Hershey News 1959-04-09

              HERSHEY NEWS
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HERSHEY, PENNSYLVANIA, APRIL 9, 1959 No. 15
'Bike Safety Day'
Plans Announced
By Oplimist Club
• The annual community-1
wide bicycle safety program'
sponsored by • the Hershey
Optimist Club will be held on
Saturday, April 18, at School
Plaza, it was announced this
week by Bob Hollyday and Ed
Smith, co-chairmen for the
event.
All owners of two-wheel
bikes in Derry Township were
urged to take part in the
safety pr Ogr a m, Optimist
Smith said, "and particularly
those in the age bracket from
five to fourteen."
"This age group has come
to be known in safety circles
as 'the vulnerable age," Smith
said, "and we are anxious to
help them to become aware of
bike safety practices."
At the Bike Safety Day pro-gram
each owner's bike will
receive a thorough safety in-spection,
and will be register-ed.
The Optimist Club is re-commending
that all cyclists,
regardless of age, have their
bikes inspected.
In the past four years some
1600 bikes have been inspect-ed
and registered by the I1er-
.,1a_:y Optinlists. •flie impor-tance
of the registration is re-vealed
in the fact that an
average of forty two-wheelers
per year have been recovered
•for owners as a direct result
of the annual registration.
The inspection and regis-tration
period will begin at
nine a.m. and will continue
until all bike owners present
have their vehicles inspected.
Four five-man inspection
teams, composed of local Op-timists
and aided by State
Troopers, will examine the
two-wheelers for operational
defects and will submit,
through the owners, a report
to parents for their informa-tion.
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Optimist Hollyday, inside
activities chairman, said that
more than $100 worth of bi-
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LOUIS P. SHANNON, manager of
the Extension Division of E. I. du
Pont de Nemours and Company,
addressed the Hershey Rotary
Club on Monday on the subject of
America's economic and tech-nological
"musts" for the future
in view of the nation's "explosive-ly"
rising population.
Among pressing needs cited by
Shannon was an urgent call for a
climate of thinking that will fos-ter
strong individual ability
among , the nation's youth, the
chance to team its talent, and
elimination of any "climate of
mediocrity."
A former educator and school
administrator, Mr. Shannon has
been with Du Pont since 1942.
Before joining the Extension
Division, he was engaged in per-sonnel
training and industrial
engineering work.
Hershey Students
Win Music Laurels
Three Hershey High School
entries in• the Pennsylvania
Southern District Music and
Forensic 'League events at
Central Dauphin High School
last weekend won high praise
from the rating teams.
The school's senior chorus,
directed by Elwyn F. Spang-ler,
received the rating of
"superior"; Richard Hiler,
trumpet soloist, also "su-perior";
and the boys' vocal
quartet was rated "excellent."
The senior chorus and Hiler,
with their top ratings in the
district event, are now eligi-ble
to enter the state Forensic
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National Library Week
Puts Spotlight On Books And Music
Special displays of new
books and albums of recorded
music are being arranged at
the Hershey Free Library as
part of the observance of
National Library Week, April
13 - 18.
The week has been set- aside
as a time to urge the public to
make more use of the re-sources
offered by the library
— "the people's university."
Another feature of the local
observance will be a fine-free
day — Monday, April 13 —
when overdue books. may be
returned without the penalty
fee.
During the week the Her-shey
library will be distribut-ing
lists of notable books of
1958 containing 47 titles, 30
of Which are available here.
The list was compiled by a
committee set up by the Am-erican
Library Association
and is a guide to good reading.
In addition to its wealth of
reading material the Hershey
library is also a source of en-joyment
for music lovers.
There are now' seventy records
in the library's collection.
Staffing the popular com-munity,
facility are Mrs. Irene
Heaps, librarian; Mrs. Mar-guerite
Brannigan, assistant
librarian; and part time as-sistants
Miss Mary Darling-ton,
Miss Anne Bierstein and
Miss Sandra Warfield.
Lions' Club Plans
AIILStar Cast For
Sports Night Fete
• An impressive array of
celebrities in the world of
sports will be in the spotlight
here on Monday, April 13,
when they appear as guests
at the Hershey Lions' Club's
annual Sports Night.
The big event, honoring
some sixty-six senior athletes
of Hershey High School and
the Milton Hershey School,
will begin at the Lions' Sports
Night dinner program in the
CommunLy D in i n g Room
where the all-star cast of
sports figures will join the
local service club in saluting
the school athletes and their
coaches.
At the conclusion of the
dinner, the gathering will
move to the Hershey. High
auditorium for an evening
program to which the public
is invited.
For the program at the
school there is no admission
charge and no tickets are re-quired,
Lions' Club President
George D. McClees said.
Sports - world luminaries
who will come to the Choco-late
Town for the event:
Joe DiMaggio, the. Yankee
Clipper, representing baseball.
The Chicago Bears' Sid
Luckman, Norm Van Brock-lin
of the Philadelphia Eagles,
and Art Donovan of the Bal-timore
Colts, representing
football. .
Bob Cousy of the Boston
Celtics and his colorful coach,
Red Auerbach, representa-tives
of basketball.
Topflight athletes and
former athletes, drawn
'rig'ht from Hershey, will be
on the program to represent
their own particular brand
of sports. They include:
Jay Weitzel, Hershey golf
professional.
And from the Hershey
Bears playing coach - Frank
Mathers, general manager
Lloyd Blinco and business
manager Baz Bastien, repre-senting
ice hockey.
The public program in the
high school auditorium will be
preceded by a period of enter-tainment
by professional ma-gician
Doc Marcus, from eight
until eight-thirty p.m., while
a panel of the sports stars and
area sportswriters and sports-casters
will be organized.
The big event sponsored by
the Lions is being handled by
the club's Athletic Commit-tee:
Chairman Charles Eyler,
Frank Kamus, Henry Lauzon,
Harry Smith, Charles Down-in,
Charles Hummer, Harry
Richards, Richard Reese and
Ernest Accorsi,
CHOIR ACCOMPANIST
J. Atlee Young of Hershey, in-structor
in organ at Elizabethtown
College, will serve as accompanist
for the 34-voice college mixed choir
during .a series of April concerts in
the Philadelphia area and in west-central
Pennsylvania.
Every American' A Capitalist
The Russians have made at least one observation about
Americans that is true. A Russian government representa-tive
in New York said recently:
• ". . . . The trouble with these United States is their
capitalists—they all have a worker's background. And; even
worse, the trouble with these United - States• is with the
workers—every last one of them has capitalistic ambitions."
The Kremlin spokesman was right. Americans ARE
capitalists.
Twenty-five of our people own their own
homes,, and over 109 million hold insurance policies.
More than twenty-one million Americans own savings
--accounts, while ten million are shareholders in industry
• and business.
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When you put your money in a bank "adcbtint, or buy
insurance, a 'home, stocks or bonds, you become an investor
—a capitalist. The money you save and invest supplies the
capital on which industry thrives. . . builds new plants and
products and services . . . creates employment for the mil-lion.
young Americans who reed new job opportunities- every
yev.
That's why it is important to remember that every
American is not only a citizen, worker and ,consumer, but
also an investor in the system that keeps our nation growini.
• It's a good time to remember that the American system
is the most promising of any system devised by man, both
for the development of justice and the distribution of the
rewards of the prosperity it creates.
Public To Join In Civil Defense Drill
Derry Township's Civil De-fense
mechanism — Civil De-fense
officials; fire company
personnel and police — was
set to go into action on April
17 as part of the 1959 national
Civil Defense alert exercise.
The April 17 "Public Parti-cipation
Exercise" here will
be geared to the statewide
"take cover".drill, designed to
familiarize the • public with
alert signals, Derry Township
Civil Defense Director Louis
C. Smith Jr., said.
The public participation
drill will take place between
To Hold Science Fair
An elementary school science
fair will be held here on Monday,
April 20, replacing the regular
monthly meeting of the Derry
Township Parent-Teachers Associ-ation.
The PTA announcement said that
the public is invited to visit the
science fair and see the projects
displayed by the pupils of Grades
One through Six
The exhibits will be set up in
the all-purpose room of the Derry
Township elementary sohool build-ing.
and will be shown from 7:30
to 9 p.m.
9:30 a.m. and 5 p.m. on Fri-day,
April 17. The exact
time of the drill will not be
announced prior to its
actual occurrence, state CD
officials said.
The Derry Township CD di-rector
called for public cooper-ation
in conducting the local
phase of the exercise.
Upon the- sounding of the
local siren s, horns and
whistles in the three-minute
pulsating signal, members of
the general public should im-mediately
follow the estab-lished
"take cover" procedure.
The local drill will be a part
of the nationwide Operation
Alert 1959:
In Pennsylvania it will test
the overall effectiveness of
state, county and local attack
warning systems, provide the
public with further opportun-ity
to become familiar with
the standard public action
signals, provide further oppor-tunity
for the public to prac-tice
basic self-protection mea-sures,
and to* test Civil De-fense
communications and
emergency operations.
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