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Show Page A10 Thursday, September 18. 1986 Park Record IJ" - EflgQDk(Bti;nDnaQ(E(B Statistics REAL ESTATE SALES FOR THE WEEK ENDING SEPT. 12, 1986 NUMBER 9 7 2 1 0 TYPE VALUE Single Family Residence $i,748,ooo Condominiums Vacant Lots Commercial Lots Farm TOTAL TOTAL SOLD YEAR TO DATE $634,500 $54,000 $140,000 $0 $2,576,500 $57,546,504 COMPARATIVE WEEK VOLUME LAST YEAR TOTAL $385,750 YEAR TO DATE 1985 $45,481,949 1 he preceamg figures are reflective of statistics reported to the Park City Board of Realtors. Sales are not reported to the Board in all cases, so these figures can be assumed to be generally low. SOURCE: THE PARK CITY BOARD OF REALTORS Weekly Comparison 86 85 86 85 C $385,750 Year To Date Comparison mmmm I i mmm i Lodging Count Week of Sept. 21-27. 1986 ' This Year Last Year Sunday, Sept. 19 593 562 Monday, Sept. 20 556 553 Tuesday, Sept. 21 843 555 Wednesday, Sept. 22 1,021 690 Thursday, Sept. 23 1 ,290 673 Friday, Sept. 24 1,446 914 Saturday, Sept. 25 1,182 652 Total 6,931 . 4,599 1985 year to date 692,173 1986 year to date 850,048 Weekly Comparison 86 85 Year To Date Comparison 86 85 Mil mm BusRidership Last Week 2,516 Week 1985 3,727 Year 1986 31,792 Year 1985 35,675 1985 Year Total 49,079 JUST WHEN YOU THOUGHT VIDEOS WERE CHEAPER ALL SEATS! SKPAKATK ADMISSIONS Crosby launches finance company Park City resident Ron Crosby, managing partner of Mountain States Management Company, sponsored spon-sored the Carrousel Balloon in this year's Autumn Aloft balloon festival to coincide with the launching of his new comapny, Private Financial Managment Corporation. Crosby will be the chairman of the new, wholly owned subsidiary and Brian Peterson will act as president. According to Crosby, Mountain States was founded in December of 1979 with $2,500,000 of backing from 24 individuals investors. He said the purpose of group was to create a private investment banking firm to provide investment solutions to com mon challenges faced those seeking financial independence. Today, Crosby says the company enjoys a trust of 350 clients who have placed over $40 million of equity in company sponsored partnerships or with money managers his group was able to suggest. Those partnerships said Crosby produced $80 million of income producing pro-ducing real estate and equipment. "Private Financial Management Corporation represents a quantum leap forward in services offered by our company," said Crosby. "PMF , brings together our solid performance perfor-mance with 170 managers in in Travelers, First Financial Planners. PFM's affiliation with Travelers Company will retain all of the flexibility flex-ibility we have had in creating innovative in-novative investment solutions with the most advanced financial management software in the industry." in-dustry." According to Crosby the "Plan Power" was reported by Financial Planning magazine to be the most advanced use of artifical intelligence in-telligence this side of the military. Crosby says that while financial independence and security is something most people desire, only three out ten Americans reach retirement age with any degree of financial security. "Private Financial Management was formed to offer the finest, most professional, financial management services available to help indiviuals maximize their resources at a reasonable price," said Crosby. PMF plans to establish a design center where interested people can attend an on-going program entitled "How to Get Control of your Money and Your Life." It is an invitation program which Crosby says helps people work on lifetime and financial finan-cial goals. "We also want people to have some fun in the sunlit mountains of Utah. That's why the Autumn Aloft setting for our announcement was so appropriate." Classical pianist to teach in town If learning to tickle the ivories is something you or your child have been wanting to do, you're in luck. Classicially-trained pianist Ren Anderton has moved to town. Ren will begin teaching lessons out of his old town residence this week. A familiar face to the Park City entertainment scene, Anderton has played for community theatre musicials since 1980 when he accompanied accom-panied the cast of "Company." He has been the musicial director for such shows as "Chicago","Side by Side by Sondheim," "Caberet", and "Mame". For more than 10 years Anderton has been the pianist for the University Universi-ty of Utah opera company. In addition, addi-tion, Anderton has been the assistant stage manager and vocal coach for Ron Anderton is a classically-trained pianist. the Utah Opera Company for a number of years. Anderton is well-known in Salt Lake City circles for his ability to accompany ac-company the variety of vocal musical graduate students and for being the accompanist for both the Metropolitation Opera Company auditions held each year in Salt Lake and for the San Francisco opera auditions. Currently, Anderton performs show tunes and easy listening music several nights a week at the Columbine Colum-bine Club at The Resort Center. A member of the National Music Teachers Association, Anderton is a classically trained musician who teaches students to begin by teaching them chords. "It helps for students to hear a full sound and they learn right away to use two hands. It really works," said Anderton. Ander-ton. He feels students learn up three times faster with the Bastian method he prefers. He plans to set a schedule to teach in four, 10 week quarters. And he will have recitals at the end of each quarter. Anderton's teaching roots are rather impressive-his teacher was a student of Liszt. That teacher was a student of Czerny who was a student of Beethoven who was a student of Haydn. pAlthough Anderton says he would rather have advanced students he will take students at all levels knowing they will advance rapidly. Those wishing more information on starting lessons can contact Ren Anderton at 649-2680. Everything to know about laser printers You may have noticed that we've been mysteriously quiet about laser printers. Our silence isn't because we've ignored these not entirely new gadgets. In fact, our office may have ", , more of them on desks and work , tables, than your nearest ComputerLand. Com-puterLand. We simply haven't found enough good things to say about them. But readers are getting itchy to . cash in on these ear and eye savers. So we'll let you know what we've found so far. Most laser printers are built right onto a small copier. The Canon PC-20 is one favorite, and the one Hewlett-Packard uses. Others include in-clude Imagen and Ricoh. For office copiers, a small bright light inside illuminates il-luminates the paper to be copied and a small oblong lens focuses the image im-age onto the copying mechanism. In a laser printer, lens and light are replaced by a computer chip and a tiny, safe laser. The chip translates your computer's word or picture output into signals that make the laser flash the right image onto the working mechanism . In a laser printer, lens and light are replaced by a computer chip and a tiny, safe laser. The chip translates your computer's word or picture output into signals that make the laser flash the right image onto the working mechanism. Laser printers are like dot matrix n yThe eBusiness Computer T ' 'u by Franklynn Peterson and Judy K-Turkel printers in that they print one dot at a time. But dot matrix printers do it with steel wires. Laser beams hit a much smaller bit of paper than a steel wire. So even small laser printers generally "draw" 300 dots per inch, while few dot matrix printers can do better than 72 dots per inch. A sharp eye can pick out 72 dots per inch. Few of us can see 300 per inch. Some very large (and expensive) expen-sive) laser printers already produce many more dots per inch than that, so laser print and picture quality are approaching perfection. Most laser printers claim to also make headline-sized type. They do, if your patience doesn't wear thin. In theory, you can get any kind of type since it's all done via the printers' software. The problem is, those programs pro-grams are still very primitive. In fact, the first Hewlett-Packard LaserJets could print only one kind of type. By investing a substantial extra sum in one or more plug-in carridges, you could force several other sizes and styles. But program makers saw the benefits of laser printers early on. So they adapted their own word processing, pro-cessing, accounting, graphics, spreadsheet, and other programs to drive the HP LaserJet. Now they add the smarts the LaserJet needs to do it style tricks. Most of these new laser printers try to emulate popular older printers such as Qumell and Diablo 630. (Computer makers have corrupted the word "emulation." It now means building in a program that forces a product to act as if it were something else.) Epson FX80 is a big favorite. But although we tried even witchcraft, none that we tested was a good emulator. For instance, we tested how well each one printed typeset quality type using Microsoft Word combined with Fancy Word. The HP Laser-JetPlus Laser-JetPlus (which is LaserJet with all the features it should have had when it first came out) did just fine because Fancy Word was written to work with it. But when we set Fancy Word to work with FX80, and the competition to emulate the FX80, we got unacceptable results. The problem is simple. Lasers, as smart as they are, can't convert from 72 dots per inch (which the FX80 hammers) into 300 dots per inch, because even they can't print fractions of dots. The laser printer that works best printed big obvious dots, and we're not about to suggest anyone pay three grand to get the same quality as a $300 printer. Another laser printer did fine horizontally, but vertically, the top and bottom halves of its characters wouldn't line up. If all you want is simple typed pages, these printers work. And they match most of the HP's virtues at less cost. They crank out close to eight pages a minutes, compared with one to two pages a minute on letter quality printers. They make less noise than office copy machines. And to switch from pica to elite to compressed type, or to turn your whole image so it prints sideways, you just need to hit a few keys. The columnists answer questions and send a checklist of back issues if you enclose a stamped self-addressed self-addressed envelope. Comparative chart of spreadsheet features is included in-cluded in a 4,000-word special report. For your copy send a $3 check for Report FP03 to TBC, 4343 W. Beltline Hwy, Madison WI 53711. (c) 1986 PK Assocites, Inc. DntB ChamberBureau social scheduled til 1 1 The' came to spaceCamp No. 5 is am c with the dream of svk,k .f becoming astronauts. Vgr $ Altrt ' Before thev were readv . . . I 4 They were launched into space. SpaceOmp THK STARS BKLONG TO A NHWGKNKRATION I (:M (LV M N.I fPGl."3. mm II 1 . I I JtJIQ) JiS 1 : 1 , er, II t' DAILY Al 8:3MkX. SI V) H m4 b -ft The next ChamberBureau Membership Social will be hosted by the Olde Towne Shoppes at 537 Main Street. Remember to mark your calenders for Tuesday, September 30,1986 from 5-7 p.m. for the monthly rendezvous between friends. The advertising programs initiated in-itiated by the ChamberBureau for the winter season have proved to be tremendously successful already. To date, the September advertorials which appeared in both SKI and SKIING SKI-ING magazines have generated Park City Area Update Chamber of ommrrrWC oavralion and Visitor Burr a a 6,000 reader responses for more information, in-formation, which is in addition to the requests made directly to the ChamberBureau. Watch for the October Oc-tober issues of SKI and SKIING as they are hitting the newsstands now and look for the two page ads promoting pro-moting Park City. Over the past two weeks, the Park City ChamberBureau has hosted several succussful FAMS; a United Airlines Travel Agent FAM, and a meeting planner FAM. We had representatives selling Park City at the United Airlines Ski School and at the Rocky Mountain Marketplace. This week representives will be in Phoenix for the America West Travel Agents Show. the laughter, the hurt the friends. the passion, the real world. prettu in pinR a i itv m vi lit; alms- I appreciate your support and ask for your vote on Nov. 4th. mm i Convention Figures Sept. 21 -27, 1986. Dates Group 921-922 Ut Technology Fin. Corp. 922 -924 Unibase 923 - 924 Stock Brokerage Firm 924 -926 UofU 925 - 927 Council for Excep. Children 926 -927 Arlington Hills Ward 926-927 Assoc. Builders & Contractors 927 -928 UP&L Attendees Property 50 Ramada 10 Ramada 200 S. Ridge 25 Jupiter 100 Ramada 80 Ramada 70 Ramada 32 Landmark 5fi7 LUCAS 1 AT 6:45 (EX. SUN.) PU:3'.. crrn Mi |