EAST FAREWELL
NEWS
Thursday, July
11, 1957 Vol. C628
LOCAL
NEWS
WHAT A BLAST!
East Farewell – The annual Fourth of July fireworks display
dazzled an estimated 8000 visitors and town folk. The mid-summer evening was
spectacular for viewing the wonderful display presented by Fireworks
International with the local fire company standing by in case of any problems.
There were no problems and the display can only be said to have been fabulous. New
firework explosions were set off this year and according to F.I. owner, Geraldo
Massi, this was the debut of several new events. “We were actually shooting
some brand new displays here because it is such a great place to set off our
displays. The area is great, shooting out over the lake and the fire department
here is just great. They help us out a whole lot. You don’t see what they do
but they are there in the background taking care to be sure that everything
moves ahead without a hitch,” said Massi after the event.
The whole
weekend was a party like atmosphere with a Friday evening “stroll” down Main and Lakeshore Drive. All the
restaurants and shops stayed open late and many put tables and some of their wares
out on the sidewalk so the town resembled a big sidewalk bizarre with cafes to
stop and chat with neighbors and friends. On Saturday the Travelers took on the
Bear Creek Cubs in an afternoon game that had an Independence Day theme with
fife and drum and Minutemen marching around the field during the seventh inning
stretch. The game was a sellout with many Riverview fans that came not only for
the game but also for the fireworks display after the game. The game started
late (3:05PM) and lasted until 6:45. Once the game ended it seemed the entire
ballpark moved out and onto Main Street and Lakeshore Drive. Many were able to
grab a bite to eat but many moved right on to Lakefront Plaza and onto the Fun
Pier to secure their places for viewing the fireworks display. The High School
Pep band played several numbers before the display and as dusk was turning into
night they opened the display with a rousing version of the ‘Stars and Stripes
Forever’ followed by a very respectable rendition of the National anthem. The
first display was a carnation explosion that seemed to fill the whole sky. The
display went on from there accompanied by a musical sound track supplied by the
Pep Band. This year the Lakefront Plaza was used for an extensive ‘ground
display’ that involved giant pinwheels, roman candles and an assortment of
flags, animals and vehicles igniting peels of excitement from the crowd.
On Sunday the Fun Pier was open and
many folks stayed over and enjoyed the near perfect weather riding the rides
and wandering down the midway. Others found their way back into town a strolled
down Main Street and Lakeshore Drive widow shopping and talking with others.
Ground display
7/4/1957
SPORTS
TRAVELERS TAME THE CUBS
East Farewell – The Travelers were able to make the Fourth of
July game a winner in every way on Saturday. They not only defeated the Bear
Creek Cubs. 4-1, but they also put on a wonderful show during the game in honor
of Independence Day. The win was the second this season over the Cubs. The
Travelers opened the season with a win against them and they continued the
trend on Saturday. It wasn’t until the third inning that either team was able
to get on base. Perhaps the pregame “Salute to America” with a brief concert by
the High School Pep Band with an enormous American Flag unfurled across the
field, or maybe it was the Presidents parade that delivered the ball to the
mound for the first pitch, either way both teams did not seem to have their
minds on the game in the early innings. There were three errors, a passed ball
and two wild pitches in the first three innings. The sold out crowd was amused
at the Keystone Kops type play probably because there was a two for one beer
offer for the first three innings the beverage station was swamped.
Things sort of
settled down by the bottom of the third when the Travelers were able to string
together three hits back to back by Watson, Cloos and Dimero. Dimero’s single
scored Watson but that was all the Travelers could muster. The Cubs answered in
the fifth with a solo homer by Dash. The seventh inning stretch had another
event/distraction when a group of Minutemen and a fife and drum trio marched
around the field playing Yankee Doodle Dandy. In the eighth the Travelers
‘erupted’ with a three run rally with five hits and long, out of the park homer
run by Johnny Cloos, his 15th on the season. The Cubs were unable to
generate any more offense after Dash’s homer. The crowd did not seem to mind
the lackluster play and as the game ended most of the fans streamed out before
the last out and headed town for the fireworks display.
The Travelers travel
to take on the Erie Eagles. The game begins at 1:05 on Saturday in Erie’s
beautiful Lakeview Stadium.
NATIONAL NEWS
PHS SAYS CIGARETTES CAUSE CANCER –
KHRUSHCHEV CALLS IKE STUPID – MALENKOV OFF TO SIBERIA – IKE ORDERS FEDS TO TRIM
2 BILLION – LIZ & MIKE TODD STILL IN LOVE
The Public Health
Service takes the official position that there
was “increasing and consistent evidence” that “excessive cigarette smoking is
one of the causative factors of lung cancer.” This changed an official pronouncement
in 1954 that cited some evidence of statistical association between the two,
but left open the question of cause-and-effect relationship. Leroy Burney, the Surgeon General,
simultaneously began a nationwide informational campaign on this subject. His
report says there is an extremely high association between heavy smoking and
lung cancer. The statement was challenged immediately by Dr. Clarence Cook
Little, chairman of the Scientific Advisory board to the Tobacco Industry
Research Committee. He said that three years of research by his group “has
produced no evidence that cigarette smoking or other tobacco use contributes to
the origin of lung cancer.”
Soviet Communist Boss Khrushchev calls President
Eisenhower’s report on the possibility of a “clean” hydrogen bomb stupid. “President
Eisenhower is a talented man of great principles, but look at what a stupid
thing he says when he says there is a clean hydrogen bomb.” “How can you have a
clean bomb to do a dirty thing? It means the destruction of women and children.
What a contradiction? They call dirty things clean,” said Khrushchev. In other
Russian news, Moscow radio says ex-Premier Georgi Malenkov has
been made manager of a hydroelectric plant in
East Kazakhstan in remote central Asia. Soviet leaders deposed with him last
week and he has been assigned to unspecified other work.
President Eisenhower orders Federal
agencies to try to trim almost 2 billion dollars from his original budget
requests for the current fiscal year.
Producer Michael Todd and
his expectant wife, Elizabeth Taylor return
from a European trip cooing like newlyweds
and pooh-poohing columnists’ reports of spats on the trip. Todd said neither took seriously published
predictions that the marriage would not last another six months.
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