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Newspaper
Hershey News
Location
Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1954
Page
2
The article recalls childhood memories of walking to school and highlights new macadam approaches built for the town's elementary school. Workers lay long, graceful walks from the west and north sides as children will soon use the hill of learning.
The July ambulance corps report by Jack Steen notes twenty two calls to the new ambulance through the last week of July, nearly one per day, with eleven minutes as the maximum response time. The reflections praise community support and the crews’ caliber in using the vehicle.
Dry spell dominates the period with heat and dust. Crops, gardens and lawns suffer while cars grip dust from water shortages. Residents commend careful water use and patience in this weather pattern.
Atlee Young, a former Baltimore Peabody Institute student and church music advocate, plans to continue local musical work after retirement. Mrs. Van Horn retires from Hershey Hospital after eight years. her husband previously worked at Milton Hershey School. The couple, who moved from Columbia County in 1928, have two children Lena and George and two grandchildren. Lena trains as a nurse in Baltimore and George teaches Journalism at the University of Delaware.
Mr and Mrs Ezra Grubb of Hummelstown Route 1 announce their son Eugene L Grubb has superior academic standing and is placed on the Dean's List at Franklin and Marshall College Lancaster He ranks sixteenth in a 336 full time class and is among the top twenty mathematics students across all four years He is a 1953 graduate of M S Hershey High School.
Transportation to and from the churches will be provided. The Presbyterian Church menu for Thursday August 26 includes snitz and knepp ham and green beans relishes apple butter cottage cheese and shoo fly pie. Friday August 27 offers baked chicken pie cole slaw relishes and snitz pie. Saturday August 28 features Boove Shenkel Dutch meat rolls cole slaw relishes apple butter snitz and shoo fly pie. The Church of the Brethren lists meals for Thursday August 26 roast beef and gravy potato filling pickled cantaloupe apple pie. Friday August 27 beef pot pie apple sauce pickled canteloupe sweets and sours smear cheese and apple butter with snitz and shoo fly pie. Saturday August 28 ham snitz and knepp apple sauce pickled cantaloupe sweets and sours smear cheese and apple butter with snitz and shoo fly pie.
The church calendar lists services for Derry Presbyterian Church Westminster Fellowship and worship on the church lawn, Evangelical Lutheran Holy Trinity worship at 8 and 10:30, First Evangelical United Brethren worship at 8 and 10:30 with YF at 6, Seventh Day Adventist meeting on Saturday, Mt View Bible Church services, Spring Creek Church of the Brethren, Fishburn Evangelical United Brethren, Union Deposit Evangelical United Brethren, and St. Joan of Arc Catholic Church with Masses and devotions. Each listing includes Sunday School times, pastor names, and worship hours.
The article recalls Rev. John Elder the Fighting Parson who led Derry Parish during the French and Indian War. It notes his rifle in the pulpit and the frontier era’s dangers. Old Derry Cemetery is said to hold Indian interments and the bones of pioneer settlers and Revolutionary War heroes.
Robert O. Lingle of 813 East Chocolate Avenue has been promoted to sergeant in Korea. He serves as a clerk with the 707th Ordnance Battalion, Seventh Infantry Division, after returning from leave in Japan. Lingle graduated from the Ordnance School at Aberdeen Proving Ground Maryland.
The Hershey News notes a physician available for weekend emergency care and transient patients. Call Dr. Wayne D. Stettler at 40 East Chocolate Avenue, telephone 513, or contact the Hershey operator for July 31 and August 1.
Eleven year old Larry Ganse, a Ground Observer Corps member in Hershey, spotted a lost Navy plane from a Community Building vantage point. He alerted the Harrisburg filter center and the radar service guided a safe landing, earning the pilot’s thanks.
Civil War veteran Jacob Stubblebine recovers at home on Spring Creek Avenue. Miss Edna Landis resigns as Hershey Cafe cashier to join Hershey Chocolate Company general offices. Harry Boyer Howard Brown and Victor Gingrich attend the Philadelphia Automobile Show.
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