EAST FAREWELL
NEWS
Thursday, January
14, 1954 Vol. C446
LOCAL
NEWS
A BRIEF TOUCH OF SPRING
East
Farewell – The weather gods seem to have granted East Farewell a brief respite
from the savages of winter last week. In an unusual and record breaking
occurrence the thermometer reached 60 degrees on Monday, 55 degrees on Tuesday
and 45 degrees on Wednesday. Any snow that was lingering around vanished and
people walked down Main Street and Lakeshore Drive in shirtsleeves. There was
even a convertible car spotted with its roof down. Local weather forecasters
had noted that a warm up was possible but did not predict the balmy
temperatures. “These temperatures are record breaking,” said local weatherman,
Ned Washington, “We have had warm spells in the middle of winter before, but nothing
like this. It seems a high pressure zone raced up from the south and pushed any
cold, artic air right out of the way. It seems to be headed due north and will
probably run right along the mountains into New England. This is certainly one
for the record books.”
The warm weather came in quickly and
departed just as fast. The temperatures had dropped to the low 40s by last
Friday. It is expected to keep dropping through the next week with some new
snow due next week. While most people welcomed the warm break, some were
disgruntled. The ice-fishing community, which numbers about 5 or 10, was
unanimously up in arms about the whole situation. “My hut is going to fall in
the lake,” complained Bernie Maguire, “Me and Landon (Burrows,
another fisherman) are going to lose our huts if this dang heat doesn’t cool
off.”
The ice on Lake Charles did
experience some severe melting, especially around the shoreline and officials
posted a warning sign near Hollywood Beach where many people skate, but the area where
the ice huts are stayed frozen with only very wet surface melting. When last
noted no ice huts had fallen in Lake Charles. The colder temperatures will
reinforce the standing ice and the ice fishermen will be able to go about their
business once again.
Warning sign
at Hollywood Beach
SPORTS
WARM SPELL BRINGS FANS TO THE TOURNAMENT
East Farewell – The unusual warm spell during the
early part of last week brought in record numbers of fans for the Regional
Winter Basketball Tournament. The previous tournament saw fans from the
participating schools, mostly families of players, but the warm spell seemed to
bring basketball fans from all over. The week also coincided with winter recess
for most of the schools so many students from other schools descended on East
Farewell. Every game was sold out. Each school had bleacher-filling fans to cheer
them on, so every game was a loud, frantic, do or die event that turned out to
be some very competitive basketball.
The
Cougars started things off on Sunday with a strong win over the Central Bears,
34-28. That game was followed by the Riverview Wildcats defeating the Slate
Mountain Canaries, 40-32. On Monday the Southport Hawks handed last year’s
winner, the Fort Lee Captains, a surprising defeat, 36-30. The Captains were
able to come out on top in the consolation game on Wednesday defeating the Canaries,
32-30. In an exciting final game on Thursday the Corning Devils squeaked by the
Cougars, 48-46 with a last second bucket by Devils ace guard, Lou Montello.
The
tournament was a smashing success and every coach said the event was a great
chance to not only play other teams but to be able to watch other teams play.
The fans just loved the games.
The Cougars will resume their regular league games next week when they host the Central Bears in the Regional High gym. The Cougars defeated the Bears in the first round of the tournament and are looking forward to repeating again next week. The game begins at 6:00PM on Friday night.
|
Cougars |
Cougars |
Wed. |
Thurs. |
Final |
(36-30) |
Captains |
|
Bears |
(34-28) |
Consol. |
|
Cougars |
Hawks |
Hawks |
|
Sunday |
Tues. |
Canaries |
Devils |
(46-40) |
Tues. |
Monday |
|
Wildcats |
Wildcats |
Captains |
(48-46) |
(42-38) |
(38-24) |
Miners |
|
Canaries |
(40-32) |
(32-30) |
|
Devils |
Devils |
Devils |
NATIONAL NEWS
SUPREME COURT SIDES WITH MOVIE
DISTRIBUTORS - BEST SALESMAN ALIVE GIVES
ADVICE – GABLE ORDERED TO PAY - WYMAN DIVORCES –
WINTERS WALKS OUT – MONROE SUSPENDED – CUFF LINKS IN STYLE – SEND
PEANUTS TO BRITAN
The Supreme Court upholds the right of motion-picture distributors to deny first-run films to neighborhood theaters with limited drawing power. Crest Theater in Baltimore had charged conspiratorial action by eight major distributors in refusing to license first-run pictures to it. A judge said there was no direct evidence of illegal agreement between the distributors and that if the Crest Theater were to receive first runs its license from the distributors would have had to have been an exclusive one. That is, no other theaters in Baltimore or the suburbs could have shown the same picture at the same time. “However, an exclusive license would be economically unsound because the Crest is a suburban theater, located in a small shopping center and served by limited public transportation facilities and with a drawing area of less than one-tenth of that of a downtown theater, it cannot compare with those easily accessible theaters in the power to draw patrons. Hence, the downtown theaters offer far greater opportunities for the widespread advertisement and exploitation of newly released features, which is thought necessary to maximize the over-all return from subsequent runs as well as first runs.” The distributors included RKO, Fox, Warner, Paramount and Loew’s
Buy Buy, not Bye Bye – Elmer Wheeler is considered the best salesman alive. He’s the one who taught restaurants to “sell the sizzle, not the steak. He taught gas station men to say “fill ‘er - up?” instead of “How many?” He also taught soda fountain men to ask drinkers of malted milks - “one egg - or two?” - the result - millions of eggs were sold that otherwise would have gone unsold. Wheeler – who is 47, is a sales consultant to 240 corporations. Wheeler says no one in this country under 30 knows how to sell. “The war did that.” (Because of scarcity of products due to the war) “People have been pointing to a thing and saying ‘I’ll take that,’ hoping to beat the other customer to it. Now that’s over, and salesmen are going to have to learn how to sell.”
Actor Clark Gable is ordered to pay $4000 damages to a Tucson woman who claimed she suffered permanent injuries in an automobile accident in which he was involved in December of 1951. He was first sued for $25,000. Gable told the court he was attempting to pass a truck-trailer and was blinded by heavy rain.
Files for divorce - actress Jane Wyman charges grievous physical and mental suffering against her husband, Frederick Karger. They have no children or community property.
In Rome, actress Shelley Winters walks out on her husband, actor Vittorio Gassman. “We had quite an argument... “I’m doing some deep thinking. Honestly, I can’t say just now how it may come out.”
Marilyn Monroe is suspended by 20th Century-Fox for not showing up for her latest movie project - “Pink Tights.” Hedda Hopper says she has been in San Francisco with Joe DiMaggio. Her attorney says the actress is angry because she has not been permitted to see a script of “Pink Tights.” There’s a rumor that the couple is married - not so according to DiMaggio “We are not married. If and which we are married, it will be announced as a blanket statement to everyone. No scoops.”
Men’s styles - oversize cufflinks are more popular than ever. New cuff designs are out, including personalized links, with the owner’s signature in color.
If you are sending someone a gift in Britain, be sure to include peanuts and peanut butter. It’s just about impossible to get ‘em over there.
Many, many
thanks to www.mrpopculture.com for
contributing to this section of the East Farewell News.
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