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Show a 3 -a 3004. oo Utah Press fissoc. 467 East 300 South Bait Lake City, UT B4111 Snowbird's Bass inspires Chamber with daring tales of 'do or die' Volume 57 Number 23 ft f--': 5tf Placement of one million cubic yards of roller compacted concrete (RCC) was achieved achiev-ed June 1, 1987 at Upper Stillwater Dam on the Bonneville Unit of the Central Utah Project. Pro-ject. This is the first RCC dam in the United States that contains this much concrete. Now about two-thirds complete, the dam will contain about 1,400,000 cubic yards of RCC when it is finished in August. The damsite is approximately 21 air miles northwest of Duchesne, Utah. The dam and reservoir are the initial features of the Strawberry Aqueduct and Collection System of the Bonneville Unit. The dam will impound a 33,000 acre-foot reservoir and have a spillway capable of discharging 15,000 cubic feet per second. Crest of the dam will be 30 feet wide. Night to remember City prepares for huge Orem City, in conjunction with the ProvoOrem Chamber of Commerce, Com-merce, is gearing up for one of the largest celebrations in the city's history. Flags will line Center Street and part of State Street as Orem prepares for this gala event. Honoring the Miss Utah Pageant, the Parade and Street Dance on June 16th, will mark the beginning of the week-long competition for the sixty-one sixty-one statewide contestants. Issuing an invitation to the community, com-munity, KFMY-96 FM will kick off the evening with a tailgate party for the first 1,000 people arriving at City Park. Beginning at 6:30 p.m., the station will ask everyone to come over and say hello. Families are also encouraged to bring their own dinner and have their picnic in the park. Orem City's brand new fountain, named Freedom Fountain, donated by O.C. Tanner of Salt Lake City, will be dedicated at 7 p.m. All residents are welcome to attend. , The parade route, Center Street from 800 East to State Street, will be blocked off to traffic. Those gathering early will be treated to free entertainment beginning at 7 :30 p.m. Grandstand seating will be placed at four locations along the route am' 'description of the entertainment wil be provided by MC's from K-96. K-96. The pre-parade entertainment entertain-ment will include the Utah Valley Children's Choir, Aloha Islanders, Sunshine Generation, Korner Kanyon Kickers, Cloggers USA, a Karate demonstration, and the Utah Golden Girls. It would be wise to come early and reserve a space and enjoy the entertainment As a fund raiser, Orem High Symphonic Band, will sell tickets to the grandstand seats. They will also set up carnival booths for the children. Tickets for the seating can be obtained from any Band member, the Chamber of Commerce office, or by contacting Orem City. The only night parade in Utah will start at 8 : 45 p.m. Sky Divers will land, hot air balloons will rise, and the parade will march down Center Street led by the Grand Marshal, Miss Utah Donna Clark. Bands from Utah County, IS floats, drill teams, novelty units, and professional' clowns will make Orem City's parade something no one will want to miss. The contestants will ride in convertibles conver-tibles driven by local residents. The Parade Committee is looking for people who would like to use their convertibles in the parade. If you have a convertible and are willing to carry two girls, please call the Chamber office at 224-3636. As the parade ends, the evening is far from over, for three dance ban- No 'conde River Trail Orem City will not call for a condemnation con-demnation of Orem property to accomodate ac-comodate the wishes of the Provo River Trail committee, Public Works Director Jack Jones assured anxious residents at last Tuesday's council meeting. The trail committee proposed propos-ed taking 600 feet of residential property pro-perty bordering the Provo River to continue their trail up Provo Canyon. The City also was asked by the trail committee to require any new subdivision to be set back from the river and a trailway dedicated through the subdivision property for By Jeanne Thayne What the mind wills, the body follows. Dick Bass, first person to climb the highest mountain on each of seven continents, began mountain climbing at the age of 50. He says it was that kind of aphorism as well as the poetry of Kipling, Tennyson, Service Ser-vice and Shakespeare that gave him the will to move on when his body cried in pain. "I'm just going pell mell down .life's highway," Bass told Chamber of Commerce members at June's membership luncheon. He says he replaced fear, anxiety and an ex: treme amount of stress with the harsh (physical stress of mountain climbing. "I can fall asleep in seconds now... I'm still alive!" As the owner of Snowbird, Bass says he used to toss and turn all night Ty U.S.A. Hill aBd Miw S -Wednesday parade ds will take up their positions on the route and fill the air with music for dancing. London Bridge Rock Band, Newell Hardy Country Western Band, and the Leo Vernon Dance Band will fill the evening with beautiful music. The Grand Finale comes at 10 p.m. with an array of spectacular fireworks provided by KFMY-96 FM, the Utah County Journal, and Coca Cola. The evening sky will explode with an array of fireworks as people dance in the streets.' Orem City is indeed gearing up to host this extravaganza. Months of preparation have gone into this evening. The residents of Utah County Coun-ty are all that is needed to make this evening one that all will remember forvearstocome. Anyone having a question can call the Chamber office and ask for Susan Booras, Chairman of the Committee. ation' for the Provo River Trail. Speaking for the trail committee, Ariel Ballif said that (600 feet) is the only place we've had trouble. "We've had gifts of land given. We just ask that the mayors get together now and work this out." Jones suggested an alternate route that would not encroach on any Orem residential property. It would develop the trail to the east beginning just south of the north end of the Country Coun-try Club and would tie to an existing path along University Avenue. worrying about bankers, a failed marriage, and all the "have to's and shoulds" in life. "We're still operating in the red, but everything is in perspective." While climbing Mt. McKinley (his first attempt at mountain climbing) climb-ing) Bass carried 70 pounds of gear and struggled with pain from an old back injury. "I recited Kipling's 'If' for the last five hours. It took no energy at all. I was so pumped up. . .1 was just galvanized." The climbing was made more challenging by an expert female mountain climber who told him he couldn't do it. He was untrained. "I just had to show her." In the end she called him an "animal," a great compliment com-pliment considering the sure-footedness sure-footedness of those that scale the mountain ridges carrying their gear. June 10 1987 RadiationOncology Unit celebrates first 6 years On April 6, 1981, a new era of health care for central and southern Utah began with the opening of the UVRMC RadiationOncology Unit and the appointment of Dr. Richard Brown as its medical director. Six years, and more than 2,000 patients later, Wayne Hodson, 67, Provo, reflects on that first afternoon he spent in the RadiationOncology Unit being treated for lung cancer. "I was the second patient ever treated at the unit," Hodson said. "And I got my first treatment on the very day they opened. All I can say is thank you to Dr. Brown and all the people over there, because if it weren't for them I wouldn't be alive today." . Mr. Hodson's wife, LaRue, credits the fact that the unit was at a hospital in Provo as being part of the reason for her husband surviving what had been wrought to be a death sentence. "His doctor told him that he had about six months to live," Mrs. Hodson Hod-son said. "We were really scared, but our doctor (Dr. Virgil Parker) told us about the Cancer Unit at Utah Valley and we drove over to see about it. And whatever it was they did to him over ihere, it savedhis lif e." Following the treatment of Hodson Hod-son and one other patient on that first day, the RadiationOncology Unit treated a total of 200 patients during its first year. Since then more than 2,000 patients from throughout the United States has been treated at the unit. As a result of increased demand for the services of RadiationOn-:ology RadiationOn-:ology expansion of the facility and full range capabilities were required. This need was dramatically accentuated accen-tuated when Dr. Cordell Bott opened his medical-oncology practice in July, 1984. This was followed one year later by the addition of a second medical-oncologist, Dr. Brain Tudor. For the past year expansion and remodeling have been on going in the RadiationOncology Unit that once again gives the center its own entrance en-trance on the east side of the hospital and a new $800,000 Duel Energy Photon and Multiple Energy Elec-torn Elec-torn Linear Accelerator. The new machine will allow a heightened level of sophistication in the treatment of tumors responsive of higher energy radiation, according accor-ding to Bob Elton, technical director of the Unit. "With this new machine we will be able to treat tumors at two depth ranges," Bob said. "Tumors that are deeper in the body will be able to be treated with less side effects and the more superficial ones will be able to be treated without treating the underlying un-derlying tissue at all. Now we're right on track with what is state of the art in terms of cancer treatment." Another reason for the expansion was the fact that when Dr. T. J. Blair joined the RadiationOncology staff there was a need to increase the clinic space, hence there are four fully equipped examination rooms. In fact, the new addition to the unit nearly doubles the total floor space, which is something that was needed, Bob said, because there are nearly 35 patients a day being treated and an average of 25 follow-up patients being seen. Ninety-five percent of all patients treated are outpatients, he said. With the new expansion Dr. Brown said there should be no need Bass showed slides of his climbing climb-ing experience on Mt. Everest in 1983. "There was just me and the mountain and the weather... I was free... of bankers, of everything." It's never too late, says Bass, anything is possible. possi-ble. The only failure in life is omission, omis-sion, of not trying, and of not having integrity. Bass has owned Snowbird for 17 years. For 16 years he commuted back and forth to Dallas where he lived liv-ed with his wife and children. When she left him for another man, she took their twin girls and he kept the boys. He was devastated. "Family life means everything to me," said Bass. Even though Bass had pumped "everything I had" into the ski resort, he took five months to travel with his boys around the world, meeting the most dangerous and physical kinds of 9 . ? I v if -; 1 Awl ffiiMiMiiiiiMiMMM iWiiiw AwmmmwrnMAMmmim, , , . Wayne Hodson, the second patient ever treated in UVRMC's Oncology Unit, credits treatment at the new unit with saving his life. for further expansion for many years to come. "This will really meet our needs for the present and for a long time to come," Dr. Brown said. "We can now take care of any problem that arises, with just a few exceptions. excep-tions. There will always be things that should be treated at only one place because of the specialized nature of them." With the opening of the newly expanded ex-panded unit (official opening ceremonies will take place sometime this summer), Dr. Brown said UVRMC's RadiationOncology Unit. "Is second to none. UVRMC has literally become a full-range oncology on-cology referral center." Assessment update begins for homes in Utah County The County Assessor is mailing 50,000 questionnaires this week to owners of residential properties in Utah County. The questionnaires are designed to update the information in the county's files about each home according to Ronald M. Smith, the County Assessor. "The corrected information in-formation will help us to be more accurate ac-curate in individual assessments," ?aid Smith. The use of questionnaires and iata-mailers is becoming more common in assessors offices across the country. "This questionnaire should help us to update our information infor-mation with significantly less expense expen-se than a county-wide walk-through inspection," Smith stated. The questionnaires, which will be mailed June 19th, will be due back to the county by July 3rd. Anyone needing help with the form should call the Reappraisal Division at 379-8489. 379-8489. Utah law requires property owners to respond to requests for information in-formation from the Assessor. People who do not respond will receive follow-up mailings and an onsight inspection in-spection by a real estate appraiser. The Assessor checks the accuracy ac-curacy of his work by copducting sales ratio studies which compare the stress. "When we returned I knew my boys better than I ever could have just meeting around the dinner table." He says he knew himself better, too. Bass has captured his experiences ex-periences in a book, "Seven Summits" Sum-mits" recently published. He said even little old ladies are writing to him that they are trying long forgotten forgot-ten dreams after becoming inspired by reading his book. For a man that claims he was as "clutzy as they come" the first time he skied in college, Bass has proved all the truisms engrained by a favored teacher in Texas that used poetry and literature to inspire. "You just need the will," says Bass. He also credits prayer and says his have been answered in a way he never would have dreamed. PRICE TWENTY-FIVE CENTS The importance of the unit being at UVRMC is two-fold, Dr. Brown said. "The reason the facility was built in the first place was to provide quality care locally. It costs the patient time and money to go elsewhere for cancer care. And second, it provides the continuity of care and easy access to medical care, which translates into quality healthcare." Mr. Hodson agrees with Dr. Brown's assessment that easy access translates to quality care. "If the unit hadn't been there I wouldn't be here now," he said. "I would not have been able to travel anywhere for treat ment. I was sick. And if I'd of had to go anywhere but here in Provo I think I would have just gone without help." assessed values to the actual sale prices of properties which are sold during the year. "Sales ratio studies allow us to adjust the average assessment level across the country but they don't help us to know what is happening with individual houses. Our average is very good but we know that some of the individual properties are far out of line," said Smith. Individual properties were last reappraised in 1976. In the intervening inter-vening years, many changes have taken place which have affected property values. Utah County is working with the BYU Statistics department to upgrade the computer programs used to assess properties so that they will be able to follow the market more closely. In the past it has seemed that assessments have increased even when property values are known to have declined. Smith stated that, "our new programs will be able to more accurately reflect decreases and increases." "Eventually we hope to reappraise reap-praise all types of properties within the county but for now we are concentrating concen-trating only on residential," Smith said. "The questionnaire is the key to updating our information." |