El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-03-30
B|TULITHIC| IS
GIVENA BLOW
School Board Raps "Mon
ster's" Head, Then Dis
cusses Vacations.

Faso Bitulithic company saws the
school board owes IL and which is the
same ST20 which made school trustee
S. J Freudenthal slam a few oratorfcaI
wallops under the chin OF c E. Kelly,
I formerly known as Boss" Kelly. We'd
nesday, danced into the limeiight at
Thursday nights meeting Of the school
board, at the Bailey school.
! Prudential brought the 500 on the
stage.
THAT same $500 these Bitulithic peo-
: pie say We owe them is going to cause
the retirement Of several members Of
this board very shortly-maybe." said
/ FreudenthaL
He was referring to a sum OF money
that the FL Paso Bitulithic company
says the school board owes il for paw
ing part of Leon street in front Of the
Franklin school Some OF the mem
bers of the board standing for reelec-
tion state as their beliefs that the
Kelly school board ticket is a Bitulithic
ticket. started by that company so
that it can control the board.
School trustee J. c. Worthington
wanted 10 know right off the bat who
authorized the Bituhthic company to
-ay the pavement
Il guess Stevens did" said Freuden-
thai. taking a sly poke at the Re
publican member OF the board. c. E.
Stevens. who the Kelly crowd says
controls the school board
Stevens went after the Bitulithic
people in the style OF the scrapping.
twO-handed slugger which he has the
reputation FOR being.
Table It, Says Stevens.
This bill IS on the table he said.
1T is out OF order TO bring il ~ now.
When the Bitulithic-owned school
board gets IN office, let them pay
for it."
The question then came up IS TO
whether the board members could be
bill When some OF those present said
that they thought that was possible,
there was a slight stir
IF the bill wasn't properly pub
lishecs and J hear that IL wasn't. may
be nobody viii have TO pay for it,"
said trustee Msyfield- But ny opin-
ion is that the bill IS legal, and that
We ought to pay" he added
Battling Stevens was against any
such compromise.
IF we haven't got money TO pay.
now are We going 10 settle for it,
President Z. u whitaker here in !
terjected again that the members |
might be personally liable.
At this remark Battling" Stevens I
put over his star punch
1t looks to me-" he cried. "as Il the /
Bitulithic people just run around and !
pave any damn place they want TO. and 9
we have to pay the bill 1 don't be- /
lieve we can be held personally re- .
sponsi6le for any bill we didn't con- :
tract"
schools to Close on Time.
But the school board did other things |
besides discuss paving
Get this, high scAoui boys and girls.
If your principal and your faculty
say you do your work up TO scotch. the
high school viii close on Nay 81 and B
you VIII not have 10 make up that
week Of school work you are still be-
hind on account Of school starting late .
this year.
The grammar schools will close May
81 also.
Maybe the san Jacinto school whose
boys thought they would be out of the
Dau league by lack Of equipment. Will
get a chance after all Their request /
for equipment refused at the last
meeting of the board. was referred TO
the external committee Thursday night /
ana the chances for the bail team look
favorable.
BOsco Gets Contract for Wall.
The bid Of George r Rosco OIL the
construction Of the retaining wall for
he high school stadium was accepted Z
NJ Bosco's bid was s197S, which was
1886 lower than the bid OF 4 T. POns-
lord anu company.
F. z. sawyer, auditor and purchasins,
agent for the board, received d big
BOOST when the report of the auditing
which went over the school Z
books, was read. The report said his
looks were in remarkably excellent :
condition, both as TO accuracy and !
leatness.
4 Military Instructor.
The announcement was made that !
col. Joseph Garrard. United States
.rmy retired, had been appointed as
in military science at the
Ugh school.
1t looked as II superintendent P J. ]
-ighe might put on an exciting last
ct for the show. but the board mem
'ers were tired and wanted to 20
iome, 50 the act fell flat.
People are running about town say
ng that ] held back the salary Of q |
chool teacher FOR two months, saying !
ne had no certificate TO teach in Ii
'aso schools when she had such a
ertificate all the time" he declared
The board knows that is not true"
superintendent Tighe admitted after
he meeting that he was referring TO
he case OF Miss Lula Jones.
President Whitaker said the board J
7asnt able to go around answering
be idle tales of tattlers.
All seven members Of the school
GARD were present They were: z
L Whitaker, president; 5. !. Freud
nthal, secretary. A. L. Hawley. ". d.
layfield, J. c. Worthington, Charles {
! Stevens and Scott c. White