Sewickley Herald

              The Herald
The Sewickley Valley's Home-News Weekly
VOL. 56, No. 38	’ SEWICKLEY, PENNSYLVANIA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1962	Price Ten Cents
Quaker Village To Lay Water Line
Fashion Show October 8th.
(Photo by Jim Addison)
COMMITTEE MEMBERS of Sewickley Chapter No. 439, Order of Eastern Star, are shown planning for their annual fashion show ... 'and-card party to be held on Monday, October 8th. Left to right: Mrs. Harry'Baumgartel, general co-chairman; Mrs. Arnold Rothaar, Mrs. Wesley Smith, committee chairman and Mrs. Fielding Lewis, worthy matron.
Thieves Break Into Gas
Sneak Thieves Steal $41 From Murphy's
Jim Bennett, manager of the G. C. Murphy Company store at 411 Beaver Street, reported to Sewickley police at 6:15 p.m. on September 15th, that two well-dressed Negroes were in the store when he went downstairs. When he came back up they were gone and so was $41,00 from the cash register at the rear of the store.
Going out on Beaver Street, Mr, Bennett met Lt. Lee S. ‘Jones and they searched tire vicinity, but apparently the men had a car, for they were.nowhere to be seen. Mr. Bennett described them • as about 30, about six feet tall and one wore glasses.
School Custodian Retires After 20 Years
Quaker Valley Joint School District is sorry to lose tire services of Frank Vescio, Sr., who has retired September 28, 1962 after twenty years of 'service in the Sewickley Elementary Building.
Frank was honored at a retirement luncheon and presented with a wrist watch by die staff at die school, Friday, September. 28, 1962.
' The school personnel join Frank’s many friends in wishing him much happiness in his years of retirement.
Mr. Vescio lives at 335 Logan Street widi his wife Mary.
Station And Steal Safe
Small Safe Containing $65-and $300 In Gas Charge Accounts Stolen From Herbst’s
Thieves, who apparently broke a lock on a side window from the inside and later entered, stole a small safe containing about $65 in change and approximately $300 in gasoline and service charge account slips from-die display room of John M. Herbst’s service station at Thorn and Walnut* Streets sometime Friday night or early Saturday morning. The safe was located in the "comer between two show windows and-was lighted, A ciow bar was found on the floor of the garage and the garage doors had been opened to take out the safe, which was about 2 feet high, 18 inches deep and weighed between 150 and 200 pounds.
Mr. Herbst, who had no insurance to cover that kind of a loss, said that 85 percent of his business is on a charge basis and the charge records for Friday, were “just like money to me!” Each day, the previous days charge records are entered in books in a more permanent form. Credit card customers are also included in the group, for a record must be made of their purchases for the oil company,
Sewickley police were notified of	—*	*~
the theft at 7:33 a.m. on Saturday and a teletype was sent out to alert other police departments to be on the lookout for the thieves and the safe.
The puzzling thing about the burglary isjhe fact that there scented to be no "marks of forcible entry even ' on the window On which the lock Was broken, The window couldn’t have been opened from the outside, without breaking a pane of glass or damaging the sash, due to the type of lock.
The largo garage doors were found unlocked, but the servicemen who locked up the night before wore certain that they had not only locked the doors, but double-checked beforo they left »the building. Also, tbore was no sign of anyone crawling down over the tires undor tho side, window.
It would have been possible for someone to liavo hidden in tho building until tho evening crow had locked up and left. Officer Willard Milligan placed tho timo of tho theft after 3:30 ft.m., for until that time, lie Was parked on Walnut Street, between patrols, in case of trouble at
a dance at one of the taverns on the street,
Mr, Herbst is appealing, in an advertisement in tin's week’s Herald, for customers who charged gasoline or other articles on Friday, to call tho garage or stop in and inform the service men of the approximate cost of the gasoline or service they charged. A number of charge customers have already volunteered this information.
GROUSE AND PHEASANT BREAK WINDOWS
A class of nurses at the Sewickley Valley Hospital nurses’ home was startled ,on Monday afternoon, September 24th, when a window jn the class room was suddenly broken with a loud crash, Robert Bilstein, assistant administrator, called Sewickley police on tho theory that perhaps a shot had broken the window. Chief Thomas Prcndcrgnst investigated and found a ruffed grouse on the ground, dead of a broken lieck.* Later, a pheasant flew into a hospital window and was found dead of a broken neck, still caught in tho screen,
What’s Doin’
CUPBOARD SALE, Saturday, Oct. 6 - 9 A.M. to 3 P.M., 417 Broad Street, Sewickley. Sponsored by Sewickley Business and Profession-* al Women’s Club. (Adv’t)
AUCTION SALE - Woods Home Supply, 251 South Main Street, ZeEenople, Penna. NeW Furniture and Home Accessories. Saturday, October 6th, 10 A.M. (Adv’t)
SALE of ITALIAN BAKED GOODS & DELICACIES Sunday, October 7th, St. James’ Church Rectory Porch. After all Masses. Sponsored by, ISDÀ, Harmony Lodge No. 56. Benefit St. James’ Church.
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FASHION SHOW add CARD PARTY, sponsored by Order of Eastern Star, Chapter 439, Sewickley, Monday, October 8, 8 p.m., at the Quaker Valley Senior High School, Leetsdale, $1.25, Please bring own cards. ■ (Adv’t)
RUMMAGE SALE - October 10th, sponsored by W.S.C.S. of Methodist Churph, Glenfifeld, from 9 to 4:30 P.M.	• (Adv’t)
Consolata Society CHARITY BALL, Wednesday, October 10, Sewickley Motor Inn, 9:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m, HaL Curtis orchestra. Tickets $1.50 each. Telephone 741-8894.
(Adv’t)
RUMMAGE SALE, sponsored by the Sewickley Valley Hospital Nurses’ Alumnae Association, Thursday, October 11th, 9 A.M, to 2 P,M„ Odd Fellows Hall, Coraopolis, Pa.
(Adv’t)
Pleasant View Mothers’ Club is holding a DESSERT BRIDGE and FASHION SHOW, Thursday, October 11 at 7:30 P.M., Moon High School Cafeteria. Tickets at Village Shop and Star Shoo Store, or phohe Amherst 4-3696, Donation $1.25
(Adv’t)
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Six Inch Main Planned Along Boulevard
Edgeworth Authority Asked By Leetsdale Authority Ta Turn'Off Delinquent’s Water •
Edgeworth Municipal Authority, at its regular meeting Monday, was informed by Engineer Murdoch that the Quaker Village Shopping Center developers had agreed to lay a‘ 6 inch water main along the Ohio River Boulevard frontage to a point on Little Sewickley Creek near the culvert under the boulevard and railroad. The developers had requested a 2 inch line across the parking lot to serve the boulevard frontage lot which they had traded to Edgeworth Borough for the former Flack house and frontage on Beaver Road. Mr. Murdoch insisted on a six inch main in order to provide a possible connection with the dead end on Maple Lane and, also to provide water to the Little Sewickley Creek Pumping Station and to the Edgeworth borough property now used for a dump.
Plans for the shopping center showed that the water supply for the center will be furnished from the Beaver Road entrance. The line will be laid at the rear of the stores with individual service lines and meters for each store. The plan also revealed a proposed Boron gasoline station at the end of the center towards Leetsdale, which will also have a service line.
The Leetsdale Municipal Authority, winch is concerned with the disposal of sewage, was requested by Mr. Murdoch to hold up on its plans to install a 2-inch line along the river side of the railroad to serve the Little Sewickley Creek Pumping Station. The rights-of-way were secured and the contract let, but the contractor is willing to relieve the Author-iy of ‘its contract, Mr. Murdoch said.
The proposed new-line under the culvert would be shorter. and also would serve the Edgeworth borough property on the river.side oldie railroad, as weE as serve as a connection to the dead end of Maple Lane. A number of complaints have been received from residents of Maple Lane about excessive manganese and dirty water. Also, if needed in the future, the fine could be extended towards th Buncher Industrial Park. Officers of the Authority were authorized to sign a contract with Quaker Village after approval by the solicitor. -
Engineer Murdoch, who had attended the Leetsdale Authority meeting before meeting with the Edge-Worth Authority, recommended that the Edgeworth Authority order water turned off in cases where the sewage charges become delinqiTent, Hardship cases would not be shut off nor
multiple billings, where one tenant might be up-to-date in payments and another delinquent. Mr, Murdoch said the situation in Leetsdale was so serious that the Leetsdale Authority w_as planning to seE at sheriff’s sale property which is delinquent for a long time, $1,000 was transferred from revenue fund 'to operating fund by the ‘Leetsdale Authority to compensate for the definquents. That expense, if continued, would event-uaEy be reflected in higher rates for both Leetsdale and Edgeworth properties connected with the sewage tratpient plant.
Mr. Murdoch said that .the Leetsdale Authority had promised to repay any expenses, including court costs, and reimburse the Edgeworth Authority for losses sustained in shutting off the water. The matter was referred to Solicitor Carl Kerch-ner for an opinion at the next meeting. Mr. Kerchner remarked that there were cases in Leetsdale where the property owner, without previous notice, had received a big sewage biE run up by tenants, who had left. Mr, Murdoch said that by turning off tho water before the biE was so, high, the landlord would probably learn that the sewage biEs weren’t (Continued on Page 28)
QUEENS RIDE ELEPHANT—Shirley Ramsey and Jere Lee Fleming, ntop the upper deck of Big Bertha, a circus elephant with the Mills Brothers Circus, There’s not much comparison between Big Bertha and a small, lively donkey nor between the two Harvest Queen Candidates shown riding the elephant and the Kiwanians and Key Clubbers who will ride donkeys. Nevertheless, the above photo isi designed to attract you to the Donkey baseball game, at the Sewickley *Y’ field at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, October 12tli,