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Show 60 Percent Turnout in Park City Record Voter Turnout Puts Demos On Commission Record voter turnouts in all Summit County districts scored near landslide victories victor-ies for Democratic Commission Commis-sion candidates Ron Perry and Cliff Blonquist, a trend that "defies explanation" according to County Clerk Reed Pace. If W 1111 "" 11 " 1 Seventy-three percent of the 6,600 registered voters in Summit went to the polls Tuesday, and in Park City's six districts over 60 percent voted, a major turn from the under 20 percent primary figures. In Park City District No. 10, Summit Park, over 80 percent per-cent turned ' out. Summit County voters also defied a national and statewide state-wide by voting solidly Democratic in several key races. Summit County ranks as one of only two Utah counties to carry Ted Wilson mmmmmm-wmmmmmmmiiimmimmmmmmmmmmmmmimm in his unsuccessful bid to unseat Republican Sen. Or-rin Or-rin Hatch. Wilson won by 20 votes in Summit County and also scored a victory in Carbon County. The biggest surprise was in the two and four year County Commission races, where traditionally staunch Republican Repub-lican districts turned their backs on Republicans Carl Ovard and Al Cooper to elect Perrv and Blonquist by substantial margins. Running Run-ning for the 2 year seat, Perry outpaced Cooper 2,639 to 1,7951 Cooper, who was backed solidly by Utah Rep. Glen Brown, won in very consecutive Hoytsville, Henefer, Peoa and Kamas No. 12, districts, but lost the remaining 17 Summit County precincts. Perry ran extremely strong in Park City's four in-town districts, but lost some ground in Snyderville and in Summit Park which was his own district as well as Cooper's. For the four-year seat, Cliff Blonquist of Coalville handily hand-ily defeated incumbent Carl Ovard from Henefer, 2,671 to 1,816. Ovard, won in Woodland, Henefer, Peoa, Please turn to page 20A . A a lip -Jf1 I vftVl if v ' - , 1 ; A i jfilftA : . it 1 Mr' - il Little kids paraded in costume at The Middle i School on Halloween, while big kids all over town celebrated too. The holiday was celebrated for four days beginning Thursday and ending with the setting of a full moon Sunday. Clinic Struggles for Life, Directors Weigh Options County, but only approved the concept. They did not go into how the concept would be carried out, although they are allegedly under an obligation to continue the subsidy program since that is the basis upon which the state was granted the funds. When contacted concerning then work out the mechanics of family planning, according to Singleton. It is indeed possible that the state may end up with a program of family planning and the clinic may also stay in business. Clinic board member Ron Burnett stated it was his best guess-timate they would' have to go through the normal appellate process, which is long and exhaustive. In the present case, it is the allegation of the clinic that they would have to go out of business at the end of the year at the latest unless they get their funding reissued. McCormack said this issue was one which the lower court addressed in Friday's ruling, but only as to Planned Parenthood of Utah. The court said Planned Parenthood had not demonstrated demon-strated irreparable injury. He pointed out, however, the funds taken from Planned parenthood only represented 27 percent of their budget, whereas park City lost 89 percent of their budget. On the merits of the action, McCormack said the D.C. court found the consolidation of the funds previously given to Planned Parenthood and the Park City Community Clinic into a single grant to the state was done correctly, and therefore valid. The court said there had been substantial compliance with federal regulations sifficient to satisfy them. McCormack said Planned Parenthood and the Park City Clinic disagree. The Nov. 9 board meeting will undoubtedly prove decisive deci-sive of what the Park City Clinic will do next in their effort to get their funding back. It appears, however, that the board will go along with their legal counsel and approve his actions to appeal the current ruling. The Park City Community Clinic came into being in 1980 after the State had run a family planning clinic for five months and did not apply for additional monies from the federal government, j At that time, Diana Maxell was employed by the State and ran the program. The County Commissioners voted them out of existence, but when a broad-based local group showed interest in making the services available avail-able on a permanent basis, the mantel fell to Maxell to direct the program. The local group incorporated incorporat-ed as a non-profit corporation corpora-tion in 1980, and applied for a federal grant, under Title XIX which provides funds for family planning. They eventually were granted $50,000 for their first year. They have received subsequent subse-quent awards for $54,700-and $54,700-and next year were to receive $55,000. The clinic now jias a permanent staff and facilities in the basement of the Red Barn, on Park Avenue. Since January they have served 451 patients, 80 percent of whom have bene on a subsidy basis. The balance have donated what they could or paid the full fee. If the clinic does .not win their present case on appeal, it would appear they would be unable to continue to serve those whom they have served on a subsidy basis, unless sufficient private funding could be obtained. The clinic stands at a cross-roads currently, and must determine the variables before they make a firm decision. f . r- . , v - n V y Continued from Page l A j the clinic are the opening night of the musical Pippen, which is being put on by the Intermountain Actors Equity and which opens tomorrow night at Prospector Square, and the annual Christmas swap meet. The swap meet will be held at the Memorial Building the weekend following follow-ing Thanksgiving,, from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. As far as the alternatives available to the clinic, Maxell said they would have to wait until their attorneys investigate investi-gate what avenues are open to them. It is possible the clinic may take an appeal to the next higher court and try to get the Friday decision overturned. Other means of legal .recourse will be explained ex-plained to the Board of Directors for their eventual decision about what is going to happen to the clinic. "The Board has not yet scheduled a meeting," ac-cording ac-cording to Maxell, "and it is they wno must decide in the final analysis." Jack Sweetring, the chairman chair-man of the Board, stated "We'll have to look atoui alternatives and decide as a board what to do." Sweetring said his initial reaction to the decision by the Washington D.C. court was "frustration". He went on to say he is "frustrated in the fact we're letting certain people or groups of people dictate our morals and beliefs, whether they be intimate or otherwise." "Someday" he continued, "I hope I find a wav to keep them out of my TV and my bedroom." The reaction of Maxell and ler staff, as well as members of the Board, was one of shock. It nad been the impression of both the staff and the board that the Washington D.C. court would grant the injunction as it had granted the temporary restraining order. In denying deny-ing the injunction the court, in effect, transferred appro-, ximately $312,000 from Plan-; ned Parenthood of Utah and 89 percent of $54,000 from the Park City Community Clinic to the State Department Depart-ment of Health. How the Department of Health will dispense the funds is not as yet known. They will be used for family planning, as the state would not have been granted the funds unless they planned to use the funds in such a manner, but there are no specific guidelines which have been drawn up for a program. When the matter first came up in Summit County, when the clinic was notified concerning their funds, the issue was discussed briefly by the County Commissioners. Commission-ers. They indicated at that time they would continue family planning in the Park City Community Clinic Director Diana Maxell the county's plans for a family planning clinic, Summit County Health Director Dir-ector Frank Singleton stated plans had not as yet been made for the money since the commissioners did no more than approve the issue ol family planning in principle. They are waiting to see what happens with the Planned ParenthoodPark City Clinic lawsuit and possible appeal before they make any concrete con-crete decisions, according to Singleton. Singleton iterated the four options open .to the Commissioners Commis-sioners if they do get the funds. They are: (1) That the County Health Department hire a nurse-practioner to take over the program now in existence; (2) That the money be passed through the County to the existing clinic, in which case the Community Clinic would stay open if they could manage it financially; (3) That the State administer a program here; or (4) That the State work with the County to administer adminis-ter a program. Working within the framework frame-work of one of these options, the Commissioners would at this time that the clinic would have to go to private funding is an appeal were to be unsuccessful from Friday's Fri-day's ruling. He said he believes the clinic could still make it in the health business if funded privately since the -community here supports trie things it believes be-lieves in and it believes in the clinic. He said the decision would be made by the board in its meeting November 9, 1982. When contacted late Tuesday, Tues-day, the clinic's attorney, Wayne McCormack said the ruling of the Washing D.C. court would be appealed if approved by the board of directors, he said he would be filing, with Planned Parenthood of Utah, an expedited appeal in the Appeals Court in Washington Washing-ton D.C. An expedited appeal is one which must be heard within a very short time, usually 30 days, because the point trying to be made by the appellant will be moot unless it is decided immediately. The party bringing the appeal must show that they will be irreparably injured jf |