EAST FAREWELL
NEWS
Thursday, May 27,
1954 Vol. C465
LOCAL
NEWS
WARM SPRING HAS FLOWERS &
POLLEN POPPING
East Farewell – The warm spring has led to an abundance of
flowers, both cultivated and wild to bloom all over town. Many of the private
gardens along Main
Street and Lakeshore Drive are exploding with colorful pansies, tulips,
daffodils and even hyacinths of all hues. The two flower shops in town have set
up outside displays and are offering beautiful cut flowers as well as potted
plants for home decoration and transplant. Many local gardeners are proudly
pruning and weeding their gardens and some have even been seen taking
photographs of their creations. “It is just so wonderful to walk down the
street and see all the beautiful gardens, “said Mrs.
Mallard, local boarding house owner and gardener, “they are all individual
and they each show a little personality of their owners. It is so nice to walk
along and talk with all my neighbors in their gardens. They just love it all so
much.”
The flowers are
certainly beautiful but with all the beauty come an unpleasant attachment,
pollen. Hay fever is chronic at this time of year and with the wonderful, warm
weather the pollen has appeared in abundance. Many, many people are suffering
the sneezing, runny nose and coughing that comes with the allergy season.
Antihistamines have been around since the 1940s and they offer some relief to
many but they are not without side effects and there are many people who would
rather suffer with the allergies than the side effects.
So, as spring
in East Farewell delivers beautiful blooms all around it also brings out the
handkerchiefs, watery eyes and sneezing. The bounty of blooms seems to be a
welcome trade-off even as some folks sniffle.
Flowers on Main Street
SPORTS
PITCHERS DUEL DELIVERS BUT TRAVELERS LOSE IN
12
Corning – The anticipated pitcher’s
duel between Corning’s Bill “Smoke” Black and Traveler’s Joe Nagy did not
disappoint. Both pitchers were on top of their games and kept the opposing
batters at bay for most of the game. Black set a personal strike out record of
12 while Nagy fanned 8. The only wrinkle in Blacks performance was in the
eighth inning when he let Billy Sweet drop a mid-field blooper in for a single.
Then Ralph Francis was somehow able to catch one of Black’s blazing fastballs
and hit it out of the park. That tied the score because CGW had previously
tagged Nagy for two runs, one in the fifth via a double by Clarence Brown and a
very long sacrifice fly by Kingman, and the other by a smash in the seventh by
Reggie Wright.
Both
pitchers buckled down after their gaffs and the game went into extra innings.
Both pitchers were replaced in the tenth but not without a standing ovation by
the crowd, for both pitchers. Billy Green came in for the Travelers and Sammy
Rojas came in for CGW. The relievers were superb but in the bottom of the 12th
Green threw a low 3-2 fastball to Wright who was waiting and he sent it out of
the park to win the game, 3-2, for CGW.
The Travelers will face Mountain View next week at home. The Explorers will not be sending their ace, Joe “Freight” Trane to the mound but their slugger, Bobby “Hammer” Taxen will be in the lineup. The game will start at 1:30 in the Travelers temporary home field.
NATIONAL NEWS
SEGREGATION OUTLAWED – IKE WANTS REPORT ON
DC SCHOOLS – SIBERIAN TIGER KILLED IN CHICAGO – PTT UNVEILS AUTO-DIAL FOR
PHONES – SANOFF PREDICTS 3D TV SOON – RECORD COMPANIES WANT 45 DISCS TO REPLACE
78s – AT THE MOVIES
The Supreme Court outlaws racial segregation in the public schools. The test was brought-on on behalf of Negro school kids in Kansas, South Carolina, Virginia and Delaware. Said Chief Justice Warren, “We conclude that in the field of public education, the doctrine of separate but equal has no place, this court ruled. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.”
President Eisenhower asks for progress reports on coming moves to end public school segregation in the District of Columbia, which some say could be a pilot model to guide other states and school districts.
President Eisenhower declares that America is “still proud of our armed services” from civilian chiefs on down to enlisted men.
High school boys and girls by the hundreds riot in the subway in the Bronx. The riots grew out of a field day for Commerce High at Van Cortland Park. Police said students from other high schools played hooky and converged on the park until there were some 2000 in all.
In Chicago – Siberian tigers escape from cages at the Brookfield Zoo and one was shot to death. Most visitors didn’t know the tigers were among them.
Technology – The Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Company unveils a device that automatically dials. Located at the company’s main hub, it is a forerunner of equipment that one day will permit a telephone user to dial any number direct and skip an operator. The device remembers seven numbers on each call, then looks for an open line and then makes a connection.
RCA head David Sarnoff predicts that three-dimension television and world-wide TV will be available within five years. He further predicted that 3-D television would require no glasses.
Record companies want to convert their DJ service to 45rpm discs instead of the old-style 78’s. But DJ’s want service in the 78 fashion. Why? Because their record collections are 78. Also, a lot of radio stations still can’t play 45rpm records, but that’s expected to change before the end of the year.
Capitol Records hits an all-time high sales mark of $17,740,000 for the past year. Much of it has to do with the renewed popularity of Frank Sinatra and artists such as Nat “King” Cole, Kay Starr and Ray Anthony. The label has a new act in the top-5 this week – The Four Knights
At the movies –
Executive Suite –
William Holden, June Allyson, Barbara Stanwyck, Fredric March
Flame and the Flesh –
Lana Turner
Beachhead – Tony Curtis
Witness to Murder –
Barbara Stanwyck
Paratrooper – Alan Ladd
The French Line (In
3-D) – Jane Russell
Night Parade – Gregory Peck,
Broderick Crawford
Knock On Wood – Danny Kaye
Many, many
thanks to www.mrpopculture.com for
contributing to this section of the East Farewell News.
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