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Show 11 SALT FLAT NEWS, JULY, 1971 WMbfM When you have been associated with bogs for some seven years . . . one can only assume that something beautiful will eventually happen. It did. Jubilation! The Utah frog jump took (dace on the parking strip in front of Cathedral South downtown Salt Lake City on Whiskey Street Some one hundred and fourty green slippery leapers were poised and ready to give it their all . . . biaam the buckshot full speed ahead. A leap of seven feet three inches was duly recorded and that frog . . . was quickly put into a sweat suit and air mailed via special aircraft to the international frog jump in Angels Camp, California. The official Utah frog, representing Governor Calvin Rampton, was now another rung up the ladder to instant success. Hamptons Romper had only to subdue thirty thousand other frogs from all over the world. Preliminary jumps were held for three days on two separate outdoor amphitheatres. Now the the sounding of the trumpets multitudinous choir broke out with a stirring rendition of Utah We Love Thee. Not a dry eye in thouthe crowd of seventy-eigh- t sand spectators. I placed our Romper on the launch pad, get go romp Jump baby em champ!!! 'A tensing of the beautiful thigh muscles of the a chama leap Utah frog by R. N. Goldberger Oh! Wenta frogging down the river in the merry month of May Complete this verse and you might receive a free trip to Calavaras County with this years Miss Frog, the vivacious Lucy Webb. This contest is sponsored by Menzies the largest supplier of logicals Ltd. of Snake Creek, lovely leapers in Utah. The credibility of frogs is com plexing to say the least. Mark Bio-Uta- h, Twain, 104 years ago, was aware of this and in a spree of Missouri ... ... . . . ultrasonic Mach II ... the air cracked with the intake of seventy right thousand thunder struck doubting thomases . .. eleven feet, five inches ... a record? No. But good enough for second place and a glorious trophy for the capitol in Salt Lake City. Word went thru the vast audience that the Nevada side of Wendover had sent a super frog to represent the State Line Casino. It never showed up. Someone said . . . (though not yet authenticated) that the Wendover frog was last seen working as a decoy for commissioner Barker on West Second South to try to stem the growing tide of sexually permissive frogs. So a pleasant flight back to Sait Lake City . . . with a second place in an international event. The standard and customary presentation of the trophy to the Governor on Capitol Hill . . . and the placing of the trophy in the rotunda to cause a flurry of com-me- Wisdom decided to out leap a frog upon a. hundred dollar wager placed by a gaming gentleman from California. Needless to say, Twain won by the frog, though first finishing his cigar in a billow of smoke. Not that the smoke bothered the frog too much, but the gentleman from California, caught up in the Missouri Cloud, stepped back and squashed the frog. TVain, well he won by default and threatened to file criminal charges upon the death of his webbed friend. Today little is mentioned about this tragedy except the annual Frog Jumping Contest held in Angels Camp, Calaveras County, California. Utah prepared for the National Jump last month in a statewide tournament hosted by KALL Radio. Frogs seem to bring out-thinki- NEWS ... pionship jump photo by R.Mennei Will Lucas, Master these here Utahns got em a frog trophy . . . gollee. Mable . . . Frogs are good for tourism. GSLLEET1BS What Is so bold as a toad t A popular salt flat pastime is cutting brodies in the sand. All needed is a wide open space, daddys car, and at least one young female passenger for sound effects. Sport is favored by teens, transmission repairmen. mm OF MAJOR BRAND STAMP SUPPLIES OVER 300 COUNTRIES INSTOCK SUBSCRIPTIONS TREASURE CHEST Ooh! she cried Ho he replied Crooak ooak ooak oak Thumped the toad away. Re. 20S DISCOUNT Auwtti Not you, sighed she upon quiet pads of green oak grr ump comes circum- stances; Tyrannosaurus Rex the 8th came to life in a squat jump that really moved no eyebrows. If one might recall, Tyrannosaurus the 7th passed onward and most probably upward while upon the pad last year. "" thats UTAH'S LARGEST SELECTION LET US KNOW YOUR NEEDS she shrieked embarrassment once a year under normal STAMP ON MOST SUPPLIES lli a load type of his lucky leaper. - - OooTt holds forth Frogs, FROG JUMP TOP FIVE 1971 1 Timmy Spangler (7'3") 431 8th Avenue Salt Lake City, Utah TAMMY 2 Billy Battles (6'4'A") ' 843 West 4th South Sait Lake City, Utah RALPH 3 Gregory Steffensen (6'li") 330 Clark Street Salt Lake City, Utah 4 Dan Bradshaw (5'1T) 200 South Main Continental Bank & Trust Salt Lake City, Utah Will Lucas (5'10") 5 KALL Radio 312 East South Temple Salt Lake City, Utah UP TO ODE TO A WAD of the out the best and the worst in people as Mark Twain probably realized by his froggy inspiration. In all, eighty one frogs and one toad padded off. Will Lucas, master of the frogs, entered a giant frog that for a while looked as if he might have croaked, literally, but, alas, as this nt from the visiting tourists . . . 'lookie that IFrei Jump . . . ... ... 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