EAST FAREWELL
NEWS
Thursday, May
31, 1956 Vol. C570
LOCAL
NEWS
SHIPPENSBURG CONFESSES -
ROMANDO GONE
East Farewell – Monica Shippensburg has confessed to taking the
Flower Show budget estimated to be $3,000.00. Her partner, Romando,
(strangely, only one name) is still missing. Miss Shippensport it seems was the
unwitting accomplice of an elaborate scam that involved a whirlwind romance, a
naïve young woman, lots of money, a scoundrel and a broken heart that ended
with the scammed holding the bag and in jail.
It all started
last year around Thanksgiving when Miss Shippensburg first met Romando. She
said she met him in the Lost
Oasis Bar after she got off work. Romando presented himself as a South
American horticultural expert and started talking with Shippensburg. She
mentioned she was involved with the annual flower show, which should have sent
up some warning signals, that was too much of a coincidence, and then he
started making small talk. One thing led to another and the next thing Miss
Shippensburg knew she was being escorted around
town by an elusive but very handsome foreign stranger. They became quite an
item and were seen celebrating New Year’s Eve together at a local party. Miss
Shippensburg is said to have confided with a friend that she was hoping that
the relationship would go further. Well, it certainly went further, on or
around January 2nd Romando presented Miss Shippensburg with a
proposal. Not the proposal she was hoping for though, he said that with his
experience and her budget they could put on the most fabulous Flower Show ever.
All she had to do was give him the entire budget and so he could purchase some
exotic South American flowers. She then could go back to the Town Council and
ask for more money to put on the show. Miss Shippensburg, smitten by Romando,
let her heart block her good judgment and handed over the cash to Romando in
late January. She was able to postpone meetings of the committee because of the
bad weather at the time so no one was able to question her actions until late
February. When confronted with the fund dispersal, she explained the Romando
was only going to use a small amount and he had promised to return the rest.
It was in early
April when Miss Shippensburg went to Romando’s apartment and found it empty. Frantic,
she started to look for him in all their usual places but to no avail. Thinking
something nefarious had happened to him she went to the police. The police
mounted a short search for him but soon realized the true nature of the crime.
Bulletins were sent to surrounding towns and major cities in the area but they were
not expecting to find Romando. “He is long gone, I bet he has left the country.
If he was really from South America, I bet he is back there living high on the
hog with our money,” said police chief, Ed O’Malley.
Unfortunately
for Miss Shippensburg, she is under arrest for taking the money and will have
to stay in jail until her hearing because she cannot raise the bail of $500.00.
She is understandably upset and says her heart is broken and her pride has been
severely damaged. Her hearing is scheduled for later this week. She has
profusely apologized for her actions and has said she will accept what ever
consequences that are handed down to her.
SPORTS
TRAVELERS WIN GREAT GAME
East Farewell – The Travelers won one of the best played games,
if not the best game, of the early season. The red hot Travelers (13-3) faced
an equally incendiary Mountain View Explorers (12-4). Both teams had been
enjoying winning streaks and both were playing top notch baseball. The leading
hitters in the league were going against the two best pitchers in the league.
Something had to give. The pitchers were the ones who took control. It wasn’t
until the fourth inning that either team mounted any offense and it was not
until the fifth that any runs were scored. Both pitchers, Joe Nagy for the
Travelers and Joe ‘Freight’ Trane for the Explorers, were sharp from the start
and kept up the pressure till the end. Only a few let downs for each let the
power of the best hitters in the league show their stuff. Explorer’s biggest
bat, Bobby ‘Hammer’ Taxen smashed a Nagy fastball out of the park in the fourth
and Traveler’s Johnny Cloos clobbered a Trane curve for a two run homer in the
sixth. That was the difference in the game. The Travelers prevailed 2-1 with
Trane throwing a four hitter and Nagy throwing a three run gem. With this win
the Travelers are in sole possession of first place in the league.
Next week the
Travelers go on the road to Corning where they play CGW for the first time this
season. The game begins at 3:30 in Corning.
NATIONAL NEWS
IKE READY TO CAMPAIGN – KHRUSHCHEV DENOUNCES
STALIN – DEAD SEA SCROLLS DECIPHERED – BUS SEGREGATION IN ALABAMA
UNCONSTITUTIONAL
President Eisenhower displayed a touch
of campaign fever when he told a national conference of Citizens for Eisenhower
that he will campaign for a second term “as cheerfully, as energetically, as
enthusiastically, as enthusiastically as it is possible for me to do.”
Communist party Boss Nikita Khrushchev
denounced Stalin as a mass murderer who was plotting the complete liquidation
of his old Politburo colleagues. Stalin was accused of planning to wipe out
former Foreign Minister Molotov and Politburo member A.J. Mikoyan among others.
Stalin’s death on March 5, 1953 was attributed to natural causes.
Two more Dead Sea scrolls have been
deciphered and revealed clues to a legendary buried treasure worth countless
millions instead of dealing with Biblical subjects. The scrolls were found
beside the Dead Sea in 1952. If the treasure exists, it includes 200 tons of
gold and silver.
In Alabama a three-judge panel in
federal court ruled that racial segregation on city buses in Montgomery violated
the Federal Constitution. But the court took no immediate action to issue an
injunction against enforcement of city and State segregation laws. That will
come later.
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