Sewickley Herald

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VOI*, 57, No. 20
The Sewickley Valley's Home-News Weekly
' .	' SEWICKLEY, PENNSYLVANIA^ THOBSDAY, AUGUST 8, 1981 "
Price Ten Cents
ro Diai On
Give House Tour Check to Watson Home
Mrs1.	RoBeHs aif&Mrs. FrXrikStbner
3rd, co-chairman of the 1961 House Tour for the Child Health Association, left, presents a check to Miss Lucille Cochran, Administrator of the D. T. Watson Home, center and Miss Trudy Oliver, Child Health Association volun-
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teer^ standingl Seated, lef t Id iighC. patients Hope Ann Kain, Lynn Coleman, whose face, is hidden by the head of Kathy Sivyj Martin Fleishaker and Timothy Fowkes.*
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Stolen Car Crashed In Osborne After Chase
Driver Chased On Foot Dpwn Boulevard To Old Ice House Where He Was Captured
/ Police o£ the boroughs of the Valley cooperated late Saturday iftcmoou to capture tire driver of a cat stolen m Pittsburgh, vhioh was wrecked in Osborne. Sewicldey police received a call rom Bellevue police at 5:52' p.m., stating, that the car was[ coming vest on the Ohio River Boulevard, pursued by an Avalon pohce :ar. When Officer Walter Brannon arrived at the HaysviUe uiter-cction, he found that die car had crashed bn die stone retainmg vail along Beaver Road in Osborne and that'the' driver had fled >n foot widx die Avalon officer in pursuit, also on foot.
Witnesses said that the car, driven at a very high speed, had mrrowly missed a number of cars in die wild chase down the
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At 5:55 p.tfi. Sewickley hcadquar-ers received a call from an Osborne esident that a man Was being chased >y police on. foot down the boulevard.
)iRccr Brannon and- another officer aught up with the fugitive at the old ¿o house on the1 boulevard. The uspect gave his naqu^ as Gerald Vashington, 6542 Ladsdn Street, East liberty, Ho was turned over to Pitt$-turgb police for prosecution QXi the tolen car charge.	-
Tho car, a 1959 Chevrolet, was wood by Christ Begas* 3)6 Seventh treet, Oakmont. it was towed away •y a tow truck sent up hy Scwick-2>y police on tho request of Chief Vado Baltz, Officer Herbert Eordwfis.
“ notified and took 'jftxt in tho *	_	‘ ’ Officers from
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NUAL BASKET PICNIC 'ho FairhilUlcercation Center An-I Community Basket Picnio Will be 1 at the Ealrhill Itecreation Center, #4, Sewickley, on Saturday, Aug*
ust 5th, starting at 1:30 p.m. There will be contests, prizes, games aud surprises and pony rides, also food, fun and fellowship. An airplane will drop candy to the children. The pilot will bo Arthur Lilly of Orafton.
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Auditors Checking . Leefsdale School Records
Borough auditors were requested to bogih ft thorough check of the financial records of tho Lcctsdole School district, at ft eommittec-of-tlie-wholo meeting of tho School Board hold+On Monday night.
The records were turned over to the elected* auditors after tho meeting, which,was.called i<x give Robert L. Stacy, who serves as both school director arid secretary of tho hoard, an opportunity to answer questions
about the.-finances. Mr. Stacy, who has vbeen in Florida on a leave of absence due to ill health, attended the meeting on Monday night.. * . - ■
A private auditing firm had made a preliminary study of the- records prior to the meeting. Dr. W, J. Hutchison^ Jr., president of the school board, said that he hoped the borough auditors report would be completed in time for the regular“ meeting, scheduled for Monday, August 14th.
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Edgeworth School Re-Enacts Two Taxes
The Edgeworth School Board re-* cently re-enacted the Vz% wage tax without change for the period beginning July 3, 1981 and ending July 1, 1962.	:
Tho Board also adopted a resolution re-enacting the documentary transfer tax of 1%. Notices giving the details are published in this ■ week’s Herald.
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Tho Ohio Valley Little League World Series "will start on Monday evening, August 7, at 6:30 p.m. at the Little League field in Lcetsdale. Tho teams Will play the best out of five games. Tho Pirates of the National League, Albert Sacco, Manager, and tire Indians of the American League, Vincent Segeleon, Manager, won their respective league championships.
Trophies will bo presented at the Little League Picnic to ho held on Saturday, August 12, at Walker Bark, for tho boys and. their families,
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TELL THEM YOU SAW TT IN THE HERALD
Direct Distance Dialing
And All Nurnber Calling
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Sewickley Exchange Becomes 741 at ^
,3:01 aan. on Sunday, August 6
/ Next Sunday( August 6) will be Dial Day in Sewickley, marking the introduction here of modem dial service with Direct Distance Dialing and All Number Calling.
At 3:01 a.m. (E.D.S.T.) on that day, Sewickley telephones will be converted to dial operation, climaxing the Bell Telephone Company of Pennsylvanians million dollar Service ^Improvement Program here.	v’r;"
When dial service is introduced, new seven-figure numbers will become effective for all Sewickley telephones, Norman F. Bach, local Manager of the Company, said today. The new type numbers use no letters and no Central Office names.
Direct Distance Dialing, which makes it possible for customers to dial long distance calls direct to points as-far away as California,, will also be introduced at the same time.
First calls through the new Sewickley office were dialed by State Representative Laurencô V. Gibb, Burgess of Sewicldey, and Edward O’Neill of -619 East Drive, Edgeworth, whose home telephone service was established in 1887.	„
Local civic and business executives toured the new dial office > on Tuesday afternoon, following a pre-cutover luncheon at the Sewicldey Motor Inn.
Bach, told guests at that time that .telephone technicians have now com-
pleted final tests of the new equipment and everything is in readiness for the >big changfe-over. ■	-
As the zero hour of 3:01 approaches on Sunday morning, a group of telephone, men will be standing in the new ^ dial Central Office waiting for the -signal to switch the new equipment into, service. In their hands they will hold the ends of strings which have been tied to small tools inserted between springs in the dial cquip-(Continued on Page 6)	, '
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Burgess Laurence V» Gibb, seated, making the* first direct distance dial call to his brother in Philadelphia, from the new Bell^ Telephone 741 Central Office. Standing behind him, left to right, Edward O’Neil, whose family has had the same telephone number, Sewickley 3, under the same name for 74 years' and Norman Bach, local manager of the Bell Telephone Company, Mr* O’Neil made the. second direct distance call, to his wife, vacationing in Canada. Both calls Were completed in about half a minute! The calls were made after borough and township officials attended a luncheon at the Sewickley Motor Inn ana then inspected the riew 741 Central Office at Beaver and Straight Streets.	*	>