Hershey News 1963-06-27

              HERSHEY NEWS
Vol. 11 HERSHEY, PENNSYLVANIA, JUNE 27, 1963
THE BUCCANEERS of Reading, winners of the best appearing
Drum-Bugle Corps category of the 45th annual Dauphin County
Firemen's Parade and champions of the 5th annual VFW 1687
Drum & Bugle Corps Tournament of Champions, are seen in the
photo above marching along the parade route in the two and half
hour long parade. An estimated 20,000 spectators lined the streets and
porches of homes to view the festivities according to John B. Solien-berger,
grand marshal.
Dauphin Firemen Parade Huge Success
An estimated crowd of some 20,-
000 spectators lined the streets of
'Chocolate Town, U.S.A., to view the
• 45th annual Dauphin County Volun-
' teer Firemen's Association parade on
Saturday afternoon of June 15, ac-cording
to Hershey Firemen, spon-sors
of the 21/2hour long parade.
The parade was a part of a two-day
convention which featured busi-
'ness sessions for participating fire-men;
a Teen Record Hop and Queen
,crowning The event was proclaimed
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perfect' weather for the festivities.
Leading the parade which featured
seventeen bands, twelve drum and
bugle corps and numerous tire
companies and their auxiliaries, was
a mounted State Police detail and
the United States Air Force Drum
and Bugle Corps.
Queens appearing in the parade
included Miss Nancy Stuck, conven-tion
queen; Peggy Evans, Hershey's
66th anniversary queen and her
court; Susan Goodman, Miss Great-er
Harrisburg and Bonnie Davis,
ANNOUNCEMENT
Merl Seavers, Postmaster of
the Hershey Post Office, has an-nounced
that the mail collection
box at the railroad station will
be removed as of July 1, due to
discontinuance of the Reading
Railroad Passenger Service.
"Sparkies Queen" of Union Deposit.
The Convention Queen's court in-cluded
Linda Gantz and Tana Rae
Cassel runner-up, and Ann Hollings-worth
and Connie Jones.
Winners of the Drum and Bugle
Competition •held in the evening fol-lowing
the parade were The Reading
"Buccaneers." The Reading group
were declared champions before an
estimated crowd of 8,500 who attend-ed
the VFW Post 1687 Tournament of
Champions competition. The "Buc-t.',
11.Cel s also won the parade corps
competition.
Other drum corps in order of their
placings were Apple Knockers, Ge-neva,
N.Y.; Grey Knights, Roches-ter,
N.Y.; Troubadors, Quebec, Ca-nada;
Black Knights, Salamanca,
N.Y.
Hershey Chocolate
Of. Smiths Falls
Officially Opened
The Hon. Ray Connel, Minister of
Public Works for Ontario, assisted by
Samuel F. Hinkle, President of Her-shey
Chocolate of Canada Ltd., of-ficially
opened. the 'new Hershey
Chocolate plant in Smith Falls on
Saturday, June 15, during outdoor
ceremonies held there.
The program of events for the day
of festivities included a giant parade
of 40 antique cars, bands, floats and
clowns, plus an exhibition of High-land
dancing, Judo and a communi-ty
dance in the evening. The High-land
dancing and Judo exhibition fol-lowed
the opening ceremonies.
Adding color to the parade pro-cessional
were three beauty queens
— Miss Grey Cup, Renata Pikelis;
Miss Eastern Ontario, Barbara An-derson;
and Miss Smiths Falls, Bev-erly
Cunningham. During the open-ing
ceremonies the girls were de-clared
"Miss Hershey Bar" by Mr.
Joseph Miller, Plant Manager and
Master-of-Ceremonies, and each was
presented with a basket of kisses
which they distributed among the
people present.
A crowd of about 15,000 attended
the opening which the town of Smiths
Falls and the Chamber of Commerce
declared as "Hershey Day in Smiths
Falls." Representatives of the Ca-nadian
Embassies of Ghana, Brazil
and Spain were present and got a
first-hand view of their countries pro-ducts
being used in the production of
chocolate.
In addition to the fe:stivitie,,, The
Canadian Pacific Railway had a dis-play
on its spur line into the choco-late
plant and some of its most mod-ern
equipment, with special stands
built to enable visitors to inspect it
at close range.
The Hershey plant, one of eastern
Postal Coding Announced for Post Office Patrons
In connection with the national
"Zoning Improvement Plan," begin-ning
on July 1, Mr. Merl Seavers,
Postmaster, has announced that all
postal patrons served through the
Hershey Post Office are requested to
use code number 17033 in their re-turn
addresses on all classes of mail,
following the city and state (not in
between). For example:
Mr. Zip
123 State Street
Hershey, Penna. 17033
Through the national system, some
out-of-town deliveries will be sped
by as much as 24 hours. The ZIP cod-ed
mail will by-pass several current
WAVES OF NOSTALGIA spread through the community of Hershey
at the sound of the steam whistle which announced the arrival of
Reading Railroad's famous "Iron Horse Ramble" excursion. Almost
1,000 people rode on the "Indian Echo-Hershey Park Special„ front
Philadelphia and Norristown, and toured Indian Echo Cave at Hum-melstown,
the Hershey Gardens and the Hershey Park. More than
23,000 passengers, from every state in continental United States
and many foreign coutries have ridden previous Rambles since
their inauguration In October, 1959.
hand operations at the post office and
will lay the groundwork for exten-sive
automatic sorting of mail by
optical reading equipment proposed
for the future. When the national
ZIP code plan is fully operational, it
will provide the United States with
the most modern system of mail
distribution and dispatch ever de-vised.
An explanation of the five digits
is: the first digit identifies the geo-graphical
area of the nation, the sec-ond
and third digits identify the ma-jor
city or -sectional center distrib-uting
mail (Harrisburg is the sec-tional
center for Hershey), the fourth
and fifth digits identify the post of-fice.
Drum & Bugle Competition
The Hershey Chocolatiers of the
Hershey Post 386 of the American
Legion, will present their 13th An-nual
Invitational Senior Drum &
Bugle Corps Competition on Saturday?
July 6, at 8 p.m. Featuring 5 cham-pionship
Drum SZ Bugle Corps, the
'competition will be held in the Her-shey
'Stadium. Rain date has been
set for Sunday, July 7, at 2 p.m.
Included in the five competing
Drum and Bugle Corps are "The
Rockets," of Pittsburgh; the Archer
Epler "Musketeers," of Upper Dar-by;
Carver "Gay .Blades," of New-ark,
N.J.; "The Esquires," of West
Moreland, Pa.: and "The Buccan-eers,"
of Reading, winners of the
VFW Tournament of Champions and
the Firemen's Parade competition.
An exhibition, sponsored by the
Chocolatiers, will be presented by an
All Girls Corps, "The Belles of Saint
Marys," of Gloucester, New Jersey.
No. 13
ANNIVERSARY QUEEN, Miss Peggy Evans, a co-ed at Hershey
Junior College, reigns over hundreds of thousands of rose subjects
during the present period of peak bloom at the Hershey Gardens.
Carrying a bouquet of -red roses, lovely Queen Peggy greets the
thousands of visitors touring the gardens during this 25th anni-versary
year of the Hershey Gardens. The peak bloom of the 42,000
bushes will continue until June 30.
Ontario's finest and most modern in-dustrial
plants, is a one-story build-ing
covering 200,000 square feet of
floor space. At the present time the
plant employs 150 persons.
Now producing five of the famous
chocolate bars, plus chocolate syrup
and Hershey's kisses, the plant is
expected to be producing a full line
of products by the end of 1963. The
five bars produced include, Hershey's
plain, Almond, Krackle, Semi-Sweet,
and Mr. Goodbar.
With the official opening, tours of
the new Smiths Falls plant began.
A separate entrance and receiving
room leads visitors to the elevated
viewing level. Guests may watch
every operation by strolling along a
"visitors walk" or gallery where
large picture windows give an over-all
view of the chocolate processing.
This hallway can accommodate sev-eral
hundred visitors at a time and
runs a 600-foot circuit of the main
operation. The chocolate plant will be
closed for vacations the first week
in July. 1
HAVING A BALL at the Family Fun Day held for residents of
Derry Township in conjunction with the 60th Anniversary Cele-bration
of Hershey, are this group of teenagers who were among
the many that thronged the Hershey Park Pool last week. The
day was fun-packed for all the children, teeners and adults that
took advantage of the free admission charge to the pool and sun-ken
gardens. Included in the festivities was an out-of-doors dance
held in the sunken gardens with the Princeman, a local group fur-nishing
the music.
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