EAST FAREWELL
NEWS
Thursday, January
17, 1957 Vol. C603
LOCAL
NEWS
SNOW BLANKETS TOWN – LAKE
CHARLES FROZEN
East Farewell- In any other year the fact that Lake Charles has
frozen solid in the middle of January would not be front page news. But this
has not been any other year this year East Farewell did not experience an
extended spell of below freezing until after the first of the year and Lake
Charles did not freeze over until last week. Measurable snow has finally
arrived in East Farewell on Sunday as over 4 inches fell over night and another
two inches fell on Tuesday. The Lake has frozen to a two and a half inch
thickness across about ninety percent of its surface. That thickness is
acceptable for skaters and personal use like fishing but no huts are allowed
yet and no vehicles.
The much
anticipated Snow Sculpture Contest looks like it will be held in a week or two
if the weather stays on track. The Town Council will be holding its monthly
meeting next Wednesday and the Contest is on the agenda. Many folks are looking
forward to the contest and the details will be eagerly received. The contest
has taken place over the last four years and each year has gotten bigger and
more elaborate with sculptures ranging from big words to huge animals and
buildings.
Another event
that is in the near future is the legendary Valentine’s Day Dance.
The dance this year will be held on Saturday, February 16th in the
Town Hall Basement. There have already been several meetings by the organizing
committee and this year’s dance is promising to be even bigger and better than
last year. The weather should not have any effect on the dance, contingencies
have been in place since the first dance in 1953.
Frozen Lake
Charles 1957
SPORTS
COUGARS SWAT THE HAWKS
Southport - The Cougars continued the blazing path through the
Central League last week as they swatted the very persistent Southport Hawks
team, 52-46. The Hawks came out strong and played a very strong defensive game
trying to break the focus of the Cougars backcourt. Cougar’s backcourt, Bobby
Fox and Fergal Conner, a sophomore and junior respectively, were not taking the
bait. They have gotten stronger with each game and their communication has
increased to almost a telepathic level. No-look passes and leading passes have
become commonplace for the two. The
Hawks tried to put their best defenders, Joey Hale and David Doyle, on Conner
and Fox but they were only successful in slowing down the two for the first
half. Fox and Conner were able to combine for 10 points in the first half but
more importantly they had 12 assists and the Cougars went in at the half in the
lead, 24-20. The second half had a much more wide open feel to it. The Hawks
tried to full court press with considerable success. They were able to tie the
score at 38 late in the third quarter. Hale and Doyle were standouts on both
defense and offense in the second half combining to score a total of 26 points
throughout the game but they paid the price, by the end of the game they were
both dead on their feet but their spirit was still strong. The Cougars were
able to take advantage of the slumping Hawks and pulled away in the last four
minutes by going on a 10-2 run and sealing the win.
“Those Hawks
came to play today. We were caught off guard at first but after we settled down
and took a look at their defense we were able to make some adjustments and come
back at them pretty hard,” said junior guard Fergal Conner after the game. It
was unusual to get a quote from one of the Cougar players, they usually do not
speak to the press but as it turns out the reported was his brother, Liam
Conner, who reports for this publication and Coach Wilson gave the Ok for the
interview.
The Cougars
will come home next week to face the Slate Mountain Miners who are enjoying a
four game winning streak of their own and are looking to knock off the league
leading Cougars. The game begins at 7:00PM in the High School Gymnasium.
NATIONAL NEWS
TITO VISITS IKE – MOLOTOV SAYS US IS
SLANDERING RUSSIA – BOGEY DIES – SO COLD IN NY – B-52s SET FLIGHT RECORD – 14
YR OLD ARRESTED FOR EXTORTION
Yugoslavia President Tito is invited to
visit the White House by President Eisenhower and he accepts the invitation.
Dep. Soviet Premier V.M. Molotov says
the United States is slandering Russia “by ascribing absurd aggressive plans in
the Near and Middle East to the U.S.S.R.” “Everybody knows that the whole guilt
of the Soviet people consists only in the fact that it does not conceal its
sympathies and good feelings toward the peoples of this area,” said Molotov in
a radio speech.
Humphrey Bogart (56) died of cancer on January 14th. He
was operated on last March for cancer of the
esophagus. Doctors say death was attributed to the spreading of the original
cancer. Wife Lauren Bacall was at his side. They have two children - Stephen-8
and Leslie-4.
It’s cold - A record is set in New York
State as the temperature dips to 55-below-zero at Booneville, in Central New
York.
Three B-52 bombers fly non-stop around
the world, covering 24.325 miles in 45 hours!
A 14-year-old boy’s plot to extort
$500,000 from cowboy star Roy Rogers collapses. Postal inspectors said the Ohio
boy admitted writing a letter to Rogers last December 22 demanding he send the
$500,000 or be subjected to “moral disgrace” by the distribution to school
children of “altered photographs showing him in the nude.”
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