Hershey News 1954-01-14

              HERSHEY NEWS
Vol. 2 HERSHEY, PENNSYLVANIA, JANUARY 14, 1954 No. 2
March On Polio'
To Be Staged
By Mothers Here
"Porchlight Parade"
To Be Feature Of
March Of Dimes
Mothers march on polio on
Friday night, January 29,
throughout the community.
It will be a feature of the
March of Dimes campaign
here and will be conducted by
the Ladies Auxiliary of the
Hershey Memorial Post, Vet-erans
of Foreign Wars. The
auxiliary women will visit
homes on that evening, when
residents are asked to turn
on their porch lights to
signify their readiness to con-tribute
to the "Mothers'
March on Polio."
Boy Scouts, under the di-rection
of Dr. J. J. Lucas, will
distribute handbills through-out
the area as reminders of
the porchlight phase of the
campaign for funds to fight
the dreaded crippling disease.
The March of Dimes cam-paign
in Derry Township is
being conducted for the sec-ond
year by the local VFW
Post and its ladies' auxiliary.
The committee in charge of
the drive is headed by Larry
Wallace, who is being assisted
by Paul Hetrick, Jr., Robert
Heagy, William Schm eh 1,
Mrs. Harry B. Smith and Mrs.
Lester B. Smith.
More than 100 test tube
coin boxes have been distrib-uted
to business places around
Hershey and the township.
Collections will be made in the
Hershey Community Theater
shortly, it was announced.
In addition, coin cards have
been sent to many prospective
donors to the campaign
against polio.
The campaign workers have
set their sights on exceeding
the $1400-plus contributed
last year.
Girl Scout Card Party
February 5 is the date set
for the Girl Scout Neighbor-hood
Association card party
to be held in the Community
Building social room at 8 p.
m. The public is invited and
a 50c donation is required.
The committee for the af-fair
consists of Mrs. Charles
Bikle, Mrs. Allen Huber, Mrs.
Lloyd Blinco, Mrs. Edgar
Dresher and Mrs. E. D.' Mc-
Mullen.
Above—Winter hit Hershey with full force this week and brought numerous scenes
like this as many motorists found walking slightly better than driving.
But—below---the snowfall didn't keep the Hershey Foremen's Club from making its
scheduled visit to the Armstrong Company's floor plant at Lancaster on Monday eve-ning.
The foremen left autos at home and took to buses as they made the trip 86-strong.
leaves For Service
Thomas M. Hetrick, Grant-ville
Route 1, has terminated
his employment with the
Hershey Chocolate Corpora-tion
in order to leave for
military service.
Hetrick was employed in
Longitude Department at the
chocolate plant.
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Unusual School Has
Campus In Hershey
One of the most unusual
schools in the world is located
in Hershey.
Its curriculum lists a con-centrated
course of studies
that emphasize murder, may-hem,
arson, robbery and sud-den
death of various ways and
means.
It accepts no women stu-dents,
but among its pupils are
dogs and horses.
Among its classroom exhi-bits
are pistols, rifles, bombs,
brass knuckles and bludgeons.
The campus of the Penn-sylvania
State Police Training
School, commanded by Major
Thomas F. Martin, is well
known to Hersheyites, but the
actual operation -of the school
is not generally observed at
close range although visitors
are welcomed.
Visitors find much of in-terest
at the school. The stu-dent
troopers, who eventually
take their places in one of the
finest police organizations in
the world, have before them
as they study, all the various
deadly weapons known to the
criminal world. The sundry
weapons are used to familiar-ize
the policemen with the
tools of the trade of the out-law.
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Also on display at the school
are the policemen's own tools
—the ballistics equipment,
fingerprinting, documentary
evidence studies, plaster of
paris and moulage castings,
and many others.
Organizing of the class-room
exhibits is under the
guiding hands of Major Mar-tin
and Sgt. John Grosnick.
Looking rather out of place
among the deadly weapons is
a group of toy trucks, tractors
and farm and road equipment
which may puzzle the visitor
at first. But Sgt. Grosnick will
explain its importance: The
miniature vehicles and imple-ments
are replicas of actual
types and are used to train the
new policemen to know and
recognize them.
Free Feed Set
For VFW Post
Drive Champs
The "Blue" team of the
Hershey Veterans of Foreign
Wars membership drive is
not so blue.
The "Blues" are going to
enjoy -a free dinner at the
expense of the losing "Red"
team as the result of a re-cent
member-getting contest.
Results of the contest were
announced following the VFW
post's semi-monthly meeting
on January 6, when it was
reported that the post had
reached 85 per cent of its
1953 membership and ex-pects
to hit the 100 per cent
mark soon.
On the winning "Blue"
team in the membership drive
were Captain Robert Heagy,
Larry Rotz,. Milton Shaeffer,
Raymond Wise, Lester Smith,
Aid? DeCarlo, and Post Corn-'
mander Clarence Jeffries.
The "Red" team was cap-tained
by Larry Wallace and
included John Gondek, Paul
Hetrick, jr., Joseph Plebani,
Roy Witman and William
Schmehl.
During the meeting, four
new members were admitted
to the post: William Wright,
Dr. Ray 1-Cinch, Orville King
and William Yakstis.
Auxiliary News
The VFW post's ladies'
auxiliary held its January
meeting last week and made
plans to entertain the national
president, Mrs. Rosalie Schill,
at a luncheon on Sunday,
March 28, at the Hotel Her-shey,
during Mrs. Schill's visit
to Pennsylvania.
Mrs. Ross Shepler is chair-man
of the committee on ar-rangements
and Mrs. Lester
Smith is co-chairman. Toast-mistress
will be. Mrs. Frank
Gasper, and Mrs. Paul Het-rick
is serving as reservations
chairman.
The auxiliary announced it
will conduct a rummage sale
on January 30. Mrs. Charles
Lebo is in charge.
Also announced was a ham
dinner, which is to be served
without charge to post, auxi-liary
and social members of
the VFW, at the post home on
Saturday, January 23, from
two to seven p. m. Adult's and
children's tickets are available
for non-members.
Some Christmas -Seal
Letters Unanswered —
Have you answered your
Christmas Seal letter? Or did
it get pushed to the bottom of
the pile during the hubbub of
the holiday season?
"If you have been delaying
making your contribution to
the Christmas Seal Fund, we
hope you will do so promptly,"
it was pointed out by James
DeAngelis, local seal sale
chairman of the Tuberculosis
and Health Society of Dauphin
and Perry Counties.
The chairman pointed out
that the Seal Sale is the Tuber-culosis
Society's sole source of
revenue, and that 86 cents out
of every dollar contributed is
retained by the Society for
local use.
"It should be a source of
great satisfaction to every
contributor to the Christmas
Seal Fund that such a high
percentage of his contribution
stays right here for use in his
3547 REQUESTED IF UNDELIVERABLE own community."