EAST FAREWELL
NEWS
Thursday, December
20, 1951 Vol. C341
LOCAL
NEWS
LOOKS LIKE A WHITE CHRISTMAS FOR EAST
FAREWELL
East
Farewell – Several inches of snow dropped on East Farewell
over the weekend and more is forecast later in the week. That will most
certainly insure the town will celebrate a white Christmas much the the delight
of many in town and almost every child in town. The total precipitation has
only been three inches so far and that is a very manageable amount for the
town. The streets and sidewalks were cleared quickly and most of the local
driveways have been cleared by enterprising youths. The beautiful lights strung
across Main Street and Lakeshore Drive enhances the nighttime beauty and draws
many people out to stroll through the center of town after dark. The
temperatures have been cooperative by hovering around the freezing mark and a
little above. Duffy’s restaurant has decided to stay open later to accommodate
late evening diners. The Lakefront Plaza has also taken on a wonderful
gathering place scene with benches, tables and fire rings placed around the
plaza. Several small stalls have been erected and enterprising young
entrepreneurs have been serving hot chocolate, coffee and hot cider to folks
who have ended their evening strolls there. The view of Lake
Charles is especially beautiful at this time of year.
Fun on Main Street
SPORTS
DEVILS CURSE COUGARS
Corning – Last year’s champions, the Corning
Devils, picked up where they left off last season by winning their first two
games of the new season. The Cougars went into Corning with high expectations.
They had won a hard fought game against a strong foe, the Central Bears, but
they were only starting to play together as a team. The Corning Devils, on the
other hand, had just come off a very lop-sided win against a much weaker
Riverview Wildcats team and had a season championship team returning for a
potential repeat trophy.
The
Devils came out strong scoring the first ten points before the Cougars could
get on the board. Cougar’s forwards, Franny Warner and David O’Shea, had
difficulty finding their rhythm and it took until the end of the second quarter
for them to get in sync. The backcourt, Teddy Fitzgerald and Jimmy Welch, also
had trouble and committed three turnovers in the first quarter. They did make substantial
improvements in their ball control in the second quarter. One saving grace for
the Cougars was that the Devils shot horribly, only making seven of their 23
shots. The Cougars defense kept them in the game in the first half. The half
ended with the Devils on top, 14-8.
The
second half was quite different. The Devils came out to face a new Cougars
defense, a very tight man-to-man that took advantage of Warner and O’Shea’s
greater speed than their Devil counterparts and also let Fitzgerald and Welch
roam and disrupt. Center, Bill Donahue was a highlight in the second half using
a newly developed hook shot to score a team high 10 points with an almost
dance-like movement. He was able to bring the Cougars within two point’s
mid-way through the third quarter. The Devils took a time out at the beginning
of the fourth quarter and came back with a double team on Donahue and were able
to stifle the other Cougar offensive tools and went on a 10- 2 run and closed
out the game with a commanding 32-20 score.
The Cougars return home next week to face the Riverview Wildcats and will hopefully be able to learn from this loss. The game will be a Friday evening game beginning at 7:00PM in the Regional High Gymnasium.
NATIONAL NEWS
TRUMAN LAYS DOWN THE LAW – NEW PEACE
PROPOSAL BY ALLIES – CHURCHILL & EDEN IN PARIS – JOE KENNEDY WANTS US TO
COME HOME – 4 MINERS DEAD IN ILLINOIS -
EBONY CELEBRATES “LYDIA BAILEY” – AT THE MOVIES
President Truman swings into his clean-up campaign and lays down this rule for Federal employees: No gifts from people doing business with the government.
Allied staff officers offer to surrender to the Communists all allied-held islands off the Korean coast north of the 28th parallel in hopes of finding a “road to solution” of problems blocking a quick truce.
Prime Minister Churchill and Foreign Secretary Eden arrive in Paris from London for a two-day visit which most Europeans believe is a mission to obtain French support of an omnibus proposition which Churchill will submit to Washington January 3.
Joseph P. Kennedy, former U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain, says that the administration’s foreign policy has led the nation to a point where a “pistol shot” anywhere in the western world could touch of war. Kennedy called upon the United States to sever far-flung military commitments and think first of its own welfare instead of “scattering our dollars and our troops throughout Europe.”
Four miners are known dead and 100 others are trapped in a fire and explosion in the world’s largest coal shaft mine at West Frankfort, Illinois.
Ebony Magazine, a Negro publication gives 20th-Fox kudos for its production of “Lydia Bailey,” which the magazine’s January issue says glorifies Negro history for the first time in a major Hollywood film. Ebony also points to one of the movie’s stars – William Marshall, “whose film debut was so convincing that 20th wasted no time in signing him to a seven-year contract.”
At
the movies –
I Want You – Dana Andrews,
Dorothy McGuire, Farley Granger, Peggy Dow
Death of a Salesman –
Fredric March
Dark Victory – Bette Davis
The Maltese Falcon –
Humphrey Bogart
Across The Wide Missouri –
Clark Gable
Here Comes The Groom –
Bing Crosby, Jane Wyman
The Desert Fox – James Mason
Many, many
thanks to www.mrpopculture.com for
contributing to this section of the East Farewell News.
