Sewickley Herald

              The Sewickley Valley’s Home Weekly Newspaper
Voi. 50 No. 49
SEWICKLEY, PENNSYLVANIA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1953
Price Ten Cents
Propose Less Beaver Street
Santa Turns On Sewickley's Christmas Lights
St. Stephen's Dedication
PUBLIC INVITED TO DEDICATORY' SERVICE
As the climax of five months of building activity St. Stephen’s Church will dedicate its new Chancel on Thursday evening of this week, December 10, at S p. m. The public is invited to -the service.
Consecrator will be the Rt. Rev. Austin Pardue, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh, Bishop Pardue will leave the day following. the St Stephen’s Dedication for Germany. France, North Africa and England on a mission to Protestant personnel of the armed forces, particularly the Ah Force.
Clergy of all parishes in the Pittsburgh diocese Will attend the service and are guests of the Parish at a dinner to be held in the Parish House preceding.
The Dedication Sermon will be delivered by the Rev. Bradley McCormick. Rector of St. Thomas’ Church. Canons-burg. Also assisting in the service. will be the Rev. Walter C. Righter, Rector "of All Saints’ Church, Aliquippa, who will read the Lesson, and the Rev. George M. Chester, Rector of St. Andrew’s Church, Pittsburgh, who will read the prayers. The three clergymen are former members of St. Stephen’s Church and very active in its life while residing in Sewickley.
The new Chancel of St. Stephen’s Church is part of a- large building program which the congregation is carrying out tins year. Included is a new Church, School building, now in process of erection and which will be dedicated in the
/	jMioto by McCandless
Santa Claus last week arrived a little early to turn on tire Christmas lights in Sewickley’s business ¿strict. Shown in the photograph watching Santa are: C. Fred Guy, chairman 6f the Christmas lighting committee of the Sewickley Valley Board of Trade, Inc. and James J. Munizza, president of the Board of Trade.
Santa Arrives Early
TURNS ON CHRISTMAS LIGHTS AND MEETS CHILDREN Santa Claus arrived a little early from his headquarters at the North Pole last week, to turn on Sewickley’s Christmas lights and also to meet the children of uic. Valley and Heights on Saturday in Borough Park. Santa had popcorn balls and candy canes for each of the children snd asked what they wanted for Christmas,
In tile background was a new, living spruce tree, which Sewickley borough planted and decorated with gay lights file, borough’s contribution ’ fo the restive season, Instead of cutting a large tree every year, this year it was decided to plant a living tree and attempt to keep it living from Christinas to Christmas. That was feasible, because Sewick-*ey council has decided 5 to keep the.
Property as a park, rather than selling it tor commercial uses.
While tl10 borough paid the expenses ? transplanting the tree and triimning i. the Board of Trade is faced with the ™st of stringing the lights along the Business district, as well as the cost of t'o gifts for the children and bringing anta licrc,^ Letters requesting contri-jiitions have been mailed to some resi-onts but anyone who would like to P P. defray the expense Is cordially intro t0 rnftij checks to the Sewickley Willey Board of Trade, Inc,, Sewickley,
Spring of 1954.
The Chancel, to be dedicated _ on Thursday evening, was planned and designed by Mr. Leslie E. Nobbs, noted New York ecclesiastical architect. It involved considerable alteration of the east end of the church. All furnishings, given as memorials, arc new. The large four-manual organ of St. Stephen’s was also rebuilt and enlarged as a memorial. There is still some further work to be done on the organ. When this is com-, .pleted the organ will be dedicated with n nri« "ore recitals in January and
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Oddities In Nature
Walking ferns, shooting stars, flying squirrels and praying mantis—these are but four of the-54 varied "nature oddities” revealed in this beautiful color film to be shown Wednesday at 8; IS p. m. in tlie Sewickley High School auditorium. How docs the yellow-throated vireo build its skilfully woven nest? How does flic opposum carry its young? What bird was used-* by man to do lus hunting before lie invented firearms? Why doesn t a spider become entangled in its own
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Nature’s ways are wonderfully varied and each wild creature, to thrive and bring forth its young, must be fitted to hold its place in the world. When on sees and understands the marvelous adaptations of turtles, frogs, insects plants, hawks, woodpeckers and songbirds shown in this film, nature is no longer "odd" but a fascinating mterplao of forces that tend to keep all animals and plants within balance. Here, in color film, are .nature’s dramas that go on in every woodland and every field throughout the year.
When Walter II. Shaekletoti, who will present Wednesday’s free lecture to file public, retired from business in Louisville, in If)46, he. settled on his nearby 200-acre tract in “Sleepy Hollow , a land of Kentucky lakes, swamps, upland marshes and deep woods. There he. set (Continued on page 21)
Council Committee Makes Few Changes In Original Parking And Traffic Rules
Protests Of Citizens and Board of Trade Of Little Avail In Changing Proposals	^
Sewickley Council’s Special Committee on Parking will recommend to the full council at the next Meeting, Monday, December 21st, that Walnut Street be made one way south from Beaver to Thom; that Straight Street be made one way north from Beaver ^o Centennial; that Duquesne Way he made one way west from Walnut to Little; that Green Way be made one way west from Broad to Green; that parking will be banned on the north side of Beaver from Blackburn Avenue to Locust Place; on the south side of Centennial from Blackburn to Witherspoon entrance about 250 feet east of Broad and on the west side of Green street from Beaver to Green Way. The angle parking on the east side of Broad will be changed to parallel parking. A number of meters will be removed and the meters in the business district will be changed to lc lor six minutes; 5c for half-hour and 10c for an hour with a two hour limit. Meters n the so-called ‘fringe area’ will remain at lc for 12 minutes; 5c for 1 hour with a two hour limit.
Till' committee will recommend to the council that 16cS meters be allowed to remain on the streets in the immediate business area and 155 in the fringe area, making a total of 323. The committee also states that there are now 250 parking spaces now available and the parking lots will add 87 and on s t r e e t meters, 73 for a net increase of 160.
Instead of enforcing the two-hour parking limit on side streets in the fringe area, which is difficult, the committee stated that'in its opinion, by installing surplus meters in the fringe areas, it would provide parking spaces at lc for twelve minutes or 5e an hour for those persons not desiring to pay the higher rates in the business district. The fringe areas would be limited to two hour parking and subject to $1 fine for first offense within a six months’ period are authorized under current Borough ordinances.
The committee’s reasons for the changes have not been altered by the opposition and protests of individual citizens and representatives of the Se-wiekle.y Valley Board of Trade, Inc., wlio have requested a 90 day or six months’ delay after the parking lot are in use, in order to determine which of the proposed changes arc practical. On making Walnut Street one way south from Beaver to Thorn, the committee states: “The traffic conditions at Beaver and Walnut Streets are about the worst in the Village. An entrance and exit to the new Parking Lot will be off Walnut Street, across from the A. & P. This additional traffic will further aggravate the traffic congestion at Beaver and Walnut unless tins change is made.”
On making Straight Street one way. north from Beaver to Centennial, “Parking is now permitted on one side only, hut two way traffic is difficult and the Fire Department recommends a change. Rather than remove all parking, wo recommend a one way street.”,
On making Duquesne Way one way west from Walnut to Little, “Since the street is only 16 feet wide, it has always been hazardous, especially, when a chicle parks. .Also, since. Walnut Street will be one way south, the flow of traffic will he away from this area.
On making Green Way, one way west from Reaver to Green, “Green Way now exits into Broad Street. This has been an unsafe condition due to the narrowness’ of the street and buildings obstructing tbe driver’s view when crossing the sidewalk, and because of parked cars when entering Broad Street.
On banning parking on the north side of Beaver Street from Blackburn to Locust Place, “Due to the narrowness of (Continued on page 20)
Holograph Courtesy National Audubon Society FLYING SQUIRREL: Some people don’t even believe such an animal exists. But of course it docs. Only instead of flying it really glides—spreading out its legs, between winch is a membrane which makes it possible to glide from branch to branch and tree to tree. Many interesting animals, as well ns birds and otlier wildlife, are included in the subject matter of “Oddities in Nature , the Audubon Screen Tour colored motion picture to be shown at 8il5 p.m. on Wednesday, December Ifitli in the Scwcklcy High School auditorium.