Show softball dball ass n asks support of local teams the tooele thoele softball ass n has completed another season during which hundreds of people in this area were provided recreation and enjoyment practically free of charge due to lack of cooperation from part of the general public and the majority of the business houses it became necessary to call for aid from the city to raise enough money to finish the season in an endeavor to raise funds to carry out the softball program As membership cards were sold at a minimum cost of 1 per card but sufficient money was not available the question must now arise does tooele thoele want softball to con dinue as a part of the summer ev ening recreation program or not there are numerous reasons why it should be continued but none why it should not the chief reason for continuing it being that it pro vides clean recreation and enjoy ment for our youth as well as tor for the older people thereby keeping them off the streets and lessening the problem of juvenile delinquent delin quen cy next there is a definite blant provided for town trade with merchants who show an inclima t on to support this program this support during the past few seas ons his been practically nil it was thought that by placing a mini mum charge of 1 on membership cards enough money could be rais ed from the general public to pay for all playing expenses incurred during the season and that too ele business houses would be wil ling to add enough to take care of the actual maintenance expense and furnish enough trophies for the winning teams this however was not to happen numerous merch ants expended themselves to the extent of buying a ticket for the mm min mum price but to the writ ei s knowledge the tooele thoele drug was the only business house to make an outright contribution it might be well at this point to offer the thanks of the association to both mrs watson of the too ele drug for her contribution this year and for the fine trophy do bated to the winners of the 1946 season which by the way was won bv by mission service and to jay Nel heisel of jays jay s fine foods for the beautiful traveling trophy do bated in 1945 this latter trophy is to be presented at the close of each season to the sponsor of the tooele thoele association championship team and remain in his possession until the calse of the following season this to be continued until one sponsor has had a champion ship team three individual years at which time he gains permanent possession of the trophy no attempt was made this year to get a donation from either paul os motor nash cleaners or corn com amed metals reduction co as they already had gone to considerable expense to sponsor and uniform baseball teams but are the purse strings of the balance of this town s financial district distri ct tie tied d so tight they cannot be opened enough to allow the cost of provid ing this recreation for our city if each business house in tooele thoele would loosen up to the extent of 5 or 10 per year awards could be given to the winning teams the brand of ball would be improved the expense of the association would be taken care of and every merchant and business house would gain back in trade and good will many times over the amount subscribed think it over gentlemen as we have hopes of being able to hear the umpire say play ball a gain next spring signed earl mcarthur tooele thoele softball association mr and mrs mr s J W morgan have returned from a vis t t of two weeks in san francisco california with their son and family mr and mrs walter V morgan on one even ing during their stay mr and mrs sol J selvin who are also in cal at this time called and spent the evening A marriage license was issued to L dale gibson 21 of midway utah and deon alien allen 21 of too ele |