Hershey News 1954-04-01

              Your Town:
Hershey Goes
On Television
The community of Her-shey
will be the subject
of a television show on
.WGAL-TV (Channel 8) on
Sunday, April 4 at 3 p.m.
Local musical talent ap-pearing
on the program
will include Robert Tan-credi,
Fred Bucciotti, Gwen
Hess and the Milton Her-shey
School Glee Club un-der
the direction of Virgil
Alexander.
John B. Sollenberger,
president of Hershey Es-tates,
and Samuel F. Hin-kle,
Hershey Chocolate
Corporation plant mana-ger,
will be interviewed
along with other Hershey
people.
The half-hour program,
called "Your Town", is pro-duced
by Chuck Zink and
is directed by Robert Wal-ther.
HERSHEY NEWS
Vol. 2 HERSHEY, PENNSYLVANIA, APRIL 1, 1954 No. 13
Tulip Garden
To Open On
April 24
One of America's finest
beauty spots—the Hershey
Tulip Garden—is to be in
bloom soon. ,
Harry L. Erdman, director
of horticulture for the Her-shey
Estates, 'announced that
the tulip gardens will be open-
.ed to the public on April 24,
with eleven new hybrid tulips
being shown here for the first
time in the United States.
The excluSive showing at
Hershey will highlight the col-
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FRIDAY, APRIL 2, is Lily Parade Day in Hershey.
In the photo above, High School Principal George D.
Lange buys the first lily from Tri-Hi-Y Treasurer Joan Ra-kosky
while Tri-Hi-Y President Charlene Raynes looks on.
The girls' project is directed by Miss Jane Frutiger, faculty
advisor, and Mrs. John C. Beck, board member of the Tr -
County Crippled Children's Association.
On Friday, eighty young ladies of the Hershey High
School Tri-Hi-Y, attractively attired in yellow poke bonnets
and carrying baskets filled with paper Easter lilies, will be
on the streets in the hope that "you will buy a lily to help
a crippled child." The girls will be lending a hand to the
Tr -County Crippled Children's Association and the 1954
Easter Seal Sale which continues through Easter Sunday.
The Easter lilies which the yobng ladies will sell were
made by physically handicapped workers and are the symbol
of hope for crippled children.
The., contributions the girls will receive go to aid the
Easter Seal agency whose program is the only one of its kind
in this area.
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ABOVE—Flying trio who recently took advantage of good weather to cruise out of
the Hershey Air Park were (left to right) Dave Heistand, Hershey; Cassandra Brown,
Kennett Square, Pa.; and Skip Witmer, Hershey. Witmer, a student at Franklin and Mar-shall
-College, gets in a lot of air time from the local field.
BELOW—Hershey Air Park operator Harry A. Williamson (left) and private pilot
Victor Cottingham of Hummelstown halted in a conversation prior to a take-off by Cot-tingharn.
Springtime Is
Flight Time
At Air Park
The appt ouch of good flying
weather is bringing more and
more bustle to Hershey's "air-port."
In fact, the past weekend
brought considerable air traf-fic
in and out of the airport
which is overlooked by the Ho-tel,
the Milton Hershey School
and the famous Rose Garden.
Hershey's air link with
the rest of the nation is the
"home'' of fifteen privately
owned Planes, as well as the
"fleet" of four craft op-erated
by Harry A. William-son
for flight instruction,
air-taxi service and for
sight-seeing rides.
With the air park in opera-tion
from 9:30 a. m. until dark
every day in the week, it has
become a headquarters for the
airminded of the area—those
who base their own planes
there, those who take flight
instruction from the two
pilots on duty, and those who
just like to drop in and "talk
airplane's." Host Williamson
makes them all welcome.
The air park has become a
popular gathering place for
young men whose interest is
in aviation.
One of them — Hershey
High School Senior Danny
Murray, son of Mrs. Evelyn
Lewis of 69 West Granada
Avenue—is actually "work-ing
his way through flying
school" as line-boy at the
airstrip. When not attend-ing
classes at Hershey High
Danny is helping to service
planes; answering t e 1 e-phones,
mending windsocks
and generally being useful
while on his way to becom-ing
a licensed pilot.
The business end of the air
park includes servicing and
renting of hangar space to pri-vate
planes, charter service
anywhere on the•North Amer-ican
continent, flight instruc-
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Local Red Cross Campaign
Tops Its Goal For
Derry Township has once
again shown the warmth of
its heart in responding to a
humanitarian appeal.
William E. Dearden, local
chairman of the 1954 Red
Cross Drive, reported this
week the contributions in
,Hershey and Derry Township
exceeded the goal by $570.80.
A total of $8,323.80 was
contributed to the Red Cross
for its 1954 program of dis-aster'
relief, aid to the atmed
services and its many other
functions. The goal set for the
local area was '$7,753.
The amount collected also
topped last year's cOntribu-tions
which totalled $8,301.13.
Chairman Dearden paid
high tribute to the commun-ity-
at-large and to the work-ers
and team captains who put
the campaign "over the top." obtained."
1954
In making the announce-ment
of the goal-shattering
drive, Dearden also listed an
additional team captain, Mrs.
J. Henry Lauzon of 1331
Harding Avenue, Palmyra,
who served as a captain in the
Palmdale area.
,Dearden said: "To all who
made contributions, I would
like to say thanks on behalf
of the teams collecting funds,
for without the generous pub-lic
support we could not have
made the showing we did.
"In view of the fact that
the Hershey Ambulance Drive
was held the week before the
Red Cross Drive, and with the
many other drives that were
conducted, I believe the com-munity
and the workers can
be justly proud of the results
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