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Show Page 2 Wednesday, Novembsr 10, 1976 f How Hbout It? Newspaper J futiltc JSotte Talk 'ft RETURN TRIP Almost lost invthe tumult of last week's election were initatives in four states which would ban the use of nonreturnable beverage containers. Based on a law adopted in Oregon four years ago which prohibits the sale of no-deposit bottles and pop-top cans, the measures were approved by voters in Maine and Michigan and defeated by residents of Colorado and Massachusetts. : In each of the states where the nonreturnable ban ' was on the ballot, industrial and labor groups fought long and hard to prevent passage. That these special f i interest groups opposed the proposals is not surprising but their arguments were weak and the X defeats were surprising, at least to this writer. : Industry and labor forces claimed that the returnable bottle measures would raise the price of beer and soft drinks while doing little to alleviate litter problems. It's hard to believe that these suppositions could be regarded as true, especially in supposedly enlightened, Colorado. His Rocky Mountain Highness John Denver certainly must be embarrassed that his neighbors shunned -such an ecologically sound proposal. The Environmental Protection Agency and the League of Women Voters recently conducted a 28-city . survey which demonstrated that use of returnable v cans or bottles could result in 30-cents saving on the ' purchase of a single six-pack of any type beverage, in their rush to preserve America's propensity for waste, the anti -returnable forces must have forgotten to deduct the deposit when calculating their drink price increases. In addition to the millions of dollars consumers could save in beverage costs through the use of returnables, the amount of solid waste the country generates could be reduced substantially. Less waste means lower collection and disposal costs, again resulting in a savings to the consumer. . The contention that nonreturnables do not contribute significantly to America's litter problem is ridiculous. There are very few secluded spots to . which any of us can travel and not be preceded by the ever-present beer can. They're everywhere, casually discarded to either prey on the next fellow's -sensitivities or to be added to by the next fellow's 1 callous disregard for nature. The presence of the beer can is a forewarned event, however. A trail of pop-tops is always a preview of coming distractions. And an unlittered roadside is an endangered, if not extinct, species : nmtedrtt'stbe Wn;iiot Banning nonreturnables makes sense both economically and ecologically. We would like to see a proposal similar to the ones adopted by Oregon, Maine and Michigan brought before the voters of Utah. It's mere presence on the ballot would sienifv an encouraging awareness but we would hold little hope for its passage in the foreseeable future. After all, any state in which the citizens of the major city willingly subject their lungs to the Kennecott Front and a state which was anxious to sacrifice its greatest natural treasures in order to generate electrical power for California can't be expected to clean up their act, even if it would save them money. G0s New Car The Park City Police Department received the approval of the city council Thursday evening, to purch Thursday evening to purchase a new patrol car at a cost of $1811.23 from Steve Wade Pontiac in Salt Lake City. "Provo city bought all new Pontiacs and their police chief told me it was the first rar they ever had that didn't receive any complaints from V Editor. Steve Dering Reporter, Photographer GregSchirf Feature Writer Hank Louis Business Manager JanWilking Off ice Manager ... Sandy Erickson Publishers: Wilking, Louis, Schirf and Dering Pictures, news and I rnitted prior to Wednesday publication at our' of llf cfe. 419 Main St, Park (jl 738, Park City, or fijD Publication matter must fH afternoon for Wednesday If that Usturn Dopt their officers," Park ity Police Chief Garth Wilkinson said. According to Wilkinson, "It was the best deal by quite a bit," of the seven bids the city received from different dealerships. The vehicle,-which is not expected to be delivered until sometime in January, will be the PCPD's fourth patrol car. V advertising may be sub" 1 M City, by mail, P.O. Box' by calling 649-9592; be received by Monday; publication 'rrh 1 ; Jerry Frkovtek 001 ; 5. , JV -' rfl "J In jfcy Jtul Potychronls Mary Mair ByAbbyRand Reprinted from the October Sid Magazine Damned Turkeys. They pack out the powder. They drive up the prices. They create liftlines. They look dumb. That's what some ski-town out as though we were too ignorant to get the meaning, they say things about skiers vou "d me that they wou,d never "J about other minority groups. Because I'm in and out of ski towns a lot, I get a double dose. I stand accused of being a veritable turkey and, something worse, a corraler of other turkeys. "Please don't write about our mountain," mount-ain," they say. "We don't want a lot of turkeys ruining the place." Their mountain. in America's finest ski centers, "their" mountain is often on U.S. Forest Service land, which, at least partially, makes it our mountain. As I read the U.S. Constitution, White River National Forest, Wasatch National Forest and their counterparts belong neither more nor less to the people of Aspen or Salt Lake City than they do the people of Harlem and Watts. Or of Scarsdale of Beverly Hills. I consider "ski bum" an honorific term, describing 1 - Uf t.! 4 ' (At jp Turkey createS; ThP "Tnd words of nonaccusatorr i UCdlCa Uic . Hrin r auon uaif until nt . V-"! : J II i . mi vwmwvw vui nra AAtna that h no M iB2 ?1 "St -. ' - o--" vninnraniv rnmur iivafi mv Letters to the. Editor Thanks Editor; I wish to express my appreciation for the confidence confiden-ce my friends and neighbors have shown in me. by voting for me to serve another term " l" u""drs Team? Let s can mem on the Park City School ers pay goes toward ra"ge "Locos." It has an im-Board. im-Board. I will do my very best Protectlon and establishment plication of individualism to 'justify that confidence. f . M that Mr- and that fits. Thanks very much. Enckson and his ski touring As a New York Loco. I friends enjoy for free. , hprebv promise not to be Sincerely, Violet Terry Hunters Editor; Each year we are forced to endure anti-hunting letters printed in the editorial section of the Newspaper. Frank S. Erickson's letter, written from Peoa, belittling hunters and the sport of hunting is an example of the What Is your reaction to the new ski resort planned for the Deer Valley-Lake Flat area? Jerry Frkovick I hope it goes over and that they make lots of money . That means everyone will make lots of money. . Pete Toly It will be great. It should go a long way towaras upgrading we Mai" aucciaiea uy placing it at the junction of two major resorts. Jessi Polychronis I think it's great. It will really be a big addition to Park City. The more the town grows the better it will be for everyone. Gib Martinez I 'don't think much of it. I feel we're overdeveloped as it is. I'm kind of a wilderness nut; : .' Mary. Mair They might just as well have it. If you can't fight them you might as well join them.. Scott Nelson Very enthused. We'll be skiing it this winter with the Utah Powder guides and already I see great photographic possibilities. I'm sure the town can support another major area. ' v. Eye View s- people whose calling I respect and admire. I don't ask them to admire mine, I ask them only to respect my right to ski on their mountain, because it is my mountain, too. I appreciate, although I can- not ask it as a matter of ngnt, the irequent smiles turkey's path. ; What really drives , me up - the wall about high-altitude ( snobs is that their tirades against the species turkey always overlook one thing - if we flatlanders didn't scheme and skimp in order to come ski "their" mountain, they would have no mountain to ski. You can't net Daid for washing dishes unless someone some-one has paid to eat off them. You can't earn your way by ?: skiing on patrol unless you ' import dumdum turkeys to ( lie on the tobaggan and be "wrecks." In short, if there; were no skiers there could be r no ski bums. Without turkeys there would not be any Aspen or Vail or Hilly Heaven, Wis- AARDl'll 'TkiM .. U 1 ximv wuuiu uv no rope tows, no chairlifts or gondolas. There would be no beautifully groomed trails, or ; machine-made snow to cover v bare spots. There would be ' no great apres-ski spots, or restaurants, or the kind of entertainment that enriches the life of ski towns. C. same public misconceptions of why people hunt. Need I remind Mr. Erickson and others, that hunters take only the surplus animals that wo",d die, anvway- Plus the I will hope that in the future, Mr. Erickson will come back to reality and stop portraying hunters as "kill worshipping, gun-totine maniacs, thirsty only for Wood" and see them as ordinary human beings. If he Joesn l- then 1 m Konna kill whi, nnH the mialitv him. J'm Miller White Pine, Utah Underneath our fancy clothes we are reasonably decent people, neither kinkier nor squarer than most living and workine in ski towns, "Why is the anti-tourist feeling so strong?" I asked MUler, who notTonly live in the heart of Vermont's ski country but as a Dhotoera- isitors, Without justifying the resentment, Miller could see how it arose. He gave a familiar example: driving home -late at night in a snowstorm, coming to a big hill where the road is blocked by a skidded car. The car hat: no snow tires. It does have New Jersey plates. Dumb turkey! In the back of my mind, a chord twanged. I had a sudden vision of myself trying to cross Times Square last- summer. ' The light changes. The people in front of me do not move. They just stand there in their Instama-tics Instama-tics and drip-dry Bermudas, looking at the neon signs. 6ut of towners! Turkeys! I fully know how important tourism is to my city. I want people to visit New York (we have an aerial tram now, too). Yet I forgot about that the minute the tourists were blocking my way. Anti-turkeyism is not just a ski ; phenomenon. It is universal. Every community, 'no matter how devoutly it wants tourists to come, gets impatient with those who are already there. I ski towns the feeling is aggravated because floods of tourists overstrain the facilities, making people wait in line for everything from toilets to trams, if the Visiting Team is the Turkeys, who is the Home nasty to ski-country turkeys who come to visit New York. In exchange, I want them to reciprocate when I am their visitor. ' 1 OK Locos...If you don't ., Mn in If ..... 2L L tiroA f twn Sasledt your mountain. . feel it in your of your ski facilities. 1 If you love yourselves, you'll have to learn to love us. PtteToty Gb Martinez i Scott Nelson Local Police I Travel ToSLC The Park City Police Department began serving 35 arrest warrants in the Salt Lake afea for delinquent Ujc cations issuea y to.iu nthdfago, Chief Ganth Wilkinson announced at the city council meeting Thursday Thurs-day evening. ( Wilkinson said a couple of his officers have been serving warrants on their own time He told the council seven people have already been contacted and $185 has been collected. Explaining the impetus behind the bench warrants, signed by Park City Justice of the Peace, Brent Gold, Wilkinson said, "If the word got out that we never did anything about these citations that were never paid, pretty soon you would have a group coming'Up here that just didn't give a damn." The police chief said in the future he would like to serve the warrants on a monthly basis and asked the city council to pay the Park City officers aproximately $4 a hour. ' Councilman Steve Dering told his colleagues, "I would like to go ahead and do what ,Garth suggests but with a monthly accounting of how much we pay out and how much we collect. If it ever gets to the point that we're : not at least breaking even, then we could reassess the situation. The council agreed to Dering's proposal and voted unanimously to pay $4 an hour to city officers serving arrest warrants outside of Park City. CityOffors Hugo Land Parcol Three hundren square inches of Main Street. real estate owned by the Park City Municipal Corporation was declared surplus property and will be sold to Robert Johnson for COO. Johnson wh is building an apartment-s lopping ' mall complex at 6th and Main Street, had requested the land so that he could own a perfectly square lot on which to construct his building. I' t ' I yuk Dl IA f I II f II KING ROAD MEETING .Owners of property on King Road who have boundry conflicts are urged to attend a meeting of the Park City Council Properties Committee on November 16 at 6 p.m. in City Hall.- Bring legal surveys and square footage figures for land in question, ; , BABY CLINIC The Well Baby Clinic will be held Wednesday, November 17, at 9:30 a.m. in the Memorial Building. FRAUD CLINIC First Security Bank at Park City is sponsoring their annual Fraud Clinic for the benefit of the merchants in the area. It is designed to help the mechants and employees of the various businesses know what types of fraudulent practices to be aware of and to watch for during the coming ski season. Guest speakers for the clinic will be FBI Agent William Olmsted, Secret Service agent Ron Kelson. Representatives from American Express and BankAmericard will also be at the clinic. .All merchants and. their employees are welcomed to attend this free clinic. It will be held at the Memorial Building in Park City at 10:00 a.m., November 18. COMMISSION VACANCY Applications to fill the vacant Park City Planning Commission seat are now being accepted. Letters should be submitted to the City Planners office in City Hall. i FIRE DISTRICT ELECTION An election to select two members of the Park City Fire Protection District will be held December 1. Persons wishing to run must file at the County Courthouse in Coalville by 5 pm Tuesday, November 9. Persons residing within the boundries of the fire protection district are eligible. RECREATION NEWS The following classes and activities are just getting started so you can still sign-up today or as indicated below. ' - ' , , yrwr Photography: Tuesday and Thursday 3:30 5:30 at ,. Kimball Art Center. Cost is $15. Macrame: Tuesday at 7 p.m. Memorial Building. Tennis, Piano and Boxing: Call 649-9461. : Little League Basketball Sign-up Tuesday, October 26 at 3:30 in the Memorial Building. Adult Volleyball starts Tuesday night. Adult Basketball starts Wednesday night. Referees Needed: for Volleyball and Basketball. Call Bruce or Sam at 649-9461. Or come by the Memorial Building for information about any Recreation Department activities. v AUDITIONS Auditions are continuing for the Kimball Art Center Company's three one-act plays. If you missed the scheduled auditions earlier in the week, call 649-8882 and reschedule your audition. Scripts available at the Kimball Art Center. Final Casting will be Friday, Nov. 12. Volunteer for the set crew too. EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY DUE TO WINTER CONDITIONS' THE FOLLOWING PARKING CONDITIONS WILL BE ENFORCED EN-FORCED IN PARK CITY UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE: ; ';; On the below named roads there will be "No Parking" as indicated. On Lowell Avenue, Empire Avenue, Norfolk Avenue, Woodside Avenue, Park Avenue and Daly Avenue there will be "No Parking" on the east side of the above named streets at anytime. On Ontario Avenue, McHenry Avenue there will be "No Parking" on the west side of the above named streets at anytime. On Chambers Avenue, Prospect Avenue, Hillside Avenue, Samson Avenue, Anchor Avenue and King Road there will be "No Parking" at anytime due to the narrow road conditions and ice build-up on the above named roads. On Heber Avenue there will be "No Parking" at anytirne on the South Side of above named street. On Main Street there will be "No Parking" from 2:00 a.m. to 6:00 a.m. There will be "No Parking" at anytime on Main Street from the TMI south to turn around and 2nd Street south to the turn around. Swede Alley, all cars must be removed every Wednesday for snow removal. On all alley ways or other un-named streets must be kept cleared, of parked vehicles to allow the snow plows to get through.. In conjunction with the above stated conditions con-ditions all vehicles parked in the "No Parking" Zone are .subject to being ticketed and said vehicles impounded. Also the 72 hour parking will be strickly enforced. PARK CITY POLICE DEPARTMENT 7 |