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Show . 44- 4 iTi Smiinminmitt it Snninniinmfiit Visitor to Vail doesn't pant over misplaced money Mammoth lakes The illegal Mexican aliens are back in Mammoth, in spite of a U.S. Immigration raid last November that netted 42 people, half the Hispanic population in the town. In a survey of the restaurants raided, managers said the illegals either returned to them, or they hired other aliens. One manager said aliens often carry $200 to $300 in case of raids, so they can pay a ' cuynte" tn guide nim back v,,r the border. In at least one instance, Mexicans hopped a commuter plane at Tijuana that returned them. And at least two Mexicans hid in the woods during the night of the raids, wearing tennis shoes and light jackets to ward off the cold. One manager said of the aliens, "They work many, many hours, and they bust their butts for money." Local business people say the Hispanics will take jobs Anglos don't want, since the whites want to ski during the day. THEL TRAIL Vail Some people may not have money to burn but they may have enough to dry-clean. In nearby Avon, the manager of the Benchmark cleaners, Cathy Waldron, was going through the pockets of a pair of jeans when she found a wad of crumpled Argentine currency. Her boyfriend called a local bank to find out the current rate of exchange, and from that figured the wad to be worth about $13,400. But Waldron said the owners of the money didn't seem very excited when she called them. "A woman just said, 'Stick it back in the pants and send it over.'" Despite the apathetic reaction to her good deed, Waldron has no regrets. "Everyone said I should have kept it. But it wasn't mine to begin with, so I gave it back." A truck carrying 58 drums of low-level radiation material to Moab, Utah had two minor accidents in the Vail area. First, the semi-tractor rig had a rear tire catch fire, when the driver put on a brake and his brake drum apparently overheated. Members Mem-bers of the Eagle-Vail Fire Department Depart-ment responded in protective suits, and used airpacks and radioactive detectors. The next day, when the truck was parked at a service station for repairs, it was bumped by a semi rig that was backing up. The drums contained calcium flouride, which has trace amounts of uranium used to make nuclear fuel rods. A plant manager in Metropolis, Illinois, where the material originated, originat-ed, said it poses no public threat. The uranium will be recovered at a mill in Moab. Vail already has a sister city in St. Moritz, Switzerland. Now it has offers from two other cities. The town council said it may have to set up guidelines for future siblings. Vail Mayor Paul Johnston said an appropriate limit may be one "sister" per continent. A ski instructor for Vail Associates, Associ-ates, Ulf Edborg, said he will discuss sister-city status with the town of Are, Sweden. (Are is 350 miles north of Stockholm. ) Vail is also looking at a similar proposal from Hakuba, a ski resort in Japan. Msonllol; Guide Jackson Hole A Las Vegas hotel developer who couldn't get county approval last year for a hotel convention center outside Jackson has returned with plans for a 200-room Holiday Inn. Developer James Brimhall vows he'll start building by May 1. His project, at least part of the year, will soak up customers from other Jackson businesses, he said. Brimhall sounded bitter, since the county refused last summer to issue industrial revenue bonds to finance his proposal. Residents protested they would have no planning control over the project and said Brimhall' s project would become a separate village competing with Jackson. At the time, Brimhall sweetened the deal by offering $200,000 to the Tourism Promotion Bureau of the Chamber of Commerce, but he said he's making no offers now. He said he won't join the Chamber or the local HotelMotel Association. "We're just going to build a beautiful motel and pluck customers right off that highway." Even though hotel motel operators opera-tors in Jackson complain of empty beds, Brimhall said he won't have a problem, since people will gravitate to the Holiday Inn name. He said his project will have an ice rink, an eight-lane bowling alley, a health club, a steak house and a lobby bar. When a man named Lane Raper spent 10 days last April in St. John's hospital, laid up with gunshot wounds, was he a patient or a prisoner of Sublette County? That's the question to be settled in a court suit. The hospital seeks to recover $11,000 in medical expenses from Raper, the county and the town of Pinedale. Raper was hospitalized after being shot by a Pinedale officer in apparent self-defense. The hospital has said he was shot and placed under arrest. By Wyoming law, it charges, counties must pay for medical care for inmates. Pinedale and Sublette, however, have denied responsibility. They say Raper was hospitalized under guard of a Pinedale officer but at the request of the hospital. The patient was shot by Pinedale Officer Jack Cain, who responded to a report that Raper was firing a handgun in a convenience store. THE ASPEN TIMES Aspen The Pilkih County Oniiniissinii is studying a proposal to control the "dirty burner" fireplaces in areas like Aspen. Current law only allows one dirty fireplace per building, but local attorney Gideon Kaufman proposed a way for an owner to get more. For each additional "dirty" fireplace in a building over one, the owner must buy up three existing fireplaces. He must either shut them down or upgrade them. An Aspen man injured in a 1978 fall from a chairlift has collected $80,000 from the Aspen Highlands Skiing Corp. Rex Hauck sued the company for $1 million, and his lawyer said he could have won more money from a jury than the $80,000 out-of-court settlement. But the larger money award would have been tied up by an appeal, he said. Hauck said he fell from the lift on Dec. 15, 1978 because it was going too fast and there was no protective safety bar. The injury caused continuing problems with neck-back pain, he said. Highlands argued he accepted the risks of riding the lifts and had prior problems with his spine. .JIOUftlMl .CXP&C55 KetchumSun Valley The Ketchum Workshop Theatre Thea-tre has been dissolved amid charges the city government made conditions difficult for the theater to operate. John DePasquale, the company's founder and manager, announced he is leaving to accept a job offer in San Francisco. He also said , the city, which owned his theater rehearsal space in the old Ketchum City Hall, put restrictions on him to accommodate accom-modate another tennant, the Sun Valley Center for the Arts and Humanities. For instance, he said, the center dictated no group could use the hall's multi-purpose room for more than three consecutive nights. In response, a Sun Valley Center spokesman noted one theater company com-pany had been using the room for nearly an entire month. City administrator Jim Jacquet said that when DePasquale installed stage risers in the room, it became difficult for other groups to use the area. But DePasquale said the city gave him no trouble over the construction until the art center , moved into the building. |