Show 8 - The Herald Journal Logan Utah Tuesday May 5 1981 The Jim Murray Column to Jamestown nonstop L©§ Angeles By Jim Murray Ever get this wild ballooned across the Atlantic to France not long ago but this was the first time he had ever been to Jamestown Aoki who owns the Benihana chain of restaurants was attempting to publicize that business but there is an unconfirmed rumor that when he landed he ordered a Big Mac Sushi is in limited supply in Jamestown but the pemmican is un- controllable urge to spend a gay weekend in carefree Jamestown ND? Taste the forbidden pleasures of wicked Stutsman County? Well the jets don't land at the international airport there The trains only carry cows Greyhound will only drop you at the nearest crossing and it's only open on weekdays Club Mediterranee doesn't have it on its list of resorts although it’s centrally located Bismarck is just down the road It’s fairly crime-fre- e although someone’s renting guns to the white people No the best way to get to Jamestown unless you've got a covered wagon or a ticket on the overnight stage from Fargo is the noon balloon from LA That’s what Rocky Aoki and Ben Abruzzo figured after a study of the timetable It was either that or parachute The only way to go nonstop was balloon Jules Verne would have been proud of them fun-fill- ed The beauty of balloon travel is your destination is not preordained You go where the winds go This is why the Good Ship Benihana was bouncing along the bad lands of the Dakotas this week and not the runways of O’Hare The free balloon distance trophy was established by the mad cap newspaper publisher James Gordon Bennett in 1906 Bennett who was most famous for having sent Stanley to look for Dr Livingstone I presume in darkest Africa was fascinated by the thought of soaring aloft in the daik Ballooning is as old as America The Montgolfier brothers of France put a balloon 1000 feet in the air as far back as 1783 by burning straw underneath a cloth bag The existence of the stratosphere itself was discovered by an instrumented balloon flight in this century Ballooning is almost the fastest growing sport in the United States at this time percentage wise Lighter-than-a- ir travel was unknown in nature — except for blowing leaves — when the Montgolfiers began their experimentation but today the desert and weren't taking dead aim on Jamestown When they got aloft over Orange County Calif they would have taken any direction You see they were trying to set the world record for free ballooning not for time but for distance This is a somewhat murky record which the encyclopedias like to think was set by one “H Berliner" in 1914 when he soared from Germany to the Ural Mountains of Russia but balloonists seem to think it was set in 1941 by two Russians from Siberia presumably hoping they would come down over Paris instead of Irkutsk Abruzzo the modern Phileas Fogg was one of the men who they're trying to tell you something He broke both legs broke his arm in four places lost his spleen and gall bladder and free-ar- m sewing head 54-ho-le titles The golf meet is part of the WAC spring sports weekend at BYU including conference championships in tennis and track But defending champion Utah is the favorite in the tennis competition beginning Paso should today And Texas-E- l be the winner in the track and field meet starting Thursday with the first half of the decathlon The golf teams will take over the Riverside Wednesday for a par-7- 2 day of practice and then play the opening round on 18-ho- le Thursday BYU coach Jarl Tucker says he has to rate his Cougars as the or jritau' u The variety of built-i- n stitches you want for easy sewing — 4 utility 4 stretch Built-i-n buttonhoier sews good-lookibuttonhole Free-are- m converts to flatbed Ing solution ng sprayed deep into Sean Power Spray carpet cleaner buttonholes for most any project So easy to 129S UN Free-ar- makes sewing culls l Spring cleaning made easyi carpet upholstery cleaner jet sprays hot cleaning solution deep into carpet and vacuums up liquid dirt even ground in dirt and moisture sleeves and hems so wonderfully conve- - se Dries quickly summer's day ' Rocky Aoki got into ballooning Thru May 30 YOUR CHOICE B 2174 A favorite to win an 11th WAC golf title "until somebody beats us We're playing on our course and we’re tough to beat here” "Any time you play a team of our caliber on our course you have to give us the advantage" Tucker added "We've won the WAC a number of times and know what it takes to win Whoever beats us is going to have to play good" Tucker said of all the WAC teams San Diego State is the most likely to upset his Cougars “They finished just behind us in the Fresno and the Western Intercollegiate and they're coming off a win in their Aztec Invitational beating both New Mexico and Utah" ' BYU’s top golfers c Stereo AMFM dock radio Sleep switch repeat alarm 2 speakers o Thin pocket radio has AMFM case earphone Only VUn thkfcl cassette tape recorder only 21a hlghlAGDC Cassette tape recorder wkhAMFM radio Automatic shut-of- f ACDC Sllm-deslg- n SIAM MKWIK AMD 261 Keith Clearwater aqd Barry Willard son And two of tKFTrther six Cougar starters in the WAC will be Dick Zokol and Rick Fehr “We’ll have a qualifying playoff for the remaining spots on our team" Tucker added San Diego State is led by Barry Mahlberg and Scott Williams and both are expected to challege for the medalist title 29995 Thru May 23 Reg '33995 Portable! 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