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Show Editorials. SALT FLAT NEWS, FEBRUARY; 1972- - SALT Y RUMBLINGS Deep beneath the ecological roots of man stirs nature. This movement naturalie has become a problem in the present management of Utahs Bonneville speedway. Critics claim that the salty expanse of space is slowly becoming a sea of mud, as a result of pumping activities at a nearby potash factory. Blame is initially determined by visual means rather than the rational process of scientific fact finding, and here on the salt flats, where the actual curvature of the earth is visable, the linear perturbation of a brine canal does nothing to aid objectivity on the part of the observer. Research on the salt flats has been done by the Utah Geologic Survey, Bell Research of Denver, Colorado and Bradbury Associates of Los Altos, California; however, no bibliography exists on the salt flats as a single entity, and the reports of the latter two research companies are literally non existent in Utah. Positions are strange animals when definitions are considered. The NEWS feels that a research task force should be created under the joint auspices of the Governors office and the office of Senator Moss, because of his standing on the Interior and Insular Affairs Committees. The objectives of the task force would be to research data about the salt flats and to determine if the salt flats are in fact receding. If so, we should then find but whether this briney recession is a natural phenomenon or a commercial catastrophe. a billboard as lovely as a tree; Indeed , unless the billboards fall, I'll never see a tree at all. Ogden Nash A year has passed since Secretary of Transportation John Volpe came to Utah to cut down, amid much pomp and ceremony, a single billboard. We wonder when he is going to come back for the others. The tall sign announcing Pebble Beach on the shore of the Great Salt Lake wasnt especially offensive, and did at least convey a bit of useful information to the highway traveler. Yet as the sign came tumbling down, a new era was heralded by the newspapers and television. But by the looks of things now, the new era brings construction of even more billboards, of even greater size and bearing messages of infinitely less significance. One, for example, treats us to the spectacle of a local weather fbrecaster, his face blown up eighty times life size, sufficient to conceal Mt. Olympus in its shadow. The NEWS suggests it is time authorities began to show some activity in regard to the aging highway beautification act. Like start sawing wood in Utah, instead of logs in Washington. DESERT DAY by Phoebe Smith Sun sees it sleeping, quiet. Lifeless in shimmering heat. Quiet, Shattered only by the booming of a Jet outracing sound, with Consequential echoes Racing up and down canyons, for miles. Then silence. A lizard between sagebrush for an instant flicks shadow on Dry, cracked earth, The desert waits, Sleeping, for sunset. Dear Editor: As. I was reading for the first time your monthly edition of the Salt Flat News, I noticed the word 44poultice on the upper right hand comer o( your back cover. A friend of mine mentioned that the word means political in Spanish. I disagree, being Greek myself. Please investigate your files and inform me.of the words meaning. Also I would like to know where I can get copies of your paper. Please write to my address, as I dont know where I can pick up the next edition. Thankyou. Stella Uzelac 1220 Hudson Ave. Salt Lake City, Utah 84106 . Editor i Note: Our dictionary de- fines poultice as a "soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions. When queried, our founder and father of the expression, who is neither Spanish nor Greek, offered the following comment Poultice route refers to a term coined by the Hobos going through Utah. We submit further queries to our readers. Dear Editor: I would like to get at least two copies of your October Salt Flat News about Bishop Koyle and the Dream Mine. We are very much interested in dreams. Mrs. Thomas H. Cupit 76 T Street Salt Lake City, Utah Dear Editor: I have been off in Europe for the summer and thus have lost touch with the Salt Flat News. But I have since been able to look at a copy, Vol. 1, No. 12, and am happy to see that it has brought out another great Utah story; Le., the story on Bishop Koyles Dream Mine. Abroad, foreign friends would ask me what's it like in Utah. My reply would be that it is a state of mind like no other place in the world that I know and I have traveled widely and the only outfit that really grasps what Utah is all about is the Salt Flat THE SALT FLAT NEWS is published twelve times a year by the Salt Flats Publishing Corporation, a Utah Corporation. - Editor RICHARD NAHUM GOLDBERGER Feature Editor RICHARD MENZIES General Manager JESS GREEN Advertising Director DON W. OHMS Whether this boosting will increase the foreign readership of the News is problematical. But I do know that I shall look forward eagerly to Richard Nahuin paper and star reporter must be since he seems to (he write ninety per cent of all the stories) Richard Menzies stories in it. P.O. BOX 11717 LAKE SALT CITY, UTAH 84111 FOR SALE OLD UNIVERSITY OF UTAH YEARBOOKS ' ASSOCIATE MEMBER OF THE For Advertising, Phone 485-210- 1 rs Arthur Kenneth Donoghue 4275 South 23rd East (rear) Salt Lake City, Utah 84117 - " . no-kiddi- News. Gold-berge- SMST IfWIT SMX08 I thought it was fine at first jecause it had a lot of true stuff in it. We do put on a pretty good rodeo here. Sometimes folks Re: Salt Flat Automotive Museum mad at each other and theresgeta few fights, too. Dear Sirs: But it seemed to me that Tim I have been corresponding St. Clair (the writer of the story) with the department of travel inook a sort of snotty ride to it all. formation and Tooele County oftalked to a few of my friends ficials in regards to the nebulousand they agreed with me. ly proposed automotive museum I dont know Tim St. Clair, but for Bonneville race cars. More to know who he is from when he the point, I am currently a senior worked out here. You can tell in industrial design at BYU, and him that Battle Mountain is wish to take on the design of the watching for him when or if he museum as my senior project this dares to show his face in Lander year. Ive been corresponding bounty ever again. with state and county officials since last April and have had some Anonymous Battle Mountain, Nevada feedback on the positive project. This summer, however, I was in Detroit working for General Mo- Editor's Note: Mr. St. Clair has tors in their summer internship been duly notified of his current status in Lander County. program, and thus was unable to pursue the museum project. I returned to Utah only to hear that From the Salt Flat News you people have run a drawing of October 1971 a proposed museum in 'your delightful journal. Please help me NEEDING A WIFE discover what directions I must take in the pursuit of this project I'm old , all alone and by filling me in on what details today on my own; you might have of it. , Won't some nice lady I need to know if any firms please answer my call? have been contracted or commisNeither frightened sioned in connection with this by devils nor darkness project. Who and where are these But darling, just firms, or individuals!? Could I suppose I should fall. have a copy of the article which I'm not particular presented the proposal, and any other bit of information you may providing she 's serious, have concerning it? Your prompt Withanl.Q. is that is equal to mine; response appreciated. I With heartbeat certainly hope Incidently, overof eternal devotion your organization is not rethe woman, His said, Ah, nay, looking opportunity, "Tliou encourhave art devine. to sponsibility you enterage public support of this Please write if you think prise. If I do assume the task of we can make it; designing this museum, I shall cerI'm honest tainly look to you for editorial though ugly as sin; support. In fact, any influence like all lottery Romance, you may wield to help me secure is a gamble. the project would be greatly apSome are just lucky preciated. You know, like if anywhile others can't win. body asks, tell them how cheaply students work, and how its time A. C. Gregerson we let young creative minds have Fillmore, Utah 84631 a chance to help society. A good angle might be how such a project would aid the states cultural Dear Editor: Just read the October issue of identity and civic pride, not to mention revenue. the Salt Flat News, and your Also incidently, Im the guy paper is great. I really liked the who visited your office (apartpoems The Billy Goat Inn and to whom last spring you ment) Needing a Wife by A. C. Gregave the stack of back issues. Regerson of Fillmore, Utah. Tam member, the guy without any sending to a poet from a poet a clothes on (I think he had a verse in response: mustache anyway, he was a big guy) gave em to me after I con"At de Billy Goat Inn" vinced him I was a genuine was done just fine, salt freak a rare breed I the sec'ond that It's might add. requires an answer; Thanks for your kind attenA sore not healed tion. Please help! for a length of time . Art Romero Is bound to result 240 N. 500 E. in a cancer. 84601 Provo, Utah I am sure that some dame will answer your call Editor's Note: The big guy with come into your house And no clothes on musthave been our in a dash. business manager. We 're happy to Eat all she can find report the financial picture, nay, in the pantry. spectacle has improved. And walk on outside with your cash. Dear Editor: She won't care if I am writing this letter about you're pretty or ugly. the article on the Battle Mountain She knows that bad looks Rodeo you had in your paper. It is no sin; Salt and was in August She may act like a nurse, September Flat News. as she fills up her purse I am from Battle Mountain, And says, "Where in the 'ell has he been?" Nevada, and when I first read that story I thought it was pretty fine. Oscar D. Hackford But I looked it over a few more times and started thinking about 1114 West Parkway sort made me of it. It Salt Lake City, Utah 84119. mad. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 4 I think that I shall never see 3 INQUIRE LAURA SHAND 226 So. 12 East Salt Lake City 84102, Utah . |