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Vol. 50 No. 15
SEWICKLEY, PENNSYLVANIA, THURSDAY, APRIL 16, 1953
Price Ten Cents
Former Pastor And Family Return For Visit
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The Reverend Rodney Thaine Taylor, center, and his family returned to the Pittsburgh district Saturday to attend the wedding of his cousin, Patricia Gillespie to Philip Cook, Jr. The above picture, token in the Pittsburgh Golf Club, where the reception was held, shows, left to right, Janie Taylor, the Reverend Taylor, Rodney Taylor, Jr. and Mrs. Taylor. Another daughter, Ann, was in another part of the club when Tom Toia of Locust Place, snapped the picture. The Reverend Taylor was pastor of the Sewickley United Presbyterian Church for a number of years and now is the pastor of the Falling Springs Presbyterian Church in Cham-bersburg, Pa.
Local Communities To Participate In State -Wide Air Raid Test Tuesday ,
Rules And Regulations For Practice Air Raid Test Given Ry CD Council
The Sewickley Area Civil Defense Council, which includes Edge-worth, Osborne, Sewickley Heights and “Sewickley, will participate in a State-wide air raid test alert on Tuesday, April 21. The test will begin at 2:35 p.m. with the sounding of the “red alert’’ and continue to 2:44 p.m, at the end of the three minute “white alert” or “all clear” which will start at 2:41 p.m.
The theoretical period of attack will be from 2:38 to 2:41 p.m.
During the period of alert, the general public will be required to discontinue all non-essential activities,. and “take cover.” In the Sewickley Area, traffic control (pedestrian and motor) will be the principal feature of the test.
The test in this area will be announced by the Sewickley and Edgeworth fire sirens, blowing continuous blasts up to throe minutes, or as long as the' air -hambers will Inst and the constant ringing of various Church and School bells In the community. The "all clear” will be announced by short intermittent blasts on the sirens and tolling by the sells.	„
The Area Council intends to patrol vith regular and auxiliary police as large in area as possible, including the busl-'oss district in Sewickley, the Botilc-'ard, from Edgeworth to Osborne, and he Sewickley Bridge,
Persons violating the rules which have >een established for this test and alert tnd which are set forth below, will be liven warnings, if apprehended by police
and Civil Defense officials. If they continue to violate the 1-ulc.s, they may be arrested under authority given in the State Civil Defense law and vested in the several Civil Defense directors in the Area.
The Sewickley and other schools' arc expected to participate in the alert and the childrcVt will be directed to assigned places in the schools, according to prearranged plans.
The rules, as set forth by the Area Civil Defense Council include:
Motor Traffic: Private cars, commercial vehicles, including trucks and busses, and taxis, on all streets and highways, must stop, and pull to the side of the rond, allowing for at least one open lane. Motors must bo turned off.
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Spring Time Follies Tickets On Sale
TICKET COMMITTEE AND
USHERS FOR FOLLIES
ANNOUNCED
Tickets for the SPRING TIME FOLLIES sponsored by the Women’s Auxiliary of the Sewickley Valley Hospital, will be on sale at Knapp’s Drug Store from April 24 through May 2. All seats will be reserved. Mrs. William O. Campbell and Mrs. George C. Hutchinson, Jr., who are ticket chairmen, have announced their ticket committee which includes: Mrs. George Applegate, Mrs. Marcus Boyd, Jr„ Mrs. A. C. Brown, Jr,, Mrs. T. A. Brown, Jr., Mrs. David C. Chaplin, Mrs. Conrad Cooper, Mrs. Robert Coyle, Mrs. George H. Craig, Mrs. I-Iarry B. Cummings, Mrs. Kemp Fuller, Mrs. K. C. Gardner, Jr., Mrs. P. C. I-Ialdeman, Jr., Mrs. Elizabeth Hall,' Mrs. Alexander Hays III, Mrs. Arthur Hetheriogton, Jr., Miss Frederick«. Holdship, Miss Margaret Holdsbip, Mrs. Clancy Horton, Mrs. Emil Heumann, Mrs. Thomas H. Insinger, Mrs. Robert R. Irwin, Mrs. William R. Jackson, Mrs. Robert Lam-pee, Mrs. Jack Lyon, Mrs. John S. Mc-Elwafn. Mrs. Robert McKean, Mrs. Neal Mitchell, Mrs. Clifford Nichols, Mrs. L. Blair Raiijey, Mrs. Harrison Wainwright, Mrs. Thomas M. Walton, Jr., and Mrs. Louis Willard, Jr.
A list of girls who will usher at the performance on April 30th, May 1st and 2nd, in the Sewickley High School has also been announced. They are: Carol Barbee, Ruth Benzenhoefer, Alicia Blessing, Helen Blythe, Mary Rower, Judy Buck, Patricia Buckley, Edwina Burkert, Emily Calloway, Grace Cherry,' Jean Crothers, Karen Devine, Antoinette Dip-polito, Marcia Fallon, Henrietta Falvo, Susan Falvo, Joanne Guido, Eleanor I-Iipsley, Shirley Hipsley, Anne Jones, June Humphreys, Gwendolyn Kirk, Mari-ann Laubin, Lillian Lang, Adelaide Martin, Nancy Malopey, Ruth Martin, Carol McCullough, Marilinn McCullough, Virginia Neel)-, Grace Merrimaii, Marcia Neil, Martha Poor, Anne Roppa, Marlene Saylor, Linda Shepler, Alice Jean Smoose, Judy Stevens, -JoAnne Thein, Jean Trunzo, Sara Jane Trunzo, Anne Vescio, Frances Vescio, Constance Whitfield, Sue Wylie, Nancy Wynn and Jean Zeber.
Preliminary Budget Session Indicates No Raise In School Taxes This Year
Two New Sections To Be Established to Accomodate
Larger Classes In Grade School
Sewickley School Board, in a marthon session Monday night, decided to meet again next Monday to give tentative approval to the budget and to hear disturbing news from the legislature; decided to attend, if possible, a meeting'.of School Directors from the county Wednesday evening to hear Dr. Beattie discuss the legislative developments; accepted with regret the resignation of Miss Louis Ward, mathematics teacher in the high school for 28 years; appointed Miss Elizabeth Donaldson to take the position vacated by‘Mrs, Thomas; voted to establish a new first grade section and a new fifth grade section; made driver training a full time course; approved plans to improve the industrial arts department and add flourescent lighting and raised the salaries of all employees of the Sewickley School District, even those teachers who are now receiving the maximum mandated by the state.	*
On the theory that any proposed jointure would not seriously affect the budget, the board made a number of decisions and then voted to adjourn tin-meeting until next Monday night to approve tlie budget tentatively. Then, it will be on view to any interested citizen until the May meeting, when it will be passed finally. At the meeting next Monday, information from the Wednesday night meeting will be discussed, along with any new developments in Harrisburg.
Miss Ward’s resignation, after 28 years’ service in the Sewickley school system, was accepted with' deep appreciation of her work with the students.
The board requested that Paul N. Critch-low, president of the Board, who was not present due to the fact that he had just returned from the hospital on Wednesday, wrjto a letter to Miss Ward expressing the board’s t h anks. James Clarke, vice president of the board, presided at the meeting.
Miss Elizabeth Donaldson, who has had fifteen years’ experience as an elementary teacher in Butler, was appointed to the position vacated by Mrs. Thomas,
She started to teach on Tuesday, April 7th. Her appointment was ratified by the board. Two more teachers will be needed to teach the new first grade section as well as the new fifth grade section. If the present enrollment is retain-
Audubon Society Motion Picture Of Bird Sanctuaries Next Friday
Final Free Illustrated Lecture To Be Given by Alexander Sprunt, Jr.
Sanctuary! Sanctuary! Down through the centuries this poignant cry has rung out and touched the hearts of men. And today it is an especially significant call. In a world containing ruthlessness and greed is great need that there he havens of security, islands of protection for wilderness creatures to live in, to hold their own against the tide of “civilized progress”, to go unmolested about their way of life. A free motion picture illustrating the various sanctuaries supported by the Audubon Society will he shown at 8:15 p.m. on Friday, April 24th in the Sewickley High School Auditorium by Alexander Sprunt, Jr., as the'last in this year’s series of Audubon Screen Tours
Since the turn of the century there has been aq ever growing awareness of this need, And no small share in arousing tin's awareness lias been due to the efforts of the National Audubon Society —-not only through its educational influence the continent over but also through the glowing examples of success in its own sanctuary efforts.
Audubon Sanctuaries have achieved rewarding results in the way of saving endangered species and in increasing the tangible and intangible aspects of Our wildlife heritage.
“Wing Havens”,, based in part on these Audubon Sanctuaries, is an eloquent documentary film, Its living action
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the vision worthwhile
sequences make underlying this work.
The hearts and pennies and dollars of people all over the country have gone into making and maintaining these sanctuaries creating refuges for .the birds and mammals recorded in these color motion pictures1— recorded in natural colors in their native haunts of forest, swamp, and meadow, where conservation of plant and flower life as Well aS of animal life has bei-n so productive.
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i-d in the first grade, there will be 36 to 40 pupils in the.first-grade rooms. So. the board \oted to make provision for another first grade room-with new furniture and another teacher. It would be located in one of the present second grade rooms on the first floor and the second graders would be moved to tin-second floor. The music room would, then be set up in the auditorium.
The board also voted to add a new fifth grade section in order to continue the three groups now existing in the fourth grade. The new section will mean the .employment of a new intermediate teacher and a very rigid schedule of the upper elementary classes, according to Dr, Irons’ report. Another teacher will be employed half-time to relieve Mrs. Marie Siebert, elementary principal, of all teaching; to permit Mrs. Chantler the time needed to teach the additional art-classes and give Mrs. Hanable time to teach the additional physical education and health classes.
The board decide d to mak - driver-training a full time teaching position since it has proven the most popular course in the high school. The board also voted to proceed with the improvement of the industrial arts shop equipment with fluorescent lighting as recommended b\ the state inspector and the shop teacher and several teach r assistants wen- to be hired to do maintenance work around the school buildings this summer. An experiment will be tried for a year, fastening old grade school desks to.a plywood base, making it possible to put down new asphalt tile floors in one or more rooms. The desk and chair unit is bolted to a piece of plywood and one unit lias been in use long enough to make sure-that it will stand without tipping. The cost of placing tile on the floor \vas estimated at about $1,000 with $275 for the plywood. .
$800 was put in the budget to pay the estimated expense of repairing a part of the roof of the grade school. There are four kinds of roofing on the grade school building and the portion needing repairs now is the metal part,. Tar will be taken off and the joints sealed with solder. Dallas Irvine, chairman of the property committee, warned the remainder of the, board that some long range planning Is overdue on the grade school, considering the difficulty of keeping tile-roof, heating system and plumbing in repair. The metal portion of the roof is only a small portion of the problem. Another $1,500 will be spent this summer, if the budget is approved, on pointing the bricks on the Broad Street side of the school. Even though the beautiful ivy will be lorn down, tlie pointing is badly needed, for a ruler can be stuck between the bricks in many places.
At the high school, the Cyelorama on the stage Will be cleaned and xelined to prolong its life; the lower shades Oil the north windows will be ‘replaced in ac-
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