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Show Midwestern Skier It is fairly typical of the U.S. college to admit several handfuls of middle aged students to their classrooms. But there is still a segment of our population pop-ulation which finds time to kill but at the same time have nothing constructive to do. It has always been Utah's boast that our skiing conditions are second to none. We laugh at mountains that do not tower around 3,000 feet high. But in the midwestern flatlands, through the "big" hills of northern Wisconsin, Minnesota and Michigan skiers take delight in mounds only 200 feet high. JAidwesterners have taken delight this past year in riding chair lifts (the new status symbol for areas m the East as well as Midwest) up so-called so-called mountains to return down a "steep grade" that wouldn't even "send" a 90-year-old grand- mother. ! The trend in the mit-United States is to build luxurious vacation resorts which keep 100 men working work-ing full time using $30,000 worth of tractors and Sno-cats to pack soft snow on the hills and break up ice. A Chicago skier and public relations man, when asked about these new vacation spots, said: "I'm amazed at the number of people who think of Midwest ski hills as places to go on a fcve-day vacation. We always skied here because we didn't have the time ; or money tp. 'get to Aspen." ! This just proves that any state has a potential gold mine in tourist attractions that can be developed with just a bit of ingenuity. What next? surfing in Great Salt Lake. A fieldhouse on the salt flats or whatever it is, Utah should not lag behind in developing develop-ing a sound drawing card for out of state visitors. |