Hershey News 1959-04-23

              HERSHEY NEWS
Vol. 7 .440CL`44., HERSHEY, PENNSYLVANIA, APRIL 23, 1959 No. 17
MORE THAN FOUR HUNDRED BICYCLISTS from throughout the community
turned out in force last Saturday at the Hershey High School Building for the annual
bicycle safety program held by the Hershey Optimist Club, Here, one of the busy regis-trars,
Optimist Ward Wiley, signs up bike owners as Pennsylvania State Trooper
Milan &der and Optimist Club President-elect Russell Cutshall hold up a beckoning
poster. Trooper Suder is in charge of student safety patrol work in the area. Trooper
Joseph F. Petritis also assisted the Optimists In conducting the bike safety event.
During the morning activity 425 bikes were registered by the Optimist registra-tion
teams, 250 of which were new registrations this year. The Rev. Kermit L. Lloyd,
vicar of Hershey's All Saints Episcopal Church, addressed the huge crowd of young
cyclists during the safety program held in the school auditorium. Prizes were awarded
, by the Optimist Club to thirty lucky participants, with Nora A. Barnes and Emma
Jean Heisey winning the grand prizes of bike speedometers. All prizes were bike ac-cessories.
25-Band Parade For Hershey
The Pennsylvania Band-masters'
Association has an-nounced
that its 27th annual
convention—to be held in Her-shey
May 8-10—will feature
a mammoth parade of bands
on Chocolate Avenue as part
of the association's activities
on Saturday, May 9. The pa-rade
is scheduled to get under
way at one-thirty p.m.
John Enck, McConnellsburg
(Pa.) High School bandmas-ter
and general chairman of
the convention, said twenty-five
of the state's finest
school and community bands
have registered to take part
in the parade.
Local area bands registered
to parade include those of the
Milton Hershey School, Her-shey
High School, Middletown
High School and Susquehanna
Township High School, as well
as Franklin and Marshall Col-lege.
A band clinic will be con-ducted
in Hershey Sports
Arena at the conclusion of the
parade by Donald Jacoby, na-tionally
famous cornetist, and
John H. Peiffer Jr., conductor
of the Franklin and Marshall
Band.
U. S. Air Force Officer Addresses
Hershey Education Association
Lt. Col. Charles F. Stack,
Jr., chief of the Office of In-formational
Services, Middle-town
Air Materiel Area, was
the guest speaker at the an-nual
Spring banquet of the
Hershey Education Associa-tion
on Wednesday evening,
April 15. One hundred and six-ty-
nine members and guests
were present.
Master of ceremonies for
the program was Mrs. Arlene
Bucher, the , current HEA
president.
In his address to the teach-
;king group, .Col. Stack warned
f complacency and disregard
for awareness in our relations
with Russia.
He recommended that
American education train
more individuals who would
be capable leaders of the fu-ture,
calling for an active pro-gram
which would provide the
necessary qualities in our chil-dren
to make them capable of
handling the affairs of a
world divided into two camps
of democracy and communist
totalitarianism..
Miss Mary Neill and Charles
Muench were co-chairmen of
the banqnet committee, which
included Mrs. Esther Copp,
Miss Rachael Baker, Miss Vi-ola
Dietrich,- Miss Janet Fil-bin,
Miss Julie Furlong, Miss
Phyllis Gilman, Miss Marcie
Nagorski, Miss Annie Royer,
Ray Cheronis, Earl . Edna,
Louis Mandes, Francis Mc-
Carthy, Eric Phillips, Elwyn
Spangler, and Edward Tylden.
Local Cancer Campaign
To Be Held On Monday
The Derry Toillship Can-cer
Crusade will be conducted
on Monday, April 27, it was
announced by local chairman
Ted Mandes, between the
hours of 9 a.m. and 9 p.m.
Serving as captains for the
campaign, Mandes reported,
will be Allen Fasnacht, Mrs.
Reuel Ryman, Mrs. Joseph
Magnelli, Mrs. Samuel Tan-credi,
Mrs. 'Robert Sponaugle,
Mrs.' DeWitt Nunn, Mrs. John
Emerich, Mrs. Joseph Fisch-er,
George Horstick, and Mrs.
Jefferson Barnhart.
Volunteers conducting the
campaign will leave a card at
home where the residents are
absent when the campaign
worker calls, the chairman
said, and a return call will be
made the following day.
Persons who are missed and
who wish to contribute to the
American Cancer Society may
mail their contributions direct
to the Dauphin County Cancer
Unit, 211 State Street, Harris-burg..
Remember To Set Clock
For Daylight Saving
Lest we forget:
Tie a string around your finger—
or write yourself a note. The clock
gets turned ahead an hour for the
beginning of Daylight Saving ;time
at 2 a.m. Sunday, April 26.
Hershey will again join most area
towns in observing "fast time." All
of Dauphin County will continue
Daylight Saving Time until Octo-ber
25.
Chocolate Corp. And Union
Reach Contract Agreement
Hershey Chocolate Corporation and Chocolate Workers'
Local 464, American Bakery and Confectionery Workers'
International Union, reached agreement on a new contract
settlement in a negotiating session last Friday morning.
Ratification of the terms by the Union membership came
at Union meetings held Monday and Tuesday of this.week.
•The new contract provides for a wage increase of eight
cents per hour, retroactive to January 1, 1959, with a furth-er
increase of seven cents per hour effective January 1, 1960.
Aside from the wage increases, the contract includes
an increase of one-half per cent of annual earnings in vaca-tion
benefits to' employees with six to twenty years of con-tinuous
employment, and an increase of one per cent to em-ployees
with twenty-one or more years.
Under the contract terms, employees who are entitled
to the Christmas paid holiday will receive four hours' extra
pay at their regular hourly rate.
Also, top rated skilled tradesmen will receive an addi-tional
increase of three cents per hour.
No change was made in the previous Union security
clause.
Current provisions for pensions and group insurance
were not affected in the recently completed contract nego-tiations.
Seek Good American Books
For Readers In Free World
The citizens of Hershey are
being afforded the opportun-ity
to help tell the story of
America around the free
To offset the flood of Com-munist
propaganda, the U.S.
Information Agency has ask-ed
for a donation of American
books from everyone willing
to help with this worthy
cause. The books will be sent
throughout the free world to
eve our international neigh-bors
a true picture of the
American way of life.
In Hershey, the project of
receiving the donated books
has been undertaken by the
Rotary Club during this week
and next.
Rotarian William E. Landis,
project chairman, said books
may be deposited in a box
marked for that purpose at
the desk of the Hershey Com-munity
Club. Books should be
in good to excellent condition.
Types of books needed:
For small children, or those
who cannot read English —
picture books, ABC's, Mother
Goose, etc.
.For children who can read
English—childhood classics in
easy-to-read editions, modern
children's books by good au-thors.
For students in secondar
schools — high school and
junior college texts, general
works in history, geography,
literature, natural science, ap-plied
science, social science,
art and music; books reflect-ing
modern American life and
thought.
For college and research
students and professional per-sons—
specialized works in the
sciences, history, law, litera-ture,
technology.
For the general adult read-er—
good modern fiction and
non-fiction, especially that
which gives a good picture of
present-day American life;
literary classics in modern
editions; standard reference
works.
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