OCR Text |
Show H I H STSi Summnmmiit it nDMinnifiit Football team gives girl the boot hysteria." Everett withdrew the ads, saying the county assessor, DeAnn Sutton, was receiving phone calls, and he did not want to put her in the position of explaining possible tax increases. By comparison, there was more agreement at a debate among four county commission candidates. The quartet told the Jackson Chamber of Commerce that government should support tourism. TAHOE WORLD Lake Tahoe The Lake Tahoe monster has been sighted again, while a scientist announced a symposium will be held in November on the lake mysteries. A man reported seeing an object at night that resembled a dog paddling. About thirty feet from shore, he said, an object, about two or three feet across and dark-colored, came a foot out of the water, did a slow roll, and submerged. The symposium, "A Scientific Inquiry into Unidentified Swimming Objects," will be heavy on science and light on sensationalism, promised prom-ised organizer Charles R Goldman. Guests will include fishermen, geologists and a sturgeon specialist. -rtoumin CXPW55 KetchumSun Valley After months of staff work by city planners, a scheme to change downtown Ketchum was raked over the coals at a 24 hour hearing. The plan called for less parking, an increased pedestrian orientation, and taller and larger buildings. Residents said the plan was too complex and would not be economically feasible. Clint Eastwood certainly "made the day" of the editorial cartoonist for the Mountain Express. Eastwood has moved a film unit into be redistributed to other members of the department. VfitJt .Mammoth takes Two doctors have filed suit against the Centinela Mammoth Hospital, saying the hospital's corporate owner is dictating medical by-laws to the staff. The plaintiffs, Drs. Karen Tierney and James Vawter, assert that California law calls for by-laws to be prepared by the medical staff, with approval by physicians. According to one of their lawyers, management handed down the by-laws on a take-it-or-leave-it basis. The hospital administrator said any new rules were made to assure health quality or to meet accreditation. accredita-tion. Most of the doctors are satisfied with the rules, she said. THEkl TRAIL Vail Heritage Cablevision conducted a month-long sweep through the area to cut off illegal hookups and found later it had also disconnected 40 legitimate users. One subscriber who lost her service said she was told company workers automatically snapped any cable wire that didn't have a yellow plastic snap-lock tag. Heritage's general manager in Eagle County, Gene Larson, said workers weren't supposed to blindly disconnect dis-connect systems without tags, but may have done so in the rush of work. About 350 illegal hookups were cut. Two Vail developers have filed a $10 million libel suit against an Hawaiian newspaper for an article connecting them with an FBI probe. The plaintiffs, John B. and Stephen G. Thomas, are developing in Hawaii. The Ke Kukini paper said the FBI was investigating alleged kickbacks and false statements made to obtain a loan for their "70 Potato Patch project. The Thomases said the article implied they committed felonies and has damaged their reputations. THE ASPEN TIMES Aspen An Aspen artist. Tom Benton, plans to ask the Pitkin County Commission to declare the county a nuclear-free zone. His proposed regulation would prohibit the production, pro-duction, disposal or transport of nuclear material through the county. Benton admitted that Pitkin County isn't likely to be used, but said nuclear waste may go through nearby Garfield County if Utah or Nevada is picked as a national waste dump site. To show the potential dangers, Benton cited an accident that spilled torpedoes on a Denver freeway. The Aspen Skiing Company is seeking approval from local governments govern-ments to float $25 million to $30 million in industrial development bonds. The money would enable the firm to make life improvements, buy new snow cats and install a computerized system to convey information to skiers. The firm has already obtained preliminary approval ap-proval from the Snowmass City Council. There were only a few big winners as 31 non-profit groups vied for $211,020 before the Aspen City Council. The only groups that got more money than was tentatively budgeted were the Aspen Historical Society and the Aspen Nordic Council. Groups that came away empty-handed were the Junior Hockey scholarship fund and the Aspen Substance Awareness project. (One councilman asked of the latter, "The awareness what?" Mayor Bill Stirling said, "That's the problem.") Chronicle Crested Butte An area school board has denied the request of 13-year-old Trisha Hartley to play football on the Ruland Junior High School team. The board ruled she has not met the nine practice requirements for playing the season. Her father, Ernie Hartley, said it has been her dream to play football. "She outweighs 80 percent of the junior high boys and is bigger, faster, and more talented than they are," he said. But Superintendent Jim Anderson said approval would have implications implica-tions beyond the case. Boys would go on girls' volleyball teams, he said, and perhaps boys who didn't make the male basketball team would apply for the girls' team. The junior high principal, Greg Kruthhaupt, refused to let Trisha play on the grounds that other schools would sanction his school. The board said it would study the request again next year, when Trisha is in eighth grade. Four years ago, residents decided they didn't want a string of auto-related businesses along the B-2 zones at Gothic Road, the north entrance to town. Yet sentiment may be swinging the other way to favor a proposed gas convenience store. The reasons? If the town denies it, the store may relocate along Gothic Road outside the town limits, denying Crested Butte tax money and architectural control. Also the B-2 area already includes one convenience store and a site for an approved jeep-rental firm. However, the zoning board ruled that before an approval, all affected properties perhaps the entire B-2 zone must be notified of the change in allowed uses. The wrecking ball has swung on a 100-year-old Crested Butte building, build-ing, best known as the Saltlick nieht spot in the early 1970s. The club was known for its boisterous customers and no-hold-barred wet T-shirt contest. The former wife of the then-owner then-owner recalled "You'd have a good night, and when the smoke cleared you'd find out they (the customers) have done $300 worth of damage. ' ' The building also saw service as a dry-goods store, grocery and pizza parlor. Jackson Hole News Jackson Hole The fall elections in the Jackson Hole area have heated up over a radio commercial run by state legislature candidate Rod Everett. The ad charged that a state reappraisal program would raise Teton County property taxes by 400 percent. In response, his opponent, State Rep. H.L Jensen, blasted the ads as an "Attempt to create mass the Ketchum area to make "Pale Rider," a western in which Eastwood plays a hard-shooting preacher. First the Express pictured Eastwood East-wood in clerical garb, snarling "Go ahead. Make my Sunday." Now, with cold temperatures hitting Ketchum, the Express cartoon shows a snowman in front of a movie camera, saying wistfully, "Go ahead, warm up my day." The sheriff of Blaine County, Dennis Haynes, said the layoff of a four-year employee in the department depart-ment was not political. The action was taken because of budget cuts, he said. However, the Express noted several contradictions in the dismissal dis-missal of staffer Wanda Nevland. The paper said there were no budget cuts in the department's salaries. In addition, Nevland had seniority over many other employees and had special sex-crime FBI training no other employee had. Her duties will |