EAST FAREWELL NEWS
Friday, November 28, 19 52 Vol. C122
LOCAL NEWS
JOB SEEKERS FLOOD TOWN - THANKSGIVING DAY PARADE GOES ON
The parade was a roaring success. It is tradition for the parade to escort Santa Claus to the Boyles Department Store on Lake Shore Drive where he will start taking all the children’s gift requests. “As the major retailer in the area, it is always great fun and very exciting to co-host the parade for more than fifteen years,” said Charles Boyle, store owner and parade staff supervisor. Along with the wonderful Boyle’s float the featured Santa’s sleigh and all eight reindeer, the preceding float while much smaller was wonderful in its own way. It featured Rudolf with his red nose leading the way. The leader of the parade was the Regional High School Band. They played and marched in fine form. Other featured marchers were; the Twirlers from Flat Rock, a precision baton twirling group that specializes in lighted batons, the Slate Mountain String Band, the East Farewell Fire Company, the local VFW, the Pet Shelter and many, many more.
Services in town which normally are geared up for the parade were exceptionally strained by the influx job seekers applying for the Iron Works jobs. “We never expected this volume,” said Grady Smith, employment supervisor for the Iron Works, “but I guess there when there is a great job offered like this one you get a lot of interest.” It was reported that every room in town was sold out this week. The parade goers and job applicants grabbed every room and even went so far as to double up on scarce rooms. “I had two gentlemen split the rent on my last room and they had never met before they showed up on my porch looking for a place to stay for the week,” said Mrs. Mallard, boarding house owner.
Even the food services were taxed. “We ran out of almost every special,” lamented Charles Wentz, owner of the Lost Oasis. “We managed to get extra shipments in before parade day so we made out OK.” All the townspeople were in a very festive mood and it was not uncommon to see families inviting strangers for Thanksgiving dinner. Some speculated, though, with the huge increase population, albeit temporary, crime is sure to follow. “We have no reports of any increase in crimes of any nature,” reported Police Chief, Jeremy Watson, “People were having fun and enjoying the holiday.”
SPORTS
COUGARS OUT FOX THE CAPTAINS 14-7
The Captains were not to be out done, though. The Captains leading rusher, Thomas Reed and senior Jason Bennett lined up deep for the kickoff. The ball went to Bennett who started up the field. Then to everyone’s surprise, he turned and lateralled the ball to Reed who was five yards behind him and running against the grain of on rushing Cougars. Reed skillfully grabbed the ball and out ran everyone except kicker, Charlie Cox. Cox was able to wrestle Reed down at the four yard line after being dragged almost ten yards hanging onto Reed’s pants. It only took the Captains two plays to even the score. Reed slipped in from two yards out and Winston Wilson added the extra point.
The game see-sawed back and forth, reverses, pitch-outs and even a Statue of Liberty play punctuated the first half. The Statue of Liberty was a spectacular attempt by the Captains to freeze the Cougars defense but went awry when Quarterback, Steve Smith, was not able to hold the ball as Reed came behind to grab it. The play lost six yards and drew awes and guffaws from the crowd. The half ended with the Cougars O’Conner completing a pass to Flynn who then tossed it back to halfback Joey Fox. Fox was able to scamper for thirty yards but was tackled three yards shy of the goal line as time ran out.
There was no let up in the chicanery during the third and fourth quarters. Both teams showed surprising ingenuity and resourcefulness coming up with plays that are surely not in any playbook since the ragtag days of the game. While sideways hikes and hikes to the fullback were plentiful none produced the desired effect, a score. It wasn’t until 4:02 in the fourth quarter that there was a change. In what can only be described as a broken play, O’Conner attempted to handoff to Fox on his right, unfortunately for O’Conner fox was on his left. Realizing the miscue O’Conner pirouetted around to his left and pitched the ball to Fox who was able to take advantage of the confused Captains defense and race 22 yards for a touchdown. Charlie Cox was again prefect on extra points.
“We knew this was going to be a wide open game. Chuck (the Captain’s coach) and I go way back to the early days of the Pros. We both played and we both love the gadget plays and the kids love them too. I would never play any other team this way, but Chuck and I have a sort of competition to see who can come up with the wildest play. I loved that Statue of Liberty, we may try that next year,” joked Cougars coach, Al Burcowitz.
The 6-1 Cougars take on the Southport Hawks for the last game of the season. The Cougars already own a piece of the league title and can win it completely with a win on Saturday. The game is home, 1:30 on Regional High field.
NATIONAL NEWS
FCC SAYS GO TO TV - STALIN STILL ALIVE – SABRES DOWN MIGS
FCC Chairman Paul Walker says that the 3 1/2 year freeze on television licenses will be lifted in two weeks. After the lifting, the commission probably will allow three months for the filing of applications. Walker
Prime Minister Stalin (72), recently absent from Russian functions leading to rumors that he was ill shows up at a session of the Supreme Soviet (Parliament) of the Russian Republic April 3, 19 22 with Lenin’s blessing.
Korean War - American Sabre jet pilots blast six MIGs out of the skies over North Korea Col Francis Gabreski of Giltown , PA
Other Korean War news - a new rotation plan will keep men on the front lines a bit longer beginning this week. Combat infantrymen, artillery tank and other supporting units have been returning home after an average time of 9 1/2 months of duty. That will increase to 10-13 months. A total of 20,000 men are rotated home monthly and that rate won’t change. That’s because some of the National Guard is being pulled out.
