Sewickley Herald

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The Sewicldéy Valley s Home Weekly Newspaper
VOTE Tuesday, Nov. 7
No. 44
SEWICKLEY, PENNSYLVANIA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1950
Price Ten Cents
Sprinkler System Protects Grade School
Spotlight Ball Aids Child Health Dental Clinic
Photo by M'cCandless Nurse Betty Keck assists Dr. Regis Ging in the dental clinic at Sewickley hospital. Betty Oprisko poses in the patient’s chair while Mrs. Clarence Horton, Jr., makes notes on her record. Members of The Child Health Association are on hand daily at the clinic to assist the attending dentist.
Proceeds from ‘‘The Spotlight Ball,” a Thanksgiving Eve dinner dance sponsored by The Child Health Association, will be used to help finance the work of this clinic. They will also pay the salary of a dental hygienist who has been hired to lecture in the valley schools and apply sodium fluoride treatment Jo the teeth of the children whose parents request it. _______________________________
Community Groups Sponsor Best Hallowe'en Parade In Years
Everyone In Line Received A Present
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Everyone, it seemed, worked together to give the Valley one of its longest, • most colorful and best Hallowe’en parades seen in many a year Monday night. Even the weather man co-operated by providing a nice warm night so that some of the more scantily clad enjoyed themselves without shivering too much. Plying saucers, with steering wheels, rabbits, witches, Happy HooVjans, clowns, baton •¡¡¡¡driers, ghosts, Mexicans, pirates, girl pioneers, dowboys, men from ■“‘¡■rs, knigihts, Indians, gypsies, Charlie Chaplin, South Sea Island belles, tough guys, hoboes, devils, bathing beauties, cows, anglers, hunters, Black Sambo and his parasol, girls in boys clothes and vice Versa, sailors, Aunt Jemima, Colonial ladies, a mummy, an organ pinder and ‘monkey’, maids with mops and many other odd characters, too numerous to mention, gathered under the string of lights in front of the Library.	____________________
^ the police car, the parade Oiip™ ®roa<i Street. The King and Ij ,enj "-I Bruno and Lois Cook, seniors in « ^le‘r classmates, rode in style nnv c , Simplex car driven by Whit-oamn u er* ’n duster' and cap. Then vjn jL“e scarlet and grey uniformed jip n township band and the little tod-t„.i ,,nder 6. ' Floodlights on Myers office aided the string of arms 1,around the judges’ platform in snap» r °*s illumination for the m front of tile platform.
Wp<4 knek by ropes, the crowd was scarp« n?ar i1Q Platform, but there Were or others,, standing on the curbs
along the parade route. A big pumpkin with electrically lighted eyes; Bring ’Em Back Alive Buck with a tiger in a cage on a wagon; Men from Mars with antenna sticking up from their metal caps; a futuristic citizen enveloped in silver paper; a sandwich man with Sewickley Heralds on front, back and hat^ a big pumpkin on a wagon with a girl’s head sticking out; the mummy; Miss Columbia with leaves in her costume; the two silver flying saucers;' the Old Gold cigarette package with matching matches; a small queen in a white wagon; a Lucky Strike
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Civil Defense Council Appointed
Officers Elected on Wednesday
President William Booth, president of Sewickley Borough Council, has appointed eight members to a Civil Defense Council for the Borough of Sewickley. The new council met on Wednesday night, Nov. 1, 1950, in the Sewickley Borough building to organize. Members are E. R. Lewis, G. L. Trudell, Jr., Sidney Selkovits, M. D., Dale Park, A. E. Miller, C. D. Decker, Hugh W. Nevin and Ross W. Buck.
It will be their responsibility to organize a civil defense in Sewickley which will give the maximum protection to residents in case of any emergency.	____________________
Midnight Blaze In Building Extinguished With Very Little Damage From Fire
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Fire, of-unknown origin, broke out in the furnace room of the Sewickley Grade School, Broad Street, about midnight Thursday and was extinguished with comparatively little damage by the sprinkler system. Two cardboard boxes, one containing bottles, pans and some rags from the art department and another filled with waste paper, napkins, apple cores and other debris from lunches, were destroyed. A belt operating the fan was so badly scorched as to be useless and a smaller belt, operating the air compressor was burned in two. Overalls and other work clothing of the janitorial staff, hanging over an iron rail near.the blaze, were almost completely destroyed. A wooden box of tools, used by ‘Lige’ Brown, a janitor, to repair the fire escapes, was also burned.
Playhouse Play Benefits Memorial Park
Photo by Jack D. Mahony ‘‘YOU DON’T’SAY” . . . Helen Wayne Rauh plays the role of the wise-cracking secretary in the comedy hit, ‘‘Goodbye, My Fancy” which comes to Sewickley directly from the Pittsburgh Playhouse.' The same cast and scenery as used in the Pittsburgh production will play at the Sewickley High School on Thursday evening, November 9th, under the sponsorship of the Sewickley Valley Board of Trade, Inc., for the benefit of the Sewickley Valley War Memorial Park.
Hilarious Comedy Coming Here
Goodbye, My Fancy”, the New York comedy smash hit of last season, will come to Sewickley on November 9th, The play, after completing a four week run at the Pittsburgh Playhouse on November 4th, will be presented in the Sewickley High School auditorium by the Playhouse on Tour under the sponsorship of the Sewickley Valley Board of Trade, Inc. The profits from the play will be donated to the Sewickley Valley War Memorial Park,
"Goodbye, My Fancy”, written by Fay Kanin, tells of a lady Congress-woman who returns to her Alma Mater after a 20 year ^ absence, to receive an honorary; degree. She once again becomes romantically involved with the college president, and a Life photographer who’s been assigned to cover the Commencement ceremonies.)
Marcelle Feiner plays the role of the Congresswoman and John Johns portrays the College President.
Featured players include Helen Wayne Rauh as the hard-boiled but practical secretary and Paul Bryson as the colorful photographer.
Others in the cast are Pearl Hipps, Alma Lind, Phyllis Jones, Moiya Dar-ragh, William Putch, Charles Hettinger, Claire Humel, Barbara Louis, George Lehr, Mel Davidson, Dick Bendl, Betty Vogel, Ted McLain, Joyce Davis and Gwen Sarver.
"Goodbye, My Fancy” was directed by Frederick Burleigh and will be presented on November 9th, in ,the Sewickley High School auditorium. Tickets are on sale at Knapp’s Drug Store and the reserved seat chart is now open at the office of J. Conway Macon, in the Se-wicklcy Borough Building.
The fact that there had been a fire was discovered at 3:45-a. m. Friday when ‘Lige’ came into the furnace room to start up the stokers. The water was still gushing from the opened sprinkler, but there was little smoke and no fire. Mr. Brown called Mr. .Bird, the custodian; Dr. Harold S. Irons, the supervising principal, and Frank Vescio, another janitor. The water was shut off and a new sprinkler head installed.
Later in the morning, Dr. Irons, Dallas S. Irvine; chairman of the property committee of the School Board; Assistant Chief Bertil Neely of tire Sewickley Fire Department, and the editor of The Herald conducted an investigation into the possible cause of the blaze. Some evidence indicated that the • blaze had started in the carton containing the6 debris from tire art room and spread to the other container, which was separated from it only by a metal post from floor to ceiling. However, the evidence was not conclusive enough for positive' decision, for much the same effect might possibly have resulted had the luncheon debris caught fire first and spread to the box of materials from the art room.
Had the fire started in the box from the art room, it may have been caused by spontaneous combustion in the rags containing oil or paint. There was only one container of oil paint, for .most of the work is done with water .colors in the grade school. If, however, the blaze started in the box of debris from the lunchroom, it would seem that, only a discarded cigar or cigarettte butt could start a fire in it.
P. G. Kaufman, business manager of the Post 4 American Legion Drum and " Bugle Corps and Romeo Lupinacci, president of the Corps, also went to the school to investigate the damage caused by tire fire. The Drum Corps uses tire basement for practice and were there Thursday night until about 10 o’clock. Members are hot allowed to smoke, in the large basement room, so they use the furnace room for a smoking room, during a break about half through their practice period. The door to the 'furnace • room is always left open and no one noticed anything unusual in the last hour of practice. .Frank Vescio, of the Janitorial staff, left the building after the Drum Corps had finished practice and he noticed nothing unusual.
The time of the blaze was fixed at shortly after midnight by Miss Esther L. Park, a teacher who resides across the street at 516 Thorn Street, Miss Park heard ari alarm bell, which rings when the water pressure drops in the school’s Water system, start to ring shortly after midnight. She considered calling the fire department to investigate, but decided not to5> as the bell often rings. It
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