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Show Do You Remember Random Notes About Park City employees r0f per day. December 13, 1035 - "One thing that hinders mining today is fear of more taxes, more equitable laws and more experiments ex-periments and more unnecessary unneces-sary labor difficulties. It looks now as if mining has a chance to come back." July 9, 1936 - The Park Record Rec-ord began its Thursday publishing pub-lishing date to give the advertisers adver-tisers an extra day to advertise Friday and Saturday specials. February 18, 1937 - A 25? raise was posted at the Park City Mines affective February 19, 1937. September 1937 - Athenaeum Club to sponsor Girl Scouts movement in Park City - 3 groups of girls over 10 years of age. January 20, 1940 - Formal dedication of the Memorial Building. June 6, 1940 -FlorenceSmith came back to Park City for a visit and included in her thank you letter to a friend here, "1 am moved to repeat what I've heard so many Park City folks say: that living in Park City does something to you - seems to make you kin to all others." Some notes at random about our fair Park City - February 26, 1926 - Within . the past year electric refrigerators refrig-erators have put the iceman out of business. March 19, 1926 - The K K K still exists in Park City. A fiery cross was burned near the Ontario Mill. Where they meet and how many, no one seems to know. July 30, 1926 - Water meters are being installed throughout through-out the city. (WATER METERS?) February, 1930 - population 4,281. May 9, 1930 - Charles Lind-berg Lind-berg flew from Glendale, California, Calif-ornia, to Long Island, New York, in 14 hours, 45 minutes, breaking break-ing the record by 3 hours. He flew at altitudes of 10 - 14,000 feet and demonstrated that future long distance flying will be at higher altitudes. January, 1931 - the Show Houses, due to lack of attendance, attend-ance, have cut the shows to five days per week. December, 1931 - An average of 25 persons per day are being fed by the Park City Civic Relief Re-lief organization. By January, 1932 the number had risen to 42 and those on relief complained of the crowded quarters; so larger ones were found, a cook was supplied and two meals per day provided but some were still dissatisfied. By April 1932 the number had grown to 65. August 2, 1932 brought light snow, heavy frost and temperatures temp-eratures before 25'. August 28, 1934 - The Silver King raised the wages of its |