Hershey News 1953-12-03

              HERSHEY NEWS
V Oi. I HERSHEY, PENNSYLVANIA, DECEMBER 3, 1953
Hospital Bed
Available
For Use Here
A hospital bed is available
for use in the community,
Hershey American Legion
Auxiliary president Mrs. John
D. Emerich announced this
week.
Supplying the specially de-signed
bed is a part of the or-ganization's
community serv-ice
program. No charge is
made for the use of the equip-ment.
The hospital bed was
acquired by the Auxiliary
through credit earned in mag-azine
subscription dr i ves
here, Mrs. Erperich said.
Persons needing the bed for
Use in their home should con-tact
Steward John ShayAt the
Legion Home, Mrs. Emerich
or Miss Janet Bothwell, chair-man
of the Auxiliary's Com-munity
Service Committee.
Ministerium Holds
Annual Service
Of Thanksgiving
"Thanksgiving- — Ultimate
Glory" was the theme of the
sermon by Rev. Stephen E.
Schullery, pastor of the Evan-gelical
Lutheran Church of
the Holy Trinity at the Coq-murky
Thanksgiving D a y
Service at the Spring Creek
Ch urch of the Brethren,
which was attended by 258
people. Host pastor was Rev.
J. Herbert Miller.
A combined service held
each year by the Hershey
Ministerium, the offering is
taken for the Hershey Wel-fare
fund, according to Rev.
William Sheldon Blair, pastor
of Derry Presbyterian Church
and Ministerium treasurer.
Spring Creek's junior choir
sang "For the Beauty of the
Earth," directed by Mrs.
Evan E. Grove. Kenneth Don-moyer
directed the senior
choir in "For the Summer's
Glowing Pageant" as the
prayer anthem, and "Thanks
Be To God" as the anthem.
Organist was Mrs. Randall
Wagner.
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UPV.iliT';.•
Reminiseene I.; early Hershey were brought to the minds of two el
pictures of the development of the Hershey Corn munity Club went on
Community Building.
Looking over the exhibit of photographs of old time Community Club
F. Snavely (left) of 230 E. Granada Avenue and Joseph R. Snavely, 106
authorities op the Story of Hershey.
John Snavely directed the Men's Club from 1912 to 1932 and launched m
Joseph Snavely, author of a number of books on Hershey, chronicled
managing editor of the Hershey Press.
Food For Thought
ose observers this week as
display. in the lobby of the
athletic programs are John
Java Avenue, both of them
any of its athletic programs.
much of the local life as the
Hershey Farms Produce
Crops In Model Set-Up
The name of Hershey ha;; boor carried worldwi,le b the
products of its industry. But it also carries its fair share of
prominence in the world of agriculture.
The Milton Hershey Farms comprise a total of 12,000
acres on 82 individual farms, located in the limestone section
of the Lebanon Valley.
Dairying is the chief agri-cultural
enterprise on* the
farms, with 1,000 Holstein and
200 Guernsey cows separated
into individual herds of thirty
cows each. These cows are all
under Dairy Herd Improve-ment
Association testing and
outstanding production rec-ords
are made annually.
A full time veterinarian
supervises the health of all
livestock on the farms and
conducts semi-annual Bangs
and Tubercillin tests. Each
dairy farm consists of approx-imately
120 acres And the crop
rotation is designed to supply
the necessary feed for its
dairy herd.
Top Crop
Alfalfa is the major crop
produced on the Hershey
Farms, averaging 3,000 acres
annually. Sixty percent of the
alfalfa is artificially dried for
roughage feeding and the re-mainder
is sun dried. Out- _ _
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standing quality hay is pro-duced
by artificial hay drying
methods. Some farms produce
mixed grasses for hay, and
pastures are available for the
cattle. A . quantity of alfalfa
or mired grasses is placed in
silos from the first cutting
each spring.
Two thousand acres of corn
are produced annually, of
which forty percent is used
for silage and the remainder
is dry feed. New and im-proved
hybrid corns are used
extensively and an experi-mental
plot is farmed each
year to determine the best
types of corn seed, fertilizer,
and cultivation methods.
Wheat and barley are pro-duced
for certified seed and
to provide bedding for the
livestock.
Certified soybeans are pro-duced
for certified seeds and
other soybeans are grown for
emergency grain feed, silage
crops or hay.
Raise Livestock
Twenty-five hundred head
of beef cattle are fed annually
on the farms and butchered in
the Hershey Estates Abattoir,
thus providing the residents of
this area with a good supply
of grain fed beef.
The pure - bred Berkshire
hog breeding farm maintains
175 brood sows from which
the pigs 4re transferred to
other feeding farms.-Excellent
breeding stock from this herd
is available to other Berkshire
breeders. The farm averages
nine grown pigs per litter an-nually.
Close cooperation with
the Pennsylvania State Uni-versity
and U. S. Department
of Agriculture of Beltsville,
(Cuutinued ea Paige Two)
Club Women Hold
Christmas Party
To Help Needy
The Wednesday ev ening
Christmas party held by the
Business and Professional Wo-men's
Club of Hershey was
part of' a busy program being
carried on by the relatively
new organization.
The party, held in the Com-munity
Building dining room,
had an underlying purpose of
providing for the needy at
Christmas time. Persons at-tending
brought canned foods
which are to be distributed
where needed.
On the social side, gifts
were exchanged by the club
mem bers and Christmas-theme
entertainment was on
the program.
Arrangements were handled
by the Social and Hospitality
Committee — Miss Janet Ma-grini,
Miss Eleanor Lingle,
Mrs. Helen Good, Miss Chris-tine
Moretz, Miss Hazel-Miller
and Miss Marion Forney.
In another activity this
week, three club members par-ticipated
in the "Stump Your
Neighbor" television quiz pro-gram
over WGAL-TV, Lan-caster.
Hershey clubwomen
opposing three Lancaster
B P W Club representatives
were Mrs. Margie Deets, Mrs.
Eleanor Schiefer and Miss
Irene Dietrich.
Mrs. Charles Downin, Her-shey
BPW Club president, an-nounced
five new members
were • added to the club rolls
recently. The new members
are Miss Edith Bacastow, Miss
Mary Donley, Mrs. Arlene
Bucher, Mrs. Agnes Look and
Mrs. Florence Larish.
Nolan F. Zeigler, member
of the Pennsylvania House of
Representatives, was the
speaker at the November
meeting of the club. He ad-dressed
the group on Legisla-tive
Procedures and Practices.
NO. 10
Exhibit Of
Early Photos
Gets Interest
Community Club Sports
Teams Of 1910-1925
Displayed In Lobby
Attracting a huge amount
of interest is the display of
photographs in the northeast
corner of the Community
Building lobby which point up
much of the early history of
the men's club.
The display is a part of the
observance of Hershey's Fifti-eth
Anniversary and empha-sizes
the important role sports
has always held in the com-munity.
Photographs in the exhibit
show the early athletic teams
which were the forerunners of
today's Community Club
sports programs. The photos
date from 1910, ana run to the
period of the mid-Twenties.
Arranged and lighted at-tractively,
the layout has
proved to be an eye-catcher
both for the younger genera-tions
and for the oldsters who
find they touch off many
recollections.
The first football game to
be played in Hershey took
place on what is now the site
of the Community Club—and
was played by moonlight.
Time was about 1915.
This footnote to local his-tory
cAme from former men's
club director John F. Snavely
this week as he was reminis-cing
with former Hershey
Press editor Joseph R. Snave-ly
at the Community Club.
The two Snavelys possess
between them an abundance
of rich lore of the development
of Hershey. John Snavely
came here "just on a tempor-ary
basis" in 1905 and has re-mained
in Hershey ever since.
Joseph R. Snavely was inti-mately
connected with Her-shey's
growth since 1907.
Centered on the display is
a brief history of the growth
of the Community Club from
its beginning in the present
Woman's Club building on
January 18, 1910, as a YMCA.
The Women's Division was
organized as a YWCA on Feb-ruary
6, 1911.
Early Planning
The club's first "'permanent"
building. was the present Park-view
Apartments and in No-vember
1915 there were nearly
500 members in the men's club
when M. S. Her shey an-nounced
plans for the present
Community Building.
A reproduction of an archi-tect's
drawing of the facade
of the present Community
Building was published in the
H1975s.hey
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Press of November 4,
However, World War One
and other factors postponed
construction of the huge build-ing
until 1930.
The records show that in
1915 the men's club had 16
activities in its program. To-day
the club is a busy center
of social, religious, cultural
and athletic life of the com-munity
with dozens of activi-ties
and 18 "special" phases
from midget baseball and foot-ball
to -fox hunting and fly
tying.
In September of 1910, the
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