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Show X "' - t , . .. - v ;' t W" V, , : -V 1 H 1 - Susan Williams (iar Aviso Election Results III e Were There N'ancv AkComb Gary Avise. Nancy McComb and Darrell Burns emerged as the front-runners front-runners for seats on the Park City Board of Education Tuesday as primary elections were held in three school district precincts. In Precinct One, Avise was well ahead of the rest of the field, winning 107 of the 197 votes cast. Also qualifying for the November election in the same precinct is Betty Roach, who finished second to Avise with 45 votes. Other votes went to Mary Eley (24), Charles I.atterner 15) and Don Sturges 6. Bolt Harrington Sturges had announced before the election elec-tion that he was no longer an active candidate, but his name remained on the ballot. In Precinct Three, the race was closer. Mrs. McComb finished with 75 votes to lead the field. Her opponent in the November election will be Bob Harrington, who finished second with 44 votes. Other votes went to Carol Calder (37) and Ronald Burnett U4i. Leading the way in Precinct Four was Darrel Burns with 35 votes. He will face Susan Williams (21 votes) in the general election. Eliminated from eon- Dai rcl Hums tention was Nancy Maloney i eight votes). Summit County voters echoed the state trend by giving U.S. Senate candidate can-didate Dan Berman (305 votes) a slight edge over his opponent, Ogden Mayor Stephen Dirks (302 votes). Democratic-voters Democratic-voters also favored Moroni L. Jensen 1283 votes) by a slim margin over Doug Hunt (278 votes) in the race for the nomination for lieutenant governor secretary of state. On the Republican ticket, David Wilkinson won the right to represent his Hetty Roach party as the attorney general candidate in spite of his performance in Summit County. Wilkinson (308 votes) trailed incumbent Robert Hansen (482 votes) by a substantial margin among local Republicans. The American Party candidates for the U.S. Senate seat managed to attract a total of only 12 votes in Summit County. Coun-ty. Seven of those went to Larry Topharn, the other five to George Bat-chelor. Bat-chelor. According to Summit County Clerk Reed Pace, the voter turnout was unusually light for a primary election. I, V 1 M-. .Sjr-lljJ J-U Li Park City, Utah 250 Vol. V, No. 52 Thursday, September 11, 1980 20 Pages WESTPO Conference 6 Class It may have been a coincidence that representatives of the federal government govern-ment were scarce at last week's WESTPO meeting. Then again, it may have been just good sense. The Washington establishment took its share of cttii.sm from the group of western governors assembled in" Park ' City last Thursday and Friday for the annual meeting of the Western Governors' Gover-nors' Policy Office. About 225 people were on hand for the two-day conference, including the governors of eight of the eleven member mem-ber states: Arizona, Colorado, Montana, Mon-tana, Nevada, New Mexicao, North Dakota, Utah and Wyoming. Unable to attend were the governors of Alaska, Nebraska and South Dakota. A 12th governor, John Evans of Idaho, also attended the WESTPO conference con-ference and was issued a formal invitation in-vitation to join the group. Gov. Scott Matheson, outgoing chairman of the group, set the tone of the convention Thursday with a scathing attack on what he called the "federal monolith." "Our federal system is being converted conver-ted into a unitary system by the relentless relen-tless and insidious erosion of states' rights," Matheson said in the keynote address opening the convention. "The concentration of power in the central Act, Cks government has so distorted the federal system that the founding fathers would not recognize the works of their hearts, hands and minds nearly 200 years ago. " Matheson's remark struck a responsive respon-sive chord among the other western governors including Thomas Judge of Montana and Bruce Babbitt of Arizona, Judge even went a little further than Matheson. "The attitude of the federal government govern-ment is one of arrogance," he said. "The only way to restore the balance of power is to cut off money to Washington." Babbitt warned that states could become "nothing more than regional administrators of the federal government. govern-ment. 'We're in danger of losing the entire federal system'." Among the issues discussed during the two-day conference were synthetic fuels, water rights, the MX missile system, the federal Clean Air Act, and administration of public lands. In each case, the governors passed resolutions intended to give the states a stronger voice in making their own decisions. From a local perspective, the conference con-ference seemed to go almost without a hitch. WESTPO participants were given an official welcome by the Honorable John C. Green, better known to locals as Mayor Jack Green. s Town Green observed that the decision p bring WESTPO to Park City was ap propriate, considering the theme of the conference, The West and the Eighties. "As a rapidly developing community, Park City could be viewed as a capsitj example for your deliberations as yv.v consider the problems and benefits' rapid growth brings to relatively unprepared un-prepared rural areas," he said. However, Green was one of the few speakers to give some credit to the federal government as he reviewed the town's development from mining ghost town to a thriving resort. "Through federal grants, matching funds, a loan, some bonding and general fund revenues, we now have new streets and sidewalks, a new water system, a regional sewage disposal plant, new schools, new water sources, a public transportation system, and a public golf course that will forever insure in-sure greatly-needed open space. "But as I reflect on those times and when we were asking God to help save our town and as I see the new construction con-struction everywhere in the city I am inclined to again look toward heaven and say, 'Thanks, God, but let's not be ridiculous'." When it came time to bring the con- WESTPO to 3 ' Vt V Matheson on camera at WESTPO conference. 7 . 4 lb it-' - J"-' - 7 i'&f - ' ir His . 1 Iflf 1 . f ill ivi ..1 I i im 1 li ...... . I ;l 111 frg.yq .Miners' outfits hanging above lockers in the men's changing room. There's Zinc In Them Thar Hills: Ontario Mine Resumes Production For the first time in two-and-a-hall years. Park City has a legitimate claim on the title of mining town. The Ontario Mine is producing once again. About a year from the time the operation of the mine was taken over by the Noranda Mining Company, the first load ol concentrate was trucked out of the mill and dumped into a waiting railroad car at the Park City railhead. Adorning that first truckload was a small pine tree, which was dumped along with the concentrate into the railroad car, presumably to be extracted extrac-ted by some surprised worker at the Bunker Hill smelter in Kellogg, Idaho. According to Industrial Relations Superintendent Joe MePhie, the Ontario On-tario mine is now on a "limited production" produc-tion" schedule of about 350 tons per day. "That will increase to a maximum of 750 tons per day. " he said. Noranda now employs 285 people on the Ontario Project. That figure is expected ex-pected to increase to 318 as production is stepped up. "We are hiring experienced miners," MePhie said, "those with two or more years in hard-rock mining." Most of those now working at the Ontario On-tario Project are veterans who have seen the facility change hands at least once. "I'd say the majority are miners who were here not only with Anaconda (which pulled out in 1978 1, but with the old United Park (which ran the mine until 1970)," MePhie said. Noranda, a Canadian-owned mining company, took over the operation ol the mine in 1979 and spent about a year gearing up lor production. Timbers were replaced, new underground railroad lines installed, bigger pumps added to handle the ever-present groundwater problem. "Water is always a problem," MePhie Me-Phie agreed, "but not a problem that you can't contend with." He estimated that about 4,(ioo gallons of water are pumped out of the mine every minute. Ironically, the ore extracted from the Ontario Mine actually is being taken out of the ground miles away, using the old Keetley tunnel in Wasatch County. The ore then is trucked back to the concentrator con-centrator in Ontario Canyon where the metals are separated from the crushed rock. MePhie said this round-about process is only a temporary solution while the main shall at the Ontario Mine (the number three shaft is deepened. That shaft now reaches about 2.450 feet below the surface, and the company plans to go as much as 200 feet deeper. Although Park City is identified primarily with silver mining, MePhie pointed out that silver is really just an incidental byproduct of the mining process. Lead and zinc make up by far the largest proportion of the metals extracted ex-tracted from the ore. He estimated that each ton of ore contains an average of only six ounces of silver. Also contained in the ore are small amounts of copper, cadmium, and even gold (about 0.02 ounces per ton ) . The major function of the mill in Ontario On-tario Canyon is to extract the metals from the ore. A three-stage process reduces the ore to a fine powder. Then, flotation is used to separate the lead and zinc concentrates from the rest of the ore. Further refining of the concentrates concen-trates and removal of the other metals take place at the Idaho smelter. MePhie estimates that there are more than 300 miles of major mine tunnels tun-nels in the mountains around Park City. He said Noranda plans to add to this total by going deeper under the Ontario and Park Utah mines, and by further exploration of what is now called the Back Vein i the old Dalv West Mine . Inside... t; - s i ....... " ' t : - 7 . . V ' - v J f A V;. 4 "". Page 1 1 B.B. King, James Cotton, Ramsey Lewis and Muddy Waters sang "The Rainy Day Blues" at Park West last Sunday. Page 17 The Newspaper's own Rick Brough talks to Denver (Mad Jack) Pyle about his career. Weather... Decreasing cloudiness through Friday with warmer temperatures. Chance of showers over the weekend, w ith highs in the 60s and lows in the 40s! |