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Show IT'S TIME TO WARM UP-A Iorge group of Deseret. News ski school students toke advantage of the .worm interior of the Snow Pine lodge at Alto Saturday. {;lictured at the extreme left and rear are - Instructors Alf and Sverre Engen, both expe'?t performers. With The Ski School- Students Enjoy Fourth Session t Alta Despite Snow 'And Wi~d By George Nelson ~~. Snows came and the winds blew, yet some . 1000 skiers registered for the Deseret News Ski School found slopes at Alta inviting de- . spite intermit ter,tt snow flurries. Even though four buses were unable to make the rugged climb to the Snow Pine Lodge, all registered students had a "whale of a time" while participating ..in the fourth session . of the ski school. Twenty-five instructors were on hand to give out with the skiing know-how as stu-dents progressed rapidly along the route to good safe skiing. Classes could be seen literally "all-over" the slopes of Aita as first day beginners bee gan to master the snowplow turn and those in their 'fourth lesson were solving the mysteries of the stem-christie and more advanced maneuvers. A group of 35 beginner jumpers were un-· der the tutelage of the old master, Alf Engen, on a specially built beginners jump on Landes Hill. Alf was thrilled at the way the youngsters took to the jump and extended themselves beyond 50-feet toward the close of their first jumping lesson. The gentleman who has won all of the major skiing titles in America was unable to .go over the jump in person because of ·a badly sprained ankle suffered · Friday. · However, Alf was on his skies directing the efforts of the youngsters. Eight year old Allan Engen led the pack off the specially-constructed jump and showed definite promise of following in the footsteps of his world-famous father. The weather was warm despite light snow flurries that didn't hamper the ski class in the least. At the Snow Pine Lodge students were able to get lunches and hot chocolate at city prices and the various tows at Alta were used by students free of charge during the class per:iod by courtesy of the Salt Lake Winter Bpc;N Aaeoeiatioo. Ski school students were segregated into groups according to their various abilities, with some classes holding forth in front of the Snow Pine· Lodge and others on the steeper slope of the Gold Miner's Daughter: Those students who were riding on buses that were unable to make the run to Alta will be refunded the ticket price at The Deseret News office on Main. Street upon presentation of the unused ticket stub. Old man winter sc.owled on the ski . class for the first time Saturday as he beckoned all of his .forces in an attempt to keep skiers off the powder-blown slopes. Almost a thousand were able to overcome all obstacles and attend tne class as scheduled, picking up invaluable pointers on skiing and enjoying the day thqroughly. · Because of changing weather conditions it is necessary to have rather elastic plans for the first · free mass ski school of its kind in ·• the Intermountain area. Therefore definite plans for · n ext Saturday's class will be announced in The Deseret News during the early part of the following week. The fifth class session is slated for Brighton Saturday, Jan. 15. However, follow The Deseret News sports pages for latest developments. Meanwhile, 'students and ski faris expressed satisfaction with the ski school that is offering youngs~ers · a11d oldsters the opportunity of learning to· ski safely with some of the world's , top instructors. · · Parents were concerned over the welfare of their youngsters while at the class because of inclement weather in the downtown area. All students were accorded the best care possible by instructors .and school officials during the day. , The road to Alta was in good condition throughout the entire day as road crews, under the direction of Melvin Walker kept the newlyfallen snow pushed off the main thOI'ougbfare and PMlliDI •eaa. .. _ Salt Lake City, Utah Tuesday Evening, January 18, 1949 [l. JUST CURIOUS Mrs. · Orvil Sorenson of Murray writes that the other day she was sitting in a large armchair when her three-year-old son_,.. Frankie came up to her with a lighted flashlight and put the light up close to her ear. "Hold this, Mama," he said. . She held it there with the light shining in her: ear and ":'atche.~, puzzled, w.I;J.ile Frankie wa.lked around -to the other side, climbed up on the arm ~f the chair and looked . in her ear "to see the light shine through." "For your information," Mrs. Sorenson writes, "the _light didn't shine through." . "' . LIFE CAN BE BEAUTIFUL Who says the life of a school teacher is dull? A school teacher friend of ours recently gave a little quiz to her sixth gr ade r eading class. One of the questions was: "What -is the difference betweeA a squid and an octopus?" One of the answers was: "A squid has arms that grow ape proximately from the same place and-the octopuses are just the opposite." Another question: "Who was the angel on skis?" The .answer: "Alf Engen." • • GOT A PROBLEM There are three books standing jam-packed on your desk facing you, numbered in . order, volumes one, two, three. Each is exactly one inch thick. A bookworm eats through from the first page of volume one to th~ last page of volume three in a straight line. How far did :the worm move? The-answer is one inch. (It'• so simple, when someone explains it to you!) • • YOU TOO CAN BE A NUMISMATIST Our friend from the post office phoned th,e other day to tell us how he became a numismatist without even half try· , ing. Before you go dashing for the dictionary, a numismatist is just the t echnical name for an ordinary coin ·collector : · . . Our friend was doing some bowling th.e other day and de.· 1 cided to get a bot tle of pop. He put a quarter in the machine w hich r eturns change as well as deliv ering the pop. He put , the quart~r in, but nothing happened, so he gave the machine a resounding t hump. Out of the slot popped an Australian shilling, a Canadian quarter, a Japf!nese coin the size of a quarter, a Japanese tensen piece, and a Canadian dime-besides his quarter . • • "' DIDJA KNOW: That after the deatll of Britain's King Edward VII, his little wirehair terrier, Caesar, was allowed to· march with the king's favorite horse directly behind the gun carriage bearing the dead monarch? |
