Sewickley Herald

              


The Herald
The Sewickley Valley's Home-News Weekly
VOL. 00, No. 9	SEWICKLEY, PENNSYLVANIA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1964	Price Ten Cents
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Promoting Sewickley’s Rehabilitation and urging attendance at a meeting at 8:15 p.m. on Wednesday> March 4th at the Sewicldey Motor Inn are: Ross W. Buck, editor of the Herald, holding a ‘before* picture of the old Herald office; Mrs. Robert N. Standish, Jr., secretary of the Sewicldey Council of Garden Clubs; J. Robert Angros, corchairman of the Board of •Trade’s Christmas Decorating Committee; Mrs. Barbara White, co-chairman of
Mrs. James Bush-Brown To Speak March 4
The Sewicldey Council of jGarden Clubs is privileged to sponsor a noted speaker,: Mrs. James Bush-Brown, at the Sewicldey Motor Inn on Wednesday, March 4th at 8:15 p.m. She will bring her experience of 3,0. years* work in Philadelphia, where, as President of The Neighborhood Associa-
te Christmas Decorating Committee holding the ‘after* picture of the new Herald office and Mrs. Clinton L. Childs, Jr., member of the Council of Garden Clubs. The Sewicldey Council of Garden Clubs is sponsoring the appearance here of Mrs. James Bush-Brown ' of Philadelphia, who will speak at 8:15 p.m. on Wednesday, March 4th at the Sewicldey Motor Inn. .
* * ^ she Wrote ‘'America’s Garden Book”, a best seller and Book-of-the-Month Club selection, and "Portraits of Philadelphia Gardens”. For 28 years she has been Director of the Pennsylvania School of Horticulture, and has received the Garden Club' of America Award for Civic achievement and the Distinguished Daughter of Pennsylvania Award.
Everyone interested in renewing the Sewickley community is urged to come. No admission charge.
tiori, she inspired the local garden clubs and the 4-H dubs to w o r k jointly in creating' neighborhood gardens out of vacant lots and trash heaps. The results have been far-reaching. The environment of over 100,000 people living in congested areas in Philadelphia has been enriched, and a civic interest and pride has developed, which had been previously non-existent,
Mrs. Bush-Brown is a noted author of garden books, With her husband,
Osborne Council Cuts Vi Mill Off 1964 Taxes
Allegheny County Road Department Offers To Widen Glen Mitchell Within Right-of-Way
Osborne council, at its regular meeting on Thursday* February 13th, approved a budget estimating receipts at $34,000 and expenses at $39,700, based on a property tax rate of 18& mills, a reduction of y~ mill from, 1963. The reduction Was made possible by a reduction of mill in the debt service requirements for the sewer bonds. $3,870 will be required for paying $3,000 bond and interest this year. The borough had about $9,000 unappropriated at the end of die year and if die receipts amount to only $34,000, the remaining expenses will come out of that bank balance. However, receipts were estimated on die conservative side.
Xhc Allegheny County Commissioners added die Glen Mitchell Road project to the 1964 road schedule, at ail estimated cost of $8,000 and die job will probably be done in June, when die County crews will widen Camp Meeting Road.
president Herbert E. Marks, Jr., and Solicitor William Howard Colbert went to see Levi Bird Duff, head of the County Highways Department, They suggested that die Gounty might want to take over that portion of die highway* but Mr, Duff said the County was trying to get rid of roads, not take over more. Mr. Duff advised applying to die County Commissioners to place the Glen Mitchell Pond on the berm-improvement schedule for 1904. The Borough would secure the right-of-way and would bo responsible for continued inaintenance.
A letter was received from die
Commissioners dated February llth, stating that the County would make tlio improvement at an estimated cost of $8,000 and advising the Borough that t li e County Law Department had been instructed to draw up the necessary agreement between th o County and th Borough. Mr, Colbert Said that the borough council could imVo done the job by contract and asked the County for re-imbursement, but that would have meant hiring an engineer to draw plans and letting the contract, Ids more feasible to allow dio County to do it and it will
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Modeling hats for "Fashions A La Carte” which will be held tonight at the Quaker Valley High School gymnasium in Lcetsdalc are: Mrs. Fielding Lewis* Mrs. Jack Southgate, Mrs. William White and Mrs. Richard Cole, seated.
Fashions A La Carte Tonight At Q.V. High
Members of Sewickley Chapter No. 439, Order of The Easter Star, have completed plans for their presentation of "Fashions A la Carte*.
This fashion show, with refreshments, will bo presented this evening at 8 ¡00 p.m, at die Quaker Valley Senior High School gymnasium in Leetsdalo.
Spring and summer apparel for the entire family will bo shown through tho courtesy of Southgates* located in die new Quaker Village Shopping
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Merit Pay Program In Schools Voted Down
Some Elementary School Pupils To Be Transferred to Equalize Teacher-Load
The Quaker Valley Joint School Committee met on Monday, February 24, in the library of the Junior High School. The Finance Committee asked that the Committee consider the following referral; “The question of continuing Merit Salary Pay as a budget inclusion for the school year 1964-65.** After much discussion, witii good arguments on both sides of die question, the motion to continue Merit Salary Pay for the year 1964-65 was defeated. The Administration was authorized to transfer elementary students, who are being transported, from one building to another in order to more evenly distribute the teacher-load and provide more equal educational opportunity for the children; $100,000 from the General Fund will be invested in United States Treasury 91 day bids; and die Committee members welcomed a group of Band Mothers who presented the proposed By-Laws for the Quaker Valley Band Parent’s Association.
Bills for February in the amount of $108,070^18, including the February payroll of $91,153.97, for all employees except cafeteria workers, was approved for payment. The February cafeteria bills in the amount of $6,-460.94, including the estimated payroll of $2,065.00 was approved for payment The Curriculum and the Personnel Committees both endorsed a recommendation that the Administration ho allowed to transfer elementary students, who are being transported, from one building to another, to assure a more equal educational opportunity for the children, and to more'’ evenly distribute the- teacher load. This would eliminate thé need to employ an additional teacher for the school term 1964-65. Friday, February 21, was ratified as a school day for pupils and teachers' as one of the two-days lost in January due. to the snow. This date had been set aside on the school calendar as a Teacher Workshop day. ’	.
Mr. Rhesa G. Shaw will attend the Annual Convention of the American Industrial Arts Association--in Washington, D. C., March 30-April 3. Miss Catherine Taylor will attend the International Pleading Association Convention in Philadelphia, April 29-May 2. The Joint Committee approved tile following recommendation of the Personnel committee: That if a nonresident pupil who is accepted by the Joint Committee of the Quaker Valley Joint Schools to attend school on a tuition basis, said tuition being paid by tire parent or guardian, that pupil must reside continuously during the school year ( or such part thereof as the child is in attendance in the Quaker Valley Joint Schools) with a responsible adult who will assume all personal obligations for the child relative to school requirements.
The Curriculum Committee recommended that the Quaker Valley Joint Schools issue a high school diploma to a student who has satisfied the following requirements: 1) Satisfactorily completed the high school level of the General Educational Development (GED) Tests; 2) Completed tho tenth grade or higher in the Quaker Valley Joint Schools; 3) The class of which the student was a member has been graduated; 4) The student be a£ least 20 years old. The CED tests are administered by die United States Armed Forces Institute, and nowhere else, arid the student's satisfactory completion of these tests make him eligible for graduation. Dr. Bedison said evidently the emphasis on drop-outs is having some effect, for he has had two students in the past month who have passed the GED tests and will receive ft diploma. These students have their names placed on the diploma list* and do not participate in graduation exercises*
Mr, Hawkins welcomed the hand mothers who attended the meeting and said that what they proposed to do Was in tho interest of the school.
Ho invited them to attend future board meetings, The Joint Commit-
tee approved the proposed by-laws for the Quaker Valley Band Parents* Association, and a meeting will he called for the purpose of organizing such an association.
Air. David R. Simpson will attend the Middle States Council for the Social Studies Teachers’ Convention in New York City on May I5rl7. Mrs. Mary Chantier will attend the Eastern Arts Convention in New York City on March 11-14. Cub Scout pack #250 were given permission to hold their Blue and Gold Banquet in the Fair Oaks School, Sunday, February 25; the Sewicldey Section of the Quaker Valley PTA will hold their Annual Dessert and Card Party in the Sewickley elementary school on Monday, April 6; and permission was granted the Municipal Authority of the Borough of Leetsdale to use a classroom in the high‘school to conduct tests for applications for the position of Assistant Plant Operator on Saturday, March 14, at 1:30 p.m.
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What’s Doin ’
FASHIONS A. LA CARTE - February 27 - 8 P.M. Fashion Show and Refreshments. Quaker Valley Sr. High" School Gymnasium, Leetsdale, Pa. Sponsored by Sewickley Chapter #439, Order of Eastern Star. Fashions by Southgate’s. Donation $1.00. Public cordially invited.	(Adv’t)
STUFFED PORK CHOP DINNER, Post #4, American Legion, 246 Broad Street. Adults, $1,50; Children, $1.00. Sunday, March 1, 1964, 2:00 to 7:00 P.M, (Adv’t)
The annual sale of SKILL-CRAFT Products made at the Pittsburgh Branch of the Blind will be held at the Edgeworth Club, Monday, March 2, between hours of 11 A.M. to 3 P.M. Conducted each year by the Woman’s Club of Sewickley.
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Everyone urged to hear Mrs, James Brush-Brown, Wednesday, March 4th at 8:15 p.m, at the Sewicldey Motor Inn. Talk with slides will show Neighborhood Renewal. No admission charge.	(Adv’t)
JR. HIGH RECORD HOP, Sewickley Y.M.C.A.* Friday* March 6, 8 to 10 p.m, Everyone welcome. 50 cents, (Y members, 25c)	(Adv’t)
St. James P.T.G* sponsoring its ANNUAL VLAETARE FESTIVAL — games, bake sale, apron booth* white elephants, movies, refreshments, March 8 from 3 until 7 P.M. at St. James School Auditorium, AH invited.	(Adv’t)
Join the Sewickley NAACP NOW! New members are invited and present members urged to renew memberships now* Contact James Cook* 741-5118 or Mildred Addison, 741-9723,