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Show SEA Page 2 5 Wednesday, September 20, 1978 V SUBSCRIPTION RATE: P S6.CO a year in advance in State SIO a year outside Utah PUBLISHERS: Jan v.t. Wilking Stephen K. Dering Editor . . Steve Dering Business Manager Jan Wilking Office Manager and Advertising Sally Bolton Graphics. Mark G. Blase Marianne Cone Bobbye Jean Hammond Reporters Tina Moench . Conrad Elliott Typesetting Phyllis Rubenstein Contributing Photographers Nick Nass . . . .Pat McDowell, 'Wasatch' Warren, Craig Reece Subscriptions Sonya Ratcliff Entered as second class mallei May 25. 1977. at the post office in Par City. Utah 84060. under the Act of March 3. 1697. Published every Wednesday at Pork City. Utah Second-class postage paid at Park Crty, Utah Pictures news ond advertising may be submitted prior to Wednesday publication at our office, 419 Main Street. Park City. Utah 84060. by mail. Box 738 or by colling 649-9592. Publication material must be received by Monday afternoon tor Wednesday publication. COMMUNITY EDUCATION The Park City School District Community School Program has scheduled a series of four lectures and demonstrations that will aid people throughout their lives. Four topics have been chosen and a specialist in each field to give people information that will enrich their lives. First session Sept. 13 Financial Management and Success was very informative, helpful and well attended. Wed., Sept 20 Savings Investments Invest-ments and Insurance. These subjects will be discussed by Dr. Gary D. Hansen, Chairman of the Department of Family Economics and Heme Management, BYU, Provo Utah. The third of the series will be Sept. 27 covering Taxes, Benefits and Services. The fourth is on Wed. Oct. 4 Estate Planning, Wills and Trusts. All classes begin at 7:00 p.m. in the Media Center at P.C. High School. If you missed the first one come join us for the next sessions, at $1.50 per session. We encourage you to take advantage of this opportunity. Classes in gourmet cooking with Carolyn Goodworth, instructor, will begin Sept. 28, 7 p.m. Classes in cake decorating, advanced ad-vanced sewing and others will begin soon. For more information please contact Nan McPolin, 649-9417 or the School Superintendent, 649-9671. PARKING REQUEST Attention upper Woodside and Daly Ave. residents: For your protection and to speed con-stuction, con-stuction, please park AS FAR AS POSSIBLE from constuction machinery, and avoid leaving cars parked for prolonged periods South of where crews are working. This will enable us to work much faster and have your street asphalted sooner. Thanks for your cooperation. Snyderville Basin Sewer Dist. GIRL SCOUT REGISTRATION Girl Scout Registration will be Tuesday, September Sep-tember 26 from 7-8 p.m. at the Memorial Building. Please come if you are interested in signing up. Girls 8 years and older may register. ST. LUKE S REOPENING St. Luke's Episcopal Church is re-opening in Park City. The next service will be held in the Memorial Bldg. Lounge on Sunday, Sept. 24 at 10;00 a.m. For more information call Mrs. Kimball Kim-ball at 649-7607 after 5:30 p.m. CAR NEEDED Citizens interested in donating a car or truck to aid in the education of students in Auto Mechanics at the High School, please contact Moose Smith at 649-8361. Tax deductible. OFF-SEASON HOURS Chamber Office hours for off-season which includes in-cludes Sept. until the Ski Season will be Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. At the beginning of Ski Season hours will change with opening Monday through Friday daily from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Saturday from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. Bicentennial Boy Comes Home "The Bicentennial Boy has returned to the Claim-jumper," Claim-jumper," exclaimed restaurant res-taurant owner Lloyd Stevens of his ten-foot, patriotically painted wooden cowboy stolen in the dark of the night August 27th. The $1,500 bearded sentry was carried back to his familiar resting place in the archway of the Main Street eatery after an attorney for the rustlers agreed upon a drop-off time with Stevens. A day of partying, a sumptuous meal and a boastful "I bet you couldn't..." led to the poaching prank. "He arrived at 6 p.m. amid snow, hail and lightning and I would've made that all happen if he hadn't been brought back!" Stevens said good naturedly. a. ? Z i W i ' tfilfL, Miii imi Fred Crocker Mark Ferguson Greg Wolf Winter poked Park City with icy fingers Sunday night as measurable' snow fell over the Great Salt Lake Valley on the second earliest date in weather recording history. By Monday at noon, there was a foot of crystals blanketing Jupiter Bowl, while Snowbird reported eighteen inches. Park City rooftops glistened with four cold inches. State climatologist Arlo Richardson said the earliest measurable snowfall at Salt Lake International Airport was recorded on the ,17th of September in 1965, while Cache Valley is reporting its earliest snowfall since 1915. Richardson said sophisticated weather metering equipment and up-to-date techniques indicate this winter will be colder than last, with more snow in the valley and less rain. Although less overall precipitation could mean less snow for the mountains, Richardson predicted a longer skiing season due to the general cooling trend. "Last winter was warm in the valley and they had a lot of rain," Richardson recalled. "This year it will be colder with less rain and more snow. The mountains had heavy snow last year, and this year the indications are it will be a colder winter, with less snow." At 1 " I If it I J- fir LJ rf ' X If A . I : i A T HowabouMf? How would you rate this year's Park nament? Fred Crocker The play was better three years ago... eight teams is not enough, it was better when they had 16 teams playing. AI Allen I wouldn't know good play from bad play. Mark Ferguson The play wasn't bad but the officiating of-ficiating was terrible in the final games. John Clayton I think probably playing the best. Greg Wolf It looks like good playing... the mud gives it a little bit more excitement, though I wouldn't like to play in it myself. John Chester I think it is very active, aggressive and there is a lot of excitement in the air. This is the first (rugby) game I've seen and I'm looking forward to seeing some more. aste o What's I While Richardson said he prefers to watch blondes, local , Park City prognosticators used the nore scientific indicators left by Mother Nature to predict this year's winter. Longtime resident Don Stoll predicts a "long and rough" winter, since oak trees are bearing a heavy crop of acorns a sign that nature is providing a large food supply for the animals. With the use of binoculars, Mr. Stoll has espied deer with especially heavy coats from his Ontario Avenue home, another forewarning of the cold to come. Dorothy Young provided weather soothsaying while employed at the Park City Resort. She recalled that during the fall two years ago there were few berries, and she predicted a mild winter. It was definitely a mild winter win-ter that year, at least by skiing standards. Last fall Mrs. Young noticed the berries were in abundance and forecasted heavy snows for the season. This fall at her Wanship home, Mrs. Young said there are lots of elderberries, but few choke cherries, and predicted a moderate snow season. The Indians, she explained, used as an indicator of how the animals would be supported n ri fx m Ar H6 ?W ID w it the quality of play at City Rugby Tour- the Canadians are inter But n Store? and, consequently, the harshness har-shness of winter. "Moderffte cropmoderate winter. f "The oldtimers say when the weeds are high, there won't be much of a winter," Mrs. Young said. "But last year the weeds were high and we had a helluva winter! I think the weeds are high because of the water supply." sup-ply." Local historian Bea Kummer prophesizes an early winter, but based on her elderberry sighting, not a particularly harsh one. "I remember one other year when the snow fell this early," Mrs. Kummer said. "And by deer season one month later we were waddling wad-dling in snow. We've had snow fall as early as Labor Day, but it didn't lay like this did. We had such a dry summer, I think we'll have an early winter." Despite the whiteness hiding the just-turning autumn colored trees, Buddy Lange predicts at least two more months of Indian summer. "When snow hits this early, it seldom fails that Indian In-dian summer comes and stays for a while," said Mr. Lange from his Treasure Mountain home. Although he neglected to notice how furry the orange and black caterpillar was that crossed his doorstop last week, Mr. Lange said "I bet- FMrcfe OF mM in f i Al Allen John Clayton John Chester cha therejs two more months of Indian summer left.. You markmywordSjf H,J The Old Farmer's Almanac notes that "A milder than average winter is forecast, with good snowfall in December, although January and February will have less than average amounts of snow." Llewellyn's Moon Sign Book foretells of a heavy winter for the Rocky Mountain Moun-tain area, however. "This will be a most interesting season after the severe season of 1976-77, when all of the cold was centered over the eastern United States. It will be the eastern portion of the country that will be drier and milder while the western portions will have the snow, rain, ice and severe cold weather. Just as many records will be broken in the western states this season C78-'79) as were established in the east during the past winter C76-'77)." Winter officially begins on December 22 at 00:21:15 Eastern Standard Time in Washington D.C. The dictionary dic-tionary definition of winter is among other things, "The usually coldest season of the year, between autumn and spring," and "any period of time characterized by coldness, cold-ness, misery, barrenness..." When winter will begin unofficially in Park City is anybody's guess. K Hi cm p I . V... j b 3 cxx jiJiSy r liters Pbdiror Preschool Thanks Dear Editor: This week marks the opening open-ing of our new Park City Preschool at the Community Church. Those of us who worked hard to set it up, owe a special thanks to a few individuals who donated their time, effort, and materials to make our school a really attractive desirable place for our children. We'd like to thank Rev. Bill Davis, Tom Ernst and the congregation of the Community Com-munity Church for letting us use the church facilities for our school and for all their encouragement and cooperation cooper-ation in getting it ready. A really special thanks to Ski who donated his crew, his time and his paint on a moment's notice. Thanks to Art Durante for his donation of some windows win-dows and to Willy Gurski at Andersons for the lumber he Rugby To the editor: The Park City Rugby Football Club all but completed com-pleted its 1978 season last weekend, hosting our most successful tournament to date. The Challenge Cup and the season could never have Convention Group Optimistic The steering committee of the newly organized Park City Convention Bureau met last Friday and voiced optimism in reaching its fundraising goal and announced an-nounced the first general membership meeting. "We are trying to reach a goal of $75,000 from the private sector," said committee com-mittee member Jl Laura Thomas,representing the Park City Resort. "We have already raised $50,000 to $60,000 in actual money or pledges." Ms. Thomas said it was hoped that $50,000 would be kicked in from transient room taxes collected by the Summit County Travel Council. The funds will be specifically appropriated by a board of directors yet to be elected, but preliminary plans earmark the $125,000 for the hiring of a qualified director; local, regional and national promotion of Park City; solicitation materials; travel expenses; and office rental, furniture and equipment. equip-ment. "We need to get this bureau off the ground first," Thomas said. "Then once the board of directors is elected, they can decide how to best budget the money." A general membership meeting is scheduled for Thursday, October 12 at 8:00 p.m. at the Prospector Square Convention Center. A three-man nominating council coun-cil was appointed from the steering committee, and they will select board candidates can-didates from the general members in attendance at the meeting. Subsequently, the board will interview and determine the executive director di-rector and will serve as the AT OT? fmVtS m vs. n sow- m4 flUSBAU?. VeO- m If VCTV II J 2, . i i gave us to build some equipment. Thanks to Dick Doty and Lloyd Stevens who helped us with our Art Festival booth and to Steve Chin and Dick Miller who spent a lot of time putting up the booth and taking it down each day. Also, thanks to Fred Harvey who spent an entire weekend building shelves and helping us get ready for the open house. Lastly, thanks to all the fathers, mothers and friends who helped in any way. We sincerely sin-cerely appreciate all the community support and encouragement en-couragement and because of all the help we are sure that our school will be a valuable community asset. Patty Miller Secretary, Park City Preschool Thanks been so successful without the cooperation and support of many non-playing rugby followers in Park City. Thanks again. The Muckers voice of the membership. "The more people who become involved, the more there is to draw from the board," said Franci Eisenbc-g, a .ing committee com-mittee member representing the Kimball Art Center. "We'd like to see the participation and involvement involve-ment expanded. We want a large number of people tp help us begin our initiaf board." Thomas noted that a possible function for the new executive director would be the organization of Park City's biggest promotional effort scheduled to date the western regional conference of the American Society of Travel Agents in May. Thus far, the ski corporation has been donating three days of Ms. Thomas' time to organize or-ganize the event. "This will be a testing situation for the town, and we can either create a good image or a bad image for the nearly 2,000 travel agents that will be here," Ms. Thomas emphasized. "If the bureau is organized, then an executive director could be hired to handle this very important event." Thomas noted that the board of directors "can't do everything at once" and suggested that a one or two-year program could be outlined at the offset to best promote Park City. "We encourage anyone to join the Park City Convention Conven-tion bureau at any time and show their concern and commitment to the town," Ms. Thomas said. "We need everyone's participation and encouragement to get this program rolling." vows RMfeAUP |