EAST FAREWELL
NEWS
Thursday, August
29, 1957 Vol. C635
LOCAL
NEWS
MUSIC & ARTS FAIR OPENS TO
BIG CROWDS
East Farewell – The 12th Annual Music & Arts Fair
opened on Thursday night with the now standard performance by the Regional High
School Jazz Band led by the most popular band leader in school history, Ben
Grant. The now 17 piece band added an extra trumpet and another trombone to
“bring out the brass” as Grant put it. The band started off with the National
Anthem, officially opening the Fair. This year an extra evening was added
because the roster of musical acts was expanded and the committee wanted to add
an extra full day, Friday, for the Arts and Crafts displays. The music roster
of Thursday night was a diverse batch from the Jazz Band to a young local group
playing some of the new sound of rock and roll with a mixture of rhythm and
blues and country and western in between. The music played late into Thursday
night and the Midway opened early, 8:00AM, on Friday morning. Local artists set
up shop all along the Midway as well as most of the local restaurants and shops
from Main Street and Lake Shore Drive. The music continued Friday with mostly
local musicians and bands. Slate Rock was represented by three different acts; Michael Tiller had a beautiful voice and sung some modern favorites with
a very distinctive style, the Irish Band, the O’Dell’s got the crowd up a
jigging with a nice selection a Irish reels, and Emory Davis, a blues singer who
was both sassy and smooth. Hailing from
Ondita was the all girl choir from the First Baptist Church who sung moving
gospel and something completely different, a rock and roll band named the O-Stars
who were actually pretty good. Friday night had more headliners starting off
with country and western favorite, Charlie Green followed by
local favorite and national star, Jerry Tabor and his Swing Band.
On Saturday
morning the Farm Auction was held at the far end of the Fairgrounds. Starting
at 6:30AM the auction is a holdover from the original Country Fair that
preceded the Music & Arts Fair. As the Fair moved from being a farm and
country fair to being a music and arts fair the auction was so popular that it
was continued. It’s traditional time of 6:30AM turned out to be part of the
appeal even though most of the current attendees were out until late the night
before and not one of them knew the first thing about livestock, the local
farmers were there also and this was always a real auction. It seems to have
become the realization of the saying “putting lipstick on a pig”. The auction
has taken a much less serious mood but it still serves its purpose for the local
farmers and now, a large group of watchers.
Saturday night
brought more fantastic music. The Gus
Sloan Quintet played a slick jazz set and Jerry Tabor came back as well as Charlie Green who had
Michael Tiller join him for a fantastic group of country and western tunes
that had the crowd square dancing and two stepping across the fairground. The
night ended with another rock and roll set by a favorite band with the younger
set, the Blackjacks. The kids
jitterbugged throughout the set and there was a lot of energy from the band.
The gates
opened later on Sunday, 12, noon. Things got underway right away and the afternoon
was turned over to the storytellers, a new feature this year. Five different
storytellers and poets took the stage and engaged both young and old. Richard
Walker was a big hit with the kids as he wove his tales of magic and mayhem taking
place in the world he created, New Sunland.
Poet Lucy Blair recited her
own musical poems and accompanied herself on a lute. Sunday evening saw a
return to the more conventional music with returns of both Jerry Tabor and Gus
Sloan. The evening and the Fair ended with an ‘all hands on deck’ gathering of
all the stars that had appeared throughout the Fair. The crowded stage was full
of fun, arms around each other, smiles, all types of instruments and many, many
voices singing in Good Night, Irene in unison. That song has become the de
facto closing song for the fair having closed the Fair for the last three
years.
The day after
the gates closed preparations were being made for next year’s Fair. The
Committee met in the basement of the Town Hall to review the success and
discuss what might be done better next year.
The Music
& Arts Fair 1957
SPORTS
TRAVELERS MAKE ‘HOWLING’ FRANK GROAN
Bedford
– The Travelers did not have much support from home town fans on Saturday but
they apparently did not need it as they shut down “Howling” Frank Fowler and
the Bedford Bears, 6-3. Fowler started out very strong and it looked like
trouble for the Travelers. He was able to strike out the first five batters and
only let two hits go in the first four innings. With each strike out he let out
his trademark howl that had both an intimidating and irritating effect on
everyone. He has been in the league for three years now so his howl and his
antics are well known but he has always been able to deliver the wins, being
one of the best pitchers in the league.
The Bears were able to get on the
board first with a two run third inning as Travelers pitcher, Billy Green,
struggled with his curveball. Green was able to straighten out his problems and
the Travelers were able to find a crack in Fowlers fastball. In the sixth
inning after a double by catcher Joey Brown, Artie Archibald drew a walk then
Billy Sweet was able to double and drive in both. In the seventh the top of the
order came to life as Francis and Dunham singled, Watson drew Fowler’s only
other walk and Johnny Cloos came up with the bases loaded. Fowler had struck
out Cloos in the second and Cloos was able to single in the fourth but in this
at bat Johnny waited for Fowler to try and blow his fastball by him. Cloos was
not going to let that happen. He stepped into the low, outside bullet and
connected. He sent the ball over the right field fence for a grand slam. The
Bears we able to score one more in the ninth but that was too little too late
as Green was able strike out O’Mara to end the game.
The Travelers come home next week
but they face another pitching ace when Corning comes to town with ace Bill “Smoke”
Black who is leading the league in strikeouts. CGW (Corning Glass Works) is
also tied for second in the league standings. The evening game will start at
7:05 at the ballpark.
NATIONAL NEWS
JUDGE REJECTS PLEA TO POSTPONE INTEGRATION –
COMMIES ANNOUNCE MASSIVE WAR GAMES – ARMS TO JORDAN – WRIGHT SUGGESTS 2 MILE
HIGH SKYSCRAPERS FOR NYC – BURNS & ALLEN SON TO DO TIME FOR SPEEDING
A Federal judge tightens the South’s
racial battle lines with a sharp-tongued rejection of a plea to postpone integration
at Little Rock Central high School, where armed troops have kept Negro students
away for a week.
Russia announces it will begin massive
naval war games next week in Arctic waters within a few hundred miles of an era
where the western NATO nations have scheduled sea exercises at the same time.
U.S. Globemasters and Flying Boxcars
begin an airlift of arms to Jordan to buttress the Arab kingdom against any
threat from Syria’s leftist-commanded army.
Architect Frank Lloyd Wright suggests
that New York City erect two mile-high
skyscrapers in Central Park destroy the rest of the city and plant grass on it.
“Think of what you’d have n the way of a beautiful city, with two mile-high
skyscrapers in Central Park. It would end the agony. And they would end congestion
tremendously, that was one of the ideas in planning one” said Wright on Mike Wallace’s
ABC-TV interview program.
Ronnie Burns (22) son of George Burns and Gracie
Allen is sentenced to pay a fine of $450 and
spend a weekend in jail for having tested a new sports car too exuberantly.
Police said Burns was clocked at 85mph in a 25mph zone on Beverly Drive in
Beverly Hills.
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