EAST FAREWELL
NEWS
Thursday, June 23,
1960 Vol. C782
LOCAL
NEWS
LIFEGUARDS COME TO LAKE
CHARLES
East
Farewell – The beach at the Lakefront Plaza has a new addition, a lifeguard
stand appeared at the beginning of the month and the first lifeguards appeared
last week. The newly formed Lake Lifeguard Association (LLA) enlisted and
trained 10 lifeguards. The head of the group, being called the captain, is 26
year old Maxwell Turner. Turner is a State College graduate with a degree in
physical education. He was also the leading receiver on the football team as
well as a track star specializing in long distance running. Turner is a local
boy and happens to be the youngest brother of Miss Anna
Turner, the local Regional High School teacher who was recently honored by NASA
as Regional Science Teacher of the Northeast. Mr. Turner is a skilled swimmer
and has coached several youth teams throughout his short but brilliant career.
He took the position after being recruited by the Town Council after they
decided to create a first aid service to patrol the lakefront. In recent years
the summer population has continued to grow and the Lakefront beach
has become very popular. With more and more people coming to the beach it
became obvious that some form of public safety had to be put in place. There
has been a large increase in the young and very young coming to the beach. Most
have adult supervision but nevertheless the town council saw the need for an
organized protection service. They authorized the creation of the service last
winter and set this summer as the introduction of the service. Miss Turner
heard of the new service and suggested her brother for the captain’s position.
After some interviews and interviews with other applicants Mr. Turner was
chosen. His athletic ability along with his coaching experience was influential
in his choice. He got right work and recruited a staff of 10 and enlisted the
help of the National First Aid Association and the Red Cross to design and
execute a training program for the new recruits. All the recruits had to pass
rather stringent tests involving first aid, water crisis recovery and of
course, swimming. “I grew up on this lake and I think I understand it,” said
Turner at a kick-off news conference, “I have taken part in most of the ‘Swim
Across The Lake’ events and I feel I have assembled a top notch crew that will
be able to protect the lake swimmers and even look out for rafters, boaters and
fishermen further out on the lake."
The Lake
Charles Lifeguard Team 1960
SPORTS
CGW “SMOKES” TRAVELERS
Corning – The Travelers limped into Corning on
Saturday night hoping to regroup from their humiliating loss to the Bear Creek
Cubs and “Howlin” Frank Fowler. They had a huge task in front of them because
they were facing CGW’s ace Bill “Smoke” Black who holds the league leading ERA
of 2.7. The Travelers were unable to rise to the occasion. They suffered
another defeat, 6-4, but did show improvements in their offense and continued a
respectable defense committing no errors or stolen bases. Black was too much
for them, though. He was able to keep the Travelers off base with a blazing
fastball, hence his nickname, and interjecting some timely curves at just the
right time. The Travelers were not able get a score until the sixth inning when
Dimero, Brown and Archibald were able to load the bases and Billy Sweet was able
to connect with a fastball that hung up and drive in all three runners. In the
eighth Johnny Cloos was able to drive in Francis but the rally was snuffed out
by Black striking out Dimero to end the inning. CGW was impressive on offense
themselves. They took Traveler’s pitcher Danny Lane to task in the 2nd,
5th, 6th and 8th to score their runs (2, 1, 2,
and 1 respectively). Lane was able to strikeout 7 but he had trouble with his
curve ball missing many times in critical situations and ended up walking 7 also.
Basically that was the Traveler’s downfall. All but one of the walks ended up
scoring. “I just couldn’t get my curve to break the way I wanted and they knew
it,” lamented Lane after the game.
It
was a beautiful evening for baseball but the Travelers were not able to enjoy
it and they left Corning with another notch in the loss column. They stay on
the road next week when they visit the Mountain View Explorers. This will be
another test as they are scheduled to face Joe “Freight” Trane pitching and Bobby
“Hammer” Taxen hitting. This may be their biggest test in this grueling road
trip. The game will begin in Mountainview Stadium at 1:30PM.
NATIONAL NEWS
A MILLION CHINESE GREET IKE IN TAIPEI –
JAPAN BESTOWS GREAT HONOR ON GENERAL MACARTHUR – CONGRESS IS TOLD RUSSIA AND
CHINA SEEKING BASES IN CUBA - ARMY MUNITIONS DUMP BLOWS UP IN CUBA, SABATOGE
BLAMED
Greeted
by a million Chinese, President Eisenhower is welcomed in Taipei, greeting
President Chiang Kai-Shek with a pledge of America’s “steadfast solidarity”
with the Nationalists. President Eisenhower was also welcomed in Seoul, Korea
by 2 million friendly South Koreans, winding up his Far Eastern tour.
Japan
bestows the grand cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun with
Paulownia flowers to General Douglas MacArthur. It’s the highest
honor it can confer upon a foreigner who is not a head of state. He was
cited for his “great contributions” to the postwar reconstruction of Japan. “I
can recall no parallel in the history of the world when a great nation recently
at war so distinguished its former enemy commander” said MacArthur.
Congress
is told that Russia is seeking Cuba bases and urges the Organization of
American States to act in preventing Russia and China from getting a stronghold
and eliminating any kind of communist penetration in the western hemisphere.
An
army munitions dump across the bay from Havana, Cuba blew up - killing several
people and injuring hundreds. The explosion caused a near panic in the city.
Seven were seized as sabotage suspects.
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