EAST FAREWELL
NEWS
Thursday, May 8,
1958 Vol. C671
LOCAL
NEWS
THE PLOT THICKENS
East Farewell – The FBI and local authorities have been very
busy investigating the biggest crime to hit East Farewell since the Flower Show
scandal and have released some information on their findings so far. There have
been some surprising revelations and some disturbing ones also. When
investigating the McCarron family the local police said that they are not
unknowns in the local criminal world. The three McCarron brothers, Ralph,
Leonard and David, have all had run-ins with the both the East Farewell police
as well as the Slate Mountain and the Youngstown departments. Most of their
transgressions involved pretty theft, burglary, and shoplifting. The train
robbery was way out of their league. Even their accomplices were not involved
in any major crimes. The police started
looking into the disappearance of the boy’s mother, Selma McCarron. She seems
to have disappeared shortly before the robbery and has not been seen since. The
suspects are not being cooperative and many officials believe she was somehow involved.
The police are tracking her last reported whereabouts and who she was in touch
with. Some reports from the Mexican authorities say she may have been spotted
near Tijuana in the arms of someone whose description matches the missing
Lothario, Romando. Romando, as everyone
in East Farewell knows, is the ne’er do well who sweet talked his way into
naïve local sweetheart, Monica Shippensburg, who ended up giving him all the
funds from the 1956 Flower Show. He absconded with the funds and has not been
seen until the recent reports.
While police and the FBI continue to
investigate the entire gang remains in the Bedford State Correctional Facility
and are not cooperating. None of the money or valuables has been located but
the authorities have repeatedly said they are moving forward with the
investigation. For now the case seems to have more questions than answers.
Last known
picture of Romando
SPORTS
TRAVELERS BACK ON TRACK
Youngstown – The Travelers were able to get back on the winning
side of the leger on Saturday when they won a convincing victory over the
Youngstown Steelers, 6-2. The Travelers were able to take advantage of an
excellent pitching performance by Joey Alfred and some smart base running. Alfred
went through the first three innings allowing only one hit and one walk. He let
in the first run in the fourth with a double by Hart and a long single by
Jones. After that he settled down again and was able to go until the eighth
when he let in the only other Steelers run with a single blast from
Youngstown’s slugger, Mario Collardi. The Travelers, on the other and were able
to tag Youngstown pitcher, Frank Nardi, for two runs in the second and three
runs in the sixth, sealing the win with a solo homer by Johnny Cloos in the
ninth. In the sixth the Travelers showed some very smart base running skills
after Tony Dimero singled, he stole second and when Artie Archibald dribbled a “swinging” bunt towards first Dimero made it to third.
Then Billy Sweet’s Texas leaguer sent Archibald to second and Dimero towards
home. Centerfielder, Dino Scappelli, fielded the ball cleanly and tried to make
a play at the plate but Dimero was able to slide under the tag. Alertly,
Archibald scooted to third and Sweet motored to second. This set up Ralph
Francis who singled to right driving in both Archibald and Sweet. The Travelers
looked sharp on defense, too. They turned a double play in the fifth and Alfred
was able to strand three runners throughout the game.
The Travelers
come home next week when they face the Erie Eagles in the evening beginning at
7:05 in the ball park.
NATIONAL NEWS
SUPREME COURT OKS EXPENSES DEDUCTIONS FOR
BOOKMAKING – 24 DIE IN FLASH FIRE IN NYC – NTA BUYS LOTS OF TV STATIONS – LEAVE
IT TO BEAVER A BIG NEW HIT
The Supreme Court rules unanimously
that “ordinary and necessary expenses” of operating an illegal bookmaking
business may be deducted for Federal income tax purposes.
24 persons die in a flash fire in a
textile building on Broadway in New York City, near Hudson Street. The blaze
began when a textile-drying oven exploded. After the blaze was extinguished
hours later, fireman actually found two persons alive in the burned building.
One was a woman who had taken refuge in a metal box. Water from streaming hoses kept the box cool,
keeping her alive. The other – a man, hugging the floor, had shielded himself
from the flames and smoke.
NTA (National Telefilms Associates
Inc.) producer and distributor of films for television, buys
station WATV
(channel 13) in Newark, NJ and its
radio stations - WAAT and WAAT-FM for $4.5 million. NTA owns one other television
station, KMGM-TV in Minneapolis-St. Paul. The stations are being purchased from
Atlantic Television Inc. (TV) and Bremer Broadcasting (radio). Stockholders of
both are the same. NTA has plans to make channel 13 a flagship for some of its
programming. (The station’s call letters were changed to WNTA-TV and radio.)
Leave It To Beaver” is a bona fide hit on
CBS-TV. The show’s creators and producers are Joe Connelly and Bob Mosher, who
came from doing the same thing in radio (Amos n Andy) and others. One fan letter
seems to sum up the appeal of the program - “It’s just like home ... you must
be hiding behind our sofa!” Joe Connelly says he has six children and most of the
episodes are based “on what our own kids do or our friends’ kids.” Bob Mosher
says some of the ideas come from their own childhood experiences. “Gather the family to see and enjoy the show
hailed by critics as ‘honest and real and irresistibly funny.’”
Many, many
thanks to www.mrpopculture.com for
contributing to this section of the East Farewell News.
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