EAST FAREWELL
NEWS
Thursday, April
5, 1956 Vol. C562
LOCAL
NEWS
EASTER EGG HUNT HELD ON
LAKEFRONT PLAZA
East Farewell – The first Easter Egg Hunt was held on Sunday at
the Lakefront
Plaza. A brisk but bright day was perfect for the inaugural East
Farewell Easter Egg Hunt and almost 25 participants, all under 8, had a
great time. At 11:00 the whole group was corralled behind a silk sash and told
the rules for the hunt. No running, no taking someone else’s eggs, no shouting
and no pushing. At 11:05 the sash was dropped and the whole group, en mass ran
onto the Plaza, breaking rule number one. Pandemonium prevailed and rules two,
three and four were broken almost immediately. It seems the planning committee
believed that young children would follow instructions when Easter eggs, candy
and prizes were involved. Luckily, no one was injured and almost all the eggs
were accounted for, three did not show up at the final count and are still
missing. The hunt lasted for only ten minutes which was less than half the time
allotted but the children were better hunters than the committee anticipated.
The group was brought back to the top of the Plaza and the eggs were counted
and it turned out that little Manny Watkins, age six, ended up with an even
dozen eggs. He was awarded the first prize, a large golden egg, of course. The
prize is intended to be held for a year and awarded next year to next year’s
winner by the previous winner. Manny has an important job ahead of him.
While there
were many things about the Annual Easter Egg Hunt that will need to be ironed
out the event in general was a great success. The committee has promised to
look at what went wrong and what went right and make next years hunt bigger and
better and maybe find those lost eggs.
They’re off! 1st
Easter Egg Hunt on Lakefront Plaza
SPORTS
TRAVELERS SET TO OPEN SATURDAY
East Farewell – The Travelers are set
to defend their championship as another season gets under way on Saturday. They
have enjoyed enormous success in the early part of this decade. They have won
the championship three times since 1950 and they are still looking very strong.
Slugger Johnny Cloos is returning in top form as well as hometown favorites,
pitchers Joe Nagy and Danny Lane. The team as a whole is still pretty much
intact from last year. The award winning infield of Dunham, Archibald and
Watson will again try to lead the league in double play completions. The
slugging side of the lineup is also intact; Cloos, Brown and Francis look as
strong as they did last year when they ranked one, three and five,
respectively, in batting averages and one eight and nine in homeruns.
The
rest of the league looks like they are all gunning for the Travelers and
several have spoken out on the topic. In Corning the CGW team leader, Bill
“Smoke” Black, has said he has the Travelers in his sites and is looking
forward meeting them to “kick their butts” Black was one of the few pitchers
that won consistently against the Travelers last year. The Travelers first meet
the Glass Works the third game of the season at Corning. That should be an exciting
game.
The
Travelers open at home on Saturday when they meet the Ondita Cougars who are
also greatly improved from last year with the acquisition of a new, young
fastballer, Sammy Nichols, and a big bat with the Earnest Walsh who was traded
for in the off season. The game will begin with pre-game festivities at 12:00,
noon. The game starts at 1:30PM.
NATIONAL NEWS
IKE SERIOUS ABOUT MID-EAST – MARINES DROWN
AT PARRIS ISLAND – JOHN KENNEDY CALLS FOR NEW FOREIGN POLICY – TOKYO ROSE MOVES
TO SAN FRANCISCO – LONG DISTANCE DIALING INTRODUCED
President Eisenhower viewing the tense
Middle East situation as one of “utmost seriousness,” declared the United
States is ‘determined to support and assist any nation” subjected to aggression
in that area. The Navy discloses that it
is sending four destroyers to join the U.S. 6th Fleet
in the Mediterranean close by the tinderbox
Middle East. Israeli and Egyptian jet planes battle over the Holy land. Israel
claimed one and possibly two enemy planes shot down.
Five marine recruits drown during
training at Parris Island. The DI is under investigation, but witnesses say he
tried valiantly to save his men and was the last man alive out of the tidal
stream in which the victims drowned.
Sen. John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts calls upon the State department to junk its policy of neutrality and to speak out boldly against “imperialism and colonialism wherever they are found in the world. “We fight to keep the world free from Communist imperialism - but in doing so we hamper our efforts and bring suspicion upon our motives by being closely linked with western imperialism.”
Mrs. Iva Toguri d’Aquino - the Tokyo Rose of WWII - is given permission to move to San Francisco. She had been living with her family in Chicago since her release January 28 from prison.
Something new is
stirring in the air. Get ready for DDD or Direct Distance Dialing. You’ll be able to dial directly without going
through an operator. All telephone numbers in the country - those of the Bell
System, as well as those of 5000 independent companies - have been or are being
gradually changed to seven digits. In dialing a long distance number direct,
the customer will dial the area code of the area in which the city is located
such as 212 for Manhattan or 312 for Chicago, then he dials the number he is
calling such as Plaza 2-9944.
Many, many thanks to www.mrpopculture.com for
contributing to this section of the East Farewell News.
