EAST
FAREWELL NEWS
Thursday, March
3, 1955 Vol. C362
LOCAL NEWS
PUBLIC TRANSIT
SYSTEM MAKES ITS DEBUT
East
Farewell- The new trolley line that ties the Lakefront Plaza
The new trolley line was started
only 13 months ago and a novel approach to construction was taken. Instead of having designated stops or
stations the trolley will stop on any corner it passes when requested by a
rider. This saved money by not having to
build specific stations and only supplying streamlined shelters. The new line will feature cars built by the
Budd Company of Philadelphia
“I think it is fantastic that you
only have to wait ten minutes at the most to catch a trolley and they will take
you almost anywhere in town,” gushed Bernie Talent, local rider. Other townspeople expressed similar
enthusiasm for the new line. There is
already talk of tying the farther reaches of the town, areas around the west
side of Lake Charles
“We are very proud of
this system. The superb craftsmanship that went into the building of this line
along with the state-of-the-art technology that is used to make it run is a
testament to the American worker and American know how,” gushed Ben Hagger,
president of the EFTS, at the press conference held to launch the system Monday
morning.
The first car
left the depot at 8:20AM and completed its route on time in spite of snow
clogged streets and ice covered signals. The inaugural run saw a huge
ridership, mostly due to the novelty of the system and the pure history of the
event.
“A lot of riders were
just riding, they didn’t really have any place to go,” laughed Bernie Talent,
a local rider.
It seems the East
Farewell Transit System is off to a successful start and appears to have a
wonderful future.
New trolley passes through Main Street on loop system
SPORTS
COUGARS TAME THE WILDCATS
East Farewell – The
Cougars were able to get back in the lead of the league as they beat the
Wildcats on Wednesday, 48-45 on Wednesday. The Wildcats tried to use the same
strategy that they used to beat the Cougars in their last
meeting, double team center, Watson, and press every inbounds. They didn’t
count on Coach Wilson being as good a coach as he is. Wilson learned from the
loss and like every great coach made adjustments. The Cougars came out with an
entirely different game plan that focused on the forwards, Billy Reilly and
Tommy O’ Hare. The backcourt tandem, Green and Welch were able to keep the
Wildcats zone moving and finally forced them to switch to a man to man, which
opened up the center. The Cougars took advantage of splendid team play and
tightly executed play by the whole team. Reilly and O’Hare were able to combine
for 30 points. 18 for Reilly and 22 for O’Hare, Watson ended up with 8 while
Green and Welch both had 5.
The Wildcats tried to press from the
start but the Cougars had obviously practiced several inbounds plays and were
not intimidated by the smothering but ultimately ineffective Wildcat
press. The Wildcats seemed to run out of
steam towards the end of the game and had to lift the press. The Wildcat
offense was very aggressive throughout the game with center, Gerald Conwell,
leading all scorers with 26 points.
The Cougars continue at home next
week against the Fort Lee Captains. The standings in the league are now;
Cougars, Devils, Bears, Wildcats, Canaries, Miners, Hawks and Captains. If the
Cougars win three more they will cliché the title.
NATIONAL NEWS
IKE GIVES CONGRESS A RAISE –
VOLCANO SPLITS HAWAII – CHURCHILL SAY COMMIES NO BIG THREAT – COMMIE CHIEFS IN
TROUBLE
President Eisenhower signs into law a
50% pay raise for members of Congress. The legislation boosts their pay from
$15,000 to $22,500 per year. This includes a $2,500 taxable expense account.
Pahoa Hawaii - A new volcano splits a
half-mile crack in a cane field on Hawaii’s eastern tip and explodes a
200-foot-high fountain of red-hot lava about 200 yards from 12 plantation
workers. All escaped unhurt.
Prime
Minister Winston
Churchill says Soviet leaders realize they never can win a hydrogen bomb war against the west.
“The United States has an overwhelming superiority in thermonuclear weapons
that may be cut by the Russians within four years, but cannot be nullified,”
said Churchill. He also told the House that a sneak hydrogen bomb raid on
Britain might bring a retaliatory punch “almost immediately” from American
bombers.
Sources in
Russia say that former Premier Malenkov seems to be in
serious danger. A case is being built up and that it is possible he may be
charged with ideological heresy. Pravda condemned him by clear inference by
expressing a view which the paper said was “useful only to imperialist
warmongers.” Last March, Malenkov declared in an election address that if a new
world war breaks out “with modern weapons it means the run of world
civilization.”
Premier Nikoalai Bulganin purges the
Soviet officials who served under ousted Premier Georgi Malenkov. He fired both
the Minister of state farms and the Minister of the Coal industry for
“unsatisfactory work.”
Russia declares that the United States
as well as Britain is within the range of “military retaliation” with hydrogen bombs.
A Moscow radio broadcast quoted Maj. Gen. Isayev as saying that the Soviet
Union is well ahead of the United States in production of hydrogen weapons.
It’s disclosed that Prof. Bruno
Pontecorvo, the Italian-born British atomic and hydrogen bomb scientist who
disappeared in 1950, has been working on nuclear research in Russia since that
time.
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