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Show Park Record Thursday, May 29, 1986 Page A15 f H H Sunmmnmiitt ttn SmunmnMiiit Sex, drug, teenagers Jacl-son Hole Guide alcohol poll shows Jackson are precocious but normal Jackson Hole More than half the teenagers who responded to a poll said they are sexually active by their sophomore years in high school. Sixty-eight percent per-cent said they had their first drink by age 14. Those figures are dramatic, but they are not worse than the national trends, according to Jackson Hole High School principal Terry Roice and other Jackson observers. A committee conducted two separate surveys of junior high and high school students and released the results to the Teton County School Board. In the sex survey, more than 30 percent of the students said their first sexual intercourse had occurred occur-red by eighth grade and 70 percent said they had intercourse at least once by 12th grade. However, high school counselor Linda Cusack said Teton County had the lowest rate in the state for teenage births (4.8 percent per-cent of all births). Nearly half the respondents thought sex education should begin by age 8, but 60 percent also said it should come from a combination of home, school, church and community. communi-ty. High school nurse Jan Ballou said classes for parents on talking to their children about sex could be held. But she noted that a similar series on drugs was so poorly attended it was canceled. Lawyer hustles up suit for damages Jackson attorney Gerry Spence filed another suit against Hustler magazine, only this time he's the plaintiff. Spence represented feminist Andrea An-drea Dworkin in a suit against the magazine last year. In response, said Spence's new suit, the July 1985 Hustler published a picture of Spence as the "July of the Month."'""1' ' nu -1 - 1 " The picture showed Spence superimposed on the naked rear end of a man. The suit asks $50 million in actual damages and $100 million in punitive damages. Any award, the suit said, will go to the Spence Foundation for People's Attorneys Inc., a co-plaintiff. co-plaintiff. Police vacancies to stay unfilled Several vacant positions in the Jackson police force will not be filled, fill-ed, but police chief Dick Hays said that wasn't his decision. According to Hays, town administrator ad-ministrator Mel Webb decided there will not be a replacement for retiring retir-ing community service officer Roger Walker, who pursued bad-check bad-check writers for the police. The town will also eliminate one patrol officer position and will not hire two part-time officers this summer. sum-mer. But Hays said he has been promised promis-ed funding for a "crime technician" to gather crime scene evidence. The position will be filled by Animal Control Con-trol Officer Mary Lou Meeks. In a related story, Hays denied that a recent rash of burglaries may have been caused by the fact four Jackson officers were out of town that week, attending a SWAT school in Arizona. Hays said he and local investigators in-vestigators drove patrols that week. Jackson Hole Hews Man builds dike, then gets OK Jackson Hole Some valley residents are concerned con-cerned because a dike built on the Snake River is getting a permit after it was built. The Army Corps of Engineers issued a permit to Peter Hansen to construct a 1,720-foot-long structure on the Snake. Hansen built 1,255 feet of dike without getting permission per-mission from the ACE. Wilson resident Bill McDavid said the project has diverted almost half the flow of the river, eroding two islands nearby along with beaver and trout habitat. But County Roads and Levee Supervisor Don Barney said the permit per-mit is only temporary. Then the Corps will put certain restrictions and regulations on the permit, he said. Hospital menu goes gourmet Bad hospital food has been the subject of a thousand jokes, but St. John's Hospital in Jackson plans to change all that. The hospital will offer of-fer a selective menu and a gourmet menu for patients. Dietary supervisor Mark Taylor told the hospital board, "...we hope to compete with any restaurant in town." A daily menu will be set up at no extra cost. The patient can choose from up to seven entrees (from beef short ribs to cottage cheese and fruit platter). A gourmet menu is available for dinner for an additional cost of $9. The new menus should be in place by late August. School-free Friday proposal adopted The Teton County Board of Education narrowly approved a motion mo-tion to seek approval from the state Department of Education for an alternate calendar with 10 school-free school-free Fridays next winter. The vote was 4-3. To make up for the free time, the school day will be lengthened 15 to 20 minutes, and on six days of the 10, the teachers must attend in-service programs. The calendar is a response to heavy extracurricular schedules that cut into time for students. As many as 150 students at the high school are involved in extracurricular extracur-ricular activities on Fridays. Among skeptics of the plan, district transportation director Knowles Smith said bus drivers were concerned the calendar would reduce their hours and cut their pay. j MASSAGE Massage Therapy Robert Fournier Therapeutic Massage Prospector Athletic Club Available anytime by appointment House calls. Female Therapist available. THE ASPEN TIES Municipal opening lures candidates Aspen Park City can't brag that it brings br-ings out the most candidates for vacant va-cant positions in city government. Aspen's City Hall released 22 names vying for its city manager's job. And those were only the finalists. After City Manager Hal Schilling resigned, 173 people applied for the job, citing backgrounds as diverse as dentistry and country club management. Schilling resigned to take the same position in Reno, Nev. The Aspen manager's job pays between $40,000 and $60,000 a year, commensurate commen-surate with experience, according to councilwoman Pat Fallin. 'Honest Abe' writes bad check A boy named Sue was bad enough, but how about a woman named Abe Lincoln? She was named in a county court complaint filed by Pitkin County Bank and Trust. The bank charged that Lincoln owes $129.41 for depositing a two-party two-party check that didn't clear. She also illegally withdrew money from the account. THE i TRAIL Former Parkite begins new job Vail -The Vail Trail noted that John Dakin has left his post with the U.S. Ski Team public relations department depart-ment to head the news bureau for the media department of Vail Associates. The headquarters of the ski team is in Park City. 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