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Show , 1 Omniwest Corp. 11 3322 So. 3rd East Salt Laka City. UT 84115 Twenty Five Cents Volume Four By nearly every count, from the enthusiasm en-thusiasm of the artists to the buying frenzy of the sun-baked tourists, this year's Park City Arts Festival lived up to the added fanfare marking its tenth anniversary. New festival treats inluded a concert con-cert Saturday evening by the jazz group Oregon and a pops concert by the Utah Symphony, which elicted near rock concert fervor from the audience. The quality of art work and the number, and variety of out-of-state checks presented to the artists by festival tourists seems to support the contention that the Park City fete is becoming an increasingly national attraction. at-traction. Many of the artists told The Newspaper that the Park City festival is, for them, the most pleasant and profitable of all the festivals they attend. at-tend. "This is the best show I've ever done," said Ryan Gorley, part of the three-artist California team called "Our Gang," which sold wizards and other pottery figurines at the top of Main Street. "I've broken all sales records here. ...the people are pleasant and don't haggle over prices." Another ceramist, a veteran of Park City Arts Festivals, reported doing twice the business in one festival day that he did over both fesitval days(last year. Painter Ron Russell said he had no idea that the festival crowd would be so inclined to buy. 1 77 I' A - V t&.'-' W7t: rl 71 r"j I ; T" Not g ' nr 1 . : ? TW w Jw 1 M'XAii . . ' hingf Bunt Praise For Festival. "On a scale of one to ten I'd give the festival a ten, and I've been to some real zeroes," the artist said. "This festival is well-organized, the crowds well-behaved. ...I'm appreciative of the Utahns, I'll come back anytime." This was the first Park City festival Russell has attended. His paintings on glass have a particular luminous quality that lend themselves to the astronomicalfantasy scenes he creates. Included among the collectors collec-tors of Russell's works is science-fiction writer Ray Bradbury. Russell's work illustrated the uniqueness and diversity of art work this year, which, as one resident put it, made last weekend much more than just "a pottery and oil painting festival." Another particularly unique artist was Michael Thiele, who's ornate wood box drums sold like hot cakes. Originally, Thiele planned to attend the San Francisco Arts Festival last weekend as he had done the previous year. However, an artist friend persuaded per-suaded him to come to Park City instead in-stead and Thiele was glad he did. After Af-ter selling out of his xylophone-like drums, he pronounced the Park City Arts Festival the best festival he's ever attended. With so much buying, festival visitors also must have been pleased with the fete. Even some of the Main Street merchants who normally view the weekend event as a major inconvenience incon-venience were busy at their cash registers. Some noted that the spacing Policy differences causedJ. Warren King to submit his resignation resigna-tion as president of Royal Street Land Company. Com-pany. Merle Huseth will succeed him. Thursday, of artist and food booths made it easier for people to enter their stores. Much of the credit for such rave reviews must go to Festival Director Tina Lewis and the scores of local volunteers. "Everyone in town gets behind the arts festival and when you have that kind of community involvement you can't help but be successful," director Lewis said. , Careful planning went into all stages of the festival: the juring of artist ar-tist applications, traffic and transportation, transpor-tation, the mapping of street booth locations, clean-up, even the paper Contract Murder Plot Thwarted After three intensive days of police investigation, a Park City woman was arrested last week and charged with conspiracy to murder after allegedly contracting with a "hit man" to kill her husband. Arrested last Friday by Park City police was Mary June Kryger, 34, of 1650 Lucky John Drive. Her arrest followed a tip from the Van Nuys, California police department. Park City Police Chief Mike; Crowley said he received word from California authorities July 31 at about 6 p.m., and' from there the wheels started turning. Crowley was told the information had been received by an informant previously used by the California police. Page 3 August 9, 1979 and ink for the official festival stationary was given careful consideration. con-sideration. To handle the long incoming traffic lines, the festival committee hired the University of Utah traffic police, a crew of resort parking lot attendants and twice the number buses as last year. "The system worked beautifully," Ms. Lewis said. "The people were moved quickly and efficiently. There was a bus stop within a block of every parking space so arriving tourists didn't have too far to walk." The smooth transportation According to the informant, he met Mrs. Kryger at a party in California and the woman subsequently paid him $500 as a deposit on a $5000 contract to Large Complex Proposed Plans for an 800-acre industrial park at Silver Creek Junction that could potentially employ as many as 7,000 people will be presented to the Summit County Commission next Tuesday. The project will be presented by Max Greenhalgh, former county planner, who now is a planning consultant con-sultant for Silver Creek Limited. He Page 9 Rosie's package agency on Main Street has a new manager, Tony Beam, and he's stocking up on some new items. J1 operation may have contributed to the mellow nature of the crowds. According Accor-ding to Police Chief Mike Crowley, the few crowd problems that did crop up were related to public intoxication or drunk driving. "All in all, the crowds were exceptionally excep-tionally well-behaved," the police chief said. The one disappointment of the festival was the modest turnout at the kid's art show at City Park. "All the kids that attended the show loved it b; t it was sparsely attended kill her husband. Gene. Once the police were informed of the plot, conversations con-versations between Mrs. Kryger and the hit man were taped. will be representing developers and Silver Creek Limited principals Vern Hardman and Paul Anderson. Greenhalgh said the group approached ap-proached the County Commission about a year ago with preliminary plans for a combination industrial residential park. Greenhalgh was still county planner at the time and admits he was not in favor of the idea and was rk City's only locally owned newspaper Number Forty-Seven M - 1 If - ' VN because of all the activity on Main Street," said Lewis. "I think we should continue to have a children's festival but bring it closer to Main Street, maybe up to the depot." Summing up her feelings about this year's festival the director said: "We're attracting national recognition. The really fine artists are now interested in Park City and people now come specifically to Utah for the festival from Chicago, Florida and California which is exactly what we want." In those conversations Mrs. Kryger allegedly asked that the left front tire of her husband's car be "disturbed," Continued On Page 3 supported by some commissioners. The group also was seeking rezoning of 385 acres from agricultural to light industrial, for which they received approval. Greenhalgh said after leaving the county and becoming a consultant to Silver Creek Liminted, he became more familiar with the rolling ineafher Generally fair weather expected ex-pected through the weekend with a chance of scattered afternoon and evening thunder showers. Highs in the 80s, lows 44-55. |