EAST FAREWELL NEWS
Thursday, September
4, 1952 Vol. C110
LOCAL
NEWS
LABOR DAY FAIR
& ARTS FESTIVAL BIG HIT
East
Farewell- Both locals and visitors shared in the fun and excitement of the County
Fair & Arts Festival over the Labor Day weekend. Beautiful weather, wonderful attractions and
events along with great food provided by local restaurants combined to make a
very successful three day extravaganza.
The fun started Friday night with an opening night parade lead by the
High School Band and the Fire Department from the Center Square to the Fair
Grounds. Town Council President, Tom
Conally, opened the gates and the Fair Grounds lights turned on in a very
impressive display of commercial showmanship.
The Midway was ablaze with bright colors offering fun and games for all
and every local merchant had a booth to show off their wares. All the local eateries offered a cornucopia
of dishes from samples to entire meals.
Local artists exhibited their
creations among the games and food booths.
The area has become somewhat of a base for different type of artists and
craftsmen in the past few years. Painters
and woodworkers of regional fame such as landscape artist Wagner Strump and
fine woodworker Angela Boyle have found East Farewell a welcoming, friendly
environment to produce wonderful pieces that were on display and for sale. The livestock auction proved to be a surprising
success, even after it was unceremoniously moved from the main event to
Saturday morning at 8:00 AM. A large
number of people were in attendance for the auction. There were quite a few buyers but most were
only spectators trying to get a look at some of the magnificent horses as well
as the bulls and cows being bid on.
While the days were filled with fun
and games the nights were filled with music and theater. On Friday the night the High School Jazz
ensemble gave a wonderful concert that was, well, jazzy. On Saturday night the Local Players preformed
a spirited, condensed rendition of “Gigi” and Sunday night saw a spectacular
magic show by the Great Mysterio. Monday
night the closing ceremonies featured music by the local swing band led by Jerry
Tabor.
“All and all it was a great
success,” said Mr. Conally after the closing ceremonies. “Next year we hope to
have the same success only bigger and better.”
Fair Fans 1952
SPORTS
CORNING’S “SMOKE” SNUFFS
TRAVELERS
TRAVELERS SPLIT WEEKEND SERIES
Corning-
Bill “Smoke” Black pitched a no hitter against the Travelers in the first game
of the two game weekend series. In an
unusual dearth of offense the Travelers looked in vain for any clearing in the
“smoke” that Black was throwing but were snuffed out time and again. Black struck out 15 and only walked one in
the eighth while the Corning offense scored one in the third and three in the
eighth.
The baffled Travelers woke up for the second game
and defeated the Corning team 5-1 behind a strong performance by Joe
Alfred. Johnny Cloos resumed his home
run exhibition by slamming two homeruns, one in the third and one in the sixth. The first was a two run blast after Bobby
Watson had singled and the sixth inning dinger accounted for three more after
Francis and Dunham had reached on a walk and a single. The Travelers defense was sharp again as the
pitchers best friend, the double play, helped Alfred out in the third and ended
the game in the ninth. Once again the
ultra-smooth Dunham to Archibald to Francis combination proved extremely
effective.
The Travelers move on to Riverview this weekend and
then back to Corning next week.
NATIONAL NEWS
IKE CALLS FOR CLEAN GOVERNMENT
RED SCARE EVERYWHERE – STEVENSON BACKS ACHESON
New York- In front of the American Legion
Convention in Madison Square Garden, Republican Presidential nominee Dwight
D. Eisenhower pledges to end corruption
in the government. “Let us end corruption in public office, at every level of
government. In world opinion and in world effectiveness, the United States in
measured by the moral firmness of its public officials.” Eisenhower also said
that he does not believe the Russians are ready to fight and war will not come
soon, unless “it is by accident of the powder keg variety,”
The American Legion was demanding, for the third year in a row, that President Harry S. Truman dismiss Secretary of State Dean Acheson for his lack of vigor in dealing with the communist threat. The Legion report declared that the Department of State was in desperate need of "God-fearing Americans" who had the "intestinal fortitude not to be political puppets." The organization demanded a quick and victorious settlement of the Korean War, even if this meant expanding the war into China The Christian Nationalist Party announces it is going to enter Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s name as a Presidential candidate on at least 19 state ballots. MacArthur is not a candidate, but members want to reserve the right to vote for him as a symbol of “Americanism.”
The Republican-dominated Senate Internal Security
Subcommittee released a report charging that the Radio Writers Guild was
dominated by a small number of communists. The Guild, whose members were
responsible for producing more than 90 percent of the programs on radio, had
purportedly been run by a small clique of communists for at least the last nine
years. According to the subcommittee report, communist subversion of the Guild
was merely one step in a larger effort to control the media of the United
States—including radio, television, movies, and book publishing.
In a speech by
Democratic nominee for president Governor Adlai E. Stevenson, he strongly criticized
those who used "patriotism" as a weapon against their political
opponents. In an obvious slap at the Senate Subcommittee and others, such as
Senator Joseph McCarthy, Stevenson repeated the words of the writer Dr. Samuel
Johnson: "Patriotism is the last refuge of scoundrels." The governor
claimed that it was "shocking" that good Americans, such as Acheson
and former secretary of state General George C. Marshall, could be attacked on
the grounds that they were unpatriotic.
Moscow-Radio
Moscow broadcasts of “terror” in New York. A monitored broadcast said,
“Terror is rife” in this nation’s largest city. This terror, it was suggested,
is not confined to the streets of New York, but also to its subways. Radio
Moscow gave as its reason for an upsurge in New York crime by claiming that
people have been “driven to desperation” by the high cost of living.
Many, many
thanks to www.mrpopculture.com for
contributing to this section of the East Farewell News.
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