Show Sunday Moming- - -- Jackson Hole Plans for Snow Fiesta vTljc Salt £ake (IrWunt- - -- Salt'Lahe’s Shi Patrol Gets Ready for Winter Duties H National Ski Association Sanctions Meet ' f ’i jf - a -- W V Sun Still Shines Rut here the sun still shines and men and women go about tl o 49 — i Banff Plans ' W II Cowburn plays patient as Salt Training school Lake Ski patrol members try out first aid knots Left to right kneeling Charles G Pauli instructor Frank Ford S P Heidcl L A Kolby and H J Goodro Standing M A Keyser Jr' and A Clyde Jones patrol chief Lower left Alf Engen prominent skier who is a member of patrol and Mike O’Neill divisional chieftain Heavy Storm Cheers Skiers In Wasatch Mountain Area ‘Snowing Hard’ Alta Reports at 10 Upper Slopes Offer Winter Sport Around the By Don In an article appearing In the American Ski annual for 1939-4- 0 that veteran skier Charles Minot Dole writes 'I repeat and end with the thought that because the National Ski Patrol can work for the good of ail it deserves serious consideration by all We who are responsible for it will continue to give our best efforts but the cooperation of all skiers Is essential to its success” This paragraph Is worthy of much thought It brings up a side of skiing which is seldom discussed Con- sider however Suppose you are skiing along a mountain trial far removed from any habitation You fall your ankle Is sprained or possibly broken Pal you’re in a spot Chances are the first help to arrive will be a member of the National Ski Patrol and you can thank your stars for the day that the National Ski association decided to form this organization I A SUN VALLEY Idaho CPI — A wandering hickory ski that traveled through 30 states and one Canadian province without touching flake of snow was back In this winter resort Saturday bedecked with baggage tags on whloh railroad freight agents had Inscribed their sentiments M T Kaumnn Union Pacific railroad agent at Sun Valley cut the ski in half length Inst September 4 and attmhed a lag reading December 1st “Keep moving until and then return ” He sent it to Shoshone Idaho and from there It went hy baggage ar over the long route youth walks down the country lane shouldering a fishing rod Instead of marching aiound the square with a wooden and when he takes cover gun it Is to escape the sharp eye of a trout Instead of the vision of a goggled aviator his hand on the bomb release Or on skis he screams joyously down mountainside or he doesn't through the trees disguise in white to steal over the snow at night his machine-gu- n at "ready” bent on dealing death to the fellow across the "cross-country’- The National Ski Patrol will function this winter in all parts of the Intermountain west In the BANFF Alberta — There Is a vicinity of Salt Lake City the trong possibility the United States patrol has placed toboggans at women s ski team will compete at strategic points in the mountains the 1940 dominion ski champion29 to at Banff February ships Trained to Act March 3 according to officials in Members of the patrol are meet charge of the The women s team originally had trained to act Waiting for the planned to compete In the world doctor ia one thing if an accident occurs on a practice slope where championships In Norway Word has been received that the medical assistance can be obtained team intends to train in the west in a reasonable time The patrol In February and Canadian tourna- does not worry about such cases ment officials are endeavoring to but when the temperature is low tract the United States women and the accident occurs far up trail or mountain then action Is necesskiers to Banff for the meet That’s where the patrol Should they come the women's sary tournament will be the greatest comes In ever held In Canada wnth a larger Roger Langley president of and more representative class of skiers than ever before Gertie the National Ski association a that tho main thing to rechampion Wepsala of Vancouver member about any skier who In 1938 and 1939 intends to defend her title while a record number wears tho National Ski Patrol badge is that he is first last and of women racers from both westalways a helper ern and eastern Canada are expected to try and wrest it from Accidents are bound to occur her His job Is to prevent them when But If they occur the possible patrol member Is trained to the ‘Wandering’ Ski Returns Home needed food Series of Ponds point allow w'here his knowledge that the Injured party will be cared for on the spot and trans ported to medical aid as quickly as possible iVot Ski Cops ’ The patrol asks all winter sports enthusiasts to understand that It members are not "cops on skis Whatever power of regulation the patrol mav eventually have must come from the support and balking of ail skiers because they recognize in the patrol an unselfish spirit of cooperation and an Influ race working for the good of the sport ialest reports from the Inter- mountain west on th ski patrol 31 Salt Lake City winter sports fans late Saturday night were cheered by reports from Alta and Brighton that a heavy snowstorm was sweeping the Wasatch mountain range Observers at Alta reported it? Brooks was Psnowing hard” Saturday at 10 p m and that about three reveal that a group of Mt Logan inches of snow had fallen since 7 Ski club members are taking first p m Similar conditions wore aid training in preparation for the reported from Brighton formation of a patrol Glen WorthMost skiing activities Sunday and ington is carrying on the good Monday ahe expected to be cenwork in Logan tered in a relatively small area Mike O’Neill of Salt Lake City on the slopes of Mt Baldy above HAMMONTON N J Dee is pne of seven divisional chairmen the upper terminal of the Alta IS IT) — Here's one for the of the patrol He informs Fire- ski lift The lift will operate all hoyk about a buck place that 12 skiers took training dav Sunday and Christmas day 85 a Bart Pagliughi This Skiers who returned from Alta in Salt Lake City last year farmer said Saturday he year six of the original 12 took Saturday evening said that condilie got a went gunning tions were good for practice skiing advanced training deer and shot at a of wuth several being sruiw took others the standard patches Twenty ran up to deliver the coupe far and 14 and have about extending training passed deep enough de grace with a knife when Mike says Clyde Jones Is section enough to provide good runs There he saw It fall terbelow Is the no chief In chargs of the Salt Lake upper skiing The buck leaped up as he minal Ski Patrol straddled It and dashed off Prior to Storm through the woods Fagllu-gPrior to Saturday night's storm Stiff Exams bung on stahtdng withthe Salt Lake Winter Sports asout apparent results After The patrol will not accept every- sociation at Alta about reported one as a member A stiff examinarunning a quarter of a mile six inches of snow In the lower tion tn knowledge of skiing and Alta basin in the the deer fell from loss of of the vicinity blood American Red Cross first aid trainhighway ing are among the requirements The Salt Lake City water defor membership Ski clubs department checking station st siring to form a patrol may con- Brighton reported a half inch of tact G M O’Neill federal buildlight snow Friday with cold and ing Salt Lake City for complete cloudy weather prevailing SaturInformation day Thepe Is six inches of snow aieas at Bughton with old The timer moved a log In the on level 12 inches reported on Albion about fire place EVANSTON Wyo — Plans 'ir and Alta passes Residents of the ” “You know It's funny that the area said “No one was skiing two outdoor skating rinks have Skating on Silver lake at been completed and await lower organization that do the most Brighton appears a thing of the good often have the toughest be put into operatime ‘selling themselves to tho past unless someone clears the temperatures to A high wind tion it is announced by th Lions snow lee th off he said public” whipped through Brighton Satur- club and chamber of commerce "Taks this ski patrol we’ve been day morning with th temperature acting Independently Here's an outfit dropping to eight above talking about The Lions have leased Union PaHowever if Brighton was withthat deserves the cooperation of rescific railroad land just west of the skier out afternoon bet I'll skiers last every yet Saturday my poke of ‘dust’ that half the skiers idents of the scenic community Becker Brewing and Malting com around here don’t even know it found plenty of tasks to keep them the cqopera- h pany's plant exists busy as they prepared for a mounclub Ladies’ the tifin of Liteiary "It was organized for the help tain Christmas and protection of all skiers the Plentiful stores of good eats were and other civic organizations will a rink of considerable size promotion of safety and the idea trucked In earlier In the week and developthe flooding method to cover using of helping the sport toward an for the most part the Brightoniang of the ground with Ice plot to to firewill a man stick their orderly growth I know the bova The chamber of commerce has In the patrol in this area- - They’re places Christmas day purchased a large spraying fine follows and believe me they for coating the surface of deserve the support of everyone” Sportsmen Criticise the Coot ball field at the municipal recreation park and has arranged License Proposal with the city and Utah Power and Plan Rabbit Hunt GREEN RIVER Wyo —Members Light company for lighting the OGDEN — Future Farmets of of the Green River Sportsman s site E P Casey and Glen EastWeber high school will join their elub are not favorable to anv man are chamber leaders tn a plan recipfathers In a rabbit hunt at Blue rocal fish or game license plan be- to provide at least two smaller rreek next Wednesday Veine tween the various stales it was rinks one near the Clark eleOberhansley Instructor an- announced by S G Jensen pres- mentary srhool and ths other in nounced North Evanston ident Here’s One For Book dbout Buck hi Evanston Gets Rinks Ready and-wit- rna-(li- Skier Must Change Weight and Swing Shoulders in Executing Single Slems (This la ths eighth In a series of ski lessons by Stephen Daya appearing dally In The Balt lake Tribune) Stem turns are four In number the most basic of which Is Here Is how It (he single stein Is done To turn right hy a single slem turn put all of jour weight on (he right ski At the same time bring the flat left ski Into Ihe stem position Now as the left VIII knee is bent and the right leg is straightened shift your weight to the outside left ski by swinging the left shoulder forward loti will then start to turn to tho right Keep the skis flat and your weight on your left ski all through the turn In general It Is safe to use the single stein in anj' kind of snow At Ihe same time It should also be rememhered that It is not as useful on hard snow or when the skier Is traveling at a high rale of speed Pushes Frank G Martines Utah trout projects South Idaho Sportsmen Call Meeting And Desolation 1 If this original attempt at proves successful under th supervision of Jim Sargent hatchery superintendent Commissioner Newell B Cook plans a series of the ponds along the creek Rulon Bell at the Loa hatchery also has possibilities of increasing the number of his earth ponds providing additional land can be obtained At Glenwood and Beaver the amount of water governs expansion and there is little likelihood of enlarging present facilities When the maximum utilization of natural feed in the vicinity of the hatcheries Is reached there is still the possibility of using some of the streams of the state as rearThe Sevier County ing ponds Fish and Game Protective association under the leadership of Frank G Mat tines has advocated building several dams aeross Seven-Mil- e creek north of Fish lake to flood meadow land for rearing ponds Closed Stream Pan-guit- valley There Is dcsnflHJpn here but it is majestic lnstiHl of deIt has been carved generate hy time sn high granite peaks! or woven by the wind over desert not wrought hy bomb sands and and shrapnel and fire men and women fleeing In terror And here we often find much inspiration for life among the crags and the dunes where there are few living things while in the desolation there the will to live is gone' wiped out by the ruthless hand of the war god who’s throttled the Prince of Peace There is one like wish that winter will hurry There it means a lull in battle with deep snow hampering the movement of troops and blizzards keeping planes grounded thus saving cities from the menace of bombs Here too it means life for g flakes piling high on watersheds mean water in lakes and streams and reserLife for recreation voirs for the farm and for every house hold And for both it means the kids ran go coasting over here the tun les still shines and men and women go about with peace In their hearts and smiles on their lips and the sun will ahine longer each day until June 21! It’s truly a Yuletide for which to he thankful softly-fallin- Skiers Study First Aid POCATELLO Idaho — Twenty two members of the Alpette Ski club are entered In a Red Cross fust aid course of 20 hours’ struction covering all phases of first aid with emphasis on frac tures sprains and shock common to the spott "Chuck” Helm has donated time to the class demonstrating use Tribune Intermountain Service TWIN FALLS Idaho— Annual To test the advisability of this meeting of the Southern Idaho the state department closed the ill he stream to fishing last season and Fish and Game association held in Twin Falls Tuesday Janwatched the progress of the fish uary 9 announces S Claud Stew- which hatched in it The results art president were even better than anticipated Directors In fixing the session and the dam construction will named a committee to draft reso- probably be pushed In the near lutions to be presented at the ses- future The forest service could sion to start at 8 p m in the Idaho do the work with C C C labor If Power auditorium Luncheon will no complications arise be served after the meeting Commissioner Cook and southern Drafting the recommendations and Utah sportsmen are confident that new policies for the coming year through the fish raising program will he E R Price Larry Bassett now under way anglers will gradand Rex Warren ually enjoy better fishing In all Also scheduled for the meeting parts of the stale probably within is election of three directors to fill a short time surpassing conditions vacancies left hv expiration of in other western states terms of Bob Whitzel Larry Bassett and I A Appell all of Twin Falls Reports on projects recently in completed by the association conjunction with the state fish and game department show that at Muitaugh lake earlv in December 15000 yellow-bellie- d EPHRAIM— Forest Supervisor J ’catfish were planted Some of these IV Humphrey and D P Madsen of weighed as much as a pound each Ephraim made a trip to the Beaver After closing the pheasant sea- Dams reservoir recently to investison 450 mutant and 402 ringneck gate a report of damage being done pheasants were planted to the by beaver south east and west of Twin Falls They found the animals had constructed a dam across the overflow of the reservoir and that the water had risen to the top of the dam practically all of the way across The men tore out the beaver dam and from 25 tq 45 second feet of water went over the spillway for more than two hours and continued to flow In slightly Colo-Ranchers GRAND JUNCTION on Pinon mesa report to reduced volume after they left soil conservation service biologists Humphrey reports that in order that a pure white mallard was seen to prevent a recurrence of the several times on beaver ponds near trouble the gate was opened in here It usually appeared with order to care for the water flow other mallards of normal color A should the beaver replace their white mallard is rare with per- dam It was also reported that beaver haps only one in millions being of have located In Yearn’s reservoir that color in Manti canyon where it will be It has long been a matter of as to just how a while bird necessary to keep the spillway is received by his fellows Many open to prevent a possibility of th maintain that the one of unusual structure going out appearance is cast out by the flock The fate of this white mallard is interesting in connection with the U S Agencies Will Beavers Dam Utah Stream Ranchers Sec Rare Duck ron-Jectu- above belief The flock of mal- lards left Pinon mesa about November 15 but the white duck stajed behind although the ponds were freezing over In a few dajs a few white feathers were found along the pond together with covote tracks in the snow Apparentfor different types equipment ly the while dink had been left splinting for fractures and sprains behind by his companions snd was Class members include: Jerry unable to survive Turner Art Shultz Art Smith Dean Lane Charles Parker Periy Hibbard Blaine Gasser Walt Kirk Utah Catfish BOISE Idaho (JP — Channel catLarry Stanley Bus Allsop Dave Woofers Paul Grossman Fred fish obtained from the Utah fish Dee Bogert Roberts Hele and game commission by swapping Harriet Hiner Delna trout for them wilt be released in Farmer Ogden Mary Louise Young Bob Snake river next jear 'irsin Art Scott Tom Sahlberg and Ardis Peck Aid Idaho Skiers deBOISE Idaho (UP)-Fed- eral partments will combine this winter to bring Idaho winter sports fans complete reports on snow conditions and ice skating conditions In the principal resort areas James C Marr federal agricultural engineer said Saturday Th U S forest servlc and th Boise weather bureau have arInforranged to collect mation from newspapers and radio stations The report will tell the type of snow the weather outlook and road conditions at each resort last-minu- Cache Sportsmen Honor Banger LOGAN— Directors of the Cache County Wild Life Federation honored Richard J Costley former Cache forest ranger and Aaron P Christensen new ranger for the area Monday evening at a dinner meeting at Bolt’s camp in Login canyon C'ostley was recently promoted to the Ogden office and is now working In the forestry departments range management program Christensen romps to Logan from Manll Nephi J Bolt was chosen to fill Costley’ unexplied term as a director in Ihe federation Discussed at the meeting was a project to fish ponds In the western pai t of (tie i lt and to Install mag-p- i txteiminating traps f£ e - Tribune Intermountain Service RICHFIELD— With the egg producing end of the business well taken care of in southern Utah the state fish and game department has turned Its attention to rearing trout to legal size or larger without “wrecking" the budget The only possible answer Is to utilize natural feed as much as possible and this means construction of earthen rearing pond In localities where they will fill wltA bugs insects and plant life that trout thrive on At Loa several such ponds have been made and last week one approximately 50 feet square was finished at Panguiteh The set-u- p at Panguiteh is particularly pleasing in that the water from Mammoth creek will flow through the pond and soon fill it with ths And Ski Classic ' O’ ' ment for outdoor winter sports and put snowplows to work for the first time The storm followed 45 days of snowless weather records of the national forest service office revealed Wyo — Two basketball tussles have been lined up during the holiday season announces Coach Will L Clegg The first will be December 27 with the Montpelier Idaho Bears and the second Decemher 29 when the Red Devils meet the North Summit Braves of Coalville These contests will give alumni an opportunity to see the 1939 Devils for the first time and also enable home fans to judge the sort of club Clegg has built to defend the 1938 western division crown against the first assault by the Afton Cheesemakers on January 5 New to former players and visiting grads will be the Clegg type of floor play a system that carried the Downey Bulldogs to an Idaho state basketball class B championship and which proved baffling to clubs which met the local hoopsters during December Clegg has divided his squad into three balanced groups consisting of eight sophomores eight juniors and seven seniors The boys have been drilled hard but are handicapped through Inability to secure games since December 8 their accustomed tasks and the wind through the pines kings a song of peace and the cascading trout streams carry their Joyous messages of life to the living Fishermen point their craft over lakes and larger waters their only armament being rod and reel and good fellowship They don't carry lethal weapons and a submerged log not a deadly mine is their only menace Men crouch low behind cover and watch the skies but their salvos are loosed on migratory fowl and not raiding planes and that sibilant whistling above brings joy Instead of terror for Instead of bombers it's mallard and teal and pintail it Mift The season’s first snowfall a month late measuring about four Inches encouraged the announce- EVANSTON Stale Utilizes Natural Foods At Loa and Panguilch o lnter-mounta- ln fl i Votes Evanston Sets Two Duels The Yuletide peace earth good will toward men Where else does that spirit rule more than in our own west? The war gods touch has been lightest here Pacific for even on the near-b- y coast seamen strike and tie up ships because they are routed throuffeh waters where belligerent nations are battling And on the Atlantic coast merchantmen are chased into port to escape destruction at the hands of the or they deliberately enemy scuttle their ships for the same reason and American warships pick up the crews and land them on our shores Yes the war god s hand Is a little heavier there XW' Tribune Intermountain Service JACKSON Wyo —Plans for a lenes of events leading to the annual tristate ski tourney and winter carnival here on February 10 have been announced by a joint committee of the Jackson Hole club and the Jackson Hole Ski club comprising Dr F C Naegell chairman of the winter sports A1 Martin George committee Lamb William West C E Dibble John Waldron Arthur Buckingham and Fred Brown Included In the activities will contest he a carnival queen’s “Forty-Niner- ” coronation ball dance and a number of lesser ski tournament? Sanctions Meet The National Ski association has aanctloned the February skiing meet the local ski club now being a member of the national body and this approval is expected to aid in making the coming meet draw top skiers from Idaho Utah and Wyoming It is planned to held slalom downhill cross country and jumping events Experts and enthusiasts from Fremont county will make up a delegation from that area which will motor over pass and these may be joined by others from eastern points through a projected fast ski train Set Deadline Nominations for queen of the carnival close December 27 but voting will continue until 7 p m February 10 to be followed by the coronation ball Stubs to tickets dance carry for the “Forty-Niner- ” 3000 votes the coronation ball 4000 and the winter carnival 5000 ' V By Don1 Upward W C5 Utah Tests Methods Jf Feeding Trout About This Christmas & December 24' 1939 4 - OF THE DUNDEE CLOTHING EACH AND EVERY ONE OF THEIR MANY FRIENDS AND CUSTOMERS A HEARTY THE PERSONNEL COMPANY WISH “MERRY CHRISTMAS” w W 2A2 ftnuth Main flalt I aha tlftt Washington Bl?d “ |