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dos” and restrained bows, 34 • diminutive young Japanese •> maidens entered the > Sewickley Metiiodist Church Saturday afternoon. Typical American food was waiting '%for them at this, their first,: stop on a Zl-day visit to the - United States.: '
The caravan of students from the Women’s College of Seiwa, near Osaka, answer to first names such as Yoshiko, Saschiko, Yumiko, Hitomi, Teruko and Shokc. Surnames include Fujimoto, Fujiwara, Hashimoto, Yamatake and Kobayashi.
• Eighteen of the caravan travel to the Franklin *%pa.) area-where they will be entertained in . private homes for one week. The • other 16 will remain in the Pittsburgh area, nine in Sewickley.	-
Their hosts here are- Mr. and: Mrs. Thlomas Nicholas,
. Mr, and Mrs. Kenneth
Bridgeii; ■ Mr. and Mrs. James Theys, the Paul Ramseys, Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Elliott; the Russell Em-merts and the Robert Grahams.
During their second week the students will serve as missions! resource parsons in Camps Wesley Wood and Allegheny.	.
The whole group will-leave for Buffalo, N.Y. and, after that, they will go to Erie, Pa; to be guests in private homes for their final week.
Tomorrow evening, Aug. ‘ 5, at 7:30 p.m., the Sewickley. guests will give Christian witness at a traditional Japanese tea ceremony at the Methodist Church. They . wilFdon native costume for the event. 'Ken Bridgen, chairman > of the local welcoming committee, has -extended an invitation to other congregations in the community.
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FROM'THE ORIENT comes this bevy of Japanese students who will spent 21davs in the United States as guests of the Methodist Church. During their stay, the girls will give Christian witness to churches in
Western Pennsylvania. Tomorrow evening, at 7:30 p.m., in the Sewickley Methodist Church, nine of the visitors Will don native dress and preside over a traditional Japanese tea ceremony.	(A Herald photo)
By Mike May Sewickley - Council gave unanimous approval at its July 19 meeting to an amended resolution permitting In- :-.door Sports Limited to Operate the old ice-arena on Chadwick Street as a soccer " facility. The ball’s how in Indoor Sports’ court; they must now decide whether to accept the .borough’s • resolution.
• Not all residents of Chad-wick Street who had. vociferously reminded council at the last meeting how they had been let-down by past proposals and promises
igpr the building were ready ;o give up. their objection to,
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VTay	the present proposal, .nisht durine operations; » past operations had-flotbeen „.i982 have been false alarms, emninvees :

the present proposal, however. Although council passed the resolution, the residents’' protests resulted in having the resolution-amended in making it more c cm p a t-i bl e -- t G:< these residents.
The conditions for operations require employment of : a private security guard;df . ^ management personnel:. to: deal with problems of park-, ing and litter, whenever two or more groups or teams are using the facilities.: In addition, discussion at the July 19 meeting resulted in' Council’s also requiring someone: to be present outside the premises from 6 p.m. to mid-
.night duringoperationSi ' , Hours of operation will be Monday through Saturday from 7 a.m..to midnight; Sunday from 11 a,m. to midnight.
The^main entrance of the building will have to be moved to the side facing the - Sewickley Bridge^. ., ?', ‘-Council President: Clinton ' Childs-described the. amended ordinance1 as a ‘'good, legal, and honest agreement,”' He also "noted the time involved .jn working it out: eight meetings.
With a bow -to the disgruntled Chadwick Street residents, who complained that rules and restrictions on
past; operations had hotbeen enforced, Councilmember Marie GUy advised council to “keep a close watch,” and -“any violations, use the agreement' to. revoke their permission to operate.” President Childs warned, however, “We can’t tie them ^aiown so^tight they cata’t operate.”
The abuse of the Cochran Hose-COmpariyby non-profit organizations resulted in a discussion of the possibility of charging these groups for services after repeated false , alarms.	„
Councilman James K. Maloney told Council that 37 . percent of the fire calls for
;i982 have been false alarms. Re said that most of the false alarms have been made by tax-exempt institutions such as churches, the YMCA, and Sewickley Valley Hospital, among others.
“The Cochran Hose Company received a $3,000 increase in budget and you can expect to cough up another next year,” he said,
Maioney . reported that Avalon charges $100 for false alarms and said other municipalities allow two false alarms but charge for the third.
Maloney reasoned since the tax-exempt institutions do not have to pay, that
employees, are permitted to be lax in observing fire regulations, thus tripping-off false alarms.
“The problem is only going to increase,’’ Maloney emphasized.
He also reported he is working with the solicitor and borough manager on a proposed ordinance to deal with the problem.
Fire Chief Hugh McMcster suggested inviting those who have alarm systems in for a discussion: “Don’t just hit them up,” he advised.
“The rules have been changed about these buggers,” Marie Guy announced (Continued on page 14 A)
Edgeworth iobks at 'Creekwoods' development
Edgeworth Borough Council took a long look at the proposed Creekwoods Subdivision at a special meeting July 26, but delayed final action until another meeting slated for August 5,
The development of eight lots, situated along Little ejgewickley Creek on
Woodland Road Extension
' (the former Kipp property), has been examined in detail by the borough’s Planning Commission and Environmental Advisory Ccuncil. .
It was the review and recommendations of those -two bodies that council looked into at the July 26 meeting. It appeared the developers, Prescott Cole,
with. partners Neill and Shirley Barker, had satisfactorily answered most of the questions posed by the Com-' mission and the Council,
However, there seemed to remain some controversy over the proposed elevated sand mound septic system. The sand mound has the approval of the Pennsylvania
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Department of Environmental Resources, as well as that of Green Engineering, the borough’s official engineer.
But Jack Ringeisen, an engineer representing J. Robert VanKirk, who owns about 30 acres adjoining Creekwoods, expressed concern about the viability of the sand mound and said there have been some problems with the system elsewhere. Although DER has sanctioned the sand
mound, Creekwoods must still submit a detailed plan of the system for borough approval.
Also a point of contention was the width and quality of roads in the development. VanKirk, who may wish to subdivide hi§ own acreage in the future, wanted assurances the primary road would be paved, and close to the borough ordinance requirement of 34 feet in width.
Creekwoods, which has
asked for a,waiver from the ordinance on the road width, proposes a 12*-8’ width for the road, and would like it to be of “shot and chip” material.
VanKirk’s engineer, Ringeisen, and William Marlow, engineer -for Creekwoods, will meet before the August 5 meeting in anattempt to reach a solution on the road question that will be to everyone’s
Chief "Harlan Goerman, of the Edgeworth Police Department, reported he arrested a suspect on July 29 in connection with the armed robbery of the Exxon Station on Ohio River Boulevard.
On July 16 at 10 p,m’.,a robber wearing a ski mask Entered the station demanding at gunpoint that the attendant turn over the station's money, which was estimated at $102.
Chief Goerman said the suspect was picked up after he lost a wheel from his car while driving on Little Sewickley Creek Road and
then hit a fire hydrant. Goerman said the suspect, a 17 year old, is a former area resident who had run away from home and was currently living in East Palestine, Ohio.
He is being -held at the Juvenile Detention Center in Pittsburgh until his hearing at Allegheny County' Juvenile Court.
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A three-car accident on Ohio River Boulevard in Edgeworth on July 27 at 2:35 p.m. left two persons injured and resulted in moderate damage to all three vehicles.
Williaim Roper, 34, of Pitt-
sburgh, was stopped In the northbound, center lane of Ohio River Boulevard, waiting to make a turn into Burger King.
Clarence Green Jr., 40, of Pittsburgh,. was stopped behind Roper.
John Isaac Henderson, 53, of Pittsburgh, unable to stop because of heavy rain and slippery conditions, slid into Green’s car, which, in turn, slid into the Roper car.
' .Green and his niech, Maureen Redd, 19, a passenger in his car, were taken to Aliquippa Hospital for treatment of whiplash. Later, they were released.
Parking meter rates to go up
i The 10-dent hour should 'soon he going the way of the ;5-cent candy bar in < Stwidftay. Although nothing i is official yet, the awarding '.at the Md for new parking ; meters to Duncan Industries of Elk Grove, Illinois, appears to have doomed the old meter rates.
The de-facto hike should raise the 10-cent hour to a quarter and all-day parking ;from so cent* ia a dollar, 1 Parking rates have pot been .................Sdaya'
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At the July 19 meeting of the Sewickley Council, members voted unanimously to award Duncan ^Industries, the low bidder, a contract totaling $45,129 for new meters to replace the aging 13-year-old meters currently in operation.
The boimugb plans to purchase 360\pveters from Duncan. Although there are 348
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extras will come in handy eventually as replacements.
Under the new system, one-hour meters will be, eliminated and replaced, with the two-hour maximum i meter. The ten-hour meters : will be retained for alt-day !
parking. In other
In other action pertaining to parting, Council approved the appointment of Robert Karasek, owner of Tots ‘N’ Teens, to the Parking Authority, Karasek will fill the unexpired term of Charles Halcomb, which expires December 31,1982.