EAST FAREWELL
NEWS
Thursday, January 15, 1959 Vol. C707
LOCAL
NEWS
BAR-B-QUE
ON THE PLAZA IN THE SNOW
East Farewell- The snow and cold could not stop a group of
intrepid grillers on Sunday afternoon as they set up several charcoal grills
right in the middle of the Lakefront Plaza and proceeded to have a cookout. It
was a mid-winter cookout all afternoon that attracted many curious folks and
lots of hungry followers. The leaders of this zany affair were local Ed Rauch
and Bob Wilson. Both were finalists in last summer’s Bar-B-Que Cookoff and as it
turns out they were talking after the summer event and concocted the winter
cook out idea then. They gathered up three other local grillers from the
Cookoff, Randy O’Meara, Dave Davis and Frank Holder, and planned the mid-winter
back then. They went to the Town Council after Thanksgiving and secured a
permit. They kept the whole affair very quiet and no one was told until the
last minute. Still, word got out on Saturday and there was a buzz around town
by Saturday night. When Sunday morning dawned and the five grillers showed up
the completely clear the Plaza they were met by at least 20 people were on hand
to help out. The entire group made short work of the cleanup and the grills
were placed around the Plaza and lit. Even before the coals had reached
grilling temperature someone had brought out frying pans with eggs, sausage and
scrapple. Breakfast was just the first course of a full day of cooking, eating,
laughing and more eating. The temperature was only in the 30’s and the sky was
overcast and threatening but the mood was almost summer-ease and some of the
people were even wearing short sleeves.
Once all the
grills were going full tilt a variety of meats, chickens, and other edible,
grillable wonderful things were slathered with sauce, smoked and served up with
great gusto to a very appreciative audience.
While the whole event seemed preposterous, it was a wonderful break from
the mid-winter doldrums and a whole lot of fun for everyone.
Smoke and
people fill the Plaza for the Winter Bar-B-Que
SPORTS
COUGARS GET BACK ON TRACK
Fort Lee – The Cougars were able to get back on the winning
track on Friday night when they faced the Fort Lee Captains and walked away
with a 42-36 win. The Captains were unfortunately foul happy and by the end of
the third quarter three out of their first five starters had fouled out. This
was a very unusual for the Captains who are not known as a physical team, but
perhaps Friday night they used the controversial tactic to try to neutralize
the Cougars inside game. It didn’t work. Cougar’s center, James Hawkins was too
tough and sometimes seemed to be swatting away his assailants. Both Cougars
forwards, Donny Tasker and Joey Mitchell were equally undeterred. The Captain’s
center, William Boyd was especially guilty racking up three fouls in the first
half and then fouling out by the end of the third quarter. The other members
that fouled out were forward, Joe Reynolds and guard David Betts. After the
game Cougars Coach Wilson met with Captains Coach Florin and talked about his
dubious strategy.
“We discussed
what his thinking was by implementing that tactic and he said it was not his
intention at all,” Wilson told this reporter, “He knew his boys were outmatched
and did want them to play aggressively but they seemed to get carried away and
he spent the entire game trying to rein them back in. It wasn’t a good idea to
begin with but I am proud of my boys who didn’t get baited into retaliating or
some other unsportsmanlike conduct. We won this game in spite of a less than
admirable opposition.”
The Cougars
were in control of the game from the start and in spite of the pushing and
shoving Hawkins was able to score 18 points with Tasker following with 14.
Guards Mackenzie and Fox remained pretty much out of the fray and both scored
5. The Captains forwards, Reynolds and Ford were the high scorers for the
Captains with 16 and 14 respectively. For most of the fourth quarter the
Cougars played with their second team because they were in command of the game
on the other hand the Captains played the entire fourth quarter with their
second team due to foul trouble. These teams will meet again later in the
season and hopefully it will be a more balanced game. The Cougars come home
next week as they host the always dangerous Southport Hawks. The Hawks are
currently second place behind the Corning Devils and their defense has be noted
from the start of the season. The game begins at 4:30PM on Friday in the
Regional High Gym.
NATIONAL NEWS
IKE &
MIKOYAN TALK FOR TWO HOURS – US WILL STAY IN BERLIN – SWEDS OPERATE WITH ATOMIC
KNIFE – CASTRO WANTS GOOD RELATIONS WITH US – LA TO HOST DEMS IN 1960 – GET
TOUGH ATTITUDE PREVAILS IN US SCHOOLS
President
Eisenhower and Soviet Deputy Premier Mikoyan talk for nearly two hours, but
nothing new was discussed or agreed upon. The President tells Mikoyan the U.S.
won’t quit Berlin.
Swedish
surgeons using an American-invented “atomic Knife” repot they have successfully
performed the first brain operation in history without opening the skull.
Rebel
Chief Fidel Castro declares he wants good relations with the United States but
he warned against any U.S. intervention in Cuban affairs. He said if U.S.
marines were sent to this island nation “200,000 gringos will die”
Los
Angeles is chosen as the site for the Democratic Party’s 1960 National
Convention.
More
evidence of the public’s “get-tough” attitude finds that an overwhelming number
of adults believe that public school discipline is too lax. Six out of 10
adults would allow grade school teachers in public schools the right to punish
students by paddling them.
