EAST FAREWELL
NEWS
Thursday, March
27, 1958 Vol. C665
LOCAL
NEWS
ST PATRICKS DAY PARADE A
LITTLE LATE BUT STILL FUN
East Farewell – Even though it was a week late the St. Patrick’s
Day Parade was a big fun filled success on Sunday. The foul March weather
postponed annual parade but it could not keep the Irish spirit down. East
Farewell has a large contingent of Irish families, most of who are related in
one way or the other the railroad workers who built the Mighty Keystone
Railroad. East
Farewell was originally a main hub for the MKR with the Iron Works located
here. The Iron Works supplies rails and other iron parts for the railroad.
While the town was not actually founded by the railroad, that honor belongs to
the Lendel brothers, it did buy out the brothers when they fell on financial
hard times back at the beginning of the century. The railroad then located the
Iron works here due convenient location on the line between Philadelphia and
Chicago.
The parade has
been a tradition in town for many years and is usually held the second or third
Sunday of March but this year the unexpected cold rains forced a postponement to
the last Sunday. On Sunday the weather was clear but still crisp and the parade
started down Main Street at 9:00AM. Leading the parade was the Irish-American
Club which had a green, of course, Ford pickup hauling a flatbed with the group
of local Irish musicians who identified themselves as the Galway Boys.
The band consisted of three guitars, a bass, a fife, a mandolin, an accordion
and a snare drum. The Band played a variety of favorite Irish tunes many were
requested by the people on the street, watching. The Galway Boys were followed
by a number of fire trucks, a group of Irish dancers from the Regional High
School, the Regional High School Pep band who also played many Irish tunes. They
were followed by several police cars and the two motorcycles the Police
Department owns. In the final position was another bigger flatbed carrying an
even larger, louder Irish band named The Irish Rebels. They played a lively
batch of jigs that had the people dancing and singing in the streets. The
parade made its way down Main Street and turned up Lake Shore Drive. It ended
up at the Lakefront Plaza where the bands set up and gave impromptu concerts
for many of the parade watchers who had made their way to the Plaza. A couple local
restaurants set up tables and offered some traditional Irish dishes like ham
and cabbage. Even though it was Sunday the local liquor laws were bent and beer
was served to patrons who were of legal drinking age. Even with the cold
temperatures (50-55 degrees) there was quite a turnout on the Plaza. Many folks
danced and dined throughout the afternoon but as the sun set the crowds
dispersed and headed home. It was a postponed but by no means diminished St
Patrick’s Day in East Farewell.
The “Galway
Boys” 1957
SPORTS
TOURNAMENT SET
East Farewell – The 1958 Mid-Regional League Playoff Tournament
has been set for next week. This year will probably be the final year for this
tournament. The League standings at the end of the season will be used to
determine the final standings in the league. There has been too much criticism
of the Tournament building to a head this year after Slate Mountain has
convincingly won the league by a margin of 3 games over their closest rival, Corning,
who themselves were two games ahead of third place East Farewell. In the past
the league has been closer and the tournament was used to determine a final
winner. The teams all concur that it would be better if the season record was
the determining factor as opposed to a tournament where one team could become
momentarily hot and win the league with only a four game winning streak. “I
think all the coaches, myself included, feel the same way. We will play this
last tournament and be done with it from next year on,” said Couch Wilson when
asked about the major decision.
The Tournament
will be played over two weeks and start on Friday when the Slate Mountain
Miners will take on the Cougars in a rematch of their last game of the season.
That game was played just last week. The Tournament game will be played in the
Slate Mountain Gymnasium and begin at 4:30 on Friday.
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NATIONAL NEWS
KHRUSHCHEV TAKES OVER – US NOT SURPRISED –
ELVIS IN THE ARMY NOW – 30TH ANNUAL ACADEMY AWARDS
Russian boss Nikita S.
Khrushchev (63) takes over as Premier of the Soviet Union, replacing Nicolai Bulganin.
The switch was unexpected; Khrushchev takes over full “Stalin Powers” as Premier.
“You have just expressed great confidence in me by your decision and you have
done me great honor” he told the Parliament. “I will do everything to justify
your confidence and shall not spare strength, health or life to serve you.” The
new Premier got right down to business and in his formal address, emphasized
agriculture, calling on among other things, the need for more cow manure. “The
more cows, the more manure, the more the crops” he told the house.
U.S. officials say that Khrushchev’s
power grab in the Kremlin could spell danger for the West if the chubby Communist
Party leader follows the path of Stalin. State Department officials noted that
Khrushchev had toppled such kingpins as V.M Molotov, Georgi Malenkov and Marshal Georgi Zhukov in his five-year struggle for Stalin’s
power. They said these tough Communists constitute a powerful Kremlin alumni
association which although now widely separated, might someday rise up to take
revenge. A danger for the West is that Khrushchev might try to consolidate his
position further through foreign adventures to rally soviet public support.
Precedents were set by Stalin in the Berlin Blockade and the Korean War.
His second day in the Army - At Ft
Chaffee, Arkansas, Private
Elvis Presley marches into an Army barbershop and pays 65 cents out of his pocket to have his sideburns shaved.
He led an induction platoon of 51 rookies into the barbershop. The barber threw
the sideburns into the air, then went up the back of the singer’s head with his
clippers and finally took off the top. Elvis
was asked by reporters how it felt - “It don’t feel so much different than it
did before. This is the shortest it’s been in eight years.” Col Tom Parker,
Presley’s manager, says he is staying with him temporarily to “look after the
boy ... see that he gets everything he needs.
At the 30th Annual Academy awards, here
are some winners:
Best Actor - Alec Guinness
- “The Bridge on the River Kwai”
Best Actress - Joanne Woodward - “Three
Faces of Eve”
Best Supporting Actor - Red Buttons -
“Sayonara”
Best Supporting Actress - Miyoshi Umeki
- “Sayonara”
Best Song - “All The Way” from “The
Joker Is Wild”
Best Direction - “David Lean - “The
Bridge on the River Kwai”
Best Screenplay - Pierre Boulle - “The
Bridge on the River Kwai”
Many, many
thanks to www.mrpopculture.com for
contributing to this section of the East Farewell News.
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