Hershey News 1957-01-03

              HERSHEY NEWS
-€EE-(3 HERSHEY, PENNSYLVANIA, JANUARY 3, 1957 No. 1
Christmas Decorating Awards Announced
The grand prize of $50 in
ration Contest sponsored by Events Of Hershey the Home Christmas
the Hershey Rotary Club was
awarded to Merle Stuckey of
334 Elm Avenue after a panel
of three judges toured the
community with the difficult
assignment of rating a large
variety of decorations and
displays.
In the photo at left, Mrs.
Stuckey is shown at the
doorway of their home with
the Stuckey children, Bren-da,
Raymond and Lester.
Other awards were an-nounced
by Dr. J. J. Lucas,
Rotary Community Service
Committee chairman, as fol-lows:
Best window or doorway —
1, Glen Stover, 840 Linden
Rd., $20; 2, Robert Smith, 761
Linden Rd., $10; 3, G. R.
Sponaugle, 115 Para Ave., $5;
honorable mention: I. J. Jef-feries,
260 Elm Ave.; Robert
R. Sponaugle, 837 Glen, Rd.;
Mrs. J. Stanley Spoehr, 160
Maple Ave.; and Lester W.
Abel, 143 Oak Lane.
Best lighting display — 1,
Samuel DeAngelis, 717 Linden
Rd., $20; 2, Paul Sternberger,
410 Governor Rd., $10; 3, Al-len
Lingle, Hummelstown
Route 1, $5; honorable men-tion:
Herbert Reynolds, 707
Linden Rd.; Robert Heagy,
751 Linden Rd.; George Wood,
Hummerstown' Route 1 Rob:
ert Schelhorn, 420 Elm Ave.;
, E. M. Blanken, 649 Linden Rd.
Most original — 1, Henry
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Retires After Nearly 52 Years' Service
D. Frank Garman (photo at
left), with a record of nearly
fifty-two years of service
with the Hershey Chocolate
Corporation, joined the ranks
of the retired employees on
Monday. He's shown here in
an easy chair at his home at
61 West Caracas Avenue,
surrounded by some of his
Christmas cards.
Mr. Garman was one of
the first production em-ployees
of the Hershey
Chocolate Corporation when
he began working in the
factory's Cocoa Depart-ment
on May 2, 1905, but
practically all his half-cen-tury-
plus with the corpora-tion
was spent in the Pur-chasing
Department. He
also served as assistant
treasurer of the corpora-tion.
A native son of Hershey,
he is a member of a well
known local family and has
been active in an official
capacity in the First Evan-gelical
Un it ed Brethren
Church since he was in his
'teens. He and his wife, the
former Miss Ellen R. Gehret,
observed their fortieth wed-ding
anniversary last June 28.
T h e veteran employee,
whose service dates from the
earliest era of the town and
its industry, went into retire-ment
with a vast storehouse
of memories and recollections
and a host of friends acquired
over the years.
Review Of '56 News
Turning back the leaves of the calendar for the past
twelve months brings to mind the many interesting events
and happenings of 1956. On a number of occasions, Hershey
was not only The Hometown of its residents, but also the
focal point of interest for visitors from many places.
One of those occasions was the visit to Hershey in
early November of the Vice President of the United States,
Richard M. Nixon, and Mrs. Nixon. Nixon spoke to a nation-wide
television audience from the Sports Arena in the closing,
days of the Presidential election campaign.
Another national figure to make an address here was
U.S: Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson who spoke
at the Pennsylvania Poultry Federation event at the Dutch
Days celebration in Hershey Park, Arena and Stadium in
August.
There were notes of sadness during 1956, also, as the
community lost some of its fine people through death, and
last July 23 Mr. Percy A. Staples, who then headed the
Hershey companies and the Milton Hershey School, passed
away. He was followed in death by Mrs. Staples only recently.
But new little citizens arrived at the Hershey Hos-pital
and other area hospitals throughout the year and
back on February 29 a grand total of seven such little
arrivals at Hershey Hospital had the distinction of being
born on Leap Year's extra day. Among the Leap Year
babies were the twin sons of Mr. and Mrs. Howard
Frank—the Franks' fourth and fifth children in an all-boy
record of consistency.
On the industrial scene, the top news of the year was
the reorganization moves which came at the end of July.
D. Paul Witmer was elected chairman of the Board of
Managers of the Milton Hershey School, and Hershey Estates
President John B. Sollenberger was elected president of the
Hershey Trust Company, which acts as trustee for the
school.
At the Hershey Chocolate Corporation, J. J. Gallagher
was elected chairman of the Board of Directors, and Satnuel
F.-Hinkle was elected corporation President. Elected to fill
two newly-established vice-presidencies at the Chocolate
Corporation were L. W. Majer and William E. Schiller.
A similar move at a Hershey Estates election saw
Theodore R. Banks and James E. Bobb elected as vice-presidents.
The reorganizations also included the election of John
B. Sollenberger to the Board of Directors of the Hershey
Chocolate Corporation, and Joseph S. Gumpher was elected
to the Board of Managers of the Milton Hershey School
and to the Board of the Hershey Trust Company.
Throughout the year Hershey was the scene of many
events in many facets of our lives—the entertainment field,
the sports field, our daily round of providing for our families,
our religious life and. the civic work of our clubs, associa-tions
and other organizations. There was much newsworthy
activity in the public and parochial schools and the. Milton
Hershey School. Too much to recount in the limited space
available here.
But we have compiled a resume of some of the year's
events—a sort of spot-check refresher course for the memory.
If there have been some omissions, it is because the past
year has been a full one and its complete record would be
monumental. Here is some of it, month by month:
January
Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Mil-ler
won grand prize in Rotary
Club Home Decorating Con-test;
plan for organization of
Civil Air Patrol Unit in Her-shey
was announced; School
Patrol boys Gerald Brinser
and Joseph Hosier, Jr. were
given Optimist Club good
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