EAST FAREWELL
NEWS
Thursday, September
18, 1958 Vol. C690
LOCAL
NEWS
ARE THERE
GHOSTS IN EAST FAREWELL?
East Farewell- Recently there have been several disturbing
accounts of phantom sightings, mysterious object movements and unexplained
sounds reported by quite a wide array of people from all over town. East
Farewell does not have any history of supernatural activity or any real
historical events that would possibly generate paranormal experiences. That
being said, there have been tales of alien landings and at least one account of
aliens actually being seen out near Lincoln Point on Lake Charles. Lately,
though, there have been several, unrelated reports of ghosts and strange
occurrences happening all around town. It started about a month ago in the
middle of the summer season. The moon was full and brilliant, the night was
clear and warm and people were sitting the porch of Mrs. Mallard’s boarding
house. One of the sitters, Larry Reinhart, said he saw a strange
shape out near the edge of the lake. Others looked on and confirmed they saw
what seemed to be a man with a fishing pole walking straight out onto the water
and continue across the lake until he vaporized about 200 yards out. “It was
the strangest thing I ever saw,” said Reinhart during an interview after the
fact.
Mrs. Mallard,
owner of the boarding house was quick to point out that there have never been
any accounts of ghosts or spirits in or around her house. “I want to make it
perfectly clear, there are no ghosts in my house. Never were, never will be. My
daughter, Natalie and I have
been living here for over 20 years we have never seen or heard anything strange
around here. Even my dear departed husband, Manny, God bless his soul, hasn’t
returned although I am sure he would want to. He loved this place and if anyone
would want to come back here it would be him.”
Other strange
occurrences have been reported around town this summer, too. A strange musical
interlude was heard lofting across Main Street and the Lakefront Plaza very
late on a Sunday night in late July, there are no explanations for that one.
Another ghostly figure was seen out on the lake by several people on the
Lakefront Plaza on a Tuesday night in mid-August, again no explanation. All these sightings, while unanswered have not
gone unnoticed. The police have alerted all officers and members of the traffic
squads to be on alert for other possible sightings. “We really don’t know what
is going on here,” said Police Chief, Sam O’Mara, “but we are staying on top of
it. Since there has been no reported contact other than sightings we really can’t
do anything except keep an eye out.”
No matter what
is going on with the netherworld around East Farewell the locals have taken it
all in stride and even have showed a humorous side with some restaurants
posting “Ghost Free” signs outside. The statements of ghost sightings have not
in any way diminished the flood of summer visitors to town. It seems the visiting
population has stayed longer this year with many still renting well into the
fall season prompting the Lakefront Pier
to extend their season for two weeks.
The Lakefront Pier 1958
SPORTS
CLOOS SETS LEAGUE RECORD AS
TRAVELERS WIN AGAIN
Corning - The Travelers caught a break over the weekend when
they did not have to face Corning’s ace, Bill “Smoke” Black, who is leading the
league with the lowest ERA and the most strikeouts. CGW sent Joe Rollins to the
mound on Saturday night and the Travelers were glad to see him. While Rollins
record is not too shabby, he is 8 and 7 for the year with a 3.4 ERA, but he was
not sharp on Saturday night. He gave up a stunning 21 hits including a record
breaking 4 home runs for Travelers slugger, Johnny Cloos.
The Travelers
extended their winning streak to eight games with the 7-3 win on Saturday and
have a firm hold on first place in the league standings. All but one of their
wins have been on the road and the streak is the longest on the road streak
since the 1952 season when the Travelers played all their games on the road
because they did not have a home stadium and had to play home games on the High
School field.
Johnny Cloos
was clearly the star in this game. Not only did he go four for four, but all
his hits were homeruns. Four consecutive homeruns in one game by the same
player has never happened before in the 30 year history of the league. Each
blast was longer than the last, the final one clearing the centerfield stands
and sailing out of the park. “This had to be one of the best days of my
career,” said Cloos after the game, “I was really seeing the ball and I think I
was really in time with the pitches. Oh yea, that catch felt really good,
too.”
Cloos also drove in all of the
Travelers seven runs. To cap off the record breaking game for him he made a run
stealing catch with an over the wall reach to catch one of CGW’s few long
drives. The only offense CGW could generate was in the sixth inning when
Travelers pitcher, Joe Nagy, showed a rare loss of control and served up five
hits in one inning. CGW was able to score their three runs and bring the
Corning crowd back into the game. Nagy was able to regain his composure and
finish the game with no more runs scored and only two more hits.
The Travelers continue on the road
for two more games and next week they visit Mountain View with their pitching
ace, Joe “Freight” Trane and slugger Bobby “Hammer” Taxen. This may be the
Travelers biggest challenge to their recent winning streak. The Explorers are
on a winning streak of their own with three games in row to show for it. The
game is another evening game and begins at 7:05 in Mountain Views beautiful
ballpark.
NATIONAL NEWS
LITTLE ROCK SCHOOLS CANNOT
OPEN AS PRIVATE SEGREGATED SCHOOLS – STUDENTS WANT TO RETURN EVEN WITH
INTEGRATION – TV TO TELEVISE CLASSES – NJ COMMUTER TRAIN CRASHES – ONE MISSILE
BLOWS UP ONE GOES 3000 MILES – AMERICAN FORCES TO FORMOSA – CASTRO CALLS FOR LABOR
MEETING
Sixty-one Little
Rock attorneys sign a public statement declaring their
belief that Little Rock’s closed high schools cannot legally be opened on a
private segregated basis. This was a reference to an integration program which
last week was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court. A group of students at one of Little Rock’s
closed high schools adopt a resolution saying they want to return to school,
even if qualified Negro students are admitted.
The Little Rock
School Board decided to televise six hours of lessons a day to 3480 Little Rock High
School students who can’t attend regular classes because Gov. Faubus closed
their schools in the integration crisis. Three commercial television stations,
which will donate two hours daily, many get some classes started by Saturday.
The full television instruction program will begin Monday.
Near Elizabeth,
NJ a commuter train ripped through danger signals and an automatic roadblock, hits an open drawbridge and its
forward cars plunged 50 feet into Newark Bay. 40 persons are dead. Later, it’s
determined that the engineer suffered a fatal heart attack. One of the dead was
former New York Yankee George Stimweiss, whose body was found in the second
car.
At Cape Canaveral an Atlas missile blows-up with a violent
roar 90 seconds after launching on what reportedly was the first
inter-continental range attempt but later an Atlas Intercontinental
Ballistic Missile racks up a bulls-eye after blasting across
the Atlantic on a 3000-mile space flight.
American forces
with missiles, fighter jets and transport planes pour into Formosa in a major
buildup to defend the island against possible Communist attack. Premier
Khrushchev warns President Eisenhower to withdraw U.S. forces from Formosa immediately
or risk their forceful expulsion by Communist China. President Eisenhower
denounces Soviet Premier Khrushchev’s latest note as abusive and intemperate.
The President fired a note back tagged “rejected”.
Rebel leader Fidel Castro calls
on Cuban labor leaders to meet at his headquarters in the Sierra Maestra
Mountains of Oriente Province for a convention Oct. 28 to 31. The convention
will discuss a general strike which the rebels hope to bring about in another
effort to overthrow President Batista’s government.
Many, many
thanks to www.mrpopculture.com for
contributing to this section of the East Farewell News.
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