EAST
FAREWELL NEWS
Thursday, February
10, 1955 Vol. C629
LOCAL NEWS
SLED DOG RACE
PROPOSED
East Farewell – All the heavy winter snow has prompted talk
throughout town that with all the snow on the ground it would be a wonderful
idea to stage a sled dog race around the lake. The idea is thought to have
originated from Ned Bailey, a local businessman and dog breeder. Although he
does not raise Huskies, he thought that there were enough large dogs in town to
create a field for a race around Lake Charles. Preposterous as it sounds, the
idea started to gather some traction around town and has been brought up at a
Town Council meeting last week. Tom Conally, Council President, was caught off
guard by the proposal and brushed it off. But the crowd persisted and it was
brought to a vote. The Council voted the proposal down but not without hearing
from almost ten people in favor of the idea. Concerns about the general
impracticality of the whole idea doomed it from the start. Not only did Bailey
not have the right kind of dogs for the demanding challenge, he also did not
have any permits, rights of way or permissions from local landowners whose land
would be crossed.
“This was a
cockamamie idea to begin with and I don’t think it really had been thought out
very far. I am surprised it got as far as it did. We really have more important
things to talk about than some half-baked idea about having fun in the snow,”
sneered an obviously upset Conally.
“This idea has
not yet bloomed,” responded a defiant Bailey, “I admit there are lots of kinks
to be worked out but, we will see a dog sled race in this town sooner, not
later.”
“We’ll see,”
said Conally.
On a less
controversial note, the Valentine’s Day Social is set for this weekend,
February 12. This will be the sixth annual event and Mrs. Mallard
is in charge of organizing the event for the third year in a row.
“We are looking
for another huge turnout and another year of great music and wonderful homemade
treats,” said Mrs. Mallard in the middle of the very busy basement of the Town
Hall. The whole town is looking forward to another great social.
SPORTS
COUGARS KNOCK OFF MINERS
Slate Mountain- The Cougars were able to overcome a fourth
period eight point deficit to knock off a very good Slate Mountain Miners team,
38-32. The final score may look a little lopsided but it wasn’t until Miners
center, Joe Carney fouled out that the Cougars really pulled away. Carney had
held Cougars center, Michael Watson, in check for most of the game. The two
battled valiantly and until Carney went out they had almost identical stats. 13
rebounds each, seven assists each, twelve points for Watson, eleven for Carney.
Watson and Carney were both playing with four fouls in the last five minutes
when Carney blocked a drive by Timmy Green but caught his arm on the way up and was
called for his fifth foul. After Carney fouled Watson was able to take command
of the center and the Cougars rattled of six straight points and finish off the
Miners.
“Those kids
were very good, they played a great game. We were just a little better. That
Carney kid is going to be a force in this league. I hear he is only a sophomore
so I look forward to meeting him again. I think our guys did a fine job out
there but I saw a lot of things we have to work on, but we won and that is
always better than the alternative,” said Coach Wilson after the game.
Next week the
Cougars come home to host the Central Bears. The game will be played in the
Regional High Gym, beginning at 4:30PM.
NATIONAL NEWS
REDS-MALENKOV OUT, BULGANIN IN
– MOLOTOV TALKS OF NEW H-BOMB – MAO SPEAKS OUT – THEY TRY TO GET RID OF MARILYN
– MANTEL RESIGNS WITH YANKEES
The Soviet Parliament ousts Premier Malenkov and replaces him with Marshal Nikolai Bulganin. Marshal
Georgi Zhukov, Russia’s glittering war hero, becomes head of the Soviet Union’s
armed forces in a continued shake-up of the regime.
Soviet
Foreign Minister Molotov tells Russia’s Supreme Soviet Parliament the Soviet Union has developed hydrogen
bombs with “such success that the United States would appear backward.” He
declared a world war would mean the end of “blood-saturated imperialism.”
Mao Tze-Tung - the ruler or Red China’s 600 million people broadcast that if “imperialists”
wage war, “we together with the peoples of the whole world, will certainly wipe
them out clean from the surface of the globe.”
Tests get under way - A B-36 bomber
drops a small atom bomb in the Nevada desert. Meanwhile, Russia proposes that
all nations destroy all atomic and hydrogen weapons.
Hedda Hopper reports that a group of 20th -Century Fox stockholders have banded together in an effort to get rid of Marilyn Monroe. “We don’t like the
blight she is giving to the company. It’s disgusting. She’s had four or five
years’ training - enough to produce ten competent actresses and she still can’t
act,” said a spokesperson.
Mickey Mantle re-signs with the Yankees
again for a reported $25,000 for next season - a $5,000 increase.
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