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star Wyoming Bl Tuesday, July 23, 1991 Star-Tribune, Casper, Wyo. Lusk gambling backers plan new ballot initiative election ballot. Robinson said the proposal will be presented to the Legislature in the 1992 budget session. If the Legislature refuses to adopt the bill, it then goes on the November 1992 general election ballot. The gambling proponents failed to collect enough signatures last year to meet the initiative ballot requirements.

"It's the same thing that Colorado and South Dakota had to do," Robinson said. "They went through step for step what we've done." Those states also started with volunteer petition-gatherers then went to the Legislature without success before starting over with paid workers, he said. He said the volunteer petition-gatherers worked hard for a week or two but then are distracted by jobs and other responsibilities. The Legislature last winter refused to pass a local-option gambling bill. He pointed out opponents of triple trailers used paid workers to gather signatures for a ballot proposition banning the long trucks.

Robinson said the coalition members are from throughout the state, and the organization will be incorporated so it can raise funds for the survey and petition-gathering work. Mike McClureSlar-Tribune Separation Creek, are to le part of a five-year grazing experiment at Red Run to show stock, wildlife can co-exist By JOAN BARRON Star-Tribune capital bureau CHEYENNE Proponents of local-option gambling will again try to get the issue on the ballot but with paid help this time, the head of the coalition says. Bill Robinson of Lusk, chairman of the "Wyoming, Let Us Vote" coalition, said, according to preliminary estimates, 30 percent of the gambling revenue would be earmarked for hospital districts and 15 percent for economic development. The remaining 55 percent would be used for payout and administration. Robinson was unable to give specific dollar figures on the amount of money local-option gambling could generate in the state.

Local-option gambling means that individual communities throughout the state can vote on whether they want to allow gambling in their town, city or county. He said the University of Wyoming will begin a telephone survey of voters in the state Aug. 1 to determine the degree of support for local-option gambling. By Sept. 1, Robinson said his group hopes to have paid workers gathering the 28,000 or so signatures of registered voters required to get the question on the general mM -nm I taum.

Cattle, seen here at Project set By DAN NEAL Star-Tribune staff writer CASPER A five-year grazing demonstration project at Red Rim will show that wildlife interests and ranching interests coincide, the rancher involved in the project says. Stan Jolley is leasing grazing rights to the Red Rim, the properties about 12 miles west of Rawlins purchased this spring by the Wyoming Game and Fish Department to obtain its crucial antelope winter range. "All I want to do is prove we can all live together, because if we don't, we're the first ones out," Jolley said in a recent interview. "We're not as evil as everybody thinks we are." Public lands grazing has been attacked in recent years by national environmental groups such as the Wilderness Society which claim livestock has damaged riparian areas and over-used much of the nation's rangelands. The Game and Fish Department, which is managing the property in conjunction with Jolley, the Bureau of Land Management, the damage riparian areas and use the available forage less efficiently.

"It's better to keep them pretty evenly spread out and you're grazing fairly evenly," he said. "When they look at Red Rim, it will be in the best shape they ever saw it in this spring," Jolley predicted. "Course part of that's due to weather. It's been an ideal spring, but we had cattle scattered on every part of it. There was never one time they (were) bunched." Jolley plans to stay on the Red Rim allotments for five years.

He believes that the success of the grazing demonstration project is "awful important, terrible important" to the Western cattle industry. "That range was there when I was born," he said, noting that his family came to the area in the 1840s. "We've been here ever since. We're not destroying this country. "Anything that's negative, they blame on the cow.

All I'm trying to prove is that it's not all our fault." Jolley's family has ranched in the Little Snake River valley in southern Wyoming and northwestern Colorado. Reese's figures, down about 62 percent from the 11,515 AUMs authorized in 1979. Research by Reese's office indicate that grazing has exceeded carrying capacity since at least 1966. Grazing exceeded capacity by as much as 2.5 times, the research revealed. This is Jolley's first year on the property, so the changes do not affect his operations.

"I've had no problem at all," Jolley said of his arrangements with Game and Fish and the wildlife federations. "As long as we're within reason," he said. "Everything's got to be within reason." Game and Fish officials say they want to improve the condition of Separation Creek, a stream that flows around Red Rim through the Daley allotment. Jolley said his operation can show that cattle can use the area and not hamper those efforts. "When we get out there, we live with our cattle we don't let our cattle bunch.

We keep them scattered," he said. Reese noted that when cattle bunch, they are more likely to mmhh lmml ill km ml Fatal Weston air crash investigated NEWCASTLE Federal authorities and airplane manufacturers are investigating an airplane crash last Friday in Weston County that killed a Florida couple, officials say. Decision on more timber cuts near Cathedral Cliffs area anticipated in August James and Barbara Markham their plane crashed about two and a Airport, according to Weston County of Kurt Anderson, Air Safety Investigator tor the National Trans portation Safety Board, said the fly-in at the Shaw Ranch south The plane had just been refueled such as stoves, lanterns, and propane bottles, which caused an ex tremely intense fire" when the plane crashed, Anderson said. The crash victims were burned beyond Anderson said investigators from the FAA, Cessna Corporation, and Continental Engines joined him at the site Saturday. The NTSB will issue a preliminary report containing just the "facts" in about a week, but it will take about six months for investigators to determine National Wildlife Federation and the Wyoming Wildlife Federation, wants to show that wildlife, especially antelope, can co-exist on Wyoming's rangelands with livestock.

Grazing on the two allotments in the Red Rim properties the Daley allotment and the Grizzly allotment has been cut substantially from past levels, Game and Fish officials say. Authorized grazing of BLM lands on the Daley has been cut from 1,796 animal unit months in 1979 to 959 this year, a drop of about 47 percent, according to Art Reese, chief of the department's habitat and technical services division. Reese said Bill Gcrhart, supervisor of range and habitat services used Bureau of Land Management allotment briefs to determine historic grazing levels on the area. But Reese noted that actual use of the Daley BLM lands this year amounts to only about 724 AUMs, down about 60 percent from 1979 authorized levels. Actual use of BLM lands in the Grizzly allotment is about 4,413 AUMs this year, according to to a tract already cut selectively.

Although forest officials said earlier that they would decide after some "sanitation" cutting had been done whether additional selective cutting in the standing green section would be necessary, Simon said this zone was part of the Cathedral Cliffs sale. Simon said that determination could not be made until entomologists examine the tract early next month. He said that despite several earlier efforts, including baiting the beetles to cut timber "trap trees" with pheromone attractants, it appears the insects have moved into the buffer zone. "We didn't get all the bugs, but we put a significant dent in the beetles in that area," Simon said. Earlier, the Greater Yellowstone Coalition and others accused Shoshone officials of using the beetle infestation as an excuse to cut additional standing green timber.

Officials countered that the beetle infestation was severe on the Shoshone and required control measures. trust the justice system in Sacramento, so he hauled the body to Wyoming. Laub, who Hamilton says had a history of heart problems, died on July 9 while Hamilton was visiting her in Sacramento. Instead of calling local authorities, he put her body in the trunk of his car and drove to Gillette. "I didn't trust anybody in Sacramento to give a good, honest opinion of the shape mom was in," Hamilton said in Gillette Sunday.

"You see, Sacramento isn't giving me a fair shake at all. I loved my mother. All I wanted to do was make sure they saw there weren't any gunshots or anything." But when he arrived in Gillette July 14, he was unable to find Campbell County Coroner Robert Noecker. Hamilton said he made two calls to No cker's answering service, but dil not get a call back, so he Thomas to hold health care summits around Wyoming By the Associated Press Congressman Craig Thomas plans to hold three summits featuring state and national health care experts to discuss solutions to Wyoming's severe health care problems. The series of meetings is scheduled for Aug.

8 in Basin on long-term care, Aug. 19 in Cheyenne on access to health care and Sept. 5 in Casper on health care costs. All meetings are open to the public, according to a release. "The point of all of this is to start now to improve Wyoming's health care delivery system so that people, whether they are in Meeteetse, Casper or wherever, have full access to quality health care," the Republican said.

"Holding these meeting in Wyoming to get people together and explore viable and solid ideas to help Wyoming people have better health care has been a very personal goal of mine for quite some time," he said. There are doctor shortages in several Wyoming communities and several rural hospitals face financial shortfalls. The meetings will be held in conjunction with members of the Legislature's Select Committee on Health Care. Those state officials are also seeking solutions on the state level to health care problems. "I'm encouraged that the legislative committee was so eager to participate," Thomas said.

"Approaching the problem of rural health care from both the state and federal level will ultimately be to the benefit of all patients." Speakers highlighting the Basin summit on long-term care include Easter Wolf, a gerontologist for the National Center for Rural Elderly; Jane Sabes, director of the Wyoming Department of Health; and Morris Gardner, director of the Wyoming Aging Division. By CAROLE LEGG Star-Tribune correspondent CODY The Shoshone National Forest supervisor is expected to decide in August whether a 1 13-acre parcel of the controversial Cathedral Cliffs timber sale in Crandall should be harvested selectively to control Douglas fir bark beetles, a spokesman said this week. Forest officials won a court battle with several environmental groups over the timber sale in a suit filed prompted by the groups' environmental and procedural concerns. The sale included land burned by the 1988 Clover-Mist fire and parcels adjacent to burned areas. Brand Lumber of Livingston, was awarded the sale and has been harvesting the area.

Shoshone's North Zone Forester Jerry Simon said Monday that entomologists are expected to monitor the timber sale area soon to determine if an "epidemic" outbreak of post-fire Douglas fir beetles has spread into a buffer zone of 1 13 acres adjacent a probable cause, he said. Park worker critical after falls in hot pools YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK An 18-year-old Yellowstone National Park employee is in critical condition at a Salt Lake City hospital recovering from burns he received after falling into a thermal pool near Old Faithful. According to a release, Joseph Widelock, a concessions employee from Forehand, was "walking and running with a female friend" near the Myriad Group of thermal pools in the Upper Geyser Basin. Widelock reportedly fell into one hot spring, scrambled out, and fell into another hot spring. Widelock received first-, second- and third-degree burns to about 67 percent of his body, the release said.

"Alcohol may have been a factor in the incident," park officials said in the release. Sullivan will chair governors' group RAPID CITY, S. D. Wyoming Gov. Mike Sullivan Monday was elected chairman of the Western Governors Association for the coming year.

Sullivan will assume the leadership post at the conclusion of the WGA's summer meeting in Rapid City. He will chair the organization through the 1991 summer meeting in Jackson Hole, according to a release from the WGA. Sullivan, who previously was WGA's vice chairman and lead governor on rural development, tourism and Indian water issues, will outline his program for the coming year today. Sullivan said he hopes to use a series of pilot and demonstration Belgrade, Florida, died when half miles northeast of Mondell sheriffs deputy Randy Stensaas. Markhams apparently had left a or Newcastle.

and was loaded with camping gear recognition, he said. chair the I8-state, 3-territory unauthorized war souvenirs into the Guard said Monday in a re of the Wyoming National Guard, Sibling dispute holds up cremation of mother's remains projects to show how western states can govern more effectively than the federal government, the statement said. The last Wyoming governor to WGA was the late Ed Herschler in the early 1980s. Sullivan succeeds South Dakota Gov. George Mickelson as chairman.

Gulf arms import by Guard investigated CHEYENNE Federal authorities are investigating an apparent attempt by some members of the Wyoming Army National Guard's GILLETTE (AP) A sibling dispute is holding up the fate of their dead mother's body, which was hauled from California to Wyoming in the trunk of her son's car. The body of Mary Laub of Sacramento, still remains at a Cheyenne mortuary where it was delivered a week ago by her son Hugh Hamilton, 45, of Gillette. Hamilton's sister, Patricia Scal-abrini, of Sacramento, said she wants an investigation into the death of her mother. But Laramie County Coroner Bill Ryan said neither Wyoming nor California authorities plan to press any charges because Laub apparently died of natural causes. "It's tragic for us," Scalabrini said last week.

"You just don't put your dead mother in the back of a car and drive across three states." But Hamilton said he doesn't traveled to Cheyenne with the body. On July 15, he delivered the body to Ryan, who determined the woman died of natural causes. "If anything, all he really committed was a misdemeanor for transporting a body across state lines without a permit," Ryan said. "Neither state is going to file anything." Sacramento police who visited Laub's home found no evidence of foul play and Ryan didn't think the incident was worth pursuing. However, Scalabrini still wants an investigation.

"This is very bizarre to take your dead mother and put her in the trunk," she said. "My mother has lived in Sacramento for the last 40 years. She's never been to Wyoming and she never wanted to go to Wyoming. There was no reason for him to take my mother backth-Ire." Hamilton says, however, that he and his sister don't get along, and he's not surprised at her reaction. "If my mom had died in a major car crash way out here and I wasn't anywhere around, my sister would say I did it," he said.

"My sister is trying to make me out to be like Claus von Bulow." Hamilton said his mother has an estate worth about $250,000. He claims his sister is the only one making any kind of accusations in the case and won't go along with his mother's wishes to be cremated. Scalabrini claims Hamilton is hiding something. "I'm no detective, but I'm no fool," she said. "I'm not going to let them cremate the body until the investigation is finished." In the meantime, Ryan is still waiting for notification as to what to do with Laijp's remains.

1 022nd Medical Company to bring the U.S. from the Persian Gulf Area, lease. Mai. Gen. Charles J.

Wing, head immediately notified federal agencies, including the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and the U.S. Customs Service when informed by unit members that unauthorized items, primarily foreign weapons, may have been shipped from Southwest Asia in the unit's equipment, the release said. Wing sent an officer and non-commissioned officer to California to work with Customs and other agencies when the equipment arrived in port late in June. Unauthorized items found were confiscated at the port, the Guard statement said..