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Show Page 2 Wednesday, January 5, 1977 fuhltc Notices How About It ? m mm Response I Var Editor. In response to Rhea Wilkin-. Wilkin-. son's letter, I would like to make some comments which might help an obviously misdirected lady. First, does Mrs. Wilkinson realize that marijuana is legal in at least two of the fifty states and a traffic-type violation in four others? It cannot be grouped together with hard drugs when talking about -'THE DRUG-ALCOHOL DRUG-ALCOHOL INFLUENCE." Alcohol, by the way, is a legal drug in all fifty states. Second, does Mrs. Wilkinson realize that marijuana is a part of the daily lives of a majority of the people in this sm;ill mountain town? That is, a joint is smoked where people in other towns drink cocktails for dinner. If all the small marijuana users in this town were busted we would have no waiters, no restaurant owners, no bartenders or bar owners, no resort employees, not to mention upper level management people from Salt Lake who call this town home. I have to be very careful here for fear of reprisal but what I'm saying is that you have no idea of marijuana's place in this town. Third, is Mrs. Wilkinson really suggesting that some of these people who were busted were responsible for the burglaries in this town? Nonsense, Non-sense, Mrs. Wilkinson. When you say that national statistics show burglaries are directly related to drug traffic what you fail to say is that drug traffic refers to heroin almost exclusively. I think you should get your facts straight. It seems that Chief Wilkinson Wilkin-son needs something to pin his badge on and since burglaries are too difficult to solve, he has chosen an easier course. I suggest that all this time and money would be better spent solving the "real" crimes in this community or drug programs in the schools and community programs on drug and alcohol abuse. Remember Mrs. Wilkinson, it doesn't take any guts to blindly support the police dept. but it does take guts to speak out against them when they are wrong. Sincerely, Butts programs like this are in effect ef-fect all over America. We need drug education drastically; and not the drug education we are presently using in our society. These programs, especially in Utah are obsolete by today's standards. stan-dards. In the last two years much has been found out about drugs we were never aware of before. This new program should include all age groups and be handled realistically. The worst thing you can tell people is drugs and related substances are bad; you should never think of using them. This arouses one's curiosity even more and we are aware that curious people are bound to experiment. I feel this makes the situation even more dangerous, especially to our children. We must learn to deal with these substances sensibly and be given the choice to use them in this matter. It is morally wrong for select groups to make decisions for the majority. They are taking on the power to decide what is right and wrong which is paradoxical. It is a must that alcohol be included in these programs, as it is one of Americas most lethal drugs. Just because it is legal does not mean it is harmless. har-mless. In the near future marijuana will be legalized, so it is important that we start education now. Not only education on sensible use of marijuana, but education on the sensible use of alcohol also. Our public must know the dangers involved in hard narcotics, amphetamines and barbituates. If you want your children and yourselves to make sensible sen-sible decisions on these problems, push for drug education. It's a must that we learn to use these substances sensibly and know their potentials. poten-tials. I will be glad to help people acquire more information infor-mation on these subjects any time. I'm open to discussion of the topic always. I pledge my help in making Park City the first in Utah to handle drugs 1 and alcohol realistically. Sincerely, Steve Lloyd P.O. Box 1512 Park City, Frogg Stewart What is resolution? your New Year's Val Kaminski ilN 1 Frogg Stewart To live a cleaner and more pure way of life. Marianne Chaplin Val Kaminski- -Work to "clean ignorance and apathy in Park City! Marianne Chaplin- -I resolve to smoking, riding snowmobiles, everything else I don't do now. up quit and Pat McDowell Pat McDowell- -I resolve to make 2,000 turns and all of them will be eightable. Abby Peterson- -I will try not to fight with my sister Andrea . Steve Lloyd- -I resolve to work toward education of the diverted masses. f V fT Abby Peterson Steve Lloyd Everybody is now getting ready for opening day and all unfinished work is surely being seen to. Winter is coming and our dreams will soon be fulfilled. I hope everybody has a DYNAMITE winter and keep praying for more snow! ! ! Yours truly, Kerry Wm. Greene C'est Bon Ski Shop Member: Jupiter Bowl Fan Club P.S. Saturday, January 7th is the C'est Bon Ski Shop's GRAND OPENING and all are invited for refreshments from 8:00 a.m. to noon. All merchandise wiljLbe, 20 percent per-cent off! Happy skiing!! KndimappDDi ResuDfts Utah 84060 Will Help n open letter to Chief and :Mrs. Wilkinson and the people Bf Park City: zz I agree very much with ;many of your views on drugs ."and related problems. However, I feel we should :tackle the problem a little Snore realistically, instead of 5o one-sidedly. There are "always two sides to every story, as you, Chief Wilkinson, should know, having been in law enforcement so long. We desperately need drug education, not only in our schools, but for the general public. This is very apparent, especially in your views you've expressed thus far. Drug education would solve a lot of the vast confusion people have about the drug and alcohol education. If costs Good News Dear Everyone: Finally there is good news for Park City as the first large storms of the winter season approach, brightening the futures and dreams of the townspeople. Stricken with a record drought year, Utah's resorts lit fiHOeO m . ,5 ' -X' ii tl'iri Summon i rCi Talk about a "seat, of the pants" New Years Week... .In review, it hardly seems real that we, as an ordinarily winter win-ter bustling community, could and ski-related industries, rally together and produce one campaign promoted last week have suffered an enourmous Kidnappers Stevens, Wilking. Dering and Calmes escort SLC Mayor Ted Wilson from his office. The "Come Up For Air' loss of business. Many of Park City's winter residents had to return to their families to wait and they've waited almost two months! Ironically, Park City experienced ex-perienced its most prosperous year last year as record .crowdspught record profits and' consequently have stimulated heavy investments in various businesses. The unexpected drought forced the major percentage of resort Cxm til si rrrc (a iinnwtnlswrmmtt busts, we would be appalled at the cost. This is our money, too, which is being thoughtlessly wasted on irrevelant causes. One of the most important things we must learn in these next decades is to distinquish marijuana from hard narcotics. nar-cotics. Marijuana is in a class by itself and recent research has proven effects much less harmful than the effects of alcohol. Much recent information infor-mation on this subject is available and I'll be glad to assist anyone in receiving this information. What then is the real drug problem and the problem we should be concer-. ned about? Hard narcotics definitely come under UVs heading and should be dealt with respectively Millions of Americans fall into the pill-junkie class, abusing common drugs of the medicine cabinet. Believe it or not, this is a major drug problem in America today. Education on everyone's part could curb this immensely. The finances normally used to prosecute marijuana users should be used to curb hard-narcotics hard-narcotics and educate pill-junkies. pill-junkies. This is nothing new! high 25 per cent unemployment unem-ployment rate and the drought also affected the water supply. The town was undergoing a serious onset of depression. As the evenings wore on, people turned to the T.V. for the . latest: Sat., Jan. 1st 10 p.m. news weather report: "Storms "Stor-ms in California and Colorado not expected to reach Utah. Five day forecast: dry, dry, dry." Sun., Jan. 2nd, 10 a.m., I awaken and look out my window. win-dow. Holy Mackeral, It's out there! My roommate, who is ceremoniously hung-over mutters, "What? So.." Flakes fell intermittently throughout the day. Is it going to snow or what, damn it!!?" By noon the rumors were spreading. "Snow's a-coming; a-coming; hear it's a biggie! !" The word spreads from house to house and at 10:00 p.m. many watched the weather forecast: "A large storm is expected to hit Utah, lasting from 24 to 30 hours and one to two feet is expected at the resorts by . Tuesday." I could almost hear the screams and celebration of the first promising weather report in months! of the craziest promotions bv local merchants and the ever experienced around park City Chamber of Com-these Com-these parts. Once caught up in merce reached its apex this adventure, those involved Thursday when numerous Salt had a smashing good time. Lake City personalities were The week of promotion kidnapped only to appear that began as a "Come up for Air" evening at a "Snow Ransom campaign and peeked with the Party" at the C'est Bon Hotel. Snow Ransom Party As originally conceived, a featuring the kinkiest kidnap- trio .of KTVX newscasters ping escapade I've ever been a were to be the only hostages, part of. The snowless ac- But as nap time approached tivities such as golf, tennis, and the snow drought con-gondola con-gondola rides, movies, mini tinued, it was decided that courses, ice skating, dry land' others must be made to pay training, donut eating contests, for our brownout, no snow dual slalom, etc.. just Departing under an early didn't seem enough to exhaust morning clody sky which the energy generated. A wild proved to be only a tease, four whisked away event had to happen to cap this members of the Snow Laun- snowless holiday cning Army, an extreme mist organization, left Park City for the smokey valley below. The low pressure group was led by the infamous Lloyd Stevens, dressed in old West attire handed down from degeneration to degeneration Rosenblatt. After a fierce struggle in which Wilking broke a nail, Rosenblatt was tossed into a get-away limousine piloted by Bullet Bill Bentley of Salt Lake Transportation Company. Com-pany. I After that, the victims fell like dominos and the hostage list grew like Park City accounts payable. In rapid order, Mickey Gallivan of the Utah Travel Council, Jim .Steele of First Security Bank, Elliot Wolfe of Wolfe's sports stores, Governor-elect Scott Matheson and Earl Hanson of the Utah Ski Association were all roped and historic season. Originating as the brain child of Claimjumper Steve, Flash Jarosz, and the men in the "yellow slickers," the ran-some ran-some project grew to a point of near hysteria as they trooped Salt Lake City last Thursday capturing anyone and everyone whom they could deem liable for this snowless season. On the home front, the grunt labor forces were scurrying about to pull together any and all details necessary to meet the expectations expec-tations of our illustrious kidnappers kid-nappers and surprise, entertain enter-tain and humilate those captured. cap-tured. Park City kept its mark on the map through this period of drought and experienced once again a feeling of cooperation afforded those whose energies After fortifying themselves with a energy-rich mixture of tomato juice and essence of the potato, the SLA band descended upon Slat Lake City Mayor Ted Wilson. Wilson was given a sporting chance by Calmes, who said, "O.K. Stevens was accompanied Mayor, start running. And its by Cool Hand Calmes, veteran not even an election year for him. Next came a move so bold it made the raid on Entebbe look like Jay Meehan stealing underground activist Weatherman Wilking and DT's Dering. These three were outfitted with miner hard hats and flashing yellow second base, slickers. Following a long strategy The first to feel the vengen- session at the Top of the ce of the SLA was Hilton, the snow starved quar-businessman quar-businessman and Kimball Art tet headed for the KTVX Center board member Barney television station. Cleverly gaining admittance admittan-ce by opening the door, the terrorists went to the studio in which the six o'clock news was being aired. There, in broad spotlight, the SLA members grabbed Carrie Cochran,, Shelley Thomas and ugh.... oh yeah, Bill Orwig and forcibly carried them to a waiting helicopter. - Ignoring many overt hints, viewers were left to what had transpired as the who's in the news people were flown directly direc-tly to the State Line Casino ; and then to the C'est Bon. A milling crowd of irate skiers looked on as Stevens subjected the trio to his insufferable insuf-ferable humor. Perhaps the epitome of Stevens' verbal cruelty was the fate he pronounced on weather person Shelley Thomas. The master of crys and moans told Shelley that she would be forced to spend weeks in a one-room shack with Bob Welti and Mark Ewbanks. Shelley contorted her face into an expression of abomination and she then made reservations. The entire escapade was well-received by hostages and spectators alike and the fruits of the venture are being reaped today.. ..but it wasn't worth the wait. COMMUNITY EDUCATION Registeration for classes in shop, pottery, sewing, stained-glass, beginning and brush-up typing will be hek Tuesday, January Uth from 7 p.m. to 8 :30 in the Park City High School library. For more information please call Nan McPolin at 649-9417 mornings or late evenings. If you are interested in classes other than those listed, come and let your desires be known. KIMBALL ART CENTER Register this week for classes at the Kimball Art Center from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. daily. For more information infor-mation call 649-8882. WINTER RECREATION PROGRAMS The wiiter commercial basketball league will begin Tues., January 18 . There is a 0 per team entry fee to cover the cost of awards, referees, and building use. Entries will be accepted until fi p.m. Thursday, January 13. Entries must include team captain and managers address and phone numbers, and a roster of all team members. Entries will not be accepted after the deadline. A team managers meeting will be held Thursday, January 13, at 7 p.m. in the Memorial Building. .Tournaments will soon be starting in the following activities: Pool, Air Hockey, Ping Pong, Badminton, and Shuffle Board. Call 649-9461 between 2 and 10 to enter. A Memorial Building Superstars Tournament will also be starting soon. Contestants must enter seven of the following ten sports: pool, air hockey, ping pong, bowling, riflery, archery, free throw shooting, obstical course, shuffle board, and badminton. The person with the lowest combined finishes will be the winner. There will be awards given in each of the following divisions: Boys and girls 12 years and under; boys and girls 13 years to 17 years;' boys and girls 18 years and older. Any boy or girl, 17 years and younger wanting to join a gym-hockey league, call 649-9461. Teams will include an equal number of older and younger boys and girls to keep things even. YOGA CLASSES Beginning classes start January 12 at 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Intermediate classes start January 11 at 6:30 to 8:00p.m. Advamced classes start January 11 at 8:00p.m. to 51:30 p.m. All Yoga classes cost $3 per session. Intermediate and advanced classes are held twice weekly on Tuesday and Thursday. Beginning classes are held on Wednesday only. MOVEMENT RELAXATION WORKSHOP Let us put our minds and hearts together with: sensitivity, awareness, yoga, polarity, ac-cupressure, ac-cupressure, massage, chanting and joy. Into the moment spontaneous giving and sharing. Cost $5 or will barter. Thursday January 6 from 6 to 10 p.m. in Memorial Building Lounge. Wear loose clothing. Call 649-9461 for registration. Debra Tomlin, Instructor. MORE CLASSES Classes in Ballet, Boxing, Riflery, Archery, Badminton and Bowling are also being offered. Call 649-9461 for information and registeration. The Memorial Building hours are 2 to 10 p.m. Monday . through Friday, and 1 to 10 p.m. Saturday. WEATHER Chance of snow in the mountains over the weekend. Highs in the 30's, overnight lows in the teens and lower 20's. P.C. Woman Found Dead A Park City and aspirations refuse to take found dead Sunday afternoon a back seat to any situation. a U,"C1 'ou ai me jun You did it again, Park City-in your usual fantastic style. Thank you for participating.... Amanda Peterson ction of Highways 224 and 248 at the north end of town. Mrs. Sheleen Hanley was discovered by her husband Director -Park City Chamber Jerry at aproximately 2:30 in of Commerce a trailer sitting behind the woman was trailer the Hanleys occupied. Police officials said the case is currently being classified as an "unattended death" although numerous empty prescription bottles were reported to have been found at the scene. - Authorities speculated that Mrs. Hailey had been dead since Thursday but both the time and cause of death are pending the results of a Salt Lake County Medical Examiner's autopsy. Mrs. Hanley reportedly had left a note for her husband in their home saying she was going to visit her family. THE&- ItllJfJjMllIlM 1 1 1 Editor Steve Dering; Reporter, Photographer GregSchlrf Feature Writer Hank Louis Business Manager . Jan Wilking Office Manager Sandy Erickson Publishers: Wilking, Louis, Schirf and Dering Pictures, news and advertising may be sub ; Tiitted prior to Wednesday pubication at our' office. of-fice. 419 Main St.. Park City, by mail, P.O. Box 738, Park City, or by calling 649-9592 Pubication matter must be received by Monday anemoon for Wednesday pubication. |