Sewickley Herald

              The Herald
The Sewickley Valley’s Home News Weekly
Voi. 46 No. 13
SEWICKLEY, PENNA., THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 1949
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Sewickley Public Library Being Steam Cleaned
The above photo shows the library after the Broad Street side had been cleaned. Notice the contrast with the Thorn Street side which had not yet been cleaned when the photo was taken last week. The work is being done through the generosity of Robert Clause of Sewickley Heights.
The contractor for the job is the Pitt Building Service Company, an experienced firm of building cleaners. The
Photo—Courtesy of Homestead Valve Manufacturing Co. work is being done by the steam cleaning method, using a Hypressure Jenny Steam Cleaner, made in Coraopolis by the Homestead Valve Manufacturing Company. A number of local garages use the same type of unit to clean grease and dirt from automobile engines, chassis and parts.
Many passersby are surprised to see the colors in the stone, revealed for‘the first time in years.__________
Chairman of Point Park Committee
William P. Snyder III
William Penn Snyder III V Heights, has been nam the co-ordinating comm unt Park group, to work v planning new interchai Other members will ives of the State Attorr w and County planning ho departments and the ®ference for Communil ¡nt. A new plan was show ! of the Conference's Pari
Friday in the County Commissioners' conference room, The Committee, by unanimous vote, recommended the new plan to Governor Janies H. Duff, the State Department of Highways and the Department of Forests and Waters.
Briefly, the new; plan for the site in the lower Triangle differs from the original plan drawn up by the State in the following respects:
Bunches nil the overhead highways into one nnd tightens the interchanges
at each side of the park; simplifies the park area into two units instead of three (as provided under the State plan), and makes a better approach for pedestrians entering the park.
Under the old State plan, the overhead highways would cross the park in two strips instead of a single compact unit. This would have tile effect of creating a series of “Chinese walls” and dividing the park into three sections.
At the same time, Arthur B. VanBus-kirk, chairman of the Point Park Committee, expressed hope that demolition of old buildings and construction work will begin by the fall of 1950.
City and County engineers and planning agencies were unanimous in agreeing that die new single overhead plan would make the park more beautiful.
The new plan, labeled as "Plan E,” was ’ developed by the Conference’s Landscape Architects Committee, composed of Ralph E. Griswold, Pittsburgh landscape architect, nnd Gilmore Clarke, planner of New York City’s “Merritt Parkway” and member of the New York firm of Clarke, Bcpunno & Ilolleron.
It was first approved by the Conference’s sub-committee bn Landscape Development, headed by Edgar J. Kauf-mann. This committee concluded that the new plan was equal to the State’s “Plan C" from a, traffic standpoint nnd better from a Park standpoint.
■ Director William IT. Bucnte reported that the City Planning Committee considered the pew plan superior because it:
Offered greater possibilities for attractive development of the park, nnd was less detrimental to privately-owned property around the park.
Park H, Martin, director of the Conference, described the new plans as' "far superior for development of the park.”
William Froelich, engineer for the Pittsburgh Regional Planning Association, stnted that the new plan draws the ramps together in one group. All highway grades would be less than five per cent with the exception of two slightly more than that. It also would permit all
Cast ol “And Came the Spring” at Sewickley High School Friday
Seated, left to right; Carol Stroll, Aldene Weaver, Peggy Meickle, Mary Nell Johnstone, student director; Ruth McNally, Diane Seagren, Janet Clark, book holder; Austin Hurd and Roger Wharton.	•
Back row, left to right, Robert Jones, Richard Blbsser, Shirley Toward, Jack Miller, John Swan and William Mcllvain. Other members of the cast, James Lupinacci, Barbara Kilmer, Helen Haydock and Bud Devine were not present when the picture was taken.
“AND CAME THE SPRING”
AT SEWICKLEY HIGH SCHOOL
On Friday (tomorrow), April 1st, at 8 p, m., an all-school east will present “And Came The Spring,” a brightly humorous comedy of modern youth—one of Samuel French’s plays, in the Sewickley High School auditorium.
It is the story of the Hartmans, a typical American family, which enjoys a reasonable amount of quiet and peace until Spring enters the scene. Then Midge, tile teen-age daughter, determines to manage a few things in her own way, which almost proves disastrous. Slip causes her sister to be suspected as a thief; she drops a bombshell into, her father’s business, threatening her sister’s college education; she disrupts brilliant brother Elliott’s carefully planned life as a writer of tragic novels; she plays havoc with the hearts of several young people, including a visiting New York glamour girl and a bashful boy, who really cares for Midge, herself. The climax conies when, on the night of the Spring Prom, Midge’s first formal dance, she steps in again and sets matters
points of sight for a distance of at least 270 feet, thus allowing a speed of 40 miles an hour except for one 270-degree turn where the speed would be 37 miles an hour, he said.
County Commissioner John J. Kane recommended further study to see if the two center piers could be eliminated. This suggestion svas passed on to the Architects’ Committee.
George S. Richardson, engineering consultant for the state Highways Department, said lie couldn’t comment on the new plan until studying it further.
Mr. Richardson hailed development of the Pcnn-Lincoln Parkway East and West, which will be linked at the Point, as “Pittsburgh’s first renl modern express highway."
Anniversary Dinner At The ‘Y*
Tonight (Thursday) at 6:15, the Annual Dinner of tlie YMCA marks 55 years of service to youth in Sewickley Valley, On April 1, 1894, the Association was organized in the rooms above
straight in a heart-warming and very funny manner.
With all this involved action, the audience is sure of an evening of pleasure. Tickets may	be	bought	from	almost
every student or at the door Friday night. A student showing will be given on Thursday afternoon.
The cast of “And Came The Spring” includes:
Mr. Jeffrey Hartman - Roger Wharton Elliott Hartman	-	-	Austin	Hurd
Buzz Lindsay -	Jack	Miller
Keith Nolan -	Billy	Mcllvain
Eddie North -	John	Swan
Mr. Fields	-	Dick	Blosser
Alan Fields -	Bob Jones
Clancy -	Jim	Lupinacci
Messenger Boy -	- Bud Devine-
Mrs. Louise Hartman	-	Carol	Stroll
Midge Hartman	-	Shirley Toward.
Virginia Hartman	-	Diane Seagren.
Carollyn Webster -	Ruth McNally
Mrs. Fields -	- Helen Haydock
Gabby Allen -	-	Aldene Weaver
Edna -	Peggy	Meikle
Christine Myers	-	Barbara	Kilmer
Tlie director is Mr. F. L. Wilson; the student director is Mary Nell Johnstone, and the bookholder is Janet Clarke.
the present Mellon National Bank.
A program of unusual interest is phlti-ned for the assembly in the building, of member., and friends of the “Y.” The Silver Phantasy, which was produced at the High School by sixteen High School boys and girls last Thursday evening for the Youth Rally, will be repeated under the direction of its producer, H, B. Winne. Those who saw it are enthusiastic in their praise of its excellence and its real significance. The speaker for the occasion, Dr. James K. Quay,, Vice President of Princeton Seminary, is one of the best, who has visited the Valley in recent years. His subject, “The Enlarging Significance of the YMCA in World Affairs,” will be of the keenest interest. A printed Annual Report will be available and the most vital part of tlie whole, evening is apt’ to be the President’s Report by E. M, Borgcr, If ybu are actively concerned about youth service for our own young people now and in the next few decades, the Dinner should not be missed.