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About The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 24, 1927)
HOOD RIVER GLACIER. There’s Just one boy In Hood River high sch«M*l who doesn’t “hat bat” about half the people he knows. No matter where ypu see him he always has a cheery smile aud a genuine “hello”. He plays on the football team in an inconspicuous place, but he plays that position as though he meant it. He Is small and has red hair. He’s the. senior class president. Do you know him? Hats off to “Wally,” Lloyd Inwrenee Kincaid was elected yell Wallace. leader for junior high school at an as An old gray haired man. with a pas sembly last Friday. Dprotiiy Huggins and Helen Hicks played a violin duet sion for bis pipe and football has held accompanied by Miss Carolyn Wilson. a lonely watch over the practices of the Five girls dressed like negroes, played Golden Tornado. From the first prac several selections on tissue paper cov tice until now. through rain or shine, he has -watched the team develop from ered combe. After five weeks of diligent study a clumsy, slow team into a fast, charg and preparation of their speeches, the ing one. He seems to consider the team debate team received a great shock last as his own personal pet. He said that week when they learned that they had Jie was not worried over the outcome l>een working on the wrong Question. of the Armistice day game. He also Under the direction of Miss Ruth Gil said that he was confident that Hood more, the debaters and their alternates River would beat Eugene and that he have spent much time for five weeks would not have missed the game for studying the question : “Resolved, That anything. This white haired old gen the policy of federal subsidies to the tleman who loves football so much is state, accompanied by supervision Carroll Day’s grandfather, ' W. M. should l<e abandoned.” The error came Stewart. about through the fact that the team Ernest Garrett, former runner for H. thought they were classed in the mid Columbia section, while in reality they R. JI. 8. who Is now a student of O. 8. are in the North Central division. Bo C.. celebrated Armistice day with his now they are using every minute pos folks in Rood River. Ernie likes the sible to advantage on the subject >■ “Re school and is training for the mile solved, That the government * should twice a week. He says that he appre develop the hydro-electric power plants ciates the fact that he gets his tabbings in Oregon." The time allowed before early in the evening, so that his sleep their first debate with a rival school is not interrupted. is not yet known, so there is, of course, Girls in the gymnasium «lasses are some anxiety over the question. planning to learn a number of new games this year, under the lfadership The Hood River high school wiU have a Are department of its very own of Miss Vesta Scholl, girls* physical education director. Soccer, speed ball, soon, according to Robert Fuller, ical, and newly appointed fire chief. volley ball, and folk dancing are on the Knight, high school principal, list of future activities, and a girls’ meet may be held. At present appoint<>d Mr. Fuller fire chief of the track coming department, Novemlier 16. He the gymnasium periods are spent In drills and basket ball. A also asked Mr. Fuller to appoint 12 gymnastic class in tumbling has also been organ other boys to be In the fire department. ized. > It is expected that Mr. Fuller will use the sixdla system in the coming evefit, Miss Margaret Cauller, H. R. H. 8. and fill the fire positions with fellow graduate '27, who now lives tn The students of the radical group. Mr. Italics. expects to enter the Oregon Knight has asked Mr. Fuller to assign Normal school, at Monmouth, In Jann- three boys to a fire hose, and as there •ry. _ ______ are four of these In the building twelve boys will be nsed. These boys at time Miss Arisona Sawyers, former H. R. of fire drill will run to these stations, H. 8. instrwtor in the commercial de and unwind the hose in preparedness partment, la now teaching In the Park Rose high school, Portland. Miss Saw yers likes her work there, and reports that she has charge of girls* physical education, as well as commercial sub LARGE APPLES jects. '1 _______ CITY TAX BUDGET Notice is hereby given that at the meeting of the City Tax Budget Committee of the City of Hood River, Oregon, on Nov. 14,1927, there was proposed and adopted an estimate of the money to be expended by the City during the year 1928, Which estimate, together with the report of the present condition of department'funds, is as follows: * 1,100.33 1433.13 WANTED Lights McKinley high school, Honolulu, Ha waii. has recently organised a Boys’ Work Council, which helps out the work of the hoys’ clnba in school. Ac cording to •’Pinion" the high school paper, this council will tend to make the school lietter by having its organ izations work toward better aim—to serve McKinley. The plan calls for a council composed of one boy elected to represent ea<-h dob in school. Eighteen hundred students of the Benson Polytechnic high School. Port land. are pulling for an auditorium in which they «-an accommodate new and Commissioner Foreman ..., Camel One of life’s great pl is smoking City Water Department Bond Sinking Fund Amount at Tax R mi Budget Committee Statement of Road Fund November 1st, 1927 J Common Council on December 19, 1927, at which time any taxpayer or penon present hie objection to such proposed expenditures.