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Show Page A18 Thursday, November 2, 1989 Park Record O SonmnnffiniLt to Sunimniimmtt mm. What the Park City Council needs is... Order may bankrupt Ski Corp r. 3 mm A hard-working person who has the skills and expertise to help manage the important issues facing Park City. The question I'm most often asked about the upcoming City Council election is, "Why are you running?" The answer is quite simple. The most serious issues now facing Park City are directly related to the impacts of growth on our quality of life. The City Council needs someone who is not only willing to tackle these issues, but someone who possesses the leadership, imagination, courage and expertise to hekp make critical decisions. I'v chosen Park City as my home: I've lived here nine years and plan to live here the rest of my life. I have been involved in many organizations and have demonstrated my knowledge, my honesty and my ability to work hard. I am not an unknown, untested entity. I have a history of service, performance and success. I want to use my experience and background to insure Park City remains a desirable place to live. Issues such as moderate income housing, water development, hosting the Winter Olympics and transactions involving the purchase or sale of city property require expertise. I possess the necessary expertise to help make informed decisions and to protect your tax dollars. All of us in Park City share a comon goal-to protect our lifestyle while creating a better place to live and work. I believe I am uniquely qualified to help achive this goal. I would appreciate your support and your vote on November 7th. Thank You, Bob Richer Please call me with your questions: 649-8550649-1132 EXPERIENCE: President, Park City Performances Past President, Park City Men's Coalition Past President, Par City Board of Realtors Park City Board of Realtors "Salesperson of the Year", 1984 & 1986 Member. Park City Rotary Club Member, Wasatch Uintah Sierra Club Member, Planning Charrette Steering Committee Member, Water Easing Techniques Committee Member, Building & Development Fees Task Force Member, Park City Chamber of Commerce Member Services Committee Member, Winter Games Volunteer Committee Member, Citizens for Excellence Committee Kimball Art Center Volunteer Former Substitute Teacher, Park City High School EDUCATION: BA Degree in Political Science, Emory University, Washington University School of Law WE'VE GOT TROUBLE, MY FRIENDS, RIGHT DOWN HERE IN PARK CITY--AND IT'S CALLED SCHOOLS! If we do nothing, think of this friends, . Today many of our classrooms are already crowded with 30 students. In a few years the average class will have 40. The pride we have in academic excellence demonstrated by test scores that are 16 above the national average will become tomorrow's shame of mediocrity. The head start we give our children today will become a disadvantage of those who follow tomorrow. The attraction we offer new businesses and quality people today will become a deterrent to quality growth in the future. Property values and local business that benefit now will suffer because of an inadequate school system. A town that can sparkle as a model of American education at the Olympics will become a national disgrace. How much will it cost you say? Well, friends, you are being asked to invest a mere .06 of the value of your property per year ($60 per $100,000) in the future of your children, your potential property value and the strength of local business. It is a small price to pay for uncalcuable rewards. TAKE PRIDE IN PARK CITY-give us a new school on November 7th, by voting YES!! .Nobody wants 40 kides crowded into classrooms designed for 25!! Sponsored by Eagles International, Ron Crosby, President The Jackson Hole Ski Corp. (Ski Corp.) recently ordered to comply with a contract it had signed with Dutch oil trader John Deuss and turn over 24 percent of its mountain operations stock, is now claiming the order would mean bankruptcy. U.S. District Judge Clarence Brimmer decided Sept. 26 Ski Corp. must fulfill its obligations and exchange the stock for a $3.6 million investment it had solicited from the oil trader in May 1988. Brimmer gave Ski Corp. 30 days to comply with the order and transfer its real estate holdings to a separate corporation, something it says it cannot do without significant economic damage. The agreement signed by Deuss and Ski Corp. president presi-dent Paul McCollister stipulated Deuss could receive more stock if mountain operations continued to make money in the next five years. At the end of that period, Deuss 's percentage of ownership would be adjusted to no more than 49 percent and no less than 20 percent of the company. Based on that agreement, Brimmer decided the Ski Corp. must immediately give Deuss the option to purchase pur-chase an additional nine percent of the company for $2 million after turning over the agreed-upon 24 percent of shares. The judge also ruled Ski Corp. must transfer its real estate holdings to a new corporation, a move which would result in $7 million tax liability. In its appeal, Ski Corp. argued forming the new corporation cor-poration would require shareholders to sell off the land to satsify tax obligations and possibly bankrupt the company. com-pany. Saddles spur spat Two hand-tooled silver saddles worth an estimated $100,000 each are apparently the only collateral available to collect on more than $56 million of defaulted loans in the case of a bankrupt Jackson bar. The saddles once graced the Million Dollar Cowboy Bar as displays in glass cases, and were offered as collateral col-lateral by former owner Robert Walker in obtaining financing for his National County Fire Insurance Company. Com-pany. The business failed last October, leaving a $15 million debt to First Nationwide bank, a $2.2 million unpaid un-paid loan with Bent Tree bank and over $30 million more in various outstanding bills. Both banks are fighting to obtain the saddles, and separate judges have ruled in favor of each. Most recently, Judge Terry Rogers ruled that Bent Tree was the rightful owner of the saddles because First Nation-wide's Nation-wide's foreign judgement was not authenticated. First Nationwide attorney, Julie Christofferson, said she will appeal the decision to the Wyoming Supreme Court. She is also apparently one of few people who actually ac-tually know where the saddles are. "They're huge," she said, "not the kind of thing you can put in a safe deposit box." Christofferson added the saddles "may be the only asset available" in the case. They were made by a famous saddle-making company in Beverly Hills, Calif, during the 1950s and were used in Rose Bowl parades before Walker brought them to Jackson and displayed them in glass cases. "They were a good centerpiece," said former Cowboy Bar manager Dave Hauser, who rode a horse wearing one of the 150 pound saddles during the Old West Days parade in Jackson. "They caught everyone's eye." Sockeye extinct Following close on the fins of the Snake River coho salmon, Oregon Trout director Bill Bakke pronounced another species the Snake sockeye officially extinct last month. Bakke said his organization spotted two sockeye salmon migrating upstream in the Snake River this year on their 900-mile journey to Redfish Lake, "the sockeye are. functionally extinct because the run is below 50 fish." The Snake River coho salmon was first pronounced extinct ex-tinct in 1987 by the Northwest Power Planning Council, a group Bakke belongs to. He said the downfall of the sockeye was a repeat of what happened with the coho salmon and was primarily due to pollution from canneries can-neries and encroachment from man. "The extinction of these two salmon runs represents stunning failures by state, federal and tribal fish management agencies in the Columbia River to protect salmon runs," said Bakke. Twenty percent of the salmon spawning areas in the system have been blocked to spawning by dams and waterworks, but the number of adult salmon has plummeted plum-meted from 10 million to 2 million. In addition, hatchery-raised hatchery-raised fish known to be less hardy and resilient than wild salmon and steelhead are making up an increasingly increas-ingly large percentage of the remaining runs. Bakke says conservation agencies need to turn their attention toward creating and preserving wild fish runs, and concentrate less on building hatchery runs. But, Dexter Pitman, the Idaho department of Fish and Game anadromous fisheries manager, disagrees. He notes young fish die in dam turbines, in the ocean, from commercial fishing and for a variety of other reasons. He also says many adults cannot make it over the Lower Granite Dam. Once the problems which have resulted in the loss of the coho and sockeye are solved, Pitman said an attempt to re-establish the Salmon River sockeye might be worthwhile. wor-thwhile. With two fish left, that will undoubtedly mean starting from scratch with transplants from another region, possibly as far away as Alaska. Moose missing A moose head yes, moose head is missing from the Chinquapin mail house. The stuffed and mounted head is six feet wide and five feet tall from neck to nose and was last seen Sept. 28. The missing moose was discovered by a crew working on the mail house, known as the Dollar House, and no one has a clue as to its whereabouts or how it was stolen. It reportedly took four men to put the mount on the wall in the first place. "If somebody's seen him around town, we'd love to have him back,"-said one'pokespereon;';'Wftfciit press charges. There.will be no questions asked." . Sgt. Keith Shannon of the sheriff's substation said they currently have no leads on the missing moose, but added it would be something fairly tough to miss if anyone saw it hanging in a friend's house. (Bolt sa Soft focus movie by KATHY MCCARTHY Record guest writer I have a strange, melancholy feeling sometimes when I walk home after a movie, all alone in the dark, as if I walked out of the theater and into the real-life drama I just watched, reinacted in Park City. For a while, I see the jungle and the movie related to my life. Vietnam, terrorism and hate, sickness and death and it slowly dawns on me they don't relate at all to my life. The humid jungle night that folds around the struggling humans is in sharp contrast to my present cold Halloween Hallo-ween night full of happy ghosts and goblins. A little pirate, followed closely by his mother, stops at my house to trick -or-treat. I give him a chewy fruit candy can-dy wrapped in wax paper. While his mother and I talk, he unwraps it eagerly, but it falls in the snow before he gets a taste. He doesn't even pick it up. I don't think he even considered eating it. It could be diry. As he stands waiting for a replacement, I bend down and pop the candy can-dy into my mouth, and wonder if I made any impression on him. He sure made one on me. Now my mischievously patronizing, human-computer brain goes to work on a world view that incorporates little lit-tle children starving to death and little children who won't eat trick-or-treat candy that has been dropped in the snow. They don't fit. They'd never make a convicing movie. I can't seem to take my life seriously. "Gee, should I vote for Ann or Bradley?" When the movies are so real, my life is, at best, "soft focused." I want to see the world like I see a movie clearly. I want to feel all the tension like sitting in the theater with the bad guy stalking the good guy, all the excitement and sadness and happiness, and fear and caring. The emotions emo-tions are clear, not all mixed together. The important parts are there, and even if you can't pick them out right away, you know there's a purpose behind each scene. It's not important that Ghandi ever had a cold and a runny run-ny nose because you never saw it in the show. If you could find all the important parts in your life and put them all together, you'd have a movie. "No one loves Park City more than I Jo. But Ann MacQuoid loves our town just as much, and that's her only reason for running for Mayor. Serving Park City over the past four years has been the finest experience of my life. Ann's four years on the council, and her term as Mayor pro-tem have convinced con-vinced me that Ann will bring hard work, honesty and genuine caring to the job of Mayor. Please vote for her on November 71" , Mayor Hal Taylor VOTE Ann MacQuoid MAYOR FOR PARK CITY PAID FOR BY CITIZENS IX)R ANN MucQUOlD . . " ... |