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Show Polio Roller Skating Review Hailed as Great Success being given to the local Amateur Skating Association where it will be used to promote skating locally and to help finance the huge national and international meet which will be staged this year in Oakland, Calif. Last Tuesday and Wednesday evenings over 40 amateur performers per-formers entertained scores of enthusiastic people who thronged throng-ed to the Southeast Roller Rink to see the Seventh Annual Polio Roller Skating Review and the local amateyr association's review. re-view. Using the same production produc-tion and performers both nights, i the show was hailed as a huge I success by all who attended. Directed by Laura Olsen and, Howard Jensen, professional staff rriembers, the show featured fea-tured all types of roller skating by performers of every age. From youngsters like Jolene Morris, daughter of the R. J. Morrisses, Serrill Parkin, daughter daugh-ter of the R. Parkins' and Laraine La-raine Motzkus, daughter of Mr. and Theodore J. Mutzkus, to older married couples like June and Clarence Walk, the performers per-formers presented a mixed and diversified program of skating. U. S. Senior Champion Featured artist of the review was Teddy Schufflebarger of Ogden who is the U. S. Senior Men's amateur roller skating, champion. According to Al Larson, Lar-son, manager of the rink, very few people realize that we have a U. S. champion right here in Utah. Teddy first started to skate in 1941. A j'ear later he Won third place in the Utah State Junior Boys' figure skating skat-ing championships. From then on his records at the various state and western skating meets won for him a wide reputation. In 1943, 1944 and 1945 he won first place in the Utah State meets. Also, in 1945 he captured the Rocky Mountain regional championships and placed second sec-ond in the International Senior Men's division. Last year found Mr. S?huffel-barger S?huffel-barger making a grand slam of all meets he entered. His record: rec-ord: first place in the state senior sen-ior men's division, first in the Pacific Coast meet and senior men's amateur national champion cham-pion in the finals held in New York City last summer. Son of Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Schufflebarger, Schufflebar-ger, Teddy is a junior student at Ogden High school. Proceeds for the Tuesday night performance were turned over to the local March of Dimes committee. com-mittee. The money taken in for the Wednesday evening show is |