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Show 6 C0LLBC1 tut P I jr."- ... .-t i H - ... ,i . Volume 1 1 1, No. 493 Sections, 42 pages Thursday, Janua ' i, (i ' ! , t r' 1 II) I IILIIIUIL II ft f SPBCIAL. Gulf crisis hits home by ROBIN PORTER Record staff writer Park City like many other American towns has now been directly touched by Kuwait's struggle strug-gle to release Iraq's grip on the Kuwaiti people. Three Park City residents, two of of them Delta Air Lines pilots and one local veterinarian, were recently ordered to Germany with their military reserve units as part of the troop build-up taking place in the Persian Gulf. Pilots Dave Walters and Ralph Pearce left Dec. 27, for Rhein-Mein Air Base, near Frankfurt, Germany to fly C-9 cargo aircraft for their naval reserve unit. Currently, they are shuttling American troops scheduled for vacation time between Saudi Arabia and Europe. Veterinarian Dr. Lyle Jackson, was set to leave Jan. 9 for Saudi Arabia. He is a 10-year member of the Utah National Guard and a 20-year U.S. Army member. He was commissioned in the Veterinary Corps of the Army and later took a post as the veterinary staff officer with the Guard's Nineteenth Special Forces or Green Beret. Dr. Jackson was called individually to serve as a quality assurance officer for troop rations and to provide preventive medicine. Though he will be absent from his veterinary practice at Park City Animal Clinic, his colleague Dr. Charmiann Wright, will be tending their four-legged patients on a full-time full-time basis. "I've been practicing for war for 20 years," he told the Record Tuesday, Tues-day, "and this is the first time I've been called up." Dr. Jackson believes there is "never a convenient conve-nient time to serve your country." "I am apprehensive about it," he said, as well as being apprehensive Continued on A2 Baseball on deck for high school by ROBIN PORTER Record staff writer Park City's school board appears to be swinging its decision toward high school varsity and junior varsity varsi-ty baseball and women's Softball teams, after hearing feasibility reports from two sources Tuesday night. But because the region's league has already established a firm spring schedule, Park City's proposed teams won't be official until un-til spring of 1992. After hearing both reports, newly elected board chairperson Val Chin said whether PCHS initiates the teams isn't a question of if, but when. Board members asked their appointed committee to address questions about trasportation conflicts con-flicts with other spring sports, impacts im-pacts on the budget and high school staff, and to get a schedule of spring exhibition games for to them by their next meeting, Feb. 5, when a formal decision is expected. One report was initiated by Park City High School Principal Jack Dozier this fall and presented by High School Community Council Co-Chair Co-Chair Mike Sloan. The second report, prepared by a school board-formed board-formed committee begun last spring, spr-ing, was presented by area resident Ed White. About 30 school district patrons, most, supportive of the baseball team proposal, turned out for Tuesday Tues-day night's board meeting. The community council's task group report targeted the relationship relation-ship between high school academics and athletics. Sloan told board members that both spring sports and classroom time would be heavily heavi-ly impacted if baseball was added, citing teacher and student absences resulting from game travel and practice time. But, he said that a student poll within the report put their baseball interest in second place among all other extracurricular activities. Soccer came in first with 32 percent, baseball second with 30.1 percent and track third at 20.9 percent. Both PCHS track coach Bill Kahn and District Transportation Director Direc-tor Patti Fellows seemed to be in agreement that other spring activities ac-tivities would be affected greatly by adding baseball to the schedule IS-'. v ' lit ; , , v I I . L b m. mw tit -v HI . ; w- mw t w m Robin Porter Paper cranes made by fifth-graders Marshall Berg and Damien Warren will be soaring to the White House this week to deliver a message of peace. Students' peace message soars by ROBIN PORTER Record staff writer A thousand folded paper cranes will be delivered to the White House steps this week, sent by more than 60 Park City students who want to send a message for peace in the world to President George Bush before the Jan. 15 U.N. deadline for Iraq's withdrawl from Kuwait. Two fifth grade classes at Treasure Mountain Middle School decided to take peaceful action in the gulf crisis by learning learn-ing the Japanese art nf paper folding or Origami. By Tuesday, students had completed more than 800 of the birds and were planning to send all 1,000 by Jan. 10 or 11. Teachers Merry Haugen and Teri Wiss had students study the since only a finite number of busses are available. "I doubt that both teams would be going to the same places at the same times," Kahn said. Because of snow and weather during the spring, he says, even the soccer team can't practice here most of March and some of April. And a baseball team would have to be bussed to Heber, just as the soccer team is now. Dr. Dozier told the group that the national movement in balancing academics with extracurricular activities ac-tivities "is to less (extracurriculars and athletics), marketly less, rather than more." "How much can we do, in relation to the staff we've got?" he asked rhetorically. Currently there are 22 high school staff members covering 33 different activities. ac-tivities. The board-appointed committee's 22-page report co-authored by area resident Dave Walters and White Suspects face Jan. 22 trial by NICK BILLINGS Record Staff Writer In a preliminary hearing before Circuit Court Judge Edward Watson Tuesday, Rolf Tiede recounted the terrifying details of Dec. 22 at his Beaver Springs family cabin in which his wife and mother-in-law were shot and killed. Ordered to strip off his snow gear and hand over $105.00 in cash, Rolf Tiede lay face down on the ground of his garage as defendant Von Lester Taylor shot him twice, according to testimony from Tiede. Questioned at what distance the second shot was fired, Tiede could not answer conclusively. It was very close range, he believed. "The plastic wadding from the second shell was stuck in my head." After the two shots, one of the defendants poured gasoline over the man's feet, legs, and head. Tiede remained re-mained conscious through the entire afternoon. He was treated for gunshot gun-shot wounds at University Hospital and released in stable condition three days after the shootings. Tiede told Assistant County Attorney At-torney Terry Christiansen that he T I it- -y -1 story of Sadako, a girl who is today to-day honored as a heroine by Japanese children. Sadako, suffering suf-fering from "bomb sickness" following the World War II bombing bomb-ing of Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945, resolved to fold a thousand paper cranes before her death. She had been told by her best friend that "if a sick person folds one thousand thou-sand paper cranes, the gods will grant her a wish and make her well again." Sadako never finished the task, but her classmates fulfilled it for her. Today, children throughout the world ?;end paper cranes to lie beside her memorial in the Hiroshima Peace Park. Haugen told the Record Tuesday Tues-day that student anxiety levels about the Persian Gulf situation have been rising. The classroom project is part of an effort by mid estimates the cost of the first year's implementation and league competition competi-tion at $14,150 and at $8,200 for each subsequent year. White told board members that start-up costs could be covered through a fund-raising effort. And said that with four phone calls, he'd been able to get commitments com-mitments totaling $1,000. He cited several letters of financial commitment commit-ment from community members included in-cluded with the report. In its conclusions, the report states, "Park City High School was able to implement a successful soccer soc-cer program, although it is the only 2A school in the state to have such a program, it should be able to successfully suc-cessfully launch a baseball program where it is the only 2A school in the state without such a program." But Parley's Park Elementary PTA co-chair Carol Murphy said the board should determine whether district money that would be ear had seen the suspects in the Beaver Springs area earlier the week of the incident. "I helped Deli get his three-wheeler unstuck on several occasions," oc-casions," Tiede testified. Watson found probable cause for all nine felony counts against each of the defendants, Von Lester Taylor, 21, and Edward Steven Deli, 25, and the judge bound over the suspects to be arraigned Jan. 22 at 9:30 a.m. before 3rd District Court Judge Frank Noel. In addition to the attempted homicide charges, the suspects are also charged with two counts of criminal homicide in the shooting deaths of Tiede's wife, Kaye Tidwell Tiede, and her mother, Beth Harmon Har-mon Tidwell Potts, a 72-year old grandmother who was handicapped and visually impaired. According to testimony from daughter Linae Tiede, she, her mother, and grandmother arrived first at the family cabin on Dec. 22, after spending a night in Salt Lake with relatives. The two suspects were in the cabin and forced the three upstairs to the loft where Taylor alledgedly shot Kaye Tiede and Beth Potts. "They the l.U. dle school staff to ease this undercurrent under-current of tension in the school. "Students have already written letters (to troops)," Haugen says, "and have sent things for Christmas including sunscreen and Blistex." And when some of their pen pals send things such as yogurt labels from overseas, the students understand that these foreign places are not so strange, she said. "Some students are afraid they will be bombed here," Haugen says, if a war with Iraq begins. Several classes have invited military personnel from Utah's installations to the school. With students, they have discussed the culture and climate of Saudi Arabia, shown them chemical warfare uniforms and delivered letters from the school to troops overseas. marked for baseball might be better spent on other items such as books, computers or part-time teachers. The board committee's report also included a community poll of 360 residents in which 96 percent favor high school softballbaseball teams at PCHS. "Baseball has grown phenomenally phenomenal-ly and we need to do something tonight... that 96 percent should say something," parent Randy Holmes said. High school soccer coach Jesse Schaub and elementary school teacher Kim Jensen were both mentioned men-tioned in the report as willing baseball coaches. And the proposed field for use by a high school team would be the one located at Treasure Mountain Middle School. Dugouts, bleachers and fencing as well as the field condition would have to be remedied, before it could be used by a team, according to White. suspects twere not provoked in any way," said Linae. She remembered Taylor's comment to Deli directly following the shooting of the handicapped han-dicapped Potts: "I had to shoot the bitch in the head twice." Following the two shootings, Taylor and Deli tied and gagged Ms. Tiede. Despite her pleas for freedom, she was not released. Deli said "you've seen what we look like; we either have to take you with us or kill you," Ms. Tiede recounted. When Rolf and daughter Tricia Tiede arrived, the violence moved to the garage. Shooting and wounding Rolf Tiede, the suspects attempted to set fire to the cabin and kidnapped the two daughters on snowmobiles. The pair rode with the girls to the Tiede family car and proceeded from Kamas to Oakley on Highway 189. The suspects were eventually apprehended by officers from Summit Sum-mit County Sherrif Department, Kamas City Police, and the Utah Highway Patrol. Summit County Pubic Defender Eliot Levine moved, in vain, to dismiss four of the counts against Taylor, citing "significant missing Continued on A2 Jeffries delays Winters project by SENA TAYLOR Record staff writer The New York developer who has contracted with the city to transform the Carl Winters School into a cultural center bought some time to postpone his plans Jan. 3 by asking the City Council to give him a six-month extension in exchange for a $10,000 deposit. The developer, Chris Jeffries, also asked the Council to allow him to drop plans for a 200-room hotel that would be built on 4.2 acres of old playing fields adjacent to the school. "The project is still important to me, and it's something I would like to work on," Jeffries told the Council during a work session last Thursday. "I want six months to come back with a proposal that you will say yes or no to." He was not specific about what types of activities would be located in the refurbished school, but said the emphasis would be on theater arts. "My proposal is for a mixed use of activities in the school," he said. "Something more mundane, but something that will pay the rent." Council members welcomed Jeffries' Jef-fries' offer, seeing the new plan as a way to satisfy the interests of residents who have opposed the city's actions in selling the school to Jeffries one year ago. "I think it's a most magnanimous offer," Council Member Bob Richer told Jeffries, "and I would hope it would come to pass." Richer then suggested that the city completely terminate its original agreement with Jeffries and formulate "a brand new simple agreement." The city's original contract with Jeffries, approved last February, stated that Jeffries must begin his $2 million project to renovate the school by Jan. 25, 1991, and have it finished within 24 months. The contract con-tract also stated that Jeffries begin building the hotel within seven years of when the adjacent 4.2 acres of land was rezoned (the rezone was approved Jan. 25, 1990), and complete com-plete the hotel within an 18-month time period. It also required him to pay the city the balance of the $1.5 million purchase price for the 4.2 acres within seven years, and to obtain ob-tain fee title to a four-lot piece of property pro-perty along Park Avenue privately owned by Franklin Richards. At that time, Jeffries was provided provid-ed a number of options to take if he failed to fulfill his obligations with the city. Those options included paying pay-ing the balance of a $1.5 million note he owed the city for the school, giving giv-ing the city the 4.2 acres, or transferring transfer-ring ownership of the renovated school to a non-profit agency. Several other conditions and performance perfor-mance obligations were attached to the agreement. At last week's meeting, Jeffries explained that several factors had influenced his decision to take a new course of action. "I couldn't find a way to make money out of not-for-profit uses" originally planned for the refurbished school, he said. "And I decided I didn't want to rely entirely on the development of the vacant ground to make money on." Further, he said, "I was frankly quite surprised by the level of opposition op-position to the project. I first felt the opposition was something that would go away, but it didn't. I hadn't fully appreciated it." Jeffries said his objective when he devised his development proposal "was not to be devisive, it was to bring br-ing a cultural center to Park City. That prompted me in the last six weeks or so to have conversations with people who live here and get a feeling for the mood about what was going on." Jeffries said he felt he was looked at as a developer who was "forcing a big building on a community that really doesn't want it." Regarding his plans to focus on the school and not build a hotel, Jeffries said, "I like the building. I like the idea of restoring it and making it a cultural center. Those ideas are still important.. .But I don't want to build a 200-room hotel on the vacant parcel. It's not what the town wants. So I propose the opportunity to agree not to develop on the vacant property," proper-ty," said Jeffries, noting that there would be "no structure, no parking and no landscaping" on the adjacent open space. Jeffries said he has already spent $200,000 on planning issues, working with the local design firm Jack Johnson Co. But as much as he said he wanted to proceed with the school, he told the Council he would "gladly step aside" to let the city or another developer refurbish the school if there were other offers. "It's more important to me that it be done than that I take recognition for it," said Jeffries. The Council did not discuss bidding bid-ding the project out, however, which irritated members of the Community Communi-ty Coalition. "We would like the Council to consider con-sider the fullest range of opportunities," oppor-tunities," said Leslie Miller, Coalition Coali-tion president. She said the Coalition was concerned that Jeffries' proposal pro-posal would "restrict public use of the building." "What will the taxpayers receive from a six-month extention, in addition addi-tion to the $10,000?" she asked the Council during the regular meeting that followed the work session. Jeffries Jef-fries did not attend the regular meeting. Miller questioned if the city would face legal problems by not advertising advertis-ing the project again, and she suggested sug-gested that the Council take the opportunity op-portunity at this time to "measure public support of the project." Council Member Ruth Gezelius said six months was "a reasonable time" to extend the plans, "based on Jeffries knowledge of the site and his work on the project." Further, she said readvertising the project . "would take at least that long," and any new developer would likely have to wait until the spring of 1992 to restore the building. Council Member Richer told Jeffries, Jef-fries, "The key for me is to settle issues such as neighborhood impacts, im-pacts, traffic and parking." Council Member Sally Elliott, who profusely thanked Jeffries for his change in plans, said her interests in the site regarded the use of outdoor areas. Briefs Olympic group to visit P.C. The International Olympic Committee's site evaluation group will be touring the Wasatch Front for two days next week, visiting Park City Jan. 15. According to Mayor Brad Olch, who is a member of the Salt Lake Olympic Committee, Commit-tee, the group will travel by helicopter to a luncheon at the John Huntsman house in Deer Valley, then it will attend a torch-lighting ceremony at Art's Park on Main Street between bet-ween 2 and 3 p.m. The Park City Ski Team and others will be involved in the brief ceremony, after which the Olympic group will resume its busy schedule of seeing the state's venues. Man, 21, arrested for thefts A 21-year-old Mesa, Ariz, man was arrested by Park City Ci-ty Police Dec. 28, after they allegedly found stolen property proper-ty belonging to a Park Avenue ski clothier in his seasonal Park City residence. Acting on a search warrant, police recovered between $3,000 to $4,000 in Bahnhof Sport ski merchandise in his local home, as well as two stolen firearms. He was charged both with burglary and possession of stolen property pro-perty in the Dec. 7 incident. Police declined to provide the suspect's name. The Mesa, Ariz, police department had arrested the man earlier in December and charged him with the same offenses of-fenses in that city. Mesa police contacted Park City police when, in the course of their investigation, in-vestigation, they discovered $11,000 in ski equipment from Bahnhof Sport in his Arizona residence. According to Park City Police Detectives Mary Ford and Pat Pirraglio, some items from the burglary are still missing. After Mesa police arrested the man, he posted bond, and traveled to Park City where the second arrest took place. He has denied all allegations. Ford says she believes that at least two to three more people peo-ple were involved In the Park City business burglary and they are pursuing leads on similar burglaries that took place in Salt Lake City. -T " ' I, i - -- ! ii i.rtMHiiit |