Sewickley Herald

              
The
Sewickley Valley’s Home News Weekly
Voi. 43 No. 20
SEWICKLEY, PA., THURSDAY, MAY 16, 1946
Price Five Cents
IN EDGEWORTH
Residents Object To Parking Signs
J. E. Butler, 112 Elm Lane, Edge-worth; his sister, and Mr. Russo, who lives next door, appeared at the Edge-worth council meeting Monday evening to object to the borough’s placing “No Parking” signs in front of their homes. Mr, Butler stated that he hadn’t heard of sufficient complaints to justify the ■ borough’s action and in the 16 years he lived there no accidents had occurred. Council was informed by Borough Manager Burkholder, who lives on Orchard Place, that the no parking signs had been placed there after the street committee and police committee had investigated complaints that parking on Elm Lane made it difficult to turn into narrow Orchard Place.
Mr. Butler presented photographs showing the borough truck parked and also pictures of cars parked on the sidewalk on both sides of Orchard Place. IBe also .said that! motorist s swing into Orchard Place at high speeds and the pillars cut off the view. Pointing out the fact that they were taxpayers and law-abiding citizens, he said that if restrictions were placed in front of his home, they should be placed on other intersections. His sister pointed out that there is a similar situation at a driveway between Chestnut and Quaker Roads, on Pine Road, but no signs were erected there. She also objected to the signs, themselves, saying they were unsightly. Mr. Russo said there was plenty of room to turn and that he didn't want a sign, in front of his home. In fact, a little later, he threatened to get an axe and chop it down!
Mr! Burkholder told council that Mt. Butler had been parking all night in front of his home for 15 years, even though he has a two-car-,garage, but Mr. Butler countered by saying that the car was , parked there by his brother, who is unable to walk from the garage to the house. A suggestion was made that a parking place be fixed up in the front lawn in order .to remove the car from the street at night.
Mr. Emery informed everyone concerned that parking all night is dangerous, as the owner of the parked car cannot collect damages in case the-car is struck and neither can the driver of the other car. He also pointed out the fact that -until recently, Orchard Place was a private street, not under the- borough’s jurisdiction. Th,e street and police committee will re-investigate the situation, council promised.
Officer Harry' R. Baumgartel, employed as a. patrolman since July, 1945, resigned effective May loth, to .accept other employment and the police committee regretted to see him go as he has been a very efficient and courteous member of tho force. On May 6th, five applicants were interviewed by the Burgess, the chief, police committee and borough manager, and Stephen . Po-wner, ¡705 Chestnut Road, i\vas appointed to fill tho vacancy.
Police also reported an accident shortly after 4 p. m. .April 10th, when Barbara Brady, 216 Orchard- Lane, was' struck by a car opposite tho Edge-worth Pood -Market. Officer Baumgartel, who witnessed the accident, took the girl to the Sewickley V-alloy Hospital where she -was treated for abrasions above the left eye and released, The officer said that Leslie Moore of Oliallis Lane, the driver of tho car, was not at fault.
The bank balan-co was ‘reported as $489.25 with $252,88 in ’45 taxes col-‘ looted. Tho final ’45 tax report was filed, showing that $700.10 in liens on four properties had- been filed; $85 in occupational taxes exonerated and tho balance, $59,903,60 of -the duplicate collected. Uncollected liens amount to $7,662,96, but several thousands aro expected to bo collected this year. This year’s duplicate, in tho amount of
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U.S. Heavy Cruiser “Quincy”
Killed in Action August 9, 1942, at Savo Island, in the Southwest Pacific
Sewickley’s Veterans of Foreign Wars Post hears his name.
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Saturday is Poppy Day
This Saturday is the annual. Poppy Day. In order that this day may bo better understood, a little past History may -be noted.
Poppy Day was founded in d.922 by The ‘ Veterans of Foreign Wars. These poppies are made by disabled veterans and distributed to over 6,000 V. F. W. Posts throughout the nation. The important part of this is that the -proceeds of the sales are used for the bonefit of the disabled of all wars. It is strictly a non-profit venture, conducted exclusively for the benefit of disabled veterans, their dependnts, tho widows and orphans of deceased veterans, the members of the armed forces and tlieir dependents.
Two Inducted By Board 15
Mathew J. -Rozday of Glenfield and Henry J. Groohowski of Emsworth have been inducted into tho armed services by County Board No. 15, Ben Avon.
$68,961.50, is ready to bo handed to the tax collector, who has filed_ his bond in the amount of $35,000. $5/500 "will bo borrowed to pay this month’s bills, making the total- floating debt $10,000, Bills of $2,928.11 included $986 for Loot Township annexation bonds and interest. In'addition, the manager spent _ ,$2,903.46 for payroll and discount bills.
A contract -for tar at 14 cents a gallon, applied on tho streets, and 10.3 cents a gallon plus $6 an hour for a distributor, was approved. Tho State Highway Department asked permission to store road building materials and build a tool shed on the borough property near the Littlo Sewickley •Crook bridge over tho boulevard. Council will investigate the appearance of other such yards,
THE BOARD OF TRADE
Telegraph Your Congressman
President Raymond Connelly reported to Board of Trade members at the Tuesday luncheon at the Dorian Club, on the meeting sponsored by the Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce at which a Senator revealed much inside information about Washington methods and pressures that produce weird- legislation on labor and other important subjects. After a .rather heated discussion from the standpoint of the small businessman, the Sewickley organization voted to send telegrams to Senators and Congressmen urging immediato action on laws curbing the power of labor leaders to destroy the country’s economy.
President Connelly also announced something of the plans for the annual •meeting of the 'Board of Trade, which will bo at 8:00 o’clock, Tuesday, May 28th, with a good speaker already arranged for, and other attractions in tho planning stage. Earl Myers is in general charge of arrangements. The meeting, which will elect directors for the coming yoar, will bo preceded by a dinner beginning at 6:30,
Bicycle Riders Injured '
Paul R. Simmons, aged 12, R. D. No, 3, Corao-polis, sustained- a compound fracture of the right leg and physicians at tho Sewickley Valley Hospital were afraid they’d have to amputate a finger on his badly mangled left hand, as a result of the bicyclo ho was riding with Jack Dempsoy, aged 10, R, (D. No. 1, Clinton,v being struck by a car lato Friday afternoon,
Tho boys wero brought to the hospital by Harold E. Stevenson, 422 Main Street, Coraopolis. Both boys were admitted for X-ray examinations of their injuries. The driver of tho car was Leo Joseph Carriole, R. D. No. 3, Coraopolis, according to Sowicklcy police, who notified State Polico at Imperial of the accident,
SCHOOL TAX HIGHER
Sewickley Board Adds a Mill to Last Year’s Levy
At its regular meeting last week, the Sewickley school board adopted finally the budget for the school year 1046-47 which was tentatively approved in April and was open to interested citizens for tho month between, without a single such interested citizen calling to -look it over. Then the board proceeded to fix the tax rate needed to make that budget balance; 13% mills, one mill higher than last year, plus $5 per capita tax, the same as last year. One mill of this taxation is for support of the Public Library.
To replace Mrs. Thill, resigned, the board elected Earl R. Hogue, 29, as teacher of arithmetic for Grades 5, 6 and 7. Mr. Hogue will also coach athletics. A graduate of the Beaver Falls high school and Slippery Rock College, he has taught in the Blawnox public school and at Shady-side Academy, and has high recommendations from both.
The board approved purchase of two eneylopedias and an Industrial History of Pennsylvania, new aequistions likely to be most-useful reference works in the high school’s library. Approval was given the school band to parade on Memorial Day. But no available training camp for Sewickle-y’s football team has yet been discovered, so last year’s training period can hardly be repeated.
‘Financial reports showed a month’s income of $1,948.92, expenditures for the school year to May 1st,' $27,190.£0, leaving cash balance $39,853.20. Tax collections of $881.33 showed 1-945-46 school taxes 68% collected, and Collector J. C. Macon was able to report total collection of $717.11 of delinquent taxes from which -he had been exonerated, Bills authorized for payment at; this meeting totaled $2,003.78, plus $1S.87 for Library expense.
Bids Received for Improving Football Field-
The Sewickley school board held an adjourned meeting last Tuesday night, when bids were opened for the improvement of the high school athletic field. Specifications included leveling, topsoiling and- -planting of grass to be ready for football games -within 45 days of awarding a contract.
Five bids were received, ranging from $14,390 to $18,730; bidding firms were W. J. Berry ,& Co., Fleetwood, Mauc & Gettys, John W. Marino, Phillips & Kirkpatrick and John M. Eislcr. Prices for extra or incidental work varied somewhat; but representatives of th enginceing firm, Michael Baker, .Tr., Engineers, expressed some satisfaction at the number and- quality of tho bids.
The board authorized its officers to let a contract for the work to the lowest -responsible bidder who shall have qualified satisfactorily upon investigation by the Engineers ns to financial and technical ability to do tho job, and as to previous record of work in other places. This investigation will be completed within a very few days, the Engineers said. There can bo but little delay, of course, if grass is to grow by footaball -time.
Burglar Tries Again
'Sewickley’s business district burglar struck again, twice, last Wednesday night, but failed to gain entrance to cither place. Night officers discovered the attempts at about 2:30 a. in. Thursday. All tho windows at Louis Vesoio’s Broad Street Lunch Room, 521 Broad Street, wero tried with a ‘jimmy’ or cold chisel, but none of tho locks yielded.
Despite tho barred windows and doors of Thomas Jowelcrs, 435 Beaver Strcct, tho burglar also tried to break in there. Ho tried to jimmy a rear window, through tho bars and also ■tried to jimmy open tho door. Nothing was -taken at either place.
KIWANIS CLUB
Tree Smoulders All Night
A hollow tree in the front yard of Theodosius Knox’s residence, rear 518 Centennial Avenue, smouldered and smoked all night Friday night, despite Mr. Knox’s efforts to -drown it out with buckets of water or smother it out with wads of paper stuck into tho holes around tho base of tlio trunk. »Sewickley night officers reported the blaze, but, as there was no immediate danger, tho fire company was not called out until Saturday morning at 9:35 a. m., after Chief J. O. 'Doughty had inspected the smouldering tree,
Had tho tree been left burning, it might have been weakened sufficiently to fall on the house in case of a brisk wind storm. Two long blasts, the ‘slow’ signal, wero used to summon tho firemen. It took some .time to extinguish the fire, which had eaton far up in the -hollow trunk.
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Reclamation of Men and Materials
Major Herbert Sparks of the Men’s Social Service Department of the Salvation Army presented that topic at Monday evening’s Kiwanis dinner. He has been a member of the Pittsburgh it id Kiwanis Club for the past five years.
The Social Service Department obtains men from the, "Western Penitentiary, Belief onte Penitentiary, Juvenile Court, the work-house'and some of the hospitals in this state as well as from Alcoholics Anonymous. The reclamation Center is in Lawreneeville, operates .15 trucks, has 75 clients and 25 employees.
The trucks arc maimed by two employees with a helper for pick-up work.
They go about to pick up materials ■such as clothing, furniture, used appliances and equipment of all kinds.
Crews at the Center reclaim andi refurbish such equipment where possible, the remainder is carefully dismembered for salvage.
The men are permitted to participate in this work according to their abilities; those with experience or those handy with tools find- a ready field of endeavor; others sort rags- and clothing. This department operates under the Sheltered Workshop Certificate of the Departments of Labor and -Wages and- Hours. The Center meets the re- -quire-meats set up by these Federal agencies.	pj
When men come to this center they are asked first to clean up and dress up, and are given three good meals a day; clean beds, a weekly change of linen, soap, towels, -medical examination and care fip;mi St. Francis -Hospital. After a week of -residence each man begins to receive money -for work he	.fiOitt $4 a
week afifqh^i^ingpqp. tq-.$8, $12, $16 and	‘vdjiyers get $42
to $50 a hvdek.'ifehei'C/enterls weekly- -pay roll varies frorii’ $1,250 to $1,400 per week; Major Sparks, head of the Center, receives a modest $42 a week plus his -residence.
The men may • leave at any time without notiee; but some of tthem stay to the end of their days -because -they are much better off in this sort of sheltered environment, The youngest mail is 28, -the oldest 72. When a -man dies,	I ill:
■he1 gets ' a decent burial which costs	j jjt,
the Salvation Army about .$125; thus far the Army has buried 16 men. This service is assured each employee by a weekly payment of five cents out of. his salary.
The sorting of rags and clothing is important. Every 'bit of usable clothing is -removed, some to the Social Service store where needy families can clothe themselves at a fraction of normal cost, A good deal -of this clothing is exported to India and Africa' and to some of the Southern states. Rags aro segregated according to their probable use; some- is used for roofing felts, others reprocessed, and cotton finds its sole application in upholstery, etc.
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