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Show Editorials SALT FLAT 1972 NKVVS, DF.CK.MIlFIt, 3 HIT THE BUG WHERE HE LIVES A problem defined is still a problem, contrary to a oj- ular opinion. This art of definition has a strange way of shucks all deluding the definer into a back slapping-avv American accolade, the likes of which almost put Thomas Dewey into the white house. There is little comparison between the Great Salt Lake and Tom Dewey, though both are household words, the latter probably having earned more points in the cocktail -- circuit. But when it comes to discussing the Great Salt Lake, the reference is associated with a vast briney bathtub somewhere near Salt Lake City, where long skirts and good old days still abound. A visit to the inland sea impresses the tourists even more than cocktails at Shapiros. With rolled-upants and knobby knees, the tourist has met his nemesis, buzzing greetings from the great state of Utah. Back down come the cuffs and back into the car, as the tourist literally itches to get away from it all. Obviously, the brine fly has been around a lot longer than the tourists; however, when it comes to enhancing the states economy, the brine fly must be assigned a lower priority. One buzz or two, that is the question, and a possible clue as to the best approach to relieving discomfort to tourists and other soakers of the feet. In our opinion, one buzz heard is one buzz too many. To control the brine flys sex life is to control the brine fly. In this case, it takes two to buzz, tourists i p problems still attend the publication of Wendovers Picture Paper, Lie Salt Flat News. After no small search, we finally found a competent bureau chief to live and work full time in Wendover, with the idea that an reporter could better underWendover stand and its citizens. But our man has been in Wendover now for four months, and not a single issue of the Salt Flat News has rolled off the press. The Wendover reader may ask whether there is any connection. We hope not. We are certain that our reporter is doing his job, regardless of lax supervision on our part, and that he does understand Wendover and its citizens better than we who stay here in Salt Lake City can. Rather, we have been having difficulties in organizing our sales department. The finance inflows of a good advertising man or agency would do wonders for the regularity of the Salt Flat News apjiearance on the newstands. The will to solve this problem is there. Whatever creative talents we have been able to attract to this publication remain. Our man in Wendover would probably live there even if another Salt Flat News never came out. So once again we ask Wendover to be patient. You will see more of us. A few small OMIT 85 sniif2Bt!n-rzn- r tim- - a THE SALT FLAT NEWS i published lw-lbv Hip S.ilt Fl.it Publishing I'wporation, a t'l.ih (orpnr.it ion President RICH Alt I) N MIFM GOLDBFKGFR Editor - RICH MU) MEN 7.1 KS JESS GREEN General Manager Wendover Bureau Chief AU1 111 It KKNNEI 11 DOMtCIll E Advertising Dire. tor ltlt'HAItl) N. GOl.HBERGEH - - - P.O. BOX 11717 SALT LAKE Cl I V. CI AU 81111 ASSOCIATE j j j ; ' Letter from the editor: IN QUEST OF A LEGEND In ft it ft it it &<T j Ml MSI R OF THE a recent Superman installment comics, reporter Clark Kent was dispatched to the Salt Flats to dig up a feature story for his A little comic relief editor. from our usual stuff, suggested the not so mild mannered managing editor of WGBSTV, Metropolis. The relief from the usual stuff in this case came with the discovery of a salty old timer called "Old Jim," longtime desert rat who didn't cotton to city slickers, hast of all a dude in red, white, and blue underwear and cape. Well, as life sometimes seems to rnimir art, it wasn't long afterward that word of a real Old Jim reached the ears of the Salt Hat News. Eighty one-yea- r okl James P. Harrison, belter known as Old Jim" to his few neighbors at Fish Springs, I'tah, has for the past fifty years made a living trapping muskrats at the country's most remote wildlife refuge llow Mr Harrison came to be resident trapper at a wildlife refuge is in itwlf a punt of interest; i! seems Old Jim moved in before the C S government and ilaitns certain a pit'iii hunting rights. Harrison made new Iasi winter when he dtv oveied a lane srahiid. a Kiltr wake, dead and hundreds ot miles from its usual habitat. A subsequent investigation by the News into the real, if somewhat shadowy figure of James Harrison has turned up ronflnt-mreports. Coy" Caslagno. of the Silver Sage Cafe at Vernon admits vbe hasn't seen the fur d 322-1- 745 FOR SALE and I ljnpiei.es for Men and Women Wigs ichael ANTIQUE WINDOWS 72 LAM 2nd SOUTH SALT I AM CITN, I T All 81111 John M. Nuslcin of mild-mannere- phone 355-989- trapper for years. while rangers at Fish Springs speculate he is off on a few weeks' sabbatical, probably at a Baker, Nevada bar. On the other hand. Floyd Nippers, sole inhabitant of Simpson Springs, reports that Old Jun died at least five years ago. An inspection of Old Jim's cabin at Fish Springs lends some iredemt to the Nippers theory, yet a National Geographic expedition a few months ago found him at home and in good spirits. A recent bout with pnemonia and a hospital regime, of daily baths is said to have left Ham-sodespondent. This, coupled with a near collapse in the muskrat market, may account for the trapper's p ro longed absence from his home of half a century, A reporter from the News has twice driven the hundred and Iwniiv gravelled miles between Vernon and Fish Springs in dugout t ! . search of the elusive Harrison and is not likely to repeat the ordeal again under the quixotic circumstances. But anyone having information regarding the fate of the last of the old time fur trappers is encouraged to contact the Salt Flat News, It's a story we'd like to cover. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Gentlemen: Your newspaper is fascinating. It always amazes me to sec how you eonsistantly find the ordiIntrinsic fascination in nary" things. I know of no other publication of this sort. Keep it coming, don't let it die. Lucas is great too the big nut. 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