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Show , . , ' - rj Sunmnnmnntt tin Stnunmrnmnit Unruly Aspen Mountain chair lift is closed after dropping ski patrolmen 40 feet THE ASPEN TIMES Lift accident is investigated Aspen Chairlift No. 5 on Aspen Mountain Moun-tain was closed in late November after it caused an accident and an alleged near-miss. Ski patrolmen Erik Peltonen and Karen Chisholm were propelled out of their chair on the lift and fell 40 feet to the ground. Chisholm suffered a compression fracture of the back and Peltonen sustained multiple back fractures and facial lacerations. There were no witnesses to the accident, ac-cident, so Aspen Ski Company officials of-ficials can only speculate about what happened. The original theory was that the chair carrying the victims' stopped when its footrest came in " .1 - Saloon in connection with the traffic-accident traffic-accident death of a teenager last summed, said a Guide editorial. The suit contends that the bar sold liquor to teens who consumed it at a local party. After the party, some of the teens engaged in a high-speed race that resulted in an accident and the death of Sandi Visnich, 17. But the Guide editor said he is the former owner of a wine store and he knows that "there's no way on earth you can stop a determined teenager , from buying booze." The Mangy Moose, said the editorial, has a good law-enforcement law-enforcement record. "The ? suit smacks of an attempt to make the Mangy Moose a scapegoat for parental paren-tal and societal failures," said the Guide. Jackson Hole News Witnesses said he was wearing headphones head-phones and was traveling extremely fast. The ski patrol will be in charge of enforcing the policy. Skiers caught using headphones could lose their lift tickets. TAHOE WORLD Uprooted residents denied assistance LakeTahoe A U.S. District Court judge ruled that residents of the Tahoe City Trailer Park cannot receive federal assistance to move their homes. The park, home for 150 to 300 people, peo-ple, will be razed because it is part of 64 acres being transferred from the Bureau of Reclamation to the U.S. Forest Service. The legal point in dispute is whether the land change was an acquisition. ac-quisition. Under federal law, people displaced by a land acquisition are entitled to federal relocation assistance. But Judge Milton Schwartz ruled that, because the property deal was arranged within the federal government, govern-ment, it was a transfer, not an acquisition. ac-quisition. But residents say it is an acquisition acquisi-tion because the trailer park was ; open before the bureau entrusted the i, tract to the Truckee Carson Irriga- tion District 20 years ago. Trailer resident Don Bryan said he is "thoroughly disappointed." He added it will cost him $10,000 to $15,000 to move his trailer. contact with the guard on the lift tower. This caused the lift to stop, ejecting the patrolmen out of the seat. However, this hypothesis now is being questioned. According to sources who talked to the Aspen Times, the company carried car-ried out safety tests on the chair two days later. Members of the ski patrol refused to ride the chair, with one patrolman saying "We didn't want to be human guinea pigs." Two ski instructors rode the chair and were forced to duck when the chair came too close to a cable, said sources. A spokesman for the ski company said two company officials rode the chair and did not have to duck during dur-ing their trip. Jackson Hole Guide Audit reveals missing funds Jackson Hole The Jackson Police Department ' is fevgatfng'C'poMibtobaeafc;- ment at The Learning Center, a nonprofit non-profit agency that provides help to youngsters with learning disabilities. The probe was requested by the center's board of directors, which announced that its annual audit found an undetermined amount of money was missing. Investigator Dave Foster said the -case is complex; he will have to examine ex-amine the center's records and other financial documents. Foster also said he has asked for help from the Wyoming Attorney General's Division Divi-sion of Criminal Investigation. Don't blame saloon, says Guide The State of Wyoming is wrong to sue Jackson's Mangy Moose Review officer nixes hospital proposal Jackson Hole A state official has recommended recommend-ed denial for a proposed 40-bed psychiatric hospital in Jackson. The finding comes from Rhonda Woodard, an attorney and hearing ' officer for the Wyoming Certificate of Need (CON) Review Board. She said there is a lack of evidence showing a need for the plan for 24 beds to provide long-term psychiatric care for adolescents. It ' also would negatively affect a similar facility, the Pineridge Hospital in Lander, whose facilities are not always full now, she said. - The proposal calls for a $4.3-million facility that also would include 16 beds for short-term adult treatment. Stereo banned from slopes Mammoth Lakes Stereo headphones will be banned bann-ed from Mammoth Mountain this season, said the area's safety director, direc-tor, Don Redmon. He said the decision deci-sion was prompted by California laws that forbid headphones while driving or riding a bicycle. If wearing headphones interferes with driving and biking, it creates a doubly difficult problem with skiers, he said. The Mammoth Mountain Ski Patrol has received several complaints com-plaints from people who were struck or sideswiped by headphone-wearing headphone-wearing skiers. The controversy came to a head when a skier died last January after hitting a tree. |