7/1/1954

 

EAST FAREWELL NEWS

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Thursday, July 1, 1954   Vol. C470

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LOCAL NEWS

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AN OLD FASHIONED BARN RAISING – SORT OF

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East Farewell – Although East Farewell is an established and growing town, it is still very much a farming community. The Mighty Keystone Railroad may be the reason the town exists but farmers have plowed their fields for many years before the train came through. In keeping with the farming traditions a local barn raising is not an unfamiliar event. Local neighbor farmers and their families would gather together to help “raise a barn for one of their own. The event was well planned, well executed and usually well attended. Last week a slightly modified “barn-raising” took place on Lake Shore Drive. While not a barn per-se, neighbors gathered on the property of James Farrell to replace his stable and groomsman quarters. The unique part of this event was the stable was a “kit” purchased from Sears and Roebuck Co. Farrell purchased the entire building from the catalog. It was delivered to East Farewell Station in railcars, transferred to flatbed trucks and delivered to his address. Farrell managed 10 neighbors as he read the directions. He did not have any heavy equipment to help set the walls or roof. The foundation had already been poured so there was an outline of where the building was going to stand. Step by step the walls were raised and secured. The roof trusses were raised by a group of strapping young workers who found the operation very amusing. The package was delivered at 7:45 in the morning and by 7:45PM the building was standing with a roof on top. The building was approximately 30’ X 50’.

            “This is great! All my family and friends came together today and we were able to put this barn up in nothing flat. The kids that helped with the roof were amazing. I just followed the directions and everyone just plugged everything in and smacked all the pieces together. Voila! All I have to do now is hook in the electric and the sewer, I already put in the connections in the foundation so that just hooking things up. This is great!” exclaimed Farrell while surveying the finished product.

            Sears and Roebucks have been selling kits since 1908 and officially stopped in 1942 but the small barns and sheds stayed in the catalog because they were much smaller, easier to ship and much less expensive. Farrell said his whole kit cost about $500, and included precut lumber, shingles, doors and windows, hardwood floors, nails and screws, and an instruction book,  it was shipped by rail, and arrived in personal train cars sealed with wax seals.

James Farrell’s new barn and all his helpers

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 SPORTS

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TRAVELERS GROUND EAGLES

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Erie – The Erie Eagles have had a tough season so far. Both their starting pitchers have been sidelined since early in the season and their shortstop, Joe Bagley, who was a golden glove last year broke his wrist. They also have had a slew of minor injuries that have kept the players from excelling. The Travelers did not care. They came into town to play baseball and whatever team the Eagles put out there they were going to play them. Billy Green took the mound and made short work of the Eagle lineup. He was flawless for the first four innings but seemed to get a little tired in the later innings. He let up three runs in the sixth and two in the ninth but that did not matter because the Travelers offense was in high gear and was not going to let Green down. In the first inning the Travelers started off against Eagle rookie pitcher, Sammy Gelenti, welcoming him to the pros with three runs scored. A leadoff single by Francis portended Gelenti’s trouble. That was flowed by a double by Dale. Gelenti was able to get Watson to ground out but Johnny Cloos knocked his 28^th homer off Gelenti’s second pitch. It was the first home run given up by the rookie. The Travelers were able to strike in the first, the third, two runs, the sixth, two runs and a massive explosion in the top of the ninth for five runs that included back to back homers by Watson and Cloos (his second of the day). The Travelers came into town looking for a win and they got one. They looked like a championship team and hope they can keep their momentum going as they travel to Slate Mountain next week to meet their arch rivals, the Slate Mountain Miners. The game is an evening game in beautiful Slate Mountain Stadium. The game begins at 7:05.

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NATIONAL NEWS

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 CHURCHILL HAPPY WITH IKE MEETING – DISNEY TAKES A HELICOPTER TO WORK – FLANAGAN FINE FOR WALKING NUDE – NEW COLOR TV TUBE ANNOUNCED – BAD LUCK IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA – AT THE MOVIES

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Just returning from the United States, Prime Minister Winston Churchill says he had not “entirely” ironed out his foreign policy disputes with President Eisenhower, but emphasized “nothing comes before the true and lasting friendship between Britain and the United States.” He’ll meet with the British Cabinet right away to discuss his meetings with President Eisenhower. “We hoped to be judged not only by the immediate reception of our efforts, but also by their influence on the future course of events and, after all, nothing comes before the true and lasting friendship between Britain and the United States... But I can tell you I am sure that by trying our best in the United States to make good understandings and solid agreements possible between us we have not entirely failed, but it would be a mistake to think everything can happen all at once.”

Walt Disney begins to take a helicopter from his Burbank studios to the new site of Disneyland in Anaheim, CA - 31 miles away. He likes it so much that he has blueprinted a permanent helicopter terminal into construction plans. 

Bandleader Ralph Flanagan - one of the top moneymaking bandleaders last year - is arrested by police for strolling nude on the beach in New Jersey. The bobby-sox idol was fined $50 and ordered to stay out of Ventnor, N.J. He’s a former arranger for the late Glenn Miller’s orchestra.

CBS-Hytron - the electronic tube manufacturing division CBS announced that a new, large-sized color television tube has been developed and will be put into mass production. The new tube, known as the Colortron 205, is closest in size to the present 21-inch black-and-white TV tube, the most popular tube on the market.

Bad luck - Richard Keenan (44) of Southern California, standing by the railroad tracks with his wife thought it was a good idea to slap passing boxcars as they went by. Suddenly his hand or sleeve must have caught and he was pulled off his feet and under the train. Alive and badly mangled, he died a short time later.

At the movies -

King Richard and the Crusaders (in CinemaScope - Rex Harrison, Virginia Mayo, George Sanders, Laurence Harvey

Walt Disney’s Pinocchio

Garden Of Evil - Gary Cooper, Susan Hayward, Richard Widmark

The Gladiators - Victor Mature, Susan Hayward

3 Coins in the Fountain - Clifton Webb, Dorothy McGuire, Jean Peters, Louis Jordan

Johnny Dark - Tony Curtis, Piper Laurie, Don Taylor

Black Horse Canyon - Joel McCrea, Mari Blanchard

The High And The Mighty - John Wayne, Claire Trevor, Laraine Day, Robert Stack, Phil Harris

Alfred Hitchcock’s - Dial M For Murder - Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, Robert Cummings

Knock on Wood - Danny Kaye, Mai Zetterling

Princess of the Nile - Donna Paget, Jeffrey Hunter, Michael Rennie

Hell Below Zero - Alan Ladd, Joan Tetzel

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Many, many thanks to www.mrpopculture.com for contributing to this section of the East Farewell News.

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