Thursday, November 6, 2014

11/3/1955

EAST FAREWELL NEWS


Thursday, November 3, 1955   Vol. C761



LOCAL NEWS


OKTOBERFEST OPENS TO HUGE CROWDS


East Farewell- The first East Farewell Oktoberfest opened to huge crowds last Saturday.  The event is a “trial” put on by the Town Council to see if it would generate more late fall tourist travel.  From all accounts it has been a very successful trial, indeed.  There were lines at the gates of the fairgrounds early Saturday.  The crowds were anticipating a wonderful time and were rewarded many times over from all accounts.  The fairgrounds had enormous tents set up and since the grounds back up to the Fun Pier the rides, including the famous Ferris wheel, were open to the crowds.  The tents housed giant tables and stages and the people were all treated to fantastic food and, of course, beer as well as other beverages.  The local restaurants offered their signature fares as well as bar-b-q chicken and ribs.  On stage there was a constant variety of bands from the always popular Hans Snider Polka Band and the Jerry Tabor Band.   Local bands like Big Roy and the Magnificents and Charlie Green who was backed up by his new band the Soggy Bottom Boys.  The local group of teenagers, the All-Stars, supplied some of the new sound, rock and roll.  The crowds were very excited by the boys and all the music groups, singing along with the tunes and dancing in the aisles.

            Most of the crowd went over to the Fun Pier during the day and rode the rides and had fun on boardwalk.  The Pier will remain open for the entire Oktoberfest and the tents will be open every day for the week.  The evenings will be filled with performances from local groups putting on theatrical shorts and there is even a movie planned to be shown on a huge screen much like a drive-in without the cars.  Everyone is looking forward to all the planned events throughout the week. 

 East Farewell Oktoberfest 1st Day



SPORTS


COUGARS PASS BY SOUTHPORT


South Port – The Cougars took to the air on Saturday and passed their way to victory over the Southport Hawks, 21-7. The aerial display was orchestrated by quarterback, Jimmy O’Conner and his receivers, Mitch “Merc” McMaster, “Long” John Silber and Wayne “TV” Emerson. O’Conner was able to mix and match his passes both short and long among the three receivers to complete a total of 20 passes, 170 yards, 2 touchdowns and no interceptions. The Hawks had trouble containing the multi-pronged attack but did mount their own offensive attack on the ground. Hawks running back, Phil Hayman, was able to rush for a total of 80 yards and one score.
            The Cougars started off trying to establish the ground game but the Hawks defense was rock solid. After trading several sets of downs the game looked like it was going to turn into a slug fest between the twenties but then Coach Burcowitz changed his game plan and let O’Conner start to air it out. The next series moved the Cougars down to the fifteen and with a quick snap and a toss across the center to Silber the Cougars had their first score. O’Conner kept up his aerial bombardment and the Cougars were able to score at the end of the first half with a thirty yard bomb to McMaster who raced twenty more yards for the score. In the second half the Hawks were able to score on a time consuming drive with Hayman scoring from the seven. While the Hawks put up a formidable defense they couldn’t stop the Cougars three receivers. When they moved to contain one O’Conner would move to another and move the ball forward. The final score came when Silber caught a short pass over the center, eluded his defender and found himself all alone on the right sideline and only fifteen yards to the goal line. He headed toward the goal line and at the one he was almost knocked out by Hawk defender, Frank Gains but Silber dove headfirst into the end zone for the score. Kicker Charlie Cox was perfect again for all the extra points.
            Next week’s game is against the Coring Devils in Corning. The game begins at 1:30 on the Corning High field.


 NATIONAL NEWS


IKE RETURNS TO DC – BIG 4 MEET IN GENEVA - SARNOFF DEMONSTRATES FREE RECORD


President Eisenhower returns to the capital. With a crowd of 5000 - head by Vice-President Nixon, the President walked unaided down the ramp from his plane after a flight from Denver. “I am deeply honored that so many of you should come down to welcome Mrs. Eisenhower and me back to Washington. It has been a little longer stay than we had planned, but the circumstances you will understand.

Big Four meeting In Geneva - Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov unequivocally rejects western proposals for German reunification and for security of Europe in such harsh terms as to render barren all further efforts at an authentic compromise during the remaining life of the Big Four conference. Later, having suspended their efforts to reunify Germany, the three Foreign Ministers turn their debate with Molotov to another quest for disarmament.

Gen. David Sarnoff; chairman of the board of Radio Corp of American (RCA) demonstrates a 50-cent phonograph that could be the answer to radio jamming behind the Iron Curtain. He said it is the answer to the need he felt for a device which could bring a message without being subject either to radio jamming or a source of electricity and which was prices so “millions could be delivered gratis.” The little machine, said Sarnoff, is unbreakable and could be dropped by air behind the Iron or Bamboo Curtain. “It is so simply designed that it could be assembled and separated by the simplest people.”

At the movies -
Rebel Without A Cause - James Dean, Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo, Jim Backus, William Hopper
The Tender Trap  Frank Sinatra, Debbie Reynolds, David Wayne Celeste Holm
The Adventures of Quentin Durward - Robert Taylor, Kay Kendall, Robert Morely
The Big Knife - Jack Palance, Ida Lupino, Wendell Corey, Jean Hagen, Rod Steiger and Miss Shelley Winters
Lucy Gallant - Jane Wyman, Charlton Heston, Claire Trevor, Thelma Ritter
My Sister Eileen - Janet Leigh, Jack Lemmon, Betty Garrett
Sincerely Yours - Liberace (his first starring motion picture!), Joanne Dru, Dorothy Malone, Alex Nicol
A Man Alone - Ray Milland, Mary Murphy, Ward Bond
Walt Disney’s The African Lion The View From Pompey’s Head - Richard Egan, Dana Wynter, Cameron Mitchell
Trial - Glenn Ford, Dorothy McGuire, Arthur Kennedy, John Hodiak, Katy Jurado
The Desperate Hours - Humphrey Bogart, Fredrick March



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