Sewickley Herald

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TheSe wickley Valley's Home-News Weekly
VOL. 57, No, 20
SEWICKLEY, PENNSYLVANIA, THURSDAY, JULY 6, X06I
Price Ten Gent*
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New Golf Club Opened WKat’s Doin ’
By Summertime Editor'
- People of the Sewickley Wiley" commenced tacking names on xeal estate a good time ago. The Original*tracts, some dating back tot 1785, were named like steamboats,, such as “Meadowland” or "Cascade.” Others were given titles more like outboard motorboats; "Betsy’s Choice” and "John’s Fancy” The names of two. of these ancient tracts of land have been perpetuated locally into names of estates: "Newbury” and "Newington.” Headers of The Herald who live hi Edgeworth will probably recognize either or both of these names without much hesitation.
With these two cany-overs for a:
booster take-off* your scribe has looked over some old issues of The Herald jmd has found reference to fifty«odd • Valley homes with tides, 'the ïefer-’ ences : to. these places usually show up in the social columns/ I ¿WouldL say Jhat these existed, roughly, between ;1890 and 1920. NThe names of the owners-as reported in The Herald are-given here, so errors must be blamed on editors .of long ago. In the interest ’ of accuracy, *if there are obvious mistakes in the list, we would be happy to have corrections.. AlsoMt would be quite interesting to Have additions. Without much doubt there were* other family places, between Leetsdale and Haysrille which, for one reason * or another, were not printed'. //.'./jrv,	v'i'r:'.
I readily admit unfamiliarity. with some of these places, even though I have lived here since Hector was a pup. X am most ambiguous of all' concerning those on Sewickley-Heights. •One of them, “Franklin'Farm”, seems to have, gone through some sort of windstorm, for the * early . society , editors of"The^Herald switch it between the Joneses, the Langhlins-and the Robinsons, The first reference X ~, see to it, perhaps in 1904,- is as owned by B. F. Jones. Regardless of that, the venerable .estate is ‘ still in frush ness, and X saw a neat station Wagon just yesterday at the Post Office "with ' '“Franklin Farm”, lettered on it.
So this is not ancient history, for a goodly portion of these names aïe - alive-and-going concerns,. - although the modern owners in many cases are persons other than. the ones reported.
! Here they are: . '	^
Bed Gate Farm,	/: v.-/- ■■
Henry Norton Van Voorhis . The Pines ;. . ...Wilson Miller ^Wybnissing ... .. ; ). Denniston Lyon
Wilpen Hall..... The Xittle House Skipton .... . ; ; ; Hohenberg .,,,.. ClovertOn .*> ..... Old Orchard ;..
White Cottage Beech Ranch . The Barracks . The Tulips . Mosscroft ,. J.
Harton Hall ,, George Harton Singer I miles.
.... W. P, Snyder W. P. Snyder, Jr.
, K V>. Ralph Binns .¿Russell H. Boggs ., Henry Buhl, Jr. Harry O. .Campbell Hampton Farm, Mansfield B.'Cochran Seven Gables .,. John D. Culbertson Romayne , Captured G. Dippold Newbury Hill .	.. Ralph M* T)ravo
i i . Morrison Foster ..... Samuel Gaston George A. Gormley W. C. Gundelfinger ..v.; Jehu Haworth Robtodale ,*.....’ ?;... J. A. Huston FranMin Farm .,..,,W. C. Robinson The Brick House '.. William P. Jones Lingamore .,... Alexander Laughlin Red Gables ,,.. ¿,. Findley H. Lloyd
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The Herald
; Mote Bergman, the Leetsdale perennial peripatetic,' jvho is 74 and going strong, stopped in at The Herald office to pay his respects about4 3:15 Monday afternoon. In company, with Gene Kemper, Leetsdale, and John Oros, Ambridge, ths trio had set forth by* shank's mare at 10 o'clock from Leetsdale and had, walked to Am-bridge, Sheffield and thence , to<Se-wicldey. The first leg of their hike accomplished, they took off a few moments later for Baden. 'At Baden they intended- to- turn around, come Back to Sewickley and then return to Leetsdale, a total of 50-miles in one day.	■.■■■■'	*
On his 74th birthday* Bote Bergman walked 74 miles; His* objective on his coming 75th birthday , . . you've guessed it' . \to hike 75
With echoes of “Fore!" ranging the hills and frustration _oi^the greens, area newspaper, radio and television personalities last Friday, June 30th, officially christened Pittsburgh's newest privately owned1 golf course, the Sewickley Heights Golf Club, Sewickley. The course can be reached by going up Camp Meeting Road, from Leetsdale to Backbone Road.
Playing the Club's spanking ‘new 18-hole course, the field'of 27 broke all club records—and a few clubs— and generally proved that .celebrity golf, like any other, is either fun or for the pro?, ./■	- >.
The first foursome ground the links was composed of Bill Gundelfinger, Jr. of the Post-Gazette; Neil Mitchell of Mitchell Buick (who is the Club Chairman); Harton S.: Semple, director of the Club; and Jim Potts, of the Western Pennsylvania Golf Association, ^ -v--:	V- '■ 7\
■r Appropriately enough* Sewiddey's own H. S. Semple led the field with a 73—only one above par for the course.
The Sewickley Heights Golf Club was granted; its charter in April of this year, ahd^ its officers plan to ap^ ply for' membership in the WPGA later this summer. ...
The 18-hple course .was designed by James G. Harrison) nationally.fam-*ouS gplf course- architect,; and' covers 200 acres of- exceptionally level ‘terrain. It features long fairways, large greens and challenging natural hazards, among which are three spring-fed lakes which also serve as reservoirs to supply a complete underground irrigation system for the grass areas, .	-
- Regarding distances,’there are three sets of tes. Total course yardage for eaqhset '6,174, “6,6.16 a n d 7,160 yards respectively. / :. :'	■ ■
Par is 72 and the longest hole is a dogleggSd, 639 yards, par 5 hole designed to test the accuracy of the experts.	''	’ ■'
In conjunction with the opening of the course, plans are 'also going forward toward .construction of a large clubhouse, plus a swimming pool and a tennis court area. The Golf Club is situated in the center of an 820-acre real estate development, also designed to complement the Club. ‘
George Bros., Murrer and Go., Inc., and John C. Phillips. Co. are exclusive agents for the Club and iho surrounding real" estate, development.
CHICKEN .& BAKED HAM DINNER ~ Sponsored by The Senior Ushers Board, on-. Thursday, July 6th. To be held at the- Antioch Baptist Church, 5:00 P.M. At the Church $1.25 - Delivered $1,50. For orders call-Sew. 2072.	.
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FREEDOM JUBILEE RALLŸî spon-'"Sqred by the Friendly Fellows Club, to be 'held at Forbes Field, Sunday, July 9 at 5:30 P.M. For reservations call American Legion Post 450, Sewickley 9716. “Bus leaves Legion at 4:00 P.M. - Round trip' $4,00.
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DESSERT-CARD PARTY sponsored by Fairhill Recreation Center to be held Thursday, July 13th at 8:30 P.M. at Logan Hall.
Admission $1.00.	.(Adv't)
FISH FRY sponsored 'by Methodist . * Men, War Memorial Park, 6 P.M. July' 14th. Everyone welcome. Donation $1.00.	(Adv't)
Serious Smash-Up On Boulevaril On The Fourth
An accident late in the afternoon ojE the Pburth on the Ohio River Boulevard about a half-mile west of the Glenfield intersection, put the driver and ,two passengers of -a pickup truck in the Sewickley Valley Hospital "and practically demolished a Pontiac.
The Pontiac, westbound, driven by Charly E. Burner, age 17, 209 Broadway, Coraopolis, was overtaking the pick-up truck, also westbound. The truck was being driven by Charles Girts, 42, of 1805 Montier Street, Pittsburgh'.- *	*
According to Witnesses the Pontiac,
travélîing at à high speed, «dipped the
front of the truck while moving from one lane to another. _The truck overturned,' and the Pontiac went on aCnfts the medial strip and off the road on thé river side, after skidding 150 feet.
Burgess Richard W. Cook of Glen-field advised The Herald that the two passengers who were in the Pontiac were Jack Franklin Conflenti, 510 Main Street/Coraopolisy aged 16, and Charles, Dde Young* 927 Second Ave-
Wayne DeWitf,Jr., Drowned



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Silver Reunion SMS. Class of/36
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Held'at tlie Fountain Room in thò Airport, Saturday* June^ 24th* classa mates of Sowiûkloy High^School’s Class of 1936 enjoyed their 25th gïaduatfon anniversary with 64 in attendance. •
Front tùWt seated, from the left: Mary Jane Ritchey Robinson* Man-
garet P^xtish Garet,*TMarjorie Pierce McDonald, Mr. and Mrs. V, J. Bolin, Edith Stoy Scliirnhofer, Wanda Hite Wolf, Mary' Boyd McDonald, Marian WhiUock Jones, Iris Mechlin Kramer, Second row: Edmund Trapp, Juno Willoughby, Elizahetlx Kinkado Soa-ver, Maiy Alice Young, Jean Powell,
Mildred Somcroak, Malino^Tucci Ghirumbolò, Clara Tignanelli Piscitelli, Eleanor Gangloff Morris* Lucille Miller Humble, Helen Carey Rarig* Mary Alice Low, Ruth Ann Skeehan Hugo, William Engel.
Tliird row: Vernon Greonhouso, Charles Roth, Stephen Handy, Louis
Malone, Donald Davis, John Trudell, Raul Mooney, Regis Thoin, ■ Irvin Kramer Wendell Jordan and Robert WalkingsliaW.
Extreme rear: James Duccy, Noel Fisher, Robert Lutz, Ben Mauro, Owen Rector, Ray Shaffer.
The beginning of National Safe Boating Week has coincided with a terrible tragedy in our 'Valley last week-end. 'A Glenfield lad, Wayne H. DeWitt,; Jr;, aged *11, dost his- life in the Ohiqi River, at Glenfield. ;
The tragedy occurred at 2:40 pnn, Saturday, July 1st, On a crowded sand bar above Bradley's Boat Dock. Wayne was swimming with two^ companions, a cousin, Stephen DeWitt, and Richard Ord. He apparently^ dropped off into deep water and lost control. Richard Ord tried to help but couldn't rescue Wayne. The boys yelled for help, v v , ^	'
In seconds, the hoyV-uncle, John DeWitt, ^Clifford Rubottom of 'Coraopolis, Richard Ore of^ Hopewell Township and Ernie Barringer, an employee of the Bradley Boat Dock, went tq the rescue. They dived in vani for the boy-
The HeraldVxeporter Peter Li was on tlie scene within four minutes after the accident and his eyerwitness account now follows:
When the alarm sounded, yonr"re-porter-was at the Bradley Docks with Pat Bradley, the owner, and Steve Zaremba, the manager, Pat immediately called the police and the Coast-Guard, while Steve Zaremba and myself rushed to the scene.
When we arrived, the men were nearly exhausted but were still in the water. The ’boy's parents were summoned and they soon arrived, unbelieving and bewildered. Qhief Cer-anasky- of the Glenfield Police soon arrived and took charge. A local call' went out for volunteers. While neighbors prepared to* search in boats, the men were sent tmt to dive for the boy again. ~
It was fully 30 minutes before the • Coast Guard arrived from the Osborne Depot, located 2^ miles downstream. After sizing up the situation, they returned to the Depot and cntnfr back later with necessary equipment.
The Glenfield Fire Department arrived and a respirator was set up.
Neighbors volunteered their boats and Pat Bradley provided „all his available facilities. Meanwhile, Steve Zaremba drove1 the bereaved parents home.	,*
While the grappling operation continued, the boy's uncle, John DeWitt, sat on shore in shock.
A crowd of neighbors had gathered on the shore and - evCiy available means was used in an attempt to rescue the youth.
Throphout tlie afternoon more and more boats joined the operation while Pat Bradley and Steve Zaremba stood nearby to assist, '
Wayne’s body was Successfully recovered quite close to the point ho fell inj under a boat dock in .tho early hours Of the following monito g, Tho remains were moved to the Gray-CoI$ Funeral Home, Sewickley, where services wore conducted yesterday. (See obituary elsewhere in this iSsue.)