Show X va ta T OWN t kil IN ot HER atia arta M 66 0 V r 0 9 BO N S haus ritu R 1 father FI flanagan anagan r in urgent plea for quick aid af says heartbroken heart broken that must refuse more than boys A year dormitory Is Bs essential this newspaper has received the following communication from father flanagan Fla foulder and director of boys town popularly knon as the home of americas amentas homeless hoys boys 1146 homeless and abandoned boys of all race races Coor color saml sand creels creeds from fi om 48 the states of the union have already been mac mace 0 o good american citizens there here in me past 3 cars ne nat A a single sing lie one of those boys is in a jail or penitent pe penitentiary iary today familiar with the splendid work lie he is carrying on in we are arc most happy to reprint father Faia gaii s I 1 her in our columns editor boys town faces a crisis last las year we were forced to refuse admission here tomo r than boys I 1 almost two a day because we just the room to care for them the boys now living at my home at boys bays town tax our facilities to the utmost we are always filled hayz cl capacity we haven t room today for another indie boy what are we going to do da hundreds of them are pounding in 9 at our door and begging to be let in I 1 the homeless boys in the far country of america in your city and your state who wh need help have implicit confidence in us them they always have had they feel that when they need us we will be ready and able to help them to give them what ask which much all they ask is a chance to make good american citizens of themselves possibly some ome day some seme boy very close to you or to your readers individually may need us not dad bad boys I 1 homeless for neless boys arent bad boys tarris ther no such thing as a really bad boy boys have already left cef my illy home and gone out into the world into the 48 states of 0 the union earh one is isnow a sel seN supporting inspected citizen of his community not a single one is in a jail or penitentiary today why I 1 say theres no such thing as a realy bad boy but what are we going to do going to happen to those hundred of poor helpless boys we must now nov bar the doors of boys ton against tach each year 1 I only wish you and your readers could sit with me in my office for A few hours some day and see the heartbreaking heart breaking answers of no we th avent the room we ave must give I 1 aliese poor helpless boys who collie acme to us I 1 tell you its heartrending heart rending I 1 only wish you could see sec the amazement that lights their eyes to think that society you and I 1 should refuse them even a chance to make useful upright men of themselves es the terrifying disappointment written on their innocent little faces then you too as I 1 do would lie awake nights asking yourself to be lone going to become of thebe boys its a ter tible question to have running through your mind during al of your waking and sleep ing mg hours I 1 can tell you I 1 know how eager crime is to lay its foul hands on them and claim for its own iveel my responsibility in this matter vory ry keenly I 1 feel as though boys town is faling fa Jing down on oil the job and its a sickening realization I 1 can tell you no help from church or s ale As you know we have bave never re boived any financial help from church or front from city acty state or federal governments community chests etc my home at boys town has hag been supported solely and entirely by the great started generosity of th the e continued on page 8 I 1 BOYS TOWN CRISIS continued from paged page 4 aall american people boys town is for ALL boys so long as they are homeless and need our our help it always has been it always will be we have taken all boys regardless of of race color or religion we ie shall always continue to do so BO the american people have never failed us in our hour of need before I 1 know they will not fail us now must have dormitory boys town needs another dormitory I 1 only wish nash I 1 could impress up on you how flow bad bady y it needs it our other facilities are adequate enough for cor time being but we must have a place to eat and sleep for the more than boys who mho now beg shelter here each year only to be refused because of lack of room with that new dormitory doii tory then we could care for those boys along with the ones already living here 1 I cannot tell you how bow grateful I 1 am to the san juan record for the splendid thing you are doing for us along with other newspapers throughout the country through your build boys town contest 1 I only hope and pray that for the sake of the poor little homeless boys of america it proves a glorious success america wilia not fail when the omaha nebraska man whose modesty is even grea terr err than his generosity insisting as lie he does thra th A we do not even mention his name came to me with the I 1 tion of cf the contest and offered to put ithe the prize money and bear all inci 1 dental mailing expense out of his I 1 1 own pocket I 1 hesitated the people of america have been so generous to us I 1 hate to call upon them azain again but with the cries of those more than helpless little boys ringing in my ears every on f whom could be and is anxious to he be a good american citizen tomorrow if he only had the chance I 1 dare to call upon them to be even more generous I 1 know they will not fail their homeless boys CONTEST EASY the contest is simple and easy and the prizes should shoud be very attractive trac tive to your re adeis and since it costs your readers nothing to enter they would be taking your paper anyway I 1 sincerely hope the vast majority of them will see their way clear to help us you and your newspaper have been most generous in allowing such a large part of each subscription price if of our readers will take this way of helping help ilig boys B town by joining in the contest then construction can start on our new dormitory building within a tery ery few months in the name of the homeless boys who have gone from boys town into the world the living here with me the hundreds we have been forced to refuse help hell and whom now I 1 hope we can care forin the name of all homeless boys of america those now homeless and those who will be homeless on some 7 future day I 1 thank you from the L ottom bottom of my heart gratefully yours rev E J flanagan feet higland high hig hand and less than 5 feet thick in its thinnest place double arch is two arches in a V shape form and at its highest point is 11 18 feet high tile the longer arch of the V is feet I 1 long the shorter feet in one place in the monument there are arc three major arches all over CO 60 feet in length and 40 feet in height within yards of each other ether WEATHER on march 15 18 inches of water fell at monticello and on march ag 16 inches fell there is froin 1 to 4 feet of snow on the north side of all building in monticello and Blanding most of the snow in the fhe open consists if f small email drifts BASEBALL the softball equipment has arrived and a call has been made for all base to report for practice no holdouts foldouts hol douts will be tolerated we expect to enter a forest service softball ball team in the town league clerk bill hines will ill act as team i manager GENERAL I 1 supervisor heywood ye returned turned wednesday from a trip to blanding monticello A and bluff he reports that roads are very wet and slippery to blanding and bluff farmers are very cheerful as prospects are arc good for bumper crapsi crops I 1 this year water conditions are much better than has been the case for a number of years stock both sheep and cattle have wintered much better than was anticipated dut duding ing the cold I 1 period in january from all indie indic 1 a tian on the spring ranges will be good stock v watering reservoirs will have ample vator ater |