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Show Page C6 Thursday, January 30, 1 98b Park Ret rd Rocli and BLoU at the 7Iail Jan. 31 Connie and the Rhythm "Method Feb. 7&8 Charlie Mmsseflwlhifltte Enjoy our new luncheon If dinner menu Appetizers Entrees Clams Saureed Mushroom-Nachos Chef" Salad burizcrs Ruelx'tA Steak Sandwich AP Located At City The Hottest Spot in Town For more information call 649-3500 5 0 BANK FORECLOSURE Only 5 units available Prices drastically reduced to $45,000 fx 1 1 5 -! i 1 Bedroom Chalets - Fully Furnished - Sleeps Amenities Include Swimming Pools Tennis Courts Club House Hot TubSauna ( RED PINE CONDOMINIUMS AT PARKWEST Marketed by Jim Morley 3662 N: Navajo Trail Park West, UT 84060 (801) 649-0378 Special Financing Available 10uo Down 10.5ro Interest 30 year fixed rate 10 year call to qualified buyers . m S Malice Toward Rtoflne r bv Jim S mod ley 4X Growing PCHS track program should have proper facilities Listen. , , , . The powers that be over at the Park City High Sehool want a year-round running track and other improvements im-provements made to the area surrounding the football held. . They are asking to improye the area enough to be aoie to hold all the field events that go along with track high lumping, shot put. discus and javelin. And you know, it's a great idea. It's going to cost some bucks though. According to estimates provided by Principal Prin-cipal .lack Dozier. by the time all the asphalting, landscaping, land-scaping, buying of new equipment and installing of the latex track is done, the price tag will read $425,980.69. Th.' latex track alone costs $191 .250. But cost aside, installing the facilities for the kids is a good idea for several reasons. For the past five years, the track team has been shot-putting shot-putting in the mufti-purpose room at the high school while the high jumpers have been jumping in the gym-:iMum gym-:iMum The hurdlers have been hurdling in the hallways and the runners have been running in the streets. Is that any way to operate a program? It is. if there is no other alternative and you have the kids that want to compete. But there is an alternative now. liiii Id the facilities. Dozier said he is really concerned about the kids running runn-ing in the streets. And who can blame him? Nothing has happened yet. but why wait lor something to happen? The track program is also booming at I he high school. Last year. 80 athletes participated and even more are peeled this year. The success of the program is directly due to the hard work of the personable coach. Bill Kahn. He doesn't just ; rur- .iiH nrnnnd and bark orders. He's nut ...:u tUr L-iHc nnH he rpallv rare; plinnt tK has even revived the cross country program thi ,ll)OUl JlliiUllllfa I'tii ia iptue uiifl ytl.M car. The high school track would not exclusively be 0 . school students. Other students and "cornn members would be welcome to use the facility. Dozier has already conferred with Steve Haugen Recreation Department and Haugen favors th' It must be remembered that the track and land, ing go hand in hand. It would not make much sensed the track in and then attempt the landscaping, ": 'The lack of completion of the landscaping in area has impinged greatly upon the aesthetics ol -chool and left us with an uncompleted look or " years," Dozier said. "Additionally, the landscape the berm area would be almost impossible once, track has been constructed. "We would run a great risk of damaging the tract doing the landscaping afterward because the hp , iinpinent needed for landscaping could damage'. track." The cheapest the district could get by woulj. S280.24(i and this would include the track, landscape the immediate area and equipment for the track-field track-field events. Do.ier would also like to landscape the Lucky Jt,-Drive Jt,-Drive area and the church area for an extra $39,719 ' if you have ever seen those grounds there is nonet; ask why. The school district should take a good look at the p-posal p-posal as it considers capital outlays and I supr ii'velopment ol such a facility. Mmnriray sm jpnirtt by Jim Murray Baseball and America: Browns owner was a hardball patriot Bill Veeck was a guy who never wore a necktie or drank from a glass in his life. He hated the New York Yankees, stuffed shirts, and anyone who went home before the ninth inning or the bars closed. In that order. He loved beer, baseball, summer and America. He was the only owner I ever knew who really loved baseball, not because it sold beer or tickets or chewing gum but because it kept us all young. He loved baseball the way a girl who only had his picture on her dresser loved Clark Gable. You never get over your first crush and baseball was Bill's. You had to love baseball to own the St. Louis Browns. No one ever made the game any more fun. He always came to town as if he were advancing the circus or leading a parade. Bill Veeck was the Pete Rose of the front office. His mind was 71 but his heart was 12 years old. He spoke in a laryngilic whisper but you could hear him clear across a ballroom. He had an opinion on everything but he loved it if you disagreed with him. The only thing he loved better than baseball was a good argument. argu-ment. He had only one leg. The other is buried some place out in the South Pacific, I believe. Bill didn't miss it and although it caused him considerable pain and forced him periodically out of the game he loved, no one ever heard him complain. Bill never complained. Not even about the St. Louis Browns. He considered himself lucky. "A lot of guys came home without eyes," he once told a guy commiserating com-miserating with him. Bill died in Chicago recently. He had gotten lung cancer a couple of years ago but since he smoked three to four packs of cigarettes a day he liked to say he carried car-ried cancer into extra innings. He loved to talk baseball. He loved people who knew and loved baseball. He considered anybody who didn't retarded. He was an old-fashioned guy but he didn't think so. He thought he was a modern as a microchip, but he was really out of his time. For instance, every ball club he ever owned had its own ball park, usually an antiquated old pile of ruins you expected to see Nero in. It never occurred to Bill to try to get a city and its taxpayers to pay for his ball park and his club. Bill raised the money himself. He thought that was the way America worked. And baseball to him was America. His promotional gimmicks, considered scandalous at the time are routine now. He put in exploding scoreboards and organ music. He sent a midget to bat But he also gave away orchids, gift certificates and cars' and today, Bat Night, Helmet Night and Jacket Nig are really the modern equivalents of his promotions. "If you depend solely on people who know and lovethi game, you will be out of business by Mother s Day used to say. He was not only a promoter, he was a sound basefe man. His franchises were successful. He won pennat: in two of the three cities he had ownerships in. He Ime. ballplayers the way David Harum knew horses. Baseball treated him shabbily. Bill Veeck should ha1 been an even more historic figure than he was. For years, long before Walter O'Malley did hankered to move a franchise to Los Angeles. He! skids all greased to bring the St. Louis Browns Ik: when Del Webb, then owner of the New York Yankf and a powerful figure in the game, stepped in to the move. He wouldn't even let Veeck go to Baltims where the team wound up, forcing Veeck to before the league would OK the move. Veeck broke the color line in the American Leaj But he would have broken it in baseball, period, beat Branch Rickey to the punch if he hadn't been slicker- bv baseball in 1943, too. The circumstances were these: In the middle ol war, the Philadelphia Phillies were in bankrupt say nothing of seventh place. Veeck had a daring nlan. He proposed to buy the and, with the connivance of Abe Saperstein, who rant Harlem Glnhpf rntfprc pnrl Don Young, a 1 newsman, to stock it with the great players from Negro Leagues. He had Satchel Paige, Roy Campa Luke Easter and Monte Irvin lined up. Veeck wouldn't have had a team, he would have IB' dvnastv. "The only thing blocking it was no law, it wasj-gentlemen's wasj-gentlemen's agreement," Veeck used to recall. "A'1 was no gentleman." Vpprk latpr arimitfpH malfino onp bad mistake. of my long respect for (Baseball Commissioner) Landis, I felt he was entitled to prior notification oI T inf pnHprl tn Hn " Added Veeck : "The next thing I knew, I was inform lhat (Phillipc' nn.r,o.-i r.orrv NlMSpnt hRlIlS In CWI" HI VinH tumor! thp foam hapli tn thp leflSUe and 1 President Ford Fn: Frick promptly informed me that the club had aire- been sold to William Cox, a lumber dealer, foraDou. what I was willing to pay." Baseball always kept Bill Veeck, so to speak." bleachers. But that was all right. That was right - (c) Los Angeles Times. Distributed by Los a s Times Syndicate. TV AUTOMOTIVE & TRUCK REPAIR FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC Tune-Ups Tires Inspection Batteries nor? HOBS UTOfflOYiyE 649-AUTO (2886) AT THE CORNER OF IRON HORSE AND BONANZA DRIVE r |