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Voi, 50 No. 20
SEWICKLEY, PENNSYLVANIA, THURSDAY, MAY 21, 1953
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Playhouse Play Tonight (Thursday) At High School
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FEATURED ROLES . . . Gloria Abdou and John Johns play featured roles of the very French Madame Collins and the scheming William Marble—respectively —ill the Jeffrey Dell mystery-thriller “Payment Deferred” which, is coming to Sewickley on Thursday evening, May 21st, direct from its four-week run at the Pittsburgh Playhouse. The play will he presented in the Sewickley High School Auditorium and will be sponsored by the Sewickley Valley Board of Trade.
Board Of Trade Benefit Tonight
Tonight, Thursday, May 21st, at 8:30 o’clock in the Sewickley High School auditorium, the Sewickley Valley Board of Trade will sponsor a production of the exciting mystery hit “Payment Deferred” which comes direct to Sewickley from its run at the Pittsburgh Playhouse.
“Payment Deferred”, staged by Robert Bardwell, will include the same excellent cast and the same setting that drew applause from the Pittsburgh critics and audiences during its Playhouse run.
As thrilling a mystery as has ever been written for the Stage, the play concerns a normal family whose life is suddenly thrown into a turmoil by an ambitious father, His schemings result in a murder and wealth 'and then a set of circumstances that relentlessly tighten the suspense through three gripping acts. The sensational climax of the story comes with a, twist ending that has made “Payment Deferred” one of the all-time top suspense plays.
John Johns, long a favorite Playhouse-Jn-Tour actor, performs in the role of William Marble, first made famous on Broadway by Charles Laughton. Gloria vbdou and Ruth Nirella co-star in the emale roles of Madame Collins, a French fress shop owner, and Annie Marble, the vife who has to live under the threat of loom. Other featured roles include Lois I’usek, William Skelton and George Brise.
Good reserved seats will be available it the door tonight.
Poppy Day On Saturday
As the hands of disabled war veterans are busy making the Memorial Poppies fbr Poppy Day, May 23, the Saturday .before Merporial Day, we can well pause apd listen to the little poppy as it tells the poppy story;
“I am the American Legion Auxiliary Memorial Poppy. I am only a crepe paper replica of my famous ancestors in France, the poppies of Flanders Fields, which took root and bloomed in the raw earth of battle graves, providing nature’s floral tribute to the heroic dead.
"I was born in a veterans hospital. I am considered the memorial flower of the entire English-speaking world, and since World War II have been worn annually on Poppy Day as a symbol of remembrance, and to raise funds for the aid of disabled veterans and children of veterans.
“Of course, I am dependent on the members of the American Legion Auxiliary for distribution on Poppy Day so that I may bloom over the hearts of all Americans. But, before that day, a grateful and understanding public must be told again my story. Here is where all of you may have a responsible part— youth and adults—by word of mouth and pen, telling the poppy story.”
TO KEEP THE FAITH By Moina Michael Oh, you who sleep in Flanders’ fields Sleep sweet—to rise anew.
We caught the torch you threw And holding high, we keep the Faith With all who died.
We cherished, too, the poppy red That grows on fields where valor led;
It seems to signal to the skies That blood of heroes never dies,
But lends a luster to the red
Of the flowers that bloom above the dead
In Flanders’ fields!’
And now the torch and poppy red We wear in honor of our dead.
Fear not that ye have died for naught; We’ve learned the lesson that ye taught In Flanders’ fields!
Pittsburgh Symphony Drive Begins Here This Week
ELECTION RETURNS On page 9 and 11
Photo by McCnndlcss
Tho local campaign for the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra began this week. Shown here in the lounge of the Edgeworth Club nrc several of the majors and the Sewickley Division chairman who met recently with the workers to start the preliminary work. Left to right; Miss Marian Morrison, Mrs. James H. Higgens, Mrs. David B. Oliver, chairman, Mrs. Archibald Wagner and Mrs. F. J. Torrance Baker, The other mnjor, Mrs. R, H. Semple, was unable to be present at the meeting.
Chairman, had previously named Mrs, Oliver as the head of the drive in the Valley.
Under the slogan—•"That’s OUR Orchestra!”—-workers will unite in the drive for the campaign goal of $295,000. In referring to the past Season as a "year of achievement,” President Cliar-
Local Workers Named
Mrs. David B. Oliver, chairman of the Sewickley Division, Pittsburgh Symphony Drive, has announced the names of the workers who will solicit district residents on behalf of the Pittsburgh Symphony. John T. Ryan, Jr., Campaign
Edgeworth Borough Council Elects Thomas A. Standish, Jr.
Sewickley Heights Council Favors Joint Police Communications System
Edgeworth Borough Council, in meeting May 12, elected Thomas A. Standish, Jr. of Oliver Road, to fill the unexpired term of Ralph A. Mitchell, councilman, who died in April. Mr. Standish, who was sworn in by Burgess Ledlie Young, will serve until the end of the year. The council honored the memory of the late Mr. Mitchell in a resolution passed at the opening of its meeting.
In other business the council thanked, by resolution, David Neely, * l’etiring police officer; heard of Sewickley Heights’ favorable response to the proposed joining of police communication facilities; signed the contract which will tighten up the Borough’s refuse collecting system ; heard a complaint by a resident that the Chase Chemical Company is violating zoning laws; approved the purchase of a new police car, the opening of a retirement, disability and death benefit fund for Edgeworth employees, and double-time for hourlyrated employees called out on holidays.
David Neely’s retirement on May 31 was recognized. in the words of the resolution; “It is hereby resolved by the Council of the Borough of Edgeworth that this Council acknowledges gratefully the thirty-three years of service rendered by David Neely as a police officer. This service has always been given cheerfully and conscientiously and the residents of Edgeworth have benefited greatly from David Neely’s work. His efforts have helped bring wide acclaim to the Edgeworth Police Department, especially as a member of the pistol team.
"As Officer Neely goes into a retired status, he takes with him our best wishes for his well earned leisure and we hope he continues to keep a close relationship with Edgeworth Borough.”
John A. Bailey, borough manager, informed the council that Ehvood Francis Alsing will replace Mr. Neely on the police force June 1. A resident of Ben Avon, Mr. Alsing is 34, married and father of one child. Mr. Bailey said he had the written, oral and physical examinations for the post.
Sewickley Heights Borough Council, in a letter to the Edgeworth Council, expressed keen interest in the latter’s suggestion that tire two boroughs establish a single system of police communications. The move is designed to eliminate expensive overlapping of facilities. Council instructed Mr. Bailey to meet until Frank Sturm, Sewickley Heights borough manager to study the matter in detail.
Mr. Bailey reported that the Borough police car was now one year old and had 36,000 miles on it. He asked the council to authorize him to trade it in and add $550 to secure a new Plymouth as soon as possible. The present car was running into considerable maintenance and repair expense—conditions caused by the heavy use. It was moved that the Borough buy the new car, spending no more than $550 plus cost of transferring equipment
front the present.car.
Council signed a two-year contract with Robert L. Lutz in an important step toward tightening the Borough’s refuse collection system. Mr. Lutz guaranteed to provide adequate space for dumping all the refuse of Edgeworth Borough; to provide access roads to the landfill site; to provide the equipment necessary to compounding and covering the refuse with a layer of earth; and to meet the sanitation and public health requirements of the State, Allegheny County and Findley Township.
The dumping ground is not more than 10 miles from the Borough and will be used for all categories of refuse. The new agreement will do away with the present system of making separate trips for the individual items—garbage, litter and ashes. Sewickley Borough lias had the contract for burning the garbage in its incinerator.
Ordinance 272, defining the various types of refuse and listing residents’ requirements in the matter of refuse, was passed on die first reading. The Ordinance provides rules and regulations for the proper care, collection and disposal of rubbish and other materials, fixes fees for services, requires owners and occupants of property to provide suitable receptacles for storage of refuse, prohibits the burning of refuse in public places and contains enforcement provisions.
Copies of the Ordinance are available at the Borough building. Mr. Bailey, and Mrs. E. L. Wilson, secretary, will be pleased to discuss any of its points with individual residents.
Albert Alimena, a resident, complained of industrial activity on Chase Chemical Company (formerly Industrial Lining Co.) property. Stacks were up, the furnaces busy and welding being done. He believed that no permits had
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les Denby of the Pittsburgh Symphony Society recently outlined various Orchestral projects of major significance in the cultural life of the Pittsburgh area and pledged the Society’s continued support of them.
Mr, Denby who resides on Pine Road, Sewickley, paid special tribute to the Industry Concerts, which focused worldwide attention on the Orchestra, gave announcement dial there will be a 1954 Pittsburgh Symphony, Jr, Campaign lenders were enthused to learn of the Orchestra’s plans to return to Carnegie Hall for its second annual New York concert next year,
Workers who have volunteered for the drive include: Majors—Mrs. James II. Higgens, Mrs. R. II. Semple, Miss Marian Morrison, Mrs, F, J. Torrence Baker and Mrs, Archibald F. Wagner, Captains—Mrs, W. P, Snyder III, Mrs. Frank McCready, Miss Ruth Myers, Mrs. William B. Skinkle, Miss Mary
Carazoln, Mrs. Karl Klauset, Mrs. A. T. Huizinga, Mrs. Harry Slambnugh, Mrs. Luther Holbrook, Mrs. Thomas Rhodes, Mrs. Drayton Heard, Jr., Mrs. Albert Fairley, Mrs. Oliver McClintock, Mrs. Edw. L, Campbell,
Workers—Mrs. Francis Foote, Mrs. George Simpson, Miss Helen Smith, Mrs. Robert Bennett, Mrs. Blair Schiller, Mrs.
J. Stuart Morrow, Mrs. George II. Craig, Miss Edith R. Thomas, Dr, Esther Cushnie, Miss Rachel McGready, Miss Maude Agnew, Miss Edna Agnew, Mrs, Ethel Ferrence, Mrs. Robert Johnson, Mrs, George Metzger, Mrs. Robert R, Menz, Mrs. George W, Ratcliffe, Mrs. Dan Lewis, Mrs, F, W. Okie, Mrs, Richard F. Sentnov, Miss Frederieka Holdship, Mrs. George Oliver, Miss Harriet Anne Willets, Mrs. William W, Mc-Keever, Mrs, Ralph. Raymond, Mrs. Edward N. Stevens, Jr, Miss Elizabeth T, Wnrdrop and Mrs, Charles A. Woods, Jr. and Mrs. William L. Jones.