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Show 'Sp 16 A DESERET NEWS, THURSDAY, MAY 17, 1973 Raft race grows ln grows Ex-co- ns C X' ' t fsrk j f. ijUAi , v A, - ' jg ' VW 1 , , , v 'v i ,. - y comprise W V,' ' :'; a family? 'r&v 5 ' - i-s-;- '- fw jl:. l, , A? SAN FRXNCISCO (UPI) -How b:g is a family? Thats a question the city board of supervisors planning committee is grappling with. Latest word is tha it will take at least another month to find a definition of family for zoning purposes The problem grew out of the use of two old mansions on Pacific Heights where a of 220 family and live as members of the Delaney Street Foundation Lady calls 'em Laurie YoL.m, 20, works parttime baseball umpiring games for junior high and high school players in the Eugene, Ore., area. A sophomore at Lane Community College in Eugene, she says 'being an umpire is not my biggest ambition.' Neighbors of the Delaney group have expressed indignation at the family of s living next door Were going to have more elaborate rafts than ever this year everything from coffins to monsters with bathrooms and carpets inside, said recent Tech graduate Larry Patrick The rafts include 20 foot floating bars, pontoon floaters, inflatable canoes and plain old most popular with spectators a bikini division is limite ed to women in attire. The other divisions are the collegiate, the Amencan open, which is open to all age miscellaneous groups and craft; a tube tram division; a kayak division, and two divisions for the more elaborate craft, called showboats and two-piec- nverboats. The event started as a college competition after Delta Phi Sigma challenged disc jockeys at radio station WQXI to a race But now it attracts nver high school pupils and 30s. m their enthusiasts Patnck said the race Las played a key role in nver as ecology and awareness recreation groups mounted campaigns save-the-rn- against apartment Now two dev elop-me- nt parks underway. are US. Navy, Marine Corps and Air Force reserve urfits are assisting in crowd control and safety. Service clubs will be at eight points along 'lie raceway to clean up dunng the event. mounted at a as the associarate staggering Costs have tion has expanded promotion and crowd control efforts for the Atlanta race The registration fees are $5 Donations by local $15 merchants have kept the Mardi Gras-lik- e river parade solvent. to inner tubes The first division with a winner last year dash down the 9 2 mile stretch if nver just was a norJt of the city $1,000 bikepowered fiberglass paddle boat One of the most determined entnes this year will com' from Tech s industrial design department So zoning administrator R Director Jack Seay said the Spencer Steele ordered the students swift fiberglass trito vacate the Delaney group They must hull was eliminated two years aging mansions ago when the starting cable go. he said, because of his administrative interpretation of snapped before the signal and the word family to mean no the students could not hold the more than five persons unless craft back they are related by blood or The cable snapped again last year, and the honest Tech marriage. The family ol and men held their boat back for former addicts have taken an official ruling as everyone else entered the current and Steele to court, while continuOfficials ruled ing to search for new homes disappeared some 20 minutes later that the in other areas of the city s The issue was put aside by the supervisors until next month. In) ATLANTA. GA. (AP) A river race between Georgia Tech fraternity men and local disc jockeys five years ago has escalated into a $20 000 event expected to attract 5,000 rafts to the Chattahoochee River this Saturday Patnck, who orgamzed the Amencan Rafting Association to set standards to control the event, said his organization will coordinate similar events Misin St. Paul. Mmn , on the Washand in sissippi River, Potomac ington, D C , on the this summer. cable break was the official start There are six divisions. 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