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Show immm Wednesday, May 22, 1974 Page 3 WE GET LETTERS Dear Editor, When a friend asked if I had read the Coalition, I said, "No. Why? She said Alan Crooks had a diatribe in it against me. My first question was, Who is Alan Crooks?" She said, He's Dolly Crooks husband and writes the book reviews for the Coalition." I was intriqued that a person who had never even met me should know so much about me as to be able to fill up three columns of print. My friend added, He ends his article saying he hopes you know the difference between torts and taxes. I thot to myself, torts is a legal term this fellow is spouting -maybe hes some kind of a lawyer. If he filled up three columns of print against me without even knowing me, hes obviously relying on a lot of hear-se- y d evidence, and even a to lawyer ought know that hearsay evidence is inadmissable because it is inately unreliable. My friend brot the Coalition around and I read the article. Now it seems to me after reading the article that Mr. C. is griped because he discovered that a "goodly number of residents of Park City support me as the defender of the little people pitted against the huge, headless monster (she) calls the Company. Now the term "the huge, headless monster is Mr. Cs language, not mine. He called the Company that, I didn't. It seems again, Mr. C. Either your reading or your grasp of the English language is inaccurate or else you need your glasses changed. My article said no such silly thing. I went to Europe last fall for my own pleasure and rubbernecked in Paris. Some five months after my return a conversation took place which gave rise to my letter. Park Citys architect, Mr. Gene Carr of A.P.A., deplored that so many buildings the Company erected had After responding to Mr. Cs three columns of print in which he failed utterly to disprove the charge that the Companys French Mansard roof building can in no way pass as a Victorian structure, may I return to his real gripe, that a goodly number of residents support me because I defend the little people pitted the Company against (which Mr. C. somehow considered prudent to omit from the rebuttal he prepared later for the Park Record ). I do plead guilty to so defending when I believe it is ... violated the mining town Victorian flavor the city had adopted as its architectural motif in its warranted. Master Plan. Jan Wilking atC. Mr. seems Since tempted to defend the Company that disbelieving anyone would by answering that the Company support my actions, and it aphad taken considerable pains on pearing that he has been away its latest effort to obtain a Vicjourneying in the sinks of Saudi torian building that was comArabia or India or some such, I patible and congenial with Park will cite Mr. C. just one typical retoris That when Mr. Carr City. example of my performance ted. With a French mansard which he appears to resent out of roof? Are you kidding?" I agree hand. with Mr. Carr and I respect his I arrived late at a council authority as a graduate armeeting in March 1973 called by chitect, a licensed architect, and the Company to announce its new a member of one of Salt Lake's policy - that the ski hill would C. tho Mr. even firms, apleading now be forever closed to anyone parently, ' by implication, does not buying or renting from the not. I noticed he challenged me Company, except that present, but - studiously avoided permanent residents within the challenging Mr. Carr who voiced old limits of Park City would be the complaint I presented in my accorded such' ski privileges as article. the Company might wish to conMr. C. makes a big thing about fer upon them. The councilmen falsehoods in my article, citing present, who had read the that the first name of the Mansart statement, had apparently found whose portrait I saw hanging in nothing the matter with it and the Louore wasnt Henri; that it were sitting around joking and strange that he attempted . to might be Francois Mansart, the defend the Company in his arsocializing with Mr. King. As I Frenchman who he admits was the statement, I realized the read ticle, yet his mind conjured up the popularizer of the roof which the words, "huge, headless monshocking implications of it, parbears his name, or it might be ster. Is this his Freudian slip ticularly that all of the persons Mr. Mansart, who had invested their savings in in He showing? alleges his article Crooks can't remember which. the future of Park City in hotels, that I attempt to .influence After a lapse of half a year, I lodging houses, motels, condos people by emotive language recalled the man's name as rather than by rational Henri, which shows that my and rooms for rent, whether little people or big, from the millions argument, yet he is attempting memory isn't any worse than Mr. invested by such as the Cest Bon to put invective language in my Cs. Besides, the mans first and the TMI down to little people mouth. I have never been name over which Mr. C. like Fuzz Wheelwright who had discourteous to or attacked the protesteth so much wasn't the fixed up a couple of rooms for Company - only its deeds when I point of the article, which point tourists, as well as homeowners, have felt them to be contrary to Mr. C. seems to have lost sight of would eventually have to sell out the interests of Park City and the in his harangue. A rose by any for a few cents on the dollar to the of majority its people. I have said other name smells just as sweet, Company standing by to grab up publicly and in print that Mr. they tell me. the bargains it had wrought. It King is doing a job for his comI used to think Mr. King was was obvious to me that no guest pany, as that is what he is paid to to avoid compliance with trying would rent these lodgings if he do, but that I am not on the Comthe Master Plan when he kept ski in Park City. Nor couldnt panys payroll. I am in the pay of saying, I dont know what Vicwould anyone buy a privately the Park City people who elected torian architecture is - does owned home or lot in Park City if to me serve their interests, not anybody? Now Im convinced he ski. Such persons couldn't the Companys. (Maybe Mr. C. he was telling the truth. It apwould perforce buy or rent Commissed his high school course in pears obvious now that the Company property oily. civics.) I have no complaint to pany architects don't know' any I was appalled that the Commake of the personnel of the more about it than Mr. King does, pany could thus so Company or the Company, only unless, as I suggested, theyre and heartlesly write off people its deeds, as by their deeds ye to pull our legs because trying and the security of their lives and shall knowr them. they think were a bunch of ruber. futures. As a fellow human Mr. C. argues that (my) terms, A horrible falsehood Mr. C. acbeing, I felt immediate concern Victorian buildings vs. typically cuses me of is my statement that for these, our people, and you can are inFrench buildings I went to the Place de Voyages in bet I did everything possible as comparable. as Victorian Paris here the first Mansard individual and as a counan represents an era ( during which roof homes were built in the cilman to stave off this ruination Queen Victoria reigned - long af1780's." He devotes much print of innocent people and of Park ter Mr. C. says Mansard roofs firin alleging that Mansard roofs City, except as a future totally st came to be) and French is a were built before the 1780's, to town. You can Company-owne- d nationality. Any sixth grader his charge that my prove bet, Mr. Crooks, that a goodly knows that, so what else is new? statements are "simplv number of the residents of Park The whole point of my article was falsehoods. However, the City welcomed my efforts to that the Company is trying to statement I quoted was taken threat stave off this pass off a French building as a right from an official brochure of . announced as aregrettable fait accompli. Victorian building. I agree wholly Paris handed out by the Tourist when fellow councilmen, My with Mr. C. and am saying that Information Bureau of France, to the implcations, enlightened there is no comparison between and I relied on it as fact. Now if and concern the same exhibited the two and no one in Park City is Mr. C. insists that he knows more compassion and joined in a buying the spoof. of the history of France than the Resolution of May 1973 designed He says my letter suggests that know themselves, I French,. to thwart such a tragedy. And the I took the trouble to go to Paris so he might better take the suggest r Company has not yet given up its I could prove the Company's termatter up with them instead of writhings to make its policy stick. minology inaccurate. Read me. self-styl- ed self-style- The townspeople are not deaf and blind, even tho not as vocal as the Company and its minions. They have understood what the Company's threatened action means to them and they un- derstand my concern for the people, whether little or big, who need protection from a powerful company moving against small individuals. That is what the act is all Sherman anti-truMr. Crooks. about, If I never did another thing during my term as Councilman, I would consider my tenure ef- justified by this fort alone. Anyhow, Mr. Crooks, I appreciate your fan mail and I appreciate the three w'eeks of laborious effort you spent between the time of my letter and your reply in compling the interesting pieces of history you gave us, whether fact or fiction. Sorry I dont have much time for st far-reachi- ' the tedious games you play. Ill just continue to let the public evaluate who is performing dirty tricks and evaluate my performance as they have done in the past. However, I forgive you your trespasses, Mr. Crooks; even tho youre not much of an architect or a lawyer, I say anyone who likes John McDonald and his Travis McGee cant be all bad ! ( I take it you were the author of a book review column I read in the Coalition lauding author John McDonald. I agree heartily). Sincerely, Mary C. Lehmer People need fish, fish need clean water -- Jules-Hardou- in . . cold-blooded- out-and-o- ut ly m IPqfUs ifey. 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