EAST FAREWELL
NEWS
Thursday, May 17,
1951 Vol. C309
LOCAL
NEWS
HIGH SCHOOL SENIORS HOLD THEIR SENIOR PROM
East
Farewell- The 1951 Senior Class of the Regional High School
held their senior prom over the weekend. It was the last prom that to be held
in the original school building, the school’s gymnasium to be exact. The event
is sort of the kick off of final events for the original building complex. A
completely new building is being erected right next door and the original
building will be torn down and turned into playing fields and a full mile
track. The new building is expected to be completed for the opening of next
year’s class.
The prom was held in the old
gymnasium and an extravagant, catered sit down dinner preceded the dance. The
senior class has 98 members, the largest class in the school’s history. There
are 58 boys in the class and 30 girls, out of the entire class there were 95
members attending, illness accounted for the absent members.
Tables were set up in half the gym
and the other half was reserved for a dance floor and bandstand. Gus Templeton,
local bandmaster who has toured nationally, was the MC for the event. His 21
piece band set the tone for the evening as almost everyone was on the dance
floor as soon as the last course was cleared. The dancing lasted well into the
night. The lights were finally turned out at 2:00AM as many tired but happy
seniors made their way home, many walking through the late night which was
uncommonly warm for this time of year.
Being the last class to graduate
from the “old” building is held as a badge of honor within the class. “We will be
forever remembered as the “last class”, said senior Julie McGraw, “It is
just great. This is something I will always remember.”
Dancing the night away at 1951 Regional High Prom
SPORTS
TAXEN & CLOOS TRADE HOMERS BUT EXPLORERS
PREVAIL
Mountain View – The Travelers were looking to turn
things around on Saturday when they met the Mountain View Explorers. They had a
big job because the Explorers sent their ace; Joe “Freight” Trane to the mound
and the leading homerun slugger, Bobby “Hammer” Taxen was batting cleanup. The
Travelers went with their own ace, Joe Nagy, and had the next best slugger,
young Johnny Cloos, batting in the fourth position. The game was an evening
game and the weather was beautiful.
The
pitchers started off very strong and for the first few innings it looked like
it was going to be another pitcher’s duel. The Travelers last two games have
started that way. The results have been mixed. Trane started by running through
the Travelers lineup and only allowing three hits in the first three innings.
Nagy was even better allowing only two hit in the first three innings. Things
started to change in the fifth inning;
Ralph Francis led off with a double into the corner and was followed by Dale
Dunham who singled, driving in Francis. Bobby Watson was next up and he walked
leading to Johnny Cloos coming up with two men on and no outs. Trane bore down
and took Cloos to a 3-2 count and tried his trademark fastball but Cloos was
waiting and smashed it out of the park. The Travelers jumped out to a 4-0 lead.
After a trip to the mound by Explorer manager, Jake Reilly, Traine calmed down
and was able to retire the side with only one more hit by Joey Brown. The
Explorers were not going to give up, though; they came storming back in the
bottom of the sixth with six runs including a homer by “Hammer”. The Travelers came up in the eighth Billy
Sweet was able to punch a single through the middle and Francis was able to
move him over with a sacrifice bunt. Dunham singled moving Sweet to third and
Watson struck out. Once again, Johnny Cloos came up and didn’t give Trane a
chance to get into any rhythm and smacked a second homer driving a long ball
over the left field fence, The Travelers were tied going into the ninth. Nagy
was able to get passed Hull but Taxen came up and Nagy tried to throw his
curveball but was not able to get it across the plate. With a 3-0 count he
tried a fastball and Taxen jumped on it and blasted a long ball out over the
left field fence to win the game.
The
disappointed Travelers will once again hit the road and travel to Riverview
next week. They will try to get their game back on track. Their play has not
been terrible but they are just not scoring enough runs to win and that is the problem.
“We have to get our offense even better,
usually when you score six runs you can win the game, but in this league you
need as many runs as you can get,” said Johnny Cloos after the game.
The game in Riverview will begin at 1:30PM in Riverview Park.
NATIONAL
NEWS
CHINESE SMASH INTO ALLIES IN THE EAST –
ALLIES SMASH BACK IN THE WEST – MACARTHUR BELIEVES TRUMAN FIRED HIM – BRADLEY
DECLARES MACARTHUR’S WAR PLANS WOULD NOT WORK – MARSHAL FEARS MACARTHUR’S
PROPOSALS WOULD AFFECT IKE’S EUROPEAN DEFENSE PLANS – WFIL IN PHILADELPHIA
ADOPTS RCA’S 45RPM RECORD SYSTEM
Massed Chinese Reds smash into allied lines in central and Eastern Korea in the opening battle of the Communists’ second spring offensive. But, the Allied forces smashed new Chinese attacks in Central Korea and rammed strong armored patrols against Red positions in the west.
Gen. MacArthur told senators he believes his dismissal as Pacific commander was “the judgment of one individual” presumably President Truman.
Gen Omar Bradley declares MacArthur’s war proposals “would involve us in the wrong war, at the wrong place, at the wrong time and with the wrong enemy.”
Secretary of Defense George Marshal testifies he fears adoption of Gen MacArthur’s Korean War proposition would seriously affect Gen. Eisenhower’s European defense plans. He believes Eisenhower supports President Truman’s limited Korean War program.
WFIL radio in Philadelphia, adopts RCA Victor’s 45rpm record system. The conversion is completed this week with the 45’s to be used all dj shows, In preparation, the station built up a library of over 5,000 sides on 45. The move is being accompanied by a promotional campaign with RCA Victor. The movie is seen presaging a drive to RCA Victor to get other radio stations to adopt and go totally “45.” Conversion of WFIL’s turntables was accomplished through a special 45rpm conversion kit developed by the RCA engineering products division.
Many, many
thanks to www.mrpopculture.com for
contributing to this section of the East Farewell News.
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