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Show Page A8 Thursday, April 23, 1981 The Newspaper Shangri - La Ent. What good is Spring if you can't see it! window cleaning by Shangri-I a 649-6887 i C?5 1 ;a &3 '.a 5:3 ;a a Annual Spring SALE on Custom Picture Framing 20 OFF on our wide selection of wood and metal frames, mats and glass April 16 thru 29 llFAMILY JEWELS Picture Framing Annex Main St.- 649-6161 Open Daily 10 to 6 Creeper prepares for summer season 1 f A in' "Okay, it's time for a word association test. I'll say the first word, and you come back with whatever pops into . your head. "Salt . Park . Heber . "Oh, I forgot to tell you. Unlike other word association associa-tion tests you may have taken, this one has right and wrong answers. If you answered an-swered 'Salt' with 'Mines,' or if you answered 'Park' with 'Record,' go sit in the corner. "However, if you answered an-swered 'Heber' with 'Creeper,' consider yourself redeemed. 'Cause that's what this storv's all about." The Heber Creeper, Northern Utah's scenic mountain railroad, is building build-ing up steam for another summer season. The new Creeper timetable time-table calls for school runs to begin Friday, May 1 and continue through June 13. Public weekend runs will begin Mother's Day weekend (May 9), and the train will begin daily trips on Memorial Memo-rial Day. The Creeper track, once owned by the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad, cuts southwest south-west from Heber toward ( Mount Timpanogos, clings to the hillside on the west side of Deer Creek Reservoir, then winds down Provo Canyon Can-yon as far as Bridal Veil Falls. Included in the Creeper's Creep-er's "rolling stock" are several seve-ral open-air railroad cars to give passengers the best possible pos-sible view of the area's spectacular spec-tacular scenery. Those who have not visited the Creeper Depot for a year or so will find some dramatic 1 changes. Arranged in a cluster clus-ter on the southwest corner of the depot property are several turn-of-the century buildings, some moved to Heber from as far away as Corinne, Utah, comprising the "new" Pioneer Village. The Village includes a livery liv-ery stable, jail, pony ex-, press station, blacksmith shop, Chinese laundry, and several novelty shops. An effort was made to include as many railroad artifacts as possible in various locations throughout the village. Ownership of the terminal grounds, the Pioneer Village, Vil-lage, the Creeper track and much of the rolling stock is now in the hands of the Timpanogos Preservation Society (TPS), a nonprofit organization established to oversee the railroad operation. opera-tion. According to TPS spokesman spokes-man Monte Bona, the organization organi-zation has leased the remainder re-mainder of the rolling stock from the Heber Creeper Corporation. "One of the first decisions we've made is to hold the line on prices," Bona said Monday. The regular adult excursion excur-sion fare is $7. Children (12 and under) are $3.50. Special rates also are available for families on Monday evenings. THERE'S A WHOLE LOT OF MICHEUN LIGHT TRUCK TIRES GOING ON The wide tread of this all-wheel-position radial light truck tire provides pro-vides excellent road-grip, long tread mileage, and measurable fuel savings sav-ings over bias-ply tires. EVI1GEHEGLI?J A four-season, all-purpose radial traction tire for front and rear axles on pickups, vans, recreational vehicles, vehi-cles, and four-wheel-drive vehicles. WE PUT AMERICA OH RADIALS PICKUPS VANS CAMPERS 4-WHEEL DRIVE .......... CALL 649-9331 FOR A PRICE QUOTE! AT Superior Tire and Park City Conoco We take care of your car I flit Hi? I NOW llrV(B)95 I 78 .. mm i myj now i Iff ! L -J 7 Imvim i N0W Si I mm Phillips petrol money fuels Ballet West If anyone doubts that fine arts is an expensive undertaking, under-taking, consider this: Ballet West has just received $125,000 from Phillips Petroleumthe Petro-leumthe largest corporate gift ever given to the arts group. The money will be used to finance one repeat, one production. It is called "Etudes," and it will open Ballet West's 1981-82 season on Sept. 30. "The money came at a time when we most needed it to carry through with our originally ori-ginally scheduled repertory," reper-tory," said John Wagner, director of public relations for the ballet company. Phillips, a Bartlesville, Okla., company, was scheduled sche-duled to present the donation to Ballet West this Wednesday Wednes-day in the Governor's Board Room of the state capitol. "In a time when arts organizations organi-zations throughout the nation are facing financial cutbacks from governmental agencies, agen-cies, this corporate gift is a clear signal that corporations corpora-tions are willing to support the arts," said Alan Hall, Ballet West's general manager. man-ager. The donation is also the largest gift given by Phillips to an arts organization. The '81-'82 season probably will be more expensive than usual, said Wagner. "We're doing 'Swan Lake,' which will cost $250,000 for production' produc-tion' expenses. That doesn't count such things as theater rental or dancer salaries," he said. Ballet West must lean more on private and corporate corpo-rate funding, now that federal money is being cut off. Fortunately, For-tunately, it already does. The '81-'82 budget (not affected af-fected by the cutbacks) is about 10 percent federal funds, although the other 90 percent also includes a few small federal grants. But mostly, it is money from private donors, including sponsors like Kennecott Cop per, Mountain Bell, Union Pacific, and Utah Power & Light. Wagner said Ballet West's season usually comprises four productions (plus "The Nutcracker") which play both at Salt Lake's Capitol Theatre and in Ogden. The company also puts on a spring and winter tour. The company has a devel-opement devel-opement office that works year-round to keep the money rolling in. "Naturally, "Natural-ly, we hope to maintain a long, productive friendship with Phillips," said Wagner. Some fools do read Just when we think no one is reading those hard news stories we pound out each week, along comes living proof that some people really are paying attention. At least once a year, The Newspaper staff redoubles its efforts to bring the reading read-ing public all the late-breaking news about what's going on and up in Park City. This year, we scoured the town to dig up some of those lesser-known lesser-known stories and packed them into our April 1 issue. In those pages, we revealed such inside information as KALL910FM94 DON McLEAN AND FRIENDS American Pie Vincent . . . .Slurry, sturry nijtJn Crying, 85 Sunday May 3rd Symphony Hall 8:00 p.m. TICKETS: S & S9 at the Cosmic Aeroplane, All Sound Tracks, Ruby Records, Toad Tape, Hudnet Tapes, The Kimball Art Center and Symphony Hall A Creative Concerts Production Dolly Parton applying for a position with the planning department; the new program pro-gram at the local clinic to lower dog pregnancies, called Planned Puppy hood; and plans for a 120-foot observation ob-servation tower in the Mt. Air Cafe parking lot for viewing the city's open space. Our hard work did not go unrewarded, and this week we received letters from two eagle-eyed individuals who spotted an ad we carried on Park City's newest ski area: Buck Valley. "Send us information in-formation on Buck Valley, quick," the Florida and New York residents wrote. (You didn't know Park City had a third ski area? It's not too late to read all about it in the April 1 edition we have back issues.) We're pleased that we can be of service to these gentlemen, gentle-men, and plan to send them information on Buck Valley immediately. And since our advertising is so effective, we might see if we can interest them in purchasing a timeshare bomb shelter from Bombex Properties. Or who knows, maybe we can sell them the Titanic. $$$$ Newspaper Classified Advertising doesn't cost, IT PAYS! |