EAST FAREWELL
NEWS
Thursday, May
16, 1957 Vol. C620
LOCAL
NEWS
REGIONAL HIGH SENIOR PROM GETS
NEW SOUND
East Farewell- The Regional High Senior Prom was held on
Saturday night and sported a different look than the stuffy, formal affairs of
the past. This year’s gala did have the formal gowns and tuxedos from the past
and it also involved the before prom dinners at all of the town’s restaurants but this year the music that was supplied by a young
group called The Blackjacks and while they did play some of the swing music and
jitterbug favored by the chaperones their main fare was the new sound called
rock and roll. The kids danced dances that were jitterbug and swing dance like
but the music jumped with a rebellious new beat and they all loved it.
1957 Regional
High Prom with The Blackjacks
SPORTS
TRAVELERS DEFENSE OVERCOMES MINERS OFFENSE
Slate Mountain – Remarkable dense that included a triple play
stymied a dazzling pitching performance by Slate Mountain’s pitching ace, Tony
“Michael” Angelo, who pitched a superb game including nine strikeouts. The
Miners were not able to overcome the tremendous, tenacious defense that the
Travelers put up against the league leaders. The Travelers were able to squeak
by the Miners 4-3 and move into a tie for first place in the standings.
The game started with as a pitcher’s showdown with both
Angelo and Travelers pitcher, Danny Lane.
They both pitched three perfect innings and the game looked like it was
going to be one of the fastest in baseball history. The Miners struck first in the fourth scoring
two runs with four consecutive hits off the previously unhittable Lane. But
then the Traveler’s defense came to life. The inning was ended with a double
play. There were three more double plays recorded and one incredible triple
play in the seventh. By the seventh inning the Travelers had been able to tie
the game, 3-3 with a Durham single driving in Silver and Watson stuck out to
end the Travelers side. The Miners
started their half of the inning with high hopes as Randolph walked and Young
singled. Then Bell hit a line shot that looked like it was going between Dale
and Richie Lane but Dale dove and hit the ball straight up in the air and
Richie Lane grabs it out of the air catching both Randolph and Young in the
middle of the base paths, apparently thinking the ball had gotten through. Lane
fired the ball to Archibald who immediately turned it to Watson as if he were
completing a double play only in this case it was a triple play, the first in
the league in four years, and that brought the Miners threat to an abrupt end.
The Travelers defense did not let up, shutting down the Miners in the eighth
while their offense came alive in the ninth scoring a solo homer by Johnny
Cloos. Danny Lane was able to close the game out in the ninth with a final
strike out with one man on. The game had many defensive highlights that were
expected in a game the pitted the two best teams in the league and arch-rivals
but it also had some glimpses of brilliant offensive play the were quietly
beautiful in their own respect.
The Travelers will bring their defensive
skills to bear against an expansion team next week when the play the Albany
Senators back at home. The evening game begins at 7:30 PM. This game will be
part of the Spring Fair event that is taking part in town next weekend. The
Senators are fairing much better than the Vikings and the Travelers are not
taking this game lightly. “Those guys have shown they can play with the best,
beating Mountain View and Youngtown back to back along with a bunch of other
wins. They can’t be taken lightly,” said manager Sam Fowler.
NATIONAL NEWS
IKE SPEAKS OUT AGAINST BUDGET CUTS – BECK
ADMITS ‘MISTAKES’ – GRAHAM SAYS THE END IS NEAR – STENGEL BENCHES BERRA &
FORD – WILLIAMS LOSES TEMPER – ELVIS GET GOOD REVIEW
In a radio and TV address, President
Eisenhower speaks out against the possibility of a congressional budget cut and
warned that crippling his $4 billion foreign aid program will weaken the nation
and invite war. “Let none of us forget that there is no waste so colossal as
war itself... We live in a time when the cost of peace is high yet the price of
war is higher and is paid in different coin - with the lives of our youth and
the devastation of our cities.”
Teamsters Chief Dave Beck, under questioning by the Senate labor rackets Investigating Committee which has accused him
of stealing union finds, concedes he may make mistakes.
At Madison Square Garden, Billy Graham
tells a record-size audience that the world is coming to an end. “I have not
only God’s word for it, that the end of the world is in sight, but I have the
word of the scientists... As sure as I am standing here tonight, the world as
we know it is coming to an end.”
Yankee manager Casey Stengel benched pitcher Whitey Ford and catcher Yogi Berra in a game
against Kansas City. Both star players were at a club last night when a New
York delicatessen owner claimed Yankee outfielder Hank Bauer slugged him during
an argument. “I can’t pitch a pitcher who stays out until 2 in the morning and
then the whole world knows about it. And Berra should have known better too.”
Stengel also dropped Bauer in the batting rankings - he’ll be batting at #8.
Ted Williams’ temper gets him into hot water
again - this time for flinging his bat toward the Boston dugout after fouling
out to the catcher during the first inning of a game with Detroit.
In a teen column, here
is what writer “Pauline” thinks about Elvis Presley: I
think Elvis Presley is a wonderful person and this is why Elvis has his own
style, he isn’t another anybody. His music makes me happy. It’s gay and has
feeling. As for his gyrations, I think many people make a lot of them because
they have to find fault with something. I certainly don’t think they are vulgar
in any way. They merely put movement and emotion into the song.” ‘
“As for Elvis contribution to juvenile
delinquency, that is absurd. This so-called ‘delinquent’ doesn’t drink, smoke
or swear. He has strong religious feeling. He respects his parents and does
much for them. If every young adult would follow his example, I don’t think there
would be so much delinquency.”
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