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The Sewickley Valley’s Home News Weekly
Voi. 45 No, 3
SEWICKLEY, PENNA,, THURSDAY, JANUARY 15, 1948
Price Ten Cents
JAPANESE BEAR
Major John Kinzer With Bear
Mrs. Julia Kinzer, of Beaver Road, Osborne, recently received the picture of her son, Major John Kinzer, with a 375 pound bear which he shot near Camp Crawford, Sappho, Hokkaido, Japan, where he is stationed with the 11th Airborne Division. The bear killed a horse on November 25th and Major Kinzer tracked it for 9 hours November 28th and nine hours the next day, finally catching up with the animal.
Even then, the hunt was not over, for he missed the first shot at the running bear at 80 yards using a 12 guage shotgun with rifled slugs. The second shot hit the running bear at 50 yards and the third shot also hit it, but his gun broke! Se borrowed another gun and killed the sear on the fourth shot.
Hunting isn’t the only recreation unong tile occupation forces as they also lave good skiing in the territory around he camp.
Major Kinzer served 15 months in the Suropean theatre of operations before leing transferred to the Far East. He ntered the Army in July, 1940 and was ssigned to the field artillery; serving as n instructor in motor transport and in le field artillery school at Fort Sill, )klahoma. He was transferred to the arachute artillery and served in that ranch in France and Italy.
Sauer Kraut Dinner at Grange A Sauer Kraut Dinner will be prepared ad served by the Ladies Auxiliary of ie Ohio Township Volunteer Fire CQm-any on Wednesday, January 21st, at ie Mt. Nebo Grange Hall. A pork nner will be served to those who 'efer it. For further information and servations call Sew. 2O80-R-21.
Mardi Gras Ball
Margaret Schurman, chairlady of St. mes Social Committee, announces a ardi Gras Ball will be held February 1948, at the Loyal Order of Moose broom, 1300 Merchant Street, Am-idge. Music will be furnished by Ed-3 Frazier’s Orchestra,
Tickets can be procured from all iwhng League captains and officers, oceeds of the ball will go to the St, ales Building Fund. Everyone is filed.
that doth live at home, and learns to know
d and himself, needeth no farther go.
-Christopher Harvey
Becpme Officers of Pittsburgh Bank
Robert C. Downie, President, Peoples First National Bank & Trust Company, announced last week that the Board of Directors had elected Officers in Charge of each of the community banks with titles comparable with those of the downtown banks.
J. K. Webster, Vice President and Treasurer of the Sewickley Valley Trust Company prior to becoming Manager of the Sewickley Branch of the Peoples First, was elected Assistant Cashier in Charge of the Sewickley Branch. Mr. Webster began his banking career in Hughsville, Pa., in 1915, and in 1920 became associated with the Emporium Trust Company, Emporium, Pa. He began his association with the Sewickley Valley Trust Company in 1923.
J. M. Snodgrass, who was elected Assistant Secretary, began his banking career with the Commonwealth Trust Company of Pittsburgh in 1917. Since that time he has served“' with the Fédéral Reserve Bank of Pittsburgh from 1919 to 1921, the Peoples Bank of Sewickley from 1921 to 1929 and from that time has bfeen with the Sewickley Valley Trust Company which in June became the Sewickley Branch of Peoples -First, with Mr. Snodgrass as Asst. Manager.
•J. B. BuZard, who began his banking career in 1919 with the Brookville Trust Çompany, was elected Assistant Secretary. He began his association with the Sewickley Valley Trust Company in 1928, and when that bank became tire Sewickley Branch of Peoples First National, Mr. Buzard became Assistant Manager of the Sewickley Branch.
LOCAL BANKERS PROMOTED
J. K. Webster
A problem which has plagued the Sewickley Valley Board of Trade has been solved by one of its members, Raymond Connelly, local Dodge and Plymouth dealer, who has equipped the new modern tow truck shown above. Heretofore, it was ijecessary to call a tow truck with a hoist from across the river when there was "a bad wreck on the boulevard or one of the borough streets. The wrecked car or truck was then hauled to Coraopolis and parked in an open field,
However, the Borough’ of Sewickley, which means the taxpayers, were liable for any thefts from tho car or truck or further damage, because tho towing was Ordered by Sewickley police, agents of
the borough, Fortunately, there have been no claims and the Coraopolis firm which did the towing were ns prompt ns could be expected in answering the calls.
Now, with the new tow truck here, prompter response is expected on a 24-liour basis and the wrecked cars or trucks will be hauled to a garage where they will be safer from theft. The new truck, on a Dodge chassis, will handle loads up to 19,000 pounds. It is equipped With a power hoist, winch and power tnkeoif and adequate apparatus, It is capable of towing not only passenger cars nnd light trucks, but also heavy duty trucks, buses and trailers.
Costing over $3,000, the truck has 10
speeds forward, giving ample power with heavy loads and good speed with light loads. It has two front and two rear floodlights and the zebra stripes on thP’ body give better visibility to approaching traffic. It is the intention of Connelly’s garage to render 24 hour service and promptness in answering calls will be in the interests of highway safety. Many limes other wrecks are caused by delay in getting wrecked cars or trucks off tho streets and spectators gathered around to watch often constitute another hazard. Especially, as they have done in recent wrecks on the boulevard where thov smoke cigarettes on the curb when spilled gasoline is flowing past them m the gutter,
| OBITUARY *
MRS. JAMES G. PONTEFRACT
Mrs. Elizabeth Walker Pontefract, who was 92 on her last birthday, August 5th, died at her home, "Bagatelle”, on die Little Sewickley Creek Road, Shields, at 8:30 p. m. on Saturday, January, '10, 1948, following a short illness. Funeral services were conducted at her residence by Dr. Alleyne C, Howell, of New York, former pastor of St. Stephens Church, on Wednesday afternoon. Interment was private in Sewickley Cemetery.
Mrs. Pontefract was born in Old Allegheny, August 5, 1855, a daughter of Hay and Jean Charters Walker. She began coming to the Valley for the summers in 1898 and came here permanently two years after her husband’s death in 1906. She became active in' the Woman’s Club and the Audubon Society here and carried on her activities as a charter member of the Allegheny County Planned Parenthood League; of the Allegheny County League of Women Voters and took an active part in Pittsburgh’s smoke control program. Interested in gardening, she was active in the Allegheny Garden Club and made her own estate a showplace of the Valley. She was also a life member in the American Forestry Association and was an active member of the Allegheny County Cii'ic Club.
She attracted public attention with her militant campaign against advertising signs on roadsides of Allegheny County and even climbed the cliffs above die Ohio River Boulevard to personnally paint out signs on rocks along the Ohio River Boulevard. She finally resorted to planting poison ivy as a barrier to the repainting of the signs. The poplar trees which line the boulevard between Dix-montli and Glenfield are a memorial to her love of trees. Friends aided, but she bought most of them herself. The ail-antlius trees along the boulevard in Hays-ville and in Edgeworth were also planted through her efforts, and against the advice of railroad men and borough officials who didn’t think they’d grow among the cinders.
At her own expense, Mrs. Pontefract distributed thousands of pamphlets to acquaint people with the laws against illegal advertising signs and other problems of conserving the beauties of nature. She advocated planting every spare corner of Pittsburgh with trees and flowers for the elevating effect on its citizens.
She is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Clinton L. Childs of Shields and Mi’s. William F. Charnley of Pasadena, California; a brother, Hay Walker of Edgeworth; five grandchildren and eleven great-grandchildren.
SEWICKLEY PUBLIC LIBRARY
New Books for Boys and Girls Tales of a Korean Grandmother
Carpenter
Jareds Island -	-	- DeAngeli
Fun with Cooking	-	-	Freeman
Shoestring Theater	-	-	Hartwell
Misty of Chincoteague	-	-	Henry
Buckskin Brigade -	- Kjelgaard
The Story of Christina -	- Newell
Nicky’s Bugle -	-	- Rietveld
McElligot’s Pool -	-	- Seuss
The Sleuth Patrol	-	-	Wellman
Prowler At Nurses .Home Sewickley police were called to the Sewickley Valley Hospital Nurses’ Home at 10:30 p. m. Monday, when a colored man Was seen on a ladder which had been left behind the home. The man ran towards the hospital when discovered and wasn’t around when officers searched the neighborhood.