EAST FAREWELL
NEWS
Thursday, May
12, 1955 Vol. C762
LOCAL
NEWS
SID LENDEL – EAST FAREWELL
FOUNDER – DIES AT 95
East Farewell- East
Farewell co-founder, Sid Lendel, died on Tuesday at the age of 95. “He
lived a long and wonderful life,” said his younger brother, Lou Lendel, “He
really tried to be good at everything he tried and most of the time he
succeeded.”
Besides his brother, Sid is survived
by his wife, Kathleen, three sons, Abe (Fiona), Ralph (Dora) and Charles (Deanna)
and one daughter, Jacqueline (Jack) along with 15 grandchildren and two
great-grandchildren. There will be a memorial service held on the Lakefront
Plaza on Sunday. The Lakefront
Plaza was the original overlook that Sid and Lou used to promote the new
town of East
Farewell back in 1902; of course there was no Plaza there at the time. “It
was one of Sid’s favorite places,” said Lou, “He would go down there and sit
for hours just enjoying the view, and after they built the Plaza, all the
people walking by. Later in his life he became quite the celebrity down there.
He would gladly tell anyone the entire history of East
Farewell, the good and the not so good, mostly the good, though.”
East
Farewell was incorporated July 13, 1902 by the Lendel brothers, Sid and
Lou. They were working for the Mighty
Keystone Railroad as surveyors and line planners. The railroad was trying to establish
passenger service along the main line across the state and connecting the East
Coast to the Midwest. The Lendel brothers
chose a site that ran along a pristine lake, later named Lake Charles after
Sid’s son. The railroad was looking for
a location that was approximately half way down the line to place an iron
foundry to produce rails for the lines expansion. The location was perfect for a small town
that would help the railroad and attract workers, businesses and well-heeled
railroad executives.
The Lendel brothers were visionary town
planners. They designed East Farewell with all the best
municipal facilities of the day. They
designed a complete water system as well as a full sanitary sewer system. They laid out a street grid system with wide streets
centered around the train station. Lake
Shore Drive circled Lake Charles and offered stunning views of the lake as well
as prime real estate locations. Main
Street intersected Lake Shore drive at the train station and proceeded south to
finally intersect with Route 30 the main east-west highway in the state.
Unfortunately, the Lendel brothers were better
planners than businessmen. They went
broke after investing a modest fortune in building East
Farewell. The railroad, however, did
extremely well and after building the Iron Works it bought out the Lendel
brothers and proceeded to expand the town.
Sid Lendel circa 1929
SPORTS
TRAVELERS CRACK AT CORNING
Corning – The Cougars suffered their first defeat last week when
ace hurler, Bill “Smoke” Black shutout the Travelers 3-0. The Travelers were
unable to get on track against the league’s leading pitcher. “Smoke” fired nine
scoreless innings and allowed only five hits sprinkled throughout. The
Travelers were expecting a tough game but they were surprised by the early
season perfection of Black. The game started as a pitching duel between Black
and Travelers ace, Danny Lane. The two pitched three perfect innings each and
it looked like a battle supreme was in the making but then the Devils came to
life in the fourth when Grant smashed a double and Howell followed with a loop
single sending Grant to third. Then CGW’s slugger Dennis Smith came to bat and
was able to connect with a 3-2 Lane fastball for a deep right field double,
driving in both Grant and Smith. Lane regained his composure and struck out the
side, but the damage was done. Black
continued perfect for another inning and then Johnny Cloos was able to smack a
clean double but was left stranded. CGW was able score again in the eighth and
the Cougars were only able to garner four more hits and no runs.
The Cougars come
home next week for their first night game ever. The Mountain View Explorers
with their ace, Joe “Freight” Trane come to town. The game will start at 7:30PM
and will show off the new lights, an addition added this year. The game will be
one of the highlights of the newly expanded Spring Fair that will be held over
all of next weekend.
NATIONAL NEWS
HOOVER
SAYS HE CAN SAVE LOTS OF DOUGH – AUSTRIANS GIVEN LIBERTY – ATOM BOMB BLOWN UP
UNDERWATER – MARCIANO KO’S COCKWELL IN 54 SECONDS
Former President Hoover (80) - who calls himself the government’s “old family doctor” – announces his commission on government reorganization will recommend steps to save taxpayers six billion dollars and return an additional 7 billion to the treasury. He predicted that in the next five years, at least 70% of his commission’s recommendations would be enacted into law.
At Vienna - The Big Four Foreign Ministers and Austrian Foreign Minister Leopold Figl signs a state treaty which will restore to 7 million Austrians their liberty, lost since Hitler’s Anschluss in 1938. Commenting on Big Four gathering - President Eisenhower declares he has spent months conferring with Soviet leaders and their foreign officials and he does not believe American citizens suspect their government will fall into any appeasement trap.
The Atomic Energy Commission and the Defense Department say a successful underwater atomic explosion has been conducted of the pacific Cast. The date and location of the blast were not given.
Rocky Marciano knocks-out Don Cockwell
of England in 54 seconds at Kezar Stadium In San Francisco.
Many, many
thanks to www.mrpopculture.com for
contributing to this section of the East Farewell News.
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