4/14/1955

EAST FAREWELL NEWS

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Thursday, April 14, 1955   Vol. C759

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LOCAL NEWS

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EASTER PARADE & EGG HUNT BIG HIT

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East Farewell- The annual Easter Parade and Egg Hunt took place in East Farewell last week.  As has been the case for the last ten years, both were a huge success.  The parade started at the east end of Main Street and proceeded across town to end up at the Lakefront Plaza where the always popular egg hunt took place.  This year there were over fifty participants, well over last years thirty-eight.  It seems there is a baby boom going on in East Farewell. 

            The parade featured the Regional High School Band as well as many floats that were decorated with spring themes and the different churches in the area each had a group or float to celebrate.  There was also a gathering from the Woman’s Club who walked and showed off their Easter Hats.  They were a very beautiful and extravagant as they paraded gaily down Main Street.  Many of them stopped along the way to chat with folks along the route.  The entire parade was a fairly casual affair.  This spring event has always had the air of celebration and a bit of spring fever.  This year the weather cooperated by delivering a beautiful, warm sunny day.  The Regional High School Band started playing at First Avenue with the national anthem and played continuously through the entire route, all the way to Lakefront Plaza.   Their selections included; When the Saints Come Marching In, Amazing Grace/Will the Circle Be Unbroken, Alexander’s Rag Time Jam and of course, Easter Bonnet.  Along with all the other participants and floats the marchers also included the Egg Hunt children.  While some were still too small to walk the length of the parade and were pushed in strollers by their parents, all were able to complete the route and reach the Lakefront Plaza for the main event.

            The Egg Hunt was a laugh filled bit of chaos that had children running all over the main lawn of the Plaza collecting all of the 300 eggs hidden for the occasion.  The eggs were donated by Livingston’s Food Market and were colored by the participants and older members of the local Boy and Girl Scout Troops.  The children hunted for about fifteen minutes and picked the area clean.  All 300 eggs were accounted for.  The winner with a total of 15 eggs was Jimmy Clair.  The second place went to Betty Ann Bentley with 13 eggs and third place was a tie between Frankie O’Hara and Kathy Mitchell with ten eggs each.  The prizes were gift certificates to any store in town and were in values of $20 for first, $15 for second and $10 for third. That is quite a haul for eight to ten year olds.

            The Easter Parade and Egg Hunt has been an East Farewell tradition for ten years.  First held when the town was merely a whistle stop on the Keystone Railroad, the parade has grown every year in both size, length and participation.  All the merchants have embraced the idea and supported the event enthusiastically.  While it hasn’t yet reached the status of a New York City Parade it comes closer every year.  

Regional High School Band marches during the Easter Parade

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SPORTS

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COUGARS FINISH SEASON WITH A WIN AND A CHAMPIONSHIP

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East Farewell- The Cougars finished off their 1955 season by beating the Slate Mountain Miners, 38-36.  The team had already sealed a League Championship last week but Coach Wilson did a fine job to prepare the team and avoid a let down due to a virtually meaningless game.  As it turned out the Miners came to play, the game was anything but meaningless to them.  The Miners have suffered a through a difficult season winning only 4 games.  They were beset with injuries from the beginning of the season and were only able to field sophomores and juniors and lacked the court leadership the older, more experienced players bring.

            The game was played fairly close throughout with the Miners throwing up a very strong defense and an impressive full court press that stymied the Cougars in the first half.  The only offense the Cougars could muster was some very sharp outside shooting by the guards, Green and Welch.  They were able to hit an outstanding 8 for 9 from the outside.  The first half ended with the Cougars up by four, 18-14.  The Cougars figured out the press in the second half and were able to take advantage of their superior height and experience to control the second half.  The Miners made a run in the last three minutes and were able to close their deficit to 2 but it was too little too late as time ran out as Welch put on a dribbling display to close out the last twenty seconds.  The Cougars walked away with a 38-36 victory and the league championship.  His is the second championship for the team in five years.  The previous winner, the 1952 squad, has a surprisingly close relation to this year’s squad.  Four players on this years team; Timmy Green, Joey Welch, Bobby Fox and Wilson Watson have brothers that played on the ’52 team.

            “Maybe it runs in the families, I don’t know,” laughed Coach Wilson, “I gotta love this group, they played like their older brothers and sometimes they were even better.  This was a great team and I look forward to next year.”

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 NATIONAL NEWS

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EINSTEIN DIES – SALK WANTS VACCINE PERFECT- DUMONT INTRODUCES ELECTRONICAM

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Passing - Dr. Albert Einstein (76) father of the atomic bomb and television. Even after death, the mind and body of the great genius of the 20 th Century were dedicated to science.  He died at Princeton Hospital of a rupture in the main artery of the body. He also suffered from a severe, long-standing gall bladder ailment.

Dr. Jonas Salk comes to Pittsburgh with a vow to work for 100% effectiveness of the antipolio vaccine which bears his name. “The report at Ann Arbor indicates the vaccine is 80 to 90% effective,” said Dr. Salk on his arrival from Detroit.  “Now, we will try to perfect it.”

A Gallup Poll indicates 4 to 1 that adults across the nation do not think it is a good idea for teenagers to go steady and say that it would be better if they dated different boys and girls. 

DuMont announces an “entirely new concept of network television” with its Electronicam” a dual - purpose television and motion picture camera. Dr. Allen B. DuMont describes it, saying Electronicam “delivers live television pictures of quality identical with that of current TV standards and simultaneously provides a movie film of quality equal to that of motion picture film. Its high quality supersedes all currently used methods for recording programs from the faces of cathode ray tubes.” The current method to record a live show for play later is to use kinescope - which is inferior.