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Sewickley Valley’s Home News Weekly
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Voi, 47 No. 2
SEWICKLEY, PENNSYLVANIA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 1950
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Community Center Service Club To Serve
The members of the Community Center Service club will serve as hostesses for the annual meeting of the Sewickley Community Center to be held Sunday afternoon January 22 at 4 o’clock.
Mrs. Alphonso Davis is president of the Service Club. The public is cordially invited to attend.
Left to right in the above photograph are; Mrs. Lawrence Cherry, Mrs. Zack Thomas, Mrs. Atwell Blake, Mrs. Chris Colvin, Mrs. Alfonse Davis, Mrs. Laura Ford Wilson, Mrs. David Starr and Mrs. Oliver Woodley.
Community Calendar
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.•
Friday, January 20
2:30 p. m. Missionary Society will meet at the Sewickley Presbyterian Church.
Thursday, January 26 12:30 p. m. Open Luncheon at the Sewickley Presbyterian Church, to which any resident of the Valley is cordially invited.
January 26 to February 7 YMCA Finance Campaign Wed. & Thurs., Feb. 15 & 16, 1950 8:30 p. in. .“H.M.S. Pinafore” presented by Presbyterian Church Choir. Sewickley High School Auditorium.
Tonight, Thursday evening, January 12th, at the Sewickley High School, the Sewickley Valley Board of Trade will sponsor a production of “Strange Bedfellows,” the Justy and hilarious comedy that comes to Sewickley directly from the stage of the Pittsburgh Playhouse.
“Strange Bedfellows”, by Florence Ryerson and Colin Clements, will be presented with the same excellent cast and scenery that received rave reviews from the Pittsburgh critics during its run at the Playhouse. This uproarious comedy is set in the San Francisco of 1896 and deals with the “war between 'the sexes,” and woman’s right to vote. The story is dealt with gaily and the emphasis is continually on comedy.
Director Fred Burleigh has assembled, a cast of Playhouse favorites for the play. Gloria Abdou, Alma Lind, J. English Smith and Joseph lluskin share top honors in the show. Others in the large and well chosen cast of eighteen includes Florence Sando, John Johns, Mariam Lewis, Livonia Stevenson, Pearl Hipps and William Leech.
200 tickets will be on sale at the door tonight. Music will be by the same trio which made such a hit at the last Playhouse play presented here by the Board of Trade: R. S. Seibert, cellist; Theodore Murray, violinist, and Alfred II. Johnson, piano.
The proceeds of the play will go into a special fund set up by the Board of Trade for Pennsylvania Week Essay prizes in the schools; for Santa Claus and his gifts'to the children of Sewickley; for the welcome, signs on the Boulevard; for the window decorating prizes and similar community projects. For the future, a fence is needed around the new playground on Chadwick Street and there will be need of a number of facilities in the -new War Memorial Park, which was started by an Association organized at the request of the Board of Trade.
"Strange Bedfellows" By The Playhouse At High School Tonight
Johns Johns finds himself in a spot as he is recognized by Mitzi Steiner, Sally McKinley and Florence Sando, three young ladies of San Francisco’s Barbary Coast in a scene from the Playhouse comedy hit, “Strange Bedfellows,” which the Sewickley Valley Board of Trade will bring to Sewickley High School tonight (Thursday evening, January 12th) at 8:30 p. m. Tickets have been going fast but some will be available at the door.
Build Oil Well Rig Housing
New Methods Devised To Weather-Proof Sheets
Joseph Doerller, owner of the Sewickley Roofing and Heating Company, 605 Beall Way, and engineers of the Lee C. Moore Corporation of Neville Island, had to devise new methods to meet the specifications for housing for oil well rigs located 10 to 12 aniles out in the Gulf of Mexico, off Louisiana and Texas. Derricks built by the Moore Corporation there must withstand winds up to 135 miles an hour, but the houses are so squat that the wind is not such a factor in their construction.
More important is the fact that they are over sea water, either on barges or on piling, in a region'that has heavy and •drequent rain and periods of hot sun-sjhine, Many men and ships and equip-niient are engaged in the search for oil ofKjhe coasts of the gulf states. The house'-►shown above has reached its destination and may now be erected far out in the gulf, protecting the men and machines which are engaged in the endless search for more oil to keep our complex civilization running smoothly.
In order to stand the extremely corrosive conditions encountered, the houses Are constructed of 14 gauge-galvanized Sheets, The framework is held to the sheets by monel metal cherry rivets, which were developed during the war for the use on aircraft, where ihero was to room' to ‘buck’ them in, Then, they tre covered with aluminum caps to close
Portable Housing For Off-Shore Oil Rigs Fabricated Right Here In Sewickley!
Photo by Howard ‘Bud’ James Panels for all-metal, non-corrosive houses for oil rigs off the Gulf Coast are being made right here in Sewickley by Joseph Doerller’s Sewickley Roofing and Heating Company, 605 Beall Way. Left to right, Henry Brenner, driving aluminum caps over cherry rivets to cover the hole; Clarence Brenner, drilling holes in a panel of one section of the housing, Paul Spinelli, also drilling, holes, and Robert I-Ieasley, putting in the cherry rivets.
Photo by McCandless Studio The portable house, 42 feet by 55 feet, with eight-foot ceilings, was completely assembled at the Lee C. Moore Corporation plant on Neville Island, before being torn down for shipment to the Gulf Coast. The roof is bolted down to the supporting bow-string trusses, like a quonset hut, These houses must be readily disassembled to be moved from one location to another. The houses are supported by either piles or barges, 10 to 12 miles out in the Gulf,
the hole. Brass rivets are also used. Bolts are used to fasten the roof and well sections together, Since oven the cut edges of the sheets had to be protected, Mr, Doerfler devised long troughs in which the edges were dipped in molten solder.
Aluminum window snshes arc used,
so there isn’t a bit of exposed steel on the house to let rust and corrosion get a start. Hot sunshine is followed frequently by hard rains and wind and then sunshine again in fairly short cycles, The houses not only shelter the draw works and the rest of the drilling rigs, but also furnish rooms and offices for
the tool pusher and the other men who operate them, as well as storage of supplies. Since there are many wells drilled beneath the surface of the gulf, the houses must be readily dis-asscmbled With .100% salvage, so they can be moved to new locations whenever necessary,
In the pictures, employees of the Sewickley Roofing and Heating Co. are shown attaching the frame-work to one of the panels of galvanized steel. In the other picture, the completed house is shown as it was assembled as a final check before being loaded for shipment to the Gulf coast.