Sewickley Herald

              Herald
The Sewickley Valley's Home-News Weekly
VOL, .58, No, 10
SEWICKLEY, PENNSYLVANIA, THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 1962 IN TWO SECTIONS	Price Ten Cents
Tuesday morning’s heavy snow was blamed for this crash at the Haysville crossing of the Pennsylvania Railroad, which occured at 10:37 a.m. The driver of this-Lyons Company tractor-trailer rig, escaped injury. In fact, he was struggling through the deep snow to the west of the crossing in a vain attempt to halt a fast freight hauling animals to market on the east-bound passenger track. Notice the wreckage
(Photo by Harvey Beer) of the single post, the automatic gates and the railroad crossing sign. Only the concrete abutment prevented the big rig from plunging into the creek. The bridge railing was also knocked off by the impact. T^ie truck was hauling a* yellowish powder to the Sterling Varnish Company for the manufacture of paint.
Russia Is Terrible And
Danaerous Enemv To U.S.
\	.Latter Day Paul Revere Wains American People
To Walce Up Before It’s, Too Late!
David Bell, a latter day Paul Revere, who visited the^ Soviet Union and took hundreds of colored slices, told the Kiwanis Club of Sewickley on Monday night at the W’ that Russia is a terrible and dangerous enemy. We will’have to mobilize ,all our resources, short of complete military mobilization, in order to win the cold war, if, indeed, we still have time, We’re in deep trouble and it will take all our efforts to meet the challenge, Mr. Bell stated.
Russia took over Cuba, ninety miles away, without firing a shot, by propaganda and subversion and we do not understand their methods. Four missile bases are.being prepared there by 1,500 Russian technicians and they are nearly ready to start firing.
Mr. Bell's, talk at Kiwanis was die 211th speech he has made on the subject since he; returned; He went over because alter attending the Navy War College, the State Department School and the National War College, he was convinced that no one in this country knew what it was all about and couldn’t give a*proper presentation, •»	<
The overbearing attitude of Russia is due to an inferiority complex, he said, and after three years in the Navy and’ three years in hospitals as a result of his service, he hates to see Americans misled and backed into a. comer by the .Soviet Union. Before lie made the "trip, Tio one would'listen to his ideas, but after visiting 32 homes in Russia and talking to the ordinary Russian on the streets and homes and taking 600 pictures, he’s an expert and now people will listen.
Russia is 3 times ns big as the U. S., Jjut Premiere Khrushchov raved for 4% hours on Monday, becauso of the lack of food. Tlio southern part of.Russja js.jiqrth. 4qf, .npxthsra ..United States, so they can’t raise enough food drat far north. Hero, 6% of U.S. families raise so much food that the gov-
ernment spends billions to try to take care of the surplus, and we all eat too much and grow fdt and lazy. Krusclicchev *is talking of an incentive to induce die farmers to grow more food.
Churches in Russia are filled with anti-religious displays, for religion is considered a sign of weakhess, In place of God, die Russians’ religion is based on hero-worship of Lenin, and, until recently, Joseph Stalin. In die pictures of crowds on die streets in Leningrad, few were wearing hats. Mr, Bell said hats cost $160 and suits $70DJ compared widi the amount an American pays for' the same articles .and cars, take six years’ wages to buy. So, while die.main streets are.wide, diere aren’t any parking problems for only the officials have cars. Consumer goods is in the windows and the stores, but no one but the upper class Communists can afford them.
But books, they cost the equivalent of 2c each and everyone is studying, Thirteen million Russians are study-'ih^Ehglisrir'm’ "preparalfori ’for "the day the Soviets take over America.
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World Day Of Prayer On Friday
Christians around the world will observe World Day- of Prayer on Friday, March 9th, with the Sewickley Council of Church Women again sponsoring the local observance to be held at the Presbyterian Church, BeaVer and Grant streets, at 2 p.m.
The theme this year is “For God So Loved The World” and the program will be presented by a group of women from Sewickley churches under the direction of a committee which includes Mrs. Harry T. Hutchison, Jr., Mrs. William Liebe, Mrs, Vivienne Pickett and Mrs. Nevin Rodes.
Special music will be presented by a chorus ■ including Mrs. Robert Nix, Mrs. Irvin Kramer, Mrs. Alex Black, Mrs, Thomas Slater, Mrs. Florence McBride, Miss Chris Black, Mrs. Richard Delafield, Scott Turn-bull, Leon Yeakel and Harold T. Daniels, with Mrs. Dan Williams at the organ.
Hie host church will also provide a Nursery where small children may bo left during the service, and World Day of Prayer leaflets will be sent to Sewickley Hospital and to “shut-ins.”
The outreach of the Day of Prayer goes on throughout the year in hundreds of lives helped by the offering. The special projects for this year will bo to heli) develop a sense of community in our. new state of Alaska, and for ChrisUnn broadcasting to Africa. Regular projects of United Church Women which benefit from World Day of Prayer offerings are: Migrant workj work among American Indians; reading material provided for new literates; funds for Christian colleges, and help for the millions of noedy pooplo around the world.................
Envelopes have been distributed
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What's Doin’
SKATING PARTY sponsored by Sr. Tri-Hi-Y, March 9 - 8 to 11 P.M., Neville Island. Ticket 75c. For tickets contact any Tri-Hi-Y iris.
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FOR SALE: London’s Homemade Candy; also chocolate Easter eggs. Phone 741-5789 for orders. Benefit of St. James Catholic Church.
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CHICKEN DINNER - Thursday, March 8, 5 p.m., Antioch Baptist Church, sponsored by the ladies of the church. Delivered, $1.50; at the church, $1.25. For orders call 741-6580.	(Adv’t)
CHILDREN’S FASHION SHOW and musical entertainment, sponsored by Les Enfants and the Edgeworth PTA, Saturday, March 10th at 2. p.m., Edgeworth School Auditorium -	- Adults $1.00
Children 25c.	(Adv’t).
BAKE SALE - Saturday, March 10, 10 a.m. until? A & K Area d,e, Walnut Street. Sponsored by Junior Usher Board of St. Matthew’s AME Zion Church.	(Adv’t)
CHANGE OF DATE. The Fashion Show sponsored by Beth Samuel Sisterhood, 8th and Latimer, Am-bridge, Pa., will be held on Tuesday, March 13, at 8 p.m. Public is welcome. Tickets for the previous date will be honored.
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MONTHLY LUNCHEON sponsored by Shields Presbyterian Women’s Association, Friday, March 16th, at the Educational Building, 1 P,M. For reservations call MEs Maud Seaman, 741-4272.	. (Adv’t)
American Field Service BENEFIT MINSTREL, Friday, March 16 and Saturday, March 17, at Quaker (Continued on Page 12)
Crossing Signals Knocked Over By Trailer
A, Lyons Company trailer truck, whose motto is “Here Today, There Tomorrow” didn’t make it quite ‘there’ at 10:36 a.m. on Tuesday; when it was struck by a fast cattlecarrying freight train which was running on the east-bound passenger tracks, at the Haysville grade crossing of the Pennsylvania Railroad.
The tractor portion of the big rig, which was carrying a yellow powder to the Sterling Varnish Company, cleared the crossing, but the big rig got stuck in the snow trying to turn onto South Avenue, leaving a portion of the trailer sticking over the east-bound tracks. Had the freight train been using the usual freight track, it would have missed the trailer entirely, but the livestock and ‘piggy-back’ freights have priority and often use' the passenger tracks.
The first indication that something was wrong at the, erossing came to Sewickley police at 10:36 p.m., when an unidentified resident of Haysville called and asked police to stop east-bound trains, as there was-a trade stalled on the tracks. However, it was too late and she called back at 10:38 to say never mind, the damage was already done. Chief Wade Baltz of Osborne rushed to the scene, investigated, took the names of the •truck driver and the trainmen and then deared the crossing so the wrecked trailer track could be unloaded onto another trailer and then be lifted and placed on a flat trailer to be hauled away.
The truck driver was John Galo-vich, 317 Helen Street, McKees Rocks, who works out of the McKees Rocks depot of Lypns Transportation Company,- whose main office is in Erie. The engineer was C. S. Reiman of Canton, Ohio and the freight train conductor was D. B. Gaskins of Crestline, Ohio. They told, Chief Baltz that they had deared Leetsdale at 10:31 a.m. and the chief estimated that the train was traveling at about 70 miles- an hour. When the engineer applied the air brakes to stop, the 46-car train couldn’t stop until the caboose was nearly at the crossing.
The tractor portion of the rig was not damaged, but the rear wheels of the trailer, which had wedged «gainst the bridge abutment and prevented the outfit from plunging into the creek, fell off and the floor of the trailer collapsed. Yellow powder was scattered all Over the wreck Scene until 5:30 p.m., when the last of the wreckage was finally deared away.
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