Hershey News 1955-03-10

              HERSHEY NEWS
Vol. 3 HERSHEY, PENNSYLVANIA, MARCH 10, 1955 No. 10
STUDENT NURSES capped for the Class of 1957 of the Harrisburg Hospital School of
Nursing last week included four graduates of Hershey High School.
At the capping exercises held in Harrisburg's Market Square Presbyterian
Church on March 3 are (1. to r.) Nancy McCurdy, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry
McCurdy, Jr., of Palmyra Route 1; Audrey Saufley, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alva
Saufley, Hum melstown Route 2; Beverly Demy, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Marlin
Demy, Middletown Route 1; and Elizabeth Hocker, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm
Hocker of the Triniclad Apartments, Hershey. They are all members of Hershey
High School's Class of 1954.
John "Tiny" Ebersole
He Still Remembers Clang Of Trolley Bell
Talk of the days when Her-shey
was a trolley-car town
brings a dreamy look to John
H. "Tiny" Ebersole, a recent-ly
retired Hershey Estates
employee.
One of the oldtime Hershey
Transit Company street car
operators, Ebersole has never
for gotten the important place
the street car had in the de-velopment
of the community
and its industry. Nor the
pleasure he had as a pilot on
the lines which ran from
Hummelstown to Lebanon,
Hershey to Elizabethtown —
and up Patt's Hill.
Now relaxing at his home
at 139 Maple Avenue in Her-shey,
Ebersole likes to tell his
visitors about the open-air
sight-seeing cars that took
tourists up Patt's Hill "before
the hotel was there." The hill-climbing
cars ran Saturdays,
Sundays and holidays and
piloting them in the summer
months was always a pleasant
duty for Ebersole.
Not-so pleasant, he recalls,
was the rough winter in the
mid-Twenties when he joined
with recruited helpers in
shoveling snowdrifts which
clogged the company's regu-lar
lines.
"In those days, people work-ing
at Hershey depended on
the street cars to get to
work," he said, "and it was
up to us to get them rolling."
Later that winter the com-pany
acquired a snow plow
which saved the crews from
more shoveling.
"Those were real winters."
Here Since 1914
Ebersole is a native of
the Lawn-Colebrook area and
came to Hershey in 1914. He
first was employed at the
chocolate plant. After about
six months he asked for, and
got his chance, to work on the
street cars. For a while he
worked as an extra man on
the trolleys, in addition to
maintaining his job at the
factory, and about a year
later he transferred fulltime
to the transit company.
He was a trolley operator
until the railway gave way
to the buses, and then was
assigned to the maintenance
force at the Hershey Com-munity
Building, serving in
that capacity until his retire-ment
January 1 of this year.
Married to the former Miss
Lillian Boger of Annville, he
is the father of Mrs. Herbert
Brooks of Hershey. The Eber-soles
have two grandchildren.
Having been a member of
the Hershey Volunteer Fire
Company since coming here,
"Tiny" was made an honorary
member of the company upon
his retirement. He is also an
active member of the Hershey
Retired Employees' Associa-tion.
Volunteer
1955 Red
Workers Launch
Cross Campaign
Contribute $1,242 For
Heart Fund Campaign
Derry Township's contribu-tions
to the 1955 Heart Fund
totalled $1,242.96 during Feb-ruary's
local campaign, it was
announced this week by Mrs.
Lloyd S. Blinco and Robert M.
Bucher, co-chairmen for the
drive.
The campaign leaders ex-pressed
their appreciation for
the generosity and coopera-tion
of all the local donors, and
tc the volunteer workers who
took part in the drive for
funds to make war on heart
disease.
Collections were made via
direct canvassing and by the
means of collection boxes
placed throughout the town-ship.
February was designated as
Heart Month for the cam-paign.
VFW Women's National
Head To Visit Here
Members of the Hershey
Auxiliary of the Veterans of
Foreign Wars are especially
busy these days. They will be
hostesses at the annual lun-cheon
given March 13 in the
Spanish Room of the Hotel
Hershey honoring National
Auxiliary President, Mrs.
Thomas Holz of Philadelphia.
Mrs. Lester Smith is General
Chairman of the annual event.
Mrs. Frank Gasper is reserva-tions
Chairman. Auxiliary of-ficers
from Harrisburg and
two past national presidents
will be special guests.
The women's branch of the
Veterans of Foreign Wars is
a community service organiza-tion
with many charitable
projects. This year's special
efforts were devoted to the
scholarship for Education of
Korean War Orphans, and the
Cerebral Palsy fund.
YOUNG AUTHORS
An exhibit of books written
for children by children will
be on display in the Hershey
Public Library through March
19th. The stories were a 5th
grade class project devised by
teacher, Miss Jessie Nucci, to
supplement the class library,
and to encourage her pupils
to read.
Monday of this week mark-ed
the opening of the 1955 Red
Cross drive in Derry Town-ship,
a campaign which will
conclude on March 21.
The two-week fund-raising
effort is headed here by Derry
Township Chairman William
E. Dearden, who announced
the following captains for the
campaign in the 33 districts
of the community:
Mrs. Milton Yorty, Mrs.
John McCleaf, Mrs. W. H.
Foley, Miss Rachel Hershey,
Mrs. W. Allen Hammond, Mrs.
Herbert Vernet Jr., Mrs. John
Gruber, Mrs. Carl Snavely,
Mrs. J. D. Savastio, Mrs.
George Freeland, Mrs. Clyde
Spitler, Mrs. C. F. Ebersole.
Mrs. Ralph Gish, Miss Nora
Miller, Mrs. Dwight Way-bright,
Ralph L. Hoar, Miss
Mamie Bowman, Mrs. Palmina
Garganes, Walter B. Ketter-ing,
Miss Shirley Koser, Miss
Roberta Ayres, Mrs. Mildred
Reese, Mrs. Betty Filepas,
Mario Moratti.
Miss Catharine Krasovic,
Mrs. John 0. Hershey, Mrs.
Margaret Deets, Mrs. D. J.
Rippon, Mrs. Allen Fasnacht
and Miss Jane Smith.
Have Roles In Model (
Government Sessions \
Twenty-three young politi-cians
from Hershey Junior
College atended the Central
Regional Convention of the In-tercollegiate
Conference on
Government at Dickinson Col-lege
on Saturday, March 5.
Ronald Fouche, chairman
of the HJC delegation, was
chairman of the State Gov-ernment
Committee and suc-cessfully
managed the cam-paign
of John Grace, Jr., a
student.from Palmyra at Leb-anon
Valley College, f o r
Speaker of the Model Legisla-ture.
Dennis Castelli was Serg-eant-
at-Arms.
Prof. William Schmehl was
chairman of the Faculty Com-mittee
which screened candi-dates
for committee chairman-ships
at the state convention.
On March 26, IIJC will be
host to a regional caucus
which will make arrange-ments
for the campaign to
elect Grace speaker of the
State Convention in April.
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JOHN H. EBERSOLE — Retired now, he looks over his
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