EAST FAREWELL
NEWS
Thursday, May 20,
1954 Vol. C464
LOCAL
NEWS
REGIONAL HIGH GLITTERS
East Farewell – The Regional High School gymnasium was decked
out for the Senior Prom. Silver streamers and gold balloons adorned the rafters
and the stands. Almost every member of the 65 student class was in attendance,
even Martin
Delany who was sporting a cast on his right leg. He broke his leg earlier
this year in a farm accident but was not going to “let a little cast get in the
way of my dancing,” as he put it.
The music was
supplied by a very popular local band, Roy
and the Magnificents, who played all the popular dance tunes. The joint was
jumping as the hepcats say. The band played several sets and only repeated two
songs, “Little Things Mean A Lot’ and “Shake, Rattle and Roll”. Both filled the
dance floor, the first with couples dancing lovingly and the second with
jitterbuggers.
Before all the
music the PTA set up tables and chairs for a buffet style dinner. Many local
parents served their children and seemed genuinely impressed with the mature
behavior that their children exhibited. After the meal the tables and chairs
were cleared away to make room for the dance floor. But before the dancing
commenced there was a ceremony to crown the King and Queen of the prom.
Cougar’s football fullback, “Moose” Boyle was chosen king and a very petite Amy
O’Mara was chosen queen. The couple made a somewhat comical paring as Boyle
stands 6’1” and 225 pounds where O’Mara is only 5’0” in high heels and could
not weigh more than 100 pounds. Regardless, they took it all in stride and
walked together to the dance floor and danced a dance together. The vote was
not announced until the ceremony so they both had other dates but there were no
hard feelings between the groups.
The dancing
went on until 11:00 when Big Roy closed the show with an unusual choice, an
acapella version of “Somewhere Over the Rainbow, perhaps wishing the seniors
the best of luck in their future endeavors in his own way. Things all closed
down by 11:30 and the lights were turned off. The memories, though, will shine
brightly for a long time.
Happy Regional High Prom
attendees
SPORTS
TRAVELERS COME ALIVE IN ONDITA
Ondita – The Travelers woke up after
their dreary performance against the Bear Creek Cubs last week when they
blasted the Ondita Cougars, 8-1 on Saturday. The Travelers started off hot with
3 runs in the first inning thanks to two back to back homeruns by Bobby Watson
and Johnny Cloos and a double by leadoff hitter Ralph Francis. Cougar’s
pitcher, Juan Santos, was rocked in the first and had trouble finding the
strike zone as he walked seven batters, one resulting in walking in a run in
the third. Santos was mercifully pulled after five innings but not before he
had let in six runs. Reliever, George Dimples, had a little better luck but the
Travelers tagged him for two runs and six hits in only four innings. The only
highlight for the Cougars came when Traveler’s pitcher, Joey Alfred, gave
Cougar’s slugger, “Batterin’” Brad Braxton, a low outside fastball that was
clobbered out of the park. That was the only hit of the seven hits the Cougars
got that made any difference.
The
Travelers will move on to Corning next week to face the Corning Glass Works
(CGW) in a twilight showdown, featuring their ace, Bill “Smoke” Black. He will
face off against Traveler’s ace, Joe Nagy. This is set up to be a tremendous
pitches duel and begins at 5:30 in Corning Stadium.
NATIONAL NEWS
MCCARTHY PROTESTS IKE – MURROW-MCCARTHY
CONTROVERSY TO BE SHOWN ON CBS – PUBLIC WANTS MCCARTHY STOPPED – MOLOTOV SAYS
COMMIES WILL EXTEND INTO INDO-CHINA – VODKA SALES DOWN IN MOSCOW – MAMBO
FESTIVAL BIG HIT – POP MUSIC THIS WEEK
McCarthy-Army hearings - Sen. McCarthy protests that President Eisenhower’s refusal to modify his order forbidding testimony about top-level administration conference on January 21, presented him and his staff with a “stacked deck” that makes it difficult for him “to get at the truth.”
Sen. McCarthy tells reporters he “will be there” when the televised Army-McCarthy hearings reopen Monday, but made no promises whether he will testify. The hearings will be televised by ABC and DuMont.
Congressman Celler of New York said the McCarthy-Army hearing is “sufficiently grotesque” now and declared that proposed commercial sponsorship of its telecasts would “increase its absurdity.”
Sequences from four CBS-TV “See It Now” programs are edited into a 45-minute documentary on the Ed Murrow-Sen. McCarthy controversy. The film contains clips from the original March 9 Murrow attack on McCarthy, the March 16 study of the Annie Lee Moss case, McCarthy’s attack on Morrow on April 6 and Murrow’s reply and highlights from the Bishop Sheil talk on April 13. Look for it soon on CBS-TV.
In a Gallup Poll – 49% of those adults surveyed want the McCarthy-Army hearings stopped.
Communism spreading – Soviet foreign minister Molotov makes a declaration on Indo-China and says that Communists will extend their grip into the area.
Vodka sales in Moscow drop with the cessation of sales of hard liquor at street corner bars, due to incidents of drunkenness.
Music news – Mambo Rumba festival in Pittsburgh drew a huge crowd. It featured Pupi Campo. Joe Loco, Miguelito Vales, Tito Puente, Michael & Nilda Terrace, Annia Rodriguez, Gilberte Valdes, Candido, Annia Vales and the Sevlla Port Dancers.
RCA-Victor is out of the picture – it cannot package the soundtrack of Mario Lanza’s upcoming musical because MGM has the movie and record rights.
Pop music this week–
WANTED
- Perry Como
I
GET SO LONELY (When I Dream About You) - Four Knights
YOUNG-AT-HEART
- Frank Sinatra
MAKE
LOVE TO ME! - Jo Stafford
HERE
- Tony Martin
CROSS
OVER THE BRIDGE – Patti Page
A
GIRL, A GIRL (Zoom-Ba Di Alli Nella)-Eddie Fisher
ANSWER
ME, MY LOVE - Nat “King” Cole
LITTLE
THINGS MEAN A LOT – Kitty Kallen
SECRET
LOVE - Doris Day
THE
HAPPY WANDERER - Frank Weir & Orchestra
JILTED
- Teresa Brewer
ISLE OF CAPRI – Gaylords
Many, many
thanks to www.mrpopculture.com for
contributing to this section of the East Farewell News.
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