EAST FAREWELL NEWS
Thursday, August
20, 1953 Vol. C245
LOCAL
NEWS
HOT SPELL MELTS EAST FAREWELL
East Farewell – Temperatures have been holding in the mid 90s
for a week with daytime highs slipping past 100 and topping out at 103 on
Tuesday. The evenings and nights have offered no relief, only dipping to the
upper 80s. To make matters worse the humidity has been extremely high hovering
around 80% all week. It is not unusual for the temperatures to rise into the
nineties during August in the area but it is not usual for the temperatures to
reach the high nineties and even the triple digits for such an extended period
of time. Even Lake
Charles is showing the stress of the heat. The shoreline has receded almost
two feet in some shallow beach areas.
“This heat is
very oppressive,” groaned Natalie
Mallard, local resident, “it makes it so hard to do anything, even going to
the beach is too hot. The lake water is like a bath and as soon as you get out
you are dry. It is just too hot.”
Her feelings
are shared by the whole population in town. In fact it seems the only person
who is even the slightest bit comfortable is Howard Arden who owns the Ice
House. “You know,” says Arden, “I have to work well into the fall and it gets
mighty cold around here then so this kind of evens things out. I really enjoy
my job right now, I can’t even tell you the number of applications I have
sitting on my desk. I don’t even have time to look at them. Perhaps I’ll hire a
secretary to sort through them. I could use some part time help right now.”
Arden then picked up what looked like
a 50 pound block of solid ice with large tongs and effortlessly tossed it into
the back of his truck. The open truck attracted a surprising large crowd,
especially when the back doors were open. The Ice House supplies ice to all the
local establishments and many of the summer rentals request weekly supplies of
ice cubes. They also use the large blocks for inexpensive air conditioning in
the summer bungalows by the lake.
The forecast looks like more of the
same for at least the next week. People
will continue to slog through the heat and humidity, except for Howard Arden.
Receding Lake
Charles shoreline
SPORTS
TRAVELERS MELT AS CUBS COME TO PLAY
East Farewell – The Travelers were
slowed by the heat last Saturday while the Bear Creek Cubs seemed to barely
notice the 90 plus temperatures. The Cubs won handily, 5-1. The field was so
hot that even the fans moved slowly. After a third inning Cub homer by Stan
Laymen fans only walked to retrieve the ball from the left field seats. The
Cubs added to Laymen’s homer in the fifth and the seventh scoring two in each
inning. The Travelers only offense came in the eighth when they were able to
score one when Dale Dunham hit a clean triple off the right field wall and
Booby Watson was able to sacrifice him home. Other than that spark the
Travelers looked like they were playing in slow motion. Their usually crisp
infield was sloppy and sluggish, missing what would be normally double plays
for single outs. The outfield was miss- reading fly balls all afternoon,
luckily none of the mistakes were too costly on the scoreboard side.
“Boy,
did we look bad this afternoon,” said Johnny Cloos, Travelers centerfielder,
“We just didn’t have any get up and go out there. Maybe it was the heat, that’s
no excuse, they had to play in the same heat and they looked ok, we just did a
bad job this afternoon, sorry.”
The
apology was rare and well accepted but all the fans want to see is performance
on the field. The Travelers will take on the Ondita Cougars next week and
hopefully the enthusiastic Travelers will show up. The game begins at 4:30 at
the new ballpark.
NATIONAL NEWS
LONGEST KOREAN POW RELEASED – MCCARTHY SAYS
COMMIES ARE IN GPO – E. GERMAN COMMIES CRUSHING DEMONSTRATORS
One of the first (Yankee) prisoners of the Korean War is freed. Sgt Jaime O Domenech of Puerto Rico was captured on July 6, 1950. He said he was carrying a sick man with another soldier when “the tiger” told them to put him down. As a POW, he said he saw many men die of sickness, starvation and maltreatment.
Senator
Joseph McCarthy of
Wisconsin says there is evidence of Government Printing Office employees that
are communists and a gambling ring, saying the situation “offers the most
serious threat possible to the security of the nation.”
In a Gallup poll, a survey finds Senator Joseph McCarthy getting an unfavorable attitude ratio from pollsters - 42 to 34.
Soviet
troops and communist police occupy several East German factories, crush
anti-communist demonstrations and arrest at least 100 workers.
The
Soviet Union promises to free all Germans now held there for “crimes connected
with war.” The only exceptions are the ones serving terms for severe crimes
“against peace and humanity.”
Many, many
thanks to www.mrpopculture.com for
contributing to this section of the East Farewell News.
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