EAST FAREWELL
NEWS
Thursday, September
23, 1954 Vol. C482
LOCAL
NEWS
RAILROAD TO BUILD SHORT LINES
East Farewell – The Mighty Keystone Railroad announced Monday
that they were planning to build two “short” lines from East Farewell to the neighboring
towns of Bear Creek and Riverview. These would add new rail traffic to both
towns and connect them with East Farewell for shipments of goods and supplies.
“This makes a lot of sense,” said Tom
Connally, Town Council president, “The more traffic we have the better. We
still have people delivering stuff on horse carts and pickup trucks, we need to
upgrade. This will also help with the booming tourist trade to has sprung up
lately.”
The two lines
would originate at the Main Station and branch off in basically opposite
directions, one going south to Bear Creek and one going north the Riverview.
The total length of new track will be 29 miles, 17 miles to Riverview and 12
miles to Bear Creek. Construction is proposed to start next spring.
“When we got
the ‘Destination Station’ title a lot more people started coming into town,”
said Mrs.
Mallard, local boarding house owner, “That was fine. Now we are getting all
the folks from Bear Creek and Riverview. They will be commuting to work in the
Iron Works. I guess that will be ok, I probably won’t see a big jump in room
rents. I still get all the summer traffic and people for the festivals and so
on. That’s fine for me.”
Train pulling into East Farewell station
SPORTS
COUGARS FOOTBALL STARTS SLOWLY
Slate Mountain – The 1954 Regional
High football season started last week with the Cougars visiting arch-rivals,
Slate Mountain Miners. The Cougars squad is a young squad with only 3 seniors. The
returning seniors are Jimmy O’Conner, halfback, Johnny “Moose” Boyle, fullback,
and defensive end Shamus McKean. The quarterback this year is Joe McKay, a
junior. He took over for the last two games of last year after Sam Jones got
hurt. Jones has since moved out of town and McKay has moved into the starting
position permanently. Al Burcowitz is the coach again this returning for his
ninth year.
The
game was played at Slate Mountain field and the weather was gorgeous. There was
an opening ceremony with the Slate Mountain Marching Band putting on a
tremendous show for a sold-out crowd. Many fans from Regional High made to trek
and both sides of the field were packed. The rivalry goes back to 1925 when
both towns were developing. They have grown into arch-rivals and the last time
they met was last year’s last game of the season with the Cougars winning 24-21
on a touchdown pass by McKay.
The Miners won
the toss and elected to receive. The Miners offense has many returning players
and were able to start where they left off last year. They were very
disciplined and methodical in their first drive. They took the ball right down
the field and senior quarterback, Jake Wisniski was able to complete a
quarterback draw for eight yards right up the middle for a score. The drive
took a very long eight and a half minutes. The Cougars offense was slow
starting on their first possession. They were able to get one first down with a
sweep by O’Conner, but they were forced to punt from their forty. The Miners
controlled the first half and went into the locker room with a 14-0 lead at the
half. Whatever was said in the locker room at halftime lit a fire under the
Cougars and they came out blazing in the second half. Davey Wilson took the
kick-off back to the Miners forty-five and on the first play from scrimmage
McKay launched a long bomb to a sprinting freshman, Mitch McMaster for a
touchdown as McMaster ran away from two defenders. Charlie Cox added the extra
point. The Cougar defense showed signs of improvement but were unable to stop
Wisniski and his running backs, Halter and Smith. Smith was able to score on a
two-yard plunge after a tough drive. But the Cougars offense was still in high
gear, and they scored again with Jimmy O’Conner breaking trough the center for
a ten-yard run into the end zone. The third quarter went back and forth with
the Miners scoring again to make the score 28-14. The fourth quarter was a grinding
deadlock as both teams’ defenses really tightened up. Finally, with only three
minutes left McKay hit McMaster on a post route and McMaster, who teammates
have been calling ‘Merc’ (short for Mercury), outran his defender again.
Unfortunately, it was too little too late and the horn sounded with the Miners
ahead, 28-21.
“This was a tough game, I feel if we had another few minutes we would have caught them, but we didn’t and they were better this time,” said Coach Burcowitz after the game, “They are a very good team, but we got better as the game went on. This is a young squad and we have to grow together. We will and I think this is going to be a fine season.”
NATIONAL NEWS
NIXON TALKS OF DISCREDITED TRUMANISIM –
FEDERAL BUDGET 4.7 BILLION IN THE RED – DISNEYLAND DEBUTING 10/27 – BUFFALO BOB
SMITH HAS HEART ATTACK – FREED THREATENED OVER ‘MOON-DOG HOUSE’ – POP MUSIC
THIS WEEK
Vice-President Nixon tells a crowd of Kansas Republicans that to return a Democratic Congress to Washington would mean a return of “discredited Trumanism.” “We are on the eve of an election that poses the alternative of continuing President Eisenhower’s program of integrity, firmness and moderation or admittedly restoring a program of discredited Trumanism,” said Nixon.
Top administration experts take a second look at the 1955 Federal budget and estimate a deficit of $4.7 billion as a result of reduced tax revenue. That’s more than twice the amount President Eisenhower estimated back in January.
A 35-man crew moves into the Great Smokey Mountains to prepare for shooting on the three Davy Crockett films being produced by Walt Disney for his ABC-TV series “Disneyland” debuting October 27. Shooting on the first of the trilogy, which will be presented under the “Frontierland” segment of the show (first airing December 8) begins next week and will wind-up October 18 in Nashville. Disney is budgeting the trio at $500,000.
Buffalo Bob Smith is out of circulation following a heart attack. There’s talk of Paul Tripp doing some of the fill-in on “Hoody Doody.”
Alan Freed, who just began doing his Rock ‘n’ Roll show on WINS, New York, is threatened by his old station – WJW, Cleveland. Seems they don’t want him using the copyrighted title of “Moon-Dog House.” WJW still owns property rights to the trademark name.
Pop
music this week
Sh-Boom
– Crew Cuts
Hey
There – Rosemary Clooney
Little
Shoemaker – The Gaylords
Skokiaan
– Ralph Marterie
This
Ole House – Rosemary Clooney
In
The Chapel in the Moonlight – Kitty Kalen
Skokiaan
– Four Lads
I
Need You Now – Eddie Fisher
High and the Mighty - Victor Young
Many, many
thanks to www.mrpopculture.com for
contributing to this section of the East Farewell News.
