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Show LETTERS Mary Lehmer Drops a Note to Helen salary and the 1980 population populat-ion of Salt Lake City, his secretary didn't bother to tell me he had a $50,000 "administrative assistant." When he was elected as a full-time Mayor to run Salt Lake City, the voters of that city and I have the right to rely that he is doing just that. If he has managed to get a $50,000 per year assistant to case the monkey off his back. I am sure the voters of Salt Lake will be very interested in that fact when he comes up for reelection two years hence. Your ad slates: "I do know that Mary has twice asked the citizens for the opportunity opportu-nity to run the city and has twice been rejected. Now. Helen, you do know the truth and you do know better than that. Why don't you tell the truth? The only time I personally sought public office in Park City was when I was elected in November 1971. When my seat as councilman and the Mayor seat were up for election in 1975. 1 did not choose to run and did not file for office. When Leon Uriarte and Dave Novelle were the only ones who had tiled for Mayor, a number of citizens who found neither choice acceptable implored me to run on a write-in ballot. I refused. They finally prevailed upon me to say I would serve if they got me elected on a write-in ticket. They contributed their money, mo-ney, time and effort and raised money for ads. bumper bump-er slickers, pencils, and a door-lo-door distribution of a last minute fiver to refute the false accusations of an anonymous hate letter (later traced to Uriarte's campaign manager Ted Armengol) placed in all the postal boxes the Monday before Tuesday's Tues-day's election. Despite the difficulty of being elected on a write-in ballot, I received an impressive 36 percent of the votes cast in that election which was further fragmented fragment-ed by a second write-in candidate. In 1975 I was again approached by many people to run against Councilman Jack Green, who was then unopposed for Mayor. I told these people I was not interested in opposing Green, the darling of the realtordeveloper king-making clique of Park City, as I and my family didn't need ihe villificalion and humiliation humiliat-ion which 1 knew would be heaped upon me by the special interest groups who don't like my brand of government. (You surely remember the infamous 1974 Petition of Warren King and his personal Mayor, John Price, circulated to discredit me and run me off the council and out of town because of my persistence in exposing the ripoffs Greater Park City Co. was practicing on the town.) I did tell these people, however, that I was not adverse to serving as Councilman and trying my best again if they wanted that. They apparently did. They circulated the petition to obtain the required number of signatures to place me on Please turn to page 8A Dear Editor: Dear Helen Alvarez: In your ad last week seeking to establish "truth." since "my experience with Mrs. Lehmer has taught me that she often tells half truths, the half that suits her purpose." let's get the "truth" out instead of your half truths. When I published in my ad that Mayor Ted Wilson's salary on January 5. 1980 when he took office after Salt Lake City voted to have a full-lime Mayor run the city instead of a City Manager was SJ4.600. you attempted to belie my figure by setting forth Mavor Wilson's as S39.000. You didn't bother to tell the truth about this disparity of numbers. The truth was what I personally told you on the phone when I called you Sunday to verify that Loblc was hired at S30.000 per year, nine months after Wilson took office at $34.600. 1 personally told you on the phone that Mayor Wilson's salary was increased last month to S39.000. You couldn't see fit to make this explanation, could you? Or maybe you don't know that to tell half a truth is to conceal a lie. As for your saying I "simply neglected" to tell you that Salt Lake City has a full lime City Administrator (at $50,000 per year no less) in addition to Mayor Wilson, I didn't "simply neglect" to tell you something I didn't know. When I called Mayor Wilson's office to verify his PTA Thank You Dear Editor: The Park City PTA would like to thank all members of our community who made contributions to the PTA Halloween Carnival: Thank you business proprietors propri-etors for your most generous contributions; thank you parents and friends for your gifts of manpower to run the carnival and thank you staff of Carl Winters Middle School and Parley's Park Elementary School for all your help and extra time. Thank you to all who attended the carnival for your financial support and for making it an enjoyable evening. Park Ciiv PTA MORE LETTERS Bea Compares Candidates to Employees the ballot. They appointed a campaign manager, contributed contri-buted money and raised money to pay for political ad, and printing and mailings of campaign literature. I didn't much care one way or another. 1 think my total contribution to the campaign was about two hours' door-to-door campaigning. Dear Editor: According to the dictionary, the definition of harass is - to trouble, worry persistently, annoyance, torment. How would our city manager man-ager like to be put on a 6 month trial to see if she is capable. But rather than doing the job she knows best is put doing other things she does not know - perhaps the garbage truck, snowplow or . pick and shovel. Could she excel to the point she is graded and paid for her job? No, I don't think she could anymore than those workers put back to work on a trial basis to see if they are qualified, especially when they on put on jobs they are not acquainted with, and then they are continually harrassed. No one can excel under these circumstances, not even the city manager or her superiors. Take the campaign - both the Mayor and councilmen say take a look at our past record and performance. Is this not the same as seniority? If they are accept- ed because of past record, why not the employees? They seem to have done a pretty good job until the employees were fired and told experience did not count or she doesn't recognize seniority. She does not believe that anyone can come up through the ranks and qualify on seniority. This town as seen over 100 years of good city management of Mayor and council so why do we need a city manager to tell these people they are not qualified? All she has done is to put a monkey wrench into the works rather than the smooth performance of a good machine, and good working relationships. This is their town and they care more than the new people who tell them experience and seniority do not count. Bea Kummer earned it, even though he did have to pretend he was not a developer. As for your last statement that failing to get myself elected, I am now trying to elect my puppets, you did not have to stoop so low to calumny the three honorable, honor-able, respectable candidates I chose to endorse for office. I am a free agent and made my own choice based on my own objective evaluation of all the candidates in the primary. Not one of my endorsees sought my endorsement en-dorsement or even knew that I was planning to pay for publication of my personal views. Not one of them consulted me or sought my advice or promises me anything. You attempted to demean and degrade these men by referring to them as anyone's puppets. In the final analysis. I think you demeaned only yourself. Mary Lehmer In the primaries I came in second in the entire field and Bob Wells came in third. That such might be the final result was anathema to. the moneyed minions of the vested interest groups. The cocktail parties for Bob Wells in the uninitiated new part of town are legend. The well-orchestrated, well-orchestrated, well-planned campaign of Bob's wife (Gump & Ayres saleswoman) and their supporters was a marvel to watch. I compliment compli-ment them on the job they did. The rest is history. In the finals, Wells came in second and I came in third. Halloween Carnival Success Dear Editor: The Halloween Carnival for 1981 is in the record books and it was a big success. Hundreds of kids and their families visited the middle school Halloween afternoon and evening to play the games, eat hot dogs and chili; visit the teacher's spook house and generally have a grand time. The carnival was sponsored by the P.T.A. and the following people deserve recognition for their hard work in its behalf: Kathy Mears and Diana Harding -Carnival Co-Chairpersons-Jean Holcomb - District P.T.A. President; Donna Keller - ;Winters P.T.A. President; Jan Sloan -Parley's P.T.A. President; and Mary Austin - P.T.A. Treasurer. Thanks are also extended to the many parents pa-rents who volunteered time and energy to organize and operate the various booths. A special thanks is in order for all the individuals and businesses who contributed food, money and prizes and helped to make the carnival a success. The carnival demonstrated once again that people in Park City care about their kids and their community. Brian Schiller Middle School Principal Dr. Richard L. Goodworth Superintendent of Schools Whistle Omissions Dear Editor: It was brought to my attention that in last week's "Ten O'Clock Whistle" column co-lumn I commited a glaring omission as well as a factual error. I neglected to mention that along with Bruce Reid, less ,Schaub is also an ;.'.remely hard-working assistant as-sistant football coach at Park City High School. And in last week's column L wrote that the high school doesn't have a track team which I learned is not true. A ten-member team was formed last year and Park High Coach Bob Burns said it will be bigger this year. My apologies to Jess Schaub and to the track team. David Fleisher Tonnesen for Pro Dear Editor: I support Bud Tonnesen. He does a terrific job! An important factor is that he makes you feel welcome and this is what its all about. Park City should have its' own people involved in this outstanding position (golf pro) and Bud is one of your own people. A. Lorraine Anderson |