The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-05-03
SOUTH BRITAIN BRIEFS
By BILL GARRIGUs

Myron Stearns, Greenwich au- thor, spent Sunday last at New Horizons, Ken Walton's home- gtead in Paradise. MT. Stearns won the Tydol first prize of $25,- 900 about year ago, he is an author of top-flight calibre and a former associate of Cal Coolidge. He thinks that one of the tough est things that America might have to cope with would be one more term of Herbert Hoover.
 One Of the toughest problems s0uthbury faces is the unscramb- ling of schoOlhOuse names. An- other newspaper recently made the error of calling Pierce Hollow School wrong just because the townsf0lk moved the building up the line to avoid too close q con- tact with the inmates of tho new state institution. Pierce Hollow isn't very much these days, but its enough to fight for It's school house. Sam Pierce will back us in that statement, and Sam is . mean man when he gets started. If anybody thinks there's Q "Pine Tree School" in Southbury, they better look at the records.
 Educational institutions retain their names despite occasional LlPta i.. Iaoa tiaf1 Va1a HailanA 0at moved from Saybrook, and from other places, but 1t remained Yale. Pierce Hollow School has just as much background as Yale ever had and it's still the same old school. Any attempt to change the name will result in startling repercus- sions, even If we have to get Bill Wilcox to quit farming and go into the political game to help us re- tain our independence. Gosh, when folks moved Yale oil they needed was couple of yoke of oxenl It took 6 couple of Mack trucks to move Pierce Hollow School.
 The Gilbert Property on the ridge above Paradise has been sold to . New York family. We, have some acreage in Tophet to offer . GotRamite who really wants to get away from 1t all. Tophet is almost as pretty as Par adisc, too.
 Ken Walton reports the loss of two copies of "They Found 6 Way. Ken goes strong for that book and he loans 1t to folks who for get to bring 1t back He claims that's because it's such 0 swell piece of honest literature.
 The funniest sports picture of the week was three fishermen casting for trout while . fourth whipped out inspiring tunes on . banjo. The music was swell, but the fishing was not so good.
 Bill Scheilke came down from sauaw Rock last weekend to look over the township. Bill wore his slicker and his usual smile. It rains 50 often at Squaw Rock that e man cannot safely leave home without the protection of Q rain- coat.
 Since the Germans took over Norway, the chalrmen at McCar- thy's Store have been busy dis. cusslng tactics and taking sides. Ray Oberstadt and Sam Pierce got into an argument just the other day about the merits of British soldats. Ray claimed that His
 Majesty's troops never even knew how to fight the American Indians. Sam said the Injun didn't fight fair, that shooting from behind trees wasn't cricket. He thinks Britain might win the war yet, if we could send her c couple of mil. Hon Tanks to do the fighting.
 The ineanest trick we've heard about was pulled by those imported Pennsylvailian window washers who came to, town, secured board and rooms. and then took 1t on the lam when the job was done without paying up. Local people gre just as handy ct washing windows as anybody on earth. If the State Training School needed clean windows, all they would have had to do at Hartford was to send