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star Wyoming Bl Tuesday, Nov. 1 8, 1 986 Star-Tribune, Casper, Wyo, Simpson will take back UW VP post In-fighting alleged at Gillette's Stockmens VP's firing provokes suit NO SMOKING a 1 iTAHTvrv7Y.I fcVJ because they were majority stockholders. Gift claims Hill then told him "that a 'scapegoat' was needed." Hill allegedly further informed Gift that he "might be used as a 'sacrificial The complaint says Gift informed Kenneth Naramore of Hill's threats to dispense with him. Naramore reassured Gift that "under no circumstances" would Gift be terminated and that the board of directors was pleased with Clift's work, the document said. The trust department portfolio grew to more than $135 million under Clift's tenure which stretched from March 1, 1976 until April 14, 1986, the complaint said.

On Aug. 14, 1985, Kenneth Naramore "announced to the officers of Stockmens that they need not feel insecure about their positions and would not be dismissed," the complaint said. Naramore's response was made "in response to the unrest created by the agents and employees" of Swords, it said. Gift claims Hill became "increasingly hostile" during July, August, September and October in 1985. On Nov.

15, 1985 Hill sent Kenneth Naramore a "defamatory communication that contained untruths, false impressions and accusations" regarding Gift and his professional abilities, the Gift suit claims. Hill's letter was then published for the board of directors, state and federal officials. Kenneth and William Naramore then told Gift that if he resigned, "they would understand." Gift refused to resign. In December 1985, Gift was removed from the Senior Trust Committee and the real estate department. Sword employees then requested that Clift's salary be cut by 50 percent.

The Governing Board refused the request. After an "extremely negative" evaluation by Kenneth Naramore, Gift was notified he had been terminated April 8, 1986 effective April 14. By LIZ BRIMMER Northeastern Wyoming bureau GILLETTE A former vice-president of Stockmens Bank and Trust has filed a multi-million dollar discrimination suit against the bank and its officers claiming he was made the "sacrificial lamb" and fired to appease federal regulators who were seeking changes at the bank. David Gift, who was vice president in charge of Stockmens' trust department for 10 years, sued the bank's directors, its Missouri consultant, the former president and chief executive officer, and former vice-president. Gift claimed that his Fourth Amendment and Wyoming constitutional rights were violated when he was fired despite and capable" work history.

Clift's attorney Jay Dee Schaefer said Clift's case is the "most blatant case of discrimination against an employee that I've ever seen." The troubled bank made several dramatic management changes earlier this year. Ron Pasco became president and chief executive officer of Stockmens this summer. Longtime bank owners Kenneth, William and Helen Naramore collectively retired from the bank on Oct. 31. Former CEO Kenneth Naramore still serves as chairman of the board of directors.

The bank also announced loan losses of $3.6 million in its third quarter report. According to Clift's complaint filed in Sixth District Court, in April or May 1985 the Federal Reserve issued a cease and desist order against Stockmens due to questionable loan practices. Federal Reserve examiners also directed Swords Associates, Inc. of Missouri to act as special banking consultants for Stockmens. G.

Carlton Hill was a Swords agent. The complaint claims Hill informed Gift "that the consultants couldn't remove" Kenneth Naramore and William Naramore from their positions at Stockmens Siar-TribunePhilip White Linda Darlo Kolrieliovcn want clean Laramie air Smoking ban proposed to Laramie's council Debate hot on whether, where By PHILIP WHITE Star-Tribune Laramie bureau LARAMIE A hotly-debated proposal to ban smoking in most public meetings and places will be up for a final decision before the Laramie City Council tonight. If passed, Laramie would probably become the first city in Wyoming to make smoking in certain places an offense under municipal law, sponsors say. The ordinance is patterned after a law passed by Fort Collins, two years ago, according to Linda Koldenhoven, president of the Wyoming Group to Alleviate Smoking Pollution (GASP). The law prohibits anyone from smoking or carrying a lighted smoking instrument (including hookas or water pipes) in a public place or meeting, except in designated smoking areas.

The ordinance defines public places as including retail stores, common Hickey, Jensen chosen as Democrat leaders Committees also announced From staff and wire reports LARAMIE Unsuccessful Republican gubernatorial candidate Pete Simpson will return on an acting basis as the University of Wyoming's chief fund-raiser next month, UW President Don Veal said Monday. Simpson will become acting development vice president Dec. 8, Veal said. Simpson served 18 months in the position be-f he SIMPSON resigned in February to run for governor. Simpson won 'the GOP primary but lost to Democrat Mike Sullivan in the general election.

As development vice president, Simpson will administer the UW Foundation, a non-profit corporation separate from the UW trustees, and also direct the alumni relations office and the controversial American Heritage Center. UW Trustees President Gordon Mickelson of Big Piney said Nov. 8 that trustees had unanimously stated they would not waive for anyone the Sept. 15 application deadline for UW president. Mickelson said no one had asked for such a waiver.

The university conducted a search to fill the development job when Simpson left, but the search stalled when finalists failed to gain approval during on-campus interviews with faculty, staff, students and administrators. "Since I will be retiring from the university presidency in June and a search for my replacement is entering its final stages, it would be inappropriate to make a permanent appointment to the development vice presidency at this time," Veal said. "Dr. Simpson has agreed to accept an acting appointment knowing that the new president may elect to initiate a search for a permanent vice president." Veal said Simpson also wanted the job to be on an interim basis so that he and the next president "may have time to fully weigh their options and assess the future." Elliott Hays had agreed to fill the position on a temporary basis but is leaving office at the end of the month, according to the president. In a local newspaper interview published Sunday, Simpson said he would not have interferred in the search process for a new university president.

Schmunk By EMILY QUARTERMAN Star- Tribune staff writer LANDER Kay Schmunk died of a drug overdose, and the quantities of morphine, Demerol and methadone her doctor husband claims he gave her do not correlate with the levels found in her blood, expert witnesses for the prosecution testified here Monday. As Dr. Robert Schmunk's retrial entered its third week in District Court, experts challenged experts as the prosecution continued to call rebuttal witnesses a process begun Friday after the defense rested its case. Schmunk is being tried for a second time on charges he killed his wife with a drug overdose. Mrs.

Schmunk died at the couple's Douglas home July 15, 1983. The Wyoming Supreme Court overturned Schmunk's 1984 first-degree murder conviction this year on the grounds he had not received a fair trial. Last week, a forensic pathologist testified for the defense that she would have classified Mrs. Schmunk's cause and manner of death as Candidates CHEYENNE Democratic governor-elect Mike Sullivan spent $192,917 on his campaign and received campaign contributions amounting to $210,240, according SULLIVAN VINICH Sheridan Council to appoint Lansing SHERIDAN Mayor Max DcBoll of Sheridan said Monday that the Sheridan City Council would appoint John Lansing to fill a vacancy in the Ward 2 seat at its Monday night meeting. DeBolt said the council would consider appointing John Lansing to the seat, which became available following the resignation of Don Beal.

DeBolt said he was 99.9 percent sure of Lansing's appointment, but noted the decision would be made by the council. Jet deal continues in Rock Springs ROCK SPRINGS A decision on a controversial plan to move an old surplus jet to a new city park in Rock Springs is expected at the regular city council meeting tonight. Action on disassembling, transporting and re-assembling a decommissioned, Korean War-vintage F-101 fighter for the city's new Veterans' Park was tabled after a special city council meeting last week. "Eisenhower didn't have as much trouble invading North Africa and Europe as we have had in getting this airplane," State Sen. Dick Schmidt, D-Sweetwater, said.

WAM eyes legislative priorities in Rawlins RAWLINS Legislative priorities for the Wyoming Ad-sociation of Municipalities will be discussed at a meeting here tonight. The session with WAM officials, municipal officials and legislative officials will be held at 6:30 p.m. at the Bel Air Inn, a spokesman said. UW librarian wants more staff, money LARAMIE The University of Wyoming Libraries need more staff with better salaries now, and will need an entirely new library building in the 1990s, Libraries Director Keith Cottam told the Faculty Senate Monday. In a "State of the Library" speech, Cottam said library support must become a stronger focus of UW's fund-raising efforts.

Cottam criticized the American Heritage Center saying the AHC has operated "seemingly exempt from the policies, accountability and fiscal constraints that confront the rest of us." Snow forces pilot to land in Gillette field GILLETTE, Wyo. (AP) An unidentified pilot landed his light plane without incident in a field east of Gillette on Monday, because a snow storm had reduced his visibility, authorities said. A Gillette air traffic controller said the pilot radioed at 2:15 p.m. that he was setting the plane down in a field about three miles east of Gillette and just north of Interstate-90. He said the plane, which carried a total of four people, landed safely.

"We had a pretty good snowstorm here," said air traffic controller Frank Phillips. "I was trying to get him in here, waiting for another plane to land and he said if it gets any worse, I'm going to have to set it down here. So he set it down in a field next to the interstate. The pilot then taxied his plane up to the interstate fence and was given a ride to the airport by a Campbell County sheriff's deputy, according to the sheriff's office. O'Connor speech set at UW Monday LARAMIE A talk by Sandra Day O'Connor, U.S.

Supreme Court justice, Monday, Nov. 24, in the University of Wyoming's College of Arts and Sciences auditorium has been moved to 4 p.m. drug experts rebutted areas in office buildings, workplaces, theaters, banks and education facilities. Bars, small restaurants, tobacco stores and fully-enclosed offices occupied exclusively by smokers are exempt from the smoking prohibitions. A smoker could not be charged with violating the law unless a request or warning to stop is ignored.

"Some (Council) members are concerned about the sections relating to (he rights of private business people to decide whether smoking is allowed on their premises," Hugh McGinley, who sponsored the bill, said. Tonight, the council will consider two members' attempts to amend the law. One proposed amendment would restrict the law to public meetings and another would limit the smoking ban in retail stores to only those stores deemed essential, such as pharmacies and grocery stores. autopsy conducted by Waeckerlin, one of his former students. St.

Louis University professor Alphonse Poklis, a specialist in pharmokinetics, said he was asked by the prosecution to examine the computer graphs presented by the defense witness. His assessment: "They're nonsense." Poklis said he backed the tox-icological findings of Dr. Michael Peat, used in both trials by the prosecution, which suggest that three times the amount of two of the drugs Schmunk administered to his wife had to have been injected or ingested to yield the level found in her blood. He added that he did not think Mrs. Schmunk had developed a tolerance to morphine or Demerol consistent with prolonged use of the drugs.

Schmunk's drug logs show she had gone without either of those drugs between May 28, 1983 and the night of her death. The defense had asserted both that Mrs. Schmunk was a drug addict and that she was tolerant of the drugs. Closing arguments in the case are expected today. Unsuccessful Democratic treasurer candidate Carrol Orrison spent $57,770 on his campaign, part of which came from a $20,000 loan, according to his filing.

Legislative candidates who spent more than $5,000 on their general election campaigns include: successful Fremont County House Democrat write-in Eli D. Bebout, successful Laramie County House Democrat Guy Cameron, unsuccessful Natrona County House Democrat Len Edgerly, successful Laramie County House Democrat Steve Freudenthal, $9,557. "undetermined," rather than as an acute narcotic overdose. She also criticized the autopsy, done by Dr. Ronald Waecklerin.

A toxicologist presented by the defense used computer modeling to determine that the amounts of drugs Schmunk says he administered the night his wife died correlate with the levels in the woman's blood. But Monday, a forensic pathologist and a forensic toxicologist called by the prosecution refuted their counterparts' statements. Forensic pathologist Allen Jones of Tuscon, was asked if, after his own review of Mrs. Schmunk's toxicology and autopsy reports, he had any doubt that her death was a drug overdose. "None whatsoever," he responded.

Under further questioning Jones said drug levels found in the woman's body were "in no way" consistent with a suicide overdose, adding that levels in such cases are higher. The pathologist said an accidental overdose would be more difficult to detect, and defended the By JOAN BARRON Star-Tribune capital bureau CHEYENNE Democratic legislators again selected Win Hickey of Laramie County to be Senate Minority Floor Leader and Rep. H. L. Jensen of Teton County as House Minority Leader.

The Democratic leaders, elected during a Sunday caucus here, will serve for the next two years. Rep. Matilda Hansen of Albany County was elected House Minority Whip and Sen. John Vinich of Fremont County, Senate Minority Whip. Jensen said Rep.

Fred Harrison of Carbon County will fill the new position of House Democratic Caucus Chairman. Elected to the Legislative Management Council, the Legislature's administrative arm, were Scott Ratliff, Fremont County from the House, along with Hickey and Frank Prevedel, Sweetwater County, from the Senate. House standing committee appointments include Judiciary: Hansen, Harrison and Louise Ryckman, Sweetwater County; Joint Appropriations Committee: Sheila Arnold, Albany County, and Ratliff. Revenue: Lynn Birleffi and Shirley Humphrey, both Laramie County, and Jensen; Education: Elizabeth (Liz) Byrd, Laramie County; Lynn Dickey, Sheridan County, and Chris Plant, Sweetwater County; Agriculture: Humphrey, Dickey and Patrick O'Toole, Carbon County; Travel, Recreation and Wildlife: Sam Blackwell, Sweetwater County, Mary Kay Schwope, Guy Cameron and Birleffi, all Laramie County; Corporations: Carl Maldonado and Richard Honaker, both Sweetwater County; Steven Freudenthal, Laramie County, and Eli Bebout, Fremont County; Transportation: Byrd, Plant and Jim Perkins, Sheridan County; Mines and Minerals: Blackwell, Bebout, Freudenthal and O'Toole; Labor, Health and Social Services: Maldonado, Cameron and HICKEY JENSEN Rules: Jensen, Hansen, Schwope and Arnold; Journal: Honaker. Senate Democratic committee appointments were Judiciary: Lisa Kinney, Albany County and Jim Norris, Laramie County; Appropriations: Vinich and Hickey; Revenue: John Fanos, Uinta County, and Prevedel; Education: Bob Reese, Sweetwater County, and Kinney; Agriculture: Reese and Fanos; Travel: John R.

(Dick) Schmidt, Sweetwater County, and Delia Herbst, Sheridan County; Corporations: Al Wiederspahn, Laramie County, and Prevedel; Transportation: Schmidt and Frank Hinkley, Big Horn County; Mines and Minerals: Fanos and Wiederspahn; Labor: Hinkley and Herbst. Rules: Vinich and Wiederspahn; Journal: Herbst. Republicans lawmakers elected their legislative leaders earlier. During the Nov. 4 general election, the Republicans retained their 19-11 majority in the Senate.

Although the Republicans lost two seats, the GOP still dominates the House 44 to 20. Engineer sues Baggs, state for unpaid fees BAGGS A former town engineer has filed a $92,000 lawsuit against the town -of Baggs and the state of Wyoming for what she claims are unpaid engineering fees. The suit was filed last week in Carbon County District Court by Barbara Scott. She claims the town retained her to design a water system and wastewater facility. Scott is asking for $92,484 plus interest and attorneys' fees for the work done between May 17, 1977 and Nov.

4, 1979. report campaign spending to his campaign filing to Secretary of State Thyra Thomson Sullivan listed no campaign loans in his filing, but did list a number of unpaid bills, including a $10,624 bill from Bryan, Bryan, and Black, a Cheyenne public relations firm. Sullivan's filing shows he paid Peter Hart of Washington D.C. a total of $12,000 for two polls. Other expenditures listed include $74,215 to Bryan, Bryan, and Black; $9,254 for advertising to James Monaghan of Denver; and $4,500 to Curt Cowdy Sports..