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Show PAGE 4 THE 1995 B : BasassaasaMgaas A ZEPHYRJAN-FE- (Ldfini an What happened in I 994? What happened in 1994? Flipping through the pages of the last year's Zephyrs, this what 1994 looked like to us... ApriL.Our Fifth Anniversary Issue. Ken Davey announced his "retirement" from the Zephyr, at least for awhile, but my next door neighbor and I still argue politics across the fence. And his kid, the one and only Cisco, is the cutest little feller I have ever January -- It was last year's Lame Issue, and could hardly be considered a reliable news source. Still, we managed to form a few coherent thoughts. On Page Two, that rascally Joe Kingsley got my dander up again, when, in a supplement for Utah Business magazine called TOURISM: Moab's New Uranium," Joe concluded that 15,000 was an optimum "peak population" for Moab. As recently as last week, Joe and 1 were still debating the point of contention in front of the post office. seen. Ask him to do his goo goo eyes. We asked the question of the month: What is the optimum population for Moab? The answers ranged from 5,000 to 12,000. Dick Robertson gave the most creative answer to the question with this reply: "I think about 10,500 would be about right," said Dick, "and then we should stabilize it right there. We'd do that by the same is In Ken Davey's year end comments, he concluded that there was "something in the air. And it's not something good." March (we still refuse to recognize February)... Ken was right. There uxzs something in the air. Missiles, helicopters, airplanes, flying bicyclists. In the March "Sky Wars" issue, Croene reported that the Army had released its draft environmental impact statement for a plans to launch missiles from Green River, Utah. Its 23,000 pound booster rockets would fall somewhere near the north or east side of Canyonlands National Park. Later revisions moved the drop zone to an area near the Blue Mountains, but did not eliminate the original drop zone either. Our token conservative writer Hank Rutter accused me of suffering from In a gesture of conciliation, Hank suggested that if the giant company ever docs choose to build in Grand County, they do it at Crescent Jet. "Wal-Mar- t: Gateway to the Golden Arches." 1 see a marketing angle here. And the Zephyr Feedback column heard from Ms. Rose Fryer who said we were guilty of: "hip ridicule, snide judgement, yellow journalism, polarizing people, fingerand sarcastic pointing, negative editorializing, cartoons." And we were happy to report that our Food Editor, Mr. Willie Flocko, had diet. successfully undergone bypass surgery and was now on a ia. name-callin- g, mean-spiritedne- ss, fat-fr- ee means we did back home where we kept the population the same all the time. We did that like this: whenever a baby was born, some man left town." The Zephyr once again mentioned the plan to build a tram or chairlift on the south wall of the Portal. Most readers thought the story was a joke. Said one reader to me, "It's too ridiculous; it'll never happen." "TOURIST PROMOTION: How much is enough?" issue. We questioned the right of the Travel Council Advisory Board to object to proposed changes in the Transient Room Tax formula. The County Council had unsuccessfully attempted to May.-T- he change the formula at the legislative level, to allow broader use of the money. We also proposed a simple alternative to the Atlas tailings pond problem: sell Delicate Arch figurines filled with radioactive waste to all incoming tourists. Such broad dispersal of the stuff would render it harmless to the general public. The Zephyr also complained about truckers on Main St., the Buena Vista subdivision, and the proposed Rt. 128 toll road. June... The "Pork Belly Housing Boom" issue. Is there a good reason for skyrocketing real estate prices? Or is this a media-drive- n phony market? We believed the latter. At it that year's end, appeared property prices were actually beginning to stabilize.. .at least for now. Croene reported the transfer of BLM District Manager Roger Zortman to the state Paul Swanstrom's MOUNTAIN FLYING SERVICE SCENIC RIGHTS Office at 321 (801) 259-80- 80 CHARTERS N. Main in the Navtec Bldg. j I |