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star Wyoming -Bl Tuesday, Oct. 22, 1985 Star-Tribune, Casper, Wyo If 1 1 h.kAl 'ik i -Jl, Herschler health delays meeting Creditors must wait as he recovers from angina TUT --Jfi! on ST" Jr i -I 1 1 7 ir By JOAN BARRON Star-Tribune staff writer CHEYENNE A planned Monday meeting of Gov. Ed Herschler's creditors was postponed until Nov. 15 because of the governor's health. Bankruptcy court estate administrator Allen Harper agreed to the delay recommended by Herschler's cardiologist, Dr.

Robert J. Davis. The governor's attorney, Alvin Wiederspahn, read an affidavit from Davis which said Herschler's medication for a "significant episode of anginal pain" suffered Oct. 1 is being adjusted and has not yet been stabilized. In addition, Davis's affidavit said that Herschler is suffering from a cold and bronchitis.

The governor was in his office Monday afternoon. The three-term Democratic chief executive filed a Chapter 11 petition for reorganization in federal bankruptcy court Sept. 13. The petition seeks to protect the governor from his creditors. Herschler's amended petition listed $6 million in debts and about $7.55 million in assets.

The list of assets, however, includes a $7.5 million claim against Herschler's former partner in the Yellowstone Ranch in Fremont County, Howard (Cash) Carroll. Herschler bought the ranch in 1977 for $1.2 million along with Carroll, Don Anselmi of Rock Springs and Richard Shanor of Sheridan. The property has been sold at foreclosure. Joe Bernfeld Area residents help salvage good at the bumed-out Jackson Hole Hardware No 'firm' suspects in arsons Damage heavy in three Jackson fires W.JI ft 5:38 a.m. at the Virginian Motel at the west end of Jackson.

Then at 6:50 a.m. a third fire was reported at Gray's Pawn Shop, about a half mile from the Virginian. Ken Sutton, administrative chief of the Jackson-Teton County Fire Department, said men and equipment were dispatched from the Jackson, Wilson, Moose, Moran and Hoback Fire Departments to fight the blazes. "We would have been in pretty rough shape" if gasoline spread by an arsonist at the Americana Snow King Resort and the Pioneer Cafe had ignited, Sutton said. Police Chief Hays said all the fires were set in the same manner, with gasoline poured on the side of the buildings and using the type of Western Wyoming College, new-indoor recreation facilities in both Rock Springs and Green River and several large road construction projects.

In Rock Springs, apartment oc- SHUTE CREEK PLANT Exxon part of 'mini-boom -4 IfJLu-O, By BETSY BERNFELD Star-Tribune correspondent JACKSON Police have "no hard, firm suspects" in their investigation, of three arson fires, which caused extensive damages to three Jackson businesses early Saturday morning, Police Chief Dick Hays said Monday. Although estimates of the damage by the local news media are running as high as $2 million, accurate figures are not yet available from the business owners or the fire department. Firemen responded to the first fire at 4:04 a.m. Saturday at Jackson Hole Hardware on the town square. When that fire was nearly out, they received a second call at Anti-MX group wants Futures Project study of Midgetman missile Miniboom pumps Sweetwater FCC wants to settle PSC tariff tiff CHEYENNE District Judge Clarence Brimmer was asked Monday by the Federal Communications Commission to allow it to settle a tariff dispute between Communications Inc.

and Wyoming's Public Service Commission. The FCC, in a brief filed by U.S. Attorney Richard Stacy, suggested that since it has primary jurisdiction in the matter it should settle the dispute. Brimmer has scheduled an 8:30 a.m. hearing today on the tariff dispute, which centers on a 1 percent charge the state imposes on billing for interstate telephone service.

Worland sewer plant insufficient, city says WORLAND The Worland Board of Public Utilities thinks the community's sewage treatment plant is inadequate. Plans to improve it will be discussed at a special meeting at 7 p.m. tonight in the city council chambers. "The plant is too small for the amount and strength of sewage coming through," BPU Chairman Rudy Kohuth said. Kohuth indicated that a study completed four or five years ago showed the present plant would be sufficient for some time.

He said he does not know whether that study erred or if the strength of the local sewage has increased. "We're not laying the blame on anyone," he said. Man plows truck into Rock Springs duplex ROCK SPRINGS Two Rock Springs residents headed for a weekend fishing trip ended up inside a living room instead. Neither the driver nor a 12-year-old passenger were injured when a pickup truck crashed into an unoccupied home on a main street in Rock Springs on Saturday, police said. Ernest Glen Shaw, 64, told of-, ficers he was looking under the dashboard for some cigarettes when the truck began moving off the roadway and toward a house.

In his effort to stop, Shaw "stepped on the gas and drove through the front of the house," Lt. Spencer Ellis said. Hearings set on Battle Mountain road paving ENCAMPMENT Public hearings will be held here and in Baggs on a proposal to pave Wyoming Highway 70 across Battle Mountain. The hearings will be held Nov. 20 at the high school music room in Baggs and Nov.

21 at the lOOF Hall in Encampment. Both start at 7 p.m., according to Al Atkins of the Federal Highway Administration office in Cheyenne. Plans call for paving 26 miles of the highway from Encampment to the U.S. Forest boundary on the west side of the Continental Di vide. Homicide suspected in UW student's death LARAMIE (AP) The body of a woman found in a burning apartment has been tentatively identified as that of a University of Wyoming student who appears to have been killed Sunday morning, according to police.

A police spokesman said Monday an autopsy revealed that 22-year-old Shelli Wiley, whose body was found in her apartment shortly after 5:30 a.m. Sunday, had been struck in the head with a blunt instrument and stabbed at least three times. The spokesman said pathologists were unable to determine which of the wounds caused Wiley's death. Wiley's body was found after firefighters responded to a report of a fire at her Laramie apartment. Police said the apartment was engulfed in flames and the body was found in the living room while firefighters battled the blaze.

CHEYENNE An anti-MX missile group called for the Wyoming Futures Project to consider the probability that the Midgetman missile will be placed in Wyoming after the MX. Wyoming Against the MX fears the mobile basing system suggested for the Midgetman would require massive amounts of land and water, said spokeswoman Mae Kirkbride. The project also would require an "overwhelming" security force that would diminish agricultural and recreational resources, she added. Speaking in Cheyenne in September, Brig. Gen Charles A.

May newly appointed deputy for strategic forces, said the Air Force has pinpointed Wyoming as ED HERSCHLER Meeting sidelined by health Herschler is the last of the partners to file for bankruptcy. The governor also has pending a $1 million lawsuit against Carroll. The lawsuit accuses Carroll of mismanaging the ranch. Attending the creditor's meeting were representatives of First Interstate Bank of Laramie, the Wyoming Production Credit Association and the Cheyenne law firm of Hirst and Applegate. The governor's petition listed more than $1.5 million owed the Wyoming Production Credit Association; $225,000 plus interest to First Interstate Bank of Laramie, and $36,363 to Hirst and Applegate.

one of nine states targeted for deployment of the small intercontinental ballistic missile system being developed as an alternative defense mode to the MX. Kirkbride reported that May also said Congress requested a study on an alternative basing mode for the 50 MX missiles that President Reagan requested that will not be placed in the existing Minuteman silos. She said a report on the Midgetman projections, prepared by a special Wyoming Against the MX committee, will be forwarded to Pete Williams, director of the Wyoming Futures Project. The report, she said, concludes that Wyoming's future should not be that of a ''nuclear Disneyland." fide Wyoming residents than the five-year residencey requirement. Although the requirement may save the state money by limiting the number of persons who can be treated and cared for at the home, that is not a sufficient state interest to support a requirement which "severely penalizes exercise of the right to freely migrate and settle in another state," the opinion said.

as pawns LARRY ROOP Criticizes Park Service and establish a consistent policy on developments in grizzly bear habitat. i 'i ignition device. Sutton said no injuries were reported to him. State Fire Marshal Billy Weckwerth said "the possibility was certainly existent that much life could have been lost." Weckworth, along with a nine-member Major Incident Response Team from Cheyenne, was in Jackson this weekend investigating the fires. Hays said the help from the state officials and a few federal law enforcement officers has put his investigation "well ahead" of normal operations.

Hays said the Town of Jackson had been "violated," but he cautioned locals not to overreact by carrying guns. cupancy has shot up from a 55 percent rate in 1983 to nearly full, or 98 percent this year, City Planner Steve Horton said. The housing and apartment outlook in the city for 1986 will be "uncertain" until a decision is made by Exxon whether to proceed with its second phase of the LaBarge Project, Horton said. Sales and use tax receipts, which had been sliding since 1982, are now rebounding, county planners say. In the third quarter of 1985, which includes July, August and September, revenues were up by 13 percent compared to the same quarter in 1984.

In August, sales and use taxes generated more than $951,000, compared to about $700,000 in August 1984 planning statistics show. Motor vehicle registrations already have exceeded the total number for all of 1984, according to the list of economic indicators. But inflation is also on the rise. The 1985 second quarter inflation rate of 2.66 percent is up from the first quarter rate of 2.28 percent, the new economic report indicates. job of selling me that all development around the lake should be phased out over the long term," Roop said.

Roop said he feels "some bitterness" that his recommendation against Grant Village was ignored, but grizzlies are now being used as the "paramount" argument for moving the Fishing Bridge campgrounds. The NPS is "picking and choosing" when to be concerned about the bears, Roop said. Moving the campgrounds to Grant Village, as the NPS has suggested might be done, would simply compound the old error, he said. "My problem with the park goes back to the beginning of Grant Village," Roop said. "Grant Village should not have been built.

Fishing Bridge is good habitat, but so is Grant Village." Old Vets' Home residency ride thrown out by attorney general By PAUL KRZA Star-Tribune staff writer ROCK SPRINGS New indicators show that a "mini-boom" created by large-scale industrial construction and numerous public projects is pumping up the Sweetwater County economy. Apartment vacancies in Rock Springs have nearly disaappeared, sales lax collections and bank deposits are up, and the inflation rate, on the decline in the last two years, is beginning to creep up again, according to statistics gathered by the Sweetwater County planning department. The upswing occurred after a construction "mini-boom" in both the public and private sector. The major projects include Exxon's gas processing plant, the Chevron fertilizer plant and installation of scrubbers at the Jim Bridger Power Plant. Together, the private projects represent an investment of about 1 1 billion, county planners say.

In addition, another $140 million of public construction is underway, including expansion at Biologist By ANDREW MELNYKOVYCH Star-Tribune staff writer CODY The National Park Service is using grizzly bears as pawns in a push to close campgrounds in the Fishing Bridge area of Yellowstone National Park, but is allowing development in nearby bear habitat, a bear expert said Monday. "They're trying to have it both ways," Wyoming Game and Fish Department bear biologist Larry Roop said. An NPS report on the importance of the Fishing Bridge area to the grizzlies ignores the fact that nearby developments notably recently built Village a few miles south also are in good bear habitat, he said. Park biologists are willing to argue that Fishing Bridge should be closed to help the bears, Roop hits Park Service for using bears CHEYENNE A state law requiring that people live in Wyoming for five years before they can be admitted to the Veterans' Home at Buffalo is unconstitutional, the attorney general ruled Monday. The opinion, requested by Veterans' Home commandant Jack Tarter, said the state can find a less burdensome method of determining whether individuals are bona An "optimum solution" would be to remove all developments in grizzly habitat, he said.

"I agree that removing Fishing Bridge will aid the grizzlies," Roop said. "But that's not the total answer and won't solve the backcountry use problems in the general area." A Cody newspaper story reported that Roop had said moving the campgrounds would not serve the cause of bear management was incorrect, he said. Harm to bear management could come from the "political backlash" over moving the facilities, Roop said. Cody businessmen and the Wyoming congressional delegation have opposed the move, saying it could reduce tourist traffic through Cody. Roop said the NPS should be more honest about its reasons for wanting to move Fishing Bridge said.

But they do not have the same concern when considering development in other parts of the park, he said. Roop said the NPS has other reasons for wanting to move Fishing Bridge, and is using the grizzly to further that cause. The real reason, he said, is that the facilities at Fishing Bridge are old and outdated. The NPS is ignoring its own studies, which years ago recommended moving all developments from around Lake Yellowstone, Roop said. Grant Village was built despite those studies and opposition from bear biologists, he said.

As part of a deal with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the NPS agreed to close the Fishing Bridge campgrounds in return for the USFWS agreeing to the Grant Village project. "My feeling is thev did a good.