Hershey News 1959-12-09

              HERSHEY NEWS
Vol. 7 HERSHEY, PENNSYLVANIA, DECEMBER 9, 1959 No. 47
Hershey Laundry To
Have Around The
Clock Self-Service
A coin-operated, automatic
wash and dry laundry is be-ing
installed in the Hershey
Estates' Laundry Building,
according to an announce-ment
by Vice President T. R.
Banks and Laundry Manager
Walter Kettering. Opening
date is tentatively set for
February 1, 1960.
On a self-service basis, the
new coin operated laundry
will be open twenty - four
hours daily and seven days
weekly.
Accommodations for the
customers' relaxation will be
provided; as well as vending
machines for snacks, deter-gents,
and bleaches.
Twenty "Jet" Washers will
be installed with individual
load capacities of 10 pounds,
compared to the usual 8-
pound load. Approximately'18
td 20 minuted will be required
for the. wash, rinse, and spin
drying cycle; which is approx-imately
two-thirds of the
usual cycle time. Equipped to
spin the clothes to a damp dry
condi t ion and reduce drying
t ti(., t lie washers also have
dials to control the water
temperature for different
fabrics.
After washing, the clothes
can be placed into one of sev-en
dryers, each with a capa-city
of 50 pounds. Tempera-ture
control for various fab-rics
is also built in the dryers.
Parking space will be avail-able
in front of an all-weather
entrance ramp. Special heat-ing
coils built into the con-crete
surface of the ramp will
eliminate snow and ice. The
parking area will be well illu-minated.
CHRISTMAS TURKEYS — 5,000 of. 'em. All ready in
Cold Storage for distribution to Hershey's employees on
December 23rd. Beginning in September, between 600
and 800 turkeys were processed weekly for the big
event. Manager Rufus Hollinger (right) shares a job
well done with Mrs. Edith Simes and Lester L. Neidig.
Look cold? It is. 5 degrees below zero. Cold camera, too!
Christmas Music Festival To Be
Presented In Theatre Next Monday
"Christmas Symbols" is the theme of this season's
annual Christmas Music Festival by the Derry Township
Public Schools in the Community Theatre on Monday, Dec.
14th, at 7:30 P.M.
More than 300 students of Junior High, High School and
Junior College will participate in the giant presentation,
whose 16 member production staff is headed by Paul G.
Fisher.
A Caroling Prelude will feature
the 90-voice Fifth and Sixth Grade
Ca o r-u s,- conducted by— Elwyn
Spangler.
Following an organ prelude by
Prof. Purnell Payne, the 50-mem-ber
High School Orchestra, under
Jane I. Emel, will present "Trum-pet
Voluntary" and "The Christ-mas
Suite." Bach's "Jesu, Joy of
Man's Desiring" will be the Chorus
Processional by t e combined
Junior College and High School
Choruses.
"Snowflakes" will be the theme
of the 35 voice Girls Chorus, di-rected
by Mr. Fisher, as they pre-sent
"White Chirstmas", "I'll Be
Home for Christmas", with Susan
Tuck, solo:st; and "Winter Won-derland."
A Brass Quartet with Richard
Filler and James W. Bobb on trum-
GOING. GONE. — Top soil of the old No. 1 green at
the Hershey Country Club is removed to make way for
the new 350-car parking lot for Hershey Chocolate Cor-poration.
Phil Sayger at the controls. Greenskeeper Riley
Heckert and Golf Course employee Lloyd Crum handle
the removal to storage areas. Many a golfer remembers
with remorse having three-putted the old undulating
green . . . it's passing is viewed with mixed emotions.
pet, and Dayle Stare and William
SwoneY-. on- -trombone-. will —play
"Good King Wenceslas", "Good
Christian Men, Rejoice", and "0
Come, All Ye Faithful".
Mr. Fisher will direct the 25
voice Junior College Chorus in "I
Heard the Bells on Christmas
Day", "Christmas Bells", and
"Carol of the Bells."
Thirteen girls will theme
"Angels" in the Girls Ensembles
rendition of "Angels O'er the
Fields". Louise King, Diane Flow-ers,
Jean Wolgemuth, Judy Birn-stiel,
Lynn Skinner, Judith Eber-sole,
Anne Koons, Pat Souder, Gale
Witmer, Ruth Lex, Judy Burd, Su-san
Bierstein. Accompanist is Ma-rena
Tighe.
Mr. Spangler will conduct the
80-voice High School Chorus as
they present "The Wisenim and
The Christ Child" theme.. "The
Three Kings", "This Little Babe",
"Keeping Holy Vigil", "The Little
Drummer Boy", and "Glory to
God".
Combined Choruses will Kesent
Haydn' stirring "The Heakrens
Are Telling" as they theme "Ador-ation
and Praise", with Brenda
Pierce, Terry Garman and Robert
Maurer as soloists.
A seven - member Pantomime
Group will depict background
scenes Earl Williard, Richard
Southby, Jean Ludtka, Randy
Sams, Teddy Mandes, Mary Jane
Boll, John Kohr.
TEEN CANTEEN
Red McCarthy and his band
will play for the Optimists
Teen Canteen dance at the Park
Golf Club on December 11th
from 7:30 to 11:00 P.M. Red ap-pears
through the courtesy of
the Harrisburg Musical Associa-tion.
Teen Canteen New Year's
Eve dance on December 31st at
the Women's Club, 9:00 P. M.
to 12:15 A. M. Special decora-tions
by Canteen Committee,
headed by Betsy Cash. Teen
Canteen not operating on De-cember
25th and January 1st.
Hershey Chocolate Corporation Starts
Construction Of 350-Car Parking Loi
Construction is under way on Hershey Chocolate Corpor-ation's
new 350-car parking lot to the East of the Plant.
When completed in May, 1960, the new parking facility will
bring to 1,000 the parking spaces available on the Plant's
three lots designed for employees' parking.
Of asphalt construction, the new lot will also be illumin-ated
with standards and lights similar in design to the present
facilities on the large West End parking lot at the Plant
Located on land formerly
composing a portion of Nos. 1
and 2 holes of the champion-ship
Hershey Country Club,
the facility will be situated so
as to retain the natural land-scaping
beauty of the area;
and is especially designed so
that the famous "Hershey
Cocoa" sign will be undis-turbed.
A new entrance from East
Chocolate Avenue to the lot
will be situated at the West
End of the lot, or just east of
the present entrance. In this
manner, control and flow of
vehicular traffic will be main-tained
for employees, milk
trucks, and service trucks de-siring
to reach destinations
WATER NOTICE
Hershey Water Company will
flush all fire hydrants in its ter-ritory
starting the week of
December 14th. This work will
be done from 10:00 P.M. to 6:00
A.M., weather permitting. Some
discoloration of water or rum-bling
noises may be experienced
during this period.
either on the lot, the Milk Re-ceiving
Station, the Mechani-cal
Departments, departments
in No. 35 Building, the Gar-age,
or the Power House.
The area to be utilized com-poses
the land to the East of
the present road leading to
the Garage and Power Plant,
and will extend some 500 feet
to the East of the "lower end"
of the Corporation's engi-eering,
Laboratory, and Me-chanical
Department's build-ings.
RETIRED EMPLOYEES
Dinner for Retired Employees
of - Hershey Chocolate Corpora-tion,
Hershey Estates, Milton
Hershey School, Monday, Dec.
21st. Community Building. 6:00
P.M.
IIOLIDAY SCHEDULE
Work schedules at Hershey
Chocolate Corporation. Two 4-
hour shifts on Dec. 24th. Holi-day
on Christmas, Dec. 25th.
Regular work day on Dec. 31st.
Holiday on Jan. 1st.
A SCENIC WONDERLAND—A triumph in the art of
electrical illumination. The beauty of the Christmas
decorations on the Office Building of the Hershey Choc-olate
Corporation cannot be fully pictured in black and
white. However. Bob Warrington's night shot gives a
thumbnail sketch of the Christmas picture devised by
the Plant's Electrical Department.
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