EAST
FAREWELL NEWS
Thursday, May
12, 1955 Vol. C762
LOCAL NEWS
SID LENDEL – EAST
FAREWELL FOUNDER – DIES AT 89
East Farewell- East Farewell co-founder, Sid Lendel, died on
Tuesday at the age of 89. “He lived a long and wonderful life,” said his younger
brother, Lou Lendel, “He really tried to be good at everything he tried and
most of the time he succeeded.”
Besides his brother, Sid
is survived by his wife, Molly, three sons, Abe (Fiona), Ralph (Dora) and
Richard (Rebecca) and one daughter, Elsa (Frank) along with 15 grandchildren
and two great-grandchildren. There will be a memorial service held on the
Lakefront Plaza on Sunday. The Lakefront Plaza was the original overlook that
Sid and Lou used to promote the new town of East Farewell back in 1902; of
course there was no Plaza there at the time. “It was one of Sid’s favorite
places,” said Lou, “He would go down there and sit for hours just enjoying the
view, and after they built the Plaza, all the people walking by. Later in his
life he became quite the celebrity down there. He would gladly tell anyone the
entire history of East Farewell, the good and the not so good, mostly the good,
though.”
East Farewell
was incorporated July 13, 1902 by the Lendel brothers, Sid and Lou. They were working for the Mighty Keystone
Railroad as surveyors and line planners.
The railroad was trying to establish passenger service along the main
line across the state and connecting the East Coast to the Midwest. The Lendel brothers chose a site that ran
along a pristine lake, later named Lake Charles after Sid’s son. The railroad was looking for a location that
was approximately half way down the line to place an iron foundry to produce
rails for the lines expansion. The
location was perfect for a small town that would help the railroad and attract
workers, businesses and well-heeled railroad executives.
The Lendel brothers were visionary
town planners. They designed East Farewell with all the
best municipal facilities of the day.
They designed a complete water system as well as a full sanitary sewer
system. They laid out a street grid
system with wide streets centered around the train station. Lake Shore Drive circled Lake Charles and
offered stunning views of the lake as well as prime real estate locations. Main Street intersected Lake Shore drive at
the train station and proceeded south to finally intersect with Route 11 the
main east-west highway in the state.
Unfortunately, the Lendel brothers
were better planners than businessmen.
They went broke after investing a modest fortune in building East
Farewell. The railroad, however, did
extremely well and after building the Iron Works it bought out the Lendel brothers
and proceeded to expand the town.
Sid Lendel circa 1929
SPORTS
TRAVELERS CRACK AT CORNING
Corning – The Travelers suffered their first defeat last week when
ace hurler, Bill “Smoke” Black shutout the Travelers 3-0. The Travelers were
unable to get on track against the league’s leading pitcher. “Smoke” fired nine
scoreless innings and allowed only five hits sprinkled throughout. The
Travelers were expecting a tough game but they were surprised by the early
season perfection of Black. The game started as a pitching duel between Black
and Travelers ace, Danny Lane. The two pitched three perfect innings each and
it looked like a battle supreme was in the making but then the Devils came to
life in the fourth when Grant smashed a double and Howell followed with a loop
single sending Grant to third. Then CGW’s slugger Dennis Smith came to bat and
was able to connect with a 3-2 Lane fastball for a deep right field double,
driving in both Grant and Smith. Lane regained his composure and struck out the
side, but the damage was done. Black
continued perfect for another inning and then Johnny Cloos was able to smack a
clean double but was left stranded. CGW was able score again in the eighth and
the Cougars were only able to garner four more hits and no runs.
The Cougars come
home next week for their first night game ever. The Mountain View Explorers
with their ace, Joe “Freight” Trane come to town. The game will start at 7:30PM
and will show off the new lights, an addition added this year. The game will be
one of the highlights of the newly expanded Spring Fair that will be held over
all of next weekend.
NATIONAL NEWS
HOOVER
SAYS HE CAN SAVE LOTS OF DOUGH – AUSTRIANS GIVEN LIBERTY – ATOM BOMB BLOWN UP
UNDERWATER – MARCIANO KO’S COCKWELL IN 54 SECONDS
Former President Hoover (80) - who calls himself the government’s “old family doctor” – announces his commission on
government reorganization will recommend steps to save taxpayers six billion dollars
and return an additional 7 billion to the treasury. He predicted that in the
next five years, at least 70% of his commission’s recommendations would be
enacted into law.
At Vienna - The Big Four Foreign
Ministers and Austrian Foreign Minister Leopold Figl signs a state treaty which
will restore to 7 million Austrians their liberty, lost since Hitler’s Anschluss
in 1938. Commenting on Big Four gathering - President Eisenhower declares he
has spent months conferring with Soviet leaders and their foreign officials and
he does not believe American citizens suspect their government will fall into
any appeasement trap.
The Atomic Energy Commission and the
Defense Department say a successful underwater atomic explosion has been
conducted of the pacific Cast. The date and location of the blast were not
given.
Rocky Marciano knocks-out Don Cockwell
of England in 54 seconds at Kezar Stadium In San Francisco.
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