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The Sewickley Valleys Home Weekly Newspaper
VOL, 52 NO. 4
SEWICKLEY, PENNSYLVANIA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 27, 1955
Price Ten Cents
inching Mission Begins wary 30, at St. Paul's
TONIGHT !
The Reverend H. Paul Gerhard
t. Paul’s is one of 22 West Confer-
0	churches participating in the aching, Teaching, Reaching Mission, aduled for Sunday, Jan. 30 through i. 4, 1955.
’he Rev. H. Paul Gerhard, pastor of n „United Lutheran Church, Penn vnship, will serve as Missioner at St. il’s during this period. He will in-ict visitors, who will go out each ning to visit the unchurched. They
1	return to the church at 8 o’clock, on members and friends, will attend per services at which Pastor Gerhard 1 give the message,
’rograms and Prayer Folders have 'n sent to all members and friends tire church, .calling on all concerned offer prayers and give support to > program. Prayer Folders were pre-ed by Pastor Eshenaur, 'containing ditations and prayers for each day the week before and during the mis-n. These were distributed to members all participating churches in the dis-:t.
hay members of St. Paul’s have >ken to the congregation in support the mission. Mr. Robert Becker spoke the plan January 9. Mr, Burke I. rman, on the missioner, January 16, 1 Mr. Louis Edger on January 23, ;ing the people to give, full support this vital work of our Lord.
Lay visitors were commissioned on tuary 23, and met that day at 2 p.m, the church, to receive instruction and :s of names of members whom they ited that afternoon and evening.
St.. Paul’s committee in charge of mning the mission, include, Mr. Burke Herman, Mr. John Luzadre, Mr. C, Stroll, Mr. Robert Becker, Mr. Quen-Gosser, and Mrs. Leslie Harper. Missioners from within a radius' of 0 miles have been secured to act as ssioners for the 22 participating churns. Pastor Gerhard, the Missioner for Paul’s, has built tile Zion church -m nothing to a church of 500 conned members within eight years. He Vice-President of the Board of direc-s of Camp Lutherlyn and chairman its program committee, He is a mem-t of the examining committee of the tsburgh Synod.
Pastor Gerhard is a graduate of Muh-iberg College, and of St. Airy Semi-
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Tonight's the night for the Allegheny County Mothers' March on Polio. Sixty short minutes tonight between 7:00 and 8:00 p,m. will mark tire climax of the 1955 Marcii of Dimes, and the watchwords for those 60 minutes are “‘Teamwork and Timing," When the 7:00 o’clock hour strikes everything will begin moving like clockwork.
If someone were flying over the county at that precise moment,” Mrs. Ralph F. Hughes, County Mothers’ March Chairman said, “I think he would be astonished to see the twinkling of thousand of lights going on in- every city, town and hamlet. Porchlights will be snapped on, lamps placed in front windows. In apartment houses or hotels, the occupants -will hang a shoe -or handkerchief on the doorknob to attract the attention of a marching mother.”
“Actually, men will play a helpful role in the Mothers’ March tonight,” says Mrs. Elizabeth 'D. Lee, the chairman of Sewickley Valley. She noted that in addition to the welcome male volunteers, who will serve as baby sitters for some of the marchers, many men’s organizations have offered their services as protective escorts and also in helping to count the returns and bank them.
This year thé polio fighting job is a bigger one than ever before. The success of that fight will be decided in part, by the ..^success of tonight’s Mothers’ March on Polio.
Dean Of New York Cathedral To Preach At St. Stephen's
The Reverend James A. Pike
The Very Reverend James A. Pike, J.S.D., D.D., Dean of the Cathedral of St John the Divine, New York City, will conduct a three night mission, January 30 - February 1, at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, Sewickley. Services will be at 8:00 p. m. each night.
Topic of the mission is to be “God and Anxiety"—the answer to Fear, Guilt and Frustration.
Dr. Pike is one of the outstanding preachers and teachers of Christianity in our time. He is, in addition to his position as Dean of a great Cathedral, Adjunct Professor of Religion at Columbia University. He is the author of hvo books, “Beyond Anxiety" (1953) and "If You Many Outside Your Faith’.’ (1954), and co-author of "The Faith of tho Ghureh" (1951) and "Roadblocks .to Faith" (1954).
Before his ordination in the Episcopal Church in 1944, Dean Pike had a distinguished career ns a lawyer, being a member of the Bar of California, the Bar of the Supreme Court of the United States and the Bar of the U. S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. In this earlier profession, lie was an author of'books and articles in the field of Federal judicial and administrative procedure and a lecturer at Catholic University of America Law School and George Washington University Law School.
As a Priest of the Episcopal Church, the Dean has been Rector of Christ Church, Poughkeepsie, New York, and chaplain to Episcopal students at Vassor College and Chaplin of Columbia University as well as chairman of its Department of Religion. He has been Dean of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine since 1952.
Sewickley Council Approves Record High Budget Without Raising Tax Rates
1% Wage Tax Receipts Enable Borough to Finance Expenses Without Borrowing
Sewickley council, at their regular meeting on. Monday, January 19, approved a record budget of $308,505, without the necessity of raising the rates pn either the real estate or wage tax; held up the taking over of Grove Street extension until spring; received a report of net wage tax collections of $72,169.72, part of which goes to the school board; appropriated another $15,000 of parking meter receipts to be placed in a sinking fund to pay off the parking lot bonds in advance of maturity; referred the question of the audit of the wage tax accounts to the finance committee for recommendation; raised the contract for the fire company $500 to provide firemen with $5 a fire instead of $4; approved a committee’s action in authorizing emergency work on the incinerator’s back wall; let the gasoline contract ;. heard that the architect on the Mellon Bank building had been requested to provide a set-back on both Broad and Beaver; passed an ordinance prohibiting parking oh one side on parts of Oreseent and Dickson; heard a proposal to improve Nevin Avenue to the borough line; decided to buy a new street sweeper next year; heard that Dr. Peiffer’s appeal for an office in a house on Broad Street had been approved by the Board of Adjustment; heard that the Board had set February 1st as the date of a hearing on the appeal of the Fresh Air Home to erect a child health building on Broad Street; heard that a real estate agent was asking about the Tener Property on Centennial Avenue and praised the police and borough crews for careful driving.
The budget of $308,oOo, is $53,o05 , of the xiolice headquarters; -police salaries higher than the budget for the year 1953 j and equipment, $65,390, including new
uniforms a new traffic light and maintenance of the additional radio on the ire truck; fire department, $8,068, including a $500 increase in the fire contract; $2,-432 to the Board of Health; $16,700 for collection of garbage; $6,200 for the incinerator, including repairs to the back wall being made now; $23,950 for the collection and disposal of rubbish; $3,-100 for sewers; $48,600 for streets including extending the -pavement on Nevin to the borough line at its present width: parks and playgrounds, $4,950; shade trees, $4,650; off-street parking lots, $11,-660 and miscellaneous, $25,800 including the $15,000 for die parking lot sinking fund. The total expenses amount to $279,650, leaving $28,S55 unappropriated in the budget of $308,505.00.
However, the fact that die item is in the budget does not necessarily mean diat money will be spent. For several years, $15,000 has been budgeted for engineer-mg plans for die sewage disposal plant, but not spent, building up die bank balance. The budget wall be approved finally and die tax millage ordinance passed at the February meeting.
Mr, Melonic asked again about the borough taking over Grove Street exten- ' sion, Solicitor Rose, who is also president of the Sewickley Water Commission, stated diat the water commission had laid a water line on the street widi Mr. Melonic paying for die pipe, on the theory that die borough would take over die street. Then, the water commission could repay Mr. Melonic’s expense for the pipe. Dale Park said that the sheet committee and council both were divided over the wisdom of taking over the street, so the committee recommended that it be left to spring. By that time, die borough may have a manager who will be able to make recommendations concerning die street. Also, the effects of tile winter on die street will be determined. The tree in the turnaround should be taken out and a guard rail placed before the road is taken over, in -the opinion of die committee,
Mr. Melonic said that he did it to the borough’s specifications and gave the street to the owners of the lots. He surveyed and registered the street and plana according to Mr. Decker’s instructions and paid for a two-layer surface treatment.
He suggested an inspection by another road builder, if council is not satlsled with the report of the first inspection that the road would pass FHA inspection. (Continued on Page 3)
and $23,261.39 higher than 1954’s budget. Last year, the actual income exceeded the estimate by $5,907.73, due to the wage tax and parking meter receipts. The real estate millage will remain the same, at 11 mills and the wage tax the same, at 1%, unless council changes its mind before die next meeting on February 21st. The full -budget is on display at the office of Acting Borough Manager Ed Ellerton and may be seen by anyone interested.
The bank balance at the beginning of the year was $51,789.00, compared with $54,648.61 at the same time in 1954 and $49,502.64 in 1953. However, the ’55 balance would have been $15,000 higher had it not been for council’s action in December of setting aside that amount in a sinking fund to pay off die parking lot bonds in advance of maturity to save interest charges. Council voted to set aside another $15,000 in die ’55 budget for the same purpose. That is, of course, in addition to the $10,000 the borough pays to the trustees of die parking lot bonds each year under die lease-back arrangement. The borough also maintains the lots. But for 12 months last year and December of 1953, the parking meter receipts amounted to $27,151.43, including the lots, the Courtesy Parking stamps sold to die merchants and the | street meters. In December 1953, the Division Street lot returned $315.51; die Green 'Street lot, $736,88 and the park and shop tickets, $20, totalling $1072.39. The total for the year on the lots and stamps amounted to close to $7,000 bringing die lots within $3,000 of being self-amordzing.
The wage tax also exceeded estimates. Council in 1954 cut the real estate millage 114 mills or about $15,000 and entirely eliminated the occupation tax which had been good for about $11,000 a year. That totalled $26,000 reduction in taxes, but the wage tax brought in $49,080 for ten months. Total income from taxes is estimated at $177.916 and and from miscellaneous sources, $58,800. most of which is $27,000 parking meter receipts and $10,000 in fines. Those two items, plus $20,000 for engineering income from the sewage authority, if formed, and the bank balance, total $308,505,
Expenditures are estimated as follows: administration, $17,800; Engineering, $21,600, up $5,000 for the sewage treatment plant and $1,000 for maps of the town; tax collection, $9,200; borongh building, $9,550, including remodeling