize of $20
will be awarded for the best
decorated Milton Hershey
School unit, many of which
have displayed excellent
Christmas themes over the
past years.
George H. Booth, chairman
of the Rotary Club project,
said the area to be judged in-cludes
all of Derry Township.
COFFEE HOUR'
The Parent-Teacher Association
announced it will hold a coffee
hour for parents of Second Grade
children at 1:45 p.m. on Thursday,
December 4, in the all-purpose
room of the elementary school
building. Baby-sitting service will
be provided at the school.
Hershey's New Outdoor Ice Skating
Rink Will Be Dedicated On Friday
Ice Follies personalities will
be on hand to help Hershey
officials dedicate the Sports
Arena's new outdoor ice skat-ing
rink on Friday evening,
November 28, at 7:30 -p. in.
Ice show co-owners Oscar
Johnson and Roy Shipstad,
together with their skating
stars, will cut a ribbon lead-ing
to the ice surface and the
outdoor skating will be under
way.
The new rink, 140 by 75
feet, will provide additional
facilities for public skating,
figure skating programs, and
the junior and pee-wee hockey
leagues now being formed.
A total of 36,000 feet of
wrought iron pipe, or 6.8 miles
of tubing, carries the brine to
the new skating surface.
A lodge, now under con-struction,
will be available for
the convenience of skaters at
a later date.
In addition to providing
much needed extra facilities
for regular skating a n d
hockey programs, the new
rink' will also be available for
rental to private parties.
Instruction will be avail-able
from the Arena's pro-fessionals,
Felix Kaspar, for-mer
world's champion, and
Lois Thomson, one-time Aus-tralian
titlist.
Christmas Savings Cheeks
Arrive In "Happy Mail"
A merry Christmas was as-sured
for nearly two thousand
Christmas Savings Club mem-bers
when the Hershey Na-tional
Bank distributed
$210,650.50 in Christmas Club
checks last week.
Postmen delivered the
"happy mail" to 1,985 club
members in the area.
The bank announced that
the 1959 Christmas Savings
Club opened this week, and
i.xtLiAlLd n
everyone to join in the popu-lar
savings plan.
The popularity of the time-honored
Christmas Savings
Club is due largely to the fact
that it spreads the holiday ex-penses
over the year and gives
assurance that the account
holders will not be "caught
short" at Christmastime.
The amounts saved in the
special accounts are usually
earmarked by the club mem-bers
for Christmas buying.
However, bank officials es-timated
that from ten to
twenty per cent of the
amounts paid out to the
Christmas Clubbers will be
turned into some form of fur-ther
saving.
Some Christmas Club say-crs_
annually use a part of
Their check as a nest egg in
starting off the new club. A
number of Christmas Club
accounts are taken out each
year as financial gifts to fam-ily
members.
Another use for the club
savings is for payments on in-surancefmortgages,
or other
financial projects.
String Music For Re
An appropriate and enjoy-able
program of string music
is in store for the members of(
the Hershey Retired Employ-ees
Association when they
gather for their December
meeting in the Hershey fire
hall on Monday afternoon,
December 1. The meeting is
set for two o'clock.
The group will he enter-tained
by Melvin Deets and
his string ensemble of youngl
musieians. The string group!
also presented a program atl
Hershey News
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Hershey, Po.
tired Employees
the Retired Employees' sum-mer
.picnic in Hershey Park.
Another featureof the aft-ernoon
will be a piano solo by
Mrs. Israel Early. Group sing-ing
will be conducted by Mrs.
John Flory.
Refreshments will be served
by the ladies of the associa-tion..
All Hershey retired em-ployees
are invited to take
part in the organization's
activities.