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Show poot copy oljr Siiit Oil;r tribune t'A Section F Up Sunday, February 19, 1984 Page 1 and Down the Street Utah Went for G Id, Olympics But Memories Bronzed But as for ambience and "apres ski Forget it Go to Aspen' Vail' Or Sun Valley' But look nowUtah has lifts from Brianhead to By Robert H W oody Tribune Business Editor Once, Utah went for the gold But it didn t even get the bronze On April 27, 1966, in Rome, Inter- - Powder Mountain, from Deer national Olympic Commiteej chairman Avery Brundages sten-- j torian vcce an-- J nounced that Sapporo, Japan k had won right to host the Tt literature suggests that a visitor thel 1972 Val- ley to Snowbird And lodges' The Stein Enksen lodge at Deer Valley is w orld class like its namesake And while one doesn't exactly get the idea that Utah is becoming Sodom and Gomorrah, promotion It was thumbs up as Utah delegation arrived in Rome in spring of 1966 to bid for 1972 Winter Olympics. From left, can now easily find apres ski" and something to w et his w histle after a day on the "greatest snow on Winter! Olympics John VV. Gallivan, II. Devereaux Jennings, Gene Donovan, OUI went to Rome with bound volumes to distribute to the IOC They were classy, handsome documents that still stand up well 18 years later m terms of graphics and illustrations and text, which was in both French and English There were introductory statements by Salt Lake City Mayor J Bracken Lee, President Lyndon B Johnson, Maj Gen Maxwell E Rich, president of Olympics for Utah Inc , and Gov Rampton tory for the Japanese Though the secret IOC vote was not formally disclosed, The Tribune was told by an IOC member Sapporo got 32 of votes on the first ballot Banff, Canada, got 16, and Lahti, Finland, 9 Salt Lake City, to serve as Utahs host city, was last with four votes It was, in retrospect, a disappointing, but certainly not humiliating, result Salt Lake City and Utah got far more publicity out of the effort than the cost it put into it, says Salt Lake City lawyer Calvin L. Ramp-tothen Utah governor and one of the prime movers to bring the winter games to Utah And considering the bottom line, maybe it was just as well the bid failed Utah expected it would have had to put up about $6 million to $7 million to build additional support a bobsled and luge run, ice skate racing oval and ski jump. The reality was, with inflation coming on strong, it would have had to spent $30 million to $40 million, Mr. Rampton said Sapporo, he said, ended up spending about $100 million and had to be bailed out by the Japanese government And. so in losing, Salt Lake City and Utah, had won His recollection is that the Utah effort, financed in large part by private contributions to a group called Olympics for Utah Inc (OUI) cost less than $50,000 But. Heavens What that $50,000 got for Utah No question it put Utah on the map as a winter sports mecca Before that. Utah got an occasional mention in ski magazines as sort of nice ''family" place where lift tickets w ere cheap and the pow der w as deep Sous assurons le Comile Olumpique International non See Page Column F-- 1 Joe Rolando Tribune Staff Writer Keith E Garner is optimistic about selling space for interment in one of Salt Lake the mausoleum he is icfurbishing at Citys first 1001 E 11th Ave because he intends to show' potential customers the view he sees every day Mr. Garner calls it nothing less than spectacular Its the Salt Lake Valley through a picture window in his office, the former home of the caretaker, which sits next to the mausoleum If you ve goi location you ve got everything Your timing has to be right But I think our timing is right," noted Mr Garner, who has more than two decades of experience in land development and construction in Utah, California and Ar downtown into condominiums and office space pui chased 60 percent interest in the mausoleum over the past four years from Douglas Cov Miles, a Salt Lake Citv designer Mr Miles who bought it from Geoige Jeffereys still holds the the remain ing 40 percent interest sales Besides hiring a staff headed by Nick Salvuici Messrs Garner and Miles embarked on a longterm project to improve and expand the mausoleum which had fallen into a stale of disrepair over the years as it passed from one owner to another The mausoleum now named the Salt Lake Memorial Mausoleum, was constructed in lh2y by Cecil Bryan, renown in the craft It was first operated bv the American Abbey & Mausoleum Co headed by President Fred VI Sihultz Ai buckle, Calif Mr Garner said as the principal owner and manager of the mausole um he has invested about $500 000 in the first phase ot llu project which he began about two years ago Tlu money paid for removing hundreds of truckloads of vines, trees and olh er debri from the grounds, refinish ing the outside walls with white stucco and painting and carpeting the halls leading to about 600 but i al crypts and a columbarium a room in which people can buy span to inter the cremated dead This spring the rest ol the lust phase is expected to begin, said Mr Garner The work will include tin addition of a second level with 4 000 more burial crypts finishing the outside walls in a mediterranean style and furnishing the chape on the first level Mr Garner said he and Mr Miles are thinking about improving the See Page F-Column "Salt Lake is growing It s becoming more cosmopolitan As n omc as it may sound a grow ing diverse population, means good business for a mausoleum, said Mr Garner You really don t sell the dead You sell the living Mr Garner, known in Utah for his development of ministorage buildings, Prospector Square in Park City, and the McIntyre Building izona L M 1 I Tribune Staff Photo bv Roveii cun Nick Sallvucci manages a sales staff at Salt Lake Memorial Mausoleum. Developers have spent about er to improve facility, which includes 1,600 crypts and special room for cremated remains of the deceased. $500,000 which has been a major concern But the relief generated by the prospect of a lower dollar is giving way now to debate over how fast the dollar might fall On this question By Karen W. Aronson New York Times Writer NEW YORK The belief is grow-in- g - international financial circles that after a long period of extraordinary strength the dollar may have finally reached its peak or be close in the experts are divided New Mood in Market The simple fact that the dollar has not continued to shoot upward, even in light t f the death of the Soviet leader. Yuri V. Andropov, and the expanding troubles in Lebanon, leads foreign exchange traders to the view that there is a change in market psychology. The new mood, they say, is one of somewhat weakened confidence in the dollar but not to it While a lower dollar would raise the prices of imports into the United States, adding to the inflation rate, it would make it easier for American manufacturers to sell their goods abroad It would also make it somewhat easier for the financially troubled developing nations to repay d debts. n r that constitutes an alarmist reaction The evidence to date seems to be on the side of the gradualists, who see the dollar coming down at a moderate rate The actual slippage has been more against the W est German mark than other currencies, and that decline has been less than 4 percent since "There are too many things still supporting the dollar, including the high level of rates, the strength of the American economy, and the troubles in the Middle East," said S Waite Rawls, a senior vice president and manager of New York trading one mid-Janua- SEMINAR for the Chemical Bank I just can t sec the dollar going into a free fall No Alternative Perceptions of the United States and the dollar have worsened a bit," said Jay Meislcr. a vice president at Conticurrcncy an investment management subsidiary of Conticommo-dit- y Services "But there is no alternative to the dollar now So, while the dollar could weaken, we are not in for a big fall " The erosion could be just the solution to w hat many traders have long regarded as a problem of its being See Page F-- Column 1 TAX PLANNING Dollar Likely to Slide, Experts Say, But IIow Fast? dollar-denominate- il h W l Developer Refurbishes S.L. 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