EAST FAREWELL
NEWS
Thursday, January
7, 1960 Vol. C758
LOCAL
NEWS
WELCOME 1960 – A NEW YEAR AND
A NEW DECADE
East Farewell – The new decade was ushered
in with the traditional New Year’s Parade down Main Street, up Lake Shore Drive
and ended on Lakefront Plaza. The extremely warm weather made the parade a
shirtsleeve affair and many people stated on the Plaza for the impromptu
concert by the Regional High School Jazz band. The parade launched from the
Iron Works parking lot with the Girl Scouts once again leading the way,
followed by the Boy Scouts. The Girl scouts have enjoyed a string of good luck
winning the parade leading coin toss three years in a row. The Scouts were
followed by several nicely appointed floats sponsored by the Restaurant
Association, The Playhouse and the local SPCA. The SPCA not only had a float
but also a sort of mini-parade with at least 10 dogs of different size and breed
all walking in line, kind of, being led by SPCA leader, Joan Wilson. “We just
love showing off our charges, they are loving companions that will give
anyone’s spirits a boost,” said Wilson when asked at the adoption event on the
Lakefront Plaza after the parade.
A surprising
but not unexpected entrant in the parade was the float sponsored by N.U.D.E.
(Nothing Until Democracy Evolves) the local nudist organization that owns and
runs a camp/retreat at the north end of the lake. They have been in the last
three parades and have always been clothed with respect to the community. This
year there was a rumor that with the warm weather they might try to show more
than before and push the limits of decency. But NUDE president and chief
spokesman, Frank Logan, had given the Commissioners his assurance that there
would be no ostentatious displays of skin. The float was met with the now usual
jeers and comments that have now become almost welcomed by the float riders who
have started to respond with their own retorts. It was all in good fun. The Regional High Marching Band brought the
finale and along with the Jazz band that actually just marched was greeted with
cheers from the hometown crowd and the many, many visitors. This year the crowd
was estimated at almost 10,000 thanks to the warm weather.
It
seems the weather was staying warm just long enough to keep Christmas and New
Year’s way above normal and unseasonably snow free. On the 3rd the
bottom fell out of the weather inversion and temperatures dropped 35 degrees in
24 hours and continued to drop for the rest of the week. By press time the
average temperature for the last 24 hours was 32 degrees. Winter has arrived
with gusto and now as the New Year dawns things seem to be getting back to
normal. So, as the excitement of the New Year starts to fade everyone is
starting to bundle up and get back to business.
The Girl
Scouts lead the 1960 New Year’s Parade
SPORTS
COUGARS BROUGHT BACK DOWN TO EARTH
Riverview – The high flying Cougars were forced
down to the ground in their first game of the new decade. They traveled to
Riverview to play the Wildcats on January 2nd and came up on the
short side losing 50-44. The Wildcats, like the Cougars, are a senior led team
and have played together for three and four years, sometimes longer as some
players are longtime friends. The game started off with both teams playing fast
and loose. In the first six minutes there were three lead changes and a total
of 24 points scored. The Cougars big center, James Hawkins, was matched up with
Wildcats senior center, David Bell. The two young men have known and played
against each other for the last three years and there is no love lost between
them. They both were charged with fouls early in the game and ended the first
half with three apiece. The rest of the Cougars fore court, forwards Dan Tasker
and Joey Mitchell, had their hands full also with Wildcats David Farmer and
Reggie Franklin. The Cougars back court, Mack Mackenzie and Bobby Fox faired a
little better as their counter points were the youngest players on the court,
Billy Giardini and Felix Kramer. Fox turned out to be the leading scorer in the
game with 18, 12 in the second half. Mackenzie put in 12 while Hawkins had only
8 and eventually fouled out with one minute left. His nemesis, Bell had fouled
out only one minute earlier so the Cougars were unable to take advantage of the
freed up Hawkins. By the time both big guys had left the game it was in looking
very good for the Wildcats leading 46-36 with only three minutes left. Hawkins
was able to dump in 4 of his points after Bell had left but it wasn’t enough.
The Wildcats were able to score around the center and the Cougars were just
unable to score enough to close the gap. Time ran out and the Wildcats were victorious,
50-44.
The
Cougars stay on the road next week as they travel to Fort Lee to take on the
Captains in an evening game. The game begins at 7:00PM in the Fort Lee High
Gymnasium. The Captains have a balanced team this year with two seniors, two
juniors and a sophomore but they have only played together for this season. The
Cougars will try to rebound against the Captains.
NATIONAL NEWS
NIXON IS GRAND MARSHALL AT ROSE PARADE &
THEN SETS CROSS COUNTRY SPEED RECORD –
KENNEDY IS A CANDIDATE – LONDON & TROUP
MARRY – AROMARAMA IS HERE
Vice
President Richard M. Nixon leads the way as Grand Marshall of the Tournament of
Roses Parade in Pasadena and then a 707 jet airliner carrying Nixon back to
Washington sets a new commercial coast-to-coast record, flying from Los Angeles
to Washington-Baltimore Friendship Airport in 3 hours and 39 minutes.
Sen.
John F. Kennedy (D-Mass) announces his 1960 Presidential candidacy. Kennedy
said the current budget for national defense is "too low by a substantial
percentage" and said he would not hesitate to call for higher taxes,
deficit spending, reshuffling of available appropriations or a combination of
these methods to close the "missile gap" which he charged the
Eisenhower administration let occur.
Singer Julie
London and jazz pianist Bobby Troup marry. The pair had been
romantically linked for more than two years. She was once married to Jack Webb.
Troup penned the song "Route 66"
Scent
comes to movie theaters? Now you can
smell the action. New this week with the movie "Behind The Great
Wall" - "AromaRama” (A motion picture with scent) "It's
here - the newest and most thrilling dimension in Motion Pictures. In sight -
TotalScope. In Sound – Stereophonic. In Scent - AromaRama. At selected
theaters”
Many, many
thanks to www.mrpopculture.com for
contributing to this section of the East Farewell News.
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