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Voi. 47 No. 1
SEWICKLEY, PENNSYLVANIA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 5, 1950
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Playhouse Players in "Strange Bedfellows"

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William Leech is treated to the hest by Alma Lind, Mariam Lewis, and ¡Gloria AbdoUj in a scene from the Playhouse comedy hit, “Strange Bedfellows,” which the Sewickley Valley Board of Trade will bring to the Sewickley High School on Thursday evening, January 12th, at 8:30 p. m. Tickets may be secured jit the Sewickley Tax Office, from members of the Board of Trade, at Knapp’s Drug Store,, the Mellon National Bank or Peoples First National Bank.
Comedy Hit Coming Here
[ “Strange ■ Bedfellows,” the recent Broadway comedy hit, which is currently playing at the Pittsburgh Playhouse, will tome to Sewickley on Thursday even-jng, January 12th. Under the auspices
¡' f the Sewickley Valley Board of Trade, le play will be presented at the Sewick-y High School Auditorium- at 8:30 . m. on Thursday, January 12th.'
This lusty and hilarious comedy by lorence Ryerson and Colin Clements pened in New York on January 14th, ^.948, and was an immediate success,
¡laying throughout the season. In the ading roles at that time were Joan etzel and John Archer. “Strange Bed-illows” deals with the hilarious story of suffragette who marries a young Con-tessman whose party loyalty requires lat he oppose women’s suffrage. The play is. hansomely set in a Nob Hill man-lion of the San Francisco of 1896. t Gloria Abdou plays the part of the
suffragette leader whose chief political opponent is her husband, played by Joseph Ruskin. J. English Smith appears in the role of Senator William Cromwell, and Alma Lind plays his wife. Florence Sando, John Johns, Mariam Lewis, Pearl Hipps, Livonia Stevenson and William Leech have featured roles.
This same, cast is currently appearing in. the play at the Playhouse and it will continue its run there through January 7th. In addition to the cast, the same scenery and effects as used in the Playhouse production will be brought to the Sewickley High School Auditorium.
“Strange Bedfellows” was directed by Fred Burleigh. Tickets are on sale from wives of members of the Board of Trade, or at the Municipal Building in Sewickley, where J. Conway Macon, tax collector, has charge of the reserved seat ticket chart. The chart will be open after 10 a. m. today, Thursday.
Music will be by the same trio which made such a hit at “Joan of Lorraine”, Alfred H. Johnson, pianist; Theodore Murray, violinist, and R. S. Seibert, cellist.
fijlfam Booth Elected Council Head
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Fred Atwood Elected Vice President
For the first time in many years, the fe-organization meeting of Sewickley poiincil Monday evening took on the Mr a celebration, with the families of ,'cvernl of the borough-officials there to tee them take the oath of office. Burgess Charles A, Woods, Jr., who had been Jv°rn ln by Solicitor Roy Rose, was hairrrinn of tile meeting and administered p w? of office to Charles Reott, Carl 5. Wahl and A, E. Miller, re-elected well as J, D. Culbertson, i t Gco1lgc Trudell, 3rd, who Were lectori for the first time in November,
After they had signed their oaths, the election of borough officials was held, With no dissenting votes, William Booth was elected president of council; Fred II. Atwood, vice president; Edward Ellerton was re-elected secretary; Frank A, Nash was re-elected treasurer; the Mellon National Bank was again designated depository of borough funds; John C. Hiteshew was re-elected borough manager and Roy Rose was re-elected solicitor. The same by-laws were adopted for council for the coming yeftr.
Despite the fact that Monday was a holiday, all but one of the councihnen Were present for the re-organization meeting, After the brief meeting, the new borough officials received congratulations of their families and political supporters and exchanged them with each other,
Six Badly Injured In Head-On Crash In Osborne
An Edgeworth couple ’was seriously injured and four Ambridge people were hurt, three seriously, in a head-on crash of the cars in which they were riding at 4:25 a. m. on Friday, December 30th, on the Ohio River Boulevard near the intersection with McKown Lane, Osborne. Walter Ingham, 214 Church Lane, Edgeworth, who was driving west on the boulevard, sustained a'’fractured skull, fractured jaw, rib and leg injuries. His wife, Mrs. Christine Ingham, sustained a concussion, lacerations and leg injuries.
Anthony Valentine, 628 Glemvood Avenue, Ambridge, driving east on the boulevard, sustained extensive cuts of the head and some internal injuries; a passenger in his car, William. Goldsboro, 346 Maplewood Avenue, Ambridge, received a possible fracture of the pelvis and right shoulder; another passenger, Frances Hammond, Valley Homes, a fractured pelvis and a severe puncture wound in the left leg and the other passenger, Blanche Frye, Valley Homes, multiple cuts and bruises. She was discharged over the week-end, but the others are all patients at the Sewickley Valley Hospital.
Sewickley police received a call about the wreck and responded quickly. Officer Robert Colledge, who was alone in the radio car at the time; summonded. in rapid succession, a wrecker to lift one of the cars off two people; both ambulances and Chief Thomas Prendergast to help direct traffic. Chief E. R. Gardner of Osborne was unavailable, as he is ill and Sewickley police offered to help.
A physician, who lives near the scene, was just getting home from the hospital and heard the high squealing of skidding tires, the tremendous, shuddering crash and then the wail of a short-circuited horn. He hurried to the boulevard; rendered first aid to the injured; urged truck drivers to lift the overturned car off the two people; helped extricate Mrs.
Ingham, who was pinned under die dashboard of her car and then took her to the hospital in his car, which is equip ped to make à bed of the back seat. The hospital staff had been alerted by police at the request of the physician and were ready to cope with the sudden emergency. Even the blood bank was open and it Was needed to give transfusions.
’ One of the victims was bleeding so badly that bystanders placed him in the rear seat of the police car and Officer Colledge took him to the hospital, while the ambulances transported the others.
The officer reported that Mr. Ingham was driving west on the boulevard, on the right hand side, when the car driven by Mr. Valentine, traveling east on the wrong side of the boulevard, crashed head-on into the Ingham carl Both cars were very badly damaged about the front ends with the Valentine car damaged mostly on the right front side.
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Community Calendar
Thursday, January 5
Union Week of Prayer Service. St. Paul’s Lutheran Church. Rev. F. II. Austin, preaching, 8:00 p. m.
Friday, January 6
Union Week of Prayer Service. St. Paul’s Lutheran Church at eight o’clock. Mrs. Julia Kinzer will speak.
Sunday, January 8
Union Week Of Prayer Service. St, Paul’s Lutheran Church at eight o’clock, llcv. Milford Ilenkle will preach.
Monday, January 9
Rev. Basil Truscott, 25 years a missionary to Argentina, will speak to an open meeting in the Sanctuary of tire Sewickley Methodist Church. Welcome.
6:30 p. in. Sewickley Business and Professional Woman’s Club will hold their regular monthly dinner meeting at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church. Program in charge bf Ways and Means Committee.
Tuesday, January 10 3 p. m. Music Club Meeting at the home of Mrs.' William T. Metcalf, Jr. Tech Trio will give tire program.
Thursday, January 12, 1950 8:30 p. m. Playhouse comedy, “Strange Bedfellows”, sponsored by the Sewickley Valley Board of Trade for their community fund, at the Sewickley High School Auditorium.
January 18 and 19th Spaghetti Supper sponsored by the Harmony Lodge. at St. James Trade . School, Walnut Street. Benefit St. .James’ Building Fund and Boys Towns of Italy.	|
Thursday, January 26 12:80 p. m. Open Luncheon at the Sewickley Presbyterian Church, to which any resident of the Valley is cordially invited.
Wed. & Thurs., Feb. 15 & 16, 1950
8:30 p. m. “H.M.S. Pinafore” presented by Presbyterian Church Choir. Sewickley High School Auditorium.
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BB Hole in Window
An unexpected Christmas present was discovered by William Mossett, 307 Centennial Avenue at 2:28 p. m. Christmas Day, when he found a BB hole through a window of his home. He told Lt. Lee S. Jones that he thought it had been shot the night before.
Pfc. Joseph W. McLaughlin
Camp Gordon, Ga., Dec. 31: Private First Class Joseph W. McLaughlin, son of Mr. and Mrs. William McLaughlin of 611 Chestnut Road, Edgeworth, is a student at The Southeastern Signal School, Signal Corps Training Center, at Camp Gordon, near Augusta, Ga.
Pfc. McLaughlin enlisted in the Air Force at Pittsburgh, on August 8, 1949, and received his basic training at Lack-land Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas.
He is a graduate of Sewickley High School.
Burgess Woods To
Hear Police Cases
Burgess Charles A. Woods, Jr., has indicated that he will be just as active a burgess as was W. F. McCrea, in so far as hearing the police cases is concerned. The burgess’ private office will be on the second floor of the borough building. It has been readied and Burgess Woods will be there ‘as often as he is needed’. A schedule of regular office hours will be determined by the burgess and announced later.
Sewickley Girl Performs At Oravo Xmas Party


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This scene was taken from one of the playlets presented during the annual Christmas Parly (Dec. 20) for 200 women employees of Dravo ■ Corporation and subsidiary companies. Held at the Neville Island plant’s cafeteria, the event-started off with a turkey dinner and featured an entertainment program written, produced and acted in by the women employees. The scene shown here depicts a Charleston (¡onlest like the one held .at Dravo’s first employee picnic in 1924. Taking part arc /left to right) Dorothv Krum, 4’ Thorn Street, Sewicklev; Vera Wnrensford,_ Neville Island; Edna Poole, Wilkinsburg, and Palma Doria, formerly of Coraopolis but now a resident of Vandcrgrift.