6/26/1952

                                    EAST FAREWELL NEWS

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Thursday, June 26, 1952   Vol. C367

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LOCAL NEWS

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MAIN STREET SHUTDOWN SHOT DOWN

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East Farewell – There was a proposal at the last town council meeting that proposed a shutdown of Main Street to traffic on the weekends during the summer. Max Gardner proposed that from the last Friday in May until the first Friday in September the traffic on Main Street be stopped and only pedestrians be allowed to walk on the Main thoroughfare of East Farewell. This would “enhance” the “quaintness” of the town and people could enjoy strolling down the street without having to worry about traffic. Mr. Gardner’s proposal was greeted with a stunned silence. “You mean you want to close down Main Street over the entire weekend so people could walk around? Isn’t that why we have sidewalks?” asked councilmember Frank Doyle.

            Finally Tom Connelly, council president, said, “That has to be one of the dumbest ideas you have ever come up with. And you have you had some bad ideas! We can’t close down Main Street. Where would we send traffic? There is only one street through town. Lakeshore Drive is not a useable bypass and the side streets don’t go through. Max, you did not give this one a lot of thought.”

            “Well, I see your point,” replied Mr. Gardner, sheepishly, “I didn’t take reroute problem into account. All I was trying to propose was some way to make the town more pedestrian friendly. The town is starting to attract a lot of vacationers and we are going to have to make some adjustments during the summers.”

            The meeting progressed with each councilman giving his opinion and there was a resounding “no” response to the proposal. “I think we should look at controlling the traffic more than trying to divert it,” said Bill O’Hara, “Maybe we should be looking at placing a traffic light at the intersection of Main and Lakeshore Drive. That would do more in the long run and as there is more traffic it would help control it.”

            There was more discussion on putting in a traffic light and the meeting ended with a motion to study a the price and labor costs of installing a traffic light on the corner of Lakeshore Drive and Main Street. The motion was seconded by Max Gardner.

Main Street at night 

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SPORTS

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TRAVELERS STAY HOT IN ONDITA

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Ondita – The Travelers rolled into Ondita riding on a 4 game winning streak and rolled out with a 5 game winning streak. They downed the Cougars 3-2. The Travelers did not show the explosive offense they had in the last two games but they did score enough runs to win. Billy Green was on the mound for the Travelers and Chuck Hayes was the Cougars pitcher. The game turned out to be essentially a pitcher’s duel where both pitchers only let up 8 hits collectively. They also walked 4 each and there were no errors on either side.

            Green kept the Cougars off the scoreboard for the first six innings. He only let up the first run with 2 of his 4 hits and one of his 2 walks in the sixth allowing Frankie Guthrie to score. Green’s only other slip up was a poorly placed fastball in the ninth letting Billy Wilson clobber it out of the park. Unflustered, Green proceeded to strike out the last two Cougars and win the game.

            The Travelers did not fare much better on offense. They did strike earlier by scoring a run in the fourth with two hits by Bobby Watson and Johnny Cloos. Cloos hit a double to scored Watson. The Travelers were then kept quiet until the seventh when Billy Sweet and Artie Archibald were able to get on base, Sweet with a single and Archibald with a walk. Francis struck out but Dale Dunham hit a 3-2 fastball into the gap between right and center and it rolled to the wall. Both Sweet and Archibald scored and that turned out to be all the Travelers needed. It wasn’t a high powered win like the past two but it was a win and that was fine.

            The Travelers move onto Bedford next week and take on the Bears. In a league scheduling change the Travelers will be the home team. This is due to the fact that the Travelers don’t have a home stadium and have to play every game away. The league made some changes to the schedule to accommodate this oddity and listed certain games as Traveler home game even though they are play in a visitors ballpark. Hopefully, this “homeless” situation will be resolved soon and the Travelers will have a home again.

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 NATIONAL NEWS

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TRUMAN DEDICATES USS NAUTILUS – DO WE HAVE AN H-BOMB? -  EAST GERMANS PROTEST COMMIES – ALLIES PUSH BACK REDS IN KOREA – DEFENSE POSITIONS DEFINED – DECCA TAKES OVER UNIVERSAL – BERGMAN GIVES BITH TO TWINS – COSTELLO FINED – AT THE MOVIES

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President Truman dedicates the nation’s first atomic-powered submarine at Groton – The USS Nautilus. Truman declared only Soviet Russia stands in the way of the development of atomic energy to provide power for business, farms and homes everywhere. He disclosed that a full-sized, working atomic engine – a self-contained power plant able to run almost indefinitely without refueling – is nearly complete. 

Do we really have it? - Senator Brien McMahon proposes the manufacture of 1000 or more “hydrogen weapons” in what appeared by many to be a plain indication the United States has solved the secret of the fearsome H-bomb.

East Germans fight Communist police and soldiers with hatchets, hoes and scythes in nine-border communities in the first major open resistance against forced evacuation from the 600-mile border zone no man’s land.

Korea – Allied troops throw back a heavy Chinese Communist assault west of Chorwon on the western front killing or wounding more than 600 Reds in close quarter fighting.

American raises its guard higher against a Russian attack as the Army moves antiaircraft batteries into defense positions around certain strategic targets.

Decca Records takes complete control of Universal Pictures with the purchase of 134,375 shares of common stock.

In Rome - Ingrid Bergman gives birth to twin girls – named Isabel and Ingrid.

Lou Costello is fined $150 for drunk driving in Los Angeles. He was caught weaving along Ventura Blvd and then striking a parked car.

At the movies –

Pat and Mike – Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn

Clash By Night – Barbara Stanwyck, Paul Douglas, Robert Ryan, Marilyn Monroe

Diplomatic Courier – Tyrone Power, Patricia Neal, Stephen McNally, Hildigarde Neff

Skirts Ahoy – Esther Williams

To Have and Have Not – Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall

Lovely To Look At – Kathryn Grayson, Red Skelton

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6/19/1952

                                         EAST FAREWELL NEWS

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Thursday, June 19, 1952   Vol. C366

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LOCAL NEWS

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REGIONAL HIGH GRADUATION

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East Farewell – The Regional High School class of 1952 graduated last Friday night. The ceremony was held in the school’s auditorium and the class of 111, 66 gentlemen and 35 young ladies made up the class. This was the largest class in school history.  The school’s enrollment has been increasing every year since 1947 and is expected to keep growing as the town’s population increases. This year a total of 30 young men chose to go into the military, 15 to the Navy, 10 to the Navy and 5 to the Marines. 25 young men have chosen to go onto higher education institutions and continuing a trend that started two years ago, more than half of the young woman graduates are matriculating at a college or university. Several seniors have already secured positions at the Iron Works and some are staying local, working in the shops and on the farms in the area.

            This year the commencement speaker was a local businessman, Joe Monroe. Mr. Monroe owns and operates a very popular local restaurant and plays in Jerry Tabor’s Swing Band on the side. Mr. Monroe’s speech centered on following one’s dreams, wherever they may lead and persevering in the face of any adversity. Many awards were presented and the Regional High School Band supplied a very refreshing musical interlude as well as a boisterous exit rendition of “Pomp and Circumstance” as the graduates made their exit. Right before the exit there was a massive hat toss followed by lots of hugs, handshakes and laughter. Well done Class of 1952. 

Regional High School Class of 1952

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SPORTS

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TRAVELERS HUNT DOWN THE CUBS

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Bear Creek – The Travelers continued their winning ways with a solid 7-4 win in Bear Creek on Saturday. Danny Lane took the mound and had a strong outing, striking out 9 and walking only 5 and giving up 10 hits. The Travelers offense was still clicking and smacked 18 hits throughout the game. The Cubs sent Ralph Gentry to the mound and he was fairly solid but he ended up walking 9 while also giving up the 18 hits. There was no big blast or huge inning for the Travelers. They just plugged away and played good baseball. They put men on base, moved them forward and scored them in a systematic fashion. The Cubs got ahold of Lane’s fastball in the fifth inning and scored their four runs. That only tied the game though and the Travelers came right back in the seventh and eighth scoring one in the seventh and two in the eighth. Johnny Cloos had three hits but no homers, breaking his tree game streak of a homerun in every game. “We feel like we are running on all our cylinders right now. That’s a great feeling and I hope we can keep it up,” said manager Sam Fowler after the game.

            The Travelers head to Ondita next week to face the Cougars. They have already won against the Cougars earlier this season but the Cougars have been on a winning streak lately and will present a good test for the red hot Travelers. The game begins at 1:00 in Ondita Park.

 

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 NATIONAL NEWS

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IKE TALKS IN ABILINE – MEXICAN WORKERS CALL FOR STRIKE – COMMIE JETS BUZZ AMBASSADOR’S PLANE & SHOOT DOWN SWEDISH PLANE – MARTIN & LEWIS SIGN WITH WALLIS – DAGMAR RAISES $70,000 FOR CP – CONGRESS LOOKS AT DAGMARS NECKLINE – HARVEY TESTIFIES

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In Abilene, Kansas - Gen. Eisenhower tells a rain-drenched throng of Midwesterners the Democrats had been in power too long and he implied the people must vote them out of office in November to bring an end to corruption in high places.

In California - The perennial issue of the use of Mexican workers by Southwestern farmers because of an asserted shortage of domestic labor comes to a head as the National Farm Labor Union, A.F.L, calls a strike at the height of the Imperial Valley’s $8 million melon harvest. The strike was directed against several large ranches which, the union says, had been employing imported contract labor and in some cases large numbers of illegal “wetback” border jumpers, so-called because they entered the country by wading or swimming.

A State Department protest has been made to Soviet authorities over the buzzing by two Russian jets of a plane carrying Walter J. Donnelly, U.S. Ambassador to

Austria. The incident occurred last week in an authorized air corridor over Austria.

Two Russian jet fighter planes shoot down an unarmed Swedish flying boat on a mercy mission, stirring nationwide anger. Two crewmembers of the Swedish plane were wounded by bullets in the dawn attack by Soviet MIG’s over the Eastern Baltic. All seven Swedish airmen aboard were saved.

Denmark joins Sweden in alerting her air force to do battle if fired upon by Soviet planes. Both nations are becoming alarmed at a show of rapidly increasing force in Northern Europe and the shooting down of a Swedish plane this week. 

Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis sign a new agreement with Hal Wallis. They’ll make a picture a year through 1960 

At a WOAI-TV telethon, Dagmar helps raise more than $70,000 for Cerebral palsy. Dropping by were Penny Singleton and Walter O’Keefe. Dagmar stayed on the air the entire time – some 16 ½ hours.

A House subcommittee learns what is offensive on radio and television and winds-up discussing Dagmar’s neckline. One congressman from Arkansas brought-up Dagmar after citing that some improvements have been made in television since a new code went into effect for the industry March 1.

Paul Harvey, a Chicago radio news commentator, testifies before the House, that Broadway was a wellspring of smutty humor that was flooding the country with “purple” jokes over the radio and television airwaves and that New York comedians were imposing “their distorted views on the rest of the forty-seven states.”

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6/12/1952

                                      EAST FAREWELL NEWS

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Thursday, June 12, 1952   Vol. C365

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LOCAL NEWS

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STRAWBERRY SHORTCAKE FESTIVAL

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East Farewell – East Farewell is surrounded by farms. There are all sorts of farms and pastures. The area is a bountiful cornucopia of fresh, healthy fruits and vegetables that arrive daily at local markets. There are certain fruits and vegetables whose arrival is greatly anticipated and draws greater attention than others. Local strawberries are one of the most anticipated fruits to arrive. The local farm named Great Abundance owned and run by the Campbell family grows blueberries and watermelons but is best known for their strawberries. Every year, around the beginning of June, the Campbell’s deliver their strawberries to market throughout the area. Many folks look forward to the deliveries and the chance to enjoy fresh picked fruit.

            Local baker, Peg O’Malley, is one of people who looks forward to the strawberries delivery. Why? She makes the town-famous, area renowned strawberry shortcake. It is one of the highlights of the early summer and most certainly the favorite of the O’Connell family. Mark and Francis O’Connell have long standing family tradition that is as soon as Peg delivers the first shortcakes they make an entire meal of strawberry shortcakes. That is appetizers, main dish and dessert, all strawberry shortcakes. The quirky tradition began with O’Connell’s parents back in the 1900’s. As legend has it the father and mother were still unmarried and both were working outside Philadelphia, for a wealthy family in the suburbs along the newly established Main Line of the Mighty Keystone Railroad. This would be the same line that eventually ran through East Farewell. Their employers would always have fresh fruit whenever it was in season and strawberries were in season in early June. The wealthy employers would purchase much more fruit than they could possibly eat and instead of having it go waste they would have a grand meal, eating all the surplus fruit in one meal at the end of the season. The tradition evolved and transformed down through the generations to Mark and Francis. Now, every year when the strawberry season is coming to an end, they have their annual strawberry shortcake dinner. All the courses of the meal are strawberry shortcake usually supplied by Peg O’Malley. Peg’s family also partakes in the feast. Everyone joins in the wonderful, fun and funny meal that is unique and healthy at the same time. “It is a family tradition and we all look forward to it every year. This year we are passing it on to our grandchildren so we hope the tradition will continue,” said Mark O’Connell when asked. 

Peg O’Malley’s Strawberry Shortcake 

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SPORTS

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TRAVELERS KEEP ON WINNING

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Slate Mountain – The Travelers met their arch rivals, the Slate Mountain Miners, on Saturday and they played a high scoring game winning 12-11 with some ninth inning heroics by the increasingly impressive Johnny Cloos. The slug fest was unexpected because both the Miners and the Travelers sent their top pitchers to the mound. Joe Nagy for the Travelers and Frank Wilson for the Miners were expected to keep the runs down and the men on base few. That is not what happened. The runs started for both sides in the first inning and continued until the ninth when Johnny Cloos closed it out with a final walk off home run for the Travelers win, 12-11. Due to the Travelers not having a home field the league has designated some of their games home games although they are played in other ball parks. This game was one of the designated home games for the Travelers even though they played the game in Slate Mountain Park. The Travelers batted second in this game.

             This is the second game in a row that the Travelers have scored 12 runs. Their offense has been on fire and everyone is contributing to the scoring. Johnny Cloos has emerged as a rock solid hitter and is developing into a premier player in the league. He is currently second in the league in homers, second in the league in batting average and third in RBI’s. He had three hits including the game winning home run in this game.

            Both teams started fast, each scoring three runs in the first inning. There were 23 hits, 6 walks and no errors. Both Nagy and Wilson were off their games and not able to get any real speed on their fastballs or their curveballs to break. The batters took advantage of the pitchers predicament.

            The teams played back and forth ball, one taking the lead only to have the opponent tie it up or take the lead in the following inning. It came down to the ninth inning, the Miners scored in the top of the ninth to tie it up for the fourth time. The Travelers came up in the bottom of the ninth. Dunham struck out. Watson flied out to right. Johnny Cloos came up and Wilson took him deep into the count and Cloos fouled off two with a 3-2 count. Then Wilson went to his fastball to try and catch Cloos off guard, thinking he was looking for a curve. Cloos was not set on his expectations and saw the fastball all the way. He connected cleanly and sent the ball over the center field fence for the win.

            It was an emotional and hard won victory for the Travelers. They will take this momentum into Bear Creek next week and hope to continue with the high powered offense. The game is a night game, beginning at 7:05 PM in Bear Creek Park.

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 NATIONAL NEWS

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COURT RULES TRUMAN IN VIOLATION – TRUMAN WARNS OF RUSSIAN PLOTS – POLIO CASES INCREASE – TAFT WANTS SUPERIOR AIR FORCE – STALIN’S HEALTH IS FAILING – WIRELINE BOOKMAKING UNDER CONTROL, FOR NOW - BOW TIES ARE BACK – MRS.DIMAGGIO WANTS TO RESTAIN JOE – POP MUSIC THIS WEEK

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The Supreme Court rules that President Truman violated the Constitution when he seized the nation’s steel industry – and a new steel strike is on.

President Truman warns that Russia may be plotting “new Koreas” in other parts of the globe” but he insists that United States air supremacy in Korea is such that we “can bomb the enemy at will, almost anywhere in his territory.”

Polio update – cases increasing. So far this year, 2,047 cases of infantile paralysis have been reported to the United States Public Health Service, compared with 1,860 this time last year.

Sen. Taft says that the core of American foreign policy must be the creation of air power strong enough to “control the air over this country, over the oceans which surround this continent and able to deliver bombs on Russian cities and manufacturing plants.”

Radio Free Europe reports that Premier Stalin of Russia has been advised to give up all his posts in order to improve his rapidly failing health.

The Western Union Telegraph Company says that the “heat” put on organized gambling by Congress and law enforcement agents had halted illegal use of telegraph facilities by bookmakers for the time being. But it said it wanted to put into effect new tariff restrictions against gamblers because there would be “a gradual return of the bookie element to their normal activities” when public indignation died down.

Fashion – The bow tie is popular. They attained such popularity last year that their devotees continue to wear them through the winter. The trend should continue with the warmer days.

Mrs. Dorothy DiMaggio seeks to restrain Joe DiMaggio from taking his 10-year-old son to “adult places.” It all came about after some Hollywood columnists reported that DiMaggio took the boy swimming at the Bel-Air Country Club, three weeks ago with Marilyn Monroe and there was a lot of adult talk.

Pop music this week in 1952 -

KISS OF FIRE - Georgia Gibbs

BLUE TANGO - Leroy Anderson

A GUY IS A GUY - Doris Day

I’M YOURS - Don Cornell

WHEEL OF FORTUNE - Kay Starr

THE BLACKSMITH BLUES - Ella Mae Morse

I’LL WALK ALONE - Don Cornell

BE ANYTHING (But Be Mine) - Eddy Howard

DELICADO - Percy Faith & Orchestra

HERE IN MY HEART - Al Martino

FORGIVE ME - Eddie Fisher

ANY TIME - Eddie Fisher

PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA - Guy Mitchell

PERFIDIA Four Aces

CARIOCA - Les Paul

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6/5/1952

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Thursday, June 5, 1952   Vol. C364

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LOCAL NEWS

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DECORATION DAY PARADE AND BIKE RACE GROW

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East Farewell - Decoration Day was celebrated in East Farewell on May 30 and held a parade to honor all the veterans who served in all the conflicts through the country’s history.  This year the parade honored area vets from WWI, WWII and the current Korean War. There were three WWI vets, , Tommy Flynn, Ernie Wood and Jules Sanford, who all rode together in a 1937 Cord. There were 14 WWII vets this year and they were all riding in a wonderful assortment of modern luxury vehicles. There were three Korean vets, all having returned but still in the active reserves, and they were feted in an open, oversized fire-rescue truck. “This is a great vehicle but, Last year we got to ride in a Duesenberg SJ, I guess they didn’t want to squeeze three of in that this year,” laughed Korean vet, Bernie Davis when asked about his ride.    

            The Regional High School Marching Band led the parade down Main Street  and was followed by several fire trucks including visiting trucks from Mountain View and Bear Creek, the vets, a whole troop of Boy Scouts, and was finished with the a very snappy presentation of the Regional High School ROTC Squad dressed in their full formal uniforms and marching in precise formation with a drum and bugle outfit laying down the beat.

            The parade made its way down Main Street and ended on the Lakefront Plaza where there was a solemn ceremony with taps and a 21 gun salute and a wreath was laid at the foot of the flagpole in the Plaza.

            In the afternoon the second “Race Around the Lake” Bike race took place. This year not only has the parade attendance grown immensely but the bike race has also grown. This year many shops set up outdoor dining and folks along the route set up watching stations at their homes, front porches and in their driveways. This year also saw more riders from outside the immediate area. This year’s race was won by a Regional High School senior, Jimmy Halligan. Halligan is due to graduate in three weeks and is going on to study a Notre Dame University. 

Vets ride in 1952 Decoration Day Parade

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SPORTS

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TRAVELERS EXPLODE IN ERIE

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Erie – The Travelers offense exploded in Erie on Saturday. They scored 12 runs in a 12-5 victory over the Erie Eagles. It was the most runs the team had scored since racking up 15 runs against Slate Mountain way back in 1940. Every player in the lineup got a hit, a team record for the Travelers. Things got off fast as the first four batters, Francis, Dunham Watson and Cloos, got hits, scoring two runs and then after Dimero grounded out Joey Brown, Artie Archibald and Billy Sweet got hits, scoring Brown. Beleaguered Eagles pitcher, Moses Garland, finally settled down and was able to get Green and the pitcher, Joey Alfred out. The damage was done, though, and Garland struggled through six innings and let in 8 more runs before he was mercifully relieved by Frank Dunlap. Dunlap held his own but gave up one last blast from red-hot Johnny Cloos in the eighth. The long, high, out of the park star-tickler sent the remaining Eagles fans to the exits. The Eagles were able to score 5 runs off Alfred who gave up 9 hits and walked 5. The Travelers recorded a near record 22 hits and surprisingly only 4 walks. They were hitting almost anything Garland would throw. “We were on fire out there today. I have never seen a hitting show like that,” said manager Sam Fowler after the game.

            The Travelers move onto Slate Mountain next week and are expecting a much tougher game. The Miners are the Travelers arch rival and the games are always very competitive. The game begins at 4:00 on Saturday in Mountain Park.

 

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 NATIONAL NEWS

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TRUMAN WELCOMES IKE HOME – IKE FORMALLY RETIRES AND STATES HIS VIEWS - WOULD MEET STALIN TO SECURE PEACE – GRAHAM PREACHES TO 60,000 IN HOUSTON – QUEEN ELIZABETH BACK IN PUBLIC LIFE – WALCOTT BEATS CHARLES IN PHILADELPHIA

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Gen. Eisenhower comes home and is greeted by his Commander In Chief – President Truman. He quickly wants to get down to business and begin campaigning.

Gen. Eisenhower asks for his formal Army retirement and surrenders his $19,541 retirement pay so he can take an active part in the pre-convention GOP political campaign.

Gen Eisenhower tells where he stands – revealing his views on everything from civil rights to his boyhood dreams. He named the campaign issue as world peace and security.

Gen Eisenhower says “I’d go anywhere and do anything” including talking with Prime Minister Stalin – in the effort to achieve a secure peace.” That problem underlies and aggravates all other problems said Eisenhower. 

Billy Graham preaches to the largest audience of his career - some 60,000 in Houston. The crowds were packed at Rice Institute’s 70,000-capacity stadium, where Graham has been preaching for the past week, whenever the weather was good.

Queen Elizabeth II (26) ushers in a new Elizabethan age by taking the salute as colonel-in-chief of the Brigade of Guards at her nation’s most impressive military ceremony – the 150-year-old trooping the color in honor of the sovereign’s official birthday. It also marked the Queen’s return to public life, following the four-month period of mourning for her father, the late King George VI.

Jersey Joe Walcott – 38-year-old Cinderella man of the ring, clings to his world heavyweight title by winning a unanimous decision over ex-Champ Ezzard Charles in Philadelphia.

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5/29/1952

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Thursday, May 29, 1952   Vol. C363

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LOCAL NEWS

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EAST FAREWELL TAKES PART IN UNIVAC TESTS

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East Farewell – The first commercial computer, UNIVAC, created by the Remington Rand Company, and designed Presper Echert and John Mauchly, used East Farewell and a number of other towns in the state in an early test for the Census bureau. Echert and Mauchly first created the general-purpose computer (ENIAC) at the University of Pennsylvania in 1946 for the US military, for calculating artillery fire. The first machine had 5,000 vacuum tubes, weighed 16,000 pounds and measured 14.5 by 7.5 by 9 feet in size. It can do an amazing 1,000 calculations in a second. This will greatly improve the efficiency of the Census Bureau.

            The Bureau wanted to run some tests before they put the machine into full operation so they chose 100 small towns in the New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington DC area to make a limited test run of the census. All the towns simulated a census taking and all the results were fed into the computer. The tests have proved very helpful and the Univac is expected to start processing input information.

            On a side note, Presper Echert and his family were seen downtown in East Farewell last week. He had brought his family here, staying at Mrs. Mallard’s boarding house, for a brief vacation. “I love this town,” Echert said when approached on Main Street by local teacher, inventor, and scientist, Dr. Quantry, “I am surprised that you recognized me. I am not your glamorous celebrity and I didn’t expect anyone to know who I was but that is OK. I am pleased that people around here are interested in modern technology.”

            The townspeople of East Farewell have always kept up with technology, even when massive railroad engines were the height of technology. As the amazing technical advances made by the military during the war make their way into the public sector it is a given that the people of East Farewell will be some of the first to embrace it.

Presper Echert works on the original ENIAC 

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SPORTS

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TRAVELERS LOOKING OLD IN YOUNGSTOWN

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Youngstown – The Travelers came into Youngstown feeling invigorated, riding a three game win streak, and hoped to add to the streak. They left feeling older and worn out after losing to the Steelers 5-2. Joey Alfred started out on the mound for the Travelers and was looking good, keeping the Steelers off the scoreboard until the fourth inning. But then the Steelers caught up to Alfred’s fastball and things started to come apart. Alfred gave up a single to Harry Veller and then Frank Mastroeni hit a double, scoring Veller. Then Dave Sarcoma came up and jumped on one of Alfred’s fastballs and sent it out of the park. The Travelers were able to get on the board with three hits in the fifth and a Joey Brown single scoring Artie Archibald. That was it for the Travelers, though and the Steelers were able to get two more runs, one in the sixth and one in the eighth.

            The Travelers head up to Erie next week to face the Eagles. They are going to try to reenergize their flagging offense and score some runs. “That is the answer, score runs. You can’t win if you don’t score. We have to start scouring again,” said a frustrated Johnny Cloos after the loss.  

            Next week’s game will start at 2:00 on Saturday on Erie’s field.

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 NATIONAL NEWS

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RIDGEWAY REPORTS BIG BUILDUP OF RUSSIAN MILITARY – TRUMAN SAYS WATCH OUT FOR COMMIE DOUBLE CROSS – YOUNG GIRL ASKS EINSTEIN A MATH QUESTION – BRITISH DITCHING COMMIE CHINA BUSINESS – LAKE FILES FOR DIVORCE

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Gen. Matthew Ridgeway reports a “significant” buildup of Russian military strength in the Far East and said the Communist “potential” in Korea is the greatest ever.

President Truman said the nation must be “alert and ready’ for a possible Communist double cross in Korea – even for the renewal of large-scale fighting. The free world, Mr. Truman said, has the atomic and other weapons needed to strike back at aggression and will use them if necessary. “The plan fact is that the Communists have utterly failed in their objectives in Korea. The Communist aggression failed to shatter the United Nations. Instead, the Communist attack has made the United Nations stronger and more vigorous and has demonstrated that it can and will act to defend freedom in the world.” 

A 15-year-old girl from California writes to Dr. Albert Einstein at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton for a solution to a plane geometry and weighty problem neither her nor her classmates could solve. By return mail, he sent her back a diagram of the problem, sketched on the back of her letter, indicating the method of solution, all though not giving the explicit answer. He signed the diagram A.E. without further comment. The letter to Dr. Einstein indicated that he might know the girl’s grandfather, Professor Frank Mankiewicz of C.C.N.Y.

London newspapers report that weary British business has decided to abandon its (almost $1 billion) worth of investments in Communist China and get out for good.

Veronica Lake (29) files for divorce against Screen Director Andre DeToth (37). She complained that for some years past, her husband has subjected her to “grievous mental and physical anguish.”

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