Hershey News 1954-07-29

              New School Toured
By Optimist Club
Another local service club
to visit Derry Township's new
• elementary school building
was the Hershey Optimist
Club, headed by Walter Doug-las.
More than 30 of the Op-timists
were conducted on an
inspection tour of the new and
modern school by A. Sterling
King, elementary school prin-cipal.
The school, which pro-vides
for kindergarten pupils
and the first three primary
grades, will be put into use at
the opening of the new school
term.
The Optimist Club toured
the structure last Wednesday.
At a meeting held before
the tour, the Optimists made
tentative plans for their Char-ter
Day which is to be an all-day
affair on September 25,
with the Park Golf Club as
headquarters. Features in-clude
a dance and a tour of
Hershey for visiting Op-timists.
John Gilman Heads
H. S. Band Parents
The Hershey Band Parents
Association — which supports
the musical groups of Hershey
High School, including the
chorus, marching band and
50-piece orchestra — this
week anounced the election of
John Gilman as president for
the 1954-55 school year. Gil-man
succeeds Bruce Burtner.
Other newly elected offi-cers
are: Ivan Seltzer, first
vice-president; Herman Hof-fer,
second vice-president,
Mrs. Harold'Plerce, secretary;
and Mrs. Francis Garman,
treasurer. Number One pro-ject
of the association for the
coming school year will be
fund raising to equip each
member of the 110-voice
Senior High School Chorus
with newly purchased gowns
and stoles, it was announced.
The gowns are expected to be
on hand for the opening of
school.
The gown outfits, the asso-ciation
said, "will be in at-tractive
royal blue with re-versible
gold and white stoles,
which will lend a new spirit
within the student body and
will reflect well for our com-munity
in their local appear-ances,
as well as their district
and state contests."
Local Tennis
Stars Score
Hershey racquet - swingers
continued to keep the Choco-latetown
on the tennis map as
they turned in an impressive
collective performance at the
Harrisburg Open Tennis Tour-ney
at the end of last week.
A double title winner was
Sam Hinkle who on Saturday
defeated Clayton Kauffman,
also of Hershey, to win the
junior boys' singles crown.
Hinkle then teamed with
Kauffman to defeat G u s
Mauro and Dana Friedman in
a 6-0, 6-0 shut-out match to
take the doubles.
In another finals match on
Saturday, Hershey's Carol
Moyer captured the junior
girls' singles title by defeat-ing
Barbara Karlheim of Har-risburg.
Miss Moyer and her part-ner,
George Halbleib of Camp
Hill, bowed .to June Knox and
Bob Wallower, both of Har-
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HERSHEY NEWS
Vol. 2 HERSHEY, PENNSYLVANIA, JULY 29, 1954 No. 30
HERSHEY PARK GOLF CLUB TEAM, which owns two legs on the Sen. James H. Duff
Publinx Trophy, missed permanent possession of the cup by dropping the team title in the
Publinx to Waring's of Harrisburg by a single stroke.
The Hershey team, left to right: Ottavio Lalli, Art Garrison, Jim Burns and Paul
Garrison.
The Garrisons won individual honors in the three-day Publinx.
YOUNG REPRESENTATIVES of the Scouting move-ment
congratulate Herbert A. Vernet, Jr., of Hershey on his
appointment as Lower Dauphin County chairman for the
fall Community Chest campaign. With Vernet are nine-year-
old Susie Essig, of Brownie Troop 74, and Tommy
Boyer, 10, of Cul) Pack 200, Den 4.
Vernet, who is chief of staff of the 28th Division, Penn-sylvania
National Guard, was named Lower Dauphin Com-munitY
Chest chairman today by Frank C. Foose, general
chairman. Col. Vernet served in the South Pacific in World
War Two and was a regimental commander in Korea. The
Vernets reside at 32 W. Chocolate Avenue and have three
children.
Plane Post Staffers Win Duty Awards
Presentation of certificates
for 100 hours of service with
the Derry Township Ground
Observer Corps this week in-cluded
a family affair when
Chief Observer Russell
Aungst handed Century Club
certificates to his wife, Mrs.
Ellen Aungst, and their
daughter, Miss Gretchen
Aungst.
An award for outstanding
service with the civilian volun-teer
"on guard" forces was
presented to LeRoy Woodling,
who received his 750-hour bar
to his merit pin.
Mrs. Ida M. Herbst received
her 250-hour merit pin, and
her. . daughter-in-law, Mrs.
Marlin Herbst, recently was
the recipient of her 500-hour
badge.
Other 100-hour awards, in
addition to those earned by
the Aungst mother-daughter
team, were received by Mrs.
Emma Koch, wife of former
Superintendent of Schools
Raymond H. Koch, and Larry
Ganse, Lester Kauffman,
Robert Seltzer and Harry
Scheetz.
Dutch Days
And How
They Grew
From a one-day picnic in
1949 which attracted a sur-prising
crowd of 25,000 per-sons,
to a three-day event at-tended
by 140,000 last year,
Pennsylvania Dutch Days,
scheduled for Thursday, Fri-day
and Saturday, August
26, 27 and 28 at Hershey
Park, has grown by leaps and
bounds.
Born of a sincere desire
to preserve the colorful arts
and customs of the Pennsyl-vania
Dutch, the celebra-tion
had its beginning on
August 27, 1949, as an out-ing
for members and
friends of the Pennsylvania
Dutch Dialect Class of the
Hershey Evening School.
Encouraged by the success
of the first affair, which sur-passed
the fondest dreams of
the sponsors, a permanent
Pennsylvania Dutch Days
Committee was formed
and the observance was ex-
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Garrisons Top
Golfers In Pa.
Publinx Here•
Hershey Bows To Waring
Forces In Team Play;
it. Gov. At Banquet
The Garrison brothers,
Paul and Art, playing out of
the Hershey Park Golf Club,
last week carried off top indi-vidual
honors in the 16th an-nual
Publinx Golf Tourney
over the local course.
Paul won his first Publinx
title by posting 293 for the
72-hole medal play test.
Paul's score was five strokes
under his nearest competi-tor,
Earl Mumma of War-ing's
course, Harrisburg.
Art, retiring president of
the Pennsylvania Public
Golfers Association, won
medal honors for the second
consecutive year. Art put
together rounds of 75 and
72 for a qualifying score of
147.
His brother, Paul, and Mike
Deverant of Langhorne were
tied -for second medal honors,
each registering 148's.
Despite the fact that the
Garrisons finished first and
third, the Hershey team sur-rendered
its club champion-ship
after five years of supe-riority.
By the margin of a
single stroke, the Waring
team composed of Earl Mum-ma,
Bill Allen, Bob Taylor and
Leroy Welter—took tempor-ary
possession of the Senator
James H. Duff trophy.
The Hershey t e a m—
which included the Garri-sons,
Jim Burns and Ottavio
-Lalli—has two legs on the
cup toward permanent pos-session.
Another win would
clinch the cup.
The team trophy and in-dividual
cups to team mem-bers
were presented by Lieu-tenant-
Governor Lloyd if
Wood at the association's ban-quet
Friday evening at the
Park Golf Club. Paul Garrison
received the Hershey Estates
trophy for winning the indi-vidual
championship.
E. C. Nigg of Norristown
was elected president of the
association, with Dick Clarke
of Bethlehem being re-elected
secretary - treasurer. The
group also voted to return to
Hershey in 1955.
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