EAST
FAREWELL NEWS
Thursday, October
8, 1953 Vol. C432
LOCAL NEWS
CIRCUS COMES TO
TOWN
East Farewell- The famous Barnum & Bailey Circus, “The
Greatest Show on Earth” setup their tents in the fairgrounds this week and
entertained the town with spectacular shows under the big top. This visit was a
homecoming of sorts since the Circus last visited three years ago. The enormous
growth of East Farewell was the reason the operators decided to return.
“This market
has certainly grown in the past few years,” said Ringmaster, Dwight Bigalowe,
“The town was always very welcoming and the kids all loved the shows but things
have changes so much since we last visited. The last time we were here I think
we only did three or four shows. There just weren’t that many people here. Now,
wow! We sold out ten shows and then added two shows over Sunday. The Midway was
going full out the whole time. All our performers were treated with such great
kindness and affection we felt like we were part of the whole town’s family.
Even the animals seemed to enjoy the extra attention. This was just a wonderful
reception. You can bet we will make Eat Farewell and permanent stop on out tour
from now on.”
The circus
first toured in 1888 when the famous showman, PT Barnum teamed up promoter
James Bailey to create the Greatest Show on Earth. The show travels back and
forth across the country by way of its very own train that is maintained by the
Mighty Keystone Railroad. The MKR allows
the circus to use a siding along the main line to “park” their cars while in
town so other rail traffic is not affected. The siding is conveniently located
right next to the fairgrounds making loading and unloading very easy as well as
giving all the elephants, lions, tigers and bears plenty of room to move. The
animal pens were a show all by themselves as folks were able to walk fairly
close to the pens and get a good look at the animals when they were not
performing.
The show rolled
in last Thursday night and was setup for a Friday night show. There was a
surprise parade down Main Street leading up to the opening show. The elephants
were marched right through the middle of town much to the chagrin of the local
police but delighting most of the town folk. The parade is a tradition for the
circus and acts as a sort of Pied Piper, leading folks to the fairgrounds and
opening the show. Shows were held every
day with two on Saturday and Sunday. The Midway was open from 10:00AM until
11:00PM every day. It is fair to say the fairground was packed all day, every
day. On Tuesday and Wednesday even the schools made field trips to the
afternoon shows much to the students delight. With such a strong turnout the
circus is certain to coming back to East Farewell for a long time.
Elephants
on Main Street
SPORTS
COUGARS MISS THE BOAT IN
RIVERVIEW - TRAVELERS KEEP UP PRESSURE
Riverview – The Cougars were not able to get on track against a
very strong Riverview team going down in defeat 7-14 last week. The Wildcats
were able to score on their second possession with a superbly executed screen
pass by QB, Frank Willis and a run into the end zone by receiver Gerry Snyder. The Wildcats continued to dominate in the
second and third quarter scoring again in the third quarter with a long drive
and a fullback center plunge for the score by Tony Raoli. The Cougars were not able to get on the board until
the fourth quarter when Jones was able to take a quarterback keeper into the
end zone but it was too little too late. One high point of the game for the
Cougars was junior kicker, Charlie Cox, he has only missed one extra point all
season and he has taken over the punting chores and been averaging 25 yards a
punt. His perfect extra point record
from last year was carried into this year and was only broken in the second game
of this season when he missed one that hit the upright and bounced outside.
“We didn’t play
our best game but these kids a still getting used to playing as a team,” said
Coach Burkowitz after the game, “but we are getting better and we are going to
be fine, just fine.”
Ondita – The Travelers visited Ondita over the weekend and were
able keep the race tight by beating the Cougars, 5-4. The game was played in
the afternoon and Corning’s was scheduled for the evening so the cougars were
able to put a little pressure on CGW to come up with a win or slip into a tie.
Corning handled the pressure and won their game so the Travelers are still one
game back with two games left.
The Travelers
looked sharp as they jumped out to a quick lead in the second with Cloos and
Dimero getting on and then Joey Brown swatted a long drive into right and
scored Cloos and Dimero. They continued
in the fourth when with Francis and Dunham on Johnny Cloos came up and drove
one out of the park. The Travelers topped off the scoring with one more in the
eighth when Sweet was scored by a Francis double. The Cougars were able to get on the board
with a three run sixth when Thomas went long with Rodgers and Walsh on. They
scored one more in the ninth with a deep sacrifice fly by O’Hara.
One point that
stood out was a return of the sharp defense that the Travelers had not shown in
the last few games. The Travelers were able to turn four double plays and
catcher, Joey Brown was able to throw out four runners attempting to steal,
three at second and one at third. The defense was reminiscent of the record
setting last year but has not always been around this season. It was great to
see it show up at this crucial time of the season.
Next week the
Travelers come home to Bear Creek and finish at home against Corning. The final
game could be a deciding game for the title.
NATIONAL NEWS
POW GENERAL DEAN RETURNS TO
HUGH WELCOME – IS THE US IS ON FIRE? – MURROW DEBUTS NEW TV SHOW
Maj. Gen William F. Dean who commanded the first
U.S. line in Korea and fell captive to the Communists, returns to Washington
and receives the Army’s traditional welcome to a hero.
The money lost in fires throughout the
United States will approach the billion dollar mark.
“Person to Person” with Edward R. Murrow debuts
this week. Catch it Friday nights on CBS-TV. The premier features Edward R.
Murrow visiting the homes of baseball’s Roy Campanella and orchestra leader
Leopold Stokowski and his wife, Gloria Vanderbilt Stokowski.
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