EAST FAREWELL
NEWS
Thursday, April
15, 1954 Vol. C459
LOCAL
NEWS
“NOTHING IS CERTAIN BUT DEATH
AND TAXES”
East Farewell – The headline quote is attributed to Benjamin
Franklin, beloved founding father, and while probably uttered as a sarcastic quip
is very much true. Today is Tax day in East Farewell as well as the rest of the
country. Almost every citizen of employable age has a tax payment due today.
How much you pay is dependent on how much you make and how well you can
interpret the tax rules. Some are much better at the latter and have been able
to successfully avoid high bills. East Farewell does impose a business tax but
not an income tax or a local sales tax. The business tax is .02 mils (.02 per
$1000) and helps cover upkeep of the streets and sidewalks as well as
streetlight maintenance and traffic control.
As for the local residents, the average income in East Farewell
was $2,300.00. This does not take into account the incomes of all the summer
residents that travel in from bigger cities like Philadelphia, New York and
Pittsburgh. If those salaries were counted the total would be undoubtedly much
higher.
No matter what the figure is, many people are trudging to the Post Office today to drop of their tax return. It is a grim but necessary task that is part of being an American. “I don’t like it, but I do it,” lamented Mrs. Mallard on her way to the Post Office, “Everybody has to except maybe the Rockefellers, they probably have some tax accountant that knows how to write off everything.”
The average American has until 12 midnight tonight to post their return.
East Farewell
local snacks while filing tax forms at the library
SPORTS
COUGARS EASILY OVERRUN THE CAPTAINS
East Farewell – The Cougars made
short work of the Fort Lee Captains on Saturday afternoon. They won a lopsided
game, 54-46. The score would have been more lopsided if the Cougars coach
Wilson hadn’t pulled the starters midway through the fourth quarter. When Coach
Wilson called a timeout with a full 6 minutes left in the fourth the Cougars
were ahead 48-24 and in complete control of the game. Cougar’s center, Dan
Davis was leading the scoring with 18, he was followed by his forwards, Billy
O’Donnell and Gene Green with 10 each, the backcourt of Timmy Green and Joey
Welch who had contributed the remaining 10 points (6 for Green and 4 for
Welch). The hapless Captains tried many different defenses but none worked, the
Cougars were just a better team on Saturday. The Cougars also enjoyed the good
fortune of having almost everything they threw up go in, they shot and amazing
92% in the first three quarters. With shooting like that and superior ball
handling skills the Captains didn’t stand a chance. The high scorer for the
Captains was forward Donte Cappelli with 12 points; he was followed by Reggie
Williams with 8.
The
Cougars go on the road one last time next week as the visit the Southport
Hawks. They beat the Hawks in their earlier meeting this season and are hoping
to repeat the experience. The game is another Saturday game beginning at 1:30
in the Southport High School gymnasium.
NATIONAL NEWS
ALASKA
& HAWAII GRANTED STATEHOOD – COFFEE UP TO 90¢ A
POUND – HORMEL DIVORCES LESLIE CARON – KOVACS HAS NEW SHOW – DODGERS ON UHF –
AT THE MOVIES
The Senate passes a bill to grant statehood to Hawaii and Alaska and sends it to the House.
Coffee going up – Green coffee is averaging 90-cents a pound but could go way up. Some say between $1.20 or even as high as $1.50 a pound.
George A. Hormel II of the food-packing family divorces actress Leslie Caron.
Ernie Kovacs has a new show. Look for him on DuMont’s WABD-TV New York every night. The show airs 11:15pm each weeknight.
UHF station WICC-TV (channel 43) Bridgeport (CT) will be carrying Brooklyn Dodgers broadcasts, a nice scoop for the small station. The games air on New York’s channel 9, but there’s a little problem. WNHC-TV (New Haven) just converted to channel 8 from channel 6 and now interferes with fringe channel 9, hence the fill-in.
At the movies –
Prince Valiant (CinemaScope) – James Mason, Janet
Leigh, Robert Wagner, Debra Paget, Sterling Hayden
Hell and High Water (CinemaScope) – Richard Widmark
Lucky Me (CinemaScope) – Doris Day, Robert
Cummings, Phil Silvers
It Should Happen to You – Judy Holliday, Peter
Lawford
The Glenn Miller Story – James Stewart, June Allyson
Many, many
thanks to www.mrpopculture.com for
contributing to this section of the East Farewell News.
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