EAST FAREWELL
NEWS
Thursday, February
11, 1960 Vol. C763
LOCAL
NEWS
FROM NOTHING TO EVERYTHING
East Farewell – It looked for a while like this was going to be
a snowless winter and Lake Charles would not freeze over. Many people in town
were growing concerned that there would be no snow sculptures on the Lakefront
Plaza or ice fishing on the lake. Some were happy that there would probably be
no snow to clog the streets and sidewalks for next week’s Valentine’s Day Social and that public transit system would not be
running late due to snow clogged tracks. Well, all those hopes and fears came
to an abrupt end over the last week. There had been a small amount of snowfall
late last month but less the 6 inches and was viewed more as a nuisance than
anything else. Over the last ten days a cold front has moved in and seems to
have stalled right over East Farewell. More the twelve inches of snow have
fallen throughout the last week. The storms have been of the off and on
variety, snow falling for twelve hours and then a break and then resuming eight
or ten hours later. The snow fell at a fairly quick clip when it fell, close to
½ and inch an
hour at times. The temperature has dropped significantly, too. The average
temperature for the last week has been 25. Lake Charles has frozen over and
should be ready for the ice huts within the next week or so. As for the
Valentine’s Day Social, it will go on as planned.
It seems that
seasons are starting to return to normal and people in East Farewell are in
general a little more comfortable with the situation. “I have to say, I was
secretly hoping for a snowstorm,” said Natalie Mallard as she
carefully walked down the soon to be cleared side walk on Main Street.
Main Street -
1960
SPORTS
CORNING DEVILS TOO STRONG FOR COUGARS
Corning – The Devils took advantage
of the home court advantage on Saturday as they handily beat the Cougars,
52-48. The final score does not indicate the way the whole game really went.
The Devils took command early and did not let go until the fourth quarter when they
started to clear their bench. The Cougars did have some reasons for their poor
performance. The ride up to Coring took almost four hours due to the weather
and the game was postponed from 1:30 until 6:00. The Cougars center, James
Hawkins, also started showing flu like symptoms right before the game. He was
only able to play the first seven minutes before Coach Wilson took him out for
his own good. Hawkins sat on the end of the bench for the rest of the game and
did not look well. To compound the Cougars problems backcourt guard, Mack
Mackenzie, twisted his ankle getting off the bus and could only play for a few
minutes at a time. Even with the Cougars problems the second team played an
admirable game against a far superior Devils team. The first half ended with
the Devils on top, 28-20. The second half started off well for the Cougars as
Robbie O’Shea and Wendell Williams were able to close the gap to two points at
34-32 but then the Devils seemed to raise their game to a new level and score
10 unanswered points. By the end of the third quarter the game was well in the
Devils hands at 48-30 and the Cougars were running out of steam. Their
extra-long bus ride and potential flu combined to drag down the Cougars further
than their valiant second team could recover from. The Devils started to empty
their bench with four minutes left and that opened up Williams, O’Shea and
Walter Ferguson to close the gap considerably but not completely. As the final
buzzer sounded the Devils were still in control, 52-48.
The
weather got so bad that the Cougars had to spend the night in Corning and limp
home on Sunday. Hawkins was officially diagnosed with the flu and probably out
for next week’s game. Mackenzie is still limping but he is expected to be able
to play. The situation is going to go from difficult to very difficult because
the Cougars face their tough rival Riverview next week. The Cougars and
Wildcats are evenly matched when they are both at full strength but with the
Cougars in a diminished state all bets are off. There is one positive for the
Cougars, they play at home and the fans do offer an extra boost. The game
begins on Friday afternoon at 4:30PM in the Regional High Gymnasium.
NATIONAL NEWS
CASTRO ANNOUNCES CLOSER TIES WITH COMMIES –
RUSSIA EXTENDS CUBA $100 MILLION CREDIT –
DEFENSE DEPARTMENT SAYS UFO MAY BE OF SOVIET
ORIGIN
Premier
Castro of Cuba announces that relations between Cuba and Communist Russia,
non-existent since 1952, will be re-established “very soon.” The
statement was made in Havana in the presence of Anastas Mikoyan, first
deputy premier of the Soviet Union. The very next day, Soviet Deputy Premier
Mikoyan signed a trade pact with Prime Minister Castro, making the Soviet Union
Cuba’s second largest customer behind the United States. Under the pact, the
Soviet Union will buy a fifth of Cuba’s annual sugar crop, as the first step
toward closer Soviet- Cuban relations. Russia will also extend Castro’s regime
a credit of $100 million to be repaid over 12 years at 2-½% interest. U.S. officials say the pact assures the Soviet
Union a firm foot in the Caribbean area, from which it could extend its
penetration deep into the rest of the Caribbean and Latin America.
The
Defense Department says an unidentified object is orbiting the earth and “may
be of Soviet origin.” The mystery object is emitting radio signals and orbiting
over the poles a desirable position for any type of “seeing eye” satellite.
Many, many
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contributing to this section of the East Farewell News.
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