Sewickley Herald

              The Sewickley Valley's Home-News Weekly
VOL. 56, No, 46
SEWICKLEY, PENNSYLVANIA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1962 IN TWO SECTIONS
Price Ten Cents
Appoints Manager
William L. Kell Former Weirton Manager is Hired
FIFTH AND SIXTH graders at St. Mary’s Parochial School, Glenfiefd, participating in a Physical Education Demonstration-that was held in the Parish Hall on Sunday afternoon,
"XPKoto by James Addison) November 25th. Parents and brothers and sisters lined the walls of the hall for the program, which was given as part of the school’s observance of American Education Week.
Parents Should Be Prosecuted
Lack of Parental Supervision Usually Back of Juvenile Delinquency
Police Chief Thomas Prendergast sometimes feels that parents ' should be prosecuted when minor children are out' until 3 a.m. or later and bring home new golf clubs and other articles which they cannot afford to buy. Chief Prendergast made that statement in a speech before the Board of Trade at the weekly Tuesday luncheon at the Motor Inn.
On the Sewickley police force for 33 years and chief for 26, Chief Prendergast said that he had for many years attempted to settle juvenile cases here, without sending them to Juvenile Court. Once *a juvenile goes to court, he has “two strikes on him the rest of his life.”
The procedure used here, conferences with parents and the juvenile, is the same as Juvenile Court and its success is shown by the fact that Sewickley has had few repeaters. The local police department tries to treat children as though their own were in the same position.
In the case of the six juveniles and seven adults arrestqd recently by police departments in the area, the first clue was furnished by a -boastful boy in one of the local restaurants. He was talking about the burglary at Twin Oaks Tavern, Fair Oaks, and hi$ name was furnished to police. The night officers apprehended him for
What’s Doin’
TEENAGERS - Every Friday night dance to the latest hit recordings, St. James Activity Hall, Sewickley, -•from 9 to 12 p.m. - Admission, 50 cents each.	(Adv’t)
Sunday, December 9, 4 p.m. Program of Gospel Songs, conducted by visiting choirs, sponsored by tlio Buds of Promise, at St. Matthew’s A.M.E. Zion Church.	(Adv’t)
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.questioning and found a fifth of whiskey, a six-pack of beer and cigarettes in his car. Since it was at night and local police cannot confine juvenile, he was taken to Juvenile Court Detention Home for the rest of the night.
Two other youths asked what had happened to the first one and they were questioned the next day, One of them admitted hauling the stolen whiskey from Twin Oaks in his car, Further questioning brought a confession of stealing gasoline from the main tank at Sewickley Heights Golf Club and whiskey from the club. County Detective Joseph Start aided the local police in the investigation which spread to neighboring boroughs and eventually wound UjS in clearing up 28 crimes.
In tho caso of one of the juveniles, the father had been doing considerable drinking when the youth was young, then quit drinking and recently attempted to impose discipline, but it was too late, Chief Prendergast said, Two or three of the youths involved livo in Sewickley. While \Vo have good schools, the jointure has thrown together youths from different towns,
Sewickley has a 10 o’clock curfew, to combat this problem. The exception to tho ten o’clock hour is made for Organization dances, when 11 o’clock is tho deadline. However, youths leaving the dancos do not go straight home, but go 'down street’ to a pizza place, After complaints of fist
fights and confusion in front of the pizza parlor, police were forced to keep the children out of. there.
The problem of teen-agers- gathering on street comers is a hard one to solve, since they seem to 'melt away’ at the approach of an officer and then reappear.
Warren Breithaupt said that there is a great deal more teen-age drinking than anyone realizes in Sewickley. Cars park about a -block away from the. *Y’ when there are dances and .whiskey or beer is dispensed to the friends of the driver. One boy even took a case of beer from home and gave it away to pals at the dance; Boys are ejected from the *Y’ when drinking is detected, but as Warren says, ‘You can’t smell the breath of everyone entering.”
Chief Prendergast said he had conferred with Coraopolis Police Chief Brush .on a tavern in Coraopolis that was suspected of selling beer to teenagers at the back door. The Liquor Control Board'was notified, but nothing has happened yet, Over here, adults have been buying beer for the youths, it was reported to police.
Chief Prendergast said some parents are not checking on their children and don’t know where they are most of the time. If a juvenile ■ gets away with minor offenses, ho gets bolder and gets deeper into trouble, until it is too late. Mr. Breithaupt said that it’s up to citizens to aid by notifying them and prosecuting on the minor offenses so the" boys and girls learn early in life, that they can’t get away with it.
Santa Coming To Sewickley December 8
Tha Sewickley Valley Board of Trade is bringing Santa to Sewlcldoy at 11 a.m. <5n Saturday, December 8, at Beaver and Broad streets. Ho will remain in his cottage there until 8 p.m. Ho will return, with Ms bag of gifts for children from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Saturday, December 15th and Saturday, December 22rid. At noon on those throe Saturdays, Santa will preside over a drawing for gift certificates given by the merchants,
Wo spared tho rod and got a boat generation anyway.—-Parts Pup
Frank C. Sturm Resigns As Of Saturday, December 1st And Is Named Consultant.
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Sewickley council, at a special meeting Monday evening, appointed William L. Kell, former manager of Weirton, West_-Virginia, as borough manager of Sewickley, effective December first. Frank C. Sturm, who has been manager since the -resignation of Raymond Howe, submitted his resignation, also effective December 1st and was named consultant to the borough manager for the month of December.
S. Douglas Ritchey, vice president of council and chairman of the Special committee which selected the *new manager, said there were over 25 applicants for the position, ranging from Maine to Florida and Mr. Kell was tire most experienced and impressed the committee as the best of the candidates. Mr. Kell will require some time to find a suitable house here and meanwhile'commute from Weirton. The new ordinance covering the post of borough manager, recently revised, allows the manager to reside outside the borough with the permission of council. It also fixes an indefinite term of office rather than a year-to-year basis.
Mr. Kell; who is 45, is married and has two sons, aged 8 and 11. He was educated in the Bluefield, W. Va., schools and graduated from West Virginia University. He received Ms LLB from the University of Richmond, Virginia, in 1939 and practiced law in Bluefield for 2%' years before entering the service as a private in 1942. He now holds die commission of Major in die Air Force Reserve.
He was manager of Weirton from August 1, 1957 to July 1, 1959, when he left to enter, private industry. From July 15, 1951 to July 15, 1957, he was manager of Bluefield. In August, 1948, he organized and opened and operated Bluefield Parking Building, a municipal facility. He served as a member of the Mercer County Board of Health; County _ Department of Public Assistance Council and die Governor’s Vocational Rehabilitation Advisory Committee.
In Weirton, in addition to serving as -manager, he served on the City Planning Commission; Sanitary Water
Board; Water Board; Traffic and Safe-	.	...
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ty Commission; Charter Study Commission; Park Board and Library Board. He-was the president of the West Virginia League of Municipali-______(Continued on Page 24)
New Ball Field being carved out of a tract of land on Route 856 across from tire William Kennedy farm, about % mile towards Ihgomar from Montgomery’s store on Mt. Nebo. The land was leased from Mr. Kennedy by the Ohio Township Athletic Association and will be improved with a regulation size baseball field for Little League, PONY League and Colt League teams. The field will not be restricted to any one locality, boys from Ohio Township, Bellevue, Franklin Park Borough, Sewickley Heights, Aleppo, Glenficld, or any other municipality can play there.
Locust trees, such as those in tire background, have been cut down and R. Owens is doing the excavating for wages. Bell Telephone is donating telephone poles and Duquesno Light is malting a power survey, so that eventually tire field may bo lighted for night baseball. A parking lot for from 40 to 50 cars is planned along with a refreshment stand and bleachers for fans.
Anyone wishing to contribute to the development fund may send a check to Ohio Township Athletic Association, Box 242, R.D. No. 2, Sewickley, Pa.