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Show The Newspaper Thursday, February 4, 1982 Page A 7 Apologies don't satisfy health board Last fall's controversy over a health seminar in Park City still lingers. At its January meeting, the Summit Sum-mit County Health Board said it was dissatisfied with two letters submitted by Health Director Frank Singleton to resolve the situation. Singleton had attacked the seminar, which took place locally Oct. 6-8, charging that health inspector Bob Reschke conducted the event in an inappropriate or unethical manner. He had also said that board member Teri Gomes was involved in a conflict of interest because the seminar used an entertainment enter-tainment program from Park City Performances, which is directed by husband Don Gomes. But the board did not support sup-port Singleton's charges, at its Nov. 17 meeting and directed him to deliver (Da letter of recommendation for Reschke, who has since left the countv's pmnlnv and (9) an apology to Gomes. On Jan. 29, the board objected to the wording in Singleton's letters, and directed him to try again. Singleton told The Newspaper he was willing to re-write the notes, and said the once-heated issue was dying down. "It only took up ten minutes out of the board's two-hour agenda," he pointed out. The panel had no problem with his written recommen- Hit-and-run victim still unable to talk to police The victim of a hit-and-run accident remains in serious condition in the hospital this week, and until police can interview in-terview him, they are forced to follow slim leads to find the driver of the vehicle. Park City Police Detective Lloyd Evans said 23-year-old Park City resident Ronald Ancell has been moved out of the Surgical Intensive Care Unit into a room at the University of Utah Hospital, but he is still too sedated to be interviewed. Unfortunately, Unfor-tunately, Ancell may be the only person who knows what happened. Ancell suffered a broken femur, a ruptured spleen and a skull fracture when he was struck at about 2 a.m. on Jan. 23 on Highway 248 near the Holiday Inn. He was found unconscious in the road by passerbys who narrowly avoided striking him again with their cars in the darkness. "I went down to the hospital last Friday to interview inter-view him, but he wasn't able to communicate," said Evans. "The doctor said it was in the best interest of the patient if we waited to talk to him when he became more coherent." Evans said a number of people stopped that morning to help the injured man, but none was a witness to the ac cident. Several people said they saw a man hitchhiking toward Prospector Square, and later saw a crowd gathered in the area over the victim, but no one has positively indentified Ancell as the hitchhiker. Evans said he is interviewing those people who have submitted statements to the police in the hope that more details will come to light. On Monday, Evans said the only new information he has received since the accident ac-cident was called in by a local woman who claims to have seen a four-wheel-drive vehicle driving recklessly in the area at about the time of the accident. He said he has yet been able to reach the woman for more details. Evans said it is possible that Ancell himself may not know what kind of vehicle struck him, but the clothing he was wearing that night might tell a story of its own. He said that the lace-up boots and trousers Ancell was wearing have been taken to the state criminal laboratory, where they will be analyzed with the help of a spectroscope. The instrument in-strument will magnify the material and help find traces of paint, glass, oil, rust or fuel. Evans said that the presence of diesel fuel, for instance, might help the Repertory Dance Theatre 'Then ... 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Evans said he intended in-tended to try again to see him by the end of this week. dation for Reschke, except a phrase saying that Reschke should be given "appropriate, "ap-propriate, close supervision". super-vision". The health director said he would excise the phrase. "If a prospective employer should call and ask me about that, I can respond," he said. "The board just doesn't want it in the letter." In the letter to Teri Gomes, Singleton apologized for his accusation that Gomes asked Reschke to use the services of Park City Performances Per-formances (PCP). However, Gomes objected to other portions of the letter, let-ter, in which Singleton said that he and his nursing supervisor both recalled that Gomes admitted asking Reschke about using the group for the seminar. Singleton responded, "My recollection and hers differ. But I'm willing to take her word for what happened." Finally, Gomes objected to the apology letter because it said her membership on the board was a potential conflict con-flict of interest. Singleton said he was not accusing Gomes of anything. "My point is that the conflict-of-interest question shows the need to set up guidelines that will say what is and is not a conflict." Teri Gomes said her involvement in-volvement in PCP did not influence in-fluence her judgment on the board. "I didn't attend most of the seminar," she said. "But I talked to restaurant owners afterward. I conducted conduc-ted my own independent investigation in-vestigation to form an opinion." Beautiful 2,408 sq. ft. home with additional segregated 485 sq. ft. guest house in Summit Park. Only $159,900. For more information call Ron Perry 649-8535 or 649-1 131 MLS Multiple Listing Service LB Nearing completion and really looking good. 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