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Show Editorials SALT FLAT NEWS, MAY, 1972 . , 3 WENDOVER NEGLECTED We have come to realize that Wendover feels that AO re- PKQUBnJ cently it has been getting the dirty end of the stick in this its own picture paper. Promises were made. Some of the powers that be feel that these promises were not kept. Some citizens of Wendover feel that the Salt Flat News has neglected them in favor of quaint types that do not at o all represent the Wendoverite or even the averman on the salt. Others maintain the center of gravity age is drifting away from Wendover to Salt Lake City. Many of these problems arise from the difficulties of getting a project of this kind started, from the natural shake-ou- t of personnel, from the fact that policies must shift to meet unforeseen complications, and because most of the people who work on this paper must at present earn their basic living necessities at other jobs. The Salt Flat News knows that Wendover is good for it. And, conversely, the Salt Flat News is good for Wendover. Our circulation is making Wendover known among groups of people who had never before heard of it. State leaders, U.S. senators, and influential newspaper editors in the East read the Salt Flat News to satisfy a growing appetite for news from another front. But Salt Lake City, or downtown as it is often called by seasoned Wendoverites, will continue to have its influence in the affairs of the Salt Flat News. We distribute most of the papers among the population of the Wasatch Front. The capital that keeps us going during this beginning period can only be raised in Salt Lake City, and, finally, many of our talented employees reside in Salt Lake City But we feel that the center of gravity, or levity, as it were, will continue to lie somewhere in between the two cities, wherever we find stout men, warm hearts, and pockets full of spare change. - HAFPBN A CMNOCR-FRAUS- . HT EPI0OPS 4HWX IN THB Of well-to-d- STATION MS46-7K. EX POST SPACE PORT Decisions are funny animals. Made to assume a strong if not indestructible front, yet not necessarily immune to revision. The spaceport will hot be built in Utah. Why? Because Utah does not have an ocean, the Great Salt Lake notwithstanding. This salty if not strange criteria should not act as a deterrent fof those parties who want to see Utah share in the profits of a lofty national goal. After all, technology floats better on the Great Salt Lake than in either the Atlantic or Pacific. . ' The News will continue to lobby for an inland spaceit comes port regardless of what todays decision to raw technical data, Utah is superior to Florida or California as a gateway to the stars. . . For two yean now the Salt Flat News has proclaimed the distinction of being the only newspaper in the world that gives a damn about what happens on the salt flats. " Well, times have changed, and the saline wastes of western Utah seem to be on every newsman's mind, even is.-Whe- n sse GGfiJW ns naans (JgSfls a Uk (MJESl) (S! - n relief f SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH 84101 . (H3uEZIEI? PHONE 359-428- LETTERS.TO THE EDITOR 7 I - Editor RICHARD NAHUM GOLDBERGER Feature Editor RICHARD MENZIES General Manager JESS GREEN Wendover Bureau Chief ARTHUR KENNETH DONOGHUE DON W. OHMS Advertising Director P.O. BOX 11717 SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH 84111 ASSOCIATE MEMBER OF THE a aa 4a,Aa'A4 JT 485-210- 1 - Health tells us there are sixty mil-- , lion 'schizophrenics, thereby asmarket-ansuring itself of a long-terof research ;money. plenty Alka Seltzer creates the blahs to sell drugs, and ecology becomes a threat that only fifteen billion dollars or so a year will remedy. Clearly, this age identifies itself by the diseases it creates to hawk cures. Still, Im disheartened when I read the Labor Dept, estimate that the average family of four with an income of less than $7,214 per year is poor. If this statistic is going to be used for developing mQregpodprogmiqs;like. foodstamps to help the farmersi m THE SALT FLAT NEWS is published twelve timera year by the Salt Flats Publishing Corporation, a Utah Corporation. For Advertising, Phone Dear Editor: In the New Industrial State the National Institute for Mental (FILM i just more of the usual stuff. 557 SO. 2nd WEST JU! JX . in such distant Eastern capitals as Metropolis and Gotham City. Perhaps ?ven more than Walter Cronkite and David Brinkley, the best known newsman of modem times is none other than Clark Kent, who over the course of thirty-fiv- e years has risen WGBS-Tless Somewhat at from lowly copy boy at the Daily Planet to second-strin- g reporter than a meteoric career, it would appear, owing in part to an incurable case of mild manners and a cowardly disposition, when faced with danger, to duck into a convenient closet. In die June issue of Superman Comics, Kent is dispatched to Utah's salt flats to investigate a strange disturbance, something editor Morgan Edge expects will provide a little "comic relief'' from die usual stuff.. Faster than a speeding bullet, the inteprid reporter reaches- the scene, a Land Rover buried under, a mountain of finding among other things, Lois Lane trapped-isalt, a mysterious alien arsenal from outer space, a martian manhunter, a lynx with a human brain, and a madman bent on conquering the world. All in all, little in the way of comic or 299-450- 4 - '"V i p s a 9 m $ d nearly ruined by other administration programs, then I endorse it IL however, it will be used as I fear to create more victims of the War on Poverty then Im asked to be schizophrenic with the blahs, though aware the consciousness of America has become the ravaged terrain of Viet I NEWS Incidentally, our family of six plus two guests and five animals thrived as vegetarian princes and princesses in the midst of happy, generous neighbors, traveled widely, learned much, paid our tithing and taxes last year on a total cash income of approxi- mately $3,500. . J ' v v We are. informed that the young man pictured in our March issue centerfold is Buddy Knight, not Louis Arano, as we incorrectly reported. Also, the machine in which Knight is a passenger is a diesel locomotive not, as we mistook it, a steam-operate- d crane. The incident in question, however, did indeed take place in , Utah,' sometime .within recent, months. . . v.., R. Goldbtrg KNIGHT ERRANT Nam. Robert Macri .121$ 4ft Avenue Salt Lake City - photo by t 41 |