Sewickley Herald

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The Sewickley Valley’s Home Weekly Newspaper
VOL. 51 NO. 41	.	SEWICKLEY, PENNSYLVANIA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1954
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I Sewickley High School Shop Chosen For State Experiment
Photo by McCandless
Jay Deemer, 8th grade student 'of Sewickley Junior-Senior High School is shown, center above, spinning a metal ash tray on the new lathe recently installed in the industrial arts shop. At his left shoulder is shop instructor George Bemhardy. Gordon Kautz, another member of the class, is shown at the polishing wheel. „	.	.
Observing the operations is George Karle, who installed the machine on an experimental basis and supervised the instructional work for one week.
This splendid, innovation was at the request of William Cooper, Senior Area Coordinator of Industrial Arts from the State Department of Public Instruction. Sewickley High School was signally honored to be the one spot in Pennsylvania chosen for the initial installation; Metal spinning will undoubtedly become one the recommended general shop activities.


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Public Schools Closed Thursday And Friday For Teachers'Institute
Student Athletic Tickets for Home Games to 6 Be Sold in Local Schools
The Sewickley School Board, at its meeting on Monday, October 11, was presided over by Prank Hawkins, vice president, due to the absence of Mr. Clarke, board, president. The board approved a statement of accounts for the High School Fund, prepared by Mr. Beighlea; approved the minutes of the September meeting and approved the cash statement for the month ending September 30. Dr. Irons reported on the Educational Congress on September 29 and 30; announced that Sewickley high school had been chosen as the place to try out a new field of work for junior high shops; reported receiving letters of congratulations from two colleges concerning two graduates of last June’s class; announced the County Teachers’ Institute this Thursday and Friday) Oct. 14 and 15, and .the closing of schools for,those two days and outlined a plan for this fall which will make possible a ten minute interview with a parent of each child in the elementary school, grades 1 through 6.
The Tappan gas range‘Which was installed new two years ago, has been replaced by a new Chambers model; the board approved the request that a representative be permitted to attend the National Mathematics Convention four days the week after Easter, in Boston; the dates for the annual State School Directors' Convention in Han' risburg were announced, November 5 and 6; each board member was supplied with a publication, “Let’s Face the Facts’ ’, and ditto copies of two communications to the board secretary—one desiring a choice Of location for the December County Convention of School Directors, the other a two-page progress report of the county handicapped children. After hearing a «latter from Mrs. Alfred Devine concerning making student tickets available to students of other schools in the vicinity, the board decided to offer the 35 cent student ticket for sale in Glenfield, Haysville, Osborne, St. James, Sewickley Academy and Edgewdrth-Sewickley Heights schools.
Dr, Harold Irons, supervising principal^, stated in his report that at the Education Congress school leaders were informed that more than 50% of the area of Pennsylvania is now served by joint,
union or merged districts. Larger units of administration are strongly encouraged because experience is showing that more pupils get better schools. Nowhere, however, do they say that consolidation
is being accomplished for less money. Transportation is one of the problems which accompany .the larger unit movement. Much discussion and study is being given to the “intermediate unit” idea, which would tend to do away with small independent districts. This movement tends to merge all districts under a plan similar to the county plan. It was emphasized that school administrators and school boards ‘should not try to face major consolidation problems .■without striving for full cooperation of the communities involved through all good means of public relations.
Much time was spent at the Congress in analyzing the Pennsylvania Cooperative Program of Educational Administration of which Dr„ Roy J. Haring is the Director. The following points were part of Dr. Haring’s conclusion: Three basic new services deemed most necessary are psychologist, reading consultant and speech correctionist. These other innovations were listed as desirable; a curriculum consultant, a curriculum materials and audo-visual aids library, home and school visitors, a professional library for teachers, specialists and* .therapists to assist in the education of the mentally, physically and emotionally handicapped children, and a guidance clinic.
Mr. William Cooper, Senior Co-ordinator from the State Department of Public Instruction, who helped make plans for the high school’s revamped shop, chose our school to try out a new field of work for junior high school shop. The shop teaches woodwork, mechanical drawing, plastic work, sheet metal art, metal and wrought iron projects. This new process is known as metal -spinning, and, as may be seen by a photograph on the front page of this week’s Herald, Seventh, eight and ninth grade boys Were given a chance to make articles on the new lathe. Samples of'the work were displayed to board members and Dr.
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Planning Community Chest Drive Which Starts On Sunday
COMMUNITY CHEST CAMPAIGN LEADERS held an organize tional meeting recently at the Edgeworth Club to complete plans for the annual drive in Sewickley. Shown here holding Red Feathers, the symbol of the Chest,- are: Mrs. C. S. Homer, chairman of District II; F. J. Torrance Baker, Northwestern section chairman; Neal M. Mitchell, Sewickley community chairman; and Mrs. Frank Hawkins, chairman of District I. Mrs. Alexander Hays HI, chairman of District III, and Mrs. E. A. Willets, Jr., chairman of District IV were unable to attend this meeting.
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Annual Community Chest Drive Opens On Sunday In The Valley
Thousands of Volunteer Workers To Solicit Money For Charity
The largest fund drive in the history of Allegheny County—-the 1954 Fall Campaign of the Community Chest—begins with a flurry of activity on Sunday, October 17.
This year the Chest needs amount to $5,769,882, and thousands of volunteers have been working for months to prepare for the month-long drive to attain the record goal.
The campaign will officially get underway Sunday with a star studded television program boasting some of the brightest names in Hollywood—Bob Hope, Tennessee Ernie, Art Linkletter, Barbara Britton, Dinah Shore and Ray Bolger will all take part. WDTV will carry the show at 7 p.m.
f On Monday morning at 9:30 a. m., Mrs. Clifford Heinz will sponsor the annual Chest kickoff breakfast in tire Town and Country Room or the Carlton House.. Guest speaker will be W. Cleon Skousen, former administrative assistant to J. Edgar Hoover, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
’Mr. Skousen gained prominence while working with the F.B.I. for his work in helping to convince Igor Gouzenko, former Russian intelligence agent, to reveal his knowledge of the Soviet spy network in the United States. Now a member of the faculty at Brigham Young University, Mr. Skousen will discuss, “The Secret Weapon Against Communism”, for the hundreds who attend the breakfast.
Later that day some 8500 women will begin the first one day country-wide Solicitation in the history of the Community Chest, It will be “Bed Feather Ladies Day” in every municipality in Allegheny- County.
Chest plans this year are to give a sticker announcing that a pledge has been made to every contributor. The Red Feather Ladies Will contact every home even though a sticker is visible in a prominent place in the home.
The difference this year is that those who have already given will open -their
doors to a neighbor who will thank them for haying made their pledge. However, in some cases, families do give both at work and in the home. Those families will be solicited at their residence.
The Community Chest goal for this year exceeds 3.4 per cent that of $5,578,-000 requested last year. However, it is 14.9 greater than the total raised last year, $5,022,026.
The setting of a record goal this year was a difficult decision on tire part of the Chest’s budgeting committee, made up of public spirited citizens chosen for 'their knowledge of financial matters, deep interest in public affairs and ability to get an important job finished in the proper way.
In announcing its decision thé committee advanced the following reasons and considerations for its decision:
The oost of providing health and welfare services, like other costs, has continued to rise. The budgeting committee’s estimate of the increase necessary to continue présent operations is based on the following expectations:
In non-hospital agencies a 5.7 increase in personnel expense, a 2:5 increase in Hon-personal expense, and a net decrease in income from agency Sources, and, in hospitals, some in-( Continued on Page 24)