EAST FAREWELL
NEWS
Thursday, November
17, 1960 Vol. C803
LOCAL
NEWS
BOARDING HOUSE BECOMES
MATERNITY WARD
East Farewell – A completely unexpected event took place on Lake
Shore Drive this week. Mrs. Mallard’s boarding
house was turned into a maternity ward when young Mrs. Sue Quinn, wife of
Bernie Quinn, gave birth to a beautiful, bouncing baby boy, Ryan. The event
made headlines because Sue was not expecting Ryan until December 11th.
She and Bernie were visiting East Farewell after they had moved away last year.
Bernie Quinn and Sue Logan
met on one of East Farewell’s transit cars back in 1956 when the
Transit System was only one year old. Their romance grew as they shared rides
and fell in love. They were married in 1958 and were looking for a home in
town. It turned out that Bernie, an Iron Works employee and Korean War vet, was
recruited for an executive job in Slate Mountain working for Rawlings Brewing
Company. The pair moved to Slate Mountain last year but kept close ties to
their friends in East Farewell. Sue was very close to her due date when they
came back to town to celebrate Bernie’s cousin’s birthday. They took a room in Mrs. Mallard’s boarding
house on Lake Shore Drive. They were both enjoying the mild fall weather
on the front porch when Sue suddenly started to have contractions and her water
broke. She was quickly moved inside and the ambulance was called. The baby was
not going to wait for the ambulance and was delivered in the hastily made
maternity ward in one of the boarding house’s bedroom. The baby boy, Ryan, was
born at 7:03PM on November 12th. Both the baby and the mother are
doing well. The father is recovering satisfactorily. “We are so happy and
thankful and blessed. All the people who helped out were just fantastic. I
didn’t expect this at all but everyone really came together to help me out. I
am so thankful,” said Sue from her bed in the boarding house.
While births in
East Farewell are not unusual, more than 300 babies were born last year, and
at-home births are not that rare, about 100 babies were born at home last year,
but a baby born in a boarding house is an unusual circumstance. Everyone knows
that when Mother Nature decides to do something there is no power in the
universe that can stop her.
Bernie and Sue
Quinn with baby Ryan in Mrs. Mallard’s boarding house
SPORTS
COUGARS STAY HOT
East Farewell – The Cougars extended
their winning ways to three games as the defeated the Southport Hawks, 21-7. The
team looked strong and confident. They started off by taking the first kickoff
in for a score. Quarterback, Martin O’Mara, ran the offense with great aplomb
and spread out his offense by mixing running plays with passing plays that kept
the Hawks out of whack and unable to generate a sustainable defense. By the end
of the first half the Cougars were in charge with a 14-0 lead. O’Mara had
spread out his scoring opportunities; the first going to his big fullback,
Charles Robinson, who rumbled in from six yards out for the first score and
then to Albert Dillon, his favorite tight end, who caught a swing pass and ran
in for the second score. The third quarter showed the Hawks with a renewed
effort and they were able to score after a long, grueling drive that ate up
half of the third quarter. Hawks quarterback, Joey Gentile, was able to hold
onto the ball and along with his persistent backfield, Francis Baldwin at
halfback and Ronnie Thurman at fullback, continued to pound the Cougar defense
driving down the field in three and four yard gains. Finally, after five first
downs and no passes, he handed off to Thurman on a third and four who bounced
around the inside line and fell into the end zone for the score. The Cougars
offense had spent most of the third quarter on the sideline but they came out
with two minutes left in the third and drove down to the twenty. They attempted
a field goal but it was blocked. That was the first of Sammy Regalia’s field
goal attempts blocked this season. Undaunted, the Cougars took the ball back
after a firm stop of the Hawks run game and O’Mara went right to Dillon with a
long bomb that landed right in his arms at the ten and Dillon ran right into
the end zone for the score. The series took all of thirty seconds. The Cougars
defense then had to buckle down and hold the Hawks grinding ground game in
check. They were successful and ran the clock out without they Hawk offense
being able to score again. They did move the ball but defensive end, Sammy
Grover and defensive tackle, Mitch Rooney, had several key stops in the last
five minutes. The Cougars walked off the field with a well-deserved victory,
21-7 and more importantly looked like they were playing with confidence and
game awareness.
The
Cougars travel to Corning next week to take on the Devils for the second time
this season. They were able to defeat the Devils earlier for their first win of
the season with a winning field goal by Regalia. The game will be played on
Saturday. The game will begin at 1:00PM on Coring High School field.
NATIONAL NEWS
GUATEMALA IN REVOLT – IKE SENDS WARSHIPS TO
CENTRAL AMERICA – TROUBLE IN SOUTH VIETNAM –
SOVIETS ANNOUNCE NEW RUBLE VALUE
An armed revolt linked to the Cuban regime of Fidel Castro, breaks out in Guatemala, against the government of President Miguel Ydigoras Fuentes. An airport at Puerto Barrios was destroyed - preventing further invasion by Castro rebels.
President Eisenhower rushes U.S. Navy warships and air units into position to defend revolt-threatened Guatemala and Nicaragua against any communist-led attack. The White House made it clear to Prime Minister Castro to keep hands off both Central American republics. Havana newspaper La Calle termed it “Yankee military intervention” and a “grave threat to world peace”
Trouble in South Vietnam - Disgruntled South Vietnamese Army officers attempted, but failed, at a coup against President Diem. A crackdown is ordered and over 50,000 are arrested. Many innocent people are tortured then executed. Thousands who fear arrest flee to North Vietnam. Ho Chi Minh will later send many back to infiltrate South Vietnam as part of his People's Liberation Armed Forces. Called Viet Cong by Diem, meaning Communist Vietnamese, Ho's guerrillas blend into the countryside, indistinguishable from South Vietnamese, while working to undermine Diem's government)
The
Soviet Union announces a new heavy ruble, slightly above the value of the U.S.
dollar in international trade, with an increase in the ruble’s gold content. A
dollar now brings four rubles at the official rate, or 10 rubles at a special
tourist rate. Beginning January 1 the Soviet Union decreed it would take
only nine-tenths of a ruble to equal 41.
Many, many
thanks to www.mrpopculture.com for
contributing to this section of the East Farewell News.
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