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Newspaper
Hershey News
Location
Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1954
Page
2
The Hershey Estates workforce promotes the Payroll Savings Plan to buy U S Savings Bonds. The program offers automatic saving, safe investments backed by Uncle Sam, with a four to three return and replacement if bonds are lost. It urges workers to join for personal, community, and national security.
A brisk Summer preview notes city dwellers seek relief by traveling to Hershey while Hershey residents contend with heat at home. The Lebanon Valley offers comparatively cooler comfort, and suburban life remains a common theme for many residents.
Industrial Management Class of Hershey Chocolate and Hershey Estates held a banquet at Hershey Country Club last Friday night with L. Henderson Dudman of ACES as guest speaker. Attendees included Melvin Freeman and Raymond Evans with Rex Wright noting a flying saucer sighting prompting inquiries. Master of ceremonies Robert Schock awarded attendance honors to Richard Uhrich and Eugene Patrick, plus a picture to Robert Hoy the class projectionist.
Mrs Richard Hoerner was elected president of the Milton Hershey School Faculty Wives Club for the year starting in September. Also chosen were Mrs Conrad Frank as vice president and Mrs Ned Linta as secretary treasurer. Mrs Landis Heller will chair programs and new members include Mrs Robert Berger and Mrs E Glenn Rogers.
The Chicago Blackhawks acquired star center George Red Sullivan from the Boston Bruins for about 25000 dollars. He set the AHL single season assist and points marks and will join former Hershey teammates Jerry Toppazzini and Jack McIntyre, with Murray Costello also returning to Chicago.
Mr and Mrs Samuel Bard of East Petersburg announce the engagement of their daughter Betty to Charles Blanken of Hershey. Miss Bard is a teacher in Derry Township Schools and Mr Blanken is a production manager at the Intelligencer Printing Company of Lancaster.
Sister M. Joanna of the Daughters of Our Lady of Mercy marked her twenty-fifth year as a nun with a reception at the Convent on West Caracas Avenue and a dinner at Indian Echo Cave. A Hershey native, she taught at St. Joan of Arc Parochial School for nine years, seeing the school grow from 80 pupils in a three-room building to over 400 students with nine teachers.
Derry Township parents Ivan W. Seltzer and wife welcomed fraternal girls Patricia Ann and Carol Ann at Hershey Hospital with Patricia Ann the elder. Numerous other local families report births on April 11 to 19 including Sopko, Hess, Swartz, Gingrich, Gunn, Engle, Fair, Allamon, George, Gerlach, Shearer, Brehn, Slabonik, Sutcliffe, and Snee, naming residences in Hershey Palmyra Annville Campbelltown Hummelstown Middletown and Lebanon County areas.
Derry churches Schedule includes Call To Worship at 8 a.m. and services at 10:30 a.m. at Derry Presbyterian Westminster Fellowship 6:15 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. worship. Lutheran Holy Trinity 8 a.m. service 10:30 a.m. worship Vespers 7 p.m. First Evangelical United Brethren 10:30 a.m. worship 7:30 p.m. St Joan of Arc Catholic Masses 6, 7:30, 9, 10, 11 a.m. Evening devotions 7 p.m. Weekday Masses 7 a.m. Spring Creek Brethren 10:30 a.m. worship 7:30 p.m. Rev. W Sheldon Blair Rev. Stephen E Schullery Rev. Thomas W Guinivan Rev. Anthony J Mayan Rev. Dominick A Mamarella Rev. J Herbert Miller.
A roundup of worship times across multiple churches including Fishburn Evangelical United, Union Deposit Evangelical United, United Christian Services in Balsbaugh, Mayctenure Church, All Saints Episcopal Mission, Seventh Day Adventist, Church of God in Hershey Fire Hall, Independent Bible Church of Sand Beach. Services range from morning worship at 10:30 a.m. to evening services at 7:30 p.m. with Sunday School and youth programs noted.
Martin W. Kulp, Hershey High School 1953 graduate, enlisted in the U S Navy as announced by the Harrisburg Navy Recruiting Station. He will report to Bainbridge Maryland Naval Training Center for eleven weeks of recruit training. He is the son of Mr and Mrs Martin M Kulp of Campbelltown.
The Hershey News provides a public service list of Dr. Frank Pierce for weekend medical coverage May 1 to May 2. Contact at 26 W Granada Ave or telephone 8511 for assistance when your family physician is unavailable.
Joseph Arnold of 571 Guilford Street Lebanon formerly of the Syrup Department and Russell D. Mauffair of Palmyra Route 1 a Wrapping Department 1 worker have left Hershey Chocolate to enter military service.
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