Hershey News 1955-04-21

              HERSHEY NEWS
Optimists Spur
Bicycle Safety
With Program
Cyclists Crowd School
Ground For Event;
400 Receive Emblems
There were bicycles almost
as far as the eye could reach
on School Plaza on Saturday
morning for the first annual
Bike Safety Program spon-sored
by the Optimist Club of
Hershey.
Boys and girls from
throughout Derry Township
brought their two-wheelers to
the big playground area for
the event, as a result, some
400 bikes are sporting new
Scotch-Lite Safety emblems.
Each cyclist was presented
with a safety emblem and
was provided with a 1955
membership card carrying a
number corresponding to the
bike emblem placed on the
rear mud guard of the bicycle.
A highlight of the program
was the presentation of a new
English bicycle to eight-year-old
Karen Guyer, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. James Guyer of
545 West Chocolate Avenue.
She was the holder of the
winning ticket in a drawing
held among the boys and
girls who - registered for the
program.
Climaxing the event was
the showing of bicycle safety
films in the Little Theatre of
the Community Building,
where a huge gathering of
youngsters and parents
crowded the auditorium.
Giving a big assist to the
Optimists in conducting the
successful venture were mem-bers
of the Pennsylvania
State Police, headed by Major
Thomas F. Martin, superin-tendent
of the Hershey State
Police Training School.
"We are extremely grateful
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Airman Promoted
Louis E. Drescher, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Thom-as
Drescher, of 107 West
Governor Road, has been
promoted to the rank of
Airman Second Class at the
Greenville Air F.orce Base
in Mississippi.
Airman Drescher, a
graduate of Hershey High
School, was previously sta-tioned
at the Amarillo Air
Force Base in Texas. He
has been in the service for
ten months.
HERSHEY, PENNSYLVANIA, APRIL 21, 1955 No. 16
Add Police Protection.
For School Children
The Hershey Estates will
provide additional police pro-tection
for children going to
and from school, School Super-intendent
Dr. L. E. Jacques
has announced.
C. W. Miller will be station-ed
at the intersection of
Chocolate and Ceylon Ave-nues
at the three o'clock dis-missal
when the largest num-ber
of school buses are leaving
the school.
Earl Kohr will be stationed
at the intersection of Choco-late
and Cocoa Avenues each
morning as the children are
coming to school and each af-ternoon
following dismissal.
He will be there in addition to
the present student patrols
and will assist these boys and
girls in their work.
This additional service is
being provided by the Hershey
Estates without cost to the
school district or the citizens
of Derry Township.
Polio Vaccine Is
Hailed By Most
Parents Here
Community's Doctors
Volunteer Services
For School 'Shots! -
Parents of Derry Township
elementary school pupils gave
a big vote of confidence to the
Salk poliomyelitis vaccine,
school officials reported this
week.
As of Monday, parental
consent had been obtained to
administer the Salk discovery
to 355 of the 381 pupils of the
First and Second Grades in
the public schools, School
Nurse Mrs. Elizabeth Good-will
reported, with indica-tions
that additional "okays"
would be forthcoming this
week. Only a few "No's" were
registered by parents of the
nearly four hundred pupils.
In addition to the township
school pupils, there are 165
First and Second Graders
eligible for the vaccine in the
St. Joan of Arc Parochial
School here, and the Milton
Hershey School listed fifty-eight
students in the first two
grades.
Dr. L. Eugene Jseques, su-perintendent
of the Derry
Township Schools, reported
as the Hershey News went to
press that all plans and equip-ment
were in readiness to ad-minister
the polio vaccine
upon its arrival here. No of-ficial
word had been received
at the beginning of the week
to indicate when that would
be.
The vaccinations will be
done in the public school un-der
the supervision of Dr. W.
D. Stettler, school district
physician, and Mrs. Goodwill,
school nurse.
All physicians of the com-munity
have volunteered
their services for the immuni-zation
project, Mrs. Goodwill
said.
The doctors came to the as-sistance
of the school pupils
in similar fashion last Fall
when gamma globulin was
administered to a large num-
INDUSTRIAL LEAGUE BOWLING roll-offs last week saw these two teams battle for
the league supremacy. When the four-game fracas was over, the Almond Room had
won the trophy by topping the Printers.
In the photo are (left to right) : Front row — Bill Pennesi, Sam Dissinger,
Ammon Hollingsworth, Charles Reeder, Dallas Dowhower, William Shireman: back ,
row — Charles Hummer, Harry Fasnacht, Levi Ginder and Wesley Lehman. The five
men in left half of the photo are the Printing Department bowlers; the five in right
half make up the Almond Room team.
her of -students following the
incidence of two cases of po-liomyelitis.
_ The c,onsent slips, required
for parental , permission to
vaccinate the children, were
sent to the local homes several
weeks ago, along with a let-ter
of explanation and litera-ture
from the National Foun-dation
for Infantile Paraly-sis.
Here, as in other parts of
the nation, the pupils are to
be given the vaccine in two
"doses," with a two-week pe-riod
between them, Mrs.
Goodwill said. Booster
"shots" will be given next
Fall to complete the immuni-zation
process.
RETURNS FROM SERICE
Lloyd R. Hartman of 160
North Lincoln Street, Pal-myra,
has returned to work
at the Hershey Lumber Com-pany
after service in the U.S.
Air Force.
Arthur L. Miller, of 122
East Maple Street, Palmyra,
has returned to work at the
Hershey Lumber Company
after a tour of duty in the
U.S. Navy.
GETTING SET for Hershey's annual Tulip Festival in
beautiful Hershey Gardens are (left to right) Elmer
Wallace Domenico Torrieri, Paul Royer, Harry Boltz and
Elmer Dunkleberger, members of the Greenhouse and
Gardens Division of the Hershey Estates. The tulip gar-den
opens April 23 in the 21-acre beauty spot.
H. L. Erdman, horticultural director, said the tulips
will come into fuller bloom as the week progresses —
with continued warm weather—and the peak of blooming
should be reached about April 30 and through the fol-lowing
week. The garden will be open daily from 10
a. m. to 8 p.m.
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