Sewickley Herald

              The Sewickley Valley’s Home Weekly Newspaper
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VOL. 52 NO. 18
SEWICKLEY, PENNSYLVANIA, THURSDAY, MAY 5, 1955
Price Ten Cents
ewickley Council Accepts Tener Plan
ration Army Drive Leaders, he Valley
eaders of the 1955 Salvation Army Maintenance Fund Cam-in the Valley. Left to right; Mrs. Frederick Dill, Edgeworth; Peter H. Wagner, Osborne; Mrs. William Booth, Sewickley [rs. George H. Craig, Sewickley Heights. Volunteer workers ; 1955 Maintenance Fund drive are cordially invited to a jon in the ballroom of the William Penn Hotel at 12:10 p.m. lesday, May tenth. The Reverend Cary N. Weisiger, pastor Mt. Lebanon United Presbyterian Church will speak; music e by the Pittsburgh Temple Band and Rhodes Henderer is d chairman of the event. There will be no solicitation of at the luncheon..
mmunity Calendar
¡day, May 6th, at 2 P. M.
' FELLOWSHIP SERVICE AND TEA at Lutheran Church nsored by the Council of Church Women laker: Mrs, A. K. Stewart
Sunday, March 8
3 p.m. to 5 p.m. Mother’s Day Open House at the Friendship House, 902 Centennial Avenue, at Cochran Street.
PROMOTED BY LUDLUM STEEL CORPORATION
T. Ames Wheeler, controller of Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corporation, was recently named to the additional post of acting treasurer.
Campbell Preaching Memorial
On Wednesday and Thursday evenings, May lltli and 12th, the Rev. Robert J. McCracken, D.D., S.T.D., L.H.D., minister of tire Riverside Church, New York, will speak in the Sewickley Presbyterian Church at 8 o’clock under i the auspices of the Campbell Preaching Memorial.
Born in Motherwell, Scotland, and a graduate of the University of Glasgow, Scotland, Dr. McCracken has been minister of the Riverside Church since 1946 when he succeeded Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick in that celebrated pulpit. The recipient of honorary degrees from Bucknell, Colgate, Denison, Columbia, Bates and Glasgow universities, Dr. McCracken has lectured ' in theology in Scotland, Canada and the United States, and currently server in addition to his pastorate as Associate Professor of Practical Theology in Union Theological Seminary, New York. During the past year, he has been Stone Lecturer at Princeton Theological Seminary and Mullins Lecturer in the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. A frequent speaker on radio programs, Dr. McCracken is heard weekly on the broadcast of the Sunday Radio Chapel dealing with “Faith in our Time”. The author of “Questions People Ask”, Dr. McCracken has been an official delégate to the World Conference on Faith and Order both in 1937 and 1952.
The Campbell Preaching Memorial under whose auspices Dr. McCracken comes to Sewickley was established in 1936 to honor the memory of the late Rev. William Oliver Campbell, D.D., former minister of the Sewick^ ley Presbyterian Church. Bringing to the community each year an inspirational speaker of National reputation, the Memorial continues this year.
hitecfs Sketch Of Proposed New Addition Of U. P. Church
The architect’s sketch shown above is the proposed addition of the First United Presbyterian li of Sewickley. This will be used for Sabbath School instruction. The cost will be $65,000. lird report meeting held in the church dining room on Monday night, $57,997 was reported .in s toward the goal. Some fifty-five workers met for a dessert report meeting and heard nouncement made by James A. Purdie, 784 Ohio River Boulevard, Sewickley. Leslie G. Longview Road, Ambridge Heights, chairman of the building committee, announced that tual construction of the Sabbath School Wing will proceed according to plans in the near
Ten Lots On Grove Street Are Approved As Submitted By Alexander Tener
Sewickley Council, at an adjourned meeting Monday night, approved the plan for ten lots facing on Grove Street on the Tener property; moved further consideration of recommendations of the Planning Commission that fewer than ten houses be constructed, if economically feasible; that Grove Street be widened; that sidewalks be constructed on the west side of the street; that the storm sewage problem be solved before budding permits are granted and that the present buildings be razed before any more building is done. Council also accepted with regret the resignation of Dr. W. C. Martin from the Board of Health; received a report the parking lot meter receipts are climbing steadily, from $416 in January to $652 in April; approved a mutual aid pact between the fire departments in Sewickley, Coraopolis and the Air Force at Greater Pittsburgh Airport and discussed at length the various proposals for sewage disposal.
The Planning Commission sent a letter of transmittal with their recommendations which, stated that the commission had held five meetings to give proper consideration to all phases of the proposed Tener development. In order to afford residents of the area surrounding the property an opportunity to present their views, a public meeting was held on April 22, attended by 31 people, including Judge Tener’s real estate representatives, Murrer and Phillips, Inc. The Commission expressed appreciation of this splendid gesture on the part of Judge Tener and gratitude to the citizens who chose to attend the meeting and express their views.
The resolution recommended, with reservations, the approval of the plan of lots . . . inasmuch as the said plan of lots conforms in every way with the existing Zoning and Subdivision ordinances. It is understood that this recommendation pertains only to this particular plan of lots and does not apply to the future development of the remainder of the Tener Property. Any further development of the area would have to be considered by the Planning Commission and submitted to council for approval.
The Commission made the following suggestions to council: that it is hoped that if it is economically feasible, fewer than ten houses be constructed on 'this plan of lots and the commission recommends that the developer retain adequate control over the exterior designs of the houses; dint die hard surface portion of Grove Street north of Centennial be increased from 20 to 24 feet all of the widening to be widiin die limits of die existing 33 foot street owned by the Borough of Sewickley at the present time; that in view of the possible future development in Sewickley Heights which would use Grove Street, togetiier with the resulting dangers to children going to and from school, the developer be required to construct sidewalks on the West side of Grove Street.
issuing of the first building permit on this plan of lots
The Commission further resolved diat the aforementioned recommendations are made with die spirit that it is impossible to enact Zoning and Subdivision regulations flexible enough to foresee every future development, and that one function of die Planning Commission is to correlate existing conditions and values to future developments and present day development trends.
Following the reading of the letter and the resolution, Mr. Murrer stated that die developers were not trying to exploit the town and the good families living in the neighborhood. The fact that tiiere are ten lots on die plan does not mean that there must be ten .houses. He expressed willingness to delay the project to give those people who are so voluble an opportunity to bring around people who want larger lots. He’ll be glad to sell diem a larger house. But economics demand that die firm not put itself in a straight jacket. He denied that they are trying to get the minimum lot area, as charged at die recent public meeting.
Instead, tiiey are very hopeful of finding people who will buy 1% or even two lots for each house. However, if the plan was set up for 150 foot lots and no one would buy them, the developer would be stuck with the property and would handicap himself by trying to sell houses on larger lots. The plan was drawn up to conform widi die borough’s zoning ordinance. Mr. Murrer then showed die drawing of a proposed two story stone and siding house witii a two car garage, widi driveway off Grove Street. In die discussion, it was pointed out that the sidewalk could be eidier adjacent to die street or behind the trees, so it would not be necessary to cut the trees. The center fine of the street is in die middle of the pavement and die jog would be taken out in the widening. Other sketches of houses are very attractive, Mr. Atwood informed council.
The Commission also suggested, that, due to die possibility that sump holes proposed by die developer might not satisfactorily handle roof drainage from the contemplated houses, the developer should he required to make test borings, and if tiiese show die soil to be unsuitable the developer and council should agree to a satisfactory solution to the surface drainage from die existing building now constitutes a sewage problem, there should be an understanding that all the existing buildings now1 Standing on the Tener property must he removed before the
Whai's Doin'
Newcomer’s Club Dessert Card Party at Sewickley Y.M.C.A, Wednesday, May lltii—8:00 PA-1. Prizes. Donation $1,00.
WANTED!!!
DISCARDED EYEGLASSES to be sent to Philippine Islands. Collection sponsored by die Sewickley Council of Church Women. Leave at your Church, or in box provided at Knapp Drug Store, 437 Beaver Street, May 1 to 8th.
JNUAL SPRING CONCERT-SEWICKLEY HIGH SCHOOL AUDITORIUNI-8 p.m. Friday, May 6 OPEN )USE-Teachers will be in their rooins before and after the concert to talk with parents~7 p.m to