EAST FAREWELL
NEWS
Thursday, August
30, 1956 Vol. C583
LOCAL
NEWS
RAIN OR SHINE THE SHOW WILL GO
ON
East Farewell – The threatening weather forecast will not have
any impact on the 11th Annual Music, Art and Country Fair. The
committee says the show will go on come rain or shine. “We have had a couple of
years when it rained,” said committee chairman Louis Sanford, “It really
doesn’t matter, back in ’47 it was almost a hurricane and we went right on with
the show. We are prepared for different situations and we are confident that we
are prepared for any situation.”
The ‘Fair’, as
locals have come to call it, is scheduled to begin tomorrow at 4:00PM with a
full slate of music acts that will perform on the stage at the fairgrounds. All
types of music well be presented, the opening act is a local favorite with lots
of local connections, the Regional High School Jazz Band. The band is made of
Regional High School students, mostly seniors that have become extremely
popular in town. Also on the lineup is Jerry Tabor’s Swing Band, country star
Charlie Green, more jazz with Gus Sloan’s Quintet, rhythm and blues band Big
Roy and the Magnificents and even some of the ‘new’ sound of ‘rock and roll’
for the kids. Throughout the rest of the weekend other bands will perform and
on Sunday evening there will a get together with all the performers sharing the
stage for a big closing number right before fireworks that will close the Fair.
On Saturday the Country Fair will be the main
attraction with local artists and craftsmen showing their work and offering
some for sale. The almost forgotten Livestock auction will take place in the
early morning, beginning at 6:30AM, and be held in the main field area. This
event was the original premise for the fair but has been relegated to a
second place attraction as both taste and attendee attitudes
have shifted over the years. The auction still draws the local farm community
and has been drawing some ‘city-folk’ as of late. Most of the folks from the city are drawn to
the auction out of the novelty and rarely if ever participate. After the auction the focus will shift back
the arts and music part of the fair and people will be able to stroll the
midway and sample a host of local food and spirits. Traditionally, most of the
restaurants have set up shop along the midway in between the games and artist’s
stalls. If the rain comes most of the
stalls will be able to fashion an awning to shield the folks and all the
restaurants will already have a canopy
in place. So, as Mr. Stanford might say, “Let it rain, we are ready.”
SPORTS
A LITTLE RAIN WILL NOT STOP
THE FUN – TRAVELERS WIN IN BEDFORD
East Farewell – The forecast was not the most promising for the
first East Farewell Golf Classic. The region has been suffering through a
summer dry spell and the rain is much needed. Unfortunately, it came on the
biggest social week of the summer. The 11th Music, Arts &
Country Fair is scheduled for the end of this week and the Golf Classic was
scheduled to start yesterday. The forecast was for heavy rain in the beginning
of the week and intermittent showers throughout the week. On Monday and Tuesday
of this week the showers arrived as predicted and dumped almost an inch of rain
on the town. The skies cleared by Wednesday morning and the Classic was able to
begin after a brief two hour delay to make sure the course was in playable
condition. Greens keeper, Stanley Pupeck, announced the greens and the course
were fit for play at 10:00AM and the Classic was under way. The first foursome
to tee off was a stellar group of Sam Sneed, Doug Ford, local Art Fox and Paul
Grahmn. The rest of the field followed and golf luminaries such as last year’s
Masters winner Ben Hogan and other Masters players such as Ken Venturi and
Tommy Bolt were big attractions as they walk the damp but very beautiful
course. The first round ended too late for the results to make press time, but
the early foursomes had finished and Ben Hogan was leading the pack with a very
respectable 2 under par. He was followed by Grahmn and Fox at 1 under then Ford
and Bolt, who were even. The Classic will run today and finish tomorrow with
the trophy award ceremony after the last group finishes, probably around 4 in
the afternoon. All eyes are on the skies because another downpour could
postpone the rounds and push the finale back into the beginning of the Music,
Arts & Country Fair kickoff.
Bedford – the Travelers were able to come back and beat the
Bedford Bears on Saturday, 6-2. The Bears started off strong scoring two quick
runs in the first off an uncharacteristically sloppy Danny Lane who gave up
four hits to the first four batters. After that though, Lane settled down and
was able to put away the side and go on to hold the Bears to only three more
hits and no more scores. The Travelers, on the other hand, started off slowly
and didn’t get a hit until the fourth. In the fourth the Travelers woke up and
started to play. Back to back singles by Dimero and Watson set the table for
the hot hitting Johnny Cloos. He did not disappoint the Travelers fans who made
the trip to Bedford by smacking a two run double. In the sixth the bottom of
the order came to life with three straight hits by Joey Brown, Arty Archibald
and Billy Sweet scoring another run. Then pitcher Danny Lane came up with
Archibald and Sweet still on base and he helped his own cause by blooping a Texas leaguer into center and was able to drive in both Archibald and the very
speedy Sweet. Finally in the ninth Francis led off with a double and was driven
in by Watson with his third hit of the day.
The Travelers
stay on the road this weekend as they move on to Youngstown. The game will
begin at 1:30 in Youngstown.
NATIONAL NEWS
IKE ASKS ALL OF US TO HELP WITH INTEGRATION
PROBLEM – NASSER PRESENTS SUEZ PLAN – BEST DRESSED MEN IN THE U.S.
President Eisenhower appeals to all
Americans to help solve the school integration problem, but warns against
excessive use of Federal police power.
Nearly half the students of Clinton
High School in Clinton Tennessee go to classes - the best attendance since
admission of Negro students brought on riotous agitation last weekend.
President Nasser spends 40 minutes presenting Egypt’s case to the five-power committee which is in Cairo to win
his acceptance of the 18-nation plan for international control of the Suez
Canal. A five-power Suez Canal committee
begins their struggle to win over Egypt’s President Nasser to acceptance of
international control of the canal. Col. Nasser is believed to have categorically
rejected ‘internationalization” at this week’s third session. Prime Minister Eden calls Parliament back
from its summer vacation for an emergency session to debate the Suez Canal
crisis.
The chairman of the Custom Tailors
Guild shakes a sartorial finger at Elvis Presley, Marlon Brando and Ted
Williams as being among “our sloppier celebrities.” Chairman James Scali then
announces the guild’s annual selection of the 10 best-dressed men in America:
President Eisenhower
Carl Erskine (Brooklyn Dodger Pitcher)
Larry Mack
William
Holden
Dan Topping
J. Edgar Hoover
Ted Collins (radio producer)
Gordon Macrae
Harry E. Gould
Rex Harrison
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