EAST FAREWELL
NEWS
Thursday, November
18, 1954 Vol. C486
LOCAL
NEWS
ARMISTICE DAY HONORED IN EAST
FAREWELL
East Farewell – There was a ceremony held at the newly
refurbished War Memorial yesterday honoring all the veterans that fought for
the country. The High School Marching
Band played several numbers by the Memorial. Flowers were placed at the
memorial by grade school students from the second and third grades. A
list of the soldiers from town who gave the ultimate sacrifice was read by
Tom Connally, Town Council President, and there was a moment of silence
observed. The ceremony concluded with a twenty-one-gun salute and a moving solo
rendition of Taps by senior student bugler, Rory Tasker.
All
21 surviving Korean War vets as well as 39 WWII vets and 1 WWI vet were on hand
to take part in the ceremony. The four sons who never returned from the
Korean War were solemnly remembered: Frank Norris, Billy Doyle, David
Washington, and Ricky Reynolds had their names engraved on the Memorial and
their families were presented with special bouquets from the Town Council and
the all the people in town. The names of all of the fallen are immortalized in
the memorial and each Armistice Day they are honored by a grateful community.
Rory Tasker
plays Taps at Memorial
SPORTS
COUGARS WIN AS McKAY SHINES
East Farewell – Young Joe McKay was sterling in an exciting win on
Saturday, 24-21. The Cougars were able to win their last game of the season and
end their season with a respectable 5-3 season. This game was extra satisfying
because it was over their arch-rival, the Slate Mountain Miners. The rivalry
goes back to the twenties when both towns were just developing, and their
schools had just been established. The schools have played each other every
year since 1925 except for 1945. The record stands at close at 14 wins for the
Cougars and 13 for the Miners.
The game started
badly for the Cougars with a kickoff return by Miners, George Dingle. After
they kicked the extra point, the score was 7-0 and only two minutes had
elapsed. But the Cougars were not to be defeated in front of their hometown
crowd. They took the next kickoff and McKay drove the team down the field like
he had been playing for years. They
drove down to the Miner’s seven but were held there and Charlie Cox had to kick
a field goal. The drive set the tone for the Cougars, though, they continued to
play like a well-oiled machine and the game went back and forth between the two
teams. The half ended with the score 14-10 Miners. Scoring for the Cougars was
tight end Shamus McKean and both scores for the Miners were by Dingle. In the
second half both teams battled up and down the field, but the third quarter was
scoreless, not until halfway through the fourth quarter did the Miners score
again with a center plunge by fullback, Gerald Hines. Then, with only two
minutes left, McKay started a drive on his own 35 and with a brilliant display
of short passes, runs and a very impressive display of pose and grit he took
the team down to the Miner’s five. Then with what has to be one of the seasons
best plays called by Coach Burkowitz, McKay dropped back and looked over the
middle, looking for Walker crossing. Walker was covered but McKean was running
the same route but deeper in the end zone. McKay faked to Walker and then
tossed a floater to a wide-open McKean for the score. Cox kicked the extra
point as the game ended.
“Joey was just
terrific today, I was very proud of him as well as the rest of the team. They
just went out a played a great game, the best game of the season. It was very
exciting, and I just can’t say enough about that team and that young kid,
McKay,” said Burkowitz after the game.
Even though the
Cougars did not repeat as league champs this year they did better than most
people expected. They were able to win some very exciting games and their
losses were hard fought. Quarterback Sam Jones is expected to return next year
as a senior, but he may have some competition from the young but talented Joey
McKay.
NATIONAL NEWS
MENDES TALKS WITH IKE – DULLES WARNS COMMIE
CHINA - NAGUIB OUT IN EGYPT – RAMAR TO LEAD MACY PARADE – LIONEL BARRYMORE DIES
– ABC TO TAKE OVER DUMONT - MORE MAMBO – POP MUSIC THIS WEEK
French Premier Mendes arrives for talks with President Eisenhower, saying the whole free world “is making steady progress on the road to peace.”
Secretary of State Dulles gives Communist China a stern new warning that an attack on Formosa would mean hostilities with the United States.
Egypt’s governing revolutionary council deposes Maj. Gen. Mohamed Naguib as President and council chairman. It accused him of being implicated in a plot by the fanatic Muslim Brotherhood against the life of his rival, Premier Gamal Abdel Nasser.
First Lady Mamie Eisenhower made a quick trip to New York aboard the President’s new airplane on a shopping trip. She selected 12 new hats, fitted two ball gowns and examined some of the latest fashions.
Jimmy Carter regains his world’s lightweight championship, battering Paddy de Marco into a TKO after 14 seconds of the 15th round in San Francisco.
CONELRAD (Control of electromagnetic radiation) – a means by which AM radio stations broadcast civil defense information during a wartime alert without navigation aid to the enemy – is tested this week in the New York City area. Fifteen AM stations, twelve FM stations and all seven New York City TV stations went off the air during the three-hour test. All the AM stations came back, but broadcast the same programming either on 640 or 1240 Khz.
Entertainment news – Actor Jon Hall, who portrays Ramar in “Ramar of the Jungle”, will lead this year’s Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade. Don’t miss it!!
Art Carney of the Jackie Gleason show has a new Christmas record out called “Santa and the Doodle-Li-Boop” but no one knows what a “Doodle-Li-Boop” is. On Columbia Records.
Hollywood News – Passing - Lionel Barrymore – patriarch of the famed family of actors and himself a veteran of stage, radio, and movies. He was 76.
Hollywood said goodbye to Lionel Barrymore. Attending the funeral mass were names such as Jimmy Durante, Buster Keaton, James Stewart, George Cukor, Sam Zimbalist, Red Skelton and many others. Some sent regrets – David O’Selznick from New York, Dore Schary, ill and Louis B. Mayer in San Francisco for a checkup due to illness.
There are strong rumors that ABC-TV may be taking over ailing DuMont.
Radio
news –
Some radio programmers are getting irritated about all the movie title songs hitting the marketplace over the past year or so. The objection to the title songs is pegged that they’re considered a plug for the movies they’re part of. Resentment to title songs came to a head earlier this year with “The High And Mighty.” Many radio stations thought it was an outright plug for the movie. Other songs that stirred radio managers/programmers – “Three Coins In the Fountain,” Woman’s World,” “Song From The Barefoot Contessa” and “The Adventures of Hajji Baba.” Record companies are now taking notice and shipping songs with several titles. For example – “The Song From Desiree” - from 20th-Fox’s picture “Desiree” has an alternative title – “We Meet Again.”
Music news – Birdland, NY the famed jazz nite spot – preps another concert package for a three-week tour beginning in February. Featured in the tour are Sarah Vaughan, George Shearing, Count Basie, Erroll Garner and Lester Young. Tour will be tagged “Birdland Stars of 1955.” It all kicks off in Philadelphia on February 11 and moves into Carnegie Hall the following night.
More Mambo – Decca records signs Bebo Valdes – conductor, arranger and composer, known as “the Glenn Miller of Cuba. Decca was among the first record companies to seize on Mambo artists several years go with Sonny Burke’s “Mambo Jambo” package a few years ago.
She’s
on the hottest streak ever – Rosemary Clooney. Orders for her current singles
are coming in at 60,000 a day. She’s riding high with “This Ole House” back
with “Hey There” and another single – “Mambo Italiano.” Her etching of
“Sisters” and “Love, You Didn’t Do Right By Me” is beginning to sell.
Also, from the movie “White Christmas” – Columbia is releasing her version of “White Christmas” and “Count Your Blessings.”
Pop
music this week
I
Need You Know – Eddie Fisher
Mr.
Sandman – Chordettes
This
Ole House/Hey There – Rosemary Clooney
Papa
Loves Mambo – Perry Como
Teach
Me Tonight – DeCastro Sisters
Mambo
Italiano – Rosemary Clooney
If
I Give My Heart to You – Doris Day
Hold My Hand – Don Cornell
Many, many
thanks to www.mrpopculture.com for
contributing to this section of the East Farewell News.
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