EAST FAREWELL
NEWS
Thursday, September
26, 1957 Vol. C639
LOCAL
NEWS
THE SEARCH IS ON
East Farewell – The search for last week’s train robbers has
been expanded to a state wide search. Ironically, hard fought battle to place
an interchange on the new state spanning turnpike has worked against the police
by giving the robbers a quick exit to almost any place in the state or for that
matter, the entire country. The State Police have gotten involved and due to
the fact that the crime was committed on an interstate rail line the FBI is now
getting involved. The brash robbery took place last week on the Philadelphia to
Chicago Liberty Bell Special. The Special was stopped just outside East
Farewell by a signal that forced the train to stop. The signal function is
being investigated because there was no apparent reason for the warning.
The robbers are
not thought to be local as many eyewitnesses said they all seemed to talk with
a heavy foreign accent. This may have been a diversion but the authorities are
not dismissing anything. “We are looking at everything. We are sure that when
we analyze all the evidence we will get to the bottom of this, that is for sure,”
said Chief Inspector William Burger from the Philadelphia office of the Mighty
Keystone Railroad.
The town is
buzzing over the robbery and many people have their own ideas about who is
responsible. Some people have even put forth the idea that the notorious
villain and gigolo, “Romando”, from the
Flower Show/ Monica Shippensport scandal has come back to town. Others have
said that the way they completely vanished shows they were obviously aliens
from outer space and still others have pointed to the foreign accents to show
they were obviously backed the evil communists from Russia. “No one knows who
did that. They could be anyone, anyone at all,” said local boarding house owner
Mrs. Mallard, “We are all speculating and some people have come up with some
crazy ideas.”
Since the FBI
has started their investigation there has be little information given out to
the people or the press. Even the local police have not been able to release any
information. The mystery will continue and the stories will continue to grow
until the FBI discovers who is responsible and where they went.
SPORTS
TRAVELERS FINISH SEASON WITH A WIN - COUGARS
START NEXT WEEK
Erie-The Travelers finished the season with a strong win over
the Erie Eagles, 6-1 on Saturday. The win seals a solid second place finish in
the league standings which was expected but not good enough for the players.
“We really should have taken at least part of the championship, we just didn’t
play well enough last week against the Miners. We really need to get back on
track next year and bring home another title. The town deserves it,” said
Johnny Cloos after the game.
The Eagles have
been struggling since they lost their best hitter, Frank Vetter and their “iron
man” catcher, Joe Rolls in a freak accident during a promotional event. Without
the leadership the team has not been able to put any offense on the field and
their defense has been lackluster at best. The Travelers took full advantage of
the Eagles woes and began with two runs in the first and then turned pitcher
Billy Green loose. He was able to keep the Eagles hitless for the first four
innings. The Eagles finally were able to get one run in the fifth with a walk,
a steal and a long single by right fielder, Reggie Richmond. Richmond’s hit was
the only real contact the Eagles were able to bring to the field. They were
able to generate three more hits throughout the rest of the game but that was
nowhere near the punch needed to slow down the Travelers. After the first
innings the Travelers were able to get at least one hit in every inning but the
eighth. They scored two more runs in the fourth with back to back to back
doubles by Archibald, Francis and Dunham. Then in the fifth Johnny Cloos
finished the season with a two run drive out of the park. He ended up second in
the league in homers with 25 just behind Slate Mountain’s slugger, Lou Fannelli
who had 27.
The season
wound up in Erie and the Travelers will look to next year to improve their
league standings. They will have some players up for contract negotiations and
some new, younger players may be added to the roster next year. It will be an
exciting off season.
Next week East
Farewell will shift sports gears and host the opening of the Regional High
School Cougars football season when they battle their arch-rival the Slate
Mountain Miners. This year the Cougars will are rebuilding after losing many
players to graduation. Running back Davey Wilson, fullback, Will “Tank” Brown,
wide receiver, the legendary Mitch “Merc” McMaster, and defensive end Pat
McKean all graduated from the league championship team. They will be replaced
by fullback Robbie Blackman, running back Joey Neil, wide receiver Max O’Hara
and defensive end, Daniel Green all are sophomores. A new center, Lewis Tiller,
will help quarterback Bill Dolan who is a senior this year. The game will begin at 1:30 on the Regional High
football field on Saturday.
NATIONAL NEWS
IKE SENDS IN TROOPS TO ARKANSAS – HOFFA INDICTED – GIANTS PLAY LAST GAME AT THE POLO GROUNDS – DODGERS UP IN THE AIR
President Eisenhower signs a
history-making proclamation clearing the way for possible use of Federal troops
to quash any further school integration violence at Little Rock, Ark. Later on,
he orderd U.S. troops into the area to prevent mob rule “under the leadership
of demagogies extremists opposed to school integration.” The Army flies 1000
battle-ready troops into Little Rock and prepares to activate all Arkansas’
National Guard to enforce Federal school integration following orders from the
President.
Paratroopers with lowered bayonets take
nine Negro students into Central High School in Little Rock and then stand
guard over their classrooms. One man was bayoneted and a second was clubbed
with a rifle butt in a show of force.
James R. Hoffa - vice-president of the
International Brotherhood of Teamsters is indicted on five counts of perjury by
a Federal rackets grand jury. The indictment charged Hoffa, a candidate for the
presidency of the Teamsters to succeed Dave Beck, lied to the grand jury during
its probe into alleged wire tapping of Teamsters Union headquarters in Detroit.
In Sports - Goodbye Giants, Goodbye New
York - After 74 years, The New York Giants play their last game at the Polo
Grounds and in New York. Thousands hit the field and chased the team to the
clubhouse. They also carried-away anything in site. Within a half-hour after
their 9-1 loss to Pittsburgh, fans had ripped up the regular and warm-up home
plates, the wooden base beneath the main plate, the pitcher’s rubber, two of
the bases and the foam rubber sheathing protecting outfielders who crashed into
the center field fences. The Giants now head to their new home turf - San
Francisco.
What about the Brooklyn Dodgers? ...
Reports as of this week say that pressure on owner Walter O’Malley to keep the Dodgers
in Brooklyn is being applied from all sides in New York. National League club owners meet in New York
next Monday before the World Series, and unless O’Malley and Los Angeles officials
close the Dodger deal by midnight Sunday, he will have to ask the league for an
extension of time to continue negotiations. The National League granted
O’Malley and New York Giants owner Horace Stoneham permission to move to California
at a meeting May 27. The Giants have the green light to move, but as of this
week, not the Dodgers. Los Angeles seems to by dilly-dallying. O’Malley wants
to buy a 300-acre tract in Chevez-Ravine, not far from downtown Los Angeles to
build a new stadium. Also, there seems to be some issues with the Pacific
League. Los Angles Mayor Poulson announced this week that the Brooklyn Dodgers
are coming to Los Angeles, that he had been personally assured that 10 members
of the City Council will vote favorably on a proposed ordinance and contract
which would bring the Dodgers to Los Angeles when the legislation comes up for
final consideration next Monday... stay tuned!
