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Show SALT FLAT NEWS. SEPTEMBER, 1970 5 started in New York when Betty e went into a mens shoe shop and they couldnt fit her in a logger boot Whats-her-nam- And now it has spread and the West. Betty says women have been used by men long enough and its time we started using the men. Are you ready for that? She says there will be no more of this nonsense of exclusive mens clubs or bars . . . is engulfing Wanted: Able bodied men to take in washing and ironing . . . must be able to cook and keep house ... no smokers or drinkers . . . must be morally dean of body and spirit. Contact Womens Liberation Front, Wen-d- o ver, Nevada." Has it finally come to that! The Womens Lib is out to liberate the real West by assuming the role of the men. It all . . . The only reason we men adopted the exclusive policy in bars is because of a woman . '. . remember Carry Nation?? Shes the one who drove us into the streets way back when . . . she came into the bars with her ax and broke it up . . . prohibi-tio- n was a result of women. And pants . . . trousers . . . the only thing left to the male sex, were designed by a man . . . SirThomas Trouser .III . . give him freedom to escape the physical advances of a cunning and highly athletic woman. And now the women have adopted them. . . . Will it never end? Is there nothing left that is totally indigenous to the male gendre? Betty Whats-her-nam- e was asked what stand she took with reference to Capitol punishment . . . should both sexes receive capitol punishment? And Betty said that she felt women should be hanged just like men. And men I think thats the crux of the whole problem . . . Think about that .to ... men . . . Meanwhile . . . Ive got a shopping list to take care of for my wife . . . Lets see . . . head of lettuce . . . dozen eggs . . . Maybe Ive got to be liberated . . . NEWS staff photo This couple arrived at the Salt Flats the hard way on a tandem bicycle after pedalling a week from Bellflower, California. Jade Lambie and his fiance, Lois Hertzler, were destined for Boston, although Jack admitted they may stop pedalling in the Midwest and ship the tandem from there. Both are school teachers in California and planned to be married in Massachusetts before returning to school this fall. Would you consider a trade for a Honda? Classifieds ... a new identifying line beneath THE SALT FLAT NEWS banner. The NEWS has used Wendovers Picture Paper" and Utahs Picture Paper" and is now offering five dollars to the person submitting a new accompanying line for the banner. For example, it might be Picturing the West or Pictures and People." But it must be short and include the concept of the NEWS being a picture paper. The contest ends in December. Do it! And do it today! . the NEWS is continuing its contest for questions used in the Inquiring Photographer. If used, its an easy five dollars for one of the readers. That may be you. Send your entries to The Salt Flat' News Box 345 Wendover, Utah ARTIE PHOTO, RFD, Box 93, Kaysville, Utah, 84037 will sell you an arty little photo ready to hang for $4.50 prepaid. Richmond Lauds Nows (Editor's Note: The following editorial is reprinted from die August 8 edition of the Richmond (Va.) News Leader. We are pleased that circulation of the first issue extended to Richmond and thank the News Leader for its kind comments.) To keep pace with the TV combo; Olympic; good condition; make offer. Mens clothes; western styles; discount prices; special orders on leather jackets, moccasins. 320 East 9th South, Salt Lake City, 363-865- 0. The Picture House has the RIGHT original photo art for your home and office. Photographs by Brian Record and John Matson, 156 South Main, Salt Lake City, Utah. (In the House of Music.) Now, however, People would be reading your a newspaper turned up, promising news qbout nothing for those exhausted from reading news about every tiling. The Salt Flat News is published 12 times a year in Wendover, has classified ad in this space if you had sent in a SALT FLAT NEWS classified. Do it today! in- formation explosion today, those concerned with public affairs have to plow through a prodigious number of topical magazines, journals and It gets to die newspapers. sometimes that die mind point reels at having to digest yet one more explanation of the family assistance plan or one more account of racial disturbances in Asbury Park. Utah, geographic center of a area pop10,000 square-milulated by fewer than 4,000 persons. What possibly can be written about this e God-forsak- en white desert? The editors reply, "News aboutnoth-ingness- ." all, with no college to bum down the .ROTC building, no John Birchers, no Communists, no female liberationists, no pornography and no real estate developments, there is alotof nothing with wonderful people living on it After students The Salt Flat News professes to be "tiie only paper in the world that gives a damn about what happens on the Salt Flats. A look at its pages (fruten Memories of Speed With smiles and a warmth that brings color to the blade and white photographs, the couples voices quicken as, leafing through the stack of snapshots, they recall the people behind those photos. Lynn stops long enough to is after a room. Sorry. Speed Week. Were all filled up. turn away a tourist who Indeed they are. The Wendover Motel is the home of the majority of drivers, newsmen and photographers each year during the Bonneville National Speed Trials. Lynn and Gwen Poulsen have lived those years with the men and women behind the machinery. Racing in recent years has become more sophisticated and polished with more money being put into the cars and backup equipment. The Poulsens have watched the changes over 15 supports this claim. The editors chronicle new angles on notiiing and nowhereness. The lead story of the latest issue tells of a hermit named Sam, who has been living in an isolated Utah shack for 60 years. Other items cover golfing on the Saltine Nine with black golfballs (everything else is white), the Seventh International Frog Jump held in May and a dead pig found in the foothills north of Wendover. The business page tells of a new casino to be erected at the Nevada state line. It's news about notiiing hot a lot of it but some. At any rate, the Salt Flat. News provides fresh air after the stuffy reading in some of the esoteric journals published in New York, Washington and Los Angeles. One can stand only so many analyses of tiie Venceremos Brigade in Cuba and reports on the building advantages of precast concrete. Give us some digestible reading - - some spicy journalism like the Salt Flat News. 'DUAA Now Featuring LOVE Makeup Dresses by Miss Holly Herbert J. Munro of Invercargill, New Zealand, is aboard his 1923 Indian motorcycle and prepared for another of his annual assaults on the Salt Flats. Munro has traveled to Utah from Down Under for about two decades with his parts became motorcycle, missing only two years. When instance where one his including manufactured own, he scarce, a section of water pipe located in a hardware store was machined by Munro to become a new engine cylinder. Eighty-year-ol- d Special Orders, Too ! WENDOVE In the Old Mar-- K Bldg. consecutive Speed Weeks and feel some of the men are now more aloof and think the townspeople are out to take them (although, admittedly, there are always a few who see the opportunity for a quick dollar that week). The participants used to pitch tents around Wendover and many of the drivers wives would work in the town as extra help during Speed Week; Thats almost unheard of now. Turning back the clock with Lynn and Gwen, the visitor is treated with sparkles and smiles as they tell of Englishmen who would fly over for the racing, and of Count Boroni of Italy who, in 1966, showed his appreciation for the hospitality by sending Gwen a hostess gown designed by his wife. Or of the 40. Germans who came over with an NSU racing team to fry for 'a record with only a few who spoke English. Some still correspond today. During their lengthy stay, Gwen, Lynn and the Germans became quite competent in their own sign language and found the team had developed a new viewpoint of the United States. Hitler, they said, had been crazy to have thought he could conquer this vast country. The Poulsens also learned another viewpoint of accepted American enterprise. Lynn found some of the foreign visitors d soft laughing at a drink machine. Why? he asked? A German pointed to the coin box atop the vending machine and explained, In New York you have Time Square; in Wendover you have dime square. When the team established a world record, they found their congratulatory announcement to the NSU plant could not be telephoned because overseas lines were tied up. So, they used a hand generator and radioed the message to Germany beating the telephone connection by quite some time. Over the years, Gwen has found the secret of success for the drivers the women behind them. Wives either make the drivers or destroy them. It (racing) is so in their blood, you almost destroy them by making them quit. as many wives have done. Gwen finds all wives are afraid for their husbands on the salt, but she says wives who dont let their husbands know that are the ones who make it. Lynn and Gwen have come to know of superstitions such as Don Campbells aversion to green and preference to blue in his surroundings and even marital problems of the drivers. Drivers may not know it, but their best friends in Wendover may not be their machanics. It may be their motel managers. coin-operate- |