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Vol. 50 No. 43
SEWICKLEY, PENNSYLVANIA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1953
Price Ten Gents
Audubon Screen Tours Open Season Tuesday
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Photo 'Courtesy National Audubon Society BOTTOMS UP! Simply feeding, that’s all. The mallard, like others of the group called river or dabbling ducks as contrasted to the’ sea or diving ducks, gets much of its food by searching under shallow water. Mallards, widely spread over the earth, have provided mankind with a Considerable amount of food supply. Duck hunters know them as being wary, wise, handsome and strong. The National Audubon Society, co-sponsors of the local series of Audubon Screen Tours, promotes wise usé of natural resources including game birds and game animals. The first lecture of the season will be at 8:15 p.m. on Tuesday, November 10th at the Sewickley High School auditorium. Admission is free.
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Naturalists Coming Here On Audubon Screen Tours Sponsored By Audubon Society
Series of Four Motion Picture Lectures Begins Tuesday at Sewickley High School
Audubon Screen Tours, featuring personal appearances of four of America’s best-known naturalists, will be presented in Sewickley 'this season, it was announced' this week by Walter M. Sutton, president of’the Audubon Society of Sewickley Valley. The series, which is sponsored by the Audubon Society of Sewickley Valley and the National Audubon Society, will be inaugurated on Tuesday, November tenth, when Howard L. Orians from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, presents his film, “Lake Lore.” It will be given at 8:15 o’clock in the Sewickley High School auditorium. Admission is free and the lecture-motion picture is open to the public.
Natural-color motion pictures of wildlife and wilderness scenery are in store for those who attend the illustrated lectures. Other programs are scheduled for December 16th, March 16th and April 29th.
Presentation of the Audubon Screen Tours is limited each season to 200 cities in the United States and Canada.
hese programs, which attract an audience1 of 500,000 persons a year, are an ‘mportant part of the continental program being undertaken by the National udubon Society to increase public interest in the out-of-doors and conserva-”on of natural resources. To obtain heir widely-acclaimed action films of ildlifo in its native haunts, the 28 udubon Screen Tour lecturers travel housands of miles over rugged terrain o record color sequences of mountain beep, antelope, flamingos, whooping ranes and other wildlife seldom seen
at close range by the casual observer.
The National Audubon Society, which originated the Screen Tours a decade ago, is one of the largest conservation organizations in the world, It has enrolled more than 9,000,000 boys and girls in Audubon Junior Clubs where they learn an appreciation of nature. Audubon Society wardens patrol upwards of 1,000,000 acres of wilderness for the protection of millions of egrets, ibises, waterfowl and other birds. In addition to the Audubon Screen Tours, another important project designed to advance conservation education is the operation of three Audubon Camps (Continued on Page 21)
Playhouse Play Coming December 3rd
BOARD OF TRADE PLANS
BENEFIT FOR SPECIAL FUND
The Playhouse-on-Tour’s Production j if of “John Loves Mary” -will be presentee j ^ at Sewickley High School Auditoriun at 8:30 p. m. on Thursday evening December 3rd, under the auspices of the Sewickley Valley Board of Trade, fo--the benefit of their special fund which pays for Hallowe’en prizes and Santa’: bag of gifts.
Coming direct from a successful rni at the Pittsburgh Playhouse, “John Love: Mary” is a hilarious G.I. comedy by Norman Krasna, which was successful!: produced on Broadway in 1947 by Rodgers and Ilammerstein.
“John Loves Mary” is the story of r returning G.I., John, who does his buddy Fred a favor by marrying a Cockney girl that Fred was in love with, but couldn’t get into this country. As John arrives in the U.S., he discovers that Fred is already married to someone else and as a result, there is one bride too manyc Krasna unfolds a series, of laugh-provoking situations which unravel the hilarious plot of the play.
WHISKEY BOTTLE FOUND IN OLD WALL
Workmen replacing the front of the Gusky building at the corner of Beaver and Walnut this week, jammed a crowbar into the, old wall and broke a bottle which had been bricked into tire building when it was built 63 or 64 years ago. Neither the bottle nor the label was saved in the mass of old plaster and cement which came down with the wall.
The story .is that the workmen were having a bit of a nip when the contractor approached, so they got rid of the evidence by bricking it in the wall. By that time, the bottle was empty. Hearing of the story from some old-timcis around town, Nate Gusky tolc) the workmen to try to save the bottle, but it was broken before they found it.
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Open House At Sewickley Public Schools
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The local schools join all other public schools of the nation^ in observing American Education Week November 8-14. It is open house for visitors all week. However, Tuesday, November 10 is the special day for parents of elementary children to meet teachers and visit in die class rooms in the Grade School. Thursday November 12 is the day set for visitors to get acquainted with classwork and teachers at the High School. Other schools in the Valley invite parents to visit the schools anytime during the week.
JLast Thursday and Friday, pupils of the schools of the ValJey painted Hallowe’en scenes on the windows of business firms in Sewickley. Left to right; Ronald Willson, 6di grade, Edgeworth; Robert. Cook, 6th grade, Edgeworth, Barbara Cook and Joyce Siebke, both ninth graders in Edgeworth School, painting a picture on the window of the Sewickley Hardware and Paint Compnny store, 424 Beaver Street.	Photo by Frank P. Tolo
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Hallowe'en Celebration Attracts Hundreds To Beaver And Broad
100 Prizes and 1,000 Bags Of Treats Given To ’Mummers in Annual Parade
Ideal weather conditions attracted a crowd estimated at almost two thousand to watch the annual Hallowe'en Parade on Saturday evening. The parade formed, as usual, on Thom Street in front of the Library and moved down Thorn to Walnut, to Beaver, to Chestnut and back to Thorn, led by the Sewickley police car and a convertible carrying the King and Queen of the Hallowe’en celebration. Jerry Veshio was the King and Carolyn Wise was the Queen.
Following their car came the Edgeworth. Fire Trucks, with the Edgeworth contingent of ‘mummers’ marching between the trucks. Then came the Sewickley High School band and the Indianettes followed by a large group of Indians, witches, clowns, sailors,'grand ladies, hoboes, characters with red lights which went off and on in their headdress, the Junior Hi-Y clubhouse on a little red wagon and many other ’mummers in many varieties of costumes. Tri-Hi-Y club members aided in directing the marching of the yonnger children.
Following tbo parade, the crowd gathered at the reviewing stand at the Honor Boll’ lot on Broad Street, where the King and Queen, assisted by Michael Scttembrine, chairman of the Board of Trade Hallowe’en Committee, gave out prizes to the winners. Paul Davison, chairman for the ‘Y’, was at the microphone of the. Board of Trade’s new Public Address system and announced the names as the winners came np for their prizes.
James Munizza, President of the Board of Trade, first presented the prizes for the Window Painting Contest. Margaret Williams, grade 6, Osborne School, won tlie first prize of $6 in the grade school division for her painting on the window of MacDonald’s Candy Shop. Albert Benzenhoefer, George Barbour and Tom Chantler from Grade 6, Sewickley School, won second prize in that division for their painting on the window of The Gift Comer, 422 Broad Street. They divided $4 between them. Third prize in the grade school division, $2.50, was won by Patricia Grey, Ronna Bean and Delores Barton, from Grade 0, Sewickley School, for their decorating of Myers Real Estate office on Broad Street.
In the Junior High School Division, first prize of $0 was divided between Dick Smith, Vance Rea, J. Notopoulos and Jimmy Zipparo, of Grade 9, Sewickley schools, for their painting on the window of the Bell Telephone office on Broad Street. Nancy Nichols also of the Sewickley Junior High School, won the second prize of $4 for her painting on the window of Miller’s Shoe Store,
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