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Show Page 11 Response To Petition Wednesday, March 16, 1977 P i 3 i i j i l; !) healthy community must have growth. Park City knows better than most communities the effects of economic decline and depression. de-pression. Perhaps the people figure they have paid for one system, but unless we are willing to accept the inevitable inevit-able decay inherent in a stagnant or declining community, com-munity, we must make room for the new. "WHEREAS, a Park City Sewage System, instead of a regional sew er system would belter serve the citizens of Park City:" The sewer board after being presented with engineering studies, environmental assessments. ass-essments. State Board of Health requirements and all Impact Waiver Hit Attorney Mary Lehmer ig the audience reminded Chairman Mel Flinders that the action just attempted was illegal, since the Board was then in executive session and Utah law forbids official acts to be taken by public entities except at open, public business meetings. Comm. Wilking hastened to assure Mrs. Lehmer that this was no problem that the motion could be legally adopted later during the public business meeting of the Board. However, the matter was forgotten and not legally adopted later, as the Board was kept busy until late in the evening attempt-' attempt-' ing to justify a proposed second election on the sewer bond to an audience predominantly predom-inantly opposed to the expense ex-pense of a second election when the bond had been so resounding defeated just months before. The Commissioners Com-missioners of the Board were thai night also justly accused 'of being bureaucrats, not one (il'-whoth was elected by, and thus not answerable to, the prople whom they govern and whose existence as a Board came about without the voice or vote of any of the people within the sewer district whom they govern. Two nights later the Ski Company appeared before the Planning Commission to seek a building permit Mr. Van Martin, who between salary and fringe benefits costs Park City citizens almost $20,000 annually as Zoning Administrator, is supposed to review all plans before their submission to the Planning Commission to save the time of this unpaid, volunteer group. The plans submitted to the Commission that night showed no side, back, or front yard setbacks set-backs When one of the commissioners asked Mr. Martin what the set-backs were on commercial buildings, build-ings, Mr. Martin thumbed thru the Zoning Code and said he couldn't find that they'd put anything in the Code requiring set-backs for commercial buildings. The next night the Ski Company appeared before the Park City Council, who are allegedly elected to represent the best interests of the community as a whole. Mr. Wayne Mathews, who between salary and frinee Continued From Page 10 the other facts available to them came to the opposite conclusion. Apparently the sponsors of the initiative petition have access to some information about the needs of the citizens of Park City or the feasability of a Park City plant which they have not seen fit to share with the sewer board, the majority of whom are citizens of Park City and most concerned with the sewer needs of the town. No explanation accompanies accom-panies this claim, and no reasons are offered as to why a Park City system would be better. I hope no one in Park City yields to the temptation to join an unthinking mob by signing the initiative petition Continued From Page 1 benefits costs the taxpayers of Park City more than S20.(K)0 annually, is employed employ-ed as City Manager to review everything that will come before the City Council and then give them his expertise, advice and counsel on the Mihject. After presenting it's l:im of it's great potential i null ibution to the economy ol Park City, the Ski Company Com-pany asked the City Council to waive it's $2,000 impact tee obligation and it's $500 water connection fee, since the company would only be usi ng drinking wa ter and two toilets. Mr. Mathews gave his Yes! recommendation. The entire council, ignoring it's obligation to represent the best interests of the community and without having done any homework to question or verify the representations of the company com-pany quickly voted "Yes," which was not too surprising in view that two councilmen, Jan Wilking and Jack Green, are also members of tjie sewer board who three nights earlier had acted with alacrity in the $5,000 sewer connection giveaway. Next the City Attorney hastened to write some high-sounding legal prose to obfuscate questionable legality of the city's action. So everyone patted himself on the back and beamed in self-satisfaction. Except poor old John Q. Public, sitting on the sidelines, ripped off as usual, because not one person, whether appointed, elected or salaried, sal-aried, had lifted one finger to make even one phone call in discharge of his duty to find out the facts before acting on the issue. Here are the facts as disclosed by the officials records of the Ogden City Water Dept. as of last week: The Ski Company moved to it's present location on 31st Street in Ogden in May 1976. It geared up and started production in June 1976. Here are the official records of the water consumption (and commensurate sewer impact) of the Ski Co., in gallons, as billed by Odgen Muncipal Corporation: 1976 June July August September Gallons 14,000 18,000 97,700 136,900 3 POSSUM RETURNS before fully examining the facts. The lemming response in humans can be strong when the facts are ignored and emotions take control. Meanwhile, I challenge sponsors spon-sors of the petition to show why general obligation bonds are not the best solution to the bond question. I challenge the sponsors of the petition to show how a Park City plant could be built and its bonds sold without increasing the monthly mon-thly fee to at least $5.00. And I challenge sponsors of the petition to show why a Park City plant would best serve the needs of its citizens. Bruce Decker 1977 Gallons )an 52.500 Feb- H7.300 On the assumption that the "brass" are not paid more than the rank and file employees of this company, dividing the represented number of employees into the vaunted "$25,000 per mo." payroll reveals that, each employee will receive less thatn $700 per mo. gross wages. After deducting social so-cial security and state and federal withholding taxes, not one of these employees will be able to live inPark City. Park City Ventures employs almost 350 people and I would safely bet that each and every one of them is paid more than $700 per mo. gross wages. Yet none of the, except for a few old timers like Will Sullivan and Dean Boyle, live in Park City, simply because they can't afford to. The only thing they do for Park City is damage our roads driving thru Park City on their way to work and damaging our roads driving thru Park City on their way home to Peoa, Coalville, Kamas, Heber, Sandy, etc. They don't live here, they don't pay taxes here, they don't stop to buy groceries or drink beer here, and the Ski Co. employees, being paid less than the miners, will be even worse off. We may well have to share the cost of food stamps our neighboring communities communi-ties may have to give them to enable them to survive, as these wages approximate the government defined poverty existence leve. """"" If the Sewer Board and the Park City Council have been this cavalier in the way they have regarded the taxpayers' taxpay-ers' money and interests in this situation, and if it takes a little, layman miner of Park City to interpret the laws of the State of Utah to them and their high-priced legal eagles, then I think they should rescind their dll-conceived actions, resign en masse, disband the Sewer Board, and quit telling us we don't know what we are doing and that we should respect their "superior wisdom wis-dom and intellect" and vote the way they tell us to. Sincerely yours, D.A. Osguthorpe THE JIDB CAR Park High Airs Views On U.S. V Cammi Glad 'It's something I'll never torget'" "Where's a pen so I can start signing autographs''" auto-graphs''" These were some of the comments given by the students who participated in the taping of KSL's "What's Right with America" on Thursday, March 10. Students in Mr. Hal Smiths American Problems class sent i;, essays to KSL TV-AM KM. Seven of the students . ere selected and the essays were shortened so they ( ou u be used on the program. These students were: Greg Pratt, Helen Byer. John Lambert, Mark Lindsay, Brad Goff, Dennis Arko, and Tim Polychronis. At 10:00 the taping began. The students were first taped for radio. Here they went into a sound-proof room and were recorded one-by-one. The television studio was even more exciting. Here filmed next to an American Flag, the commentaries were again presented. After each person had finished they had the opportunity to watch themselves on TV! But this was not all. Mr. Herb F. Murray took all the students on a tour of the KSL studios. They saw the computer for FM radio, and learned about programming besides meeting Tom Bach and others. After the tour was completed they were invited to come back at 12:30 to watch them tape the afternoon news. It was at this time they met Spence Kinard and Jackie Noakes. All in all, it was a good day for everyone. The dates and times of the programs are as follows: Dennis Arko - March 14: Helen Byer - March 18: Brad Goff - March 21 : John Lambert - March 25: Mark Lindsay - March 2H; Tim Polychronis - April 1 ; Greg Pratt - April 4. Times: KSL AM Infill 9:20 am; 12:53 pm: 6:42pm; 11:56pm. KSL F.M 1 100 1:30 am; 10:00 am; 4:00 pm; 10:00 pm. ('IIA.WEL5 KSL - 9:30 am; 12:30 pm; 1:40 pm. iff )J completely furnished, immediate occupancy l available $49,500 J , THAYNES CANYON II LOT one of the choice lots V in the subdivision $28,000 , AOUIMTAIN REALTY 1 RO. Box376 Pork Cify, Utah 84060 (( What it was was the "Newport Jazz Festival All-Stars" and they were going to be stopping by the University of Utah for a concert at Kingsbury Hall. As I read the names of the individuals involved, in-volved, it reminded me of the old cartoon of Geroge Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt and others climbing out of a history book and marching right into some wide-eyed youngster's room. I just flat couldn't believe it. It was as if Ruth, Gehrig, Cobb, Traynor, Musial, Dimaggio, and Koufax were coming to town; as if Sailer, Staub, Schranz. Killy. Klammer, and Stenmark had arrived to pick up some of the powder on Jupiter with Stein; as if Thorpe, Grange, Harmon, Lu jack-enough! I'm sure you get the idea. Anyway, as I'm sure the other wide-eyed wide-eyed boy also discovered, the reality proved much better than the legend. Good old flesh and blood humanity easily outshining that old mythology once again. Bob Wilber, the septet's youngest member and spokesman, introduced the all-stars one by one. First out of the wings came "Panama" Francis, for years resident drummer at the swingingest dancehall this old planet has yet known: Harlem's famed "Savoy Ballroom." Next it was George Duvivier picking up his stand-up bass and joining in on the rhythm "Panama" was already laying down. Then Vic Dickenson and the sound began to grow; feet were tapping, heads were rocking. Louder applause greeted Wilbur's introduction of Teddy Wilson as Goodman's Good-man's ex-pianist brought back memories both to those who had swung with him through the late thirties and forties, and those who have become familiar with this historical personage through his recordings. As he had done with "Count" Basie for so many years, Joe Newman really got things cooking as he strutted on stage just a blowing the bejeezus outa his trumpet. And the, after alluding to the fact that they would bring out an extra special guest a little later on in the program, Bob Wilber brought his clarinet up to his mouth, and folks I hope to tell you, the saints were'a marchin' in. ' ; '' "? Besides providing as quality an evening of musical entertainment as ever hit the road, the "Newport Jazz Festival All-stars" also infuse into in-to their show a history of Jazz, and most important, impor-tant, the musicians who created it. "Panama" Francis told how things were at the "Savoy," where they would have a huge bandstand ban-dstand at each end of the block-long ballroom, each band alternating half-hour sets. He also proved by demonstration why the most important impor-tant single instrument in any band is the bass-drum bass-drum and why the drummer is, in fact, the "bandmaster." "ban-dmaster." During his years with Benny Carter, Count Basie, Eddie Haywood and others, Vic Dickenson's Dicken-son's forte was the ballad. His trombone work on a couple of Duke Ellington compositions was so soft and brimming with subtle nuance, that I found myself looking elsewhere on stage for the source of the almost too-mellow a brass sound. "Caravan," although composed by Ellington's valve-trombonist Juan Tizol, has become a showcase tune for nearly all jazz solo-intruments solo-intruments and Joe Newman chose it as his vehicle to demonstrate the jazz trumpet. At first muted, then full-blown, Newman's solos were interrupted in-terrupted often by applause, and at the end with an ovation from the "All-stars" themselves. Joe, from New Orleans, grew up following Louie Armstrong Ar-mstrong around town, and provided a very credible imitation of both the."Satchmo" vocal and horn styles. "We're going to leave you with Teddy for awhile" announced Wilber, and the stage suddenly sud-denly emptied leaving the audience alone with By Jay Meehan - KMOR Radio one of the biggest names in the history of jazz: Teddy Wilson. What followed put chills on the crowd's collective spine as the genius whom Billy Holiday gained fame with, the most innovative in-novative jazz pianist of the thirties, the man who with Benny Goodman and Gene Krupa formed jazz' still definitive trio in 1935, the piano stylist who was able to give Lionel Hampton, Charilie Christian, and others the freedom they needed to improvise, the one-and-only Teddy Wilson took to the "ivories." What he did was perform a medley of "Fats" Waller tunes; songs of his musical birth written by his single biggest influence. in-fluence. Waller and Earl "Fatha" Hines were about the only pianists to precede Teddy who have stood both the test of historians and time. School continued: George Duvivier returned to give a brief history of the string-bass in jazz. Besides the emergence of Charlie Christian and the guitar, another musician and instrument were also blossoming in late 1939. For many years the brass bass (tuba) had held forth, and the string-basses that followed played only the note within the chord they were able to locate. In October of 1039 a young man by the name of Jimmy Blanton joined the Duke Ellington orchestra. or-chestra. The string-bass and jazz were never to be the same. He soon was recording bass-piano duos with the Duke, demonstrating a technique that enabled him to improvise melodically, in a horn-like style. Both Blanton and Christian were to die of tuberculosis within three years, but their instruments had been emancipated. Duvivier followed his demonstration of the Blanton Blan-ton technique by imitating the styles of some of the string-bass innovators that came later: Ray Brown, Ron Carter, and Stanley Clark. Bob Wilder's portion of the seminar was next. Joined by Duvivier and "Panama" on stage, Bob talked of the two main forces in his musical lineage: Sidney Bechet and Johnny Hodges. Utilizing a unique curved soprano sax (located in a gun shop in Dallas), Wilber showed why a 'youngster ivaS able td'be among such giants. Ellington was again selected as WilberDuvivier became HodgesBlanton and it was almost too Blanton and it was almost too much to handle . The audience went nuts! They were in a time machine. And now it was time for that special guest. Introduced In-troduced by Wilber as "the premier fiddler in jazz for six decades," Joe Venuti, with the body of an eighty year old and the mind and manner of a mischevious teen-ager, got the place a-hoppin'. Georgia Brown was never sweeter. Venuti, who used to hang out in Fletcher Henderson's living room with such legendary figures as his Philadelphia boyhood pal Eddie Lange, Bix Beiderbecke, and Frankie Trumbauer, has influenced in-fluenced fiddlers of all descriptions since the early twenties. After his introductory dittie, he loosened the bow strings until he could insert the fiddle between the bow and the strings and then retightened them somewhat. What he was doing was demonstrating a technicque he came up with years ago whereby he could improvise passages in four-part chords. It had always been a crowd pleaser for him and the Utah audience proved no exception as they were "stompin' at Kingsbury." Finishing with a tribute to all the young up-and-coming swing and bluegrass fiddlers, fid-dlers, the legendary Joe Venuti broke it down as it has seldom been broken down before. You know what happened next. They took a short intermission and did it all over again, filling in even more spaces in the story of American's greatest export to the world and one of the highest of art froms, jazz. I was limp. MOUNTAIN FISHERY RESTAURANT this week: Steak & Lobster Dinner $ 10.95 328 Main Street 649-8981 6 to 1 1 pm MARCH 22nd |