Hershey News 1955-08-25

              HERSHEY NEWS
Vol. 3 -4EL*-0 HERSHEY, PENNSYLVANIA, AUGUST 25, 1955
Erdman Salutes Work
Of Dutch Days Group
Huge Festival's Success Is Due To
• Job Done By Volunteer Committees
With the seventh annual
Pennsylvania Dutch Days
celebration off to a flying
start, General Chairman
Harry L. Erdman today
praised the members of his
committees for their efforts
toward making the observ-ance
"the best ever."
As record throngs jam-med
Hershey Park for the
four-day program, which
concludes with a mammoth
union religious service in
Hershey Stadium on Sun-day
afternoon, Erdman
pointed out that his volun-teer
workers "did the im-possible
in putting together
the best Pennsylvania
Dutch Days celebration in
the history of the event."
Serving with Mr. Erdman
on the executive committee
were: Carl S. Swarr, vice-chairman;
W. Royce Ward,
secretary; Raymond F.
Evans, Walter B. Kettering,
Rev. Pierce Swope, George W.
Bartels, Richard Light, How-ard
G. Shelly, Richard H. Mc-
Crone, James E. Bobb and
Lloyd S. Blinco.
In addition to those named
above, others on the general
committee include: Anna Ar-nold,
Ruth A. Erdman, Ada
M. Geesaman, Mary E. Han-shtie-,
1`Miles Long, Miriam M.
Long, Dora R. Miller, Laura
Muth, Harvey Reynolds, Ber-tha
Shelly, Elsie M. Stover,
Ethel Wagner, Anna Zeigler,
Rufus K. Eby, Alice E. Gru-ber,
Priscilla Hoffman, Rufus
Hollinger, Allen Huber, Al-verta
M. Long, Frank Long,
Theodore F. Miller, Ida A.
Reynolds, Howard J. Shellen-hamer,
Carrie Shellenhamer,
Norman Z. Stahle, Mary B.
Stahle, Richard Hugendub-ler,
Helen M. Ward and Ruth
B. Whitmore.
Other committees include:
Program — Raymond F.
Evans, chairman; Richard H.
McCrone, Allen Huber, Rufus
Hollinger and W. R oyce
Ward.
Exhibits—Howard G. Shel-ly
and Richard Light, co-chairmen;
Allen Huber, How-ard
Shellenhamer, Norman
Stahle, Lloyd S. Blinco, Rich-ard
Hugendubler and Frank
Long.
Advertisements — Walter
B. Kettering, chairman ;
Harry L. Erdman and Rich-ard
Light.
Publicity—Richard H. Mc-
Crone, chairman; Harry L.
Erdman, Carl S. Swarr; Ray-mond
F. Evans and Rev.
Pierce Swope.
Radio and television—Rich-ard
H. McCrone, chairman;
Richard Light, Harry L.
Erdman and Rufus Hollinger,
Dairy cattle show—James
E. Bobb, chairman; George
A. Hiler, Glen Miller, A. S.
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DUTCH DAYS SOUVENIR plate is held by Harry L.
Erdman, general chairman of the big four-day celebra-
- tion in Hershey Park. Designed as a permanent keepsake
of the occasion, the plate bears the pictures of these
traditional nearby historic spots: Old Derry Church,
the Sand Beach covered bridge, the birthplace of Mil-ton
S. Hershey, the old Cornwall Furnace and the Old
Union Canal tunnel at Lebanon.
The Pennsylvania Dutch Days events began to-day
(Thursday) and will continue through Sunday.
Marking the Sunday observance will be an interdenomi-national
religious service in the Stadium.
"Dutch" arts and crafts exhibits wil be open dur-ing
the four days.
No. 34
GL aiDitk,
NO SPREADING CHESTNUT TREE shades these three Hershey smithies as they ham-mer
out their. day's work between anvil and forge. And no horses come by for fitting
out with new iron shoes at their shop. But they continue to ply their oldtime trade of
skilled metalsmith, much as in the horse and buggy days—only this blacksmithing trio
makes up an important part of the modern machine shop of the Hershey Chocolate
Corporation.
Hershey's "village smithies" are—left to right—George "Shorty" Shepler, George
Muntz and Harvey S. Walmer, shown here in the plant's blacksmith shop which is lo-cated
in the chocolate factory's big, busy machine shop at the east end of the factory
building. Actually rnachinst-blacksmiths, the three men are oalled on to do the various "raw
iron" jobs necessary in the big manufacturing plant. Their field also includes the tem-pering
and dressing of cutting and facing tools used in the mill work of the factory.
Handling the tool dressing work is head blacksmith Harvey Walmer. He has been
taking care of this precision job for the past eighteen years.
Walmer is a veteran of
thirty-three years as a black-smith
for the Chocolate Corp-oration,
beginning his work-ing
career here at the age of
twenty-one. He learned the
trade in the plant shop.
Plan For Annual
Birthday Tribute
To M. S. Hershey
A fitting observance of the
anniversary of the birth of
M. S. Hershey was being plan-ned
for Tuesday, September
13, it was announced this week
by the M. S. Hershey Day
Committee of the Hershey Ro-tary
Club.
This year's observance —
the sixth annual — is to be
held in the Hershey Commu-nity
Theatre. Additional de-tails
of the programming are
to be announced in this publi-cation
in succeeding issues, as
plans are tailored and con-firmed.
The Rotary committee in-cludes
Arthur R. Whiteman,
John B. Sollenberger, D. Paul
Witmer and Theodore Banks.
Now residing at 30 North
Railroad Street in Palmyra,
Walmer was born and reared
on a farm in Lebanon Coun-ty's
-South Londonderry
Township. Like so many farm
boys he developed a liking
for mechanical work from the
varied maintenance and con-struction
jobs that go with
farming. His two • sons, Al-bert
and Robert, are Hershey
employees and both followed
their father into metal work
—Albert is a machinist and
Robert a tinsmith.
At every opportunity, when
out of the shop, Walmer and
his wife head for their moun-tain
cottage in Sullivan Coun-ty
where they maintain a
couple of gardens.
Nearing Fifty Years
Shorty Shepler has been
blacksmithing for forty-eight
years, starting at his father's
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