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CONTINUING THE SAUK CENTRE NEWS
Questioned
The Legality
Of Machines
Special Meeting of Council
Called To Define
Status
LEFT TO CO. ATTORNEY
Mayor Ordered Pin Ball Ma
chines Closed Pending
Investigation
Following a special meeting of
the council, held last week Wednes
day evening in the Community Club
rooms, at which the legality of pin
ball machines operating in this
city was discussed, Mayor Melvin
Hintzen, upon advice of County At
torney Burns, ordered the machines
out of operation. This action was
given, Saturday morning pending
an investigation by Sheriff Mdn
tee.
The special meeting of the Coun
cil was called following a written
complaint against the machines.
This complaint was signed by four
individual citizens, Rev. P. J. Jan
sen, Rev. Charles Busch, Rev. M. L.
Brann and Rev. J. F. Schumacher,
and was made to the Mayor. These
machines were licensed under Or
dinance, Chapter 203.
On November 12th, 1936, the or
dinance defining the machines to
be licensed and stating penalties,
was published in the Herald, to be
come effective on December 12th,
1936. On December 14th licenses
were issued for a number of the
machines. At the time the ordin
ance was drawn up it was under
stood that a part of the license
fee was to go to the fire depart
ment to finance the 1939 state
convention.
Following the complaint made to
the Mayor the special meeting of
the Council was called for the pur
pose of ascertaining the legality of
the machines in operation. The
question of legality was based on
the automatic payoffs. Being un
able to come to a decision as to the
status of the machines, it was de
cided by all interested that the
matter be left to County Attorney
Burns for decision. Besides the
Council, the City Attorney, the Ma
yor and City Clerk, the meeting
was attended by the complainants,
those who had machines in their
place of business and the propriet
ors of the Herald.
Mayor Hintzen made a trip to
St. Cloud Friday to get the advice
of County Attorney Burns, and was
informed that the Sheriff would
make a trip to Sauk Centre to in
vestigate. Then came the Mayor’s
order to disconnect the machines.
We were informed Wednes
day afternoon by the Mayor
that a number of those, who
had machines in their places of
business, asked to have them
reopened providing they are
operated according to the or
dinance. This was done at a
meeting held in the city hall
Wednesday afternoon. The Ma
yor and the City Attorney were
invited to attend this meeting.
The City Attorney advised the
Mayor that it would be alright
to reopen the machines provid
ing they were opened in accord
ance with the ordinance which
means that they win have to
he operated without the auto
matic payoff, and according to
law. Mayor Hintzen stated that
he will appoint three men as
an investigation committee to
see that the machines do oper
ate according to the ordinance.
The three men he will appoint
will be known to no one, so
that they will be free to go
about and make investigations.
The following is the advice of the
City Attorney to the Mayor in this
matter:
February 24, 1937.
M. F. Hintzen, Mayor,
City of Sauk Centre,
Sauk Centre, Minn.
Dear Mr. Hintzen:
You inquire whether "pin ball”
machines, wh.'ch have no automat
(Contlnued o» Page 4 Column 1)
Will Let Contract
This Week End
Glen Sullivan Will Remain In City
Until Building Operations I
Are Begun
Glen Sullivan arrived Sunday af
ternoon from Los Angeles, Califor
nia, and announced that he will
remain in this city until prelimin
ary erection operations on the fire
razed Sullivan building begin. This
week he is awaiting plans, musing
over bids for building construction,
and conferring with Penney store
representatives regarding the
building. Glen, speaking in the in
terests of his father’s property, an
nounced that contracts would be let
this week end. The Sullivan build
ing, formerly housing the Penney
store, was destroyed in the Sauk
Centre fire of December 6th. Viol
ent changes In the types of weath
er from California to Minnesota,
caused the young attorney, recent
ly associated with the Hennepin
County Bar Association, some
teeth chattering.
Special School Election
Saturday, March 13th
Voters Of District Will Be
Given Opportunity To
Decide Issue
POLLS OPEN AT 10 AM.
Plan To Erect New School
With Government
Aid
In this issue of the Herald ap
pears the notice of a special elec
tion of the voters of this school
district, called for the purpose of
voting bonds for a new school
building. This special meeting of
“The Board of Education of the
Town of Sauk Centre” will be held
in the Senior High School building
in the offices of the Superintend
ent, on Saturday, March 13.
The meeting will open at ten
o’clock in the morning and voting
will continue until twelve o’clock
noon, when the polls will dose for
one hour. They will again be re
opened at one o’clock p. m., and
voting will continue until four
o’clock p. m., when the polls will be
closed.
This meeting has been called for
the purpose of having all resident
voters of the d’strict express their
desires in the matter of the erection
of a new school building and to
vote bonds for that purpose. The
object of the meeting is to author
ize the Board of Education to tear
down the present Senior High
School buildin? and erect a new
high school building, equipped with
furniture and apparatus, and
equipment suitable for high school
purposes.
This election is also held to au
thorize and empower the Board of
Directors to issue and sell negotia
ble coupon bonds for not to exceed
$165,000, for the erection of the new
building. The bonds will carry the
rate of 2% percent Interest per an
num and will be payable January
1, 1938, and semi-annually thereaf
ter on the first days of July and
January. These bonds as to princi
pal will mature on the first davs of
January in each year, and will be
paid as follows: S3OOO in each of the
years from 1939 to 1943 Indus’ve;
S4OOO thereof in each year of the
years 1944, 1945 and 1946; SSOOO
thereof in each of the years 1947
and 1948; S6OOO thereof in each of
the years of 1949 to 1953 inclusive,
and S7OOO tnereof in the years from
1954 to 1967 inclusive. For dda'led
information read the notice on
page four of this week’s Herald.
Owing to delay it is impossible
to give all details of the new build
ing in this week’s Herald. However,
the Board will have a booklet pub
lished which will be distributed in
the city by the Boy Scouts Satur
day and the booklet will be mailed
to the rural voters. This booklet
will explain the bond issue, cost
and size of the building and other
Information in connection with this
project. It is planned to erect the
new bu’ldlng with governmental
aid, under which 55 percent will be
paid by the District and 45 percent
by the government. The salvage
from the present building will be
used in the new structure.
Final Lesson in
Home Program
Meeting Will Be Held In Sauk Cen
tre Community Club
Rooms Feb. 26
Of special Interest to the 550
members enrolled in the Home
Management I project will be the
final lesson on “Making Cleaning
Easy.” Leaders will receive the les
son at six training centers in the
county during the current two
weeks. In Brooten February 24,
Richmond, February 25, Sauk Cen
tre, February 26, Albany, March 2,
St. Cloud, March 3, Eden Valley,
March 4. The selection and care of
equipment for cleaning will be
studied in order to make the clean
ing and care of home furnishings
such as walls, woodwork, floors,
floor covering, and furniture a
great deal easier. Developing tech
nique in laundering will aid mater
ially in taking care of such special
problems as hard water, woolens,
silks and stains. One of the most
interesting parts of the lesson will
be the discussion of house cleaning
hints presented by leaders them
selves. These are hints which have
been founed practical in Stearns
county homes. Simple water sys
tems on the farm will be discussed
and diagrams given for such.
Plans are being made for the
final check up for the Home Man
agement I project sometime in
June which will probably be in the
form of large picnics or tours in
two parts of the county. Interest
has been shown in having a com
bined home management and
Farmyard Improvement tour.
EXTEND AUTO LICENSE
The Legislature has extended
the time for the purchase of
automobile licenses for one
month, the deadline being set at
March 15th. The reason for this
action was given as snow block
aded roads.
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SAUK CENTRE, MINNIE.A, FEBRUARY 25, 1937
EEA Application
At Washington D. C.
No Definite Word Has Been
Received As To Approval
Of Rural Electrification
On February 4th the rural
electrification application for
Stearns county covering 1109
farms and 440 miles of necessary
construction was sent in to the
REA at Washington for consid
eration. While no definite word
has been received as to the ap
proval of the project J. M. Mill
er, chairman of the Stearns
County Cooperative Electric, re
ceived a letter from Arnold E.
Sukrow of the development div
ision stating that the applica
tion had been received and that
it was in the process of anal
ysis at that thne. This letter was
dated February 19 and definite
word as to approval is expected
very soon. Since the application
was sent in, a number of farm
ers have signed up to go in on
the program and most of these
are along proposed lines so they
can probably be taken care of to
good advantage.
Kitchen Range
Exploded At
L. Hintzen’s
Fire Department Called—
Stove. Was Badly
Wrecked
WERE GONE FROM HOME
Clogged Pipes In Waterfront
Cause Of The
Explosion
Sunday evening at about seven |
o’clock, the fire department was
called to the home of Mr. and Mrs.
T, p. Hintzen, 212 Walnut Street,
where the kitchen range had been
destroyed by an explosion, and a
fire had resulted from the burning
coals which were scattered about.
I Mr. and Mrs. Hintzen were at
the home of Mr. and Mrs. G. A.
Rein when the explosion occurred,
and they were notif’ed of the fire
by Miss Pauline Dahlem, who was
visiting at the home of Mrs. Aug
ust Dahlem, neighbors.
The stove was blown to bits, and
it was indeed luck for Mr. and
| Mrs. Hintzen that they were not at
home, for parts of the stove were
thrown to the ceiling and the walls,
with such force that holes were
driven into the plaster. Bes’des the
damage done to the ceiling and
i walls, the linoleum and a curtain
was burned, while the entire inter
ior of the house was covered with
soot. Mr. H’ntzen had extlngu'shed
the fire before the arrival of the
department, and he notified Central
to that effect.
Readers will recall a similar ex
plosion, which occurred at the
I Schaub home, west of this city,
I some years ago, at which time the
daughter was badly inlured. This
explosion was caused by clogged
i pipes in the water front. The pipes
are clogged either by frost or rust,
and both are dangerous and very
apt to cause similar explosions.
{ Mr. Hintzen stated that for
■ about a week prior to the explos
, ion he had heafd a pounding noise
'in the stove and pipes, and had
made investigations. However, he
believed the pounding was caused
' on cold days when it was necessary
I to use more fuel. This was not the
' case, and we have been told that
the pounding noise is a s’gn of
danger and should be a signal to
have the pipes and water front ex
amined to avert a catastrophe of
this nature.
There is no doubt in the mind
of Mr. Hintzen that had they been
at home, both he and Mrs. Hintzen
would have suffered Injury—pos
sibly fatal. The damage is covered
by insurance.
WARNING NOTICE!
Boys are warned to stay away
from the Fair Grounds, as several
of them have destroyed property
of late. Much of the material des
troyed is government property and
action will be taken by the govern
ment if the boys continue their
depredations.
Signed Fair Board.
COMMUNITY CLUB
MEET TONIGHT
Members of the Community
Club will meet this evening
Thursday, at the Community
Club rooms beginning at 8:00
o’clock for the discussion of im
portant community problems.
President D. B. Caughren, re
cently elected incumbent, is
anxious that all members will
be in attendance at this his first
meeting in the presiding offic
er’s chair.
Local Scouts
Will Attend
Jamborees
Russell Larson Made Applica
tion To Attend Internation
al Event In Holland
75 SCOUTS IN TROOP 25
Raymond Berggreen And Rus
sell Plan To Attend Na
tional Scout Meeting
Two Scouts of Troop 25, Raymond
Berggreen and Russell Larson,
made application to attend the Na
tional Jamboree at Washington
next June and the latter applied
tor a place among American Scouts
to go to Holland next summer to
the seat of the International Boy
Scout Jamboree. ,
Applications were filed through
the local Scoutmaster, R. B. Kowal
ke, this week as the ever-increas
ing ranks of Troop 25 boasted the
addition of a l|ih patrol of eight
boys from St. haul’s Parochial
School, boosting’, the membership
banner of the trjjop to a personnel!
of 75 Scouts. *4
Responsible for this influx of
new blood into the Troop is believ
ed to be the Anniversary Week ac
tivities. Scoutmasters are agreed
after a checkup that the Court of
Honor and the handicraft displays
enticed these youngsters into the
organization. The group will func
tion as a patrol, W’ll meet with the
regular troop meeting, and Bob
Markson is their patrol leader. The
group includes: Jim Arneson, Arn
old Lais, a set of twins, Harry and
George Rowland, Allan Polipnick,
Jerry Paquin, and Anthony Wien
er. Ode Fish, not old enough yet, is
functioning with the patrol. Said
Patrol Leader Markson, “They’ll
be Tenderfeet in a month.”
While the troop goes along, the
two boys who will attend National
and International Jamoorees make
their plans. Ray and Russell, both
Life Scouts, win be among a group
of 35.000 American Scouts in a tent
ed city in Washington when the
Jamboree opens on June 29th. Fol
lowing a two weeks encampment
there Russell. w’ll sail, in a group
of some 800 or 900 Scouts to Hol
land to the International Jambor
ee. A two weeks session in company
of Scouts from all over the globe,
Russell, it is planned, will be
among the Scouts who will make
a week’s tour of Interesting points
in Continental Europe.
Play Final
Scheduled
GameTonite
Will Meet Glenwood In Splen
did New Gym—District
Meet March 2
Tonight, Thursday, Harvey’s
Main Streeters will attempt to take
Glenwood in their stride in the fin
al game of a full schedule and with
only four days layover until they
are tossed into the maelstrom of
district competition.
Scene of tonight’s game will be
Glenwood’s new gym where the lo
cals will battle only a few days
hence among eight teams for dis
trict supremacy beginning next
Tuesday, March 2, and continuing
until the final championship match
on Friday evening. Alteration in
the schedule was concluded last
week when the night for the game
was changed from Friday evening
to this evening. Harvey’s Maraud
ers are given a nice break in being
able to test their ability on the
Glenwood floor only a few days
before they trek to Glenwood on
the final, lap of district competi
tion.
Even while Sauk Centre—one of
the four "seated” teams eliminated
from sub-district play—is battling
Glenwood, fourteen schools in two
tourney seats will be fighting far
four coveted positions to enter dis
trict competition. Seven of them
will meet at Brandon, and seven at
Long Prairie; and two winners
from each section will find places
along side of the teams of Glen
wood, Alexandria, Long Prairie,
and Sauk Centre in the district
playoff.
The locals will meet first on
Tuesday evening with the winner
from the sub-district matches in
cluding the four teams of Deer
Creek, Villard, Brandon, and
Evansville. One of these four will
play the locals in the first round
encounter.
From there on in it’s anybody’s
tournament. Providing the locals
tuck the first match under their
belt, it is the assumption that Alex
andria will bob up on the second
round horizon. Although the pos
sibility is not too remote for Long
Prairie to take the Alex crew. The
tourney is jammed with chances
for upsets and a dark horse this
year. Alex has gone great guns; the
defending champ, Bertha, is not
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Oscar Klonne
Has Announced
His Retirement
Entered Business In This
City In 1894—Came
Here In 1892
Oscar Klonne, whose stock of
harness and accessories was par
tially destroyed in the fire which
wrecked the Dußois building on
Main Street sometime ago, an
nounced that he has retired from
business. He has sold his stock to
B. O. Vogel, who plans to conduct
a harness business in connection
with his coal and dray establish
ment. He will dispose of the har
ness stock he has purchased from
Mr. Klonne in the building on
Main Street formerly occupied by
the Palmer Shoe Shop, next door
to the Vogel coal office, and the
balance of the stock will be taken
to the Dobbs building, the old Mer
chants Hotel, on Third Street
Mr. Klonne came to this com
munity from Germany in 1892, and
for six months was employed on a
farm. He then entered the harness
business in the employ of Louis
Krosein. Mr. Kroesin quit business
and Mr.Klonne was employed by
Dowdy & Stringer, from whom in
1894 he purchased the business.
For 44 years he conducted a suc
cessful business in the city, and his
ret’rement came as a reward for
faithful and honest conduct of that
business. He first located in the
Bruce block, next door to the Wal
dorf Cafe, where he continued for
28 years. He then moved to that
part of the building, now occupied
by the Waldorf Cafe, and four
years ago he moved his stock to
the Dußois building where he con
tinued until fire destroyed the
building.
When S. C. Bjone retired from
; business, Mr. Klonne took the place
as the oldest merchant from point
of service in the city. Mr. Klonne
says he arrived in this community
s’x months before S. P. Hansen,
Sr., who through the retirement of
Mr. Klonne takes the place as Sauk
Centre’s pioneer merchant.
Soil Conservation
Checks Awaited
County Agent Has Received No
Word As To When Checks
Will Arrive
The arrival of the soils conser
vation checks is anxiously antici
pated by all soils co-operators in
the county and likewise by the of
ficers of the association. Although
all forms have been sent in from
the county agent’s office at St.
Cloud for payments on the soils
conservation program, no word has
been received as to when checks
will be coming. The amount of
time usually necessary for the ar
rival of checks has past since the
forms were sent in. This year the
auditing of the forms and the pay
ment of the checks is being taken
care of in the Twin Cities and it
was earnestly hoped that payment
would have reached the county by
this time. A few of the surrounding
counties have received some of
their checks although a number of
counties to the south just recently
sent in their applications and pay
ments in those counties will be
even later than in Stearns.
Concerning the 1937 soils conser
vation program mention might be
made of the fact that the celling
figures for soil depleting and soil
conserving acreage for the county
are expected in a few days and af
ter that the county committee will
work out a soil depleting and soil
conserving bases for each farm.
When this is done each and every
farmer that is considering go’ng In
on the program can definitely
make his plans as to how his farm
will fit into the 1937 program.
ENLISTED IN ARMY
Henry S. Gillies, son of Mr. and
Mrs. J. W. G’llies, of Sauk Centre,
enlisted on February 11, 1937, in
the regular army. He chose as his
organization the Third Infantry,
stat'oned at Fort Snelling, Minne
sota. The Recruiting officer stated
that Henry is another young Amer
ican citizen, who has seen fit to
cast his lot with Uncle Sam, and
will now be able to take advantage
of the many opportunities offered
by an enlistment in the anny.
Checks on Wheat
Program Received
$2500 Paid To 131 Farmers Classi
fled As W 59 Cases In
Old Project t
Almost all of the last wheat
checks for the old wheat program
were received in the county agent’s
office, St. Cloud, from H. G. Borg
man, treasurer of the association,
on Monday of this week. The num
ber received totaled 131 and in
volved the payment of about $2500.
All of these were cases which were
classified as W 59 cases. This group
of producers took advantage of the
privilege in 1935 of planting a
greater acreage of wheat than the
terms of their contract provided
for. The AAA in making this con
(Ceatiaued on Fags 4, CoL I)
VOLUME SEVENTY—NUMBER THIRTY-NINE
APPLICATIONS FOR
SEED AND FEED
LOANS NOW OPEN
May Be Made In Sauk Centre With
Gordon Morse Over Merch
ants National Bank
Applications for
and feed loans for 1937 are, now
being received at Sauk Centre by
Morse & Morse, Real Estate Office,
Merchants Bank building by H. M.
Johnshoy, field supervisor of the
Emergency Crop and Feed Loan
Section of the Farm Credit Admin
istration.
These loans will be made only to
farmers who cannot obtain credit
from any other source, as provided
iby regulations issued by the Gover
nor of the Farm Credit Adminis
tration. The money loaned will be
limited to the farmer’s immediate
and actual cash needs for growing
his 1937 crops or for the purchase
of feed for livestock and in no in
stance may exceed S4OO.
Farmers are not eligible for these
loans if they can borrow from an
individual, production credit asso
ciation, bank, or other concern.
Emergency crop and feed loans will
not be made by the Farm Credit
Administration to standard rehab
ilitation clients of the Resettle
ment Administration whose cur
rent needs are provided for by Re
settlement
As in the past, the security for
these loans will consist of a first
lien on the crop financed if the
loan is for the production of crops,
and if the purchase of feed for
livestock, then a first lien on the
livestock to be fed. Landlords, or
others having an interest in the
crops or the livestock to be fed,
will be required to waive their
claims in favor of the lien to the
Governor of the Farm Credit Ad
ministration until the loan is paid.
Checks in payment of the approv
ed loans will be issued by the Re
gional Emergency Crop and Feed
Loan Office at St. Paul, Minn.
WOULDJA BTRIEVE IT-
Main Street’s Never-Never
Man is no more. For the man
who had never taken a train
ride, finally took one. 22-year old
Clarence Nathe, on his return
with Joe Frank from Minneapo
lis last Monday, boarded a train
for the first time in his life and
he thought it was great. The
toys had attended the Minneso
ta-lowa basketball game that
evening. Clarence has threaten
ed time and again that he
would hop a train and travel as
far as Melrose —just for the
ride. But somehow he never got
to it.
Interesting Tour
Through Texas
Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Sorenson Re
turned From Southern Trip
Sunday
Fishing tales that will make local
anglers green with envy are the
property of Androv/ Sorenson, and
he talks impressively of them and
of the opportunities that the young
State of Texas affords. Mr. and
Mrs. Sorenson returned from a two
weeks’ trip in Texas in and around
Corpus Christi where Mr. Soren
son viewed business opportunities.
At Point Isabelle along the Gulf
coast Mr. and Mrs. Sorenson enjoy
ed a bit of surf fishing. Equipped
with deep sea tackle, long pole, big
reels, and weighted lines, Andy said
casts were made into the surf from
the shore of two hundred feet. As
the bait is carried in on the break
ers, red fish snap at the bait. They
caught some red fish, dandy eat
ing said Andy, the largest weighing
17 pounds and the smallest 8. And
Andy caught himself a nice sun
burned countenance as well.
Business, Mr. Sorenson viewed,
was good. Everyone was busy,
there was little complaining and
few WPA projects as he went his
rounds of investigation. The open
ing of oil gushers near Corpus
Christi has provided that town with
a boom seldom equalled. Two years
ago the population was 18,000; to
day it has leaped to 45,000 inhabi
tants. Within expectation voiced by
business heads that the growth will
reach 100,000 within the next two
years. Living costs, quoted Andy,
are about the same as tn Minneso
ta. “Except that vegetables and
fruits are cheaper,’’ he mentioned.
In the oil section of Texas Mr.
and Mrs. Sorenson viewed many
interesting sights. Crude oil and
much natural gas are found in
abundance, and the unmarketable
gas is sent up in flaming torches
day and night. The gas is piped to
a clearing and set blazing. At night
these huge candles make an im
pressive sight. Number of wells dug
each year is regulated by Texas
Conservation laws.
Along the Gulf Coast weather
conditions are ideal with an aver
age year around temperature of
less than 90 degrees with cooling
trade winds. Tourists flock to this
section, said Mr. Sorenson, and the
fact that McEllen, a town of 9,000,
boasts this winter 15,000 persons is
significant.
Mime. Cina Cigna, noted Italian
singer, made her American debut
when she sang “Aida” in a recent
Metropolitan Opera presentation.
Sauk Centre
Won From
Melrose Fri.
Game Ended With Score Of
18 To 17 In Favor Of
Locals
LOST TO LITTLE FALLS
Independents Took The Alex
Firemen—“ Fat and
Lean” Exhibition
It was the usual Melrose-Sauk
Centre rough house Friday even
ing. It was scarcely a victory for
the Hanveymen when they defeated
the Melrose quint 18 to 17.
In fact, it was what might be
termed a moral victory for the
Ramblers. Slated the underdog in
this skirmish, the Melrosei lads
early put on a fight that was des
tined to keep them in running with
the locals throughout the entire
stiretch. Their loss by one point did
not represent a very healthy de
feat in the light of the fact they
scored from the field as many
buckets as did the Sauk Centre
lads.
Had not Donny Ethun, local sub
stitute forward, been pushed on
his face in the cloeing minute of
the game, the locals may not have
won and the assumption is that the
game would have proceeded into
overtime skirmishes. With the
score deadlocked at 17-17, Ethun
was fouled when he was thrown
to the floor from bodily contact
with a iMieirose player. Awarded the
shot, Ethun stepped up aS the
crowd hushed into silence —as he
held the game in the balance. His
shot, a swish, and a few seconds
later the bark of the gun gave
Sauk Centre the victory—and the
heroics to Donny.
A drouth of shooting and a
dearth of basketball marked the
progress of this annual roughhouse
event in the Melrose gym. As the
boys churned up and down the
court for four quarters of the fast
est play, a crowd of several hun
dred—including nearly a hundred
local students—shouted encourage
ment and turned thumbs down in
true Roman fashion. In fact the
whole display reminded one of the
ancient gladiatorial contest —only
who was the domineering Roman
soldier and who was the innocent
gladiator is hard to tell.
Ethun had to be thrown flat on
the floor with arms oustretched
and nose snudged against the floor
to win that ball game. Snyder,
Melrose guard was tossed into a
barrel roll and then a three point
landing when Hoffman barged
down the floor headed for his bask
et. The unsuspecting Snyder was
thrown completely off the floor and
with arms and legs flaying out in
unrhythmic giratlons suddenly was
brought to the maplewoods with a
crash. There were other such hap
py incidents for the spectators to
gloat over, too.
Looking like the figures from a
first grade arithmetic problem was
the score at the end of the first
quarter. Walker took the first
bucket to tie two free throws of
Melrose. Some idle cavorting up
and down the court with mad
dashes and scrambles for the ball,
committed fouls that were not call
ed, and the boys forgetting to pop
at the basket marked the re
mainder of the quarter.
Second quarter styles looked up
and Reble tosed in a onehand flip
shot. Kleber tied it, and Walker
snatched at the lead again after he
rounded another bucket in. Kleber
came right back with a break from
the comer for an under shot. Ar
vig reclaimed the lead when he
sailed in for a set up, and Walker
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Independents Will
Play Monday Eve
Will Meet Brooten In Junior High
School Gymna
sium
In an attempt to sharpen their
game for the coming tournament
at Brooten, Sauk Centre’s Inde
pendent eagers will meet a fast
Upsala quint on the local hard
woods next Monday evening. Game
time is scheduled for 8:30 p. m., in
the school gym.
Though the Independents haven't
been much in evidence to local
fans this year, they threw out their
shingle last week when they top
pled the strong Alex Firemen crew
54 to 48. Their early season en
counter with the Upsala boys
found them forging ahead as the
game progressed and left them vic
tors at game time. Upsala in this
return schedule is out for the boys’
scalps, and it should be a real ball
game.
Manager John Dußois, though
somewhat uncertain about his
schedule, announced that arrange
ments are being made for a game
with Holdingford to be played next
week Friday evening locally. Hold
ingford took the local boys in an
early season encounter, but a dup
lication of that factor is going to
be difficult Definite announce
ment of this tentative arrange
ment will be published later.