EAST FAREWELL
NEWS
Thursday, June 24,
1954 Vol. C469
LOCAL
NEWS
REGIONAL HIGH HOLDS GRADUATION
East Farewell – The
Regional High School held its 26th Graduation ceremony last
Friday and principle Sheers handed out 125 diplomas. This was the largest class
in the school’s history. Every year in the past seven years the graduating class
has grown and is expected to keep growing for several years. Increased
population in town is due to the growth of the
Iron Works and other businesses as well as the growing size of families in
town. The Mighty
Keystone Railroad also has had a contributing factor in the town’s growth.
It designated East
Farewell as a Destination Station in 1952 and that has contributed to an
influx of new home buyers seeking a more satisfying lifestyle.
The main
speaker at the ceremony was the esteemed and newly appointed president of the
Mighty Keystone Railroad, Milton Simms. Mr. Simms had worked his way up through
the MKR, starting in 1916 and was appointed president on March 31, 1954.
Although new to his position, he held a vast knowledge of MKR history and
legend. The main thread of his speech was the virtue of hard, diligent work and
it was interspersed with antidotes of his time at the railroad.
Several awards
were presented during the ceremony. The Most Favorite Cougar went to Clair
Dunmore. The Best Athlete went to Cougar football star, Johnny “Moose” Boyle
and the Local Business Award went to Daisy Winthrop. The valedictorian,
Clarence Winston, gave a speech recounting many memories of the class. The
class, as a whole, has been together for much of their educational journey and
hence had many shared experiences.
The Regional
High School Band played a musical interlude which was the final performance by
ten graduating seniors and the entire event was capped off by an orderly exit
followed by a massive, wild hat toss in the outside area that had been set up
for greeting the graduates. A hardy congratulation to the Class of 1954.
Regional High
Class of 1954
SPORTS
STEELERS RIVET TRAVELERS
Youngstown – The Steelers have been
on fire lately, winning six in a row and scoring more than three runs in each
game. They continued their blazing streak by riveting shut the Travelers 5-1 on
Saturday evening. Steeler’s pitcher, Johnson Murphy, was almost unhittable. He
gave up only four hits throughout the game. The only spark the Travelers had
was an eighth inning blast by Johnny Cloos, otherwise the hits were
inconsequential. The Steelers jumped on Travelers pitcher, Danny Lane early
scoring two in the second inning. They added to that with a run in the fourth
and two more in the seventh. Lane gave up eleven hits, eight walks and the
Travelers committed an unheard of three errors. It was not their best outing.
“We
had a very bad game out there today,” said Coach Fowler after the game, “We
couldn’t see the ball and Danny couldn’t find the plate and when he did they
smacked it. Yea, that was a tough one today.”
The
Travelers will try to get back on track when they head up to Erie to face the
Eagles next week. The Eagles are another good hitting team but they have had
some trouble with their pitching staff. Their two starters are sidelined with
injuries. The game will be an afternoon game beginning at 1:05 in Erie Stadium.
NATIONAL NEWS
CHURCHILL TO VISIT IKE – US WARNS RUSSIA TO
STAY OUT OF THIS HEMISPHERE – MENDES NEW FRENCH PREMIER – TRUMAN HAS SURGERY –
BOBO ROCKEFELLER GETS 6 MILLION IN DIVORCE – EXTORTION ATTEMPT FOILED – CAPITOL
RECORDS SHOWS OF PLANS FOR NEW HOME – RADIO STATIONS CONTEST RENT FEES
President Eisenhower announces that Sir Winston Churchill will come to Washington June 25 for an informal weekend visit, and says the visit to the White House was suggested by the British Prime Minister to combat reports of great rifts occurring between the two countries.
The United States delivers a warning to Russia to ‘stay out of this hemisphere.” Russia just vetoed a plan in the United Nations to refer Guatemala’s complaint against an anti-Communist invasion to the Organization of American States.
Pierre Mendes-France is voted into office as France’s new Premier.
Ex-President Harry Truman undergoes a successful operation for removal of his appendix and gall bladder and is doing fine.
Mrs. Barbara (Bobo) Rockefeller will receive $6 million in a divorce settlement with Winthrop Rockefeller.
Detectives in New York seize a man who allegedly attempted to extort $500 by threatening harm to TV and Radio actress Buff Cobb. The demand was made to her husband, Mike Wallace.
The construction of a multiple story office building to house Capitol Records home office is disclosed by president Glenn Wallichs. Building will be located at the corner of Vine and Yucca in Hollywood. Capitol Records is now scattered around town at the Sunset and Vince location, at the Palmer Building and at the Melrose Avenue Sound Studios. These will be concentrated in the one building which will boast the most modern recording equipment and facilities. Capitol plans to move into the new location by next summer.
All
seven New York City TV stations are taking their Empire State Building rent fees
to court. All seven renewed their lease until 1959 upon their April 30 expiration.
They had been paying a total rent of over $650,000 annually and it was agreed
at the time of renewal that a “fair rental value” for the new lease to be fixed
by negotiation or arbitration of signing. Stations claim their leases fall
under the state’s emergency business space rent control law, which provides a maximum
15% rent boost. Empire wants more and denies that the law applies to the
situation. Amount of rent paid by each station:
WABC-TV
- $90,000
WATV
- $85,000
WNBT
- $105,000
WPIX
– $80,000
WABD
– $102,000
WOR-TV
- $109,000
WCBS-TV - $85,000
The Copacabana wins an appeal in its action to block the use of the name on a line of cosmetics. The Restaurant-nitery appealed a judgment allowing the usage, saying that it spends upwards of $150,000 a year to publicize its name and that when the film, “Copacabana,” was made in 1948; it was paid for the use of its name. It also pointed out that a suit of Radio Corp. of American blocked Rayon Corp. of American from using the RCA label although the businesses were entirely different.
Sports
– Keeps heavyweight title - Some 47,585 see Rocky Marciano defeat Ezzard
Charles in a close fight at Yankee Stadium. Charles said he thought he had won
it.
Marciano
said, “It was my toughest fight.” Charles told reporters – “I never was in
danger of being knocked out and I thought I won.”
Plans for a September rematch are taking shape. Marciano will get $247,136.00 for beating Charles. Charles’ unofficial cut will be $123,568.00.
Many, many
thanks to www.mrpopculture.com for
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