EAST FAREWELL
NEWS
Thursday, January
23, 1958 Vol. C656
LOCAL
NEWS
SNOW SCULPTURES APPEAR,
DISAPPEAR, APPEAR AGAIN
East Farewell- The fairly new tradition of building snow
sculptures on Lakefront Plaza took an interesting twist this year. The semi-art
event, which took place last year as an unscheduled, impromptu event due to the
Town Council’s reluctance to sponsor the event, again was not sponsored by the
Council but that rogue attitude seemed to breathe a bit of reckless abandon
into the whole event. The twist this year was that the artists had gathered
last week on Lakefront Plaza and started their work, but then an enormous
snowball fight broke out and almost all the sculptures were destroyed for
ammunition. The snowball fight was reported last week in this paper and once
the shenanigans had settled down the artists returned to the Plaza and had to
start all over again. Undaunted as many as eighteen artists along with a
plethora of high school “assistants” (really, they were leftovers from the
snowball fight) plied up, dug out, carved and created some of the most
interesting sculptures that the event has ever seen. This year outer space and
rocket ships were the general, overall theme. There were several rocket ships,
blasting off, in flight and one landing on what can only be guessed at as the
moon or Mars. Long time sculpture and organizer, Bernie Talbot, outdid his
last year creation of a beautiful snow queen with an
enormous rocket blasting off headed to an oversized moon. Another favorite was
a giant moon with a “man-in-the-moon” face carved into it. Some spectators
suggested that the face resembled Tom Connelly, Town Council president. The
sculpture, Alice Mahoney said she was not trying to portray the president, in
fact she said she didn’t even know what he looked like. “I wouldn’t recognize
him if I bumped into him on the street,” said Mahoney when asked.
In keeping with
the unorganized nature of the event there were no prizes given out and only
popular judgment was the deciding factor in the winner. The results were
varied, depending on what time of day or evening you took the poll. During the
day Talbot’s blastoff was most popular but in the evening Mahoney’s Man-in–the-Moon
won out, maybe because she placed a light inside the sculpture making it a bit
of a Jack-o-Lantern drawing oohs and ahhs from the crowd. Folks were also treated to
several restaurants set up tables and served hot snacks and coco. The
sculptures have been left on the Plaza and will eventually melt away, unless of
course there is another snowball fight.
Snow
sculptures on Lakefront Plaza 1958
SPORTS
MINERS CAGE COUGARS
Slate Mountain – The league leading
Slate Mountain Miners hosted the first meeting of the season between the league
leading teams and the home court advantage may have had some effect on the
Cougars causing them to lose their second game in as many games last Friday
night. The Miners played very strong defense and were able to take advantage of
the Cougar’s replacement center, sophomore Jamie Hawkins, to win 36-32. The
crowd was decidedly pro-Miners and was very loud throughout the game and their
ruckus seemed to have an effect on Hawkins who had to sit out almost the whole
third quarter with four fouls. “Hawk was
rattled by the crowd. They threw some pretty mean taunts at him and he took it
out on the court, drawing fouls. He is still young and this was the first time
he ever encountered this kind of abuse. He will learn from it and promised me
he won’t let it happen again,” said Coach Wilson after the game.
Aside
from Hawkins dilemma, the Cougars played a fairly good game with the backcourt
showing very strong signs of developing into a pair that will present some
problems for other teams later in the season. Both Fox and Conner showed
greatly improved communication skills as they worked together to beat a tight
Miners press and both score in double figure (10 and 12, Fox and Conner) and
almost earn double s in assists ( 9 and 10, respectively).
The
Miners took an early lead, 14-6, but the Cougars patiently whittled away to tie
it up at the half, 22 all. In the second half both teams stepped up their defense
and even with Hawkins out the Cougars were able to hold the Miners to only 14
points. Unfortunately, the Cougars were held to 10 points.
The
Cougars come home next week and face the Central Bears. They have already
played the Bears and won convincingly, 40-32. Center Dave McGill may be able to
play but Coach Wilson would not make any promises. “We are waiting to see how
things go, we are not going to push this kid, besides Hawk is doing better than
anyone thought and I am comfortable with him in there,” said Wilson after the
game.
The game
begins at 7:00PM in the Regional High Gymnasium. There will be a JV Game
before, beginning at 3:45PM.
NATIONAL NEWS
ATLAS ICBM BLASTS OFF FROM COCO BEACH –
TRANSPORT TRAGEDY, 47 DEAD – UN SECRETARY INVITED TO MOSCOW – ALLEN MOVES TO
HOLLYWOOD
An Atlas ICBM takes
off from Cocoa Beach, but the flight was not
terminated normally. This followed two consecutive ICBM successful test firings
over a limited range.
A military transport and a Navy patrol
bomber collide in mid-air of Norwalk, near Los Angles. 47 are dead.
United Nations Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold says that he had been invited to visit Moscow, presumably to discuss United Nations affairs
involving the Soviet Union. Among them is disarmament. He hopes to go in the
spring.
Steve Allen is heading to the West
coast and will originate his next two Sunday night shows from Hollywood.
Many, many
thanks to www.mrpopculture.com for
contributing to this section of the East Farewell News.
