Hershey News 1954-11-11

              HERSHEY :NEWS
0 HERSHEY, PENNSYLVANIA, NOV. 11, 1954 No. 45
COMMUNITY AMBULANCE — busy, in its first six months of operation in the
public interest.
Ambulance Service Is
Now Six Months old
One of the community's finest assets—its ambulance
service—completed its first six months of operation on No-vember
1, and a report of the Ambulance Corps officers to
the people of the community, released this week, clearly
shows the worth of the vehicle and its volunteer crews.
The new ambulance was put into service six months
ago after its purchase with funds raised by popular sub-scription
in a campaign that soared well above the quota -as
the people of the community responded to the appeal.
How worthwhile the effort was at that time is shown
in the six months' report.
In its first half-year of service, the ambulance made
111 trips. A spokesman for the Corps said approximately 25
per cent were emergencies, while the remaining number
were trips transporting ill persons to and - from hospitals
in the area.
Miles traveled by the ambulance in that period totaled
2,136.
Serving the community as the human element of the
ambulance service was a corps of more than fifty men and
women who put in a total of 430 man-hours on ambulanp
missions in those first six months. The man-hours registered
do not include the Ambulance Corps meetings and training
.sessions attended by these active crewmen who serve their
community without renuneration. ,
The report of the Corps officers includes an expression
of appreciation to the people of the community for their
"support and enthusiastic cooperation," as well as gratitude
to the members of the Corps for a job well done. •
The report also notes that in its first six months of
operation the ambulance was used by every practicing phy-sician
in Hershey at one time or another.
• Another item shows there were no babies born in the
ambulance during that period.
In addition to trips made to the Hershey Hospital, ap-proximately
70 per cent of the trips were to hospitals in
Harrisburg and nearly 30 per cent to Lebanon hospitals,
with several trips to Lancaster General Hospital.
The report also underlined the new set-up for emergency
fire and ambulance calls—by telephoning 6003.
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ALLIED NATIONS army officers from Nationalist
China, Turkey, Japan, Great Britain, France, Iran, Indonesia
and the Philippines were welcomed to Hershey recent-ly
by 'Major James G. J. Remy (at extreme left, front
row), liaison officer for the Marietta Army Depot. Major
Remy resides on Peach Avenue in Hershey.
The foreign military group was among eighty members
of an officers' advanced course at the U. S. Army's Trans-portation
School at Ft. Eustis, Va. The American and Allied
officers selected Hers?ley as their base for a field trip to the
Marietta Transportation Depot and the Transportation
Materiel Command, which is also at the Marietta Depot.
Major Remy handled arrangements for their visit here.
(PHOTO: ALLEN Z )
Club To Promote
Smiles Via Roses,
Cigars And Candy
Optimist Week in Hershey
is heading for its grand finale
on Saturday when the plaza
in front of the Hershey De-partment
Store will be set up
as Optimist Corner and serve
as the center of activity for
the observance.
Optimist Corner will be
the point where holders of
the Lucky Leaflets, drop-ped
by airplane last Sun-day,
will be turned in for
free prizes. The twenty
Lucky Leaflet numbers an-nounced
by the Optimist
Club are: 93 — 261 — 325
— 468 — 638 — 761 — 1001
— 1238 -- 1726 — 1947 --
2054— 2279 — 2347 —2735
— 2804 3264 — 3321 —
3578 — 3840 — 3921.
Persons holding these win-ning
numbers should report
with their Lucky Leaflets to
Optimist Corner, located near
the fro] entrance of the Her-shey
Department Store on
Saturday from nine a.m. to 12
noon. Hershey Optimists will
then present gift certificates
for prizes provided by local
merchants and business esta-blishments.
• In addition to the twenty
prize-winning Luck Leaflets
other listings will be posted
ever y fifteen minutes for
twelve additional lucky. num-bers.
Saturday activities of Optic
mist Week—which is designed
to publicize the organization's
theme that "Every boy needs
a man's helping hand"--in-elude
shoeshine stands oper-ated
by Club members, with
donations going to local youth
work and gifts for persons
displaying "t h e broadest
smiles" : Hershey-Ets to the
first 100 boys and girls under
six; Iceberg Bars to the first
100 boys and girls from six to
twelve; Peanut Butter Cups
to the first 100 boys and girls
from 13 to 18; red roses to the
first 100 women, and cigars
to the first 100. most optimis-tic-
looking men.
The Optimist Week observ-ance
is the first to be held in
Hershey by the new service
organization which was
launched last June.
Veterans' Day Observance
Arranged For Sunday Night
Religious And Memorial Service, With
Special Music, Arranged For Rites In
Little Theatre -
All plans for the community's first observance of Vet-erans'
Day have been completed. The service is to be held
this coming Sunday in the Little Theatre of the Community
Building at 7:30 p. m., with Lt. Col. Charles S. Smith (USAF)
of Olmsted Air Base, Middletown, as guest speaker.
Hershey Junior College Choir, under the direction of W.
Paul Campbell, will present "Bless the Lord, 0 My Soul" and
the "Cherubim Song." Audience participation singing will
include "America" and "God Bless America." At the organ
will be J. Atlee Young, organist and choirmaster at the Evan-genical
Lutheran Church of the Holy Trinity.
The invocation Will be offered by the Rev .Thomas W.
Guinivan, pastor of the First Evangelical United Brethren
Church.
A memorial to departedcomrades will be given by Wil-liam
L. F. Schmehl, chaplain of Hershey Memorial Post, Vet=
erans of Foreign Wars.
W. Lyndon Hess, lay reader-in-charge of All Saints Epis-copal
Mission, will read the Scripture, and the benediction
will be offered by Rev. William Sheldon Blair, pastor of Derry
Presbyterian Church.
Presiding will be Edwin C. Miller, commander of the
Hershey .American Legion Post. The guest speaker will be
introduced by Rev. J. R. MacDonald, pastor of Fishburn
Evangelical United Brethren Church.
The American Legion and Veterans `ot Foreign Wars
posts, are sponsoring the Veterans' Day observance along
with the Hershey Ministerium.
. Members of the joint VFW-American Legion committee
for the observance are William L. F. Schmel, Frank Gasper,
William H. Hartsock, and Brent I. Hancock:
Success Story
Bradley Beats Blindness
Harvey Bradley of Annville is totally blind, but he
knows where he's going. He is continuing on course as
provider for himself, his wife and their three school-age
children.
Bradley works in the Coating Casting Department of
the Hershey Chocolate Corporation.
• He had formerly been employed by the Chocolate Cor-poration
as a pump operator but was obliged to quit his
job due to becoming totally blind. Bradley has now been
rehabilitated by the State Council for the Blind of the De-partment
of Welfare and has been re-employed by the
Chocolate Corporation in a different capacity.
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