EAST FAREWELL
NEWS
Thursday, May 10,
1951 Vol. C308
LOCAL
NEWS
FAMILY FUN DAY PLANNED
East
Farewell – Town Council announced a plan for a “Family Fun Day” on Saturday,
May 19th. The town will restrict traffic on Main Street and
completely close Lakeshore
Drive to traffic from 9:00AM to 9:00PM. This will give all the folks in
town to stroll down the streets and shop in all the stores around town. Most
shops have said they will set up outdoor displays and the restaurants will be
setting up tables for al-fresco dinning. There are plans for carnival games to
be set up along both Main Street and Lakeshore Drive. Live music will be played
at the Lakefront Plaza with local bandleader Gus Templeton will lead his big
band and act as MC for some of the festivities. Tom Connelly, Council president
said the idea was presented to council by the local business leaders with the
intent to “kickoff” the spring/summer season. “We really want to bring some
attention to the town as a place to visit and spend some time,” Connelly said
during the announcement, “East Farewell enjoys
a great deal of wonderful resources and is located in an ideal location. People
don’t have to travel very far from the big cities to find themselves in a
great surrounding with a beautiful lake. You just can’t beat it.”
It remains to be seen how this will
work out and it is very dependent on the weather but everyone is keeping their
fingers crossed and hoping for the best.
Tom Connelly and his wife
stroll down Main Street
SPORTS
CGW NEEDS EXTRA INNINGS TO GET PAST
TRAVELERS
Corning – The Corning Glass Works (CGW) took on the
Travelers Saturday. The game was billed as a pitching duel between the two top
aces in the league, Joe Nagy for the Travelers and Bill “Smoke” Black for CGW. Both
pitchers looked like they were in top form and both held their opponents
scoreless for six innings. Black used his smoking fastball to confound
Travelers batters and keep them off base. It wasn’t until the third inning when
Billy Sweet was able to poke a single through the middle and break up Black’s
perfect game. The speedy Sweet was able to steal second but was left stranded
as Black retired the rest of the side. Nagy was equally confusing for CGW
batters. He struck out nine in the first four innings and only walked one. The
pitchers battle continued until the middle of the sixth when CGW was able to
string together three hits and a sacrifice fly to score two runs. The Travelers
came right back, though in the seventh with Dale Dunham and Bobby Watson
hitting back to back and then after Johnny Cloos hit a long fly that right
fielder Howard Martin jumped up and over the right field fence to snag for an
out. Dunham was able to score and Watson was held at third. Tony Dimero then
laid down a perfect suicide squeeze bunt and Watson slid by CGW catcher Jose
Ramirez to tie the score. The pitchers buckled down and the game went into
extra innings. It was the first extra inning game for both teams and both
pitchers went into the tenth inning. After Black and the CGW defense were able
to retire the Travelers after allowing two hits. Joe Nagy came out to the mound
for the bottom of the tenth and immediately struck out lead batter, Ramirez and
had pitcher, Black on the ropes at 2-1 when Black took a half swing and hit the
ball, almost accidentally, and was able to reach first. Leadoff batter, Mark
Lettermen, took Nagy to a 3-2 count and then Joe left a fastball hang and
Letterman jumped on it and drove it into the corner allowing Black to get
around to third. Nagy was not going to give up and struck out Doyle. CGW
centerfielder, Chet Walker came up was able to slap a single over Archibald’s
outstretched arm for a game winning single.
The
Travelers lost a tough one but they were not completely devastated saying they
were still proud of their play but just came up a little short. “We will get
them next time,” said Johnny Cloos after the game.
The
Travelers move on to Mountain View next week and their task will not be any
easier as they will face the Explorer’s ace Joe “Freight” Trane and their
deadly slugger, Bobby “Hammer” Taxen. The game will be an evening game
beginning at 6:45PM in Mountain View Park.
NATIONAL NEWS
MACAURTHUR WARNS OF CHINESE TAKEOVER OF
KOREA AND WAR WITH RUSSIA IS INEVITABLE – WESTERN UNION SEES NO PROBLEM WITH
SENDING RACING NEWS
Gen. MacArthur warns that unless Red China is beaten into surrender by all-out air attacks the Korean conflict may explode into a third world war. He told senators the course being followed by the Truman administration may be inviting another war rather than avoiding it. Gen. MacArthur declares he understands secretary of defense Marshall was willing to discuss giving major concessions to the Chinese Reds as the basis for a peace treaty. He declared Marshall took the stand that a peace conference might well take up the questions of turning over the island of Formosa to Communist China and granting the Reds a seat in the United Nations.
Gen. MacArthur said that in his opinion war with Russia is not inevitable. “I believe that the great masses of the world, what you might call the ordinary men of the world, are invincibly against war. I believe that is so among the Russian masses, just as it is among our own people. I believe that the great tragedy of the world today is that we have not been able to establish the mechanics to carry out the will of the common people that war shall be nonexistent.”
Western
Union Telegraph Co. says that it does not consider dissemination of racing news
illegal. A statement issued by the company said it is “at a total loss to account
for” a charge in the senate Crime Committee’s report that Western Union has not
been “fully co-operative” with law enforcement officers. “It is not the legal
responsibility of the telegraph company to investigate the nature of the
business in which the users of the service many be engaged.”
Many, many
thanks to www.mrpopculture.com for
contributing to this section of the East Farewell News.
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