Hershey News 1955-08-18

              Hershey To Be
"Dutch" Town
Next Weekend
Upwards of 200,000 persons
are expected to "shussel off"
to Hershey Park on August
25, 26, 27, and 28 to join the
Pennsylvania Dutch and their
enthusiastic adherents in the
seventh annual celebration of
Pennsylvania Dutch Days.
Conceived by members of
the Pennsylvania Dutch Dia-lect
Class of the Hershey Eve-ning
School during the 1948-
49 term, the observance had
its origin on August 27, 1949,
as a one-day get-together of
class members and friends.
A crowd of 25,000 per-sons
attended, surpassing
even the fondest dreams of
its sponsors. As a result of
the interest shown, the cele-bration
was expanded to
three days in 1950 and has
since grown by leaps and
bounds.
Harry L. Erdman, general
chairman, estimated that 150,-
000 persons attended last
year's events. This year, with
an extra day added to the
crowded schedule, a new at-tendance
record is expected.
Visitors seeking a taste of
Pennsylvania Dutch food will
find many tasty dishes on
sale at Derry Presbyterian
Church and the Park Golf
Club. The golf club dining
room will be operated by the
ladies of Spring Creek Church
of the Brethren. Snitz and
knepp, ham and beans, chick-en
pot pie, shoo-fly pie, and
the traditional seven sweets
and sours will be available to
gourmands on Thursday, Fri-day,
and Saturday.
Craftsmen will display
many of the "lost arts" in a
special exhibit section in the
huge sports arena. Such han-dicrafts
as ceramics, weaving,
candle dipping, glass-blowing,
and quilt making will be dem-onstrated
in working displays.
Also, there will be a display of
300 quilts, believed to be the
largest exhibit of its kind in
the world.
The dairy cattle show, in-troduced
two years ago, will
again be a feature. Breeders
from Lancaster, York, Schuyl-kill,
Dauphin, Lebanon, Perry,
Cumberland, and Berks Coun-ties
will vie for prize money
totaling $4,300. Another event
of interest will be the Market
Hog Show and Sale conducted
by Dauphin County 4-H and
F.F.A. groups. The mammoth
Hershey Stadium will be the
scene .of these events, as well
as a farm implement show,
the latter a new feature this
year.
Plenty of Pennsylvania
Dutch entertainment has
been arranged. Dutch vaud-eville
on Thursday after-noon
will be followed by the
coronation of the State Lot-waerrick
(Apple Butter)
Queen. A Pennsylvania
Dutch Fendue (Sale), with
the auctioneer carrying on
in the Pennsylvania Dutch
dialect, will feature the Fri-day
afternoon program.
Square dancing in the park
ballroom will conclude the
Friday program.
The Pennsylvania Poultry
Association will again partici-pate
by presenting special ex-hibits
in a tent city on the
park athlete field. The poultry
festival will be climaxed by a
state-wide chicken barbecue
for 10,000 persons and the
crowning of the State poultry
queen on Saturday.
In extending the program
to four days to include Sunday
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HERSHEY NEWS
Vol. 3 HERSHEY, PENNSYLVANIA, AUGUST 18, 1955 No. 33
CHEMICAL WARFARE operation for pest control is
the important work of men like John Shuey, Leroy
Shertzer and William Pendleton (left to right in photo),
shown as they use a spray in one of the many area build-ings.
They're Sanitation Department men of the Choco-late
Corporation's Laboratory.
Vital Job: Sanitation
The common house fly, once
a menace to all concerned, is
slowly becoming a thing of the
past in Hershey and vicinity
—at least the menace—thanks
to the vigorous all-around-town
efforts of the Sanitation
Department crew of the Her-shey
Chocolate Corporation.
Pest control, it would seem,
is one of those things taken
for granted, but it represents
a constant battle of wits,
chemicals, and professional
skill for the Sanitation men
under the overall direction of
Chief Chemist E. W. Meyers.
The house fly is a pesky
thing. As men who fought in
the Pacific islands can well
testify, the fly and other In-sects
presented a constant
problem. The wonder of DDT
was hailed in World War II
days as a sure-fire eliminator
of the fly. However, it wasn't
long until the fly had built up
an immunity to DDT, and they
were back in hordes. When it
was learned that DDT no
longer did the job on the com-mon
house fly, other chemi-cals
and techniques were
adopted by the Sanitation De-partment.
And so goes the
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To Register New Entrants For School
Registration dates for Der-ry
Township kindergarten and
elementary pupils not previ-ously
enrolled have been an-nounced
by Elementary School
Principal A. Sterling King.
The registration sessions
will take place next Monday
through Friday—August 22-
26—in the elementary princi-pal's
office. Hours each day
will be from nine to eleven-thirty
a.m. and one to three-thirty
p.m.
King pointed out that it is
urgent for all parents to reg-ister
their children for kin-dergarten
and First Grade
during this special period, "as
it will be impossible to regis-ter
anyone on the first day of
school because of the many
problems that normally arise
on that day."
New entrants in all elemen-tary
grades should be regis-tered
during the coming week,
ii they have not been enrolled
previously, King said. He
pointed out, however, that if
a child attended kindergarten
in Hershey, he need not reg-ister
to enter First Grade.
The school announcement
was intended specifically for
all previously un-enrolled ele-mentary
grade pupils and kin-dergarten
children who will
be attending the Derry Town-ship
schools this year for the
first-time.
Pennsylvania Dutch Days
Highlights
THURSDAY
10 a.m. Judging, Dauphin County 4-H and FFA Market
Hog Show, field adjacent to Hershey Stadium.
11 Dairy Cattle Show (Stadium) ; Farm Implement
Show (Stadium) ; Pennsylvania Dutch Exhibits
(Sports Arena) ; Dauphin County 4-H Home Econ-omics
Exhibits (Sports Arena).
1 p.m. Sale of Market Hog Show stock.
2 Pennsylvania Dutch Revue (Park Bandshell).
5 Judging and Crowning of State Lotwaerrick (Ap-ple
Butter) Queen (Park Bandshell).
6 Judging, Dairy Cattle Show (Stadium Track).
7:30 Jack Hain Show (Park Bandshell).
FRIDAY
10 a.m. Judging, Dauphin and Lebanon County 4-H Club
Heifers (Stadium) ; Pennsylvania Poultry Exhibits
(Park Athletic Field).
11 Dairy Cattle Show (Stadium) ; Farm Implement
Show (Stadium) ; Penna. Dutch Exhibits (Sports
Arena) ; Dauphin County 4-H Home Economics Ex-hibits
(Sports Arena).
2 p.m. Barbershop Quartet (Park Bandshell).
2:30 Penna. Dutch Fendue (Sale) (Park Bandshell).
7:30 Square Dance Jamboree (Park Ballroom).
SATURDAY
9 a.m. Johnny Schmoker Band, playing through park
grounds all day.
10 Pennsylvania Poultry Exhibits (Park Athletic
Field) ; Dairy Cattle Show (Stadium) ; Farm Im-plement
Show (Stadium) ; Penna. Dutch Exhibits
(Sports Arena) ; Dauphin County 4-H Home Econ-omics
Exhibits (Sports Arena).
11 State-wide Chicken Barbecue (Park Athletic Field).
2 p.m. Chicken Cooking Contest (Park Athletic Field) ;
Concert by The Textileaires (Park Bandshell).
6 Drill by West Reading Cadet Drum and Bugle Corps
(Stadium).
6:30 Address by Gov. George M. Leader (Stadium).
7:30 Pennsylvania Poultry Queen Contest (Stadium).
8 Parade of Prize Dairy Cattle (Stadium) ; Cook's
German Band (Park Bandshell) ; The Schu Platters
(Bandshell).
SUNDAY
10 a.m. Pennsylvania Poultry Exhibits (Park Athletic
Field).
Noon Dairy Cattle Show (Stadium) ; Farm Implement
Show (Stadium) ; Penna. Dutch Exhibits (Sports
Arena); Dauphin County 4-H Home Economics Ex-hibits
(Sports Arena).
2 p.m. Union Religious Service (Stadium) (in event of
rain, Park Theater), Rev. Dr. Harry F. Baughman,
president, Lutheran Theological Seminary, speaker.
4 Herman Miller Singers (Park Bandshell) (also at
7 p.m.)
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