Hershey News 1954-02-18

              HERSHEY NEWS
Vol. 2
Ambulance Corps
Campaign Opens
Here On Monday
Workers Get Set For
"Mission Of Mercy";
Ask Public Support
The big, all-out effort to
raise funds to put the Her-shey
Ambulance Corps into
action is set to begin on Mon-day.
The campaign runs dur-ing
the week of February 22
to February 28, with the
campaign workers"- sights set
on the nine thousand dollars
needed to purchase the am-bulance
and its equipment.
The Hershey Volunteer
Fire Company, sponsoring or-ganization,
pointed out that
the decision to launch the new
ambulance service came after
sounding out public thinking
and fire company and ambu-lance
corps spokesmen urged
a hearty support for the drive.
A successful financial
campaign will insure a new
and vital community serv-ice
that every citizen may
point to with pride and a
sense of deep personal
interest.
A meeting of the volunteer
campaign workers has been
ea/lekl for Sunday at two
o'clock in the fire hall by C. J.
Speicher, chairman of the
campaign committee. The
meeting on the eve of the ac-tive
canvass for funds is for
the purpose of assigning ter-ritories
and issuing supplies.
The committee chair m a n
stressed the importance of the
final meeting and urged all
the workers to attend in order
to prepare for their "Mission
of Mercy."
Earlier, letters explaining
t h e proposed Ambulance
Corps set-up were mailed to
residents of Derry Township,
Union Deposit and Sand
Beach.
The committee worked dili-gently
to place all the infor-mation
in the hands of the
public so that the community
at large would clearly under-stand
the nature of this new
service and line up solidly be-hind
the coming week's cam-paign.
Questionnaires
Several months ago, the
matter of obtaining and oper-ating
a community ambulance
was explored by the fire com-pany.
They sent out question-
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HERSHEY, PENNSYLVANIA, FEBRUARY 18, 1954 No. 7
SKYWATCHERS—Six local marathon skywatchers, m:mbers of Hershey's civilian volunteer Ground Observer
Corps, were honored here Friday night for rolling up a combined total of 2,875 hours on duty at the plane-spotter
post atop the Community Building.
Above, Major George H. Smith, commander of the U.S. Air Force's Harrisburg Filter Center, affixes a "For
Merit" pin on the lapel of Hershey Post Supervisor J. Marlin Herbst who has posted 783 hours.
Left to right in photo are: Roy Woodling, 626 hours; Benjamin Beidleman, 271 hours; Joe Moratti, 250 hours;
Mrs. J. M. Herbst, 420 hours; Guy Weber, 525 hours; and Herbst and Major Smith.
In making the presentations of the awards, Major Smith said: "What can you say to people like this, except
to express the gratitude of the Air Force and their country? Their faithful service demonstrates their knowledge
of the vital role they are playing in the nation's alertness."
Reports Of Study
Groups Are Given
At PTA Session
The first two study groups
set up by the Derry Township
Parent-Teacher Association
reported their findings and
recommendations to the PTA
general membership Monday
night at the February meeting
at the school.
Mrs. Ralph Horst, who
heads a study group composed
mainly of parents of grade
school pupils, presented rec-ommendations
whieh included
a request that a committee in-vestigate
the possibility of
having traffic signal lights
erected in the square as a
safety feature for school chil-dren.
The group also recommend-ed
adult "guards" at school
crossings to supplement the
school patrols, and also rec-ommended
police aid at "dan-gerous
crossings."
A study group led by Mrs.
John Mentzer—mainly par-ents
of high school age young-sters
and faculty members—
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EX-PRESIDENTS---Past presidents of the Derry Township Council of Republican
Women were honored at the organization's seventeenth anniversary observance in the
Community Building dining room last week. Among unusual table decorations was a
miniature U.S. Capitol, made by Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Howes of Palmdale.
Council President Mrs. John Snavely (fourth from left in photo) is shown with
five past presidents attending: Left to right—Mrs. Harold Pierce, Mrs. Richard Diet-rich,
Mrs. Irene Landis, Mrs. Snavely, Mrs. Simon Yoder and Mrs. Howard Romig.
Women's Council
Celebrates Its
11th Anniversary
Celebrating its seventeenth
anniversary as one of the
community's bustling organi-zations
last week was the
Derry Township Council of
Republican Women.
Coming in for special hon-ors
at the covered dish supper
held in the dining room of the
Community Building were
the council's past presidents.
Fifty-seven members attend-ed
the affair.
Former presidents of the
council who attended were
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New England Visit
Set For Students
By HALE JONES
Special to the Hershey -News .
(Hale Jones is a graduate of Milton Hershey School .nd Hershey
Junior College and is now serving as a reporter on the Boston, Mass.,
Daily Record while completing studies at Boston University. Ile for-warded
the following story "as a personal favor to ... the town I'll
always call my home.")
NEWTON, Mass.—Thirty Hershey High School pupils
will live and study for a week beginning March 20 in this
Eastern Massachusetts community which is bigger than
Harrisburg and almost as beautiful as Hershey.
The Chocolatetown stu-dents,
chosen on the basis of
leadership and scholarship,
will receive the "key" to this
city of 82,000 from Mayor
Howard Whitmore and an of-ficial
greeting from Massa-chusetts
Governor Christian 40ontlased ea Pose Two)
A. Herter.
The Hersheyites will live in
Newton homes with local stu-dents
with whom they have
exchanged letters. A program
of parties, cultural tours, and
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