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Show Wednesday, February 22, 1978 Summit Page 5 In Person Coii nti t DOT The cold, clear weather of last weekend, following on the heels of heavy snowstorms, brought many cross-country skiers to the Uinta canyons. Several parties of tourers came up from Salt Lake City to explore the Mirror LakeHoyt's Canyon trail systems and the varied trails out of the Smith-Morehouse trailhead. In Oakley, however, the cold weather was less appreciated as volunteer firemen were hampered ham-pered by bursting hoses as they fought a stubborn stub-born fire spread by exploding gunpowder. The energy and dedication of the townspeople was evident as most of the population turned out to help fight the fire which caused considerable damage to the home of Mr. and Mrs. Rick Lar-sen. Lar-sen. This was Oakley's week for excitement. The usually quiet streets became a two-block-long, bumper-to-bumper parking lot when Dick Robinson brought his personal copy of the film 'Buffalo Rider' to the town hall Saturday night. Dick is the producer of the film, now being distributed nationally, and he plays one of the main roles in it. Over two hundred people packed the hall for the free showing. The County Commissioners in Coalville had a full agenda last Tuesday. Architect Sterling Lyon presented a set of freehand plans for the proposed courthouse annex which will house offices of-fices and a new jail. The commissioners relayed the Sheriff's concern that it "be a sheriff's jail not an architect's jail." Lyons outlined the security system and described plans for an underground Sallyport to unload prisoners. Th plans were approved and building is schedduled to begin in May. Hit A Tree? Sue The Resort By James M. Schutz Reprinted From The Enterprise You're racing down the slope, wind in your face. The exhilaration of conquering the snow and mountains excites ex-cites every nerve ending in your body. There, suddenly, where none should be is a tree in your way. You find yourself next in traction, friends autographing your cast and there's nothing to do but watch TV. What else is there to do. Sue. In Vermont, it's no joke. Sunday v Stratton Mountain has given more than one resort owner nightmares. Instead of being a contented source of revenue, each skier becomes a potential six figure law suit. And the seriousness of the situation is not bounded by the Vermont Ver-mont state line. Ray Hixon, president of Snowbird, said if Sunday v Stratton Mountain holds up in appeals court "it would put every ski resort in the country out of business. ' ' Raivo Puusemp, Executive director of the Utah Ski Association, explains ex-plains the reasoning. "If that court decision stands, the insurance in-surance premiums on each ski pass would skyrocket, pushing up the price of each ticket so high most people would quit skiing. Everybody would go out of business," he said. So far the insurance panic hasn't struck. It seems the industry is awaiting a decision from a higher court. "The judgment is so wild it just doesn't seem possible. I think the decision will not get through the higher court," said Hixon. But if Sunday v Stratton does pass in appeal, what then? Ski resort owners will not stand by and watch their livelihood evaporate. "We'll have to work through the legislative system get some laws passes which will define the responsibilites of the skier and resort owners so the courts will have some guidelines and so the insurance in-surance companies can relax," said Puusemp. Some aren't waiting for the appeals court. According to Puusemp the National Ski Area Association is reviewing it with the intention inten-tion of possibly entering it in the next legislative session. "This case made us realize we need laws defining responsibility both of the skier and ski resort owner," said Puusemp. Regardless of the appeals court decision,, he said, the Ski Assocatibn "hopes to have some bill on the interim docket for J next year's legislative session." Perhaps the whole thing will blow awiiy. Hixon said "I'm not worj-ied about this at all. It was; just a small town judge making a stupid ruling." And, at least for the time being, the - insurance companies com-panies are holding off any panic premium increases. Puusemp said, "This is the time of policy renewals, and even in Vermont we haven't heard of any dramatic premium increases." Town Race Feb. 27 Park West will be holding a town race on their Six Shooter run on Monday, February 27. The race will be an individual in-dividual slalom event on the intermediate run. The $4 entry en-try fee will include a lift ticket, race fee and free beer after the race. Trophies and prizes will be awarded at a post-race party. Gunpowder Explosion Torches Oakley Home By Doc Murdock A gunpowder explosion Friday afternoon touched off a house fire in Oakley that defied de-fied firefighter's efforts for more than an hour before it was brought under control. Rick Larsen said he was inside his garage trying to start his pickup truck when the truck's carburetor caught fire. Before he could extinguish the fire it had spread to a nearby shell reloading workbench. Larsen and his two brothers fled as the gunpowder gun-powder explosions began. They were later able to pull the pickup out of the garage. The fire was still limited to the garage as the first fire truck arrived but a bystander bystan-der said that as soon as they began to put water on the fire a series of explosions drove firemen out of the structure and spread flames to the wall of the house. Volunteer firemen and neighbors with garden hoses fought the flames for half an hour but the small pumper truck ran out of water before the hot fire could be brought under control. Many of the townspeople arrived to help, but there was little they could do until another fire truck arrived with more water. Eventually, six trucks arrived from as far away as Coalville as thirty volunteer firefighters and sheriff's deputies fought bursting hoses and below freezing temperatures in their attempt at-tempt to save the three-year-old, $60,000 house. The fire was finally contained con-tained after firemen used axes to chop through the attic at-tic wall nearest the garage, but there was extensive smoke and water damage to the interior of the house. A stubborn smoldering fire in the attic kept firemen at the scene much of the after noon and contributed to the water damage to the house and its furnishings. Larsen was unable to estimate the amount of damage to the building but he said that essentially every item in the house had sustained heat, smoke or water damage. No one was inside the home at the time of the fire and, other than several complaints of smoke inhalation, no one was injured in-jured during the efforts to contain it. Gibb Martinez Heads Heart Fund The new Park City area Heart Fund chairman is Gibb Martinez. The energetic and efficient maintenance main-tenance supervisor of the Marsac school had open heart surgery about two years ago and realizes the importance of the Utah Heart Association and the great need for contribution to the heart fund. The research in Utah made possible by these funds has been, and still is, a great benefit to our own Gibb and others like him. The annual heart fund drive will be from Thursday, Feb. 23 through Tuesday, March 7. t -i On the Road to salt lake city for an Evening With You and Shores in the Round Friday, March 31st at 8:00 p.m. University of Utah Special Events Center Please send check or money order and stamped self-addressed envelope to: Special Events Ticket Office Sports and Special Events Center 102 University of Utah Salt Lake City, Utah 84112 Your Family 1 -"LL., For ticket info: 801-581-8314 ALL SEATS RESERVED $7.50 $3.50 $9.50 Carson- Marvin-Crill Marvin-Crill Production Gibb Martinez - ' - i r pv .Ovwu : VavT the tow tUL s3v M tO) PSUOIDflSS1SHflKS1paiS,CBIU (fA (OftY OUR p AST DRIV&UP WMDOCja Hoqse do. boid park flvs,(Cy s ooLorizer BENNETTS PAINTS Visit our gift department for candles, mugs, ceramics, onyx carvings, puzzles & macrame Art Supplies Complete Home Decorating Center Wall Coverings I MUM 1 Woven Wood KET Paint JUL Across from City Hall on Historic Main St. 1 G49-7250 556 Main Street Closed Sunday & Monday video restaurant at the resort open 3-11 daily 649-8616 Thursday Night Mexican Dinner Special!! Taquitos, Chili Burrito & Salad $1.50 Live Entertainment LEE&MARTY Beginning at 5:00 p.m. Wednesday Night HISAO Japan's most exciting country folk singer Beginning at 6:30 p. m. Get yourself filmed in the morning See yourself skiing in the afternoon |