| Show - 1 Itt ( VI 44'- 177i i I t 4 t'- i i -' I i '' - I441- - N 1 L altralitZrribunt kyrr 1 i - g fi e tif i1 3 i k ( 1 t" L ' 1 s s4771--- 1: ‘' i r----77-- - - ' 4 ' 1 1 ele - - - ' oki fiidAaltiiUMma 4 IP 4 I Jy - 1 a t N Television weathermen determine how Utahns d N A " - work play plan the day By Harold Schindler THE SALT LAKE TRDATICE ENE About the same time each weekday afternoon four men leave their homes along the Wasatch Front and head for work aware that what they do has a major impact on thousands of Utahns Mark Eubank drives from the east bench above Bountiful Dan Pope from South Jordan Sterling Poulson from Salt Lake City and Jeff Kelly from the Cottonwood Heights area They are the main weather anchors at I:tahs affiliates: KSLCBS K'llaABC KUTITNBC and KSTLIFox What these four report often determines what viewers will wear the next day what plans they make for travel and recreation or even whether they'll wash the car If the weathermen lead viewers astray — and it happens — the results could range from inconvenience to disaster Tourists planning on a golf holiday can become hostile when they're greeted by 3 inches of "partly cloudy" on the links Street festivals have been devastated by microburst winds But that comes with the territory for Eubank Pope Poulson and Kelly and they do not dwell on that dark cloud as they pore over each new day's clutter of raw weather data from the National Weather Service the Federal Aviation Administration and the military in preparing their nightly forecasts Ao I - networ- k-television 3 ‘s pmemmowmmo 1WiMIEdalilrIENEWMM Rick Egaa The Sah Lake 7Mm4' ' ocoww$0tvweFol-'-'- liana Hartmann The saki Late Intmot Al Planning an outing? Watch out when KSL weatherman Mark Eubank wears his white jacket — snow is on the way KSTU's Jeff Kelly also likes outdoors 00 Man in the whtte coat Eubank at KSL (Ch 5) is best known of the four be has been at it longer having joined archrival KUTV in August 1967 fresh-face- d from California a UCLA dropout who had a fascination (some call it a fixa- tion) with the weather He went to junior college at Redding Calif and completed requirements at the University of Utah in 12 for a bachelor's degree in meteorology He confesses to being a "weather freak" with his own small weather station at home reinforced by a truck with plow blade for those storms he delights in predicting Like his opposite numbers at channels 2 4 and 13 Eubank insists what intrigues him about the weather is its variety "We know about temperature moisture and wind currents yet we don't understand completely why they don't always obey the rules But that makes it exciting" In the 1970s he noticed a sports jacket on the rack at the old The Paris Co in downtown Salt Lake He says the coat looked "lonely" among bone-whi- See 1 - : 7- r7 - 1 - -fl 7T-7-7-7-- ft ! e1 4 1 'r - - f ' ''' - : 1 ' :: 1 :' '- t - - 7 'ii N - A ''' — " t-- - --- of 4 1: 67 - '‘-'- 4J '''''':' —gle r--- '- - 1 1 '- I - t '' qw 1 ) tk1 'Nkant $ i' 1 ' I (114411 i i 1 I 1 1 0 0 4 - - ' :' tl i " t it - t I 1 eblo:tSt ' I :: ' - i- o 4 0 iI 1 :p J 1 1 ti-- V 1 ! e t 1- I - 1 t ' i 4) - 7 t i ' - 1 - I : ' I 111-1-1 "I :1 -- ' : !I - f 4 1- ? I it ti ' 1: 1 i q i — - i't 3 - : - 4 i 5 ' t i 1 4 ' i 7 1 - '1 P I 'i 1i f 1 4 I' 1 I 1 1 f tt - ia t i '' :' " 2 11 '' ! 1 i ! TI) i 1 li - - - i'f ‘ 2 t ? 1 - 1 1 - J - ' '' - t - !if i 1 I ' ''''" '4'1 ' - t - - 1 of t : t !I v - - t ' 'I'll --- - '' tl':' f-: c ' ' f: i 1— riii re - '"- if k - i ' - - te Column E-- 2 7 : ' 1 i - t : "' $ 1 ' i '1 I I ' - kick Egan The Salt Luz Trioune KUTV weatherman Sterling Poulson cut his weather eyeteeth while he was in the service predicting severe-storwarnings for 548 military installations m x Rating the 4 television weathermen 1! ir rir kt: 4 fteg U flick Egasterbe Sah Lake Besides worrying about nightly forecasts Dan Pope deals with the elements from Legacy of ' 4 THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE Remember the great outcry last May when Salt Lake City officials announced 600 South would become Martin Luther King Jr Blvd? : The Salt Lake City Hall switchboard experienced an explosion of angry and racist phone calls for days "What are black people fighting for : anyway? We've given them all the rights they need" one person snapped : King never came to Utah why name a street after him? they reasoned : Well does that negate his message? 'Did Joseph Smith come to Utah? I was aghast to see such hateful reblack child :sponse& As an inner-cit- y the Louis St in in 'growing up I was taught to revere Martin Luther :King with slain presidents Abraham Lincoln and John F Kennedy Lincoln was the historical figure He : mid-197- "' 0010111rown m 10011-10V- freed the slaves Kennedy symbolized freedom in the White House But King embodied the inevitable movement He was American Moses leading the counthe modern-da- y try through the wilderness called segregation The promised land was integraa dream be tion It was his dream would never live to see When the assassin's bullet struck King in that Memphis motel in 1968 it took out a man and stymied a movement I was 112 By the time I heard of King be was already a historical figure My generation was the heir to his legacy I grew up seeing old news clippings of German shepherds unleashed on Alabama protestors My parents played King's "I Have a civil-righ- ts black-and-whi- te Dream" speech continuously That speech and his voice will resonate forever in the hearts and souls of many 0tit 0 by playing with the numbers from the weather-servic- e charts" computer KIVX (Ch 4) Dan Pope — "In my opinion he's the most honest and 11 straightforward of the weathermen "At least you know what to expect when he gives a forecast He doesn't use many 'ifs' and buts'" KSL (Ch 5) Mark Eubank — "Since he moved to KSL from KUTV he's gone awfully theatrical and I think he hedges too much -The white coat has got to go- - KSTU (Ch 13) Jeff Kelly — don't know him at all Haven't talked to him haven't met him" — Harold Schindler Kna's new weather porch Or: Embracing America's diversity t rtin Luther By Samuel A Autraan Tame Who better to rate the television weather anchors in Utah than William Alder meteorologist-in-charg- e of the National Weather Service's Salt Lake City office? Alder is responsible for all the official government weather forecasts for Utah And he pulls no punches In response to The Salt Lake Tribune's request here are his comments regarding the main weathermen at the four network affiliates: M KUTV (Ch 2) Sterling Poulson — "He's had a lot of experience most of it in the military But as a meteorologist he runs hot and cold in his forecasts "Occasionally hedges his forecasts I hove a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their term "But he is really nice" one of them said "Shhhhh! Here he comes" said anoth- These words have come to mean a lot to me King's dream of a acceptance and tolerance in a multicultural society is in theory becoming reality American popular culture is mushrooming with integration — music fashion dance sports films government and fads Our interdependence is becoming clear Yet race relations remain our Achilles' heel Once I attended a Boy Scouts of America leadership-trainincamp in Missouri They divided us into troops of boys who did not know one another For eight days I was the one black out of 28 boys in my section The other Scouts were friendly I remember even one morning at the breakfast table they were referring to me in a pejorative For eight days I did not see anyone who was like me Not many people know that experience It is not always easy Ten years later in Utah I am less than I of the population Some days I feel trapped Ever heard of a fly in buttermilk? I have character color-blin- d g bat "Irmi0Irtittoottstopf 1 er never considered myself an angry per son but lately I have become increasingly edgy People gaze at me at the grocery store in restaurants and at movie theaters Sometimes when I am driving in my car I will pull up next to a Dodge minivan of eight people Someone says something and they all turn and look at me I pretend to not notice but I feel like a circus character My heart beats faster Can't wait for the light to change I zip away Pheeww! I made it I am offstage for a few moments until I see the next starers I have heard the "I Have a Dream' speech more times than I can count Now I live it King's ideals of blacks whites Jews gentiles Protestants and Catholics walking hand in hand singing is not that far away The racial tensions that exist in the United States reulain because we allow them We permit it The reality is that we are all descendants from other contitents who live for the most part in peace under one flag Unless America learns to embrace its inherent diversity we will become a land of squabbling nationalities And that would be a nightmare for us all Samuel Autman joined The Salt Lake Tribune a year ago coming from the Tulsa World Tulsa Ckla Ti 0' A - 1 4PadAMIPriareitrErN4010abiliPooMP00ANO-frottlnitee010000elt01044Ntart"1- - - - rqf1"!"'rlkow"?'rmtqlbr"r"!'oo''ro0IomarootFowogrAsoemet"smet ' A o e' s !'4114 ttvo5 Zr J : ' ItVosionvr 41" T43111ktoltMAWe1PT'llcor'"0101'11911113VILlmroottnik2 ' I r4191o - |
