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Newspaper
Hershey News
Location
Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 26, 1956
Page
2
Citizens urged to join airplane spotting efforts to defend against surprise attacks. The Hershey observation post atop the Community Club seeks volunteers, needing only a few hours of service to improve warning times for interceptor planes. Call Mrs Martyn Herbst at Keystone 3 2763 to help.
Metropolitan Life Insurance statisticians find only about 6 percent of 1953 54 home accident fatalities among male policyholders aged 15 to 64 were during repair or DIY work. Most deaths stem from falls fires gas poisoning and firearm incidents with the highest firearm related excess in youth and young adulthood.
All Saints Episcopal Church hosts multiple services including Holy Eucharist at 7:30 am and 11 am, Evening Prayer at 7 pm Tuesdays and other events. Derry Presbyterian Church offers Sunday School at 9:15 am and worship at 8 and 10:30 am with vesper services. Several other churches including Trinity Lutheran, Mt. View Bible Church, and St. Joan of Arc list their weekly worship, school, and study times with pastors names and service details.
List of newborns with parents and addresses from Hershey area including Hershey Medical arrivals on April dates. Notable entries include Thomas and Ruth Deaven a daughter and Richard and Dorothy Kieffer a son born April 15.
Nineteen teams have entered the Best Ball of Partners Invitation Tourney to be staged at Hershey Country Club from May 3 to 6. Entries list pairs from Hershey, Colonial, Springhaven, Harrisburg, Carlisle, Philipsburg, and other area clubs with organizers led by Charles E. Harnden Jr. Entries include Dr. Costa and Tom Seilus, Dr. Wickerham, Leo Heller and Samuel DeFazio, Glenn Stover and Bill Norton, and many more partnerships across regional clubs.
Twenty Hershey Junior College students attended the Model National Political Convention in Harrisburg. Ronald Fouche was elected co assistant regional director for the year. Officers included Dennis Castelli third parliamentarian Fred Baum timekeeper Melvin Hirschfeld auditor George Sands and Wayne Hummer assistant sergeants at arms.
Two Hershey young women were capped as nurses at exercises at St Joseph Hospital School of Nursing in Lancaster. Virginia L Pasquale daughter of Mr and Mrs Edward Pasquale of 32 West Arena Avenue and Diane Pegano daughter of Mr and Mrs George Pegano. Pasquale a Derry Township School Class of 1955 graduate and Pegano Lebanon Catholic High School graduate last year.
Dane Fisher joins Hershey Bears on the American Hockey League second All-Star team for the third straight season. Ed Kryzanowski Gordie Wilson and Kenny Smith also receive honorable mentions amid a strong Hershey Writers roster.
The Kiershey Community Theater runs the Amish musical Plain and Fancy through Saturday, offering a lively community stage production with songs and dance performances by local actors and volunteers.
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