EAST FAREWELL
NEWS
Thursday, October
8, 1959 Vol. C745
LOCAL
NEWS
INDIAN SUMMER MAKES AN
APPEARANCE
East Farewell – Indian summer made an appearance in East
Farewell last week as temperatures soared into the 80s for Sunday, Monday,
Tuesday and Wednesday. The usual temperatures for this time of year in town
average in the upper 50s or low 60s. The weather service said this weather
anomaly is not uncommon but this one was more extreme than expected. “This
event sort of caught us off guard with its very high temperatures,” said local weatherman,
Sean Walker, “We got caught in a stalled high pressure zone and while usually
wind from the west moves it right along this time the wind was not there and
the temperatures just hung around.”
The hot weather
was not completely unwelcome. Some folks enjoyed the late summer by going down
to the beach and taking a dip in the lake. The lake water was still chilly,
about 58 degrees but most of the bathers did not seem to mind, “It was really
refreshing,” said a swimsuit wearing youth still dripping from his dip.
The restaurants took
advantage of the very mild evenings by opening up their outdoor dining and
people spent more time strolling through town even as the twilight came early
and by 7:00PM the restaurants had turned on their outside lights that had been brought
back out of storage. For the most part people took the heat in stride. “Sure it
is hot but it is kind of nice. We get one last blast of summer and it was a
great summer,” said Mrs. Mallard, local
boarding house owner, “I was sold out for almost every week this summer. I had to
have my daughter, Natalie,
to help me out. She is older now and some of the young men staying over had to
be told to watch their steps,” she laughed.
Technically,
the Indian summer was only an inversion but it did spark a lot of late evening
activity and a lot of talk on the street. By Thursday and cold front had
brought some cold rain and a drop in temperature making the memories of summer
memories once more.
Indian summer
stroll 1959
SPORTS
COUGARS HOME OPENER A BIG
VICTORY OVER RIVERVIEW
East Farewell – The talk of the town was all about the new,
strong Cougars football team. The home opener just seemed to reinforce the
talk. The Cougars walked onto the Regional High Field on Saturday and picked up
where they left off last week. The Riverview Wildcats are not as strong as the
Miners were and they have many underclassmen in their starting lineup. They
have a lot of enthusiasm but are a little short in the teamwork department. The
Cougars won the toss and took the ball. On the kickoff Joey Neil was able to
race through most of the Wildcats and get down to the Wildcat 18 yard line. The
second play of the game was a center plunge by big Robbie Blackman who knocked
three Wildcats over as he rumbled 18 yards. The next play he kept the ball and
carried the whole Wildcat line into the end zone. Regalia and his unusual style
kept his perfect extra point string intact. It looked like the Cougars were
going to have a wonderful home opener.
The Wildcats
were not going to let that happen. They took the kick off and buckled down to a
determined, somewhat haphazard drive that took them down to the Cougars 20 yard
line. Then with third and six they brought out a small player, by far the
smallest on the field, to attempt a field goal. The Cougars sideline was
buzzing and some wise cracks were heard. The ball was snapped and this small
kicker approached the ball. The kicker’s foot struck the ball and it launched
with the force of a rifle and sailed through the uprights and past the end of
the field over the fence and onto the baseball outfield. It traveled at least
45 yards in the air. The stadium was stunned and silent. The Wildcats were
jumping around like they won the game. The kicker jogged to the sideline and
took a seat on the bench as players congratulated the kicker who did not remove
their helmet. It wasn’t until almost halftime that the kicker finally removed
their helmet and revealed he was a she! The kicker was a girl. Once she had
revealed herself, Rachel Zorn, there was quite a bit of commotion on the
Cougars sidelines. Coach Burcowitz was frantically looking through the rulebook
to see if there was anything about girls being able to play in the league.
“Apparently there is no rule against it. There is nothing in there that says
girls can’t play in this league. I don’t believe it but it is, I mean isn’t in
there,” said the Coach right before halftime. “They really pulled one over on
us, that girl can kick. But you aren’t going to win a lot of games if you don’t
score touchdowns,” he added.
There was still
a full half to play in the game and after things had calmed down the Cougars
regrouped and were able to drive down the field right before the half and Joey
O’Toole was able to run a sweep around the left and score with only 10 seconds
left in the first half. Sammy Regalia kicked the extra point and was obviously
trying to kick it as far as he could. He almost missed but luckily nipped the
inside of the goal post and went through. The half ended, 14-3, with the
Cougars on top.
In the second
half the Wildcats came out with renewed energy, unfortunately their talent did
not match their energy. They were stopped at the Cougar forty three and even
their new superstar, Rachel Zorn who was officially introduced at the half,
could not kick one that far. The Wildcats punted and once again Joey Neil
threaded his way through the Wildcats and made his way down to the 12 yard
line. This time Dugan went to the air and found his young tight end, Albert
Dillon crossing the center just across the goal line. After Regalia’s extra
point the score was 21-3. Both teams went back and forth in the middle of the
field until late in the fourth quarter when Dungan tried a shotgun snap from
the Cougar’s own forty, but usually very reliable center, Daniel Green let
loose a high, wild snap that flew over Dugan’s head and bounced down to about
the thirty where a dashing Wildcat defensive end, Ned Dunlap, picked up the
loose ball and returned to the goal line. He was 5 yards ahead of the nearest
Cougar, Dugan, who made a valiant effort the stop him to no avail. Dunlap
scampered into the end zone for the score. Zorn blasted the extra point as both
sides applauded. The game ended, 21-10, Cougars but a new era of Regional
Football had been born with the first female played to ever play in a game. She
did very well.
The Cougars
will face the Corning Devils, who by the way are all male, next Friday at 4:30
on the Regional High Field.
NATIONAL NEWS
STEELWORKERS UNION MAY STRIKE AFTER 80 DAY
TRUCE – GROUP OF SCIENTISTS WANT TO SOLVE DISARMAMENT PROBLEM – WEATHER BUREAU
NIXS H-BOMBING HURRICANES – IKE’S POPULARITY HITS NEW HIGH – ENGLAND’S MACMILLAN
SWEEPS TO VICTORY
Declaring
it will not be beaten, the United Steelworkers Union says a court order may
force an 80-day truce in the record steel strike, but their leader indicated
they might strike again, after a Taft-Harley truce.
A
group of scientists wants the government to set up an agency for - scientists -
to keep the peace. The group - including two Nobel Prize winners, would help
solve “technical” problems such as disarmament.
The
Weather Bureau respectfully rejects, for the time being at least, suggestions
that it try to knock out hurricanes with H-bombs. In the first place it knows
of no reason for believing the attempt would succeed. In the second place, it
is conceivable that an H-bomb explosion, instead of killing a hurricane, would
make it worse.
In
a Gallup Poll, President’s Eisenhower’s popularity has risen to its highest
point since May 1957 as 66% like the way he’s doing his job.
Prime
Minister Macmillan and his Conservative party win a sweeping election victory.
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