OCR Text |
Show Twenty-Five Cents rr iii inL ji ik - a--n fl QIi3 Park City L City's Only Locally Owned Newspaper Volume Four Wednesday, November 1, 1978 Number Seven 11 p i iiMim id, ., j jagessggassww" ( I si v" M&J - - l Jvi -I , .akAwJ . I This youngster was one of the many satisfied customers ) . who took advantage of the Ski Swap over the weekend. See f story on Page 5. ) Candidates Address The Issues Last Thursday evening the Park City PTSA hosted a "Meet The Candidates" Candi-dates" night at the high school which was attended by about fifty county and city residents. It was an opportunity for concerned citizens to acquaint themselves with the political philosophies of candidates candi-dates up for election on November 7. Each candidate was limited to two minutes speaking time and all intended to supplement the Park City meeting and other county meetings with door-to-door campaigning in the closing days before the election. By Tina Moench The sunlight dancing off Sunn Classic's facade town in Keetley is suddenly cut off with the clang of the solid steel door. A tiny headlamp illuminates the ultra darkness and the battery cart rumbles down the track into the unknown depths 'of the abandoned Mayflower Mine. The chilled air and patches of water-soaked water-soaked rock dripping into puddles adds to the eeriness. The car stops suddenly before another steel door, bearing a sign reading "University of Utah Cosmic Ray Research." Inside, the tile floor, bright lights and intricate equipment are contrasted against the rock ceiling. Dr. Donald Groom is associate professor of physics at the university, and as chief investigator of the Mayflower project, he travels once a week with an assistant into the tunnel to gather data. Dr. Groom noted that the experimentation was an attempt to understand the dynamics of the galaxy. He explained that old stars run down or explode violently, ted Gerald Young In his bid for the two-year County Commission post, Republican Gerald Young noted that it is a "Big responsibility to support and run the county. I hope I can offer good suggestions and be congenial with the other members of the commission." Contacted Monday, the 48-year-old Oakley resident said he has spent the f month since the primary election campaigning throughout the entire county. His main thrust, he said, has been toward the growth facing the county, the ill repair of county roads, expelling a stream of high speed atomic nuclei known as cosmic rays. The debris expelled from the explosions explo-sions collect to form new stars. A widely accepted theory says these rays are streaming through space to an unknown exit. If this theory is correct, there should be a detectable wind traveling through the galaxy, one that to date has escaped notice. Dr. Groom says the wind may not have been detected because experiments experi-ments have concentrated on trying to detect particles of too low an energy that may have been pulled off course by the magnetic field of the sun before they hit the earth. To determine what happens to cosmic rays and to measure the velocity of this gentle wind, Dr. Groom is experimenting with higher energy debris particles resulting from proton collisions called Muons. The physicist has set up the laboratory in the mine under 500-feet of rock because, "the layer of rock above our detectors will shield them from the rain of low-energy rays and allow only weather A low pressure system is expec- jj to drift across the state this weekend causing widely scattered I showers. Highs will be in the 50s with lows in the upper 20s. s roiD In a surprise move Wednesday night, owners of the Silver Wheel Theatre, after refusing to compromise on remodeling plans, suddenly withdrew their proposal just prior to a Planning Commission vote. City Planner David Preece had recommended that the proposed alteration be rejected and the sudden withdrawal appeared to be in anticipation antici-pation of a negative commission vote. Alterations of the historic Silver Wheel Theatre, located at 328 Main Street, was to consist of a western-style western-style awning and English lanterns added to the facade, and a repainting in shades of gray and blue. Preece argued strongly that the building's Egyptian Revival architecture should be preserved. "The Silver Wheel Theatre has a significant historical and architectural architec-tural value, not only to the people of Park City but also to Utah," Preece told the commission. "Its Egyptian Revival architecture gives the building build-ing a separate, but very special, identity which should be preserved and enhanced." "The proposed alteration shows no reverence or relationship to the design of the building," he continued. "Since it is in the welfare of the general public, I recommend that the proposed alteration be denied." In a letter sent to the commission part-owner Virgina Santy, who was. present at the Wednesday night meeting, acknowledged that grants and complaints about garbage collection. collec-tion. "Everyone has a complaint, but they are not always the fault of the county," Young said. Young said, if elected, he would "first acquaint myself with the every day duties of a commissioner, then attack the problems shortly afterwards." after-wards." The condition of the roads, Young said, was a problem of "neglecting a tiny hole until it's a monster." Although he said he was not familiar with the county budget and money the most energetic and directionally true rays to be monitored." The elaborate equipment needed to monitor these particles took five years and a $350,000 National Science Foundation grant to build. The detector is housed in 100 tons of concrete and is made up of 300 thin plastic, L-shaped units in three tiers. 4 Dr. Donald Groom inspects energy cosmic particles. f7 ilv'er Wheel Owner Al teration Fropos were available for historic restoration of the theater but said the owners did not want to abide by the restrictions imposed. She went on to say the owners wanted to retain the atmosphere atmos-phere "established by the melodramas" melo-dramas" presented weekly in the building. Elaborating on the grant restrictions Wednesday night, Mrs. Santy said acceptance of any , grants or help in restoration of the theater would mean: The owners would have to sign a statement promising that no structural struc-tural changes would be made to the building. (Subsequent buyers would have to sign the same statement, she said.) the building could never be demolished without permission from the Utah State Historical Society. financing a purchase of the building by another party would be difficult since the theater would remain on the society's list of historic buildings. Planning Commission members expressed ex-pressed reservations about the proposed pro-posed changes which were unrelated to the preservation of the Egyptian Revival architecture. Saying "Egyptian architecture doesn't do much for me," Commissioner Com-missioner Rusty Davidson contended, "....the issue is whether the proposed $3.cade fits within the historic zone," Commissioner Greg Lawson said the two issues were historic preservation allocated for road repair, Young noted the answer may lie in re-evaluation of county workers and more management manage-ment control. Complaints about the garbage collection collec-tion stem from part-time residents of the county paying collection fees equal to full-time residents, he said. "I don't know how to solve the problem favorably... but maybe turning turn-ing the collection over to private enterprise is the answer," Young said. "There is a real task to do, a lot of Continued on Page 13 Particles striking these electrical scintillator tubes cause a flash of light that sends an electrical impulse to a computer that registers the particle invasion. A particle is considered significant if it passes through three counters in a line within ten billionths of a second. Five hours went into the assembly of equipment buried deep in the Mayflower Mine to measure high and the proposed facade's compatibility compati-bility with the goals of the city's historic district guidelines. "It's not harmonious with the Victorian look we're trying to achieve," Lawson said. "There are so few buildings left in Utah that have historical significance that I have reservations about that bulding being lost." He later stated that the alterations were "not acceptable to me." Commission Chairman Burnis Watts asked if the owners would agree to let Ski Team Members Visit The White House Members of the U.S. Ski Team were honored October 10 with an invitation to lunch in the White House with Vice President and Mrs. "Fritz" Mondale. Ski team executive director Bill Traeger, coaches Hank Tauber and Bill Marolt, and racers Phil and Steve Mahre met racers Jamie Kurlander, Susie Patterson and Cindy Nelson returning from European training in Washington, D.C. before the event. Traeger said the invitation came through John McMillian, chairman of the Northwest Energy Company, in Salt Lake City, who is a trustee of the ski team and close friend of the vice president, both of whom are avid skiers. Traeger proudly commented that prior to last year's racing season, Mr. Mondale penned a letter to the U.S. team, wishing them speed and success. A week before the luncheon, the members were given security clearance. clear-ance. On the appointed day the visitors were shown into a waiting room, and spent the time browsing at the wall cabinets filled with a china setting chosen by each president, beginning with Washington. Each setting included a story, and Traeger noted that it was customary for each new president to choose a china pattern for White House use. Lunch was served in the family dining room, next to the State Room. "During lunch the vice president each counter and over fifteen miles of cable travel between the detector and computer, the greatest distance between the two being only 100 feet. The energy level and the depth of the equipment was carefully calculated by Dr. Groom, who notes that only five particles per second reach the Continued on Page 10 it r i Commissioner Roy Reynolds, who was accompanied by fellow owners Gene Johnson and Mrs. Olga Guillaume, declined, saying, "We don't want it (the theater) on the historcal list. We don't want any strings at all." Then, just as the commission appeared ready to vote on the proposed alterations, the trio abruptly withdrew their request, indicating they may proceed with a repainting of the building, which does not require commission approval. talked about skiing in Vail and we invited him to come skiing with the ski team in Park City or to Elkhorn (Sun Valley) for the Jill St. John celebrity event." Traeger said, indicating that the Mondales were considering the idea. Traeger said the vice president asked how the team felt about governmental funding for American sports. "We said we' generally would rather be independent," Traeger commented comment-ed "Sports requires too many hard decisions and they can't be made if-you if-you are being government supported. Continued on Page 8 INSIDE Will Carter's Plan Work Page 2 Fire on Norfolk ! Page ) Mine) Loe la.it Paget 3',. I"" 5 . 5 |