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Show Press Photographer Goes Flying in Stunt Auto With Capt. Jerry Edwards at Fair out If the door files open," the captain yelled. I grabbed. Then there was a But the real payoff trick Is hi. stunt of hitting the ramp at 60 mile, an hour and sailing off the end 60 feet, over Mrs. Edwards, who lie. on the ground about 40 feet from the ramp. See how .he trust, him? "Brace your hand, against the top of the car." the captain warn, si we .tart out. It Is a neat trick in Itself, hitting those two 24-lnrh planks squarely at 60 mile, an hour. ' I try not to think of what will happen if he misses. But he hits them neat and true, and up the ramp we go. It', hard to tell when the car leaves the ramp. It feel, as though we are traveling along just the same as we were on the boards a sensa-tlun sensa-tlun vt fljlng. Then the front wheels hit the ground and how. Down comes the rear with a bang. I nearly push my hand, through the car top. You actually can't see anything any-thing or tell what Is going on, the jolting Is so bad. Not until the car begins to roll to a .top are you sure everything Is all right. It seems very funny to the captain. cap-tain. He turn, and laughs. I try to smile. "Well," he says, "there Is only one thing I'd as soon be as a stunt driver, and that's a photographer. You gotta be crazy to be either." Yeah? I did thl. sort of a stunt only twice. And the captain does It every day. What would my folks think about that? By BOX PRATT When I decided to become a pres. photographer, my folks shook their heads sadly and said: "Son, you are crazy." I would like to have my folks meet Captain Jerry Edwards, who doe. stunts with automobile, at the Utah state fair, and see what they think of him. Captain Edward, doesn't care what he doe. with an automobile. One look at him and the city traffic traf-fic commission and Mr. Rufu. Jasper would run screaming for their sedatives box. But the captain doesn't cut up on the street. He does it on a ramp at the state fairgrounds, where he and his crew are a feature. A lot of men probably would like to ask Captain Edwards how he ever got his wife to trust him to. We'll get into that later. I took a couple of ride, with the captain. He had two 24-lnch plank, .loping .lop-ing up from the ground, forming a ramp 54 inches high at the end. On the first ride in the sedan Captain Edward, uses for stunting, the captain headed like all get-out for the ramp, then .truck it with only the wheel, on one side. The car tilted over sharply with one set of wheel, on the ground, the other climbing the ramp. By the time we reached the end, we were leaning over at 45 degrees. de-grees. "Grab my belt, so you won't fall |