EAST
FAREWELL NEWS
Thursday, June
23, 1955 Vol. C760
LOCAL NEWS
GOLF LINKS NOW
OPEN TO PUBLIC
East Farewell - The long anticipated opening of the world class
links built by GC developers open to much fanfare on Saturday. The course,
designed by legendary designer Robert Trent Jones with championship golfer
Bobby Jones, is built on the old Reese farm and covers over 100 acres. The
modern clubhouse opened to the public in early April and has been serving lunch
and dinners. The course itself is a municipal course, owned by the town of East
Farewell, which is somewhat against the grain of the normal trend for golf
courses across the country but the Town Council placed that provision in the
zoning agreement.
The course is not
extremely long, just over 7500 yards and there are 35 traps well situated
across the course. The greens vary in size but average 7000 square feet but the
subtle pin placement add to the character of the course. One of the true
beauties of the course is its landscaping. GC went to great expense to make the
experience very enjoyable for any level of player. The rough is even well manicured.
There is already a waiting list for premium tee times but no one is complaining
everyone seems to be extremely happy just to be able to play the course.
The opening was
delayed due to some finishing touches that took some extra time to install. One
was a water feature that diverted the stream on the property and created a
small lake on the ninth hole. The stream continues throughout the course and
eventually cascades into Lake Charles in a fabulous waterfall that can be
viewed from the 18th green and the clubhouse porch. The course is a
wonderful new addition to the town and will certainly add to the summer tourist
draw to the town.
18th
Green and Clubhouse
SPORTS
TRAVELERS FALL OFF MOUNTAIN
VEIW
Mountain View – The Travelers winning streak came to an end on
Saturday in Mountain View. They played a good game but fell short against the
league leading strike out ace, Joe “Freight” Trane, who pitched seven hitless
innings. They also fell victim to the one of the top homerun hitters in the
league, Bobby “Hammer” Taxen. While Trane was striking them out Taxen was
hitting them out of the park. He had two homeruns in the game. The Travelers
ended up losing 6 to 1. The only bright spot for the game for the Travelers was
when Johnny Cloos finally connected against Trane in the ninth and sent one out
of the park. That was the only score for the Travelers. When asked if the long
road trip was starting to take its toll on the Travelers losing pitcher, Joe
Nagy said, “I don’t think so, we just didn’t have it today. I know I wasn’t as
sharp as I should be but we just couldn’t hit against Freight Trane. He is very
good and was really on his game today. We’ll get them next time.”
The Travelers
are on the road again next week as they visit Youngstown. They finally return
home at the beginning of July and enjoy a six game home stand. Next week game
begins at 1:30 at Youngtown beautiful downtown stadium.
NATIONAL NEWS
MIGS SHOOT AT NAVY PLANE –
MOLOTOV APOLOGIZES – JOHNNY CARSON MAKES HIS TV DEBUT
The United States announces that a
slow-moving, lightly armed Navy patrol plane was fired on by two Russian MIG
jet fighters over international waters between Alaska and Siberia. The plane
crash-landed and burned on remote St. Lawrence Island. Seven of the 11
crewmembers were injured. Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov expressed regret for
the shooting down of an American naval plane in the Bering straits last
Wednesday and says Russia is willing to pay one-half the damages.
Johnny Carson begins his own show.
Catch it on CBS-TV Thursday nights. Johnny use to write for Red Skelton.
