Klipsun Magazine, 1975, Volume 05, Issue 05-June
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Western Washington University Western CEDAR Klipsun Magazine Western Student Publications 6-1975 Klipsun Magazine, 1975, Volume 05, Issue 05 - June Gary Johnson Western Washington University Follow this and additional works at: https://cedar.wwu.edu/klipsun_magazine Part of the Higher Education Commons, and the Journalism Studies Commons Recommended Citation Johnson, Gary, "Klipsun Magazine, 1975, Volume 05, Issue 05 - June" (1975). Klipsun Magazine. 25. https://cedar.wwu.edu/klipsun_magazine/25 This Issue is brought to you for free and open access by the Western Student Publications at Western CEDAR. It has been accepted for inclusion in Klipsun Magazine by an authorized administrator of Western CEDAR. For more information, please contact [email protected]. KLIPSUN JUNE 1975 M KLIPSUN Volume 5, Number 5 Editor No Fall is Free 4 Gary Johnson by Rob Baldwwin Story Editor A skydiver jumps with death Vince Hagel A Good Timer in the Old Town 7 Photo Editor by Tim Jameson Tom Wilson Restauranting with a new twist Production Manager The Pueblo Ruins, Reconstructed 8 Linda Campbell by Debbie Smith Business Manager Commander Lloyd Bucher’s new ship has come in Duane Wolfe Cannery Blues liwi 10 Advisor by Tore Oftness Pete Steffens A pictorial essay Proofreader Students on Unemployment 12 Louie Phillips by John Hymas Photographers Making ends meet Bryn Beorse In Front of the Eight Ball 14 Bill Everett by Anne Tanner Randy Green A hustler’s way of life Karen Harvey Klipsun Gallery 16 Tore Oftness special effect photography Grant Ranlett Marking Time 20 Connie Tedrow by Dan Hanson Production Assistant A short story Randy Green Mexican Culture Tremor 21 Illustrations by Carolyn Price Paul Boyington A Western student in Guadalahara Linda Campbell Uncle Sugar Loves Me 24 John Manly bv o.t. Martin Front and back cover VA Bennies the easy way Stanley Smith Who’s Been Eating Our Porridge? 26 Inside Front Cover by D. Starbuck Goodwyn Tore Oftness Fairhaven, an unfair haven . ‘And I’m Going to Eat It!’ 28 Klipsun is a twice quarterly by Carolyn Craig publication of WWSC The Flaming Zucchini lights his own fire Bellingham, Wash. 98225 Eat Out More Often 31 by Bob Coale Copyright 1975 The woods are full of food Printed by Josten’s American Yearbook Company, Visalia, California. mi by Rob Baldwin Sooner or later everyone cashes in I’m not going to get all that involved in ‘‘By then, I was scared again their chips and takes the ultimate this. I’m only going to do it one time.” wondering whether to do it or not. trip. Everyone knows that but few of ‘‘It was the beginning of spring You didn’t have to jump if you didn’t us act like we know it. Understand quarter, two years ago. A weekday I want to. They would let you get out on what I mean? drove out to an airstrip on Enterprise the strut that supports the wing of the Road, just north of Ferndale, and met plane, and if you didn’t want to jump, Take the guy who decided he’d a couple of girls who were in the they would pull you in and try to talk jump out of an airplane — skydive — class. We all had butterflies in our you into it. just once for the hell of it. His name is stomachs. ”I wanted to watch this other guy Blake Ferguson — a guy 1 knew in ‘‘It was a really clear day and kind jump out first,^but the jump master highschool — a serious, sensitive kid of cold. Just a beautiful day for said, ‘No, you go ahead and go first.’ with a jack-o’-lantern grin. Blake jumping — perfectly quiet, not a He leaned forward and gave me a figured he’d do it just once so he iDreath of wind. few instructions. could say he’d done it and to prove to ‘‘We sat on the ground and waited ‘‘There’s a step just below the himself he wouldn’t chicken out. for the pilot to gas up the plane and cabin door. You put you feet on that These are his own words. get clearance to fly. We watched a and put your hands on the strut. Then ”I saw this thing in the Viking Union, guy pack our chutes. you put one foot in the air and wait on the bulletin board. It said there ‘‘The two girls went up and both for the Jump master to give you a tap was a skydiving club. It cost $15 for had beautiful jumps. I saw them jump on the leg. When you feel it, you’re your first jump.” out and drop 200 or 300 feet, then supposed to push off and go into your ‘‘A friend of my sister’s had jumped poosh, the chutes oened and there Spread eagle position. in Seattle, and had told me how neat they were. ‘‘That was the time I think I was iw was, that is was all automatic, ‘‘When they got down on the ground, the most afraid, because as soon as I that your static line and parachute they said ‘Oh, there’s nothing to be pushed off, I realized I was out in the were fastened to the plane and you afraid of. It’s the neatest thing you middle of nowhere. I felt like, ‘Oh no, didn’t have to do anything. It was al could do.’ I was just loaded with what have I done? I’ve gone too far automatic. I went into it with more or confidence. this time.’ The plane seemed to fly up less that attitude. ‘‘It was a fairly small Cessna: a and away. I was in such a daze I ‘T went to a class and they showed two-seater. They had the bucket seat didn’t know what was happening. us how to get out of the plane. When on the passenger side taken out, so ‘‘Then, I felt a real sharp pull at my you jump, you arch your back, bend just the pilot was sitting in a seat. The back, and I realized my chute had your knees and hold your hands over rest of us sat on the floor; one other opened and from then on everything your head in a spread eagle position. student and the jump master. would be all right. It took me five or When you drop, a current of air will ‘‘The field was kind of hke a cow 10 seconds just to bet used to hanging hold you upright until the chute pasture. It was a bumpy take off. We out in the middle of the air. It seemed opens. We practiced that and they climbed up to 3,000 feet so fast my hke I was falhng faster than I should showed us how to open the reserve ears did crazy popping things — like have been, but I figured that must be chute. I only paid a little attention; I when you’re driving up a mountain how it’s supposed to be. had something else on my mind. It road — but worse. ‘‘There’s two controls on a para was all supposed to be automatic, I ‘‘The door of the plane opened chute, one on each side, behina you, figured. automatically. I was sitting next to it. at about head level. They collapse the From 3,000 feet, what are supposed chute a little bit and you go in that ‘The guy kept stressing how im to be farms in the Ferndale area direction. I reached up for the portant it was to know these things, instead look like checker boards. controls. One was there and the and yet, I was stubborn. I figured. Cars look like ants. other wasn’t. When I realized the chute wasn't working, I was scared... “I looked up to find the control and seconds. This happened over a black chute and this guy was only noticed the parachute canopy at the period of two or three minutes. I had about 50 feet above me. And he hit same time. Instead of being a nice, a chance to analyze the situation. the ground. It turned out, it was the open, billowing chute, it was . “The thing I felt the most, I guess jump master and it was his voice I’d well, the only thing that looks was disappointment. I came to the neard up in the air. When he saw anything like it that I can describe is realization that I wasn’t going to do that my chute hadn’t opened right your bed, when you get up in the those things, and the plans and the and I was having trouble opening the morning after tossing and turning all visions I’d had of the future, of reserve, he jumped out and was night. Here’s this chute with all the making my life meaningful, all the planning to try and catch me if I still lines tied in a big knot. Just a ball of time I had invested in going to school, couldn’t get it to work. nothing. A mass of garbage. weree meaningless. Like a *tory half “After it was all over, I was kind of “The first thing I thought was, T written, then terminated. I was in a state of shock. Really nervous. really don’t know that much about disappointed. All the fear that I should have had operating this reserve chute. Maybe “All of the sudden I heard this little when I was in the air hit me when I I’ll just ride this thing down the way it voice.