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Show 'nrmn The Park Record B Section B Taken from the Park Record archives Thursday, September 21, 1 995 D Page B1 0 ? A potpourri of news, weath er accidents and gossip Compiled by KAT JAMES 1 00 Years Ago Territorial news The health commissioner of Salt Lake says there is an epidemic of typhoid fever in that city. E.T. Hamp of Richmond has a curiosity in the shape of a pig four weeks old that was born without feet. Lafavor, the man recently arrested for marrying two women and trying to swindle the second one, has been discharged from custody on the grounds of insufficient proof. The prosecuting witness failed to appear against him. Frank P. McDonald, the Salt Lake policeman who recently took a shot at Emil Sackerson, has been fired from the force, and it is expected will be fired into the penitentiary when the Third District Court gets a chance at his case. Joseph Brown, another of Zion's incorrigible boys, was sent to the reform school at Ogden this week. Four bears were killed in San Pete County recently in one day. They were caught in a bunch and all killed by the same men. The largest one weighed 395 pounds. W.J. Harrett of Provo died very suddenly Monday morning of English cholera. Charles Bauer, of Logan, was found guilty this week of the crime of fornication and got four months in the pen. His companion in crime, 16-year-old Bertha Hoth, got off with a severe reprimand. Charles Meyer, a drummer who should have known better, was drugged and robbed of some $60 Tuesday of this week by one of the Salt Lake damsels. Stranger, still, Meyer reported his loss to the police. He can't have been on the road very long. A violent thunder storm at Brigham City last week performed many strange freaks with the town's electric light plant, but no serious damage resulted. The lights would go entirely out and then flash up with a strange and marvelous brilliancy. A Hoytsville correspondent of the Coalville Times says the timber fires that have recently been burning in Alexander Canyon were started by a sheep herder, who started them to burn out the underbrush that his flock might get through. He should be prosecuted. A young bride and groom came to grief at Brigham City last week. They were driving along the road when their wagon ran off a bridge. Both were thrown out, the woman having both legs badly bruised, while the man was badly wounded in the right shoulder by the accidental discharge of a shot gun which was in the wagon when the accident happened. E.J. Watkins of Ogden was suddenly prostrated last week with a severe attack of paralysis, his left side being affected. The doctors think he will die. J.E. Malin shot himself through the left foot last week while fooling with a 22-calibre rifle while out with an excursion party. The wound is very painful but not dangerous. 50 Years Ago Unhappy travelers From Brigham and Kanab, two of Utah's colorful city situated at opposite ends of the state come stories about "unhappy travelers" who during weekends find it almost impossible to get food and hotel accommodations. At Kanab, Editor E. Eugene Roberts calls attention to the need by next summer for several hundred additional "tourist accommodation" rental units and mentions the thousands of dollars in tourist money now passing through that city which could be stopped at Kanab if additional eating and sleeping facilities were available. Said Roberts: "There is a real opportunity here for one prepared to take care of the traveler." At Brigham, Editor Bill Long laments the lack of tourist accommodations and hopes for the timely arrival of opportunity- seeking businessmen who will do something to make the "unhappy traveler" happy. "From 300 to 500 Bushnell Hospital visitors recently found themselves in Brigham on a weekend with only one restaurant in operation and a lot of them went hungry," said Long. If such stories come from Brigham and Kanab, what's happening to the traveler in the 350 miles between these cities? on asks, and are they also unhappy? Suggested recommendation: That restaurant operators on the state's highways unite to the point of seeing that sufficient eating houses remain open at all times to make the unhappy traveler "happy;" that hotel and motel operators lose no time in preparing for that great army of hungry, well-to-do travelers who will arrive here next summer anticipating good . accommodations such as a hot bath and clean cool sheets in a modern tourist unit. No traveler should be allowed to leave a city in an unhappy frame of mind and this column says, "You can't say we didn't warn you a year in advance." Moral tourist complaints spread faster than a pestilence. 25 Years Ago Park City gets nice promotion from California columnist Still another slant on Park City, indicating widespread interest in our town's growth and development, is mailed from the Press-Enterprise, a Los Angeles area newspaper. It is written by Neil Morgan: Park City, Utah: Seven thousand feet up into the Wasatch Mountains above Salt Lake City, Park City perches as a thoroughly modern phenomenon: a mining town that seeks rebirth as a resort. English miners came here from Cornwall in 1871 and found the Irish already digging ore. Scandinavian carpenters and Chinese merchants joined them. The population jumped to 10,000 as these scarred mountains yielded $400 million in silver and gold, copper, zinc and lead. Mormon founders in Utah welcomed the , wealth in developing early . " commerce in Salt Lake City. , Now mining has slowed but not halted. P,ark City has a year-round population of about 1,400, and average employment in the mines is 250. These days there are . consultants to advise leaders of dying mining towns on how to avoid becoming ghost towns. Park City has had plenty of advice and has begun to act on it. A big frame building near the main street has a sign that still -reads, "Silver King Coalition Mine." It's abandoned. The Union Pacific depot has petunias growing in its window boxes, and its curlicued eaves have a fresh coat of gray paint. But you don't get to Park City by train anymore; you take the new freeway. Poison Creek Drug Store still does business along the steep main street nestling deep down the canyon, and a bar called The Cozy advertises itself as the local last chance. A new layer of attractions has been super-imposed over such aging goodies. United Park City Mines Co., girding for the end of silver and zinc operations, has been funneling profits into the Park City Resort. This summer Park City played host to a series of small conferences among them the Western Governors Conference. Mrs. Jean Gee, manager of Treasure Mountain Inn, the largest and swankiest of the resorts, says that facilities accommodate groups of 150 or less. Such events help Park City survive during the summer, when its ski lift (billed as the longest gondola run in the world, 2 12 miles long) carries visitors high above green aspen and birch mountainsides. At the 9,400-foot elevation, 22 minutes after he sets out, the summer visitor steps off at a glass-walled lodge called The Summit, from which he can look far to the north and east to the Uinta Mountains', America's only major east-west range. We've moved our loan office pp.. ' V fotitefcflM Xs: hi V Whether you're working out at the gym or grabbing your sand wedge, if you have a phone you can apply for a loan. In less than 30 minutes you'll know if your loan is approved. So the next time you're thinking of that needed vacation, those overdue home improvements, or that shiny new boat you've been eyeing, give us acallat 1-800-LEND FSB. You'll find that First Security Bank's Lend Line is conveniently located near you. Member F.D, l.C. tL. i.. Hours: Mon - Fri - 8AM to 6PM Sat 9AM - 2PM C A L L - 1 - 8 0 0 a e & P 6 IB FOR PERSONAL LOANS, HOME EQUITY LOANS, LINES OF CREDIT, CREDIT CARDS PH. 1 -800-536-3372 BWlHUUtM mmimn Summer in Park City is pretty tame, but the natives have plans to make it jazzier. The resort comes alive when the snowpack is ready for the skiers. Treasure Mountain Inn is booked a year ahead on winter weekends. 1 0 Years Ago Ski Team J-II division nucleus switches to ParkWest by Jim Smedley A group of young athletes that in 1984 made up the core of the J- 11 division of the Park City Ski Team have quit the squad to form a new team based at the ParkWest Ski Resort. Tyler and Danny Tebbs, Shannon and Jeremy Nobis, Matt Golden and Scott Black are leaving to join a ski team that will compete for ParkWest. A seventh skier, Brett Johnson, also will be leaving, but according to parent Marcy Tebbs, he will not be part of the ParkWest team. Most of the skiers who left the team competed in the J-II division. Tom Acker, the coach at Stratton Mountain Academy in Vermont for the past four years, has been hired to coach the ParkWest team. He is scheduled to arrive in Park City Oct. 1 . According to the parents of Nobis, Tebbs and Black, the move to ParkWest was made to benefit their children. Although Peggy Black would not specify the reasons for the change, Craig Nobis and Marcy Tebbs agreed that thy wanted more specialized training for their children than the Park City Ski Team has provided. "Some of the parents felt that the children weren't getting the coaching they needed. We felt that our kids maybe have higher goals than can be reached at the Park City Ski Team," Craig Nobis said. Apparently, there was some disappointment in the showing of Park City skiers in the J-II division last year, who did very well in the J-III level the prior year. . "The year before, we dominated the J-IH division in the Western U.S. As skiers jump up in class the) geographic area (in which they compete) gets bigger and the ; competition gets tougher," said Bob Marsh, the Park City Ski Team program director. "Skiing competitively is tough for the j young kids. There's the academic j pressure, high-expectation levels ! from parents and the heavy ; j demands that skiing itself places on them,' Marsh said. "Last year, j the race was on as soon as their J heads left the pillow." 1 J Marcy Tebbs said the parents asked Marsh for some things he felt were inappropriate. "He can't ; gear the program to seven or eight kids when he has so many to j worry about," she said. . She also said it was the i children, not the parents, that ! initiated the change. ! Craig Nobis and Marcy Tebbs J were quick to praise Marsh for his J accomplishments at the helm of j the ski team and said that, "there j are no hard feelings." j "You have to give credit where t credit is due and our kids have i developed in the Park City ! program to this point," Craig Nobis said. ! Marsh wished the skiers luck J saying, "I just hope that the j athletes that left have the same ; opportunity at ParkWest as they did here." ! Interested in learning more about Park City's history? Visit the Park City Library. Early copies of the Park Record are available on microfilm (please ask for assistance). There are also many books and photo collections that tell about life in this quaint mining camp. i! BACK ON-LINE COMPUTER Instnllntion Es Repflir Upgmdes .,....,. iiiiiiilii j-1! 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