Hershey News 1956-10-11

              HERSHEY NEWS
Vol. 4 '401'1) HERSHEY, PENNSYLVANIA, OCTOBER II, 1956 No. 41
Propose Ordinance
To Regulate Open
'Fires In Township
An ordinance "regulating
and restricting fires upon the
public streets, alleys and
highways and in built-up
areas in Derry Township". has
been prepared for passage at
the October 22 meeting of the
Board of Supervisors of
Derry Township.
The proposed ordinance is
designed for the purpose of
promoting public safety and
welfare and was prepared
with the cooperation of the
Hershey Volunteer. Fire Com-pany.
Chief sections of the
ordinance state:
• ". . . No fire of any kind
shall be lighted or permitted
to burn upon any street, alley
or highway in the Township,
unless, in cases of emergency
or unusual circumstances
permission in writing of the
Township Constable or Town-ship
Supervisor shall first be
secured, and then only under
such reasonable conditions,
limitations and safeguards
for the protection of persons
and property as shall be sped-fteo
by sucik--Gonsta61,6 or
Supervisor.
"No unattended open fire
shall be lighted or be permit-ted
to burn out of doors with-in
any built-up area in the
Township after sundown and
before sunup unless, in CMG.%
of emergency or unusual cir-cumstances,
permission in
writing of the Township Con-stafele
or of a Township Su-pervisor
shall first be secur-ed,
and then only under such
reasonable conditions, limita-tions
and safeguards for the
protection of persons and
property as shall be specified
by such Constable or Super-visor
. . ."
The ordinance also provides
that a fine not exceeding
three hundred dollars and
costs of prosecution be levied
against persons found guilty
of violating the ordinance.
For default of the payment
of the fine or penalty impos-ed,
and the costs, the ordi-nance
provides a jail sen-tence
not exceeding thirty
days.
A TIME TO
Remember
October 13 is a date that
should call for a pause for
reflection.
It carries a great signi-ficance
here.
On October 13, 1945,
Milton S. Hershey, founder
of the town and its indus-try,
passed away.
It has been said of him:
"His deeds are his monu-ment;
his life is our in-spiration."
It is a time to remember.
Felton Ebersole
Elected President
Of fire Company
Felton W. Ebersole of 402
East Derry Road was elected
president of the Hershey
Volunteer Fire Company at
the organization's annual
election session last week.
Ebersole will succeed James
Rice.
Also elected as fire com-pany
officers for the coming
year were William Garrison,
vice-president; Robert K.
Raffensperger, recording sec-retary;
John W. Steen, treas=
urer; Lewis B. Moyer, trus-tee
for three years; Rev.
William Sheldon Blair, chap-lain.
George E. Trump, fire chief;
Paul Hetrick,
Sr.,
first assist-ant
chief; Ervin M. Meashey,
second assistant chief.
Elected as members of the
house committee were Joseph
Moratti, Elmer H. Reidel and
Peter Perin.
The company will stage a
demonstration of equip-ment
uses and fire-fight-ing
techniques at a Fire-men
in Action Drill on the
Hershey Chocolate Cor-poration
parking lot at the
rear of the Post Office this
coming Sunday at two p.
in. The demonstration is
planned to help inform the
people of the community
on the readiness of the fire
company to serve in cases
of fire or other disaster.
At the election meeting' it
was reported that the fire
company's membership drive
was proceeding successfully,
with a complete report to
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Shape Plans For Halloween
Committees are reported shaping up plans for the com-munity
Halloween parade sponsored by the Derry Town-ship
Parent-Teacher Association. The event will be held
Wednesday evening, October 31.
General chairman is Terence G. Faul who heads the
PTA Special Activities Committee.
The Planning Committee for the Halloween observance
is chairmanned by Foul and includes Brent I. Hancock, El-
:wood Meyers, Harold S. Mohler and Hiram A. Groff.
Others handling detailed arrangements are William E.
Dearden, prizes; Alfred T. Gibble, judging; Miss Edna
Stambaugh, teener dance; Mrs. Ralph H. Horst and Mrs.
Ralph H. Gish, bake sale; Isaiah D. 4omboy, property; Mrs.
W. H. Foley, refreshments.
Further details of the traditional community celebra-tion
will be announced during the coming weeks.
Teams Preparing
For Fund Canvass
in Community
District captains were busy
this week lining up volunteer
workers for the community
door-to-door solicitation of
contributions for the Derry
Township Welfare Fund cam-paign
being held in collabor-ation
with the Tr -County
United Fund drive.
The canvass of local resi-dents
is scheduled for the
week beginning Monday, Oc-tober
22.
The door-to-door campaign
will be conducted in order to
reach donors who have not
already participated in the
at-work phase of the unified
fund raising drive in the var-ious
local businesses, indus-tries,
and institutions. The at-work
appeal, offering a pay-roll
deduction plan for local
employees, was held the first
week in October.
At-work contributors were
given window stickers sym-bolizing
the United Fund or
Community Chest, and homes
displaying these stickers will
not be visited in the commun-ity
canvass starting Oct. 22.
This is the second year
here for the unified appeal
for funds to support numer-ous-
eharitable, 'welfare, and
recreational organizations.
Religious Pageant
To Be Given Here
The public is invited to at-tend
the religious pageant,
"Nets in the Deep," to be pre-sented
at Hershey Spor t s
Arena Sunday afternoon, Oc-tober
14, as a feature of the
twentieth biennial convention
of the Uni ted Lutheran
Church in America.
The pageant will commem-orate
the 30th anniversary of
the Board of American Mis-sions
of the United Lutheran
Church.
The program will get, under
way at 3:15 with a concert by
the Allentown Band, to be
followed at four p.m. by the
presentation of the pageant.
An offering will be lifted at
five o'clock and the program
will conclude with another
concert by t h e Allentown
Band.
Fire Company Holding
Open House This Week
The public is invited to at-tend
the open house at the
Hershey Volunteer Fire Com-pany
during the remainder of
this week, when the organiza-tion's
facilities and equip-ment
will be on display. Open
house hours are six to nine
p.m. until Saturday, and from
ten a.m. to seven p.m. on Sat-urday.
The company's new
Oren pumper will not be dis-played
on Saturday due to
amother assignment.
Dan Yost
• Daniel B. Yost, veteran Hershey employee, is a man
with power to spare. But with the help of the dials and
controls visible in the photo, he puts his voltage to good use.
Yost is in charge of the Power House at the Hersher
Lumber Products, where, in addition to supplying electrical'
power for the plant itself, the unit also serves as a distribu-tion
station for much of the electricity generated at the
Hershey Chocolate Corporation Power House for use around
Hershey.
Yost, a Carlisle native, first came to Hershey in 1913
to work in the chocolate factory, then the Chocolate Cor-poration
Power House. Later, he worked for several years
at the railroad roundhouse at Rutherford, returning to Her-shey
in 1929 as a member of the electrical gang working
on the construction of the Community Building.
After the building was opened, Yost—on August 26,
1933—transferred to the Lumber Products Power House as
an operator. He's been there ever since.
After working hours, he likes to do things with his
garden at his home at 65 Trinidad Avenue. That has been
his address since right after his marriage in 1913. Mrs.
Yost is the former Catherine Weaver who was born at Sand
Beach and reared in Hershey. Her father, Chris Weaver,
was a well known Sand Beach miller and later, as a stone
mason, helped lay the stonework for the Hershey chocolate
factory.
The Yosts are the parents of a daughter, Jean, wife
of Kenneth Kopenhaver of Hershey. Their grandchildren
are Dale and Robin Kopenhaver.
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