EAST FAREWELL
NEWS
Thursday, January
18, 1951 Vol. C292
LOCAL
NEWS
MIGHTY KEYSTONE RAILROAD INKS DEAL WITH IRON
WORKS
East
Farewell – The Mighty
Keystone Railroad built and operated the Iron Works for thirty years. In
1948 the Railroad sold the Iron Works under pressure from the Federal
Government due to monopoly and trust concerns. The Iron Works and the Railroad
stayed closely linked with the Works supplying the majority of rails to the
railroad as well as many supplemental metal items that are used in running the
railroad. On Monday it was announced the Iron Works had entered into a long
term agreement with the railroad which is expected to send enough work to the
Iron Works to keep it busy for four years.
The Iron Works is the largest
employer in East Farewell. In fact, it was the railroad trying to establish freight
and passenger service along the main line across the state connecting the East
Coast to the Midwest that is the reason for the town. The Lendel brothers, working for the Mighty
Keystone Railroad as surveyors and line planners chose the site that ran along
a pristine lake, later named Lake Charles. The railroad was looking for a
location that was approximately half way down the line to place an iron foundry
to produce rails for the lines expansion.
The
location was perfect for a small town that would help the railroad and attract
workers, businesses and well-heeled railroad executives looking for a summer
getaway.
The
new contract was formally signed on Monday and many of the workers were able to
take a short pause to witness the signing. “I am pleased to sign this agreement
with the Mighty Keystone Railroad that will assure many years of good, profitable
work for everyone,” said Iron Works president, William McCoy after the signing.
The news of the deal made its way
through town and it seems everyone is elated. “This is great news,” said
Charles Wenz owner of a local bar and restaurant, “We depend on the workers and
their families for our business. Actually, they are all our family; we are all
one big family here. This is just great news.”
Iron Works with train sidings
SPORTS
COUGARS OUTLAST THE CANARIES IN OVERTIME
East Farewell – The Cougars faced the Slate Mountain
Canaries on Saturday and both teams played a great game. The Cougars had a
slight height advantage with their center, Bill Donahue, standing 6’4” and both
their forwards, John Hagan and David Seltzer both standing 6’2”. The Canaries
center, Arthur Dombonski coming in at 6’2” and their forwards only 6’ and 6’1”.
Donahue was able to take control of the center during the first half and
Seltzer and Hagan did a good job in the front court. In the back court Cougars
fairly experienced tandem, Jimmy Welch and Ted Fitzgerald started to show signs
of real coordination and court awareness. They played together last year and
are really starting to work well as a pair. The height advantage and good
coordination worked in the first half and the half ended with the Cougars on
top 20-14.
The
second half was different, though. The Canaries regrouped and started with a
new defense and were able tie up the score within the first five minutes. The
game then went into a back and forth battle. The lead was never more the four
points and tied more often than not. It came down to the last seven seconds
with the score tied and the Cougars had the ball. Fitzgerald and Welch brought
the ball up quickly and fed it into Donahue who turned with two seconds took a
shot from the center of the lane. The ball bounced on both sides of the rim but
bounced to the side and to the floor. The game went into overtime. This was the
first overtime for both teams.
The
overtime started with both teams not being able to score, a complete turnaround
from the game before. The overtime period was eight minutes and by the seventh
minute both teams had scored only 8 points collectively. As the overtime ran
down and the score again tied Fitzgerald dished the ball into Donahue again,
trying the same play that ended the original game, but this time instead of shooting
Donahue put the ball on the floor and drove to the basket. He went up for the
layup and easily slipped by Dombonski and laid the ball up and in. Time ran out
and the Cougars had won in overtime, 40-38. “That was a great game,” said
Cougar coach, Charles Wilson after the game, “I wasn’t sure about how these
boys would do in the overtime, but they did fine. I think these guys are really
starting to get it. They won the tournament and they have won most of their
games since the New Year. I think they are on a bit of a roll.”
In
a strange scheduling quirk the Cougars meet the Riverview Wildcats again next
week only two weeks after they just played them. This game will be at home,
though. The Cougars are hoping for a little revenge after losing to the Wildcats
42-40. The game will begin in the High School Gymnasium at 4:00 on Friday
afternoon.
NATIONAL NEWS
MACARTHUR VISITS KOREA – CONSUMER PRICES UP – TRUMAN HANDS CONGRESS $72 MILLION BUDGET – ILSE KOCH SENTENCED TO LIFE
Gen. Douglas MacArthur visited Korea and despite the recent pullbacks, says “No one is going to drive us into the sea.” This command intends to maintain a military position in Korea just as long as the statesmen of the United Nations decide that we should do so.”
Consumer prices reach an all-time high in December, so says the National Industrial Conference Board. Consumer prices in 10 major cities rose to 1.2% above the previous record high set in July and August of 1948.
President Truman hands Congress a “national survival” budge of almost $72 billion, with a flock of Fair Deal measures thrown in. The President said the new tax increases, which ill hit everybody, could soar as high as $20 billion.
Ilse
Koch, wife of the commandant of the Buchenwald concentration camp, was sentenced
to life imprisonment in a court in West Germany. Ilse Koch was nicknamed the
“Witch of Buchenwald” for her extraordinary sadism. Karl Koch was arrested,
ironically enough, by his SS superiors for “having gone too far.” It seems he
had a penchant for stealing even the belongings of wealthy, well-placed
Germans. He was tried and hanged in 1944. Ilse Koch was tried for crimes
against humanity at Nuremberg and sentenced to life in prison, but the American
military governor of the occupied zone subsequently reduced her sentence to
four years. His reason, “lack of evidence,” caused a Senate investigation back
home. She was released but arrested again, tried by a West German court, and
sentenced to life.
Many, many
thanks to www.mrpopculture.com for
contributing to this section of the East Farewell News.
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