EAST
FAREWELL NEWS
Thursday, August
27, 1953 Vol. C246
LOCAL NEWS
BAR-B-QUE
COOKOFF TAKES CENTER STAGE
East Farewell- The seemingly never-ending heat wave did not
stifle the competitive grillers on Lakefront Plaza last week as 25 intrepid
cooks basted, smoked and grilled their hearts out in the first ever East
Farewell Grill-off. The idea came from the Business Council and most of the
town’s restaurants and bars took part as sponsors or suppliers. The judging was
done by local celebrities and officials including Travelers slugger, Johnny
Cloos and star pitcher Joe Nagy. Local bandleader Jerry Tabor and City Council
President Tom Conally rounded out the judging team.
“It’s a tough
job, but someone has to do it,” joked Conally as he dove into a rack of steaming,
dark caramel colored ribs prepared by local Fran Green.
Green went on to be
crowned the winner of the Grill-off with her bar-b-que ribs. All the judges
tasted every entrĂ©e and unanimously chose Green’s ribs but second and third
places were divided. The Travelers;
Cloos and Nagy were partial to Don Brown’s hot and spicy chicken wings while
Tabor leaned toward band member Isaac Benjamin’s bar-b-que brisket. Conally chose
a second rib dish offered by Jack Dwyer, apparently Tom loves those ribs. Third place was all spread out, Cloos chose
Dwyer’s ribs, Nagy went off track and chose a blacken fish dish served up by
local artist Angela Boyle, Tabor chose a second, novel chicken dish, a full
chicken grilled on a beer can, provocatively named “Beer-Butt Chicken”
presented by local Korean War hero, Bernie Quinn.
In spite of the ninety
plus heat the grillers set up on the Lakefront Plaza in the early morning and
started their respective grills. Some contestants used wood as a fuel and some
relied on charcoal to fire up their infernos. By noon the air was thick with
sweet smelling smoke and an occasional flare up could be seen coming from the
grills. During the event the judges
visited each station and chatted with the contestants. Many spectators came and
went throughout the day, most came to get signatures from Cloos, Nagy and Tabor.
Surprisingly, no one asked for Conally’s signature.
All the contestants
received a recognition banner and some were approached by the local restaurants
seeking their recipes. Perhaps everyone will be able to sample some of the
tasty concoctions from East Farewell.
Fran
Green and Bernie Quinn at the B-B-Q
SPORTS
TRAVELERS COME BACK TO LIFE
East
Farewell-The Travelers showed a new spark of life on Saturday when they topped
the Ondita Cougars, 6-4. The late afternoon start slightly saved both teams
from the midday heat when the temperatures reached 93° with 78% humidity. The temperature at game time was 84°. Travelers’
stars, Johnny Cloos and Joe Nagy arrived right before the National Anthem due
to their attendance to the Grill-off on Lakefront Plaza. All the eating and fun seemed to relax the
two as Nagy took the mound and pitched three no hit innings right off and Cloos
hit his first pitch out of the park. Perhaps that type of pregame warm-up
should be embraced by the rest of the team. After his dinger, Cloos went to hit
a two run double in the seventh and another single in the eighth boosting his
average to a league leading .344
The Cougars did get
into the game in the fourth with back to back doubles by Greene and Franks,
scoring one. The game was tied in the fifth, 1-1 as the bottom of the Travelers
order, Tony Dimero, Art Archibald and Joey C. Brown and pinch hitter, “Big Bob”
Tillman were able to put together a three run drive that put the Cougars back
on their heels. The Cougars were able to
get one back in the seventh and one in the eighth but Booby Watson was able to
put the game on ice with a score in the bottom of the eighth off Cloos’ single.
The Travelers go back on
the road next week as they travel to Bedford to meet the Eagles and they will
play a double header away from home on Labor Day against Corning and their ace,
Bill “Smoke” Black.
NATIONAL NEWS
GOVERNMENT DEFICT ALMOST 4
BILLION – WEST GERMANS & COMMIES CLASH – ROCKET PLANE HITS NEW HEIGHT –
MORE SMOKERS LITE UP
The government collected a record-setting $69,687,000,000 from the
public last fiscal year – 7.2% higher than the previous year. A new budget is
revealed for fiscal year 1954: the government will spend $72,100,000,000 and
have net receipts of $68,300,000,000, winding up with a deficit of $3.8
billion.
The West German government charges that armed Communist terrorists are
filtering in from the east to wage a terror campaign against this week’s
election by wrecking polling booths and assassinating political leaders. West
Germany’s police force went into action to smash the mass invasion of Communist
saboteurs swarming in from the Soviet zone to wreak the crucial Parliamentary
elections. Nearly 2000 Red shock troops were caught trying to sneak across the
zonal border under orders to foment election riots and the Ruhr and other key
industrial areas. Border police were placed on an alarm basis.
A new world altitude record of 83,235 feet is set by Lt. Col. Marion E.
Carl Marine Corps ace, in a rocket plane. That’s almost 16 miles high.
Cigarette users consumed some 397 billion cigs last year – up 3-½ % from the previous year.