8/6/1953

                  EAST FAREWELL NEWS

---

Thursday, August 6, 1953   Vol. C243

---

LOCAL NEWS

---

EAST FAREWELL CELEBRATES TRUCE

---

East Farewell – After three long years East Farewell gratefully and somberly celebrated the signing of the truce in the Korean conflict last week. Unlike the boisterous, street filling celebrations that marked the end of WWII this was a more subdued reaction.  Flags were displayed on all buildings and houses and a parade has been planned for Labor Day. There were some folks spontaneously marching in the streets waving flags and singing but nothing like 1945. In general the feeling was more one of quiet, mature relief than youthful exuberance.  Make no mistake, there was great joy throughout town and all were thankful that the boys serving would soon be home but there was seemed to be a general weariness that prevailed on top of the happiness.

            East Farewell sent a total of 32 young men to serve in Korea, twelve have already returned. Sixteen will be returning within the next few months. Four will never return. All will have their names added to the Lakeshore Memorial by next year’s Memorial Day.  

East Farewell War Memorial

---

SPORTS

---

STEELERS NOT UP TO TRAVELERS RIVETS

---

Youngstown – The Travelers made life miserable for the Youngstown Steelers on Saturday by playing good old fashioned basic baseball. Two Travelers, Cloos and Sweet, hit for the cycle, a first in Travelers history and the team batted around in two different innings, another first. The Travelers won handily 13-2. The Steelers were not in the game until the eighth inning when Jerry Flowers pulled a two run homer into the left field stands. This Steelers disaster was uncharacteristic for the Youngstown nine who had won six straight before Saturday.

            The Travelers came into town early and got in some extra batting practice before the game. It seemed to have some effect as they started off the first inning by scoring two runs on three hits and a walk. The second inning they started the breakout, batting around on pitcher Fred Williams scoring five and leaving two.  Traveler’s pitcher, Joe Nagy, ploughed through the Steelers not giving up a hit until the sixth inning and striking out 10 overall. The Travelers went on to score in every inning except the seventh and when Johnny Cloos hit his cycle completing homer in the eight even the Steelers fans were applauding. Billy Sweet set a Travelers record by being the second player in one game to hit for the cycle in the ninth. The Travelers have certainly regained their momentum and are starting to look like the defending league champs that they are. The Travelers take on the Erie Eagles on Saturday at 1:00.

---

 NATIONAL NEWS

---

EUROPEANS SEE MCCARTHY AS HITLER OR STALIN – COMMIES HAVE H-BOMB – TAFT DIES – CHEVY ROLLS OUT CORVETTE

---

Just back from an overseas trip - Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt says that Europeans look upon the investigative methods of Senator McCarthy as symbolic of Hitler and Stalin. Everyone abroad, she said was “soberly glad over the end of the Korean War.”

Soviet Premier Malenkov announces that “the United States no longer has the monopoly of the hydrogen bomb” and the Soviet Union has mastered production of that super weapon. American officials have no doubt the Soviets have mastered the secret of the bomb, but doubt its actual production.

Dies - Ohio Senator Robert Taft, who guided the Republican Party for years at 63.

Chevrolet begins to roll out plastic-bodied Corvettes. A few have been made as an attractive showpiece for automobile displays around the country. A few thousand more have been promised. The company says it could be many years before plastic autos become commonplace.

---

 Many, many thanks to www.mrpopculture.com for contributing to this section of the East Farewell News.

---

 

7/30/1953

                    EAST FAREWELL NEWS

---

Thursday, July 30, 1953   Vol. C242

---

LOCAL NEWS

---

ARTISTIC DISTRICT PROPOSED

---

East Farewell – The local arts scene was in the spotlight last week when Town Council was presented with a proposal by a group of local artists and supporters asking for a designated “Artistic Area” in town.  Most of the Council was receptive but Councilman Len Bellows stated he did not see the need for a specific area and the current, scattered shops and galleries was really good for the town by making people walk through town to visit the different shops.  The proposal was asking for a two block area off Lake Shore Drive to be closed to traffic and given preferential licensing to artistic concerns.  The Council had many questions about the limitations asked for, they did not like the fairly strict definition of “artistic concerns” and felt it should be much wider. In fact, they vocally proposed amending it to make the area open to all types of business. “We think it is obvious that there should be a wide variety of business in this area, we all like the idea of closing a couple of blocks off to traffic but, as they say, the devil is in the details,” said Mrs. Mallard, a council member and local boarding house owner.

            The East Farewell area has become a center for artists and craftsmen in the past few years and several renowned artists has located on the edge of town along Lake Charles. The area has already been given the nickname “New Bohemia”. Most of the artists and craftsmen have set up their studios and homes there; they also would like to have storefronts in town to sell the creations. The area is also attracting more of the folks who tend to embrace the less restrictive attitudes of more liberal artistic community.

            A bit of irony was pointed out by Councilman Lester; it has only been slightly over a year when the town authorized its first traffic light at the intersection of Main and Lake Shore Drive. In the past year the town has seen phenomenal growth and added three more lights throughout town. The growth is not only for the summer season, when the population of town nearly doubles but also due to the Iron Works expansion that has added over 500 full time jobs.  The Council will take the proposal under consideration and either give a ruling or open the topic up for further discussion. After the meeting concluded there was extended off the record discussions by several parties involved. Members of the Council seemed very accepting of the idea in general and seemed inclined to vote for some sort of plan that would offer a designated, traffic free area in town.

---

SPORTS

---

TRAVELERS SHINE UNDER THE LIGHTS

---

Cedar Creek – Baseball under the lights agrees with the Travelers. They are 6-0 in night games last season and this season. They played their first night game of the season under the lights of Cedar Creek Field on Saturday. They were able to extend their winning streak into the new season by beating the Anglers 6-3. The win puts the Travelers back in the positive side of the win-loss register. The team showed some last season’s spark by smacking back to back homers in the fifth courtesy of Dimero and Brown. Pitcher Joey Alfred was on his game as he struck out 8 and only walked four. The Travelers scored early with one run in the first. Sweet was able to work his way around the bases with two steals off a walk and score off a single by Dunham.  They added the two in the fifth and then three in the eight off reliever Rico Sanchez.  The Anglers were slow to get started and were scoreless until the sixth when Franks was able to hit a double off Alfred after he had let Johnson reach on a walk and Daly hit a single. Then in the eighth they were able score again with a blast by Franks.

            The Travelers looked stronger and smoother than in the past couple games and the long road trip did not appear to have any adverse effects yet.  They have one more on the road next week with the Youngstown Steelers. The game is an afternoon game and starts at 1:30 at Youngstown.

---

 NATIONAL NEWS

---

KOREAN TRUCE SIGNED

---

The United Nations and the Communists sign the Korean armistice, ending 37 months of war. Top commands warn their troops that a truce did not necessarily mean a peace. The main ceremony was a cold, 10-minute formality in Panmunjom by Lt. Gen. William Harrison, American presenting the United Nations command and Gen Nam Il of North Korea, representing the Chinese and Korean Reds.

Korean War Truce Agreement signed

The Korean Armistice Commission meets for the first time and has the tough job of policing the truce. Some 1.7 million troops on the Korea battle front are a little more relaxed.

Radar picks up large numbers of Communist planes winging into North Korea from Manchuria. Under terms of the armistice, no additional weapons and armament of any type are to be taken to North or South Korea during the truce except as replacement for older armament.

---

Many, many thanks to www.mrpopculture.com for contributing to this section of the East Farewell News.

---

 

---

7/23/1953

                                      EAST FAREWELL NEWS

---

Thursday, July 23, 1953   Vol. C241

---

LOCAL NEWS

---

RESTAURNT CELEBRATES ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY

---

East Farewell – It has been a year since the Lost Oasis opened on Lake Shore Drive and almost everyone in town agrees that it has become a valuable, contributing member of the towns thriving business district.  A year ago that statement was not widely agreed upon.  On opening night the Lost Oasis had the waiters and waitresses dress in Arabian attire with the men dressed in linen shirts, unbuttoned halfway and turbans while the woman dressed as what can only be described as belly dancers and many had their navels exposed. It was all in fun and not intended to offend anyone but owner Charles Wenz from New York slightly misgauged the town’s moral temperature and was widely criticized for the prank. After openly and publicly apologizing, Wenz was forgiven and went on to become a widely respected member of the business community and a huge booster and sponsor for the town and events. The restaurant has become very popular and has changed from its original Middle Eastern menu to a more traditional American fare. Wenz has said on a number of occasions that he intends to cater to what the people want and by following that philosophy he has made the Lost Oasis the number one restaurant destination in the “Destination Station”

            “I love this town and I want to do everything I can to make it better,” Wenz said recently, “I know the folks have supported the Lost Oasis and I, in turn have gladly supported them. We have had a presence at every event this year and we feel we will have a long run here in East Farewell.”

            Judging from the lines that form outside the doors at dinner time that is an understatement and everyone in town would agree.

Lost Oasis Bar & Restaurant

---

SPORTS

---

                TRAVELERS BACK UP WITH EXTRA INNING WIN

---

Riverview – The Travelers got back on the winning side last Saturday with a tenth inning win over the Anglers in Riverview, 6-5.  The win was sorely needed by the Travelers who had lost three straight and four out of their last five.  This win was not a crushing slam that would have reassured the Travelers fans but it was a win and an exciting game.  Both teams started off with strong pitching and remained scoreless for the first five innings. In the top of the sixth Joey Brown looped a double into center and then stole third.  Billy Sweet was able to score him with another double after Arthur struck out. Pitcher Danny Lane was able to move Sweet to third with a sacrifice bunt and then “Mean” Richie Lane crushed a fastball out of the park to make the score 4-0 and the big win looked like it was in the cards.  But Anglers pitcher, Freddie Vance, settled down and finished off the side. In the bottom of the fifth the Anglers struck with a three run blast from Dave Martin and then took a 5-4 lead in the eighth. Bobby Watson was able to draw a walk in the bottom of the ninth and was moved over to third by a line hugging drive into the right corner by Cloos. With two outs in the bottom of the ninth Billy Sweet was up and with the count 3-2 he was able to squeeze a single through the middle to score Watson and tie the game. Lane was able to retire the Angler side and Francis led off the tenth but flied out. Dunham hit a single into left then was able to advance to second on a passed ball. Bobby Watson then took Vance to a 3-2 count before smashing a long drive to center field and brought Sweet in for the winning score.

            The Travelers stay on the road next week when they meet the Cedar Creek Bulls. The game is in the evening and starts at 7:30PM.

---

 NATIONAL NEWS

---

IKE SUMS UP FIRST SIX MONTHS – CALLS EAST GERMAN REGIME BANKRUPT – MORMANS ROUNDED UP IN ARIZONA – TAFT DYING

---

President Eisenhower sums up his first six months in the White House by saying progress has been made though not as much as he had hoped. He said he still is hopeful a reasonable armistice will be signed soon. Also from the President - American food will remain available in West Berlin for the East Germans in spite of Soviet resentment. The President said East Germans can come and get it as long as they aren’t prevented from doing so. He said the $15 million worth of food was offered for humanitarian purposes and it is difficult to understand objections to feeding hungry people. Russia had demanded that the U.S. stop supplying free food to hungry East Germans, charging that American charity was aimed at stirring-up an anti-Communist revolt.

President Eisenhower said the riot-shaken East German Communist regime is bankrupt and renewed a demand for free all-German elections as a step toward unifying the divided country.

An entire community of 122 polygamists, excommunicated Mormons in Short Creek Arizona, is raided an hour before dawn by more than 100 state patrolmen and deputy sheriffs under an insurrection proclamation by Arizona’s Gov. Howard Pyle to clean up what he called a foul and ruthless conspiracy dedicated to white slavery. Midnight roadblocks and monitored telephones cut off all outside communication with this communal farm village on the Arizona-Utah border in the desolate strop area north of the Grand Canyon.

Sen. Robert Taft of Ohio is reported in a coma and is dying from cancer of the blood.

---

Many, many thanks to www.mrpopculture.com for contributing to this section of the East Farewell News.

---