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Show rfi - . l' ii ir'inMi "gyTtf iy"iy wQirflr r ' f 4 '1' ts91 tfi'ti''t4(,l44 iit'ir-- iymi 4 DESERET NEWS, LAS VEGAS, NEV. (AP) $4,500, Buckskin Jack -- For McElrath will come to a county-fair and try to leap from the wing strut of an airplane onto the back of a steer charging from a rodeo chute. For another $1,000, hell do it twice a day, all prices nego- tiable. For another hell do it twice a day, all prices nego-- , liable. McElrath, a bespectacled, lanky veteran rodeo bulldogger, calls what he does rkydrgging. He lays claim to the world championship time of 20 seconds from the time the steer $1,000, is released until it is thrown flat on its back, because he says no one else has tried it. McElrath, 23, stalling speed. With a headwind, the plane can get down to 25 mph ground speed. The steer thunders out of the chute as the plane roars up behird it. A skydogger has a split second to scoop in behind the horns, McElrath says. All you ever touch the steer is one time o '.t of 10, McElrath admits laconically. The rest of the time a skydogger smacks into the ground sliding, tumbling, headhe calls slapping misses, them. But even a miss thrills the has jumped without a parachute from a plane 25 times, twice before audiences, g veteran the rodeo circuit who also has a trained ammal act, McElrath made his first parachuteless jump toward a steer in public A of last July in Canistota, S.D., his former home. He hangs from the wing strut of an Aeronca Champion as it swoops down to an altitude of six feet and slows to 35 to 45 miles per hour, near crowd. tures lines. An FAA representative has monitored both public perform- The worst jump he made, the cowboy says, was from 12 feet at 45 mph, leaving him stiff and sore but uninjured. Theres . and power ances. The worlds only known has a challenger, Jim teleReynolds, a cable splicer phone company from Las Vegas, who saw McElrath in his second public performance here recently. sky-dogg-er no problem if you he says. get down lower, You just slide, like a stone skipping across a lake ihe Federal Aviation Administration does not object to the stunt if certain safety regulations are met, he said. Reynolds' manager, county- san JUAN, P.R. (UPI) -- A Harvard University health expert says that cigarette smokers who have reached age 65 mjgjit as well keep on smoking they will not prolong their lives by stopping. Dr. Carl C. Seltzer, senior research associate at the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, said persons who Stop smoking after 65 to gain no additional time. i i Wednesday, December 20, 1972 AI9 over a period from Smkin!! 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