Sewickley Herald

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Herald
The Sewickley Valley’s Home News Weekly
Vol. 42 No. 10
SEWICKLEY, PA., THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 1945
Price Five Cents
Board of Trade
Annual Sinner Tonight
; The annual dinner meeting of the Board of Trade has in past years been ; one of the high .spots on the calendar ' of the Village of Sewickley, and the mere .announcement that it will be held this (Thursday) evening at 7:30 at the Dorian 'Club .has/beem enough to assure an attendance as large as that club could promise to accommodate; .ticket sales were stopped early in the week, and) no more reservations are available.
(George Bailey, magician, musician, reader, and general entertainer of wide ■reputation, is to furnish the program, and Board of Trade, members who have seen and. heard him .say lie is one of the best. Earl W. Myers is chairman of ■the (committee of arrangements for this affair. Hugh ¡MctMaster is president of the Board of Trade; Dr. ’William Boyd is its. secretary.
CrLENTIFJ/D PAPER DRIVE SUNDAY
Glenheld Borough, under chairman» »hip of Edward Costello, and Kilbuck Township, 'Conrad Becker, chairman, (will join with. Emswortli, ¡Ben Avon, Avalon, Bellevue and '¡Ross Township in the waste paper drive being sponsored) by the Allegheny County Council ' of Defense on Sunday, March 11th. Osborne Borough- had a collection on February 23; and Sewiekey, Edgeworth, Sewiekley Heights and) Haysville boroughs, and Aleppo and ¡Leet townships, will hold their next paper collection on March 2/7, 28, 29, and 30.
Why Doesn’t Everyone Put Out Paper?
When Ambridge’s paper drive had less than 100% cooperation, J. J. Gorson, chairman of the local salvage committee, summed, up his impressions thus, as reported in The Ambridge Citizen: ■
“After surveying the First Ward homes’ contribution to this serap .paper drive, it can be stated generally speaking -that people are cooperating. ■
“But not everyone.. Why should one bloek have 20 homes without one pile of paper there? And these 20 homes .showed 15 service stars. Imagine!
“Fifteen men in the .service who need ammunition wrapped wjtli, paper, Food to eat that has to reach them in carton’s. Blood plasma that may .save their lives need's paper to ship it to the front, aiid 20 home® don’t care!	v
“It may be a nuisance digging a fox hole up near the front line. There isn’t any greater disappointment than to look at a row of houses and find, one house with four largo bundles of paper and six following it with none at all. I believe it the patriotic duty of everyone to see .to it that every home does its share.”
To Continue Boulevard Patrol
Three additional State Policemen have jeon assigned to the Beaver ¡Barracks following the closing of the Porrysville !)arracks last week. They will aid in oatrolling the Ohio 'River Boulevard Between Ecetsdalc and the -Pittsburgh jity lino twice daily, once in the morning; once in the afternoon, when shifts jhango at the shipyards, The patrol tad been one of the duties of the officers groin 'the ¡Perrysville .b'arrackfs.
The officers, Corporal Alfred P, Vota, West Newton; Private Edmund .T. Na-gosky, Erie; and Private, Joseph P. iheranko, Bobtown, were formerly stationed at (Beaver.
To See “Devil Dog” Film
Colored films showing tho storming of Tarawa and other activities in the Marianna will bo shoiyn, together with Marino “Devil Dogs” .training movies March .f&fch' at a meeting of Sewickloy Valldy Post 4, American Legion.
Servicemen See tfye ^iPorlô
WITH THE COLORS
In the Trench Alps
CAIRO, EGYPT.—From tho ramparts of the Mohammed Ali Mosque in Cairo, the houristsi get a magnificent vi.ew of the city of Cairo on a Red Cross tour. Minarets ini the background pe-reh on top of the 'beautiful Sultan Hassan Mosque, which is believed jo be the
finest existing monument of Egyptian Arab architecture.
Servicemen in front with guide are, left to right: Sgt. J. McLaughlin of Cuba, N. Y.; Cor-pl. Emil E. Wickham, Pueblo, Colorado; Guide; Lt. Frank Feremtchek, Salt ¡Lake City, Utah; near
wall, Corpl. Fred Morrison of Sewiekley, Pa.; Pfc. Charles Antworth, Houlton, Maine; and nearest camera, Staff Sgt. John Barrett, Atlantic City; N. J.
Photo from American Red Cross, Washington, D. C.
6th Army Group, France.—Tivistiug mountain-.roads, high altitudes and freezing. ' 'weather along the Frauco-Italian, front are tho chief -reasons why» an Ordnance Company of the 44th A-AA Brigade is working “ ’round the clock.” In-that brigade is Pfc. Ovaries G. Hamilton, of 720 'Beaver Street, Sewiekley,
■Supply routes through these moun-: tàins'-are giving the hardy army tnicks more ■ than' the donnai amount of wear and--tear, • necessitating quick repair jobs, changing of motors, and general overhauling service. Besides vehicular repairs, the company maintains centrally ioc'atect shops for small arms, artillery pieces and precision instruments that become defective through climatic conditions' or enemy action.
This Ordnance Company, part of Lt.-Gen. Jacob L. Dovers’ hard-hitting Sixth1 .Army Group, has mobile teams of mechanics who are often called to the source of troublé'. 'Making the rounds of snow-paeked gun emplacements high in the Alps, these fast-moving crews repair artillery and other weapons on .the spot.
¡Keeping the righting units in the French Alps mobile and with a maximum of firé-power is an old story for this veteran outfit. Servicing the Third (Marne) Division, the Ordnance Company helped; put its machine's' and guns •in top functioning order for four amphibious operations: North Africa; Sicily, Italyand Southern France. In the Southern France invasion, 27 officers and men of the 'company made the invasion with airborne troops as an emergency repair team.
The company was activated in 1918 as a mobile repair shop, and saw service in France in World War I.
In. Luxembourg
• Word has. been received that Pvt Lester M. Conway of‘Waynesboro, Va., 'formerly of Sewiekley, is. in Luxembourg, after having been jin- England, France and Belgium. He is assigned to an Infantry unit, 90th Division, of the Third Army.
¡Pvt. Conway graduated from Princeton in June, .1944, and received his training at Camp Joseph T. Robinson, Little Rock, Ark. He. lias been overseas since January.
■Pvt. Paul A. Honeckor, who lias, just successfully completed surgical technician training at Brooke General Hospital, San Antonio, Texas, returned on February 10 to his proper station, tho Regional Hospital at Camp Maxey. Ho is assigned to surgery work, and was promoted to corporal on February 26. He also had one. month training at McCloskcy General Hospital at Temple, Texas.
Three Brothers
Lawrence P. La Spnda of Sewickloy is pictured above os -be is working on photographs in a hospital in England. Ho joined the U, S. Army in 1942, spent, eight months in Sicily where ho took
Lawrence P. La Spada
part in the invasion, and then wont to England in .1943 to work ns hospital photographist.
He is the son of Mi', and Mrs. P;
La Spnda of Sewiekley Heights; was graduated from Sewickloy High School in 1938 and also from tho University of Pittsburgh after completing the Business Administration course.
A wicked-looking knife with an 11-iiieh blade, encased in a wooden sheath of rather artistic Japanese handiwork arrived Inst week at the homo of Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Barilaro, Beall Way. It was a souvenir sent by their sou Peter Barilaro corporal in a Medical Corps stationed in'.the Philippines, after experience in earlier Southwest Pacific invasions. A récent letter told of his continued good health and useful activity in'ihis assigned duties.
Recent word from his brother Lupio Barilaro, technical sergeant in. the AAF, now based in England, told of having spent two weeks on tho German front. In England lie had. been s.o fortunate as to meet his brother, Anthony J. Barilaro, sergeant in an Army Medical Corps unit, not long ago.