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Newspaper
Hershey News
Location
Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1955
Page
2
Nearly five hundred Boy Scouts from Swatara District gathered near the Stadium for a Spring Camporee featuring tests demonstrations and projects. Observers praised the orderly activity youthful energy and leadership showing Hershey as a reliable Good Scout Town with two rainless camporees boosting the local program.
The newly organized Hershey Council of Church Women will install its first officers at the First Evangelical United Brethren Church. Miss Margaret Miller of Derry Presbyterian Church becomes president, with Mrs. Herbert Winsor as vice president, Mrs. Walter Strine as secretary, and Mrs. Monroe Stover as treasurer. Mrs. J. Herbert Miller has been temporary chair. The Pennsylvania Council of Church Women affiliation is noted.
A dense listing of church services across multiple denominations. Includes Call to Worship times, Sunday School starts, worship and service times, and named pastors or leaders for each church such as All Saints Episcopal, Derry Presbyterian, Holy Trinity Evangelical Lutheran, First Evangelical United Brethren, Fishburn Evangelical United Brethren, Union Deposit, Mt View Bible Church, Seventh Day Adventist, Spring Creek Church of the Brethren, St Joan of Arc Catholic, United Christian Services, and Milton Hershey School.
Hershey Junior College captured the Eastern Regional Golf Tournament title at Middletown New York with a 253 three man total, two strokes ahead of Alfred Tech. Captain Fred Pellegrini led the squad with an 82 finishing fifth individually, joined by Bob Lollo 84 and Parke Spancake 87 as the other scorers. Forty junior colleges entered five golfers each and the best three scores counted toward the team trophy.
The Hershey Employees Golf Tournament at Park Golf Club saw teams 1 3 and 5 win opening rounds. Team 1 beat Brent Hancock 117 to 108, team 3 defeated Riley Heckert 113 to 93, and team 5 topped Scotty Manari 106 to 98. Medal honors went to Bill Garrison and Scotty Manari with 74s.
Hermann J. Jansen of Hummelstown Route 1 has returned from service in the U S Army. He works at the Hershey Estates Abattoir. Mrs. Russell Spangler chairs the Hershey VFW Auxiliary cake and pie sale at the fire hall Saturday at nine in the morning.
A remark attributed to Sammy Kaye asserts that a woman seeks shelter and the freedom to raise it now and then. The line reflects a humorous, social insight about domestic life and autonomy.
Navy Lt Richard L Garrison son of Mr and Mrs George E Garrison of Milton Hershey School Unit 53 has orders as Intelligence Officer for Fighter Squadron 152 based at Moffett Field California He previously served as Air Intelligence Officer on another jet squadron flying the swept wing Cougar He returned to the U S in March after eight months on the USS Yorktown which participated in the Ta Chen Islands evacuation Dick a 1947 Hershey High School graduate played on Peck McKnight undefeated 1946 Hershey football team studied economics at Trinity College and earned an MBA from Harvard He resides at 20696 Dunbar Drive Cupertino CA with wife Priscilla and three month old son David Lee.
Cdr Hedgecock, a Navy officer with tours on the USS Arizona and USS California, will visit for a talk on May 30. A U S Naval Academy graduate with a MIT master’s in Naval Architecture, he played varsity fencing at Annapolis and rifle and pistol aboard ship. Born in Nebraska, he lists Bremerton, Washington as home and has two children Gregory and Kimberly.
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