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Show SALT FLAT NEWS, SEPTEMBER, 1970. Editorials vust LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Inquiring Photographer THE SALT FLAT NEWS is published twelves times a year by the Salt Flats Publishing Company, a Utah Cor- poration. Managing Editor Herbert B. Laughner Feature Editor Richard Mepzies Senior Editor Richard Goldberger Secretary Treasurer Marlon Udell Stones Contributors . Will Lucas Summer Hymas Virginia Laughner Advertising directors Bruce Blackwelder Sandy Price Editorial Office: Bax 345, Wendover, Utah Business Office: Box 11717, Salt Lake City, Utah THE QUESTION How. are Wendover and Salt Lake City influenced by national styling trends? Do you modify your Utah purchasing for the small town consumer? WHERE Wendover, ASKED Utah, and Salt Lake City THE ANSWERS NBVS itaff photoi Need Racing Hall of Fame - from the preceding year. THE SALT FLAT NEWS proposed a Racing Hall of Fame to honor die record holders, from die renowned Craig Breedlove to the members of die 200 MPH Club. If achieved, the Racing Hall of Fame would be located at as a tribute to the Wendover home of die salt flats residents of Wenbeautiful the race and' breed who hardy die to drivers' arrival, each dover who look forward year sometimes while knowing bills offering the finest hospitality may not be paid that week. The rapport between town and driver surpasses most cities which host a single annual event of national importance. The Utah Travel Council indicates support of die idea; tourists are in acceptance; and even the Salt Palace's proposed Sports Hall of Fame is in agreement Directors of the Salt Palace hall explained they were attempting to represent all sporting areas but that every sport deserves more attention than they could give it We agree, particularly in salt flats racing. Let's get a Racing Hall of Fame for Wendover. Now! Jak Burgess, owner of Jak's Bridal Arts, Salt Lake City: "We try to buy for our customer, we don't try to please everyone. We're selling the midi look, but we tested it four to six months ago. Midi coats and die midi look with pants are selling best in this area, although some customers are staying with the mini those who look good in it The v midi is fee biggest national trend this fall and we think it will go here, but if you don't have the comthe hat die boot plete outfit the proper length for your proyou can kill the portion beauty of midi look." non-newspape- rs as newspapers. Now at last diose of us who don't want to know what is happening in the world have a paper which is explicidy designed to satisfy our needs. Congratulations! It. has occurred to us that the corpse pictured on page 10 of your first edition may be the mortal remains of Pigassus, the Youth International Party's candidate for the Presidency in 1968. Could it be that Pigassus was kidnapped by the municipal authorities in Chicago ("The Hog Butcher of the World") and carried off to an ignominious death in the hinterlands? Might his political opponents have done him in? His campaign slogan was "Why take half a hog," and it seems plausible to suppose that his enemies might have taken the whole pig. On the other hand, of course, it may be that some wandering citizen simply became confused out there in the wastelands and took a poke at a pig instead of a pig in a poke. In the interest of law and order, we trust that your zealous reporters will continue their cadaverous investigations and that the odor of this affair will soon blow over. We urge you to keep your readers informed if nothing happens. Dear Editor: We love Wendover and our friends there! Please keep us posted as we hope to become residents some day. Dan and Doris Eames Farmington, Mo. up-to-dat- Dear Editor: Congratulations on your efforts with our home town nawfif Sandi Kimbrell Rancho Cordova, Calif. Dear Editor: Bless you! Your first issue brought joy, incredulity, surprise and bedlam into our lives. I hope you'll not give up what could be the "saving of the West" in this particular area. This Tooele County area is rich in history but poor in continuing interest I think your paper (and especially your attitude) can do much to make the vast nothingness enjoyable. Audrey M St Clair Toorie . Sincerely, Dr. Peter Appleby and Dr. Bangs L. Tapscott Gayle Jones, owner of Gayle's Comer Dress Shop, Wendover: "Buyers here don't go for extremes in fashion. They're modem and but they don't go to extremes in lengths or accessories, such as headbands and neckbands." Dear Editor: I am interested in receiving the next month's issue and enclosing a money order for 12 interesting copies. I collect newspapers for a hobby (among others) and intend to comment on the Salt Flat News in another letter. Audrey J. Doty Concord, Calif. , -- . Dear Editor: I can imagine few tilings more soothing to read than a paper with an absence of about anarchism, arson and undirected hatred. I am intensely interested in the present and the future, but a little nostalgia is never amiss as a leavening agent . Best wishes. G. Gwendolyn Pell Richmond, Va e, About the Cover Maralyn Ball if, owner and manager of Ballif s, Salt Lake City, and nationally known children's fashion designer: "I buy the fashion that is the Too many Christians World War II, with its inherent racist destruction, is in die past; political control today is separated from most of us by a computerized election booth and a group of leaders whom we have come to know are as fallible as Td we face a nation still struggling with injustice. we; The real preparation for peace, and there must be preparation, does not go on in lengthy oratory over the history, nor in die electoral or political processes ofmost-easilland. It goes on, Ruml reminds us, in that dearest and "the minds and hearts of affaptpd of all places men," wherein we are all, whatever age or opinion, preparing ourselves for war or peace. and wehavehadtoput midi look. ... spise Jews." Sincerely, Miss Patricia L. Wilson Richmond, Va. up with which were thinly disguised up-to-d- ate "... despise black men. earth-shakin- r, this area are as as you find in the forward fasion areas. The trend is definitely going toward the Saturday Review: We are forced to the conclusion that the only defense' against the Bomb is political and moral, and the only solution to the problem of die Bomb is a just and durable peace. "The minds and hearts of men are not yet prepared for We in the United a world of law, justice and mercy men despise women. .States are not prepared. Too many Too many women despise their servants. Too many dewhite rap non-news-pape- Dear Editor: I would like to subscribe to your newspaper because I'm g tired of reading about events such as Viet--' nam, etc. Dept ot Philosophy, University of Utah P. S. When are you planning to appoint a correspondent for Knolls? . Changing Times? With each new eager, committed generation, we reiterate our hope for peace in the world. As youth and age continually attack, repulse, frighten, defend and love each other, there come occasional moments of reilection when we ask ourselves how far orhowlittie we have progressed along that road. Some members pf the News staff experienced such a moment while covering the 25th anniversary reunion of the veterans who carried out die first atomic attack in history and die protestors who visually and verbally asked them to "Ban the Bomb. We do not take issue with either group. However, in researching some of die early magazine articles written after die bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, one writer encountered these interesting comments made by Beardsley Ruml in a 1946. issue of er - Editorial assignments or contributions are directed only through the managing editor. THE SALT FLAT NEWS is not responsible for unsolicited or unassigned material. .Despite having die only salt flats of its kind in the world, Wendover is hardly recognized as hosting die annual Speed Week and periodic land speed records. Travelers often ask Wendover residents where the salt flats are and news accounts locate the speedway as a certain distance from Salt Lake City. But Wendoverites, we feel, are not the only ones slighted in this respect With diem are die drivers, mechanics and loyal wives many of whom use their vacation time to at Bonneville, with costs covered by savings participate Dear Editor: The first edition of your .pa?-prepresents a journalistic breakthrough of enormous importance to the Intermountain West For years there has been an urgent need for an open and candid Steve Harding, manager of The Company, Salt Lake City: "We look at the trends of European fashion and the New York styles, then we decide in what direction the Salt Lake area is reflecting these trends. Usually the trends in going tiling in this country and that seems to be what our, customers want It's high fashion, great style, great fabrics, usually simplicty in cut The drawback in selling this year's the midirhigh fashion is accessories. You must have tiie boots, the stockings, the hat the total look. We design children's clothes in our shop here and we find that the fashion conscious woman is interested in the same for her children. The name of the game is speed, and none illustrates Speed Week better than the Turnip Eater, a streamlined, fuel gulping motorcycle which was one of the first to pass 200 miles an hour on the white hot fiats. Turnip Eater is owned and operated by Wayne Cochran, a jazz rock musician and leader of the CC Riders now in Las Vegas; Leo Payne of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, driver of the spirited beast; and Carl Morrow of Las Vegas, the mechanic. The trio plans to open a motorcycle speed shop in Las Vegas. The picture was made using a Nikon and a 200-60- 0 milli- meter Nikkor lens mounted on two tripods. t |