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Show Summit Savings challenges new firms The iewspaperThursday, January 21, 1982 Page All Summit Savings & Loan is fighting the plans by two other banking institutions to establish branches in Park City. Claiming its business will be adversely affected, Summit has filed a lawsuit to appeal a decision by the State Department of Financial Finan-cial Institutions, which approved ap-proved an application last fall from First Interstate Bank (FIB). It has also protested an application from Alpine Bancorp to establish a thrift and loan institution in the city. Summit Savings challenged FIB last summer, sum-mer, in conjunction with Silver King Bank and First Security, but the protest was overruled after a hearing in October. An attorney for Summit, Stephen Hard, said the savings and loan company is a young institution that has been hit hard by interest rates. "We haven't been able to compete," he said. FIB has argued that New school named It's the Teasure Mountain Middle School. That was the name chosen Tuesday by the Park City Board of Education for the new middle school under construction north of Prospector Pros-pector Square. The name was chosen from a list of three submitted by Brian Schiller, principal of the Carl Winters Middle School. "Recently ... the students at Carl Winters Middle School suggested and voted on names for the new middle school," Schiller said in a letter to the board. "Each home room suggested one or two names; then a school-wide school-wide vote was taken. The following names received the most votes and are submitted for consideration... considera-tion... "1. Crystal Pines Middle School. "2. Treasure Mountain Middle School. "3. Mountain View Middle School." Whadd'ya Know? byRickBrough Park City women have been saluted by Playboy Magazine and Dan Valentine, Jr. In a Salt Lake Tribune column last week, Valentine interviewed inter-viewed Tomm Passavant, associate editor of "Playboy", who is visiting mountain areas across the country to prepare a "Guide to Ultimate Skiing" book. (We always knew those people were interested in good terrain. But you mean to tell us they were talking about outdoor sports? ) Passavant not only praised Park City's skiing, but singled out a local resident as one of the most delectable-looking ladies in existence. But let Valentine tell it: "Her name is Susan Prigge. She's one of the hostesses at Deer Valley. And she's so beautiful ... she's so beautiful ..." (Attractive women are like Medusas in reverse. They turn - ffuvs to Wlv The Playboy adviser said fiaUsf,.hai,of , skiing" in: Danskin tops and gym shorts. Most of these, he i reported with delight, are women. Passavant rated Park City as fourth in the country for best intermediate runs. And Alta came in for praise, also. He rated the Little Cottonwood Canyon resort as (1) one of the two most economical ski areas and (2) having the third most challenging run in the country High Rustler. As for Susan, we trust she has a level head. And the guy she goes out with must be one real hunk of a man. Or at least that's what Gary Avise keeps telling us. Our only objection is that Valentine singled out the beautiful women on Park City's ski slopes. After months of covering the city's civic organizations and theater, we can safely tell you that two or three women there have the capacity to make strong men weep, cause hair to grow on fire hydrants, and send Pope John Paul the Second andor the First into hyperventilation. We won't mention any names here. (As my old vice-principal vice-principal used to say, you know who you are! ) We do this out of tact. Also because their husbands usually have nicknames like "White Fang" and "Gorgo". This raises a question. Why are there so many beautiful people in Park City? The reasons have long been known to local residents, but maybe we should explain for the tourists in town. The number num-ber of non-beautiful residents in town is regulated by ordinance. or-dinance. In 1973, the city's Master Plan established a quota of homely, overweight people allowed to move into the community. com-munity. Limits were set for each zone, with the most PUD (Porky Units of Density) allowed in the area around the 7-11 and Alpha Beta. But the area has had problems ever since in controlling the vast amount of unlawful immigration from chubby Salt Lake residents. These illegal "fatbacks" slip under the barbed-wire barbed-wire barriers along the vast Summit County border, or are smuggled into the city, packed 6 or 7 at a time into large Hefty Hef-ty Bags. Says City Manager Arlene Loble, "The area is just too vast to patrol. But we can't just ignore the problem. Let's face it these people are unsightly, they cause traffic jams, and they bend the sidewalks on Main Street out of shape. " Authorized homely residents must carry a green work card and display it at the request of any Park City peace officer or bartender. Even so, Loble said, it is hard to weed out the illegals. There is a small traffic from the other direction-fatties from Utah Valley sneaking through over Wasatch County-but spotting them, she said, is simple. "They all look like Donny & Marie with cellulite problems." Why do they come in such numbers? Mainly because they are promised Utopia in this new land. Tales are told in Salt Lake of Park City-subsidized health spas and free orange juice. Summit County is reputed to have one of the healthiest lifestyles in the country-not unlike the "Oh, What a Beautiful Morning" number from "Oklahoma". Once they get here, of course, they find the reality is quite different. They live in horrible ramshackle housing built out of old Hostess cartons. Venturing forth from these "Twinkievilles" they discover jobs are not plentiful. Often, they must sell their bodies to be used as snow-scoopers and building supports. Parkites may be disgusted by it. But, as Ding Dong consumption con-sumption per capita takes dramatic leaps, and the loud traditional belches of the fatback culture become part of the local scene, we are beginning to realize the problem cannot be ignored. It was unusual, but exciting, to see the winter fireworks display from the Park City Resort Monday night. The local police were right on top of the situation as usual. About five minutes after the fireworks started, a voice came over our little police-calls machine, saying, "Uh ... we understand the Resort is going to have a fireworks display for about 20 or 25 minutes." We still don't know, however, what the celebration was about. Joy at the heavy snowfall? Vasco de Gama's birthday? birth-day? Monty Gibson coming down with lockjaw? growth in Park City is strong enough to accomodate more banking, and cited the growth of Silver King and First Security. But Hard contended the savings and loan was more vulnerable. "It hasn't been able to offer the broad range of a bank's services." But others say Summit has had sufficient opportunity to cultivate its growth. Avon Francis, an assistant chief examiner with the Department Depart-ment of Financial Institutions, In-stitutions, agreed that"Park City banks are prospering. "Also, First Interstate had considerable deposits and loans there. A need existed to service those." Summit's suit has been filed in Third District Court, where Judge David Dee has been designated to handle the matter. A date for the hearing has not been set. Financial Institutions held a hearing last Wednesday for Alpine Bancorp, where Summit again argued it was having growth troubles. But Alpine lawyer Geoffrey Mangum said Summit had an increase of $900,000 in deposits over the previous year. A Financial Institutions In-stitutions ruling on Alpine is scheduled before Feb. 13. Mangum said the Chicago-based Chicago-based company would bring the first thrift and loan to Summit County. Not every business can legally complain that competitors com-petitors are crowding them. Banks are able to do it because their finances have been considered a public trust since the days of FDR, explained Avon Francis. "Government policy says there is a moral obligation to maintain the safety and soundness of the depositor's money." Marsac School sale near? The Marsac School property proper-ty may soon belong to Park City. At its Tuesday meeting, the Park City Board of Education voted to accept an amended contract, governing govern-ing the sale of the school, which was submitted by City Manager Arlene Loble. The contract calls for the school and the 1.77-acre site to be sold to the city for $1.35 million, the amount established estab-lished by an independent appraisal conducted last fall. The Marsac building has not been used by the Park City School District since December, 1980. Portions of the building have been leased to the city to house planning and public works offices. Last summer, the city offered to buy the property for $1 million, based on an appraisal conducted in March of 1980. The board took no action at that time, choosing instead to ask for a more current appraisal. Since the new figure was presented to the board last September, several offers and counter-offers have been discussed. A focal point of these discussions has been the so-called Lambert amendment. amend-ment. As proposed by Gene Lambert, a member of the school board, this calls for the city to share any profits with the district should it decide to rezone the property for a higher density and resell it for a higher price. Under the original contract con-tract proposed by the school district, the city would be bound by the terms of this amendment for five years after the property is purchased pur-chased from the district. The city's offer presented to the district Tuesday calls for this time period to be reduced to three years. It also proposes that interest payments and an inflation factor be subtracted before the "profit" is divided. As specified in the contract, con-tract, payments on the sale of the school would be spread over a two-year period. The contract now must be approved by the City Council. Summit Co. Planning Commission Tuesday, January 26, 7:30 p.m. Summit County Courthouse Coalville, Utah The proposed agenda is as follows : 7:30 p.m. Grey wood Development, Jim Lynn and Van Martin Discussion and decision on request to amend the County Master Plan for lots 231 - 236 of Highland Estates, Plat B. 7:50p.m. Coleman Land Company, Tom Flinders Request to renew conditional use permit for temporary real estate sales office at Mountain Meadow Ranch. 8:00 p.m. Utah Powderbird Guide Corp., Hank Veronne Application for conditional use permit for temporary location of mobile office and equipment storage trailer and helicopter landing at Parkwest Resort. 8:15 p.m. Jim Webster and Associates ( 1 ) Proposal for conditional use permit for helicopter pad to be located at Silver Springs West-side development (2) Request to amend project master plan for Sandstone Ridge residential and discussion on preliminary plat. 8 : 45 p.m. Pine Meadow Owners Association, Brent Sutherland Request for concept plan approval of five (5) acre lot development in Section 27 at Pine Meadow Ranch. 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