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Show Thanday, Scptoabcr t, 19Mf paga 6 $3011 CMpUItirU flUf Sometimes floats don t fflofet by Wen Harris TO FLOAT OR NOT TO FLOAT: MURPHYS LAW REVISITED projects go, this one sounded simple enough. Find a float. Get staff to ride it. Tow it through the parade. As Be Prepoked 'me from my pared Boy Scout days, I budgeted to buy a float for the hospital last year and found a reputable builder of floats in Salt Lake City. June saw several trips to Salt Lake City to negotiate price, design and time frame for Mountain Views very own float. The design was gorgeous and my excitement for the four summer parades was difficult to hide. The price was high but we were finally to have our own float, to change at will and not to have to go through finding a rental anymore. A letter came several days before the 4th of July Provo parade. I couldnt believe my eyes. Was this a joke? The builder had added the clause to the agreement, The float shall revert to the builder after 11 months! Rent?! For the price of building our own?! Not a chance. So there went OUR .float. Ah, but to save us, a beautiful g BYU float in the Provo parade was for rent in September. At least the Payson Onion Days parade would be covered. Arrangements were made through Paul W., a dance instructor at BYU. Going to see what had been a beautiful float parked under the viaduct in Provo left me wondering. Its last trip had destroyed the cloud batting. Paul assured me he would rebuild it, and he did. It never looked quite as good but we would make do. Weve got to have a float. Jerry and Lynette Bradford were recruited to assist me to drive the float to Payson. It took one to steer and the other on top to tell the driver where he was steering. Scarey. It was to be a long trip going mph to Payson but we were spared by the batting falling apart in the wind during the first half mile. That almost had me throwing in the towel. We parked it under the viaduct and thanked the Bradfords and went home to call Paul. That was Friday night. As award-winnin- 25-3- 0 Paul was speechless when I called him. We met at the float Saturday at noon to discuss it. We decided to rebuild it and Paul arranged for a new decor and left to buy materials. Don and Suanne Rosenbaum came to help transport. This time there was a small hole cleared out on the top large enough to stick my head out to see where I was going. Lots of wind but good vision. So about 1 or 2 p.m. Saturday we left to Payson where I would work with Paul on a new design for Mondays parade. Don followed in my Bronco, emergency lights flashing. The speedometer was broken so I guessed on speed keeping it lower than the prevailing traffic and staying to the far right lane. The wind was like being on a motorcycle without helmet or goggles. My last thought before it decapitation-yuc- k. happened was What a terrible way to With only my head and go! neck out of Die small hole, I felt vulnerable-b- ut to what I didnt know-y- et. Then it happened. The 8 or 10 feet heavy extension on the front of the float held by firmly nailed 2x4s and steel cables broke in the wind. The nails popped out, the cables broke and the entire piece was caught up in the wind and landed-y- ou guessed it, on my head. I'm now only When I 6 feet tall. I was stopped weaving all over the freeway and got to where I guessed was the side, Don R. parked and ran to help me. Im okay, 1 yelled out of the rubble. I think Don was whiter than I was. Several hours in our ER failed to confirm suspicions of a broken neck. Probably an hour of eye irrigating got most of the wood and glitter out of my eyes. A personal appreciation for the caring and competence of Dr. Williams, Allan, LeOra, Beverly, and Jean was a positive side to the ordeal. Carrie (PBX) also confirmed personal hopes that Medifact works. The admission was speedy and without hassle or wait. But what about our float? When the going gets rough, the 61. tough get going? 1 wasnt so sure. No float. Pain. Pills. Cant drive. But the parade must go on! 1 called Paul. Poor PauI7 When he got over the shock he started calling to find another float. Success. There was one in Gearfield. Paul, his roommate and I worked on putting glitter and sparkles on the lettering in my garage until around midnight on Saturday. The owner left Sunday morning to get it knowing it would take 5 or 6 hours to get it to Springville going 30 mph on all the side roads. This fourth float had to be the one. 1 mean, you cant keep having problems if you keep trying, right? The float broke down in Gearfield. Its still there. Help! Theres one day left. Brent Pickering, 4 float builder, started looking for another. Number 5 was located in Gearfield. He made it Sunday night to Springville and I towed it to Payson. Nothing could stop us now. By 9 p.m. my son and I had stapled all the lettering on and left for home for a deep, victory sleep. Would someone steal it? No, of course not. There it was, just as I had left it at Rileys Orchards on Sunday night. We got to our position and all the staff finally showed just in time to start rolling as the parade began. I was all smiles. See, it pays to stick to it. Get up one more time than you fall. Thats what counts, son. We did it. The first block had people clapping. They didnt know how much that meant. But what was all that cheering on the start of the second block? Why are they yelling at me from the float? And what was that noise? A flat on the float. We parked it. Debbie Boshard, her girl, John Wilker, Ruby Butler, s Karen Maestas and the braved the street on foot. Better to be represented with people walking than have nothing at all. As for me, I enjoyed watching the parade from the sidelines. Thats what I would have rather done all along. Anyone want to be on a float committee next year? Fran-com- FALL CLOSEOUT SPECIALS 15 off All Tillers 20 & 25 AMES Garden Hoses Garden Tools 25 20 of. Bug Killers Products 25 Metal Bldgs. 20 20 25 off Mortensen and Brent Bean have been tingled out by Payson Football Coach Dave McKee for their fine efforts in the opener against Orem last week. Mortensen, a senior captain, picked up dose to a hundred yards rushing with long individual runs of 45 and 35 yards in earning the designation of Offensive Player while Bean, a senior linebacker, was Defensive Player for his effectiveness against Orems outstanding option offense. Coack McKee praised great attitude and hard work. About Bean, McKee said He was the only one of our players to really ring the Orem quarterbacks bell on the option. He got the job done. The Lions lost 41-to Orem, but not without some occasional bright spots. Orem is an experi- Blake Mor-tense- ns 0 enced and highly rated team this year while the Lions are building a new program. Coach McKee is confident his Lions will continually improve and is looking forward to this weeks trip to Tooele to face an improved Buffalo team with one of its most talented groups of according to juniors ever, reports. Wed be happy to beat but them, says McKee, mainly we just want to keep improving. The Lions have a bye the following week, then open Region Eight action against the strong- est team in the region, Pleasant Grove on September 21 in Pleasant Grove. The Vikings n have had a good experience the past two years and are said to be stronger than ever this year. resu,ts ,isted 3-- A post-seaso- Bus Spencer teamed with Marva Loy Egget to shoot a score of 31 net to win 1st place in the Scotch Foursome held at Gladstan Gold Course in conjunction with the Scottish Festival. Don and Dora Hutchings secured second place with a net 32. Two teams tied for third place by firing net scores of 33: Ron and Donna Hall, and Bill and Pat Rupper. Sterling and Alta Coombs were just one stroke behind with a net 34 to win 4th place. After the golf competition, all contestants enjoyed a barbe-qu- e k and supper on Mr. and Mrs. the patio. Hutchings were in charge of the event. pot-luc- Haircut like the monks of old by Michael Olson I've had a lot of different hair- - just started the drill bit into the cuts and hair styles in my life, ceiling of the stope and had start- being part of the Beatles genera- - ied the jackleg pounding and tion, but the most interesting one turning when a piece of lead was one i didn't choose. I call it ore the size and shape of a loaf my monk's haircut because that's of bread dislodged and fell about exactly what it looked like, just three feet right on top of my a round patch shaved off the head. middle of the crown of my hea- d- I was standing straight up and like the haircuts of the Giristian down and had the sensation of monks of old, the ones that sup- - being a nail pounded into a plank, posedly slept in their own coffins It was a numbing thud, didn't to save expenses. , . . . really cause a lot of pain, but As 1 said, 1 didn t choose that I looked over at my mining partner hair and the whiteness of his face hfcut- - 0' ey w shirt, either, which the monks caused me some concern. are also famous for having done.) My concern became greater No, my monk's haircut was neces- - when a warm flow of blood ran into sitated by a mining accident. my eyes and ultimately covered 1 was working in the Burgin my face and the back of my neck. Mine, just this side of Eureka in I sat down on the muck pile; , . lay track, timber the drifta-t- he kind of caltouaed-hande- d job that made you feel you were still part of the old west. One day 1 was working in a e stop, getting ready to start a raise, which could be described as driving a shaft from the bottom up. When you1 re working on a raise you're drilling straight up, and ct's a dirty, wet, and dangerous job. Mud, grease, and particles rain down on you all the time you 're drilling with your jackleg, and if the ground's bad, as it sometimes is in clay zones or in e ore zones, you might get in your eye, you might get something like what falls on and flattens out Wile E. Coyote when he appears in cartoons with Roadrunner. That's what happened to me on this day I'm telling about. I had high-grad- ip t and he ran for help. While he was gone, I checked my hardhat, which was mad of orange fiberglass. It had a star- shaped and jagged crack in its crown. Obviously, a design just like that had been stamped into my scalp and was the source of all that blood. The shift foreman came and sent me topside, and I took a quick ride down the slant and on to the old Payson Hospital. There, in the emergency room, 1 got my haircut, first and last monk-styl- e The nurse on duty shaved my crown, creating a round spot in my hair, and the doctor came in and stitched up the jagged- design on looking, of a instead crown. Then, my bandage he sprayed on some substance kingof clear plastic-lik- e so you could see theu:- black stiches and all. creating ? -4 of combi- star-shap- ed nation Frankenstein Trappist Monk appearance, Unfortunately it was about ten years ahead of its tim or it could have been considered a masterpiece of tonsorial art in the punk mode, But in 1970 it was just piin ugly. That fact was very apparent the day after my haircut ft was some family celebration, maybe my own birthday and we were in a Provo restaurant, a group of six or so seated at a table waiting for service, when a young waitress showed up with her pad and pencil. She began at' the far end of the table and worked her way 1 d looking and spot. Then, standing right over my right shoulder, she suddenly saw it. She dropped her pencil. I picked it up for her and she reached for it the way a little girl reaches for a night crawler, black-stitche- She obviously saw my head dressing as some rare and contageous disease-m- ay je an extreme Form of ringworm or the aftermath of a vicious purging of gigantic head lice, Visibly disgusted, she backed up ten feet, took my order, and for the rest of the evening never got closer than absolutely necessary to serve me. In short, it was not a haircut for the upwardly mobile profes- sional man, and I do not recom- mend it as suitable for casual situations, either. Payson Community Theatre presents 4 of. Wheelbarrows 25 of. SHOPCRAFT TOOLS ARROW opens season against Orem Garden Seeders off COLEMAN of. sco1 Foursme s football team & Electronic 20 of. Cultivators & Payson program. of. Garden Chemicals Sprinklers citys high-grad- Lawnmowers, Riding mowers, Tractors & Access. Lawn A crew from Valley Asphalt spreads hot road' Curb and gutter was recently installed along mix along 100 West between 300 and 400 North in Payson as part of the road o.f Payson High School Auditorium i Nylon Line Weed Trimmers 15 of. 4- - o.f I Prices limited to stock on hand. Effective Sept. 1st thru Dec. 31, 1984 4- - EVERYONE WELCOME!!! INTERMOUNTAIN FARMERS STORES AMERICAN FORK 521 West 200 North 756 9604 PAYSON 444 East 465-481- lit North SPANISH FORK PROVO Cannery Road 55 West 5th South 798-74- 1 B 373-768- 0 d. A: f |