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Show 4 SALT FLAT NEWS, OCTOBER, 1970 Text and Photos by Joe Tordiff For a taste of the old America, the forgotten America, plan to attend next year's thrashing bee in Cache Valley. I went this year and it was great. Floyd Zollinger of College Ward, Utah, has sponsored the event for three years. He must act purely as a service to humanity because the only money that changed hands all day. was at the ice cream stand. The ice cream was as necessary as the heat, the fleecy clouds in the blue sky and the dust. But it was good dust, dust that arose from hay being thrashed not your average run of-th dust. It was clean, healthy dust that could be brushed from the seat of your pants with ease. I overheard young wives discussing hoW many pints and quarts of this and that they had canned. A grandmother read a letter from her grandson serving in Vietnam to a group of suitably aged girls. Fathers gave their sons rides on the horses. Old men told everyone within ear shot how it used to be. Everywhere there were children, playing on wagons or learning basic mechanical principles. On those old machines you can see how and why. The major crisis of the day occurred when the tractor bringing d mill ran out of gas. Guess what the hay to the universal cry was? And then-o- h, sweet irony-t- wo of the horses ran out of gas, or whatever, and had to be led away. This is family entertainment of the best sort. No hucksters trying to make a buck, no "X" rating, no hurry-u- p schedule, just an opportunity to enjoy a little bit of what life is about. - -- horse-powere- |