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Show Wednesday, March 30, 1977 Western Spring Series At Park City April 6,7 Apco Oil Corporation, an Oklahoma City based affiliate affili-ate of Northwest Energy Company, will sponsor the Western Spring Series of alpine races to be held in Park City. Ut. April 6, 7 and it. 10. The Western Series is an important part in the chain of domestic races planned to give young ski racers an opportunity to challenge the nations's best and improve their own standings as they progress competitively. John McMillian, Salt Lake City, who is Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer for Apco stated, "Wre believe in the potential of these fine young athletes and feel that sponsoring the Western Spring Series is a way of helping the continuing continu-ing grow th and development of ski racing in our country. We are happy to be able to participate in a tangibel way in the advancement of both our national Team and the many fine young regional ski racers from the various divisions," he concluded. Speaking for the US Team, F. Warren Hellman declared, "This commitment commit-ment on the part of Apco Oil is consisten with the recent trend of American corporations corpora-tions ledning their support to amateur ski racing in this nation." Hellman, President of the US Ski Educational ir gporte Newspaper Makes Headlines, Wins B' Competition in Annual Media Medley Race You may think this, too, is some sort of sick joke, but the Newspaper team comprised com-prised of Jan Wilking, Bob Rosen and Hank Louis, by the slick tips of their skis, took home the first place "B" class trophy Saturday from Park City's 13th Annual An-nual Media Medley. (If you don't believe it, drop by the office-you can be sure the little pedestaled metal trophy is being showcased. ) Despite the fact that their Business Manager had told them the course would be Giant Slalom -despite the fact that they were clamped aboard a combined ski length of 618 centimeters, the local newsboy threesome slid through the tight little slalom course down Blanche in a combined time of 74.7 seconds, barely waxing out a tough and non-commercial KUED team, which finished second in 75.4. Third place went to another black and Stick With The Winners, Subscribe MOUNTAIN w I X 1 RESTAURANT Red Snapper Foundation, the fundraising arm of the US Ski team, continued. "Every instance of this king of confidence on the part of American business busi-ness clearly demonstrates Miner Mermen Go Down For Third Time The Park High swimming team went down for the third consecutive time Monday, losing to the South Summit Eels 59-2. Throwing even more of a dampener on the evening, two Miner swimmers drowned drow-ned during the meet. Back-stroker Back-stroker Barry Cuda went to the big meet in the sky when he became entangled in the lane-dividing ropes and breast stroke entrant Sal E. Mander, son of State Senator Jerry Mander, succumbed when he accidentally swallowed swal-lowed a chlorine cake which was lying on the bottom of the pool. The Miners have repeatedly found their styles cramped this season by much tougher Region Nine poolsharks. white entry, the Ogden Standard Stan-dard Examiner, whose boards wrote an 82.1 time. After the awards ceremony out atop the luxurious picnic tables fronting fron-ting Payday and the mountain moun-tain of Park City-at which the Newspaper showed with no intention of winning anything but a few free beers-Wilking, who may just be the next to follow Farky Needleman's Ski School Dropout steps, credited the Ski Rack. "Without their wax job it wouldn't have been possible," he said. "It was a brilliant selection." Louis thought more highly of the ample Miller supply. "I'd go through the gates forever if there continued to be brew at both the starting gate and finish line." Rosen was unavailable for comment. He was last reported repor-ted seen strapped to his 210's atop four Double Jack bum that the free enterprise system can support our national teams without gov-ermental gov-ermental intervention. We are grateful for Apco's involvement." Having sunk to the bottom of the standings. Park City's only hope for salvaging a win seems to be in their upcoming upcom-ing splashoff against the Wetbacks from the Utah School for the Landlocked. The mermen's shapely coach Ann Fibian. the only female coach in the league, was exhausted after the Eel meet, having administered mouth-to-mouth resuscitation resuscita-tion to nine Park High tanksters who were pulled from the pool by spectators. Not exactly looking forward to next year. Miss Fibian predicted, "What with graduating grad-uating seniors and drowning underclassmen, Park High's swimming program may very well go down the drain." ps at one time, calling for his shorter Omeglass. "A" Class The 'A" Class was won by another swift Ogden Stan-ard Stan-ard Examiner team in a time of 64.8, reported by Marc Paulsen, Bob Johnston and Blaine Glassman. Second place, with a time of 67.8 was the Salt Lake Tribune, and rounding out the all newsprint top three in 70.4 was another Ogden Standard Examiner team. (We would like to have seen the Sunday Standard Examiner.) "C" Class KLUB AMFM, better known as the "Bad Baggers," Mike Doubray, Bunk Robinson and Brad Parkinson, bagged and took back to the air waves the first fir-st place "C" trophy, skiing to a time of 83.4. Local kid-nappee kid-nappee Bill Orwig led KT-VX-TV to second place in LIVE ENTERTAINMENT Fri. Site Save Hogges Country Slues & Folk Singer NO COVER Saturday Nile COUNTRY 3I 9-1 :30 Denny Takes Norwegian Ski Week If Jim Denney's jumping results in this season's inter-: national competition are any indication, the United States is well on its way to a new era in the traditionally European dominated sport. There are two more national jumping champions in the Denney family to carry on the dynasty, Jeff. 18. and Jon. 17. The 19 year old U.S. Red Team member, Jim, a youngster compared to world class veterans, began his Norwegian competition with a victory over experienced ex-perienced Swiss flier Walter Steiner on Raelingen's 70 meter hill March 14. Moving . to the 70 meter facility at Vang on March 17, Denney notched a second but returned retur-ned to form with another first fir-st at Raena on the 19th. The following day, on Lilleham-mer's Lilleham-mer's 90 meter hill the Duluth native scored his most prestigious victory with a 122 meter flight, the best jump turned in by any competitor during the three 83.5 and still another Ogden Standard Examiner team finished far back in third with 99.3 Individual Honors The "A" individual trophy was plagiarized by Jim Paulsen, who recorded the fastest time of the day-19.7. The newsmen protested that with his air wave experience he jammed the walkie-talkie timing system, but the protest was rejected. Marc-Paulsen Marc-Paulsen was second (20.1) and Dick Garber 20.8 1 third. Buss Glassman, Gina Parker and Kevin Turner all tied for first place honors in the "B" section, with 25.0. The class of the "C" class was Ellen Powers, who finished in 28.8. Right behind was Steve Brown, who always seems to raise his head on weekends, in 29.0. Third went to Jeff Herdrich. 29.5 Today! day tournament. Leading the field with a total of 748.4 points, Denney said of his Norwegian results. "It just goes to prove that my new training plan can help produce good finishes. I'm really pleased to have won Norwegian Ski Week, but. to tell the truth, it was an even bigger thrill to beat Steiner." Younger brother Jeff continued con-tinued the family tradition with an eighth at Raena and a fifth at Lillehammer. Despite a fall at Vang, the U.S. Blue Team member recorded a thirteenth in overall series standings largely aided by a spectacular spec-tacular 108 meter jump at Lillehammer. The highly competitive international field included 1976 Winter Olympians Johan Saetre. Finn Halvorson and Per Bergerund, all of Norway. Pro Showdown At Gorgoza The Wayne Brown Big Spree of Ski Racing will continue this weekend at the Internationally known Gorgoza Ski Complex just off 1-80. The two-day event is expect ed produce fierce compe-tion .between defending professional profess-ional ski racing champion Henri Tuboflard and challenger chall-enger Josef Laundromatt. Laudromatt needs a clean sweep of Saturday's giant .slalom and Sunday's slalom to overtake the permanent-pressing permanent-pressing Frenchman. But the Swiss racer has momentum momen-tum on his side, spinning off two victories at the Hang Loose competition at Lincoln, Nebraska last week. "I'll clean his socks," Laundromatt boasted. The always cool, calm and prize money collecting Tuboflard, looking to once Special this Week DOG PORTRAITS Exclusive Color Photographs of Dog Catcher Tryouts Official Photographs for the Wayne Brown Gorgoza Pro Races Focusing Fluid Available Bootch With Yal d'Esere, France - Two-year-old Ehlias "Bootch" Louis, "the pride and hope of the U.S. race program" returned to Park City yesterday after breaking his leg at the treacherous downhill competition here last week. Louis, competing against some of the best young racers in the world, recorded the fastest "split-time" of the day before blowing out on the bottom half of the course. "I guess I got just a little too much air," Louis said. "I'm really bummed," the resident of Park City added. "It was such an excellent chance to improve my points.!" poin-ts.!" Asked if his racing on the international circuit interfered inter-fered with school, the racer replied, "No, I'm too young to go to school." Louis, who broke both his tibia and fibula, will be out the remainder of the season, according to U.S. Ski Team doctors. Admitting he doesn't agree with his doctor, the racer explained, "My young bones heal faster than the again fatten his purse, reflected, "It will all come out in the wash. Josef has his good cycles and his bad cycles. I will do everthing I know best how to do to put him through the wringer. Who can say who will win?" Not to be forgotten in this grudge match are American hope Tyler Palmtree and Austrian veteran Werner Brothers. Although possessing possess-ing great, potential both have performed poorly in the head-to-head competition lately and will have to come from far behind to surpass Ihe leaders. Another competitior to watch is American Hank Kashewnut. Hank has been unable to crack the winner's circle so for but this introvert intro-vert has finally come out of his shell and is ready to salt away some prize money. THE Ptoifrt Park City, Utah 523 CINEMkSKI Returns Broken Bootch older guys. I'm planning to start dry land training in three to four weeks. I can't Plagued by uninvited guests constantly 5 Si droppinq bv? S K Guaranteed to make the most repulsive cup of java ever brewed. One sip will con- vmi. e even yuui inobi btUDDom visnors to g S split. 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