Sewickley Herald

              The Herald
The Sewickley Valley's Home-News Weekly
Vol. 34.   No. 17.
SEWICKLEY, PA., PRIDAY, MARCH 19, 1937
Price 5 Cents
Boy Scouts Carry Out Bird Program
Chairman Eobert Kleindienst of tho
Troop committee, Kiwanis Club of Sewickley Troop 258, B. S. A., is a lover
of the great out of doors and those
feathered friends and four-legged animals which inhabit the woods. Chairman "Bob" is also a lover of boys,
and in trying to find something which
would interest those Seouts of the Club
Troop, reasoned that most boys of this
modern and fast age do not get the
chance to come in contact with natural
things as they should and that giving
them a chance to get out into the woods
at least once a week would do them
worlds of good.
Early this winter Mr. Kleindienst
rounded up the members of his Troox-
Conimittee and with the boys of the
troop—they did not have to be rounded
up, they were waiting at his door—
went out into various sections of
woodsy territory on the Heights and
built food shelters of various varieties
and types which would be amply protected from the snow—when it came.
The snow didn't come this winter as it
did last, but the wild life has a plenty
hard time finding enough to eat after
cold weather comes in the fall. Chairman Bob is a hunter of note and knew
just where the quail and pheasant would
look for food. With this thought in
mind, he directed tho building of fifteen feeding stations, over an area of
ten square miles from Sewickley. Eleven
of the stations are on this side of the
Ohio and four are on the other side of
the river, baek among the hills.
This work is done in cooperation
with  the   Sewickley  Hunt,   the  North
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Above — Scouts and Committee on a Nature-Hike. In front, kneeling
and sitting are the Scouts of the Troop. Standing in rear: Eobert
Kleindienst, Chrnn. Troop Com.; Sam C. Mahood, Club Sec'y and member
Troop Com.; Ed Ellerton, Club Vice-Pres. and member Troop Com.;
Ralph C. Wright, Club Immed. Past Pres. and member Troop Com.;
Reynolds D. Ritchey, Club Director; Dr. Charles W. Boyd, Club President;
Frank Maruca, Scoutmaster; Jos. B. Buzard, Club Past President and
Troop Committeeman.
Below — Kiwanians give small prizes for bird-houses made by the
boys. Second from left, Romeo Lupinacci, first prize; second from right,
Norman DeGori, third prize. Tony Mendicino, not in the picture, won
second.   Chairman Kleindienst stands in the rear.
Boroughs Sportsmen's Association, and
the Sewickley Msliing and Shooting
Club. These organizations supply tlie
dried ears of corn and the scratch feed.
The scratch feed is put on the ground
in the sheltered stations, while tho ears
of corn are placed on sticks, whieh are
stuck in the ground at various places
near the feeding stations. Bread
crumbs and suet are sometimes put out
at tho stations, in order to satisfy n
larger'variety of birds.
The Club Troop Committee recently
held a bird house building contest for
the bo3rs of the club troop. Prizes were
awarded at a regular meeting of the
club after Mr. Don Baird, Jr., the
young loeal nature expert, talked on the
habits, good and bad, of the local wild
birds, those desirable, and the ones
which need housed. He also explained
the different types of bird houses best
suited to the various kinds and species
of local birds. About ten boys participated in the contest—only old boxes
and the commonest of hand tools could
be used in construction, and the result
was surprising as shown in the accompanying photograph.
Members of the Club Troop Committee are Bobert Kleindienst, chairman, Balph "Wright, Edward Ellerton,
Eoy F. Barclay, Dr. Eobert Willison,
Charles B. Horton, Joseph B. Buzard,
Samuel C. Mahood, and J. D. Creigh
Miller. In order to stimulate activity,
each member of the committee acts as
chairman for a month during the year.
Frank Maruca is Scoutmaster of the
Troop, and Newton Reynolds is Assistant Scoutmaster.
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LAST ASSEMBLY PROGRAM
Tonight the Audubon Society Presents
Eminent Naturalist
This evening in the high school, Dr.
Lawrence E. Hicks, director of the
Ohio Wild Life Research Station, Ohio
State University, Columbus, Ohio, will
give an illustrated bird-life lecture
undor tho auspices of tho Sewiekley
Valloy Audubon Society, which thus
contributes the last of tho six programs included in the Sewickloy Assembly course. The lecture should bo of
outstanding interest to all who love tho
outdoors and its bird and animal life,
and to all Who desire to see a wiso
conservation program put into effect for
tho preservation of these important
national assots.
_?or Dr. Hicks stands high in tho
scientific world of naturalists and students of Wild life. Tho Ohio Rosoarch
station, maintained cooperatively by
the Ohio Division of Conservation, tho
Stato University and tho United States
Biological Survey, including tho Ameri
can Wildlife Institute, has as its objectives the basic fact-finding necessary
for real conservation, the training of
skilled personnel to administer these
valuable resources (worth $50,000,000
per year to Ohio, they say) and demonstration and educational projects leading to proper appreciation and utilization of those resources. It has soveral
substations, ono at Pymatuning Lake,
whore an intelligent program of preservation is being worked out.
Dr. Hicks has performed extensive
biological work all over the United
States, has made extensive bird-banding
studios, collected thousands of bird,
animal and plant specimens for Ohio
museums and herbariums, has had eiglit
years experience as teacher of nature
subjects, has published many brochures
and scientific papers on game, ornithology, floral and vegetation surveys,
and has boon a pionoer iu working out
systematic methods of study of bit'cl,
animal and vegetable life. lie loves his
work, and will undoubtedly give a talk
full of interest to all.
A CHILDRENS PLAY
"Toby Tyler" Comes to Sewickley
There will be clowns, a giant, a fat
woman and a thin, man, acrobats and
tight rope walkers ou tho stage of the
Sewickley High School nuditmorium tomorrow (Saturday) afternoon at 3:15,
when "Toby Tyler or Ten Weeks With
a Circus" will bo given by tho New
York Children's Theatre Company. In
tho morning tho play will be given at
tho Schenley Theatre in Pittsburgh,
thus making it possiblo for Sowickley
to have .his play, which will bo given
exactly as presented in Now York City.
Thore is much lively action in tho play,
and plenty of amusement is promisod
by "Mr. Stubbs," the real live monkey,
which becomes Toby Tyler's own when
ho brings back his runaway mates aftor
the wagon breaks down.
Not only are the childron, as woll as
tho parents in Sowickloy interested, but
children from Coraopolis, Ambridge
and Beaver will also bo prominent in
tho audience tomorrow afternoon.
Tho Woman's Club of Sewickley
A"*alley is sponsoring the play here, and
has appointed Mrs. Richard S. Giese as
chairman of the local arrangements.
Mrs. William Booth is general chairman
with Mrs. Prank Stoner, Jr., assisting
hor. Many of the club members are
patrons and have mado reservations for
tho play. "Toby Tyler" was written
years ago, but is as good now as ever.
Miss Lillian Painter, chairman of
ushors for the "Toby Tyler Circus
Play" by the Children's Theatre Corn-
Play," has announced tho following
aids to assist her:
Tho Misses Mary Stoner, Kathrina
Tallman, Catherine, Meanor, Joan Rose,
Mrs. Oliver Campbell, Mrs. James
Marks and Miss Margaret Miller.
Many children are waiting with interest this Toby Tyler play with the
livo monkey. We hope to bring tho
Claro Tree Major Company hero next
year if tho company can arrange to
givo a second performance on tho same
day that Miss Boogie has thorn up at
tho Schenley Theatre in tlio morning.