Show A Tremendous Challenge To The Editor I receive c your your paper r Tho Park Record through the courtesy of John L L. Gibson of Park Jark City i often l' l nl dea future of ParK City to the ilie Mitchell i anT oniT runny many others when 1 was stationed at the tho Catholic CI Church in Park City some ROme time ago fo for a 1 period d ot of two or three months replacing Father Cullen atthe at the tho th time L r read ad with soma t interest j yearn Mystery II of or the Hie I Mutilated Map in rn the Che e June dune 11 i Knue ue Park City I lying ing in ill the beautiful mountains of Utah ha haan has hasan an tut advantage over most cities towns wils and villages cs in ill U Utah I. I Park City traditionally hr brought ht not only fIll farin lt ll but fortune to Ut It has hus received its itt setbacks setbacks nd and in this lids time of transition economic and 1111 gl geographic luid even social it l becomes be comes not like an unwanted stepchild but rather a restless giant which giant which at one ono t time thin provided a a. li i living g for fot so many and amI now V yearns to stretch nut out in m the sun and become comiTa rt n potential thriving metropolis again main Park ark City City- can never nover be dashed drilled off as lIS a a. skeleton town town town- town town- though many l looking king from the tho outside in would like to see i ij it fold up alu and perhaps reap J-eap selfish gains from its death deat death To me Park l Park ark City always appeared to have tremendous I potentialities It can b a summer and perhaps a winter I resort with resort with a few enterprising business men doing some serious thinking about it To me Park City was WIlS never really d dead though dead though many have draped black cloth over it Its mines its water facilities its forests and i its camping sites it its easy access from the highway its economic advantage far far end gh from Salt Lake City and tourists galore galore its its history its availability for customers and many more advantages advantages advant ages can be added to to theS these Thero There is some sardonic note left in the bones bones It of the mutilated map perhaps Hut but tho the people of Turk Park p rk City known for their neighborliness and good will will and and the history of the Catholic Church in Park ark City will wilt prove that the members came to the aid of that church when it burnt to the ground and the present one was built not riot only with hands of the parishioners but with the toughened hands of the tho members as well well can can ban together again and build for the future The hi history tory o of P Park rk City is one of glory and achievement Your predecessors built th the noble city on the mount and for fora it reason it rises heaven than cities in a good reason to higher most Utah and there i it basks in the sun sun sun-is is covered with white whit inthe in inthe inthe the winter end and from its trees fall the he most beautiful ul colored leaves in the autumn and in the spring it awakens to the hc Gods God's wand of beauty cast over Park Park City was honor to a Creator and in love to a Holy Mother It It was built in inmans mans man's folded ha hands ds- ds in ill I thanksgiving for all aU he possessed Cd In those days more d J than an now now heaven heaven was linked to earth by a mutual love Values were were weighed Prayers lifted lilted high high above above the hc mountains and aud into heaven Park City was built on rock and not on sand The people of Park City must see soo to its future They must regain confidence They must rise from tho the depth of the tho mine shafts and see the sun Bun and a all l things above the earth 1 Prom From rom tho the worlds world's largest silver mine it can become the worlds world's largest larIt lar It and fi finest est summer and winter wink resort and andI I small industries can thrive in Park Cit City as us anywhere else elIC- Park City has bos never actually experienced experienc growing pains pain's fur for many years Perhaps the future of or Park lies liCK not in what wha ian I she Ix be harvested l from the town but in what can be put into th- th town The harvest can cana a way is r cart carp of W it challenge As Ap for the mutilated map map let let bygones be for bygones b bygones for every ery knock there is air arl opportunity and opportunity and for every shot in inthe inthe the tho ong direction there is always a recoil for better Get Get set kim him fire The aim is wh what t counts count Just in what direction direction direction tion do the intend to aim Always aim for the highest high high- est eat in ideals the lesser wings of that climb to the highest will hold the ladder to success intact REV REY FRANCIS A A. A S S. V St St. Patrick Church Cavour S S. S D D. June 17 1959 J. J x |