Hershey News 1953-12-17

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Vol. 1 4.rarl.).° HERSHEY, PENNSYLVANIA, DECEMBER 17, 1953 No. 12
Stage Is Set
For Kiddies'
Yule Party
Plenty of Christmas spirit
is expected to be produced at
the Hershey Sports Arena
next Tuesday when more than
8,100 area school children
gather for a gala Christmas
party.
All twelve local and sur-rounding
school districts have
accepted the invitations to
the party for their pupils and
faculty members to beiguests
at the party sponsored by the
Hershey Estates and Choco-late
Corporation. Invitations
were sent earlier by P. A.
Staples, corporation president
and chairman of the Board of
Managers.
The party starts at 1:10 p.
m. Tuesday, but the young
party-goers are expected to
begin arriving about 12:30.
A two-hour vaudeville show
has been planned for the
afternoon of fun, designed
especialiy for the young folks.
A starring role in the event,
of course, will be filled by
Santa Claus himself.
Ladies Guests
At Foremen's
Club Party
Nehrly 100 persons attend-ed
the Hershey Foremen's
Club Ladies' Night party
Monday evening at the Her-shey
Country Club, where a
roast turkey dinner was
served in keeping with the
Christmas season.
Featured entertainment
was provided by Joe Horn-check,
well known Middle-town
magician. Boxes of
candy were presented to all
ladies attending the event.
During the evening, Club.
President George W. Bartels
announced plans for the Jan-uary
11 visit to the Arm-strong
Cork Company plant
at Lancaster. The plans in-clude
a steak dinner and a
tour of the famous manufac-turing
plant.
LOST ANYTHING?
Seven keys on a ring have
been found on thee sidewalk
across from the J. C. Hess
garage by Mrs. Anita Gilman,
who resides in a second-floor
apartment at 411 W. Choco-late
Avenue, Mrs. Gilman noti-fied
the Hershey News office. _
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Getting confidential with the old
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gent with the whiskers at
his local headquarters in the Hershey Department Store is popu-lar
with the younger set these days.
One of Santa's many admirers was little Phyllis DiDomenico,
shown as she talked things over while her mother, Mrs. Nick
DiDomenico of 41 West Granada Avenue, looked on.
School Board
Reelects
Morse Heisey
E. Morse Heisey was re-elected
as president of the
Derry Township School Board
at the board's annual reorgan-ization
meeting last week.
Elected to the post of board
vice-president was William H.
Black.
Three directors were in-stalled,
for six-year terms:
Board President Heisey, Sec-retary
Marlin E. Balsbaugh
and Ezra Grubb. Heisey and
Balsbaugh are serving their
second six-year trems on the
board of school directors and
Grubb is a new member.
Balsbaugh took office as
board secretary last July,
along with Treasurer Earl R.
Lollo.
Other school directors are
E. Carl Foreman and Clever
E. Ernst.
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Herbert H. Erdman, who
opened the Hershey Air Park
on August 1, 1945, is now
splitting the "blue yonder/' of
the Delaware skies as an engi-neering
test pilot for the RCA
military flight laboratories.
He is employed by Atlantic
Aviation Service, Inc.
He and his wife, Jane, re-side
at 7 Harvard Avenue,
Cooper Farms, Wilmington,
Del. In Hershey they made
their home at the Oakleigh
Apartments.
A World War Two veteran
with a year and a half over-seas,
Erdman flew with the
U.S. Air Force Transport Ser-vice
over the famed "Hump"
in the China - Burma - India
Theater of Operations. In a
year's period, he logged 188
missions and was awarded the
Distinguished Flying Cross by
the United States and from
the government of China he
received the Hero of Sky
Award.
Traffic Regulation
Goes Into Effect
Signs indicating restricted parking areas are being
erected in critical sections of Hershey and township authori-'
ties have announced that the provisions of the township
parking ordinance are to be enforced.
The ordinance regulating parking of vehicles in Derry
Township was enacted on October 12, 1953, .and is "An act
authorizing townships of the second class to regulate park,-
ing and provide parking accommodations so as to promote
the convenience and protection of the public . . ."
Placing of the street signs have signalled rigid enforce-ment
of the regulations, according to the announcement by
the supervsiors. ,
The traffic ordinance covers most parking regulations in
the township, but it was pointed out that other parking _
problems are also covered by the Pennsylvania Motor Ve-hicle
Code. A case in point, authorities said, is the problem
which arises from parking of vehicles in a narrow alley,
thereby hampering the flow of traffic and causing a po-tential
hazard in case of fire or other emergency. Such
parking is forbidden under Section 1019 of the Motor Ve-hicle
Code which states:
. . In no event shall any person park . . . any vehicle,
whether attended or unattended, upon any highway unless
a clear and unobstructed width of not less than fifteen
(15) feet upon the main traveled portion of said highway
. . . shall be left free for passage . . ."
As a public service, the Hershey News publishes this
week in full the township ordinance regulating parking:
An ordinance regulating and re-stricting
traffic, parking and the
operation of vehicles, bicycles,
buses and other moving objects and
devices upon the public streets in
the village of Ilershey, Derry
Township, Dauphin County, Penn-sylvania,
assigning, certain author-ities
and duties in connection with
the regulation of said traffic and
providing for the administration
and enforcement of said regulations
and prescribing penalties for viola- Authorization — The Board of
tions of the provisions of this Township Supervisors shall promul-gate
rules for the general traffic
regulation; determine, establish
and designate the character, loca-tion
and use of all official traffic
equipment, markings or other ap-it
is hereby enacted and ordained purtenances necessary for traffic
by the authority of the same, that 'regulation and direction.
this ordinance shall be known and Sec. 4-B. — The Township Con-cited
as the "Traffic Ordinance." stable and hi k deputies are hereby
Sec. 2—Be it enacted and or- authorized to enforce compliance
dained by the Board of Township with traffic regulations as provided
Supervisors of Derry Township, in this ordinance, with the assist-
Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, and ance of other township and village
it is hereby .enacted and ordained departments as required, to place,
by authority of the same, that in maintain, operate, remove and re-pursuance
of authority granted to place all official traffic equipment
Townships of the Second Class in and in case of emergency, as on
the Commonwealth of Pensylvania occasion of a funeral, public oc-by
an Act of General Assembly ap- casion, traffic jam, fire or other
proved the 10th day of July, A.D. unusual situations, for the purpose
1947, P. L. 1481; 53 P. S. Section of temporarily expediting traffic or
19093-702, Paragraph 24, entitled safe-guarding pedestrians, is em-
"Second Class Township Code"; powered to establish and enforce
"An act authorizing town- traffic regulations during the period
ships of the second class to of emergency.
regulate parking and pro- Stopping, Standing, Parking
vide parking accommoda- Sec. 5—In taxicab stand or bus
tions so as to promote the or coach stop. No operator of any
convenience and protection vehicle other than a bus or coach
of the public." shall stop in an officially designated
and for the purpose of carrying the bus or coach stop, and no vehicle
said authority into effect and other than a taxicab shall stand or
thereby promoting the convenience park in an officially designated
and protection of the public as taxicab stand.
contemplated by the said Act, pro- Sec. 6—On Narrow Streets. The
cedure for the enforcement of all Board of Township Supervisors
parking ordinances hereinbefore may, by erecting appropriate signs,
enacted are hereby repealed and prohibit parking on one or both
those hereinafter enacted shall be sides of any street the roadway of
as follows: • which is twenty (20) feet, or less,
Definitions in width.
Sec. 3—Definitions — In this or Sec. 7—Parking prohibited at all
dinance the terms used Shall have times. When signs are erected giv-the
meanings ascribed to them in ing notice thereof. no person shall
the Vehicle Code of the Common- park a vehicle at any time upon
wealth of Pennsylvania except as any of the streets designated in
Schedule "A".
ordinance.
Sec. 1—Be it enacted and or-dained
by the Board of Township
Supervisors of Derry Township,
Dauphin County, Pensylvania, and
herein otherwise defined.
Official Traffic Equipment — All
signs, signals, markings and de;
vices not inconsistent with this
ordinance, placed or erected as
herein provided, or for temporary
warning signs by authority of
recognized agencies, for the pur-pose
of guiding, directing, safe-guarding,
warning or regulating
traffic.
Street or Highway — Every way
or place of whatever nature, open
to the use of the public as a matter
of right, for the purposes Of vehicu-lar
travel. The term "highway"
shall not be deemed to include a
roadway or driveway upon grounds
owned by private persons, colleges,
universities or other institutions.
Traffic — Pedestrians, vehicles,
buses, herded animals, either
singly or together, while using any
street for the purpose of travel.
Vehicle — Every vehicle other
than a baby carriage, in, upon, or
by which any person or property is
cr may be transported or drawn
upon a public highway: provided,
that a c,idden animal shall be
deemed a vehicle.
Administration
Sec. 4-A. — Administration and
Sec. 8—Parking prohibitetl • in
front of or opposite to any garage.
No person shall park a vehicle at
any time in front of or opposite to
any garage where such parking
would block the entrance to such
garage.
Sec. 9—Parking prohibited dur-ing
certain times. When signs are
erected giving notice thereof, no
person shall park a vehicle on the
streets designated in Schedule "B"
of this ordinance during the hours
and days specified therein, except
as in Schedule "B" indicated.
Sec. 10—Parking time limited in
designated places. When signs are
erected giving notice thereof, no
person shall park a vehicle on any
of the streets designated in SChIld-
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3547 REQUESTED IF UNDELIVERABLE