Sewickley Herald

              Herald
The Sewickley Valley’s Home-News Weekly
VOL. 52 NO. 23
SEWICKLEY, PENNSYLVANIA, THURSDAY, JUNE 7, 1956
Price Ten Cents
Council Rejects All Bids For Park
Nike Guided Missile Features 76th Memorial Day Parade
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The Nike guided missile, mounted o(\ a trailer truck, was one of the features of the Seventy-Sixth Annual Memorial Day Parade on Wednesday of last week. In the center of the photograph may be seen several of the officers of the 218th AAA Group who took part in the parade and the program which followed. The early’morning ram stopped and the afternoon was perfect for the ceremonies. The rain in tire late afternoon stopped hr time for tire band concert and choral numbers by Sewickley High School students in tire evening,
Thousands View Annual Parade
Thousands of people gathered along the parade route on Memorial Day to watch the 76th annual Memorial Day Parade. Under skies alternately sunny and cloudy, the parade got underway promptly at -•30 o clock with the Sewickley police car and the Allegheny County
Mounted Police loading tire way. Major Joseph C. Redinger, 18 AAA Group, Marshall of tire parade, and his aides led a large contingent of men from tire 18th AAA group, followed' by the fearsome Nike, the guided missile which protects this area from enemy planes.
Another group active in tire defense of the area, the 500th Air Defense Group under the Greater Pittsburgh Airport, was next in line along
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with the U.S. Coast Guard, the 432nd Army Band, the 708th Anti-Aircraft Automatic Gun Battalion, tire Pershing Rifles from both the University of Pittsburgh and the Duquesne University R.O.T.C. Music for tire first division was furnished by tire gaily uniformed Moon Township Band and the Clan Douglas Bagpipe Band.
The second division was led by Burgess Charles A. Woods, Jr., Conr-
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Ambridge Bidder Proposed 3 Story Brick Building
Sewicldey Council Unable To Accept Lower Bid By Green Engineering
Sewickley Council, at an adjourned meeting Monday night rejected all bids for die borough park property at the corner of. Beaver and Broad' Streets due to the inadequacy of the price. Before council took the action, both R. Bruce Myers, representing die high bidder, A. Karnavas of Ambridge and Samuel Green, who proposed to not only build a new building, but to modernize die fronts of two odier buildings, said that there was nothing, new to be added to their previous statements. Council went into executive session, clearing the council chamber, for private discussion, before re-opening the session to announce the decision.
lie is legally entitled as high bidder.
Then, the property committee made a motion, which was passed, to reject all bids due to the inadequacy of price.
A letter was read from Fire Chief Wade Baltz stating that he was unwilling to become fire inspector for the borough at a salary of $100 a month and requesting that the present status of fire inspector be continued on an hourly basis. Council accepted the letter and took no action, so presumably the present arrangement will continue.
When the session was re-opened, Manager Howe read a letter from a firm of attorneys representing Mr. Karvanas. The letter stated that Mr. Karvanas had sent Mr. Myers a check for $1,000 and instructed him to bid $18,002 for the park. He intended to erect a modern three story brick building on the lot in accordance with all the building and zoning ordinances of the borough and was willing to enter into a contract with the borough. The letter ended with tire hope that council would give Mr. Karvanas all the consideration to which
Eighty-Three Seniors Graduated From Sewihi On Tuesday
130 Horses Entered In Sewickley Hunt Horse Show June 8-9
New Outside Course Now Visible From All The Grandstand Seats
One hundred and thirty horses representing three states will vie for ribbons and sterling silver trophies at the Sewickley Hunt Horse Show, June 8 and 9 at the Allegheny Country Club Show Grounds.	1
Friday will be Junior day both in the rider division and the young horses classes. In all) there will be eighteen classes starting at noon on Friday, closing with the Green Hunter Champion Award, Friday afternoon, At tlie request of the Junior exhibitors another event was added after the prize lists had been mailed. It is the Jumper class, judged under the F. E. I. rules, the same as the Olympic team competes under. There will be two divisions, one for horses and one for ponies.
Saturday’s events will start at 9:30 A. M. and will be an all day show.
Besides Conformation and Working Hunter divisions and Championships there will be the five Challenge Trophy classes. First in the morning session will be the Mary Alice Brown Painter Memorial Challenge Trophy for die Family Class. This trophy was retired last year by die F. E. Richardson Family and re-presented as a Perpetual Memorial to Mrs. Painter. The Richard Madier Marshall Jr. Trophy for the Owner Rider Class, will be the last class of the morning. In the afternoon The Western Pennsylvania Hunts, The Stone-(Continued on Page 20)
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Franz, Nhnm,S—Post Row, loft to right! Janice McPherson, Frcsicicnt' mnr ?J?noF> Agnes Ferry, Vice-President, Donald Mel Frances 'p fl111,merman; Secretary Jean Ann James, Emily Cn "ml Padclio FikoAt e,mc Brnncnto, Maiy Jane Barone, Jo Ann GurgOVitS,
Hargouif(a1my,hrVi,lii,'P Merriman, Eugene Tignanolli, Richard Todd, Mcrrimnn TrI » 5. Whiling, Mary Ellen Brand, Jncquc Schumann, Esther Falvo, Alic,,'01,1,1'°i otl:o< Lcnnno AdnhiOwski, Adelaide Mnrtm, Susan Wee Hutler and Ethyli?’ M"riu Mn,,n0> Amin Bc,,c Pol,ock> Vlvmn L,Hy’ Blessing	Fnccaro, Judy Baumgartel, Caroline Anderson, Alicia
kfltmo Timni>ulnxr0 t,hJDonna Fuchs, Lmda Simpler, Barbara Carson, y> Mary Turner, Carole .Bowers, Katherine LOltcs, Charles
Lang, Clinrles Meta, Arthur Ruporto and David Milne.
Fourth Row! Richard Olson, William Neil, George Kirk, John Soutar, Maurice Dilts, Barbara Buckley, Daphne Parker, Elaine Becker, Frances Papnntonio, Ann Flora, Helen Ilipslcy, Roberta Jordan, Robert Steup, John Sgro, Paul Ilculcr and David Ramsey.
Fifth Row! Blair Daugherty, Edwin BurckaSrt, Williain Scagrcn, Allen Moulton, Boyd Liscwych, Ronald Polidora; William Satterlce, Larry Conaway, Joel Snrson, Carol Buswell, Thomas Dixon, Stephen Stevens and Malcolm Hay.	,
Sixth Row: William Hanable, George Ehrnstrom, Donald Scagrcn, Tohn Vescio, James Bianchi and Bruno Raso. Janet Shephard was hot present when the photograph was taken,
What's Dain!
CHICKEN DINNER Thins., June 14, 1956	5 o’clock
At St. Matthew’s A.M?E Zion Church, 345 Thorn St,
Rov. Ollw Graves -	- pnstor
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Memorial Day Pictures On Page 19