EAST FAREWELL
NEWS
Thursday, July 19,
1951 Vol. C318
LOCAL
NEWS
SUMMER SWELTER HITS EAST FAREWELL
East Farewell- The summer heat has hit East
Farewell with a blockbuster heatwave. Temperatures have been in the 90’s for
five days now and the humidity has been hovering in the 70% range, which is
extremely uncomfortable. The summer season is in full bloom and the town’s
population has almost doubled for the month of July. Seasonal rentals are
mostly sold-out according to local realtor, Frank Macy. “This time of year is
very popular for people from the big cities to come on out and get away from
the heat of the city but now they are just walking back into it. They don’t
seem to mind, though, they have the beautiful lake and the wonderful town. That
seems to make the heat and humidity a little easier to take.”
There is one place that draws envy
from everyone in town, The Ice House. The Ice House is run by Howard Arlen.
Arlen has run the Ice House for over 25 years. He supplies restaurants, the
city hall, the Iron Works and many local residents with giant blocks of ice,
cubes of all sizes and bottled water. Most of the time he keeps a low profile
with his truck, making deliveries early in the morning and quietly going about
his business but, lately he has been the talk of the town with people following
after his truck hoping for free samples and many, many people applying for
work. The is especially true for young people in town, one of the most desired
summer jobs is to work at the Ice House. “I think it is kind of funny, I always
get a pile of applications
right around when school lets out and I usually pick up two or three kids for
the summer. They are usually hard workers and I like to get a break.” He picked up a huge block of ice and put it
on the back of his truck. One of his helpers, Jimmy Carlton, grabbed the tongs
from Arden and went work on another piece of ice. “This is the best job in
town, now,” laughed Carlton, “All my friends at sweating and moaning and
groaning about the heat and I am as cool as a cucumber. It’s great”
The hot weather is expected to
continue for at least the next few days but lucky for everyone except Messrs.
Arlen and Carlton there is a cool and beautiful lake to take a dip in and cool
off.
An inviting beach on Lake Charles
SPORTS
TRAVELERS CRACK CORNING’S GLASS
Corning – The Travelers were able to get back on
track on Saturday when they beat Corning Glass Works 4-1. The Travelers were
able to get past the “Corning Curse” that had been hounding them over the past
two seasons. They have not been able to win against CGW in the last ten
meetings. A big part of the problem has been CGW’s ace hurler, Bill “Smoke”
Black, who was able to keep the Travelers in check whenever he pitched. This
last Saturday the Travelers got lucky and due to scheduling Black did not
pitch. In his place was CGW’s second in the order, Gil Johansson, who was no
lowly replacement. Johansson is ranked fourth in the league in wins and sixth
in strikeouts.
The
Travelers were able to get a bead on Johansson early but not before he struck
out the first four batters. Tony Dimero was able to get the Travelers first hit
in the second, a single to right and he was followed by a walk to Joey Brown
Billy Sweet grounded out but then another single by Artie Archibald kept the
drive alive. Archibald’s single scored Dimero. Johansson was able to get Travelers
pitcher, Danny Lane to hit into a double play to end the inning but the
scoreless streak was broken.
CGW
was unable to get any traction and was only able to score one run in the sixth.
Lane was sharp, striking out a total of 8 throughout the game and the Travelers
defense was also tight. The defense pulled off two double plays at critical times
during the game and that kept CGW from mounting any comeback. The Travelers
were able to add to their lead in the sixth and in the eighth Johnny Cloos hit
his 15th homer of the season bringing the Travelers lead to 4-1 and
sealing the victory.
The
schedule does not get any easier for the Travelers next week when the head into
Mountainview to face the Explorers. It seems the scheduling gods of favoring
the Travelers lately as the Explorers ace; Joe “Freight” Trane will not be on
the mound. They will still have to face slugger, Bobby “Hammer” Taxen but
Travelers ace, Joe Nagy is scheduled for the Travelers. The game begins at
1:30PM at beautiful Mountainview Stadium.
NATIONAL NEWS
PEACE TALKS END ABRUPTLY – JERSEY JOE
WALCOTT WINS IN 55 SECONDS – 20TH CENTURY FOX TO USE CBS COLOR
PROCESS IN THEATRES – POP MUSIC THIS WEEK
In Seoul (sixth session) - Korean armistice talks end abruptly with every indication that Communist and U.N. delegates still are locked over a single key issue in their cease-fire agenda. The tie-up probably has come on Red demands for withdrawal of foreign troops from Korea.
Jersey Joe Walcott climaxed an amazing rags to riches saga by knocking out Ezzard Charles in 55 seconds of the seventh round to win the world heavyweight championship – the oldest man ever to win the title.
20th-Century Fox acquired the right to use CBS’s color television process in its recently acquired Eidophor large-screen theatre television system. Fox wants to use the system in theatres for its movies.
Pop music this week in 1951 -
TOO
YOUNG - Nat “King” Cole
JEZEBEL
- Frankie Laine
HOW
HIGH THE MOON - Les Paul & Mary Ford
ON
TOP OF OLD SMOKY - Weavers & Terry Gilkyson
ROSE,
ROSE, I LOVE YOU – Frankie Laine
MY
TRULY, TRULY FAIR - Guy Mitchell
THE
LOVELIEST NIGHT OF THE YEAR - Mario Lanza
MISTER
AND MISSISSIPPI - Patti Page
SOUND
OFF (THE DUCKWORTH CHANT) - Vaughn Monroe & Orchestra
MOCKIN’ BIRD HILL - Les Paul & Mary Ford Or Patti Page
Many, many
thanks to www.mrpopculture.com for
contributing to this section of the East Farewell News.
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