EAST FAREWELL
NEWS
Thursday, January
19, 1956 Vol. C551
LOCAL
NEWS
SNOW SCULPTURES FESTIVAL ON
ITS WAY
East Farewell – The winter’s snows have been falling for some
time now in East
Farewell. The first accumulation started back before Christmas and hasn’t
let up. Last week a new storm hit blew through and dumped another 3” on town.
Total accumulation so far is almost 12’’ which is surprisingly less than last
year at this time (18”). While it may be less there is still great excitement
in town for the coming Snow Sculptures Festival next week. Many people have
entered the contest and the Lakefront Plaza promises to be filled with a wide
variety of whimsical, historical, serious and abstract sculptures in all sizes.
The snow has been cleared from the streets and large piles have been placed
around the Lake for the artists but most have made other arrangements. “That
snow is no good,” scoffed aspiring snow sculpture artist, Bernie
Talbot, “it is all iced up. That is no good. I am going to fill up the back
of my truck with some fresh snow from way out of town and bring it in. I can
work with that. I am planning on making a sculpture of my girl, Sue, as a snow
princess. It is going to be great.”
Others have
registered the sculptures and they include Snow King, a locomotive, an Eiffel
Tower, several dogs and cats as well as larger animals and of course, Talbot’s
Snow Queen. The Town Council decided they wanted to make sure that all the
entries were “publicly acceptable” after and entry last year was deemed to
risqué for public showing. Donny Devine, a local artist and full time stone
sculpture, sculpted a naked woman. He finished it in the dead of night and it
wasn’t seen until morning. When officials saw it they immediately hosed it down
to melt it. Devine was disqualified and the new rules were hastily put into
place. Talbot’s queen was put under a great deal of scrutiny before he got the
go ahead for his entry.
The Festival
will run from Thursday through Sunday of next week. Thursday and Friday will be
the building days. The show will be opened to the public Friday night, Saturday
and judging will take place Sunday afternoon. The prizes will be awarded Sunday
evening on the Plaza. This is the second year for this event and it has taken a
leap from being the unorganized, almost spontaneous event to a fully organized
and regulated event with more than double the participation, and with
advertising they expected turnout is more than double.
1955 Snow
Sculptures
SPORTS
COUGARS MAKE CANARIES SING SAD
SONG
East Farewell – The Cougars continued
their impressive performance as the dominated a surprisingly strong Slate
Mountain Canaries team, 45-35. Center, Wilson Watson, rebounded from his foul
plagued showing last week with a game leading 25 points, 13 assists and 12
rebounds. He dominated the lane and commanded the floor with lots of help in
the backcourt from Timmy Green. The Cougars were expecting a much tougher game
but the Canaries lost one of the stars, forward Ken Walker, to the flu on
Thursday. Without Walker the Canaries were not able to get their timing down
and they lacked an on-court leader. The Cougars took advantage of the Canaries
woes and jumped out to a 16-8 lead. They only fell behind for a brief period
when the Canaries put on a 13-6 run and led 30-28 in the second half. After a
timeout the Cougars roared back with 8 straight points and retook the lead. The
game wore down with the Cougars in control and Timmy Green took command with a
masterful passing and dribbling show that ate up over two minutes and sealed
the Cougars second win in as many games.
The Riverview
Wildcats host the Cougars on Friday and will be looking for revenge from their
tough loss only a week ago. The game will begin at 7:05 in Riverview’s
gymnasium.
NATIONAL NEWS
IKE TURNS IN BALANACED BUDGET – E. GERMANY
SETS UP NATIONAL ARMY – US SAYS CHINA WANTS FORMOSA – 78s TAKE ANOTHER HIT
President Eisenhower hands Congress a balanced $65,865,000,000 budget he said will provide a full measure of defense sustain unprecedented prosperity and promote “the well-being of all our people.”
East Germany formally approves establishment of a “national people’s army,” including sea and air forces.
The United States accuses Red China of demanding American abandonment of Formosa as the price for joining in a renunciation of the use of force. Because of this, it’s a deadlock in Geneva over lifting the dangers of war from the Nationalist Island.
The 78rpm record, which has been declining in sales, gets another
price jolt as Decca and Coral follow the lead set by RCA Victor last year.
They’ll increase the retail price of a 78 to 98cent, 45’s sell for 89 cents. At
the present time 45’s outsell the 78’s at a national average of two to one. The
old speed is still dominant in the country & western and rhythm & blues
market. The majors will still continue to offer 78’s, but none of them will be
sorry to see it go. Besides being larger and using more raw materials, the
disks were more difficult and expensive to handle in transit due to breakage
problems.
Many, many thanks to www.mrpopculture.com for
contributing to this section of the East Farewell News.
