EAST FAREWELL
NEWS
Friday, November 28, 1952
Vol. C122
LOCAL
NEWS
JOB SEEKERS
FLOOD TOWN - THANKSGIVING DAY PARADE GOES ON
EAST FAREWELL- An unexpected
flood of job seekers along with the usual crowds that attend the East Farewell
Thanksgiving Day Parade completely took over the town yesterday. It is estimated that over 3000 job seekers
showed up to apply for the 150 newly posted jobs at the Iron Works. The annual parade, which has been a town
tradition for over 20 years, drew an estimated additional 2000 people. “Our services were completely flooded,” said
Police Chief James Flynn, “but we were able to all come together as a town and
make things work.”
The parade was
a roaring success. It is tradition for
the parade to escort Santa Claus to the Boyles Department Store on Lake Shore Drive
where he will start taking all the children’s gift requests. “As the major retailer in the area, it is
always great fun and very exciting to co-host the parade for more than fifteen
years,” said Charles Boyle, store owner and parade staff supervisor. Along with the wonderful Boyle’s float the
featured Santa’s sleigh and all eight reindeer, the preceding float while much
smaller was wonderful in its own way. It
featured Rudolf with his red nose leading the way. The leader of the parade was the Regional
High School Band. They played and
marched in fine form. Other featured marchers
were; the Twirlers from Flat Rock, a precision baton twirling group that
specializes in lighted batons, the Slate Mountain String Band, the East
Farewell Fire Company, the local VFW, the Pet Shelter and many, many more.
Services in
town which normally are geared up for the parade were exceptionally strained by
the influx job seekers applying for the Iron Works jobs. “We never expected this volume,” said Grady
Smith, employment supervisor for the Iron Works, “but I guess there when there
is a great job offered like this one you get a lot of interest.” It was reported that every room in town was
sold out this week. The parade goers and
job applicants grabbed every room and even went so far as to double up on
scarce rooms. “I had two gentlemen split
the rent on my last room and they had never met before they showed up on my
porch looking for a place to stay for the week,” said Mrs.
Mallard, boarding house owner.
Even the food
services were taxed. “We ran out of almost every special,” lamented Charles
Wentz, owner of the Lost
Oasis. “We managed to get extra shipments in before parade day so we made
out OK.” All the townspeople were in a
very festive mood and it was not uncommon to see families inviting strangers
for Thanksgiving dinner. Some speculated, though, with the huge increase
population, albeit temporary, crime is sure to follow. “We have no reports of any increase in crimes
of any nature,” reported Police Chief, Jeremy Watson, “People were having fun
and enjoying the holiday.”
Regional High School
Band marches on Lake Shore Drive
SPORTS
COUGARS OUT FOX THE CAPTAINS 14-7
East Farewell- The cagey
Cougars were able to out wit the Fort Lee Captains on Saturday and prevail 14-7
in a razzle-dazzle spectacular. Both
sides tried numerous flea-flicker plays but the Cougars were able to connect
with more than the Captains and that was the difference in the game. The shenanigans began at the first play from
scrimmage. The Cougars had the ball
after a 10 yard kickoff runback.
Quarterback Billy O’Conner handed off on an end around to Phil Flynn,
who raced toward the scrimmage line but then abruptly stopped, straightened up
and tossed a screen pass back across the field to O’Conner who pulled in the
pass and sprinted 40 yards to the six yard line. The Cougars scored on the next play with a
punishing run by Fullback “Moose” Boyle.
It looked like a rout.
The Captains
were not to be out done, though. The
Captains leading rusher, Thomas Reed and senior Jason Bennett lined up deep for
the kickoff. The ball went to Bennett
who started up the field. Then to
everyone’s surprise, he turned and lateralled the ball to Reed who was five
yards behind him and running against the grain of on rushing Cougars. Reed skillfully grabbed the ball and out ran
everyone except kicker, Charlie Cox. Cox
was able to wrestle Reed down at the four yard line after being dragged almost
ten yards hanging onto Reed’s pants. It
only took the Captains two plays to even the score. Reed slipped in from two yards out and
Winston Wilson added the extra point.
The game
see-sawed back and forth, reverses, pitch-outs and even a Statue of Liberty
play punctuated the first half. The
Statue of Liberty was a spectacular attempt by the Captains to freeze the
Cougars defense but went awry when quarterback, Steve Smith, was not able to
hold the ball as Reed came behind to grab it.
The play lost six yards and drew awes and guffaws from the crowd. The half ended with the Cougars O’Conner
completing a pass to Flynn who then tossed it back to halfback Joey Fox. Fox was able to scamper for thirty yards but
was tackled three yards shy of the goal line as time ran out.
There was no
let up in the chicanery during the third and fourth quarters. Both teams showed surprising ingenuity and
resourcefulness coming up with plays that are surely not in any playbook since
the ragtag days of the game. While
sideways hikes and hikes to the fullback were plentiful none produced the
desired effect, a score. It wasn’t until
4:02 in the fourth quarter that there was a change. In what can only be described as a broken
play, O’Conner attempted to handoff to Fox on his right, unfortunately for
O’Conner, Fox was on his left. Realizing
the miscue O’Conner pirouetted around to his left and pitched the ball to Fox
who was able to take advantage of the confused Captains defense and race 22
yards for a touchdown. Charlie Cox was
again prefect on extra points.
“We knew this
was going to be a wide open game. Chuck
(the Captain’s coach) and I go way back to our days at the University of
Pennsylvania. We both played and we both
love the gadget plays and the kids love them too. I would never play any other team this way,
but Chuck and I have a sort of competition to see who can come up with the
wildest play. I loved that Statue of
Liberty, we may try that next year,” joked Cougars coach, Al Burcowitz.
The 6-1 Cougars
take on the Southport Hawks for the last game of the season. The Cougars already own a piece of the league
title and can win it completely with a win on Saturday. The game is home, 1:30 on Regional High
field.
NATIONAL NEWS
FCC SAYS GO TO
TV - STALIN STILL ALIVE – SABRES DOWN MIGS
FCC Chairman
Paul Walker says that the 3 1/2 year freeze on television licenses will be
lifted in two weeks. After the lifting, the commission probably will allow
three months for the filing of applications. Walker says he expects over 1000 applicants
by July. Right now, there are 108 stations on the air. Fifteen states don’t
even have one television station operating. The new master plan provides for at
least 2000 stations, including opening 70 new channels in the UHF spectrum as
well as the existing 12 VHF channels.
Prime Minister Stalin (72), recently absent from
Russian functions leading to rumors that he was
ill shows up at a session of the Supreme Soviet (Parliament) of the Russian Republic. Deputies jumped to their feet
shouting “Long live Stalin,” Cheers to Stalin,” Glory to Stalin.” Prime Minister Stalin assures a group of
newspaper editors and radiomen that World War III is no nearer than it was in 1949
or 1950. His views were sent via telegram dispatched in response to four
questions sent to him March 24. The East
German press takes notice with splashing articles, about the 30th anniversary
of World Communism this week. Noted in one of the articles was how Stalin was
elevated to the helm on April
3, 1922 with Lenin’s blessing.
Korean War News - American Sabre jet
pilots blast six MIGs out of the skies over North Korea, creating a new American jet ace. Col
Francis Gabreski of Giltown, PA, bagged his fifth MIG for a total kill of five and a half to
become an ace.
A new rotation plan will keep men on
the front lines a bit longer beginning this week. Combat infantrymen, artillery
tank and other supporting units have been returning home after an average time
of 9 1/2 months of duty. That will increase to 10-13 months. A total of 20,000
men are rotated home monthly and that rate won’t change. That’s because some of
the National Guard is being pulled out.
