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Show Wednesday, January 28, 1976. , Page 7 MOUNTAIN OUR MUBGEON X-C Skiers Make Excellent Show In Europe by Richard Barnun-Roece We were walking the uphill grade of Main Street. It was a warm break in cold weather. I figured the nice weather augered good things for the Truth Merchant Express, an advertising agency the Junk Man and mad me are starting. "Hey pal," a local entrepreneur yelled to me, "I don't want to see another word written by you in The Newspaper.Everything you write is disgusting filth; .the execrable workings of a dirty old man." "Any column in particular bothering you?" I said to him. Saliva was frothing at his mouth so I was reluctant to confront him more directly. Who knows? I thought. He might be another True Believer carry the Sword of Allah under his business suit. "It's all disgusting ... a pile of garbage ... but that load of bat guano about the dog was the worst," he stuttered. "Why don't you write something more uplifting?" uplif-ting?" the Businessman said. "What would be uplifting to your way of thinking?" I asked. I hadn't seen the .column in print that he was talking about but I remembered remem-bered it was about a eight week old puppy that was a girl instead of a boy ( as I had mistakenly believed) and the puppy's habit of crapping on the floor. I'd run into True Believers ; before. They confess to "lookin at the girls, cussin, and drinking a few beers once in a while" but when it comes down to an honest-to-God confession of suppressed bestiality they go bonkers. This guy was obviously twisted. He didn't think the column should have been written Why a lot of sfihro dream of xmhinsup at Copper Ktointain. U.S. Cross-Country racers made cross-country history on Jan. 18 with the best results ever for the U.S. in major international cross country competition Six American men placed r. he or printed. And he wanted to tell me what he top 20 in the men's 15 thought of my craftsmanship in more physical kilometer competition in terms Reit-Im-Winkle, West Ger- fall to the "How to Win Friends and Influence race there. People" play. I asked him what was bothering The U.S. competitors have him. .;.'. , been in Europe since Jan. 7 'Your column doesn't stimulate business," he for pre-Olympic training and said. "It's imnortant that The Newsnaoer competition ( . s projects a favorable image for people who come to Park City to vacation. We don't want them to be disgusted by your filthy writing. We want them to be happy and spend their money." "Listen Jack," the Junk Man said to the businessman, "nobody reads Barnum Reece anyway. He's obviously deranged. People don't have time to read tripe. They're too busy. For In difficult conditions with the temperature of 32 F and wet snow, Bill Koch, Guilford, VT captured third place in the race which was won by Finn Koivisto in 46.06.21. Bill's time was just 17.14 seconds behind Koivisto (46.23.35) who finished third. He was ahead of the top Finn, in you didn t read his agree with you.". Doug Peterson, Min- "It certainly doesn't," the businessman said., neapolis, MN took 6th in "Then why read it?" the Junk Man said. .29.27; Tim Caldwell, "Because I have a responsibility to monitor the g" VT finished 8th in moral status of t the community,' the SC0'ttS25: businessman said. "It's important that we don t stan Dunkiee, Brattleboro, stray off the path of virtue because profits are VT, 16th in 48.24.19 and Chris directly related to Godliness." ; - ' Haines, Anchorage, Al Then the Junk Man cocked his head to the side finished 20th in 48.33.12. that matter, you'd probably be a lot better off if meto. who finished 5th ir is stuff. It obviously doesn't 47.19.76. Uninterrupted skiing: Down long, long runs that let you play hide & seek with the ' mountain for miles without encountering en-countering the usual maze of converging con-verging trails and access roads. Its a dream come true every morning you wake up at Copper Mountain. Another nice thing about waking wak-ing up at Copper. Every bed is just steps from a lift. And the mountain is nicely laid out so that experts ski on one end and beginners on the other. ; With the - intermediates, in ' between. , It makes for a beautiful spectrum spec-trum of skiing. And it's all only IV2 hours from the Denver airport. For more words and pictures .... about the great mountain you've got to ski this winter and the cozy village right at its base, send in this coupon. Along with the ? information . we'll throw in a DON'T INTERRUPT INTER-RUPT ME button to remind you of .Copper's long, uninterrupted runs. v' Kiv-' and looked at me in the special way he reserves for THEM. "It's economic prosperity I'm talking about," the businessman said. "If we don't cater to Mr. Skier we'll lose all the economic prosperity we've gained in the past years," he said. "Look," Junk Man said, " a lot of people around here don't think a hell of a lot of your basic economic prosperity anyway. As we see it there was a lot of talk about helping our Park City Folk when the resort was developed by the mining company; witn tne assistance 01 government grants but the rjeople wto became prosrjerous weren't the community-at-large, it was tne developers. The people who become prosperous are the businessmen who hire ski bums at lower -than-ridiculous wages or bring in people from parts unknown for the good paying jobs instead of hiring perfectly capable Park City people for the work." "Listen," I said to the businessman, "How is it that you people talk about all you've done for Park City. Unemployment in Wasatch ' and Summit Counties hit a record high of over 16, percent last year and Stein Eriksen is hiring. Norwegian ski instructors when there are numbers of fully certified American instructors here who desperately need a job?" "People like you?" he snickered. ( "No not me," I said. "People who expressed a desire to instruct full time. Certified Instructors who have worked for the resort in the past." "Your research is probably wrong again,", he said. ; '' ' v "Look Ding-a-ling," I said, "my research never has been wrong and you can check it out anytime you want to. If my research was wrong Never before in international competition have U.S. racers placed so well. The field was quite representative, with the' West and East Germans.the Finns, Swiss and Central Europeans all there. The field for the Ladies' 5 K (3.1 miles) was not as strong. .Seven Jumpers Named to U.S. Olympic Team However, the West Gei j. ns, Canadians and a portion of the Russian team were in competition. Jana Hlavaty, 34, Chicago, IL took 5th with a time of 17.23 minutes. This is a speed of about 11 mph. She was 38 seconds behind the winner Haldig of West Germany. Terry Porter, Concord, MA was 7th in 17.34; Lynn, VonderHeide, Anchorage, AL, 10th in 17.51 and Margie Mahoney, Anchorage, AL was 13th in 17.57. " Martha Rockwell, West Lebanon, NH, the top U.S. Ladies racer, was recovering from the flu and did not' compete. : Bill Koch was exultant: "The race was a great boost to the ego of the U.S. Team. We've trained hard for many months during this summer and fall and this race was the first opportunity for us to show that the hard work has paid off. This will really increase in-crease our confidence for the upcoming competition although I still don't think any of us should feel that we're going to sweep over the competition." In the Nordic Combined Competition Jim Galanes, Brattleboro, VT placed 3rd in the cross-country portion and ' Mike Devecka, Bend,OR was 6th. Unfortunately, snow and winds made good results in the jumping portion of the contest impossible and the final standings were not favorable for the U.S. Team. Dodgo Jlspon Cup To Be Held at Mt. Holly Skiers ' Set For Labatt Pro Canada The Labatt Pro Challenge, fourth stop on the World Pro Skiing tour, brings the racers together for $30,000 worth of giant slalom and slalom racing at Blue Mountain, Ontario, January 31-February 31-February 1. It's the fourth pro f weekend for Blue Mountain in as many years. One year ago at , this traditional Canadian stop the winner of the giant slalom was American Tim Skaling, out this season after a severe break last March. Tyler Palmer claimed second in the giant slalom and Swiss Alois Fuchs grabbed . third. France's Henri Duvillard took ; the slalom, ' Hank Kashiwa. was , number two and another ; Frenchman, Jean-Noel Augert, claimed third. Two-time World Pro Skiing champ Spider Sabich went into surgery right after this stop one year ago, having redmaged ' his knee in the giant slalom eliminations. Traditionally this meet held just outside Collingwood. Ontario, is the scene for upsets and disabling falls. ''!'V:''."ry'- Seven U.S.; Ski Team selection was based upon the best three results of the four jumping meets held in Squaw Valley, CA, on Jan. 10-11 and Thunder Bay, Jan.. 17-18. Martin had the best overall not win any of the individual competitions. Denney won both of the last weekend's meets; McNeill won the Jan. 17 Thunder Bay jump and Kern won the Jan 18 corn- King, n 1 1 Send me vour brochure about skiin lodging, the village, special rates ana package plans at Copper Mountain. Tell me about the new condominiums still available for purchase. 71 Name. Address. City. State. .Zip. COPPER MOUNTAIN I Copper Mountain Resort AbMciation j I 300 Solitude Station Copper Mountain, CO 80443(303) 668-388J J or if my writing was malicious I'd get a libel suit performance although he did thrown at me m a second. "Well how do you expect to attract the ski dollar if you don't clean up your act?" J.P. Morgan said. ' "Don't you think you're going a bit over board?" Junk Man said. "One newspaper petWoDt Kerns jump of column isn't going to divert the entire Chicago meters (292 feet) was the Ski Club pilgnmmage." "Look at her ! " I interupted the Junk Man as I had singled out an extraordinarily pretty lady loading her skis in her car as she prepared to go skiing. "Now what does that do to you?" "You filthy, disgusting pornographer," the Businessman said. "I think you taged him that time,' Man said. He's Park City's Porno dOUDt 9DOUI It. "There's one problem," the Junk Man said. "What's that?" the Businessman said. "Everytime you read his column and then say how bad it is it only encourages him. He thrives on hate mail. It's like a guy running a Porno Film Theatre who can't shut down because the business is so good." "You're kidding," the Businessman said. "Really," Junk Man said.. "You mean all I did just now was reinforce him?" he asked the Junker. "Sorry," I said. "That's the way it is. Even pornographer s have trouble controlling themselves.",, them-selves.",, "Yes, but dirt is dirt, right is right and wrong is wrong," the Businessman said. "Categorical thinking makes moral decisions pretty simple doesn't it?" Junk Man said. "Excuse me?" J.P. said. "Oh, forget it," Junker said. ' Then we passed our prurient, non profit way. -. : ':' longest jump on the 70 meter hill at Thunder Bay this weekend. Kern's performance per-formance proved that hard work pays off; he came from last place in the team standings stan-dings during the fall to his first place finish in the Jan 18 the Junk Trials. nc ' The Olympic team win remain in Tnunaer cay lor training and will depart for the Winter Games in Innsbruck, Inn-sbruck, Austria on January 30, accompanied by U.S. Jumping Coach Glenn Kotlarek and Assistant Coach Bill Bakkc. MM the team's prospects for the Olympic competition, Coach Kotlarek commented: "We are still quite a bit behind our European competition com-petition because we don't have access to the jumping hills, the early snow and the benefit of early season competition. However, we've really improved our performance per-formance this "year, getting greater distances with much greater consistency. And though we may not place at the very top, I know that this team win try it's very best and will show very respectably." respec-tably." ' P.C. X-C Race Results Senior I Men - 1. Dave McCarty 2. Alan Taye , 3. Ralph Bird Senior II Men 1. Marv Melville 2. Frank Bird 3. Ryne Wallin Classified Men l.Jan Bjorkheim . 2.Glen Terrell . 3. Raymond Johnson Classified Women 1. Debbie Haines 2. Sue Beck 3. Andrea Dawson Senior Women 1. Jenny Head 2. Sue White Junior Men 1. Marlin Cooke 2. Greg Pratt 3. Neal Biro Vets ,-. 1. Ed Phelps . i ... . Boys .; , 1. David Reese ' 2, Paul Hutchins Girls 1. Anne Chambers 2. Lisa Reese 3. Monica Crompton . Peewee 1. Scott Williams 2. Amy Hutchison 3. Cheryl Dunning Mo Prankster On The Race Course World Pro Skiing will travel to Mt. Holly, Mi., just 45-minutes-drive northwest of downtown Detroit, for the $30,000 Dodge Aspen Cup, to be held Feb. 14-15. The second race sponsorship by Dodge Aspen this season-the first Dodge Aspen Cup opened the 1975-76 tour in Aspen, Dec. 14-16-the dual-challenge giant slalom and slalom competitions com-petitions are the first pro events ever at Mt. Holly. "The Midwest, and particularly par-ticularly Michigan, is the home for thousands of skiing enthusiasts," comments Bob Beattie, executive director of the International Ski Racers Association. "But most of these winter sports fans have only seen major league ski racing on television: The Dodge Aspen Cup at Mt Holly is part of World Pro Skiing's effort to bring the excitement of man-against-man professional ski racing to these people." "I've seen the race slope at Mt. Holly and it's going to be damn ; demanding," allows pro champ Hank Kashiwa. "It's steep and narrow at the top, gradual in the middle with a dogleg to the left, and pitched again' near the bottom. bot-tom. The start will be very critical and strength will play a big role. Remember, in pro racing you've got to beat the man, not just the ; mountain." , The Dodge Aspen Cup will be especially critical for current tour leader Henri Duvillard of France. Duvillard skied poorly in the Midwest last 'season, enabling frontrunner Kashiwa to establish a buffer of points. "I practiced to ski better on the little hills," Duvillard . claims. '"I am okay there this year." Since ' Kashiwa will miss the meet following Mt. Holly to participate par-ticipate in the Superstars ' finals, he realizes the Dodge Aspen Cup is a must-win for himself. . ' ' .-: Doug Woodcock Canadian Doug Woodcock plays the role of little angel full of innocent mischief. Guests to his motel room are likely to become embattled in pillow pugilism; a comely miss inadvertently paired with him on the lift is likely to be invited to Aspen within minutesjsaloon keepers will recall his dancing deftly across their crowded bars. But this puckish prankster is no scamp in the starting gate of a dual-challenge proslalom. Practical jokes and cutting up, his apres-ski entertainment, give way to a -forthright mie Several celebrated seasons as a member of the -Canadian National Team preceded his snowy pro debut in January 1973. Yet, it took "Woody" three years on the World Pro Skiing tour to validate his ski racing credentials. His first . money-league campaigns wrought only modest returns. 1 Determined , to succeed before returning full-time to his University of Guelph biology studies, though, Woodcock perservered through two less-than- lucrative pro seasons. .Not until 1974-75 did he really cash in on his diligence winning the LTV Masters giant slalom and receiving "Outstand Skier" recognition from the press at another event. Woodcock's success payed off to the tune of $16,000, not tallying in remunerative manufacturer bonuses. For how, Woodcock has life well in hand. Money is rolling ' in. Slalom victories provide fulfillment. The crowds love him. And there's more than plenty of time for leisurely picking tunes on his melodic five-string banjo. : |