Hershey News 1956-07-26

              HERSHEY NEWS
Vol. 4
RETIRED veteran Hershey
employee James A. Smith, of
229 Para Avenue is one of the
local fraternity who have
their cellars stocked with
woodworking tools and ma-chinery.
In fact — although
Smith refired after nearly 43
years in the Hershey Choco-late
Corporation's Mixing and
Steel Rolls operations — he
had "kept his hand in" at
woodworking since boyhood.
The son of a Perry County
carpenter, Smith had worked
at making wagon spokes and
railroad ties before coming to
Hershey in 1911. He has had
shovel handles in his hands,
too. During the extraordinar-ily
heavy snowfall of 1917 he
helped to shovel open the Vol-ley
lines between Hershey and
Lebanon and Campbelltown.
When he retired from the
Chocolate Corporation last
year, Smith was foreman in
3rd Mixing.
Mrs. Smith is the former
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t*g"! HERSHEY, PENNSYLVANIA, JULY 26, 1956
Cooperation Lauded
In Air Alert Drill
Derry Township's performance rating in last Friday's
ationwide Civil Defense test run was "better than ever"
ii the judgment of Louis C. Smith, Jr., the township's CD
irector.
"There was definite improvement over previous tests,"
Smith noted, adding: "That makes it all worthwhile."
Organized Civil Defense
agencies went into action with and Deputy Constable Earl
the smoothness of veterans Kohr.
and showed every indication Official Civil Defense ac-of
readiness for emergency tivity here is built around
service, come an act of war or the well organized units of
other disaster. the Hershey Volunteer Fire
Public cooperation in the Company, Hershey Ambu-local
phase of the giant CD lance Corps and the Fire
drill earned commendation Police, plus the township
from various official obser- and state police. The Derry
vers, although a number of Township Ground Observer
pedestrians in downtown Her- Corps — headed by Post
shey marred the ten-minute Supervisor J. Marlyn Her-
"take cover" period by disre- bst and Chief Observer Rus-garding
the signal. sell Aungst — was ready
Motorists complied "very and waiting for the test; the
well" with the Civil Defense post on the Community
instructions to halt traffic, it Building roof is manned full
was reported by Township time as a matter of regular
Constable John H. Williams practice.
Project Tune-In
Conelrad was successful
here during Friday's Civil De-fense
test, local communica-tions
chief Donald B. Chubb
reported. Conelrad is the
special emergency radio
broadcast system for local
stations.
In Derry Township, Conel-rad's
first big test was mon-itored
in eleven scattered lo-cations.
Reports showed the
best reception at 640 on the
dial, although Chubb pointed
out that this finding should
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The fire company, headed
by Fire Chief Eugene Gray,
received its first alert signal
at 11:08 a. m. Friday. Putting
its Civil Defense emergency
plan swiftly into action, the
company dispersed its pieces
of equipment at strategic
spots in the area, keeping
radio contact with -its "land"
station at the fire house. At
the fire house headquarters,
the firemen also tuned to
emergency radio frequencies
in the simulated bomb target
areas of York and Lancaster.
The local firemen also par-ticipated
in the Friday eve-
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SEVEN OF ELEVEN Hershey area Boy Sccouts are shown at a planning session as
they prepared for a sixteen-day junket to America's historic Southwest. Getting set
for next Sunday'sdeparture for the national Explorer Scout meeting at Philmont
i Boy Scout Ranch n New Mexico are, left to right: Seated — Larry Hollinger
(Troop 76), Lloyd Nestler (65), Edwin Miller (65) and Donald Fenstermacher 76) ;
standing — James Gruber (65), Gary Eshleman (65) and Harry Kreiser (Troop 76),
adult advisor for the trip. Others in the Philmont delegation from the Hershey area
are Kenneth Hoover (Troop 69, Hummelstown), Howard Stauffer (76), William
Goodman (76) and Henry Greenawalt (65). Troops 76 and 65 are Hershey units.
The eleven-member local delegation will leave Harrisburg by rail on Sunday
morning and will return August 14. Philmont is the national camping area for Ex-plorers,
comprising 127,000 acres of rugged western country on the slopes of the
Sangre de Cristo range of the Rocky Mountains. Restricted to Explorer Scouts, a
Philmont expedition is a blue-ribbon event, a period of applied Scouting knowledge.
No. 30
P. A. STAPLES
Funeral Rites Held
Here For Hershey's
Chief Executive
Solemn tribute was being paid today to Mr. Percy A.
Staples, late President and Chairman of the Board of Her-shey
Chocolate Corporation and Chairman of the Board of
Managers of the Milton Hershey School. Mr. Staples died in
his sleep early Monday morning at his Hotel Hershey suite
as the result of a coronary occlusion.
Funeral services were held
at two o'clock this afternoon
in the Milton Hershey School
auditorium. Officiating was
the Rev. Mr. Kermit L. Lloyd,
vicar of All Saints Episcopal
Church.
Prior to the services, a
viewing was held in the foyer
of the school building. Burial
took place in Hershey Ceme-tery.
Mr. Staples, whose unex-pected
death was learned with
sadness in many places in in-dustry
and throughout this
community, was the son of
the late Charles and Maria
Hay Staples. He was born
March 31, 1883, in Portland,
Maine.
He was educated in the
public schools of Portland,
the Yonkers (New York)
High School, the Protestant
Episcopal Academy of Phila-delphia
and received his Bach-elor
of Science degree from
the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology.
He served with the U. S.
Coast and Geodetic Survey
from 1903 to 1905, and was
later associated with Stone
and Webster and with W. S.
Barstow and Company in the
management of public utili-
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