El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-04-20
SCHOOL BOARD
# PASSES BUCK "
Old Board Defers All Bust
ness; High School Ath-
letes in a Hole.

a disposition to shelve all but urgent
business was evident at the meeting Of
the school board Monday night, it be-
ing frequently pointed out that a new
board viii take office in May and the
present board being perfectly willing
TO let IL wrestle with some of the prob
lens that are now cropping up. Mavor
Tom Lea, who had been invited TO be
present. was prevented from attend
ing Frank b simmons acted as chair
man. r. L Holiday, j. c. Worthiug-
ton and H. R. McClintock were in at
tendance
Charles W Reukauf. athletic director
Of the high school, presented a petition
from $50 students and teachers at the
school, asking that the stadium at the
new high school be put in shape for
baseball. Supt r. J. Tighe inter
rupted with the comment that the
work is already done It was decided,
however, that If more work is needed.
the money should be taken from the
recreation fund.
High School in the Hole.
Mr.. Reukauf then went on to explain
that the high school sports were not
meeting expenses The AlamoEordO
football contest last fall cost SS3 in
expenses and only IS was taken in at
the gate. THE Washington park fences
are too low and have too many holes"
he explained Basketball has netted
nothing and, in fact will mean a net
loss of between Sis and S12O on the
season Just now Mr.. Reukauf is per-
sonally responsible for bills agEregat-
ing about S15S. The pupils were en-
deavOriuC 10 Iquidate this debt, but
he felt that in view of the expenses for
the debating team TO Austin and like
expenses, they should not he compelled
to be digging down" all the time.
Mr.. Worthington remarked that it
was a shame to expect the students TO
meet all these expenses. but Mr. Nc
Clintock was Of the opinion that the
students should take care of it.
IF we take any pride in athletics in
our schools, we can't expect to have
the students putting up money all the
time for what reflects to the credit OF
the city" declared Mr.. WOrthington-
Mr.. Holiday insisted that the school
board had no authority to pay for any
such bills and Joined with Mr.. McClin-
took in asking Mr.. Hughey to get be-
hind the students and raise the money
Superintendent Report.
Superintendent Tighe submitted a re-
port on attendance for last month The
net enrolment was 1876 and the aver
age attendance $40. The percent at
tendance was 81, but Mr.. Tighe pointed
out that holy week and bad weather
had both affected attendance during
the month. There was an increase in
the net enrolment over the month last
year OF 11S1 and in the average attend
ance of 900
The school census was then taken
up and il vas pointed out that this
must be taken between May ! and June
1. Leave IL over to the new board
declared Mr. Simmons.
The superintendent asked for some
desks for the new building at Beau
school Let the new board do it," was
the comment
Superintendent Tighe reported thai
the average daily attendance at the
BeaU school playground, after school,
was 347 last week
The report Of the advisory committee
on recreation grounds was then pre-
scented by Mr.. Tighe. He had started
to read il when he was Interrupted
with Leave it to the new board" but
he persuaded the board to listen to It.
sTO H with Ifs"
Mr.. Holiday took exception to the
clause IF the Civic league" and re-
marked, ITO h with their ifs" He
was informed that the Civic league had
$1,000 to use and il rested with them
whether or not they gave it to the
board.
Mr.. WorthingtOn then remarked that
tennis courts would benefit only a few
and that they would take up a lot OF
ground where others could not 60
The suggestion for an auto to be used
BY J. H Slime and Mr.. Tighe then drew
comment from Mr. Holiday. Let the
new board take up the question Of the
auto. 1 move that We thank the COM