Sewickley Herald

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VOL. 52 NO. 22
SEWICKLEY, PENNSYLVANIA, THURSDAY, MAY 31, 1956
Price Ten Cents
Way Cleared For Shopping Center
New Outside! Course For Horse Show - June 8-9
A high-lift has moved tons of earth leveling the outside course. This will enable spectators to completely View events from their box seats. Parking facilities have been increased, no more car crowding. Paint brushes are swinging and the ring is being painted the traditional green and white.
Twenty-nine events are planried for the two days. Friday will be Green Hunters and Children’s classes starting at 12 noon. Saturday will be Working and Conformation Hunter Classes beginning at 9:30 a.m.
Mr. Eric Atterbury of Westbury, New York has accepted the Committees’ invitation to Judge.
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High School Graduates ?
An important phase of the Guidance Program of Sewickley High School is the “follow up” of graduates. Information derived from this source helps the authorities to revise the curriculum to meet the needs of the students. '
The results of the most recent survey show the success of graduates in college, the type of college selected, and thè professional schools chosen. From the 77 members of the Class of 1952,^ many are/ now being graduated by institutions of higher learning to take their places in industry and business or to enter professional schools.
Frank Brand: Allegheny Collej Meadville, Pre-medical. Admitted Medical School, University of Pen sylvania. Joseph Buzard: Grove Ci College, Grove City, Electrical Engi Wring. Placed with Sylvania Elect! Corporation, Vacuum Tube Divisic arol Lee Campbell: Southern Sen nyry, Buena Vista, Maryland. Grad , , “0m Junior College, 1954, m: oed, William Cannister: Doctor Chiropractic from the National Ci ego of Chiropractic, Chicago, Illino Urol Davis: Penn State, Businc Economics. Placed with Halles Bi . s> Loveland, Ohio. Mollie t I1®;, Sewicldey Valley Hospit g'stercd X-ray Technician. ' Ric a Dods: University of Pittsburg «mess Administration. To gradu? J ™l|yi 19S7. James Dunn: Jo! mniwT Cjnversity, Baltimore, Pi medical. Admitted to Medical Soho University of Maryland.
James Evans: After working i year at Homestead Valve, enti cm»m'en- aer Polytechnic Institu nngmeenng. A Junior. Willie nschemeler: Marietta College, Ma fi. °>: Honor Student in Peti u'i^™Slnecnng, Nancy Gourle
Marylan/ °wmMulan.c1’ ColleS<? Pa> Sepmmher be m Eur°P° un Semin nr,/' r/ancy Hoover: Southe CraduhZj i_Bu6lla Vista, Virgin)
W.’Vm0”’ Two years in ^ Bngham Young College,
Vo, Utah, Engineering. Whitney Leschine: • University' of Pittsburgh, Class of 1957, Economics. Richard McPherson: Ohio Wesleyan, Delaware, Ohio, Business Administration and Education. Placed with Corning (Continued on Page 20)
Sewihi Commencement Exercises
The Senior Class of Sewickley High School will hold their Class Night Program at 7:45 p. m. on Friday, June 1st, on the front lawn and in tile auditorium. The Baccalaureate Service for Seniors will be held at 5 p. m. on Sunday, June 3rd, at the Sewickley Presbyterian Church.
Commencement exercises will be held at 8 p. m. on Tuesday, June 5th, in the auditorium of Sewickley High School.' The farewell assembly will be held in the auditorium at 8:35 a. m. on Friday, June 8th.
Edgeworth Class Exercise! Wednesday
The Edgcworth-I-Ieights School will close on June 8th, with the year-end closing exercises scheduled for Wednesday, June 6th. At 8 p. m. on Wednesday, the Second Grade Will present a Tom Thumb wedding and the Sixth Grade will give a short skit.
2,800 Get Chest X-Rays
VOLUNTEERS MAN
MOBILE T.B. UNIT
Nearly 2,800 residents gf the Valley took advantage of the visit of the mobile unit of- the Pittsburgh Tuberculosis League to have their chests x-rayed on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Mrs. Fred L. Wilson was chairman and Mrs. Daniel Pomer-leau was co-chairman of the volunteers, who manned the unit. A good portion of the success of the visit here was the use of a loud-speaker on a car donated by Tax Collector L. V. Gibb and operated by Elizabeth Lee with Ruth Buck, chairman of the publicity committee, Tom Wolfe and Ralph Smith at the mike.’ Advance publicity stories in the Herald and in store windows and announcements in the churches and civic organizations also helped greatly. The Board of Trade members gave employees time off to visit the •unit.
Sewickley was ’way above the average, said Mr. Edward Rosiak, in charge of the X-Ray program for the Pittsburgh Tuberculosis League, in spite of the fact that the automatic timer broke Friday and the x-rays had to be timed manually until a substitute was brought in from Orange, N. J., at 5. p.m. on Saturday. Mr. Rosiak stated that he was sorry that every one couldn’t be accommodated, but said that the Mobile Unit will be in Leetsdale in the fall and those who missed the x-rays here could get them taken at Leetsdale.
Scout troop 249, Glenfield and Sewickley troops 242, 353, 98, 354 and Edgeworth troop 243 helped by distributing information on the x-rays to the homes. ,Mrs. Nellie Maruca’s Troop of Girl Scouts, Mrs. Poland’s and Mrs. McBride’s senior girl scouts distributed information to the business firms and doctor’s offices; Mrs. Frank Hartle’s group of boys and a group, from Haysville assisted in distributing the folders.
Names of the volunteers are as follows:
Newcomers Club — Mrs. Richard Balph, Representative. Mrs. Melvin Krall, Mrs. Telford Eppley, Mrs. James/N. Daniel, Mrs. Harry Hazen, Mrs. Everett J. Rich, Mrs. Victor Fedosky, Mrs. George ’ Devanney’ Mrs. James C. Rogers.
Parent Teacher Guild and Womens Guild, St. James School and Church •—Mrs. Henry Cummings, Representative. Mrs. Joseph Gariti, Mrs. Louis Vescio, Mrs) Leo Blank, Mrs.' Emil Weis, Mrs. Dudley Taylor, Mrs. Martin Doyle, Mrs. Alice Dempsey, Mrs. Robert Menz, Mrs. Ben Mauro, Mrs. Edwin Lyon, Mrs. Richard Lord.
Edgeworth School Club — Mrs. Thomas Stevenson, Representative. Mrs. M. H. Barr,,Mrs. Robert B. Ross, Mrs. Robert Neil, Mrs. David Nimick, Mrs. George Maher, Mrs. Robert Lampee, Mrs. William Kester, Mrs. Ralph E. Smith, Mrs. A.- R. Huntzinger,
Business and Professional Women’s Club—Mrs. George R. Hugus, Representative. Miss Mary Carazola, Mrs. Norman Abercrombie, Miss Hilda Kretzler, Miss Marian Morrison, Miss Madeline Gardner, Mrs, Dorothy Oli-phant, Mrs. Florence Brodbeck, Miss Eleanor McPherson, Mrs. Florence Maust, Miss Dorothy Warner, Miss Grace Bradel.
Young Women’s Civic Club—Mrs, Lonus Foster, Representative. Mrs. George Lawrence, Mrs, Robert Evans, Mrs. Thomas Prendergnst, Jr., Mrs,
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Edgeworth Council Leases Acre To Shopping Plaza
Boulevard Frontage Leased To Boulevard Shopping Plaza For Extension of Parking
Edgeworth council, at an adjourned meeting Monday evening, May 21st, authorized the borough officials to enter into a lease agreement “with Charles A. and Jean Raimondi for a twenty year term at $1,200 a year, for an acre of land to be used to extend the parking facilities of the Boulevard Shopping Plaza, Inc. The land is in the Borough of Leetsdale, located on the Ohio River Boulevard just west of Little Sewicldey Creek and is zoned commercial by Leetsdale Borough.
At the council meeting, Solicitor
Evans Rose presented a resolution, which was passed, providing that the president of council be authorized to enter into a lease, satisfactory to the Borough Solicitor, with Charles A. and Jean Raimondi for the acre of borough property involved. The purpose of the lease is to provide more parking facilities for the proposed shopping center to be owned by the lessees or tire Boulevard Shopping Plaza, Inc. The lease is for a term of
twenty years, at an annual rental of $1,200 with the lessees paying the local taxes and other charges against the real estate.
In addition, the Shopping Plaza or the Raimondis will have to use No, 1 fill on the site, extend a 72 inch sewer and plant the slope with barberry hedge or some similar plant to control erosion as well as planting the top of the slope for appearances sake.
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Board Of Trade Elects
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New Directors For '56-5 7
Sixty-Thiree Attend Annual Board of Trade Meeting Thursday Evening at the Inn
Six incumbent directors were re-elected and five new ones were named at the annual meeting of the Sewicldey Valley Board of Trade Thursday night at'the Elmhurst Inn. Those continuing as directors are: J. Robert Angros, William Howard Colbert, H. Howard Fleming, William C. Gourley, Jr., John M. Herbst and Michael Settembrine. The five new members named were Raymond Connelly, Nate Gusky, Raymond Howe, Robert Murrer and R. Bruce Myers. The directors will meet on Thursday, June 7th, to elect officers for the coming year.
The Sewickley Valley Board of Trade, Inc., and the predecessor organization, The Sewickley Business Men’s Association, trace then- history back fifty years in Sewickley. The Board organized the public celebration when the bridge was opened and also when Hie Ohio River Boulevard cafne through to Sewickley. It formerly sponsored town picnics by rail to Rock Springs Park and river excursions. It more recently sparked the re-organization of the War Memorial Association which raised funds and established War Memorial Park; was largely responsible for persuading council that parking lots were needed in the business district and also, with tile Herald, urged the naming of a Planning Commission.
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The Directors met with the Planning Commission to discuss parking, quick tickets, fine boxes, speeding on Beaver Street and the use of a male officer in the business district.
The Board cooperated with the Young Women’s Civic Club in their fashion Show.
_ The Christmas Celebration saw the lights extended on upper Broad Street, Santa brought in by helicopter, gifts given to children who visited-Santa and the usual window decorating contest. A total of $1,150 was contributed and $1,399.27 was spent, leaving the Board in the red by (Continued on Page 20)
What's Doint
RUMMAGE SALE, sponsored by Sewickley Valley Hospital Alumnae Association, will be held June 1st from 9 A.M. to 9 P.M. in Gourley’s Garage on Broad Street in Sewickley, __________________ (Advt.)
BAKE SALE
by Senior Girl Scout Troop 925 at Cicco’s Tailor Shop Beaver Street Saturday, June 2, 1956 *
9 a. m, « 12 noon
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his remarks to tire sixty-three members and their wives at the annual dinner, surveyed the following accomplishments and events of the past year.
During 1955-56 The Board of Trade passed a resolution opposing the State income tax.
The Board urged Sewickley council to establish 25c fine boxes on the streets and on the lots with the 'board paying for % of'the new system.
Council was also asked to set up a .code of courtesy for the police With their dealing with the public. A male officer offers more protection in business district.
Semi-annual social steak dinners were held.
A survey by the University of Pittsburgh Retail Committea was distributed to the directors and studied to see where business in future is expected to originate,
The Board of Trade Family Picnic was held at Spang’s on August 24th with 63 attending.
Delegates were sent to the Mayor’s Highway Safety Conference,
Gourley’s was host to the packers, who filled over 1,000 bngs of peanuts, apples and kisses for the Hallowe’en parade at a cost of $160.00.