Hershey News 1962-03-29

              HERSHEY NEWS
Vol. 10 4?4- M00 HERSHEY, PENNSYLVANIA, MARCH 29, 1962 No. 7
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SOARING STUDENTS gather around the Schwiezer 222 glider just prior to take off on a beautiful
"Soaring" Saturday afternoon. The glider, piloted by Harry Williamson, manager and instructor at
the Hershey Airport, and Jack Conrad of 331 Luther Road, Harrisburg, is an intermediate per-formance
glider used for training. Hershey Soaring "Gaggle" (gathering) will be held on April 7
and 8 (Rain date, April 14 & 15) at the Air Park with participants coming from Eastern Pennsyl-vania,
New Jersey and Maryland. Sponsored by the Hershey Soaring Association, the "Gaggle" will
feature duration flights, a short cross country event, goal and return flights, short tasks and local
soaring.
Tulips To Begin
Show Of Color
On April 22
"Weather" or not the 30,000
tulips in the Hershey Rose Gar-den
will begin their show of color
April 22, Easter Sunday, accord-ing
to John P. Meszaros, Director
of Horticulture. Preceding them
by a week will be the 100 varieties
of narcissus and 40 varieties of
hyacinths.
Twelve varieties of tulips shown
for the first time in the United
States are but a fraction of the
400 varieties of tulips in every
color, bicolor, blend, shade and
tint. There are 19 types of tulips
represented.
The blooming period of the
tulip display extends through
May 13 due to careful selection
of the Fosteriana, Single and Dou-ble
Early, Darwins, Cottage, Lily
Flowering, Parrot, Peony, Darwin
Hybrids, Triumph and others.
Of special interest will be beds
designed as Windmill, Dutch
Wooden Shoe and a Tulip Flower.
In addition to the brilliance of
bloom from the thousands of
tulips, daffodils and hyacinths,
there will be magnolias, azaleas,
quince and forsythia in full bloom.
The pleasant background of the
multi-shades of green of the ever-greens
and the lush carpet of
grass create hundreds of picture
patterns.
Annual Central Pa. Coin
Show Will Be Held Here
Numismatists by the hundreds will
once again gather in Hershey for the
annual Central Pennsylvania Coin
Show to be held in the Social Room
of the Community Building on April
6, 7, and 8.
Mr. John E. Mull, Hershey Choc-olate
.Corporation employee and co-ordinator
of the event, has anounced
that Mr. Samuel Hinkle, president of
Hershey Chocolate Corporation, will
cut the ribbon at the opening cere-monies
at 10:00 a.m. on Friday. The
coin exhibition will be open to the
public Friday and Saturday from 9
a.m. to 10 p.m. and on Sunday from
noon to 6 p.m.
Exhibitors from seven different
states will present a diversified dis-play
of monies including coins from
ancient Greece, Biblical coins, odd
and curious monies of the world,
gold and U. S. coins.
The Numismatics Show is ar-ranged
by officials of the three spon-soring
clubs (Harrisburg, Hershey,
West Shore) to demonstrate the
scope of the hobby.
NO WATER
The Hershey Water Company
will be flushing the Fire Hy-drants
during the two weeks per-iod
of April 2nd to the 14th be-tween
the hours of 10 p.m. and
6 a.m.
GRAND OPENING CEREMONIES of the all-new "LADS 'n DADS"
shop on the second floor of the Hershey Department Store was
celebrated with the cutting of the ribbon by Mr. John B. Sollen-berger,
president of the Hershey Estates. Watching the ceremonial
cutting are left to right, T. R. Banks, vice-president of the Hershey
Estates; Lewis A. Rimbey, manager of the Dept. Store; and
Richard nankin, manager of the "Lads 'n Dads" department.
Special Employe Rates Are
Announced For Hershey
Park And Juvenile Courses
With the' golfing season rapidly ap-proaching,
Mr. Ralph Hoar, director
of the Community Club, has announc-ed
that once again members of the
senior and intermediate men's di-vision
of the club may purchase
playing privileges for the Hershey
Park Public Golf Course for the
following special rates:
Rates for employees are $43.00
plus tax and -,for - mu-employees,
$66.67 plus tax. Green fees for em-ployees
are $1.75 and for non-em-ployees,
$2.50 for weekdays and $3.00
on Saturdays, Sunday and holidays.
Special rates for the Juvenile Golf
Course were also announced. Young-sters
from 8 to 14 years of age whose
parents are employees of Hershey
interests, may receive golfing privi-leges
for $3 plus tax and the non-em-ployees
rate is $5 plus tax. Fourteen
to eighteen year-old golf member-ship
rates are $6 plus tax.for em-ployees
and $8.50 plus tax for non-em-ployees.
For women over 18 years of
age, employees will pay $10 plus tax
and non-employees $13 plus tax for
a golf membership.
For members of the Community
Club not having golf privileges,
daily rates for playing the Juvenile
will be 8 to 14 — 35 cents; 14 to 18
—50 cents; and Women over 18 —
$1.00.
During the summer months a
weekly golf clinic will be held by Jay
Weitzel and his assistants for young-sters
from 8 to 18 who hold season
playing privileges on the Juvenile.
Following the instruction, tourna-ments
will be held on the Juvenile.
Both Park and Juvenile playing
privilege cards may be purchased
at the Community Club desk starting
April 2.
Hershey Sr. Band To March
In Cherry Blossom Parade
The Hershey High School senior
band has been chosen to represent
the state of Pennsylvania at the
Cherry Blossom Festival Parade
held annually in Washington D. C.
Members of the band will leave here
on Friday morning to participate in
the parade on Saturday, April 7 at
11 a.m.
A tour of the city has been ar-ranged
by Mr. J. Lee McConnell and
the students will spend the night at
the Hotel Commodor.
Money for the trip was donated by
organiiations, businesses and ser-vice
clubs of the community.
"THE LAMPOST" TO OPEN AT COCOA INN
"The Lampost" featuring the ulti-mate
in dining facilities will open the
latter part of this week at the Cocoa
Inn. Receiving its name from the
symbolic "lamp post" on the "Cho-colate
Crossroads of the World",
the dining room will be arrayed in
a colonial motif with a capacity of
200 people.
Walls of the dining area will fea-ture
walnut wainscot up to the win-dow
heighth and the upper wall will
be covered with authentic early
American tavern design of wall-paper.
Wall to wall carpeting has
been installed in an early American
pattern with browns and greens pre-dominate.
Dining in the charming Colonial
atmosphere will also be enhanced by
Georgian colonial chandeliers, wal-nut
captains chairs and white text-ured
draperies.
A new sound system will provide
music throughout the dining area.
The all new Cocao Lounge which
has been open since February, has
been refurbished in a tropical theme
featuring a unique arm chair level
bar with special padded rattan
swivel chairs. The bar top is of
white formica and the bar rail is
foam rubber padded and covered
with a cocoa brown vinyl fabric. In
addition, the back bar is accented
with five colorful Sputh American
Toucan birds perched on a drift
wood branch.
A special feature of the new Cocao
Lounge is the split level design in
which the lounge is fashioned. One
level shows the bar and on the other
level are banquettes and tables.
Table tops are the same as the bar
with rattan side chairs.
The room is completely carpeted
with a unique design of tropical
leaves featuring three shades of
green. Topping off the tropical dis-play
in an authentic mural of Co.-...ao
bean picking and processing.
PLANNING EVENTS for Nationa Library Week to be held April 8
to 15 are members of the committee (front, left to right) Miss Eleanor
King, Mrs. Gerald Long, Mrs. Paul Heaps and (rear) Mr. Dennis Cas.
telli, Rev. Kermit L. Lloyd and Richard I. Bacastow. Members of the
committee not present when the picture was taken are Mrs. William
Landis and Mrs. Robert Schock. Theme for Library Week is
"READ—and Watch Your World Grow."
National Library Week To Be Held Here April 8 To 15
The committee for National
Library Week has announced plans
for a combined meeting of the
Great Books Club in connection
with Library Week to be cele-brated
in Hershey April 8 to 15.
Open to the public, the Great
Books meeting will be held at the
Milton Hershey School Library on
Monday evening, April 9 at 8 p.m.
at which time the club will discuss
Marx and Engles "The Communist
Manifesto."
Also on the agenda for the week
is a book review to be given by
the Rev. Karl Flocken, pastor of
the United Church of Christ of
Hummelstown, on Friday night,
April 13 in the Hershey Public
Library at 8 p.m.
The children of the community
will be entertained at a story-telling
and book review session to
be held on Saturday morning at
10 a.m. in the Little Theatre of
the Community Building. Mrs. Paul
Heaps, librarian, will be in charge
with the assistance of Miss Peggy
Carpenter and Miss Eve Kegerize.
Judges for the poster contest
being held in conjunction with
National Library Week for the
students of Derry Township and
Milton Hershey Schools are Rich-ard
I. Bacastow, Dennis Castelli
and Mrs. Gerald Long. Theme for
the contest is "READ—and Watch
Your World Grow?'
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