EAST FAREWELL
NEWS
Thursday, March
24, 1960 Vol. C769
LOCAL
NEWS
A LITTLE LEPRECHAUN FUN FOR
ST. PATTY’S DAY
East
Farewell – The snow sculptures on Lake Front Plaza have started to deteriorate
and some have melted away completely. Usually, the entire display melts into
the lake and is only remembered in the stories and photos. This year there was
a little wrinkle thrown in the mix. Last Thursday was St
Patrick’s Day and there is a large group of East Farewell’s population that
is of Irish heritage all of whom like to celebrate the holiday. It seems someone
or a group of St Patrick’s Day revelers (it is assumed the prank was related to
St Patrick’s Day) rebuilt some of the sculptures on Lake Front Plaza
as giant shamrocks and colored the entire display on the plaza green, Irish
green. It happened sometime after 12 midnight on Thursday night and was
completed by sunrise on Friday. There wasn’t any damage, unless reconfiguration
of snow figures is damage, and what was found to be food coloring did not
present any problem with pollution of the lake. Once the sun came up and people
started to notice the “new look” on the Plaza the word spread quickly. By the
afternoon and school had let out the display on the Plaza became a focus of
attention that rivaled the attention it received when the snow sculptures first
opened. There were more questions than answers and no one has claimed
responsibility for prank. There are two general theories, one and group of
party goers left the Lost Oasis and went to work or maybe a group of students
slipped out went to work and the very favorite is a group of Leprechauns snuck
onto the Plaza and rearranged half the sculptures and created a giant shamrock
in honor of their favorite saint. No one may ever know.
Shamrocks take
over Lakefront Plaza
SPORTS
COUGARS STUNNED BY MINERS
Slate Mountain – The Cougars came into the Slate
Mountain gymnasium thinking they were going to walk out with the league
championship in their hands. They were sadly disappointed. The Miners had a
different idea and rallied to pull off an upset, 52-50 forcing the league into
a playoff situation instead of a clean cut season end winner. Next week there
will be a playoff game for the championship. Instead of a tournament there will
only be a final playoff game between the Corning Devils and the East Farewell Cougars.
The
Slate Mountain Miners came out in the spoiler mode on Saturday. They were going
to finish in fourth of fifth place but they felt they could stop the Cougars
from walking away with the championship. They also had a chip on their shoulder
after getting beat up by the Cougars earlier in the season. It was a hard
played game from start to finish.
The
game started out with both teams trying to press but neither team was very
effective and the strategy was abandoned by both teams with in the first five
minutes. Both teams played a tight defense for the remained of the first half
and traded leads until the Cougars were able to put together an 8-0 run at the
end of the first half to go into the locker room with a 34-26 lead. The second
half started with the Miners coming out strong and taking their defense to a
new level. They double teamed Hawkins and switched off on both Tasker and
Mitchell to shut down the Cougars inside game. It was a bad time for both Fox
and Mackenzie to go cold and shoot only one for 12 in the same period. The
Miners were able to battle back and tie the game with only 30 seconds left. On
the Cougars in bounds Miner forward Max Senlac reached in front of Joey
Mitchell and knocked the ball into the air. A scramble ensued and Miner’s
center Frank Lewinski grabbed the ball, turned right under the basket and put
it up and in as time ran out. The Miners came away with a 52-50 win.
“I
feel we let that one slip away and it makes me mad,” said center James Hawkins
after the game, “I should have got that in bounds but I didn’t and the worst
thing happened.”
There
are some positives the Cougars can take away from the loss. They still share
the championship with the Devils and will play them next week to determine the
ultimate league champ. There were no injuries and everyone is healthy for next
week’s game. The game will be played at home because of the Cougars superior
record overall. The game will be played on Friday and begins at 4:30 in the
Regional High Gymnasium.
NATIONAL NEWS
LASER IS PATENTED – LADY
CHATTERLEY’S LOVER NOT OBSCENE - MASSACRE IN SOUTH AFRICA -
NEW COMMIE AIRLINER UNVEILED – MARTY DALTON DIES AT 91
AL
Schawlow and C H Townes obtain patent for the laser, which stands for Light
Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation. Possible applications for a
laser are spectrometry, interferometry, radar, and nuclear
fusion.
US
appeals court rules D.H. Lawrence's novel Lady Chatterley’s Lover not obscene.
Massacre
in Sharpeville, South Africa: Police open fire on a group of unarmed black
South African demonstrators, killing 69 and wounding 180.
The Tupolev
Tu-124 jet airliner, first ever to be powered by turbofans, made its first
flight, at the test grounds in the Soviet Russian city of Zhukovsky.
The Tu-124s were then manufactured in Kharkov, and will primarily used
by Aeroflot the Communist
airline.
In
passing - Marty Dalton, 91, was an inmate of the Rhode Island State Prison in Cranston,
Rhode Island,
since 1897. Dalton had refused parole in 1930 after serving 33 years for the
killing of a New York businessman, and after a two-hour tour of the outside
world, asked to stay because the prison was his only home.
Many, many
thanks to www.mrpopculture.com for
contributing to this section of the East Farewell News.
