EAST
FAREWELL NEWS
Thursday, September
3, 1953 Vol. C247
LOCAL NEWS
EAST FAREWELL
GEARS UP FOR LABOR DAY FAIR & ARTS FESTIVAL
East Farewell – Celebrating the one year anniversary of being
crowned “Destination Station” by the Mighty Keystone Railroad, East Farewell
gears up for the 2nd Annual Arts Festival, Country Fair &
Livestock Auction. Technically, the
Livestock Auction has being held for the last ten years but only last year was
the event merged into the Fair and Arts Festival. The success of the Fair &
Festival pushed the Auction to the early Saturday morning. It still draws a surprising number of
spectators and the local farmers who partake find it better in early morning.
“It is much easier to get the work done, without all the showboating
that used to take place when this was the main event. It is more normal and I
can get a much better look at the livestock and concentrate on those cows,”
said local farmer, Ogden Stone, “Before, it became like a circus. Now it really
gets to the point and I actually enjoy it, now.”
The Arts
Festival and Fair is planned to take place over the Labor Day weekend and has a
schedule even bigger than last year’s success.
More events are planned and there are more artists signed up to display
and sell the creations. The town is hoping to again receive the coveted title
of “Destination Station” from the Mighty Keystone Railroad. The full schedule of
events from the Friday evening stroll through the Monday night Music
Extravaganza is sure to bring to award to town for another year.
Promo
Postcard from East Farewell
SPORTS
TRAVELERS CAN’T SOAR WITH THE
EAGLES
Bedford – The Travelers were grounded by a hot Bedford Eagles
team last week and lost, 5-2 in a hot day game. The Eagles, led by slugger,
Frank Hayes, went to town on Travelers pitcher, Billy Green scoring two runs in
the first inning and getting at least one base runner on base in the first five
innings. While the temperatures soared into the mid nineties by the mid
afternoon the Eagles seemed to take the heat in stride but the Travelers looked
limp and listless. The Travelers were
unable to generate any offense until the seventh inning when Johnny Cloos was
able to slam a low fastball out of the park, scoring Dale Dunham who reached on
a flared single earlier. That dinger was the only offense the Travelers
generated all afternoon. The Eagles went
on to score one in the fourth and two in the eighth.
The loss puts
the Travelers in third place behind Ondita and Coring. They have a chance to get back in the race
next weekend when they travel to Corning for a Labor Day double header. This
game is scheduled as a Twilight Doubleheader with the first game beginning at
4:05 and the second billed to start at 7:35 PM. Fireworks are promised as a
Labor Day extra for the fans.
NATIONAL NEWS
STEAMY NORTHEAST CONTINUES –
COMMIES BLOW UP BIG BOMB – MONEY FOUND – COLOR TV ON THE WAY
New York and the rest of the Northeast are hit by a heat wave. The warmer weather extended
to the Midwest where Chicago reported 99 degrees.
The Atomic Energy Commission announces that the Soviet Union had set off
another fission-type explosion on August 23. The location of the explosion was
given only as “in Russian territory.”
Mystery – Stacks of money, which weren’t supposed to be on the ship, are
hauled up from the sunken freighter Flying Enterprise. The ship sank in January 1952, but its captain
says at the most, there was about $400 in cash on the ship. Any other money
would have been in sacks of mail or express cargo. The money, in British and American currency,
is reported to be $210,000. The money was hauled up from a depth of 262 feet
off the English coast by an Italian salvage crew employed by a British
insurance firm.
Everyone in the industry is expecting the FCC to finally approve the RCA
compatible color system in a few weeks and NBC announces that it will begin to
experiment with on-the-air color premieres of its major television programs
beginning September 28. The commission already has proposed to adopt the
system, which lets current television set owners receive color pictures in
black & white. Sylvester L. Weaver, vice chairman of the NBC board, said
the color premiers would be held at the rate of one or two a week, featuring
Bob Hope, Dinah Shore, Eddie Fisher, Robert Montgomery and others. All color programs
now originate in the Colonial Theatre at 1887 Broadway, which is equipped with
four color cameras, associated lighting and other color equipment. NBC says it’s been a training ground for
color production crews. CBS-TV says it will use the RCA method of color on some
programs beginning September 15. CBS had to chuck its own color system in favor
of its rival.
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