EAST FAREWELL
NEWS
Thursday, May
31, 1956 Vol. C570
LOCAL
NEWS
SHIPPENSPORT CONFESSES -
ROMANDO GONE
East Farewell – Monica
Shippensport has confessed to taking the Flower
Show budget estimated to be $3,000.00. Her partner, Romando,
(strangely, only one name) is still missing. Miss
Shippensport it seems was the unwitting accomplice of an elaborate scam
that involved a whirlwind romance, a naïve young woman, lots of money, a
scoundrel and a broken heart that ended with the scammed holding the bag and in
jail.
It all started
last year around Thanksgiving when Miss
Shippensport first met Romando.
She said she met him in the Lost
Oasis Bar after she got off work. Romando
presented himself as a South American horticultural expert and started talking
with Shippensport.
She mentioned she was involved with the annual flower show, then he started
making small talk. One thing led to another and the next thing Miss
Shippensport knew she was being escorted around town by an elusive but very
handsome foreign stranger. They became quite an item and were seen celebrating
New Year’s Eve together at a local party. Miss
Shippensport is said to have confided with a friend that she was hoping
that the relationship would go further. Well, it certainly went further, on or
around January 2nd Romando
presented Miss
Shippensport with a proposal. Not the proposal she was hoping for though,
he said that with his experience and her budget they could put on the most
fabulous Flower
Show ever. All she had to do was give him the entire budget and so he could
purchase some exotic South American flowers. Then she could go back to the Town
Council and ask for more money to put on the show. Miss
Shippensport, smitten by Romando,
let her heart block her good judgment and handed over the cash to Romando
in late January. She was able to postpone meetings of the committee because of
the bad weather at the time so no one was able to question her actions until late
February. When confronted with the fund dispersal, she explained the Romando
was only going to use a small amount and he had promised to return the rest.
It was in early
April when Miss
Shippensport went to Romando’s
apartment and found it empty. Frantic, she started to look for him in all their
usual places but to no avail. Thinking something nefarious had happened to him
she went to the police. The police mounted a short search for him but soon
realized the true nature of the crime. Bulletins were sent to surrounding towns
and major cities in the area but they were not expecting to find Romando.
“He is long gone, I bet he has left the country. If he was really from South
America, I bet he is back there living high on the hog with our money,” said police
chief, Ed O’Malley.
Unfortunately
for Miss
Shippensport, she is under arrest for taking the money and will have to
stay in jail until her hearing because she cannot raise the bail of $300.00.
She is understandably upset and says her heart is broken and her pride has been
severely damaged. Her hearing is scheduled for later this week. She has
profusely apologized for her actions and has said she will accept what ever
consequences that are handed down to her.
Last known photo
of Romando
SPORTS
TRAVELERS WIN GREAT GAME
East Farewell – The Travelers won one of the best played games,
if not the best game, of the early season. The red hot Travelers (13-3) faced
an equally incendiary Mountain View Explorers (12-4). Both teams had been
enjoying winning streaks and both were playing top notch baseball. The leading
hitters in the league were going against the two best pitchers in the league.
Something had to give. The pitchers were the ones who took control. It wasn’t
until the fourth inning that either team mounted any offense and it was not
until the fifth that any runs were scored. Both pitchers, Joe Nagy for the
Travelers and Joe ‘Freight’ Trane for the Explorers, were sharp from the start
and kept up the pressure till the end. Only a few let downs for each let the
power of the best hitters in the league show their stuff. Explorer’s biggest
bat, Bobby ‘Hammer’ Taxen smashed a Nagy fastball out of the park in the fourth
and Traveler’s Johnny Cloos clobbered a Trane curve for a two run homer in the
sixth. That was the difference in the game. The Travelers prevailed 2-1 with
Trane throwing a four hitter and Nagy throwing a three hit gem. With this win
the Travelers are in sole possession of first place in the league.
Next week the
Travelers go on the road to Corning where they play CGW for the first time this
season. The game begins at 3:30 in Corning.
NATIONAL NEWS
IKE READY TO CAMPAIGN – KHRUSHCHEV DENOUNCES
STALIN – DEAD SEA SCROLLS DECIPHERED – BUS SEGREGATION IN ALABAMA
UNCONSTITUTIONAL
President Eisenhower displayed a touch of campaign fever when he told a national conference of Citizens for Eisenhower that he will campaign for a second term “as cheerfully, as energetically, as enthusiastically as it is possible for me to do.”
Communist party Boss Nikita Khrushchev denounced Stalin as a mass murderer who was plotting the complete liquidation of his old Politburo colleagues. Stalin was accused of planning to wipe out former Foreign Minister Molotov and Politburo member A.J. Mikoyan among others. Stalin’s death on March 5, 1953 was attributed to natural causes.
Two more Dead Sea scrolls have been deciphered and revealed clues to a legendary buried treasure worth countless millions instead of dealing with Biblical subjects. The scrolls were found beside the Dead Sea in 1952. If the treasure exists, it includes 200 tons of gold and silver.
In Alabama a three-judge panel in
federal court ruled that racial segregation on city buses in Montgomery violated
the Federal Constitution. But the court took no immediate action to issue an
injunction against enforcement of city and State segregation laws. That will
come later.
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