Sewickley Herald

              The Sewickley Valley’s Home News Weekly
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Voi, 42 No. 27
SEWICKLEY, PA., THURSDAY, JULY 5, 1945
Price Five Cents
“STEP ON IT!”
Only One in-Three Women Salvage Cans
The goal of the tin can salvage ¡program is .4 .billion tin .cans a year. -Less than half this many are .being turned in, and this number- represents only ¡one-third lof ■ the number used' by housewives.
Perhaps the two out of three .women who do not bother to turn in used tiD cans are not- fully aware of the reasons for the request—the reasons why canned foods are rationed and why substitute materials are now used to package so many home-front .products formerly packed in fin and steel.
Let us transfer hhe .seene to an island near japan:
.¡Plying piece's of shrapnel wound a fighting Marine. His buddy pulls from his pack a first ¡aid kit can—¡the size and shape of a small sardine can—sterilizes the wounds and covers them with sterile bandages. Without this immediate treatment the wounds anight have become dangerously infected., And only the tin can could have pi-otected this first aid equipment from dirt, air, mois-tùre and damage through the thick of battle.
'Even small scratches are apt to .be fatal in the pest-ridden tropics, but the germ-killing sulfa ¡ointments, carried everywhere in tin containers give protection.
- 'A Marine is ¡seriously wounded and ¡would die from loss of ¡blood but for the blood plasma that has been transported safely through the heat and dampness of the tropics in its tin can container. A similar container protects the ¡accompanying bottle, of, distilled water used to dilute 'the plasma. . . . A Marine, with a bullet wound through 'his leg relieves, his pain while waiting for help with an injection of morphine from the. tiny. ¡tin syrette he carries in his belt.
The tin- salvaged from just two tin cans is enough -to make that syrette. ... At Okinawa, the yanks routed the enemy with ammunition ¡that would have been useless .were it not for the can containers that, protected it from dirt and moisture. . . . At Iwo Jima •there would have been no food to sustain the fighting men were it not for the tin cans that kept their food palatable and nourishing..............
Turn lin your used tin ¡cans to make more of these feeding, fighting, lifesaving containers to go' to. the boys over there. Tin can salvage must be doubled if can manufacturers are to maintain present "production. The cans on grocery shelves ai;e allotted to civilians by the ¡.Government after war needs are met, to provide the protective packaging needed' for essential home front ¡materials. ’ It is not unpatriotic to buy those cans, up to the ¡limit of ration allowances, but it is unpatriotic to throw away a can after it has been emptied. '
“Step On It” (is the slogan for a vigorous new campaign to bring in the needed steel and tin. Wash, cans, remove labels, cut out the ends sufficiently to tuck them inside, flatten the cans and see that they ¡reach the salvage depot.
Home From Hospital
Private ¡Leonard F. King, son of Mrs.. J. N. Weber of 310 I-Iiland Lane, Edge-worth, arrived Tuesday of last week ¡on a 30-day furlough from! tire Naval (Hospital at Quantico, Va. Wounded on Gaum, August Stili, 1944, Privato King lias boon in several hospitals since his return to the States-‘in vOctoibor, 1944,

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ALL THE WORLD looks to The American Flag as the symbol of freedom from aggression and a guarantee that peace and righteousness shall prevail. This, official insignia of the Mighty Seventh War Loan, shows the raising of the flag on Iwo Jima by TJ. S. Marines. It is the picture that has been more widely used than ■ any in this war, proceeds of which the AP donated to service relief.
State May Take. Over Bixmont
Although many persons in the Valley have ¡been under the impression that Bixmont Hospital is a. state institution, it has been and ¡is a private institution, ¡although the state has for years 'been ¡making an increasing iarge ■appropriation to ¡help finance the institution. Negotiations are now under way fior the transfer to the ¡State Welfare Department.
■ Plans for the transfer came to. light as a result of Gov.- Edward Martin’s veto of a proposed appropriation of $77,450 for repair's* at the institution.
Tt was learned 'that the Governor vetoed this .special appropriation because of the impending transfer. The State has general funds for repairs of this ¡character which will take care of the necessary wiork.
Located on the bluff above the Ohio River, near Emsworth, Bixmont was established more than 80 years ago, largely through the efforts of Dorothea -Dix, for wihom^the hospital is named.
The hospital has 1,000 .patients most of them indigent. About 95 per ¡cent ■of its income is provided by the .State. It gets some revenue from patients able to pay and .operates a farm at ¡a profit.
Tor the fiscal- 'two years beginning Juno 1, Mr. ¡Martin approved an appro-
priation of $880,000. The Legislature provided $976,000 but the Governor pared it down.
The proposed grant for, ¡repairs included $19,450, for a protective wall along the Oho®, bank, $15,000 for roof repairs, $20,000. for .power plant -piping, and $23,000 additional for other repairs to the power plant.
Albert ¡0. Troutman ¡of Butler is ¡chairman ¡of the board, and David A. Reed, • former IT. S. Senator, is president. Other ¡directors are Mrs. Agate Brown Colloid, Charles E. Dickson, William ¡D. George, Pittsburgh Railways Co. trustee; Edward Gwinner, William C. Robinson, William M. Robinson, ¡an attorney; B. B. B. Townsend, assistant treasurer ¡of the -Fidelity Trust Go., and Elder W. Marshall, former judge, all -of Pittsburgh.
Others are Fred T, 'Fruit, Sharon attorney, and ¡Mrs. Choiles Denby Jr., of Sewickley.
Wire ¡Stretched Thin
Tungsten filament wire for three-wntt lamps is drawn through diamond dies to a diameter of two ten-thousandths of an inch at tile Westinghouse Lamp Di-‘ vision. A pound of this wire, one-tenth the diameter of human hair, stretches 282 miles and costs thousands of dollars to manufacture.
Ship Workers Needed In West-
Recruiting of workers for Pearl Harbor ¡aiid West Coast repair yards has been intensified in ¡this area as a result of a direct appeal from Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, who states:
“Warships damaged in action or or dered to Navy Yards for overhaul work are needed again in combat in tiro shortest possible time.”
In answer to the. admiral’s message the Civil Service Commission and the War Manpower Commission’s TT. IS. Employment Sea-vice has set tip machinery to ¡speed the movement ¡of skilled and unskilled Workers to West, Coast repair yards that are badly handicapped by shortage of workers.
Every consideration is given to workmen who respond to the appeal ¡to help get the battle-damaged ships ¡back into comibat. Details on the program may be obtained by visiting ¡the Civil Service representative Who will be stationed on the first floor of the New Federal Building, 7th Avenue and Grant Street, Pittsburgh, Monday and Tuesday evenings from 6:00 p, nt. until 8:00 p. m. or by visiting -the'IT. S. Civil Commission’s office in Room 10,18 New Federal Building from 8:30 until 5:00 p. m. daily; or IT. ¡S. Employment Service, 526 Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh.
SEWAGE. DISPOSAL
Gleniield Puts Problem TTp to County
Notice has ibe'en served on Glenfield as on other Pennsylvania lioroughs that plans for proper disposal of sewerage without polluting the Ohio River must be put under way immediately and. periodical reports- of progress must be submitted so as to give assurance of ultimate , successful disposal. That problem was discussed at Monday’s meeting of the borough council, with . the help of its borough solicitor, Clar- -enee W. BiggS; and it. was decided to ' write the Allegheny County Commissioners ■ stating the borough’s inability to finance such an improvement, and asking to what extent the county or any combination of municipalities, will be prepared to help solve the problem. A letter from a Harrisburg firm of engineers which has planned other such works, notably at Lancaster, Ooa'tes-ville, and now at the city of Harrisburg, solicited a contract with Glenfield for consultation • and designing of a suitable system. Solicitor B.iggS' stated that between the State and Federal grants, ¡some $5,000,000 is available for Such engineering for ¡this purpose among the various boroughs affected. The letter was received and filed.
Ait ¡this meeting, it was decided to Close the bridge on Bridge Street temporarily, until such time as proper materials can b.e ¡obtained for rebuilding it. , The structure has been pro-. wouuced unsafe, and is indeed but little used iby vehicle traffic. A temporary footbridge wilt be erected for use until permanent improvement i's possible1, and signs to mark “Dead End” barricades of the .street were ordered to be provided.	. •.
Tate-Jones & Co. Moves Plant
Forced to vacate its Leetsdale plant, one of the oldest in the .district, Tate-Jones & Co. has been moving all its equipment during the past- ten.-Anys tbits new location in the former ¡Standard Gauge Company building,, Ninth ¡Street and First Avenue, Beaver Falls, and was ready to start operations there on July 1st. The main offices have been, moved to Pittsburgh.
The company -was* organized in 1902,• and has become one of the leading' manufacturers of industrial heat treating furnaces. It has played an important part in'facilitatifig conversion of peacetime industries to war production, both in the first World War and in this one.
Firemen, Save The Corn!
At 2:15 p. m. Thursday, Sewickley firemen were called upon to prevent the roasting ears from being roasted before they were big- enough. A grass fire, apparently started in the dry grass and weeds on a vacant lot ait Chadwick Street, and tho Sewickley bridge, swept up to within a-foot ¡or two of small corn in a Victory’ ’ Garden before firemen stopped it with a stream ¡of water, ¡Mrs, ¡Rutledge Edger, who. livesnon the other-side of the ¡bridge, called police and Chief Prendorgast investigated, then had a short blast blown on the fire siren ■to 'ask Fire (Chief Doughty’s ¡opinion, Tho fire chief ¡was all for saving the corn, ¡so theborn was blown and the firemen got there ¡in time to ¡prevent any -serious damage ta the crop. While there, and ¡wetting 'down the field, they directed some water beyond 'the grass, as the ground was dry about the corn. So, if any corn loaves wore scorched, the water would help tho corn grow new ones.
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