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Show fill Carlrr Orders Paris for N-Bo- Craig H.oim'IJ Tribune Staff riiei PARK t 1TY Hubby Burns is gaming .i reputation a a magician in ski industry miles lie has treated a product and sunessluJIv inaiheted it without the benefit oi brand name identification And last year his iirm. The Ski Co created about $1 million in sales for tbe imaginative Bums calling Burns, sor1ing a small diamond-shapeand blond hair longer than most of his contemporaries, has built fits business bum tbe nd the success of his business is ground up as Burns himsell By inI GOLDEN. Colo lAP) of production d plutonium components for neutron weapons has been ordered at the Rock Flats nuclear weapons plant northwest of Denser, according to officials llie plant, !!:t UF. Energ owned Major t orce Burns didn't start skiing until he was m college But since that time skiing has become a major ton e bv officials the Cmer'-i- t Ctah and the Universitv ot Washington, staying just long enough at each school to glean !l., knowledge he needed in business and chemical engineering An Idaho hamlet named Sun Valley probably did more to blink Burns quest at academia than any other factor From Sun Valley he went to W ashington to join the fledgling K2 ski company where he designed his first competition ski. In fact Marilyn Cochran won the World Cup on a pair of his prototype skis. That hit ol luck put K2 solidly in the business and the company grew to about 500 employees and sold about "O.OUO pairs of skis by 1971 Power Struggle By that time Bums found himself caught in a company power struggle and the next move he made w as back to Sun Valley "I was going to work lor Sun Valley." Burns recalls But one of my lriends. Lome Mallane. who giew nil with in Ogden, gave me the money to make some skis in Sun Valley It took me a year to make rune pairs of skis. And I broke all of them during one day 's testing ' I was working in my garage and I found out w hal Scott (the ski pole and boot maker) found out You cant manufacture in Sun Valley New Locatiou 1 looked in Nevada. California, Coloiado and Utah for a new location My goal had always been to find a place like Sun Valley to work and I think I have it here. Utah is fast becoming the hub of western skiing and it is even easier to ship out of Park City than it He attended Weber State College of in Washington had receied a directive from President Carter to begin mass production of neutron- -weapons ents at the plant compon- The directive, Nicks said, instructs the department to obligate funds in the federal fiscal year that began Oct. 1 for production of neutron warheads, specifically the warhead for the Lance missile and the 9 eight-inc- h artillery 1 . W-7- shell. Carter's press secretary. Jody Powell, announced Wednesday that the president had ordered production of the crucial elements of neutron warheads, but tid not order that they he assembled and deployed. Bobby Burns, originator of The Ski, has managed to build a successful business NEED A components duced at Rocky Flats w ill be shipped to the Department of Energys Pantex Plant in Amarillo, Texas. Nicks said. pro- Burn- - said - tlu i lue to identification ol Burn s skis of each ski lh the oil top block omctric pa.U'in ji si tried five years ago with three employees inaking all jieopie and 1M pair ol skis a year. Ho now employs makes it IN Hi pair a year lie also has his ir Sweatei Co and aciessoiy subsidiary wlmll makes color i ooi diluted sweaters, ski bags and shirts lie onlv I Sell shirts in Japui for $W 3u. Jusi a- - U .1 says The Ski, Park City. Utah. ISA on somewhere, they buy them as fast as can make tlu m," Burns said Burns used a plant in Ogden tor lus munutactunuj Park laedity until mining into the 1'ity building last vpiing And he figures the niot w as good for Park Cnv as well as his company. He to tile estimates his business adds about eeimomy eveiy year Paid of his success is based oil his uncanny ability nf some of the top skiers to lapiui, ii.c When he was just starting out. Ogden s boo nan-mwon the Woilil Freestyle Championship (1974) on a pair of his skis The next year Mark Steigemeier became the world (hampion, again on a pair of his skis . nd the ainaing mogul skier Jack Taylor also won many titles on The Ski New Plant in his new plant. Burns Ixmsts' "I can make a pair of skis m the morning ski on them at noon, change the design, make another pair of skis anil lx skiing on them by six p m " Burns is an anomaly in an industry ruled by slide engineers He works in reverse He determines what he wants the ski to do ami then tries to design those properties into his product. lie now makes a racing ski called the TKS iTln Racing Ski) bringing his total line to thtee skis He makes The Ski. The Ballet Ski (lor freestyle skiers and now the TRS fin racers i as an sell T it 1 u rule-totin- g New Ski lbs ski is a combination steel and wet wrapXil liberglass ski Tiie company boasts its products are engmeereii with imagination ami built by hand And a trip thiough the factory would lend some credence to tlu new claims Although Burns will probably never be one of tin giants m the ski industry (they even named then street Muni'hkin Street) his presence is already felt by the inaor companies and he has brought new color and style into the industry Need experienced personnel to sell 4.1 tax shelter call: CAPITOL INDUSTRIES, INC. e identi-Fir- m SUBDIVISION LAND WANTED Medema Homes looking for land ready foi development in the Salt Lake VaHey. From 50 acres on up. Interested parties reply to G tUmll? 90 GWsEK&fh $3foti2smi3BaB& MIL' SALESMEN WAREHOUSE MFG. PLANTS unci roc m routs. usn new ume MRVt wurrt. Medema Homes 11 CALL TOLL FREE & ncy 5 0 wr. Call 237-200- 11 t SavOi. 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TAX BUILDING? duces the plutonium coinxments for a certain The hum Ogden. wu Jr r Nicks said the production of neutron-warhea- d components "will be a matter of di erting present resources to that sy The plant promix of nuclear weapons, he explained, and that mix will be changed to meet the requirements of Carters decision. hit m his LHm.f:ii.t of and oprated under contract by Rockwell International Corp., is the only facility in the country for making tlie plutonium parts essential to modern nuclear weapons. James Nicks, the Department of Energy's assistant area manager at the plant, said depar- tment f The Skis Making a Name In Competitive Industry The Salt Lake Tribune, Sunday, Oclulwr 22, HITS MISTY ISLES, LTD. 6V- - 2480 So. Main St., Suite 102 Salt Lake City. Ut. 84115 O ' (801)486-460- PASSBOOK - . 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