EAST FAREWELL
NEWS
Thursday, August
2, 1951 Vol. C320
LOCAL
NEWS
AUTO ROAD RACE NIXED
East
Farewell – Town Council has put the kibosh on a proposed road race around the
lake in the fall. The event was submitted by two garage mechanics, Louis
D’Angelo and Frank Wright, earlier this year. The proposal was for a
road race, similar to the European races like Monte Carlo, Monaco or the
Isle of Man, to circle Lake Charles for twenty laps. The course was designed,
roughly, by D’Angelo and Wright and was to take place on the existing roads
around the lake. One lap would be approximately five miles making the entire
race about 100 miles long. The proposal also called for power limits on the
vehicles participating. A 90 horsepower limit was set to try to keep the car
size on the smaller size. While not technically excluded the horsepower limit
would exclude all but the smallest V-8 engines. Both D’Angelo and Wright worked
in Europe before they came to East Farewell, D’Angelo was in Italy and Wright
was in Ireland. They envisioned a road race that would have small sports cars
like the Jaguars, Ferraris, and Austin Martins. Unfortunately for them that
type of car is rare in the United States. Most of the small cars on the road
today are either hand-crafted hot rods or very limited economy cars that would
probably not be able to make it through a race like the one proposed.
The proposal was brought up last
week in the monthly meeting. D’Angelo and Wright made their pitch. There were
questions from the Council and a surprising amount of comments from the
citizens. It seems the proposal was leaked out before the meeting and many
people wanted to comment on it, both in support and against it. The comments
were split about in half, with people in favor pointing to the great publicity
it would bring the town and the opponents spoke of the safety concerns and logistics
of having a road race on the back roads of the area. One very interesting
comment came from a local youth, Caleb O’Hara, who is 18 and a recent graduate
of Regional High. He said he did not want the race to be run in its current
configuration. “We don’t need those little rinky-ding roadsters zipping around.
What we want is a big ol’ drag race right down Lakeshore Drive. There is a
perfectly straight ¾ mile stretch right by Mallard’s
and man that would be cool. I know some guys that have big old Chryslers and
V-8 Chevys that would love to race them there,” he said, getting quite excited.
The Council politely listened to all
the comments. They asked some questions about how D’Angelo and Wright would
meet the safety regulations and how they would block off the track so no one
would get run over. After deliberating for about ten minutes they came back
with their decision, no. They felt there were too many safety concerns and the
proposal did not make clear how the race would be monitored and any the fact
that there was no insurance set up. They did not address Mr. O’Hara’s idea.
“I’m disappointed for Louis and
Frank, but I they were too far out. Fast cars roaring around the lake, not now,
probably not ever. It did get me thinking though. Perhaps a bicycle race would
work. We just put out the proposed bike path in June and I think a bike race
would be a great attraction for the town,” said Tom Connelly, Council president
after the meeting.
Perhaps two wheeled, not four
wheeled speedsters are in the future of East Farewell. Things remain to be
seen.
Louis D’Angelo’s custom car
SPORTS
ANOTHER HOME GAME ANNOUNCED - TRAVELERS WIN
IN RIVERVIEW
Riverview – The Travelers kept their winning streak
intact with a solid win over the Anglers on Saturday, 4-2. The Anglers showed
marked improvement from earlier in the season when the Travelers manhandled
them, 8-1. Danny Lane took the mound for the Travelers and Dominic Faroese
stood in for the Anglers. Neither pitcher was exceptionally sharp, both gave up
walks and allowed hits but both teams’ defenses keep the other team from
scoring. Each defense would come up with a critical play just when it was needed
and the runs were kept off the board. The Travelers turned two double plays, in
the fourth and the eighth and Anglers catcher, Murry Dolan, picked off three
baserunners, in the second, fifth and seventh. Still the Travelers were able to
score two runs in the sixth and two more in the ninth. The Anglers were able to
score two in the seventh but that was all. They remain stuck in the cellar of
the league standing.
The
Travelers were happy to win on Saturday but they may have been happier to hear
that the league announced that their only “home” game so far this season would
count in the statistics even though it was played at Regional High School
Varsity Field. They also announced the Travelers would host at least one more
home game this season. The next Travelers home game will bat the end of the
month with a possible third game in early September. The Travelers are hoping
the increased home team exposure will galvanize the owners to rebuild the
Travelers Stadium in town.
Next
week the Travelers head over to Cedar Creek to face the Bulls. The Travelers
won their first meeting but the Bulls but the Bulls have been on a winning
streak and are looking to even the score. The game begins in Bulls Stadium on
Saturday afternoon at 1:30.
NATIONAL NEWS
UN & COMMIES ADJOURN PEACE TALKS –
“RUSSIAN STRATEGY” IS A FAILURE – TRUMAN SAYS IKE’S EUROPEAN DUTIES WON’T KEEP
HIM FROM RUNNING – MACAURTHER FAV AMONG BASEBALL FANS – FRANK & AVA TO MARRY?
– AMOS’N’ ANDY GETS MIXED REVIEWS – LOUIS ARMSTRONG ESCAPES HUGE BLAZE – AT THE
MOVIES
The United Nations and Communist delegates adjourned their critical talks on a Korean armistice buffer zone and announced another meeting will be held tomorrow.
General headquarters declares in effect “Russian strategy” was responsible for the Korean war “but something went wrong with the Reds chess game.”
President Truman says that Gen. Eisenhower’s military assignment in Europe will not prevent the general from running for President next year if he happens to be in that frame of mind.
Among baseball fans questioned, Gen. Douglas MacArthur is the top choice for baseball commissioner.
Actress Ava Gardner and crooner Frank Sinatra, whose wife Nancy recently agreed to give him a divorce, took off on the same plane for Mexico City. In Mexico City Frank Sinatra said angrily he has “no intention’ of eloping with Ava Gardner.
The Amos ‘n' Andy television show, considered objectionable by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, has been endorsed by the Coordinating Council for Negro Performers.
In Quebec - Bandleader Louis Armstrong escapes from a spectacular fire that razed the Standishall Hotel and dance pavilion, killing one and injuring at least 6.
At the movies –
Alfred
Hitchcock’s Strangers On A Train – Farley Granger, Ruth Roman, Robert Walker
Strictly
Dishonorable – Ezio Pinza, Janet Leigh
He
Ran All The Way – John Garfield, Shelly Winters
The
Frogmen – Richard Widmark, Dana Andres, Gary Merrill
Show
Boat – Kathryn Grayson, Ava Gardner, Howard Keel
Happy
Go Lovely – David Niven, Vera-Ellen, Cesar Romero
The Secret of Convict Lane – Glenn Ford, Gene Tierney, Ethel Barrymore, Zachary Scott
Many, many thanks to www.mrpopculture.com for contributing to this section of the East
Farewell News.
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