The Jackson Hole Guide from Jackson, Wyoming • 4

JANUARY 5, 1961 THE JACKSON HOLE GUIDE Riding the Range By Floy Tonkin Most everyone in Jackson Hole got into town New Year's Eve to welcome the little fellow in fitting style they whooped it up until the wee sma' hours. At the RJ some of the folks celebrated a "Chinese New Year" with firecrackers out on the street (probably held over from the Fourth of July- nobody seemed to know where they came from!) Hats and horns and what-haveyou made much din everywhere. There were crowds in all the "bright spots" and everyone had such a good time it took all day New Years to get well. A fellow was going about his usual round of kissing New Years Eve. He approached a cute gal with the usual "Happy New Year baby." Said she, "I'd kiss you if you didn't have so much lipstick Can't even tell where your mouth is." HEARD THE NEXT DAY Voice over the telephone Sun- day morning: "Hello, and how are you today?" "Fine, just fine." "Sorry.

Wrong number." "Last time I saw you were leaning against the bar, and you weren't in too good shape." "Boy, if you thought I was in bad shape then, you shoulda seen me later!" Nobody caught cold Saturday night, even, if half of them ran around town without coats or overshoes. With that much antifreeze inside, everyone was ty warm. "Well, I see you survived." "Listen. it wasn't easy." We so often say we don't have time for this or that. We have, and have always had, all the time there is.

ARCO BLAST KILLS THREE The blast at the reactor plant at Arco near Idaho Falls, which occurred Tuesday night, reportedly killed three men. Reports state that the radiation level over the area is not dangerously high. TO BE MARRIED Leona Roice, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Carl A.

Roice of Jackson be married to Sidney Smith, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lee Smith on January 12. The wedding will be at 7 o'clock in the evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs.

Burns Ferrin. TRAFFIC DECREASES FIRST 11 MONTHS The State Highway Department said the automatic traffic counter south of town shows a five percent decrease for the first 11 months of 1960 as compared to the same period in 1959, Traffic in November was practically the same, with a 24-hour average volume of 333 cars. Maximum day for the month of November was Nov. 4 when 412 cars were counted. Maximum hour was between 3 and 4 p.m.

on Sunday, Nov. 6 when 55 cars were counted. For your dancing and listening pleasure Saturday Nights "The Pals of the Golden West" Bill Dave Bernie Your favorite mixed drinks served as you like them HOTEL Silver Dollar Bar All-America Cutter Race Association to Defend Title in Day Meet The nation's fastest cutter racing circuit, the All America Cutter Racing Association, will hold the finals of the 1961 meet at Jackson, Wyoming, February 25- 28, 1961. Jackson and the. Association have extended invitations to several other cutter racing associations of the Rocky Mountain area to bring their top teams to Jackson to compete at the time of the finals and thus see where the best drivers and horses are located.

Invitations have been sent to the Bridger Valley Cutter Associ ation, Lyman, Wyoming; the Snake River Cutter Association. Baggs, Wyoming; the Sublette County Cutter Association, Pinedale, Wyoming; the Rocky Mountain Cutter Association, Bancroft, Idaho; and the Wasatch Cutter Association, Clearfield, Utah. The meet at Jackson has, of necessity, been extended to four daysFebruary 25-28, 1961. The people of Jackson have been working their track for some three weeks and thus will be assured ot one of the finest tracks for cutter racing to be had in the Rocky Mountain area. The Wort Hotel and many of the motels are open to take care of housing the visitors and contestants.

Reservations may be made to Mr. Harold Yager, Housing Chairman, Jackson, Wyoming. Adequate stable facilities will be available. Cutter racing in Jackson Hole was inaugurated some twenty years ago with John Wort of the Wort Hotel; the late Gibb Scott, rancher and horseman; George Lumley, druggist, and others deciding that each had the best team and could only settle the question with competition. Gibb Scott was known popularly as the "Daddy of Cutter Racing" in Jackson Hole.

At the cutset the races were run on the main street of Jackson, but for many years they have been held just west of town alongside the main highway which provides a fine grandstand from which to watch the events. Cutter racing is a colorful sport and is steeped in the tradicions of a far reaching past going back to the mid '80's. The extra risk occasioned by the snow gives it a glamour not had on the dirt tracks. Today the Quarter horse and the Thorobred are the popular horses for this competitive sport. Some associations run a half mile, although most run only a quarter mile.

There are times when Mother Nature deprives a community of sufficient snow on which to hold its meet. In such cases the drivers will not be denied competition and just change from the snow cutter to the Roman chariot type of vehicle. The cutters are set low on the runners, with the driver sitting on a small seat that looks like a stool, or standing as s.me prefer. Most of the cutters are vehicles of beauty. Some years ago officials of the General Motors Corporation who visit Jackson Hole regularly to hunt and fish, learning of the interest in cutter racing, had designed and made for presentation to Mr.

John Wort a beautiful cutter of plastic material. It is not used in racing by reason of being quite heavy but during the cutter races it is on exhibition as a show piece of the craftsman's art. The races at Jackson this year are being dedicated in memorium to Gibb Scott "Daddy of Cutter Racing," who died recently at his ranch. His team, Boots and Slippers, was well known to all who follow cutter racing. G--F COMMISSION TO MEET The Wyoming Game and Fish commission will hold its annual budget meeting in Cheyenne, January 17-19, state game and fish commissioner S.

J. Jiacoletti said today. Jiacoletti said the commission would also establish final terms of a new regulation allowing nonresident elk hunters to take antlered elk only during the 1961 seasons. Members of the commission in clude R. W.

Spratt, Lost Cabin, president; James F. Powers, Cheyenne, vice president; J. J. Pfisterer, Pinedale; C. D.

Crandy; J. E. Ackerman, Upton and ney, Afton: R. M. McManis, CoO.

R. Docekal HICKEY RESIGNS; APPOINTED TO SENATE Cov. Joe Hickey resigned his office Monday and was appointed to the U. S. Senate by his successor, Secretary of State Jack Gage.

Hickey filed his resignation. with Gage's office about 9:30 a.m. and Gage was proclaimed acting governor under Wyoming law. Wyoming has no lieutenant governor. Then Gage appointed fellow Democrat Hickey to the Senate and Hickey took with him a letter informing the Senate of the appointment.

Hickey left by air about 10:30 a.m. for Washington, where he arrived at 4:05 p.m. MST. He will be sworn into the Senate about noon Tuesday along with other freshmen senators elected last Nov. 8.

Hickey will officially succeed retiring Sen. Joseph C. O'Mahoney, who ends a 25-year career in the Senate Tuesday. BANKRUPTCIES TRIPLE Wyoming bankruptcy petitions have nearly tripled in the past four years, according to information from the U.S. clerk of court office in Cheyenne.

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8-14, 1961 DAILY PROGRAMS Room 11:30 World Turns is Yours 3-Search for Tomorrow Monday Thru Friday 10:00 -Love of Life Circle Day Light 8:50 -Sign On News 10:30 Love That Bob Party 2:15 Secret Storm Bandstand Love Lucy 11:00 The Texan Millionaire 2:30 Edge of Night Sunday, January 8 12:30 Sports Tuesday, January 10 -This is the Life Monday, January 9 Time Saturday, January 14 Bridge Time 4:30 Adventure Strip Friday, January 13 Basketball Strip 5-Extension Service Thursday, January 12 Time 2:30 -Western Time Miss Brooks 5:00 -Rocketeers Time Wednesday, January 11 Football Strip Arts Century Time Show Time and Gladys 5:30 To Tell the Truth 6-Father Knows Best Strip Strip Time Living Word is our Land Presents Sullivan 6:30 Kaleidoscope Time Time Sports Mouse Hunt Weather H'nd Weather Bunny 7:30 -Jack Benny 7:00 -Andy Griffith 7:00 G. E. Theater King 7:00 Wyatt Earp Hilites 8:00 Sea Hunt End News 7:30 Red Skelton Weather 7:30 Tight Rope 7:00 -Lawrence Welk My Line Faces West 7-My Sister Eileen Weather 8-Bringing Up Buddy 8:00 -Fights is Alice Gillis 7:30 I've Got A Secret Three Sons Star Final Robin Gunn Mr. Jones Angels Detectives Hilights Up Midnight Skelton Baccus 9:30 Pride of Family Theater 10-Stage Coach West Eye Marshall 10-77 Sunset Strip 10-Candid Camera 11:00 Playhouse Zone 10-P-J Playhouse 11-Famous Playh'se.