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Show Wednesday, January?, 1976 How Kboat It? How do you spend most of your time in Park City? NecospapeR fubltc Bote Pegs 2 Talk Telephone Gymnastics Well, it's over. The Christmas-New Year's holiday bulge was something else this year record numbers of people spending record amounts of money, and hopefully, setting records on their personal fun meters. : During this brief but welcome respite when local merchants are almost (but not quite) too fatigued to tally the cash register receipts, dare we mention next Christmas? : Everybody enjoys success. It usually stirs a yearning for even more success. This Christmas was a biggie but why not even bigger next year? Indeed, why not? But success exacts a price. More people than ever before enjoyed the recreation, entertainment and hospitality of Park. City. Unfortunately, due to the numbers involved, more people than ever before were disappointed, distressed, distraught or disillusioned during their stay here. Whenever such a deluge of humanity gathers in one place, some people are going to be inconvenienced. in-convenienced. You can never satisfy everybody but trying tq do so certainly can't hurt. One area of service which we feel can be improved im-proved is lodging. Overbooking by a small percentage is normal procedure for lodges, hotels, condominiums, etc., during peak periods. It insulates the lodge owner against lost revenues due to last minute cancellations. It can also result in a more-people-than-beds situation. Due. to the uncertainty of the United Airlines strike, overbooking was practiced to a greater degree this Christmas. The result was some mad scrambling to match guests with beds. Holiday periods are characterized by telephone telethons even without airline strikes. Lodge owners with capacity crowds and more at the door run Ma Bell ragged attempting to find room for would-be skiers. They try here and there, running down tips on what "might" be available at other lodges. ' We suggest a central clearing house for lodging during maximum load periods. All lodginfacities i In town could report their ; occupancy sitw'nrkeut&ngeao., a central location established by either the Chamber of Commerce or the Lodging Association. When the proprietor or manager of a full house receives a lodging request or has a reservation he cannot honor, he refers it to the clearing house. The clearing house can then given an accurate and timely report on what's available at what price, eliminating the telephone gymnastics. If the caller gets his room, it is scratched from the list. If a vacancy pops up, it is reported and recorded. Everyone saves time and everyone is happier. If the visitor leaves Park City happy, he comes back next Christmas, which then becomes even bigger than the one before. This is just one small suggestion which is germane to a basic philosophy. We don't want next Christmas (or Washington's Birthday, or Easter) to be bigger. We want it to be bigger and better. MgDiCAl DiRC-CTORyj John Cook, M.D. 817 Park Ave. 649-9781 Monday, Wednesday, Friday, every other Saturday 9 a.m.-ll a.m. Salt Lake office, 582-2911 or 582-2912 Richard Williams, M.D. Clinic on north Park Avenue. Hours by appointment. 649-9150. John Lambert, D.D.S. 523 Main Street 649-9492 Thursday, Friday 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday by appointment. Emergency 649-9240. r The : , NecospapeR PablisbeR J. HocDarzd Stable EditoR. Steue Dewing Business Manager? '. Bonnie Stable RepoRtew, PbotOflRaptaw- .CReg SchiRp Published weekly at Park City, Utah. Subscriptions Sub-scriptions $6 per year, $10" out of state. Send orders for subscriptions or change of address to The Newspaper, P.O. Box 738, Park City, Utah 84060. Pictures, news and advertising may be submitted sub-mitted prior to Wednesday publication at our of-, fice, 419 Main St., Park City, by mail, P.O. Box 738, Park City, or by caling 649-9592 or 359-2612. 359-2612. Publication matter must be received by Monday afternoon for Wednesday publication, w i r 14 JaV" TRANSPORTATION APPEALS The Board of Adjustments for Park City's no-fare no-fare transportation system will meet Monday, Jan. 12 at 5 p.m. in City Hall. Those persons wishing, to appeal their transportation tran-sportation assessments must contact the City Recorder before 5 p.m. Friday, Jan. 9. DEADLINE Businesses which have not paid their business license fee by January 15 wUl be closed down by the city. GUIDES NEEDED Waddles I enjoy jumping out of speeding "' The Resort needs six guides to assist blind skiers in the BOLD program. Trout - When I'm not cruisine for buraers with A clinic for those wishing to volunteer will be nirknn tnwOre 9ni ninkina fiohts with larffer Mountain. I like to so ud to Main Street where I heldSunday, January 18 from 1 to 3pm. dogs. For kicks I sometimes bark up the wrong can have a howling good time with my old Free uft tickets will be provided for the clinic tree friends shooting pool at the Alamo. and for the days guide service is provided. For in formation caU 649-8111, EXT. 3858. vrrF . DOGTAGS Dog license fees for 1976 must be paid by Jan. 1. The fees will be considered delinquent after March l. PARK CITY WINTER PARKING LAWS No Main Street parking between 2 a.m. and 6 a.m. No double parking No alley Parking - Downtown parking lots must be cleared of all vehicles every Wednesday for snow removal Vehicles in violation will be ticketed and or im- Buckbord -l spend most of my time driving ;Skyla -" Since t spend most'of my time raising ? PHnded" " - -m nMm: around-town in Tom Randal's :;6 Thunderbird. Wy tpVf.. STea rm hoping yy&nlim will makVWy 4rlP I ve had my dog license since I was 16, you know, rewarded I with a trip to the Winter 0 ympics in cu moreHenjovable and wU assist the City in its Lately, Ive.been trying to live down my Innsbruck, Austria. I'm particularly looking snowremova operations' reputation as a figher by only attacking the hew forward to meeting some of those sensuous dogs in town. French Poodles and romantic German Shepherds. REWARD OFFERED $25 reward offered for the recovery of a Summit County plate missing from the war veterans honor : roll. Please call Memorial Building or come by, 649-9461. Mm A i., v -J yy Uncertainties Force Delay Of Kaiparowifs Power Projects Pieto -1 just enjoy sitting in front of theEley Boogie I spend most of my time ferociously Garage watching cars go by. guarding the Main Furniture and Hardware When traffic is slow, I go looking for that big, Store. During my spare moments I write all of bad stud, Buckboard. Art Durante's comic material. x f , Mountain I like hanging out at the Resort with my brother Trout. We usually get fed pretty well up there but even on a bad day we can always roll little kids for their burgers. I- ADVERTISING INS2??' BRINGS RESULTS! BOX 738 PARK CITY, UTAH 84060 ft t .i Participants in in proposed $3.5 billion Kaiparowits Power Project in Southern Utah announced an-nounced that delays in regulatory approvals had forced deferral of scheduled initial operation of the project by one year. ' Speaking for the electric utility participants in the huge coal-fired project, William Ft. Gould, executive vice preseident of Southern California Edison Company, said: "We must regrettably recognize these delays as realities and establish revised initial operating dates. "The participants recognize that any major energy project will result in environmental impacts," Gould said. "However, the Kaiparowits project has made an unprecedented commitment to environmental en-vironmental protection. "We intend to continue to proceed as rapidly as possible toward obtaining regulatory approval. However, until the various environmental issues and regulatory delays are resolved, and resultant cost increases are assessed, the participants" cannot prudently continue to make major expenditures (which would have 'amounted to approximately $80 million in 1976) to meet the present schedule." . This rescheduling, of necessity, Gould said, will delay completion dates one year for the generating units to the 1982, '83, '84 timeframe. time-frame. l - Edison, Arizona Public Service Company and the San Diego Gas and Electric Company are the present project participants. Other utilities in Utah, Arizona and California have expressed interest in purchasing the 18.6 percent of uncommitted power from the project. "The project is not a new proposal," Gould said. "It 1- i ... s ueen on uie drawing Boards Boar-ds since 1962, and it has been in the environmental review process for nearly four years." A series of public hearings on the draft impact statement was held last September by the Bureau of Land Management Department of Interior, in Utah, Arizona, ; Nevada and California. "Testimony at the hearings, as well as a statewide state-wide poll by Utah Senator Frank Moss, established that . the majority of Utah residents and state governmental govern-mental leaders are strongly in favor of the project," Gould said. |