Sewickley Herald

              
he Herald
The Sewickley Valley’s Home News Weekly
.4-1 vol. m
No. 48
SEWICKLEY, PA., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1944
Price Five Cents
A SUMMONS
Jurors in this case, will the ai!disBS&K*Those willing to serve will leave their names with the ticket-taker.
Signed, William A. Heath, Presiding Judge.
Something new in theatricals will he the feature of the evening, when the Woman’s Club o'f Sewickley presents “Night of January 16th” at the Edge-worth Club on Monday evening, December 1th, for members of the Woman’s Club only and Tuesday evening, December '5tli, as a. benefit for the Union Aid Society.
There have been play® before with vague endings, bub this is the ¡first one in which the audience takes an integral part in its development and conclusion. The “Night O'f January 16th” is a murder trial without a pre-arranged verdict. An unusual feature is the recruiting of twelve members of the audience to serve as jurors. They witness the play from the stage and bring in their own verdict at the end of the last act. Strictly speaking, this play is without a heroine, nor for that matter has it a hero. The leading feminine role, the defendant in the murder trial, is to be taken by the attractive and talented young actress, Mrs. Lloyd Ensign, who has a background of theatrical experience in stock companies and Little Theatres in. the East. One of the two principal male roles, that of the prosecuting attorney, will be taken by Newell Withey, while that* of the defense lawyer will be taken by Lloyd Ensign.
Those who will appear in the remaining roles are: Mrs. Julian Kennedy, Jr., Gilbert S. EafEerty, J. Conway 'Macon, Robert R. Irwin, David 0. Chaplin, Mrs. Georgo Hofmann, Donald A. ¡Booth, Warren Wadsworth, Mrs. Holbrook Gibson, Mrs. Archibald Wagner, Joseph D. Porter, ¡Mrs. J. Scott Thornton, Arthur King Clark, R. Putnam Golds-bury, Mrs. Gilbert Rafferty, Mrs. Andrew Black, Jr., and Newton Chapin, Jr.
“Night of January 16th” had a long run in New York and has toured the United States. Cities have been loud in their acclaim, agreeing that for real comedy and tense dramatic situations, which alternately chill and Are one’s blood with the drama’s agues and fevers, this play surpasses any masterpiece recently produced.
A new Hess Infant Oxygen Unit has been donated to the Sewickley Valley Hospital by tlio members of the Child Health Association.
This type of incubator assists greatly in the nursing care of premature in fonts and is greatly appreciated by the Medical and Nursing Staffs.
Protect Your Home from TUBERCULOSIS
On Monday last, the members of the Woman’s Club were well repaid for leaving their cozy fireside®' as they heard from Dr. EnTnmu Harris a very Concrete exposition of how young poopic can be helped to help themselves to the independence and maturity o'f thinking which all parents, toaehors and well-wishers hope to sco young people achieve.
Sow can all those well-wishers And just the degree of responsibility and directing which is necessary to assist children without making thorn dependent, passive and unthinking?
Dr. Hnrris’ method is to expose them to the best—in teaching to guide them toward the clear thinking which will solve problems; in opinion to respect balanced judgments without prejudice. In, time a discrimination in taste will como forth if school, homo and church combine with an intelligent program. A vital faith is indispcnsnblo and standards by which to steer.
It was refreshing to hoar from a young man with such sincerity of purpose, mooting present day problems with an outlook not only physical and mental, but spiritual.
Let us all give a cave to directing ourselves that wo may bo worthy of. helping tlieso younger ones, 1
BUY and USE Christmas Seals
Christmas Seal time is here again. This heartwarming practice of buying cheery little seals to help combat tuberculosis, began just forty years ago and lias since become a world-wide tradition. The •Christmas Reals are sold in forty-sixYountoics. This year, as usual, they make their appearance. In a war-torn world they arc reassuring reminders that we live in a civilized world after all and humanity has a streak of goodness in it that will not bo put down.
This year, as never before, the Christmas Seals are needed, Tuberculosis is on (lie increase. The steady progress of medical science in the treatment of the disease has not been sufficient to stem the debilitating invades of war. Our crowded war production centers, overwork and nervous exhaustion have been nn open invitation to tuberculosis. The «•rent tragedy is that too many persons don’t realize it when the unwelcome guest has found its wn.y into -their
homes	,
Yes, the Christmas Real has new significance this year, It is one means bj Which all of ms can take, part in the fight against the renewed threat of mail’s ancient enemy—the white plague,
Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in tho mind, filling it with a steady and perpetual serenity.
—Addison
RECRUITING NURSES
Coraopolis Elks Back- National Drivé
Cooiicrating with the national Elks War Commission’s concentrated campaign to help relievo the alarming national shortage of nurses in the country’s ninety-four Veterans’ hospitals1, George G. Knszei'; exalted ruler of Coraopolis Elks lodge, has announced the appointment of a Avc-man committee to study the 'requirements necessary to be met by applicant nurses, and to enn-vass the women of this community during the next few weeks to impress upon those among them Who are registered nurses, the- urgent work of mercy which they can perform at the bedsides' of the men who have 'returned wounded from the battle-areas.
■An appeal will also be made to the many women, who have not been-following their nursing career, and will include those nurses who,- because they are over-age or have slight physical defects, arc ineligible for service with thc-A-rmy or Navy.
Committees similar to that organized in Coraopolis lodge are functioning in the other WOO Elk lodges in every state of the Union.
Complete details of the requirements for service with the Veterans’ Alminis-Irntion hospitals, together with information on salary, promotion opportunities, etc., may be obtained immediately by contacting Mr. Charles ¡0. Allen of Cora-opolis Elks Lodge, at Will ¡Fourth Avenue, Coraopolis, or telephoning Mr, Allen at Coraopolis 1100.
Nurso Promoted in Belgium
Second iLieutennnt Phoebe J. Campbell, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. David H. Campbell of Frederick Avenue and Walnut Strcots, has been promoted to a first lieutenant in Dio U. S. Army Nurio‘Corps. At present, she is in Belgium with the U. S. First Army.
WITH THE- m ORS
Dead Flier Honored
Mr. and Mrs. Paul M. Meyer, Sr., 905 Thorn Street, learned this week in a letter received from the War Department that their son, Lt. J. Frederic Meyer, who was killed in action by flak while on a bombing raid over Romania on May 5, 1944, had been promoted to the rank of First Lieutenant ou thé 13th of April, 1944, and that “for outstanding performance of duty in armed conflict with the enemy on the 13th. of April, 1944”, his ¡Bomb Group was a-wnrded the Unit Citation and authorized to wear the Distinguished Unit Badge. Lt. Meyer had been also awarded the Air Medal with oak leaf cluster and the Purple Heart (Posthumously).
Another son in the service, Lt. (jg) Robert A. Meyer, U. S. N. B., recently spent a short leave with his parents after six months duty in the Mediterranean, where he served with a P. T. squadron as Executive Officer and later Captain ôf a P. T. boat. He is- currently stationed at the Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron Training Center, Melville, Rhode Island.
Wins Air Medal
Captain Kingsley G. Moore of Sewickley, photo-interpreter of a ¡B-1'7 Hying Fortress -of the 95th Bombardment Group, lias been awarded the Air Medal for “meritorious achievement” while participating in Eighth Air Force bombing attacks on vital German industrial targets, air fields, supply''dumps and gun emplacements in support of advances by Allied- ground forces. Ca-pt. Moore is a member of the Fortress group which led the first American bombing attack on. targets in Berlin, and in the historic England-Africa shuttle bombing of an important Messer-schmidt fighter-plane plant at Regensburg, Germany, in 1943.
Tlie captain’s wife, Mrs. Frances 0. Moore, lives at 203 Hazel Lane, Edge-worth. He was formerly a student at the University of Michigan.
Overseas 22 Months
Somewhere in England. S/Sgt. Wilson B. Tier«an, Ihusbnnd of Mrs. Joan N. Tienvan iof SSS Thorn Street-, Sewickley, Pa., who arrived overseas 22 months ago is a' member of the Military Police Company -which guards the headquarters of Air Service Command tho “nerve center” of -the U.S. Strategic Air Forces in Europe.
A vital cog in the defense .system set up against 'the recent flying bomb raids, S/Sgt. Ticriiaii and other members iof lliis unit have received high commendations for the efficient manner in which they performed thoir duties.
Before joining the service on 7 July, 1942, S/Sgt. Tieriian was employed as a dork bv Fidelity Trust Co.
Stanley P. McPherson From the Pnmpn, Texas, Army Air Field comes- tho word that Stanley Paterson McPherson, 22, soil of Mr. and Mrs. Edward S. McPherson, 714 Blackburn Road, Sewickley, has been awarded his silver pilot’s wings and appointed an olliecr in the Air Forces upon completion of liis twin-engine advanced training at that ‘Top o’ Texas’ unit of the AAF Central Flying Training Command.
- FOOTBALL ...
Sewickley Yellow Jackets To Make History Tonight
by Jack Yeager
I-iistory will be made tonight when the Sewiekley Yellow Jackets, town crack sandlot outfit, Will tangle into the undefeated Millvale Amici at 8:00 under the lights. Almost parallel to the coming Army-Navy game for the National championship On Saturday, the Jackets and the Amici will fight it out for the- Allegheny County Light Heavyweight Sandlot Crown; If -the Yellow Jackets will còme out on the right side of -the ledger tonight, it will mark the first Sewickley football champion team since the High Schoolers brought the bacon home in 1938, and the first sand-lot champion in the village.-
It is also the first night game in the history of Sewickley.. Tonight, posts with lights on the top of them noil mark the beginning of night ball by the Yellow Jackets. Next year, to the approval of all, the semi-pro games will be staged under the .lights and after the war they plan to install a complete lighting system. The- local management, dropping their usual policy of free- admission, will charge a small donation at the gate to cover tonight’s- expenses and to- lay a foundation for next year’s operations. Already a crowd of 8,000 is expected to be present and not taking chances, tickets have been provided for 2,000 more. So there is no worry about being left out in the cold because of la;ck of tickets.
Many radio announcers' and sports-writers will be on hand tonight, including Johnny Bihar, sports editor of the Ambridge Citizen, and Bob ¡Prince, crack WJAS sports announcer.
The contest is a return engagement between the two clubs, Millvale winning the first one on a very doubtful touchdown. Although Millvale is unde-'feated, and tlie Yellow Jackets have dropped two tough ones, the two clubs bave been so close to each other in the year standings of the light-heavies division that this game- was necessary to prevent a tic at the end of the year. Both team® arc in excellent condition, the Jackets having thrown off the heavy load of injuries that have stopped them the last two games and will throw everything they lmvc to take the coveted crown.
Drop around tonight, folks, lots pop-ping!
Victory Gardeners
Navy Promotion
Albert II. Barnhart who has been in New Guinea since ho finished his training at Great Lakes Inst April, Iras been promoted to Seaman First Class, according to a letter received this week by his father, Howard F< Barnhart of 521 Straight Street.
By this time all land used by victory gardeners sliduld be cleaned oil.
To those property owners who have so generously donated t'he use of their laud for victory gardens, appreciation is best shown by cleaning up and leaving tho plot in good condition.
Many of us have enjoyed the products of these gardens and will want to grow vegetables again next year.
The committee feels responsible 1 to the owners of these lot® and will award gardens next year to those gardeners who-have taken tho best care of their plots and who leave the ground clean and ready for spring.
Cards have been sent to holders of Victory Gardens to dean up by December 10 th, 1944.
Corporal Edward J. Kerr
Corporal and Mrs. Edward J. Kerr have spent a fifteen day furlough with the former’s father, Mr. R. 13. Kerr of Sycamore Street, Glen Osborne. Corporal Kerr is stationed at the William Beaumont General Hospital, El Paso, Texas. Private John R. Kerr, a brother, is stationed with the Infantry in Camp Croft, South Carolina.