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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. Hershey News - Comm. Bldg. Hershey, Pa. BULK RATE U. S. POSTAGE PAID HERSHEY, PA. Permit No. 13 3547 REQUESTED IF UNDELIVERABLE
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Title | Hershey News 1959-04-23 |
Subject | Hershey (Pa.)--Newspapers |
Description | Hershey News, published from 1953 until 1964, reported news and events throughout the Township of Derry, Pennsylvania (informally known as Hershey). |
Date | 1959-04-23 |
Location Covered | Hershey (Pa.) |
Type | Text |
Original Format | Newspapers |
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Contact | For information on source and images, contact Hershey Community Archives at contact@hersheyarchives.org. |
Contributing Institution | Milton Hershey School |
Sponsorship | This Digital Object is provided in a collection that is included in POWER Library: Pennsylvania Photos and Documents, which is funded by the Office of Commonwealth Libraries of Pennsylvania/Pennsylvania Department of Education. |
Description
Title | Hershey News 1959-04-23 |
Subject | Hershey (Pa.)--Newspapers |
Description | Hershey News, published from 1953 until 1964, reported news and events throughout the Township of Derry, Pennsylvania (informally known as Hershey). |
Date | 1959-04-23 |
Location Covered | Hershey (Pa.) |
Type | Text |
Original Format | Newspapers |
Rights | https://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?language=en |
Contact | For information on source and images, contact Hershey Community Archives at contact@hersheyarchives.org. |
Contributing Institution | Milton Hershey School |
Sponsorship | This Digital Object is provided in a collection that is included in POWER Library: Pennsylvania Photos and Documents, which is funded by the Office of Commonwealth Libraries of Pennsylvania/Pennsylvania Department of Education. |
Full Text | 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. Hershey News - Comm. Bldg. Hershey, Pa. BULK RATE U. S. POSTAGE PAID HERSHEY, PA. Permit No. 13 3547 REQUESTED IF UNDELIVERABLE |
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