EAST FAREWELL NEWS
Thursday, June 19,
1952 Vol. C366
LOCAL
NEWS
REGIONAL HIGH GRADUATION
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
SPORTS
TRAVELERS HUNT DOWN THE CUBS
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.
NATIONAL NEWS
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
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.”
Many, many
thanks to www.mrpopculture.com for
contributing to this section of the East Farewell News.
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