| Show NOTH NG SERIOUS By Dan Valentine Val 1 1 et the other fellows take care the he great news stories of 1951 the other ther fellows write about I e disasters I 1 big political political z the thes astr str o 0 p h e s sadness the v e. e t. t 1 m m content oni on i r i v L Years Year's Day DayL t r z r stay on the ther Ling r S Serious 0 t f i mg ing J t j i I v of the news r 1 Q l J following win I gr Yv L t the 1 t third h If dr v 1 ual al selection r. r 6 the 10 best Valentine I hing Bing Serious Salt Lake news ies of the year Needle in Haystack he Salt Lake Police depart depart- it t 1 proved pro they could find lly anything on June 22 1951 t c Salt Lake resident resident Joseph Joseph was nan was pan nan was injured in an auto- auto rile bile ile accident and was taken t t. Narks Marks Hospital In the ac- ac nt the victim lost one of his i brows rows P Pol Police o l i ice c e detectives lied bed back to the scene of the thel l dent ent probed the area and I id d d the missing eyebrow It speeded back to the hospital 1 restored to Mr 1 Tiernan's J f I It 11 Goodbye to Tokens Tokens' fter i fter much hemming and hawI haw- haw I the Utah Sate legislature fly lly decided that the plastic h i sales tax tokens were a pain the neck neck neck-as as well as the le e lawmakers banned the use the tax tokens and told I hns ns to pay the sales tax in ini i old American copper penI pen- pen I Slim L February an estimated 17 17 Salt Lake fat folks folks me went me-went went on a diet binge ral IF-ral rat tons of excess baggage 1 removed from the girth of ly y Salt Lakers during the It sponsored gram Fat B Boy o y fact the mass diet effort t l such a success that it took ral weeks for all the dieters gain the lost poundage I i Time for Tears l I arly in the thc year ear the Salt Lake I office was swamped with as the result of a wide on-wide hanky chain letter erne eme or several days postal 5 had bags and bags of hank- hank awaiting awaiting delivery But like good things the fad came to end I Exiled to Wyoming alt aIt H Lake lost a famous resi resi- I dent during 1951 His name was I Major l Sheridan he was a lion who suddenly found himself in inthe inthe inthe the middle of oi a leg legal l battle The Salt Lake city and county commissions commissions after after much pressure pressure pressure pres pres- sure both ways ways agreed agreed that lions were a menace to the comI community community com com- I and shouldn't be allowed I to live li with other people They Didn't Visit Although Salt Lake played host I Imore to many of the famous in 1951 more than a few famous folks didn't bother to stop off in the I city For example Salt Lake City I IFor was one of the few places Gen Douglas MacArthur l didn't fade I away in during the year Elizabeth Elizabeth Elizabeth Eliza Eliza- beth Taylor didn't visit Salt Lake either Franchot Tone the one- one fisted movie actor also didn't visit Salt Lake during the year Talented Fingers One of the most invigorating stories to come out of 1951 was the announcement that Kenneth E. E Acocks Salt Lake plumber who lives at Westminster Ave copped first prize in the Utah State Fairs Fair's crocheting con con- test The pipe-fitting pipe Mr 11 Acocks won the ribbon with a neat doily and baby bib he tatted with his own little somewhat little somewhat gnarled gnarled- pinkies A Strong Hint One day in July of 1951 Utah's Senator Arthur V. V Watkins a Republican was sitting in his Washington office thinking up laws when a package was dropped I on his desk He opened it and out fell a can of dog food A note explained that the can of canine food was from a Utah vot voter r and Hand this is the kind of stuff well we'll allbe all allbe be he eating if you dont don't pass a price control bill the anonymous sender warned the senior Utah senator Still Life In May lay 1951 Salt Lake police descended on a garage at the rear of a Salt Lake apartment house and confiscated a whisky still That is they thought it was a still But after two months City Judge Arthur J. J Mays sniffed the still and ruled that the still didn't smell like a still after all So the police had to take it back Valentine of the Year After careful study and analysis I sis Id I'd like to give the Valentine of the Year to Utah's Colleen r r- I II u ute t c h i ins n s sf f I y j f for r three reasons rea rea- twp U sons t Wll First because I D she's a blonde jC and blondes are arc l i my f favorite a v 0 r I t e eto to 1 color of women Secondly beI because be he- I cause she is charming and the only blondes I like better than just plain blondes are arc charming blondes And thirdly because Miss Hutchins was named Miss l America America Amer Amer- ica lea at Atlantic City in 1951 and 1951 and andas as the most beautiful girl in the nation she brought many proud honors to the state of Utah Sam the Sad Cynic Says Here it is 1952 and Ive I've still got some old 1951 snow left on my front frunt sidewalk |
