EAST FAREWELL NEWS
Thursday, May 22,
1952 Vol. C362
LOCAL
NEWS
WILDLIFE FINDS A HOME
East
Farewell - Charles and Doris Wilson came into town last week to open up their summer home on Lake
Charles. The Wilsons have summered in East Farewell since the mid-thirties
when Charles’ father, James, built their home as one of the first lakefront
houses. Doris vacationed her with her family and stayed at Mrs.
Mallard’s boarding house for many years. Charles and Doris met in the
summer and a summer romance turned into a lifelong partnership with their
marriage in the forties. They bought their house from James in the late forties
but had been summering there for many years before. It has become a ritual for
them to come up in the late spring and “open” the house for the summer. Unlike
many houses in town theirs is purely a summer house with no central heat (only
a coal stove in the main room) and no insulation to speak of. “It’s a great
summer get-a-way. Nothing fancy. Summer rules,” laughed Charles when asked
about the house.
The Wilsons came up to East Farewell
last week to “open” their house for the summer. When they walked in they were
greeted by a menagerie of wildlife and birds.
There was a family of raccoons, many small chipmunks, a fox and an assortment
of birds all living in their house. Mrs. Wilson was the first to enter and she
startled the raccoons, which frightened the birds. The birds started flying
around in a panic and the raccoons started to the exit. When they went upstairs
the fox met them looking at them from the bathroom, showed his fangs, turned
and scooted out a broken window onto the porch roof and off into the forest. It
appears over the winter the house was hit with several large tree branches. One
broke open the porch French doors, another went through the upstairs bathroom
window and a third fell on the roof puncturing it with a two foot diameter
hole.
Everyone was in a panic, the Wilsons
had brought their children and their families to help, and the animals were
just as scared. Most of the four legged animals retreated out to the forest but
the birds had a hard time finding an exit. After much swinging of brooms and
baseball bats and opening all the windows and doors the birds were chased out.
Charles immediately called the Animal
Control. East Farewell has had an Animal Control department as long as they
have had a Fire Department, the two are connected. Animal Control Supervisor,
Kevin Murphy, came right over with three of his assistants and surveyed the
situation. “Surprisingly, we get about one or two of these calls every year.
The folks with summer homes don’t usually come up over the winter and no one
around here goes by unless they get asked so if there is damage done to the
house over the winter it may very well go unreported until spring. It looks
like here they animals saw the open doors and windows and though this would
make a great home. Why not? It is dry and warmer than some lousy cave. The
birds were kind of interesting; they don’t usually like to stay with other
animals, especially raccoons and foxes. Well, maybe the Wilson’s place was just
too darn nice for them to pass up. What we do is make sure all the animals are
out; if any are left we trap them and then transport them out to the woods, far
away so they don’t come back. It is funny though, we have had cases where some
find their way back. That can be a problem but I hope the Wilsons won’t have to
worry about that. They have their hands full making repairs and cleaning this
mess up. Wild animals don’t make very good house guests,” Murphy said with a
grin.
Cleanup and repairs took top
priority with the Wilson clan. They started cleaning almost immediately and
were able to hire “Clean As A Whistle” cleaning and janitorial service to come
in right away, even though it was the weekend, and set their entire ten man and
woman crew to work. The repairs to the house will take some time, though.
Sheridan and Sons has been given the job and they expect the entire repair to
be done by the end of June. In the meantime the family has taken up residence
at Mrs.
Mallard’s boarding house.
“It was unexpected to say the least,
but as always the people in town all pitched in and helped us out. I just love this
town,” said Mr. Wilson standing on Mrs. Mallard’s front porch.
Charles Wilson works on his
house after wildlife party
SPORTS
TRAVELERS CONTINUE TO WIN IN CEDAR CREEK
Cedar Creek - The Travelers kept their winning
streak alive as they slipped by the Cedar Creek Bulls on Saturday, 3-2. Billy
Green took the mound for the Travelers and Dave Aron threw for the Bulls. Green
started strong and did not let up a hit until the third. It wasn’t until the
seventh the Bulls were able to score. Green let up a double to Bulls slugger,
Bart Trennel, and then centerfielder, Moses Dunlap, got ahold of one of Green’s
fastballs and sent it out of the park. That put the Bulls ahead by one, after
the Travelers had scored early on triple by Cloos and a sacrifice by Dimero.
The lead only lasted one inning, though. In the eighth Dale Dunham poked a ball
through the center for a single and then Bobby Watson hit a solid single to
right, moving Dunham to third. Johnny Cloos came up and took Aron to a 3-2
count and fouled off three fastballs. Aron tried to sneak in a curve but Cloos
was sharp and laid into it. The ball went to center and in looked like Dunlap
had a bead on it. But the ball just kept going and Dunlap ran out of space,
running into the wall, leaping for the grab but coming up six inches short. As
Cloos trotted around the bases he gave an acknowledging point towards Dunlap,
recognizing a valiant effort. Dunlap returned to praise. The Travelers now led
3-2 with six outs left. Green hunkered down and struck out two then got Gleason
to ground out. In the ninth Green walked Dunlap but forced Fenway to hit into a
double play and then struck out the final batter, Billy Harden.
The
Travelers move on to Youngstown next week to face the Steelers. The Steelers
have been strong so far this year and it looks like a good, competitive game is
on the docket. The game begins at 2:00PM in Youngstown Stadium.
NATIONAL NEWS
MACARTHUR SPEAKS IN MICHIGAN – TRUMAN
DENOUNCES OFF-SHORE OWNERSHIP BY STATES – LAMOTA WINS IN 10 ROUNDS – JOHN
GARFIELD DIES – FRANCIS MARRIES UCLA PhD – POP MUSIC THIS WEEK
Addressing a joint convention of the Michigan Legislature, General Douglas MacArthur asked “and if an uneasy ‘cease-fire’ eventually does come in Korea what then? No answer has been forthcoming but, the dreadful fear is growing in many patriotic hearts that the decision will finally be ‘scuttle the Pacific’ – a yielding to the Iron Curtain of all of our traditional friends and alliances and the raw resources of that half of the globe so vital in the balance of power”
President Truman denounces the controversial Tidelands Bill, approved this week by both the House and Senate. The Bill would give rich offshore rights back to the States – rights to oil-producing lands offshore. He said the bill was “stealing from the people.” Mr. Truman vetoed a similar measure in 1946. He’s likely to do the same. “The minerals that lie under the sea off the coasts of this country belong to the federal government – that is to all the people of this country. That ownership has been affirmed and reaffirmed by the Supreme Court of the United States. Those rights may be worth as much as $40 million to the people of this country.”
Sports – Nice comeback - Jake LaMotta, the aging Bronx Bull, wins a unanimous 10-round decision over Gene (Silent) Hairston at Mt Olympia Stadium in Detroit.
Hollywood
news –
Passing
– Actor John Garfield (39)
“tough guy” of a heart attack in his New York apartment.
Ann
Francis marries Bamlet Lawrence Price Jr. Bamlet is working on his PhD at UCLA.
She’s contracted to 20th Century-Fox.
Pop music this week–
BLUE
TANGO - Leroy
WHEEL
OF FORTUNE - Kay Starr
A
GUY IS A GUY - Doris Day
THE
BLACKSMITH BLUES - Ella Mae Morse
KISS
OF FIRE - Georgia Gibbs
I’M
YOURS - Don Cornell]
FORGIVE
ME - Eddie Fisher
ANY
TIME - Eddie Fisher
I’LL
WALK ALONE - Don Cornell
WHAT’S
THE USE? - Johnnie Ray
BE
ANYTHING (BUT BE MINE) - Eddy Howard
PERFIDIA
- Four Aces
PITTSBURGH,
PENNSYLVANIA - Guy Mitchell
CRY
- Johnnie Ray
TELL
ME WHY - Four Aces
PLEASE, MR. SUN - Johnnie Ray
Many, many
thanks to www.mrpopculture.com for
contributing to this section of the East Farewell News.
