EAST FAREWELL
NEWS
Thursday, May 31,
1951 Vol. C311
LOCAL
NEWS
DECORATION DAY CALLS FOR A
PARADE
East
Farewell- Yesterday was Decoration Day, some call it Memorial Day, and across
the country people honored and celebrated all the people who severed and the
ones who made the ultimate sacrifice with parades and ceremonies. East Farewell
held a parade that included the High School Marching Band, engines from the
Fire Department, several different Civic Clubs, a surprise visit by the entire
Travelers Baseball team and many veterans who were the honorary marshals. They
were carried along the parade route in expensive, luxury convertible cars and
seemed to thoroughly enjoy the ride.
The honorary marshals included three
World War I vets, 15 World War II vets and two vets who had returned from
Korea. The three WWI
vets, Tommy Flynn, Ernie Wood, and Jules Sanford all rode together in an open
top 1937 Cord. The WWII vets followed in a dazzling group of high end more
modern vehicles and the Korean vets rode together in a classic Duesenberg SJ.
All the vehicles were loaned by area owners.
After the parade ended at the
Lakefront Plaza there was a ceremony and wreath laying at the base of the
flagpole in the middle of the plaza. The High School Marching Band played after
the ceremony and many people stayed on the Plaza and enjoyed the wonderful late
spring afternoon. Others visited the Fun Pier that marked its official opening
for the summer season at 3:00PM (after the ceremony and concert had ended). The wonderful weather
helped make for a very festive atmosphere with many people strolling along the
town’s Main Street and Lakeshore Drive well into the evening.
WWI Vets ride in style
SPORTS
TRAVELERS UPSET THE BULLS
Cedar Creek – It was a beautiful evening for
baseball and Cedar Creek Park is a beautiful place to play. The new stadium was
just opened last year and has been called one of the most appealing baseball
parks in the state. The Cedar Creek Bulls have been winning games and have been
very tough at home. The Travelers came into town with a big win under their
belts and set out to upset the Bulls. Joe Nagy took the mound for the Travelers
and Dave Davis threw for the Bulls. Nagy was perfect for the first three
innings and stayed strong until the eighth. Davis started a little shaky;
giving up three hits and a run in the second but settled down and was very
strong until the seventh when he gave up three more runs including a homer by
Johnny Cloos. The Bulls were able to get on the board when Ronnie Walker got
the Bull’s first hit of Nagy in the eighth by hitting a Texas-leaguer into
right. The Davis laid down a nearly perfect sacrifice bunt to move Walker over
to third. The Bull’s leadoff batter, Ned Sterling, is not a power hitter but he
jumped on Nagy’s first pitch and drove over the left field wall into the hands
of an adoring fan. Traveler’s manager, Sam Fowler made a trip to mound and
whatever he said to Nagy seemed to work because Nagy settled down, struck out
two and the last Bull grounded out to Dale Dunham. In the ninth inning both
teams went down without being to get a hit. The Travelers upset the Bulls at
home, 4-2. While the evening and the park were beautiful for baseball the Cedar
Creek fans left disappointed.
Next week the Travelers travel west to Youngstown to meet the Steelers. The game begins at 1:30 on Saturday afternoon in the Youngtown Stadium.
NATIONAL NEWS
MACARTHUR GOES TO TEXAS TO PROMOTE HIS
PROGRAM – WINCHELL INTERVIEWS MACARTHUR – FED RESERVE EASES INSTALLMENT BUYING
– LOUIS-SAVOID FIGHT TO BE SEEN ON CLOSED CIRCUIT TV
Gen. MacArthur will make a trip into Texas next week on the first round of a grass roots campaign to convince the American people his Korean War program is a better gamble for peace than President Truman’s. He’ll speak in Austin, Houston, San Antonio, Dallas and Ft Worth.
In
a New York Daily Mirror story by Walter
Winchell - he quotes Gen Douglas MacArthur on how to end the
Korean War: “To win in Korea, you must strike at their supply lines, but they
won’t let us bomb them or blockade them where we could wipe them off the map.”
“What the people of the United Nations must learn eventually is that the
crucial boundary of civilization is not the Rhine or the Elbe, but the Yalu.
The Trans-Siberian Railroad is their only good artery and the Reds in Moscow
who are supplying the North Koreans must transport everything from behind the
Urals.” “If they would let us bomb everything north of the 38th
(parallel), there wouldn’t be any line of supply and the war would be over.”
Winchell asked MacArthur why “The Reds fight so hard?” - “Because their reserves number over a million and after we have annihilated the ones we fight, they simply replace them with fresh troops. We not only do not waste our men with such indifference, we just can’t afford that many expendables.” “Our boys in Korea are among the finest I ever commanded. They have crossed the 38th six times now - but the way they are doing things in Washington, they will have no fight on this and that side of the 38th six times again.”
The Federal Reserve Board eases installment-buying curbs on automobiles and similar durable goods. The order includes an extension from 15 to 18 months in the time allowed to pay off the balance on new and used cars under Regulation W.
For the first time the Federal Communications Commission issued permits to microwave a “closed circuit’ television feed to theaters to broadcast the Joe Louis-Lee Savoid heavyweight contest in New York City. As a result, paying customers in five cities will be able to view the bout.
Many, many
thanks to www.mrpopculture.com for
contributing to this section of the East Farewell News.
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