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Show it j ;HlrJi;-'"'il FT'iT '"v il''?--, ' .( 1 1 1 v. V 'ijt --wV- 1. S Park City, Utah 250 Vol. VII, No. 50 Thursday, September 2, 1982 Two Sections, 28 Pages More to come "J If'i KtOflf . i,lli,,!,.,M,, llli New Park The books by David Hampshire The move is on. At about 9:30 a.m. Saturday they'll start to arrive at the old Park City Library on Main Street. They are the Book Movers, and their job is to transport tran-sport 3,500 volumes from the old Park City Library south of City Hall to the new one in City Park. But this isn't any normal moving operation. Librarian Judy MacMahon figures it's going to take about 800 people, or one for every 4.75 feet between bet-ween the old building and the new one. Here's how it's supposed to work: the 800 volunteers will spread out in a straight line, down Main Street, across Heber Avenue, behind the Kimball Art Center, and so on to the newly-renovated newly-renovated Miners Hospital in City Park. "It's totally a straight shot from the old library to the new one," says MacMahon. She estimates the distance at 3,800 feet. Then each of the 3,500 volumes (excluding (ex-cluding those that are overly fragile or valuable) will be passed from hand to hand down the line. Members of the Library Board will be acting as team captains; Board President Juli Ber-tagnole Ber-tagnole will be driving a golf cart converted con-verted into a water wagon. "This is something we've wanted to do because the community has been involved from the beginning and we want to involve them again," says MacMahon. Television coverage is expected. A crew from PM Magazine is scheduled to be here, and an NBC crew from Burbank may also be present. MacMahon says you needn't expect to spend all day standing in the hot sun. "It will end at noon, period." Once the books are moved, the festivities will be suspended for 48 hours. Then, at 1 p.m. Monday, the dedication of the new library will take place. Among those scheduled to be in attendance at-tendance for Monday's ceremony will be Utah Gov. Scott Matheson and Russell Davis, director of the Utah State Library. The dedication ceremony will begin with a welcome and introduction of the members of the Library Board by Max Jarman, editor of the Park Record and a member of the board. Davis is then scheduled to give a short address on the place of the Park City Library in the state. Park City Mayor Jack Green will join forces with librarian Violet Terry and Juli Bertagnole to give a brief history of the Miners Hospital, the old library, and the conversion of the old hospital building into the new Park City Library. Library Board member Nan Mc-Polin Mc-Polin will give the dedication, Mayor Green will lead the singing of "America the Beautiful," and the ribbon-cutting duties will be shared by Gov. Matheson and City Coun-cilwoman Coun-cilwoman Tina Lewis. V t ' - fits ? 5 "i IMIMI 4llliMltt ilMIMIK City Library stop here The 30-minute ceremony will be followed by tours of the new facility. In case of rain, the activities will be postponed post-poned until later in the afternoon. The dedication ceremony will be the latest chapter in a story which goes back to Christmas Day, 1903, when Local 144 of the Western Federation of Miners voted to establish a fund for a hospital. An impressive sum of $5,000 was raised and construction began the following spring. As a more healthful alternative to downtown Park City, a site was chosen on a remote hillside at the north end of town, on an acre of ground donated by Mrs. Edza Nelson. The new Miners Hospital was dedicated in October, 1904. The hospital served the needs of the mining community for many years. But the demise of mining and the dwindling local population finally took its toll, and the hospital closed its doors. Following the opening of the Park City Resort in 1963, the building was given a new lease on life as a flophouse for local ski bums. However, the construction con-struction of the ski facility also made the hospital site a prime piece of real estate, and in 1977 developer Monty Gibson announced plans to build condominiums con-dominiums on the Empire Avenue property. He offered to give the building to the city and pay the cost of moving it to another location. After almost two years of discussion, the City Council settled on a plan to move the building to City Park on Park Avenue. Meanwhile, Gibson had sold the property to Salt Lake builders Blaine Huntsman and Ladd Christen-sen Christen-sen with the understanding they would honor his commitment to move the building. In November of 1979, the old hospital was carefully lifted off its foundation and inched across town to the new location. , On the urging of City Councilwoman Tina Lewis, the City Council voted in April, 1980 to renovate the structure as the new Park City Library. In June of last year voters approved a $750,000 bond issue to finance the project. Salt Lake preservation architect Wallace N. Cooper II was hired to supervise the renovation, and a construction contract con-tract was awarded in August. In spite of the lack of heat in the building, workmen toiled throughout the winter, tearing the inside of the old hospital down to a bare framework, then rebuilding it as the new library. Meanwhile, the land outside the library was also undergoing some major changes. A new access road has been built to City Park, parking areas constructed for the library, and plans for a plaza developed for the library entrance. A description ot the new facility could go on for pages. It would make more sense for you to come to Monday's dedication and see for yourself. It's your library. If 4-, cJmool eiiaroM A first-day-of-school count shows enrollment up some nine percent in the Park City School District, with that figure expected to increase by Oct. 1. A total of 1,017 showed up the first day, Aug. 27. About seven more students enrolled at the high school on Monday, Aug. 30, bringing the student count there to 300. That's up 52 students from the first day of school last year, and up 35 from the Oct. 1, 1981 count. Last year, there were 933 students in the district the first day, and by Oct. 1 the day of the official count on which state funding is based the figure had jumped to 992. "We may find we need additional personnel and course sections at the high school," said Supt. Richard Goodworth, who noted that the district's 1982-1983 budget was based on a four percent jump in enrollment, and "we're now looking at a possible 15 percent increase." High school principal Jack Dozier noted the school is down one staff member from last year, with both an increase in students and a trend toward higher enrollment in certain basic courses such as social studies, math, science and English. "We're finding that these classes have numbers that we've never witnessed before. Some have as many as 37 students," Dozier said. But there's been a drop in enrollment in electives such as shop, home economics econo-mics and marketing. Dozier attributes the swing toward the basics to a change in student attitudes, the availability of sequenced courses so a student can stay longer in a field, such as mathematics, and the fact that the school board has mandated greater emphasis on basics For some, its a happy event; for others, it's traumatic. trauma-tic. Maile Moore, center, had a brief moment of distress over the first day of kindergarten Friday, Fri-day, but was quickly quick-ly comforted by her mom, Mary, and her twin sister, Cassie, who was assigned to the other kindergarten room. (More photos on Page All.) photo by Morgan Queal f f School crossing a hazard, parents say By Morgan Queal Drivers are being nailed daily for speeding through the 20-mile-an-hour zone past the new middle school, but parents in Prospector Park still are burning over the lack of a safe crossing for their kids. Kathy Mears, spokesperson for the group of parents, said she went last summer to School Superintendent Richard Goodworth to request either a pedestrian overpass or a crossing guard and flashing red lights for U-248 between Treasure Mountain Middle School and Prospector Park. "We now have fifth graders in that school 9- and 10-year-olds. I trust my dog crossing that highway more than I'd trust some of the kids," she said. Goodworth said he has been dealing with Joe McBride of District Two of the liters Parkites will awake Monday, Labor Day, to the traditional 21-sticks-of-dynamite salute that opens the town's annual Miners' Day celebration. The noise will begin at 6 a.m. Labor Day on Masonic Hill above town. "It may be the last time the dynamite is used," said Dave Novelle, chairman of this years Miner's Day events. "They're starting to build roads and subdivisions up there." Starting at 7 a.m., the LDS Elders Quorum will begin serving a benefit chuckw agon breakfast at Citv Park. Mi in light of increased college entrance requirements. "I think that parents also are exercising more influence over what the kids are taking," Dozier said. In spite of this year's larger enrollment, the school has plenty of classroom space. Dozier estimates that there's enough room for about 500 students. There is a shortage of lockers and athletic facilities, but with the approval of the school board and Brian Schiller, principal of the Treasure Mountain Middle School, the high school will send girls' basketball, gymnastics and wrestling to the middle school to practice. Dozier, who has often expressed dismay at the lack of a substantial music program at the high school, said that area is expanding rapidly. Dick McConnell has enrolled 18 high school and 42 middle school students in his band program, and Sue Boyle already has 55 students signed up for the new high school concert choir and madrigal group. Last year, there were less than 10 high school students in each program. Scheduling changes have made the music available to more kids, Dozier said, with chorus meeting in the morning before regular classes, and the band during seventh period at the end of the day. "We've spread them as far apart as we can and taken them as far out of the mainstream of the curriculum as we can," he said. The new middle school, which houses fifth through eighth grades, has a total enrollment of 339 students, with space in the nearly-completed facility for 1,000. Fifth and eighth grades are down in enrollment; sixth and seventh are up. v Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT) in trying to get something done about the hazardous highway, which runs east and west to connect Park City with U.S. 40 to Heber and Provo. The street, which has had a speed limit of 45 miles an hour, has no sidewalks or street lights. It carries heavy traffic before and after work hours. District Two officials carne up to look over the situation, Goodworth said, and agreed to install the 20-mile-an-hour (when children are present) signs and paint crosswalks in front of the middle school. However, the painting of the stripes has been postponed until the state resurfaces the highway a job that was supposed to have started this week, he said. "I'm as frustrated as anyone," The standard parade down Main Street will begin at 10:30 a.m., proceeding down Main Street and Park Avenue to City Park It's an election year, Novelle noted, and the parade should bring out a lot of local candidates as well as the traditional floats and bands. The Post Office Band from Salt Lake City is expected to return this year. After the parade, there'll be band concerts and kids games at the park. The games, being run by the Park City Recreation Department, will have Day to In the elementary school, grades one through four are on a par with last year's first-day count, give or take a few students. The biggest increase throughout the school system came ihis year at the kindergarten level. Last year, there were 69 little ones on the first day of school, and the same number on Oct. 1. At this year's kindergarten registration registra-tion on Aug. 16, 72 were signed up, with classes to be divided into three sections two morning and one after Framchis is going up If you look at your latest bill from Mountain Fuel, you'lfcnotice that there's a line item listed as "Park City Tax... 2.5 percent." If you look at your next bill from Mountain Fuel, or maybe the one after that, you'll notice a change. It's going to say, "Park City Tax... 5 percent." The tax is known as a franchise tax, and it's imposed not only on bills from Mountain Fuel but also on Mountain Bell and Utah Power and Light. At its last regular meeting, the Park City Council voted to approve Ordinance Ordi-nance 82-22 which doubles the local franchise tax effective Oct. 1. In arguing for the passage of the ordinance, City Manager Arlene Loble pointed out that the city is planning to approach the Utah Legislature with K Goodworth said. "I asked for flashing lights and told them (UDOT) I would have school personnel turn them on and off." UDOT would not install flashing lights along with the speed limit signs unless the school district also furnished a crossing guard for the location, Goodworth said. "We haven't had the money for crossing guards. It's been our policy to keep funds in the educational process," the superintendent said. The school speed limit signs went up before school opened last week. Police Chief Frank Bell said officers have been out daily with radar, and already had issued some 15 citations in the first two days of school. Mrs. Mears said the signs and painted crosswalk still are not an x - x start with a limited space this year but anyone interested should hang out for some fun and competition. At noon, a group of parachutists will skydive, hopefully, into the park, Novelle said. The dedication ceremony of the new-Park new-Park City Library in the renovated Miners Hospital will take place at 1 p.m.. with Gov. Scott Matheson on hand to cut the ribbon. After the library opening comes the main contests of Miners' D.iy- the drilling and mucking competitions. to jumps noon. But on Friday, 98 kindergartners showed up-an increase of some 25 percent - requiring a second afternoon session and two full-time teachers. "Knrollment this year has far exceeded our expectations," Good-worth Good-worth said. "We've found that many students who had been going to schools in neighboring districts have returned here, realizing we are offering a better academic program than the schools they have been attending." several other proposals to increase local revenues. "I think it (increasing the franchise tax) is a way to demonstrate to the legislature that every possible source is being utilized," Loble said. She noted that local residents are already carrying their share of the burden in property tax. "Park City now has the highest mill levy in the state for any city that has been revalued," she said. Among the proposals which the council hopes to present to the League of Cities and Towns and the Utah Legislature are a real estate transfer tax, a differential (additional local) sales tax, a tax on beer and a redistribution of liquor law enforcement enforce-ment revenue to place more emphasis on areas where liquor is sold. i A. r acceptable solution for Prospector parents. "We feel like it's an accident waiting to happen. Kids are still crossing anywhere and everywhere. There'll be more traffic in winter, and on bad roads," she said. Many patents, including Mears, in the subdivision are walking to school v. i tli their children, making sure they get across the highway safely, she said. Rand Clark is at least one member of the Hoard of Education who is sympathetic to the parents' concern. Mrs. Mears said Clark called her Tuesday night and offered to put the matter on the board's Sept. 14 agenda, stating that perhaps the money for a crossing guard can be found in the district's budget, thus assuring installation instal-lation of flashing red lights. Five contestants will show their skills in rock drilling, with the one who bores a hole of a given depth in the shortest short-est length of time the winner. The other event is the mucking contest, wherein contestants use a mucking machine to load a pile of rock into a mining car In the meantinie, Softball tournaments tourna-ments will be going on all day in City Park Novelle said the day's events are being sponsored by local businesses, among them United Park City Mines. e tax bang |