Sewickley Herald

              Vol. 46 No. 32
SEWICKLEY, PENNSYLVANIA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 11, 1949
Price Ten Cents
Ponies to Entertain Children at The
Annual Harvest Festival
Designed New Herald Flag Head
Edgeworth Zoning Alteration Aired
in Public Petition to Council
These three horses, .so gentle they come to their owner’s whistle like a pack of dogs, will furnish part of the entertainment for children at the annual Kiwanis-YMCA Harvest Festival on September 9th and 10th.
1. to r., ‘Punky’ Swatek on “Tiger” Charlie Swatek on “Billy” and John Orndorif on “Flicker”. The tiny pony is ‘‘Flicker’s” daughter and will also be
Festival Supports
Kiwanis Services
Tlie service fund of the Sewick Kiwanis Club is replenished each y by half the receipts of the Iiarv Festival.
Some services rendered by the Kiwa Club of Sewickley are listed belt These are by no means all the servi that were performed during the y 1948, but are representative of • nature and range of these services. Sponsored a junior hoys’ basketh eague of four teams and gave a seasi and party to 70 boys who participai in the sport.
, Sponsored a father and son banqi jomtly with the YMCA. '
Paid expenses of a high school l n the Youth Legislative Assembly Harrisburg,
Jloutrihiited to the High School i
l’l'ys'cal fitness’ trophies «Sh school boys and girls. (
¿oasorad a 4’H tomat° club ivinn m Towfs,“P and 2ave prizes Harvest F^tival. °1Ub’S	* '
azto°Vlde4 vpna(ional guidance mi Schnn1e°r ^evJ'c^l°y and Leetsdale Hi Also on ™d dle Sewickley Libra mm Tgfd,a geileral Stance P ®ms and speakers.Scllools by Providi eadw?ii • ^an*:a ^laus and gifts :
at phristoius! t lC SowicWey ^ndergarl lvV0 b'gR soR6ol boys :
club H “I1 at d’nner meetin, SgljS!!!!!!^ the school term
Wgeworth Fireman Extinguish Car Blaze
Car Catches Fire Near Fire Hou
A-Valon^ hiSf* Semple Averu
^¡»C tlr1 P’aoc to have
cat w»s just p',m' Monday. T 0n Beaver rLT /10 boro«gb buildi:
, 1VcrRoad When it began to smol
at the ‘Y’ grounds. The animals are owned by Fred Miller of Coraopolis, who makes a hobby of raising them.
In addition to the pony rides, there will be a Jeep Merry-Go-Round and a Fish Pond, especially for the younger kiddies at this year’s Harvest Festival. The pictures of the Queen Candidates are on display as usual this year at Smith’s Flowers at 410 Beaver Street.
Entertained six Scoutmasters to dinner and provided a program designed to help and encourage them in their work.
Members made more than 100 visits to Scout meetings during the year. Transported 35 Girl Scouts to Emsworth to give a Christinas program at the orphanage there and provided a Christinas treat for each orphan.
Contributed §85.00 to the Community Center and other welfare agencies in the Valley.
Provided milk to Kindergarten children attending daily vacation Bible School.
Transported and entertained at the Harvest Festival, 28 children from the Watson Home.
Loaned $217.00 to a college student.
Made cash contributions in varying amounts to Allegheny Society for Crippled Children, Salvation Army, Overseas Relief, Volunteers of America, YMCA, American Cancer Society, St. Vincent DePaul Society, Christmas Seals, St. Barnabas Free Home, and various other similar organizations.
Purchased a steel desk for the local post of Veterans of Foreign Wars.
Purchased an Exercycle for the Sewickley Valley Hospital.
Ran a full page advertisement in local paper of Holy Week Services of all local churches.
Operated the Kiwanis-owned projector in 27 church meetings and in scores of other community gatherings.
Printed and distributed 5,000 copies of a poem entitled “I Saw Him Die”, as a means of promoting safe driving and careful regard for children on our streets and highways._________ ,	_____________
Jo Hatton, a member of the fire company, was driving by; saw the smoke and ran to the fire department headquarters on the first floor of the borpugh building for a fire extinguisher. He had the blaze out before the fire siren stopped blowing!
Damage to the wiritig of the car was minor, but it wouldn’t run and had to be towed to a garage for repairs.
Wendell Jordan, of 727 Hopkins Street, pictured at his drafting table at the Green Engineering Company, 504 Beaver Street. Mr. Jordan, who came to the Valley when he was six years of age, designed and made a drawing of the new flag head appearing at the top of this week’s front page.
Mr. Jordan, a graduate of Sewickley High School, attended the Art Institute of Pittsburgh and worked several years in the drafting room of the American Bridge Company during the war, working on L.S.T. boats. He did some drawings for the large Allegheny Ludlum Steel Company projects designed by the Green Engineering Company. Mr. Jordan is studying architecture.
Completes 43rd J. & L. Job
For a firm which has only been organized since April 1, 1946, the Green Engineering Company has quite a long list of designing and detailing jobs to its credit. The firm was founded by Samuel J. Green and his brother, Allen I. Green to provide a detailing and designing service in structural steel and reinforced concrete.
Samuel J. Green had been employed at the American Bridge Company for seventeen years and during that time, had participated in the detailing of a number of structures. They include the Chrysler Building, Cleveland Union Terminal, Radio City, San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, Empire State Building, Express Highway from 72nd to 76th Street in New York City, San Francisco and Marine Approach to the Golden Gate Bridge, Pittsburgh-I-Iome-stead High Level Bridge and similar structures.
For a year, he was a junior highway engineer with the Pennsylvania Department of Highways in tlieir Pittsburgh office and assisted in the design of several highways in this area. He had also made application for registration as a Professional Engineer.
Allen I. Green, Industrial Engineer, graduated from Carnegie Institute of Technology in 1943 and shortly thereafter went into the U, S. Army, Corps of Engineers, While there, ho Was responsible for laying out of several Engineering Depots taken over from the Germans in the Paris Area so shipments of material could best he expedited by rail, motor and ship transport to and from the depots. It was also his duty to make quantitive inventories and quali-tive inspections ,of foreign materials to bo used by the Allied Forces, The firm
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Sewage Situation Also Revealed in Report by Borough Manager Bailey
Edgeworth Council Monday evening once again moved to plug another one of the disturbing loopholes in its Zoning Ordinance, when the first reading was passed to modify Area C limiting the area to one and two family dwellings. The modification effects that area bounded by the Ohio River Boulevard, Hazel liane, Orchard Lane, and Pine Road. After proper advertisement of the proposed ordinance there will be a Special Public Meeting of'Council on September 12 to decide finally whether the language of the existing legislation will be changed to restrict residences of more than two family units. Mr. Chapin was chosen to preside over the meeting in the absence of President A. O. Pearce.
Petition Presented
The move, similar to the alteration made on the Zoning Ordinance last month, was prompted by a forceful appeal to Council through petition by a group of Edgeworth residents in the affected area. Ralph E. Smith of 213 Orchard Lane, represented the petitioners and strongly urged Council to take any action necessary in order to prevent large apartment units to be proposed for the area before the loophole could be adequately eliminated. Council was surprised, including Judson Brooks, who heads the Special Zoning Committee, to learn that such a loophole existed. With only four voting members of council present, it at first seemed that no action would be taken until such time when all the members could decide what course to follow —.a condition that was totally unnecessary as pointed out to council by Solicitor John Emery. Council then proceeded to enact the modification appealed for in the petition. If there are any objections to the change at the public meeting in September it will require six affirmative votes to pass the measure. There is no such restriction placed upon entering the original motion, however.
Satisfy Residents
The other part of the residents’ petition requested Council to further its fight to restrict apartment building applications now under consideration. Mr. Brooks informed council and public guests of the meeting that the other apartment building earlier proposed was refused a permit by council and has now entered its plea through the Zoning Board of Adjustment which will hear the case at a meeting on August 22. It is therefore out of Council’s hands as to the outcome of this hearing. Mr. Smith then thanked tire legislators for their consideration of these requests in behalf of those whom he represented.
It was also jiointed out by Borough Manager John Bailey, during the discussion, that the other areas in the borough, namely A, B, D, and E, already restrict residences to one family dwellings. Council was in agreement that there may be other loopholes similar to the one acted upon and that the entire Zoning Ordinance No. 166 should be carefully inspected and revised accordingly once and for all time. Manager Bailey then disclosed that he had been informed there was a trainee available from the Institute of Local and State Government, sponsored by the University of Pennsylvania, of which Edgeworth is now a member, who could work in the borough for a short time to help out on this task. Council was enthusiastic of this opportunity and approved Mr. Bailey to go ahead and contract for the individual for a period of a month or so. The student will be paid a nominal fee for his services while receiving the education of working with practical community problems, Mr, Bailey further explained that the par-
ticular individual that was available has had experience with zoning in the eastern part of Pennsylvania. The Borough was fortunate to be a member of this organization in order to be in line to revive such a service.	,
Tlie Treasurer’s Report showed a balance of $36,120.35 for July, and tlie Tax Collector’s Report indicated there was $37,827.10 xiaid into the treasury during the same period. The latter figure was considerably lower than tax collections for the same period last year even though it included all payments made during the discount period.
In line with the Justice of the Peace Report showing one fine of $10.00 for speeding in the borough and the Police Committee Report of no accidents for the month of July, Mr. Chapin inquired as to whether there was any attempt being made to check on overloaded trucks on the Boulevard. Manager Bailey explained that the Borough did not possess a set of scales with which to check such obvious irregularities and doubted whether it was feasible for the borough police force to spend all of tlieir time on the Boulevard and thus leave the rest of the borough inadequately patrolled. Council was in accord with Mr. Bailey’s opinion.
Sewage Still Problem
A report was made by the Borough Manager regarding the present situation as far as the County plan is concerned. Correspondence was received by the County Sanitary Water Board on August 2nd, giving tlie borough sixty days in which to decide whether they will make plans for Sewage disposal either singly or in conjunction with neighboring boroughs or whether they wish to come under the County plan designed for all boroughs north-west of Dixmont. The plant would be located in tlie far end of Edgeworth and would be entirely out of local control outside of explicit contract provisions. Another factor presently disfavoring the County plan is that the per capita cost under the authority plan is $6.84, where the per capita cost of a plan suggested for tlie Borough by the Morris-Knowles Report and one which would be controlled by local government would only amount to $5,74. The difference as pointed out by Mr, Bailey is even greater when it is considered that the county plan would be paid off on 30 year bonds, while the Borough plant was suggested to be paid off with 40 year bonds. Council agreed that there was sufficient time available to take up the problem completely at the September meeting. At that time tlie Borough Manager will have more information to present to council regarding all the possibilities.
Before council adjourned, it also gave Mr. Bailey the green light to go ahead and enter into an agreement With the Girl Scouts regarding their lease to the log cabin in Walker Park. The lease will be a year-to-year agreement.
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