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Show VeaK ?: April 14, 1949 Another tree entered the local scene today. It's the big old cot-tonwood cot-tonwood down on the corner by the Shurtleff hotel, and to make way for progress it is being cut down. Or maybe it's being cut down so it won't blow over in a high wind and punch a hole in the roof of the hotel. Anyway, the tree is a land-I land-I mark, judging from its size, and I the moth eaten appearance of the bark. But the noticeable thing about the removal of the tree is that the work is being done le-1 le-1 gitimately and in the daylight ' Bob Sather is about ready to award the district basketball trophy tro-phy to the Roosevelt Roughrid-, Roughrid-, crs. He has it on display in his window. You see, they didn't sell the windows at Bob's recent auction auc-tion so he has a place to display some of the things he has left. Anyway, the trophy is a fine i" big cup, about two feet high, ' and could be used for several ft things except that trophys are used only to show that something some-thing outstanding has been accomplished. ac-complished. . - In size it's bigger than any- I thing on display at the University If of Utah. The Rough Riders .. should be proud of the "Sather I Trophy." By the way, it won't be theirs for keeps, unless they win the district title every year. d There are two sure signs of y spring around here the wind 1 and Bill Morrison. When the I first cold air settles over the 9 Basin, Bill moves on to a warmer warm-er climate, coming back just . ahead of the bluebirds. He's tS back in town now, and so is the p " wind, - , As ever, |