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Show The Park Record D Section A Thursday, September 7, 1995 D Page All News from the West and the rest Snmmifflimnit to gumnmnmiM , ; . - . : i Developer plans housing for elderly 'I A.Pitkin Coui)tv developer has offered to step in to fill a growing need in the Roaring Fork Valley. He ;.has filed an application to build a 48-unit senior citizen housing project near Basalt. As proposed, Bob Gillman would also like to build a 20,000-square-IJlQn AflRHlf JIKlfl foot medical clinic adjacent to the senior citizen P fln C3Bi flil B iiYiflB The housing project will be comprised of one and two-bedroom apartments joined by a 7,000-. 7,000-. square-foot community center tying the complex together. In the future, Gillman said he also hopes to build additional "assisted living facilities." So far, the plans have received a lot of enthusiastic support ; from area officials. Telluride Times-Journal Council members give themselves a raise ,, . The mayor and council members of Ketchum, Jdaho took a big step last month, voting to increase their salaries by over 50 percent. The officials were . .in a hurry to pass the measure because state law ;- would have prohibited them from taking any salary ! increases within 60 days before an election. As a result of their action; the mayor's annual " salary was increased froorm $9,600 to $15,000. -The council members' salaries went up from $6,000 to $9,600. One council member said he hoped the pay increases would help to attract quality candidates in the upcoming city elections. I Jackson Hole News Ninety year old foils contractor's scam Ninety-year-old Tommy Waldron of Wilson, Wyo. may be slowing down a bit but he is not naive. When a paving contractor told him it would cost $9,372 to decontaminate supposed radioactive waste material on his driveway, he called their bluff. - Waldron previously hired the contractor to repave his driveway and subsequently coughed up an additional $4,600 over and above the bid price to seal the project. But when the same contractor came back with another bill, Waldron had enough. The contractor reportedly told Waldron that some of the material used to pave the driveway had been recycled from a nearby nuclear waste facility and, unless resealed, was dangerous. Waldron threatened to sue but did give the contractor a check, under the impression that his previous payments would be refunded. The man, however, disappeared with all Of the money. When Waldron reported the incident, police learned the contractor, Chaney Collins, was also wanted by lawmen in Pocatello. Vandals arrested at Mesa Verde landmark Videocam-toting tourists helped to nab three 20-year 20-year olds who were subsequently arrested for vandalizing a national historic monument. The offenders, one from Durango and two from Oklahoma, reportedly entered one of the kivas at Mesa Verde National Park and caused significant damage. According to park officials, the men broke plaster off the walls and vandalized the floors and ceilings in one of the most significant cliff dwellings in the park. They were fined $560 each and ordered to perform 20 hours each of community service. THE &L TRAIL Colorado will get additional area code Ski industry officials in northern and western Colorado heaved a sigh of relief when the Public Utilities Commission agreed to extend the final implementation of the new 970 area code until after Christmas break. The new 970 prefix had been scheduled to be in place by Oct. 1 However, several local businessmen were worried about losing customers unable to access the new code. ,,, . ,.. , : ... The delay, however, may mean the state will run out of phone numbers for new customers before the switch over. Colorado isn't the only state being divided into new area code zones. Across the county 14 new area codes will be in place by the end of 1996. The additional codes reportedly are needed because of the increased use of cellular and fax lines. Meg firomm (CM Paurk CMy By JUSTIN L. "JACK" FUELL. Take a deep breath 1946 was the year that we'd get rich working in the timber in the High Uintas. That rotten war was over and most of us were out of the service and could do anything we wanted we'd have no brass telling us what we could and couldn't do. We were lucky that we'd been civilians seven or eight months already and luckier still that we'd spent that time in Park City's relatively high 7,000-foot altitude. We'd taken a contract to cut timber on Soapstone, which is away out in the sticks above Kamas. Even the trees on Soapstone were smart enough to quit growing at around 10,500 feet and we worked only a few feet below that magic line. i We weren't fit for work up there at timberline: Eldon had just come home from Burma, Dahl had been escorting merchant ships around the Mediterranean, Glen had spent a couple of years in North Africa and I'd been fighting the Williwaw winds in the Aleutian Islands. Living and working on Soapstone required some major adjustments. We had to learn to breathe all oyer again there isn't an awful lot of air available up on that mountain. We divided our work so that each was a specialist. Others in our group "bucked" the trees into long logs while Eldon and I became resident experts at getting the trees to fall down so the others could "buck" them up. We weren't very good at it either, and we faced many problems. With little air, we had to work hard just to keep from turning purple. We'd undercut our "notch" then we'd have a drink of water, breathe long and hard for a few minutes and go onward. Next we took our axes and chopped the notch so the tree knew which direction to fall, then more water, longer, almost frantic breathing and possibly a cigarette. I don't know what we'd have done without those cigarettes. Over to the back side of the tree we went and shortly our tree was lying there on the ground before us. Another long slug of water, more labored breathing, and while sitting on the fallen trunk like conquering heroes we'd treat ourselves to another cicarette. That cigarette was. of course, just what we needed to breathe in that ratified air! I've over-simplified the process of "falling" trees because a major effort and concern was holding an ax or saw with two hands while keeping the mosquitoes from draining our already pale and shaken bodies of what little oxygen-starved blood we still had pumping through our veins. There was more nicotine in our blood than oxygen. Maybe the mosquitoes liked that! There were stories circulating around Kamas that those mosquitoes regularly ate teams of horses and then pitched their horseshoes to decide which mosquito would eat the harnesses. I believe that story. Even on top of Soapstone life can be interesting. My brother Neldon, then seven years old, was one of those who was a magnet to every stray mutt or cat in the county. Nel arrived on top of the mountain with a dog in tow. That dog was in, under, and on top of everything in our camp. Everyone hated that damned dog. In the beginning Eldon and I worked our butts off just getting three or four trees down before lunch break. In September of 1946 we fell 1 17 trees in one day. We'd come a long, long way from those first sputtering, pitiful days. Our two-man crosscut saw had become a great tool, maybe even a weapon. Everywhere we worked, it seemed, Neldon's dog ran and played. We cussed and shouted at that stinkin dog and we coaxed and warned Nel that the dog was going to get hurt. Our warnings proved prophetic. We heard the first crack of wood that told us our tree was on its way down, and as we glanced down the field where we knew the tree would impact we saw a streak of black fur racing across the falling tree's path. Mingled with the crashing-tree sounds was a high pitched, feeble, "yip" and all was silent We hurried to the tree's end and found that the very tip, only an inch or two in diameter, had slapped the pup. That black ball of nuisance was history. We felt like ax murderers. As the older brother, I inherited the job of telling Neldon that we had killed his dog. I expected a situation where all the details would work themselves smoothly into an easy, logical, humane story. It didn't happen that way. In the end all that was left for me was to blurt out that we'd killed his puppy. Nel shrugged his tiny shoulders, stuffed his hands into his overall pockets, kicked a stone out of his path and with his head hanging, walked toward the spring, ' uttering a sad, "None of you ever liked him, anyhow." At that moment I knew that you'd need a microscope to see me standing there. I felt very, very small. Neldon, however, never held a grudge. I'd have felt better if he had cussed, kicked and blamed us so we could have defended ourselves. Justin Fuell, a former Park City resident, has written two books of his early recollections-Jackie and Beeba and Me. He lives in Mar ana, Ariz, with his wife Beeba. ! s I k PARK MEADOWS CUSTOM The Jaffa Group is the proud buildersarchitects for this custom designed home. 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