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Show Aspen police force is not receptive to I oca belly dancing kidnap tale I reached by chlorine treatments. treat-ments. This may be caused by the shale bed, heavy in manganese, around the well. Meanwhile, the Wilson School's water problems have been definitely traced to bad ground water, and not a contaminant in the delivery deli-very system. Recent water samples showed that the school's water has been contaminated again by unknown un-known bacteria. Ketchum Sun Valley In its Thanksgiving issue, the Mountain Express joked that one of its bless- ) ings was "that 'Dukes of Hazzard' airs only once a week." Ironically, "Hazzard" "Haz-zard" star John Schneider' and a TV crew dropped into Sun Valley for seven days to film a Christmas special. Other celebrities in the show included Van Johnson, the Gatlin Brothers, Olympic champ Bruce Jenner, and Debbie Allen. t s" Several locals were used f i in the special as extras. J School children appeared ft with Schneider in singing ' numbers. Pee Wee hockey :l players skated for the cameras, (and Schneider : donated $500 to the hockey ff program in appreciation) and about 60 ski patrolman n and instructors staged a I torchlight procession. '-I Aspen A popular local belly dancer known as Princess Leah recently reported to Aspen police that she was kidnapped for two-and-a-half days. But officers are skeptical about the tale told by Leah Auster. Auster said a man abducted abduct-ed her at 6 a.m. one morning, forcing her into a car as a hood was placed over her head. She said she was heavily sedated during most of her captivity. She said she was jabbed with a hypodermic needle and forced to drink a liquid with a nasty taste. Auster claimed she escaped escap-ed by pretending to be asleep, and insisted the incident was made up "only if I'm totally crazy." Police have had difficulty verifying the story. Auster offered to take a lie detector test, then backed off when she heard that John DeLorean got inconsistent results with tests taken after his drug-sales drug-sales indictment. At this time, the department is not investigating the case, and probably won't file charges either of kidnapping or false reporting. The Aspen City Council and Pitkin County Commission Commis-sion agreed to form a city-county bus system and transit agency. But they signed only after county commissioners burned crimson crim-son at an llth-hour change from the city. The amendment to an agreement for the new Roaring Fork Transit Agency said the agency would pay up to $150,000 to the city for Aspen's costs in preparing buses. This would only happen, however, if the agency had certain specified surpluses for the years 1984 and 1985. City Councilman Al Blom-quist Blom-quist urged the county to accept this agreement, adding add-ing the city still felt reservations reserva-tions about the Roaring Fork company and might change itk rid County Commis- sioner Helen Klanderud call-' ed it "out and out blackmail." black-mail." But chagrined county officials signed the contract. The agency is ready to operate with a fleet of 51 buses or vans. Construction represented represent-ed by building permits was down this October in the . Aspen area, compared to the same time last year. However, How-ever, the value of permits for the total 10 months of this which spearheaded a recall movement against Jencks, and against four specific county residents. The suit said that an advertisement in The Mammoth Review was false and malicious because it accused the plaintiff of dishonest and criminal acts. "Enter the Ninja" was filmed in Salt Lake, but Mammoth Lakes has its own chop-socky film. The Review reported that five days of location shooting on the movie "Swordkill" was done here recently. The star is the "Clint Eastwood of Japanese Ja-panese films," Hiroshi Fujioka, a TV-movie star mobbed by fans in his native country. The plot is about a medieval samurai who is accidentally frozen in the 16th Century and is thawed out in modern times, a sword-swinging Rip Van Winkle. Fujioka told the Review that his fighting was not simulated (like Bruce Lee) and less spectacular, but more realistic. Jackson Hole The Jackson Hole Guide reported that winter bookings book-ings into motels and hotels are better than last year. The town has been helped by the Western Airlines link-up between Jackson and eastern markets. Another plus is that the National Collegiate Ski Association is bringing 2,000 to 2,300 students in January. The Jackson area has not received as much snow as other areas. But as one realty manager said, "As Good Morning America shows a snowflake at Jackson Jack-son Hole," interest will increase. Remember the stink when 19 Teton Village residents resi-dents were ordered by the state to link up to the Village's sewer system, instead of their own less expensive septic tanks? Now it appears that order, from the state's Department of Environmental Quality, has been rescinded by the Wyoming Wyo-ming Attorney General. The state has not said yet why the order was changed. But observers speculate it was due to the unexpectedly fierce protests from the Village residents. There was an increase last year in the number of students dropping out of Jackson Hole High School. year was up from 1982. According to an Aspen Times article, the largest October decrease was reported re-ported in the city of Aspen, which went from $2,967,550 for the month last year to $508,435 for 1983. Permit valuation was also sharply down for Snowmass Village. But there was a rise in building permits for unincorporated unin-corporated Pitkin County. A Hollywood actor was selected to guide Aspen's troubled American Theater Company through a reorganization reorgan-ization and a major financial crisis. Ted Hartley, who accepted the appointment for three months, is a businessman, former jet fighter pilot, and veteran of such films as "High Plains Drifter" and "Ice Station Zebra." Hartley said he would work to mount a winter season of theater with manageable man-ageable budgets, while working with creditors to reduce the company's debt. He will also lay plans for the Summer Festival and an expansion of 1984's Aspen Playwrights Conference. Aspen citizens held a jailwarming party for the county's new lock-up, and raised some $5,000 for educational edu-cational and cultural amenities ameni-ties for the prisoners. Party-goers Party-goers stood in line in the cold and paid $10 apiece for a jail tour, plus live music and free fingerprinting. The money will be used to buy musical instruments, tapes, and art supplies for the convicts. Voters built the jail by approving $2.4 million in bonds in 1982. Mammoth Lakes A former Mono County supervisor ousted in a (i special fall election has filed suit against those who op-' op-' posed him. Mike Jencks - leveled a $417,000 libel suit against Monoans Against Unresponsive Supervisors, The problem must De cured, in part, by changing a Wyoming state law, said Teton County School District Superintendent Tom Cu-sack. Cu-sack. Cusack told his school board that most states only allow dropping out at age 16. In Wyoming, students can leave after the eighth grade. Jackson High's dropout rate is slightly higher than the state figures. In 1982-83, 32 students left compared to 24 in 1982-83. He also said dropouts are caused by general problems, like higher expectations for students, pregnancy, their lack of interest or their desire to find employment. A trio of local filmmakers film-makers received an Emmy nomination for cinematography cinemato-graphy in a 1982 documentary, documen-tary, "Alaska Story at the Top of the World." The nomination went to twelve photographers, including Jackson Hole citizens Wolfgang Wolf-gang Bayer and Peter Pila-fian, Pila-fian, and former resident Bill Sweeney, who was also the film's producer and director. The film did not win the photography competition compe-tition at the recent awards, but did garner an Emmy for best original music score in a documentary. Sweeney said the film was commissioned by the Alaskan Alas-kan governor's office to tell the lower 48 states about the Yukon. In a recent poll, he said, 15 percent of those polled didn't know Alaska was a state, and one respondent thought it was a foreign country. Jackson Hole is still grappling with dirty water, according to articles in the Jackson Hole News. Jackson administrator Mel Webb said he has found the reason for a brown slime that has been invading the town's water supply. He has traced it to a city well on the National Elk Refuge, where the slime is growing at a . depth that hasn't been |