Sewickley Herald

              The Sewickley Valley’s Home News Weekly
Voi. 46 No. 25
SEWICKLEY, PENNA., THTJKSDAY, JUNE 23, 1949
Price Ten Cents
Prize Winning Photo in National Contest
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ST. JAMES FESTIVAL ALL NEXT WEEK
This picture taken by Reed Denby, 632 Pine Road, Sewickley, a student at dillbrook School, Millbrook, N. Y., has just been awarded a $5 Honorable vlention in the $3,500 Fourth Annual National High School Photographic Awards onducted by die Eastman Kodak Company. Judges in this year’s competition vere Joseph Costa, Chairman of the Board, National Press Photogarpher’s Asso-Clifford Ulp, Director of Art, Rochester Institute of Technology; and i. W. Williams, Manager, Photographic Illustrations Division, Eastman Kodak jompany,
Bear Picture Takes Prize
There were 250 Honorable Mention tees of $5 each in the 1949 contest, ■he annual contest, open only to tadents attending daily high school trades from the ninth to the twelfth, Delusive, in a public, parochial, or Wate school within the United States, !eSDn February 1st and entries closed lay 7.
Four classes of entry gave students hance to submit pictures of school a mhes, athletics, scenes around tow n“ s™jects of pictorial beauty.
The contest attracted entries fro wy state. Pictures ranged from sna tots of vivid action on the baseball fie M basketball court, to carefully pose w- ey, studies of ballet dancers ai Victoria! scenes outdoors. T] Ses felt that the general standards submitted were of su, ,.A t Wt t loir 10^ °b selecting tl St a parUcularl>' difficult assig
“I can honestly say that I am tremendously impressed by the powers of perception and the wide appreciation of fine subject matter that these students show,” Judge Costa,' Chairman of the Board of the National Press Photographers Association, stated. “This work definitely indicates we can expect much from America’s younger photographers.” Clifford Ulp, Director of Art, Rochester Institute of Technology, said, “In teaching we constantly stress values and techniques that these young photographers have already .grasped and put into practice. Their selection of subject matter, their choice of viewpoint, and then; ability to pleasingly yet dramatically compose their pictures places their work definitely on a high plane. They have seen their pictures, recognized them, and shot them—and they have, in the process, achieved a very high level of artistic success.”
Colorful horses and spine-tingling organ music make the Merry-go-round still the most popular ride on an amusement midway. There will be one at the Gooding Amusement Company Midway, June 27-July 2, at St. James Festival Church Grounds, Bank and Broad Streets, with a special children’s matinee '	on Saturday.
Present-Day Merry-Go-Round Far Cry From Original Model
The colorful, musical Merry-Go-Round which will be the center of attraction on the Gooding Amusement Company midway at the St. James Festival, Church Grounds, June 27-July 2nd, represents the latest development in the oldest of all amusement riding devices.
Eye-catching and ear-snaring, the Merry-Go-Round of today is a far cry from the first model built in 1873 by a German wheelright who had stumbled on the idea for the ride while cooling the hot rims of wagon wheels.
It was Michael Dentzel’s custom to place the rim, while hot, on a wheel, for as it cooled it contracted and fitted snugly on tire wheel. To speed the process he fplaced the wheel and rim on a vertical axle. Then, to keep his children occupied, he built a small bench onto the top of tire axle and placed tlrerrr in it, figuring they would be safe and amused while within his sight as he Worked.
To his amazement the children were thrilled. So, too, were the neighboring children. Pondering this, Dentzel decided to build a ride, using tire same principle.
In 1837 he built the world’s first Merry-Go-Round, a crude affair by today’s standards, but it proved a sensational success.
That first ride was powered by hand. Horsepower eventually took over and was soon replaced by steam about tire same time the inventor’s "son, G. A. Dentzel, came to this country and built his first Merry-Go-Round in 1867.
It was about twenty years later that the Gooding family got into tire amusement ride business when farmer John Gooding, at Ashtabula County, Ohio, saw his first steanr Merry-Go-Round and the operator’s daily take of countless nickels. He soon had his brother and his four nephews in. tire business, out of which has come the oldest, largest and most reliable amusement ride company, in the world—The Gooding Amusement Company, which has played in this area for several years.
Originally the ride consisted of simple benches and figures simulating horses. Later great .emphasis was placed upon the beauty and exactness of the horses, hand chisled chariots and finally galloping horses were introduced.
Meanwhile the center pole was trans-
formed into a maze of mirrors, the canopy glittered with myriad lights and distinctive organ music filled the air about the ride. The horses and chariots once used to ride on a track and a big improvement was die device to make the horses move up and down.
To young and old the Merry-Go-Round still gets top attention among all the rides that are sometimes found on a Gooding midway such as The Hurricane, The Octapus, Ferris Wheel, The Whip, The Looper, the Tilt-A-Whirl and countless others. The youngsters thrill to the sparkling color and bouncing horses while die oldsters bask in the nostalgic music that carries pleasant memories of early years and their fun at the fair.
Joint School Board Meeting
The School Boards of Sewickley, Edgeworth and Osborne will meet 9at 8 p. ni. on Monday, June 27, in the Sewickley Grade School Building, in accordance with die requirements ' of the library agreement between the boards. Each year, in June, an annual joint meeting is held for the election of a Treasurer and for such other business as may be transacted under die school laws of Pennsylvania.
Annual Meeting' of
Cemetery Corporators
Matters of importance will be discussed and acted upon at the Annual Meeting of die twenty-eight Corporators of .the Sewickley Cemetery; to be held at the residence, in Cemetery grounds, of Mr. William Thomson, Superintendent, Tuesday evening, June 28th, at 8 o’clock.
Notices, with a copy of die current Financial Statement, have been mailed to each Corporator. It is desirable that diey familiarize themselves witii the financial affairs of our Cemetery before the meeting, and give us a representative full attendance.
Robert P. Clarke, Secretary
Community Calendar ^
June 27 to July 2	""
All Evening. St. James’ R. C. Churcfi Festival, featuring' Gooding’s Shows, At St. James’ field, foot of Broad Street, at Bank. Benefit of St. Janies’ building fund.
Wednesday, June 29 1:00 p. m. Board of Trade stag picnic at Urlings. Dinner at 6:30 p. m.
Cattliticy* Monday, June Z7th, to July 2nd
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St. James Summer Festival
Bank and Walnut Streets, Sewickley, Pa.
RIDES and FUN FOR EVERYONE Everybody Welcome	Gooding Shows	Free Admission
BENEFIT ST. JAMES BUILDING- FUND