EAST FAREWELL
NEWS
Thursday, May 3,
1951 Vol. C307
LOCAL
NEWS
HIGHWAY COMMISSION HOLDS FIRST
MEETING
East
Farewell – The State Highway Commission held its first meeting in town to hear
proposals for and against placing an interchange on the new extension of the turnpike.
The first leg of the turnpike opened in
1930 and was designed to improve automobile transportation across the
mountains, using seven tunnels built for the abandoned South State
Railroad in the 1880s. The original turnpike ran in the western half of
the state and was not extended to the east due to World War II. Once the war
was over the State Transportation Commission put the project back into action.
It wasn’t until 1950 when the whole project gained traction. One of the tasks
the commission had was to travel along the proposed route of the highway and
visit many of the different towns that were close to the route and would be
impacted by the building of the highway. They also wanted to find locations
where to place interchanges. Basically, the plan was to place interchanges
every forty miles but that proved impractical and the placement was opened to
many different variables like population density and north-south connection
access.
Many
people came out to express their opinions, pro and con and the commission
listened to everyone but gave no impression as to how they felt about the
interchange placement. The project is still in the planning stages and many
things have to be worked out before all the details are worked out. The
Commission is expected to release the results by the end of the year.
Ironically,
arguments both for and against the interchange are based on the fact that an
interchange would bring more people to town. Those in favor think more people
would be good for
the town while those opposed feel more people would ruin the town. The Mighty
Keystone Railroad, which is currently the main access to the town, has been
surprisingly mute on the point.
Aerial view of existing Interchange. East Farewell Interchange would be similar
SPORTS
TRAVELERS BIT BY THE BEARS
Bedford – The Travelers winning ways came to an end
on Saturday when they suffered their first loss of the season to the Bedford
Bears, 4-1. Traveler’s pitcher, Joey Alfred, had trouble from the start giving
up one run in the first inning on three hits and then struggling in the fifth
giving up three more. The Travelers defense was not sharp either; they
committed a total of five errors in the game. This was more in one game than
any game last year. To add to their woes, the offense was lackluster to say the
least. They only were able to score one run and garner six hits in the entire
game. Bedford pitcher, Mack Heim, looked like a top notch pitcher as he fanned
Traveler after Traveler, racking up a personal record of thirteen strikeouts.
The
Bears played a very good game and the Travelers did not. The Travelers did not
show any spark until the seventh inning when Bobby Watson and Johnny Cloos were
able to single, back to back and after Joey Brown struck out Artie Archibald
was able to hit a long sacrifice fly that scored Watson. That was all the
offense could muster. “We looked pretty bad out there today,” said manager Sam
Fowler after the game, “We have to get back on track. Those Bears are good, but
they are not that good. That kid, Heim, why he looked like Cy Young out there.
He is not that good. He did have a good day though, I’ll give him that. We
really helped them win. I’m going to have a talk with the boys after this.”
Hopefully, the talk will bring some new enthusiasm to the team. Their next opponents are the Corning Glass Works (CGW) and their new rookie ace Bill Black. Black is reported to have a fastball that is so fast that batters swear they see smoke coming off it. While that is highly improbable, his fastball and his reputation are making the news. The Travelers will get a chance to see him in person on Saturday a CGW Park beginning at 1:30.
NATIONAL NEWS
TRUMAN CONFIDENT PUBLIC WILL SUPPORT DISMISSAL – MACARTHUR WILL TELL HIS
SIDE OF THE STORY - MAC’S PIPE LOST – GEN. WEDEMEYER WARNED TURMAN IN 1947 –
RCA ANNOUNCES COLOR TV TRANSMISSION
President Truman voices confidence that the American public will support his dismissal of Gen. MacArthur as Far Eastern commander when all the facts are known. Apparently undisturbed by the widespread manifestations of popular support for MacArthur, Mr. Truman urged Americans to withhold judgment until the senate investigator s have received all the evidence. When all the facts are known Mr. Truman said, there will be but one answer – and he has already given that answer. A reporter asked whether MacArthur “persuaded” Mr. Truman at their Wake Island conference last October that Red China would not intervene in the Korean War. Mr. Truman replied yes – MacArthur persuaded him that the Chinese would not come in.
Gen. MacArthur will tell his story to senate investigators behind closed doors – unless the general himself asks a public hearing.
Gen. MacArthur’s famous pipe gets lost, but is found in an Army car that brought him from the airport to the hearing.
It disclosed that a Lt. Gen. Albert Wedemeyer warned President Truman in 1947, that Communist forces would attack South Korea.
RCA
announces in a dramatic and an unannounced move: it has begun transmission in
full color from atop the Empire State Building over Channel 4 – without
interfering with reception on present black-and-white receivers. The
experimental broadcasts in color, which were the first to be conducted by RCA
in New York, are to be continued indefinitely. This comes as the TV industry
awaits the decision of the United States Supreme Court in the color-TV
controversy. The court is considering RCA’s appeal that CBS has produced a
better color picture than RCA. But, under the CBS system, the estimated 12
million television sets now in use would require an adapter costing $20 or more
to receive black and white images from a color TV transmitter.
Many, many
thanks to www.mrpopculture.com for
contributing to this section of the East Farewell News.
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