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Show Vol. VI. No. 2 New Runs for Your Moiiey You won't be able to talk about THE triple chair at the Resort any more. Beginning this season there will be two of them. As three-person chairlifts become the state of the art, the popular King Con lift will be joined this winter by a second triple chair: the newly-named Motherlode lift. Announced by the Resort in April, the new lift is designed to relieve some of the pressure on the existing Prospector lifts, and to provide access to new trails being cut between the Prospector run and the gully in Thaynes Canyon. According to Resort Mountain Manager Mana-ger Phil Jones, the Motherlode lift will carry up to 1,800 skiers per hour. The base terminal, yet to be constructed, will be in Thaynes Canyon with the upper terminal between the existing Single Jack and Double Jack trails. He said the lift will be 5,000 feet long with a vertical rise of about 1,200 feet. Towers for the new lift were installed this summer, and Jones predicted that . it would be operational by the end of the third week in October. In conjunction with the lift, two new trails are being cut between Single Jack and Parley's Park and modifications made to those two existing runs. Skiers on Single Jack now will have the choice of following the existing . intermediate route to the bottom of the Thaynes lift, or taking a new trail, which Jones described as "steeper than hell," into Thaynes Canyon. Parley's Park also is being modified to feed into the new lift. Instead of taking a sharp right at the bottom of the run to go to the Prospector lifts, skiers will be able to veer left through what is being called Carbide Cut into Thaynes YouY Number :Vs Up -Or It Should Be By Rick Brough Park City residents love the snows in the winter and the sun's rays in the summer. But Park City visitors are in a fog year round when they attempt to locate a friend or business mainly because many of the houses and streets up here are unmarked! It's trial-and-error time when you're searching for an address. This also makes it difficult for emergency services like fire teams and paramedics to help in a crisis. - B'ut the City Council put the town on notice at last week's meeting. They want to see every residence mansion, condo, or lean-to tagged with a number num-ber within 30 days. Mayor Jack Green could not tell The Newspaper if house numbers have to fit certain specifications or locations. We'd advise common sense. Place your house number num-ber where it is easily visible from the street, even at night. And in general, make sure the numbers are no smaller than a bread box, and no larger than a Buick. How do you determine what your house number is if you've never had one? First of all, select a number that will adhere to the old rule, "Even numbers num-bers on one side of the street, odd numbers num-bers opposite." A little neighborhood planning will probably be helpful. If all the "evens" on your side of the street find someone hanging an odd number, run him out of town. He's probably the kind of guy who snorts wood shavings at night, and doesn't belong in your neighborhood neigh-borhood anyway. Mayor Green had three concrete suggestions for finding your house number. 1) Use the address listed on your utility bills: Of course, the mayor also admits the three or four utilities you pay each month may each list you by a different address. In that case, take the different numbers and average them. 2) Find your number by looking at the neighboring houses: Say you're building a home on a vacant lot between two houses, listed as 505 Time-Share Avenue and the other, 521 Time-Share. Figure the difference (5 from 21 is 16) halve that, (which is 8), carry the number num-ber (or rent a U-Haul, if necessary ) and add that to the lower house address. Thus, your new home will be numbered 513. If you're nervous about the number 13, that's tough! 3) Be creative. What do you expect? He's only the mayor! If the numbering problem still worries you, however, we have some additional suggestions: 4) List each address in the phone book as a rough verbal description, as in "Carlson, Marty; the white house shaped like a witch's hat just south of Canyon. The existing Parley's Park also has been graded this summer. The two brand-new runs have been christened Sunnyside and Glory Hole. Of the two, Glory Hole should be the more challenging, with one section recommended for expert skiers only. Sunnyside, on the other hand, will have a more gradual, even slope suitable for intermediate skiers. Jones predicted that work on the new runs also would be finished by late October. Jones described a careful process used in planning the runs which included taking photographs from a helicopter and hiking up and down the side of the mountain countless times, marking possible routes with colored ribbon tied to the aspens. When The Newspaper photographs were taken Monday afternoon, bulldozer bull-dozer operator Jesse Tuttle was clearing the aspens from the area designated as the Glory Hole run. Jones said each of the runs would be seeded by hand "just like feeding chickens" before winter. He also pointed out work underway on other parts of the mountain. The King Con run, which handles a lot of skier traffic, is being widened and water lines installed for snow-making equipment. equip-ment. Jones said the top of Hidden Splendor also is being widened. At the base of the Resort, excavation has begun for an addition to the building which houses ticket sales and the ski school. Jones said the addition will include space for the race department, office space for the ski school and lockers for skiers, as well as increased ticket sales capacity. Completion Com-pletion is expected before Nov. 15. the road construction near Mary Leh-mer's Leh-mer's house, with the brown Labrador in the yard." 5) Install sirens in each home and business, allowing emergency services to easily locate problems. 6) Require each household to hang huge plastic convention name tags from the roof. ("Hi, we're the Petersons...") Peter-sons...") 7) Don't invite people to your home. Everybody' meet at Alpha. Beta. B.Y.0.3. mkmm 97' The iceman cameth to the mountains Monday morning, bringing a chilly reminder that winter's coming. Just how cold will this winter be? "Wooly Worm" watchers claim the length of the orange stripe on the critters is an indicator of how warm your woolies need be. mftW 0Mm it . &1 v, J - i Vrv l-W mil v. i? f: t, 1 f Thursday, September 25, 1980 v ' " - Met ftr.t-t Cable TV Franchise Changes Hands, But Opening Day Still on Target Park City's cable TV franchise reared its ugly, complicated head once again at the City Council meeting last Thursday night. Council members were told that Park City CATV had . negotiated a transfer of ownership to Community Television of Utah. Milton Schwartz, representing CATV had Paul Alden of community TV, asked the council to transfer the franchise and change regulations on deadlines and financial obligations to ease the transition trans-ition of ownership. The City Council approved the transfer trans-fer unanimously subject to final agreement between the companies, and also subject to amendments in the franchise fran-chise agreement: Section 10, on Dates of Operation, still requires the cable company to service ser-vice at least 1,000 home units by Oct 15, 1980, and to reach all areas of the city (with density of 75 housing units per running mile) by Dec. 31, 1981. However the deadline for reaching 2.500 i . - . . y f I I . 2 r V IT Photos by Phyllis Rubenstein 's, It units has been pushed back from Dec. 31, 1980 to June 30, 1981. In order to accommodate ac-commodate the city's ever-changing growth pattern, the company must service new areas of the above density within two years alter its annexation, or within two years alter it's density reaches 75 units per running mile. Section 21 sets separate damages lor failure to meet the three deadlines. Formerly, they ranged from $20,000 for the Oct. 15 deadline, to $70,000 if the company failed final completion. The revised section sets the new June 3()th deadline, and fixes all damages at $25,000. Section 7 of the old agreement established an escrow account of $70,000 for damage payments. That has been replaced by a $75,000 letter of credit. The old franchise ordinance also had a provision (7.1) setting up a $500,000 letter of credit. But that was dropped, since cable operators say 7.1 was never in their agreement. "The first N.M. Prison Riot Could It By David Hampshire It was violence for the sake of violence. violen-ce. Marc Orner didn't use quite those words, but that's what he was saying. As the director of Psychological Services Ser-vices at the New Mexico State Penitentiary, Peniten-tiary, Orner saw the aftermath bf one of the worst prison riots in history. So he received more than casual attention when he spoke Tuesday to the members of the Utah Correctional Association at Prospector Square. Thirty-three people died in that explosion ex-plosion of human violence last February, and another 500, by Orner's estimate, will be scarred for life by the experience. What is worse, he says, it was a riot without a purpose, w ithout a cause. "It was not a riot due to adverse conditions con-ditions within the institution," Orner told the members of the association. "It w as not a plea for better conditions. "It is my contention that the people who were responsible for the riots were the inmates and nobody else." Orner said his presentation was not designed for its shock value, but shock it did. There were slides showing what was left of the prison on Feb. 4. and what was left of some of the prisoners. There were not bodies in the photographs, but everything else was there: blood-soaked matresses where inmates had been raped, mutilated, then killed by other inmates; dormitories dor-mitories where men had been beaten to death for the slightest of provocations; a cell where one man had been burned to death. It went on and on. "The reason this man was killed was he told an inmate to get off his" bed," Orner said, introducing one gruesome scene. "This was an inmate who took 21 to 3 hours to die," he said about another. "He was not killed when he was hung, so they cut him down and cut him up," he recalled about a third. r.'r;-V:-i! VJlJUL Park City, Utah feteMw fii ii is ffp Mm 11 I knew about it," said Paul Alden, "was when Blair Feulner (the city's cable consultant) told me about it outside out-side the door." For the sake of convenience. Community Com-munity Television has assumed the name of Park City CATV in the ordinance. or-dinance. "The time factor is extremely critical," said Alden, and he explained why he desired quick approval of the franchise transfer and amendments. An investment tax credit is given to the company that first "turns on" the cable system, he said, and a quick transfer would enable his company to be the one which begins cable operation on the required Oct. 15th date. Alden also argued against the TXt 31, 1980, deadline, saying the imminent im-minent winter weather hampered a new owner's chances of meeting that goal. "We may very well meet that date, but we're not willing to take the responsibility." he said. Happen In Why? Other than to assert that the park was generated by the inmates themselves, them-selves, Orner did not try to explain the violence. He focused more on the steps that could and should have been taken to prevent it. He had an attentive audience. "The event that took place in New Mexico could take place anywhere in the United States," Orner argued. "The possibility of this taking place in your state, or any state represented by the people in this room, is great." He said his state was not unique, in assigning a low priority to the corrections correc-tions budget. It is a natural tendency for the politicians to try first to please those on the outside, those who wield the influence and the votes. One of the things that suffered in New-Mexico New-Mexico was the payroll. "The institution in-stitution had, at that time, 1,136 men, and there were 1 1 people on duty inside the prison." Orner remembered. "Each officer was running two dormitories." dor-mitories." He blamed lax security precautions lor allow ing the riot to spread from one part of the prison to another. Although the corridors were equipped with heavy metal grilles, he said, "we found later that those grilles were never closed at night for fiveorsix years." Orner said the institution was equipped equip-ped with an emergency phone system which was found to be out of order. "I didn't know about it. but the inmates knew it was shut down." But the brunt of the blame, in Orner's view, should fall on the contractors involved in-volved in a $7.1 million renovation project inside the prison. Included in the project was the installation of large pieces of supposedly shatterproof glass in the prison's central control room. Orner said he was told by three different dif-ferent inmates that the riot never would have happened without the new glass. "As soon as they put the glass in they "y - ri - Inc. 250 3 Sections, 32 Pages The scene at left shows the hill which will soon become the Resort's Glory Hole run, while Jesse Tuttle (above) lakes down a few aspens with his bulldozer. He said (hat conflicting information on population made it difficult for the cable company to determine when they had covered enough territory to reach the goal of 2,500 units. "We were told there were 1,500 homes in Old Town," said Schwartz of the old Park City CATV. "There's less than 1,500 homes in the whole town," responded Mayor Jack Green. Alden said the city should drop the 2,500 units as a deadline. "We don't know the numbers, so we shouldn't hold to it," he said. At first, Alden proposed that Sections 7, 10 and 21 be stricken entirely. Amendments Amend-ments to those provisions would have to be presented in written form to the council, he noted. "If we just delete those, we can be finished tonight," he said. If the company fails to perform, he said the city still can threaten them with revocation of the franchise without Cable to 3 Utah? knew they could take the institution. Once they're inside the control center, they own the institution." According to Orner, the "shatterproof" "shatter-proof" glass held up for about seven seconds. "That glass was not broken with a howitzer," he noted. "It was broken with a fire extinguisher." He also blamed the contractors for leaving tools, including acetylene torches, tor-ches, within the confines of the prison. The torches were used as instruments of mutilation, he said, and in at least one case were used to cut into the cell of a man incarcerated for a particularly heinous crime. That man was tortured, then killed. Within the sea of incredible destruction destruc-tion inside the prison, there were islands left untouched by the inmates. One was the mess hall. Another was the Catholic chapel, with its 150-year-old stained glass windows. "The Protestant chapel was totally destroyed," he said "The Catholic chapel was not touched." Orner went to considerable lengths to discount some of the misconceptions he said were fostered by press accounts of the riot. One was that the inmates were intoxicated. "They were not drunk" he maintained. main-tained. "They w ere never high on pills. There were no uppers within the institution. in-stitution. The people that started the riot were stone-cold sober. ' He also came to the defense of the prison's black population of about 200 inmates. "One of the things that did not come out was that the black inmates did not participate in the riot at all, except for five w ho liked to hurt people," he said. According to Orner, repairs to the damaged buildings are underway, and an investigation into the bloodshed was being conducted. He said he was told by a local district attorney that charges, would be filed against about 100 inmates |