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Show Page 10 Thursday, August 7, 1980 I he Newspaper It WQ6HTCH1 FENCE DECK r CO , , j' T. ;-4 7 .! , rr- C HiqhQuoliy Reasonable Rates Free Estimates 649-8091 649-9678 N EW Syndicated Co umnists Jack AndersonStanley Karnow Jim Murray SPORTS NEW Local Columns WinepressTwo-Way Street Marketplace scoreDoara NEW New York Times Crossword Puzzle AND SUBSCRIBE NOW! $6 in Summit County $12 out of Summit County Photo by Pat McDowel ir MR Jl o3 mm j MORE! Ghairlif If you happened to be passing near the Park City Resort last Thursday, you may have noticed a helicopter helicop-ter dangling something tall and blue as it flew gracefully out of sight up Thaynes Canyon. That something tall and blue was one of the towers for the new Ford Country triple chairlift now under construction on the ski hill. In a precisely orchestrated procedure, the ace pilot taxied 26 towers in four hours up to a dozen men waiting to carefully align the towers after they had been lowered into prepared holes. Robbie Lynn Beck, an Candidate Speaks: Put Stress on This is the first in a series of profiles by The Newspaper News-paper on the 1980 candidates can-didates for the Park City School District School Board. This week, Nancy McComb, candidate for the third Park City precinct, is interviewed. Ensuring a "quality curriculum," cur-riculum," says Nancy McComb, is the single most important duty of the school board and that is why she wants to be part of the board. "Given the right curriculum, cur-riculum, a student can get an excellent education in a one-room schoolhouse," maintains McComb. "A superior course of studies is more important than a pretty pret-ty school building or any of the other frills that aren't essential to basic education." edu-cation." A frequent attendant of school board meetings, McComb Mc-Comb feels that past boards have sometimes lost sight of the premier position that curriculum deserves. "At one meeting the school board allocated $12,000 for lawn mowing equipment, for' scaffolding and for a lift to allow changes of ceiling lights; while I realize the importance of these things, I think the money could have been better spent increasing teachers' salaries or improving im-proving classes," says McComb. Mc-Comb. "In all the board meetings I've attended, I've only twice heard the curriculum discussed; the priorities are wrong. " McComb says that her t Towers Get a Lift themselves assistant in the resort's marketing department watched the furious work from the top of the lift terminus. She explained that holes previously had been dug for the towers, cement foundations foun-dations poured, and gridirons positioned that would hold the towers in place until more cement secured them permanently. Waiting in the parking lot below were the towers, which already had been assembled, welded and painted. pain-ted. The helicopter picked up each and flew it to the hole, gingerly lowering the 5,000-pound 5,000-pound structure toward waiting crews below. Each emphasis on curriculum doesn't mean austerity in other school programs. "I think this district can be the best in the state in academics, arts and sports. The redrawing of the district boundary lines pushed the district valuation from $17 million to $70 or $80 million. That's a lot of money for improvement im-provement in a lot of areas." On McComb's priority list for improvement are the district's media centers and foreign language courses. She also would like to see the high school curriculum designed so that the first two years are devoted to general studies, and the junior and senior years devoted to vocational education or college prep, depending on the individual student's preference. That was the very recom: mendation made by a Community Com-munity Council task force which conducted a kindergarten kin-dergarten through grade 12 evaluation of the district's curriculum needs. The chairperson of that 1976 task Shangri specializing in Window Washing, Janitorial, Maintenance & Repair Services Low Prices, Reliable Work, Free Kslimales CALL BOB & MICHELLE 649-6887 Mell These new parents Brent and Maxin Parkin wish to announce the birth of their baby girl Kristin born on July 30, 1980. These new parents Annette and Jack Gumbrecht wish to announce the birth of their baby girl Leah Blair born on July 30, 1980 in Chestnut Hill, Pennsylvania. Keep in touch with Park City Real Estate SUBSCRIBE TO THE Newspaper tower has a V-shaped notch in the bottom that fits into the gridiron. Once lowered, the crew foreman signaled the chopper chop-per to take off, and the ground work began. Three cables previously attached to each tower were undamped undam-ped and connected by the workmen to winches. With the use of a leveler placed on each tower, the foreman directed the exact positioning. And while crews were placing one tower, the helicopter was on its way to retrieve another. Ms. Beck said she timed the helicopter's round trip: 13 minutes, and by the time it returned with the next force was Nancy McComb, who claims the findings have been used for the past few years by the district administration ad-ministration and school board to upgrade classes. "I want every student that graduates from Park City High School to either have enough vocational training to be able to market his skills, or to be able to enter any college or university in the nation," the candidate says. McComb's other priorities for the schools include increasing in-creasing the pay for teachers (who are "under-payed "under-payed and underthanked," by McComb's account) and providing them with adequate employee housing. She wants a stronger gifted-students gifted-students program for the district. She wants closer communication between parents and teachers and the administration. That McComb has so many ideas for Park City schools can probably be attributed at-tributed to her years of involvement in-volvement with the local - La Ent. tower, crews were finished with the previous one, and were scurrying to the next hole. Ms. Beck commented that the helicopter comes from a Portland, Oregon-based company com-pany that installs chair-lifts chair-lifts at resorts " throughout through-out the mountain states. The crew members are employees of lift manufacturer, manu-facturer, Yan. She said the crew works together all season on other lift projects, perfecting their skills to eliminate wasted time and effort, since the helicopter time and fuel is expensive. She added that the same crew will return next year 1 sL m- Nancy education system. She has chaired several school councils: coun-cils: the Marsac Council for two years, the Community Council for two years, and the Middle School Council for a year. She has instructed instruc-ted such pull-out classes for elementary students as math lab, great books and reader's theatre. She helped write a $8,500 grant for a three-year gifted-student program for Middle School students and she started the Park City Pre-school. Can't Stop KPCW on During those long, lonely nights at The Newspaper office, when the rest of the sane working class have gone home, KPCW has been there to offer distraction from tapping typewriter keys. Then comes midnight and - blip! - dead air. Well, take heart insomniacs and newspaper reporters. Community Com-munity Wireless now is with us 24 hours a day. Program Director Dan Wilcox Wil-cox said it has always been in the back of the Wireless board's mind to go full-time, and last Sunday was the premiere of the new schedule. sche-dule. The music played between midnight and 6 a.m. will be chosen by the volunteer disc jockeys manning man-ning the two three-hour shifts. Wilcox said there's still room for more volunteer DJs, particularly to do a one-hour shift at 6 a.m., then possibly helping to gather the news for the entrance of Ron Burnett and B.F. Burnett and Blair "B.F." Feulner have changed their program, too. The news team now goes on the air at 7 a.m. (instead of, yawn, 6 a.m.), until 10 a.m. If you've enjoyed their news reports ftocying k cats uses UTTLE J L SAVE J A LOT A. If pofuntof the owgy reojunrfto I mete tK 1 oriojnalcan i for more resort projects, and to place lifts for the new Deer Valley resort. Ms. Beck pointed out that the week prior to the tower placement, the top and bottom bot-tom terminal stations were constructed with the use of a crane. Next on the agenda will be placing the chairlift machinery in the stations, stringing the cable, then welding the chairs into place. The result of the intricate musical chairs project will be a new lift open this season at the resort that will begin in Thaynes Canyon near the bottom of the Ford Country run, and end near the top of Single Jack. Studies McComb "I think I'm the most qualified person in the district to run for the school board," she says, adding, "I have a knowledge of the district that none of the other candidates have." McComb says there is one more reason why she wants to be on the school board: "I have six kids, in grades kindergarten kin-dergarten through seventh grade, and I want them to have the best education possible." the Music 24 Hours and local interviews, you can look forward to more of both. A recently constructed second se-cond production room will allow the pair to tape programs to be aired throughout the day and into the early evening. With just one production room previously, pre-viously, the duo had to roust local interviewees out of bed for live conversations between be-tween 6 and 9 a.m., since they couldn't be taping and airing at the same time. Wilcox said to date, the majority of comments about the station have been favorable. favor-able. Some listeners complained com-plained the classical music aired from 9 a.m. to noon was a bit too long, so that program has been cut by one hour and goes on from 10 a.m. to noon, Monday through Saturday. Other KPCW fans felt the afternoon after-noon hours featured too much rock and roll, so Wilcox said some mellower music will be added, broken up with the news and interviews previously pre-viously taped. Wilcox said there likely will be program modifications in the future as KPCW feels its way, but for now, they're all walking "ON AIR." atavum only 2-4 ,. t - i |