Hershey News 1953-10-22

              HERSHEY NEWS
Vol. I HERSHEY, PENNSYLVANIA, OCTOBER 22, 1953 tlo 4
Halloween Festivities
Scouters Win
Awards And
District Posts
Dr. J. J. Lucas
Four Hershey residents re-ceived
honors at the Swatara
Boy Scout District meeting
last week at Hummelstown
when Dr. J. J. Lucas, Milton
Hershey School dentist, was
re-elected as district chair-man.
Also reelected to a district
post was Dr. john 0. Hershey,
superintendent of the Milton
Hershey School, who was re-named
as one of four district
vice-chairmen.
The Order of Merit, for
outstanding service to
Scouting, was presented at
the meeting to Mrs. Var-num
H. Fenstermacher, den
mother of Hershey Cub
Pack 200, and to Bruce 1.
Burtner, committeeman of
Troop 65 of Trinity Luth-eran
Church.
Mrs. Fenstermacher's ac-tivities
in behalf of the junior
grade Boy Scouts date back
to 1946 and .include service as
instructor in Cub Scouting on
a district level.
Burtner, a Pennsylvania
State Police sergeant, has an
extensive Scouting back-ground
and is currently serv-ing
as chairman of his troop
committee, as we'll as merit
badge counselor and advisor to
Hershey Explorer Post 65.
In his annual report at the
meeting, Dr. Lucas cited a
new high in district member-ship
of 922 Boy Scouts, 488
Cub Scouts and 66 Explorer
Scouts.
Among district Scouting
events planned for the coming
year is a Camporee to be held
here on May 7-8-9.
TAKES BASIC
Private Fred Hesse, Jr:, is
undergoing an eight-weeks'
period of basic training at the
Ordnance Replacement Train-ing
Center, Aberdeen Proving
Grounds, Aberdeen, Maryland.
He will continue his Army
education in one of the tech-,
nical schools of the Ordnance
Corps after completing his
basic training. .
Girl Scout Week
Plans Are Set
The names of two new
members of the Neighborhood
Girl Scout Committee were
announced by Mrs. Clyde Spit-ler,
committee chairman, as
the organization headed for
the observance of Girl Scout
Week, October 25=31.
Named to the committee
were Mrs. Allen Huber and
Mrs. Fred Hite.
New leaders of the Girl
Scouts, announced at the sarre.
time, are Mrs. Arthur White-man,
Mrs. Henry Stump, Mrs.
Arthur Graham, Mrs. Gilbert
Jones, Miss Sylvia Lewis,
Miss Barbara Jeffries, Miss
Eleanor Markley and Miss
Ethel Long.
Girl Scout Week in Hershey
will be observed by the at-tendance
at church services
by the Scouts, leaders and
committee members. Services
will be held at 7 p. in. at St.
Joan of Arc Catholic Church
and at 7:30 p. m. at Derry
Presbyterian Church on Octo-ber
25.
Girl Scout Week displays
will be located in the windows
of the Iler.sliey 1.kpartment
Store.
Some Infant
Distribution
Of Hershey News
At Eleven Thousand
Circulation of the HER-SHEY
NEWS has reached
11,000.
That's a lot of papers when
it is considered that each
copy is individually addressed.
As pointed out in the initial
edition, the paper's 'accent,
will be on civic advancement
and the hometown pride that
goes with it."
All residents in Hershey,
Hummelidown, Palmyr a,
Campbelltown, Grantville and
Swatara Station receive their
copies via the patron mailing
system. Other employees of
Hershey are reached via direct
addressing. This is also true
of retired employees and the
employees at branch estab-lishments
throughout the
United States. I
In the near future a coupon
will be circulated, to be corn-pleted
by HERSHEY NEW:-
readers so that the circulation
of the NEWS can be more
firmly established.
Printing of the HERSHEY
NEWS is done by the Lebanon
News Publishing Company.
IN GERMANY
Private Jack Allegrini, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Mario Alle-grini
of 204 West Granada
Avenue, is on duty in Ger-many
with the Second Ar-mored
Division. The local sol-dier
is a member of the 17th
Armored Engineer Battalion.
He took his basic training at
_Fort Knox, Kentucky.
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Gloria Foltz, 17-year-old high school Senior who will reign as
Harvest Queen over the Derry Township PTA's 50th Anniversary
Halloween Parade, is shown as she was notified of her election
as queen by Ivan Seltzer, PTA president.
Gloria, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Foltz of Palmdale,
Is active in the Rooster Club at school and in the Youth Fellowship
and Choir of the tamplolItowR Eva ngeliatil,United Urethras Church.
She is a camera fan, and "just loves" all kinds of sports.
After graduation, she plans to attend Hershey Junior College
in preparation for a career as a medical secretary.
Seven Hundred Attend
Penna. Week Program
Approximately 700 persons attended last Thursday
night's band concerts at the Court of Honor and the talent
show held in the Little Theater in local celebration of Penn-sylvania
Week.
The successful program
opened with the Hershey
High School's Trojan Band in
concert on the steps of the
Dining Room wing of the
Community Building I rom
seven to seven-thirty under
the direction of Paul Fisher.
Then Milton Hershey School's
Spartan Band, directed by
Robert W. Mull, took over and
rounded' out that portion of
the program.
Enjoying both bands to the
fullest were the small fry who
found the flagstone walks
surrounding the center pool a
fine parade ground as they
strutted to the marches.
Moving to the Little Thea-ter
upon announcement by
Rev. William Sheldon Blair,
' the audience heard a talk by
‘1'. Russell Scott, of t he Penn-
Republican Women
Visit UN Center
A tour of the United Na-tions
Building at New York
was scheduled by the Derry
Township Council of Repub-lican
Women for today
(Thursday).
The tour by chartered bug
which was to take the group
to the U. N. and places of in-terest
in New York City was
the second of the fall season.
Twenty - seven women and
several guests were in the
first group which made the
trip September 29.
sylvania Department of Com-merce.
Scott outlined t h e
in of Pennsylvania
Week and lauded the local ob-servance
and interest.
Talent Stars
Talent on parade in the
Little Theater included vocals
by Gwenn Hess, the petite
miss who gave Hershey and
the school system wide pub-licity
while she was appearing
on the Horace Heidt show last
year.
Miss Hess was accompanied
by Fred Bucciotti, popular ac-cordionist,
and Bob Tancredi
who has gained much recog-nition
as a pianist.
Bucciotti and Tancredi also
presented instrumental solos.
Folk songs by Donald Wil-lard
and a baritone solo by
William Williams were other
highlights of the musical por-tion
of the program. Willard
accompanied his singing with
his guitar and Ronald Bender
was piano accompanist for
William Fesler, Jr., of Hum-melstown
entertained the au-dience
with his ventriloquist
performance arid a particular-ly
well received square dance
was staged by Mr. and Mrs.
Earl Christ, Brad and Boni
Christ, and Mrs. Charles Bikle
and Bill, Anne, David and Su-san
Bikle.
Joseph Rollin served as
master of ceremonies for the
program.
Near
Lavish Parade
Arranged By -
PTA Group
Mrs. America Set
To Crown Senior
Girl Harvest Queen
Beauty, pageantry, comic
masquerade and music will
all be included in the elaborate
50th Anniversary Halloween
parade here on Saturday eve-ning,
October 31.
One of the features of the
big fall celebration being
sponsored by the Derry Town-ship
Parent-Teachers ASSO-c
ia don will be the appearance
of Mrs. America—Mrs. Erna
Snyder of Kutztown, Pa.—
who will assist in crowning
the local Harvest Queen.
The Harvest Queen, who
will reign over the festivi-ties
is Miss Gloria Foltz of
the Senior Class of the
Derry Township High
School. Miss Foltz, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Foltz of 1322 Harding Ave.,
Palmdale. received the most
votes in the Harvest Queen
contest held among Senior
Class girls.
She will appear in the pro-cession
on the PTA's float,
surrounded by members of
her court which will include
two representatives from each
of the Senior, Junior and
Sophomore Classes.
Announcement of the
names of members of the
Harvest Queen's court was to
come later.
Funds received from the
balloting on Harvest Queen
contestants throughout the
area are for the Parent-Tea-chers
Association Scholarship
Fund.
Another highlight of the
Halloween celebration this
year will be the participation
in the festivities of Miss Jean
Heisey, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. E. Morse Heisey and a
Derry Township High School
graduate. Miss He i s ey'
father is president of the
Derry Township School
Board.
Meanwhile, it was An-nounced
that at the end of
last week thirty-two floats
had been entered in the
parade.
Raymond H. Koch and Rich-ard
Bacastow,. co-chairmen
of the celebration, have asked
the' cooperation of residents
along the parade route —.re-questing
that no-parking is
observed between 4 :30 and
7 o'clock on the evening of the
parade, and that residential
porch lights will be lighted
for the evening hours.
A total of $2,500 in prizes
will be awarded to winning
participants in the big
parade.
T h e procession through
the town's streets will wind
up in the Hershey Stadium
where thousands of spectators
are expected to be on hand for
the final judging as the par-
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