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Show WEDNESDAY. MARCH 6, 1974 COALITION LETTERS TO THE EDITOR I Dear Editor: re the Miners Hospital, particularly I note your comments where after you cite prospective building plans for the hospital you say, If it werent for the questionable high density land use proposed, and the eradication of the Hospital, wed think it was for maybe a splendid idea Honolulu or Miami Beach. But not for picturesque old Park City I agree with the thrust of your thoughts that the high density land use is questionable and that you do not favor tampering with the picturesque nature of old Park City. Why then not concentrate your efforts toward molding public opinion and citizen effort toward eliminating the real evils that we are all united in objecting to? The hospital itself is not particularly old, nor is it per se beautiful, charming or aesthetic. I am a little surprised over the furor. I believe in preserving our heritage where buildings are old as well as inately picturesque, at- or aesthetic. The not particularly apis hospital pealing for any of these reasons. My family home in Salt Lake is equally old and more appealing and attractive but still not to a degree that anyone would seriously consider its preservation, and properly so. Better you should try to concentrate your efforts and the on the preservation and restoration of the old Tallon home tractive town-speopl- es and those others in a row on upper Main Street across and up from the Prospector Hotel that genuinely reflect the flavor of the town and are indeed picturesque - and irreplaceable. Your eye is on the wrong target. To revert to your quoted paragraph, lets concentrate on reducing the high density in that area which presently legally allows the building proposed for the hospital acreage and lets take action against the type of building we have tolerated these past few years that is destroying the picturesque nature of Park as you put it, everything City PAGE C4M(sV BOOKS & THINGS i !' from early American to late S 'HSU nightmare. 6ig)M(p At the last Master Plan public hearing, the Company revealed After several years as a plans for Sheraton Hotels, 2, 3 and celebrity, skier Jean-Claud- e hotels, other high Killy, winner of the 1968 triple rises, a 100 castle topped with a tower for Mr. Edgar Sterns penOlympic crown for skiing, rejecthouse all far exceeding the ted his glamorous lifestyle and hotel building you say is returned to the trails of for the sought hospital grounds. professional skiing. His reasons Yet no one seemed to be upset for this decision and the story of about such goings-on- . Why single what an athlete goes through as a out the proposed development at commercial celebrit are told in the hospital? I cant believe it is his new book, COMEBACK, writto intention ten with A1 Greenberg, an editor be your for SKIING magazine. discriminatory or obstructionist to the little guy. I am sure that is At 30, Killy found himself not not so and that we are all agreed knowing where to turn. He had that the common objective is to been a skier since he was 16. He preserve and protect Park City, turned away from the sport and with equal treatment for all in toured the world publicizing striving for that goal. Let us conproducts, but finally, in 1971, he centrate our efforts so that we will not be vulnerable to remarks as typically expressed in a letter published recently from a lady skier from Logan, from which I quote: Why did Park City have to go to ruin like every other warm, rural, picturesque community in Utah? This beautiful hamlet, set apart from dvilzation, gave the visitor a feeling of leaving the 400-roo- m to American food, dashing madly from place to place, and the grueling hours spent filming and decided to take up the challenge of competition on the professional circuit instead of continuing the lifestyle of an commercials. For those who have always been a bit curious about Killy or athletes who have turned comCOMEBACK is modity, and revealing sensitively presented. And its available at DOLLYS, of course. international re-filmi-ng playboy. Opening with a flashback of Killy at the countdown for the qualifying round in the Giant Slalom at Mount Snow (his first and the professional victory of his comeback), the beginning book returns to his experiences on the amateur circuit and his commercial life. Alan Oooks EMERGENCY PHONES Killy deals with the problems he faces as he tries to do for skiing what Pancho Gonzales did for tennis : to show that skiing can be a game for older, experienced FIRE POLICE ROAD INFO. . AMBULANCE, WRECKER discusses the persons. met by athletes who problems He promote commercial goods poor accommodations,, adjusting overly-materialist- ic world, even if only for a few days. Now, to drive into Park City one must pass lot after lot of concentration camplike condominiums, acre after acre of billboards offering choice land for sale, row after row of apartments that can be told apart only by the number on the door. One is so disillusioned by the time you get to old Park City that, at least for us, the thrill was gone. Didnt anyone try to preserve the wonderful mystique that was Park City? Didnt anyone care what happened to the flavor that made Park City unique from almost anywhere else in the world? 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