Show TWIXT AND A TWEEN with OREN PROBERT last week the tooele thoele county schools opened their doors to greet hundreds of young children who were anxious to begin nine months of book learning of course there were exceptions to the rules of anxiety and for some of the less energetic students it was like lead ing a horse to water it always seems that there are a certain few to whom education is nothing more than a drudgery or a new empen ence forced upon them by hard boiled school teachers and bersu sive parents at least it was that way for me I 1 was reluctant to accept my father fathers s advice concern ing education but now it is easy to real ez how differently I 1 could adapt myself to studies if only there was another beginning such reasoning is typical of human na ture tute but I 1 started high school with an inferiority complex because I 1 was scared seared to death I 1 graduated from the eighth grade in ibapah and in ibapah there is no institution for higher learning my folks were determine de ed that I 1 cont nue school so one bright day in september I 1 found myself starting at the tooele thoele high school imagine of you can a thirteen year old kid fresh from the coun try and as green at the grass cast into the midst of five hundred city kids as a complete stranger why I 1 hadn t seen so many people be fore in my life they actually push ed me into the school house they rushed me up and down the halls like mad they would push me to one side then to another and I 1 could hardly navigate they would crowd in front of me glance at me as though I 1 were stupid and then laugh I 1 decided it was to too 0 deep for me and that I 1 was going back to the country I 1 made in my y way to the closest door open ed it and heard some girlish shrieks how was I 1 to know what was on the other side I 1 had never been there before in fact I 1 hadn haan t see an inside bathroom before es specially Pec ally lally one with female fixtures when I 1 d d get outside I 1 started to run for the sage brush but this aroused suspicion and ten fellows pounced upon me removed my pints pants turned them wrong side to and called it an initiation youre you re probably wondering 1 if f there is a point to this story there is first I 1 want you to understand just how I 1 felt I 1 t know there was existence beyond the valley of ibapah I 1 d heard about the outside world through conver cation and by reading books but that wasn gasn t reality I 1 d heard a bout people but mine were the only ones I 1 knew oh folks would come and go through the piss pass in the mountains only I 1 was too busy growing up to be con berned with their disappearance then my folks brought me to too ele the ranch required their at so they had to leave me for the first time homesick scared alone back ward I 1 was all of that and more too and if it t been for mrs peter G droubay at whose home I 1 stayed I 1 would never have gone to school but her thoughtful understanding and gentle ways gave me the courage and urge to go she watt watte ched hed over the green country kid fresh from ibapah and I 1 for that I 1 am forever grateful when school started last week gail gall lee and danene probert be gan to go through the same ex peri ence I 1 had they came to tooele thoele from ibapah because iba pah pall stil have an tion of higher learning this s not only true of ibapah but of wendover as well dozens of kids reach teach the high school age in these distant communities of tooele thoele county each year some of them leave home to further their edu cation while others never have the chance but in either case they will grow up and pay taxes for the rest of their lives they 11 marry and have children and these chil dren will have two strikes against them unless something is done to improve local conditions several months ago the state papers carried stories of wend over s request to become a part of nevada they were laughed at two weeks ago the chronicle published shed a petition from wend I 1 over people requesting a high school they are being laughed at again these requests arent laughing matters and it might be well to ask those officials who hold the keys of power why something isn t being done for the western part of the county something about the roads schools medical attention communications etc etca why collect their taxes when so little is given back in return why couldn coulden t a boarding house be built in tooele thoele for country 7 9 A program such as this could be very enczur aging and would entice backward kids who otherwise remain in the country if these suggestions are too re mote for actuality then some powe powers rs feel mighty proud of them selves and wendover and ibapah should never expect to become a part of tooele thoele county in reality they should form a cour county ity of their own and tend their ow own n af fairs like mr says I 1 wouldn t drive that roid to ibapah again for a thousands dollars dol lars neither would a politician the jaycees helped d patrol braf fie fic on the bonneville salt flats during john cobb s speed attempt members present were speed gun derson jack bee gerald holiday and myself mrs gunderson and beverly went along for the ride its quite a build up to see mr cobb go by you wait five hours to see a ten second flash someone asked me why tooele thoele s public library was on the same street as all the drunks seems there are a lot of folks who won wont t let their children take advantage of the library because they are afraid to let them go up east vine after dark andy of andys andy s shop as two dogs Frit fritzius the seeing eye dog and spotty a mongrel youve all seen fritzie but spotty is the home guard he watches over andy andys s children and every time one of them goes on to the road he properly chases them off last week while trying to keep one of the boys out of the path of an oncoming car spotty was hit in the head now as a result spotty is s blind in one eye there will be a meeting for the V F W s in the Edge mount decre aaion hall sept 18 1947 it is urged that all members attend so there will be some means ot of unity in discussing veterans pro beems in the meantime if any vet yet eran wants legal advice contact scott howard of the local chapter food for thought at the last aycee jaycee meeting dale james city m manager and guest speaker ed the best of all governa governments ants is s that which teaches us to govern ourselves |