STANDARD’S EXAMINER 144 By Murray M. Moler Associate Editor — The Standard-Examiner The talk at lunch turned to dogs. ; | Like our old pooch who barks “Cousin Jack”—meat pasties. kkk 4 & * Anyone who has viewed or ) mightily at cats, especially. aft" listened to a Weber State Coler they’re gone, but who'll prac- search for religious freedom. To lege basketball game for the tically purr if anyone comes me, though Utah is high moun-. Jast four years would have ic around with a chocolate -mint cookie. Harvey Howarth then recalled the time he and his family were driving toward Idaho’s Salmon River country for a vacation. tain country, where the thin, dry be both deaf and blind not to air gives us long seasons of have noticed Barry Coleman. powder that skiers to go | He’s that wonderful guy — all | deep snow, the superb feathery i causes ardent 285 pounds of him — who prehalf-mad with sides with such gusto over the joy.” | Dr. Keith Farr and family were . Lowell Thomas grew up in a on the same expedition, in an- Colorado gold mining town, simother car. ilar to our own native Virginia With the Howarths was their City, Nev., and to Raye Carle- percussion section. If the tempo sags, Barry — Larry White at other drums this It up. Should of the game with freshman his side on the season — picks Weber get be- beagle, who had long, floppy son Price’s Park City. That’s one of the reasons that hind, he really beats those skins ears. As they drove along, the Raye’s book had such an appeal 2 mile a minute, trying to get pooch assumed his favorite posi- for the Standard-Examiner, as the crowd with the team. tion for travel — paws on the well as for Lowell Thomas. The __ When Barry Coleman, a Davis back of the driver’s seat, head words and the pictures recalled High graduate, joined the ‘‘pep (and ears) over the driver. many of the events in our own band” four years ago, Director. Part of the story is the fact. childhoods — ours on the Com- of Bands Don Threlkeld was althat Harvey can never again stock Lodge, Lowell’s in Lead- ready trying to improve the be called *‘Curley.” Anything ville and vicinity. Image of this organization. but. In fact, his backseat pasxk *k & _ The marching band for footsengers could — if the dog’s ‘Diggings and Doings” traces ball season was the favorite. not there — use the back por- tion of his head as a rearview the dicovery of the rich Wa- But few Wildcat musicians wantsatch Mountain silver veins a ed to play for basketball teams. | century ago by soldiers from Mr. Threkleld’s really worked Anyway. the Howarth family General Connor’s army, then at it. Barry’s been one of his got laughing at the picture pre- stationed at Salt Lake Valley. most Important helpers, includsented — father attentive to the The attractive volume details ing a hitch for the 1968-69 searoad ahead with the dog’s face how Park City mines eventually son as band president. The campaign has worked. right above his. The pooch’s produced minerals worth more There are now 29 members ears were so long they drooped than $400 million. paid dividends mirror! down almost to Harvey’s chin. of more’ than $90 million and « “Just for the heck of it,” he created 23 millionaires. recalled, the Farrs. When he ‘“‘we drove alongside Mrs. Keith glanced over. jack saw the two faces Price tells. how “having that dog on my the band, with tuba ed Daugherty ona., as president. black- of layer elena, They now tables attracted all-night — call themselves ‘‘The Colleagi- vigils in the back rooms of ‘framed by those long ears he the numerous Park City saloons. One of our favorite pasalmost went off the road.” Come to think of it, he add- sages: ed, E “Brassrail betting out ans’ and in keeping with their oung American theme recent- bought new uniforms — pur- le front and white striped d straw hats. jackets The ‘‘Collegians” get no col-. livened to talk of the race between ‘Spider Horse’ and ‘Inlege credit for their hundreds head warm.” dian Dan’ on a track near On- of hours of. effort with the pep xk * Spent a hundred years in Park tario drain tunnel, or to won- band. They make some trips the City — during a few hours of dering if Duncan Gillis and Bill with the team — including head felt good. Kept my bald a recent evening. Did it by reading the lively, delightfully-illustrated book just written by our friend Raye Carleson Price of Salt Lake City and published by the University of Utah Press. | Rosevear could meet the $100 swing this winter to Washingchallenge of Ed Killy and Will ton and Idaho. Chamberlain for a double-hand drilling match on a block Barry Coleman missed that of trip because of a virus but he granite at the race track, went with the famed Chaton- “Livelier entertainment was nelles to the Montana-Montana_ found in-the row of houses at State games. | ‘The Collegians,” and parti-. Mrs. Price has been a busy Deer Creek Gulch; red lights writer for magazines and news- twinkled and gay-ladies offered cularly drummers Coleman and papers, with a particularly deft respite from a hard month’s White, work closely with the touch on bringing history back to life. But this is her first book and she admits that her family had to go ,through periods of elation and depression with her during its preparation. Adventurer-newscaster Lowell we've with whom Thomas, labor in the mines.” There about Susanna kkk are special ‘‘Utah’s Silver Bransford drill team and the WSC on Pepper” cheer _ Jeaders. An example was Satsections urday night’s new routine based | Queen,” Emery- “Sgt. and Saints Go Marching In.” ‘The Holmes Delitch Engalicheff, Sen. Lively?. Wow!!! Thomas Kearns and painter As a senior, 22-year-old Barry Willis A. Davis. Coleman will be graduating this worked closely on several occa- . The story of Park City today, spring from Weber State. For- .sions over the years, wrote the introduction for “‘Diggings and Doings in Park City.” “Some see Utah as:a land of rainbow deserts,’ Lowell wrote, ‘‘others marvel at her story of pioneers draggin Mormon handcarts and wagons almos the widik of a continent in their with the emphasis on the old of tunately, mining and the new of winter “and summer sports, is told in an exciting collection of photographs by Harry Harpster. Raye Price ends her book with a batch of Park City recipes, including two for a great favorits of ours, Cornish — or to take Larry over the White’s drums. ready The high school that gets the enthustiastic, talented Mr. Coleman as its band director’ will indeed be a lucky, peppy. school. If it isn’t peppy when he gets there, it soon will. Ask anya one.at Weher!.....