Sewickley Herald

              The Herald
The Sewickley Valley’s Home-News Weekly
VOL. 32 NO, 44
SEWICKLEY. PENNSYLVANIA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 103Ö
Price Ten Cents
Old-Fashioned Torch Light Parade Sat.
St. Stephen's Christmas Bazaar November 1st
Mrs. Mildred Barrett, Mrs. Margaret Richards and Mrs. Charles Borem, shown left to right, working on articles for the biennial Holiday Bazaar at St. Stephen’s Episcopal, Cliurch Parish House from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Thursday, November first, following an AH Saint’s Day Communion in the church at 10 a.m. Eleven Guilds have been canvassiiig homes of the members for unusual baked goods, soups, china and glass, costume jewelry, secondhand books, phonograph records, decorated candles, and making attractive articles of paper and fine needlework.
Two Supervisors And Solicitor Resign In Heights Township
Dispute Over Sub-Division Ordinance Results In Wholesale Resignations,in Heights Township
Two supervisors of Sewickley Heights Township and the Solicitor, all tendered written resignations at an advertised meet-’nS on Tuesday evening in the home of Edward (Sonny) Quig. Mr. Quig and Charles Wolfred, who has served as supervisor and secretary of the Supervisors for many years, were the supervisors who resigned. Attorney Harton Semple, who just recently was i>Ppointcd solicitor, also resigned, leaving just George Schuring, appointed October 22, to operate the township. The Citizen’s Committee, which fought the passage of the Sub-Division Ordinance, will meet soon to decide on steps to be taken to secure ^ appointment or election of tsvo more supervisors.
At the meeting Tuesday, which	—
y?s advertised in last week’s Herald,
1 A Quig called for the reading of the ainiutes of the meeting of October ncl, At that meeting, the resigna-“ of Philip j. Wilson, Jr., as a pervisor, was accepted and George f„°™nn8 was appointed to fill out Us i. ' Mr\ Wllsonlp appointment had “n challenged by the Citizens' iy, due to tlio fact that his appoint-in 'indicate could not bo found ie files of Quaker Sessions Court. p.v u.a.resu*t, the supervisors resclnd-(livfe.'Ji1 ^tion in passing the Sub-Mr e\ 9rc^ni”100 ftnd appointed nlL; ,tnn,g 10 r,U Mr. Wilson’s a °n ^ hoard.
ay's mdcting, Mr. Semple, from Quarter Ses-Sl>ry s that the neces-1 • l ers in Mr. Schuring’s appoint-
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What’s Doin'
WORLD COMMUNITY DAY Friday, Nov. 2nd, 2 P.M, Sponsored by Sewickley Council of Church Women
Speaker - Mrs. Wallace McCurdy Place - St. Matthew’s A.M.E. Zion Church	(Advt.)
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Nov. 3rd - U. P. Church Guild BAKE SALE - .Penguin Book Shop 9:30 A.M.
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Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. G BAKE SALE—Sponsor«] by Edge-worth Branch, Quaker Valley P.T.A., at Edgeworth Borough Building and Edgeworth School. Open from 9 a.m. Until polls close,	(Advt.)
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Wednesday, Nov. 7	-	8:30 P.M.
"A HOLIDAY FESTIVAL OF FASHION”
Coraopolis High School Sponsored by the Coraopolis Junior Woman’s Club.	(Advt.)
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BENEFIT BRIDGE, HORNE’S FASHION SHOW, and TEA, at tire Edgeworth Club, on Thursday, November 8th. Benefit of the Women’s Auxiliary of the Sewickley Valley Hospital -	$1.00
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ANNUAL TURKEY DINNER Sharon Presbyterian Church, Carnot Sat., Nov. 10th - 4:30 pan. to 8 p.m. Adults $1.50	-	- Children 75o
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THE VALLEY PLAYERS Present
' “Dirty Work at the Crossroads” or “Templed, Tried and Trim"
A Melodrama in 3 Acts Friday, November 30 - 8:15 pan. Quaker Valley Junior High School (Advt.)
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DON’T MISS THIS YEAR’S FALL FASHION FAIR Thursday, November 15 ' Quaker Valley Jr. High School Sponsored by Y.W.C.C. - Fashions, Gifts, Prizes, Surprises - $1.00 (Advt.)
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Audubon Society of Sewickley Valiev LECTURE and MOVIE
ON THE GaLAFOGOS ISLANDS Quaker Valley Junior High School Friday, November 9 at 8:15 (Advt,)
Young Republicans Sponsor Rally At YMCA Grounds
Antique Cars To Be Driven In Torch Light Parade From School to ‘Y’ Grounds
An old-fashioned torch light parade, seldom seen’* in modern politics, will be held on Saturday evening, November 3rd, sponsored by the Young Republicans of the Valley and Heights. The parade will form at 7 p.m. at the Junior High School on Harbaugh Street and proceed at 7:30 p.m. up Peebles to Beaver, through the business district to Blackburn and to the YMCA field, where a rally will be held around a blazing bonfire.
The parade will include cars containing the candidates; drum majorettes; Indianettes drill team; the George Washington Carver Marching Band; the junior high school cheerleaders; Miss Carol Jean Moore, an acrobatic dancer; antique cars of national renown; the Queen of the Harvest Festival; a group of Young Republicans and their friends carrying posters, old-fashioned box signs, banners and placards as well as die torch bearers interspersed throughout the parade; a sound truck playing Eisenhower campaign songs and a colorful float decorated by the young people of the community. Of course, the police car will lead'
the parade and special arrangements have been made to take care of the traffic during the parade. The first cars back of the police car will include tlie ones carrying tire local chairman, L. V. Gibb and his assistant, Mrs. Elizabeth Lee along with the decorated car of Congressman Robert J. Corbett and the speaker’s car, with William S, Livengood, one of Pennsylvania’s greatest orators who served four terms as Secretary of Internal affairs in Pennsylvania.
The Drum Majorettes from the local schools will be led by Miss Betty Seh'ck and wall give dieir, usual fine performance in uniforms decorated with red ribbons imprinted with white letters “I Like Ike.” Miss Barbara Curran and Miss Joyce Coe, the Indianettes will wear dieir blue skirts, white sweaters, white boots and especially designed “I Like Ike”
hats.
Music for the first part of the parade wall be furnished by the famous George Washington Carver Marching Band, remembered locally for its performances here in many, many Memorial Day parades. The Junior High School cheerleaders, led by Miss Anna Grampes, have planned special cheers for this occasion.
Miss Carol Jean Moore, an acrobatic dancer of local renown, has planned a special performance appropriate to diis occasion.
Antique cars, including a 1916 yellow Mercer sports car, loaned for the parade by Mr. and Mrs. John M. Roberts III of Sewackley Heights. This car has been featured in “Time” and die “Saturday Evening Post.” A picture of die Mercer with Mrs. William Flower, Mrs. Leet Shields, Mrs.
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Nuns At St. Marys School Avert Possible Gas Blast
Pupils Kept Out of School At Glenfield Until Gas Is Dispelled
The lives of 109 pupils and their teachers were endanger: Thursday night, when vandals entered St. Mary’s school buildin turned on the gas jets in a stove and set fire to a plastic tah cloth. An explosion and fire was prevented when the fire in tl table cloth burned out before sufficient gas had accumulated set off a blast. The two nuns who teach in St. Mary’s School, K buck Road, about a mile off the Ohio River Boulevard back Glenfield, arrived at the building a few moments before tl children were scheduled to enter on Friday morning. They ke the pupils out of die building, shut off the gas and notified Fath Peter S. Gross, who is in charge of die school. County Detectiv were called and found fingerprints which indicate that boys, 1 years-old or younger, turned on the gas.	’
County Detectives stated that even' a spark from the throwing of an electric swath might have set off a terrific explosion in the gas-filled one story frame building. The investigators found that the vandals had broken through a washroom window to gain entrance to the building during the night, They scarcely caused any damage aside from setting the table cloth on fire after opening three jets on the four burner stove used to heat lunches.
At 8 a.m., Sister Jeanne Mary and Sister Camilla of the St. Francis Order, arrived to open the building.
Discovering the gas, ono of the teachers opened the doors and shut off tho gas jets while tlio other kept tho children back and notified police,
The children wore taken next to St.
Mary’s church nearby and kept there
fqr two hours until the building w inspected and ruled safe.
Father Gross, who is in charge the Mission School for Sacred Her Parish in Emswortli, said that the had not been any previous vandalis at the school. The building had pi viotisly been a hall, the main porti: of which was made into two ck rooms. The stage is used by t teachers for file cases and other offi uses and alsp contains the four-bum stove. The mission, one of the olde in the district, was established li years ago and its first chapel, whi still stands sòme distance from t present building, was built in 184
County Detectives are still invi tigating and hope to catch up wi tho boys who so nearly blew up t school.