EAST FAREWELL
NEWS
Thursday, June 18,
1959 Vol. C729
LOCAL
NEWS
LAUNDROMAT WITH A TWIST
East
Farewell – The summer season is ramping up in East Farewell and with a lot of
visitors renting cottages and rooms there is a growing amount of laundry to be
done because many summer rentals do not have washers or dryers. While some
boarding houses have a laundry room many do not. “I put a laundry in the
basement several years ago and I think my roomers all say they appreciate it.
Still I think the new laundromat is a great idea,” said Mrs. Mallard,
who runs a boarding house on Lake Shore Drive.
Kevin Dresher had an entrepreneurial
idea last year after he had moved to East Farewell for a job opportunity. It
seems Dresher had rented a room in a boarding house that did offer laundry
service and he was forced to travel to Slate Mountain to find a laundromat to
do his laundry. He decided that East Farewell need its own laundromat and he
set about building one. He was able to secure an empty storefront a block off
Lake Shore Drive and set up seven coin operated washers and seven electric
dryers. Dresher was working for Cranberry Vending as a mechanic and owner, Lou
Vanzetti, helped him out with a startup loan. The “Clean as a Whistle” opened
the weekend before Memorial Day and has been open seven days a week ever since.
Dresher is also a musician and has played in town at several different
establishments. He has since quit his job, with Vanzetti’s blessing, at
Cranberry to concentrate on the “Whistle” and sometime in June when he was
working the night shift at the Whistle he brought his guitar in and started
playing to pass the time. It seems the laundromat has a somewhat captive
audience and they took to Dresher’s playing. The word spread through town and
people started showing up to listen to Dresher without having any laundry to
do. Dresher sensed and opportunity and invited other musicians to join him and
soon was setting up a schedule of local performers
and drawing a bona-fide audience.
Now that the summer crowds are
starting to grow Dresher has started to post notices around town with schedule
of performers at “The Whistle” People are showing up without laundry just to
catch the different acts. People who are there to do their laundry are getting some
pleasant relief from the boring task and have something more interesting to do
than watch the dryer spin. It turns out that the dreaded laundry day has turned
into an exciting social event where you can listen to music, meet people and
get your clothes clean all at the same time. What an
interesting time to be alive.
Clean as a Whistle
Laundromat
SPORTS
TRAVELERS COME HOME AND QUIET
“HOWLIN’” FRANK
East
Farewell – The Travelers finally got to play a home game last week and they showed
the fans that they were glad to be back by keeping the Bears ace “Howlin’”
Frank Fowler pretty quiet and wining a much needed game, 5-2. It was evident
from the start that the Travelers were comfortable playing on their home field
as they opened up with a very quick first inning that had one strike out and
one double play. Fowler started off strong by striking out two in the first but
he was only able to let out his trademark howl in the first inning. It seemed
as if the Travelers were able to read his pitches after the first inning and
they were able to have at least one baserunner in every other inning except for
the sixth and seventh.
The Travelers were able to score in
the fifth when Dale and Watson singled back to back and then Johnny Cloos unleashed one of his trademark slams leaving Fowler silent and frustrated. The
next inning Fowler struck out the side but refrained from his howl. The Bears
answered back in the seventh with a two run blast their slugger, Al Rodgers but
that was all pitcher Danny Lane gave up all evening. The Travelers were able to
put the finishing touches on the eighth with two runs by Billy Sweet and Ralph
Francis scoring on a double by Dunham. The Bears were unable to capitalize on
ninth inning flurry and left two men on as Lane struck out Deluca to finish off
the side and the game.
The Travelers stay at home next week
when they host CGW (Corning Glass Works) at 1:30 in the Travelers stadium. CGW
is sending their ace, Bill “Smoke” Black, with his infamous fastball. The
Travelers have been able to slow Black down in the past but he is currently
holding a three game winning streak and is the leading the league in
strikeouts.
NATIONAL NEWS
SECRETARY HERTER SAYS RUSSIA WANTS WEST
BERLIN – FLORIDA JUDGE GIVES LIFE SENTENCE TO FOUR YOUTHS – HOFFA CALLS KENNEDY
AFRAID TO DEBATE – IKE INSPECT SPUTNIKS IN NY
Secretary
of State Herter returns to Washington and reports that what Russia really
wants is to pull West Berlin into the Iron Curtain and extend Red influence
over all Germany..
A
southern judge (Tallahassee) hands out life sentences to four white
youths convicted of raping a Negro coed. Sentencing came seven weeks after
the crime…
James
R Hoffa charges that Senator John F. Kennedy was “afraid” to debate
labor reform legislation with him on national radio and television.
Kennedy says that it is obvious that he could not enter into a public debate
“with every individual like Mr. Hoffa, who has consistently misused the
American labor movement for his own selfish and improper ends”
Soviet
exhibition in New York is attended by President Eisenhower and a number of
Soviet officials. On display were models of Sputniks which the President
inspected. The turn-out turned-out to be a melee of sorts with about 400
reporters and as many policemen. The display was at the New York Coliseum.
