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HERSHEY NEWS Vol. 3 C.1417 HERSHEY, PENNSYLVANIA, JANUARY 6, 1955 No. 1 1954- 1955 Official Debutantes Pose With Mothers BRIGHT-EYED BABIES — Vikki Lee Walmer (left) and Dawn Marie Heiple are ready for 1955. Dawn Marie is Hershey's New Year's baby. Vikki Lee came on the 31st of December.— in time to ring out the old and ring in the new. Mothers and babies are being watched over by Miss Catherine Kra sovic, supervisor of nurses at the Hershey Hospital. . Events Of 1954 Pass In Review Month-By-Month Synopsis Shows Past Twelve Months Added Up To Good Year As the new year 1955 begins, it is fitting that a brief review of 1954 be made in order to call to mind some of the events and accomplishments that have now become recent history. Old 1954 was a pretty good year, the record shows. Undoubtedly, the top event of the year, community-wise, was the opening of the new Milton Snavely Hershey Mem-orial Building, the modern kindergarten-elementary school which was provided for the Derry Township School District by the M. S. Hershey Foundation. Many other important events took place during the past year. Most of them show up in the following brief synopsis. It is necessarily a sort of spot-check of the local happenings and developments and is presented herewith as A memory refresher: January Announce first organiza-tional meeting of Hershey Ambulance Corps on January 14; Melvin Garner appointed as assistant placement direc-tor at Milton Hershey School; Hershey Hospital announced a record corp of 503 babies born during 1953. Ellis Greene was elected commander of the Hershey Chocolatiers Drum and Bugle Corps; Mrs. Mary Edwards was given the annual Citizen-ship Award by the Lions' Club; C. J. Speicher accepted MARRIED Jane McCurdy, employed in the Wrapping Department of-fice at the Hershey Chocolate Corporation, was married to Albert W. Jamison on Decem-ber 18. Mr. Jamison is serving in the U. S. Navy, and Mrs. Jamison is residing at Pal-myra Route 1. HARRY W. BOYER, 321 S. Lincoln St., Palmyra, has re-turned to work at Hershey after service in the Army. He is employed at the Hershey Lumber Company. , the post chairman of the am-bulance fund-raising cam-paign. The Foremen's Club toured the Armstrong Corp Company plant at Lancaster; Hershey was shivering in below-zero temperature during the week of January 18. Stearl Sponaugle was elect-ed president of Local 464; Mr. and Mrs. Egisto Menicheschi observed their 53rd wedding anniversary. February The VFW-sponsored March of Dimes campaign brought more than $2,000; Master Ser-geant Earl R. Mays won a one-thousand- dollar prize as au-thor of the best military march; Leo R. Poorman was chosen by the County Com-missioners for the post of su-pervisor of the County Insti-tution District. Six Chilean labor officials toured the Hershey Chocolate Corporation ....a n d Estates; Business and Professional Wo-men's Club celebrated its first anniversary. Riley E. Heckert was named superintendent of golf courses at the Country Club, Juvenile Country Club and Hotel Her-shey; William S. Basehore, Hershey milk truck driver, named 1953's Driver of the Year in Pennsylvania. March Original goal of $9,000 in ambulance fund campaign 443onttnited on rode Fuouto Boys Exceed Girls In 1954 Stork Sweepstakes Here The gentlemen won the stork race at the Hershep Hos-pital in 1954 with 247 arrivals during the year. Boys outnum-bered girls by ten. But the girls are wasting no time in catching up in 1955. As of January 3, the little ladies were four to one ahead of the boys. And the girl faction was also able to claim the first Hershey Hospital arrival of 1955 —Dawn Marie, daugh-ter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Heiple of 7 Franklin Street, Palmyra, born on New Year's Day. Mrs. Heiple is the former Dorothy Patrick. Last year's total number of babies born at the Hershey Hospital was 484, nineteen short of 1953's record setting 503. ' September, with fifty-seven arrivals, and October, with fifty-three, were the busiest months of 1954 in the mater-nity department. The last bundle f r o m Heaven in the year of 1954 was a girl, Vikki Lee, daugh-ter of Mr. and Mrs. Christian Walmer, 230 Luna Lane, Mid-dletown. The mother is the former Geraldine Longeneck-er. Other recent arrivals at the hospital were born to: Anthony and Nella (Kala-mai) Butchkowski, 128 W. Areba St., Hershey, a boy, 27 December. Jack and Geraldine (Lebig) (Continued on Pogo Twilit Closing Service The Hershey Week of Prayer Services will con-clude Sunday with a ser-mon by the Reverend Mur-ray Guy West of the Church of the Brethren, of York, Pa. The sermon will be given in the Community Theatre at 7:30 p.m. New Year Means Retirement For Eight Hershey Workers The musical strains of Auld Lang Syne this year were particularly significant for eight former Hershey employees who joined the ranks of the retired as of New Year's Day. Starting 1955 as retirees were six members of the Hershey Chocolate Corporation personnel and two from the Hershey Estates. Leaving their active employment at Hershey with the best wishes of their employers and fellow-workers for a bright and happy future were: Hershey Chocolate Corporation Cyrus A. Hoerner, Hershey Route 2 (Second Mixing). William Gohring, 129 South Hanover Street, Hummels-town (Plow Room). Antonio Paioletti, Hershey Community Club (Press Room). Edwin F. Cassel, 630 North Railroad Street, Palmyra (Printing). Lurton E. Halderman, Chicago, Illinois (Salesman). Levi Leonard, 206 East Maple Street, Palmyra (Plow Room). Hershey Estates Samuel D. Theal, Hummelstown Route 2 (Milton Her-shey School). John H. Ebersole, 139 Maple Avenue, Hershey (Com-munity Building). . Yes, Virginia, There Is A Santa Claus , MISS VIRGINIA STRAWDERMAN, of Hockerville, who won the grand prize in the Rotary Club's home Christmas decorations contest, is shown here with friend. The Straw-derman home wore a Christmastime air by night and day, with window-trim resembling stained glass providing a cathedral-like appearance. Hershey News Comm. Bldg. Hershey, Pa. Sec. 34.66. P. L. & U. S. POSTAGE PAID HERSHEY, PA. Permit No. 13 3547 REQUESTED IF UNDELIVERABLE
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Title | Hershey News 1955-01-06 |
Subject | Hershey (Pa.)--Newspapers |
Description | Hershey News, published from 1953 until 1964, reported news and events throughout the Township of Derry, Pennsylvania (informally known as Hershey). |
Date | 1955-01-06 |
Location Covered | Hershey (Pa.) |
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Contact | For information on source and images, contact Hershey Community Archives at contact@hersheyarchives.org. |
Contributing Institution | Milton Hershey School |
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Description
Title | Hershey News 1955-01-06 |
Subject | Hershey (Pa.)--Newspapers |
Description | Hershey News, published from 1953 until 1964, reported news and events throughout the Township of Derry, Pennsylvania (informally known as Hershey). |
Date | 1955-01-06 |
Location Covered | Hershey (Pa.) |
Type | Text |
Original Format | Newspapers |
Rights | https://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?language=en |
Contact | For information on source and images, contact Hershey Community Archives at contact@hersheyarchives.org. |
Contributing Institution | Milton Hershey School |
Sponsorship | This Digital Object is provided in a collection that is included in POWER Library: Pennsylvania Photos and Documents, which is funded by the Office of Commonwealth Libraries of Pennsylvania/Pennsylvania Department of Education. |
Full Text | HERSHEY NEWS Vol. 3 C.1417 HERSHEY, PENNSYLVANIA, JANUARY 6, 1955 No. 1 1954- 1955 Official Debutantes Pose With Mothers BRIGHT-EYED BABIES — Vikki Lee Walmer (left) and Dawn Marie Heiple are ready for 1955. Dawn Marie is Hershey's New Year's baby. Vikki Lee came on the 31st of December.— in time to ring out the old and ring in the new. Mothers and babies are being watched over by Miss Catherine Kra sovic, supervisor of nurses at the Hershey Hospital. . Events Of 1954 Pass In Review Month-By-Month Synopsis Shows Past Twelve Months Added Up To Good Year As the new year 1955 begins, it is fitting that a brief review of 1954 be made in order to call to mind some of the events and accomplishments that have now become recent history. Old 1954 was a pretty good year, the record shows. Undoubtedly, the top event of the year, community-wise, was the opening of the new Milton Snavely Hershey Mem-orial Building, the modern kindergarten-elementary school which was provided for the Derry Township School District by the M. S. Hershey Foundation. Many other important events took place during the past year. Most of them show up in the following brief synopsis. It is necessarily a sort of spot-check of the local happenings and developments and is presented herewith as A memory refresher: January Announce first organiza-tional meeting of Hershey Ambulance Corps on January 14; Melvin Garner appointed as assistant placement direc-tor at Milton Hershey School; Hershey Hospital announced a record corp of 503 babies born during 1953. Ellis Greene was elected commander of the Hershey Chocolatiers Drum and Bugle Corps; Mrs. Mary Edwards was given the annual Citizen-ship Award by the Lions' Club; C. J. Speicher accepted MARRIED Jane McCurdy, employed in the Wrapping Department of-fice at the Hershey Chocolate Corporation, was married to Albert W. Jamison on Decem-ber 18. Mr. Jamison is serving in the U. S. Navy, and Mrs. Jamison is residing at Pal-myra Route 1. HARRY W. BOYER, 321 S. Lincoln St., Palmyra, has re-turned to work at Hershey after service in the Army. He is employed at the Hershey Lumber Company. , the post chairman of the am-bulance fund-raising cam-paign. The Foremen's Club toured the Armstrong Corp Company plant at Lancaster; Hershey was shivering in below-zero temperature during the week of January 18. Stearl Sponaugle was elect-ed president of Local 464; Mr. and Mrs. Egisto Menicheschi observed their 53rd wedding anniversary. February The VFW-sponsored March of Dimes campaign brought more than $2,000; Master Ser-geant Earl R. Mays won a one-thousand- dollar prize as au-thor of the best military march; Leo R. Poorman was chosen by the County Com-missioners for the post of su-pervisor of the County Insti-tution District. Six Chilean labor officials toured the Hershey Chocolate Corporation ....a n d Estates; Business and Professional Wo-men's Club celebrated its first anniversary. Riley E. Heckert was named superintendent of golf courses at the Country Club, Juvenile Country Club and Hotel Her-shey; William S. Basehore, Hershey milk truck driver, named 1953's Driver of the Year in Pennsylvania. March Original goal of $9,000 in ambulance fund campaign 443onttnited on rode Fuouto Boys Exceed Girls In 1954 Stork Sweepstakes Here The gentlemen won the stork race at the Hershep Hos-pital in 1954 with 247 arrivals during the year. Boys outnum-bered girls by ten. But the girls are wasting no time in catching up in 1955. As of January 3, the little ladies were four to one ahead of the boys. And the girl faction was also able to claim the first Hershey Hospital arrival of 1955 —Dawn Marie, daugh-ter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Heiple of 7 Franklin Street, Palmyra, born on New Year's Day. Mrs. Heiple is the former Dorothy Patrick. Last year's total number of babies born at the Hershey Hospital was 484, nineteen short of 1953's record setting 503. ' September, with fifty-seven arrivals, and October, with fifty-three, were the busiest months of 1954 in the mater-nity department. The last bundle f r o m Heaven in the year of 1954 was a girl, Vikki Lee, daugh-ter of Mr. and Mrs. Christian Walmer, 230 Luna Lane, Mid-dletown. The mother is the former Geraldine Longeneck-er. Other recent arrivals at the hospital were born to: Anthony and Nella (Kala-mai) Butchkowski, 128 W. Areba St., Hershey, a boy, 27 December. Jack and Geraldine (Lebig) (Continued on Pogo Twilit Closing Service The Hershey Week of Prayer Services will con-clude Sunday with a ser-mon by the Reverend Mur-ray Guy West of the Church of the Brethren, of York, Pa. The sermon will be given in the Community Theatre at 7:30 p.m. New Year Means Retirement For Eight Hershey Workers The musical strains of Auld Lang Syne this year were particularly significant for eight former Hershey employees who joined the ranks of the retired as of New Year's Day. Starting 1955 as retirees were six members of the Hershey Chocolate Corporation personnel and two from the Hershey Estates. Leaving their active employment at Hershey with the best wishes of their employers and fellow-workers for a bright and happy future were: Hershey Chocolate Corporation Cyrus A. Hoerner, Hershey Route 2 (Second Mixing). William Gohring, 129 South Hanover Street, Hummels-town (Plow Room). Antonio Paioletti, Hershey Community Club (Press Room). Edwin F. Cassel, 630 North Railroad Street, Palmyra (Printing). Lurton E. Halderman, Chicago, Illinois (Salesman). Levi Leonard, 206 East Maple Street, Palmyra (Plow Room). Hershey Estates Samuel D. Theal, Hummelstown Route 2 (Milton Her-shey School). John H. Ebersole, 139 Maple Avenue, Hershey (Com-munity Building). . Yes, Virginia, There Is A Santa Claus , MISS VIRGINIA STRAWDERMAN, of Hockerville, who won the grand prize in the Rotary Club's home Christmas decorations contest, is shown here with friend. The Straw-derman home wore a Christmastime air by night and day, with window-trim resembling stained glass providing a cathedral-like appearance. Hershey News Comm. Bldg. Hershey, Pa. Sec. 34.66. P. L. & U. S. POSTAGE PAID HERSHEY, PA. Permit No. 13 3547 REQUESTED IF UNDELIVERABLE |
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