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Show -T T J 4- Sirommmiiit ttn Smunmnimnit Teton garbage may be in for a long haul next May, the moratorium was continued by a U.S. District Court decision. This was a response to suits filed against TRPA by the California attorney general and the League to Save Lake Tahoe. Now, TRPA's special litigation committee has voted 7-0 to drop efforts in a settlement with the attorney general. TRF'A, a California-Nevada planning agency, was evidently influenced by Nevada legislators who threatened to pull out of the agency. Nevada Assemblyman Louis Ber-gevin Ber-gevin opposed a "settlement" plan that was proposed to TRPA. He said that coverage and height restrictions in the proposal would prevent any building in the basin. Said Bergevin, "The settlement that was proposed would have sold the people of Tahoe down the river." Jackson Hole News Jackson Hole Teton County may solve its garbage problems by taking trash to Sublette County, its neighbor to the south. The big problem will be transporting the garbage. According to Teton County Commissioner Com-missioner Leslie Petersen, the county creates 15,000 tons of junk a year, which would require a two-ton truck to make about 7,500 trips. She said the county might have to set up a transfer station where the trash is compacted before it goes to Sublette. What does the other county get out of this? Currently, they are negotiating with the Bureau of Land Management for two landfill sites, but under the pay-your-own-way policy of the Reagan administration, the county must pay fair market value. Sublette is hoping Teton's participation might ease the financial cost. At a recent meeting, the Snake River Cycling Club approved the purchase of $1,000 per year in liability insurance, rather than disband the club. The insurance is not legally required for the club's bicycle races, but a Wyoming Highway patrolman said it's "suicide" "sui-cide" not to have it, considering the potential for lawsuits that arise out of to an underage female. Schoewe sued the paper and Quirk for $50,000 in damages. According to Schoewe's attorney, Robert Francis, the motion seeks to stop the paper from publishing a story featuring Schoewe's personnel record. Schoewe alleges it contained material which could reflect negatively nega-tively on him. In addition, the motion asks to stop any Daily News articles on the suit. The paper is litigating in the press, Francis argued, and has already done stories with inaccurate, prejudicial information on the case. The Daily News attorney said the personnel file contains no information informa-tion that isn't already public record. mm KetchumSun Valley Real estate prices in the KetchumSun Valley area are dropping and the market is glutted, but it won't stay that way for long. Ron Slocum, president of Mountain State Savings Bank, said it's a good time to buy. "We are either at or rapidly approaching the bottom of the market." The area had a boom, beginning in the late 1970s, fueled by condo construction and speculation. But the recession in the early 1980s reduced the number of second-home buyers and blotted the attractiveness of owning land as an inflation hedge. Appraiser Tom Monge says property that sold for $25 a square foot in 1981 now sells for $15. On the other hand, Slocum said it's healthier now for homes to be sold to users rather than investors. "Having some speculator in San Francisco buy three condos and sit on them doesn't help the economy here," he said. Tom Ziegler, of Sawtooth Construction, Con-struction, doesn't anticipate a large amount of new building until the present homes are sold. His firm now builds single-family homes almost exclusively instead of condos. TAHOE WORLD Lake Tahoe The Tahoe Regional Planning Agency (TRPA) will likely bypass an out-of-court settlement and will fight a lawsuit against its master plan. TRPA imposed a building moratorium morator-ium in August 1983 and developed its master plan in April 1984. But the the races. The legal realities are that someone's suing someone for anything," he said. The club met with law officers to work out new procedures for notifying the police about a race on public roadways. The racers will also have to provide more safety measures, such as signs warning motorists and corner marshals at busy intersections. The Jackson Hole Alliance for Responsible Planning has given up. After two years of opposition and questions, the Alliance won't fight the Bureau of Reclamation's rebuilding rebuild-ing project for the Jackson Lake , Dam, which will take four years and $84 million. , , The group, decided not Jqappeal , an environmental impact statement that favors reconstruction over other alternatives to solve dam safety problems. Chairman Karl Wagner said the community wasn't prepared to pursue objections if it meant more delay and uncertainty over the project. But Wagner said the Alliance's work had influenced the Bureau to abandon other plans such as building a new dam at Pacific Creek and mining the western bed of Jackson Lake. The Alliance had better luck when the Jackson Town Council, by a 3-2 vote, opposed issuing 31 oil and gas leases in the Mt. Leidy area of the Gros Ventre range. Karl Wagner argued the area is important as an elk calving and migration route and as a grizzly bear habitat. He noted the elk herd, which has been thinning in the area, must be preserved to help the town's economy. But Mayor Bob Shervin said the real problem plaguing the elk herds was "hippie tent villages" living off the land and populated by " fleabags who put nothing back into society." Jacteonllole Guide Jackson Hole A daredevil skier was killed near Jackson after he tried to ski down the east face of Teewinot Mountain, a 12,325-foot peak in the Grand Teton National Park. Mark Stewart, 24, failed to negotiate a narrow couloir (gorge or gully) filled with broken snow and rock, and fell 2,500 feet, suffering fatal massive head and internal injuries. Jeff Zell, who was with Stewart, called it a "death slide." He said, "... once you fall, that's it, you can't stop." Zell said only a dozen people had skied the mountain before. He described Stewart as an avid skier who would work 12-hour, seven-day weeks in the summer to have the winter free. "There wasn't any kind of challenge he wouldn't try." THE ASPEN TIMES Aspen . A district court motion is asking that the Aspen Daily News be . prevented from printing stories about a 1983 suit filed against the newspaper and Aspen City. Former Aspen police officer William Schoeve said the paper libeled him when it reported former Assistant Police Chief Terry Quirk suspected him of forcing a club to serve liquor |