EAST
FAREWELL NEWS
Thursday, August
6, 1953 Vol. C243
LOCAL NEWS
EAST FAREWELL
CELEBRATES TRUCE
East Farewell – After three long years East Farewell gratefully
and somberly celebrated the signing of the truce in the Korean conflict last
week. Unlike the boisterous, street filling celebrations that marked the end of
WWII this was a more subdued reaction.
Flags were displayed on all buildings and houses and a parade has been
planned for Labor Day. There were some folks spontaneously marching in the
streets waving flags and singing but nothing like 1945. In general the feeling
was more one of quiet, mature relief the youthful exuberance. Make no mistake, there was great joy
throughout town and all were thankful that the boys serving would soon be home
but there was seemed to be a general weariness that prevailed on top of the
happiness.
East Farewell
sent a total of 25 young men to serve in Korea, seven have already returned.
Fourteen will be returning within the next few months. Four will never return.
All will have their names added to the Lakeshore Memorial by next year’s
Memorial Day.
East
Farewell War Memorial
SPORTS
STEELERS NOT UP TO TRAVELERS RIVETS
Youngstown – The Travelers made life miserable for the
Youngstown Steelers on Saturday by playing good old fashioned basic baseball.
Two Travelers, Cloos and Sweet, hit for the cycle, a first in Travelers history
and the team batted around in two different innings, another first. The
Travelers won handily 13-2. The Steelers were not in the game until the eighth
inning when Jerry Flowers pulled a two run homer into the left field stands.
This Steelers disaster was uncharacteristic for the Youngstown nine who had won
six straight before Saturday.
The Travelers
came into town early and got in some extra batting practice before the game. It
seemed to have some effect as they started off the first inning by scoring two
runs on three hits and a walk. The second inning they started the breakout,
batting around on pitcher Fred Williams scoring five and leaving two. Traveler’s pitcher, Joe Nagy, ploughed
through the Steelers not giving up a hit until the sixth inning and striking
out 10 overall. The Travelers went on to score in every inning except the
seventh and when Johnny Cloos hit his cycle completing homer in the eight even
the Steelers fans were applauding. Billy Sweet set a Travelers record by being
the second player in one game to hit for the cycle in the ninth. The Travelers
have certainly regained their momentum and are starting to look like the
defending league champs that they are. The Travelers take on the Erie Eagles on
Saturday at 1:00.
NATIONAL NEWS
EUROPEANS SEE MCCARTHY AS
HITLER OR STALIN – COMMIES HAVE H-BOMB – TAFT DIES – CHEVY ROLLS OUT CORVETTE
Just back from an overseas trip - Mrs.
Franklin D. Roosevelt says that Europeans look upon the investigative methods
of Senator McCarthy as symbolic of Hitler and Stalin. Everyone abroad, she said
was “soberly glad over the end of the Korean war.”
Soviet Premier Malenkov announces that
“the United States no longer has the monopoly of the hydrogen bomb” and the
Soviet Union has mastered production of that super weapon. American officials
have no doubt the Soviets have mastered the secret of the bomb, but doubt its
actual production.
Dies - Ohio Senator Robert Taft, who
guided the Republican Party for years at 63.
Chevrolet begins to roll out
plastic-bodied Corvettes. A few have been made as an attractive showpiece for
automobile displays around the country. A few thousand more have been promised.
The company says it could be many years before plastic autos become commonplace.
