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Show Earl Miller: Top Skier, | || Instructor and Inventor. (23rd of a Series) PACING FOR CHILDREN By SIG! ENGL Sum Valley Ski Director ' busy. He still skils and could L The boots are too hard) By WENDEI., RIGBY Netieeal Guard Piet Earl Miller, well-known local! He also served as a-fighter|be a formidable competitor in| and lxck pliability. If one of your sieiing children major meets today. z 2. Skis too steep; grooves|shows a de“inite competitive of urbanization, industry, and agricultural pursuits?” tor, has recently received |sti likes “flying about as While at Brigham Young too deep; action too severe. nature, you may be harboring University he started a ski shop| 3. Ski poles not suited for a future champion. It is up to The term “osce again’ is used because the problem hes the street south of the |the particular individuel yyou to see in his first races been with 2s for several decades. It has been compoundea worlA wide recognition for his) much as skiing in spite of his|@csoss work in creating and demon-|world wide acclaim in the ski present lower campus, and 4. Too many buy bindings|ihat the courses are definitely each year by the annual increase in our “people” population, helped to organize the first! with only partial release. within his ability, To foster the now at the expinsion stage as we pass the one million mark, strating protective ski equip-| field. He started his skiing at the skiing classes at BYU in co-|Bindings can be obtained for|right attitude towards racing, plus the changes in cur way of life, ment. =| age of five ysars on the Mantj|Peration with Dr. Leona Hol-|from $10-$40, end top prices are|you must make him feel that st or i part, : not always the best. Many of|the great thing was that he residential cita-| Slopes, with frequent trips to are those winter satch Range ad-| recipient Alta where he learned under He taught advanced skiing them are priced to help top/raced ar: did his best whethRecent problems with wintering deer once again beg th Ques‘ion, ‘Can we maintain the several of our 2 herds where theit historiwinter growth renge coptinues to be reduced by the! veleran skler and ski irstruc-/PlOtin tho18lstUtahNational jacent to our lower, central state valleys where this human'tion for his outstanding efforts Population is expanding. This includes the face area from) in marketing some of his ski| SU! h Cache Valley south to Nephi, instructors as Dick Dur-|Classes al BYU foreight years! skiers in the “payola” program.|er he won or lost. rocto n and Fried)|/4nd at Timp Haven, in its more! He pointed out that ski bind- With two children, one with Jequipment in some 30 foreign|Tance, AM! Enge primitive days, for another Time was when the wintering game from cur high moun-|countries in the world. Pfeffer. eight years. He is currently tain country could movefreely int, the lower sections of our) The yeteran skier, instructor! His training was more than meee at Alta two days Utah} the won he as Satisfactory in| born was valleys as depth of snow and available feed required them to| and inventor weeek. move, We vividly recall one of Giunddad Myron Newell’s| anti, where he received his|Class A Four-Way Meet; the} © He married Elaine Mellor of wildlife stories of younger years, He wondered then what) egriy’ educational start, He|/ntermountain Downhill Tour-| would happen to deer anc other wintering game as our valleys|jeft Sanpete County to serve as\N€y; second in the Intermoun-|j,,. filled with more people, more industry, roads and all that abs World| tain Cross Country; and sixth skiers. The two older girlsare Sla- now at Steamboat Springs in| eeto Provolin ove appeared 11 and returned note iththe people, He reflected upon how the ra to comee with z war i the National Four-Way ame normally moved ahead of the deep snows into the river| and Brigham Yi University! or, | which ‘was possibly the Ryne of cottenwood and willows in the valleys acegnne iat BS. ~ | highlight of his competitive par-| econ. taking pioneer times and recalled at least two winters when deer) gree in a composite major ticipation. crossed the ire of Utah Lake to winter on the west mountain. field in fine arts. He did some Still A Skier | | ings run from three to ten) Competitive spirit and one with- angle releases and said “the/out, your more immediate better the skiers, generally, the|Problem may be to help the one less the need for any safety|Who does not nm want to z face. precautions.” The big ski| Above all, don't force him to answer today is education for| tace. There are two sides to the young skier, and proper the sport of skiing — pleasure squads, provides an experience equipment including the com-| skling and competitive skiing that stimulates the child and — each is admirable, plete rel release. F itor, the first makes your !material support racing an aa eee. PghgagBoremyeboen ‘a well worth-while. Lei of Accidents aEn is Ra “Super for racer and have equipment| (yey was during his work at in there is a| (®t is the best and safest It Skiingwith Fi ling ) It is unlikely that Granddad or others of the oldtimers post graduate work at BYU,| Earl was invited to be on the| yy thet he became | Binding ngog inst|*¥@ilable. Contrary to other| s with a prime interest in our wildlife visualized all that Washington State, UCLA, MIT) Olympic Training Tryout Squad,|in the manufacturing end o°| broken Togs. The Miller“Step sports, ski zacing not | Sims Signs has happened since that time—like the barriers we call /and Michigan, largely in the! but was forced to decline be/the ski program. His classse In” is | ing the mos come a perental (UPI) — The _CLEVELAND scene.| the 8 sss Set types, binding the of nopular Creek! Habble in taught were commmit-| flying his of ba|come and engineering of |tieid upper the super highways, the subdivisions nestled along Geaae otae,SerSe es | |e ree aaa ets ih efCapon a Sela ata, |enddnsged accidentsenwere far too com-ling used in the Olympics. Mecl pratt , han catcher Duke Stee dh eearmatessaoieabeo_| noon. 00 one occas he te ishahe enellt of anyone thinking this is a new problem . 2 : where and what lands “must” de acquired or put under F&G skiing at Brighton. lature of 1996. In the report is a map of the State showing) who was seriously injured whi management if the yanie herds, chiefly deer, were “to be} with us in the future” If memory serves correctly, gome one Coeg roblem in the skii world ns is the relative value of ibe. pin vs. the.metal type ski pole, coin Thetwo types eve awe ina Miller ago, since the record 15 replete with cases to show that lands) will always be put to whatis considered higher use commensurate with the needs end wishes of the people. At the time there were sever-| ski Pole Beirne toe in Jaa al release bindings in various| Patents have also been obtained|—. ranges are critically short of wintering lands? Certain it is Miller became interested in alout a stages of development, .and| gn e nov net that the ‘‘stopgap” measures are not working along the Wa- binding that would release from Darkyte ated‘dion the home over to supply winter feed for the animals even Tithiin: Eat, Oe WR eeoe veloped by Walt Hansen of| awe eeoe reasons were many, ae persons him to develop a binding that of winter ie need Sanwee ‘ M spread. Limited quantity, winter ee ‘They found that the partial r,thb i eo FANS! the toe release, be aed od ers. worked comprehensively onf ‘a new binding (Arcuate Boot Plates) which provided for com. Tish lathe ot Soh baal andl E animals, For the sake of comparison remember the survey of P ‘must—and really not too much of a must in the light of the some 52 million acres of land in Utah. cause of the complenty of the|f & Obviously, does nct allow detailing the total probin. Wl tr the past, what is the parts, but the Miller Binding was later changed to pre-as- pay 2 elggfe ala lish aie Tt does soem inevitable that game wintering along the Wasatch front adjecent to our highly. populated valleys will be fewor and farther between with the passing years, The peng ligegated pana memes pred countries of the world, Miller said that there is stil E : Whiteand colored collar style SliGhibaiasien, 105) id casual ‘The start of such @ program hadits inception many years later, and at least a start has been made to acquire and rehabilitate critical geme winter ranges. The “start” includes snme 146,000 such acres under F&G management, a part of it rehabilitated and preducing forage for both wild and domestic BET ‘ou toe. 1935 when 1% million such acres of and were considered a future? We wish we could yay DRESS SHIRTS ‘would be more safe and usable. among them Seo ays Sh de Same some of t name brand ~ © it eth. “Jany angle. One of the best that| the Miller Ski Company sce employe Mr. Miller found was a type de-| more than 60 if this were practical or good game management. REDUCTION anes satch Front ateas since herding day and aight, artificial feed: ing, and like measures are not the answer to deepsnow, cold, and an empty belly, Nor can be expect the agriculturist or The above-mentioned a FINAL wax and other ski geen santé) Teal. tits and the resulis were 0 successful he became interested in| ski Windings that would release} when. indivi‘uals fell while on| the slopes. What to do then, since all but a handful of our deer herd f i a saees Pee Wees to the Olympic’ ast season, ing turn tables, ae releas- He had already been experi-| bindings, racing toe Soran menting successfully with ski ». tucntoblos end ae and one-half million of “‘must" winter range acres were listed, : |i xinrfrewkhs hscontractThursday.TheBe At the Orem plantin addition| gram. The camaraderie of the| year-old Sims hit .202 with 12 also was concerned with a gitl| Gnaeus, ne company,|United, States ski teams, from|homers and 37 runs batted in and in high priority were lands along the foothills of the) j Wasatch now in svddivision, farms, or higher priority uses. | Nor does your seribbler believe it would have been otherwise today even bad the sends been acquired those 30 odd years) j Outer ems’ eeae oer he - we point to the Fish and Game biennial report to the Legis-| The first bindings of this Tt type were hard to mount be- any certainty, but like WwW sembled, pre-sized, pre-edjst- if balance of onr deer herds, many of them also in jeopardy because of insufficient or poor winter range, can likely be| =e a big on the part of safety experis to eliminate ski] obl = in Ce that's SS ‘ieee pan But what cbout « EeSat aremeiteoatsemit ee me] National Ski Week Ends See setm oucaiy i ne thenal col era iwoada reson ctale Sriene a Wl do you know ess gustained or even increased, if we are willing to pay the price. . . ing because of its constant dan-|# teem wininng more than that? =] = acre same a! , one rem , i Zz this cost is met the managementcosts continue to include| Ntional Ski Week comes to eeSeah ee ae has vier 'skiers have suf hockeyroodgrag taxes, fence upke-p and repair, and all that goes with such]a. close todaywih siding con. wing a go d year, tained ‘broken legs and ier ron Thefs'on line te management. - = ditiunns reported “The price should include new and/or accelerated like {800d to excellent, «| Koepf Named ‘The Intermountain Region programs by the major public landed agencies in the State to inckide our own Land Board, the Forest Service and the Forest Service bas indica) serious injuries as a result | Sarghe oer est by the. Panseie (1) the BLM, plus a greater allocation of use to wildlife. ee ore es ee Harvey Koepf, Moss Beach, |extent, be prevented by the use| . . . Between 1919 and 1995 In finale we might ask ourselves “What is a deer worth?” |were made to 28 thepant Cau has been named field|of proper equipment, Miller if they.. won. 159 consecutive Surely not much to the agriulturist if it means a major Joss|in the district, during in his livelinood and even though he be an avid hunter as veer)More most ate. Not to the growing number of home owners in the] ¥.eel F foothill areas at the expense of losing their winter greenery s to the deer Or maybe $150 or more to the hunter based upon /ountry past|manager of the, Medford Gi-|claims, and it is not always the/! — ants in the Northwest Baseball sets ofte . also. visited: tole area: SS expensive types. He gives Sieucs of macy teal Koepf was manager at Salt/of ski equipment in use by Lake City in the Pioneer League| amateur skiers: average yearly expencitures and without weighing any of the| The Secretary Agrietl- ast year. Medford and Sali aesthelle values, In this respect, what is the ature lover|lure, Orville Freeman, gave Lake City are farm teams of willing to pay though he may hunt for deer? will be willing to pay the ing fine game management Whatis your opinion? continn progress- ticipate will get the job done, oeeeee ercise at moderate cost,” he Yours for fun, Casi said. ly skiers have _been gy use of Timp Haven 2 ‘ Utah Athlete Is Honored NEW YORK (uP) ‘on cS jee eri. ri the San Francisco Giants. If the pictsre is not momentarily bright it need not fore-|@l cin cast & a. a eeee a that we/Unge .. -ee ee i: any ccpetiond _[perticinating in the sport. Can Be Prevented MEDFORD, Ore. (UPI) — The injuries can, to quite an|f igh “shes ‘besebel tom Stars Honored Los ALTOS,Cali. 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