Seven new women school guards were approved by city council at a special meeting yesterday afternoon and immediately sworn into the office by Mayor Walter H. Grove before he left for a Pennsylvania League of Cities directors' meeting at Harrisburg.

The ladies sworn in, their predecessors, and the school to which Mayo Grove has assigned them follow:

Mrs. Marjorie Benner of 1005 Third street, Juniata, at Holy Rosary school, replacing Mrs. Dolores henry of 710 Second street, Juniata

Mrs. Margaret Caporuscio of 305 East Logan avenue, at Theodore Roosevelt Junior High school, replacing Mrs. Viola Hatch of 715 1/2 Third avenue.

Mrs. Adele Kamoie of 2021 Nineteenth street, at Altoona Catholic High school, replacing Mrs. Louise Faretty of 1117 Seventh avenue.

Mrs. Marjorie Miller of 1326 Fourteenth avenue, at Cathedral school, replacing Mrs. Loretta Baker of 1202 Seventeenth street.

Mrs. Adelaide Young of 920 Eighth avenue, at Penn School, replacing Mrs. Dorothy Hall of 1023 Second avenue.

Mrs. Elizabeth Lamca of 3506 Fourth avenue, at Adams school,

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replacing Miss Pauline Fredericks of 305 Thirty-eighth street.

Mrs. Betty Jane Johnson of 1918 Pine avenue, replacing Mrs. Leah Maurer of 305 Orchard avenue. There no assignment listed for Mrs. Johnson.

An ordinance for the vacation of an alley on property owned by the St. Theresa Catholic church parish in Fairview was introduced and an earlier ordinance changing the name of Eighteenth street alley to Eighteen and One-Half street, was given final reading and adoption.

The ordinance relinquishing the section of Fourth street alley, from Wopsy avenue to Wopsy alley, immediately across the street from the church, came as a request from Rev. Father Thomas Kelley as a safety measure for children using the area blacktopped last year as a playground. The area involved, which reverts to adjoining property owners, consists 2830 square feet.

Eighteen and One-Half street runs from Fifteenth avenue alley to Twentieth avenue.

Council also accepted the de cision of Ira C. Simpson to be relieved of his duties as assistant fire chief and returned to the position of captain. The change in status, sought because of doctor's advice, will become effective Sept. 3. Simp son has been a member of the de- partment for 35 years next month. He has been an assistant chief since September, 1951.

Two expense accounts for city officials attending tile Pennsylvania water works and sewage plant operators sessions at State College Aug. 22, 23 and 24 were approved by the council. The expenses resolutions Included payment of $21 for expenses of Water Director Howard W. Lindaman and Water Superintendent Haven Ale $11.80 for expenses of Frank S. Varner, sewage plant superintendent, who also made an extra trip to State College for an executive committee meeting on Aug. 15. Payment of $581 to the Binghamadn Taylor corporation of Culpcper, Va., for 100 curb box covers at $5.51 each and for 100 brass bolts at 27 cents was approved.

Four transfers of funds in the. recreation section of the parks and public property budget, as submitted by Director Lindaman, were approved. They included: From item 712 (repairs to equipment) to item 710 (wages), $690; from item 714 (other expenses) to 710 (wages), $200; from item 716 (land purchases and improvement -- capital outlay) to item 710 (wages) $900; which exhausts exhausts the amount in this account, and from item 708 (other expenses in the operating section of public buildings) to item 711 (materials and supplies) $150.