EAST FAREWELL
NEWS
Thursday, August
11, 1955 Vol. C763
LOCAL
NEWS
BILLBOARD
PLACEMENT RAISES A RUCKUS
East Farewell – Frank’s Photos, the local photo and camera shop
run by photographer, Frank Sellers, put up a new, big billboard on top of his shop.
It has brought a great many comments and very few of them good. The sign sits
on top of his store but extends over fifteen feet in the air. Some have said it
is in violation of the height code in the town. Unfortunately, there has been a
little trouble finding the code on the books. At the most recent Town Council
meeting the issue was brought up and comments were allowed. For the most part
everyone felt the billboard did not fit in the character
of the town. It was too tall, it was too bright (it is lighted) and it was
lit too long at night (Frank stays open late on Fridays and Saturdays).
Sellers spoke
also. He defended his sign and added that his shop was right down the street
from the Lowe’s movie theater and their sign was just as tall. It was quickly
pointed out that the Lowe’s sign was on a building that was three stories high
and the sign barely passed the top of the building. He also pointed out that
the downtown area where his shop is located is very well lit almost every night
by shop windows, street lights and “accent spots” that highlight the area. He
said the sign certainly falls within the standards of the surrounding
businesses and cost him over $500.00 to build and hook up electrically. “If the
Town Council was so concerned about my advertising, they should have brought it
up before I spent over five hundred dollars on this thing,” said Sellers in
closing.
The council discussed
the situation and since there was apparently no code violation and there was a
precedent set by Lowes, they reluctantly allowed the sign to stay.
Franks Photo’s
new billboard
SPORTS
TRAVELERS GET RAINED OUT GAME - RESCHEDULED
AS DOUBLEHEADER AT END OF MONTH
East Farewell – The rain that has been pelting the East coast
has taken its toll on the Travelers schedule. The game with South Port last
Saturday was rained out. The game will be rescheduled as part of a double
header at the end of the month. The
rains were so heavy on Friday night and Saturday morning the game was cancelled
before it began an unusual event for the league. By game time the field was
almost completely under water. Some concern for the field was expressed but the
top groundskeeper, Joe Doyle, allayed any fears by explaining that the field
was built with the latest draining technologies and by the time the rain stops
it should be drained and ready to play on within two hours.
Next week’s
game against Mountain View and the great Joe “Freight” Trane starts at 1:30 at
the ball park.
NATIONAL NEWS
IKE CALLS FOR NEW CODE OF CONDUCT – FLOODING
IN THE NORTHEAST – DUMONT GOING DOWN – WINS SAYS NO TO COVERS – THIS WEEK IN
MUSIC
President Eisenhower proclaims a new code of conduct for America military men captured in future wars. It warns them to tell the enemy nothing but gives assurance of justice to those who break under torture. The code is an outgrowth of cruel Communist treatment of American prisoners in Korea.
Flooding in the Northeast has left over 143 dead. Hard hit was an area north of New York City (Putnam and Orange Counties), NE Pennsylvania plus Connecticut.
DuMont, the fourth network, who has curtailed its schedule drastically over the last few months – drops two more shows, which only leaves it one on the regular schedule. Say goodbye to “All About Baby” – a daytime program for moms and “Studio 57.” All that’s left is a weekly boxing program from the St Nicholas Arena. DuMont says that it will feed New York Giants football to about 16 stations.
WINS, New York says it has a new policy
- it will not air “cover” records and “copy’ records - defining the latter as
those records which copy often note-for-note - the arrangement and stylistic
phrasing of the singer. The new policy is announced by program director Bob
Smith. Smith has distributed copies of the policy to WINS deejays Jack Lacy,
Alan Freed, Bob and Ray, Brad Phillips, Stan Shaw and Peter
Roberts. The station also prepared a list of original records issued
within the past several months which have been followed by copy records: Story Untold – Nutmegs, Tweedle Dee - Lavern
Baker, Melody of Love - Billy Vaughan, Ko Ko Mo - Gene and Eunice, Earth Angel –
Penguins, Hearts of Stone - The Charms, Ain’t It A Shame? - Fats Domino, Maybelline
- Chuck Berry, Gum drops - Otis Williams, Man In a Raincoat - Pricilla Wright, Autumn
Leaves - Roger Williams, I Want You To Be My Baby – Lillian Briggs, Oh, What A
Dream - Ruth Brown
Pop music this week -
Rock Around the Clock - Bill Haley
& the Comets
Ain’t That A Shame - Pat Boone
Yellow Rose of Texas - Mitch Miller
Learnin’ the Blues - Frank Sinatra
A Blossom Fell - Nat King Cole
Seventeen - Boyd Bennett
Hard To Get - Gisele MacKensie
It’s a Sin to Tell a Lie - Something
Smith & The Redheads
Hummingbird - Les Paul & Mary Ford
House of the Blue Lights - Chuck Miller
Unchained Melody - Les Baxter
Maybellene - Chuck Berry
Yellow Rose of Texas - Johnny Desmond
Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White -
Perez Prado
I’ll Never Stop Loving You - Doris Day
Wake the Town And Tell The People - Les
Baxter
Domani - Julius La Rosa
Many, many
thanks to www.mrpopculture.com for
contributing to this section of the East Farewell News.
