EAST FAREWELL
NEWS
Thursday, July 22,
1954 Vol. C473
LOCAL
NEWS
DOG “ROBS” BANK
East Farewell - Sadie
is a friendly, mixed breed collie who is owned by Mort Friedman. The two
can often be seen walking down Main
Street or Lakeshore Drive. Most people passing by will stop and say hello
and Sadie is always eager to offer her paw at the greeting. Last Tuesday Mort
went into the First National Bank on Main Steet to make a withdrawal. Sadie
followed him as usual. It is not uncommon to have people bring their pets into
establishments on Main Street or Lakeshore Drive as long as they are well
behaved. Well, Mort finished his transaction and went outside to sit on a
bench. Sadie, on the other hand, had other ideas. She strolled into the huge vault
in the bank where the weekly money transfer was taking place. No one took particular
notice of her because she was very well known throughout town. Unnoticed, she
picked up a bundle of $100 bills in her mouth turned and trotted out. She was
able to exit the bank with the loot and found Mort sitting on the bench. She promptly
and proudly dropped the bundle at Mort’s feet. He looked down but at first
didn’t realize what Sadie had done. Moments later a flurry of bank officials,
guards and police descended on Mort and Sadie. After much discussion,
apologizing and reprimanding Mort returned the bundle to the bank officials. Mort
convinced the officials and the police that he had not trained Sadie to make
the heist and she had done it on her own. The bank officials were happy to get their
money back and did not press any charges, one of the reasons may have been
because Mort is a loyal bank customer for over 20 years. Now when Mort goes to
the bank, he makes Sadie wait patiently outside.
Sadie the dog
SPORTS
TRAVELERS HANDLE COUGARS
East Farewell – In a rare home game
the Travelers were able to defeat the Ondita Cougars, 5-2. The game was played
on part of the reengineered Fair Grounds. The field takes up a large former
racetrack area with home plate located on one of the curves. This is not an
ideal ballfield and the loyal Traveler fans have made their displeasure very
well known. They have been pushing the owners to build a new stadium where the old
stadium stood but burned down in 1952. The owners have consistently said they
are working on a plan but nothing has been seen. Consequently, the Travelers played
most of their games on the road during the 1953 and 1954 season. Only in late
1953 was the Fair Ground option opened and the Travelers were able to come home,
if only for two games in 1953 and four games in 1954. The disgruntled fans nevertheless
filled the makeshift stands and rooted their beloved Travelers on.
Traveler’s
pitcher, Danny Lane, threw a gem, matching his season high with 10 strikeouts. Lane
did not allow a hit until the sixth inning. Lane’s secret pitch in his
changeup. All 10 of his strikeouts were thanks to that pitch. Lane made only
one mistake during the game. Cougar’s slugger Steve Renolds got a hold of one
of his changeups and sent it over the left field fence for a two run homer.
It
seems that the offensive outburst in the fourth was all the Travelers needed to
lock up the win. Johnny Cloos walked to lead off the inning and advanced to
third on a Joey Brown single to right. After Brown stole his 20th
base of the season Arty Archibald knocked them both in with a liner to left.
Billy
Sweet doubled the Travelers lead with a two run homer in the seventh that extended
his hitting streak to five games. In the eighth the Travelers tacked on one
more run string together a double by Dale Dunham and a single by Johnny Cloos.
The Travelers hit the road again next week as they visit the Bedford Bears. The game is an evening game and begins at 7:05 in Bedford Stadium.
NATIONAL NEWS
VIETNAM SPLIT – MACHINE GUN KELLY DIES –
PAAR TO REPLACE CRONKITE – MOST ONLY LISTEN TO TV – UHF STATIONS MAKE A PROFIT
Long war ending (peace without victory) - Vietnam to be split in two - French Premier Mendes-France wins his country a signed armistice in Indo-China. The French Viet-Minh agreement provides that Vietnam will be “temporarily” partitioned near the 17th parallel during an indefinite ceasefire period while French Union forces withdraw from the northern half of the country and leave it to Ho Chi Minh’s Viet-Minh armies.
George (Machine Gun) Kelly, gangster, kidnaper of the 1930’s who once boasted he could write his name with machine-gun bullets, dies of coronary thrombosis at the Leavenworth federal penitentiary in Kansas.
Comedian Jack Paar will replace Walter Cronkite as emcee for “The Morning Show” over CBS-TV beginning August 14. The show began as a news and information series last March and is now turning into a program stressing entertainment.
In a survey, WOR New York says people who watch the morning shows on network TV – 60% of them only listen.
Television station KBID-TV (channel 53) in Fresno, which has been operated by John Poole Broadcasting Co. suspends operations for an indefinite period. Poole said refusal of major TV networks to affiliate with the station was the principal reason for the suspension. Poole also operates KBIG radio near Los Angeles. Poole says there are two other TV stations in Fresno, each share two networks. He says he’ll resume broadcasting when TV set distribution has increased to the point where local advertising can support an independent station. KBID-TV has been on the air six months.
Two UHF station are making
a profit – WCAN-TV and WOKY-TV both in
Milwaukee, report they are
in the black. WCAN-TV carries ABC and DuMont and
WCAN-TV
(channel 19) is CBS.
Many, many
thanks to www.mrpopculture.com for
contributing to this section of the East Farewell News.
