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Show Volume Five Sept. 12 Deadline State Ordered to Release Names Of Officers in Singer Shooting By J. B. Savage Attorneys for the family of John Singer have won a nearly unilateral decision regarding the release of information, in-formation, including the identities of those officers present at Singer's death. The decision, announced Thursday Thurs-day in U.S. District Court, gives the defendants until Sept. 12 to comply. Singer, a Summit County resident, was killed in January, 1979 by the blast of a shotgun in the back during a confrontation con-frontation with law officers. Singer had previously refused to allow his children to attend public school, or to allow a school board to monitor their children's home education. Singer, along with his wife Vicki had been held in contempt of court. School Board Elections The polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday for those wishing to vote in the primaries for the Park City Board of Eduation. Registered voters who live in old Park City south of Seventh Street (Heber Avenue) will vote at 180 Daly Ave. This is a portion of school board precinct 1. Residents of old Park City between be-tween Seventh Street and Thirteenth Thir-teenth Street will vote at the Chateau Apres, 1299 Norfolk Ave. This is also a portion of school" board precinct 1. Running for office in precinct 1 are Gary Avise, Mary Eley, Charles Latterner and. Betty Roach. (The Newspaper apologizes apolo-gizes for an error in a recent story which listed Mrs. Roach as a candidate in precinct 3.) Those who live in Park City between Thirteenth Street and Thaynes Canyon Drive or in the Prospector Square area are in school board precinct 2. Since 1 h The cast in Monday's Miner's See page three for details. it J I vi ri - It.' ill vf?FKs 1 " - i ,-.'."' 1 The fatal confrontation was one in a series of well-publicized run-ins the members of the Singer family had with law enforcement officials. Since the death, the Singer family as plantiffs has filed a $110 million lawsuit against those they believe to be ultimately responsible for John Singer's death. The Singer family is represented by attorneys Gerry Spen-ce, Spen-ce, Robert Schluster, Kathryn Collard and Steven Kubnhausser. In his ruling, Judge David K. Winder found in favor of plaintiff's motion to compel the issuance of evidence previously unreleased by defendants. Defendants had sought a protective order to allow this information from becoming public. there are only two candidates for the board seat in this area, there will be no primary. Those who live in the Park Meadows area bounded by U-224, Old Ranch Road, U.S. 40 and U-248 U-248 are in school precinct three. The candidates in this precinct are Ron Burnett, Carol Calder, Robert Harrington and Nancy McComb. Residents of this area can vote at the Park City Racquet Club. Those who live in Highland Estates-Silver Creek area bound- ' ed By Interstate 80, U.S. 40, Old Ranch Road and U-224 are in school precinct 4. Candidates in this district are Darrell Burn, Susan Williams and Nancy Maloney. Residents can vote at the Elizabeth Hannay residence on Old Ranch Road. Those who live in the Summit Park area will not vote for a school board candidate this year. Eugene Lambert, who represents precinct 5, has two years remaining of a four-year term. Day Parade inchi'' 'his fearless, broken-legged Night Rider. Thursday, September 4, 1980 Winder commented, "Considering the magnitude of this case, the plaintiffs are entitled to all the information they can get, including income tax information." in-formation." Although insurance company lawyers and representatives of the Attorney At-torney General's office jointly argued that disclosure of the information, including in-cluding the identities of the law officers responsible for Singer's death, would place certain individuals in jeopardy, the court held that the plaintiffs were entitled to know those very identities This information has never been released to the public. In addition, the attorneys representing represen-ting Singer shall now have direct and unedited access to the tax records of those law enforcement officials, the medical examiner's file, the Singer autopsy report, all matters of insurance coverage and the in-house investigation inves-tigation file compiled following the shooting incident. They will be allowed to see the authority and agency identification iden-tification cards issued to law officers involved in the Singer incident and the actual weapon or weapons used to kill John Singer. The entire personal files and financial finan-cial statements of those individuals involved in-volved in the Singer incident, along with any plans, discussions recorded, recor-ded, and memoranda regarding the Singer attempted arrests, the actual arrest and the ultimate death of John Singer in defendants procession shall also be made available in their entirety en-tirety to the plaintiffs, . -J..A, Also requested by plaintiffs and granted by the court was plaintiff's demand for any and all videotape regarding the John Singer incident. Judge Winder set as the deadline for compliance three days to the opening depositions scheduled for Sept. 15. As presently scheduled, the Singer trial will convene on April 20, 1981. Scheduled to be deposed are various representatives of Utah law enforcement enfor-cement agencies, the medical examiner who performed the autopsy and Governor S. Matheson. u ;vi v Li Park City, Utah it Keeping Ahead of Park West Skiing Onslaugfit(erhouse) You might say they're putting themselves out of business. As anyone who has tried it can tell you, there's money to be - nicide by flying skiers up to the virgin powder bowls, to areas beyond the encroachment of the ski resorts. Helicopter skiing, they call it. But slowly the resorts are moving into those virgin areas, stringing chairlifts farther into the backcountry, giving pleasure to the masses but spoiling it for those who prefer the airlift method. So who's providing the muscle to bring in yards of concrete and Starts Thursday Park City Welcomes While most people (except strung-out newspaper reporters) were still sleeping sleep-ing early Wednesday morning, a tank truck made several careful passes down Main Street, washing dust and debris into the gutters and down to Heber Avenue. "What's the occasion?" cynical local residents might have been prompted to ask. Well, it might be just a coincidence, but the first of the WESTPO governers was also due to arrive Wednesday as Park City geared up for a share of the national spotlight. WESTPO is the acronym for the Western Governor's Policy Office, a Denver-based organization which represents 11 intermountain and high plains states. WESTPO acts as a vehicle for member states to express their views on common problems. The WESTPO conference comes to Park City thanks, in part, to the influence of Utah Governor Scott Matheson, current chairman of the group. This is the first time that the annual meeting has been held outside Colorado. Governors and other top officials from the 11 member states converged on Park City Wednesday evening, with the first general session due to begin Thursday at the Holiday Inn. Park City Mayor Jack Green will welcome conference participants at a luncheon set to begin at 11:30 a.m. Thursday. His remarks will be followed by a keynote address from Matheson on "The West and the Eighties." At 1:45 p.m. Thursday, the first general session will begin. Its focus will be "Energy Development and Public Works," and discussions will cover everything from synthetic fuel development to the impact of the MX missile system. The second general session, to be held later Thursday afternoon, will discuss "The Future of Agriculture in a Changing West." Delivering the keynote address at the dinner session Thursday evening will no tons of steel for tho;l trie lifts? That's right. The wjn rpBfrds. Looking like a Hu'; dragonfly and working like a lusy bee, a helicopter spent one morning la&t week at Park Wjist, shuttling huge metal towers between the ski resort parking lot and the site of the new lift on a nearby hillside. To be called the Slaughterhouse Slaughter-house Chairlift, the new addition add-ition will allow Park West to bring an additional 1,000 people per hour into an area popular among expert and intermediate skiers. The 3,000-foot -long double chair be Carl Steinberg, assistant director of the Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Inter-governmental Relations. He is expected ex-pected to outline the results of a four-year study of federal-state relations rela-tions done by his organization. The third general session, scheduled for 8:30 a.m. Friday, will again focus on "Energy Development and Public Works." Among the speakers at this session will be the governors of Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, New Mexico Mexi-co and Montana. General sessions number four and five, also scheduled for Friday, will feature addresses on "Small Business and the Vitality of the Private Sector," and "Directions for the 80s." i n - Fourth Name Released In Drug Investigation A fourth name has been released by Utah Public Safety Commissioner Larry Lunnen in connection with the recent investigation of cocaine traffic in Park City. Mark Allred. 26, was arrested Friday on a state warrant served in Sacramento, California. According to Tom Carlson, an investigator with the Utah State Narcotics and Law Enforcement Division, Allred had waived extradition and was on his way to Utah Wednesday. Allred will face arraignment on charges of distribution of and conspiracy con-spiracy to distribute cocaine. Two other individuals nameH in a federal indictment were due to be arraigned before U.S. Magistrate Dan Alsup Wednesday afternoon. Allan Savage has been charged with conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance, distribution of a controlled substance, and aiding and abetting. Sheila Wilson Jones has been charged only'with conspiracy. The other individual whose name has 250 Number Fifty-One will start below the terminus of the present Iron Horse Lift and end at the top of the Slaughterhouse Slaughter-house run. To withstand the added onslaught, that run is being widened and a new run (to be called Bear Claw) is being cut between Slaughterhouse and Grizzly. The new chair will also make the Short Swing Chair more accessible. The new lift will give Park West a total of six with a combined com-bined uphill capacity of 6,400 skiers per hour. A new trail map is being designed by Bill Brown to reflect the recent changes. WESTPO Also scheduled for Friday is a luncheon for all conference participants. partici-pants. The keynote speaker will be David Mathews, former secretary of HEW, and current chairman of the Commission on the Future of the South. Among the items expected to receive a great deal of attention at the conference is the so-called Sagebrush Rebellion, an attempt by certain western states including Utah to claim ownership of federal lands within their boundaries. Other hot topics which will be addressed at the conference include the disposal of hazardous wastes and the development of oil shale lands. been released is Corky Foster. He was arraigned Aug. 22 and currently is being held pending a check to see if he has violated parole. If this is found to be the case, a spokesman for the U.S. Magistrate's office said he would be held without bail. Foster was arrested in Mexico in 1976 for possession of cocaine. After spending almost two years in Mexican prisons, he was transferred to the United States in a prisoner exchange program. He was still on parole at the time of his recent arrest. Names of at least five other suspects in the investigation still have not been released. "As soon as we have exhausted our immediate sources, then we'll put those names on the National Crime Information Center 'NCIO computer, com-puter, Lunnen said Wednesday. "1 would expect we'd make a decision on that sometime this week." Lunnen pointed out that the names become a matter of public record once they are on the NCIC computer. |