Sewickley Herald

              The Herald
The Sewickley Valley’s Home-News Weekly
VOL, 63 NO, 14
SEWICKLEY, PENNSYLVANIA, THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 1957
Price Ten Centi
Estimate On Sewage Plant, $624,000
Sewickley Boro Approves Federal Aid Application
Runners Up In Catholic Tournament
(Photo by Nikki Karakitsos)
FATHER-SON BANQUET — The St. James Grade School basketball team, grades five thorugh eight, who were runnerups in the .Catholic Tournament of eight teams at St. Theresa were honored at a father and son banquet last Thursday evening, by the mothers of1 the team players. Rev. Fr. George Hurley presented the players and coach with jackets for their splendid season. Rev. Fr. James Biller was the moderator, and the principal speaker was' Rev. Fr- Edward Rectehwald, C. S. SP. Other speakers were Robert Palmer of Sf» Veronica, Robert Neis-slien and Halley Willison of Quaker Valley. Members of die team include John Ammon, Richard Belcastro, James Borovich, Edward Brennan, Craig Carol, Edgar Grey, Ray Lanza-rotta, Lenard Roolf, Donnie Roppa, James Salaminko, Louis Tucci. The coach was Rocco Tucci and his'assistants included Ernest Tucci and Fred Skrip.
Glerifield To Hold Special Meeting Oh Wage Taxes
Discuss Curbing On Center Street, Which Is To Be Paved Soon By The State
Glenfield council, at its regular meeting Monday night, decided to hold a special, closed council meeting tonight (Thursday) to discuss action to be taken on collecting delinquent wage taxes from residents; discussed whether or not the borough was legally permitted to' spend state gasoline refund money on repairing the curbs on Center Street, which is soon to be paved with a bituminous surface by the State Highway Department; decided to invite a state dog agent from Bellevue to discuss dog control in the borough; passed an ordinance authorizing the Bell Telephone Company to maintain its wires, poles, underground and overhead facilities and heard a report that only $878 was outstanding in ’56 real estate taxes.
The special ¡meeting was arranged for 7:30 p. ,m.. tonight after Burgess.
Richard W. Cook liad. suggested that a letter be .Written to all ta'xables who' haven’t paid' their wage taxes. Some filed a return and paid part of the tax while others have not even filed returns. How much each person owes and how to collect will be discussed by the counoilmen, but income figures will not be revealed. Qf course, no final action can be taken legally if the meeting is closed to the public.
With 460 feet of Curbing needing repair or replacement on Center .Street before the state applies a black top surface sooiij council was faced With a financial problem. There is not sufficient funds in the general account to pay for the Curb work and there is a legal question whether or not the borough can pay for the work out of state gasoline tax refund money. Thè borough còde reads that the borough can pay a ’portion’ of such costs out of such funds, but the question,was, how great or small a portion. Solicitor
Biggs was requested to look up some case law to see if other towns had the same problem and if the percentage of ‘a portion’ hhd .been determined in court.' .
It is cldar in the borough code that such money must be used for maintenance and repairs and cannot be used for new. work. The code also provides -that the sidewalks and curb are the responsibility of the property owner to keep in satisfactory condition. Fred Alexander asked why the Center Street curbs were repaired before those on Dawson, especially since residents of Dawson have had,in applications for months. Mr. Alexander said that Dinnrdo, who promised Vorbally to repair the streets, sidewalks and, curbs damaged by his trucks,»was pulling out of the borough. Mr! Alexander also charged that council, both this and those preceding, had been lax in enforcing proper back-filling and resurfacing on utilities after lines were laid.
A letter proposing the method of dog control to be utilized if Council signed a contract with a Bellevue dog catcher, was read and council decided to invite him to the next council meeting to discuss, rates of pay (Continued' on Page 12)
Stores Close 3 Hours
Good Friday
The Retail Committee of the Sewickley Valley Board' of Trade, announces that most stores in the Sewickley Shopping Center, will be closed from I to 3 p.m. on Good ‘Friday, April 19th, so that employees can attend church services. Stores to be closed will have signs in the door or windows in advance of Good Friday.	■
What’s Doin ’
Saturday, April 6 Children’s Theater presents Robin Hood and the Golden Arrow at Quaker Valley Junior High School Building at 10:30 A. M. Admission 50 cents. Tickets available
at door.	(Advt.)
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FASHION SHOW Sunday, April, 7 - 4-7 p.m. Paramount Club)* Coraopolis Given by The Sewickley Suburbanites (Advt.) .
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RECORD HOR Featuring Barry Kay Friday, April 26, 1957 / at 8 p. m.
Quaker Valley Sr. High Gym ' Admission - - 75c per person Sponsored by Q.V, Football Mothers
Club.	(Advt.)
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Minimurq Prices Set On Three Properties To Be Sold To Satisfy Delinquent Liens
Sewickley council, at a special meeting Monday night, passed a resolution requesting the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to grant a permit for the proposed sewage disposal plant and authorize the borough to proceed with the construction; in order to speed the process of state approval so that the borough might qualify for Federal aid; authorized Borough Manager Raymond Howe to advertise for bids for a police car to replace the Chevrolet prowl car and set a minimum price on a house and two vacant lots which are to be sold for taxes, after being held for the required year.
Vice President Carl Wahl, who is also chairman .of the sewage committee, presided’at the meeting and reported that the committee, Manager Raymond Howe and Solicitor Rose had met with the representatives of Osborne borough and Mr. Twomey of Morris-Knowles on Monday, March 25th. At that time, Mr. Twomey was enthusiastic about the opportunity to. qualify for federal aid this year and urged both councils to get the appli-cutionsTor federal aid filed as soon as possible. Several towns on the eligible list didn’t have their plans ready for approval, so were no longer eligible, so other towns had an opportunity to qualify.
However, two days later, Mr.
Twomey wrote both boroughs stating that there was no chance for federal aid tliis year, but the priority system was being changed and any project .approved by the state by July 1, 1957 would be eligible for consideration for one-half the state’s allocation of $5 million for the fiscal year, 1958. Mr.
Twomey suggested that the resolutions requesting the permits be passed and he would' meet with Sewickley and Osborne soon. '	< -
It was also suggested by the engineering firm that the regional engineer might go over the plans before they were quite completed, in order to expedite matters. However, when it was found that the plans had to be in Harrisburg, approved by the regional office, by April 9th, instead ‘of the 17tli, to be included in the ’57 grants, it was found to be impossible. It usually takes a month for approval by the regional office, council was informed.
Council agreed that passing the resolution asking the state to issue the permit would not bind the borough to the present plans, which they have not yet received. In fact, they won’t get them until today or next Thursday, at the earliest. Both Mr. Howe and the committee will want to
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Osborne Sewers May Cost As Much As $140,000
Council To Seek Special Meeting With Engineers To Seek Ways Of Cutting Cost
Osborne council, at a special meeting on Thursday evening, heard the bad news that the total cost of the proposed sewage interceptor lines force mains and pump stations, plus right-of-way and engineering may reach a total of close to $140,000. The original estimate of $77,500 for the interceptor lines and pump stations was raised to $116,000 in the most recent estimate which accompanied the final construction plans. The right-of:way will be more than $10,000, the engineering, $8,120, plus about $2,000 for a resident engineer to oversee the construction work.
Council, after a long discussion of the situation, decided to hold another special meeting to which a representative of the engineering firm will be invited, in order to see if it is not possible to alter the plans to come within the $90,000 bond issue approved by die voters. Otherwise, it will be necessary to set up an authority and sell revenue bonds to finance the remainder of the cost.
Befóte council began the discussion .of the Sewer system, the resignation of Alexander J. Barron, who served on council for thirty years*and as president for twenty years, was accepted with regrets. A resolution was passed expressing council’s gratitude to Mr. Barron for his many years of faithful service to the .borough.
Then, Laird C. Simons, 1445 Beaver Road, Osborne, was elected to serve the tinexpired term and Mr.
Simons was sworn in by Burgess Paul Frederick.	•
president Marks explained to the couneilmen that the special meeting was called to consider the plans as drawn up by Morris-Knowles. A meeting was held with the. engineers on Monday with Solicitor Colbert and Mr. Marks of Osborne, Solicitor Don Rose, councilman Stanley Diehl and Borough Manager Howe of Sewickley.
v The borough representatives, wl: had first been told that it was nece sa'ry to have the plans approved l the State Health Department by Apr 9th to qualify for Federal aid in 195’ were informed that such was not tl case. After a conference with tl District State Engineer, Moni Knowles Wrote to the councils statir that there was great dissatisfactic with the way the Pennsylvania D partment. of Health was handling tl federal aid, partly ' because there wi not enough money to go around. Di to lack of personnel in the State D partment, it is impossible to get actic on the approval of the plans in tini However, the protests to Harri burg had the desired effect and tl board decided to allocate half tl 1958 federal funds to eligible con mnntties which were not able to qunl
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