Hershey News 1953-10-15

              HERSHEY NEWS
Vol. I HERSHEY, PENNSYLVANIA, OCT013ER 15, 1953 No. 3
Hershey Hails Pennsylvania
Officers Are Nominaled
,By Refired Employees
"Birthday cake" tor the President--decorated with home-grown
fruits. flowers, vegetables and grain—served as the center-piece
in the huge circus tent which was the "dining room" for the
6,0110-plus paying guests at the celebratlion here of President Eisen
bower's lard birthday anni y.
Admiring the work of art is Mrs. Helen Swartz of the Ilershey
Greenhouses who assisted in decorating the 16 fouChigh cake
replica.
Town In Spotlight
On Eisenhower Day
The eyes of the nation were on Hershey this week as
the Chocolatetown was the site of the history-making birth-day
party for President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Tempo of the arrangements for the greatest birthday
party ever held for a U. S. President—or for anyone else,
perhaps—had stepped up to a buzzing pace by week's end
and the jamboree hit full Stride on Tuesday—E-Pay.
Giving momentum and color to the event WaS the
fact that the !Presidential visit coincided with Pennsyl-vania
Week and came during the town's 50th Annivers-ary
celebration.
The birthday party itself was arranged on a giant
scale and brought huge throngs to the Stadium, where Pres-ident
and Mrs. Eisenhower made a public appearance, and
to the Sports Arena and the circus "big top' which was set
up adjacent to the Stadium to accommodate some 7,t)00 pay-ing
guests at the $100-a-plate dinner sponsored by the Penn-sylvania
Republican Finance Committee.
It was the first time a
President of the United States proud host to the thous-had
visited Hershey during ands who came to take part
his term in office, in the or just to look on.
recollection of old residents
here. Certainly it was the
most elaborate affair of its
kind to be staged anywhere.
There were some persons in
the throng Tuesday who re-called
that the late Senator
Robert A. Taft, who also. had
sought the Republican Presi-dential
nomination last year,
had selected Hershey as the
site of his pre-convention
meeting with the Pennsyl-vania
delegation to the Re-publican
national convention.
That was June 2'1, 1952—a
little more than a year ago--
when Taft addressed the
Pennsylvanians at the Hotel
Hershey, overlooking the site
of the Eisenhower birthday
celebration.
Hershey and Derry Town-ship
put on their best bibs
and tuckers for the Prpsi-dent's
visit and played
The Association of Retired
Hershey Employees recently
nominated a slate of officers
for election at the group's
November meeting.
Nominated at the meeting
at the. fire hall were John F.
navels, president; J. S.
eltzer, vice-president; John
tahley, secretary; and Elmer
Van Horn, treasurer.
School Study
I'anels To Be
held By PTA
A new idea for study of the
schools will be put into action
Monday night when the
Derry Township Parent-
Teachers Association holds its
tneeting on the theme: "The
Family Studies Its School."
The session is to be held at
7:30 p. m. in the high school
auditorium.
President Ivan Seltzer will
conduct a brief business ses-sion
during the evening.
Prior to the -Meeting, the
executive committee will dis-cuss
a proposal to have the
PTA • sponsor a student-ex-change
system in cooperation
with the --sehoolm of. ,Islarwtion,
Massachusetts. The intersec-tional
exchange of students
project will be presented to
the general membership for
action if the executive group
finds sufficient merit to jus-tify
further consideration, a
PTA. spokesman said.
Study groups were an-nounced
for the meeting as
follows with members choos-ing
the groups with special
appeal:
The Family Studies Its
Community Schoo I, Mrs.
Frank Horst and Mrs. John
Mentzer, leaders (two groups)
The Family Learns About
School Financing, Dennis Gee-sey,
leader; The Family
Learns About Its Community
School Board, Hiram Groff,
leader.
The Family- Studies the
Continuing Teacher Shortage,
Daniel Lewis, leader; and The
Family Investigates the Test-ing
Program and Sectioning,
Mrs. Christine Gallus and
Miss Evelyn Deen, leaders.
town and blended with the,Safety A( lvice
blue-and-gold Commonwealth!
emblems on display in cele-bration
of Pennsylvania Week.
Homes were decorated with
flowers, flags and portraits of
the President, in grand salute
to Mr: Eisenhower on the eve
of his 63rd birthday anniver-sary.
Town Plays Host
Thousands of persons from
many points were in Hershey
for the occasion. While the
Sports Arena-Stadium area
was their ultimate destination,
large numbers of early ar-rivals
made a day of it and
toured the places of interest
around the Chocolatetown.
Visitors were shown the State
Choco- latePolice Training School, Choco-late
Corporation factory, Com-a:
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The national colors flew
from many buildings in the
Group Holds
First Session
Established during negotia-tions
which resulted in the
existing contract between the
Chocolate Corporation and
Local No. 464, AFL, the
initial meeting of the Safety
Advisory Committee was held
on Monday at a meeting with
the Negotiating Committees
of both groups.
As outlined in the contract,
the committee's scope is as
follows: "A committee of
three (3) Employers and three
(3) Union representative shall
be established and shall be
All-Out Program Slated
For Pennsylvania Week
Pennsylvania Week opened Monday with Hershey taking
an example-setting role for communities throughout the
state. • I
A week-long series of Pennsylvania Week observances
here brought the attention of statewide commerce and in-dustry
leaders as the community went all-out in recognition
of the eighth annual celebration. Local highlights included
special church services which marked. Pennsylvania's great
religious heritage, open house at various points of interest
here, special exhibits and displays, and an extensive talent
night program which featured young local artists and musi-cal
organizations.
The expression of pride in the Keystone State
coincided with the huge Eisenhower Birthday Party on
Tuesday, as well as the town's 50th Anniversary year
observance.
Wednesday was Family Night in the Community's
churches; and Pennsylvania Week will come to a close Sun-day
with special church services on the theme: "Religious
Traditions in I'ennsylvania." The planning committee sug-gested
that the general public make this Sunday a "Go
to Church Sunday."
Many special exhibits showing the productivity of the
local area are on display all week. Exhibits are located in
the Community Building lobby (Hershey Farms products,
extraction plant products and Hershey lumber products)
and a Milton Hershey School film was shown Tuesday after-noon
at the Community Building.
Other exhibits included the —
Hershey Chocolate Corpora-tion
display in the windows.of
the department store and
Reese's Peanut Butter C11118
in the Hershey Drug Store
windows. '
The Derry Township Penn-sylvania
Week activities also
added to the festive appear-ance
of the community, with
residents sand businesses fly-ing
the national flag and placs
(Continued on roge lwei
Study Pennsylvania Week Display
A 14 pival Pennsylvania Week exhibit here is inspected by a
couple of local youngsters in the lobby of the Ilershey Community
Building. Looking over the colorful display of products of the
Hershey Farms are John and Kenneth Groff, sons of Mr. and
Mrs. Hiram Groff of Hershey.
• Exhibits, open house events and special programs in the
churches are part of the week-long observance of Pennsylvania
Week here.
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