EAST
FAREWELL NEWS
Thursday, September
10, 1952 Vol. C428
LOCAL NEWS
LABOR DAY ARTS
FESTIVAL & FAIR A HUGE SUCCESS
East Farewell – The 2nd Annual East Farewell Arts
Festival and Country Fair held over Labor Day weekend will be remembered for a
very long time. Starting with Friday night’s stroll through downtown with all
the local restaurants, cafes and watering holes setting up sidewalk tables that
gave the wonderful feel of an evening in Paris for all who came out, to the
fabulous Monday night Music extravaganza the entire collection of events came
off without a hitch. It seems this year a
little advanced advertising went a long way as throngs of visitors and tourists
flowed into town early on Friday. All the rooms available were booked as well
as all the camp sites along the Lake Charles shore.
“I had people
asking if they could double up in their rooms, I was so busy. I had to turn
several folks away because I was full to the rafters. I even opened up the
attic which I haven’t used in years,” said Mrs. Mallard,
a local boarding house owner, “This was just a
fantastic time, a little busy but I like that.”
Saturday
morning saw the venerable livestock auction take place on the old fair grounds.
It is the original auction that has taken place for as long as most people can
remember and was the original basis for the festival and fair. The auction
started promptly at 6:30AM and as early as 5:30AM there were locals lined up at
the entrance for first look at the livestock.
Surprisingly, there was a large turnout of spectators just to watch the
auction. This had never happened before and the officials were somewhat
flummoxed as to how to handle the crowd. There were no seats and only some
quick thinking and fast, coordinated action averted a potential fiasco. Lead auctioneer, Jimmie Lee Ray, huddled with
the old fair grounds staff and almost flawlessly moved all the livestock, all
the participants and all the spectators to the infield that had the grandstands
overlooking the small display ring. The
auction was delayed about a half hour but took place and was a delight to both
the buyers and the spectators. After the auction some of the spectators
interviewed said this was the first livestock auction they had ever attended
but found it very interesting and somewhat exciting.
Saturday also
saw the opening of the Arts Festival where artisans from all over set up booths
and displayed their creations. The Lakefront Plaza was the new location of the
festival and it’s spacious, new area met with everyone’s satisfaction. The
local eateries and shops set up all around the plaza. There were more than twice as many booths
this year than there were last year.
There were a total of 110 artists, eateries and craftsmen. Potters,
painters, craftsmen, chefs and furniture makers made up the colorful, noisy
makeshift market that could only be compared to an Arabian marketplace. The wares were all top notch and there were
some beautiful and unique items for sale, but many folks were content to browse,
chat with the artists and grab some of the wonderful food. Some buyers were
looking for bargains but everyone was impressed with the quality and beauty of
all the wares that were offered. Angela Boyle, a fine woodworker who has
enjoyed national attention, has made East Farewell her home for several years
now and is the de-facto head of the Artists Alliance in town, displayed many of
her beautiful works of art. Wagner
Strump, a locally famous landscape artist, was also in attendance with many of
his very popular local scenes.
The evening was
full of excitement as the Local Players presented a condensed version of the
popular Broadway musical “Kiss Me Kate” with the Cole Porter score performed by
the High School Jazz Ensemble. The Local
Players will be performing the complete show in the new play house when it
opens later this month. The High School
Jazz Ensemble went on to play well into the night performing lots of popular
hits and even taking requests from the enraptured audience.
A beautiful
Sunday brought out the crowds for the second day of the festival and Sunday night
saw a return of last year’s hit magic show by The Great Mysterio. This year he not only sawed a damsel in half
but to everyone’s amazement he made a car disappear! Monday afternoon saw an exceptional music
performance by local favorite, Jerry Tabor and his Swing band. Also on the bill was a Rhythm and Blues band,
Big Roy and the Magnificents who got the crowd dancing in the aisles. The
closing ceremonies were presided over by the ever present Tom Conally, Town
Council President. He took the
opperyunity to thank all those who helped with the support of the spectacular
event and make sure he got his name in the paper.
Aerial
shot of the fair early Saturday morning
SPORTS
TRAVELERS SPLIT WITH CORNING
Corning – The Travelers spent the Labor Day holiday in Corning
and were able to come away with a win and loss and not able to move anywhere in
the standings. The Twilight Double
Header was the first played this year in the league. The first game started at
3:05 Monday afternoon and the second began at 7:05 in the evening. The Travelers were able to cut down CGW’s
first pitcher, Joe Dean, by hitting three homeruns and scattering 12 hits
through the game. The Travelers won game
one 6-1. Homers by Cloos, Francis and
Brown powered the Travelers to an easy victory in game one but the bats went
silent in game two went CGW ace Bill “Smoke” Black took the mound. Black shut down the Travelers, 4-0 as
Travelers pitcher Danny Lane had a tough time finding the strike zone for the
first three innings and walked 7 within those innings.
In the first
game the Travelers got off to a quick start by scoring two in the first off the
first dinner by Cloos who hit a two run shot out of the park on Dean’s first
pitch to him. That scored Watson who had single right before him. Adding three in the fifth on another
multi-run slam, this time a three run smash by Ralph Francis scoring Arty
Archibald and Billy Sweet, the Travelers cruised on. In the eighth they added a
little insult to the injury when catcher Joey Brown was able to send one deep
into the right field stands. That was only Brown’s third homer for the
season. CGW was able to manage one run
in the eight when they were able to put together two hits and a walk to score
Willis on a single by Franks. That was
it for CGW in the first game.
The second game
was a different story. League legend “Smoke” Black took the mound and proceeded
to retire the first nine batters striking out the first five. It wasn’t until the sixth inning that the
Travelers were able to show any offense but they were unable to score. CGW showed it still had some fight left in
them as they were able to score three in the fifth and one in the eighth while
keeping the Travelers off the base path and the scoreboard.
The Travelers
come home next week as they host the Mountain View
Explorers with another pitching ace, Joe “Freight” Trane and slugger, Bobby
“Hammer” Taxen. A win is becoming
crucial if the Travelers want to close the gap in the standings. The game starts at 1:30 at the ball field.
NATIONAL NEWS
NORTH KOREA SAYS WAR IS OVER
–SHAH FLEES IRAN – WE STILL DISTRUST RUSSIA
World News
North Korea proclaims the end of a
state of war and calls off military mobilization as the exchange of prisoners
nears its halfway mark.
Shah Mohammed Riza Pahlevi flees Iran with his Queen after a palace coup to overthrow Premier Mossedigh
collapses.
Despite the many Soviet peace feelers
from the Kremlin since Premier Georgi M. Malenkov took over the government,
that attitude of the average American toward Russia’s intentions has not
changed - some 79% still distrust Russia.
Entertainment
News
Staying in New York - Jackie Gleason
will not be moving his show to Hollywood.
Although Gleason was not adverse in making the movie, cast member Art
Carney was one of several who didn’t want to move.
ABC-TV swipes a show from rival DuMont
- the Dottie Mack show. But DuMont gets back by nabbing “Chance of a Lifetime”
with Old Gold cigarettes as a sponsor.
Adloph Stanley Levey of Philadelphia,
the drummer for Stan Kenton is fined $200 on a dope charge
Decca Records, following the Korean
truce, releases “There’s Peace In Korea” with Sister Rosetta Tharpe.
Columbia says it has sold some 30,000
“360” phonographs. The mono players uses an additional speaker to achieve a
binaural effect, even with obsolete and old records.
David Kapp leaves RCA Victor records.
Will he start his own label?
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