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Show A court order is his ace in the hole family had been raped, his wife had been raped and the cops never do anything for him." Officers surrounded the man and eventually talked him into dropping the machete. He was transported transport-ed to the Pueblo state hospital hospi-tal for observation. Vail Associates has filed suit against the Eagle County Coun-ty assessor's office over their appraisal of a large vacant parcel in Beaver Creek. Last June, the land was appraised at 29 percent of its value. Associates claims improvements on the land qualifies it as residential residen-tial property which by state statute should be appraised at 21 percent of its value. One media war has been settled near Vail, but it appears ap-pears another may break out. It looks as if Rocky Mountain Wireless Corp. of Avon will win federal approval ap-proval for its application for an FM stereo station. Four other competitors backed off in return for a money settlement. set-tlement. The new station said it will stress news and community affairs. Meanwhile, two entities are battling for an AM frequency. Station KRW-AM KRW-AM applied to the FCC to move to a lower frequency on the dial. Just before the deadline for other applications ap-plications ran out, a competitor com-petitor appeared John Lowenthal, former owner of KVMT-FM, in Vail, who asked for the same frequency. frequen-cy. The FCC must now set up hearings that might take up to two years to settle the issue. THE ASPEN TIMES Aspen A court order authorized the county sheriff's office to seize personal effects and wages of the promoter of the recent Aspen Poker Classic. Local adman Ron Erickson, who did advertising for the classic, said he is owed nearly $5,000 by promoter Paul Holm. The suit also said Holrn may be preparing to leave the state, since he has no permanent address here. The poker tournament was held as a benefit for Grassroots TV Channel 12. A local developer says he is willing to buy a full-page full-page Aspen Times ad to allow the Pitkin County Commission to explain its decade of opposition to his proposed clifftop restaurant. The builder, Hans Gramiger, first asked for an excavation permit for an eatery on nearby near-by Shadow Mountain in 1973. The then-commission denied it. After legal action, a district dis-trict court jury gave him the permit in 1978. The county has appealed since then. In a letter to the commission, Gramiger said its continued silence should be interpreted as admission it does not have "an honest or objective reason" for opposing the project. The Aspen Skiing Company Com-pany wants to place seven new lifts on Snowmass Mountain. But the Snowmass Town Council says that, to get permission, the firm should contribute a hefty sum for local improvements. im-provements. Besides the lifts, the company com-pany would add 225 acres of new trails and 390 acres of snowmaking. The firm has suggested paying $197,000 for impacts on parking and transit. The city staff suggested it should pay $475,000. Said one council member to the firm's spokesman, "I want to see you get your checkbook out." A firm representative said the town is asking the company to pay to rectify old planning errors by Snowmass. Snow-mass. THEl TRAIL Vail Christopher Wilder apparently apparent-ly passed through Vail in late March on a cross-country odyssey that ended in his death in New Hampshire. An FBI agent confirmed that Wilder made a credit-card purchase at a Vail shop. At the same time, an Avon woman reported that she received a mysterious modeling job offer in early March. (One of Wilder's ploys was to pose as a fashion photographer with women to lure them from shopping malls.) The woman said she received a call from a fast-talking fast-talking man who said he owned a fashion store in Glenwood Springs, Colorado. The man made another call three weeks later with the same job offer. He would not provide his telephone number num-ber and refused to meet with the woman when she said she would bring her husband along. The caller did not make another contact. Airman Byron Goddard was on leave and visiting Eagle County when he stopped stop-ped at a local shop and bought five tickets in the state lottery. One of them paid off for $2. The shop people convinced him to buy two more tickets. One of those will pay Goddard God-dard $1,000 a month for the rest of his life. The airman, stationed at Warren Air Force Base near Cheyenne, Wyoming, said his good fortune for-tune means "paying some bills" and putting money in a savings account. After a tense confrontation confron-tation in front of the Vail Police Department, a man wielding a 22-inch machete was taken into custody by officers. of-ficers. The incident began when the man came to the police receptionist, visibly upset, asking for help. Then he went ouside, where witnesses wit-nesses first noticed he had the machete. An officer said he screamed that "his |