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Show THEp Page 10 Thursday, February 28, 1980 r ev- pvt wj (T'vOtfx rvirvfwiryrvvii She's 7 BITS ea AR 1 Bea uty f fi - if. Mi -mi:? i j 1 H ; 4 'A ' : 1 V !' u '.- it " I ' 1 II ' ; M I : , ,; - Mf: ' One of Park City's most energetic and visible residents resi-dents last week was selected as one of eight nominees vying for the title of 1980 Utah Mother of the Year. Bea Kummer, a long-time friend and civic leader to both the old and the young, will be among eight other Utah women who will wait for the April 12 announcement announce-ment of the winner and alternate at the annual award ceremony of the Utah Mothers Association at the Relief Society Building in Salt Lake City. The 1980 Utah Mother of the Year will represent the state at the annual meeting of the American Mothers Association Associa-tion in late April in Phoenix, Ariz. Mrs. Kummer, the mother of 11 daughters and one son, said becoming a nominee for the honor "wasn't easy." She commented Tuesday she ly she Live From Park The Poison Creek Club at Janeaux's on upper Main Street will offer a lively evening of entertainment with Mondo Mudflap Tuesday through Saturday from 10 p.m. to 1:15 a.m. Justin, Al and Don will offer rock 'n roll tunes throughout the night. Poison Creek is a private club, and temporary memberships are available. The Down I'nder at the Claimjumper Restaurant al the bottom of Main Street will feature countryfolk and original tunes by Cat and Mickey James from 9 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. Tuesday through Saturday. The Down I'nder is a private club and tern porary memberships are available. Alias will play country rock tunes from 9 p.m. to 1:30 a.m. Monday through Saturday at the Hust Nail at the resort plaza. There is a $2 cover charge. Ladd Anderson plays Council Approves Ambulance Radios The City Council Thursday approved the expenditure of up to $8,000 for the purchase of radio equipment and maintenance for the city's ambulances. City Councilman Tom Newsnaner I Advertising doesn't cost ITDAVQI II I fl KJm Hi roil no ftiQ.onii Bea Kummer was contacted near Christmas Christ-mas by a committee of women who suggested she enter as a representative of Wasatch and Summit Counties. Coun-ties. "I asked, 'why me?' and they told me I was qualified," quali-fied," Mrs. Kummer said. "The qualifications say you have to be older than 46, but under 76, a mother, with the youngest child not less than 15 years old. They were right, I do qualify." A detailed application form had to be filled out, and like all other projects she involves in-volves herself in, Mrs. Kummer Kum-mer attacked this one with unparalleled energy. Sponsors Spon-sors were needed, and first on the list was the Park City's Women's Athenaeum, followed by the Chamber of Commerce, the Park City Chapter of the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers, and the local historical society. Z4k2 guitar and sings at Koce's in the Holiday Inn from 7:30 to 11:30 Friday and Saturday. Satur-day. Tom Distad sings a variety pack of songs and plays the guitar to Addlpli's guests Thursday through Sunday from 7:31) to closing. The (,i iil sieak restaurant in hos Prospector Square will t Mondo Mudflap with Justin. Al and Don playing rock n roll Wednesday through Sunday from 8:30 p in. toclosing. Tom Distad will move over to Sneakers Cluhat the Park City Kacquet Club for Sunday Sun-day Brunch from 12 noon to 2:30 p.m. Scott Gardner will entertain Sneakers guests Thursday through Saturday from 8:30 p.m. to 11:30p.m. Koikin' Khoiidas at the bottom of Main Street will feature local musicians Friday and Saturday from 9 p.m. toclosing with a variety of jazz, blues and rock. Shellenberger pointed out the money was originally allocated for the ambulance service, but that function has now been taken over by Holy Cross Hospital in Salt Lake City. Classified "They said you had to fill out the form telling what you've done for your family, city, county, state and country coun-try from the time you were 25 years old," Mrs. Kummer said. Little did the Utah Mothers Association know that the information concerning Mrs. Kummer's activities could only be contained in a manuscript. The local historian histor-ian said she has kept a daily journal for years, and has compiled scrapbooks of her 50 years in Park City. Mrs. Kummer said she was born in Porterville, Utah, "just down the road a piece," and moved here in 1929 when her father started working the local mines. The list of activities and achievements achieve-ments credited to Mrs. Kummer is incredibly long, and is punctuated with awards from the city, county, and state for public OAO J-A$W5 ZJ City i M Irs Park City Begins Heart Fund Drive The Utah Heart Association will be highlighted on KUTV Servicescope this week. The Heart Fund drive in Park City and surrounding areas is now taking place and will continue for the next two weeks. If you are not home when someone calls or are missed for some other reason, please send your donation for this worthy cause to Nan McPolin, Box 720, Park City Heart Fund Chairman. The 25th Annual Heart Fund Fashion Show will be held Friday, March 28 in the Winters Middle School auditorium audi-torium beginning at 7 p.m. Once again, the, children will be the participants in their beautiful home sewn outfits. Please call Beverly Pace, 649-9583, Carolyn Grose, 649- service. To her credit is her participation in the Park City Community Orientation Workshops; 8-year Relief Society Homemaking Leader; the Park City historian histor-ian conducting approximately approximate-ly 150 tours yearly, including one recently made over CB radio; the author of several manuscripts, co-author of "Silver and Snow," and author of a weekly newspaper news-paper column; a Community Council member; active volunteer for the Heart Fund and March of dimes; 4H leader for 29 years; former Park City Chamber of Commerce Com-merce member; active in the Park City LDS Ward; had articles published in Mountain West magazine and a travel magazine, and active in local school projects. pro-jects. Mrs. Kummer's devotion to civil service was evidenced by numerous letters written by friends on her behalf when she submitted the application. Those letters poured in from the Daughters Daugh-ters of the Utah Pioneers, the Marsac Elementary School staff, the Edgemont Elementary Elemen-tary School in Provo, the Park City Chamber of Commerce, Com-merce, the Women's Athenaeum, Athen-aeum, City Councilwoman Tina Lewis, the Cooperative Extension Service, and a bishop. Of special importance impor-tance to Mrs. Kummer were letters written by her children. child-ren. One, penned by daughter daugh-ter Christine, was a poem that made the historian's voice crack as she read it over the telephone. "It's just amazing how many people think about you that you don't really know do," Mrs. Kummer said. "It's been wonderful. I've kept a copy of the material I sent with the application in case I don't get it back. You see, it's really something to go back and read again. "I'm kind of excited about it, but I've been keeping kind of quiet about it," Mrs. Kummer continued. "I think it's an honor just being asked to submit an application. I just hope I can live up to all the kind things people have been saying." Whether or not Mrs. Kummer Kum-mer is finally named 1980 Utah Mother of the Year, Ihprp arp fmK u;hn unnlH dispute the fact that she is J without a doubt Park City's i Friend of the Year. 4 ,J" ;-V- 9764, Bea Kummer, 649-9366, Myrtle Buck 649-9534, Noreen Nelson, 649-9386, Beverly Florence, 649-9553, Jessie McAlevy, 649-9435 or Nan McPolin 649-9417 to register your child in this special event. Events leading up to the Heart Fund Show include a poster contest at Marsac under the direction of teacher Sue Erickson; verse contest at Middle School under the direction of teacher Sharon Richards; decorated hat contest at Marsac under the direction of Patsy Reed, member Park City Heart Fund Committee. Com-mittee. Details of these events will be published at a later date. Please contribute generously generous-ly to the Heart Fund Drive. -mfrA- f-;: '-.;; I 1 I. iiitfiiWiii 12 3 4 If backgammon is to be taken seriously, then a knowledge of odds and probabilities is an essential part of any players' repertoire. reper-toire. It is not as difficult a task as many think to understand under-stand the odds, even those that failed miserably at math during school should master this part of the game with little difficulty. Since each player need worry only about a pair of dice, this limits study to thirty-six possible combinations. Each specific double appears ap-pears in only one of these combinations. Therefore, 1-1, 1-1, 2-2, 3-3, 4-4, 5-5, 6-6 make up six of the possible rolls. Any specific combination of different numbers appear in two ways. Why two? Because 5-3 can also be rolled as a 3-5 (to imagine this simply picture rolling with a red and a blue die couldn't the three have appeared on either die? ). Having determined that any specific double, such as 3-3, may be rolled in only one way, there are thirty-five thirty-five other rolls possible. The odds against rolling any one specific double then, are 35-1. 35-1. Odds against any specific combination of dice are figured in exactly the same manner. Since a combination com-bination roll appears in two different forms, there are thirty-four other rolls making the odds against any specific combination 17-1. Perhaps the most important impor-tant fraction in backgammon backgam-mon is 25-11, the odds against again-st throwing any one specific number. There are eleven rolls that contain a specific number, and twenty-five that do not. Any four, for example, may be rolled in eleven different ways (1-4, 4-1,2-4, 4-2, 3-4, 4-3,4-4, 4-5, 5-4, 4-6,6-4). Ml A QOQ.m.O j QfI (mi : for as low as j; (at The Newspaper office) j Ii 4 E 3) Msafiim StoBcetl J (across from Mileti's Restaurant) These then are some of the basic probabilities of backgammon. Almost any situation called for may be calculated from these numbers. num-bers. It becomes relatively easy to determine the exact odds of an upcoming roll from what I have already discussed. Assume that black needs a six in order to hit white as in diagram No. 1. This, according accor-ding to the probability of rolling a single direct shot, leaves black with eleven combinations that contain a six, and with no intervening checkers, six more 1-5, 5-1, 2-4, 2-4, 4-2, 2-2, 3-3) that could hit white for a total of seventeen shots. Nineteen shots miss white completely then, so at the moment black is a slight underdog to hit. MS i i f f V ft A ' M O ' 'l I ; 1 ' ?y y if V V i f 10 11 12 Black is, however, in a position where he should never miss this shot. His true odds of hitting this particular par-ticular shot should be near 100 percent. Why? Simply because black must double white out of the game before he even rolls for this six. The shot itself is unimportant. It is an excellent exercise in determining exact probabilities, but a player taking the time to figure the odds in this situation would be most inexpert. Black is clearly ahead in the race and even if he misses, many other rolls carry him past white and into a virtually unbeatable position. Since the gammon possibilities are almost non-existent here, black doubles and white must decline. . ! i M A i ft Lwi i 1 1 1 Mil V Diagram No. 2 illustrates a situation in which knowledge of the odds leads to another correct doubling decision. Black is on roll and considering a double. A quick check of dice combinations com-binations reveals that any one (eleven combinations) and roll of 2-3, 3-2, 2-4, 4 2, 3-4, 3-4, 4-3 lose the game, leaving nineteen rolls to win on this throw. Since black is a 19-17 favorite to win the game he should definitely double. Another important aspect of knowing the odds are those involved with men coming in from the bar. A one point board (as with the beginning of a game) leaves only one bad shot, 6-6 in this case, and thirty-five good ones upon re-entering, making the odds 35-1 in a players favor to enter against again-st a one point board. Closing only one more point reduces the odds to 8-1. A three point board cuts the odds even further fur-ther to 3-1. Against four closed points the odds are still 5-4 in the players' favor, but when entering against a five point board, the odds turn against the player for the first time. Now he has become a 25-11 underdog to enter (remember that one specific number may be rolled in eleven different ways). Odds Against Rolling Unobstructed Numbers 1: 25-11; 2: 2-1; 3: 11-7; 4: 7- 5; 6: 19-17; 7:5-1; 8: 5-1; 9: 31-5; 10: 11-1; 11: 17-1; 12: 11-1. 11-1. Odds of entering one man from the bar: 1 point board: 35-1 in favor; 2 point board: 8- 1 in favor; 3 point board: 3-1 3-1 in favor; 4 point board: 5-4 in favor; 5 point board: 25-11 against; Next Week: A look at the end of the game bearing off tactics. 1 M i ; 1 1 10 ii 12 ii s A h f MUM l if U li !i ' 1 I i |