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Show &t 9 Jeasid. . . ! By SECOND-GUESSER ' Wednesday morning, about the most down-hearted person in Milford was our very dearly loved athletic coach, Perry Neal. Actually, his face was so long we wouldn't have recognized recog-nized him except for the familiar sweater he wears. And the reason for his sorrow wasn't that his boys lost the ball game with Hinckley, and their last chance to go to the state meet it was because of the breaks that took the game away from us. The boys really won the game they outplayed Hinckley all the way, but tough breaks made the difference. A lot of other folks must have noticed Perry's forlorn countenance, counte-nance, for late Wednesday evening eve-ning the letters started pouring in to The News office. We don't have room to print them all this week, but some of them appear in our "Dear Ed' column, and we'll publish the rest of them in the next issue. They're all the same, tho "We have a wonderful wonder-ful coach, and we surely want him back next year." We talked with several of the old basketball stand-bys, and all agree that Perry is "the best coach since Cotter." We didn't have the pleasure of knowing Coach Cotter, but in our opinion, opin-ion, if he was better than Perry Lee Neal he was a whiz. Two years ago, with what many fans consider tetter material ma-terial than the 1949 squad, the Tigers didn't win a game. Last year they won one the game with Beaver on the Milford court. This year, with Coach Neal taking over a relatively inexperienced in-experienced team (only two re- j turning starters, and only three ! others who had seen service), j the boy from Texas turned out1 a team that had the fans goggle-eyed, goggle-eyed, losing only one game at home and that a non-league contest.. con-test.. Most Tiger fans still feel that we have the best team in the league, and the credit of course must go to Coach Neal. We join the rest of his boosters boost-ers in saying "Thanks, Perry. You gave us a great team of swell basketball boys, who were good sports, and who respect and admire you." We surely want you back again next year and for many more years. A Every summer, when the sun gets to boiling down and the children start getting in the old folks' hair, someone starts wondering won-dering what's going to be done about our swimming pool which the State Board of Health has annually condemned and each year except last year Continued on Page Two HERE'S MORE ABOUT ! BUNKO (Continn-.'fi from Page One) ! finally okchcd for operation. This year, the folks are doing ;-r !-io thinking' r.bout it a little earlier. A group of taxpayers the guys who'll pay the bills have been discussing it. and agreed that the only way we'll have a place for the youngsters, to swim is to float a bond issue I and build a good pool. As we figure it, and we've tried to place the figures pretty high, the taxpayers would have to pay about $3 for each $1000 of tax valuation to build a S35,-s 000 swimming pool. That's based on a 20-year bond issue, at our one million dollar valuation. valua-tion. Perhaps some of our financial finan-cial experts will disagree, but 1 we believe if they do it'll be to show that the cost may be a little lit-tle lower. The fact is that our swimming pool was a fine one at one time, but it's just a tank on the side of the . hill now we can't use it. The only way we can give our kids a chance to swim is to build a pool. And, actually, it won't be the "little fellow" who will pay the bill the larger taxpayers, the corporations, will pay for most of it. These boosters have asked The News to try to find out if the property owners will approve a $30,000 to $35,000 bond issue to build a real swimming pool. It's up to the property owner do you want it or not? Mail a card to The Milford News today and express your feelings. WILL YOU vote for a bond issue to build a swimming swim-ming pool? If it's done in time for operation this year, we'll have to "get on the ball" and move fast, or it will be too late to vote the bonds and construct the pool. Write us TODAY! The Milford Parent-Teachers Association and the Milford Lions are really in earnest about their program to get some playground play-ground equipment at the Elementary Ele-mentary school. The P.-T. A., in addition to sponsoring book reviews, etc., has contacted most of Milford's organizations requesting re-questing assistance in the financing, financ-ing, and Claude Horton, chairman chair-man of the Lions committee, has collected a goodly sum of cash toward the pucrhase price. But they still need more. This playground equipment is sort of expensive, and if you want your children to enjoy the equipment mail a check for anything from a buck up to Claude Horton, or take your contribution with yo-when yo-when you attend the P.-T. A . book review, Monday, March 21. Mrs. Vena Wilson, in the high school auditorium, will review the best seller "Dear to My r Heart," by Sterling North. |