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Show around the COR i. N SUGAR HOUSE E With the Editor LEST NO ONE FORGET that we are heading foi floods again this year, Mrs. Orlin. .1. Hansen, daughter of Sugar House "pioneer," "pi-oneer," the late A. C. "Bert" Smoot, has been reminding local business people to take proper p.-ecautions now to le sen property prop-erty damage this spring. She vividly recalls the last big flood in Sugar House back in 1936 when flood waters overran the underground storm sewers and made a sizeable rive.- down 21st South. Recently in talking to Mrs. Irene Conniff, former co-publisher of The Bulletin, and Carl Ebmeyer, former proprietor propri-etor of Ebmeyer's Bakery, she was reminded of their last-minute efforts. Mrs. Conniff remembers remem-bers piling bales of hay along the gutter in front of the newspaper news-paper office (then located in the basement of the bank) Mr. Ebmeyer stacked sacks of flour in front of his establishment (where Jarnel's now is) to hold back the waters. Mrs. Hansen's prediction: heavy floods in May. SKI FAN'S may or may not have been aware of the work of a fellow named Rasmussen when they looked at Ecker Hill decked out in all its glory this week for the National jumping championships. But if they knew the whole story behind the yearly grind of keeping it one of the greatest jumping hills in the world, they'd look Frank Rasmussen up and thank Ihim personally. Many is the day Frank has spent maneuvering a "cat" up and down the almost vertical runway, shaping it into the magnificent hdl that it is. TROUBLES? We've certainly had our share around here lately. late-ly. For two weeks we missed our Thursday mailing deadline first time in our history. Press and production snarls were the main cause. Last week we got pages 6 and 7 misplaced so that they came out on pages 2 and 3. Some readers wondered why. So do we. 'PROBLEM' EDITORS are always a chore to reporters and correspondents. Why they think they have to cut perfectly good copy to pieces will always be a mystery and a headache to a hard-working columnist. This "lament" written to The Bulletin's Bulle-tin's editor could well be a classic: - ANY SIMILARITY BETWEEN BE-TWEEN WHAT I WRITE AND WHAT APPEARS IN THE PAPER PA-PER AFTER THE EDITOR EDITS IT IS MERELY COINCIDENCE. COIN-CIDENCE. Here I write up a nice sluslhy piece" of at least two columns about our Gold and Green Ball and it ends up as a six-line filler. Tush-tush. |