Hershey News 1954-02-04

              HERSHEY NEWS
Vol. 2 -013ES1-® HERSHEY, PENNSYLVANIA, FEBRUARY 4, 1954 No. 5
Wins Award
For Army
Composition
Sergeant Earl Mays
Is Author Of Best
Military March
High honors in the world of
military music came to a Her-shey
man this past weekend.
It was announced that Mas-ter
Sergeant Earl R. Mays, son
of Mrs. E. R. Mays, Sr., of 103
East Caracas Avenue, has won
the one-thousand-dollar all-
Army prize in the ASCAP-John
Philip Sousa Award
march competitions.
Sit. Mays' composition,
"The Army Field Forces
March," was in competition
with entries by composers in
the armed forces akound the
world. His composition had
earlier won in competition ,at
Fort Meade, Maryland, and in
a. contest conducted through-out
the Second Army area.
The Hershey man is an ar-ranger
for the Army Field
Band stationed at Fort Meade.
The 100-piece unit is the tour-ing
"show hand" of the Army
and has played in the famous
Hollywood Bowl, in Carnegie
Hall, and before the Queen of
England.
Sgt Mays is a graduate of
West Chester State Teachers'
College (1941) where he re-ceived
his degree in music ed-ucation.
He is a veteran of
more than ten years of Army
service, and for two years was
instrumental music instructor
in the Derry Township
Schools. He reenlisted in 1947
and has been with the Arnly
Field Band since that time.
Sgt. and Mrs. Mays are the
parents of'two children—Julie,
5, and Thomas, 21/2.
High School Yearbook
Copies Are Available
There are a few 1954 Choc-latiers—
Hershey High School
yearbooks — still available,
Miss Annie Royer, faculty
supervisor of the Senior Fund,
announced this week.
Persons interested in se-curing
copies should call the
high school office or Miss
Royer ( Hershey 8506) . Pur-chase
price is three dollars.
PORCHLIGHT CRUSADE—Taking a punch at polio is Mrs. John Habecker, 27 East
above, as the two VFW Auxiliary women—Mrs. Harry W. Smith, left, and Mrs. Hubert
Habecker home during Friday night's canvass for infantile paralysis campaign funds.
Called a "Mothers' March on Polio," the porch-to-porch canvass of the local area was a
of Hershey's Memorial Post, Veterans of Foreign Wars. The VFW was sparkplugging the
Rotary Officers
Are Nominated
For New Year
Lewis J. Maurer was nom-inated
for the presidency of
the Hershey Rotary Club at
the club's session last week
in the dining room of the
Community Building. Maurer
is currently serving as vice-president.
The remainder of the slate
of officers submitted by
Charles F. Zeigler, chairman
of the nominating committee,
includes:
Paul 0. Curry, vice-presi-dent;
Harold Hershey, secre-tary;
Richard Uhrich, treas-urer;
and Landis Garman,
Warren Hoover, Robert Miller
and Harold Mohler, directors
for one year.
Election is scheduled for
Monday, February 8.
A Rotary ladies' night event
is being planned for February
15 at the Hotel Hershey, with
Landis Garman in charge of
arrangements.
Hershey News
Comm. Bldg.
Hershey, Pa.
Polio Drive Brings
More Than $2,000
A highly successful March of Dimes campaign was re-ported
Tuesday night by the Hershey Memorial Post and
Auxiliary, Veterans of Foreign Wars.
Nearly complete returns from the appeal for funds to
fight polio showed that citizens of Derry Township have
contributed more than $2,096 in the 1954 effort.
The fund was nearly seven hundred dollars above the
amount contributed in the township last year.
The returns listed included $783.20 collected in the Fri-day
night "Mothers' March on Polio," conducted by the aux-iliary
women in a personal canvass.
Other amounts included $519.90 from theatre collec-tions;
$563.37 from the "test tube boxes" in business estab-lishments
in the township; $150 from the Hershey Choco-late
Corporation; and $80 to date from coin cards mailed to
individuals but returned to infantile paralysis chapter head-quarters
in Harrisburg.
The VFW post and auxiliary, who sponsored the March
of Dimes drive here, expressed their gratitude to "all the
people of Derry Township for .contributing so generously
for this worthy cause." Spokesmen for the organizations said
they "also wish to thank all those who gave so unselfishly
of their time in helping the March of Dimes committee in
the collections."
It was the second year the VFW post and its ladies
auxiliary conducted the drive for funds for the National
Foundation for Infantile Paralysis.
The committee in charge of the campaign in Derry
Township was headed by Larry Wallace. Other members of
the committee were Paul Hetrick, Jr., Robert Heagy, Will-iam
Schmehl, Mrs. Harry B. Smith and Mrs. Lester' B.
Smith.
In addition to the post and auxiliary members aiding in
the campaign, active support was given by the Boy Scouts,
business firms, schools and police.
Derry Road, at right in photo
Weaver, center—called at the
project of the ladies' auxiliary
March of Dimes here.
Chosen For
County Post
Leo R. Poorman
A Hershey man, -Leo R.
Poorman of 86 Derry Road,
has been elected by the Dau-phin
County Commissioners to
the post of supervisor of the
County Institution District.
Poorman fills the position
left vacant by the death sev-eral
months-ago of Edward B.
Habbyshaw, late of 29 North
Railroad Stree t, Hummels-town.
A former Dauphin County
prothonotary (1938 - 1950),
Poorman has been employed
since that time by Aircraft-
Marine Products, Inc., in Har-risburg.
So. American Labor Officials Visit Hershey
The Hershey Chocolate
Corporation plant and various iThe Chilean trade unionists in the United States for a
divisions of the Hershey Es- were guests here of Local three -month period, during
tates were toured last week 464, Bakery and Confection- which time they will make a
by six Chilean labor leaders ery Workers International tour of the country to ob-who
are in this country study- Union, and the Pennsylvania serve the American industrial
ing labor relations, industry Federation of Labor. system. In addition to visiting
and schools. Local union and corpora- representative industries, the
The local industry was tion officials accompanied the Chileans are obtaining a
among several Pennsylvania visiting Chileans on their tour close-up picture of American
firms and schools selected to of the chocolate plant. workers' home life and educa-
3547 REQUESTED IF UNDELIVERABLE be visited by the group. The South Americans are tional facilities.