Hershey News 1955-09-29

              HERSHEY NEWS
Vol. 3 HERSHEY, PENNSYLVANIA, SEPT. 29, 1955 No. 39
Corporation Employees Praised
SALUTE TO SAFETY record of the Hershey Chocolate
Corporation brought this group together with P. A.
Staples (seated), chairman of the Board and Chocolate
Corporation president. Mr. Staples holds the engraved
plaque presented by the Pensylvania Manufacturers'
Association in recognition of the employees' outstanding
industrial safety achievement.
Others in the group are (left to right) Samuel F.
Hinkle, plant manager; G. Mason Owlett, president of
For Safety Record
the Pennsylvania Manufacturers' Association; J. R. Zoll,
Hershey director of personnel; Paul Sherwin, assistant
manager of safety inspection and engineering, PMA
Casualty Insurance Company; Ben R. Johnson, manager,
safety inspection and engineering, PMA Casualty Insur-ance
Company; A. Bowman Snavely, chief engineer, Her-shey
Chocolate Corporation; and John B. Sollenberger,
president of Hershey Estates.
Fund Campaign Begins Here On Monday
The in-plant phase of the
combined fund drive being
sparkplugged here by the
Derry Twp. Welfare Board
will be set in motion next
week—beginning on Monday,
it was announced by the pro-ject
planners. The local plan is
being conducted in collabora-tion
with the Tr -County Uni-ted
Fund campaign of Har-risburg.
As this week began, a num-ber
of local industries, busi-nesses
and other organiza-tions
had joined the local in-plant,
payroll deduction cam-paign
for funds to be used by
various charitable agencies.
As the Hershey News went to
press, these included the Her-shey
Chocolate Corporation,
Hershey Estates, Milton Her-shey
School, M.L. Haldeman
and Son, Miller Brothers, H.
B. Reese Candy Company,
King Kup Candies, Inc.,
Acme Food Market, and the
Derry Township public
schools.
The funds contributed
through this combined plan
will go for the operation of
the Derry Township Welfare
Fund and the various Tr -
County United Fund partici-pating
agencies, which in-clude:
American Red Cross,
Boy. Scouts, Catholic Youth
Organization, Child Guidance
Center, Child Welfare As-sociation,
Children's Home,
Family and Children's Ser-vice,
Girl Scouts, Harrisburg
Hospital, Polyclinic Hospital,
Pennsylvania Association for
the Blind, Pennsylvania As-sociation
for Retarded Child-ren,
Salvation Army, Sylvan
Heights Home, Tr -County
Crippled Children's Associa-tion,
United Cerebral Palsy,
Visiting Nurse s, YMCA,
YWCA.
The combined effort of the
local campaign was estab-lished
for the convenience of
the contributors through the
payroll deduction system in
the various cooperating firms.
The plan was worked out by
the Derry Township Welfare
Board as a solution to the
problem of many varied cam-paigns
for funds to support
charitable agencies.
Chief difference between
this effort and the Tri-Coun-ty
United Fund campaign is
that the local contributions
will be administered locally, to
a large degree, allocating an
adequate share of the receipts
for immediate •and "tide-over"
welfare needs in Derry
Township before passing on
the larger portion of the con-tributions
in a cooperative
move with the Tr -County
United Fund drive.
The in-plant campaign here
will be followed by a commu-nity-
wide solicitation of per-sons
who are not reached in
next week's effort among the
employes of businesses and
industry. The community can-vass
is set for the week of
October 17.
Contributors via the in-plant
campaign will be given
symbols of their participation
for their homes, to avoid du-plication
in requests for con-tributions.
Heading t h e Tr -County
United Fund drive in Lower
Dauphin County is William
E.C. Dearden, Jr., of the Mil-ton
Hershey School staff.
Chairman of t h e Derry
Township campaign is H. A.
Vernet, Jr., with Melvin H.
Garner as assistant.
"It must be a great com-fort
to a family to know that
its breadwinner, and perhaps
other members, are going to
work in a safe place when
they leave for their daily job,"
G. Mason Owlett, president of
the Pennsylvania Manufactur-ers'
Association, said in refer-ence
to the Hershey Chocolate
Corporation last week.
Owlett's remarks came at
a gathering of safety commit-tee
people at the conclusion
of the presentation of the
PMA's highest industrial
safety award to the Hershey
organization. Owlett present-ed
the PMA safety plaque to
P. A. Staples, chairman of the
Board and president of the
Hershey Chocolate Corpora-tion.
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In accepting the award in
behalf of the employees, safe-ty
committee and advisory
safety committee people and
corporation officials, Mr.
Staples pointed out that the
safety record "could only be
attained through the complete
cooperation of all the em-ployees
and officials." He ex-tended
his congratulations to
the groups responsible for ef-fecting
the safety program
and to the entire personnel of
the corporation.
At the time of the presenta-tion
last Tuesday, only seven
of the top Pennsylvania Manu-facturers'
Association safety
awards had been presented
this year. The PMA has some
9,400 member firms among
the state's manufacturing in-dustries.
Addressing the saf et y
group, Hershey Plant Man-ager
S. F. Hinkle also said
the achievement reflects much
credit upon the entire person-nel,
and pointed out that
"Hershey has been winning
recognition for good safety
practices for some time."
Prevention Provable
Industry and business in the
Keystone State have proved
that accidents on the job can
be prevented, PMA President
Owlett said. He cited Penn-sylvania
Department of Labor
and Industry records which
show the number of fatal ac-cidents
in manufacturing has
been reduced almost 62 per
cent and non-fatal accidents
more than 50 per cent during
the 12-year period ended in
1954.
The manufacturers' spokes-man
presented Hershey em-ployees
with a stainless steel
and walnut plaque for having
worked a record 1,522,043
man hours without an acci-
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Vehicle Parking Gets Close
An enforcement drive
against parking violations in
Derry Township is being con-ducted
by the Pennsylvania
State Police, resulting in a
number of recent arrests.
The enforcement phase fol-lows
a preliminary program
aimed at reducing the number
of violations via public infor-mation.
The State Police con-tacted
school, church, indus-trial
and business interests to
point out the parking ills, and,
in response to a State Police
request, an editorial titled
"Operation Park-Right" ap-peared
in the September 1
issue of the Hershey News.
The campaign of enforce-
Scrutiny
ment is concentrated on the
regulations covering parking
too near an intersection; park-ing
on marked crosswalks;
parking more than six inches
from the curb line; parking
against the normal flow of
traffic (wrong sidt of street) ;
parking too close to stop
signs; and parking in such a
manner as to block private
driveways.
Careful attention should be
given by all motorists to the
correctness of their vehicles'
positions before leaving them.
A properly parked car can
avoid for its operator the un-pleasantness
and inconven-ience
of arrest.
Another point which may
be well taken here is one of
the driving changes brought
about by the installation of
traffic signals at the inter-section
of Chocolate and
Cocoa Avenues.
Under the State Vehicle
Code, a U-turn is prohibited at
an intersection controlled by
traffic lights, whether signs
to this effect have been
erected or not. This means the
U-turn between the "islands"
is now eliminated.
However, the U-turn is still
permissible at the eastern end
(c.„twes NI rap Twin
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