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Show I SALT FLAT NEWS, OCTOBER, 1970 ffiftyr (PtUiT S$8 mmass& Vfc LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Inquiring Photographer NDOVLRSTPI THE SALT FLAT NEWS is published twelve times a year by the Salt Flats Publishing Corporation, a Utah corporation. Its Copyrighted! Managing Editor Herbert B. Laughner Richard Menzies Richard Goldberger Will Lucas Joseph Tordiff Steve Strong Virginia Laughner Business Manager Marlon Udell Stones Feature Editor Senior Editor Contributors THE QUESTION Where do you go when you leave town for a brief vacation, and what type of entertainment do you enjoy while away? WHERE ASKED Wendover, Utah and Wells, Nevada THE ANSWERS Dear Editor: Dear Editor: I work for the Salt Lake City Parks Department. I was mowing Reservoir Park on August 17. As I walked past a garbage can, I .took my usual stop and scoured the articles that had been pitched away. At the top of the green garbage can was your paper. I looked at it, laughed a little bit and then showed it to the rest of the guys on the crew. We all enjoyed your humor and seriousness and thought it was In recent days, I happened to pick up a copy of your paper dated July 4th. It is very commendable to hear of this part of the state of Utah forging ahead from the way it looked to me when I left it 29 years ago. On the 10th day of October, 1941, I happened to come out to this part of Utah and worked at the State Line Service, which was then owned by William F. Smith, who had built it from the ground up. I worked for this place until a groovy piece of pulp. Well, Im sorry to say that we couldnt scrape $2.00 together. With the wages the city pays you live' on gasoline and grass. We are applying for a government grant to give us the $2.00. Your paper is the ultimate. Douglas K. Pehrson Salt Lake City NBVS staff photos Business Office: 344 East First South, Salt Lake City, Utah Editorial offices: Wendover and Salt Lake City, Utah Editorial assignments or contributions are directed only through the managing editor. The SALT FLAT NEWS is not responsible for unsolicited or unassigned material. Dear Editor: Your recent August edition was outstanding and the coverage of Park Valley a milestone in the reporting of the Great Basin Hall of Fame Revisited history. Ouida Blanthorn St. John, Utah Blanthorn is aBYU history (Miss major Ed.) The need for a Racing Hall of Fame in this great Wendover area was cried last month. We are pleased to report a great response for the idea, and from high echelon business and civic leaders. Our idea is simply to give due credit to those who drive high speed machinery to record speeds on the vast expanse of salt, a course which cannot be duplicated anywhere in the world. During the recent record attempt discounted the by the Blue Flame .crew, one team race the outlook bn optimistic by telling them, You just aint been on the salt yet. Its this proving ground which men must master in their never ending challenge of life. And its those who conquer that plot of nature which we intend to honor properly with our Racing Hall of Fame. old-tim- er Dear Editor: I just finished reading SALT FLAT NEWS Nos. 1 and 2 and Walter T. Raw land, employee of the Western Service Station, Wendover: I go to New York or Florida and dont mess with California any more. We allgo for sports events when we go, I think its great. I am a member of the Gear Grinders of SCTA and I am very concerned about the salt flats. This year our belly tank lakester car No. 432 DL went 223 m.p.h. and we want to thank everyone who helped make Bonneville 70 possible. Bob Beattie Beattie Brothers Racing Team Santa Monica, Calif. such as horse racing. County leaders, businessmen and civic officials in both Utah and Nevada are overwhelmingly in favor, along with . Utah state promotional people. And, most important, we have support of Speed Week and time trials groups in California. One group envisions a lengthened use course for automobile factory of the Speed Week, endurance and testing runs, and opening the track to d events. The SALT FLAT NEWS would other also like to see the salt course as the site of the annual national drag racing championships. .far-sight- ed auto-relate- A physical plant for the Racing Hall of Fame could be constructed, and we feel best constructed as a museum which allows tourists and visitors a dose and intimate look at the machines which were part of the history of the salt. Ab Jenkins Mormon Meteor now reposes on a pedestal in a lobby of the Utah State Capitol, unknown to visitors of the salt. Cars like the Meteor ARE available for a museum-hal- l of fame. Kay Potts, student at Wells I usually stay High School: here, but when we leave we go to dances in Elko. During the spring we go to high school rodeos and during the summers we work a , left for the Army, returning at the close of the Southwest Pacific Theater of war, October 30, 1942, resuming working until April 1949. At the time of my leaving, or rather shortly before this, a group of the employees did not believe it was possible for this place to survive after the Army base was removed. In this paper there appears a photo of Mr. Richard Dixon, owner of the S & D Super Market, who was just a little fellow when I left. Gene Jones, who is now the manager of the State Line Service, came to Wendover shortly before I arrived. I wish to commend him for the success he has had in the operation of this, establishment. a is the Wendover will never kind of place that die, as it is setting on the metropolis of the desert and on one of the main highways of the United States, which helps keep it alive. Also, just a few miles to the East, lies the capital of Utah, where many people will come to enjoy their weekends to get away from the daily treadmill of living in Utah-Nevad- big cities. Although the Western Pacific no longer have their shops there, the young people will find other means of employment to keep the place alive. Business will always expand and reach out for greener pastures, but the Bonneville Salt race course will help to feed enough patrons in Wendover along with other tourists passing through the town. On closing, I wish to state I am very much pleased with the way the younger generation has kept this metropolis alive and hope they will always remain so successful. Wm. Hardenbrook Salt Lake City lot. Kathy Spillman, waitress at the Western Cafe, Wendover: I go mostly to Salt Lake and go to the movies. I have a sister there. By preserving a bit of Americana, we can honor the record setters of today and yesterday, provide tourists with an informational, not commercial, look at the wonderful salt flats area, and add to Wendovers potential. We are gaining support. Do we have yours? the beginning of World War II. At that time, June 22, 1942, I Dear Editor: I like this paper! We used to live in Wendover and I think your paper is a great riot. Thanks. Mrs. P. M. Christensen Salt Lake City . Dear Editor: I have nothing personal against the town or people of Wendover and vicinity, but if you think the SALT FLAT NEWS appeals to anyone else you belong in Bellevue! Rob Leon Salt Lake City About the Cover Snider, service station attendant, Wells: Id go hunting or fishing up . by Angel Lake. However, I dont have too many days off. Ben Vt eat hep October Fair and cooler with chance of precipitation. i a This months cover features an old steam threshing machine, one of the last of a dying breed which once helped harvest Amer- icas grain fields. Marge Leland, Wendover housewife: In the summer, we go golfing in Elko because Melvin likes to golf. In the winter we just go to Salt Lake. We go to movies or to whatevers on at the Salt Palace. We have teen-ag- e children. Using a wide angle lens, Joe. Tordiff made this perspective of man and machine during his visit to Cache County of northern Utah for the annual threshing bee there. Tordiff is a student at Weber State College, where he minored in photography, and he and his wife and infant daughter live in Farmington. For his complease turn to plete photo-essay, page 4. |
