Sewickley Herald

              The Sewickley Valley’s Home News Weekly
Voi. 44 No. 3
SEWICKLEY, PA., THURSDAY, JANUARY 16, 1947
Price Five Cents
FOR A WAR MEMORIAL
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Suggestions to Form A New Committee
1/13/47
To the Editor 'Sewiekley I-Ierald1,
Recently there appeared in your paper an article relative to the fund on deposit in ¡the First National Bank of Sewiekley and the Sewiekley Valley Trust Company, known as the WAR MEMORIAL FUND, and certain suggestions made; also the Board of Trade has been taking some action.
Therefore, in order that this matter may be brought to some sort of a conclusion the following suggestions are made.
That a voluntary committee be appointed by the following organizations:
Two from the American ¡Legion
Two from the ¡Veterans of Foreign ¡Wars
Two -from the ¡Board of Trade
Two from the (Planning Commission
Two from the (War Memorial Committee
constituting a committee of TEN; and that J. K. Webster of the Sewiekley Valley Trust Company , be appointed chairman for the purpose of calling a meeting of the committee at some convenient time to discuss plans for the erection of the War Memorial; that Mt. Buck of your paper -contact the organizations requesting them to appoint two members to serve on the committee, and to advise Mr. Webster of the Sewickley Valley Trust ¡Co. of their acceptance; and that Mr. Webster call a meeting for the purpose of discussing and formulating some sort of plan for the erection of the ¡memorial—
.(1st) To determine upon^ the type and character of memorial to be erected within the limit'of the fund now in possession of the War Memorial Committee.
(2nd) To .select a ¡suitable place for the erection of said memorial.
(¡3rd)! To ascertain and formulate plan by which this fund now held can be transferred to the New Cominittee for consummation.
At one time Roy Rose rendered an ■opinion in connection therewith and he might be willing to undertake and advise the Committee as to his conclusions as to how this plan can be worked out.
The above Flan has been suggested by iouo of the surviving members of The WaT Memorial Committee.
“Y” DRIVE
The Annual Maintenance Campaign of 'the Sewickley V. M. C. 'A. will be conducted from Thursday* January S3, to Tuesday, February 4.
Tuesday evening, the co-chairmen, L. Thayer ¡Lyon and ¡Edmund D. Wardrop, met with the following majors, who are to select and load in the team work: Mrs. D. E. Davis, 'C. Kirk Stroll, Mrs. ¡W. V. C. (Bulkeley, Stephen Emery, Mrs. J. IS. Thornton, G. Herbert Marks, and to complete plans for the proced-' ure of tho campaign The majors are i to meet at tho YMCA with their captains, Thursday, January 16, to com-i pleto the personnel of their individual .foams.
Tho opening dinner will be hold ¡Thursday, January /23rd, when all I workers in tho campaign are expected ■to bo present and from then to tho ■ closing dinner tho campaign will bo on (in full force.
The public is invited to witness the ‘window display in tho store of A. E. 'Carroll on Beaver iStrcot. This gives a slight idea -of tho activities throughout ¡the year.
REV. BENEDICT WILLIAMS
■New Rector of St. Stephen’s Church'
The Reverend Benedict Williams assumes the rectorship of St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, Sewickley, this week, attending the church’s annual meeting tomorrow evening,, and. taking charge
of the church services this coming Sunday. He will occupy the church’s rectory, at the corner of Centennial and Academy Avenue, with his wife, Lucy Hale 'Hollander Williams, and
their two daughters, Maria Theresa, aged 14, and 'Lucy Benedict, nine.
Mr, Williams was born in Cleveland October £4, 1005, son of the late Right Reverend Charles David Williams, Bishop of Michigan, and (Lucy 'Victoria Benedict Williams. He received his 'grammar .school and high school education in public schools in Detroit and then matriculated at Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio, graduating in 1027 with the degree of B.A., magna eum laud’e. After approximately a year of teaching at Kenyon, he attended the Episcopal Theological School, Cambridge, Mass., receiving the degree of B.D. in 1930. He is a member of Beta Theta Phi Fraternity and of Phi Beta Kappa.
Mr. Williams was assistant rector of St. John’s at Detroit from 1930' to 1932; rector of Trinity, Detroit, from 1932 to 1S'35; Canon at Trinity Cathedral, Cleveland, from 1985 to 193S; and rector of Trinity, Toled'0, from 1939 to 1940. The new rector’s other activities, ecclesiastical and otherwise, are as follows:
Past President of the Toledo Council of Churches, Board, Member of the Toledo Chapter of the American Red Cross, Board "Member of the Child and Family Agency, Board Member..of the Mental Hygiene Association, Board Member of the Planned Parenthood League of Ohio, Member of the Ottawa Hill School Board, President ' of the Toledo Board of ¡Strategy, Diocese of Ohio—'Standing Committee, Provisional Deputy to. the .General Convention, Examining 'Chaplain, Field Department, Committee on Canons, Ecclesiastical Court, Commission on ¡Unity, Committee on Revision of Prayer Book.
SEWAGE DISPOSAL PLANS
K i w a n i s
South America
Monday’s Kiwanis dinner at the ‘Y’ developed into a Pan-American night, for the entertainment feature of the meeting was a showing of remarkably beautiful talkie films of several South American ebuntries. Rio Janeiro and its beautiful mountain-surrounded harbor; 'Sao Paulo and its coffee-laden ships; two ports on tho Amazon River —these from Brazil. Buenos Aires from Argentina, La Guajra and' loft.y Caracas in Venezuela; Baranquilla and Cartagena and Bogota in ¡Colombia were among the colorful cities visited through the medium of those pictures, all in brilliantly colored views, personally Conducted by means of the voice of the announcer.
The committee on attendance, checking up On 1946, noted some members’
outstanding records. .Those who have not missed a meeting of the club for the times mentioned were President J. W. 'Cameron, seven years; Curtis Mathias, three years; John McDonald, two ’ years; 'William Carson, T. . W. Eshenaur, H. 8. Irons, Frank ¡Wehrle, T. E. Wolfe, W. J. Boyd, Frank Nash, Paul Bess and A. W. Engel, all had perfect records in 1946. A1 Buckley, Frank Menz, ¡Charles Reott, ¡L. H. Shad-cluck and Richard Wharton each missed but one meeting iu 1946.
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Birthday of Kiwanis
The-Kiwanis Club of Sewiekley will observe the 32nd anniversary of Kiwanis International next Monday witli a program based on the service organization’s 1947 administrative theme, “Build for Peace—Patriotism— Opportunity.” Ammon 8. Rosenbcrger, District Governor of Pennsylvania Kiwanis, will be guest speaker, and
District Secretary Miles Fisher will be with him.
Eleven men attended tho initial meeting, which created Kiwanis, in the winter of '1915, at Detroit. Since that time, the organization’s membership has risen until today it stands at 170,-000 in 2,550 clubs throughout the United States, Canada and Alaska.
During 1946, Kiwanis International threw its strength and resources behind the United Nations, endeavored to mould sound public opinion by keeping business and professional leaders informed on vital national and international issues, and sponsored thousands of worthwhile eofnnvunity projects ranging from aid to underprivileged children to support of churches in their spiritual aims..
•A committee, consisting of Charles F. Reott, Richard Lesealettc and Henry 'Beiglilea, will have charge of the anniversary meeting.
A New Year’s treat ¡Kiwanis entertained local newsboys with a moving picture
Edgeworth Joins County Authority
Four possible projects for disposal of the sewage from the boroughs from Haysville to Leetsdale, inclusive, have been sketched out and preliminary estimates of cost submitted to the interborough committee appointed to to look into the best way of meeting this Valley’s sewage disposal problem. These four plans were submitted by the Morris Knowles Engineers, 'employed for that purpose last summer, but do not constitute a final report nor sufficient detail to guide the boroughs to a decision. So, in order to meet the January 1st deadline for joining the county-wide Authority to the extent of survey and preparation of plans, the local boroughs with the exception of Sewickley had taken action to- join the Authority, and had passed ordinances authorizing signing the necessary contract. To modify certain details, however, the ordinances had to be passed in revised form; and ‘ Edgeworth’s council on Tuesday evening took that action. Councilman €. R. Mitchell of ■the Health and Sanitation committee recommended doing so, while regretting that the complete Knowles report was not yet available.
The four Knowles projects respectively contemplate erection of one, two, three, or four disposal plants, with the connecting lines necessary to take care of tke five local boroughs, and the cost estimates range from $307,460 up to $842,000.
Haysville passed its ordinance last week; (Leetsdale took similar action, on. Tuesday evening; Sewickley last nigllt had the matter up with ¡a report from the interborough committee, as told in another column, and Osborne council is called to meet tonight.

Edgeworth council went through the form of annual Organization, electing A. O. Pearce president, John A. Emery solicitor, H. F. Burkholder borough •manager, .secretary, engineer, street commissioner, building and plumbing inspector; First National Bank depositary and Frank A. Nash, treasurer. Kenneth Buffington was reappointed to ■the Board of Health, Councilman Andrew Them to the committee in charge of borough sinking funds.
As a committee to decide on and erect an Edgeworth War Memorial, for which the former ‘Civilian Defense Committee has turned over its unspent funds, $1,845.85, to the borough, President Pearce appointed) J. Judson Brooks chairman, Mrs. J. D'. Dury vice-chairman, Councilman Charles Oliver treasurer; Councilman Newton Chapin, Charles ’fihoin, Miss Laura Wallace, Stanley Lyon, W. K. McPherson, and Kenneth Moier.
The council had before it a financial report for the year 1946, showing expenditures and receipts very closely parallel to the budget set up in January; some $20,000 in bank, all Boulevard property damages paid, and tho boorough’s bonded indebtedness drawn to $9,120. A proposod budget for 1947 was laid boforo council- and tentatively adopted, final action to bo taken next month; it balances at $99,0S6.07,
Bills authorized for payment camo to $2,7718,25, and the manager’s account from which borough running expenses aro paid was reimbursed by $2,999.55.
Police reported four motor accidents; one stolen automobile, recovered; fines for half a dozen motor code violations, and tho robbery of a purse on December 14th, by two .men an a car who stopped Mrs. Floyd Value walking on Beaver road about 9:30 p. m. There was ono fire call, duo to a burning mattress.