Hershey News 1956-11-15

              HERSHEY NEWS
Vol. 4 HERSHEY, PENNSYLVANIA, NOVEMBER 15, 1956 No. 45
FELTON W. EBERSOLE was installed as president of
the Hershey Volunteer Fire Company at ceremonies
held last week and is shown here receiving the gavel
of office from Samuel F. Hinkle, Hershey Chocolate
Corporation president, who conducted the installation.
Looking on are other fire company officers who. were
installed at the same time:
Front row, left to right — Rev. W. Sheldon Blair,
chaplain; Paul Hetrick, Sr., first assistant chief;
Robert Raffensperger, recording secretary; William
Garrison, vice-president; Ebersole; Lewis Moyer, trus-tee;
Hinkle.
-Back row — Richard Willard, lieutenant, fire crew;
Ervin Meashey, second assistant chief; Mario Moratti,
Elmer Reidel, Peter Perin, members. of house commit-tee;
John Steen, treasurer; and George Trump, fire chief.
At the installation meeting it was announced that
the membership drive conducted by the firemen last
month resulted in the enrollment of 395 new members.
The,committee which handled the special recruitment
campaign was headed by Robert Raffensperger and in-cluded".
19,4a„,4,,m,40,r ;
Joseph Pischeic-Warien HiSeek-e
ia
Yrus Garman,
liam Garrison and Felton Ebersole.
A memorial service was conducted by the chaplain
for Raymond Hinkle, Ellis Hoffer and J. Edgar Har-kins.
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Report On Religious Survey Of Area
'from the Evangelical and Re-formed
Seminary in Lancas-ter.
Each church furnished
twenty-five census takers and
three tabulators, who conduct-ed
the survey in cooperation
with the Hershey Ministerial
Association. The Rev. Kermit
L. Lloyd served as chairman
of the project.
The 1,662 returns listed the
various denominational af-filiations
or preferences of
persons contacted in the sur-vey.
A tital of 535 persons were
Hated under the heading of
Evangelical United Brethren,
including the three local
area on November 4. shows a
total of 1,663 returns sub-mitted
by volunteer canvas-sers
from the local churches.
The census covered the areas
of Hershey, Swatara, Moun-tain
View, Union Deposit and
and Beach.
Results of a similar survey
of the Palmdale section will be
provided by the Palmyra Min-isterial
Association.
Churches participating in
the-Hershey area census were
First Evangelical United
Brethren, Fishburn E.U.B.,
Union Deposit E.U.B., Spring
Creek Church of the Breth-ren
Holy Trinity Lutheran,
Clergyman Speaks
On Veterans' Day
The annual Derry Town-ship
Veterans' Day obser-vance
was held last Sunday
evening in the Little Theatre
of the Community Building.
The tribute to the veterans of
•••
Union Thanksgiving
Observance Planned
The spirit of the season will be keynoted here next
Thursday, November 22, with the observance of the tradi-tiOnal
Union Thanksgiving Service.
- The community religious observance will be held in the
Lutheran Church of the Holy Trinity at-nine o'clock on the
morning of Thanksgiving Day. The service is a community
program conducted by the Hershey Ministerial Association.
The Sermon will be delivered by the Rev. Kermit L.
Lloyd, vicar of All Saints Episcopal Church, and special'
music is being arranged for the service.
The Rev. Dr. M. R. Hamsher, supply pastor for the host
church, will preside at the service and will pronounce the
benediction at the close.
The Litany of Thanksgiving will be presented by the
Rev. Thomas W. Guinivan, pastor of the First Evangelical
United Brethren Church; the Rev. Dr. J. R. MacDonald, pas-tor
of Fishburn and Union Deposit Evangelical United
Brethren Churches, will read the Scripture; and prayer will
be offered by the Rev. J. Herbert Miller, pastor of the Spring
Creek Church of the Brethren.
Members and friends of all churches were invited to at-tend
the special community observance.
the nation's wars was spon-sored
jointly by Hershey Post Girl Scouts Learn All About Voting 386, American Legion, and
Hershey Memorial Post 3502,
Veterans of Foreign Wars, in
cooperation with the Hershey
iterral -ASSOcia t ion.
The Rev. Arthur Yeagy, FT
assistant to the president of
t h e Central Pennsylvania
Synod of the United Lutheran
Church in America, was the
guest speaker. He based his -
theme on a passage from the
eighth chapter of Romans:
A report on the religious churches, with 57 of that num- "In face of all this, what is
census taken in the Hershey her listed as members of "out there left to say?", outlining
a three-point program of posi,
tive thinking by Christian
people:
"We should be for persons,
for individual people, for in-dividual
human souls.
"We should also be for
things that are just and
right. -
"We should all be for
peace.'
Lutherans registered by the
census takers numbered 239, Derry Township Voters
and were affiliated with Holy.
Trinity Church in Hershey Okay Use of Machines
and Palmyra Lutheran, with
42 of that number listed as Derry Township voters in
members of "out of town" Lu_ the future will cast their bal-teran
churches. lots by pulling the handles on
Members of the Episcopal voting machines.
Derry Presbyterian, All Saints Church contacted totalled In the November 6 election
Episcopal and seminarians thirty-one and all were mem-bers
of All Saints Church.
Seventy-nine persons were
listed in the Evangelical and
Reformed category, and af-filiations
included E. and R.I
churches over a widely scat-tered
area.
Three hundred and one per-sons
contacted were of the
Roman Catholic faith.
Other denominations which
were grouped in the census
and which included a total of
99 persons, were 13alsbaugh's
United Christian Church 24;
Quakers, 3; Brethren in
Christ, 7; Mt. View, 13;
Church of God, 5; Sand
(Vooliamod rags Two)
of town" E.U.B. churches.
Ninety-six persons contact-ed
were members of the
Church of the Brethren, in-cluding
the Spring Creek,
Palmyra, Hanoverdale and
Conewago churches.
The survey listed 175 Pres-byterians,
all members of
Derry Church.
here, the use of voting ma-chines
was given popular ap-proval
by a vote of 2,411
"yes" votes to 821 "no's." The
question of whether voting
machines should be placed in
use in Derry Township was a
special item on the general
election ballots.
Voting machines are pro-vided
by the county for the
election districts approving
their use. The machines are
installed in about a year after
being okayed in a regular
election, and demonstrations
to show how to use them
properly are conducted prior
to placing them in service for
an election.
AN EXPERIENCE in citizenship was enjoyed by Girl
Scouts of Troop 120, led by Mrs. Helen Doyle, when the
girls visited the polling place in the Social Room of the
Community Building on election day. Here, a group of
the G,r1 Scouts is shown the processes of the election
board by W. Royce Ward (standing, in dark suit).
Other board members are Mrs. Mardelle E. Strimble,
Mrs. Bernetta Q. Burtner, Ralph R. Weiser and J. Parke
Spancake. Girl Scouts visiting the polling place included
Doris Schofield, Helen Doyle, Beckie Curry, Sandy
Stover, Lee Gish and Charlotte Bainbridge, along with
a friend, Mike Gish.
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