Sewickley Herald

              
The Herald
The Sewickley Valley^s Home-News Weekly
VOL, 56, No. 38
SEWICKLEY,-PENNSYLVANIA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1962
Price Tea Cènts
Firemen Stop Smoky Blaze	*"f JAcademy Kicks Off Drive
Saturday, Oct. 11 & 13
Plans are underway for another gala weekend October 11 to 13th, The annual 1962 Kiwanis-YMCA’ Harvest Festival will he held that weekend. You remember the 1961 Festival with donkey baseball, gardeners’ float, lovely queen candidates, Key Club midway, the evening entertainment in the *Y’ gym, plus fabulous prizes, games of skill, miniature golf; pony rides, etc. This year’s festival promises to be even more rewarding. Parades are planned for Thursday as well as Saturday. The National Association of Gardeners have promised a float even bigger and more flowerful than last year’s.
The donkey baseball game will kick-off the festival on Friday evening, October 12th, at the ‘Y’ field, starting at 7:30 o’clock. Remember, Dr. Joe Griffith and his Kiwanis team of - 1961? The all-stars are back again, ’rarin’ to overwhelm- the courageous Key Clubbers, led by Ron Lent.
Following the donkey, baseball game, the *Y’ will be alive with the tunes of real jive. Featured Friday evening will be Dr. Joe Griffith, Milt Every, E?r. Bob Nix, Jack Pool and Dr. Jack Moyer, -plus the midway, manned by Quaker Valley Key Clubbers.
Mrs. Phyllismae Habbert and her Kiwaniannes queens -will provide baked goods which will melt in your mouth, not in your hands. A1 Buck-ley and Lou Sliadduck have planned a food concession booth that will make the “Needle” look like child’s play. For gastronomic delights that will take you back to Grandma’s kitchen, come on down.
A, full day is planned for Sator-
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' (Photo by Jim Addison) Sewickley firemen used three hose lines to stop 'a smoky fire which damaged the apartment of Mr. and Mrs. George W. Thomas, 428 Beaver Street, over Miller’s Market. The fire, which broke out shorty after midnight Saturday, was caused by a short in the Wiring of a lamp. One of the hose lines was taken up the stairs to battle the smoky blaze from the hall; another was carried up a short ladder to the front and the third up the long ladder td the roof.	.	.	'	'	.
Sewickley Firemen Hold Fire Damage To $5,000
•Hot, Smoky Blaze In Apartment Threatens Stores In Business District
Sewickley firemen held a hot, smoky blaze to two rooms of a Second floor apartment at 428 Beaver Street, shortly after midnight on Saturday, despite the fact that the two rooms were roaring furnaces of flames when firemen arrived. The fire burned through the ceiling of the living room but was stopped before it spread in the space under the.roof. A ventilating shaft projecting above the roof, was damaged, but-the firemen extinguished the flames before they spread to the roof. No damage was caused to the apartments on either side and only water damage resulted, in Miller’s Market on the first floor of the building.
Tho alarm sounded by Night Patrolman Gcorgo Prciningcr, n ilrcmAn who is on police duty pending a Civil Service examination. Ho had just turned the comer from Walnut, when ho noticed smoko coming from the middle "window of the apartment. Several people were on the sidewalk, including the occupant's of the apartment,
What’s Doin
OLD and .NEW FAIR, sponsored by Bon Meade Mothers’ Club, Friday and Saturday, September 28 and 29, on the school grounds, Brod-head Road. Fish Fry on' Friday, 50 cents; Spaghetti on Saturday; 50 cents. Showing of five 1963 automobiles will be inside if the Weather is bad. . (Adv’t)
The Church .Life Club of Triumph Baptist Church celebrates ■ their 22ND ANNIVERSARY on' Sunday, September 30th, 3:00 P.M. Featured Speaker will be. Rev. P. W. Phillips of Carrone Baptist Church, Pittsburgh. Coffee Hour. Mrs. G. Tall, Pres, - Mrs. H. Jones, See.
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RAINWEAR SALE, Saturday, Sept. 29, 10 A.M. to 12 Noon, St, James School. Boots, rubbers and raincoats. Sponsored by St, James Women's Catholic Guild.
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SALAD LUNCHEON - HAT SHOW, Saturday, September 29, 1 p.m., at Gilmary School. Sponsored lay Gilmary Guild. Donation, $1.25, Benefit Gilmary School. (Adv’t)
Mr. and Mrs. George W. Thomas, who had awakened and escaped from the burning apartment. Lt. Lee Jones came by in a patrol car while Officer Prcininger was running to dm call box to turn in the alarm and Lt. Jones radioed it to headquarters and t)mn joined tho crowd in front of the apart-(Continu?d on Pago 24).
CUPBOARD SALE, Saturday, Oct. 6 - 9 A.M. to 3 P.M., 417 Broad Street, Sewickley, Sponsored by Sewickley Business and Professional Women’s Club. (Adv’t)
FASHION SHOW and CARD PARTY, Monday, October 8, 8 p.m., at Um Quaker Valloy Senior High School,' Lcetsdalo. $1.25. Please bring, own cards, (Adv’t)
AUCTION - Saturday, October 13, Sewickley YMCA, 1 p.m. Auctioneer Emmett Matcer, Sponsored by Sowickly Kiwanis. If you have articles for the auction call Warren Broithaupt at tho “Y” or John Noilson, 741-7649, for pick-up.
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For New Upper School
$213,201 of $400,000 Goal Raised By Special Gift Solicitation Teams
Solicitors for the drive to raise $400,000 for a new Upper School to add three grades to the Sewickley Academy, met on Wednesday evening in the Academy cafeteria to discuss ways and means of raising the remainder of the money.‘".G. Whitney Snyder, chairman of the special gifts solicitors, announced that $213,201 has been pledged* so” far, so the drive has passed the half-way-mark.
John C. Oliver, Jr., chairman of the Board, welcomed the solicitors and said that there have been private schools ip the Valley . for more than 100 years. When additional educational facilities ’were needed, the community has provided the means.' Now that the Academy needs 10th, 11th and 12th grades, he is sure that the community will again support the drive for funds. Headmaster Clifford Nichols, Jr,
prepared answers to the questions most frequently asked about die new Upper School: The senior school will be- provided widi educational facilities which can * also be utilized by the lower grades, such as the excellent library, die language laboratory, and the science facilities. Visiting lecturers, educational films and exhibits will be brought to die Upper School and made available to the appropriate lower grades. The entire school program will be enriched and strengdien-ed by die addition of die upper grades.
Students who go away to Boarding Schools will be aided as they have in die past to enter die schools of their choice. Experienced, well-qualified teachers and small classes will prepare die upper school students for college and only students who are definitely college students will be enrolled.
An administrator experienced in secondary school will be appointed to direct die senior school, responsible to die Headmaster, A very thorough survey was made before die Board authorized plans and broke ground for the new addition which is expected to be ready by September of 1963. At fliat time, a 10th grade will be established and a grade added for die next two years.
Mr. Nichols explained that students now in die lower school and applicants for lOdi grade in the senior school would take the S.S.A.T. tests, sort of a junior college board tests. Only those students who pass will be admitted to the tenth grade.
Athletic fields will be expanded to provide for secondary sports. The
new gymnasium is of secondary school size, Mr. 'Nichols said. $20,000 of the $400,000 goal is for athletic fields and ' a football team will be organized when a sufficient number of boys is available to field a team. The new building has facilities for 200 students knd is designed so that wings may be added for further future growth.
Old Gibb House Damaged By Fire
The former Gibb house, located between the old Sunoco station on the boulevard and the Pennsylvania Railroad in Edgeworth; was damaged by a blaze which broke out at 1:48 a.m. on Wednesday morning. The Edgeworth fire truck was on the way to the blazie at 1:55 a.m., with 14* firemen aboard and didn’t return to the station with the emergency over, until 3.T9 a.m.
The blaze was discovered by John Walancus, manager of the Eat and Park restaurant, who is working day and" night trying to get everything ready for an opening today (Thurs-' day). The fire was burning on the outside of the house, which is due to be razed to make way for a new gasoline station, and it appeared that it was set deliberately.
A truck, owned by the contractor who is to raze the house, was parked nearby but was saved from dan-age by the firemen. Edgeworth police are investigating the possibility of arson.
Congratulations were in order for Miss Marguerite Ducker, Administrator of'Sewickley Valley Hospital, when she was admitted to Fellowship in the American College of Hospital Administrators at the convocation services held Sunday, September 16, in the Aric Crown Theatre, McCormick Place, Chicago, Illinois.
Included in the caravan of local people wfio traveled to Chicago to attend Miss.Ducker’s convocation and stay on for tho American Hospital Association convention are those pictured above, left to right: Miss Mary Brennan, Director of tiro S.V.H. School of Nursing; Mrs. Bobert N. Standish, a vice president of the S.V.H. Boarà of Trustees and> chairman of the Woman’s Activities Committee; Miss Marguerite Ducker, and Mr. William K. Fitch, President of the Board of Trustees of S.V.H.