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Show . 4 4. tcS Srammmmiut is Snninnunmfiit Nothing comes between books and booze in the Vail public library mended to the town council that a road be extended to provide a valuable second access to the Old Mammoth area. The commission said funds being saved to improve Old Mammoth Road, the only present access, should be used instead to extend Majestic Pines Road. Fire Chief Jon Sweeny agreed, saying Old Mammoth Road is a real problem for fire protection Jackson Hole News Jackson Hole The doctors at Jackson's St. John's Hospital are disagreeing with the board of trustees over completing complet-ing a nursing home facility, and both sides stated their positions in recent newspaper ads. The $1.3-million nursing area has stood half-completed half-completed since last year for lack of funds. In their ad, the doctors argued the nursing home is taking up too much of the hospital's time, hasn't been able to support itself, and causes other necessary improvements to be postponed. The trustees' ad asks the public for input on the issue. Local real-estate developer Bland Hoke said he wants to save about 1,000 acres near the Jackson airport from intense development. His proposed project, he said would sen ouijr ten to-acre numesites there. Each could be divided once, so that up to 20 homes could be built on the 998 acres. (As a normal subdivision, the law would allow creation of 332 single-family lots.) He would preserve pre-serve 600 acres as open space. Hoke, also a Teton County commissioner, said he guesses the market is there for such homesites. A group of landlords and property managers are protesting a proposed $1 million FHA loan for a proposed apartment complex. They say the loan for the 24-unit complex 'will compete unfairly on a glutted market. WKC55 KetchumSun Valley Taxi Wars are breaking out this winter in Ketchum between two companies, Ketchum Taxi and Sun Valley Taxi-Limo. Ketchum Taxi started up last winter but did not operate in Ketchum itself because proprietor Dan Carroll believed the city had an exclusive franchise with existing Taxi-Limo. Then Carroll changed his mind and started working the town, stating Taxi-Limo couldn't handle all the business. Over the past year, the following events happened: Taxi-Limo sued Carroll and Ketchum (because the city did not offer protection to Taxi-Limo); the two companies announced they would merge but the deal fell through; and the city discovered a franchise with Taxi-Limo Taxi-Limo was never executed. Now the two companies are peacefully competing, and Bob Chenoweth, co-owner of Taxi-Limo, says he is peeved most with the city for not having the courage to back up its franchise. The Mountain Express often has a Quote of the Week department. Its quote this week came from a Ketchum city councilman discussing a condominiumization: "We are capable of being jerks, but we don't like to be jerks gratuitously." thCL TRAIL Vail They'll have to rope off the book sections, but apparently they're going to have a cocktail party in the Vail public library. The Vail council gave permission to the Vail Valley Foundation, which will have a sponsor's reception there during the American Ski Classic. The event will not set a precedent for the library, said town manager Ron Phillips. Radio listeners in the Vail area bend their ears most to station KVMT, according to a survey taken by KVMT. The survey found 87 percent of respondents saying they listened to the station, compared to 55 percent for Vail's KRW and Eagle station KGMJ. The survey also showed a strong response for the station's news, but some dissatisfaction with the station's music not having enough variety. Meanwhile, a third competitor, KZYR, has just gone on the air. The station, nicknamed "The Zephyr," will feature "adult rock 'n' roll, commercial jazz and progressive country" said its general manager. It is possible these days to accidentally steal somebody else's car. That's what Dr. Stephen Dinenberg, a part-time Vail resident, discovered when he finished a day of skiing at Beaver Creek Resort and found his 1983 Jeep Wagoneer which owns the land, can use it for long-planned recreation transportation transporta-tion uses. Fortunately, the Aiello Construction Construc-tion Company has proposed building a 50-to-100-unit low-income housing project in the area. Co-owner Dave Aiello said tenants would pay 25-30 percent of their income up to a certain limit. Two businesses in Tahoe are arguing over U-Haul trucks. Tim Haight rents out the trucks to . customers from Ken's Tire Center, which he partly owns, and parks them on a nearby lot. But realtors Joan and Dan Hauserman, who own the neighboring Cobblestone Mall, say the trucks cause clutter, and they've threatened to sue Placer County because, they say, the U-Hauls are an industrial use in a commercial zone. Haight says, "The business is good for the community that's been proved by the number of people . . . who use it." THE ASPEN TIMES Aspen Local officials and developers have criticized the EPA for designating designat-ing the Smuggler Mountain mine tailings site as a Superfund hazardous waste area. But they aren't receiving much support from the Aspen Times. An hour before the public comment period expired, the federal government received protests from the city of Aspen, Pitkin County, and property owners Centennial Partners, Part-ners, Hunter Creek Properties and Smuggler-Durant Mining Corp. The critics said the EPA survey methods overrated the danger from tailings. Meanwhile, Times editorialist Dave Reed argued that a hazard could exist, and the EPA has the resources to make the proper tests. The county's efforts to cover the tailings don't address the groundwater ground-water problem, he said. And he said it was ironic to see Sam Brown (former Sixties activist) downplaying the environmental danger because he is developing the Centennial project. , An even harsher view came from columnist Jon Busch, who works a garden in his home at the base of Smuggler Mountain. "Can a developer devel-oper be counted on to truly correct a truly hazardous waste problem? The city council and the board of county commissioners should be ashamed of themselves. The developers, well, they're just the greedheads we used to cluck our tongues about oh so few years ago." The board for the Aspen public schools passed a budget of approximately approxi-mately $7.5 million, without money to renovate its board room. Citizens had slated that money raised with an October 1984 tax increase election should be spent on programs directly for the students. They said an $8,000 expenditure for the board room was a good example of a non-essential that should not be funded. Mammoth Lakes The Mammoth Town Council has unanimously approved an energy franchise agreement for Southern California Edison. The company gets the right to transport electricity over town streets and easements, in exchange for a $90,000 annual franchise fee payment. pay-ment. The town council, Neil McCarroll, reassured council members mem-bers that under the arrangement, citizens can still generate power for personal use. However, if a citizen wanted to generate power for a profit, Edison could prohibit that or extract a fee from the person. The Mammoth Lakes Resort Association announced it has netted 42 memberships and $33,799 in pledges. The new association appears to be well on its way to its minimum budget of $400,000. The mammoth Lakes Planning Commission has strongly recom- missing. Police waited for the lot to clear and the only vehicle left was a 1979 Wagoneer. Said the doctor, "It was tne same color as mine when it's dirty." Investigating, police found the vehicle owners in Denver, who said they had lent the Jeep to a doctor friend who was vacationing in Vail. The thief-by-mistake was found after midnight, and until then still didn't know he had the wrong jeep. Dr. Dinenberg said his keys didn't fit the older tar, but keys from older Wagorfeers fit newer models. The Vail Resort Association (VRA) failed to sell its 1 percent bed tax proposal to the town council. In a council meeting, the VRA argued it needs the money for marketing and advertising to compete with other resorts. But one councilman worried Vail may price itself out of the market with the tax, and some lodge owners expressed opposition. The council said they won't schedule a special election until they have more information and are sure all segments of the' VRA support the tax. The town council is at loggerheads logger-heads with Heritage Cablevision, which recently hit subscribers with a 4.9 percent basic rate increase without getting approval from the town. Vail said the franchise gives the town authority over rate hikes, but Heritage said a new regulation signed by President Reagan overrides over-rides local control. Both sides must now wait for the FCC to interpret the rule. The Colorado Supreme Court ruled Robert Dean W est is entitled to disability benefits after an accident forced him to retire from his ski instructor job in Vail. The award was made even though West has earned three times as much since the mishap as a real estate broker. The court ruled "Reliance on actual wages as a presumptive measure of earning capacity could penalize a worker for making the best of his or her misfortune." West was injured in a 1975 fall and underwent surgery to remove a disc, but painful bone spurs later forced his retirement. TAHOE WORLD Lake Tahoe A golf course which is the centerpiece of a proposed $75 million resort in Squaw Valley may impair the region's water quality, according to critics. Those comments came when the Perrini-Glenborough project pro-ject submitted its environmental impact report to a public hearing in Tahoe City. Questions came from representatives of the Lahontan Regional Water Quality Board. . Lahontan said fertilizers used on the golf course might degrade Squaw Creek, which runs through the course, and further downstream affect the Truckee River. Another concern, it said, was the effect on the underground aquifers that supply water to Squaw Valley residents. Lahonton representatives said they wanted more details on nutrient runoff and nitrogen loading on the course. A new low-income housing project may come to the rescue of more than 300 people displaced from the Tahoe City Trailer Park. The residents were told last month they must leave the park within two years so that the U.S. Forest Service, |