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Show Reporting assignments change as Kidman joins Record staff Anew byline appears on The Park Record pages this week-that of Kurt Kidman, who comes to the Record from The Salt Lake Tribune bv way of Europe. Vman left the Tribune in November 1983 with another eporter and bicycled through Europe in London, he met Caroline, the woman who was to become his wife and they arrived in the United States onlv several weeks ago. During his six-year stint at the Tribune, Kidman learned the business from the bottom up. He started as a copy-boy in high school, shuttling proofs and pages. He moved mov-ed up to corrections typist, then became an obituary writer and finally final-ly earned his way to a full-time sports writing slot. During the heavy competition with the then-new weekly competitor, The Spectrum (which was mailed to every home), Kidman was a weekly sports editor within a daily X S. ... 1 m Kurt Kidman is the new est addition to the Park Record staff. framework. He coordinated the sports pages for the four Salt Lake City and two Davis County zone editions, wrote most of the articles and took some pictures. The decision to hire a sportswriter to replace city hall reporter Christopher Smart involves some plans to reshuffle personnel at the Record. Kidman will be eased into the sports slot now held by Jim Smedley. Smedley will concentrate more heavily on his coverage of education, lend his light touch to more features and cover some hard new The city council will be covered by editor Janice Perry. "Kurt was selected from among an impressive field of candidates," Perry said. "The response to our advertisement for a reporter was overwhelming and we had our pick of several very qualified applicants." Skiing's glory days on show in Park City Museum display It was New Year's Day, 1931. A young Norwegian skier grabbed the attention of the sports world by soaring soar-ing 247 feet off a new jump in Utah's Wasatch Mountains. It was no fluke. The following December he shattered his own record by sailing 266 feet off the same jump. Three years later, on Christmas Day, he set the all-time record for that jump, 296 feet. The young Norwegian was Alf Engen, who went on to become one of the key figures in the development of skiing in Utah. And the new jump was about 10 miles outside Park City at a place called Ecker Hill. Engen is still very much alive, thank you, and can be seen from time to time cruising the slopes at Alta. The jump at Ecker Hill hasn't been so lucky. It fell out of favor and slowly disintegrated. You can see what's left a few wooden pilings and the remains of the judges' box on your left as you drive into the Pinebrook subdivision. Skiing, like mining, has a long history in the Park City area. Names like Ecker Hill, Snow Park and Creole Hill were part of the local vocabulary long before there were gondolas or safety bindings. So it is appropriate that the evolution of skiing ski-ing in western Summit County be the subject of a hew exhibit at the Park City Museum'. "" '"' " " ' ' Designing the exhibit will be Pat Smith, former director of the museum. Smith has been contracted by the board of directors of the Park City Historical Society, the museum's governing body, to complete com-plete the project by May 22. Smith knows her material. A Utah native, she was one of the first women certified to instruct at Brighton. At that time, she recalls, Brighton was pushing a teaching method known as Ab-Stem. But the method was far from universal, as she discovered when she tried to get her certification at nearby Alta. "There was a raging war going on between Brighton and Alta," she says. "The whole certification committee com-mittee was watching my downhill ski to see if I was doing the Brighton Pizza Quick Delivery of quality pizzas sandwiches and salads, open until midnight 649-1300 649-6893 Ab-Stem." Smith says she hopes the new exhibit ex-hibit will include information on some of the old teaching methods like the Ab-Stem, the Arlberg, the French Hop Christie, the Ruade and the Dipsy Doodle. However, she says the focus of the exhibit will be the Park City area and the development of skiing here between about 1900 and 1963 (the opening of the Treasure Mountain Resort, later renamed the Park City Ski Area). According to Smith, some of the earliest skiers here were linemen for telephone and power companies who donned long boards to inspect the lines during the winter. "That was utility skiing," she explains ex-plains with a deft double-entendre. Recreational skiing quickly caught on, and by 1917, The Park Record was talking about the formation forma-tion of a high school "Ski Club." By the 1920s, Park City residents were taking regular expeditions into the mountains. Former Park Record linotype operator Lynx Langford tells how he and his buddies would hitch a ride on one of the mine trains, then ride to the surface in a "cage" elevator many years before Park City saw its first mechanized ski lift. The glory days of Ecker Hill began in the late 1920s. Then came the for-' for-' mation of the Snow Park Ski Club and finally, just after World War II, the Snow Park resort chugged into operation. By today's standards, Snow Park was crude. The lift towers were made of Dine logs, the cable scavenged from the mines, the power provided by an old Ford Model A engine. But it ran for more than 20 years, finally closing for the last time in 1969. Today the site is occupied by Deer Valley Resort's lower runs. Smith says she is contacting as many of the old-time skiers as possible. possi-ble. "We are also soliciting artifactsski ar-tifactsski equipment and clothing as well as still photographs and home movies of early winter activities." She says she would like to transfer some of the home movies to videotape to be used in a proposed 20-minute documentary on the history of skiing in the area. She indicated in-dicated that discussions are being held with a Salt Lake City television station on a possible joint project. The centerpiece of the exhibit, she says, will be an artist's re-creation of the Ecker Hill jump, complete with a model of a jumper, in period clothing, soaring off the lip. "We're hoping to acquire an authentic pair of jumping skis," she says. The Park City Historical Society is also working to have a monument erected at the Ecker Hill site and has scheduled a dedication ceremony for May 17. Committee chairman Bob Anderson said the Pinebrook developers have agreed to contribute to the project. Those willing to share information, informa-tion, home movies or other artifacts for use in the exhibit are invited to call David Hampshire at the museum office, 649-0375, weekday afternoons or leave a message at The Park Record, 649-9014. I l)in (r M MU , A I 6:30-8:30 P.M. WZZZZZi. l5 1 I 4 n They're back again... 1 fit ' Ia'aT 6:30-8:30 P.M. '-j ag ' Your Chamber Bureau... . . . Your Opportunity! r 7 1 - Many people may not be aware of the support the Park City Chamber Bureau gives to general community activities. Park City's Autumn Aloft is a labor of love produced strictly by volunteers and is considered by some to be the classiest ballon rally held anywhere. This event simply would not be the same quality without the active support of the ChamberBureau in promotion, advertising and many other ways. The folks at the Chamber Bureau are our friends and we appreciate their help! 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