EAST FAREWELL
NEWS
Thursday, July
5, 1951 Vol. C316
LOCAL
NEWS
BOOMING FIREWORKS LIGHT UP
EAST FAREWELL
East
Farewell – East
Farewell celebrated the 4th of July with some loud and colorful
fireworks over Lake Charles. It was a mixture of a town sponsored display and
several private displays from lakeside residents hosting parties and a few
individuals that went out to the middle of the lake and set some small aerial
fireworks from their boats. This last method of display brought strong rebukes
from the Lake Safety Committee for obvious reasons.
The town sponsored event started
right after sundown, around 8:30, and were launched from the beach in front of the
Lakefront Plaza. It was organized by the Fire Department and the Police
Department. “We had a great time putting this all together and we had a lot of
help from the Police,” said Fire Chief Thomas O’Hanlon, “they really helped
with setting up the fireworks and with crowd control. There were a lot more
people than we expected.”
The crowd turnout was exceptional.
The summer season is well underway and more and more people have been coming to
East Farewell to spend their summer vacations.
The Fun Pier overlooks the beach and that gave many people a prime
viewing spot. Many of the restaurants along Main Street and Lakeshore Drive
offered outdoor dining and a view of the fireworks. Many folks enjoyed the
beautiful summer evening in a relaxed and festive atmosphere. There are many
people in town that have taken the whole week off as their vacations so the
area is very busy with lots of foot traffic. “I just love this,” said Mrs. Mallard,
local boarding house owner, “just seeing everyone, many of my guests have
been coming for years, is just wonderful, just wonderful.”
The success of the fireworks event
has started talks that this should be an annual event. Tom Connelly, town
council president, has said that that will be high on the agenda at the next
meeting.
Fireworks over Lake Charles
SPORTS
TRAVELERS SWIPE COUGARS
Ondita – The Travelers winning streak was extended
on Saturday when they beat the Ondita Cougars 4-3. The game was fairly
straightforward with the Travelers building a 4-3 lead with excellent pitching
by Joe Nagy and a very respectable showing by Cougars pitcher, Jerry Girardi,
who had only lost two games so far this season. By the ninth inning the
Travelers had built a 4-3 lead but in the bottom of the ninth Nagy had Phil
Hubble on first due to a walk. Hubble is speedy, he has the third highest
stolen base percentage in the league, and he took off on Nagy with a 2-2 count
on Franks. Hubble got a great jump and got into second easily. Nagy was a
little rattled and he threw a slow curve to Franks who swatted at it and was
able to get to first and move Hubble to third. Then the Cougars tried a double
steal, Franks to second and then when catcher Joey Brown tried to throw Franks
out at second, Hubble would steal home for the tie. The only problem with the
plan was that Sam Fowler, Travelers manager, had saw it coming and put in the
“Joey Short” play where Brown jumped up and wound up like he was going to
second but he threw it back to Nagy who caught Hubble half way down the third
base path and was able to catch him in a run down and finally have Richie Lane
tag him out. Franks made it to second. Nagy was reenergized and bore down on
the Cougars batters and struck out Ernesto and forced Doyle to ground out to
Watson at first to end the game. The big play for the Cougars did not work and
the Travelers were able to swipe the cats to the side.
The Travelers move on to Bedford next week to play the Bears. They played well against the Bears the last time they visited, winning 4-1. Hopefully, the long time on the road will not have any negative effect on the Travelers. The game is an evening game that will begin at 7:10PM in Bedford Stadium.
NATIONAL NEWS
CHINESE & N. KOREAN REDS ACCEPT CEASE
FIRE TALKS - TRUMAN EXTENDS ENLISTMENTS – 1951 SEES A
BUDGET SURPLUS - FCC APPROVES CBS COLOR
SYSTEM – SNEED WINS PGA
Korea - Chinese and North Korean Reds radio acceptance of an allied offer to talk cease-fire, but at a time and place of their choosing inside South Korea. Later, the United Nations and Communists agree officially to meet Sunday in the Kaesong area for preliminary peace talks to end the bloody war.
President Truman issues an order extending for one year, the enlistments of all members of the armed forces who otherwise would be released between now and next July.
The fiscal year 1951 ends with the government assured of a budget surplus.
CBS, whose color system just got FCC approval, will begin regular commercial color programming on June 25. The first program, to run an hour will feature Arthur Godfrey and other CBS stars. The show will originate from “Studio 57” at 109th and 5th Avenue. The CBS color schedule calls for shows from 10:30 to 11AM and 4:30 to 5pm daily. CBS color transmissions cannot be seen on black & white TV sets without the use of an adapter. B & W viewers will see nothing but garble during these times.
Sam Snead creeps past Walter Burke for his third PGA championship.
Many, many
thanks to www.mrpopculture.com for
contributing to this section of the East Farewell News.
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