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Show THE SALT LAKE TIMES FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1975 Page Four THE SALT LAKE TIMES Combined with The Salt Lake Mining 6 Legal News Published Every Friday as Salt Luke City, Utah Utah Symphony Orchestra Presents Third Concert in Subscription Series the ing Maestro Maurice Abravanels years with the Utah Symphony, three symphonies of each composer have always headed the list of total performances of the orchestra. GLENN BJORNN, Publisher The fourth concert of the season "This publication is not owned or controlled by any party, clan, digue, faction will be presented Nov. 15 and will or corporation include guest artist Barry Tuck-wel- l, Number 29 Volume 55 French Horn soloist. Concert tickets are available at io the Utah Symphony office, 55 West Gutierrez. The same program will be per- First South, and at the symphony formed on Thurs., Oct. 30 in the ticket booth, located outside the Weber State College Fine Arts south gate at the Salt Lake Taber(Continued from page 1) Center as part of the orchestras nacle, one lrour before the concert. In Ogden, tickets can be purchased series. deposit of oil shale then formed, which was mined for Ogden Guest artist Horacio Gutierrez, at the Bertha Eccles Art Center. many years for medicines, chemicals, and gasoline, performing with the Utah Symuntil 1971. What remains today, says Maugh, is a large phony for the first time, is considered to be one of the great artists pit about 1000 meters "long, 700 meters wide, and 60 of our time. He was the leading meters deep. In its many remaining pockets of oil shale American prize winner at the 1970 lie a paleontologists dream: remarkably complete and Tchaikovsky Competition and has been described as a keyboard poet preserved fossil skeletons of land vertebrates (bats, with fingers of steel, and a snakes, a small horse) from the Middle Eocene epoch, pianist personality of the first rank, Utah's transient room tax a full of power and great strength in crucial barometer of tourism health about 48 million years ago. sound and has increased 31.9 per cent comFor years, the Darmstadt Landesmuseum had Glinkas sensitivity. brilliant and lively Over- pared with the same period last exclusive rights to dig at the site, but, because of ture to Russian and Ludmilla" will year. concert. This was the first Hotel and motel taxes, collected insufficient funds, it presently allows amateur collectors open the of based on be a to poem by Utah's counties and reported to use the site unsupervised. Most of the better opera Pushkin. Musically, this opera com- during June 1 through August 31, bines the best qualities of Italian, 1975 totalled $195,295.51, comspecimens thus are probably in private collections. and German opera, along pared with $148,016.16 for the Dr. Siegfried Rietschel of the Senckenberg Research French with Glinkas own genius and indi- same period last year. Institute and Museum of Natural History in Frankfurt viduality. It has rare originality Transient room tax was enacted claims that whereas fossil specimens at other sites are and beauty, often in true archaic, by the Utah State Legislature in Russian style. 1965 to help finance tourism promooften jumbled remnants, those of the Messel Pit are Then guest piano soloist Horacio tion programs in Utahs individual almost totally intact; as though the animals were still Gutierrez will join Maestro Abra- counties. Much of that money is in some way living, he says. Rietschels enthusiasm is vanel and the Utah Symphony spent by the states nine promoOrchestra for a performance of tional regions. The regions Goldshared by Dr. Donald E. Savage of the University of Rachnaminoff s Piano Concerto No. en Spike Empire, Canyonlands, 3. as one of to the compo- Color Country and others use the Regarded California Museum of Paleontology. According, e sers finest large-scalworks, the tax, private funding and state Savage, Messel not only is one of two sites (the other is Third Concerto is in three' movematching funds administered by in England) with complete fossil skeletons of the Middle ments. It opens in a somber mood the Utah Travel Council for which is followed a Eocene era. It is also the only one so compact, so by vigorous grams to encourage travel in their rhythmic pattern. The piano solo areas. Nearly $3 million has been concentrated, and so manageable. then sings a brightly pensive melo- collected to date through the tax. However, the Messel Pit is also an ideal site for dy. The Concerto's Finale is bril- tion liant in and ends a breathof ruch Tourism ranks as Utahs second something else. The German state of Hessen would like less acceleration and brilliant tonal largest industry, says Utah Travel to use it as a repository for incombustible trash, ashes, colors. Council Director Michael D. Galli-vaand chemical wastes from the metropolitan area Brahms' Symphony No. 2 in D bringing more than $250 iwll conclude the program. million into our state annually. The encompassing Frankfurt, Offenbach, and Darmstadt. Major The Second Symphony is the transient room tax collection each Present trash sites are esthetically displeasing, but warmest, sunniest and one of the year not only provides a good are also nearing the limits of their capacity, says most romantic of Brahms' four barometer for the industry, but It is one of the great helps bear the financial burden in Maugh. Hessens Minister of the Environment, Willi symphonies. symphonic masterpieces of all time. our continuing effort to attract Gorlach, estimates that the pit could hold 25 million Beethoven and Brahms are sym- more tourists and encourage them punch. Dur to stay longer. cubic meters of trash and could serve the region beyond phonic musics o Second Class Postage paid at Salt Lake Gty, Utah 711 South West Temple Telephone Salt Lake Gty, Utah 84101 64-846- 4 Maestro Maurice Abravanel and the Utah Symphony Orchestras Subthird concert of the 1975-7- 6 scription Series on Saturday, Nov. 1, 8 p.m. in the Salt Lake Tabernacle will feature selected musical works of composers Glinka, Rachmaninoff and Brahms, and also will include the first Utah appearance of n pianist Horacio Cuban-America- The Messel Pit Room Tax Gains Reflect Utahs Tourism Growth county-op- n, one-tw- the year 2000. Moreover, the German government, while showing great ambivalence about the proposed trash site, has taken little action. A survey by the German equivalent of the U.S. Geological Survey suggests that the Messel Pit is an ideal waste disposal site, since the oil shale is covered with a much harder rock, which should prevent potential water pollutants from escaping. The pits owner, a Munich firm named Ytong AG, would receive about $2.5 million from the German government should it be selected as the trash site. Should the pit be used for paleontology, Ytong AG may receive nothing at all. Finally, the 3000 residents of Messel are for the most part opposed to using the pit for trash, fearing odors, smoke, pollutants, and a resulting drop in local property values. They have petitioned the Ministry of the Environment to find another trash site. Alternative choices are few. Some groups have suggested placing the trash in artificial mounds, to be then covered with soil and used as small hills for recreation. The Hessen government claims this is an expensive undertaking, but, says Maugh, it does not appear to have calculated the actual costs or to have investigated potential sites. On the other hand, the investigators from the Senckenberg Institute would like to have the Messel Pit, in actuality a pleasant spot, turned into a sort of outdoor natural history museum with fossil displays and play areas. But jio funds are available for this type of plan, either. At present, scientists and government officials are at odds, with the government appearing to have the upper it is patently hand. Maugh, who feels that obvious that (fossil) preservation is the only acceptable alternative, concludes that the only hope for this to happen is through mobilization of international opinion against the government plans. ... - l EASED 6RHPEVIIUE Brigham Young Universitys stand on not enforcing several federal antidiscrimination regulations is receiving support from a number of individuals and private schools. Mr. Bruce Olsen, director of university relations said the university has received nearly 100 letters backing its position since placing ads in local newspapers stating it did not intend to follow six of the regulations. Olson said 'that there has been no official response from the Department of Health, Education and Welfare which imposed the regulations on schools receiving federal funds under Title 9 legislation against sex discrimination. Traffic fatalities in Utah declined about 36 percent in September compared to the previous two years according to a report of the National Highway Traffic Safety Admini- stration. There were 18 traffic-relatedeaths in the state during September 1975 compared with 28 d both in 1973. and 1974. The decrease contributed to a national decline of three percent. This is the first time during 1975 that figures dropped below those of the previous two years. Salt Lake City officials this week gave the Salt Lake City school district a $251,000 check for the Sumner School building. The city purchased the school property with federal community development funds and will use the land for a park, playground and the site for a high rise housing complex for the elderly. The school was built after area residents pitched in to buy the land in the 1890s and ld then turned it over to the school board. Salt Lake City Mayor Conrad B. Harrison says its time to turn the lights back on over freeways in Salt Lake City. With the approach of winter drivers are going to work and returning to their homes inthe dark. Hundreds of sodium vapor lights on freeways throughout Utah were turned off two years ago at the height of the energy crisis. Only a few have been relighted. Harrison said he will ask the governor and transportation officials to turn the lights back on. The Utah Liquor Nominating Board will meet Nov. 7 to interview prospective Utah Liquor Control Commission members. The board scheduled to meet in the Governors board room will submit three named to Governor Calvin L. Rampton who will choose a successor to the late Herbert Corkey, Jr. Meanwhile the two remaining Commission chairman Gerald Hulbert and Ernest are looking at qualifications for a new Commission director. six-memb- er dial Dur-ban- o Where thousands of listeners enjoy concert music and news every day! 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