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VOL. 59, No. SI
The Sewickley Valley's Home-News Weekly
SEWICKLEY, PENNSYLVANIA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1803

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Truck driver Charles Babjeck, of Robinson Township, escaped with a cut wrist at 9 a.m. on Wednesday, December 18th, when this trailer was hit by a fast Chicago-Pittsburgh Pennsylvania Railroad passenger train at the Haysville grade crossing. Sir. Babjeck told police that he had crosed the crossing from the boulevard and attempted a turn to South Avenue, but couldn't swing the big rig around the sharp turn and backed on to the tracks
(Photo by James Addison) just as the passenger train reached the cross-* ing. No injuries were reported on the train, either, despite the fact that the windshield of the diesel engine was shattered and the right side of the engine damaged. ’
Wrecking craws of John Schwartz with their big tow trucks spent most of the day on Wednesday getting the big rig out of die creek bed, where it was tossed byihe impact.
Glen Mitchell Residents Discuss Road Widening
Increased Traffic on Re-Paved Upper Road Causes Concern For Children s Safety
Seventeen residents of Osborne, mostly from Glen Mitchell Road, attended the regular council meeting on Thursday, December 19th, to discuss die possible widening and improvement of the portion of Glen Mitchell Road within the borough limits. The section beyond the borough line was widened and re-paved by the Allegheny County Department of Highways, which set stakes and started work within the borough, only to be stopped by borough officials on complaints of residents.
Investigation disclosed that the County crew was working with the wrong plans and some of the stakes were in the front yards of houses bn the westerly side of the road. Legal action was threatened, as well as arrest of the county men for trespassing on private property, so the County looked up the maintenance agreement with the borough and found that it had expired. So, the work was stopped and can only be started again, with the proper plans, by agreement with the County.
In order to accomplish an agree-
Sewickley Follows Up Complaint on Odor
“	Sewickley Council To Consider Again
\ The Purchase of a New Fire Truck
Borough Manager C. Fred Guy was requested by Sewickley council, at its regular meeting on Monday, December 16th,. to follow tip his originaTcomplaint to the Allegheny County Health Department on the odors emanating from a holding pool on Neville Island, despite word from the County Health Department . that definite steps were being taken to abate the nuisance. A letter will be sent to the County Commissioners, v Conned was informed that garbage and rubbish collection will, be $11,000 less next year, due to the closing of Sewickley’s incinerator and taking die refuse to Ambridge’s modem incinerator. Ids no longer necessary to separate cans and botdes from waste paper, for the Ambridge incinerator melts glass and tin and bums the paper.
J. B. Copper, 604 Pine Road, was
re-appoihted to a three-year term on the* Zoning Board of Adjustment. W. :F. Holthaus, 720 Washington Street, Was re-appointed to a five-year term on the Board of Health.
Councilman McClintock reported that the fire committee had met. with ■ the Cochran Hose Company. The firemen wanted their annual contract price raised from $4,500to $5,000 and criticized the committee for not. purchasing 100 feet of Vh and 2% inch fire hose. The committee was also criticized by the firemen for not purchasing a new fire truck. The fire bommittee later secured three bids on fire hose and ordered 200 feet of each size, from the low bidder on the same specifications. The committee will also consider the matter of the fire struck again* It was dropped because of an apparent difference of < opinion on whether a .snorkle or an aerial ladder truck should bo purchased,
. C. Fred Guy, manager, reported, that the. new snow loading machine and the jeep with the plow have been delivered and are ready for service* Connelly Dodge & Jeep received $2,-198 for the’ jefep truck and' Tenor Brothers $2,048 for the snow blower* They Were largo items in the bills which amounted to $12,150, Other items were $2,444 for four months* garbage and rubbish disposal at the Ambridge pianti $1,340 for electrical Service; $181 for. repairs to one o£ the police cars, which will bo replaced early in the year; $155 for duos for the Pennsylvania State Association of Boroughs; $196 for labor and $291 . for materials for the new floor in the garage to accommodate the new
garbage packer truck; $129 for repairs to the leaf picker, garage*door and supplies for the sewage plant and some moro routine bills.
Council instructed Mr. Guy to follow up his complaint to the Allegheny County Health Department concerning the offensive _o dor coming from a three acre holding pond for the in* dus trial waste of two plants on Neville Island. Mr, Dunsmore, Director of the County Health Department, (Continued on jPage 24)
Sleepers Have Rude Awakening On.
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Two men, sleeping in their* parked car on the Ohio River Boulevard, Sewickley, after the car had run out of gas at 5:18 a.m, on Saturday, December 21st, had a very rude" awakening. Their car was struck in the rear by another1 eastboünd car, pushed clear across tire boulevard and up over the curb ón the other Side, Fortunately no One was hurt,
The driver of the second car, Cray-don M, Campbell, Jr,, 4412 Birch-wood Lane, Allison Park, told Officer Willard Milligan, who investigated, that the parked car had no lights. The men in the parked car had no owner’s card for the car, Officer Milligan discovered, One of them was Jesse E, Finch, 1413 Bidwcll Street, Pittsburgh 33, police said* The rear of the parked car was damaged considerably, and so Was the front of the car driven by Mr. Campbell.
Stolen Car Left Here; Another Stolen
Kirs. Frank Kapela, 768 Ohio River Boulevard, Sewickley, called Sewickley police at 12:08 a.m. on Saturday, December 21st, to report a car parked on McDonald Street, blocking their driveway. The ignition key was in the lock, so Officer Bruno movec the car. Checking the license plate, police found the car was owned by Blaine II. Stone, 1914 Murray Avenue, Pittsburgh, and had • b.e e n reported stolen. The car was‘towed to Louie’s Amoco station and later was reclaimed by Mr. Stone.
At 12:18 a.m., Sewickley police received a call from A. D. Smith, 838 Nevin Avenue, that a car owned by Dr. Ralph Riviere of 206 Wood Drive, New Brighton, had been .stolen from the Sewickley Community Center, Chadwick Street. Dr. Riviere’s *63 Buick w a s recovered by Pittsburgh police in Pittsburgh, where it had been abandoned.
Mailman Fell Into Open Manhole
You’ve seen those cartoons of people falling into open manholes in the comics. Well, it’s-not comic in real life. Mail Carrier Frannie Start got out of a mail truck on Sunday, December 22nd, with an armload of mail ahd fell into an open manhole at Hill and Locust, 'He reported the accident to postmaster Charles Borem on Monday and the Postmaster notified die borough. -- However, at 2:20 p.m. on Sunday, Miss Marguerite Ducker,- administrator of Sewickley Valley Hospital, called to say that she had nearly fallen into the open manhole. Borough Manager Fred Guy was notified and the manhole cover was fixed immediately,
GARAGE DOORS SMASHED IN ON FREDERICK James Smith, 200 Frederick Avenue, called Sewickley police at 8:10 a.m, on Monday, December 23rd, to report that someone had run into his garage doors, smashing them in,
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NEW YEAR’S EVE PARTY - Sewickley American Legion Post 4, 240 Broad Street, Sewickley, 10 p.m, tdP Call for reservations 741-9925. Members and friends Invited,
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menfc with the ^ County, which may pay part of the* cost, is to secure an engineer to draw up plans and a rough estimate, of the expense involved with the amount the borough could afford and ask the County Commissioners to place the project on the aid schedule, Solicitor Colbert informed council. Either state gasoline refund money or matching funds from the state may. be obtained to aid in Osborne’s share..
The County’s contribution could be justified due to the fact that the County paved and widened the portion of the road in Aleppo Township, Mr. Colbert said.
Mrs. F. F. McIntosh asked why the road should be widened, for if traffic is increased greatly on Glen Mitchell .and Beaver roads it would ruin the borough. President Herbert Marks replied that the road had already-been widened and paved above the borough and the part in the borough is so narrow that it constitutes traffic hazard. Councilman Schoetz asked if anyone knew, exactly where the right-of-way is. Mr. Colbert said that the right-of-way had been set by agreement with the county in 1937, when the Borough and County enter-
ed into an agreement by which the County agreed to maintain the road within the borough for ten years.
The westerly line of the right-of-way is the inside line of the sidewalk which extends part way up Glen Mitchell, Mr. Colbert said, but the County engineers erroneously had set the stakes about 4 feet inside the hedges, which was clearly on private property? Since it is a borough road, the County just can’t come in and widen it, taking private property, without condemnation and paying property damages, Mr. Colbert added. > James C. McLellan, 517 Glen Mitchell, said that he stopped the County when the ■ engineers first placed the stakes and outlined the true right-of-way on the blackboard of the Osborne school. As far as the curve, the paved portion is on the westerly, side of the right-of-way and further up the hill, It is more in the center. The right-of-way is 33 feet wide in the borough and 50 feet wide in the township, - Since the County widened and paved the part in Aleppo Township, motorists coming down are'.speeding more than before.
* Councilman Black asked if a speed
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Christmas decorations were entirely different this year, with the overhead strings of lights eliminated* In place of the strings of lights, 11-foot Christmas trees werè decorated and then hoisted o the brackets Qn the light poles. Members of the Little Garden 13Iub of Sewickley assisted members of the Sewickley Valley Board of Trade in decorating • the trees. Both the Little and Village garden-clubs and Sewickley Borough aided in financing the change-over, which meant that strings of lights had to be cut down to fit the trees, Also, an organist was added to the choir singers in the group of figures in the borough park at Broad and Beaver Streets and Christmas music was broadcast from Santa’s cottage*	.	~
Total budget was $2,200 this year and so far, $1,366 has been contributed. Anyone who has not contributed is cordially invited ; o send a chock made out to the Sewickley Valley Board of Trade, ?nc*, and mail it to 611 Reaver Street,