EAST FAREWELL
NEWS
Thursday, November
8, 1956 Vol. C593
LOCAL
NEWS
BAXTER THE DOG SAVES THE DAY
East Farewell – It is not too unusual to see bears in the woods
outside town and occasionally they have wandered into town. There have never
been any accounts of them attacking humans and the most mischievous behavior
they have been guilty of is raiding the garbage cans of folks on the out edges
of town. Last August a black bear
wandered close to the public beach but it seemed more interested in cooling off
and catching a fish for dinner than bothering anyone and wandered off after
about fifteen minutes. Things became interesting on Tuesday when a black bear
and her cubs ended up behind Mrs. Mallard’s boarding house foraging for food.
Normally a call to the police would brought enough attention to the scene to
drive the intruders away, but one of Mrs. Mallards boarders, Kimberly Kane, and
her toddler son, Jake, were in the back yard. The mother bear and the human
mother were head to head in a protective standoff. Jake was moving close to the
cubs and the mother bear started to move towards Jake. Mrs. Kane was terrified and started to
scream. The bear stood up but before it could do anything Baxter a terrier from
next door jumped the fence and started snarling and barking at the mother bear.
Baxter was ferocious. He would not let the mother bear get close to Jake or
Mrs. Clark. The bear was at least five times the size of Baxter but she
apparently did not realize the size inequity. She gathered up her cubs and made
a hasty retreat leaving Baxter, Jake and Mrs. Kane very relieved. All the
commotion brought Mrs. Mallard and her daughter, Natalie out of the house along
with neighbors and even some people walking down Lake Shore drive. One of the
visitors, Bill Strong, had his camera and was able to snap some pictures of the
whole incident. Luckily everyone was safe and the bears ran off to the woods.
Baxter was the celebrity for the day and got a special steak dinner for his
heroics.
Baxter chasing
the bear’s away (photo by Bill Strong)
SPORTS
COUGARS SLASH HAWKS
Cougar’s
junior quarterback Bill Dolan hasn’t made too many mistakes this season. But he proved Saturday that
when the rare misstep heads his way, he still remembers how to handle it. The
Cougars toppled the Southport Hawks, 28-14, to move into first place at 4-1. The mistakes didn’t come in
bunches for Dolan’s squad against Southport. Instead, they were peppered
throughout the afternoon. A run for a loss of 3 yards on
the Cougar’s first drive. A 13-yard loss on a sack in the second quarter. It didn’t happen often, but when the
Cougars erred, Dolan was quick with an answer for the Cougars. After the loss of 3, he
launched a 56-yard pass to wide-out Mitch ‘Merc’ McMaster, which set up a
3-yard touchdown run by ‘Tank’ Brown, the first of his two scores. Dolan responded to the sack
with back-to-back 19-yard completions, and then capped the drive off with a
22-yard strike to Davey Wilson. But the most significant cleanup, the one that set
the tone for the rest of the afternoon, didn’t come on a subsequent play. It
came on the following drive. On the Cougar’s second drive of the evening,
Richie McGee fumbled a catch deep in Southport territory. Rather than get frustrated,
Dolan and McGee talked it over on the sideline. And in a minute, it was behind
them. “We just wiped the slate clean,” Dolan indicated. “It was on to the next
one.”
Dolan said he told McGee he
liked the effort on the play, but that he could have made a smarter play and
secured the ball. So on the very next drive, who did Dolan look for in the
end zone? None other than No. 9 McGee. Dolan hit the tight end from 10 yards
out to put the Cougars up, 14-0, early in the second half. “He can run, he can pass, and
you know that, if you’re running a route, the pass is going to be dead on,
right to you,” McGee explained.
Dolan
finished the evening 13 for 18 for 224 yards, with three touchdowns and one
interception. Even Dolan wasn’t perfect. He threw that interception, his one
mistake of the night. But he sure knows how to fix a problem.
The
Cougars meet Corning for the second time this season as they travel up to
Corning next week. Their first meeting was a fairly one sided affair in the
Cougars favor but the Devils have come on strong recently and have won their
last two games by more the 20 points. The game is an evening game that begins
at 7:30 on the Corning High Field.
NATIONAL NEWS
IKE WINS REELECTION EASILY – DEMS CONTROL
HOUSE – ELVIS IN THE MOVIES AND ON TV
Dwight D. Eisenhower wins re-election
to the Presidency by the overwhelming vote of a nation. He’s the first
Republican to win a second term since William McKinley in his 1900 re-election. In Chicago - Adlai Stevenson concedes his
defeat for the Presidency:
"You have won not only the election, but
also an expression of the great confidence of the American people. I send you
my warm congratulations. Tonight we are not republicans and democrats, but
Americans. We appreciate the grave difficulties your administration faces and
as Americans, join in wishing you all success in the years that lie ahead.”
Interestingly
- Democrats cling tenaciously to their control of the House and wage a
nip-and-tuck battle with Republicans for continued leadership of the Senate.
Elvis Presley did just fine in his new movie “Love Me Tender” where’s he’s paired with Debra Paget.
The studio says it’s a mistake to call the movie an Elvis movie, since the
story was planned before Elvis was considered. The movie is a post Civil war
drama about four brothers, the eldest of whom is Richard Egan, returns home to
find his sweetheart (Debra Paget) married to the youngest brother (played by
Elvis). In the movie Egan and Paget are starred and Elvis is introduced. So, what about Elvis? According the producer
David Weisbart,- Elvis “is extroverted, gregarious on a young person’s level,
terribly energetic, seems to be having fun. He was co-operative with us, never
late and very serious about acting. This was another kind of career for him, a
big challenge after all those one-night stands, with screaming teenagers
following him around. I don’t think Elvis is in the same class with Jimmy Dean
as an actor. His biggest asset is his own natural ability like Gary Cooper’s.
If he acquires any kind of obvious acting skills, they might hurt him.”
Television news - Ed Sullivan had lower ratings with Elvis Presley’s second
appearance - lower than his first time on the show last September. He is
scheduled for another appearance in January. At this conference, Elvis Presley
gave his reaction the charge by many adults that he is a detriment to the youth
of the land, to which he replied, “I just wish I had a chance to try to change
the minds of those adults. If I thought that I was leading anyone astray, I’d
quit this business and go back to driving a truck. I’ve searched my heart about
this thing and I don’t think I am a detriment. You know, there’s verse in the
Bible that says you will reap what you sow, I believe it, and I try to be careful
about what I sow”
