EAST FAREWELL
NEWS
Thursday, December
8, 1955 Vol. C762
LOCAL NEWS
RIVAL
EAST FAREWELL- It started with a couple of light, humorous
putdowns between two Santa Clauses on Main
Street. One was overseeing the Salvation
Army gift kettle and the other was in the window at Boyles Department
store. It appears the Boyles Santa made
a laughing comment to the Salvation Army Santa saying he should move his
location so as not to confuse the children.
Two Santa’s within view of each other would be hard for the parents to
explain. The Salvation Army Santa took
umbrage to the comment and started to sing Christmas carols and ring his bell
with extreme vigor. Once the Boyles
Santa got a break from his duty he went outside and confronted the singing
Santa. Strong words were spoken between
the two and before any rational person could diffuse the situation they were
slugging it out on
Police got to
the scene quite quickly and were able to separate the two. Although the
altercation was fairly brief, the damage was done. Many children were on the
street with their parents and witnessed the whole affair. There was a lot of fast thinking and double
talk that went on at the scene. Luckily,
the responding officers, McCoy and Fuller, were able to think quickly and take
control of the situation and explain in a commanding tone that these guys were
just the real Santa’s helpers and they were not really fighting, they were just
sharing the secret Santa Helper welcome.
“This is what they do when they meet and haven’t seen each other since
they left the North Pole. They get so
excited the hug and sometimes they knock each other off balance and fall
down. Happens all the time,” was
Fuller’s response to an inquisitive child’s question.
McCoy was able
to move the crowd along while Fuller moved the two Santa’s to the alley by
Boyles. Fuller made it perfectly clear
to the two that their type of behavior would not be tolerated and they would
have to go back out to the scene and act like brothers and express holiday
cheer and goodwill for the growing crowd.
The two were fairly animated, in their suits and all, and tried to
explain their sides of the story to Fuller.
He would hear none of it. He decided
that the Salvation Army Santa would move his kettle around the corner, out of
site of the Boyles window Santa and the Boyles Santa would stay away from the
Salvation Army Santa’s corner. Both then
turned and walked back to the crowd, shook hands, waved to the crowd, patted
some children on the head and went their separate ways. Christmastime
in East Farewell was back to normal.
Santas
standoff on
SPORTS
COUGARS BEAT
East Farewell- The Cougars ended the season with a win over the
Southport Hawks, 14-7. They ended the
season in second place behind the Central Bears who also won. The second place finish was better than most
people expected because of the youth and inexperience of the team. Coach Burkowitz was very positive in his
final news release. “I’m very proud of
the boys. They got better as the season
went on and ended with a very respectable 5 and 3 season. I think they outplayed some of the better
teams in the league but on the other hand their inexperience showed up at the
worst times.
The game on
Saturday started off as a defensive match with both teams not getting across
the 50 yard line for the first quarter.
When the game appeared to be headed toward a defensive slugfest Cougar
quarterback, Jimmy O’Conner uncorked a twenty five yard bomb to Mitch “Mercury”
McMaster who took it in for a forty yard score. As usual Charlie Cox added the extra
point. The half ended with the Cougars
out front 7-0.
The second half was completely
different. Both teams came out fired up
and moved the ball up and down the field.
The only similarity to the first half was that neither team scored. The Hawks finally broke through three minutes
into the fourth quarter. An end run by
speedy, little halfback, Chet Olsen, an extra point and the score was tied. It wasn’t until the last two minutes of the
game that the Cougars were able to put together a sixty yard drive that ended
with a beautifully executed double reverse with Davey Wilson coming around,
against the grain, and running in for a nine yard score. There was only 30 seconds on the clock. Charlie Cox kicked his last extra point and
became the school’s highest scorer in its history with 178 points. After the kickoff and four strong defensive
holds the game was over. Charlie Cox was
lifted on the sidelines and carried around the field in celebration of his
accomplishment. The only other senior on
this year’s squad was quarterback Jimmy O’Conner who led the celebration for
Cox.
NATIONAL NEWS
FLUORIDE OK – SOPHIA WANTS
PEACE – ELVIS GOES TO RCA
A 10-year test shows that adding
Fluoride to drinking water is a “safe and effective” way of sharply reducing
tooth decay in children, so say health leaders in
Sophia Loren says she wants to end her word feud with Gina Lollobrigida before it busts out into open
warfare. On reports that she made slighting remarks about Gina during her visit
to
RCA Victor says it has sold around 200,000 copies of Don Charles’ “Singing Dogs” record , but the record could do better in
the New York area, where it isn’t getting a lot of airplay. Typical is WNEW’s
Jerry Marshall, who doesn’t like the record that much. RCA Victor says they
have only sold around 7,000 copies in the area, as compared to 20,000 in
Elvis Presley moves over to RCA-Victor from Sun Records. As a result, his current single, high on the Country & Western charts, will now be distributed on the RCA-Victor label. Presley will appear on Jackie Gleason’s Saturday night “Stage Show.” for six appearances: December 28, January 4, 11 and 18 with two more being scheduled for Feb and March. The deal was set by manager, Col. Tom Parker. NBC-TV reportedly was also bidding for Presley to guest on Gleason’s competitor, Perry Como’s show, but Gleason came up with more money.
New York’s WMGM (1050) on your dial, added two new DJ’s - Peter Tripp, formerly with WHB, Kansas City, Mo, and Dean Hunter,
formerly of KYW, Philadelphia. Tripp will conduct a pop hits show to compete
with WINS DJ Alan Freed - “You Hits of the Week” to be broadcast Mon-Sat 5-8pm.
The show begins this week.
Many, many
thanks to www.mrpopculture.com for
contributing to this section of the East Farewell News.
