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Show Review-Thursda- y, February 21, 1985 -- Page 3 . Viewpoint Ski lift conversations from around the globe By JACK HILL Sunshine, blue skies and fresh clean air made Saturday's trip to Brighton a very welcome change from winter's foggy greyness here in the valley. Surprisingly, the lift lines were short, and with the snow in near-perfe-packed conditions, what more could a skier want? Conversation. Each ride up the lift provided a chance for an in-teresting exchange with a different person. Take John, the night manager at Brighton. Six years ago he ran a small shop at Knotts Berry Farm in Los Angeles. The "Southern California grind" was wearing heavily, and one day he told his wife he was going to put a "For Sale" sign on the shop. "With interest rate at 21 percent, I never thought it would sell," John said. To his surprise, someone walked in and gave him the asking rjrice. trical problems on the ski lifts and with the night lights. Since he had a job at a ski resort, he and his son, Matt, decided to take up skiing. "We're really poor but our life style is great," John said. "We wouldn't go back to Southern California for anything," he added as we reached the top of the new Snake Creek Lift and went our separate ways. "Single," I said. "Here," replied a stranger with an accent that sounded from "down under." As the chair scopped us up I asked, "are you from Australia?" "England," he answered, his expression telling me that he was slightly annoyed at being called an "Aussie." Undaunted, I asked why he was in Utah and he explained that he and his girl friend both worked for Sperry, the computer firm, and when she was coming to Utah for a conference, he decided to come along for a "ski holiday in America." Richard had learned to ski in Norway and had always wanted to try Utah snow. "How much did the round-tri- p air fare cost," I asked. "With just seven days notice, the round trip, London to Salt Lake City on TWA was $450 American dollars," Richard answered. My look of surprise caused him to add, "If I had known the dates of the trip 30 days in advance, the fare would have been $350." Having flown five times last fall to California for $329 round trip fare each time, I was puzzled at how Richard could fly over 8,000 miles for $120 more than it cost me to go : 1,400 miles. : Our lift ride ended before we : could talk further but when I got to a phone I called TWA and was told that the round trip fare from Salt ; Lake to London was $822! ; "How much is the round trip fare from London to Salt Lake," I then ' asked. The TWA representative an- - ! swered, "$598 American dollars." Quickly at least as quickly as I can compute, the difference of $224 surfaced. The representative, her name was Summer, explained that it had to do with the strength of the i dollar vs the pound, or something I like that. I still can't understand ; how a person riding the same aircraft from Salt Lake to London that Richard would be on and sitting ; in adjoining seats, has to pay $112 more if he buys his ticket in Salt lake than if he bought it in London using American dollars in each place. ; I thought about this problem driving home from the ski resort and when I saw gasoline for 95 cents a gallon in Sandy and for $1.08 per ; gallon in American Fork, the : wonders of our economic system ; became less clear than ever. ; My wife just said, "put those two ; problems in the same category as ; the fact that banana's in Hawaii cost 90 cents a pound 100 feet from where they are grown and 25 cents a ' pound 3,000 miles away in Pleasant ' Grove, Utah. John and his wife took the money, sold their house and bought a camp trailer. Then it was off to Vernal, Utah and a river run he had arranged months before. John and his family liked what they saw in Utah and decided to stay. The many weeks spent in Forest Service campsites gave the plenty of op-portunities to meet the government workers who ran the areas. Soon John had a summer job with the Forest Service in the Big Cot-tonwood Canyon, and with his electrical background he was hired by Brighton to trouble-shoo- t elec- - Gordon Oborn (at microphone) conducts the PGHS Bridge Building contest. The BYU Engineering Department staff members are shown with the hydraulic machine that tests the balsa wood bridges for stress. Almy Hollis won the contest with a bridge that held 1092 pounds, a new PG High record. Second spot went to last year's winner, Blayne rjavis with 996. Mike and Jeff Britain were third with 845 pounds. A team of Brent Larson and Nick Starr placed fourth with a bridge that held 721 pounds . i Fog to blame for accidents pleasant Grove Police Officers investigated several fog related accidents in Pleasant Grove and Lindon during the past week, in Lindon, there were no injuries 'reported when cars driven by Ronald Stubbs, American Fork, and Connie Wimmer, Pleasant Grove, collided at 400 N. State Road, Officer Jay Thornton reported that damage to the Stubbs vehicle was $500 and to the Wimmer car was $300. Michelle Henrickson, Pleasant Grove, backed into a parked car owned by Vaughn Barnett at 379 E. 5M North causing $350 damage to the Barnett car. Her vehicle was not damaged, Officer Bert Bean reported. Lisa Brewer, Pleasant Grove, hit a utility pole in Lindon just north of Frontier Cafe, during high fog. Her car turned over in the mishap. There were no serious injuries but damage to her car was estimated at $1,500. According to Officer Lonnie Wilson, a passenger Cheryl Park, Orem, was in the car at the time of the accident. George McGrath, Pleasant Grove, and Mark Sidwell, Lindon, collided . in fog at .300 E. 500 South, Pleasant Grove. Officer Dave Vickers said there were no injuries in the mishap. Damage to each vehicle was set at $500. Philip Stoneman, Pleasant Grove, reportedly backed into a car driven by Sharon Busby, Pleasant Grove, at 500 N. 100 East, Pleasant Grove, when he could not see how far he was out into the roadway because of dense fog. Officer L. Wilson said there was no damage to the Stoneman car but the Busby vehicle sustained $800 damage. Cars driven by Charles Featherstone, Lehi, and Valerie Smith, Highland, collided at 1000 W. State Road during dense fog. Officer Cody Cullimore reported that there were no injuries but damage to the Featherstone car was $1,000 and to the Smith vehicle was $600. Justin Tomlinson, Lindon, ap-parently stuck a guard rail at Loader and Nathaniel Drives, during dense fog. Damage to his car was $300 and there was $58 damage to the city owned guard rail. t . Officer Tom . Prestwich in vestigated. Jean Walker, American Fork, and Janell Brady, Pleasant Grove, collided with their cars at 300 N. State in Lindon. There were no in-juries. Officer J. Wilson reported that damage to the Brady car was $300 and there was $50 damge to the Walker vehicle. Cars driven by Teresa Parr, Lindon, and Stanton Hawks, Orem, collided in front of Mr. G's when they apparently slid on ice. Damage to the Parr car was set at $400 and the same to the Hawks vehicle, according to Officer J. Wilson. No one was injured Monday when cars driven by Mary Davis, Pleasant Grove, and Mark Johnson, American Fork, collided on 200 South in front of the Community Center. No damage estimate was available. Firefighters were called out to douse a car fire at Gillman Lane and State Road in Lindon on Feb. 16. Cause of the fire is unknown and investigation is continuing. The car, a 1984 Toyota pickup, was a total loss and was valued at $8,000. " 'ii Answers to Pres. Day trivia Here are the answers to the President's Day trivia quiz: 1. Thirty-nirt- e. 2. Franklin D. Roosevelt served from 1933 to 1945. 3. Eight. William Henry Harrison of pneumonia in 1841, Zachary Taylor of cholera morbus in 1850, James A. Garfield was assasinated in 1881, Abraham Lincoln was assasinated in 1865, James A. Garfield was assasinated in 1881, William McKinly was shot in 1901, Warren G. Harding died suddenly in 1923, Franklin D, Roosevelt died after an illness in 1945, and John F. Kennedy was assasinated in 1963. 4. Grover Cleveland served from 1885 to 1889 and from 1893 to 1897. 5. James Madison. 6. Thomas Jefferson. 7. Thomas Jefferson and John Adams. 8. John Adams and John Quincy Adams. 9. Andrew Jackson. 10. Abraham Lincoln in 1864. 11. Rutherford B. Hayes from 1877 to 1881. 12. Grover Cleveland, Cleveland, Ohio. 13. Theodore Roosevelt. 14. In 1905 he was the peacemaker in the Russo-Japanes- e War. (The entire $40,000 prize was j donated to a foundation for the promotion of peace.) 15. The Indian ! Princess Pocahontas. 16. Sir Win- - J ston Churchill. 17. The S is only a letter and stands for no name. 18. ; Dwight D. Eisenhower. 19. John F. ; Kennedy. 20. Richard Nixon. 21. The ; Nixon Committee responsible for burglarizing the Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate ' Affair. .' ; Graduation on course, Dr. Granger said. Dr. Sudweeks commented, "They're driving for breadth rather than depth. In essence, the state course becomes a class about vocational education. The intent with the one unit of practical arts in Alpine was that every student have the opportunity to participate in a skill area." Dr. Clark L. Cox, district superintendent, said students traditionally do not like the general survey classes, preferring specific skill areas instead. He recom-mended board members not offer a general vocational class in place of the practical arts requirement. Another area where Alpine District requirements differ from state requirements is the science area, Dr. Granger said. She ex-plained the state has accepted five classes that will fill its two-un- it requirement -- - biology, chemistry, physics, applied biology and applied physical science. Alpine District, on the other hand, . offers 47 classes it considers sciences, including horticulture, agronomy and electronics. She said she would like to have the district continue to offer a wide variety. "Should the student be required to take physics when he or she is in-terested in electronics?" she asked. Another variance between the state and the district is in the junior high computer studies courses. The state has just added this requirement, Dr. Granger said. The district could comply by dropping its ninth grade typing requirement and requiring a seventh-grad- e keyboarding class, Gary Keetch, district secondary supervisor, noted. Board members said they feel the state board "is describing the means not the ends," and that local school boards should have more ! input into setting graduation requirements. Dr. Cox agreed, saying, "We are just diametrically opposed to that. Let's take them on." (Continued from pa ge 1 ) take a foreign language course and believe they should have the opp-ortunity to use such a course to fill some of ' the graduation requirements! Dr. Richard Sudweeks, board chairman, said, "One of the best ways to1 improve your mother tongue is to' learn a foreign one. Besides,? it', widens the students' understanding ' of other cultures. Our present requirement supports jforeign language without burdening jWderline students, since it is not a must." 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