Hershey News 1956-02-02

              HERSHEY NEWS
Vol. 4 ® HERSHEY, PENNSYLVANIA, FEBRUARY 2, 1956
BUILDING THAT GROWS — A view of the Milton Snavely Hershey Memorial Build-ing.
The modern elementary school, opened in 1954, will take on fourteen more rooms
this year.
Township Supervisors In Vital Civic Role
TOWNSHIP SUPERVISORS — (From left) Harvey M. Hershey, Ralph Logan, and
David E. Gassert handle responsible jobs in the operation of the local government in
Derry Township. They're shown at their office in the old car barn building.
With a budget between 50
and 75 thousand dollars a year
and 50 miles of roads to main-tain,
the Board of . Derry
Township Supervisors plays
an important civic role: David
E. Gassert, President; Har-vey
M. Hershey, Secretary-
Treasurer; and Ralph Logan,
Superintendent.
Supervisors serve six-year
terra's, with one supervisor
elected at each mnnicipal elec-tion.
Regular monthly meet-ings
are on the second and
fourth Monday, with extra
meetings also necessary.
Duties of the Supervisors,
which include finances, con-tracts,
bridges, budgets, roads
and traffic, to name a few,
are outlined in a 316-page
Commonwealth of Pennsyl-vania
Bulletin titled "Laws
Relating To Second-Class
Townships." Hershey's heavy
traffic flow is administered
under the provisions of The
Vehicle Code and the town-ship's
own Traffic Ordinance,
which was enacted October 12,
1953.
Facilities of the old street
car barn just off West Choco-late
Avenue are utilized by the
Supervisors for their office,
meetings, and the storage of
their rolling stock: three
trucks, which include a light
pick-up vehicle utilized by Su-perintendent
Logan, and other
equipment.
Dean of the Supervisors is
Hershey, who has served since
1936, and has been Secretary-
Treasurer since 1940. He owns
a farm to the south of Her-shey,
and also has been with
the Department of Highways
in an administrative capacity
for 17 years.
President Gassert complet-ed
the unexpired term of Paul
Forry, and began his second
elective term when installed
the first Monday of January.
With the Hershey Estates
since 1933, Gassert was a
house father at Farm Home
Maple Lawn for 16 years, and
doubled as Farm Manager and
house father for the Milton
Hershey School from 1941 un-til
1949, when he moved to his
present residence on East
Chocolate Avenue. Since then
he has managed the 24 farms
in a full-time capacity.
Superintendent Logan, with
a farm in the Fidler's Elbow
section of Derry Township
(near the Swatara Creek
western township boundary)
is completing the unexpired
term of the late A. L. Kaylor,
who joined Gassert and Her-shey
in establishing the 1953
Traffic Ordinance. As Super-intendent,
Logan has the re-sponsibility
for the regular
four-man road crew and their
activities along the 50-odd
miles of Derry Township high-way.
BACK FROM SERVICE
Donald E. Wine, Harris-burg
Route 2, has returned
to work at the Hershey Choc-olate
Corporation after a tour
of duty in the U.S. Navy.
Mothers' March On Polio
Puts $770 Into Fund
The 1956 polio - fighting
fund was made $770 richer
through. contributions of Her-shey
area people to the
"Mothers' March" held by the
ladies' auxiliary of the Her-shey
Veterans of Foreign
Wars post on Tuesday eve-ning,
Jan. 24.
Mrs. H. B. Smth, Sr.,
chairman of the "Mothers'
March," expressed h e a rty
thanks to the donors and to
all who helped with the proj-ect.
The auxiliary also reported
that $89 was realized for the
polio fund through the sale of
Blue Crutch emblems.
Legion To Campaign
For Display Of Flag
The American Legion has
launched a program aimed at
more widespread use of the
American Flag by private
citizens on patriotic occa-sions.
A local door-to-door drive
to encourage the use of the
flag display is the latest proj-ect
of the Hershey Legion
post.
The project is in the hands
of the Americanism Commit-tee
of the post, headed by
Chairman Edwin C. Miller.
No. 5
Twp. Schools To Add
14 Rooms This Year,
Cafeteria Also Set
A program of expanded school facilities that has been
in the making for some time was announced today by the
Derry Township Board of School Directors.
The plans call for a fourteen-room addition to the pres-ent
Derry Township Elementary School Building, to be
ready for occupancy in September of 1956.
Another phase of the school board's planning program
is the installation of a larger cafeteria for the present junior-senior
high school building for the accommodation of an
increased number of pupils which has resulted from the
community's general growth.
Planning for the cafeteria calls for its construction
from township school funds.
Aiding materially in the expansion program is the Mil-ton
S. Hershey Foundation which carries on the work of the
late chocolate manufacturer in support of education. The
Foundation will provide for the important fourteen-room ex-tension
of the elementary building in this latest move to
afford more classroom space throughout the school system.
The proposed improvements are designed to meet en-rollment
growth problems facing school districts everywhere,
but are based on acquiring the best possible facilities with-out
imposing undue burdens upon the taxpayers of Derry
Township.
Recognizing the needs for school expansion, the school
district's present modern elementary building was built with
continued extension of facilities as a primary consideration.
Under the program announced today by the school
directors, the new addition will permit the transfer of ele-mentary
pupils from the "old" building to the "new," there-by
affording more classroom space for the junior and senior
high schools.
Retired Man Is 2-Army
Retired man Ulderigo Bian-chini
is not only a Hershey
Chocolate Corporation vet-eran.
he is also a war veteran
and has seen service in two
armies — American and Ital-ian.
A native of Grosseto, Italy,
Mr. Bianchini served a "hitch"
in the Italian Army in 1910-
1911, just before coming to
the United States. In 1918, as
a member of the American
Expeditionary Forces in
France he was with the U. S.
Army Engineers who con-structed
and maintained mili-tary
railroads during World
War One.
Until his retirement at the
end of last year, Bianchini
was employed continuously by
the Hershey chocolate Corpo
ration since September 24,
1923. But his connection with
Hershey goes farther back.
Coming here in 1911, he did
"outside work" at the choco-late
factory for eight months,
then tried other jobs at Corn-wall,
on the Reading Railroad,
and in the coal mines of Lu-zerne
County.
He returned to work in the
Hershey plant in 1915, he re-
Vet
Ulderigo Bianchini
calls, as a laborer. Following
his return from Army service
in 1919 he was employed in
the Mixing Department.
The next year he married
Lydia Pellegrini and in 1923
he again interrupted his work-ing
career for a visit with his
wife to Italy. When they re-turned
in September. Mr.
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