Hershey News 1963-08-08

              HERSHEY NEWS
Vol. 11 HERSHEY, PENNSYLVANIA, AUGUST 8, 1963 No. 16
SPINNING the wool or flax into thread was an art known by all
of the women in early America. Eliza Gilliland (pictured above) of
Center County, will again give demonstrations of this craft dressed
like her Grandma did years ago. She will ply her trade at the forth.
coming Pennsylvania Dutch Days celebration August 20 to 25.
Spinning will be one of the many crafts on display at the Sports.
Arena during the festivities.
Hershey Park Scene Of Pa.
Dutch Days, August 20-25
Crafts-women will again play an
active part in this year's annual
Pennsylvania Dutch Days celebra-tion
to be held in Hershey Park
from August 20 to 25, in what has
become the largest active working
craft's show in the East. Early reg-istrations
indicate that at least 30
percent of the displays will be
manned by the distaff side.
Unusual maternal trades will in-clude
barn-sign painting, glass-blowing,
cigar-making, broom
making and reweaving chair seats.
Other arts perfected by women to
be exhibited are demonstrations of
weaving in all it's various phases
front cloth to rugs, decorating
woods and metals, ceramics, de-signing
jewelry, hand-blocking of
cloth, quilting and pretzel bending.
An antiques show displaying
early American primitives will be
operated by women dealers, and a
real, outdoor "Fendue" which in
the dialect means "Sale," will be
managed by a woman.
A new feature this year, an out-door
Art Show, will bring together
some of the finest painters of folk
scenes and art in Pennsylvania.
Many of the artists of these folk
and rural scenes are women.
Hunderds of multi-colored quilts,
all a tribute to their designers and
stitchers will again act as a back-drop
for the crafts displayed in the
arena. For six days, from 11 to 9,
rain or shine, the show will be an
educational wonderland of Ameri-can
arts in use at the turn of the
century.
New Look" For
Community Center
Recent visitors to the Her-shey
Community Center were
quick to note the "new look"
of the lobby. The new throw
rugs, curtains, cocktail tables,
lamps and end tables brought
many comments expressing
pleasure and approval of the
rearranged lobby.
The improvements were made to
add warmth and a sense of hos-pitality
to the lobby. Because of its
central location, the Community
Center is increasingly being used
by townsfolk and out-of-town visi-tors
as a central get-together
point. Additional lamps and furni-ture
will be added, when it arrives,
which will further increase the
functional use of the group settings.
The "new look" of the lobby is
part of an over-all improvement
plan for the Community Center.
The addition of a girl's locker
room in early summer, and the
nearly completed renovation of the
Social Room and a Girl Scout kit-chen
are part of the general hn-provement
work being planned and
performed to make the Community
Center a flexible facility for a wide
diversification of uses.
California Plant Ground Breaking
Samuel F. Hinkle, Chairman of the
Board and President of the
Hershey Chocolate Corporation,
drove a chrome plated shovel into
the rich land of the San Joaquin Val-ley
in Oakdale, California to turn
the first shovelful of dirt for Her-shey's
Oakdale Plant during ground
breaking ceremonies held recently.
Actual land moving was scheduled
to begin last week on the 400,000
square foot factory to be located
Just south of Oakdale on about 10
acres of the more than 80 acre site.
Construction is schedeled for com-pletion
in the spring of 1965 and pro-duction
is expected to begin shortly
thereafter.
Representing the Hershey Corpora-tion
at the ground breaking cere-mony,
in addition to Mr. Hinkle,
were Harold S. Mohler, vice presi-dent;
William E. Schiller, vice presi-dent
and treasurer; and James
O'Leary, northern California-Neva-da
district sales manager.
New Feature Added To Hershey Lumber Products Store
For customer convenience, the
Hershey Lumber Products has
added another new feautre to their
store. The "Dreamer's Corner",
a room designed to display wall
paneling, ceiling tile, folding door
units and lighting is an area in
which the lady of the house, her
husband or the entire family can
chat with Lumber Company rep-resentatives
about remodeling
plans, products, prices and pro-jects.
Measuring ten feet by seventeen
"DREAMER'S CORNER!" A new feature added to the Hershey
Lumber Products Company to display wall paneling, ceiling tile,
folding door units and lighting, is the "Dreamer's Corner." The
new area is designed for customer convenience to show the many
materials available to families and individuals interested in build-ings,
remodeling or completing present projects.
feet, the new area is centrally lo-cated
in the upper level of the new
Home Owner's and Builder's Sup-ply
Store and is both comfortable
and convenient.
Furnishings in the "Dreamer's
Corner" were provided through the
courtesy of the Hershey Depart-ment
Store.
"Dreamer's Corner" was a coop-erative
eff or t between Hershey
Lumber ,Products and United
States Plywood. The Lumber Pro-ducts
Co. is a Headquarters Deal-er
for Weldwood Paneling, U. S.
Plywood, which has the most com-plete
line in the industry, featuring
58 different products from exotic
and domestic hardwoods to budget
lines of print grain and hardboard
paneling. Paneling clinics will be
held here on August 8, 9 and 10 at
which time representatives of U.S.
Plywood will dembnstrate applica-tions
and discuss any phase of wall
paneling.
The suspended ceiling in
"Dreamer's Corner" has a sample
of each of the present line in Arm-strong
ceiling tile. There are three
different folding door units install-ed,
four stains in use, and four
type of lighting.
If you are contemplating build-ing
a new home; adding to, reibod-cling
or completing your present
home; or if you would just like to
dream about something for the fu-ture,
come to the home of building
ideas. Use it as you would a li-brary,
and read, study, select or
just dream in the privacy and com-fort
of "Dreamer's Corner", Her-shey
Lumber Products.
"NEW LOOK" for the Hershey Community Center lobby is shown
here in the photo by Allen "Chick" Zook. New rugs, curtains,
cocktail tables, lamps and end tables lend a new warmth and a
sense of hospitality to the expansive lobby. Additional lamps and
furniture will be added which will further increase the functional
use of the group settings.
Plans Announced For Razing Women's Club Building
Plans have been announced for
the razing of the present Women's
Club and the construction of a new
building in its place at the corner
of Chocolate and Cocoa Avenues.
The contemplated building will
be used to house a new, modern
drug store and offices of Hershey
Estates.
The Women's Club recreational
facilities will be replaced by the
Cocoa Avenue Plaza, currently un-der
construction. Present women
residents of the Women's Club
have been invited to reside at the
Cocoa Inn.
The present building has had a
long and interesting history in Her-shey.
The Cocoa House, as it was
known, was erected in 1905 and
contained a dining room and kit-chen
on the first floor. The second
and third floors contained rooms
for Mr. Hershey's first employees.
Other recreational facilities were
added later and the building was
used as the Men's Club until the
completion of the Hershey Com-munity
Center. Following the trans-fer
of the men's recreational facil-ities
to the Center, the buildings
were used as the Women's Club.
Recent architectural and engine-ering
studies have shown that ex-tensive
repairs required to contin-ue
to use the present structure can-not
be justified.
Awards Announced By Hershey Scholarship Program
Scholarship awards totaling near-ly
$20,000 for the academic year
1963-84 have been announced by
the Hershey Scholarship Program.
This year's grants will help defray
college costs for thirty-seven stu-dents
who are attending colleges
and universities throughout the
country.
The recipients were recommend-ed
for scholarships by the Screen-ing
and Review Committee of the
Hershey Scholarship Program,
which consists of Gilbert Nurick,
Executive Partner of the law firm
of McNees, Wallace & Nurick; Dr.
Roy E. McAuley, President, Eliza-bethtown
College; and Dr. Frederic
K. Miller, President, Lebanon Val-ley
College.
In determining the amount of
the award, the Committee followed
the recommendations of the Col-lege
Scholarship Service of Prince-ton,
New Jersey, a highly-regarded
independent agency which re-viewed
the financial data submitted
in confidence by parents of the
applicants.
To be eligible for an award, a
student must be a dependent son
or daughter of an employee of one
of the Hershey companies and must
be accepted for or enrolled in the
third or fourth year of an accredit-ed
college or university. Further
qualifications provide that the stn.
dent must have his college certify
his demonstrated scholastic ability.
Scholarship aid can be granted
for the amount of tuition and fees
of the college which the student
is attending, up to a maximum of
$1,000. Seventeen students quali-fied
for the maximum award.
Those who received less than the
maximum did so at • the recom-mendation
of College Scholarship
Service, after that agency's evalu-ation
of need, based upon the con-fidential
financial information sub-mitted
by the parents.
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