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Show owsroajrocBi0 LA. Ul Park City, Utah Vol. VII, No. 30 Thursday, April 15, 1982 Two Sections, 24 Pages Deer Valley lliiiiiii r - rX a, ,t . , v Rear view The Easter Bunny paid a much-anticipated visit to the kinderschule at the Park City Ski Area Saturday, sending youngsters hunting on their hands and knees. See more photos on Page A7. Tidal effect? Anatomy of an avalanche by David Hampshire It's given credit for causing the tides in the earth's oceans. Some people in the mental health field swear that it has an effect on human behavior. Now there's a new theory: that the moon's gravitational pull helps to trigger avalanches. Last Thursday there were three avalanches in the Wasatch Mountains around Salt Lake City. And last Thursday Thurs-day there was a full moon. Granted, two of the avalanches were Board approves tougher schedule Students enrolled at Park City High School next fall will find themselves in class 20 minutes earlier and facing a longer list of graduation requirements than in the past. According to a curriculum proposal passed Tuesday by the Park City Board of Education, classes will start at 8:30a.m. instead of 8:50, will include seven 45-minute periods plus 40 minutes for lunch, and will relegate varsity sports to an "extended period" at the end of the day. High School Principal Jack Dozier told The Newspaper that the changes are designed to strengthen the core curriculum, provide more electives at the freshman and sophomore levels, and reduce the conflicts between varsity athletics and other activities. To graduate from the school, a four-year student must now complete 24 units of required and elective subjects, including four units of English (up from three), four units of Social Studies (up from three), three units of Science (stays the same), and two units of Mathematics (same). The requirements also include two units of Physical Education (down from two and a half) and one unit of Fine Arts (none was previously required). Scheduled during the extended period, which begins at 2:45 p.m., are football, basketball, gymnastics, volleyball, vol-leyball, wrestling, golf, tennis and cheerleading. "We feel that our proposal is seriously going to reduce our student scheduling conflicts," Dozier said. Still to be included as part of the core curriculum are weight training and drill team. Dozier indicated the new curriculum would place greater academic demands de-mands on juniors and seniors. Three reauired courses are to be included during each of the last two years a student spends at the school. deliberately started with explosives. But the third one was an accident. Park City's Carl Dollhausen can tell you: he was buried in it. And he's taking this so-called Tidal Theory very seriously. Dollhausen and a group of friends were skiing in an area referred to as No Name Bowl, not far from White Pine Canyon. "It's basically a traverse from the top of White Pine," Dollhausen says. It's an area he had been skiing since the beginning of the winter. "We made approximately 15 (total) runs in it," he says. "It was about 1:30 p.m. and I was taking my fourth run of the day." "I made four turns, and I heard a giant snow-settling sound, like a thump or a roar, and the whole bowl cracked from one end to the other." Dollhausen immediately headed for a clump of trees to get out of the way. He didn't make it. "As I was skiing toward the trees, I got caught from behind. I sat back on my skis, and that's when I started to tumble." His glasses came off. He lost his poles. But somehow his skis stayed on. Dollhausen said he tried to remember remem-ber everything he had learned in his seven years as a nordic skier. "You have to somehow remain calm, and do what you've been taught over the years. "I went for a ride, two to three hundred hun-dred feet. I was swimming all the time to stay on top." Then there was silence, and darkness. "My mouth was full of snow, as was my nose ... I was really worried about breathing at that point." One arm was pinned behind him. But the other one was free, and he reached in the direction he thought was up. "For some odd reason, I could feel the gravity." He managed to break through the surface of the snow, and to clear a breathing space. He had a shovel in his backpack, but it didn't do him much good. "The snow had piled on. It (the shovel) was compressed against my back. It was hard enough just to breathe." One of Dollhausen's companions was skiing below him, had heard his shouts as the snow broke loose, and managed to get out of the way. The others were at the top of the bowl, and watched the whole horrible sequence. One of them was Gary Compagna, a cook at Mileti's Restaurant. It was another Mileti's cook, Gus Mora, who died in an avalanche near ParkWest March 22. One of the skiers finally spotted Dollhausen's Doll-hausen's hand waving from the broken Avalanche to A6 Weber board to study water diversion plan The Weber Basin Water Conservancy Conser-vancy District board of directors will be in Park City May 7 for a study tour to determine whether Weber Basin water should be diverted to the Snyderville Basin. Keith Jensen, manager for the Weber Basin district, said the board will be meeting with Park City planners to inspect the Snyderville area and discuss a proposal to pump water from Peoa through a pipeline to the area just north of Park City. A group of private investors. Parley's Park Mutual Water Co. i formerly Great Basin i. has asked the Weber district for 6.000 acre feet of wholesale culinary water that would be piped into Snyderville and retailed to developers in the area. The 6.000 acre feet would come from Smith-Morehouse Reservoir, slated for expansion from its current 1.000 acre feet of irrigation water. Jensen said the Weber board faces two key decisions whether all the Smith-Morehouse water should be committed to the Snyderville area, and. if so, whether the Weber district should undertake the delivery itself or wholesale the water lor delivery by jii'i.nri company. P S Associates, Salt Lake water engineers, went to the Weber board last month with their proposal to pipe Smith-Morehouse water, via underground under-ground wells near Peoa, into the Snyderville Basin to enhance development develop-ment there. PS, which incorporated l';u le s Park Mutual Water Co. as a nonpi'oiii group to finance the project, was the first to approach the Weber board with a plan for using the (i.ooo acre teet of Smith-Morehouse water. Jensen said. More recently, he added, another engineering firm has made a somewhat similar proposal to the Weber Board. PS Associates is conducting a marketing survey to determine potential poten-tial use of the pipeline water system. Cost per individual residential connection connec-tion would be $1,200 to Sl.HOO, with the entire pipeline installation project estimated at a cost of $16 million. Implementation of the plan hinges on the Weber district's decision ol whether to wholesale the 6,000 acre feet to Parley's Park Water Company, and on final approval of the water transfer by the I tah Division of Water Rights. First season a success' by Morgan Queal Deer Valley officials this week termed their premier season a success, with the new resort drawing "fewer skiers but more money" than anticipated. Daily paying skiers at the new resort totalled 112,000 for the winter, off 17 percent from pre-opening projections, according to John Miiller, executive vice president and resident manager. But those 112,000 skiers brought in more revenue than expected. In addition, income from food operations was 150 percent above original predictions. Miiller explained that, before the season opened, it was believed the resort could handle 3,000 skiers comfortably, and lift ticket sales were to be limited to that number. But after the season opened it was determined that 3,000 was too many, and skiers thereafter were limited to 2,500 around 2,300 paying customers plus employees and season pass holders. As it turned out, lift ticket sales had to be limited only six days out of the season. Resort officials, Miiller said, remain committed to the policy of maintaining a comfortable level of skiers. The first year of operation went "very, very well, as far as I'm concerned." With 280 employees, Deer Valley maintained a higher employee-guest employee-guest ratio than most ski areas, in line with its policy to provide first-class service to guests, Miiller said. Prob-. lems with lift operations were minor. Managers and supervisors spent many hours before the season opened, planning and agreeing on rules, regulations and policies, and employees em-ployees were well-trained to carry out those policies, he explained. It was fortunate, he said, that the resort didn't have the snow to open early, so extra time was gained for training personnel, finishing buildings and readying lift operations. When the ski area did open, it eased into the season by limiting skiers to 500, then adding more each day. Miiller emphasized that it's Deer Valley's intent to be constantly improving. "We did a good job of grooming, but it will be better next year," and that will mean expanding grooming slope maintenance to new places, he said. One area that needs improvement, Miiller believes, is guest information. The resort had ordered large, sophisticated sophisti-cated sign equipment that arrived last December but was never in operation. These signs will be running next year to let skiers know about lift and slope conditions, restaurant situations and other helpful information. An area of concern this past winter was the noon rush for lunch. More restaurant seating will be added, but the information system hopefully will convince skiers to keep skiing rather than wait in line for a meal. A new chairlift from Silver Lake Village to the top of Bald Mountain is slated for construction this summer, depending on the economic situation. Summer crews will be making slope improvements, with attention to erosion ero-sion problems through seeding and replanting. Building will begin this summer on a new restaurant called The Settle, with a fall opening planned. Some of the highly-specialized equipment for the restaurant will include huge rotis-series rotis-series for display cooking, and an antique bar. The Cafe Mariposa at Silver Lake, Miiller said, was highly successful this year and will reopen for dinner with the same management but changes the menu, on June 1, or possibly earlier if the weather permits. It was noted that some 25 percent of the Mariposa's winter business came from walk-in customers other than skiers. The Huggery in Snow Park Lodge also will be open June 1 with a daily luncheon buffet. Both restaurants will remain in operation through fall into the winter season. Deer Valley also is going after the banquet and meeting business this summer, Miiller said. The summer work force is expected to number 100, with those jobs going to previous Deer Valley employees. Next winter's staff probably will be increased in-creased by 20 employees. Deer Valley to A6 Polygraph experts to investigate heist Polygraph experts are expected to interrogate a number of Park City Ski Area employees this week in the hope of flushing out the person or persons who robbed an office vault of over $6,100. According to Joe Offret of the Park City Police Department, the cash was taken from a vault in the ticket office of the ski area sometime between noon April 6 and noon April 7. The cash was in a manila envelope and was collected as part of the registration fee for the Interline airline race week at the resort. "It looks like an inside job," said Offret, Of-fret, since only an employee of the ski area would have access to the vault. In addition, other money was left untouched, un-touched, and only the airline money had not been entered into the regular accounting system of the ski area. Offret said that "a couple of people are more suspected than others," but about 10 people will be subjected to the polygraph test, which takes approximately ap-proximately two hours for each person. per-son. Results of the test are expected later this week, said Offret. IDE 3QE BE 3BC 3BB 3BB ( 3BE 3GJE 3GJE Editor's note: Who says that the City Council doesn't have any clout? Last December 10, the group passed an ordinance calling for snow. Since then, it has snowed, and snowed, and snowed ... As a matter of fact, we've had so much snow that last week the members of the Council passed another ordinance repealing their action of last December. Since then, well ... it rained Sunday, and the tiny patch of grass in front of the Memorial Building has started to turn green. ordinance repealing ordinance 81-82 and making snow a conditional use WHEREAS, the City Council of Park City adopted an Ordinance last December requiring it to snow, and WHEREAS, it has in fact snowed almost without stopping since the enactment of that ordinance, and WHEREAS, it is nearly Easter and enough is enough ; NOW, THEREFORE BE IT ORDAINED, by the City Council of Park City, Utah: 1. Section 1. Repealer: Ordinance 81-82 is hereby repealed. 2. Section 2. Conditional Use: From this day forward, snow is a conditional use in all zones within the city, and prior to any snow storm, the storm must apply for and receive the approval of the Planning Commission, the Historic and District Commissions, and a favorable recommendation from the Golf Course Committee. 3. Section 3. Application Form : Each application for a conditional use permit to snow in Park City shall be accompanied by the following : (a ) A complete traffic impact analysis, (b) An analysis of the impact of the storm on native vegetation and wildlife, (c) Consent from the Recreation Department, baseball, soccer, and rugby teams, and (d) A substantial cash bonus for the snowplow drivers who have put in a lot of long hours and hard work this winter. 4. Section 4. Time for Review : The various commissions, boards, and agencies reviewing each storm shall study the impact analysis and make a formal recommendation to the Council by the date of the Snowflakers Ball next November. 5. Section 5. Effective Date : This ordinance shall become effective upon publication. PARK CITY MUNICIPAL CORPORATION John C. Green. Jr., Mayor nnrinr 3QE 3EJE 30G 30E 3GJG 3QG 3GE 3EJE 3QE 3QE 3QE 3(2 |