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Show SALT FLAT NEWS, DECEMBER, 1972 by Kenneth Donoghue, Wend over Bureau Chief DARRYL PETERSONS Hideaway Club has closed its doors. DARRYL wants to visit the mysterious East, to wit, Australia. Earlier this year the Hideaway had been the scene of a controversy when a customer asked the lady bartender if he could please place a table and two chairs outside as they do in European cafes. No, she said firmly. GARY GABELICH, Land Speed Record Holder, was in town again as a guest of TONY FOX of Minneapolis, Minnesota, financial backer of the Pollution Packer dragster that recently set a record on the Salt Flats. Gabelich was on crutches recovering from a racing accident. ; The WENDOVER WANDERER, seeking to know whether Gabelichs unique experience had in anyway transformed him so that he was no different from the rest of folks, talked to him about life. From Gabelichs use of the word toys to describe the expensive vehicles he races, the Wanderer asked him, did he look upon his way of life as play? Gary agreed that he did so. Evidently, Gary agrees in a living way with Dutch historian JOHAN HUIZINGAS theory that culture is play. In a book HOMO LUDENS Huizinga elaborated this thesis. Play, as Huizinga defines it, , is an activity which proceeds within certain limits of time and space, in a visible order, according to rules freely accepted, and outside the sphere of necessity or material' utility. The play-moo- d is one of rapture and enthusiasm, and is sacred or festive in accordance with the occasion. A feeling of exaltation and tension accompanies the action, mirth and relaxation follow.. After this deep stuff Gabelich turned away from the Wendover Wanderer to spend some time with a companion he addressed as Pat. JESSE DRISCOLLS tar- paper shack burned down re- - cently. Jesse was not living in it at the time. In fact, shortly after the Salt Flat News wrote up Jesse Driscoll he left town. Wendover lost a citizen who had declared that he was going1' to live here permanently. Went up to the Nevada sides Elko County jail house to introduce myself to Deputy EARL LACEY. Earl was busy casting .38 caliber lead bullets. They cost too much to buy, he said. The law is much more informal on the Nevada ride of town; Earl doesnt wear a uniform. All I need is a badge and a gun, he said. Former New Yorker and present day Wendoverite SUSAN HOWARD was observed on a concrete platform in the desert in front of West Wendovers Scobieville reciting speeches from the Taming of the Shrew and the poem Abou Ben Ad-heTo an audience of one. Hog rancher RAY PETERSON owns two Mongolian ponies. co-own- er Besides RUSS LEWIS, of the Patio Motel, and BILL OLDRIDGE, the WEND-OVEWANDERER is now a He has a doe owner. goat Nubian. Russ and Bill own R Mr. Donoghue bucks. Bills has only one horn; the rest have the full set of two. Peterson and Oldridge teamed up with GILL McCAULEY, last of the wild horse chasers, to hunt deer at Morgan Basin. The Wendover Wanderer, also looking for deer, stumbled onto their mss M3fs1sfslsgiinW isMK&M Off the cover: gmeehskd From the dusty and oft misplaced files of the Salt Flat News comes a photograph of an old man. His name is irrelevant, says photographer Goldberger, who has forgotten it. All we know about the old man is that he lives under a bridge in Los Angeles and prefers to smoke cigarettes (non-filteduring the afternoon. Rumor has it that he is heir to a fortune of several thousand dollars, but intends, nonetheless, to go on living under a bridge. We could call him Everyman, but alas, he is not. f Perhaps another dusty entry, a poem submitted by hobo poet Ace Hanna, says it best: r) aljMlJragtiics 28 West 100 South 364-8- 4 224 South 1300 East 582-828- The man with no name took a snooze wrapp'd up snug in the Salt Flat News; He dreamt of good times lost and found, of ladies trim and ladies round; He dreamt of days he rode the rails, of flophouse rooms and fleabag jails; He dreamt of one thing after another, but never dreamt hed make our cover. J i : tv . . . ' - sV'1 - 'i iV-- . .' , ' 1 ( ti Yfr ' t ' camp. He discreetly sneaked a peek into the tent and noted that one of the hunters had brought along a bed spring to soften the rigors of outdoor camping. All right now, who of these tough guys couldnt rough it like the rest? 1 2 HIGHEST QUALITY XEROX SERVICE XEROX COPIES 4c HARDBOOK BINDING $2.95 OTHER BINDING from $1.50 OFFSET PRINTING 1c PER COPY AFTER THE 1st. 100 Payable to the bearer on demand one dollars worth of copies on order of $2.00 or more . One per customer . ! ' s f 4. k . . |
