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Show SALT FLAT NEWS, JULY, 1971 11 tai Jural WMfujcaA When you have been associated with frogs for some seven years . . . one can only assume that something beautiful will eventually happen. It did. Jubilation! The Utah frog jump took place on the parking strip in front of Cathedral South downtown Salt Lake City on Whiskey Street. Some one hundred and fourty green slippery leapers were poised and ready to give it their all . . . blaam the buckshot full speed ahead. A leap of seven feet three inches was duly recorded and that frog . . . was quickly put into a sweat suit and air mailed via special aircraft to the international frog jump in Angels Camp, California. The official Utah frog, representing Governor Calvin Rampton, was now another rung up the ladder to instant success. Ramptons Romper had only to subdue thirty thousand other frogs from all over the world. Preliminary jumps were held for three days on two separate outdoor amphitheatres. Now the the sounding of the trumpets multitudinous choir broke out with a stirring rendition of Utah We Love Thee. Not a dry eye in thouthe crowd of seventy-eigh- t sand spectators.' I placed our Romper on the launch pad, get go romp Jump baby em champ!!! A tensing of the beautiful thigh, muscles of the a chama leap . Utah frog by R. N. Goldberger Oh! Wenta frogging down the river in the merry month ( of May . . . Complete this verse and you might receive a free trip to Calavaras County with this years Miss Frog, the vivacious Lucy Webb. This contest is sponsored by Menzies Ltd. of Snake Creek, Utah, the largest supplier of lovely leapers in Utah. Bio-logica- out-thinki- . ... pionship jump . . . ultrasonic Mach II . . . the. air cracked with the intake of severity eight good enough for second place and a glorious trophy for the capitol in Salt Lake City. Word went thru the vast audience that the Nevada side of Wendover had sent a super frog to represent the State Line Casino. It never showed up. Someone said . . . (though not yet authenticated) that the Wendover frog was last seen working as a decoy for commissioner Barker on West Second South to try to stem the growing tide of sexually permissive frogs. So a pleasant flight back to Salt Lake City . . . with a second place in an international event. The standard and customary presentation of the trophy to the Governor on Capitol Hill . . . and the placing of the trophy in the rotunda to cause a flurry of com-ment from the visiting . . . lookie that Mable . . . these here Utahns got em a frog trophy . . . gollee. Frogs are good for tourism. 2 TAMMY Billy Battles (6'4V&") 843 West 4th South Salt Lake City, Utah RALPH 4 Gregory Steffensen (6'1V6") 330 Clark Street Salt Lake City, Utah Dan Bradshaw (5'11") 200 South Main Continental Bank & Trust . Salt Lake City, Utah 5 Will Lucas 3 (5'10) KALL Radio 312 East South Temple Salt Lake City, Utah STD eOLLESTSEIS UTAH'S LARGEST SELECTION OF MAJOR BRAND DISCOUNT LET US KNOW YOUR NEEDS Atudfa Not you, sighed she upon quiet pads of green oak grr ump TTDHBMODDEIB Ooh! she cried Ho he replied Rg. transmission repairmen. OVER 300 COUNTRIES INSTOCK Oooh it's a toad Crooak ooak ooak oak Thumped the toad away. "Irenes" A popular salt flat pastime is cutting brodies in the sand. All is a wide open space, daddys car, and at least one female passenger for sound effects. Sport is favored by teens, young thats needed STAMP SUPPLIES ON MOST SUPPLIES What is so bold as a toad ? -- . UP TO 20 - Lucas, Master of the Frogs, holds forth his lucky leaper. out the best and the worst in peotype of embarrassment comes once a year under normal circumple as Mark Twain probably realized by his froggy inspiration. In stances; Tyrannosaurus Rex the one one and 8th caine to life in a squat jump toad all, eighty frogs that really moved no eyebrows. If padded off. Will Lucas, master of the frogs, one might recall, Tyrannosaurus entered a giant frog that for a the 7th passed onward and most while looked as if he might have probably upward while upon the croaked, literally, but, alas, as this pad last year. Will - ODE TO A TOAD she shrieked Mauin ng FROG JUMP TOP FIVE 1971 1 Tammy Spangler (7'3") 431 8th Avenue Salt Lake City, Utah thou- sand thunder struck doubting thomases . .. eleven feet, five inches ... a record? No. But tourists NEWS photo by R. ... ... g The credibility of frogs is to say the least. Mark Twain, 104 years ago, was aware of this and in a spree of Missouri Wisdom decided to out leap a frog upon a hundred dollar wager placed by a gaming gentleman from California. Needless to say, Twain won by the frog, though first finishing his cigar in a billow of smoke. Not that the smoke bothered the frog too much,. but the gentleman from California, caught up in the Missouri Cloud, stepped back and squashed the frog. Twain, well he won by default and threatened to file criminal charges upon the death of his webbed friend. Today little is mentioned about this tragedy except the annual Frog Jumping Contest held in Angels Camp, Calaveras County, California. Utah prepared for the National Jump last month in a statewide tournament hosted by KALL Radio. Frogs seem to bring com-plexin- ... ... ls o. mmr 4701 Holladay Blvd. (23rd East) Salt Lake City, Utah 84117 Phone 278-484- 8 a a b ; i r i r |