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The Billings Gazette WYOMINGMONTANA Thursday, July 25, 1996 5D if 3-month strike ends at Frontier Refinery Bootmaking team puts heart in soles walked off the job on May 8 after their three-year contract expired. Many of the refinery workers i i CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) Union and management ended a three-month strike at Frontier Refinery after a near-unanimous vote Tuesday. The workers faced an ultimatum from the company either vote to come back to work by the end of the week or possibly lose their jobs. Of the 96 union workers voting, 93 voted to accept the company's offer.

The strikers also were advised to go back to work by their international representatives, according to KGWN-TV. But at least one union official said the vote is not an accurate gauge of the members' feelings. "I don't think it's a good contract, said Steve Gosbee, vice president of the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers Local 2-574. "I don't know yet if I'll go back." The striking workers had rejected last Thursday a contract offer by about 59 percent. On July 5, about 80 percent of the union workers had voted against the contract.

The Frontier strike was the company's fifth in about 30 years at the plant. The union members 'If: 'ft' TV fy A i 'r 44 I'm still learning some of the tricks that these old bootmakers already know." Tom Farnworth Cody bootmaker anymore, in an age when few cowboys will wait six months for a pair of custom-made boots. Most of Farnworth's Singer sewing machines would be considered antiques, and his "newest" boot machine, the one that sews through the thickest, stoutest soles, is 38 years old. "I've got pretty much everything I need now, but I didn't when I started," he said. Time-consuming work Farnworth's first pair of boots took a year to complete.

He and his wife Laura, who learned the shoe-making trade with her husband, still have the original last, or wooden foot mold, that they used to fashion his first frustrating pair. "I was working in a shoe repair shop and one day this guy said that if I could fix his boots as bad as they were that I may as well make him a whole new pair," Farnworth said. At first, he balked at the idea. But then the customer waved $200 and Farnworth decided to try it. A year after he unlocked trade secrets from tight-lipped cobblers and learned where to find and how to operate antiquated bootmaking machines, Farnworth made a second pair, his own.

Since then, he has worn only his own shoes. His wife and daughter Jessica, 14, wear Farnworth's boots when they ride. This year he plans to make a pair for his 5-year-old son Tyler. Farnworth has already made the boy a pair of chaps. When Farnworth decided to make bootmaking his life's work, both he and Laura had to learn the trade to qualify for a bank loan.

Laura Farnworth took a sabbatical from her career as a geriatric nurse and the two became apprentices to State's air quality plan needs work, official says Californians find success in Cody business By JENNIFER McKEE Of The Gazette Staff CODY, Wyo. Tom Farnworth thought little of peddling his wife's shoes to the highest bidder. The Cody cobbler constructed her high-laced outfitter's boots with his own hands, burnishing the leather on a machine that's so old that broken parts must be remade. But before Laura Farnworth ever wore the boots, a customer in Farnworth's Cody Country Cobbler custom boot shop offered the bootmaker a price too steep to turn down. "So, she walked out with my boots on," Laura Farnworth said.

In the 14 years that Farnworth has been hand-stitching cowboy boots, he's made more pairs that he can remember. But getting started in a business where methods are guarded like family secrets proved to be a long process, one the former student of architecture will never forget. Learning the ropes "I got most of my information from Henry Leopold. He sent me some hand-scribbled notes on a big piece of butcher paper," Farnworth said. (Leopold was a celebrated bootmaker featured in "The Texas Cowboy Boot "But mostly, it was the school of hard knocks.

You come across something that you think is pretty unique only to discover that everybody else has been doing it for years. I'm still learning some of the tricks that these old bootmakers already know." I Finding sewing machines gUtsy enough to sew through half an inch of cowhide, or the dozens of tools necessary to stitch a boot from sole to toe, involved another 10-year search. According to Farnworth, newer machines either don't perform like the old ones or simply aren't manufactured Man who Mentally ill man stabbed parent with ice pick By NICK EHLI Of The Gazette Staff Joe Caddel, who has spent his adult life in and out of mental institutions, was sentenced Wednesday to 35 years in custody for stabbing his father to death with an ice pick. Caddel, 44, will be placed at the state hospital in Warm Springs, where he has been held since shortly after his arrest in March 1995, but could be transferred to the state prison if doctors later determine that his condition has improved and he no longer poses a threat. District Judge Diane Barz, citing the seriousness of the crime and Caddel's permanent mental Gazette photo by Jenniler Mckee pair of boots in his Cody shop.

repair when both parents are busy. The hardest part, Tom Farnworth said, isn't pounding lemon wood pegs (which swell with the leather and prolong the life of the sole) or hand-stitching designs on uppers, a process that can take 12 hours on fancy designs. "It's getting yourself to do something consistently that you have to get done, not just when everything is right," he said. Practicing an art as old as Wyoming, Farnworth doesn't consider himself a Renaissance man, but he does revere the creative process. "For me, it's turning a piece of leather into something that matches someone's personality," he said.

"I guess I was born 50 years too late." U.S. says gas developments may harm environment ROCK SPRINGS, Wyo. (AP) A state plan to improve the air quality in western Wyoming wilderness areas needs to be overhauled, according to a federal official. The state needs to improve its strategy in meeting national goals of preventing degradation of visibility in specially protected areas. But the plan needs major modifications, said Dick Long, head of air programs at the Environmental Protection Agency in Denver.

"The state is having a hard time coming to grips with the issue of the impacts of gas development on vistas and visibility," said Long. "Their strategy fails to even mention these (developments). We it will require some major modifications." The areas in question are portions of western Wyoming where the government fears energy development could harm the environment. In 1988, the state approved a plan that would set out measures to protect air quality in the Brid-ger-Teton and Shoshone national forest wilderness areas, in the Wind River Mountains and in nearby national parks. The state's department of Environmental Quality needs to update the plan, which then must receive the EPA's approval.

An 1994 update will be returned to Wyoming officials in a few weeks with a request "to fix this one up adequately." Long said. A new update will be required next year and that plan temporarily. killed father gets term think are still not happy with the con- tract, which they say limits the benefits of seniority. "I feel like Frontier has turned its back on our membership," Gosbee said. "I do not believe they value their employees the way they should." The striking workers have three days to notify Frontier if they plan to return, Gosbee said.

Then the company has up to one week to schedule the returning workers. Seven employees who were fired for strike misconduct also will be allowed to return. But the company would put those workers on probation when they return. Gosbee said he thought the ultimatum and the financial pressures of a prolonged strike influenced the workers' vote to return to work. "I don't care who you are, if you go three months without a paycheck, it hurts," Gosbee said.

'T think we're just between a rock and a hard place." 44 It's a matter of getting people to take it seriously. A lot of people are in denial." Dick Long head of air programs, EPA should address the continued boom of gas development in southwestern Wyoming, he said. Several environmental groups worried that the 1994 update was neither timely or complete. "We do think there are measures that can be taken to mitigate the impacts," Long said. "It's a matter of getting people to take it seriously.

A lot of people are in denial." But at least one state official defends the state plan and expressed frustration with Long's comments. "We thought it was adequate for what we knew at the time," said Chuck Collins, director of the air quality division in the state Department of Environmental Quality. Collins said his division had conducted public meetings and taken comments from federal officials before making the update. The main part of the Wyoming plan is to protect the visibility in the area by getting a handle on the air quality in the Green River Basin. In order to do that, Collins began three years ago the Green River Basin Visibility Study Steering Committee.

From this industry supported group, a year-long survey is checking for the sources and types of air pollution in the area. ELLULAR I ONNECTION "Your One Scop Callular Shop" Authorized CLl.LULPONE dealer Pillins Miesoula having the sky over Billings tnrougnoui innings, oncen of performing on riday oon Tom Farnworth works on a Dutch shoemakers in Northern California, where both are from. "They were some real characters," Laura Farnworth said. The Farnworths moved to Cody three years ago, where business has been brisk enough that Tom Farnworth now hopes to hire a second hand. Field of dreams "Cody has been real good to us," Farnworth said.

"A friend of mine told me that it was like 'Field of Dreams' open a shop and you'll never want for business." Farnworth is now six to nine months behind on orders. Laura Farnworth comes in on her days off to help with boot repairs. Jessica also pitches in with shoe Caddel, who before his arrest and been committed voluntarily or involuntarily 27 times to the state mental hospital, was accused of repeatedly stabbing his father, Wil-Iburn Caddel, with an ice pick during an argument early morning of March 28, 1995, at an apartment at 810 S. 33rd St. Less than an hour after the stabbing, Caddel walked into the Yellowstone County sheriff's office and confessed to the killing.

The weapon, he told officers, could be found where he left it, in his father's back. Caddel, an avid reader of the Bible, later said he hears voices and that God told him to kill his father. After he was sent to Warm Springs for a psychiatric evaluation, Caddel, again acting on what he believed to be divine direction, gouged out his own eye, apparently punishing himself for the slaying. The case presented prosecu not guilty in taining secret compartments. Pigman was released without bond pending trial before Chief U.S.

District Judge Jack Shans-trom. In another case before U.S. Magistrate Richard Anderson on Wednesday, Jesus Morales-Men-doza, a citizen of Mexico, was bound over for trial on a charge that he illegally re-entered the United States after having been the third, 30-year-old Jon Lanfear, was hospitalized in Missoula in serious condition. The driver of the truck was treated and released at the Hamilton hospital. The deaths were the 104th and 105th of the year in Montana, compared with a count of 106 on Julv 24.

1995. smimn Billings woman pleads illness, said the lengthy sentence to the Department of Health and Human Services was appropriate. Barz sentenced Caddel to 25 years for the charge of mitigated deliberate homicide and added another 10 years for his use of a dangerous weapon. Prosecutors asked for a 50-year term, while Caddel's attorneys recommended 30 CADDELL to hospital years. Since doctors have feared that Caddel's condition would deteriorate away from Warm Springs, the defendant was flown to Billings for his court appearance Wednesday morning and was returned immediately afterward.

$7,800 in drug money. Others in the indictment are charged with conspiring to bring cocaine, methamphetamine and marijuana to Billings from California and Mexico in 1993 and 1994. Several people named in an earlier related indictment have already been sentenced. According to evidence in the previous cases, couriers brought the drugs to Billings in cars con Authorities said the crash occurred Tuesday when the southbound car carrying three men turned off the highway but missed a driveway and was backtracking when it was struck broadside by an oncoming pickup truck. All three occupants of the car were ejected.

The two died and ill TV Plus free Montana toll-free and $25 airtime certificates. Call 656-7466 or 00-294 2096 or stop by 193S Grand Avenue. We do it better, cheaper. Because cellular is all we do. By LORNA THACKERAY Of The Gazette Staff A Billings woman charged in a drug and money-laundering indictment pleaded not guilty Wednesday to two counts in a federal conspiracy case.

Joy Pigman, 43, was charged with conspiracy to launder drug money by sending payments by Western Union to California. She was also charged with laundering tors with a dilemma. Caddel suffers from mental illness, but prosecutors feared that if they didn't pursue criminal charges, Caddel, under state law, could have been released from Warm Springs as soon as he no longer was a risk to himself or others. After doctors determined that Caddel was fit to stand trial when he was properly medicated, however, a plea bargain was struck in May between the Yellowstone County attorney's office and the Public Defenders Office. Caddel, initially charged with deliberate homicide, pleaded guilty to the reduced charge of mitigated deliberate homicide.

Both sides agreed the deal would both protect society and provide Caddel with the treatment he needs. If Caddel is ever transferred from Warm Springs to the state prison, he will be eligible for parole as are other inmates. drug case previously deported. According to testimony by a Border Patrol agent, Morales-Mendoza was arrested in Wolf Point July 17 by Roosevelt County officers who suspected that he was an illegal alien. Investigation showed that he had been deported last January after a conviction in Chicago for possession of cocaine.

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