Sewickley Herald

              The Herald
The Sewickley Valley’s Home-News Weekly
VOL. 57, No, 7
SEWICKLEY, PENNSYLVANIA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1960
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New Church Built Within Inches Of Old One






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Due to lack of space on the lot and inability to find a new location for temporary worship, the First Church of Christ, Scientist, found it necessary to build the new church building within inches of the- old building. The new building was completed sufficiently to hold services and then razing of the old structure,
(Village Photos) which has served the congregation for many years, was begun. When the ground is cleared, the front of the new church will be completed and a drive and parking space provided on the site of the old building. The front of the new church will face on the driveway with an entrance on the side facing Beaver Street.
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• ?ibe y°ung Woman’s Civic Club of Sc-lckley is holding tlieir annual Pre-Lenten ir ?«* 9aid Party at the American Legion n m i? Sewicldey on February 22, at 8:30 tl * t ’cturcd above are committee members
(Village Photos) with some of the lovely prizes which arc donated by merchants in Sewickley. Left to right are: Mrs. Hugh McMaster, Mrs. Wm. Camiister, and Mrs. Jack Scott,
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Antioch Baptist Church
Ml MCTdl ~ delivered $1.50.
nsoiWM Canle Grocn* Sew- 2141. "0 Wniby Gholi> Prwident, Mrs. ° Holmes-	(Advt:.)
CARD PARTY AND GAMES February 20, 1960	-	7:45 P.M.
Benefit of Mother’s Club,
St, Mary’s School, Glenfield, Pa., at School Hall, Donation $.50 (Advt.)
PRE-LENTEN DESSERT CARD PARTY Monday, Feb, 22, 1960 - 8:30 P.M.
Sponsored by
The Young Woman’s- Civic Club American Legion Hall Donation $1.00. Please bring your own cards.	(Advt.)
SAUERKRAUT AND ROAST PORK DINNER Thursday, Feb. 25 - 5 to 7 p.m.
Council Approves Budget Of $378,811 For 1960
Cochran Hose Company Requests. Consideration Of »Request to Ruy New Ladder Truck
Sewickley council, at its regular meeting on Monday, passed the tax- ordinance levying a real estate tax of 12% mills, the same as last year. 8.85 mills will be for general borough purposes and 3.65 for debt service on the bonds and interest for the sewage treatment plant. The general fund budget totals $339,311 and the debt service, $39,500, for a total of $378,811.
Council discussed a request by die Cochran Hose Company for a new ladder truck and then authorized the fire committee to start drawing up specifications. That will require a number of months and about a year will pass before the new truck can be built and delivered. The fire company estimated that the cost would be in the neighborhood of $40,000 and estimated the sale price of the La France ‘quad’ would be about $4,000. The La France truck, while old, is in good shape, but is underpowered to negotiate the steep hills. The new ladder truck will enable a small squad to handle fires more efficiently. Need for an aerial truck was demonstrated at the MacKay garage blaze.
Based on an assessed valuation of’
$10,800,000 the 12% milk tax is expected to return a net of $128,000 foi ’60 taxes and $2,800 from previous years; the wage tax at Vz% is expected to produce $27,000 in ’60 plus $18,-000 from previous yeaTs and the per capita tax of $5, is estimated to bring in $14,500 for ’60 and $3,000 from previous years. That is a total of $193,300.
Other income is estimated at $98,-
540, consisting of beverage licenses, 52,350; utility pole tax, $250; street permits, $300; license fees, $1,100; fire department fees, $700; plumbing and building permits, $750; rubbish collection, $2,000; police fines, $7,000; rent of property, $1,740; dump tickets, $1,000; parking meters, $28,500; gasoline tax refund, $10,500; miscellaneous, $300; sewer service charges, (Continued on Page 12)
Sewickley Council Sees Master Plan For Town
Question of Financing of Improvements of Prior Importance, Council Says
Sewickley Council, at its regular meeting Monday night, saw the Master Plan for the redevelopment of the Sewickley business district and heard George Beckman of the Carroll V. Hill Associates, outline the stages in the proposed redevelopment. Harry Hull, chairman of the Sewickley Planning Commission, told council that the plan has been presented to the Advisory Committee of the Planning Commission and to the business people of Sewickley. Considerable interest and enthusiam has been generated for the plan by both the merchants and the Advisory Committee, which is composed of ten representative residents and thfe presidents of the four borough councils.	,
A public hearing will be held in the near future to secure more public participation and more ideas before the plan is completed and published. Mr. Hull said that so far there’s more community, participation in this plan than was ever accomplished before. He introduced, Mr. Hill, Mr. Beckman and Mr. Wilkins who prepared the charts and graphs, which are on public display in the office of Raymond Howe, borough manager.
Mr Beckman said that numerous' newspaper and magazine articles have
Sponsored by W.S.C.S., Methodist Church, Glenfield in social rooms.
Adults $1.25 Children 50c Postponed from Feb, iS (Advt.)
February 26, 1960 - 8:30 P.M. The Woman’s Catholic Guild of St. James Church will hold a DESSERT CARD ARTY in St. James School Hall. Donation $1.00, For tickots call Mrs, Menz, Sew. 748,
Bring your own cards! (Advt.)
LEAP YEAR DAY DANCE Monday, Feb. 29, 1960 - 8-12 P.M.
Sponsored by Quaker Valley Jr.-Sr. P.T.A. at Quaker Valley High School. Orchestra—“MEN OF NOTE’’. Free Cha-Cha lesson by Jack Burklmrd, Refreshments. Donation $2.00 Couple
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WORLD DAY OF PRAYER Friday, March 4, 1960 - 2 P.M.
Sewickley Methodist Church The Sewickley Council of Church Women invites overyone to attend. A Nursery will be provided.	( Advt,)
looked back over the fabulous fifties and ahead to the soaring sixties. Changes apt to occur in the sixties can be traced as trends in the 50’s when Pittsburgh underwent a complete transformation, A population increase of 80 per cent is expected by 1975 and there is no room for them in Pittsburgh. War babies are forming families and they are going to the suburbs to find space in which to live, Economically, the Pittsburgh area has not kept pace with tire rest of the country, due to the decline in coal mining. But Western Pennsylvania is in the middle of the market area containing 50 per cent of the population, with 60 per cent of the retail sales and three-quarters of the industrial potential of the entire United States. New interstate highways, in a few yeafs, will make this area much more accessible.
This growth will influence Sewickley, which will be the center of a network of new highways which will lead to the greatest suburban growth in this direction in the next 25 years, (Continued on Page 12)
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