Hershey News 1954-05-27

              Charles A. Lewis
Recently Ordained
Episcopal Deacon
To Speak Sunday•
..,Charles A. Lewis, who has
been named to succeed Rev.
John H. Treder, late vicar of
the Episcopal Missions of All
Saints (H ershe y) and St.
Michael and All Angels (Mid-dletown),
will deliver his first
sermon here on Sunday, it was
announced this week.
Mr. Lewis will take part in
services in the Little Theatre
at 11:15 a.m. Sunday, when a
visiting Episcopal clergyman
will celebrate Holy Com-munion.
Having taken his can-onicals
at Lancaster recently,
Mr. Lewis begins a period of
service as a deacon in the
Episcopal Missions and it is
anticipated that he will be
ordained to the priesthood
later this year.
Meanwhile, All Saints Mis-sion
was preparing for his
official-welcome to Hershey,
with plans going forward for
a reception to be held in the
Community Building social
room on June 6. It is expected
that more than 200 persons
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Go Into Navy On
Armed Forces Day
Sworn into the U.S. Navy
at a special sceremony on the
State Capitol steps on Armed
Forces Day—May 15—were
David F. Swartz, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Mark J. Swartz, 314
East Derry Road, and Galen
M. Kemble, husband of Jean
L. Kemble, 239 'West Chestnut
Street, Palmyra.
Both are former students
at Hershey High School.
They were sworn into the
Navy along with 35 other Cen-tral
Pennsylvanians who were
entering the Army, Navy and
Air Force. After the ceremon-ies,
Swartz and Kemble were
assigned to the U.S. Naval
training Center at Bain-bridge,
Md., for eleven weeks
of intensive recruit training.
HERSHEY NEWS
Vol. 2 HERSHEY, PENNSYLVANIA, MAY 27, 1954 No. 21
Derry Township To Honor U. S. War Dead
Parade Route
The three - division Me-morial
Day parade will
form at 9:15 a. m. Monday
on the School Plaza and
will move at 9:30, headed
by Parade Marshal Major
Thomas F. Martin. The
route:
Moving north on Ceylon
Ave. to Chocolate Ave., the
parade will go west on
Chocolate Ave. to Mill
Street in Swatara Station
(in order to pass the Court
of Honor) ; counter-march
on Chocolate Ave. to Cey-lon
Ave.; and south on
Ceylon Ave. to the School
Plaza and disband.
Residents were reminded
that the Flag should be
flown for the occasion.
Rotary Tours
New School
The Hershey Rotary Club,
headed by President Walter
Kettering, toured the new
Derry Township elementary-kindergarten
school following
the Rotary session Monday.
Explaining the modern
scllool plant were D. Paul
Witmer, who is in charge Of
construction, and School
Board Secretary Marlin E.
Balsbaugh.
The Rotarians were con-ducted
through the 25-class-room
structure which is to be
Put into use this Fall.
Memorial Program
The Memorial Day service at the Derry Township Court
of Honor in front of the Community Building will begin at
10:30 a. m., with VFW Post Commander Clarence Jefferies
presiding.
A musical prelude—Concert- Medley—will be presented
American Legion Post, directed by Ellis Greene.
The audience will be led in the singing of the Star
Spangled Banner by Virgil L. Alexander, director of vocal
music at the Milton Hershey School, and the invocation is to
be given by Rev. J. Herbert Miller, pastor of the Spring Creek
Church of the Brethren.
Vocal selections by the Milton Hershey Junior High
Choir will include "No Man Is An Island" and "America—
Our Heritage," followed by Scripture reading by Rev. Wil-liam
Sheldon Blair, pastor of Derry Presbyterian Church.
The Memorial Day speaker, Brig. Gen. Henry K. Fluck,
will be introduced by Col. Herbert A. V6rnet, chief of staff
of the 28th Infantry Division.
Following Gen. Pluck's address, Rev. Thomas W. Guini-van
of the First Evangelical United Brethren Church will
offer the benediction and Taps will be played by Roger Burt-ner,
a 1954 Hershey High School graduate.
- The parade forination.was announced as follows:
FIRST DIVISION
Forms on Ceylon facing Chocolate; frontirg on Caracas.
Major Thomas F. Martin, parade marshal, and Mounted
Detachment, Pennsylvania State Police; Brigadier General
Henry K. Fluck, acting commanding general, 28th Infantry
Division; Gold Star Mothers; War Mothers; Chocolatiers
Drum and Bugle Corps, Post 386, American Legion; Memorial
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Observance Arranged At Court Of Honor
Following Three-Division Procession;
28th Division Commander To Speak
A three-division parade, and solemn ceremonies at the
Court of Honor in front of the Community Building, will be
Derry -Township's salute to America's war dead on Monday
as the community observes Memorial Day. The parade will
start at 9:30 Monday morning.
Guest speaker at the Court of Honor for the memorial
service following the- parade will be Brig. Gen. Henry K.
Fluck, acting commanding general of the 28th Infantry
Division. It was announced that, in the event of inclement
weather on Monday, :the memorial ceremony will be held in
the Little Theatre of the Community Building at 1N30 a.m.
Residents and business firms were urged to fly their
flags for the occasion. As part of the Memorial Day observ-ance,
the Derry Township Schools announced there would be
no classes on Monday.
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Brig. Gen. H. K. Fluck
Memorial Day
by the Chocolatiers Drum and Bugle Corps of the Hershey Speaker Here
Brigadier General Henry K.
Fluck, who will be the Me-morial
Day speaker at Derry
Township's Court of Honor on
Monday, rose from private in
CO. C of the 110th Infantry
Regiment to his present posi-tion
of acting commanding
general of the 28th Infantry
Division at the Indiantown
Gap Military Reservation.
A native of Somerset and a
civil engineer, Gen. Fluck
started his military career in
1928 as a private. He served
through various grades and
commissioned ranks until
World War Two, when he was
drafted into federal service as
a second lieutenant on Feb-,
ruary 17, 1941, and later pro--
moted to captain of Co. C,
110th Infantry, his original
His rise from second lieu-tenant
to brigadier general
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Airman Back From Germany Finds "No Place Like Home"
One of the things a hitch
in the service did for Airman
First Class Donald 0. Bow-man
was to give him a chance
to compare his home town
with the many other places
he 'has seen in the United
States and in Europe. And—
"There's no p 1 a c e• like
home," Bowman said, perhaps
unoriginally but with studied
conviction.
The 22-year-old airman, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Theodore K.
Bowman of 112 East Caracas
Avenue, is spending a 30-day
furlough at home between Air
Force assignments. He has
just returned from Germany.
A native son of Hershey,
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SERVICEMAN ON LEAVE, Airman First Class Donald 0. Bowman of 112 East Cara-cas
Avenue, shows his old time-card to Paul R. Lerch, maintenance mechanic in the Choco-late
Corporation's Tin Can Department, when the 22-year-old Bowman dropped in for a visit
to the department where he worked before entering the service. With Bowman and Lerch
are/ Syrup Department Supervisor Charles Black (left) and Tin Can Department Super-visor
Joseph G. Heichel (at right).
The airman's visit to his ola department during his leave follows the usual custom for
former Chocolate Corporation and Estates tmployees who are now in the armed forces.
A check with the personnel office shows that, since the beginning of the Korean War
in 1950, a total of 370 men and ten women have gone into the armed forces from the
Chocolate Corporation and Estates — 252 men and seven women from the corporation and
118 men and three women from the Estates branches. One hundred and forty-one of these
have returned to their jobs after separation from the service, with nearly all the remainder
3547 REQUESTED IF UNDELIVERABLE still serving their "hitches."