| Show Provo Youngsters Boost Interest in Skiing f r yf y i J. J y yam ff 1 v y t W Wy y b 7 i Li LiI I 1 l y f p y 7 parn Jimmy and Donna Howell leading husband and wife ski team Provo Pair Sets Pace By BILL COLTRIN PROVO Feb 2 20 Until 20 Un O-Un Until til 1942 the Ski club was composed composed composed com com- posed of a nice bunch of boys and girls good enough skiers to go out on a hill and have a lot of fun but seldom could one find a member listed better than about thirty-fourth thirty in the results of any meet held outside of Provo can can- yon Things are changed this this' year however Jimmy and Donna Howell ire are the reasons This charmil charming young couple came to Provo and promptly did to the Timp Ski club what Knute Rockne did to South Bend put Bend put it on the map Husband Wife Leaders This writer who is quick to admit admit admit ad ad- mit that he doesn't know a schuss from a nevertheless can realize by merely looking at the records that Mr and Mrs Howell are about as good a husband and wife skiing team as ever hit the country Consider Jimmy Jimmy Jimmy-a a lanky loose- loose jointed young fellow who says that he got his first pair of skies four and a half feet long as a present from his dad Ray Howell of Salt Lake City at the tender age of 5 years He has won such tournaments as the intermountain way three-way meet both class A and class B is Utah state slalom champ and intermountain Intermountain intermountain in In- downhill champion Jimmy has competed on the Jeffers Jeffers Jeffers Jef- Jef fers club team at Sun Valley in the national downhill championships championships championships champion champion- ships and in the F FIS I S making an excellent showing in all three tough events Donna Best Bet Jimmy has won a lot of other meets and events but he says that Donna is going to be the skier of the family now for his work probably probably ably will prevent him from entering entering entering enter enter- ing any of th the national tournaments tournaments tournaments ments although he still hopes to go Donna feels feels' that romance has no place on the sports pages but revealed that she and Jimmy met three years ago at Alta and Alta and the two have been skiing together ever since Mrs Howell learned to Continued on following page pa Howells Show ow I Class on Skis Is IsI l I j C Continued from Preceding Page Pace iki while living in Los Angeles making a mile round trip over week eek ends to find the snow for forthe forthe forthe the sport Donna has been on the Jeffers club team two years and Jimmy Jays gays that her third place among the 45 5 best women skiers of the sine nine western states this year is isher isher isker her ker best accomplishment But Donna also has a lot of cups about the Howell apartment to line up with Jimmys Jimmy's and keep the mantel from being bare Last year ear she won the state slalom championship and the way two meet at Jackson Hole Wyo liyo jo and of course her recent Victory at Ogden when she and Jimmy Timmy swept all the prizes in the meet is 18 well known She plans to enter everything he the can this year especially the national women's meet to be held In Ia m mid March in Yosemite park I California The Howells intend to live permanently per- per in Provo which is indeed indeed md in- in deed d fine news for both the Tim- Tim Ski club and the city in Central for they are arc two fine alters and two fine people Both are arc working hard to get Provo o ro o more ski conscious Jimmy Pent pent a II number of ot afternoons I an ax last fall at the tew IW Jw ski area in the north fork of ot Provo ovo canyon clearing off oft the run spot now is the best skiing tito aito that has ever been available II In h Provo canyon but the Howells Dave e their minds made up that atil a racing course is set up I ea ft Gin the slopes of ot Mount l itself lf they will not be satisfied t Any other sports they are int interested In- In wrested rested in in Yes indeed They like to fish Ish and of ot course in the ummer rummer they like to go down to toL L Stab h lake and do a bit of ot water g. g |
