EAST FAREWELL
NEWS
Thursday, May 21,
1959 Vol. C725
LOCAL
NEWS
WHO WROTE THAT?
East
Farewell – Graffiti has been showing up on the alley walls for a long time.
Most of it has been simple scrawl by young miscreants
and has been mostly ignored and frowned upon. Rarely have the “graffiti
slingers” been caught and it seems the only ones that have been caught have
been dumb enough to either use their real names or their nicknames. The
penalties have included cleaning off the graffiti and repainting the walls.
Last week graffiti in East Farewell
took on a new, unusual and somewhat captivating look. On the cinder block wall
behind the Lost Oasis Café/Bar a large multi-colored name
showed up, Slick Rick. It was not the usual
single line, scrawling nearly illegible sign. It was a very colorful design
with big, block letters that were of a sort of comic book nature. Charles
Wentz, owner of the Lost Oasis and its building was not happy but was visibly
impressed with the work. “It must have taken him a long time and I’m surprised
that no one saw him. I mean, we have people out here in the alley all night
taking out the trash, taking a break and that kind of stuff. But no one saw
anything. Amazing.”
East Farewell is well known for its
local artists and has long been known as a haven for the artist type. This “sign”
has attracted a lot of attention from the artistic community. Many local
artists have come by to both look at it and evaluate it as an “artistic piece”.
The police do not look at it as art by any means. They consider it vandalism
plain and simple and if they find who did it there will be consequences.
“I certainly don’t think it is a
valid outlet for art but that being said I have to say it is a very compelling
creation,” said local artist, Rory Calhoun, “The mix of color and motion in the
letters is very fluid. You kind of absorb the whole thing all at once.” It is
very interesting, to say the least.”
On the other hand, “Any way you look
at it, it is just plain vandalism. I know some people think it is “art” but it
is not it is vandalism,” said police chief, Bill Donnelly.
Either way you look at it there is a
good chance it will be painted over within a few weeks so people will have to
evaluate it on their own. Perhaps they could stop in the Lost Oasis for a bite
to eat when they are in the neighborhood.
Slick Rick 1959
SPORTS
A BEAUTIFUL EVENING SPOILED BY
SLOPPY DEFENSE
Monticello
– The evening air was warm and clear. The field was manicured and the base
paths were freshly raked. It was a beautiful night at the still new and still
beautiful Monticello Stadium but it was not a beautiful evening for the
Travelers who seemed to check their defense at entrance Gate. The red hot
Vikings were aided by a dubious Travelers team record six errors and extended a
5 game winning streak to six with an 8-2 win.
The Travelers ham-handed defense
started in the first inning when a botched routine double play ball turned into
a two run inning for the Vikings. The Travelers seemed to start to cover their
mistakes by coming back in the second to tie it with a two run blast by Johnny
Cloos but that was all they were able to muster. Traveler’s pitcher, Joey
Alfred did not pitch a bad game, he let up nine hits but combined with the six
errors the Vikings were able to score 6 unearned runs. In the fourth Bobby
Watson mishandled a fairly routine throw to first that let another Viking run
in. In the fifth The Vikings scored their two earned runs from a blast by their
young slugger Alfonse Dimaio. The Travelers sloppy play continued in the seventh
and the eighth when they committed two errors in each inning, a dropped fly and
bumbled line drive in the seventh helped the Vikings score two more unearned
runs and in the eighth it looked as if the Travelers need eye exams as Dale
Dunham completely misplayed a one-hopper that sailed over his shoulder and then
Ralph Francis ran under a fly ball that bounced behind him and rolled to the
wall. The result was an embarrassing two more unearned runs.
If the Travelers were able to get
out of their own way they would have had a chance in this game but the
inexcusable mistakes and amazingly inferior play doomed the squad in this game.
Hopefully, they will regroup and clear their heads before next week’s game with
the Albany Senators, another young team. The Travelers stay on the road and the
game begins in Albany at 1:30PM on Saturday.
NATIONAL NEWS
MONKEYS INTO SPACE – FAUBUS SUFFERS SETBACK –
AGENTS SMASH ANTI-CASTRO PLOT – NICARAGUA IN CHAOS – DULLES PASSES AT 71
The
United States fires two monkeys 200 miles into space and brings them back alive
and well. The recovery was an important step toward putting a man
in space. The intermediate range rocket hurled them into space from Cape
Canaveral. Able and Baker, a pair of pampered
female monkeys, get a VIP reception in the nation’s capital
after journeying 300 miles into space.
Orval
Faubus suffers a major setback in Little Rock’s integration battle with the
defeat of three segregationists in a school board recall election.
Customs
agents smash a counter-revolutionary plot against Cuba when they
arrest 11. Smugglers included a woman pilot loading a big transport plane
with weapons.
The
United States advises Russian Premier Khrushchev to stop threatening
one-sided Soviet action in Germany if he wants current East-West talks to
succeed. At the Big Four meeting in Geneva – Russia’s Andrei Gromyko tells his
western colleagues that the Soviet Union is determined to dispense with
the three western military garrisons in Berlin and convert West
Berlin into a “demilitarized free city”
The
regime of President Luia Somoza, menaced by increasing unrest within the
country and threats of invasion from abroad, declares martial law in Nicaragua.
In
passing - John Foster Dulles, former Secretary of State, loses his life to
cancer. He was 71.
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