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6-BW Saturday. Feb. 5. 1977 The Billings Gazette Mineral bills up next week CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) Republican leaders predicted Friday that bills addressing the distribution of increased federal mineral royalties and proposed boosts in the mineral severance tax should be debated on the House floor early next week.

House Majority Leader Warren Morton, R-Casper, said he expects House members to usher the bills through the chamber by Wednesday, giving the Senate two full weeks to examine the measures. One of the bills deals with the possible distribution of Wyoming's increased share of federal mineral royalties, while the mineral severance tax bill would boost the tax on coal, uranium and trona by 1 Vi per cent. The latter measure cleared the House Revenue Committee Thursday, while the mineral royalties bill was expected to gain a favorable committee recommendation either Friday or Morton said the House so far this session has been on schedule in ite but he said legislators his chamber still have yet to address the substantive issues of the 44th session distribution of federal mineral royalties and pro-posed mineral severance tax increases Senate Majority Leader L.V. Stafford, R-Buf alo said the legislature should tread softly in taxing the mineral industry because he said further taxation might be needec la ter on The GOP leaders also said they regarded the current session as one of the least partisan in recent years spite of claims by House Minority Leader Joe Stewart, D-Casper, that the House was shot with partisanship. Stewart made that statement while angrily denounang Re-publicans two weeks ago for their forcing a roUkall vote son the controversial repealer to Wyoming's nght-to-work law.

The bill that would repealed the right-to-work law failed in House Com- Ks fpS in the Democratic platform but many Democrats don't favor repeal of the measure. The law state. tnTworkers cannot be required to join a union as a cond.t.on TnTother subject, Republicans cautioned against trying to "put a lock" on some of Wyoming's natural gas supplies so they would have to be used within the state. Vorton said the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1926 that a state cannot reserve petroleum products for its own use at the expense of consumers elsewhere.

ooo 7 Bill spells out water policy drainage basin be given first option on water from that bash. CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) A bill aimed at establishing a state water policy to guide Wyoming water use and 1 protect the state's water resources from outside encroachment has received preliminary approval in the Senate. The bill sponsored by Sen. Robert Johnson, D-Hock Springs, would outline a water policy and-set guidelines for the reiterates various tenets of Wyoming water law scattered throughout the statutes.

However, it adds a handful of new sections and gathers the existing law into a comprehensive statement of Wyoming's plan for future water USC The bill provides that residents living within a particular A v-V- 1 1 million worms vanish at Casper CASPER Wyo (AP) The Natrona County sheriff's office is investigating a real can of worms, literally 11 mil- 110,1 It seems someone removed the contents from 160 1 boxes of red worms that were stored in a worm farm at the Natrona County Airport. Each box weighs between 200 and 220 pounds, with about 400 worms per pound. The average price for worms is around $5,000 per million, which means about $55,000 worth somehow crawled away in the night. Authorities say the worms were intact in an inventory about three weeks ago, but were discovered missing in a subsequent inventory last weekend. Sheriff's deputies are investigating all clues in the missing worm mystery, and questioning all available fish.

A profitable American custom for 272 years. Residents of the state living in uw u.a...6- have second chance at water in another basin and downstream users living out of state would be last in the pecking order. "This is a broad, general policy," Johnson said, It a policy to prevent further encroachment of downstream states. "It also recognizes the fact that persons living in the drainage of origin should have first use of water in that drainage bas- Johnson said the bill also would restate water law tacitly approved by the federal government when the state was adm.t- tedtwl wanted to call attention to that constitutional provision that recognizes that we own waters within our borders, Johnson told the Senate. He said the bill is intended to reaffirm water laws and break some new ground including extending the state water sovereignty to underground as well as surface wa eis.

The bill also provides that whenever feasible, water should be returned to the stream of origin after it has been used. Johnson added that it would be preferable for water in one drainage basin to be used by residents of another drainage basin, rather than allowing the water to slip downstream to another state. Proposals offer recall process CHEYENNE Wyo. (AP) A pair of House bills being sponsored by a Cheyenne Democrat ould pr ovide the electorate with the tools to recall elected officials from both state and local office. Rep Bill Guffey, D-Cheyenne, said the measure establishing a statewide recall process probably won't clear the House Judiciary Committee, where it has been assigned but he said he is more optimistic about prospects for the other bill.

The statewide recall process would allow any 100 registered voters in the elected official's district to sign a petition demanding the recall of a particular elected official. The petition then would be certified by the Secretary of State, and a second petition would be circulated. Guffey said if 15 per cent of the registered voters in an officeholder's election district signed the second petition, he could be removed from office during An election held 30-60 days after the petition is submitted. He said the proposed amendment is patterned after Colorado's recall process, and it is the same as the manner which referendums and initiatives are enacted. Elected officials would be subject to the recall process only after they have held office for six months under the bill, Guffey said.

The second recall bill sponsored by Guffey provides a simpler mechanism for removing officials from city, town and county elected offices and from school boards and other political subdivisions. The latter measure isn't drafted in the form of a constitutional amendment, but, instead, would become a part of Wyoming's statutes. Guffey said the second bill would enable disgruntled voters to force a vote on an office holder's qualifications after obtaining only 10 per cent of the signatures or registered voters in the official's election district. He said his measure would require the ensuing election to be held within 30 days of the completion of the petition. Hospital trustees deny nursing lack ROCK SPRINGS, Wyo.

(AP) The board of trustees at Sweetwater County Memorial Hospital has concluded that no deaths at the facility occurred due to lack of nursing care. In November, allegations were leveled by former and present nurses and some private citizens against supervisory personnel at the hospital. The allegations claimed improper practices and substandard instruction of subordinates on the part of some hospital doctors and nursing supervisors. One specific charge was that the lack of nursing care resulted in the death of a newborn infant. The hospital board conducted a lengthy investigation, and its five page report was released this week by county commissioners The report said the charge involving the alleged death of the babv was verbal and without names or specifics.

The board said the alleged incident would be referred by the hospital's medical staff to the State Peer Board of Review. Basin girl wins contest BASIN, Wyo. Amy Gibler, a senior in Basin High School won a $300 cash award given by Kodak during the Junior Miss contest in Thermopohs, submitting three snapshots and a short essav. She also was named Family Leader of Tomorrow" at the high school, and will be eligible for the state and national contests of the event sponsored by General Mills. Man charged in tot's death CHEYENNE, Wyo.

(AP) A 31-year-old Warren Air Force Base sergeant has been charged with first degree murder in the death last week of a two-year-old boy. Laramie County Attorney Tom Carroll said Thursday that Irving E. Seyle has been charged in the apparent beating death of Christopher Phillips. An autopsy report said that the boy died of a cranial hemorrhage. Bond for Seyle was set at $20,000 and a preliminary hearing scheduled for Feb.

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Judith Leeper had bond of $25,000 continued for the Jan. 16 shootng death of 41-year-old John Johannsen, also of Green River. Police say the shooting apparently followed an argument inside a private Green River Club. It's our vear to celebrate the nations bicentennial. It the perfect time to be part of the spirit of America by putting a Classified Ad to work bringing you extra money.

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The CETA employe is needed, Johnson said, to relieve a manpower crunch at the county jail. His employment frees an Office-bound trained deputy to go on patrol. Commissioners decided to look for funds enabling them to raise the pay of the disgruntled dispatcher-jailer. Commission Chairman, Bill Laya, said Thursday that it is likely that money can be found to grant the raise Miss Wyoming contest slated LARAMIE, Wyo (AP) The state coordinator for the 1977 Miss Wyoming Universe Pageant has announced that Laramie will be the site (or the Feb 26 contest Richard Walkup Bid he hopes to have between 10 and 15 contestants You'll soon see why Classified Ads have done so much for so many Americans for the past 272 years. Buffalo studies mobile homes n-jntv would reauire 3.600 square nance would require 3.600 square feet per iionkinc said the nrooosed ordinance Gazette Classified Ads 245-3071 Weekdays trailer In both ordinances trailers hium be 15 feet apart The city clerk explained that when the present ordinance was passed, the average trailer sue was eight feet by 30 feet Now.

be said, trailers average 14 feet by TO feet, although they must still be 15 feet apart in the court Some larger trailers are re(used certain spaces in present courts because of the spacing problem which the new ordinance would eliminate "And these regulations shouldn't cost present mobile home owners anymore." Hopkins said Friday He added that the proposed ordinance is aimed at im prosing the appearance and safety of new trailer courts a sPnnt He esumated that Buffalo presently has about I mobile borne parks, two of which are new in the last two or three scars By CAROLE LOGE Gaiette Wyoming Bureau BUFFALO. Wyo A new mobile home ordinance which would require skirting of trailers, increased minimal lot sizes (or new courts and add 50 cents per trailer to the court owners' annual fee triggered protests at a Buffalo City Council meeting A petition signed by 56 Buffalo residents slammed the proposed ordinance, which nevertheless passed on second reading Tuesday night Petitioners obrted to the increased fee. the ski ring role and the lot si requirements in the proposed ordiance Buffalo City CVrk Hipkms said Frida that the changes were inspired by an earlier petition presented to the ci'y council over a war ago by homeowners That petition a4ed the courvil to tighten mobiie borne court gul Uti is a composite of state requirements, those of the office of Housing and Urban I Vvelopement iHl'Di. and the present Buffalo regulations If the ordinance passes on third reading at the March 1 city council meeting, it would go in effect 10 days after passage and advertising. Hopkins said The ordinance would requires court owners to pay $2 50 per trailer per year, a fee renters (eared would be passed on to them The fee is presently $2 00 per year per trailer Also required would be a skirting under every trailer, including those already set up and new unit as they move in Skirting H'lptuns said, not only looks bet ter but ran be a fire deterrent by preventing drafts which fr-ed flames Hopkins said the em'ting ord.narve requires that trailer courts provide square lt fr trailer, bat the new ordi ONE COLUMN DEADLINES Tuaa.

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