Hershey News 1954-06-17

              HERSHEY NEWS
Vol. 2 e€ELa"*.® HERSHEY, PENNSYLVANIA, AJNE 17, 1954 No. 24
Weather Cooperates
Mechanics' Picnic Goes
Rainless 16th Time
An employees' outing that has become a tradition was
held Saturday when the mechanical department of the Her-shey
Chocolate Corporation had its annual' picnic at the
Palmyra Sportsmen's Club grounds near Coffeytown. -
It was one of a number of
similar outings and get-to-gethers
which are held by
various departments of the
plant each year on a "food,
fun and fellowship" basis. The
Wrapping Department men
had themselves a party about
a month ago, and on June 8
the Condensing Department
picnicked. Other get-togethers
include fiestas held by the
Electricians and Sheet Metal.
The mechanics' picnic on
Saturday was notable for
the reason that the weath-erman
continued to cooper-ate
and the group's record
of "no rain on picnic day"
was stretched to 16 years.
Some members of the outfit
credit the fair weather record
to the masterful handling of
arrangements by the picnic
committee headed by Early J.
Look and including Leroy
Weary, Victor Grubb, Ray-mond
Carlucetti, Louis Spaz-iani
and Freddie Chiarma.
Adding to the occasion this
year was the attendance at
the picnic of ten retired em-ployees
of the mechanical de-partment
who were present as
special guests.
The retired men, together
With the active workers, all
proved to be topnotch mech-anics
at the lunch tables as the
picnickers consumed a total
of 600 un-skimpy baked ham
sandwiches along with a
variety of other refreshments.
The affair dates back to
1936, When the first picnic was
held at the Hershey apple or-chard.
It was suspended for
two years during World War
Two, while veteran Chairman
Look was in the service. But
with that two-year exception,
the outing has been a popular
going concern sixteen times.
Hershey To Get
New Sirens
Fire, That Is
Hershey's fire siren is going
to change its tune. In fact,
they're going to change the
siren.
The old alarm howler is
soon to be replaced by two
new ones of the latest design.
A fire company spokesman
said the new ten-horsepower
sirens are "on order and de-livery
is expected within a
month." They will be stra-tegically
located to afford the
best results—one atop the ma-chine
shop at the Hershey
Lu mber Products and the
other on the east end of the
Hershey Chocolate Corpora-tion
plant. Each will beam a
loNv-pitch tone from seven
sound outlets.,
One of the new sirens will
be purchased by the Hershey
Estates, the other by the Her- -
shey Chocolate Corporation, C
with the fire company taking Jandlot Baseball care of installation costs.
The old five - horsepower Comes Of Age In
Local ,Residents Take_ To Playing Field
POTENTIAL DIMAGGIOS of the Hershey Community Club Midget Baseball League
try new uniforms for size on Monday evening. The youngsters are playing ball in the wide-spread
baseball-softball programs being conducted at Memorial Field by the Community
Club with the cooperation of other interested local agencies.
Left to right in photo: Jim Warfield of the Veterans of Foreign Wars midget team;
Terry Garman, Rotary Club team; Buster Hummer, Lions' Club team; Billy Dunbar,
American Legion team; and Dick Yingling, physical director of the Community Club who
coordinates the community sports activity
siren, in use nearly 30 years,
has been outgrown by the
community, the fire company
spokesman said.
Tests of the new siren sys-tem
are to be made as soon as
the devices are received and
installed.
ENTERS SERVICE
Robert H. Peters, 502 Noble
Street, Lebanon, has termini-nated
his employment with
the Lebanon Creamery in or-der
to enter military service.
ON TARGET is Hershey State Police Private George W.
Boyer (white shirt), shown in the State Police pistol
.lompetition at the local training school on Saturday. The
Elershey five-man team composed of Sgt. Leon Wrona, Cpl.
Walter Dean, and Pvts. Boyer, Charles Gesford, and Glenn
Barron captured the coveted Sgt. Goldstein Memorial Trophy
in the firing at a "running man target."
Sgt. Frank J. Cannon, Third Squadron, Hazleton, be-came
the individual pistol champion of the force for the year
with his score of 464 out of a possible 500. Greensburg's
First Squadron won the inter-squadron title in team firing.
Playground Loops
Having long since out-grown
the "sandlot" label,
Hershey's Memorial Field
now echoes nightly to , the
chatter of local .exponents of
the great American diamond
game and th the cheers and
jeers of partisan fans.
The summer program of
organized softball and base-ball
is in full swing, with
several hundred of the com-munity's
part-time athletes—
large and small—taking part
in the Community Club lea-gues.
The lively local loops are
attracting many fans who are
backing their individual and
team favorites.
The playground softball-baseball
program is .a highly
successful joint effort
brought about by the cooper-ative
backing of the nershey
Community Club, the Derry
Township School District
which operates the recreation
facilities of Memorial Field,
and a number of local civic
and veterans' organizations
and business firms.
Softball Loop
Ever growing in popularity
is the men's Community Club
softball league. As. the soft-bailers
approached the end of
the first half of the season
schedule as of Monday of this
week, the Syrup Department
sluggers managed by Vitro
Tulli are out in fronm with a
record of nine wins and four
defeats.
Two teams were tied for
second place with 7-and-4 rec-ords----
Kaylor's Garage (man-agers
Jim Moore and Kenny
Witmer) and Lucy's cafe
Coullased dos Page Two)
FIRST BASE ACTION in a men's softball league game
at Memorial Field Monday evening shows Bill Kristich of the
DeAngelis Grill team grounding out in a close play at first
base. Making the put-out is Dominic Basti of the Syrup De-partment
team.
The Syruppers topped the D-A softballers, five to three.
The playing field is a popular spot through the week
with participation and • spectator sport at a high level. Sev-eral
hundred, men and boys are playing on the softball and
baseball teams, bringing interested fans to the scene of the
diamond battles.
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