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Pag* TweJv* — Blythe villa. (Ark.) Courier NVri — Friday. Ma;From HereEd HayesCourier News Sports EditorFOLKS WHO FILL RED TO SEE THE FOLDtJP OF THEWalker Park Roller Drome before a full \ear rolled b\ must be shopping around for new fields in which to foist their inefficacious forecasts. A full year has elapsed since Bill Walker first Sung open his doors to the public and the business today looks healthier than it did back in the carle no\elt\ da's.If Bill were the kind of man who laughs at another’s mis-for'une. he would guffaw at his critics—hut he's too busy getting ready for ihe anniversary party Saturday. Bill plans to ring in the new rink year by offering skating all day tomorrow, from 1 p.m. until midnight 11 hours!) lor just $1 per person.It doesn't just end there; other surprises are in store.★ * *You don’t have to call in an efficiency expert or industrial analyst to figure out why roller skating should he on solid footing here. You need not look bevond the floor itself which is in su-vperbly slick lt;hape. Walker modesth concurs; The rink is nicer than it was when we started a jrar ago. It's been sanded threetimes.’’*The facility gets pampered carp and maintenance and looks it. And it’s still a good clean place to visit. 1 remember last sear about this time the way Bill promised to keep his place, as much as humanh possible, tree of delinquency, vulgarity, necking and roughneckingHis was the kind of entertainment housf that could easih have become a hoodlum haven It happened in other cities. But Bill, an excop, found it s just as easv to keep it respedahleand litter-freeI’d say Bill has kept his promise That’s whv it’s good to see a hard-working countrv boy chis own description1 making the grade.+ + +I have a hunch that one of the primary reasons he keeps the floor slick as a bah' s chin other than monetary1 is he-I' 9*cause Bill loves skating so much himself and wants to wheel around on nothing hut the best.The View
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Blytheville Courier News
Blytheville, Arkansas, US
Fri, May 10, 1963
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