Sewickley Herald

              Sewickley Valley’s Home News Weekly
Voi, 46. No, 38
SEWICKLEY, PENNSYLVANIA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1949
Price, Ten Cents
Council Approves New Playground
Chadwick Street Lot To Be Improved
Sewickley Borough is well on its way to establishing the first of a series of playgrounds in cooperation with civic organizations, it was revealed at the regular meeting of Sewickley Council Monday evening. The first playground will be located on Chadwick Avenue, between the present Pennsylvania Railroad parking lot and Walnut Street. The proposal of .the Youth and Recreation Committee headed by Charles F. Reott, was accepted by Pennsylvania Railroad officials who agreed to a one-year lease for $1 plus exoneration of tire taxes as,-sessed against the property by borough, school board and county of $345. The property is assessed at $7,7.50.
When used as a borough playground, county and school officials will probably grant the exemption, starting with next year’s taxes. However, the lease with the Railroad will be signed by the commit-fee as soon as it is received, so that the playground may he ready for use this
Tlie Child Health Association is pn pared to order and pay for playgroun equipment as soon as the lease is signer The Association will provide a junglr gym built locally, an, obstacle coursi locally constructed; an all-metal 16 foe slide with stainless steel apron; si swings with four larger seats and tvv tot-size seats at each end and ‘bus’ sto type benches under trees for niothsrs t sit on while watching their children i play.
Plans for the playground, drawn u by Ackley, Bradley and Day, for th Child Health Association, also include musliball diamond, with a cyclone fenc backstop on pipe standards and old telt phone poles set up for bleachers. Th cost of tlie hack stop and bleachers wi also be paid by the Child Health Assc ciation, which will spend about $800 o the project.
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Child Health Association Resumes Sodium Fluoride Treatments
The Child Health Association has employed a dental hygenist to give Sodium Flouride treatments and dental health education to the pupils of Sewickley, Edge-worth and Osborne schools. Pictured above are; left to right, Mrs. Charles A. Woods, Jr., president of the Child Health Association, Mrs. Morris Hicks, co-chairman of the committee in charge of the program; Mrs. Betsey D. Davis, the dental hygenist with the teddy bear with which she entertains pupils while they are in the dental chair and Mrs. William B. Bachman, the other co-chairman of the committee.
Blanks for parental consent will be sent home next week. Meanwhile, Mrs. Davis is setting up the schedule with thc principals of the three schools. Thc childrens’ teeth are first cleaned and then painted with Sodium Flouride, which seals the enamel and aids materially in preventing cavities in the teeth.
Edgeworth Pupils Watch Antics of Child Health Teddy Bear
Photo by Howard ‘Bull’ James
Third grade pupils of Edgeworth School with Mrs. Betsey Darn's, dental hygenist in charge of tlie Child Health Association’s Sodium Fluoride program. Left to right; James Boyd, kneeling, Dick Dill, Bryant Bachman, Molly O. Lore, Mrs. Davis wiih the teddy which amuses thc children, Artie Olmsted and Margo Johnson,
Nurses' Annual Benefit Card Party
The Nurses of the Sewickley Valley Hospital Alumnae Association cordially invite you to reserve Thursday, October Gth, for their Annual Benefit Card Party
to he held in the Edgeworth Club at 8)15 p, m.
It will be published later where tickets will be on sale,
106 Family Apartments Planned
Ground Broken For 18 Units
Ground was broken over the week-end for the two eighteen unit apartment buildings being built by the Mountain Engineering Company at the corner of Beaver Street and Peebles Street. Work is proceeding on the foundation. On Friday night at a hearing before the Sewickley Board of Adjustment, an exception was granted for tlie 18 family unit being planned by Mr. Martin on the lot next door on Beaver Street. It will be necessary, however, for Mr. Martin to acquire a 40 x 125 foot lot in order to more closely comply with the zoning ordinance. The requirements for. the number of square feet per family unit has been raised by the new zoning ordinance.
In addition, there are plans for 70 family units, the old Grove City Land Company property, otherwise known as tlie old McCready property, west of the apartments on Walnut Street, between Chadwick 'and the Boulevard. That makes a total of 106 family units if all of them are constructed as planned.
The Board of Adjustment hearing Monday night of last week ended with tlie board reserving its decision in the case of the 1-Iovis Motor Company. Borough Manager Hiteshew reported to Sewickley Council at its meeting Monday of this week, that there were about ten persons at the hearing and five of them were attorneys.
An attorney was at the council meeting, also. He was representing W. P. Mejunkin of 337 Beaver Street, whose health is such that he spends most of his time on his front porch. However, the bus stop is located directly in front of his home, with the result that he is annoyed by the noise and the people who sit on his front steps and wait for tlie bus. Both the waiting passengers and the buses are noisy and the attorney stated that it was unfair, in his opinion, for the borough to place the hits stall entirely in front of one person’s house. In fact, bus stops should be in the business district, he said.
Council President Copeland and A. E. Miller explained that the borough took much thought before locating that stall in such a way that it would not interfere with tlie one across the street. It’s not the intent of council to make anyone unhappy, but since Mr. McNeil’s traffic survey will be along in a week or so,.the bus stall will he left to,see if he lias any recommendations to make on that particular subject.
An ordinance giving the borough the right to tow away cars parked illegally and impound them in a selected garage, started a verbal explosion which added several more nicks to President Copeland’s gavel. It was explained that the ordinance would he enforced on ears which are left on the streets without licenses or for repairs, rather than just all night parkers. Tlie state law now provides fines for persons who park ears on the streets from an hour after sunset to an hour before sun-rise without lights, but there has been no authority for the borough to tow immobilized vehicles off the streets, with the result that sometimes ears are “frozen in” for the winter, or left until the six months’ reduction is made on license plates.
Towing charges will he $3.00, plus 50c to $1.00 a day storage charges. Liability insurance must be furnished by the garages elected as the pound. Councilman IT. G. Jctter asked hosv police
I were to decide which of the illegally j parked cars to tow in. Especially when j the police never tyg a Cadillac. Mr-Copeland immediately challenged that statement, .he had a receipt from a fine i he paid for overparking a number of years ago when he was driving a Cadillac. Mr. Jetter then criticized the I double parking on Walnut Street and said there was an utter disregard for parking regulations in Sewickley, since many tags are torn up. Tags are also torn up for ladies who go through stop signs, if they come to the station and state that they had slowed up at the intersection, he said. However, he didn’t name names, saying that he would have to secure the consent of thc motorist before revealing her name.
He did say that from Division Street to Connelly’s he came across 6 of 8 cars parked illegally and why add more ordinances if were not going to enforce the ones we have? Mr. Jetter also complained on behalf of a friend who had been fined for stopping for a newspaper in the bus stop. He s'aid he thought that when the bus stops were put there it was understood that motorists could stop long enough to pick up a paper. Chief Prendergast said that the officers couldn’t be everyplace at once to see all the illegal parking and Mr. Copeland said that matters of this sort should be taken up with the police committee 'in private police committee sessions, instead of in open public meeting. The complaints were referred to the police committee.
The police committee is to pick a garage, subject to council’s 'approval,' now that the ordinance was passed all three readings at the meeting. Chief Prendergast or Lt. Jones will give the order for the towing and within 12 hours, the owner is to be notified by registered letter of the towing, where his car is impounded and why it was towed there. The owner must pay the towing and storage charges before reclaiming it at the garage. If paying under protest, a hearing is provided during which the owner may get the charges cancelled.
The ordinance was passed on condition that a report he made of each time the ordinance is used and the circumstances. Police reported 260 arrests, 170 complaints. $574 in borough fines, $25 in state fines, $106 in parking tags paid and $837.64 in parking meter collections for June. For July, the police report was: arrests. 291; complaints, 173;, borough fines, $549; state fines, $0; $114 in park-
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Community Calendar
Friday, September 23 8 p. in. Program. “Words and Music”, at the Presbyterian Church, sponsored by the Women's Missionary Society, Tea.
Saturday, September 24 10 a. m. to 8. p. in. Sewickley Valley Kennel Association's Dog Show at the ‘Y’.
Wednesday, September 28 7 until 1. Fish Fry at the Dorian Club.
September 29 and 30 Rummage Sale, The Woman's Society of the Methodist Church.
Thursday, October 6 10 a. in. to 4 p. m. The Women’s Guild of the Presbyterian Church will meet at the church.
Monday, October 17
Silo p. in, Educational Forum sponsored by the Home-School Association of Sewickley Academy, Sewickley Academy auditorium.