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Show THE SAMPLER Editorials Events Friday, Dec. 5, 1980 Remember when? robber face and bubbling imagination of Lenny Did imagination and fun die with Walt Disney? TVs not singularly at fault, Hollywood is likewise kids THE FIRST time it was aired, I had to tie my Last Sunday, Disneys Wonderful World spot- guilty of losing touch with imagination. I wonder watched religiously, much to my lighted a 25th anniversary reunion of the Mouseke-teer- s how many other people are getting sick of stark down. Now its of the old Mickey Mouse Club. reality and meaningful films with a statement like the long . You actually watched that EVERY day. Dad, to say? Mywife hit upon the reason. .It, kids with treats came from the Ups of my THERE SEEMS to be some hope for us yet. Have running Mr. Rogers Neighborhood, son. offers them POSITIVE THINKING, not GOSII, if you didnt have Super Friends or you noticed that if an independent TV station wants respect . Scooby Doo or the Godzilla Adventure Hour, what to succeed it needs to bring us such tales as the ridiculous drivel. You are somebody. . .and you are important, is did you DO? Crimson Pirate with Burt Lancaster. ...Desk Set DrawWe played outside, made tree forts, had snow- with Tracy and Hepburn. . .or Stagin in the Rata what Fred Rogers has been touting for years. and reit reinforces ball and water bafloon fights and hiked in the woods with Gene Kelly? ing Power takes this foundation, well. Since we now get Cable TV there are. several in- minds kids they have imaginations as a lot, I replied. Gee dad, you didnt have much fonfvhen you teresting changes going on. . .WTBS, Atlanta on In a world suddently caught up in its problems, ends up being an interwere a ldd, did ya? Sunday shows the Cisco Kid and SGT Preston of the where Who shot J.R. Ewing the following solution: Oil, IF he only knew...Today, the television set is Yukon where good guys always win. . .(for a change) national situation, I propose motion pictures. so full of depressing garbage, its hardley worth turn- and a bad guy ends up where he belongs in the slamBoycott all significant major it. . .and start to in Bums with See anything George ing on at all. Immediately following that wonderful mer instead of plea bargaining with the DA. while. . . The little a for ..if hour of magic with Cubby and Annette was a promo NBG has anther bright spot on the Saturday hori- follow once again. just for made you and me.. . for Children of Divorce. zon in a show called Drawing Power featuring the leader erf the band thats By SSG Phil Hale .. . ...... - ' 'vdT'. ' ; ' : By Doug Whey Got my new Dugway telephone directory the other day. So far 1 have found broadcaster David Frost and David Binkley (well almost), there are actors William Boyd, Liz Taylor, and Terry Thomas. You can also find singers Eddie Fisher and Joe Williams along with Jim Taylor, from the political scene - A1 Smith. In sports, baseball's Jim Lemon and Joe Morgan, footliairs Jim Brown and Glen Davis. fame there is Finally frpm Howard Johnson, all in the Dugway phone directory. 1 understand that Channel 4 got so calls about not broadcasting the many or at least some game, scores while they were covering the Utah-BYdebacle, the operator began answering with only, We serve the majority of the listeners, and then hanging up. Oil! SPEAKING of BYU, they play Southern Methodist in the Holiday Bowl. Looking for a prediction! I heard SMU doesnt have a prayer. Of course, neither did Indiana last year. Still with TV. Did you watch Enola Gay the other night? Most of the action took place at Wendover, but that Rendezvous Motel that they tore up was really the State Line Casino, Im told. Boy, those casinos are taking it on the chin. First the one that was so heavily damaged by the explosion, then another one by fire, will a flood lie next? But how do you start a flood? RICK DRIESER is leaving. He goes to school in Alabama, then to -Germany. He and Mrs. Rick will be missed, good luck. They did it to us again. . .how many -- times have you had to shovel for hours out from under those flurries the TV weathermen call for? Just something I came across the other day. Did you ever wonder why they sell poppies on Memorial Day? Seems a lady by the name of Moina Michael was reading a copy of Ladies Home Journal and came across, the poem, In Flanders Fields. It ends with the words, If ye break faith with us who die, we shall not sleep, 52-flav- or USC-UCL- A U -- . though poppies grow in Flanders Fields. She vowed not to break the faith, and started giving poppies to honor the dead of our wars. Now the funds derived from the sale of those poppies go to assist disabled war vets and their dependents. LETTS SEE, wheres my soap box. Ya know, we are pretty lucky. How mapy military posts do you know where the nearest town dislikes the military? Remember, No Dogi and GIs allowed? Not so in Tooele. There Y some friendly merchants down there. You ought to give them a chance before you take your pay check to Salt Lake. Think of the time spent traveling to SLC, when you need service on what you buy. You can find what you want in Tooele, and pretty dam close to what you pay in SLC, especially when you consider your time and gas. While you are chasing Santa Claus and getting ready for Christmas, remember to wish your Jewish friends. Happy Hannukkah. Their Festival of Lights began Wednesday, December 3. Chief of Chaplains scheduled to visit MG Kermit D. Johnson, DA Chief of Chaplains, is scheduled to visit Dugway December 6 and 7. Chaplain Johnson will participate in Catholic Mass and the protest ant worship service at 10 a.m. and 11 a.m., respectively, on Dec. 7. Chaplain Johnson has served as Battalion Chaplain 1st Armored Rifle Battalion, 58th Infantry, Fort ld . Remember before "remember when? by Dick Whitaker who knows to whom the voice of the invisible time was playtime. person Sgt. Hale is showing his age. . .now let me show Shadow belongs. . . him how old I am. I got a chuckle out of his conception of what imagination was and his question, Did imaginaHrtn die with Walt Disney? LET US really return to yesteryear. Out of the west comes the hoofbeats of the great horse. Silver! The Lone Ranger rides again! Then theres the story of wealthy, Lamont Cranston, who during a visit to the Orient, discovered the secret to make himself invisible. And his lovely companion Margo Lane, the only man-about-to- Voyager 1 wn Ben- - Armor, 3rd Armored Divirion, Germany; and Post Chaplain at West Point, New York prior to his being chosen as DA Chid of Chaplains. Decorations awarded him include the Legion of Merit, the Bronze Star with one Oak Leaf Cluster and the All-Americ- .I an mission: a useless journey? g veled this distance to By SGT Dave Pfonick us data with and Theres been a lot of stuff on tele- provide pictures of fact that a and and the Saturn, virion and in the papers lately about Jupiter live picture takes only 83 minutes to rearm the Earth doesnt seem to impress many people. YET WHILE people continue to gripe and complain, the space pro-Therather be watching moreT gwn keeps benefiting our economy & A shows (like Threes Compan ' , and standard of living, or hearing about the budget and ct!- Though it uses less than 1 of our still that are things budget (the average Ameri-th- e going to b6 lias next day. fySTan spent more on monthly pet GRANTED, the budget, theJtYjS- - food bills than it would have if the tages in Iran and the middle eastern five-ye-ar Voyager program had been conflicts are all important and major divided yp between U.S. citizens), newsitems. Voyagers incredible iorur-- great advances have been made in y, however, certainly deserves most everf field. some attention. The space program has given us encounter with Saturn special lifeustaintag machines, mon-wa- s Voyagers several years in the making; from itors used in medicine and insulation the drawing board to launch, and its materials to keep houses warm in the billion-mil-e trek through space. . winter and cord in the summer. traThis hardy little spacecraft has IMPROVED methods of produc mind-bogglin- turj)wal al-ne- -- DECEMBER 1980 i Imagination went out with television, so did mobility. You didnt have to squat in front of the boob tube, you could walk around (as long as you were within ear shot of the radio). THEN THERE were the nights we were allowed to stay up past nine to hear Joe Louis clobber the heck out of somebody who had the audacity to dull- -' How about Kato and the Green Hornet. . .the FBI in peace and war. . .Fibber Magees closet. . .Jack Love a Armstrong, the boy. . could forever. on I gp Mystery? THOSE WERE the days. . .with radio. . .where you had to usie your imagination. You heard the words and conjured up your own ideas of what SGT lenge his championship. A nickle bought enough candy to last all day, but Preston looked like, or the crooks expression as he we never had that nickle. looked for the Shadow. And these programs didnt come on. Saturday No, they werent really The Good Old Days, were broadcast we did use our imagination. in the but morning They evening. Day yd nirig, Georgia; Battalion Chaplain 3rd Meritorious Service Medal. eight-year-o- ing, using and conserving energy have strange and beautiful place. also been pioneered as well as ways to IN AUGUST of 1981, Voyager 2 freeze-dr- y wll reach Saturn before speeding onfoods. Without their advances, satellite ward to Uranus in 1986 and possibly communication for television would be lost. More importantly, electronics itself, for which we depend on more a$d moretta everyday life, would be behind where it is today. So the space program, and television pictures from Saturn, can make a difference in whether man will survive. INFORMATION sent back from these satellites will explain many things, and the spirit of exploration plus the possibility of new inventions and processes will be used to improve our way of life and stimulate our imagination, creativity. These pictures from Saturn may also teach us to look outward instead of trying to hide within ourselves and show us that the universe is indeed a Neptune in 1989 before joining Voyager 1 and the two Pioneer probes before them on their continuing journey through interstellar space. But will Voyager 2 be the last? That depends on the new president and the Congress. But it is strange to think that, whatever the fete of the human race, these artifacts of plastic and metals may yet outlive the U.S. LIKE THE artifacts that will be preserved, we should try now to preserve mans nature to be curious and to explore. After all, it is a proven feet that nations were at their greatest when they sought knowledge and enlightenment, and at their lowest when they turned their backs on truth and the seeking of truth. |