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Newspaper
Hershey News
Location
Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 03, 1955
Page
2
Hershey area employers promote payroll savings plans to buy U S Savings Bonds. The ads urge workers to enroll, promising steady asset growth for home buying education and retirement with automatic deductions and security.
The Hershey Gardens Greenhouse and Garden crew moved eleven Norway spruces weighing ten to twelve tons each from a hill behind the hotel to the No. 3 fairway of the Country Club golf course as part of an Operation Tall Timber. Workers used hydraulic jacks to lift and load the trees, then re planted them on the course. The transplanted spruces were surplus from a 22 year old reforestation project.
Local churches in Harrisburg area publish service times across denominations. Notable clergy include Rev. J. Thomas Heistand at All Saints Episcopal Mission and Rev. Sheldon Blair at Derry Presbyterian, with services from morning worship to evening vesper programs.
The campaign lists chairmen and volunteers including Mrs Ruth Snyder Miss Pansy Hiester Mrs Theodore Banks Mrs Stanley Carpenter Mrs Varnum H Fenstermacher Miss Catherine Krasovic and many others as it pursues a higher goal than last year.
Hershey Sports Arena will host the World Series of Basketball on Wednesday March 30. The fifth game features the Harlem Globetrotters and the 1955 College All-Americans. The coast-to-coast tour begins in New York City on Sunday March 27 and ends in Detroit on Saturday April 16.
The Hershey High School Band will host Bellport High School Band of Long Island New York on February 21 and 22. Long Island students will stay with Hershey families, give a concert, and attend a dance in their honor. A reciprocal exchange is planned for June when Hershey visits Bellport.
The Hershey High School Parents Association sponsors a children’s theatre production titled Toby, Tyler, or Ten Weeks with the Circus. It will be at the Milton Hershey School auditorium on Tuesday February 8 at 9 30 a m. Proceeds fund gowns for the Hershey High School Chorus.
The Hershey News provides the week end on call physician for unavailable family doctors. The doctor handles accident cases and transient patients and can be reached via the Hershey Operator.
Pvt Ronald D Goodman son of Mr and Mrs William Goodman of 570 W Chocolate Ave recently completed basic training at Camp Gordon GA and is in Advanced Infantry Training with Company F 502nd Airborne Infantry Regiment 101st Airborne Division Fort Jackson SC. The town reports icy roads, a York YMCA volleyball win, dog license applications and local golf. Chester Earl Reed Jr from Hershey Route 1 enlists at Bainbridge MD and Pvt James H McCorkle of Hershey Route 2 graduates from pole line construction at Camp Gordon GA.
The Hershey Retired Workers Association dedicates its February meeting to Abraham Lincoln’s birthday. The session on Monday February 7 at 2 p m in the Hershey fire hall features George D Lange Hershey High School principal as speaker. Frank L Hocker will recite the Gettysburg Address from 1863.
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