Sewickley Herald

              The Herald
The Sewickley Valley’s Home News Weekly
Voi. 46 No. 12
SEWICKLEY, PENNA., THURSDAY, MARCH 24, 1949

Price Ten Cents
Philadelphia Engineer Employed
Mr. John A. Bailey, 421 W. Tabor Road, Philadelphia, Pa., was appointed by the Edgeworth Borough Council to be Manager of Edgeworth Borough, effective March 16th, 1949.
Mr. Bailey comes to Edgeworth with a background in engineering and government administration. He is a graduate Mechanical Engineer of Texas Agricultural and Mechanical College, College Station, Texas, class of 1939. He completed his work for the degree of Master of Governmental Administration at the Institute of Local Government at the University of Pennsylvania. He is a Registered Professional Engineer in the State of Pennsylvania.
Mr. Bailey has worked in engineering positions for both »private industry and die Federal Government. He has served as a consultant to municipal governments in the Philadelphia area.
During World War II he served in the Ordinance Department, U. S. Army, for four years, twenty-nine months of which were spent overseas. He was discharged from the Army with the rank of Captain.
Mr. Bailey is married to the former Barbara Elliott , of Philadelphia, and plans to make his home in Edgeworth.
Elected Edgeworth Borough Manager
Three Freight Cars Derailed
Xo one was' injured in a spectacular freight wreck shortly before 11 a. m. Sunday, in Glen Osborne, when long lengths of steel pipe fell from an open car and jammed the wheels of the following ear. Officer E. R. Gardner of Osborne, whose house overlooks the track, had a ring-side seat. He was reading tlie paper when he heard a noise, looked up and saw two box cars go hurtling, end over end, down the river bank. Pipe was scattered all over the right-of-way, with some falling into the river, others lying safely between the tracks. At least one length of pipe plowed up the ties and bent the rails of the east-bound freight track, tossing ties and debris over the west-bound freight track. As a result, only the westbound passenger track was open to traffic.
The front trucks of another box car caught in the rear trucks and bumped along, damaging ties on the east bound passenger track, on which the train was running, dragging the. front trucks for about a quarter of a mile. No one was hurt in the wreck of the 32-car freight train which was proceeding from Wheat-land, Pa., to the Pitcairn yards.
Shortly after the accident, railroad employees had hooked up a telephone and were directing passenger trains through both directions on the west-
Freight Train Wrecked Sunday Morning in Glen Osborne
Sunday* mn n jonded box enr overturned on the river bank in Glen Osborne road east ? when three freight enrs were derailed on the Pennsylvania Rnil-feliftom n flV pilsse.nSer hack. Upper right, one of the long steel pipes which tcnrinc ,, cnr> plowing up about a quarter-mile of cast bound freight track, uc t,cs ai'd bending the rails. Note the steel pipe under tlie rail! Lower
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left, this box car went all the way into the river, minus its trucks, but landed upright. Lower right, the car which caused most damage to the cast-bound passenger hack, by bumping along the lies and dragging its front truck for about a quarter of a mile,
bound passenger track. An engine hooked on to the undamaged string of cars and hauled them westward. Then a wrecking crew arrived with a crane and cleared the west-bound freight track. Once the box ear, which remained on the east-bound passenger track with only one truck under it, was moved, and the rails inspected, passenger and freight trains were routed along it.
However, tlie east-bound freight track was something else again. Workmen had to first remove the twisted rails and splintered and scattered ties and then re-lay new ties and rails. Motorists stopped all afternoon along tlie Ohio River Boulevard on Sunday, watching tlie crews at work. The cars that went over the bank were left until Monday. Then, they were picked up by the giant wrecking cranes and carefully set on wheels on the tracks. By Monday afternoon, everything was back to normal.
Discuss Heights Fire
Little Water Available At Greenhouse Sewickley Heights Council, at their meeting Monday, discussed tlie Saturday night fire at die greenhouse of W. P. Snyder, Jr., located at the intersection of Glen Mitchell and Scaife Roads. Borough Manager Frank C. Sturm told council that there was a water main under Scaife Road in front of the greenhouse, but a fire plug had never been installed. Besides the greenhouse, there is a large barn, several tenant homes and a garage on the same section of property with the greenhouse.
Sewickley Heights firemen secured water from a faucet inside the burning greenhouse, but it was too small a stream to do anything but safeguard the other frame houses on tlie lot. There was a fairly good flow of water at a fireplug at Woodmont, but it was too far away to lay a line of hose. Firemen could only use tlie 55 gallons of water in the booster tank and then go to have it refilled.
In reply to a question about water pressure, Mr. Sturm stated that tlie Sewickley Water Commission, which supplies the Heights, maintains a constant pressure of 110 pounds at the recording gauge in the borough building. That', pressure would probably be reduced to about 90 pounds on Scaife Road by friotion in tlie mains. Even with 90 pounds pressure, Mr. Sturm was sure
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COMMUNITY CALENDAR March 24 and 25
11:30 a, m. to 10 p. m. daily, Antique Show. Child Health Association. Sewickley Academy.
Monday, March 28
3 p. m. Rabbi Solomon B. Freehof, D.D., Book Review. Woman’s Club. At tlie Edgeworth Club.
Thursday, March 31 a 6:15 p. m. Annual meeting and dinner of the Sewickley YMCA. Dr. Janies K. Quay will speak.
Friday, April 1
8 p. m. All-School Play, "And Came the Spring” at the Sewicldey High School auditorium,
Monday, April 4
6’ p, m. The Charter Dinner of the Sewickley Business and Professional Women’s Club will be held at the Elmhurst Inn.
Monday, April 4
3:00 p. m. Annual Meeting and Tea. Woman’s Club, at the Edgeworth Club,
Sunday, April 17
6:45 a, m. Sunrise Easter Service, at tlie ‘Y’. Reverend Robert Reddish of St. Stephen’s Church, will officiate.