EAST
FAREWELL NEWS
Thursday, May 5,
1955 Vol. 761
LOCAL NEWS
BUILDING BOOM HITS
EAST FAREWELL
East Farewell – The secret is out. Perhaps the two consecutive
honors from the Mighty Keystone Railroad as a Destination Station are to blame
or maybe it was the new jobs offered by the Iron Works. Whatever it was it
seems everyone in flocking to East Farewell. “It seems like there is a gold
rush or something,” commented Natalie
Mallard, local resident and singer, “People are showing up, buying lots
by the lake and building. It is just crazy all the activity. I love it.”
Indeed,
building permits have flooded the Town Registrar and have tripled since last
year. Most are for land that is close to or on the lake and vary in size from the
smallest, ½ acre, to lots consisting of several acres. The Lakefront lot
size has been capped by the Town Council to 1 acre to maximize the
distribution. There have been accounts of people trying to bundle lots by two
different buyers buying two adjacent lots and then trying to combine them. The
Council is looking into that type action and is going to rule on the
permissibility of that action within the next two weeks. New lots are being developed almost as soon
as settlement is reached, in some cases the building has started the same day
as the settlement.
While most of
the activity is taking place around the lake, downtown has enjoyed a boom of
its own. New shops have opened all along Lake Shore Drive and Main Street. The
new Transit System has extended the reach of the shopping district and
buildings that have been vacant for a long time are being rehabilitated and
reopened. The Main Street Stroll this year will include almost seven blocks, a
huge change from the two blocks when it was initiated in 1952.
Looking
out from a new Lakefront home
SPORTS
TRAVELERS VISIT TO BEAR CREEK
Bear Creek – The Travelers took their show on the road early in
the season as they visited Bear Creek for the Cubs home opener. The Cubs sold
out their park for the opener and have been substantially upgraded in the
off-season but they could not match the sheer power of the Travelers offense.
The Travelers prevailed in a close game, 6-5.
The Cubs
acquired a couple of top notch players from the Carolina League, Jimmy Doyle
and Ernie Wilkins and a very exciting rookie, Ned Raft, from State College.
They are expected to make a run at the championship this year and they have
strong offense and stringent defense but the Travelers were just too strong and
too deep in this game.
The Cubs struck
first with a two run double by Wilkins in the second but the Travelers answered
in the Third with a three run smash by Cloos. Starting pitchers, Danny Lane for
the Travelers and Clyde Grover for the Cubs were a little shaky at the start
but got into a groove after the third and threw respectable games but the early
season stiffness showed on both sides. In the sixth the Cubs tacked on two more
with a triple by Peters and the first ever professional homer by rookie, Raft.
The crowd was delighted. The Travelers jumped back into the lead with a three
singles by Brown, Sweet and Archibald and a bases clearing triple by Francis.
The Cubs came up with one in the ninth but it was too little too late and the
Travelers ended the game with a double play, Archibald to Dunham to Watson for
the game.
The Travelers
stay on the road for the next three weeks. Next week they meet Corning with the
great Bill “Smoke” Black pitching. The game begins at 1:00 in Corning.
NATIONAL NEWS
PREDICTIONS FOR 1975 – COMMIES
THINK THEY HAVE AN MARTIAN – TOP MUSIC THIS WEEK
Some predictions by the year 1975 - as
told to the businessmen in the Washington DC area by the executive VP of the
Chamber of Commerce – Arch Booth: You’ll be able to fly from Washington DC to
Paris in less than three hours ... Your family car will be nuclear-powered and
will be equipped with electronic devices that will see traffic conditions ahead
plus “a brain” that will park the car for you ... For you ladies in the
kitchen, you’ll never have to wash another dish or clean clothes - ultrasonic
waves will do it for you. A twist of the dial and your clothes will
automatically be pressed. Enter a
darkened room; wave your hand before a light control panel and suddenly the
room will fill with light! Another wave emits colors of fluorescent tubes to
blend or contrast with furniture or decorations. Automatic eyes will close
windows and doors as the weather changes. Those same eyes will be able to
control temperatures throughout the house.
E. Krinov, goes on Soviet radio to
allay Russian fear that a Martian space ship had landed. Krinov, secretary of
the meteorite committee of the Soviet Academy of Science told his radio
audience that the Martian space ship was really a meteorite. The excitement was
set off by a popular Soviet science magazine.
Pop music this week - “Dance With Me Henry”
- Georgia Gibbs, “Cherry Pink And Apple
Blossom” -Perez Prado, “The Crazy Otto” - Johnny Maddox, “Unchained Melody” - Les Baxter, “The Ballad Of Davy Crocket” - Fess Parker, “Play Me
Hearts And Flowers” - Johnny Desmond, “The Breeze And I” – Caterina Valente,
“Darling Je Vous Aime Beaucoup” - Nat King Cole.
