EAST FAREWELL
NEWS
Thursday, November
15, 1956 Vol. 594
LOCAL
NEWS
VETERANS DAY IS CELEBRATED
WITH RESPECT
East Farewell- A solemn ceremony took place at the Veteran’s
Memorial Sunday as the town remembered its fallen heroes. The service took place
on Sunday afternoon at the memorial that was decorated with poppies and greens.
High School senior, Steven Sinclair, played Taps on the hill overlooking the
site. Town Council President, Tom Conally, gave a short speech that sounded
reminiscent of some of the speeches made by World War II and Korean War
commander, Douglas MacArthur. Conally touched on honor, commitment, bravery and
duty in his speech and declared these to be true ingredients for a soldier.
After the speech a list of the fallen in all wars was read by another High
School senior, Lynn O’Hara. Many people attended the service and as Sinclair
played a wreath was place on the memorial.
Steven
Sinclair plays Taps at War Memorial
SPORTS
COUGARS TOP THE DEVILS IN A CLOSE GAME
Corning - Cougar’s defensive end, Pat
McKean sealed a 24-21 League win at Corning Friday evening with an interception
at his team’s 17-yard line with two minutes remaining in regulation. The
Cougars had their hands full against the Devils and the game slipped back and
forth until that play sealed the Cougar’s win and sole position of first place
in the league standings. On a fourth down in the late going, with Corning
needing 3 yards to keep alive a drive in Cougars territory, McKean dumped
quarterback Tom Stratford for a 9-yard loss. After the Cougars moved the ball
back into Devils territory and short punt gave the ball back to the Devils and
Stratford started an impressive drive with time running out. He got the Devils
down to the 17 before McKean stepped in front of a sure score pass to Devil’s
star end, Bruce Weldon and took the ball away.
In
the first half after Corning responded with Stratford’s 52-yard touchdown pass to Nick
Fornacella, Dolan directed a nine-play scoring drive that was capped by ‘Tank’
Brown’s 7-yard scoring rumble. Both teams battled but went
scoreless in the second quarter. The
third quarter showed lots of action with two scores by each team. Cougar’s running back, Davey Wilson scampered
for a neatly planned end run and ‘Merc’ McMaster hauled in a 40 yard Dolan bomb
for the second score. The Devils answered right back with scores by Weldon and
Stratford. The winning points came from beleaguered Cougar’s kicker, David
Galloway, when he put a beautiful 25 yard field goal right through the uprights
late in the third. That margin was enough to put the Cougars on top. “They
played like they were in a championship game, and we were able to match their
intensity,” longtime Cougar’s coach Al Burcowitz said. “I really
liked our toughness.”
The Cougars
come home next week to host Sun City on Thanksgiving Day and celebrate
Homecoming. The game begins at 3:30 on the High School field.
NATIONAL NEWS
TITO & HOOVER BLAST RUSSIA OVER HUNGARY –
EGYPT PROTESTS SHIP CLEARING – ELVIS & LIBERACE TEAM UP – MANTLE WINS AL
BATTING CROWN & AL MVP
President Tito blasts Russia and blames them for the Hungarian revolt and declares it was “a fatal error” to use Soviet
Troops to bring Hungary to heel. Russia
is massing armored forces on the Yugoslav border and passing the word to
neighboring satellites that President Tito is to blame for the upsurge of
anti-Soviet sentiment in East Europe. Secretary
of State Dulles accuses the Soviet rulers of waging war against Hungary with
“promiscuous slaughter” and trying to substitute them for the United Nations in
the Middle East. Meantime Budapest radio reports Hungarian guerrillas are
battling reinforcements Russia is pouring into the revolt-torn country.
Acting Secretary of State Herbert
Hoover Jr. warns the Soviet Union to keep its “volunteers” out of the Middle
East or face U.N. opposition backed by U.S. power.
Egypt protests against a British-French
plan to begin clearing sunken ships from the blocked Suez Canal. The new
objections were raised soon after Dag Hammarskjöld, U.N. Secretary General,
opened his talks with President Nasser on how the U.N. police force may be
deployed. The U.N. Middle East police
force flies its first units to the Suez Canal zone. They were sped on their way
from Italy by a mounting threat of intervention by Soviet “volunteers” in
invaded Egypt.
Liberace and Elvis Presley stage an
impromptu act after Liberace’s nightclub appearance at the Riviera Hotel in Las
Vegas. Presley was in the audience as Liberace went through his performance.
After the show, Elvis went to Liberace’s dressing room where the latter
exchanged his gold-sequined jacket for Presley’s striped sports coat. Elvis sat
down at the piano Liberace picked up a guitar and in no time at all a rock ‘n’
roll session was underway.
New York Yankee Mickey Mantle, who won
the American League’s triple batting crown, is unanimously named the most
valuable player in the league. He led with a .353 batting average, 52 home runs
and 130 RBI’s.
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