Sewickley Herald

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The Sewicldey Valley’s Home News Weekly
Voi. 46 No. 14
SEWICKLEY, PENNA., THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 1949
Price Ten Cents
New Blood Bank at Sewickley Valley Hospital
Photos by S. J. Link, Pittsburgh
bath''51??.	^rs' A G. Burnsworth, in the new blood bank at Sewickley Valley Hospital using the electric water
ncedetl Th ii 1 *S iKmk’ itself, a circular refrigerator in which the different types of whole blood are kept until Ln 1 ,“uorescent viewing box and microscope are shown in the foreground on the stone-topped cabinet sink, is sh„'VCkPh0t0u!	otfractive reception room in which donors wait for a few moments while preparations are made,
rieht Z'\r°?8h	doorway. An electric centrifuge, which separates the serum from the solids, may be seen to the
fa the door on the cabinet sink. The hospital is still seeking donors in order to DU the bank for the first time.
LOCAL BLOOD BANK
* new addition at the the laboratory of Sewickley Valle pitat, on the southwest corner of lace and the driveway into the h has been completed to house tl: Pita s blood bank, Reached from from the hospital driveway tee!	r00m etluiPPed '
com contains two beds for doi
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electric centrifuge to separate the solids from the serum and the bank itself.
The bank is a circular refrigeration unit with revolving shelves, in which the whole blood is kept, separated as to type. Another piece of equipment is an electric rotator which keeps the blood in motion while it is being donated. Doctors, nurses and members of various civic organizations are now donatipg a pint of blood each to build up a stock of blood. Then, it will be replaced by patients or their friends so that about 30 pints will always be available. Blood may also be purchased outright, if there
is no chance of replacing it.
The hospital has been averaging about 50 transfusions a month over the last year and most of the transfusions average a pint. The blood bank will be a great service in emergencies, ns it lias been necessary in the past to call in donors of the right type. That has taken hours in some cases, but now a patient will be abb to start to receive a transfusion within half an hour after the doctor orders one.
Donors need not oven go into the hospital to give blood, since tile bank (Continued on page 21)
Damaged Safe at High School
Photo By Howard ‘Bud’ James
$445 S'olcn From High School
An amateur safe-cracker pried open die safe in die office of Sewickley High School sometime Friday night and obtained $445 from various school funds. The burglar apparently entered the high school through a door at die rear of the auditorium, which has a latch which doesn’t work unless the door is firmly closed. It- evidently wasn’t latched Friday night after the play.
Instead of taking die hinge pins out of the door into Mr. Beiglilea’s office, as the last burglar did years ago, he pried and hacked the wood around the look undl he was able to gain entrance to the offices. He used long bolts which had been used to crate the mowing machine to tear the wood off the lock into Mr. Beighlea’s office, The burglar also used a bolt and tbe blade off a paper cutting machine to cut open the door above the combination and pry open one door of die Safe.
All the tools used in the burglary were the stage guild’s tools from back stage, so lie evidently didn’t come prepared to break in. In fact, lie knew little about combinations, or he could have opened the door nil the way, instead of just prying it open far enough to reach in and remove cash boxes and cigar boxes which contained funds of the different activities.
The burglar didn’t use matches, so probably secured enough light from the
street lights. I-Ie tossed paper coin wrappers, filing folders, boxes and other diings on the desks and floor. Several dollars worth of change was missed, but he carried off enough silver to constitute quite a load. A handle of a wrench was broken in his attempt to crack the safe. A box of 500 tickets to the Elks Tambur-itzans show on Friday, April 29th, was taken from the safe. However, the burglar evidently wasn’t a music lover, for he did not take any of the tickets.
The burglary was discovered by Custodian W. A. Rand when he went to the upper hall at 8 a. m. Saturday. He called school officials and police. Chief Thomas Prendergast notified County Detective Joseph Start and Photographer James Boynes and fingerprint expert, George Zdrale were sent down from the County Detective Bureau to take pictures and secure fingerprints, County Detective Samuel Graham, just back from the west coast, also joined the in-(Continued on page 21)
Good Friday Closing
All local stores are expected to observe the tradition of closing from 1 to 3 p. m. on Friday, April I5th, Good Friday, in order to enable their employees to attend a church service. The Good Friday closing is a custom started a number of years ago by the Sewickley Valley Board of Trade.
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