9/4/1952

EAST FAREWELL NEWS

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Thursday, September 4, 1952   Vol. C110

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LOCAL NEWS

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LABOR DAY FAIR & ARTS FESTIVAL BIG HIT

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East Farewell- Both locals and visitors shared in the fun and excitement of the County Fair & Arts Festival over the Labor Day weekend.  Beautiful weather, wonderful attractions and events along with great food provided by local restaurants combined to make a very successful three day extravaganza.  The fun started Friday night with an opening night parade lead by the High School Band and the Fire Department from the Center Square to the Fair Grounds.  Town Council President, Tom Conally, opened the gates and the Fair Grounds lights turned on in a very impressive display of commercial showmanship.  The Midway was ablaze with bright colors offering fun and games for all and every local merchant had a booth to show off their wares.  All the local eateries offered a cornucopia of dishes from samples to entire meals.

            Local artists exhibited their creations among the games and food booths.  The area has become somewhat of a base for different type of artists and craftsmen in the past few years.  Painters and woodworkers of regional fame such as landscape artist Wagner Strump and fine woodworker Angela Boyle have found East Farewell a welcoming, friendly environment to produce wonderful pieces that were on display and for sale.  The livestock auction proved to be a surprising success, even after it was unceremoniously moved from the main event to Saturday morning at 8:00 AM.  A large number of people were in attendance for the auction.  There were quite a few buyers but most were only spectators trying to get a look at some of the magnificent horses as well as the bulls and cows being bid on.

            While the days were filled with fun and games the nights were filled with music and theater.  On Friday the night the High School Jazz ensemble gave a wonderful concert that was, well, jazzy.  On Saturday night the Local Players preformed a spirited, condensed rendition of “Gigi” and Sunday night saw a spectacular magic show by the Great Mysterio.  Monday night the closing ceremonies featured music by the local swing band led by Jerry Tabor.

            “All and all it was a great success,” said Conally after the closing ceremonies. “Next year we hope to have the same success only bigger and better.”

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SPORTS

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CORNING’S “SMOKE” SNUFFS TRAVELERS

TRAVELERS SPLIT WEEKEND SERIES

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Corning- Bill “Smoke” Black pitched a no hitter against the Travelers in the first game of the two game weekend series.  In an unusual dearth of offense the Travelers looked in vain for any clearing in the “smoke” that Black was throwing but were snuffed out time and again.  Black struck out 15 and only walked one in the eighth while the Corning offense scored one in the third and three in the eighth. 

The baffled Travelers woke up for the second game and defeated the Corning team 5-1 behind a strong performance by Joe Alfred.  Johnny Cloos resumed his home run exhibition by slamming two homeruns, one in the third and one in the sixth.  The first was a two run blast after Bobby Watson had singled and the sixth inning dinger accounted for three more after Francis and Dunham had reached on a walk and a single.  The Travelers defense was sharp again as the pitchers best friend, the double play, helped Alfred out in the third and ended the game in the ninth.  Once again the ultra-smooth Dunham to Archibald to Francis combination proved extremely effective. 

The Travelers move on to Riverview this weekend and then back to Corning next week.

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 NATIONAL NEWS

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IKE CALLS FOR CLEAN GOVERNMENT

RED SCARE EVERYWHERE – STEVENSON BACKS ACHESON

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New York- In front of the American Legion Convention in Madison Square Garden, Republican Presidential nominee Dwight D. Eisenhower pledges to end corruption in the government. “Let us end corruption in public office, at every level of government. In world opinion and in world effectiveness, the United States in measured by the moral firmness of its public officials.” Eisenhower also said that he does not believe the Russians are ready to fight and war will not come soon, unless “it is by accident of the powder keg variety,” The American Legion was demanding, for the third year in a row, that President Harry S. Truman dismiss Secretary of State Dean Acheson for his lack of vigor in dealing with the communist threat. The Legion report declared that the Department of State was in desperate need of "God-fearing Americans" who had the "intestinal fortitude not to be political puppets." The organization demanded a quick and victorious settlement of the Korean War, even if this meant expanding the war into China   The Christian Nationalist Party announces it is going to enter Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s name as a Presidential candidate on at least 19 state ballots. MacArthur is not a candidate, but members want to reserve the right to vote for him as a symbol of “Americanism.”

The Republican-dominated Senate Internal Security Subcommittee released a report charging that the Radio Writers Guild was dominated by a small number of communists. The Guild, whose members were responsible for producing more than 90 percent of the programs on radio, had purportedly been run by a small clique of communists for at least the last nine years. According to the subcommittee report, communist subversion of the Guild was merely one step in a larger effort to control the media of the United States—including radio, television, movies, and book publishing.

In a speech by Democratic nominee for president Governor Adlai E. Stevenson, in which he strongly criticized those who used "patriotism" as a weapon against their political opponents. In an obvious slap at the Senate Subcommittee and others, such as Senator Joseph McCarthy, Stevenson repeated the words of the writer Dr. Samuel Johnson: "Patriotism is the last refuge of scoundrels." The governor claimed that it was "shocking" that good Americans, such as Acheson and former secretary of state General George C. Marshall, could be attacked on the grounds that they were unpatriotic.

Moscow-Radio Moscow broadcasts of “terror” in New York … A monitored broadcast said, “terror is rife” in this nation’s largest city. This terror, it was suggested, is not confined to the streets of New York, but also to its subways. Radio Moscow gave as its reason for an upsurge in New York crime by claiming that people have been “driven to desperation” by the high cost of living.