The Daily News, September 2, 1949

CITY OF DUQUESNE NEWS

Assignments Listed, School Salaries Set

School Superintendent F. C. Gillespie today released the public school teaching assignments and salaries of instructors for the coming school term. The fall semester will open Wednesday.

Special teachers will include Maude I. Witherspoon, $3500, and Marie Antonoff, $2400, music; Eugene Szilagyi, $2666.66, band; Cora E. Wright, $3450, art; Theresa Kotaras, $2400, home economics; John A. Donelli, $3250, W. P. Lemmer, $2900, and Elsie E. Schink, $3450, physical education.

Others are Listed

Other special instructors on the staff are John A. Carey, $3400, industrial arts; Lucile B. Haney, $3250, special education; Corinne Huston, $2900, and Thelma Depot, $2900, kindergarten; Beryl Morgan, $2900, homebound, and William L. McGaw, $4200, John Rudy, $3200, and William Ackerman, $3200, industrial education.

Medical and dental care for students will be provided by a staff composed of Elsie L. Lawson, $2900, dental hygiene; Dr. A. Karawan, $300, medical inspector; Dr. Karawan, $1 per examination, and Dr. E. R. Conlin, fifty cents per examination, state health examination staff; Glenda Heagin, $2300, school nurse, and Dr. Oliver Kendrick, $1800, eye physician. Attendance Officer John T. Robinson will receive a salary of $2730.

The senior high school staff will be headed by Ray Y. Henry. $5133.37, principal. Instructors in the tenth grade will be Marie F. Brings, $3250; Bertha M. Riggs, $3250; Esther M. Forrest, $3450; Mary L. Richards, $3250; Myles Zeleznik, $3450; Ruth N. Meighen, $3450, and Michael Radvansky, $3000.

Junior Class Staff

Teachers of the junior class will include Mary E. Harner, $3250; Dorothy Surgent, $2400, Katherine W. Killgallon, $3450; Mark Reutrel, $2850; Willis E. Barber, $3450, John M. Davis, $3250; James J. St. Clair, $3450; Julia Clemens, $3100, and Alfred L. Mooney, $3250.

Grade 12 teachers will be Clarence Greenway, $3450; Marian Carpenter, $3450; Hazel Stewart, $3250; D. Duane Mellon, $3450; Charlotte Keenan, $3250; Alvin F. Reinbold, $3450; Annette H. Carpenter, $3250; and Richard R. Hasson, $3250. Martha L. Regester, guidance instructor, will receive a salary of $3833.33.

James E. Magee, $4950, principal, will be in charge of the junior high instructors. Seventh grade teachers will include Ethel Arms, $3250; William Vizza, $2600; Patricia Meighen, $2400; John V. Crane, $3450; and Edward Sudzina, $2400.

 

The eighth grade staff includes John Karpinski, $2400, Stephen Jeroski, $3250, R. June Stiver, $3250, Hugh McKeegan, $2400, Mary Bayhan, $3250. Teachers in the ninth grade will be Stella Scheidhauer, $3450; Paul Stinner, $3450; Andrew Kashlak, $2400; Lucien Clipfel, $3250; Ruth Allshouse, $3450; William S. Kowallis, $3250; and Bessie Kratzer, $3250.

All elementary teachers at the junior high building will receive a salary of $2900 each. They include Millie Dambaugh and Edith Brown, grade one; Dorothy Beisner and Elizabeth Weinstein, grade two; Jean Laudadio, grade three; Ruth White, grade four; Elizabeth Smouse, grade five, and Ann V. Ritchie, Myrna M. Ashbaugh, Sophie Chlebowicz, and Ruth Seltman, grade six.

Bertha M. Culp, Oliver School principal, will receive a salary of $3588.90 and the instructors will include Elizabeth Stiver, $3250, first grade; Esther Schink, $2900, second grade; Lorraine K. Southard, $3250, third grade; Margaret V. Mayo, $3250, fourth grade; Sarah L. Kearns, $2900, and Olga G. Beck, $2900, fifth grade; Emelia Stulginski, $2900, and Anna Sommerville, $2900, sixth grade.

Three teachers will handle the classes at Duquesne Place School. They will be Edith Rawlings, $3250, first and second grades; Roma P. Hineman, $2900, third and fourth grades, and Electra Thomas, $2900, fifth and sixth grades.

The salary of Cecelia K. McGowan, Crawford School principal, will be $3588.90. Teachers will receive $2900 each and include Evelyn M. Baird and Emily Gavlik, grade one; Helen Koribanic, Lillian D. Beck and Fannie Griffith, grade two; Esther Evans, Irene Johnson and Hazel Snyder, grade three; Nellie Hamilton, Virginia Lammel and Anna Parker, grade four, and Anna D. Ruhe, Elizabeth Williams and Martha Maurer, grade five.

Senior high janitors will be John Fuzak, $2475; Daniel T. Stager, $2225; Mary Kvarta, $1875; Carl Morgan, $1875; Sarah Begovich, $1875, and Robert Menhart, $975. The junior high janitorial staff will include Norman Bond, $2461; Anthony Badali, $2325; Mike Kendall, $2175; Isabell Schulte, $975 and Bertha Boyer, $975.

Other school janitors for the fall term will be Saunder Zepp, $2275, Oliver School; Baldina Terza, $1875, Duquesne Place, and Emra D. Baker, $2706, and Mary Babbish, $975. Crawford School Maintenance men for the schools will be George Dunlap, $2250, William Harrison, $3000, and Frank Soffa, $3000.

Softball Kings Honored Here

S. Second St. Little Bucs copped the playground softball championship by blanking the Burns Heights team, 2-0, yesterday afternoon at the S. Second St. play center.

Councilman John W. Bires, director of the Department of Parks and Public Property, treated the winners to an ice cream social following the contest.

The victors earned the right to meet the Cochrandale girls' softball team in the feature event of the Labor Day celebration. The tilt will be played Monday at 6:30 p. m. at the S. Second St. playground.

The final free movie program of the summer will be presented today at 8:30 p. m. at the Duquesne Place playground. Rain forced postponement of the original showing slated Wednesday at Duquesne Place. "Swing It Sailor" is the title of the feature film and a Tom Thumb cartoon will be shown. The program attracted a large crowd last night to the Polish Hill play center.

Lucien Clipfel, playground supervisor, has completed plans for an elaborate Labor Day program to be presented Monday. The festival will mark the closing of the five city-maintained playgrounds for the summer.

Athletic contests an track and field events will begin at 1 p. m., with entries having been submitted from all five playgrounds. Pet contests will be held and handicraft, needlework and other novelty exhibits will be judged.

Last Meet Set by GOP Group

Duquesne's Young Republican Club will hold its final meeting prior to the primary election Thursday at 8:30 p.m. at Council Chambers in City Hall. The primary will be held Tuesday, Sept. 13.

Louis L. Kaufman, Pittsburgh newscaster, will be the guest speaker and members will hear a report by the campaign committee on the club's plans for participation in the coming election.

The eight members of the campaign committee are Miss Eleanor Dvorsky, James Carlin III, Miss Mary Carey, Edward Giles, Miss Norma Clarberg, Murray DeCourcey, miss Helen Labik and Jack Murray.

"We want to make this meeting one of the best the Young Republicans of Duquesne have ever had," Richard V. Allshouse, club chairman, said today. Mr. Allshouse is a candidate for the Republican nomination to City Council.

The Young Republican Club previously announced its endorsement of Mr. Allshouse and Joseph W. Steimer, a Democrat candidate, for the Council positions. Other Republican candidates slated to receive the club's support are Dr. Charles M. Gardill, City Controller, and Thomas Murray and Roger Payne, for School Directors.

Organ Service Listed Sunday

A dedication service for the newly purchased organ is scheduled Sunday at 3:30 p. m. at Jerusalem Baptist Church. The program is being arranged by the Rev. George W. White, pastor.

Mrs. Maudelena Johnson, Pittsburgh musician, will be featured as guest soloist and Mrs. Gladys B. Weems from Central Baptist Church, Pittsburgh, will be guest organist. Mrs. Gertrude White, organist from Duquesne's First Christian Church, also will play at the dedication service.

Local ministers, city officials and others who have helped in purchasing the organ will be invited to attend. Guests will be introduced and remarks presented.

Scripture will be [read] by the Rev. U. A. Hughey, pastor of Payne Chapel A.M.E. Church, and the Rev. C. W. Torrey, pastor of Macedonia Baptist Church, will offer a prayer of dedication. The benediction will be by the Rev. E. Allen, pastorof the Church of God.

The program is being arranged by the orgn committee composed of Mr. White, Marvin Ward, Daniel Richards, John McLaurin, Mrs. Cordelia Kidd, Mrs. Nancy Doggett, Mrs. Louise Jeffries and Mrs. Alex Powell.

City Man Charged For Assault Here

A Duquesne man was held for court on charges of assault and carrying a concealed weapon after a hearing this morning before Police Magistrate William Keenan.

According to police, James C. Jones, colored, C-11, Cochrandale Project, assaulted two policemen with a knife when being taken to the station for malicious mischief.

An abrupt stop by the squad car threw the prisoner off balance and he was disarmed by Driver Vernon Smith and Patrolman Joseph Stavor. Charles Dickerson, who swore out the information against Jones, ater dropped the malicious information charge.

In another Police Court case, Stanislaw Prezkopowski of 1028 Sherman Ave. was fined $7.75 when arraigned on a drunkenness charge. He was taken to McKeesport Hospital last night and was discharged after receiving treatment for injuries received in a W. Grant Ave. fall.