Sewickley Herald

              The Herald
The Sewickley Valley’s Home News Weekly
Voi. 43. No. 18
SEWICKLEY, PA,, THURSDAY, MAY 2, 1946
Price Five Cents
SEWICKLEY ACADEMY
Music Week Program
Sewickley Academy opens its 1046 celebration of -National Music Week by presenting Miss Helen Witte, accomplished young Pittsburgh violinist, member of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, next Sunday, May 5th, at 4 p, m., at the'‘Academy.
The students will sing spring songs, after which the parents and friends will he invited to join in singing songs familiar to everyone. Students, parents and! friends, of the Academy are very cordially invited to attend.
Sunday, May 5th, at 4 p. m.
Whole School singing spring songs ¡Helen Witte, violinist; Henry Mazer, accompanist
Everyone singing together
¡Monday, May 6th, at 8:45 a. m.
First and Second Grades - Kyrthm Band “The Three ¡Little Pigs” - Dramatization 9:00 a, m.
Kindergarten (flour and live year oMfe) Songs ¡Dances Glasses Drums ■2:30 p. m.
Recital - - Piano, Voice and Violin
Tuesday, May 7th, at Tl:50 a. m.
A program of original numbers
Wednesday, May 8 th, at 1'1:60 a. m. A Music Integration Pot Pourri
Thursday, May 9th, at 11:50 a. m. Dance Festival' (All ¡Lower School children and Forms I, II, HI Upper School girls)i
Friday, May 10th at 8:30 a. m. (to accommodate the fathers)
The Andante Movement of Haydn’s Surprise Symphony
(orchestrated for -glasses, drums, tonet-tes, marimbas)-Grades 3, 4, 5, and 6
Henriette Rougraff, piano soloist
Spring Plays
■You and your friends are cordially invited to an evening of one-act plays to ¡be presented by our Third and Fourth Form students on Saturday, May 18, at 8:15 at the Edgeworth Club.
THE ORACLE
News of Sewickley High School
The Spring Music Festival. Sowick-ley High’s contribution to the annual Music Week, observed in May, is scheduled for next Thursday evening, May 9, at 8 o’clock. For this program, tho choral1 groups under the direction of Miss Emily Stewart, and the orchestra, under the direction of Mr. Carroll, combine for a fine evening of music.
Eighteen boys and thirty-one girl» are members of the choral groups. In singing they appear as Glee Club, Girls’ Chorus, Girls’ Ensemiblo, a quartet, a trio, and soloists. In this way, quite a variety' is given to the program.
The orchestra, too-, has variety in the selections prepared for this event. This year’s organization boasts of 35 members. One specialty instrument number win present a piano soloist.
Tickets are out. It -is hoped that again our auditorium will .be full for another gr.oup of higli school entertainers.
New Buildings
Announcing that the Boll Telephone Company of Pennsylvania is to erect a $100,000 building in Ambrid'go, emphasizes thero is a building boom in the community,
With garages, houses and-other structures contemplated, should government regulations permit, the municipality will be a hive of activity during tho coming months.
¡Little or no building here in half a dozen years, itlie town is in need of expanding. And the fact that tho Bell Telephone ¡Company and ethers art! showing the way, is a cause of congratulation all around.—Ambridgo Citizen.
Our Printing-Shop Will Serve You Well
The YMCA
Donald A. Lowrie in Sewickley
On Sunday and Monday, May oth and 6th, the ¡Sewickley ‘Y’ will be host to a distinguished representative of _ its World Service program. “Responsible for saving more Czechoslovak lives from Nazi tortures than any one person in the world1,” was the tribute recently" accorded1 by President Eduard Benes to Donald A. Lowrie of the International Committee of the YMjCA. Countless other refugees of many nationalities who fled to France in 1940 also owo their lives to this man.
At the home of Mrs. John Oliver on Woodland Road, at four o’clock Sunday afternoon, and at a joint meeting of Phalanx and Gradalo societies in the YMOA at seven that evening, Mr. Lowrie will make a report of World Service activities in many parts of Europe and the rest of tho world. On Monday evening he will speah at the Kiwanis Club dinner.
During tho firs* World War and immediately after, ho served as secretary with prisoners of war in Siberia, general secretary in Odessa and1 Moscow, with prisoners in tho Archangel district and among Russian students. In 1925 ho took charge of student work in Czechoslovakia, working with ¡both Russians and Czechs.
In 1929 lie wont to Yugoslavia in student work and in 1932 retired from YMOA work to become director of tho United States House at the Cite Uni-versitairo in Paris. Returning to the Association in 1938 ho shared responsibility for tho North American ‘YV work with Russian, Czechoslovak and Bulgarian refugees in France. After tho fall of Franco ho took charge of YMiOA work in tho unoccupied area.
After herculean tasks in softening somo of tho worst conditions among refugees in ¡France, many of whom .wore to be sent to extermination conters in
Poland, he set up a special committee in Geneva and secured visas for 6,000 refugee ‘children who had been left orphans in France, From 1942 to 1945 lie organized and supervised the extensive Y'MiOA service in Geneva for 60,000 civilian internees in Switzerland.
One of the small group of men responsible for the general administration of the YMCA War Prisoners’ Aid, Mr. Lowrie organized special services for thousands of American prisoners of war in Germany. Heading up the work for 11,100 American aviators forced down in ¡Swiss territory, he organized two complete colleges as well as providing equipment for orchestras, dramatic clubs and athletics of all kinds.
Mr. Lowrie is the author of “The Light of Russia” and “Mnsaryk, Nation-¡Build'or” and translator and editor of several 'Slavic books and periodicals.
Mr. Lowrie
Clean-up Campaign On
Students of Sewickley Schools are in the midst of the annual Clean-Up, Paint-Up campaign, resumed after a lapse during tho war. Each pupil has been given a form which contains lists of things to be done about tho home, yard; vacant lot and alleys. Credit is given for painting, planting, and cleaning up refuse pile®. The records Will .be summarized at the end of the drive, May 4tli. In school, home rooms arc busy making posters and signs- and promoting tiie idea. The pupils are working as individuals in their own neighborhood, instead of in large groups as before.
Hospital Rummage Sale
Thursday, May 16th, is the date for the Hospital rummage sale to be ¡held in tho Ritchey garage, 335 Chestnut ¡Street. The date was set last Friday at the Annual meeting of the Woman’s Auxiliary to the Sewickley Valley Hospital- held in the Edgeworth Club that morning. With the proceeds from last year’s sale the Auxiliary was able to buy a badly needed oxygen tent for the Hospital. All articles for the sale may now be loft ,at the home of Mrs. William M. Scaife on Linden Place, Sewickley, or sent to tiro Ritchey garage on May 15th.
Vandalism Halted
Officer Rutledge Edger stopped five boys, aged 11 to 14, who had carried a huge pile of cardboard cartons from the roar of Select Food Market, 510 Beaver Street, to tho school yard, from breaking up tho cartons and throwing them' nil around the school yard. Tho officer mado tho boys tako tho boxes ¡back where they found them and tho night janitor, Frank Vescio, requested him to turn the names of the boys over to Superintendent Irons.
Officer Edger also reported bonfires back of tho A. & P. after 4 p. m., tho time limit set in tho ordinance.
IN THE CHURCHES
May Fellowship Day Tomorrow
The annual May Fellowship Service and Tea, sponsored by the Sewickley C-ouncil of Church Women, will .be held at three o’clock tomorrow (Friday) atI the Shields Presbyterian Ohurcb. Representatives of all the Sewickley churches will participate in the worship service, and null also assist at the tea, of which Mrs. W. J. Crittenden is chairman. All vomen of the Sewickley Valley are cordially invited to attend.
May Fellowship ¡¡Day has been nationally observed for a number of years. It is a heart-warming thought that on May third, women of all races and denominations in out country will gather together in -worship and; in friendship. The plans for our otto local observance of this day axe particularly interesting. Mrs. James Snoke, soprano soloist at Shields Church, will sing several selections, with Miss .Carrie Mayer at the organ. And there will bo a truly outstanding speaker, Miss Priobala Man-gatrai, from Lahore, India, Miss Man-gatrai is a member of the faculty of Kinnard College of that city, having studied at Badcliffie College in- Cambridge, Mass, and Union1 Theological Seminary in Richmond, Virginia. She has spent the past twp. years in America, but plans to return to India this summer, in time to resume her teaching in the fall. Kinnard College is a Christian College for girls;' so Miss Mangatrai ha® had wide experience in working with young people. She is also deeply interested in the yonth of America, as well as our homes and community life. Her talk will be especially interesting to women and Sewickley is fortunate indeed to have her as our speaker for May Fellowship Day.
The service this1 year is the first in the new post-war era. There are many more problems and responsibilities than ever before to challenge the women of America. We must re-think our lives if we are to help rebuild- the new -world of tomorrow. We will pray our Father to use us and our effort® combined though the United Council of Church Women to build our community, our nation, Our world, in accordance with His purpose.
Three Brothers Receive Discharge %
Charles James Stinson, Samuel H. P. Stinson and William1 P. 'Stinson, sons Of Mrs. James M. Stinson of Straight Street, recently received honorable discharges from the service. Charles was in the European Theatre and served for three years in tho Medieal Corps and also with tho Administrative Division.
¡William, a gunner with the Amphibious Landing Craft, after training, served for two years on tho USS Janies O’Hara, an attack transport, and participated also at Paiou, 4-th wave; Lcvte, 3rd wave; Luzon, 1st wave; and at Iwo Jimo, making 33 landings with supplies and taking off wounded. He has six battio stars, one for 30 days under lire- in the Philippine battle of Leyte. Following a troop landing at Leyte, his ship was hit with a suicide plane and badly damaged but not beyond repair and was recently de-coan-missioned on the west coast.
Samuel served for six and a half years on several battleships and: was on the USS California when it was sunk by tho Japs at Pearl Harbor and was saved .by swimming under burning oil after being injured with shrapnel when a bomb exploded on the ship’s bridge. Ho was confined to a Naval hospital at Pearl Harbor for several weeks. In-May, 1042, he served in the fir.st major engagement in. the Coral Sea battle. He also participated at Wake,- Midway and in the Aleutians on the aircraft carrier “Enterprise.”
Allocated State Funds
State aid earmarked for high school tuition will he paid to local boroughs and townships ns follows:	Gl onfield.
$1,719; Hnysville, $681; Franklin Town-ship, $2,709, and Leet Township, $3,153.