Hershey News 1958-02-06

              HERSHEY NEWS
Vol. 6 HERSHEY, PENNSYLVANIA, FEBRUARY 6, 1958 No. 6
ROOM WITH A VIEW is being prepared for occupancy
at Hershey Hospital by Mrs. Laura Kroeck, R.N., as
Hospital Administrator Welch England announced
: that four additional beds for medical and surgical pa-tients
were added to the existing hospital facilities. The
beds, located on the East Wing of the first floor, were
• occupied on 'Monday.
• The new rooms are furnished with Simmons hos-pital
furniture in a "Silver Mist" color which harmon-izes
with the pleasing decor carried out in walls, ceiling
and floor.
With the addition of the four beds, there are
thirty-one adult medical and surgical beds available for
• patients at the Hershey Hospital.
Community
Now Under
Inn Management
Contract Setup
Mr. J. B. Sollenberger, pres-ident
of Hershey Estates, has
announced that the Commun-ity
Inn has become associated
with the American Hotels
Corporation for the manage-ment
of the Inn, under a man-agement
contract. The associ-ation
was effective Febru-ary
1.
There is no change in the
ownership, Mr. Sollenberger
said, and the Inn continues to
Special Services Set
For Fishburn Church
The Fishburn E. U. B.
Church will hold its re-open-ing
and Evangelistic Services
the week of February 9. The
week-long services will begin
on Sunday evening with the
Milton Hershey Glee Club pre-senting
their religious pro-gram.
Former pastors and visit-ing
ministers will bring the
messages during the week.
ELECTED PRESIDENT
W. Allen Hammond, principal of
Milton Hershey School, was elected
president of the Headmasters' Club
of the Philadelphia Area last Sat-urday,
January 25. The group.
which held its meeting in the Adel-phia
Hotel, represents the board-ing
schools in this area.
be an important part of the
enterprises owned and oper-ated
by Hershey Estates
Which serves as the operating
company of the many com-munity
enterprises started by
the late Milton S. Hershey.
The' Inn will continue to
stress its policy of being a
community center and head-quarters
for guests attending
the many entertainment fea-tures
available in Hershey
throughout the year.
At the same time, it was
announced by Stuart E. Hock-enbury,
vice-president of the
American Hotels Corporation,
that Thomas W. Mason has
been appointed manager of
the Community Inn.
Mr. Mason is being pro-moted
from the Parsonian
Hotel, Parsons, Kansas, where
he has been manager since
September 1955. Prior to this
time he was manager of the
South Seas Plantation at Cap-tiva,
Florida, and Hopkins
Inn, New Preston, Connecti-cut.
Mr. Mason is a graduate of
the Pennsylvania State Uni-versity,
School of Hotel Ad-ministration,
Class of 1947.
Mr. Bernd Camper has been
appointed manager of the
Hershey Country Club and
the Community Cafeteria,
both of which are owned by
the Hershey Estates.
AIRMAN Third Class Sil-vio
Zaccagnini, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Silvio Zaccagnini
of 948 East Chocolate Ave-nue,
recently completed his
basic training at Lackland
Air Force Base in Texas.
The airman was home on
a fifteen-day furlough and
has now been assigned to
Cheyenne, Wyoming, to. a
technical school where he
will study communications
and radar.
NAVY ENSIGN John D. Bentley
has his Naval Aviator's "Wings
of Gold" pinned on by Com-mander
William P. Tanner, Jr.,
at the Naval Air Station at Hutch-ison,
Kansas. Bentley, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Charles S. Bentley
of Hershey, entered the service
in June, 1956. He is a graduate
of the University of Missouri.
RETIRED POSTMASTER Daniel S. Graeff (left)
"talks shop" with his successor, Acting Postmaster
Russell Zentmeyer. Graeff retired Jan. 31 after servink
since 1946.
D. S. Graeff Retires As Postmaster
Daniel S. Graeff, Hershey
postmaster since September
Thomas H. Black, closed his
desk for the last time last Fri-day
and entered retirement.
Named acting postmaster
was Russell Zentmeyer, for-mer
operator of a taxicab
service here and a former au-tomobile
salesman. Zentmeyer
is well known as a former dep-uty
district governor of Lions
International and as a past
president of the Hershey
Lions' Club.
Retired Postmaster Graeff,
who resides at 206 East Gran-ada
Avenue, has made his
home in Hershey since 1909
and is a former credit man-ager
at the Hershey. Chocolate
Corporation. Some years ago
he resigned there to accept a
similar position. with Eline's,
Inc., in Milwaukee, Wis., leav-ing
that firm when it discon-tinued
business. Prior to join.-
ing the postal service, Graeff
silived as an aCcountant and
auditor with the federal gov-ernment.
He is married to the former
Minna B. Harm of Columbia,
Pa., and is the father of a
son, William IL- Graeff of
Abington. His daughter-in-law
is the former Marie Mays
of Hershey. There are three
grandchildren.
Mr. Graeff is a member of
Hershey's Trinity Lutheran
Church.
For recreation, he bowls
each week in the Community-
Club Bowling League, and he
is looking forward to the fish-ing
season.
During his administration
at the post office a number of
extensions were added to the
delivery system of the town.
Among them was the recent
addition of the Swatara Sta-tion
area, occasioned by the
discontinuance of the post of-fice
there.
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