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Show J f , Pull over to the side of the lake, please TAHOE WORLD Tahoe This summer, you can be arrested for driving under the influence on waterways across the country. The U.S. Coast Guard will enforce a law enacted on Oct. l of last year that makes it illegal to drive a boat while drunk. According to a Coast Guard spokesman at Lake Tahoe, a blood alcohol level of 10 would be legal intoxication and the law could apply to dangerous passengers as well as drivers. The spokesman said he has received negative feedback from some groups when he told them about the law. "Some of the people with good-sized yachts that is the whole purpose, to go out and drink." This only leaves one question: Do we call it BUI instead of DUI? Gondolas come and gondolas go at Lake Tahoe. Northstar-at-Tahoe is seeking approval from Placer County to replace a double chairlift with a six-passenger gondola. The gondola, with three times the capacity of the existing lift, will help alleviate congestion at the bottom of the mountain on crowded days. Meanwhile, Squaw Valley Ski Corporation announced that after two years' use, its much-publicized $6 million gondola will be replaced. Workers removing the lift said the Idaho was listed in the book. Now the World announces that Tahoe and South Tahoe made the top 50 of 7,500 settlements surveyed in the book. Vokac billed Tahoe City as "the outdoor recreational hub of the Sierra high country" and praised its outdoor scenery. However, he was doubtful about winters in Tahoe. October to May were either "adverse" or "bad," he said. THEL TRAIL Vail While Park City and Tahoe compete for the Winter Olympics, the Vail and Beaver Creek areas hope to be the first North American sites since 1950 to host the Alpine World Championships. The International Interna-tional Skiing Federation, meeting this week in Vancouver, B.C., will vote on a choice for the 1989 games. The other two competing cities are Jasna, Czechoslovakia and Borovetz, Bulgaria, which means East Bloc votes will keep Vail from winning cn the first ballot. But after that, said the Trail, political trading might win the day for Vail. The West might promise support to Eastern Europe for future AlpineNordic events if the East supports the U.S. for 1989. The Vail Town Council agreed to three changes in a nronnsed rock the last provision "foolhardy." The two towns, however, left intact official maps that outline areas subject to mudrock slides. Opponents Oppo-nents said the maps did not acknowledge areas where builders believed no hazards exist or where developers have improved the land. The figures are in for Vail's 1984-85 winter, and the numbers indicate a good season, said Bill Pyka, city finance director. Sales tax from Dec. 1 to March 31 was up 11 percent, compared to the same time last year. In addition, ridership on the town's 26-bus fleet was up 6 percent over the previous season. The Vail Town Council does not want to subsidize the Ford Park amphitheater, a project that has received almost all its money from the private sector. But the Vail Valley Foundation, which is raising funds for the project, wants a financial guarantee from the city in case their fundraising efforts fall short. Mayor Paul Johnston is sympathetic sympathe-tic to the subsidy, but Town Manager Ron Phillips said, "My position is that the town can't afford to subsidize a deficit operation at the amphitheater." The Foundation has raised $285,000. An ordinance clarifying Vail's law on satellite dishes was unani mously passed by the Planning and Environmental Commission. Previous Pre-vious city guidelines on the dishes were brief and vague, and revision was prompted by East Vail resident Art Kittay, who protested when the Design Review board turned down his 22-foot-high dish. The new ordinance will limit the height of dishes to 15 feet and diameter to nine feet. Jackson Hole News Jackson Hole A year after Jackson resident Jon Rice was murdered in what police called a "drug execution," his roommate Gary Gilbert has been indicted on drug trafficking charges by a U.S. District Court in Denver. Rice was found dead in his bedroom on May 12, 1984, while Gilbert was out of town, and authorities had speculated the murder may have been a case of mistaken identity. Teton County Undersheriff Terry Bart said he didn't know if the indictment would provide any leads to the Rice murder. FYontier Airlines has decided to sell half its fleet of Boeing 737-200 jets, but that won't hurt service to Jackson, said Station Manager Bob Brown. Frontier is selling 25 jets to United to buy back Frontier stock and retire about $135 million in long-term debt. Brown said the company may return to its roots as a regional carrier and noted the company did very well as a regional in the mid-1970s. THE ASPEN TIMES Aspen A former Aspen resident said he did not give information attributed to him in an FBI affidavit. The affidavit implicated 30 local residents in a multi-million-dollar drug ring and led to an indictment last fall that named Steven Grabow as the head of an Aspen-based drug operation. Rollins Snelling is named in the document as Confidential Informant 3. It claims Snelling told FBI agent Cliff Browning of his involvement in distributing cocaine with Grabow and two other defendants. Snelling now says that is untrue. Browning died in a plane crash this winter while investigating the case. The affidavit led a U.S. District Court judge to order wiretaps on Grabow and the others. Defense attorneys now hope to impugn the document and thus, the ensuing wiretap evidence. Snelling made his charges to an investigator working for Grabow. ski company wanted assurances that ,the lift could operate at a certain speed and under particular wind conditions. But the builder, Lift' Engineering and Manufacturing Co. of Carson City, Nevada, said it could not make those promises. A new gondola will have the same capacity of six passengers. Are all resort towns except Park City listed in David Vokac's "Great Towns of the West"? First Ketchum, fallmudslide ordinance after realtors kept arguing it was unfair to them. A changed provision will have, the town, not property owners, pay for a site consultant. Vail will drop a clause requiring realtors to notify buyers on first contact if property is in a "geologically sensitive" area, and the proposal now says homes damaged by mudrock slides can rebuild without additional study. Town Attorney Larry Eskwith called |