EAST FAREWELL
NEWS
Thursday, September
24, 1959 Vol. C743
LOCAL
NEWS
ANOTHER YEAR, ANOTHER BEAR ON
THE BEACH
East Farewell – If it is late September and the weather is still
mild it is time for the bears to make their way down to the beach off the
Lakefront Plaza for a little fishing and relaxing in the sun with all the other
tourists. Of course, as soon as they show up the tourists scatter and the
Animal Control is called. Actually, the bears did not show up when there was
anybody on the beach, they appeared early on Tuesday morning and when the first
people came around the corner the bears, probably a mother and two of her cubs,
looked at the people for a moment and then hightailed it back to woods. Animal
Control was called as a precaution but there was never any threat to anyone or
the bears. “We live out in the country, almost in the wilderness, so this
should not be unexpected. We have all kinds of wildlife around here it just
doesn’t usually come out in the public areas. This was obviously a Mama Bear
and here cubs coming down to the beach to see if they could catch some fish. I
guess it is good that Baxter the dog was not around. He would have caused quite
a commotion,” said Animal Control Chief, Nate Finley, referring to the town
mascot, Baxter, owned by James Douglass. The very popular dog passed away back
in November of last year.
Baxter had a run in with Mama Bear
and her cubs back in 1956 when he got between Kimberly Kane and her son, Jake,
in Mrs.
Mallard’s boarding houses’ backyard it may have been the same bears. Baxter
was so ferocious that the bears retreated back to the woods rather than tangle
with him. This made Baxter an instant town celebrity and unofficial mascot.
Everyone knew Baxter and Douglass would walk him through town and he would stop
in places and people would give him water and treats.
Whether the bears were the same
family will never be known but a young beachgoer, Justin O’Leary, had the good
luck, or in his mother’s view, the bad luck, to turn the corner on the
Lakefront Beach and see the bears down by the water about 50 yards away. He had
his brownie camera out and was taking a picture of the Fun Pier from a
different angle and turned to see the bears. He was able to shoot a couple of
pictures of the bears before they realized he was there and headed back to the
woods. His mother, Geraldine, was right behind him and when she came around the
corner and saw the bears she scooped Justin and made a hasty retreat herself
back to the Fun Pier and called for help.
Justin
O’Leary’s photo of bears on the beach
SPORTS
TRAVELERS GET STEAMROLLED BY
“FREIGHT” TRANE
East Farewell – The Travelers 1959 race for the league title
effectively ended on Saturday when they got rundown and hammered by a “Freight”
Trane and a Taxen “Hammer”, Joe “Freight” Trane and Bobby “Hammer” Taxen that
is. The two Mountain View Explorers put the Travelers firmly in third place in
the league standings by the end of the 8-1 shellacking. The problems started in
the first when Traveler’s pitcher, Danny Lane, had trouble finding the strike
zone right out of the gate. He walked the first two batters then got a ground
out. That brought Explorer’s slugger,
Bobby Taxen to the plate. He didn’t wait and on the first pitch he crushed a
long fly to center for a very fast 3-0 Explorer lead. Lane was able to calm
down and get out of the inning without any more damage. Joe “Freight” Trane took
the mound in bottom of the first and there was a scattering of train whistle
sounds from adoring fans who traveled all the way from Mountainview for the
game. Trane did not disappoint them. He struck out the side and went on to
throw seven perfect innings. He set a season team record for strikeouts at
fifteen and only allowed one hit all day. That hit was a homerun by none other
than Johnny Cloos who has a personal high of 25 homers so far this year. That
hit didn’t come until the eighth inning and was the only mistake that Trane
made. The Travelers limped off the field after Trane walked his first batter in
the ninth but the forced Tony Dimero to hit into a double play and then struck
out Joey Brown to end the game.
“Ouch, that
hurt. We looked as bad as we looked all season out there today. That was
unacceptable. The “Freight” Trane was good but he is not that good, we made him
look like some magician out there,” said manager Fowler bitterly after the
game.
The Travelers
host the Slate Mountain Miners and their ace, Tony “Michael:” Angelo next week.
They have split their games this season against the Miners at 2 and 2 but they
have lost the game where they faced Angelo. Hopefully, they will regroup and
close the season with a win. The game begins at 1:05 in the Ballpark on
Saturday.
NATIONAL NEWS
KHRUSHCHEV GIVES CORN LECTURE AND RETURNS TO
MOSCOW –
IKE STANDS FIRM ON BERLIN – HOFFA
BOWS TO LABOR REFORM ORDERS – FCC TO CLAMP DOWN ON CB CHATTER
Premier
Khrushchev tells Iowans how to grow better corn. He delivered his lecture
on superior Soviet corn planting methods as he inspected cornfields of Stephen
Garst, son of his host, Emanuel Garst before returning to Washington, after a
cross-country tour.
President
Eisenhower appears to be standing firm on his repeated public insistence
that Premier Khrushchev gives clear recognition to the western allies’ rights
in Berlin. President Eisenhower and Premier Khrushchev agreed to keep on
talking about their differences, but settle on nothing except to postpone
the President’s return visit to Moscow until next spring. “Until We Meet Again” said Premier Khrushchev
before he boarded his plane to Moscow.
Arriving
in Moscow, Premier Khrushchev said his American trip was very
successful. He told the Russian people President Eisenhower is a man of
peace with the backing of all but a small minority of Americans. President
Eisenhower said he considers the Berlin impasse broken during his weekend talks
with Premier Khrushchev but a beginning was made toward better Soviet-American
relations.
Teamster
president James R. Hoffa bowing to a provision of the new labor reform law
orders his union to oust ex-convict officials barred from holding office under
the new statue.
The
FCC wants to clamp down on “rag-chews” and “round-robbins” on the Citizen
Band radios. It seems that many are getting CB licenses just to chew the
fat. The band is not authorized for such chatter. The appeal is, unlike a ham
license, you don’t need to take a technical exam.
