Sewickley Herald

              The Herald
The Sewickley Valley's Home News Weekly
Vol. 38.   No. 41.
SEWICKLEY, PA., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1941
Price 5 Cents
From Broad Street one gets a good view of the two brick buildings fronting on Beaver Street against
which condemnation proceedings have been started in an effort to secure an improvement in Sewickley's
business district. Council is to set a date for a hearing at which plans are to be submitted for the improvement of the former Choral Hall building.    The photograph is by Harry Reno.
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THE CONSERVATION CLUB
Entering its third year of existence
is a useful organization whose work is
unfamiliar to most Sowickleyans, but
which has already proved its value to
the wild life of our hills and forests and
so to us all. It is called the Sewickley
Conservation Club, now mustering
about IS members, young men aged 18
to 22 most of whom aro Boy Scout graduates, and many of whom are also members of tlie Sewickley Shooting and
Fishing Club. The officers aro: Edward
Quig, president; Kenneth Miller, vico
president; and Charles Yost, secretary
and treasurer. Honorary members aro
Norman Allderdice, J, O. Burgwin, John
L. Holman and J. C. Craig.
The club's first activity was during
the hard winter of 1030-40, whon feeding stations for birds and small forest
creatures woro erected, 25 or 30 of
them, mostly in Sowickley Heights
borough or township, and woro carefully kept supplied and cleared of snowdrifts all through that wintor and tho
following one. This work will bo organized and kept going through the winter
to come. As much as a ton of scratch
food was scattered last winter, as well
as quantities of oats ancl barley; and
many a chunk of suet was well devoured by the hungry birds.
The elub meets every other Sunday,
in tho former trap-shooting house of
the Sewickley Hunt, now given over
to tho club's use; and its members this
summer have cleaned and painted tho
building, cleaned up the grounds and so
on. Skeet shooting with the Hunt's
members litis been indulged in, and tho
Conservation Club is now organizing its
own rifle team, which will be coached
by the club's adviser, Leo Sitting, himself a riflo expert.
The immediate project, however, is
securing funds for the winter feeding
program, as well as donations of scratch-
food and usable grains, etc. As in the
past two years, the club's requests will
no doubt meet with a kindly reception,
in a cause so appealing to all as tho
feeding of our woodsy wild life.
Seek City Boulevard Extension
City and county officials jointly moved
last Thursday to seek the extension of
the Ohio River Boulevard into Pittsburgh. Proposing a new link between
the end of the present wide boulevard
nt Marshall Avenue on the North Side
to the Point, the county commissioners
agreed with city council to seek a conference with state department of highway officials to determine possible routine of tho new link, coasts and schedules.
At the present time, tho narrow,
winding streets and inadequate bridges
over'the railroad (tracks form an annoying, time-losing bottleneck, especially
during rush hours. Many persons in the
V'tlley, while highly desirous of having
the boulevard extended westward to the
Beaver County line, believe that the
Pittsburgh end of the boulevard should
be constructed first.
Last Trip Down Cumberland
It is necessary to the happiness of
mail that ho bo mentally faithful to
himself.—Thomas Paine,
Captain Fred Way, Jr., Fred Morrison, both of Sewickley and John W.
Zenn of MeKeesport, left Burnside, Ky.,
last Sunday in what rivermen consider
the last trip from the headwaters of
the Cumberland River. Tho three men-
are traveling the 516 miles to Smith-
land, Ky., two miles above the* junction
with the Ohio River, in Captain Way's
18 foot yawl.
It's the last trip, for soon a gigantic
dam will close tho upper Cumberland
to navigation, On Labor Day, the three
men attended ground-breaking ceremonies for the fifty million dollar Wolf
Creek Dam across tho Cumberland river
about forty miles below Burnside. The
now dam will provide flood control for
ihe Cumberland Valley and also will
provide electrical power. With no locks,
it will bo twice as largo as TVA's Norris Dam and will form a reservoir covering 57,000 acres and backing up water
from a dam 240 feet high and a mile
long.