Hershey News 1954-03-11

              HERSHEY NEWS
Vol. 2 o HERSHEY, PENNSYLVANIA, MARCH 11, 1954 No. 10
National Safety Award
Won By Chocolate Corp.
"Congratulations . . . The heartiest and very special
congratulations of the directors and staff of the National
Safety Council on your fine safety performance—truly a job
well done."
That paragraph heads a letter to the Hershey Chocolate
Corporation from Ned H. Dearborn, president of the National
Safety Council, announcing that the Chocolate Corporation
is to be presented with the Council's Award of Merit for its
excellent safety record during the year 1953. The Safety
Council's letter was received here by A. B. Snavely, chief
safety engineer of the corporation.
Snavely, in turn, paid
tribute to the personnel of
the organization whose co-operation
made the achieve-ment
possible.
The safety award was made
under the Council's Plan for
Recognizing Good Industrial
Safety Records. The Award of
Merit "is presented only in
recognition of noteworthy
safety achievement" by in-dustries
in the United States,
according to the National
Safety Council.
Any Council member can
qualifyw "if its record is good
enough; but the requirements
are high."
The award to the Chocolate
Corporation came because its
injury rates showed up favor-ably
when compared with the
food industry average rand
with the corporation's own
previous rates.
The achievement brought a
word of thanks from the
Safety Council for proving
"what we keep telling people
—that it can be done . . .
work injuries can be prevent-ed.
Safe operations can be
made safer. It's more than
worth the 'effort. It prevents
suffering, saves lives..."
Ambulance Fund Soars
To Total Of $13,500
Completing what he termed "the most enthusiastic and
successful" campaign with which he has been associated,
C. J. Speicher, chairman of the Fund Raising Committee of
the newly-formed Hershey Ambulance Corps, announced on
Monday that a total of $13,500 had been contributed by
the residents of Derry Township, Union Deposit, Sand.Beach
and nearby areas toward the purchase of a new ambulance.
He also indicated that 2,500
people have signed up for
membership in the Ambulance
Corps, which is sponsored by
the Hershey Volunteer Fire
Co.
As has been mentioned
previously, the campaign's
goal was $9,000. These sur-plus
funds will assure ade-quate
reserves for replace-ment
and operating pur-poses
for the future.
In addition to the volunteer
canvassers whose names were
carried in last week's edition
of the NEWS, the following
workers should be recognized
for their efforts, their names
ha v ing been inadvertently
overlooked when the NEWS
went to press:
Palmdale — $561, Clayton
Kauffman, William Meiser,
Louis B. Moyer, James Skin-ner.
Union Deposit and Hum-melstown
R. D. 2 — $538,
James W. Brunner, William
D. Long, Herbert Winters,
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Cluelow,
John P. Cassel.
Miscellaneous — $2,072,
which includes the rural
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areas, the service clubs, the
veterans, fraternal and indus-trial
organizations, as well as
the Ladies Auxiliaries of the
Fire Company and the VFW,
Lewis Maurer, John L. Steen
and C. J. Speicher.
In expressing the "sin-cere
thanks to all those
who so graciously received
the workers as they called
on their many neighbors
during the c a m pa ig n,"
Chairman Speicher glow-ingly
complimented "the
great team that made the
calls, without whose faith-fulness
and energetic en-thusiasm
the canvass would
not have succeeded as it did.
These, too, have our sincere
thanks for a job well done."
He also pointed out that the
following canvassers worked
in more than one district
throughout the week - long
fund raising effort: Ezra
Landis, Allen R. Fasnacht,
Robert Raffensberger, Allen
G. Fausnacht, Paul Seavers,
William T. Miller, Harry Etter,
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PAID
, HERSHEY, PA.
MODEL CONGRESSMEN—This group of college students took part in the fifth an-nual
convention of the Central Region of the Intercollegiate Conference on Government
held at Hershey Saturday, with the Hershey Junior College as host school. More than 150
students and faculty advisors attended the collegiate Model Congress.
Above, left to right: Seated—James McDonald, chairman of the Committee on Health,
Education and Welfare; Jeanne Lewis and Carol Achenbach ; standing—Ronald Hoffpauer,
Millersville State Teachers' College, permanent speaker of the Model Congress; Charles
Stoner; Louis Henderson, sergeant-at-arms; and Prof. William Schmehl, faculty advisor,
Hershey Junior College.
George Hocker served as speaker pro tern, and Richard Piergallini was elected time-keeper
and Ronald Fduche served as a sergeant-at-arms for the Model Congress sessions.
VFW Auxiliary
Elects Its New
Officer Corps
Mrs. Russell Zentmeyer was
elected president of the La-dies'
Auxiliary to Hershey
Memorial Post, Veterans of
Foreign Wars, at last week's
auxiliary meeting at the post
home. She succeeds Mrs.
Charles Lebo. Other officers
nominated and elected were:
Mrs. Frank Binner, senior
vice-president; Mrs. Harry
Smith, junior vice-president;
Mrs. Ross Shepler, treasurer;
Mrs. Russell Spangler, chap-lain;
Mrs. Joseph Piconi, con-ductress;
Miss Rhoda Eisen-hauer,
guar d; and Mrs.
Charles Lebo, trustee.
Officers appointed were;
Mrs. Paul Farnsler, Mrs. Mah-lon
Petrovich, Mrs. Larry
Rotz and Mrs. Elizabeth
Mathias, color bearers; Mrs.
L. B. Smith, patriotic instruc-tor;
Mrs. Charles Lorenz, his-torian;
and Mrs. Frank Gas-per,
secretary.
In other action, the follow-ing
delegates and alternates
were elected for the district
meetings:
Delegates — Mrs. L. B.
Smith, Mrs. Charles Lebo,
Mrs. Paul Hetrick, Mrs. Ross
Shepler, Mrs. Frank Binner
and Mrs. Russell Spangler;
Alternates — Mrs. Charles
Lorenz, Mrs. Joseph Piconi,
Mrs. Mark Sheeley, Sr., Mrs.
Larry Rotz, Mrs. Elizabeth
Mathias and Mrs. Paul Farn-sler.
Also during the session, a
contribution was voted to the
Hershey Ambulance Corps
fund and announcement Was
made that the auxiliary will
hold a St. Patrick's square
dance in the post home. The
dance, scheduled for Friday
evening, March 12, will be
open to the public.
The auxiliary was holding a
Play Is Set
For Friday
CYNTHIA CROSS plays the role
of Elizabeth, "The Girl" in "Take
Care of My Little Girl."
The Junior Class of Her-shey
High School will present
"Take Care of My Little Girl"
on Friday evening at 8:15 in
the high school auditorium.
The play presents an excel-lent
satire on college sororities
and the problems concerned
with them.
Members of the cast are:
Cynthia Cross, Suzie Hark-corn,
Audrey Stump, Linnea
Hansen, J ea n Breneman,
Betsy Dunbar, Virginia Pas-quale,
Darlene Witmer, Patty
Evans, Sandy Stover, Lloyd
Miller, Hayes Girvin, Bradley
Christ, Audrey Strange, Ruth
Herr, Patsy Long, Joan Zern,
Pat Heller, Marilyn King,
Shirley Helmick and Lois
Shuler.
Co-directors are Miss Ethel
Long and Miss Janet Knohr.
Mrs. Harold Brewer
Named Chairman
Of Girl Scouts .
A slate of officers for the
Girl Scout Neighborhood Asso-ciation
was presented and ac-cepted
by the association at
its Tuesday evening meeting
last week. The 1954 officers
are:
Mrs. Harold Brewer, chair-man;
Mrs. Louis Smith, vice-chairman;
Mrs. Allen Huber,
corresponding secretary; Mrs.
Daniel LeWis, recording secre-tary;
and Mrs. Ben Olena,
treasurer.
New committee members
are Mrs. Edwin Weaver, Mrs.
W. E. Garman, Mrs. Roy Long,
Mrs. George Pollash, Mrs.
George Smeltzer, Mrs. Fred
Hite and Mrs. Landis Heller.
In other action, the associa-tion
approved a revised consti-tution
and by-laws which were
prepared and presented by a
committee headed by Mrs.
Clyde Spitler, chairman, and
Mrs. Harold Brewer, co-chair-man.
Others on the commit-tee
were Mrs. James Bobb,
Mrs. Robert Young, Mrs.
Russell Aungst, advisor, and
Attorney Joseph J. Laws, con-sultant.
Reports on fund raising ac-tivities
included announce-ment
of a bake sale to be held
by Mrs. Robert .Raffensber-ger's
Troop 160 at the Wo-men's
Club on March 27. Mrs.
John Michelotti's Troop 310
is engaged in selling Girl
Scout cookies, and Mrs. Peter
Birnstiel's Troop 43 sold
candy.
St. Patrick's Day favors for
the Hershey Hospital are
being made by Mrs. Ruth Es-sig's
Brownie troop.
Mrs. Clyde Spitler presided
at the meeting, held at the
Women's Club.
3547 REQUESTED IF UNDELIVERABLE
dance at the Lebanon Vete-rans'
Administration Hospital
tonight as an entertainment
feature for the patients.