EAST FAREWELL
NEWS
Thursday,
LOCAL
NEWS
RAILROAD TO TAKE ON HIGHWAY
COMMISSION
“The suit is
completely baseless,” says Highway Commissioner Harry Long, “of course we are
spending money on right-of-ways, how else would we acquire them? Steal them? It
is obviously a political smokescreen to slow construction and give the
railroads more time to charge exorbitant freight costs to every retailer in the
area.” The Highway Commission maintains
that no laws are being broken in the purchase or use of lands involved in the
highway project and had asked for a dismissal of all suits pending.
Hearings are
scheduled for the end of the month in East
Farewell. A local judge will be
hearing arguments for both sides. The Highway
Commission has already filed a grievance to the hearing saying that the three
week delay will severely impact the construction project and the project should
be allowed to continue while the hearings proceed.
Train arriving
at East Farewell
SPORTS
COUGARS STAY
ON TRACK- BEAT FORT LEE CAPTAINS 50-42
East Farewell- The Cougars handily won over the overmatched Fort Lee Captains on Tuesday, 50-42. Center, Michael Watson had a season high of 24 points and 18 rebounds. Other contributors to the rout were guards Timmy Green and Joey Welch with a combined total 22 points. The scoring was rounded out by Tim O’Hare with 2 and Billy Reilly with 2. The team held the Captains to only 12 points in the first half and was in control the whole game. The Captains leading scorer was Joey Wilson with 15 points.
“The boys were
on fire tonight,” said Coach Wilson after the game, “Watson was unstoppable and
our front court guys, Greeny and J.W. looked as good as Fitz and Joey W.,
Jimmy’s older brother, from the ’53 team.
They won the League Championship, you remember.”
The win kept
the Cougars on track to win the league. The season started off with three
strong wins and talk off a repeat of the 1952-53 League Championship
season. Then the losses to the Slate
Mountain Canaries and to a superior Riverview Wildcats rocked
the team’s confidence. The season
has been a bit of an up and down ride but most has been up lately with strong
wins over the Bears and the Wildcats. Only the Devils have been able to stop
the Cougars in the last seven games.
There are several members on this team who are
younger brothers of members of the ’52-53 team which may be why there has been
so many comparisons to that team. The backcourt combination of Joey Welch
(J.W.) and Timmy Green are younger brothers of the remarkable backcourt/forward
combo of Jimmy Welch and Gene Green from the 1952-53 championship team. This years team has shown as much, if not
more potential than that team and expectations for this year are high. The next game is against the Southport Hawks
on Tuesday at 4:45 in Southport.
NATIONAL NEWS
33RD NUKE SET OFF
IN
A nuclear explosion is set off in the
President Eisenhower presents a gold
medal to Irving Berlin in recognition for his song “God Bless
Big business - replacing burned-out
television picture tubes turned into an $80 million business last year. 20% of
the nearly 10 million picture tubes went to dealers for use as replacements.
How long does a picture tube last? It was originally estimated that the life of
a typical tube is 1,000 hours.
However, that estimate has proved to be a minimum rather than a maximum. With the increase in the number of stations and a greater choice of programs, it would be expected that in many areas of the country, TV sets are operating more hours than ever. This should mean in more business in tube replacement sales.
Music news -
Bob Thiele, in charge of pop artists for Coral Records, says the rhythm and blues beat is the best thing that’s happened to the music industry in years. “It’s good for the business because it sells records. And that’s what counts. He adds that too many industry people are rapping rock and roll because they don’t understand it. The same resistance to new sounds took place when jazz and swing first came to the musical forefront. Thiele says r & b records are creating a new excitement in the business that runs from the recording studio down to record stores. “Every new release is like New Year’s Eve.” More rock ‘n’ roll - WINS DJ Alan Freed is set for his second stage show – this one at the Brooklyn Paramount theatre. Already booked are Laverne Baker, the Moonglows, and The Penguins. It all happens April 8. You’ll hear more about on Freed’s 1010WINS rock ‘n’ roll radio program.
Meanwhile back in
Bill Haley & The Comets hit the 1 million sales mark for “Shake, Rattle And Roll” for Decca. The group’s latest release - “Mambo Rock” was launched with a 300,000-advance sale, one of the largest in Decca’s history. Interestingly “Shake Rattle and Roll” has been on the bestseller charts for 20 weeks without ever getting into the top 5.
Many, many
thanks to www.mrpopculture.com for
contributing to this section of the East Farewell News.
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