Hershey News 1958-02-13

              HERSHEY NEWS
Vol. 6 HERSHEY, PENNSYLVANIA, FEBRUARY 13, 1958
HERSHEY ESTATES LAUNDRY is celebrating its fiftieth year of operation. The
present modern plant was put into use February 4, 1935. First Hershey Laundry, in
1908, was housed in what is now the Hershey Park Zoo Entrance Building.
50th Anniversary For Hershey Laundry
One of the many comniunity service enterprises estab-lished
here by the late Milton S. Hershey, the Hershey Es-tates
Laundry and Dry Cleaning Department is this year
celebrating its Golden Anniversary.
Beginning operations in 1908 as the Hershey Laundry,
• the now busy division of the Hershey Estates added the dry
cleaning department in 1935. From a podest beginning with
eight employees fifty years ago, the big modern plant now
, employs ninety-eight persons.
In the early years, t h e
• laundry made a number of structive fire in November of
1916 caused the first move.
moves. The first laundry was Temporary operations were
established in what IS now set up in the old bowling alley
the Hershey Park Zoo En- building until the laundry was
trance Building, where a de- C;v, ontinned en Page Four)
Jr. College Dean's List
The Hershey Junior College's
Dean's List for scholastic attain-ment
during the first semester has
been announced by Dr. Varnum H.
Fenstermacher:
Special honors — John Corson,
Hannelore Scharek and Daniel
Kercher.
Honors—Gretchen Aungst, Jane
Brittain, Barbara Heister, Robert
Dilts and Elaine Lehman.
Honorable mention—James Al-brite,
Esta Black, Mary Eaty,
Carolyn Hocker, Joan Lobo, Linda
Nagle, Ronald Warner, Lamar
Wildermuth, Winifred Adams,
Fred o w,s e r, Janet Gallus,
Harold Gingrich, • Richard Ketter-ing
and Richard Swope.
NATIONAL BOY SCOUT WEEK — and the Scouts'
"Safety Good Turn" project of the year -- were
launched here at a gathering in the Community Dining
Room bri Monday, when representatives of 39 Penn-sylvania
Boy Scout councils were guests of the Hershey
Rotary Club. Among the participants were (in photo
above, from left) John L. Tivney of Harrisburg, presi-dent
of the Boy Scouts' Keystone Area Council and past
district governor of Rotary; Downs Herold, Exporer
Scout from Bradford; Richard L. Uhrich, Hershey
Rotary Club president; and Major General Anthony J.
Drexel Biddle, state adjutant-general.
General Biddle represented Governor George M.
Leader at the 'meeting and received for the states chief
executive a "Safety Good Turn" plaque. The plaque was
presented on behalf, of the Boy Scout councils by Ex-plorer
Herold.
• Master of ceremonies was Basil F. Starkey, deputy
director of Region 3- Opening and closing ceremonies
were conducted by Rotary Club President Uhrich.
The event marked the celebration of the Boy Scouts'
forty-eighth anniversary.
Announce PTA Meeting
"Building Personality Into
a Career" will be the theme of
a talk by Dr. Gilbert Mc-
Klveen, professor of psycho-logy
at Lebanon Valley Col-lege,
at the February meeting
of ' the Derry Township Par-ent-
Teacher Association. The
meeting, to be held Monday
evening, February 17, at 7:30,
will take place in the Hershey
High School auditorium.
Also on the agenda is the
nomination of officers for the
coining year.
No.?
Charles K. Miller
Retired Hershey Engineer
Mapped Many Job Projects
Charles K. Miller, retired chief engineer of the Hershey
Estates, knows where just about everything was put.
His career of Mapping, surveying and planning for local
construction dates back to 1910, when he joined the old Her-shey
Improvement Company as a timekeeper.
Mr. Miller succeeded the
late H. N. Herr as the Estates'
chief engineer upon the death
of Mr. Herr in 1948. Miller
had been assistant to Herr
since 1927.
Until his retirement at the
end of 1957, Miller played im-portant
roles in the expansion
of Hershey's industrial, busi-ness,
residential and recrea-tional
facilities.
Born' in New Cumberland,
he was graduated from Hum-melstown
High School, later
taking additional courses at
Harrisburg Technical High
School. In his early years he
was a well known baseball
player in the area..
In the Fall of 1913 he was
assigned to the engineerring
corps of the Hershey Im-provement
Company as a
chaininan and rodman. His
first job was to survey for the
Hershey-Elizabethtown trol-ley-
line, and to follow up the
survey with drawings for the
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HOW IT WAS—.Crew surveying for the old Hershey-
Elizabethtown trolley line, back in 1913, included (from
left) Clyde Erb, Charles K. Miller, Arthur Boyer and,
knpeling, John Black, with an unidentified farmer at
extreme right. .The horse-drawn conveyance was let-tered:
"Herr's Engineers, 1913, On To Elizabethtown."
The line was surveyed .under the direction of Hershey's
then chief -engineer, the late H. N. Herr, who was suc-ceeded
by Miller.
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