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Show j rM3 . 1951 HILL TOP TIMES Speed Champ of "Gay Nineties" Page S Civilian Softball Team Planned .Organization of a Hill AFB civilian softball team is being Planned by a d group of individuals in the maintenance division, according to E. H. Abplanalp, sheet metal shop. A meeting of. all ball players interested in joining a civilian soft-ba- ll club is being set for the 17th of April at Monroe Park in Ogden. We would like to urge all Hill employees who play softball to meet us at Monroe Park next at 6 p.m.," Abplanalp said. Tuesday one should bring his own "Everysoftball equipment and come ready for WHEEL ALKHK3IT Save tires, springs . . . and maybe a life! Let us check your wheel sports-minde- practice," he said. alignment today. Drive up! HANK has the Finest available ment . . , Consciencious mechanics with lonir warn of exoerience. ENGINE OVERHAUL on EASY TERMS AT . . . HANK'S Auto 2564 DIAL Must Make Room for "STAPLE HAPPY"? mre man a uuzen world u"pi racing in the early 19008. He is shown above pictured in the Police Gazette fifty years ago. yi y, v tivyyit 8 in bicycle e was Racing Champ of 1900's Thrills on Saucer Track y;le ;:clls Jorotby G. Nelson but fifty years ago bicycle t riding today sounds like kid stuff was the top sports attraction, with crowds as large as 100,000 rs around fag to see the champion cyclists pedal their 2M track for $5,000 purses. j two-wheele- luez jumerson Avenue, salt Lake Uity, can about bicycle speed classics of years ago. And jrihould know au aoout tnem,-i was the toast of the bicycle tralia where the world's largest awaited the fastest J around the turn of the cen- - money prize cyclist. Hopper was the only American to enter. Hopper, "Over a hundred thousand people old Hill their way into the Sydney, jammed in the employee Australia racing park to see the machine shop, chamDionship race. Hopper re held more than called. a dozen world's Hopper came out the winner and records in bi- received the $4870.00 purse. cycle racing in After that race, Hopper's fame the early 1900's. He returned Hopper still errew internationally. i holds the world's to America and competed in track record for the events all over the country. ?per Today e "pin-u- p boy" in the A fastest quarter l made on a cycle a quarter Police Gazette, Hopper is now conin 25 and 35 seconds. This tent to leave the speed records to )ri was established at the the younger generation. ns Salt Palace Saucer track in "The last 50 years has made quite ILake City in 1905. a difference," he said. "When you M in those days before autos compare the speed records we I lirplanes, a bicycle was one of bragged about in the nineties to the test means of transportation," speeds they're attaining today in jHopper. "As almost everyone airolanes. you reauze juai "bike, clubs and racing teams much things have changed." :Hman C. Hopper, i many avyarn - 71-ye- .." ar ; The woes that confront the many good people in the message centers around the base are but one of the biggest many headaches is the problem caused by "staple happy" characters. "Staple happy" refers to individuals who insist on putting 8 or 9 staples into interoffice envelopes when one staple would do the trick. Actually, no staples at all are necessary to keep correspondence in interoffice envelopes, according to message center super- 1951 VALLPAPER PATTERNS See Our Close-OBargains ut " 2552 its arrival at the message center, it consumes a lot of time to pull out unneccessary staples. "So," pleads all message center workers: "Please don't use more than one staple in an interoffice and in most cases envelope don't use any at all!" Wallpaper and Hardware Co. Washington Blvd. Phone ed As 9 TO 12s STATE visors. As most correspondence has to be taken out of the interoffice on envelopes and time-stamp- Service Ogden Ave. Further information on the contemplated civilian softball team may be obtained by calling Abplanalp on Ext. 645 or M. Jacobsen, paint inspection unit, on Ext. 443. -- CHECK YOUR LET US 8479 $5.95 Plastic Garden Hose Special $3.95 Shall Ye Save! Ye Sew, So FABRIC SPECIALS do ALL one-tim- your scuinrj ORGANDIES, Chicago bicycle FASHION THAN SEE WORir ' 9 at Layton 1860 m -- TO DEMONSTRATE THIS! 12 OPERATIONS P. Plenty of Parking Space TO ELECTRIC PORTABLE - .'34.50 SEWING MACHINE EXCHANGE. INC. HOT LUNCH! COMPLETE DINNER FROM 65c Fountain Sandwiches Pastries BREAKFAST SERVED FROM 6 A. M. OPEN UNTIL 10 1Q CA ELECTRIFY YOUR TREADLE : - STOP TOMORROW FOR A DELICIOUS SUNDAY M. DAILY AND ii Get That Old Machine Ready for Spring Sewing! CONVERTED TO ELECTRIC CABINET 39.50 Up from Up from CONVERTED Up from SERVICE! FAST arte i MACHINE FAMOUS SEWING MACHINE EXCHANGE BASE to KIM net SfWINO ASK MINUTES HILL AIR m PRINTS oeFonc & ADLER from 9CJ ....... Pastel Shades, 72 inches wide FRUIT OF THE LOOM witty." m there it was "clear cycling" er. He whv do vou want your little boy copped many of fueling records and in 1902 to sleep in that high bed?" " Professional. "So we can near nun w w then travplri tn Aus falls out" LESS ".. 79c o$1.19 79c ,o1.49 FORMAL NETTING, the country." got his start OVERHEARD the "Gay a date in night dub: to Girl an-in the l another drink, have race at the age think I'll so makes you PRINTS Crinkled, Plain Jformed all over s how Hopper fn the last year of he won second Jjjjf. RAYON PRINTS 2274 Washington Blvd. SEE THE ADLER TODAY 118 South State Open at 9 A. M. Salt Lake City Phone 7657 |