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Show i - i J i LilEOj The Park City Fire District's latest acquisition, courtesy of Mountain Bell. Bell Donates Gorgoza Building Interstate 80." Park City has one fire station and there is one more at Summit Park but growth has already started on the north side of the freeway, some 15 miles east of Salt Lake City. Crowded conditions have prompted plans to expand the Park City station and Fire District leaders intend to renovate their newest acquisition for the storage of firefighting equipment and medical supplies. The days of operators tracking down all the able-bodied men and boys in town to fight a fire are gone. But the telephone company's com-pany's cooperative attitude toward to-ward helping communities is as firm as ever. Take last week's brief ceremony cere-mony at the meeting of the Park City Fire Protection District, for example. Earne Anderson, the local exchange manager, presented present-ed the title to a 1,000-square foot building to district commissioners. commission-ers. Actually the Fire District paid $10 (the minimum price in Utah for a legal real estate transaction) for the new facility known as the Gorgoza Repeater Station for nearly 40 years while it boosted power for AT&T's transcontinental transcontinen-tal cable. When microwave facilities made the Gorgoza building unnecessary, area firefighters expressed interest in obtaining the brick structure; Mountain Bell agreed to help the Fire District and the "sale" materialized. "We really appreciate Mountain Moun-tain Bell." said Jim Schnirel, chairman of the district commissioners. commis-sioners. "I'm sure we can put the building to good use. It will help us serve a much larger area along |