Hershey News 1958-07-24

              HERSHEY NEWS
Vol. 6
Penna. Dutch Days
Will Mark Tenth
Anniversary Year
Nat'l. Plowing Contest
And Soil Conservation
Exposition Added Event
The tenth annual Pennsyl-vania
Dutch Days, presenting
a colorful panorama of the
Pennsylvania Dutch and their
enthusiastic adherents, will be
held at Hershey Park, August
21 through 24.
, This year, in addition to
the many new Dutch fea-tures,
the celebration will
also embrace the 16th an-nual
National Plowing Con-.
—oust - and Conservation Ex-position.
There will be more than 100
"Dutch" craftsmen at. work
in the huge Sports Arena,
plying such colorful trades as
weaving, blacksmithing, glass-blowhig
, candle dipping, cer-amics
and quilting.
The quilting parties, the
focal point of the craft exhi-bit,
will produce the kind of
bed coverings that Grandma
used to make. In addition,
there will be a mammoth dis-play
of .300 quilts, many of
them 100 years old, hung all
around - the arena.
Dutch dialect speakers,
an old-fashioned Dutch auc-tion,
a 'Pennsylvania Ger-man
religious service, plus
music by the Johnny
Schmoker Band, a. group of
strolling German mitsicians,
and a steam calliope 'drawn
by an 8-pony hitch, have
been secured to enliven the
proceedings.
Square dancing is scheduled
for the park's Starlight Ball-room,
and agriculture features
in addition to the plowing con7
test will include a dairy cat-tle
show, poultry festival, hay
show and pony school.
And, of course, all of the
traditional Pennsylv ania
Dutch food, such as schnitz
and knepp, pot pie, shoo-fly
pie .and the seven sweets and
• sours will be on sale by area
church women.
Continuing a custom of
long standing, except for food,
there will ,he no charge to any
of the Mitch Days events.
Farm Salute
A salute to Pennsylvania
agriculture" has been schedul-ed
for August 21, opening day
tenntinund on Pari P414),
HERSHEY, PENNSYLVANIA, JULY 24, 1958
NEW STATE POLICE TRAINING SCHOOL DESIGN
is shown in the above artist's sketch, released after
groundbreaking ceremonies were conducted on the hill
east of Hotel Hershey last. Thursday. The $1,360,000
institution when completed will be one of the most
complete training schools of its kind in the United
States. Completion of construction is expected to take
about fifteen months.
THE GOVERNOR DIGS IN — The first shovelful of
earth for the new Pennsylvania State Police Training
School north of Hershey was turned by Gov. George
M. Leader as Dauphin County- Senator M. -Harvey
Taylor (left) and State Police School superintendent
Major Charles C. Keller looked on.
SPEAKING AT THE GROUNDBREAKING for the new
Pennsylvania State Police Training School, Hershey
Estates President John B. Sollenberger told the gather-ing
that the new institution will fulfill a desire of the
late Milton S. Hershey for placing the school in a‘fitting
location. Mr. Sollenberger is flanked by Gov. George
M. Leader (left) and Col. Earl J. Henry, Pennsylvania
State Police commissioner.
No. 30
State Police School
Under Construction
The Pennsylvania State'
Police's new training school
is under construction after
groundbr eaking cere-monies
were held last Thurs-day,
July. 17, at the institu-tion's
hilltop site north of
Hershey and a mile east of
Hotel Hershey.
• Heading the list of digni-taries
taking part in the
groundbreaking was Governor
George M. Leader, who point-ed,
out that the new school
will afford the prestige be-fitting
today's high caliber of
training and quality of ,the
Pennsylvania State Police
trooper.
The school and its grounds
will be constructed at a cost
of $1,359,545, and will be lo-cated
on a high wooded site
of 28 acres. It is scheduled
for completion in about fif-teen
months.
The site was donated to the
Pennsylvania State Police by
the Hershey Estates.
• Speakers at the ground-breaking
ceremonies also in-cluded
John B. Sollenberger,
president of Hershey Estates;
State Senator M. Harvey Tay-lor;
Col. E. J. Henry, Penn,
sylvania State Police Com-missioner;
and Major Charles
C. - Keller, superintendent of
the State Police Training
School.
Master of ceremonies was
A. J. Caruso, executive direc-tor
of the General State
Authority. The invocation was
given by the Rev. William
Sheldon Blair, chaplain of the
State Police Training School,
and the benediction was pro-nounced
by the Rev. Fr. An-drew
T. Marinak of St. Joan
of Arc Catholic Church.
Guests introduced by Car-uso
during -the ceremonies
included Hershey Estates
Vice Presidents James
Bobb and Theodore Banks
and Hershey Chocolate Cor-poration
President Samuel F.
Hinkle.
Facilities
The new school will provide
an administration building
with conference rooms, -of-fices,
three classrooms, gym-nasium,
shower room, dining
facilities -for one hundred men
plus permanent personnel,
kitchen, indoor pistol range
in basement, two-story dorm-itory
wing with accommoda-tions
for one hundred stud-ents,
recreation room on each
floor, and rooms for perma-nent
personnel.
There will be parking facili-ties
for 75 cars, a dismounted
drill field of one and one-half
acres, a service garage with
facilities for storage of ye..
hides and complete mainten-ance,
repair and washing ser-vice.
Stable facilities for sixty
horses will be built, abng
with saddle and blacksmith
shops, tack room, food stor-age
rooms, and hay and
straw storage loft. Adjacent
to the stable will be several
fenced corrals covering about
three acres.
The institution will have a
complete outdoor pistol and
rifle range, with firing points
at 15, 25, 50, 75, and 200
yards.
Other facilities will include
a quartermaster storeroom,
library, medical room, inter-rogation
room, and reception
and guest roms.
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