Hershey News 1957-11-28

              RSHEY NEWS
Vol. 5 HERSHEY, PENNSYLVANIA, NOVEMBER 28, 1957 No. 48
ELECTION OF OFFICERS of the Pennsylvania Dutch Days Committee was a high-light
of'the business session held by the group following a dinner held on Tuesday,
November 19, at the Hershey Country Club. Hershey Estates President John B. Sol-lenberger
was host to the officers and committee people, with sixty-one persons at-tending.
In the photo, the 1958 Dutch Days committee officers are hown at the dinner:
From left—Treasurer Raymond F. Evans, Secretary W. Royce Ward, Chairman Carl
S. Swan, J. B. Sollenberger, Farm Exhibits Chairman James E.'Bobb and Committee
Vice-Chairman Walter R. Kettering.
"Cocoa Bean" Check To Playground Fund
RICHARD.L. UHRICH — DR. L. E. JACQUES
Second Hershey Football
Player .Gets Top Notice
Consistent mention for All-
American honors — along
with his brilliant play all sea-son
for the Nittany Lions of
Penn State --77 has been keep-ing
the name of Les Walters
before the football fans of the
nation. • .
The fleet-and glue-fingered
Penn State end has been list-ed
by the Associated Press as
one of the top prospects for
' an All-American end position.
The son of Mr. and Mrs.
Lester K. Walters,-Sr., of _Un-ion
Deposit, -the Penn State
• gridder is a raduate of Her-shey
High School in the Class
of 1954. Walters was a- high
school teammate and class-mate
of- Frank .Ca p it-an i ,
Gettysburg College fullback
who has been nominated for
All-American by the Football
Writers Association. •.
Walters, at weekend, was
the thirteenth ranking -pass
receiver in the nation, and had
scored more touchdowns .than
dny of the ends mentioned by
the Associated Press as All-
American prospects.
He was named Lineman of
the Week- recently -by the AP
for his offensive.and defensive
play against Syracuse..
A check for $3,337.74—net
proceeds from the 1957 Cocoa
Bean football game — was
turned over recently by the
Hershey Rotary Club to the
Derry Township School"Dis-trivt
to be )-)1:. ell in the Me-morial
Field Playground fund.
In the photo at left, Ro-tary
Club President Rich-ard
L. Uhrich (left) pre-sents
the check to Dr. L. E.
Jacques, superintendent of
- schools.
The Cocoa Bean Game is
sponsored annnally by the Ro-tary
Club with the 'coopera-tion
of the Milton Hershey
School and HersheY High
School, and the proceeds —
after expenses — are handed'
over by .the Rotarians *to the
School District. •
The money is'placed in a
Special- Memorial Field Play-ground
account, which is; ad-ministered
by the Board of
School Directors and. used for
improvements to the physical
plant of the playground.
Although the Cocoa Bean
Game is sponsored by the Ro-tary
Club, the Rotarians have
no jurisdiction over the subse-quent
handling of the funds
which are earmarked for Me-morial
Playground under a
long-standing agreement be-tween
the cooperating organi-zations.
'Playground equipment pro-vided
by this fund over the
years has included sliding
boards, swings, teeter-boards,
merry-go-rounds, sand boxes,
shuffleboard -courts, tennis
courts and outdoor basketball
courts.
In the -past two., years in-creased
lavatory facilities
have been provided in this
way, as well as an office set-up
for the summer programs.
Benches and tables for picnic
outings were also- purchased
from this fund.
In the summer of 1956
bleacher seats were purchased
Hershey Bank Distributes
1957's Christmas Savings
.The postman was the bearer of glad tidings of the sea-son
at the end Of last week, when $213,657.50 in Christmas
Savings Club-checks was distributed from the Hershey Na-tional
Bank. - :
The Christmas Club checks were mailed out to 2,058
club members in the area.
This year's total amount saved through the bank's
special account system showed an increase' of $9,453 over
the 1956 Christmas Club, when $204,204.50 was distributed:
The number of accounts this year was 2,058, as compared
with 4,895-in 1956. •
The bank announced that. the 1958 Christmas Club
will get under way on Tuesday, December 3.
The- amounts- saved in the Special accounts will largely
go for Christmas buying.
However, bank- officials estimated that from ten to
twenty per cent of the amounts paid out to the account hold-ers
will be turned into some form of further savings. Some
of the Christmas Clubbers annually use a part of their check
as ,a nest, egg in starting off the new Christmas savings
project. . .
Other club savings are used for special purposes such
as payments on insurance, Mortgages or other financial
projects. •
A number of Christmas Club accounts are taken out
each year as gifts to other family members. .
Christmas Savings Club figures for three years:
No. of
Amount Accounts
1955 $187,658.50 1,950
1956 204,204.50 1,985
1957 213,657.50 2,058
from the Cocoa Bean game re-ceipts
to accommodate 300 at
playground baseball games.
Last summer sCoreboards
were built for all ball fields
and a new flight-of:steps was
constructed, leading from the
running track to a level imme-diately
south of the track.
-Extensive repairs were
made also to the fireplace and
ovens during the past sum-mer.
A fence was built along
Homestead Road from Areba
Avenue to a point south of the
running track, providing in-creased
safety for those par-ticipating
in the recreational
programs.
Among other improvements
afforded by the special fund,
school officials reported, were
the filling in of rough areas,
and- re-grading to put more
playground area to recreation-al
use. -
Contemplated improv e-ments
for the coming year in-clude
added play equipment,
resurfacing of the football
field and refinishing of the
baseball diamond.
Funds tram the special ac-count
handled by the School
Hi-Fi Group To Discuss
Record Care At Session
The H,ershey Club
will meet in the Community
Building's Room 201 on De-cember
12, when the discus-sion
topic will be "Records and
Record Care." The sellsion
starts at eight p. m.
The hi-fi group will meet
the second and fourth Thurs-day
night of each month
thereafter, it was announced,
with a discussion period at
each meeting.
December 12's musical pro-gram
will be Franz Van Suppe
overtures and unfamiliar re-cordings
— "or bring a rec-ord."
Beginning January 9, a
Course in hi-fi, including tape
and stereophonics, will be of-fered.
District are used for physical
facilities only, the school
spokesman said. Salaries of
playground supervisors are
paid from School District
funds and from funds pro-vided
by the Community Club.
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