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Show IPcplficgcB n&epqpiPit The Newspaper Thursday, March 4, 1982 Page AT k ill ' ' i . j. - -- aT jwWlWw v:S-:v ::!'::: . .v. . . Amy Belk t?sts the Future bridge builders show their stuff by David Hampshire j Our bridges are unsafe, you say. Well, there are some students at the Carl Winters Middle School who might be able to help you out. Take eighth-grader Robert Sevier, for example. Sevier holds the distinction of designing and building a bridge that supported 662 times its own weight. That's right, 662 times. You'll notice we used the past tense: supported. That's because Sevier had to destroy his masterpiece to find ouf just how much weight it would hold. Here's how it happened: about a month ago, Middle School Principal Brian Schiller announced the start of the first annual Great Bridge Building Contest. The rules were simple: students were asked to build structures, struc-tures, made only of flat toothpicks and white glue, with a span of at least 25 centimeters. cen-timeters. Schiller rounded up several sponsors, including local architects Roy Reynolds Rey-nolds and Bill Mammen and the Salt Lake architectural architec-tural firm of Timmerman, Stepan and Associates. First prize was to be a $100 savings bond. Study of mental health needs A study will be conducted in the Park City area within the next week or ten days to determine the mental health needs of local residents. The study will address the effects of rapid population growth and will help the city to obtain an accurate picture of the problems faced by Park City residents. Marion Ayers, a doctoral mettle of Laurie Kulesa's About 100 students from the sixth, seventh and eighth grades decided to go for it. "The whole idea was to get them to apply some of their , math and science learning to I a project," Schiller explained. ex-plained. "So often, so much of what they learn in school has no application value, as far as the kids can see, in the real world." Then came the day of reckoning. At an assembly held at the school last Friday, the would-be engineers engi-neers put their creations to The Test. First, the bridges were weighed. Then they were placed across a 25-cm-wide chasm between two tables. A camera strap was stretched across the highest point and attached to a bucket. Slowly, gingerly, the bucket was filled with sand until each bridge collapsed under the accumulated weight. Bridge designs ranged from the traditional to the exotic, from trestles to arches ar-ches to pyramids. "A lot of the kids had tested them before (they were weighed)," Schiller explained. "This was sometimes a second" or a third bridge." Once each creation had collapsed, the bucket and its contents were weighed to candidate at the University of Utah Graduate School of Social Work, will be conducting conduct-ing the study, along with interviewers Mindy Nelson, Fran Summerhays, and Nancy Cowher; all of whom hold masters degrees in social work. You are asked to cooperate with these interviewers if you are one of Park City Conoco Complete Winter Service Batteries, Snow Tires Jump Starts, Service calls. 649-9331 North Park Avenue toothpick creation. calculate the ratio of weight to bridge. Sevier's winning entry was a railroad-type bridge with flat roadbed and an arched superstructure. Schiller estimated esti-mated 1 that the glue-and-toothpick masterpiece supported sup-ported about 35 pounds of sand before it finally gave in. Sixth-grader Chris Nicholson Nichol-son was not far behind Sevier. Se-vier. His bridge supported 660 times its own weight. Third place went to Stephanie Elkins (632 times). Shirley Sevier and Cathy Nuneviller teamed up to finish fourth, while Mike Eichner took fifth. Listed below are the prizes awarded to the top five bridge-builders: First: a $100 U.S. Savings Bond, contributed by Tim-merman, Tim-merman, Stepan and Associates. Asso-ciates. Second: a $25 U.S. Savings Bond, contributed by Reynolds Rey-nolds and Mammen, architects. archi-tects. Third: a book on bridges andor architects, donated by Dolly's Bookstore. Fourth: a $10 gift certificate cer-tificate from Davanza's Pizza. Piz-za. Fifth: a pizza dinner, donated by Brian Schiller. All contestants received gift certificates recognizing their bridge-building efforts. the households selected at random to participate in this study. It is hoped the study will give helpful suggestions and direction to community lead-. ers and decision makers as to some of the possible ways Park City's residents' quality qual-ity of life or well-being can be improved. Suspects The Park City police are still searching for three males who assaulted a local man in the Timberhaus parking lot on Feb. 22, then a half an hour later chased a woman down Swede Alley. According to the report written by Officer James "AT Allen, Christopher John Stinger was accosted by three men who began calling him names "for no reason at all" while he was in the Timberhaus parking lot at the bottom of Main Street at about 7:30 p.m. Stinger said the men were unknown to him, and when they became verbally abusive, he began to argue with them. The men apparently ap-parently attacked Stinger, and using their fists and feet, opened a cut over his eye. When the police arrived, Stinger also complained of a bump to the back of his head and painful ribs. He was taken to the Park City Health Clinic by ambulance. While Officer Allen was working with Stinger on the details of the incident, another call was relayed by the Coalville dispatcher that a woman was the victim of an attempted assault. Shelley Hart said she was walking up Swede Alley at about 8 p.m. when she noticed three men standing behind the Utah Power and Light building. In the report, Hart said one of the men said loudly, "Hey, check her out," while another replied, "Yeah, maybe she would like three on one." Hart said she turned around and began to walk down Swede Alley, and the three men followed. She started to run, she said, and fell near the End Run bar at the corner of Swede Alley and Heber Avenue. Just then, four people exited the sought in bar, and the three suspects fled west, past the Carbide Lamp toward Main Street. In his report, Allen said the description of the suspects sus-pects given by Stinger matched those of Hart's. As of Monday, no suspects had been taken into custody. On Feb. 26, Deborah Allison Hynd reported the theft of more than $2,000 worth of jeweh-y from her Woodside Avenue home. Missing were five rings, a diamond pendant and a gold charm from a jewelry box. Hynd has named a suspect, and the police are following upon the lead. Eighteen-year-old Jon Kunkel was arrested by police last week in the parking lot of the Park City High School and charged with possession of marijuana and possession of an alcoholic beverage by a minor. The items were found in his car. On Feb. 22, a teacher at Park City High reported to Principal Jack Dozier that a 15-year-old boy appeared to be under the influence of alcohol. The boy admitted that he had been drinking, and that the remainder of the alcohol was in his locker. A counselor and the student body president searched the locker and found a jar of alcohol. The boy, whose name cannot be released because he is a minor, was taken to the Park City Police Department, where his parents were contacted. The case has been referred to juvenile court. In other incidents: More than $200 worth of tools were reported stolen from a 1981 Ford Ranger owned by Steve Olsen of Midvale Feb. 22 while it was parked in the 600 block of Swede Alley. Olsen told u V if,, ftf jk" ' Wt I' mm ttM&ttiV 'Mfc !GM assault police that the Craftsmen tools were in the back of his truck, and when he returned from working on a spa in the Design Coalition, they were gone. -On Feb. 24, John Marx of West Bloomfield, Mich., reported the theft of a pair of Kneisl skis from the Park City Ski Area. The value of the skis was placed at $200. That same day, Karl Bodenhofer of Virginia City, Nev., told police that a pair of $300 Rossignols were taken from a locked rack at the Deer Valley Resort. Bill Dubie apparently left his 1982 Jeep CJ7 unlocked at the Snow Country Coun-try Apartments on Feb. 28, and it was robbed of a $250 tape deck. A hit and run driver caused $250 worth of damage to a 1977 Ford pick-up owned by Richard Noble of Park City on Feb. 27. The truck was parked at 555 Woodside Avenue when it was struck. Derek Frazier, 31, of Salt Lake City, was arrested for public intoxication Feb. 27 and taken to the county jail in Coalville. According to Officer William Moore, he found Frazier weaving in Swede Alley after being alerted aler-ted by the Coalville dispatcher dis-patcher that a m an had been seen passed out on the street, and was nearly run over by a car. Moore said he attempted attempt-ed to take Frazier to a Park City address where he said he was staying, but the man said he wanted to be let out down the street and would walk. When Moore said he would take him to his door, Frazier offered the officer of-ficer two options: drop him off down the street, or take him to jail. Moore apparently appar-ently granted his request, and drove him to Coalville. (9HD t 3'iYjr. lift -vri!- LAND USE CONSULTING Get answers you don t from an engineer, architect or lands caper. LAND USE CONSULTING Box 719 Park City Utah 84060 Box 208 Wanship Utah 84017 336-2523 Country Pine Antiques Unique Accessories 818 South 9th East Salt Lake Citv. Utah 84102 (801)328-4888 a 1 i-rrsss'' 3 |