Hershey News 1956-08-09

              HERSHEY NEWS
Vol. 4 -0330.0 HERSHEY, PENNSYLVANIA, AUGUST 9, 1956 No. 32
51-Year Veteran Retires
Miss Ella J. Kreider—one of the Hershey Chocolate
Corporation's trio of veterans of more than fifty years of
service — is shown receiving a hail and farewell from Cor-poration
President S. F. Hinkle as she retired last week.
Miss Kreider's employment dated from May 6, 1905.
In stepping down after a
was reared at Owl Hill, near
fifty-one-year working career the Hershey Cemetery. At
she took with her a volumin- the time she began working
ous collection of memories of at the age of "not quite four-friendships
made and experi- teen," she lived on West
ences enjoyed. She had been Derry Road with her parents,
one of the first production Henry D. and Emma Eliza-employees
at the chocolate beth Garman Kreider.
factory when the output A devoted daughter, she
got under way in 1905. had filled her days not only
In May of 1955, Miss with her faithful and efficent
Kreider and her cousin, D. attention to duties in the
Frank Garman, had joined chocolate plant's Wrapping
Miss Margaret M. Clark in Department, but also by tak-completing
fifty years with ing a large share of the home-
Hershey Chocolate. At that making responsibility after
time she expressed the ob- working hours.
servation that she would The busy routine was ap-
"like to see all the chocolate parently a healthful one; she
I've wrapped placed on one has always enjoyed splendid
pile." Miss Kreider had hand- health.
wrapped or machine-wrapped Last week she retired with
Hershey products through- the extraordinary achieve-out
her working career, from ment of having been a part
the time she began filling co- of today's modern industrial
coa boxes in 1905. life after taking a role in the
Now residing at 327 West beginning of the Hershey
Main Street in Palmyra, she story.
150 See Hat Show At Playground
Paris fashions took a back
seat last Thursday at Mem-orial
Field playground whEn
57 school-age hat designers
showed their creations in 57
varieties at the playgrounds
annual hat show.
The free-style skypiecEs
were viewed by some 150 per.
sons, including many interest.
ed mothers who may have had
a hand in dreaming up some
of the "dream" hats.
Judges for the event were
Mrs. Robert Smith, Mrs. Matt-hew
Prang and Mrs. Charles
Hand. First prize awardt7
went to:
Teeny Tiny, Beth Jacques;
littlest, Betsy Evans; biggest,
Elaine Seiverling and Beverly
Donovan; cutest, David Pala;
oddest, Monica Hennings ; fun-niest,
John Rizzo; prettiest,
Karen Schmehl; most clever,
Tommy Baker.
Most colorful, Diane Fore-man,
most original, Michael
Hand; timely fad, John Sch-mehl
; topsy turvy, Susan
Bikle ; most grown-up, Sandra
Gibble ; most delicious, Danny
Geib ; hobo-ish, Bruce Hiro-
Here
DERRY DACE'S
mmus; most artistic, Nan
Smith.
The annual playground pet
show was being held today
(August 9), and the play-ground
party is set for next
Thursday, with the following
day as a rain date.
List Special Registration
Travelling registrars f o r
voter registration will .sit at
the Hershey and Hummels-town
fire houses on August
29 between six and nine p. m.
Persons who are required
to register to vote in the com-ing
election are those whose
addresses h a v e. changed;
those who have become 21
years of age since the last
registration period; those
who have failed to vote with-in
the past two calendar
years; and women who have
changed their names through
marriages.
No party changes can be
Foreman's Club Scholarship Winner Is Chocolate Worker
Eugene P. DiMagno, 19,
this year's recipient of the
Hershey Foremen's Club
Scholarship Award, CS shown
at left pumping chocolate to
the refining rolls in the Lon-gitude
Department of the
Hershey Chocolate Corpora
tion. With DiMagno is Super-visor
William K. Wagner.
DiMagno, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Saverio DiMagno of 514
Hockersville Road, will enter
Franklin and Marshall Col-lege,
Lancaster, in September
for a pre-medical course. The
six-foot-two 180-pound young
Hershey man is a graduate of
Hershey High School and
Hershey Junior College. His
uncle, Leo Casciotti, 117 West
Areba Avenue, is employed in
the Plow Room of the choco-late
corporation.
Selection of the scholarship
award for the Foremen's Club
was made by a committee
made up of C. J. Speicher, R.
M. Bucher, Roger Aumen,
Russell Aungst and Robert H.
Schock.
made.
Naturalized citizens must
bring their naturalization
papers when applying for
registration.
The last day to register is
September 17. The Registra-tion
Bureau in the Dauphin
County Courthouse is open
from nine a. m. to four p. m.
Monday through Friday, and
on Saturday from nine a. m.
until noon.
Water Ballet Announced
As colorful as its name im-plies,
this year's Rainbo-rama
water ballet will be presented
by the swimmers of the Her-shey
Women's Club next
Thursday and Friday — Au-gust
16 and 17.
Rehearsals for the popular
annual presentation have been
under way for months and the
young mermaids directed by
Miss Kathleen Lewis are
ready for the 1956 version of
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Spangler Named Prexy
Of Foreman's Club
Earl J. Spangler has been
elected President of the Her-shey
Foremen's Club, and
Richard H. McCrone has been
elected Vice President.
Spangler replaces William
E. Dearden and McCrone fills
the spot vacated by Spangler.
Russell Aungst and How-ard
H. Baum were reelected
a s Secretaries representing
the Hershey Chocolate Cor-poration
and Hershey Estates
branches of the club, respec-tively.
Allen M. Huber was re-elected
Treasurer.
WILLIAM SELL, retired
Hershey Estates carpenter,
checks the ears on some of
his sweet corn which he
grows at his home at 828
East Chocolate Avenue.
Gardening is one of the
most popular pastimes for
Hershey's retired persons
and Mr. Sell is one of the
most successful. He has al-ways
taken great pride in
his garden — particularly
his tomatoes and sweet
corn. Retired some seven
years, he had formerly been
employed by Hershey Es-states
since 1915.
GETS SCHOLARSHIP
Ronald G. Bierman, 1956 grad-uate
of Hershey Junior College,
has been awarded a $250-a-year
scholarship by the University of
Delaware, to be used for tuition at
the university. Bierman is a 1954
Commercial Course graduate of
the Milton Hershey School.
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