EAST FAREWELL
NEWS
Thursday, July 26,
1951 Vol. C319
LOCAL
NEWS
BAR-B-QUES ARE ALL THE RAGE
East
Farewell- The summer is in full swing. More and more people are choosing to
come to East
Farewell for their summer vacations. Lakefront properties are being bought
up and developed faster than ever before. There is a lot of building going on
but there are many established properties around the lake. Most of the
established properties have docks or piers and many have manicured front,
lakeside yards. One of the more ubiquitous lawn additions around the lake is
the bar-b-que grill. There are some older, built in, fancy stone or brick
affairs that hold a special spot in the yard or they are the smaller, portable,
metal grills that have popped up around at the newer homes and even at some of the rental
properties. Bar-b-ques seem to have become the cooking source for the
summer crowd. Wives are more than happy to get out of the kitchen and husbands
have found a new manly pastime, cooking steaks, hamburgers, hot dogs, chicken
and even some vegetables on the smoky grill. On any given afternoon if you take
a boat ride around the lake you might think there is a forest fire surrounding
the lake from all the smoke rising from all the grills around the lake. This
type of food preparation has taken off in the last few years, perhaps thanks to
proliferation of charcoal briquettes. Although Henry Ford and Edward Kingsford
invented the briquette back in the 1920s, it was until after the war that they
became popular and widely available.
This year it seems some male
neighbors have banded together and have been sharing cooking tips, methods and
stories around the grill. Almost like fishermen they tell some tall tales about
some cooking experiences and sometime reveal grilling tips. “We have been
talking for a couple of days now. I’m giving Rodney some tips since he only has
a little metal grill. I have been grilling for many years now and I think I
know what I’m doing,” said Ernie Watson, longtime resident, when he was
approached with his large handmade stone grill cooking up the evening meal of
burgers and dogs.
Grilling has indeed become a popular
fixture among the summer crowd and many people are enjoying it more than ever.
There have been rumors that some of the most proficient grillers are talking
about setting up some sort of grill-off and grill competition to see who has
the best bar-b-que techniques. While only in the talking stage it will be
interesting to see what develops.
Local cookout on Lake Charles - 1951
SPORTS
TRAVELERS BLAZE PAST EXPLORERS
Mountainview – The Traveler pulled into
Mountainview with a big win under their belts. They were feeling good after
beating CGW 4-1. The scheduling masters seem to have been favoring the
Travelers lately, last week CGW’s ace hurler, “Smoke” Black, did not pitch and
this week Mountainview’s ace Joe “Freight” Trane, was not on the mound.
Mountainview still fielded their super-slugger, Bobby “Hammer” Taxen, though.
Hammer is currently leading the league in homeruns with 23. The Travelers own slugger,
Johnny Cloos is right behind him with 21. They both added to their totals
Saturday.
The
game started with the pitchers taking charge, Joe Nagy for the Travelers and
Sam Rocco for the Explorers. Both breezed through the first three innings
without a hit. The only miscues were two walks by Rocco and a single given up
by Nagy. It wasn’t until the fourth inning that any offense showed up. In
bottom of the fourth the Travelers started with Artie Archibald poking a single
through the middle and then Billy Sweet smacked a strong double, scoring
Archibald. Pitcher Nagy struck out but Ralph Francis was able to move Sweet
over to third. Dale Dunham came up and looped a single into right and Sweet
scored. Bobby Watson grounded out to end the inning but the Travelers were on
top, 2-0. Nagy was still strong but in the fifth he gave up two hits and with
one out Taxen came to the plate with two men on. Nagy took him to a 3-2 count
and threw him a high inside fastball. Taxen tried to poke it through but
shortstop, Dale Dunham was able to make a tremendous diving grab and recover
enough to turn a double play through Archibald to Watson, allowing Flowers to
get to third. Nagy was able to strand Flowers by striking out Edmonds. That
effort was all the Explorers could muster until the eighth when Taxen came up
again and was able to get ahold of Nagy fastball and drive it out of the park.
In the ninth with the score 2-1 Travelers Johnny Cloos came up and clobbered a
Rocco fastball well out of Mountainview Park. Nagy closed down the Explorers in
the bottom of the ninth allowing only a single to Girardi. The Travelers walked
away with a 3-1 win and a two game winning streak.
Next
week the Travelers head over to Riverview to meet the Anglers. The Anglers have
been having a tough season and are in last place in the league. The game takes
place in Riverview Stadium beginning at 1:30PM.
NATIONAL NEWS
JORDAN’S KING ASSASSINATED – DUMONT TO HONOR
BABE RUTH – BARRYMORE JR. SAYS HE IS NOT READY TO ACT – BERLE’S WIFE ATTEMPTS SUICIDE
– AT THE MOVIES THIS WEEK
Jordan’s King Abdullah, a friend of Britain who wielded strong force in the Arab world, is assassinated beside a mosque in old Jerusalem. He had claimed he was the oldest living descendant of the Prophet Mohammed. The 69-year-old ruler was cut down by pistol bullets as he was going to pray at the tomb of his father at noon on the Moslem Sabbath.
DuMont says it will feature a 2½ hour show marking the third anniversary of Babe Ruth’s passing. It’ll be a broadcast of a gala benefit at New York’s Adelphi Theatre and will be attended by many of baseball’s greats. DuMont program will feature a baseball quiz with mangers of the Yankees, Dodgers and Giants taking part.
John Barrymore Jr. (19) says Hollywood gave him stardom too quickly, and he’s not ready yet to take to the stage. He was to have made his stage debut in Chicago in “The Hasty Heart” but reneged.
Joyce Matthews, former wife of comedian Milton Berle, attempts suicide by slashing her wrists in the plush New York apartment of Billy Rose. Her manager said she cut her wrists “in a moment of hysteria” after reading several unflattering gossip columns about her. She should be OK.
At
the movies –
The Great Caruso –
Mario Lanza, Ann Blyth, Dorothy Kirsten, Jarmila Novina
Showboat – Kathryn Grayson, Ava
Gardner, Howard Keel, Joe E. Brown,
Mask of the Avenger –
John Derek
Fort Worth – Randolph Scott,
David Brian, Phyllis Thaxter
The Immortal Lorna Doone –Barbara
Hale, Richard Greene
Oliver Twist – Robert Newton,
Alex Guiness, Francis L. Sullivan
Peking Express – Joseph Cotton,
Corinne Calvet, Edmund Gwenn
Take Care of my Little Girl –
Jeanne Crain, Dale Robertson
Strictly Dishonorable –
Ezio Pinza, Janet Leigh
Goodbye My Fancy –
Joan Crawford, Robert Young
On the Riviera – Danny Kaye,
Gene Tierney
Many, many
thanks to www.mrpopculture.com for
contributing to this section of the East Farewell News.
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