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Show Fifteen Cents Volume Three Wells Hospita City Councilman Bob Wells proposed Thursday night that the Miners Hospital be sold to a group of investors and then leased to local organizations as a means of "getting the building useable." Hospital owner Monty Gibson still intends to move the building within the next 45 to 50 days, Wells said at Thursday's City Council meeting. As proposed by the councilman, the hospital would be "parked" at a temporary tem-porary location for the winter with relocation to a permanent site taking place next spring. Gibson is donating the historic building to the city and has agreed to move it to a site selected by the city. The council voted 3-2 in favor of placing the building close to the Union Pacific Depot on Heber Avenue. Wells and Councilman Steve Dering voted against the location, saying they preferred a site next to the city cemetery. "I still feel, despite the vote, this necessitates a location other than behind the depot," Wells said. By selling the hospital to "an investor in-vestor or group of investors" funds would be immediately available for restoration and renovation of the building, Wrells stated. He said the new owners would lease the space for the "cost of occupancy" to such organizations as the Historical Society, the Chamber of Commerce and others. The primary incentive for the owner is the accelerated depreciation available for historic buidings, Wells said. He noted, however, that a reap-plication reap-plication for historic designation would have to be made once the hospital is moved from its original location. "This thing should maybe go into limbo for the winter," the councilman suggested. Wells said he should have a commitment com-mitment from the group of investors within a month. He noted that the potential owners are looking at a location closer to the entrance to town which would lend itself to use as an information in-formation center for visitors. "The idea is to get the building useable," he commented. Although developers of the Depot project, also in limbo, offered a relocation site which was accepted by the council, the exact spot has never been specified. Wells and Councilman Richard Martinez were appointed by Mayor Jack Green to investigate the site location and to report on the possible sale of the building. Their findings are expected to be delivered at the October 5 council meeting. Cable The Park Citv Council granted a franchise to Norwalk Cable Television Thursday night, making reception of ten channels and feature movies possible within the next year. Two other cable television companies, com-panies, Summit TV of Park City and Wells TV, Inc. of Salt Lake City, also were competing for a franchise in Park City. City Attorney Mike McCoy told the council that although it could not grant an exclusive franchise, it could act on the best offer. All three companies had submitted proposals to the coucil for perusal before the meeting. Norwalk representative Dale Garner Gar-ner said none of the three were "interested "in-terested in getting into a dog fight' for the franchise and noted that there was room enough financially in Park Proposes Sale Of Miners CaSlSEST CC3PC3ATI0M Box 2603 SLC, UT 84110 The Park City Rugby Challenge Cup will showcase its most balanced field in the eight-year history of the event this weekend, with eight rugby clubs from western North America com peting for championship honors. The Calgary Canucks, returning to trv for an unprecedented tniro straight title, will be put to the test by seven other sides from live rugDy unions. Two other former champions, the Dead Goat Touring Side from Salt Lake City and Irvine Coast from Southern California are given excellent ex-cellent chances to finish on top. By quirk of the draw, these two clubs will face each other m the opening ruunu and the other opening round match ups seem to have promise of keen competition as well. Television Franchise Granted City for only one company. Although Mayor Jack Green was in favor or tabling the decision pending a further review of the proposals, coucilman Steve Dering pushed for granting the franchise Thursday night. "It seems to me we're going to pick one company and grant a nonexclusive non-exclusive franchise sooner or later," Dering said. "All we can do is look at the three and act on good faith." Councilman Eleanor Bennett motioned that Norwalk be granted the franchise based on its previous cable installation experience and its present financial status. The motion was passed unanimously. On Monday, Garner said preliminary plans were underway and definite engineering ! Wednesday, September 13, 1978 m WlllilHH ' ? Monterey gets the tough assignment assign-ment of playing Calgary in the first match of the tournament at 9:30 a.m. Saturday. Lest Calgary take their first round opponent lightly, it should be noted that Monterey has solidified into a highly respected club in the tough Northern California R.F.U. In their only other Challenge Cup appearance ap-pearance Montery finished sixth in 1975. The Portland Jesters are pitted against the host Park City Muckers in Saturday's second match. A newcomer to the tournament, Portland Port-land is no stranger to rugby followers in the Northwest. By way of comparison, com-parison, the Jesters have always played very close matches with Snake River, the Challenge Cup runner up to specifications would be drawn up this winter before groundbreaking in the spring. Included in the in-depth engineering studies would be the possibility of relaying signals from the Norwalk satellite station at Point of the Mountain in Salt Lake to an intermediary in-termediary station and then on to Park City. Or it may be necessary to construct an Earth station in Park City, which Garner said would be located at a previously abandoned satellite location near the Park City Resort. Garner said the company is presuming the snow will be gone and construction can begin in May of next year, with sixty percent of the city's population being offered the service within ninety days. The Norwalk representative said the Federal Calgary the past two years. The Muckers have enjoyed mixed success during the current season. Of their four losses in sixteen decisions, three have come at the hands of more seasoned opponents and by a total of six points. The feeling is that the Muckers have not realized their true potential. They had better realize it or they will join the ranks of the consolation con-solation performers courtesy of the Jesters. Besides the Irvine-Dead Goat clash mentioned earlier, the lower bracket will feature an eleven-thirty match between the tournament seasoned Denver Barbarians and the youthful Zebra Touring Side. At first glance Continued on Page 7 Communications Commission requires adherence to a timetable where 20 percent of the population is serviced within six months, but he added ad-ded his company has always bettered that time. Garner said cable television customers can expect to receive ten or eleven channels at the offset, with the possibility of 30 to 35 channels being offered within two years. In addition, ad-dition, fourteen first-run movies would be available every month to subscribers of the Home Box Office option. Installation would cost between bet-ween $5 and $25, depending on the difficulty, dif-ficulty, with regular cable service costing $7.50 per month and the HBO option an additional $7.95 per month. Norwalk Cable Television also is investigating in-vestigating a surveillance system in Park City. Subscribers to cable ted the Plans for the new alignment of State Highway 224 on the eastern hillside of Park City are top priority, although state environmental specialists say actual construction still may be years away. The Utah Department of Transportation Transpor-tation has set the Park City project number three behind the Interstate 215 and Prove Canyon projects in investigations in-vestigations conducted by the five-man five-man Environmental Studies Unit. According Ac-cording to state environmental specialist Phil Fredrickson, Highway 224 is "among the state's top priorities" and plans are developed on a continuing con-tinuing basis. Fredrickson said three documents are being prepared by the Environmental Environ-mental Studies Unit, and all must be published, circulated and commented on before a public hearing can be set and final approval given by the five-man five-man Utah Department of Highways commission. He speculated that the third document would be prepared by the end of the year and the public hearing set sometime after February of 1979. Pool Plans Progress More concrete plans were formulated for-mulated for a Park City municipal swimming pool at a meeting held last Tuesday, Sept. 5, between City Manager Wayne Matthews, Recreation Director Bruce Henderson and Fred Thaller. Plans call for an Olympic-sized pool with eight to ten lanes and a diving "L" to be built east or north of the Park City High School. The pool will either be adjacent to or attached to the building and will be enclosed for the winter with sliding glass doors and windows that will be opened for summer use. The project will be a joint city-school district effort, although the high school will have priority use during school hours. According Ac-cording to Thaller, the pool will be open to the public evenings, weekends, week-ends, holidays, and all summer and will be available to the Summer Day Camp program. Reduced admission prices and family passes for area residents were also discussed at Tuesday's meeting. "We hope to develop superior swimming and diving teams not only from Park City High School but for Park City as a community," Thaller commented. "We should be able to attract at-tract excellent quality coaches and Continued on Pageli television would be offered a visual burglary and smoke detection option that would be hooked up on the same cable as the television. "We are just discussing the possibilities now," Garner said. "But in other areas it has greatly reduced burglaries and fires. This system might be very useful in Park City, where so many residences are left vacant a lot of the time." Included in the initial ten channels would be a public access station. If Park City opts to buy camera equipment equip-ment and make use of the channel, local events would be brought into the homes of all subscribing residents. Imagine, next summer it may be possible to watch Softball nearly every night without even walking out your front door. f TMr M 1 1 i a 1 1 mt 4m i New H i1 Number Fifty-Two Dry and mild weather expec- : Friday through Sunday. f Jbxcellent Rugby predicted, t High temperatures will be in I 70s with lows in the 30s. I HIIIIMtllHIIHItlllHImHIUIIIHmmHIIIMIIItimiMIHHmtMll ighway Top Priority The first document, already published, detailed the possible highway high-way alignment alternatives; the second document, nearly ready for publication, pinpoints plans for one alternative called the Proposal; and the third document will detail the environmental effects of the Proposal. Fredrickson said $6 million was programmed into the project proposal for all phases planned although a priority list was included in the event that all monies were not available. In order of priority, those plans call for a two-lane highway alignment to begin at the intersection of 224 and Iron Horse Drive, turning south on the east side of the existing railroad tracks, and traveling along the hillside to the intersection of Heber Avenue and on to the north side of Marsac Elementary school. Beyond that point is a designated historic district, and the state cannot construct con-struct in that area. Continued on Page 4 Stevens, Young Win Primaries Republican Gerald Young and Democrat Lloyd Stevens came out winners in Tuesday's primary election. elec-tion. Both were successful in bids to represent their parties in the race for seats on the Summit County Board of Commissioners. Young tallied 719 votes against incumbent in-cumbent Dale Leavitt's 527 to enter the November election against independent in-dependent Bruce Decker and Democrat "Dutch" Woolstenhulme for the two-year post. Stevens' 401 votes places him in the running for the four-year seat against Republican incumbent Bill Wallin in November. Stevens' primary opponent, op-ponent, Ike Koleman, gained 161 votes. INSIDE Redevelopment Approved j Page 3 ! I Miners Win Another I j Page 5 j |