EAST FAREWELL
NEWS
Friday, December
26, 1958 Vol. C704
LOCAL
NEWS
CHRISTMASTIME IN EAST FAREWELL
East
Farewell – The streets are aglow with lights the shop’s windows are bright and
many have wonderful scenes from either the past or in one case the future in
East Farewell. The early winter snow has covered the streets and sidewalks but
did not cause any disruption in Public
Transit or
getting around in general. What it did do was create beautiful Christmas scenes
around town and elevated everyone’s Christmas spirit. On almost every night
last week carolers have walking through the main part of town and caroling
outside different shops and restaurants. There has been three impromptu group
carols on the Lakefront
Plaza.
Most of the shops have stayed open in the evenings and the restaurants have
been especially busy for mid-week. The Regional School District has granted a
vacation for all the students and faculty for two weeks, an unusual surprise
for everyone.
All the churches in town have held
many different events and all have been full to capacity with members of all
different denominations attending all different services, a truly catholic town
experience. The events ranged from choir and ensembles singing and play
Christmas favorites to group sings featuring players and singers from the
different congregations. All the churches were splendidly decked out with
beautiful pines, holly, ribbons and candles. All the different decorations
added up to a wonderful downtown scene for a very delightful season.
1958
Christmastime on Main
SPORTS
CHRISTMAS GIFT - COUGARS UPSET DEVILS
East
Farewell – The Cougars came out with a mission on Friday afternoon. It was to
beat the favored Corning Devils. The Devils have been a thorn in the Cougars
paw for several years now and a win would certainly remove it for now. The
Devils have finished ahead of the Cougars for the last three years and have
knocked them out of the league tournament in the past two. There is no love
lost between these two teams. There are players on both teams who have never
won or lost to the other team, depending on which side you are on. On Friday
the history changed as the Cougars upset the Devils with a 40-38 win. The game
was well played on both sides and the lead changed hands a total of eight
times.
The Cougars “big three” center,
James Hawkins, and forwards, Don Tasker and Joey Mitchell were the key to the
Cougars win. They established control of the center and were able to score a
combined total 32 points (12-Hawkins, 13-Tasker and 7-Mitchell), grabbed 27
rebounds (14-Hawkins, 9-Mitchell and 4-Tasker) and had 13 assists (7-Hawkins,
3-Mitchell and 3-Tasker). The Cougars back court was not asleep either, guards Fox
and Mackenzie contributed 8 points but more importantly played tenacious
defense grabbing seven steals from the normally ball hugging Devils. They also
ran the strategy of the game very well allowing the big three to work inside.
The entire team started to play together as a complete team much to the delight
of Coach Wilson.
The game was dogfights from the
start with neither team able take control for any length of time. Both teams
showed relentless drive and the first half ended in a tie, 18-18. In the second
half Devils lead scorer, Matt Drew, was able to get on a roll and score 6
straight points before he was double teamed by Mackenzie and Tasker and was
pretty much shut down. As time ran down the Cougars took their biggest lead 38-34
and looked like they were in the driver’s seat but the Devils were not about to
give up with a whole minute thirty left. They threw up a full court press and
made two quick steals and tied the game. Wilson called a timeout and the
regrouped Cougars were able to break the press and with 12 seconds left Hawkins
scored his last bucket. Then the Cougars went to tight defense on the Devils
inbounds play and were able to force the Devils to get the ball in but way back
in the Cougars court and had to spend a full eight seconds to get it across the
center line. That left it up to Drew who tried to drive in for the tying score
only to run into his nemesis for the game, Don Tasker who went right up with
him but had about a two inch height advantage and was able to knock the ball
away and back into the hands of a trailing Mack Makenzie who grabbed it and
dribbled the final seconds away.
The win was a great achievement for
the team in the early season and hopefully it bods well for the rest of the
season but there are a lot of games left including another one with the Devils
in Corning. The Cougars next game in against the Slate Mountain Canaries in
Slate Mountain. The game is Friday afternoon at 4:30 in the Slate Mountain Gym.
NATIONAL
NEWS
PEACEFUL CHRISTMAS IN EUROPE – IKE CARVES
TURKEY – POPE CALLS FOR PEACE – REDS SEND ATHEIST GREETING – TOP 10 WOMEN
–MARTIN & LEWIS STILL AT IT – COLTS BEAT GIANTS IN OT
Europe
and the Holy Land celebrate their most peaceful Christmas Eve since the end of
World War II. Meanwhile, the President and Mrs. Eisenhower plan to carve a
42-lb turkey for an afternoon Christmas dinner at the White House.
Pope
John XXIII calls for peace and vigilance against atheistic communism. “Let our
gestures, befitting men of good faith, contain nothing of war or violence. But
it is necessary to be vigilant in the night of lengthening shadows, to be aware
of the insidiousness of those who are enemies of god...”
In
a Christmas Eve broadcast - Radio Moscow called on atheist propaganda to
“release the minds of the people from the survivals of religion. Profound and
resolute scientific-atheist propaganda, the systematic spreading of scientific
and political knowledge among the masses - that is the way to overcome religion
once and for all.”
In
a Gallup Poll - Mrs. FDR is voted the most admired woman. The top 10: Mrs.
Eleanor Roosevelt, Queen Elizabeth II, Mrs. Clare Boothe Luce (playwright and
former ambassador to Italy), Mrs. Mamie Eisenhower, Miss Helen Keller, Mme.
Chiang Kaisheck, Princess Grace, Miss Marian Anderson, Princess Margaret, Miss
Dinah Shore.
The
rift continues - Jerry Lewis replaces his former partner - Dean Martin on Eddie
Fisher’s television show this week as a guest. Here’s what happened - Fisher
approached Martin to be a guest on his show. Martin quoted him a price to be
paid as a guest. The price was high, so at the last minute he got Lewis to
guest - but Lewis told him he’d do it for free. “Eddie was willing to pay me.
You can get anybody for money but nobody for free. He’s my friend. Why should I
take the dough? Besides, it’s Christmas.” Irked - Martin said - “It’s not good
for show business when performers work for nothing. But then Jerry never did
anything good for the business anyhow. He just wanted to make me look bad. I
wouldn’t do that to anybody.”
Sports
– Upward of 50 million viewers were expected to watch the National Football
League championship game from Yankee Stadium where the surprising New York Giants,
Eastern Division champs took on the Western Division champs the Baltimore Colts
led by Johnny Unitas on NBC-TV. The Baltimore Colts and quarterback Johnny Unitas
defeated the New York Giants 23-17 in sudden death overtime - winning the
National Football League championship.
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