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Show Aztec .:?';'--':f', - antics i ' Education A12 . n. . , . - I .1 -mm PJ-fjj I r 'Witness:' A case study Limelight B9 Cinderella loses her.. .bicycle? sPortsB3 School board stands firm Education ah X 1 fKJl IE(B(BCDnol 4? Vol. 107, No. 9 3 Sections, 40 Pages Thursday, April 17, 1986 1 1 i Yi ar faces abound election spaces by RICK BROUGH Record staff writer W" As the filing period for county offices of-fices drew to a close. Park City officials of-ficials Tom Clyde and Brad Olch filed fil-ed to challenge Summit County Commissioner Stan Leavitt. Clyde, Park City Attorney and a Woodland resident, and Olch, a city planning commissioner and city resident, are vying for the Democratic nomination for the so-called so-called "South Summit seat" on the commission. They were among several electoral elec-toral challengers that were experienced ex-perienced in county and local government. Commissioner Cliff Blonquist is being challenged by the former mayor of Coalville and the former county sheriff. And the county's animal control officer will compete with his superior for the position of sheriff. The filing deadline for county offices of-fices was Tuesday at 5 p.m. At the state level, incumbent State Rep. Glen Brown, R-Hoytsville, has filed for re-election and has three challengers for his District 54 House seat. Democrats Don Johnson of Park City and Wayne Miller of Morgan have filed for the post. Another Park City contender is F. Laddie Swaner, who has filed for the y Neal Palumbo a Libertarian party. State Sen. Glade Sowards, R-Jeremy R-Jeremy Ranch, will run for his District 26 seat against fellow Republican Alarik Myrin, of Alta-mont. Alta-mont. A Democratic contender is Roland Uresk of Roosevelt. Commissioner Leavitt, a Republican of Kamas, is finishing a two-year term and has filed for reelection re-election to a four-year term. He has three Democratic challengers: LaVerl Bushell of Kamas, Clyde and Olch. On the Republican side, the incumbent in-cumbent is challenged by Jim Soter of Marion, who unsuccessfully ran against Leavitt in 1984. The Leavitt seat is considered open to South Summit residents, under an informal "gentleman's agreement" in county political circles. This says that each seat on the three-member commission goes to one of the three county areas. The so-called Park City seat, now held by Tom Flinders, is not up for election this year. Commissioner Cliff Blonquist, a Democrat, is completing a four-year term and is running for another two years. He is challenged by three Republicans: former Coalville mayor Merlyn Johnson; Jean Potter of Upton; and former Summit County Coun-ty Sheriff Ron Robinson. Sheriff Fred Eley, a Republican from Park City, is challenged for re- t i I m u a h election by two other GOP members. He will face Barry Shoda, the county's animal control officer, and Mike Vernon, the police chief of Kamas. A Democratic challenger is Frank Marcellin, of Hoytsville. Auditor Reed Pace is stepping down from the position that he has held for more than two decades. Applicants Ap-plicants for the post are Democrats Blake Frazier and Lloyd Godson of Oakley and Republican Kent McMichael of Hoytsville. The Democratic County Assessor, Ron Perry of Summit Park, will run against Republican Elwin Rees of Hoytsville. In the treasurer's office, incumbent Glen Thompson, a Republican of Peoa, is challenged by two Democrats, Kenny McQueen of Hoytsville and Kendell Woolstenhulme of Oakley. There is no opposition for County Attorney Robert Adkins, Clerk Douglas Geary and Recorder Alan Spriggs. Justice of the Peace James Kilby, who presides in the Park City area, has had no challengers to his reelection re-election bid. But the filing deadline for his office is June 30. For the constable con-stable position voted on in Park City, only Democrat Robert Rodman has filed for the position. In the school board race, which has a filing deadline of June 25, incumbent in-cumbent Eugene Lambert of Summit Sum-mit Park has filed for re election. sLfr Distemper, parvo sweep county Firefighters fly high in aerial rescue drill by JIM SMEDLEY Record staff writer So there I was. Hanging upside down, 40 feet in the air, over the front side of the Galleria Hotel on Main Street. It was an interesting view of Park City one I had never had the pleasure to experience. I was strapped into a Stokes litter, with belts irmly secured around my ankles, knees and across my" chest. It wasn't the most comfortable Position to be in, but then it wasn't bad. It was, however, impossible to take notes. And it was nnf as thnnoh I had nothing better to do than hang around Main Street at 2 o'clock n a Tuesday afternoon, less than 24 hours (more or less) from deadline. I was being "rescued." The Park City High Angle Rescue Squad was practicing 'th its new equipment. Firefighters John Vetterli and Dave Wilson had the distinction of being the first two to test the svstem. . "Thenabevyof firefighters-Steve Diggs Doug Burns and Wilson-tested the lines, which was a good idea before the "main event I was the main event-the first to descend in a Stokes litter. The strapping-in procedure only on-ly took 10 or so minutes and the firefighters checked and recheck-ed recheck-ed all the apparatus. Strapping m is crucial to the success of the operation. If the straps are too loose you could become like a hot dog that rocket-ejects from a bun when squeezed too hard on one end-not a pleasant thought After I was strapped in and lying ly-ing on the ground, Diggs began to ell me about the inherent dangers in an operation like th,sp Nobody said anything before about inherent dangers or any other kind of dangers before I Srappedm-Itasifhewas reading me my last rites Soon after the "eulogy by Diggs Vas placed against the Sedge of the railing while they hooked the "beaner" (carabiner a metal, locking oval ring) to the beaner on the main line. Diggs explained everything again, for at least the second time. He made sure that I understood exactly what was going go-ing to happen, perhaps to reduce the apprehension. He said it was standard operating procedure so there were no surprises to the victims. vic-tims. I was lowered head first, which was basically comfortable despite a few pints of blood rushing to the head, from the rooftop of the building. The clouds just kind of moseyed along and it seemed that the crescent-shaped crescent-shaped moon made an appearance. ap-pearance. When I rolled my eyes downward, a small crowd was gathered and the 40 feet looked like 80 feet. "OK, we're going to lower your feet," said firefighter Diggs. And they did. Soon to follow was my "rescuer." firefighter Fire to A5 by JIM SMEDLEY Record staff writer Dogs in Summit County are dying at a nearly epidemic rate from parvo par-vo and distemper, officials say. County animal control officer Barry Shoda said a wave of parvo and distemper has claimed the lives of about 200 dogs in the past 90 days in the county. "Distemper seems to come in waves. It will hit hard, wipe out a lot of dogs and disappear for a long time," said Teana Lazenby, of the County Animal Shelter at Kimball Junction. "We had some clinics in Kamas and Coalville in March and offered low-cost rabies and distemper shots. We got a pretty good response as about 50 came to each clinic." Lazenby said the problem was more prevalant in the Kamas and Coalville areas than in the Park City andSnyderville Basin. "People just have to realize that they have to have their dogs vaccinated." vac-cinated." Lazenby added. Dr. Lvle Jackson. Park City Animal Clinic, said he hs only seen one dog death case in the past month and a half in his area. He added that every spring the parvo and distemper incidences seem to jump because it is a time when more dogs get out and have contact with each other. But Dr. Chris Crnich of Cobblestone Cob-blestone Veterinarian Clinic, Woodland, said he believed the problem pro-blem was reaching epidemic proportions. propor-tions. In the past 90 days he has treated 12 dogs for either parvo or distemper, a high number of cases for him. "For the 12 I treated, there's pro-bablv pro-bablv 25 that went untreated," Crnich said. "The tragedy of all these dogs dying is that both diseases are easily vaccinated for." The doctor described parvo as a gastrointestinal disease that is a viral infection that causes a lot of hemorrhaging. He said the disease dehydrates dogs and that 50 percent to 60 percent of the dos stricken with parvo can be saved with intense treatment. "Parvo is a devastating disease in which a dog can dry up and die right in front of you." Crnich said. Crnich descried distemper as a viral disease that affects the im- the infection is the central nervous system. He said early signs of the disease could be "big gooiers in u dog's eyes and a runny nose. As the disease progresses, a dog will lose control of certain motor activities and chomping fits at the mouth could occur. "Although books say about 50 percent per-cent can be saved, I've noticed that 75 percent to 80 percent of the dogs are going to be lost to the infection," Crnich said. "The disease has a cyclic nature. That's why it is so important for people peo-ple with young animals to get an initial in-itial vaccination and then yearly parvo and distemper shots." He pointed out some warning signals of the diseases. If a pet is not eating normally and if a usually happy hap-py dog seems to be lying around, that could be indications of either disease, he said. Vomiting and diarrhea diar-rhea are other symptoms. Crnich was at a loss as to why people peo-ple refuse to have their pels vaccinated. vac-cinated. And while treatment is refused, more and more x ts will fall to parvo and distemper when they could have been saved with a simple insula tion, he added.- 'Explosive' growth strategy ands Summit LH.u-r- ummit Savings & Loan was if UnSafe and unsound last Fri-J Fri-J y the state and was taken over ; naay without interruption of seres ser-es by the Federal Savings & Loan uratice Corp., a federal bodv that deposits. irj L vvas deemed unsafe and f "mid by the Utah Department of ."cial Institutions. Summit S&L v ' stae-chartered S&L and lointlv regulated bv the ..nnservator. spokespei the F&li- a Ann cainco -r nc.ua FSLIC from Me quic not will continue Park City and there are eight c diaries in L tan. ii for subsi ... ,w the :k to assen v,. DUSiness ffect deposit d it VPr,r tnat uir in was the imi - conservator n hoc :) ' v'ui." - loan operation. 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