EAST FAREWELL NEWS
Thursday, August
27, 1953 Vol. C246
LOCAL
NEWS
BAR-B-QUE COOKOFF TAKES CENTER
STAGE
East Farewell- The seemingly never-ending heat wave did not
stifle the competitive grillers on Lakefront
Plaza last week as 25 intrepid cooks basted, smoked and grilled their
hearts out in the first ever East
Farewell Grill-off. The idea came from the Business Council and most of the
town’s restaurants and bars took part as sponsors or suppliers. The judging was
done by local celebrities and officials including Travelers slugger, Johnny
Cloos and star pitcher Joe Nagy. Local bandleader Jerry Tabor and City Council
President Tom Conally rounded out the judging team.
“It’s a tough
job, but someone has to do it,” joked Conally as he dove into a rack of steaming,
dark caramel colored ribs prepared by local Fran Green.
Green went on to be crowned the
winner of the Grill-off with her bar-b-que ribs. All the judges tasted every
entrée and unanimously chose Green’s ribs but second and third places were
divided. The Travelers; Cloos and Nagy
were partial to Don Brown’s hot and spicy chicken wings while Tabor leaned
toward band member Isaac Benjamin’s bar-b-que brisket. Conally chose a second
rib dish offered by Jack Dwyer, apparently Tom loves those ribs. Third place was all spread out, Cloos chose
Dwyer’s ribs, Nagy went off track and chose a blacken fish dish served up by
local artist Angela Boyle, Tabor chose a second, novel chicken dish, a full
chicken grilled on a beer can, provocatively named “Beer-Butt Chicken”
presented by local Korean War hero, Bernie Quinn.
In spite of the ninety plus heat the
grillers set up on the Lakefront Plaza in the early morning and started their
respective grills. Some contestants used wood as a fuel and some relied on
charcoal to fire up their infernos. By noon the air was thick with sweet
smelling smoke and an occasional flare up could be seen coming from the
grills. During the event the judges
visited each station and chatted with the contestants. Many spectators came and
went throughout the day, most came to get signatures from Cloos, Nagy and Tabor.
Surprisingly, no one asked for Conally’s signature.
All the contestants received a
recognition banner and some were approached by the local restaurants seeking
their recipes. Perhaps everyone will be able to sample some of the tasty
concoctions from East Farewell.
Fran Green and
Bernie Quinn at the B-B-Q
SPORTS
TRAVELERS COME BACK TO LIFE
East
Farewell-The Travelers showed a new spark of life on Saturday when they topped
the Ondita Cougars, 6-4. The late afternoon start saved both teams from the
midday heat when the temperatures reached 93° with 78% humidity. The
temperature at game time was 84°. Travelers’ stars, Johnny Cloos and Joe Nagy
arrived right before the National Anthem due to their attendance to the
Grill-off on Lakefront Plaza. All the
eating and fun seemed to relax the two as Nagy took the mound and pitched three
no hit innings right off and Cloos hit his first pitch out of the park. Perhaps
that type of pregame warm-up should be embraced by the rest of the team. After
his dinger, Cloos went to hit a two run double in the seventh and another
single in the eighth boosting his average to a league leading .344
The Cougars did get into the game in
the fourth with back to back doubles by Greene and Franks, scoring one. The
game was tied in the fifth, 1-1 as the bottom of the Travelers order, Tony
Dimero, Art Archibald and Joey C. Brown and pinch hitter, “Big Bob” Tillman were
able to put together a three run drive that put the Cougars back on their heels. The Cougars were able to get one back in the
seventh and one in the eighth but Booby Watson was able to put the game on ice
with a score in the bottom of the eighth off Cloos’ single.
The Travelers go back on the road
next week as they travel to Bedford to meet the Eagles and they will play a
double header away from home on Labor Day against Corning and their ace, Bill
“Smoke” Black.
NATIONAL NEWS
GOVERNMENT DEFICT ALMOST 4 BILLION – WEST GERMANS & COMMIES CLASH – ROCKET PLANE HITS NEW HEIGHT – MORE SMOKERS LITE UP
The government collected a record-setting $69,687,000,000 from the public last fiscal year – 7.2% higher than the previous year. A new budget is revealed for fiscal year 1954: the government will spend $72,100,000,000 and have net receipts of $68,300,000,000, winding up with a deficit of $3.8 billion.
The West German government charges that armed Communist terrorists are filtering in from the east to wage a terror campaign against this week’s election by wrecking polling booths and assassinating political leaders. West Germany’s police force went into action to smash the mass invasion of Communist saboteurs swarming in from the Soviet zone to wreak the crucial Parliamentary elections. Nearly 2000 Red shock troops were caught trying to sneak across the zonal border under orders to foment election riots and the Ruhr and other key industrial areas. Border police were placed on an alarm basis.
A new world altitude record of 83,235 feet is set by Lt. Col. Marion E. Carl Marine Corps ace, in a rocket plane. That’s almost 16 miles high.
Cigarette
users consumed some 397 billion cigs last year – up 3-½
% from the previous year.
Many, many
thanks to www.mrpopculture.com for
contributing to this section of the East Farewell News.
