Sewickley Herald

              The Sewickley Valley’s Home-News Weekly
VOL. 52 NO. 5	• SEWICKLEY, PENNSYLVANIA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1956	_	Price Ten Cents
“Pants” Burglar Active Again Here
Coraopolis Couple Injured In Glenfield Boulevard Crash
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Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Hanabek of 123 Francis Street, Coraopolis, driving their praqtjcally new car west on the Ohio River Boulevard, stopped for me traffic lights at Glenfield shortly after noon on Thursday. A trailer truck, following, didn’t stop and crashed into the rear of the car, forcing it into a pole, smashing the front end injuring both Mr. and Mrs. Hanabek. Fortunately, there was no one in the back seat, which was really wrecked by the impact. In the picture the hood may be seen bent up where the car hit the pole. On Friday night, a bus and tank truck met at the same intersection, injuring four children returning from a skating party.
Injured In Glenfield Boulevard Crash
CORAOPOLIS COUPLE
TAKEN TO SEWICKLEY
VALLEY HOSPITAL
Mr. and Mrs Alexander. Hanabek, 123 Francis Street, Coraopolis, were injured in a car-truck accident on the Ohio River Boulevard at the intersection with Kilbuck Street at 12:40 p. m. on Thursday. Mr. Hanabek stopped his west-bound car for the red light, according to Burgess Richard A. Cook, and a trailer-truck driven by Harry R. Stagner, Reash Road, R. D. No. 2, Cochrantown, skidded about 25 feet and crashed into the rear of the stopped car. The impact pushed the car into a pole, smashing in the front of the car and injuring the., occupants.
Irvine’s ambulance was summoned-and took the Coraopolis couple to the Sewickley Valley Hospital, where examination disclosed that Mrs. Hanabek had sustained a possible skull fracture and Mr. Hanabek, a fracture of the left shoulder. Mrs. DeWitt, the policewoman on duty at the intersection, told Burgess Cook that'she had just taken a group of children across the boulevard, so the light must have been red on the boulevard. However, her back was turned and she didn’t witness the actual accident. The truck driver said that the light on the boulevard was green, The ’55 Chevrolet Bel Air, practically demolished, was towed to Gour-ley’s Chevrolet, 409 Broad Street, Sewickley.
Wednesday, January 25th, shout 2 o’clock, another accident .was narrowly averted at the intersection. Two cats'were ready to pull out on the boulevard, one West bound and the other to Cross.' They went over the treadle and the fight turned green, but a tractor-trailer outfit going about 05 miles an hour crashed right through the light Fortun-atety, both the drivers waited and
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Four Children Kurt in Wreck
CHARTERED BUS RETURNING FROM SKATING PARTY Four children, returning from a skating party in a chartered bus, were injured at 11:40 p. m. Friday, when the bus was struck on the side by a gasoline tank truck at the Kilbuck Street intersection with the Ohio River Boulevard, Glenfield. Lois Sloan, R. D. No. 2, Sewickley, sustained a concussion and was admitted to the Sewickley Valley Hospital. Her sister, Carol, sustained bruises, bjush burns and shock and was treated and released. Susan Schnieders. 168 East Beaver Street, Glenfield. was also bruised, shaken up and treated for shock and discharged. Diane Kuzweski, 174 East Beaver Street, Glenfield, was treated for abrasions and shock and dischdrged.
Mr. John Schnieders, Susan’s father, traffic manager for the Canada Dry Ginger Ale Company, was waiting to take her home at the time of the accident.
The bus, chartered from the Lenz-rter Bus Lines, was returning from taking a group of children from Ohio Township and Glenfield to the Carnot Roller Skating Rink. There were about twenty children on the bus when it arrived in Glenfield. The driver, Walter Hoenig, Dtilf Road, R, D. No. 2, Sewickley, told Burgess Richard W, Cook of Glenfield, that he was making a left turn from the boulevard, after going over the treadle which turns the traffic fight on the boulevard red, when the tank truck ‘came right into me.’
The driver of the Atlantic Refining Company tank truck, which was loaded With 4,500 gallons of gasoline, Robert P. Cochran, Pyramid Drive, Pittsburgh, 27, told Burgess Cook and Chief of Police Cernansky of Glen-field, that tho light was green on the boulevard. The tank Wasn’t traveling
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Candidate For AIR FORCE Academy
H. Blair Daugherty
H. Blair Daugherty, of 626 Har-baugh Street, Sewickley, has been nominated by Congressman Robert J. Corbett, as a candidate to the second class of the United States Air Force Academy.
This nomination is in addition to Mr. Daugherty’s alternate appointment to the United States Military Academy at West Point. Mr. Daugherty is presently attending Sewickley High School and will graduate in June, 1956. Although Congressmen do not make direct appointments to the -Academy as they do to West Point and Annapolis, they are permitted to nominate ten candidates. The Academy will make their own selections^ from this group of candi-
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What's Dain!
The Girl Scouts of St. James School, Troop 601, will have a bake sale at Sewickley Hardware on February 4, 1956, from 9:00 in the morning until we sell everything. We hope you’ll come.
Chicken Dinner at St. Matthew’s A.M.E. Zion Church, Thursday, February 9th, at 5 p.m. Rev, Ollie Graves, Pastor. $1.25 each. Tickets from members. Dinners delivered, call Sewickley 3529.	(Adv.)
DESSERT CARD PARTY
sponsored by Young Women’s, Civic Club of Sewickley 8 p.m., Monday, February 13, 1956 , American Legion Hall Benefit of Scholarship Fund Donation $1.00
Valentine Luncheon & Card Party, Tuesday, February 14 at 1 o’clock at St. James School Hall. Sponsored by St. James Women Catholic Guild. Luncheon will be served by Miss Gladys Wholey.
Donation $1,25. For Reservation Call Mrs. Martin Doyle, SeW. 2581. Reservations must be in by Feb. 9.
The Wesley Brotherhood of the Sewickley Methodist Church are sponsoring their annual Turkey Dinner at the church from 5 p. m. to 8 p. m, February 16th,
Monthly Luncheon Women’s Auxiliary of Shields Presbyterian Church February 17 at 1 o’clock
Hostesses: Mrs. Marcus Boyd, Mrs, W. Sohn,, Mrs. A. K. Hayworth, Mrs. W. J. Boyd, Mrs, Pierce,
For Reservations call Mrs, A. R. Huntzinger, Sewickley 3180.
(Adv.)
Prowler Seen By Two Victims As He Is Surprised Inside Two Local Houses
Family’s Pet Dog Awakens Keeney Family as ‘Pants’ Burglar Is Kansacldng House
The prowler who has earned the nickname, ‘pants’ burglar due to his penchant for taking money from the trousers of sleeping victims right in their own bedrooms, has begun activities in the Valley again. He walked right into a maid’s room at the Walker residence on Beaver Road in Edgeworth early Friday morning but .was scared away when the maid screamed. He ransacked Mrs. Keeney’s purse in the residence of John Keeney, 20 Linden Place, before being frightened away when the dog wakened the family. He also stole $15 from the purse of Mrs. Paul Hubert, 50 Linden Place and failed to find an unlocked window or door at the home of Mrs. J. I. Tinner, 240 Academy Avenue. The last incident is what convinced police that it is the ‘pants’ burglar back again, for he only ehters homes where he finds doors or windows unlocked.
The first word police received about his renewed activities came shortly after 2:30 a. m. on Friday, January 27th, when Edgeworth police were notified that a man had just walked into the maid’s room at the Walker residence, Beaver Road, Edgeworth. The maid happened to be awake at the moment and screamed. He ran and made good his escape. The maid described him as wearing a red shirt, no coat and a hat with the brim turned up and his face blackened with cork. There is
a possibility that there were two prowlers on the loose Friday morning, for the description of the burglar given by Mr. Keeney wasn’t tire same. Mr. Keeney said that' the man in their house was not wearing a hat and was wearing a leather jacket. Of course, it might have been the same man, Wearing a leather jacket over the red shirt, without a hat.
Mr. Keeney reported the man in his place at 4:45 a. m. Friday, when
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Elected President of Sewickley YMCA
G. Whitney Snyder, of Scaife Hoad, Sewickley Heights, was elected president of the Board of the Sewickley Young Men’s Christian Association, at a meeting of the Board of Directors on
of military service, serving as 1st Lt. Ordinance Dep’t in European Theater Operation during World War II. For the past eight years Mr. Snyder has been associated with the operation and sales department of the Crucible Steel Co. of America.
Other officers elected'to serve on the Board of Directors include Mr. Dale - Park, Meadow Lane, Edge-worth, as Vice President. Mr. Park is associated with the Federal Home Loan Bank of Pittsburgh. Mr. Victor Fedosky, Maple Lane, Edgeworth, was elected secretary of the Board. Mr. Fedosky is the Assistant Plant Manager of the American Bridge Co., Ambridge, Pa, The only officer to bo re-elected was Mr. Dallas S, Irvine, Funeral Director, 702 Beaver Street, who will continue to serve «0 treasurer,
Tanuary 24th.
Sewickley YMCA Ebcfs Officers
The regular monthly meeting of the Board of Directors of the Sewickley Y.M.C.A, was held In the Y.M.-C.A. on Tuesday evening, Jan.’ 24th, at which time the officers were elected for the current year of 1956. Mr. G. Whitney Snyder, Scaife Road, Sewickley, was elected President of the Board, succeeding Mr. Harton S, Semple, who has served in that capacity for the past three years. Mr. Snyder, father of three children, is a graduate.of Lehigh University, and has served as a member of the Board of Directors of the Y.M.C.A. for the past several years, taking a very active part on the Finance and House committees. He has had four years
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