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1 Donald Hough Writes Gay Sflorv About Jackson Hole Cosper Tribune-Herald Star Sunday Morch 18, 1956 3 Laramie Girl Wins State Legion Oratorical Contest i i A A W' I v- 1 a Jackson is, according to Hough, to the residents of that area, high-landers, what the waterfront Is to four winners of the United States and territories will be held in St. Louis, April 16. The four prizes will consist of scholarships which have a value of $4,000, $2,500, $1,000 and. $500. The Cocktail Hour In Jackson Hole By DONALD IIOUGn W.

W. Norton Se Co. N. T. City, $3.50 A salty, and rollicking tale of life In the Jackson Hole area after the dudes have gone home and the elk start down to their feeding grounds is contained in the new book, "The Cocktail Hour In Jackson Hole," written by Donald Hough, 'who is also the author of "Snow Over Town" also written about Jackson.

Interwoven in the story are several well known men in Jackson in Kay Kepler of Laramie won first place in the American Legion Oratorical contest held in Casper Friday. Jo Anne Blower of Casper was the second place winner in the state contest. The speech contest based on a topic taken from the Constitution was conducted by Attorney Richard (Dick) Bostwick, Casper departmental oratorical contest chairman, and Al Hardin of Casper, past grand chef of the 40 and 8. Joe Tate of Sheridan the third place winner and Shron Lynn of Cody, fourth. The winner will go to Sidney, April 10 to compete in the sectional contest.

Winners of that contest will compete in the regional Where Would the Money Come From? i1 Vr- av Kl i 1 4 Ms Kif I I i 1 i rr, i 1 1 ixs I A fit the seafaring clan. He also points out that In New York and other eastern cities, collections are taken up to keep the youngsters out of doors for their health, in Jackson it is reversed. They take up collections to keep 'tm indoors. Keep them away from hunting trips so they don't shoot a hunter for an elk, or fishing trips so they don't fall in and drown. He also describes the native skis, which he says is the personal transportation cf the people in Jackson hole.

The native ski is 12 feet long and about a foot wide with a housing made of heavy leather and nailed to the ski itself. Skis usually have a long strip of elk hide set into the working surface, with the hairs pointed toward the rear this keeps the ski from back-slipping when the traveler is going uphill, while let cluding the Worts, who own the Wort Hotel, In which the famed "SUver Dollar Bar" is located. The bar. over which the many and varied libations are passed to the thirsty, contains 2,033 dollars embedded in the wooden top. contest in Carson City, April 12.

The finals which will have the In his robust, free-swinging style, he recalls his experiences trying to get warm around the old pot-bellied stoves, how men have frozen to unusual circumstances. ting him glide downhill without slowing up too much. Joe Tate, Sheridan, third; Sharon Lynn, Cody, fourth; Attorney Richard (Dick) Bostwick, Casper departmental oratorical contest chairman; and W. W. Hale, Cheyenne, department adjutant (Tribune-Star Photo).

i WINNERS IN LEGION ORATORICAL CONTEST: Contest winners and Legion of icials ore shown after oratorical contest held in Casper Friday. (Left to right' Al Hardin, Caster past grand chef of the 40 and Kay Kepler of Laramie, place winner; Jo Anne Blower of Casper, second piace; He also tells why creme de menthe accounts for roughly one-sixth of Jackson Hole bar sales during the cocktail hour. Wyomingltes, who usually like their snorts straight Alcatraz Still imiim' Security ax Seven Thousand Men But Not One 0'Hara YOKOSUKA, Japan W) Ah, the shame of it. Seven thousand Marines and Navy men at the huge U. S.

naval base here, and not an O'Hara in the lot. The idea was a picture for St. Patrick's Day of an American O'Hara, preferably big and redheaded, posed with a cute little almond-eyed Japanese miss of the same name. All the press officers could find were' a dozen minus-apostrophe Oharas among Japanese nationals employed at the base. Some days are like that in the military information business.

Charles D. Young PHONE 3 6749 260 South Lowell, Casper An Occident or sickness con bring staggering medical and hospital expenses. See me about a plan that helps to pay the medical and hospital bills. Jteprtsentng will wonder about this. As it was said, this is a rollicking and salty tale about Jackson Hole, tall yarns end tall mountains" where men Ere so confoundedly men" and where bartenders serve as a personal clearing house for information, advice, and counsel.

L.K.M. A He describes the Hole as an Isolated valley of dramatic beauty cupped in the backbone of the Rockies and surrounded, by them accesible only by roads all cf which are long and tough. Throughout the book, he uses much wordage about the amount of drinking that is done in the village high up under the shadow of the Tetons. Although the cocktail hour in most eastern cities if usually from five to seven o'clock in the late afternoon, in Jackson, it lasts from mid-September until Thanksgiving although Mr. Hough does make allowances for those "who suffer from a -chronic salty stomach and show up early and certain lonely souls (who cant stand solitude and insist -on carrying on after hours (in New York until dawn) in the West until farch or until Jail, whichever comes first." Prison Despite Istional Privileges AOC lr.

$5,000,000 Voted For Crow Indians rxi 5 ffsHevi It's Portable It'S Exr.ltinrt sSjudbimuc pinna wv wi i WASHINGTON LP The Senate Friday approved payment of five million dollars to the Crow Indian tribe in Montana for land required for the Yellowtail Dam. A payment bill was passed without objection and sent to the House. Approval by the House and President Eisenhower would end a controversy over how much the Crows should be paid for 7,000 acres at the site of the Big Horn River Reclamation-Power Project. The government has filed a condemnation suit in federal court to take the land, but the suit has not been pressed pending action on the bill, sponsored by Sens. Murray and Mansfield, Montana Democrats.

The Bureau of Reclamation offered $1,500,000 to the Indians, estimating the reservation land's ac By LEONARD MILLIMAN SAN FRANCISCO 13) A cau-: tious series of increased privileges for prisoners and stricter security measures has reduced violence on bloody Alcatraz. But there's no intention of abandoning the maximum security prison in the near future. This was indicated to newsmen by Warden Paul J. Madlgan in a rare mass tour of The Rock this week by reporters, photographers and television cameramen. The Justice Dept.

invited them to make the visit in response to requests. Although they live behind rose-colored bars only lVa miles from San Francisco, life on the island in San Francisro Bay is no bed of roses for its 281 prisoners. They are the most dangerous, the most rebillions of convicts in all federal prisons. SOME CHANGES Major changes made over a period of 20 years include (1) permitting men to converse with their neighbors in cell blocks or at the dining table, (2) letting them see two movies a month, (3) letting them listen to the radio over earphones 3V2 flours a night, with a choice of two stations, and (4) reducing the work week for those How They Voted WASHINGTON iff) How Wyoming members of Congress were recorded as voting on recent roll calls: Senate On Aiken (R-Vt) amendment eliminating from farm bill a provision for 90 per cent price support on milling quality wheat, 46-45: Barrett (R), for the amendment; O'Mahoney (D), against. On Carlson (R-Kan) amendment to farm bill to provide 100 per "cent supports on wheat grown for human consumption, adopted 54-39: Barrett and O'Mahoney, for amendment.

On Russell (D-Ga) amendment Pi 9 tual market value is only about $36,000. Some of the Indians demanded a million dollars annually for 50 years. 1 Ir THE WATER-BOUND PRISON Or ALCATRAZ: Although convicts incarcerated there have been granted some additional privileges, Alcatraz, on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay, still is a maximum security federal prison (Associated Press Photo). to 'farm bill to "provide 100 per cent supports on cotton, defeated through the dining room in a 1937; catwalks behind which gun guards of abandoning it because of its lo- permitted industrial jobs from an 37-33: Barrett and O'Mahoney, for the amendment. House No major roll calls.

cation far from the nation's popu eijrht-hour day six days a week Gives Meteorite to Alabama University TUSCALOOSA, Ala. Lf) A star fragment which fell on Alabama and brought fame to Mrs. Hulitt Hodges because it hit her has been given to the "University of Alabama. to a day five days a week. strike.

watch the cell blocks in which in security changes also followed mates are locked at least 14 hours waves of violence. a day. Since the three-day Battle of i SLUGGED GUARD Alcatraz in May, 1946, the most The battle was touched off when violent uprising on the island, Bernard Paul Coy, a Louisville mesh screens have protected thejbant robber, scaled bars to the lation center and the high cost of operation $7.50 a day per man. "We don't know whether we can get rid of Alcatraz, but we would like to," said G. Frederick Mullen, director of information for the Justice Dept.

He added: First of the changes, elimination of the silent system, followed the slugging of former Warden For Business Life Ins. James A. Johnston as he walked I 1 rr The nine pound meteorite Set 2 f- plopped through the roof of Mrs. Hodges home near Sylacauga, "The need is still with us for maximum security prison, as Orval Coy proved by the men we have here. You've seen it on Television You've heard it on tne radio Now you can See it-Hear jt-and Play it yourself at our store.

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spreader made of toilet connections. He slugged the guard and passed down his weapons to five companions. Before the battle was over, five men were killed and 15 wounded, mostly guards. Three convicts died in the battle and three later by execution. Nov.

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a prison, that is entirely up to Atty. Gen. Brownell." Mullen indicated its future would CO. NEW YORK LIFE INS. depend on the fate of a bill before Congress to appropriate lQYz million dollars for a maximum security prison to be built somewhere i une oia mooei snop on tne northwest corner cf the island has in the Midwest.

Until another such prison is built, Madigan and Mullen agreed, there'll be Alcatraz, with a maximum of security and a minimum of orivileses. i been turned into a store room. It was too easy to try to escape from there. Even after the changes, Madi-gan said, "discipline is strict, but not too rigid and not cruel." There are no trusties. Men are never out of sight of a guard.

No one is allowed out of his cell at night. No one is paroled from Alcatraz. But they do leave, normally after five years, by transfer to other prisons. This is contrary to the belief that the only way out of Alcatraz is in a coffin. FOK TROUBLE MAKERS Alcatraz is a prison for troublemakers, all with long criminal and prison records, who couldn't get along in other federal penitentiaries.

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