EAST
FAREWELL NEWS
Thursday, July
9, 1953 Vol. C239
LOCAL NEWS
FIREWORKS EXPLODE
East Farewell – The much anticipated fireworks display over Lake
Charles celebrating the Fourth of July was quite the explosion. Unfortunately
it was not the beautiful display that everyone expected. Five minutes into the
show and errant spark jumped into the storage area and ignited the entire
storage area. The explosion was technically multiple explosions but was massive
none the less and went on for almost four minutes keeping the standby fire
truck and firemen away until it had almost blown itself out. Amazingly no one
was injured and there was virtually no property damage because the area was an
open field that was well fenced. Most of the ignitions were vertical but some
did shoot out horizontally and they posed the most danger to the attendants and
the crowd. The event was visible from
the Lakefront Plaza and some of the explosions were visible from across the
lake.
Even though the
big show was cut short the party at the Lakefront Plaza continued on after
everything was declared safe. Gus Templeton and his orchestra played an extra
set and Big Roy and the Magnificents really got the people dancing with their
very exciting rhythm and blues. Gus Sloan closed out the night with his second
jazz set. The restaurants and shops that
had set up café seating and booths kept the evening going and stayed open until
the end of the evening. They had originally planned to close once the fireworks
started.
Fire Chief,
Leon Barnes, started the investigation as soon as the fireworks were brought
under control. He issued a preliminary report on Monday that points to an
ignition spark landing in the storage area and igniting the stored fireworks.
No intentional sabotage has been indicated. It seems it was just a spectacular
accident.
Fireworks
exploding seen from Lake Front Plaza
SPORTS
NAGY DAZZELS WITH NO HITTER
East Farewell – Joe Nagy put on a pitching show for the crowd at
the new ball park on Saturday. He was able to strike out nine and lead the
Travelers to a 4-0 win over the Erie Eagles. The game gave the struggling
Travelers a big lift after losing three on the road. Nagy started out by striking out the first
four batters and then having the next two hit in to infield outs. In the third
Eagle, Bobby Rome hit a long fly to right but that was it, both Ford and Gamble
grounded out. On the other side of the scorecard the Travelers went to deep
right when leadoff hitter Ralph Francis knocked one out of the park on a 2-1
curve ball from Eagles starter Ben Rice.
By the seventh inning the game had become almost a showplace for Nagy.
He struck out at least one batter in every inning, only one batter, Jones, was
able to reach on a walk. The Travelers had scored two more one in the fifth and
one in the sixth. Nagy seemed to get stronger as the game went on, striking out
the side in the seventh and two in the eighth.
Only in the ninth did the Eagles scare the hometown fans. After Ford
grounded out, Gamble went 3-2 against Nagy. The pay-off pitch was a fastball
that looked close inside. Umpire, Dick Farley, called a ball four and put
Gamble on. Nagy regained his composure and pitched a fastball to Rucci who hit
a stinger to Dale who easily turned the double play with Archibald to Watson to
end the inning and any Eagle threat. The Travelers added some salt to the wound
by Johnny Cloos blasting one out in the bottom of the eighth.
The Travelers
are home for the next three weeks. Next week they play the Mountain View
Explorers with ace Joe “Freight” Trane pitching and slugger Bobby “Hammer”
Taxen. The game begins at 1:30 at the new ball park.
NATIONAL NEWS
COMMIES READY TO SIGN
ARMISITICE – WAR TO END SOON – UNEMPLOYMENT DOWN TO NEW LOW
Communist truce negotiators announce
that they are ready to sign the armistice on the basis of U.N. promises that
South Korea will honor it. The Reds
propose that armistice negotiators begin “immediately” to discuss preparations
for the truce-signing ceremony.
45,000 American and South Korean troops
counterattack the Communists along the Korean central front bulge in the
biggest allied attack in several years.
Unemployment in the U.S. reaches the
lowest point since WWII - at about 1.7 million workers out of work, compared
with 3.1 million in 1950.
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