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Show i ? Friday, August 4, 1961 SOUTH SALT LAKE HERALD TiffaeUn,' By Larry Rutherford (EDITOR: You are Invited to lend in questions about sports ears, auto racing, and model building to Mr. Larry Rutherford. Mr. Rutherford Is Interested In your opinions and will discuss them In future columns. Please limit your letters to 150 words If you wished them published. All correspondence becames the property of the South Salt Lake Herald and will not be returned unless accompanied by a self addressed envelope with the proper postage affixed thereto.) Out of 7 Problems 6 are Solved in 54 years Cont. From Page 1 pany found it expedient to spon- tention. We never do think crehave seemed fantastic and quite sor a national contest with tre- atively on any activity likely would have been rejected mendous prizes and to conduct by government. It is not until as the figments of someones wild its own search in order to correct an activity has been freed from the faults of the publicly-owne- d monopoly that creative thought imagination. Now, 54 years later, let us see and inadequate highway system? comes into play. which of these problems has been The highway dilemma has beBut go back to 1900. Could any solved. Has the easiest problem come more and more acute until us then have told how to solve been solved? No. Have the seem- someone other than the public of pre-empt- ed ingly fantastic problems been solIt is easy to say that hot rod Art Arfons of Green Monster ved? Yes, and we hardly give evolution is in a constant dragster fame arrived at the flats them a second thought. state. This is particu- with a new Green Monster deIt is not accidental that solularly true at Boneville Salt Flats, signed to go 400 m.p.h. tions have been found wherever where each year amazing records Englands Cambell Ronald the atmosphere of freedom and are established. hoped to break the record with 1947 John Cobb whipped his the Bluebird which cost 412 private ownership has prevailed In streamliner through the measured million dollars to build and rep- wherein men could try out their mile twice, at an average speed resented the ultimate in British ideas and suceed or fail on their own worthiness. Nor is it acciof 394.196 miles per hour. This racing abilities. feat established a world, record As a result of the large number dental that the coercive force of government when hooked up to which remains today unbroken, of contenders, four of the five a creative field such as transporbut not unchallenged. outfits were in various stages of Up until 1957 it looked as if it readiness at the same time to tation has been slow, plodding, and unimaginative in maintaining was going to be imposible to break challenge the land speed record. and enreplacing its facilities. Cobbs record. Then we were An astounding number of coinDoes it not seem odd that a couraged by Mr. Kenz Leslies cidental tricks of fattf interstreamliner pushing through at vened that year. privately owned automobile com 260 m.p.h. mark; in 1958 Mr. MicAthol Grahm was killed inkey Thompson topped the 290 stantly when his home made barrier; two years ago Mickey car, traveling approximately 350 reached 360 m.p.h. The tenacious m.p.h. hit a cross wind and flipMickey went out again last year ped over. and drove one way over the surDr. Nathal Ostich had trouble face of the earth faster than any with his cars front end. At high other man in history, 406.6 m.p.h. speeds it began to shimmy and The previous one-wrecord the Dr. left the flats to return to was John Cobbs 403 m.p,h, es- the drawing board. tablished on one leg of his record Mickey Thompson finished his run in 1947. first run at 406 m.p.h. and on his Last year an amazing phenom- second run back in the other dienon ocured in the competition rection one of the transmissions for the land speed recdrd. Not a didnt shift into high, and the conmere one or two attempts but necting engine blew up. five outfits were shooting for 400 Arts Green Monster had tracover land. tion problems that hindered his m.p.h. season The was started by Mr. performance. Athol Grahm who, in a test run, Cambell narrowly met Grahms reached 344 m.p.h. in his City fate when his car also flipped and of Salt Lake which was built by skidded nearly a mile. Athol at a comparatively small This year the big racers will cost try again. However, the BonneDr. Nathal Ostich arrived with ville Salt Flats have been inspechis 7,000 horse power jet car and ted by some of the drivers and ''was shooting for 550 m.p.h. His found unsuitable for record atcar, rowever, was not eligble be- tempts. The reason being there cause it was not piston driven. is not a stretch long enough that Mr. Mickey Thompson was next is in good condition. to appear and made several runs The drivers might go to Auin his Challenger 1. stralia for their record attempts. ting Page 3 owner seeks an answer. If the points of ownership had ben reversed in 1900 that is, motorcar development in the hands of the government, and highways left to private individuals we would today likely be participating in a contest sponsored by the privately -- owned highway companies to suggest how to improve the governments horseless carriage so that it would keep pace with the fine and more-than-adequ- the six problems to which solutions have been found? Suppose, for instance, that someone could at that time have described the looks and performance of a 1954 automobile. Could any of us have told him how to make it? No, no more than we can describe how privately to build and operate highways today. John C. Sparks 4726 Seventh Street, S.W. ate Canton 10, Ohio highways. (Reprinted from CLIPPING OF IIow could roads be built and NOTE, NUMBER 63, The Foundaoperated privately? I do not tion For Economic Freedom, New York. know. This is a subject to which gton-On-Hudson, on rone of us directs his creative at Free copy request) Irvin- ay GENE FULLMER BUILDS If You Can Sing, or Think You Can Come to The Singing Workshop A Summer Workshop presented by the National Association of Teachers of Singing will begin August 6 at the University of Utah. The Summer Workshop, one of five being held in the nation, is being directed in the Utah session by Jesse M. Perry and by John Marlowe Nielson, both members of the music faculty at the University of Utah. The five-da- y workshop emphasis will be on voice production in solo or in chorus. Several natco-direct-ion known in operetic circles for his commanding bass voice. John Toms, Northwestern University, will give courses in demonstration lessons. Mr. Toms has sung with the Philadelphia Opera Company and was a tenor soloist at the famed North Shore Baptist Church in Chicago for 11 years. Ralph Errolle, a former member of the Metropolitan Opera Company and presently the Director at the Atlanta Institute of Vocal Art, will teach courses in Italian dictation. As an educator, Mr. Errolle has attained prominence as a teacher of singing, including background studies of vocal science, the structure of opera, platform technique in concert, and is considered an authority in the field of language dictation. Professor Leroy J. Robertson, Head, Music Department, University of Utah, is a renowned composer and teacher. He will lecture on the composet and song ionally known musicians and teachers of singing will comprise the faculty for the workshop. Registration for the Utah workshop session has been received from such places as Iowa, Michigan, Kentucky, Washington, Arizona, Wyoming and North and South Dakota.. William Vennard, Head, Voice Department, University of Southern California will teach an intensive course in voice physiol- literature. Professor S. L. Crawley, Head, ogy. 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