The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1948-03-04

Up and
DOWn
the Street
The Tribune Herald is Joined
by all thUe local business people
in welcoming the basketball
fans and the teams who viii
be here for the southern div
lslon tournament this week
end. We hope your stay in Har-
DIN will be pleasant and that
you will call on us to serve you
IN any way we can.
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Credit where credit is due de-
partment: We're a little late.
but we do think the people in
private homes who housed bas-
ketbaH team members during
the district tournament deserve
a mention. They include Mrs,
J. S. Simmons, r. G.. Riley, Mrs,
Z. w. Traphagen, A. E.. Wal
born, R. A. V1ckerS, j. r. Wick
erS, the Rev. Ben Nelson, Ben
Teller and E. L. Jacobsen.
Pay was offered for the use
of the rooms to all these hosts,
of course, but we know of some
ardent fans who wouldn't &C
cept any remuneration.
The tumult and shouting isn't
quite dead, but it's gradually
dying-and as a result of. all
the yips, growls, screams and
groans of pain that issued from
the lips of those who didn't get
reserved seats for the basket
ball tournament, We have come
to the conclusion that the only
way to keep everybody happy is
to enlarge the gym more than
somewhat.
The poor old Chamber OF
Commerce, which handled the
ticket sale, has had a rough
time. 1t was suggested to some
of the officers that sale of re-
served seat tickets is time-con-
Stunning for teachers and has a
tendency to keep the junior
and senior high school offices
in quite an uproar. So the
Chamber agreed to handle the
sale-Aand got nothing out OF
it. Therefore it does seem a bit
unfair to land in the middle Of
that group if you didn't hap
pen to get your ticket. It really
wasn't their fault.
The attitude of school auth
critics seems to be that if there
are going to be so many gripes,
no one On the faculty wants to
have anything to do with re-
served seat sale. The net result
may well be that next year
there just won't be any re-
served seats at all. That viii:
make it a little rugged on the
business people, who are loyal
fans, because they can't make
it to the gym as early as the
kids debut who could blame
the teachers?
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At this point, We wish to
make it clear that we do not
favor enlarging the seating
capacity of the gym unless it
can be done very economically
indeed, unless the school dist
riot can find thte money first
for better grade school facil-
tiles, g
There are many things that
need doing In the district but
from where we sit the thing
that is needed worst is a new
building for the grade school
The primary building isn't toe
bad, and the junior high school
has fixed things up pretty well
for our older boys and girls
but the in-betWeen-ers are in
a bad way. The superintendent
is probably as unhappy about
it as we are. He has to be- sat-
isfied with a very inadequate
office in the worst building Of
the system.
So when we suggest anything
that might be done to Spend
money on our school plant-we
want it clearly understood THAI
unless it will cost practically
nothing, we don't favor it, un-
less funds for a new grade
school building can be made
available first. We wonder il
the taxpayers would stand fod
a bond issue for a new build
ing. We personally would bs
willing to have our taxes up
ped for that particular purpose
We might figure we didn't have
too much room to talk if WI
weren't on the tax rolls, but
since we are, we figure we car
shout our heads off about
spending money for a specific
and good purpose. After all
we'll get it in the pockstbool
too.
- E.ssH n4.a ~ E. ~ NJ, 80