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Show Madonna's back in the saddle Kindergarten: Sports B1 i A whole new 5 A . I Budget blues. . .$8 1 , 000 short Educas Celebrate Preservation Week May 17-25 News A6 experience Education A9 4 4 n 4c v. i i1 A- i mm Urn City council applications due today Applications for the city council coun-cil seat created by the resignation resigna-tion of Al Horrigan are due in the mayor's office May 15 at 5 p.m. Horrigan resigned last month to take a job in the San Francisco area. Among those who have already submitted letters of application are former city attorney Mary Lehmer; Dave Sturges, sales manager for R.H. Ziegler and Associates; Tom Cammermeyer, director of the Norwegian School of Nature Life; former city councilman coun-cilman Jim Santy; Park City Planning Commissioner Cal Cowher; and Old Town Gallery owner Charles Latterner. A replacement for Horrigan will be announced June 1. Ligety splits City Planning Director Bill Ligety announced Wednesday he is resigning to begin selling real estate for Gump and Ayers. "I plan to build on the skills I have developed working for Park City since 1979," he said. When asked about his greatest accomplishment, Ligety laughed and said, "Making it 6 12 years in city government here. Everything else pales in comparison." com-parison." Ligety added in a more serious tone that putting together a structure struc-ture for planning for Park City has been important to him. "I tried to add some predictability to the planning process." . City Manager Arlene Loble said, "Bill Ligety's legacy is the quality and image Park City projects today. We're all proud of it. Bill did it." Ligety said he hopes the community will work on a better relationship with Summit County. "What develops in the county is what will decide what Park City is to become." Ligety's resignation follows the resignation last month of Assistant City Planner Dave Boesch. Both plan lo leave their jobs July 1. Water district meeting set The Summit County Water Committee will meet Tuesday to consider possible recommendations recommenda-tions to the Summit County Commission Com-mission on the formation of a water district. Attorney Steven Clyde, a consultant con-sultant to the committee, said this week he is expecting to have a completed report on measures for the water situation in the Snyderville Basin. The water committee was formed last year to study problems arising in the Snyderville area from its myriad of water companies. The meeting is set for Tuesday, May 20, at 7 p.m. in the offices of the Snyderville Basin Sewer Improvement Im-provement District, 3060 W. Rasmussen Rd. Mine company by TERl GOMES Record contributing writer United Park City Mines Company has filed a lawsuit demanding the Park City Ski Area and Deer Valley Resort remove all lift towers from mining company land and return water rights they sold to the city. The suit also asks for millions in damages from the resorts' parent companies, the Greater Park City Company (GPCC) and Royal Street Land Company. United Park owns most of the land occupied by both resorts. The complex 85-page suit, filed in Third District Court in Salt Lake City Ci-ty May 8, additionally charges both companies with "racketeering" and "fraud". United Park's allegations focus on its agreements with the companies operating the Park City Resort the Greater Park City Company (GPCC) and its then parent company, com-pany, Royal Street Land Companyin Com-panyin the years between 1971 and 1975, prior to the sale of GPCC by Royal Street to Alpine Meadows of Tahoe, Inc. The suit claims "legal counsel" for United Park from the years of 1971-1983 was handled by an unnamed unnam-ed person who also represented GPCC until 1975. It further states Leavitt accused of fraudulent sale by RICK BROUGH Record staff writer Stanley D. Leavitt, Summit County Coun-ty commissioner and president of Leavitt Lumber in Kamas, has been indicted by a federal grand jury for allegedly supplying lumber under false pretenses to Hill Air Force Base. The indictment, charging Leavitt with three counts of mail fraud and false statement, claimed he used quality-grading stamps without authorization on 25,000 board-feet of lumber sold to the Air Force. The lumber company is also separately charged. But Leavitt's attorney, Robert Fillerup, told the Record this week the government had paid for the lumber after acquiring it in 1984, and that officials at Hill said then it was the proper grade. The grading stamps in question are issued by the Western Wood Products Pro-ducts Association (WWPA), a quality quali-ty control group in the lumber industry. in-dustry. To obtain the stamps, lumber companies pay dues and subscriber's fees and agree to abide by the WWPA regulations and standards. stan-dards. The indictment said a scheme by the defendants to defraud began in December, 1983 when Leavitt Lumber told WWPA that a fire at the business had destroyed grading stamps. The company reportedly Summit TV proposal causes SLC static by RICK BROUGH Record staff writer The Summit County Commission is considering a way to generate revenue by allowing a national TV marketing firm, Impact Broadcasting, Broad-casting, to sell commercials on the signals beamed from the county's television translators on Lewis Peak. However, the source of those signals Salt Lake television stationsappear sta-tionsappear ready to fight the idea. David Woodcock, vice president presi-dent and general manager at KTVX, said commercials sold on the translators would infringe on his sta Vol. 107, No. 13 3 Sections, 40 that, since Royal Street handled the business operations of GPCC from 1971-75, the legal counsel performed services and was "from time to time, an officer of Royal." It is the trust United Park had in its legal counsel, the suit claims, which led the company to believe GPCC's contention in 1975 that it was unable to meet its obligations and promissary notes and water rights agreements. The suit claims that a climate of trust created by that legal arrangement allowed Royal Street and GPCC to take unfair advantage of United Park when the operation of the ski area was sold to Alpine Meadows in 1975. Included in a June 23, 1975 "Memorandum of Agreement" United Park did the following: Forgave about $1.2 million in debts owed by GPCC to United Park. Sold 900,000 shares of GPCC common com-mon stock which United Park had purchased for $9,000 to Alpine Meadows for $1,000. Sold an additional 900,000 shares of GPCC preferred stock for which United Park had paid $963,000 to Alpine for $1,000. Agreed to change terms of a lease for the Park City Resort area, granting gran-ting two additional twenty-year options. op-tions. Agreed to enter into a long-term County commissioner Stan Leavitt was indicted by a federal grand jury. said it was sending back to WWPA all the stamps that had not been destroyed. Leavitt Lumber then dropped its agreement with WWPA and stopped paying subscriber fees, said the indictment. in-dictment. But it still had some WWPA stamps, and resumed using them on the lumber sold to Rolando Lumber Company of Cloverdale, Calif., which was contracted to sell lumber to Hill Air Force Base, ac- Leavitt to A5 tion's programming or ads. "We are adamantly opposed to anybody tampering with our signal. They can't interfere with our own commercials." As an ultimate step, he said, KTVX might take its signal away if Summit County ran its own commercials. commer-cials. Woodcock, who is a resident of the county, said, "I'm not looking to cut off my viewers, but I'm also not about to allow tampering." Patrick Shea, .general counsel for KUTV, said the arrangement isn't allowed by regulations of the Federal Communications Commis- TV to AS fy'fiS ' Q J Pages Thursday, May 15, 1986 suit threatens ski areas lease for Deer Valley which was assigned to Royal Street. (Deer Valley opened in 1981.) Since then, the suit contends, noither GPCC nor Royal Street has lived up to its leases which include payments due from a lift revenue agreement. The suit asks for the termination of both the (Park City) Resort Area and Deer Valley leases and the surrender sur-render of those leased premises and all water rights. It asks for damages from each company of more than $50 million, a figure which it asks the court to consider con-sider trebling depending upon the outcome of the case. In addition the suit asks for the nullification of all the 1975 transactions transac-tions "including the sale of GPCC stock by United Park to GPCC and Alpine Meadows of Tahoe, Inc." United Park further maintains it is entitled to an order requiring that all lift towers on its property be removed. Nick Badami, chairman of the board of the Greater Park City Company, Com-pany, immediately issued a two-page two-page statement vehemently refuting all claims made in the suit. It read, in part: "From 1975 when the Greater Park City Company was rescued ! vs. I . Ula transmitters never die, they just retire to St. George . v - V V V : -. v.'. .- A L lit Pt.J" it ill If: '7 She was faithful but heavy. Edna the transmitter served KPCW four years until more modern equipment replaced replac-ed her. On her way to a new home in St. George, she was lifted from behind the Memorial Building by a crane last Monday. from near bankruptcy, through the summer of 1985, all management personnel of United Park City Mines worked not only amicably, but with full and complete cooperation with the Greater Park City Company, Park City Municipal Corporation and the Deer Valley Ski Resort. All parties complied with very detailed agreements. United Park City Mines Company has confirmed this in its Annual Reports through February 1985. "Now having paid lawyers huge sums of money to try to discover some means of breaking these long-term long-term agreements, United Park City Mines Company's new controlling stockholders, as represented by David Bernolfo and investors from New York, seek to ruin years of successful suc-cessful working relationships." Attorneys for the Royal Street Land Company issued a similar statement saying, "The lawsuit had been threatened for many months, during which time (Royal Street Land Company) had investigated the mining company's claims and found them to be without merit." Both Gordon Strachan, attorney for GPCC and Richard Giauque, attorney at-torney for Royal Street said their clients would be filing counterclaims counter-claims to the fifteen separate claims within 30 days. ... 14 It YvJ 1. 'I" J J Both companies say they are in full compliance with the terms of their agreeements and Badami says "we've actually been paying them more than what was due." Badami says it will be business as usual at the Park City Ski Area. "We will continue to operate the area the way it has been this has changed nothing," he said. One of the contentions in the suit is that the GPCC had no authorization to develop the Jupiter Bowl area. Badami counters he was granted such permission in 1976. When reached by the Record, neither United Park Chairman of the Board David Bernolfo nor Director Joe Lesser of Loeb Partners Realty of New York would comment on the suit. Attorneys for United Park would not return the Record's calls. According to an article in the Salt Lake Tribune in July, 1985, New Jersey businessman J. Carmine Bonanno had expressed interest in acquiring control of United Park. However, a Bonanno business associate, Frank Cerreta, who was reached by the Record this week, said, "no transaction was pursued." "Mr. Bonanno has no connection with mining in Park City or with the Greater Park City Company or the Deer Valley Ski Area." ! by RICK BROUGH Record staff writer The last remnant of KPCW's "broadcast bunker" days left Park City Monday. "Edna," a 39-year old FM transmitter that broadcast KPCW's signal for four-and-a-half years, has been been given to Dixie College in St. George where she will be used for a 10-watt student stu-dent radio station. The transmitter served the studios while they were located in an old projection booth above the gym bleachers in the east end of the Memorial Building. But Edna was left behind when KPCW moved mov-ed in December, 1984 to the Mar-sac Mar-sac Building and switched to more a modern transmitter. It became necessary to move her, said station general manager Blair Feulner, when the building was acquired by "Mac" MacQuoid. Feulner said Edna is probably the oldest operating FM transmitter in the western states. She was first used in 1947 by KSL in Salt Lake City. After KSL updated up-dated its equipment she was moved mov-ed to an old storage shed on the Salt Flats. In 1980 KSL donated her to the fledgling KPCW. Edna got her name from engineer Gray Haertig, who helped the station off the ground. "He said, 'Every old transmitter must have a name'," Feulner recalled. Edna's technology isn't just older, it's bulkier too, said Feulner. The old transmitter is 1,700 pounds, six feet tall and four feet deep. By contrast, the station's sta-tion's new transmitter is 50 pounds, three feet tall and 19 inches in-ches deep. It was no easy task to get Edna out of her hole behind the Memorial Building. In fact, Feulner said, Cliff Blonquist of Utah Power & Light was a life saver, loaning the station a crane to aid in the job. Feulner said he feels a little sentimental over Edna, since she was reliable while she was used. "There is something about glowing glow-ing old tubes that is way sexier than cold little transistors," he said. "I am glad she gets to retire in St. George." INDEX Business AI0 Classifieds Calendar All Editorial .. Ci A2 Education AS I.egals Entertainment B(i Letters . Bit Sports Bl . . A:i Television Blti |