EAST FAREWELL
NEWS
Thursday, December
13, 1951 Vol. C340
LOCAL
NEWS
MAIN STREET AGLOW FOR THE HOLIDAYS
East
Farewell – The town showed off its holiday spirit with very festive decorations
all along Main
Street and Lakeshore Drive. There were multicolored lights strung across
the roads and fresh Christmas wreaths hung from the lampposts. The Streets
Department were working overtime trying to finish the light hanging by the
first week of December to take advantage of the early holiday shoppers that
took to the streets to try to find some early bargains. This year there are new
strands with brighter and more numerous lights. There are no blinking lights
this year; all the lights are solid on. That change came from numerous requests
because the blinking lights seemed to cause some disruptive eye strain on some
people. “It wasn’t that big of a deal,” said Darrin Malloy, Streets Department
Supervisor, “We only had to change one bulb in the blinking strings and
replacing the blinker with a solid is all it took. I think they look great.”
The decorations traditionally stay
up until the week after New Year’s. The Streets Department has a secure storage
area that will protect them until next year. Every year before Thanksgiving the
department runs tests for all the lights and inspects all the connections
before they start their marathon hanging routine. All the shoppers and
strollers gleefully welcome the lights and other decorations. “It puts everyone
in the Christmas
spirit,” said Mrs. Mallard,
local boarding house owner, “It is just wonderful and I love it. I know lots of
other people who love it, too.”
Main Street 1951
SPORTS
COUGARS
BASKETBALL STARTS WITH A WIN
East Farewell – The Cougars basketball team started
their season with a win last Saturday afternoon with 48-44 win over the Central
Bears. This year’s team has a couple of seniors in the forecourt and the
backcourt made up of juniors. The center is Bill Donahue, a 6’8” junior that
played very well in his sophomore season. The team as a whole has been together
for almost a whole season and is in a very strong position to make a run at the
League Championship this year.
The
Bears were a good match up for this team. They, too, had three juniors in their
starting lineup but they had only on senior and a sophomore rounding out the
lineup. There was a slight mix-up before the game when the Bears bus made a
wrong turn and ended up at the Iron Works, but after some quick instructions
from the Iron Works gate guard the Bears made it over to the Regional High Gym
only about ten minutes late.
The game started slowly
with the teams feeling each other out and trying to find their own rhythm.
Donahue matched up with Bears center Steve Morelli well but had a slight height
advantage and let him score the first six points. The game moved though the
first half with a very deliberate pace, neither team wanting to make a mistake.
The teams traded baskets and they did not foul. The first half ended knotted at
24.
The second half showed a
lot more movement and action as the Cougars tried to set up a press early in
the third quarter and that led to a Cougars run of ten points to two and put
the Cougars in a strong position for the fourth quarter. The Bears were not
going to give up though. They fought back and forced the Cougars to lift the
press and came back to tie the game with two minutes left. It seems the height
advantage that Billy Donahue had over Steve Morelli came into play as Donahue
was able to out jump Morelli for the tie-breaking score and then was able to
dish a perfect feed to a cutting Ted Fitzgerald who went in for the final
score. “These kids looked pretty good today. They are going to get better as
they get used to each but I am proud of the way they played together,” said
Coach Charles Wilson after the game.
The Cougars go on the road
for their next game. They go up to meet the Corning Devils who won the league
last season. The game is another Saturday game and begins in Corning High
Gymnasium at 2:30PM.
NATIONAL NEWS
IKE GOES WITH THE REPUBLICANS - PEACE TALKS AT A CRAWL – POW NAMES RELEASED –
GOV. WARREN WANTS TO STOP MEXICAN IMMIGRATION – SARNOFF TRANSMITS AROUND THE
WORLD – WINTERS TALKS TO HOPPER – MAYS A KEY TO GIANTS SAYS DUROCHER
The U.S. News & World Report says Gen. Eisenhower has said a final “no” to offers of the Democratic nomination for President and “yes” to Republicans who want to put his name before the GOP nominating convention.
The Korean armistice negotiations slow to a crawl when the allies refuse to resume negotiations on prisoner of war exchange until they study the Reds’ POW list. Meanwhile, a subcommittee on supervising the armistice made no progress.
The Pentagon begins releasing the names of 3198 Americans listed by the Communists as alive and held in prisoner-of-war camps in Korea. Thousands of families across the nation are anxiously awaiting disclosure of the full list. The list includes Maj. Gen William F. Dean and AP Photographer Frank Noel. Dean was last seen near Taejon in July 1950, a few hours before the city fell to the Reds. He was commanding general of the U.S. 24th Division.
Gov. Warren of California warns that subversives are coming through the Mexican-U.S. border like “a sieve.” Warren says that anything that could be done to eliminate the flow of persons across the border should be done “with vigor.”
At a celebration in New York’s Waldorf-Astoria hotel, David Sarnoff, chairman of the Radio Corporation of America transmits around the world, the letter S in Morse code in commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the first radio signal sent across the Atlantic Ocean. Mr. Sarnoff also exchanged greetings by radiotelephone with Marchesa Maria Cristina Marconi, widow of the wireless inventor and her daughter, Elettra, in Rome.
Actress Shelly Winters tells Hedda Hopper that Vittorio Gassmann flew all the way from Rome “to spend six days with me. All I did was send him a cable saying, ‘I’m lonely. I’m sending you a kiss.’ His answering cable was, ‘I’m lonely too and I’m returning it.’ From that would you suppose he was planning to fly to deliver it? It’s so romantic, I’m so happy.”
Willie Mays is the key man in the Giants’ baseball picture for the 1952 season – so says manager Leo Durocher.
Many, many
thanks to www.mrpopculture.com for
contributing to this section of the East Farewell News.
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