Sewickley Herald

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The Herald
VOL. 56,. No. 49
The Sewickley Valley^s Home-News Weekly
SEWICKLEY, PENNSYLVANIA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1962
Price Ten Cents
$3,500 Safe Burglary At Select Food
Store Safe Battered Open
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Sometime On Friday Night
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. Meat Cleavers and Tool Sharpeners Used To Knock Off Combination
Safe crackers, who cut off the combination dial with a chisel and battered open the safe door with meat cleavers and tool sharpeners, stole cash, checks, cigarettes and imported hams amounting to an estimated $3,438.41 on Friday night at the Select Food Market, 510 Beaver Street, Sewickley. Store officials are contacting customers who were in the store on Friday," fejxy, to determine who paid cash and who paid by check, since the Friday receipts were locked in the office safe.
County Detectives from the Crime Lab spent 2% hourjs examining all the contents of the safe, which Were strewn over the floor, seeking clues. The combination of the Howe safe had been chiseled off and a jagged hole cut into the door, so the bars holding the door could be tripped and the door opened.
Oh Wednesday, at 11:15 a.m. a fire broke out in the woodwork around the new steel doors on the Broad Street side of the building. Welders, fastening new and stronger braces on the sides of the doors to prevent future burglaries, set fire to the wood around the door frames. Sewickley firemen had'to chop out a section of the new wood wall paneling to reach- and extinguish the smouldering wood behind the door frame.
The 'burglary was discovered at
25 WINNERS OF $10 EACH were deter-mirid on December 8 at Beaver and. Broad Streets by officials of > the Sewickley Valley Board of Trade as a part of Christmas Gift Days. Shoppers are given free coupons in the stores of 52 cooperating merchants and on Saturdays 25 winners are'selected. Jay Noel, 744 Orchard Terrace, left and Patsy Mas-
troianni, 302 Little Street, carrying a candy cane from Santa’s cottage next door, helped in selecting the winners’ names. At the right of the picture are: James Marshall, president of the" Board of Trade and Joseph Dzurec, chairman of the Christmas Gift Days Committee for the Board.
Santa Returns To Sewickley Saturday
Twenty-Five More Shoppers Win $10 Each In Christmas Gift Days
Santa Claus and his elves will be at Santa’s cottage at Beaver and Broad Streets from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday, December 22nd for his third and last appearance in the Valley. Of course, he will return on Christmas Eve, but he won’t be visible to anyone.
On Saturday, twenty-five more prize winners were selected from the thousands of Christmas Gift Days coupons which were signed and deposited in participating Board of Trade members’ stores. Boys and girls in the crowd were selected to make the selections from a well-filled drum of coupons.
The winners on Saturday, Decem-
ber 15th were: ■ Jean Crown, K-3 Grand Avenue, Pittsburgh; Samuel N. Caughey, 524 Locust Place; Mrs. Mayo Rucker, 202 Frederick Avenue; F. LaMarca, 354 Duquesnc Way; Mrs. Shirley Melnyk, 25 Main Street, Fair Oaks; Beth E. Gibson, 236 Broad Street, Sewickley; Mrs. Wm, E. Seidel, 320 Nicholas Place, Edgeworth; F. H. Rex, 411 Quaker Road, Edge-worth; Connie Jo French, Groveton; Samuel D. Henley, Sewickley Heights; W. R. McDonald, Little Sewickley' Creek Road; Mrs. A. Faylik, Scaife Road, Sewickley Heights; Mrs. J. F. Polizotto,513 Osborne Lane, Osborne; Virginia Joseph, 110 Orchard Street, Aliquippa;' Ruth Gilmore, 918 Dickson Road, Sewickley; Mrs. D, B. Craig, Creek Drive, Edgeworth; Mrs, Robert L. Winter, 100 Homridge Drive, Sewickley Heights,* Jim Tun-ley, 715 Nevin Avenue, Sewickley; Too Harrison, 516 Thorn Street; Anno IV. Schilling, Barberry Farm, Sewick-ey Heights; Patti Bcmis, 414 Beaver street, Sewickley; Joe Venezia, 402 vlcndow Lane, Edgeworth; C. L, Pro-
bert, Leetsdale; Isabel Stotts, 438 Walnut Street, Sewickley and Rita Dzurec, 427 Oliver Road, Edgeworth.
Winners on Dec. 8th were: Ruth Reising; 401 Edgeworth Lane; Torry Massi, 515 Beaver Street; Paul Ribar, Jr., R.D. No. 2; J. H. Clark, R.D. 3, Coraopolis; Mrs. Gerald Orsini, 947 Birch Way, Coraopolis; Mary B, Tun-ney, 132 East Beaver Street, Glen-field; Mollic I-Ioffmastcr, Plaza Apartments, Sewickley; Cheryl Bickel, 610 Lincoln Drive, Sewickley; J. M. Sheppard, 1509 Park Boulevard, Dormont, Mrs. N, I-Iren, 622 .Grove Street; Elinor M. Simpson, Persimmon Road, Sewickley Heights; D. Rice, Backbone Road, Sewickley; Ruth K. Jones, 824 Centennial Avenuo and Mrs. Lester Goss, 820 Beaver Street, Sewickley.
.Also, G, S. Tilton, Box 316, Sewickley; David Lee Schurman, 34 River Rond, I-Iaysville; Mrs. Jean Liddell, 317 McCready Way; Mrs. William O. Alexander, 624 Ohio River Boulevard, Sewickley; Mildred B. Davis, Weber Road, Aleppo Township; Vivian Silvcrbcrg, 925 Ohio (Continued on Pago 32)
Three Juveniles Sentenced In Burglaries
Three of the juveniles, w h o were involved in some or all of the 28 burglaries recently-in this area, were sentenced to the Youth Redevelopment Center at Canonsburg at a hearing on Tuesday- morning in Juvenile Court. They were sent there for indefinite terms, depending on their good behavior and learning ¡a trade. One of the youths, who had not engaged in as many of the burglaries as some of the others, was placed on probation. Adults in the cases will, be tried later in Criminal Court.
Chief Thomas Prendergast of Se-. wickley; Chief William Cording of Sewickley Heights; Chief Joseph I-Iot-nich of Franklin Park Borough and State Trooper Barr, who was also one of the investigating officers, were present at the hearing.
Postoffice Announces Sunday Hours
Sewickley, Leetsdale and Ambridge postoflices will be open from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, December 20, 21 and 22, for tlie convenience of .last-minute mailers. The post offices will also be open on Sunday, December 23rd from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m, On Monday,. December 24th, Christmas Eve., the postoffices will be open regular bouts from 8 a.m, to 5 p.m.
6:47 a.m. on Saturday, when. Abe Morgan opened the store. He called Sewickley police and Officer Willard Milligan responded to find that the office safe was lying on die floor, with the door open and contents, except for money and checks, scattered all over the floor. The combination had been chiseled off and was lying beside the safe.
A jagged hole had been chopped in the door with two meat cleavers and two tool sharpeners which had been taken from the meat department. The bars that hold the door shut were tripped through die hole. Officer Milligan phoned County Detective Joseph Start of 60 Backbone Road, and die County Detective Bureau sent down men from the Crime Lab, who spent two and one-half hours dusting die safe
and debris for fingerprints and seeking other clues to the idendty of the burglars.
Entrance was gained through the large door on the School Street side of the building, by prying up the door and bending die bars which fitted into slots on either side of the door. The door could be opened, but from the outside, when closed again, it appears normal.
Israel Morgan, president, and Leslie Powner, secretary-treasurer of the corporation, estimated the total loss at. $3,438.41, including, merchandise stolen from the warehouse in die rear of die store,
Just lastjweek, Select Food Market celebrated the enlarging and remodeling of the store into a modern, spacious food market.
C. Fred Guy Resigns From Sewickley Council
Special Meeting Set for Saturday, December 29th To Name New Councilman
Sewickjey council, at its regular meeting on Monday, December 17th, accepted with regret the resignation of C. Fred Guy of 607 Broad Street, as a member of council. In his letter, he stated that it had been a pleasure to serve with council nnd he enjoyed his association with councilmen, the Mayor, and police. Mr. Atwood said he had beep a good councilman and council was sorry tq see him go. In making the motion to accept, Councilman Mcnz said die borough wouldn’t be losing his services.
The worst-kept secret in town is that Mr. Guy will be appointed borough manager to succeed William Kell, who resigned after being on the job for ten days. A meeting will he held at 10 a.m. on Saturday, December 29th, to chose a successor for Mr. Guy on council and possibly to appoint him as manager. Mr, Guy lias been a councilman since January,- 1958 and his term expires December 31st, 1965.
Other appointments made by
What’s Doin ’
CHRISTMAS TREE SALE sponsored by Edgeworth Explorer Post #243 at the Edgeworth School Field, December 15 through 24. Weekdays, 6:00 P.M. - 9:30 P.M.; Saturdays, 10:00 A.M. -9:30 P.M.
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council included re-appointment of Roy Hegner, 637 Cliarette Place, for a three year term on the Sowieldey Zoning Board of Adjustment; reappointment of E. W. Myers, of 626 Blackburn Avenue, to the Board of Health for a five-year tonn and the reappointment of Donald A. Booth, 630 Grovo Street, to the post of Commissioner of Sewickley Water Works, for a 5-year term.
Tho high-pitched cry, "Strawberrrr-rics” as heard during the summer, is no moro except for farmers who grow their own strawberries. An anti-ped-
dling ordinance, providing for a license fee for each hour or day of peddling, was passed three readings and is published in full in this week’s Herald. 'The ice cream peddlers are licensed under state law and the only way they can bo reached is through regulation of tho hours they sell. Those hours in tlie new ordinance are 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Repairmen, who sell new parts in connection with their service calls, are not affected.
Hourly paid employees of tho borough will reeoive a 10 cents an horn*
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