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Tlie Sewickley ¥a!leyV Xiozne-Mews Weekly
VOL. 57, No, 26 •	,	, SEWICKLEY, PENNSYLVANIA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER -14, 1961	_	Price Tea Cents
Open House At Sewickley Central Office

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An Open House will be held at the Bell Telephone’s Sewickley Central Office, Beaver and Straight Streets, on Wednesday and Thursday, September 20 and 21, from 2 *p.m. to 4 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.in. Visitors will be given a guided tour of the new facilities - . .. «■ & ® #

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Opportunity To See liow 741 Works
' Residents of Sewickley willjhaye jm “¿opgbrttSfy^rife Sewickley telephone central office in operation .when the Bell Telephone ' Company of Pennsylvania holds pub-* lie Open House at ihe local communications centei at Beaver and Straight Streets, it was announced today by M. M. Myers, local wire chief for the company.
The Bell Company building will be
open for public .visiting between the hours of 2:00 to 4:00 an d 6:30vto 9:00 P.M. on Wednesday and Thursday next week (September 20 and 21), Myers said.
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dial office which was placed in operation this year at the climax of a $1.5 million ’'service improvement program;” he added.
Visitors will he able to observe the intricate operations of the dial switching equipment os calls are speeded to local and out-of-town telephones and they will also meet local Bell Com-
(josepu Jtioppa rnoto; to see how the Bell Telephone Company operates ‘ a modem dial office. Nationwide, Direct Distance Dialing will bet explained, and also the 7-figure (aU-riumfier dialing) now
in effect in this area.	,
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for the operation and maintenance of the communityY steadily-growing telephone system. ,	.
;	men. and women y ill eon^ct tiiar-FIower then got up and went
tours of the pffi6C arid eiqylain their various^ duties and the functions of the operating equipment* Special displays will dramatize achievements of the Bell Company in keeping pace with the community’s needs.
In issuing a personal invitation to Sewickley residents to visit the'open house, Myers requested that children be accompanied by adults. '
Child Health Officers Plan Activities
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Officers and Board members of tlie Child Health Association of SewicldCy, met on Friday at the homo of tltofncw prcsident,MrS. SI ¿ct Shields/ to^im adfiviti^ for to coming year# Front rowi left to nght: Mrs. William H. Colbert, Mrs* David B* Boric, Mrs.
.David A. Nimick. Back row: Mrs. Donald M. Simnions, Jr., Mrs* James F, Edson, Mrs. Robert M. Jones, Mrs. Frank R. Stoner, Jfi, Mrs. Francis B, Nimick, Jr., Mrs. Charles E* Scholl, Jr., und Mrs. Ralph L. Bolhngcr, Jr. Mrs. John R* Wrickwirc was unablo to bö pre-
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Hearing On Beating Case Cantinued For Two Weeks
Victim, Suffering Tramuatic Amnesia, Remembers Nothing Of The Fight
Christopher Flower, 20-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. James O. Blower of Persimmon Road, Sewickley Heights, testified at a hearing Wednesday, September 6th before Mayor Laurence V. Gibb, that he didn’t remember seeing William Basinger, First Street, Ambridge,' didn’t remember seeing him or fighting with him. In fact, he said every thing was a blank between the timé he was at his home for dinner on Saturday, August 12th and the next morning when he woke up in the hospital. He also said he didn’t recall what he had told the doctor at the hospital, where it had been necessary to cut his windpipe to save his fife. He said that he didn’t remember being in thé Sewicldey Hotel with a companion and two girls on August 12th, although he said he had been there before.	/"
After taking thé testimony, Mayor Gibb, who is also Justice of the Peace, continued the hearing to September 20th at S p.m. due to the confused state .of the record and to afford an opportunity to discuss the case with the District Atomey of Allegheny County and further with the Liquor Control Board, which had all ready been told of the incident.
The hçaring opened with the read-
ing of the lndicjbment charging Mr. Basinger with assault and battery, signed by Chief Thomas Prende^ast on information supplied by Officer Anthony . Bruno. " Mr, B asinger s signed statement was read and he saip the statement was true.
idr. Basinger' testified that lie was witii Domenic Amato and James MaS-si and had never seen Flower before, He and Amato w^re in the next booth to the Flower party, Basinger said, when Flower said something ’to him in a foreign language and repeated it, Basinger told him to keep quiet and
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to where he wgR-sitting and asked him to step outside, Amato, who >vas seated on the outside, told Basinger to ior-get it, but Basinger said that Flower repeated the challenge tlixee times and he finally asked Amato to let him out. He went out of the Hotel and Flower followed, -he testified. They walked across the street and exchanged a few \vords, Basinger said. Then, he said Blower swung and he hit him twice, grabbed him, hit him and let him down, hearing his head strike on die sidewalk.
In answer-to a* question by Mayor Gibb, Basinger said lie had never done any amateur or professional? boxing. Gibb also asked if lie knew how seriously Flower was hurt and Basinger said when he looked back and didn't see him coming* he told the girls. Later, he went out and went to Bobby’s and Denny's, where a dance xvas .also in progress, Gibb asked what precipitated the argument and Basinger said the foreign language. Flower didn't remember making any remarks.
Officer Bruno testified that at 1:15 a.fn. on Saturday* August 12th, he was crossing Beaver at Broad, when he noticed a group of people standing in the middle of Beaver Street* so he turned on Beaver, Dances were in progress both at the Sewickley Hotel and Bobby's and Denny's Inn* a few doors apart on Beaver, Officer' Bruno said he drove cast on Division Street and saw a hoy lying on the sidewalk. He turned him over and radioed for an ambulance which took the youth to the' hospital, where lie was taken to surgery and Ids windpipe Severed to allow him to breathe His nose and
South were so* badly battered and ceding * that lie was choking, The physician wluJ treated him said if the omeer imunYimiveu in lime and fumed 1dm over* he probably would have died.
Officer Bruno questioned several people Was told different stories» He kept ^ cheeking the bars* but couldn’t get any answers* Then* he found John W. GuulticrJ*. 354 Lincoln . Avenue*
fVhen Bruno called him out of the
Turnpike Bruno said Gualtieri told him he had parked in front of the liquor store and saw four hoys ‘working over' Flower. Bruno said he had named Jim Mass! and ^McCutcbeon. Gualtieri’s wife then came out. and asked what about it. Bruno asked if Jimmy Mass! was there and Gualtieri asked, “What do you want me to, say?” Bruno returned to Sewicldey police headquarters where Jimmy Massi and his father were. Basinger who was picked up by Ambridge police was there also and denied nny * fight, until Bruno told him. he had seen him ieavY; iowii; Thep,: he admitted being in -the fight. Chief Breii-deigast said police questioned all the people they could find, but no . one but Basinger admitted being in the fight Gualtieri, in his testimony; said he came here with two other fellows and girls, drove down Beaver and parked in front of the liquor store. He said (Continued on Page 7)
What’s Doin’
ANTIQUES SHOW - Tenth Annual, Grcensburg, Pa., Mt. View Hotel* four miles east/on U. S. 30, September 19, 20, 21. (Adv't)
PUBLIC AUCTION SALE r Saturday* Sept, 20, beginning at 10 a.m., Sponsored by the Big Sewickley Creek Firemen, at the Fireball. Auxiliary members will serve light lunches throughout the. day. For pick-up of donations of furniture, dishes* appliances and miscellaneous articles, calk, Matt Fullerton* Co. 6-5407trWm, Fowler, Co. 6-2241; A! Pius, Co, 6-5359; James Montagna, Co. 6-1848, or any fire-. man or Auxiliary member.
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Afternoon DESSERT CARD PARTY* Thursday, September 21st, 1 P.M*, St, James Activities Hall, sponsored by St James Women's Catholic Guild, Donation $1.00, (Adv't)
SPAGHETTI DINNER at St. James School, Sept, 24th at 1:00 to 7:00 P.M. Sponsored by Catholic Youth Club of St James Church,
Donation - Adults $1.00; Chfidrcn under 12* 65 cents* «(Adv't)
RUMMAGE SALE - Wednesday* Sept 27 and Thursday* Sept, 28, from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. each evening, at the Sewickley Methodist Church* :>	bv the Womnr»’s Sorich’1
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'CLOTHES LINE SALE”* Thursday* September 28, 9 A,M. to 5 P.M.* Sewickley Academy Gymnasium'* Good used elotliing * Men'sj Wo-iuon's and Children's, Tiffs i$ ¿¡toé
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