Sewickley Herald

              The Herald
The Sewickley Valley’s Home News Weekly
Vol. 42 No..3	,	SEWICKLEY* PA., THURSDAY, JANUARY 18, 1945	Price Five Cents
AIR PORT NEAR READY
REPUBLICANS MEET

Army Families Need Apartments
Residents of the Valley -have- been presented witli ¡another opportunity to further the war effort and boost, the morale of Army men by renting them furnished apartments, or rooms. Of the two hundred permanent, personnel of ’ the sixth ferrying station of the Air Transport Command, about 15 officers and families and about 40 non-commissioned officers and enlisted men with ■their wives are seeking living accommodations in Coraopolis> .the Sewickley Valley and surrounding territory. The remainder of the men will reside in barracks 'at the' new 1.2,000,000 dollar Moon Township airport, which is being taken over by the Air Transport Command on January 24th in preparations for the beginning of operations there on February 1st.
Snow removal began Saturday at the new field and to complete the moving of facilities, both the County Airport, where the station is now located, and the ¡Greater Pittsburgh Airport, in Moon Township, will be closed from January 24bh to 29th to Army and Navy planes., During those few days, the married officers and men must move front their present rooms and .apartments in the McKeesport distrilet to within easy traveling distance of the new airport.
While furnished apartments . or light housekeeping rooms are ideal for the personnel, there are not nearly enough available in. the vicinity, so, many of •the couples will probably have to be satisfied with furnished rooms. Unfurnished apartments or houses are useless in this ease, unless the owner could furnish them, for none of the Army personnel have furniture with them. With the War Cafeteria available in Sewiekley, even single rooms would do.
'Residents having such facilities available are strongly urged to call lit. IThonms W. McCormick, Homestead 5900, who is in charge of the difficult detail of finding living accommodations for the Army men and families.
New Patriotic Duties
“Uncle Sam” has added several new patriotic duties this week. Everyone is ■asked to turn out all unnecessary or ornamental lights to. help avert shortages of coal .essential to war production, and to keep the temperature in homes at a 68-degree maximum, conserving fuel oil, coal or gas in every possible way. Cancel pleasure-traveling plans, as many railroad facilities now devoted to passenger use are critically needed t.o transport war materials. Fill 34,925 jobs in 70 shipbuilding and ship repair yards now behind schedule on the production urgency list. Keep) turning in kitchen fats; the two red points per pound are more important than over and the fats are still urgently needed.
Kee,p turning in waste paper, every - scrap is needed. There will be a eollec-. tion in the Valley January 30-3'.!., February .1 and 2 and Civilian Defonso officials hope that the Christmas wrappings will enable the Valley to turn in more waste paper than in recent ¡drives. The total .has been falling off steadily. Both paper and tin can® are sent to the proper places for use shortly after collection.


DOUBLE DUTY _D0LLÄRS_
AMERICAN AIRMEN IN ITALY
Victor Jevon of Edgeworth, recently promoted from Sergeant to Staff Sergeant, stands in the ¡rear row, second from the left. He is a radio operator in a B-17 Liberator crew.
EDGEWORTH’S BUDGET
Tractor for Snow-bucking Included In Plans
Meeting Tuesday evening, Edge-worth's borough .'council adopted a ¡tentative budget for 1945, which will be open to inspection at the borough building, and will be acted on, with or without change, at ¡the regular meeting on February 12th., Expected income is set at $63,575, figured .on a ten-mill tax, with probable payment .of • $4,000 delinquent property taxes.. Expenditures provided for total $68,275, which compares with $67,350 budgeted last year and only $57;6S9 spent; one expenditure of $10,000 which was set up to finance the buying in of certain property for delinquent taxes at sheriff’s sale was mot made, and was included this year as it may be needed. Other actual expenditures were very close to the items budgeted, it appears,
The new figures follow those of 1944 rather ¡closely, except where increases in wages and salaries and other rising costs made changes necessary. One provision is for a $1,200 tractor which would be used to plow and remove snow, cut weeds in summer, and do many odd jobs for the borough or for private property owners; another is for payment of agreed-on damages suffered by property along the Boulevard; and a ¡third is for the purchase of a piece of property along Little Sevvick-ley ¡Creek. These items total $11,000 in all.
The good work of Manager Burkholder in securing a tractor and road-scarifier and thereby being able to cut down the. ice-ridges on many of tho borough streets, was tho subject of unstinted praise by the councilmen, and n source of pride in tho safer and bettor condition, of the streets, as compared to those of neighboring boroughs. The same treatment will bo given Edge-worth^ remaining highways as weather makes it possible, said the manager,
Council passed a resolution similar to those of Emsworth, Osborne and other boroughs affoeted, asking that the State police provide for patrolling ¡the Boulevard to regulate the heavy traffic which now originates largely in war plants and cannot be controlled by tho boroughs through which the ¡highway passes. In this ¡connection the borough manager was instructed to report-probable ¡costs of protecting the pedes-
trian crossing at Shields Station by means' of stopf-lights; and also of erecting an over-head footbridge there.
Financial reports showed a year-end balance of $23,104.70, about -the same as last year, so that borrowing.for current expense will likely not be necessary this year.- Tax collections for 1944 left only $1,963.10 outstanding, out of a duplicate of -$60,704.20. Bills- for'payment at this meeting were $2,326.50, and -reimbursement of the (Manager’s account from which .ordinary running expenses are paid totalled $2,284.51.
The resignation of W. D. Graham a.s a member of the night police foree was received with regret; he will continue as secretary of ¡council.
BUYS “BULLETIN-INDEX”
Edgeworth Resident Buys Magazine
Richard J. lOook of 330 Meadow Lano, Edgeworth, president of “The Bulletin-Index,” ¡Pittsburgh’s Weekly News Magazine; for the last two years, has purchased the 69-year-old weekly -from Alan F. ©lark of the Clark Brothers Chewing Gum Company and ¡William S. Walker of Walker and Downing Advertising Agency. Mr. Cook, a native of Pittsburgh Who received his- education at Moreersbm-g Academy and Washington and Jefferson ¡College, was with the advertising department of the Pitts-burgh Post-Gazette for two years before becoming manager of ¡the. ‘Bulletin-Index’ two years ago. He and his family liave resided in. Edgeworth for three years, after living in Osborne for a year and onerholf.
William J. Hatton, who lias been associated with tho magazine for 45 years, has been appointed president; David N. Lewis, who will continue as editor, was appointed vice president and Dan Me-Sweeney was named advertising manager. One .of tho contributing editors, William A. Buck, resided in Edgeworth f.01* a number of years.
Open House
Invitations have been sent out by tho Industrial Lining Engineers, Tnc., for an “open houso” next Saturday at the company’s now office, laboratory and shop below the Boulevard in Edgeworth, when its friends will see “not n finished lining shop, but the possibilities which our now facilities might offer in the near future.” The invitations are signed by Kenneth Tutor, president of tho company.
SELECTIVE SERVICE
Local Men Called by Draft Board 15
Men inducted into the armed services by Selective. Service ¡Board No. 15 included the following:
From Seiwickey: Dan Evans, Frank G. Ponting, Abram Morgan, Wendell M. Jordan, John Languaseo, Herbert L. Mossctt, Lewis N. Harris, Jr., Rosario P. Venanzio, and William C. Hegner. •
■ From Covaopolis: Jack Davis, Robert S. Evans.
From Ben Avon: Joseph A. Knight; Emsworth, Theodore I. Amdnr, Vaughn G. Tinney; Bellevue, Thomas J. Allen; Pittsburgh,-George F. Wifctman, Louis A. Do Mars; from East Liverpool, Ohio, Wayne E. Bolland; Industry, Pa., Delbert R. Howell.
32 Called By Board 13
Five meai from Sewickley rural route®, and one from Leetsdale were-among -the thirty-two selectees, about twice the former number, called, from Board 13, Warren-dale, last week. Robert A. Gash of Leetsdale and Alpkonsus J. Pegher, John II. Eberhardt, Newton J. Grubbs, Jack L. Pierce and Robert J. Anglomyer,of Sewickley rural routes, wore the men called up for sendee.
Are'These The Right Ruts?
Motorists in the Valley have had -to drive more like, street .car operators since, the big snow December filth,- for once in ¡the icy ruts- it was, and is, difficult to get out. One had to be careful turning a corner to turn in the proper ruts, for, if a driver missed, he or she might have to go to the next corner to make the turn in the. ‘switching’ ruts.
One lady motorist stopped at Beaver and Broad, wound down tho window and asked Officer Thomas Toia, “Are these the right futs -to take me to Nevin Avenue?”	’
Ambridgo Evoning School
Registration for the second semester of -the Ambridgc Public Evening School wero held on Thursday evening, Jam uary 4, from 7:00 to 9:00 in the library of the Jiinior-Sonior High School.
Classes in the following subjects -will be offered! shops:' (carpenter,'electric, machine, auto mechanics and welding), blueprint reading,-industrial chemistry, drafting, clothing (sowing)', typewriting, shorthand, Spanish, physical education for men, physical education for women, and Americanization.
Should Organize Well For County, Elections .
Some fifty' Republicans braved snow and -iee and the-prospect of reports from the State .convention to ¡attend
the meeting at. 'the Methodist Church •last Friday evening, called by the local •branch of the .Council of Republican Women. They were rewarded by a good program of interesting talks, as ¡well as concise and informative reports of ■that important State gathering, last November, when, following the bad news of the' Presidential election, tho organization gonerated inspiration for the long pull to ultimate victory. -Mrs. Charles H. Little and Mrs. Reynolds D. •Ritchey, delegates to that convention, gave these' reports, conveying to this audience something of that-inspiration.
Mrs. J. D. Dury, presiding, introduced Judge' W. Hebei- Dithrieh of CoraopoMs, who expressed appreciation .of the honor of his appointment to the Superior .Court. of (Pennsylvania by Governor Martin, his hope:,,.of being elected -for a full tern-year- term next November, sinee “Pennsylvania -ist always Republican except in-a Presidential' election.” He urged support of his successor, Judge Alexander Cooper, and of Judge Richardson who also- Comes up for election in November.
Judge Alexander C. Tener of Sewiekley, the nex-t speaker, declared that political parties, majority and opposition parties, are tlie instruments by which democratic government is made to work successfully, and good working organizations are necessary for preservation of free- institutions. Declaring Allegheny County Republicans better organized now than ever before, he introduced “Jim” Malone, Republican County Chairman, who. declared himself strongly in'favor of keeping up active interest in politics- all through the, year, and working for victory in the important, election next November, when county .offices are -to be filled and Republican- control of She county government should boi sought, Ho doesn’t agree, he said, with- those, who are saying Dew'ey was lucky to lose the Presidency -since lie would have been blamed for all the diplomatie failures now being brought- to light, which were deliberately concealed before the election. He prefers vie tory,’he said, and take a chance of placing the responsibility for errors, on the outgoing party. From first-hand .observation of the work of Republican women in all- the Pennsylvania counties, lie was unstinted in his praise- of their organization.
He introduced Sheriff John Montgomery of McKeesport, appointed to that office to succeed Robert J'. 'Corbett who won election to. Congress last fall. Declaring his determination to run tho office efficiently and with courteous service, Sheriff Montgomery stressed tile necessity for organization if anything is to be accomplished, One man can’t do it alone, lie said, citing Rex-ford Tug-well's failure to .manage- the people of Puerto Rieo by regimentation methods,
A social half-hour followed the program, with light refreshment® in charge of Mrs. A, S. Freeman assisted by Mrs, Frank R. Stoner, Mrs. Charles Little, Mrs. It. D. Ritchey, Mrs. George E, Tenor and Mrs. F. -Si Morrill.
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