Sewickley Herald

              The Herald
The Sewickley Valley's Home-News Weekly
VOL. 09, No. 47
SEWICKLEY, PENNSYLVANIA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1963
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As a grief-stricken country starts to return to normal living after the horrible events of last week-end, are the good resolutions made by most Americans to be carried out or gradually forgotten?
Were the prayers which Were offered up in the memorial services in many churches really sincere or were they just temporary things, bom of the anger and frustration of the moment?
Did the people who attended those memorial services go through fear, pr because their consciences bothered them that such a thing could happen in this so-called Christian country and they felt somehow to blame?	V
Are the many brave words just words, or are they to be followed by action?	V .	-
Are Americans to become more conscious, of their civic and patriotic duties or are we to slide back into our former indifference? Our record in Sewicldey wasn’t so good in the November election, when only 2,042 of the approximately 3,200 registered voters went to the polls to select our local, country and state officials and decide on which amendments should be made to our constitution. Some of the other boroughs and townships had a little better voting record, but none approached 100%.
Are we prepared now to stamp out the evil in this country by ceasing to tolerate narcotic peddlers, number writers, gamblers and others whose operations finance big crime, and also: oy ceasing to tolerate the judges who let them off with light sentences? Are we willing to stop setting bad examples for the youth of the land? Has this monstrous tiring shocked us into backing up our law enforcement agencies with sufficient moral support, as well as financial support, to do the job they .are supposed to do?
Or did John Fitzgerald Kennedy die in vain?
What’s Doin'
Friday, November 29	- St. James
School auditorium at 7:30, C V O MEETING followed by a DANCE. For high school age Catholics and guests. $t00.	(Adv't)
MUSICAL PROGRAM -	-	-
St/ Matthew's AME Zion* Church, Sunday, December 1, 1963, 7:30 p.m., sponsored by. the Senior Choir, .Mrs. Anna Hedge, president; Rev. W. P. Dockery, pastor; silver offering.	, (Adv't)
JUNIOR HIGH R.T.A. MEETlNfe changed from Dec. 3 to Thursday, Dec. 12. Program, Junior High Band Concert.	(Adv’t)
St. Stephen's Episcopal Church will sponsor a Teaching and Healing Mission on Wednesday and Thurs-day, December 4th and 5th, 1063. The leader will ho th<f Reverend Edward Winckley of Natal, South
Africa. All are welcome to participate.	(Adv't)
On Thursday evening, December 5, 1963, at 8:30 p.m., the Reverend C. Leroy Hacker, Pastor of the Shiloh Baptist Church, Pittsburgh, Pa., will address the third meeting of the proposed Sowickley Valley Human Relations Association in the gymnasium of the Sewickley Community Center, 15 Chadwick St. The public is cordially invited.
(Adv't)
CHICKEN & CHISTERLING DINNER, sponsored by the Chancel Choir, St, Matthew's A.M.E, Zion Church. Thursday, December 5 at 5 P.M. Donation $1.25. Chairman, Mrs. Christine Taylor; Pastor, Reverend W. P. Dockery. (Adv't)
Truth and unvarnished frankness are not always tho same things.
TELL THEM YOU SAW IT IN THE HERALD
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Santa ComingTo Sewickley Dec. 7
The Sewicldey Valley Board of Trade, Inc., has arranged for Santa to come to Sewickley at 11 a.m. on Saturday, December 7th. He will be in his Santa cottage at »Beaver and Broad Streets, with his Santa Belles, to meet children, hear what they want for Christmas and give each of them a candy cane,
This year, there will be an animated organ player, playing Christmas music added to the choir singers and the elves and Santa's workshop of previous years. Santa will return at II a.m. on Saturday, December 14th and again on Saturday, December 21st, remaining until 3 p.m. each Saturday. •
This year, with the aid of the Garden Clubs, the Christmas decorations will be“different, with live trees on the light poles, instead of the lights across the street. The golden tree will be at the boulevard at the foot of Brpad Street again this year.
The Herald will publish a spècial Christmas gift section-in the Thursday, December' 5th edition. The Board of Trade will hold its annual Christmas Gift Days with prizes of gift certificates given away each Saturday for three weeks in December. '
Driver Cleared In Pedestrian Death
Joyce Dorsey, - of West Bridgewater, driver of the car which ran down arid fatally injured Edna H. Williams, of the Allan Anns Apartments early on Friday, November 1st, as she crossed Beaver jiear Little Street, was cleared by a coroner's jury at die inquest last week.	- .
Officers Willard Milligan and Officer Anthony Bruno* of the- Sewicldey Police Department, testified that Mrs. Williams, often took early morning walks and ‘crossed the road anywhere.” They said the street was wet and visibility was poor the morning of the accident.
Miss Dorsey, a nurse's aid at Sewickley. Valley Hospital, was on her way to work at the time. She ran over the sidewalk and knocked down a parking meter in. an attempt to avoid Mrs.' Williams.
Youth Badly Hurt In Motorcycle Crash
Charles H.s Holl, aged 16, son of Mr. and Mrs. Herman Holl, who own and operate the Sewickley Beauty Parlor at 437 Beaver Street, is in the Sewickley Valley Hospital suffering from a compound fracture of the left leg and a fractured hip and other injuries as the result of à collision between his motorcycle and a car on Tuesday, November 19th.	*
Charles was on his way home at 110 Wessex Drive, Moon Township, shortly after 5 o'clock on Tuesday, driving east on Moon-Clinton Road* A car proceeding west, driven by Richard Titz of 152 Rosemont Drive, Moon Township, made a left turn to Rosemont Drive, and the two Vehicles collided at tho intersection, according to Police Chief Kenneth Hoover.
Charles Holl told police that Mr. Titz didn't have his turn signals on and Mr, Titz said Charles hadn't turned on the motorcycle lights to which Charles replied that it was not dark enough to use lights and ho wasn’t permitted to drive tho motor-cycycle after dark.
Damage to tho car was estimated at $125 and to the motorcycle, $350.
IL l HEINZ H RE-ELECTED
H. J. Heinz II was re-elected as one of tho four vice-presidents of the Allegheny Conference on Community Development. Tho voting took place November 18 at Carnegie Music Hall prior to tho organization's annual dinner meeting,
Osborne May Ask County To Widen Glen Mitchell
Council Transfers $1,000 to Fire Protection To Pay For Future Blazes
Osborne council, at its meeting on Thursday, November 14th, asked Secretary David Wyle to write to property owners on Glen Mitchell Road to inform them that the widening of the road will be discusse’d at the December 12th meeting. Solicitor William Howard Colbert told council that a new agreement would be necessary if the County is to be requested to widen the road on the hill side. The widened road would still he in the right-of-way.
The County stopped the widening at the borough line when residents complained that it would take part of theif lawns. After the protest, the Country found that the old agreement with the borough had expired and the Job was halted, Mr. Colbert reported that the plan was wrong and the engineer didn’t read the plans correctly, so, when the contractor arrived and started putting stakes in the yards, the property owners objected.
Vice President M. S. Schoetz, who presided, wondered if a wider road would attract more traffic. Councilman Larson said if the property owners didn’t want the road widened on ¿Be hill side, they should let council-men know.	^
* With only $200 left in t h e Fire protection account in- the budget, council transferred $1,000 from the $9,000 unappropriated account, to* pay for fire alarms for the remainder of the year. There were three fires in October and one in November, which would have exhausted the present appropriation. In addition, there was another minor grass fire which Chief Baltz; put out with an extinguisher. Council Was told that the firemen were fortunate to stop the fire at the McIntosh's before it crossed the road or it would have probably burned over everything at least to the top of the hill.
Louie's Amoco station was given the contract to plow the principal streets and lanes in the borough on 24-hour call, for $8 an hour, for truck and driver. The former ■■■ contractor didn't want to plow snow this year. Only the streets will be ploughed, not the sidewalks, council directed the street committee. A suggestion whs made that the borough consider purchasing a 4-wheel drive jeep with a snow blade for snow removal and leaf collection, but no action was taken. -
A registered letter will be sent to Joseph R. Angros, notifying him that unless he secures a building permit for a carport, positive action will be taken, by council. The committee viewed the carport and decided it did, not comply with the permit as issued,
Secretary Wylie was requested to check the minutes to see if there was a record of the Zoning Board of Adjustment's decision in the addition to the Ralph Massey home. Mr. Massey informed Mr. Wylie that he didn't have a copy of his plan and the bor-pugh doesn't have one in his files.
Solicitor Colbert reported that no definite plans have yet been formulated for the future of the Baker property.
Bills were ordered paid from the general fund amounting to $2,863 the largest being $1,105 to Sewicldey borough for sewage service and three fires at $200 a blaze. $595 was spent from gasoline tax money on streets. The bank balance was reported as $25,491. Taxes collected on propetry amounted "to $1,198; debt service, $224; current wage taxes, $451 and delinquent wage taxes, $267, for a total of $1,976. Balance to be collected in current property taxes is $1,238.
Mayor Barber reported 29 arrests, a record/ for October. Five were on Beaver Road and one was passing a school bus. One of the school signs in the middle of Beaver Road was knocked over, damaging a headlight of the car involved, which didn't stop. • Justice of the Peace Guilot reported 4 cases settled with $95 in state fines and 20 with $170 in borough fines. ; 16 of the 20 were for speeding and the other four for ignoring traffic lights. A drag racer was caught and fined the limit, $10, for going 80, The new boulevard paving encourages speeding* council was informed.
The treasurer's bond of $1,000 was placed with .Raymond Tucker. Last month, the minutes revealed, the Spengler letter about fire insurance survey was tabled.
Addressing envelopes for Sewicldey Library Drive for donations to purchase new boofck to renew the interior of the Library and to provide salary increases and pensions for the staff. Seated, left to rights Mrs. A. Reed Harper, Mrs. Duncan C. Stephens, HI and Mrs. Horace Peters. Standing, Miss Elizabeth Mott, Librarian and Mrs. Mary Cooper Robb, President of the Library Board.