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Show An article in a Casper paper attracted the attention of Jackson Hole residents. Dawson had a permit to hunt in the Jackson area, but was charged under the Lacy Act, which prohibits flora or fauna from being removed from federal land. The three men could spend up to a year in jail or pay up to a $10,000 fine. dumps. The zoning on Aspen and Buttermilk Mountains should be changed, said the Aspen Skiing Company. The company made its plea to the Pitkin County Planning & Zoning Commission. Under present law, the areas are zoned for agriculture and forestry, even though its actual use is for skiing. The result is that when the ski company wants to do anything even make minor changes it has to go through a special review process. The company proposed a new zone, which would be called AF-Red (Agriculture and Forestry Recreation. Recrea-tion. ) In just-released figures, the Aspen Resort Association reported a 74 percent lodge occupancy rate during July. The ARA hopes August will be equally busy to offset a June slump when Aspen area business suffered from a mudslide scare. Police make no secret of cocaine death .-rtoomwn CXPBC55 Ketch urn Sun Valley An Idaho resident said movie sets being built for a Clint Eastwood Western here may cause damage in the Sawtooth National Recreation area. Jim Ater, a frequent visitor to Ketchum, said the sets look like permanent, three-dimensional buildings. build-ings. Referring to his friend, wilderness advocate and Senator Frank Church, he said, "I buried him in August and already these SOBs are starting this." A spokeswoman for the Sawtooth area said the film company has obtained the necessary permits and has posted a performance bond to return the area to its natural state. The Mountain Express contacted officials in Santa Cruz, California, who said Eastwood was very cooperative when he shot "Sudden Impact" there in 1982. A proposed 1984-85 budget for Sun Valley will be an increase of 17 percent over last year. Spending will increase for city employee salaries, the ambulance budget and the bus system. The property tax levy will go up by 3 percent, but the biggest source of new revenue is an Idaho state law that allocates more sales tax revenue to cities. advisory board. The board has been beset by internal feuding, with dissident members walking out and other members using the proxy votes of absent members. If the board can't stop arguing, its members will be asked to resign, said the council. The board's job is setting policy for use of a public access channel and creating a non-profit group to run it. Mammoth Lakes These days, he visits towns in the Eastern Sierra, like Mammoth, to sell lobster and shrimp from his truck. But he's still well known in Utah and elsewhere. He's Melvin Dummar. Dummar claims that, after picking up a hitchhiker who says he was Howard Hughes, a will left him l16th of the billionaire's estate $150 million. But the will was thrown out of court. The Review said that since then things haven't gone too well. Even caption: "Hold it fellows. Howard said to only give me one-sixteenth." The Mammoth County Water District, with $20,000 in delinquent accounts, announced it is giving 24-hour notices to customers owing on water bills. After that, service will be cut off and $75 will be charged to reconnect. This is the second notice that debtors have received, said a spokeswoman. Eight lawsuits totaling almost $20 million have been filed against the Mammoth Unified School District after an April 1 accident involving a student who was allowed to drive a teacher's personal vehicle. A Mammoth High senior, Michael Leight, fell asleep at the wheel of a truck owned by the school's jazz bank teacher, crashing into two vehicles on U.S. 395, injuring seven people. (The bank was returning from the Orange County Jazz Festival, with students carried in the truck and two school cars.) The suits, filed by crash victims, include financial claims ranging from $250,000 to $1 million. But the largest, $15 million, was filed by Michael Leight himself, who said the district allowed him to drive knowing he was fatigued. Leight graduated this June in a wheelchair. Mammoth superintendent Tom Henry said the district did not request that the student drive, nor approve it. THE ASPEN TIMES Aspen A Denver consulting firm has completed 2'2 weeks of tests on the air blowing off the Smuggler mine dumps. By the end of October, Aspenites should know whether the air contains lead or other heavy metals. Samples are being sent to Environmental Protection Agency, labs. '; ' Concerns were first voiced, three' years ago when gardeners wjio' live near the dump found a high, leiaif content in their home-grown vege-i tables. A college student's sample also showed high lead and cadmium traces in the soil. The county commission asked developers from the Centennial housing project to use their excavated dirt to cover some of the Jackson Hole News Jackson Hole Cheyenne resident Mike Dawson Daw-son wanted recognition for his archery killing last December of a record-sized bull moose in Grand Teton National Park. He got it. He and two -other men were recently charged ih; U.S. District Court with "illegal taking" of the moose. Last February, Dawson brought the moose antlers to Wyoming Game & Fish officials, hoping to be listed in .the "Pope & Young" record book for archery kills of large animals. Under the book's scoring, his antler rack earned over 179 points, eompared to the present world record of 159. TRAIL Vail A Vail police officer isn't hiding the fact a local man died an agonizing death from a cocaine overdose. In fact, he wishes more people knew. "I wish more people could have seen this guy die," said investigator Dick Cleveland. "Maybe "May-be it would have straightened out more people this time." .The victim reportedly ate and snorted a quarter ounce of cocaine at a friend's apartment. After exhibiting exhibit-ing paranoid and schizophrenic behavior the victim stumbled and fell into a stupor. Said Cleveland, "There were severe convulsions, foaming at the mouth. His eyes were wide in terror." The victim was taken to Vail Valley Medical Center, where he died of cardiac arrest. Crime took a significant drop in Vail in the first six months of 1984, said local police statistics. Of 15 categories surveyed, ten showed decreases, four increased and one did not change. The biggest decrease was a 9 drop in shoplifting over last year. The department said its prevention preven-tion efforts (like a business fraud seminar) helped. But arrests also dropped because the police force had a shortage of manpower It has three vacancies now. The Vail Trail said this shortage is being blamed, in part, for the 66 percent increase in burglaries. The Vail Town Council issued warning to the members of its TV the movie about the controversy, "Melvin and Howard" faded quickly at the box office. (It was shown at the 1981 Park City Film Festival, with Dummar in attendance.) Dummar suggested maybe the Summa Corp. (the Hughes parent company) quashed it. His attorneys got most of the picture's profits, he said. The Trail said he speaks in a "semi-joking" manner of the Hughes will. But his father has designed a T-shirt, showing a man with a screw through his back. The |
