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1.THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1956.Hawley, PaIndians Feature in Lake EventitionheldidaleiWcs--lSor,Unit‘sentforat a? of :1 a 1 e, Co-rher dis Th lt;'man ■riali/od.intv? ofM T.01 l ineonPrincess Nemanic (contor) with Billy Soose, at right, andChiel Climbing Bear at Aquacircus.litertoVies.T A:Trophy Awards“Public Pulse999rur-nithcollHeld at Paupackwp.rwpi gl i -Final Boat RacesTour RevealsShow A Big HitP(ij ularity of the water .skithrili bill as a new type of holiMry,Trophy awards and final racday entertainment feature forjig events held at the waterfrontLakeWallenpaupack’s Labori at thelon-be(-Oil -12 1 — fIbov|)ro]iorty of 11. T. Axford, Pau-paek, last Saturday and Sunday dosed a week of races scheduled under sponsorship of the Lake Wallenpaupack Yacht Club in which 21 sailboats participated.Trophies weiv awarded Sunday afternoon, Sept. 2, to the following skippers and their crews:1. Sabold Uornet Trophy Art Lallocque.2. Robbins Handicap Trophy (Comets) Roger Compton.3. Comet Fleet No. 138 SeasonAward: First, Art LaRoeque;second, Judy Fret/., and third,Roger Compton.1 Robbins Handican TronhvDay week-end crowds was evidenced in comments obtainedin a 'public pulse” tour of the lakefront this week following tin* show, as well as during theevent and after the crowd lt;|spectators returned to their cars parked at Billy Souse’s whenthe Aquacircus became history on Sunday.“Tremendous. It was the greatest spectacle ever seen o.1the lake.”Those were Billv Soose’s ownwords for it, but since his opinion might be considered biased,157 or 1178FIVE CENTSBiggeraquacircusIn Plans for 1957New Yacht ClubNot Co-SponsorOf Lake EventHillv Soose, owner of Mountain Retreat, occupying his former training camp site off which91Aquacircus was held last Sunday, said today that the newlyformed Lake WallenpaupackYacht Club had participated inA t -A %no way in presenting the Read ing Ski Circus’ thrill show last Sunday.Reports that the new yachtcluh charged admission to the big event just aren’t so,” Soosesaid. “They didn’t. 1 did, togetherwith Walt Schneider, who ran the show, and co-sponsored tin* Aquacircus with me.“These silly stories probably arose from the fact tfiat the yacht club was buying some ground from me a 200 foot frontage of my 2200 feet on thelake and I planned to give them .( civic salute as a real neighbor would to celebrate the (went.“1 brought the Aquacircushere and this show cost a lot of money to get it together and let the people here for the holidayknow about it as something fromwhich they would get real thrillsand entertainment as a specialevent. To make it self-sustaininga reasonable admission foe .simply had to be charged. And now that it’s over we know they allagreed that the show was wellworth the admission charge.“My agreement with the newyacht club about the restrictions involved was supposed to havebeen signed neatly thive weeks ago. It was postponed until theirlawyer and mine reached agree1 ment, and then the question of additional ground for parking space for the yacht club members came up. We’re still tryingPlans already were under waythis week for a bigger and better Lake Wallenpaupack Aqua-circus early in the 1957 seasonas Summer and year-round residents alike along the lakefront reported virtually unanimous approval of last Sunday’s waterthrill show held off the beachat Billy Soose’s Mountain Retreat.It was pronounced a big success, especially so because the Aquacircus was a hurriedly organized first attempt to give the thousands of Labor Day weekend visitors in the lake andmountain regions a spectacular event to attend.The all-star, water-thrill show by the Reading Ski Circus apparently scored another first in tin1 opinion of many who saw it. According to their comment, theLake Wallenpaupack Aquacircus was unique, in that a huge flotilla of all types of boats—outboards, inboards, rowboats and canoes, most of them filled to capacity with holiday water sportsmen added a colorful aspect to an already spectacular event.It was estimated that nearly 100 boats were anchored off Billy Soose’s lakefront and nearby or pulFd ashore so boatmen couldwatch it from that vantage point.The shore and boat audience totalled about 7,500 adults and children, according to Billy Soose, former world’s middleweight champion, who sponsored llie (went. Its co sponsor and producer was Walter E. Schneider, Philadelphia public relations man who conceived the idea of presenting the Aquacircus as aholiday feature to emphasize theEast Cost's largest man-made body ol water as the leading inland boating and water skiing center of tin1 future.Indian atmosphere for the crowning of “Princess Nemanie”Lois II. Jakubowski of
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Honesdale Citizen Times
Honesdale, Pennsylvania, US
Thu, Sep 06, 1956
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