EAST FAREWELL
NEWS
Thursday, May 14,
1959 Vol. C724
LOCAL
NEWS
SPRING FAIR MAKES A COMEBACK
East Farewell – The weather has been very spring like this month
and that has not gone unnoticed by the Fun Pier owners, the Lendel family, who
took advantage of the wonderful weather to open the Fun Pier for a sneak
preview of the summer season. The Pier was opened on Friday night at the same
time the Lakefront Plaza was filled with booths that restaurant and artist’s
had set up for people to stroll and dine in the warm evening air. The Plaza was
transformed into a wagon wheel with all the restaurants and food services
around the outside and all the artists making up the spokes. In the center was
a circular stage that had continuing entertainment throughout the night and all
day Saturday and Sunday. It entertainment was also a bit of a preview of the
Arts Festival that will be held in August.
This was a
resurrection of sorts for the Spring Festival.
It was not held last year mainly due to poor, cold weather. While there was no
official announcement of the Festival word spread quickly around town and all
the restaurants and performers were pretty much ready to go and all the artists
jumped in and helped each other out setting up their booths and the stage. By
7:00 on Friday night Town Council President, Tom Connelly, and Pier Director,
Sam Lendel officially opened the Lakefront Plaza/ Fun Pier for 1959. On
Saturday morning things got going by 9:00 and went on well into Saturday night.
The only slow time was between 1 and 3 when the crowds diminished due to a
Travelers home game, once the game was over the crowds returned even brighter
and happier thanks to a Traveler victory. Sunday saw a full day of people
riding the rides on the Fun Pier, eating at the different restaurant stalls,
browsing through the all the different artist stalls and listening to great,
varied music on the center of the Plaza.
1959 Spring
Fair
SPORTS
TRAVELERS GROUND THE EAGLES
East Farewell – The high-flying Travelers were able to soar
higher than the Erie Eagles on Saturday with a convincing 6-2 win. The
Travelers built on their strong offensive play using their newly discovered
base running expertise and their hot bats to outpace the Eagles. The Eagles, on
the other hand, have started slower than other teams in the league this season
and are currently 3 and 5 on the young season.
The beautiful
spring weather brought out a sold out crowd many making the short walk over
from the Lakefront Plaza where the Spring Fair was taking place. A happy,
friendly crowd just made it easier for the Travelers. They started off quickly,
as they have been doing lately, by scoring twice in the second. The middle of
the order took the credit for this first assault, Tony Dimero singled and stole
second then Joey Brown moved him to third with a perfect bunt. Art Archibald
drove both of them in with a well-placed double off a 3-2 fastball from Eagles
pitcher, Hank Benson. Benson threw a fairly good game only giving up ten hits
but they were all grouped together and produced runs. The Travelers were able
to tag Benson in the fourth and eighth for two runs in each inning. Johnny
Cloos was able to add to his rapidly expanding homerun total by smacking
another in the eighth driving in Bobby Watson to seal the win.
The Eagles were
able to work Danny Lane for eight hits and were able to score two runs, one in
the third and one in the eighth. It was not enough to stop the Travelers but
Lane was not happy about his performance. “I couldn’t get into a real rhythm
out there today. I was all over the place with my fastball. I’m going to have
to get this back in order before next week,” he said with frustration after the
game.
Next week the
Travelers go on the road to visit Monticello and take on the Vikings. The
Vikings are only in their third year of existence but have jumped out to a very
good start for the season, they are currently 6-1 on the season and have showed
a lot of pop in their offense and have been fielding a very strong defense. The
game will be an evening game in the beautiful Monticello Stadium starting at
7:30PM.
NATIONAL NEWS
HOFFA THREATENS NATIONAL STRIKE – CASTRO
FINDS LOTS OF PESOS – KHRUSHCHEV CRITICAL OF WESTERN PEACE PLAN
James
Hoffa, president of Teamsters Union threatens a nationwide strike of all labor
if Congress harnesses unions with anti-trust laws. “We can call a primary
strike all across the nation that will straighten out the employers for once
and for all”
In
Havana, Cuba - Government officials announce the discovery of more than half a
million dollars’ worth of pesos in a safe deposit box belonging to the company
formed to operate the gambling casino in the Hilton Hotel there. The
government froze all of the money except for a sum sufficient to pay the salaries
of employees to permit continued operation of the casino.
Premier Khrushchev
says the western plan for Germany laid down at Geneva “contains some matters
which are worthy of examination and which we shall not oppose.” In a
Kremlin speech accepting the Lenin peace prize, he called the western proposal
a “so-called peace plan” because there was no peace behind it. He accused the
West at Geneva of trying to provoke the Soviet Union into sharp criticism.
