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MONTANAWYOMING The Billings Gazette 2C Wednesday, June 26, 1996 Continued stories Cheyenne limits bar hours The City Council OKs 10 p.m. closing time on Sundays some rights to control liquor operations, but said the disparities in the operating hours between bars in Cheyenne and those in the county violate constitutional requirements for equal protection under the law. Cheyenne Mayor Leo Pando said he would watch closely what happens in Laramie County and recommend a change in the ordinance if liquor dealers begin opening earlier and closing later than dealers in Cheyenne. But Councilwoman Maggie Carter, the lone council member to vote against the ordinance, said she doubted any changes would be made during an election year. "When this is adopted tonight, that's the way it's going to be until January," she said.

Gillette already has decided to continue its current Sunday bar hours of noon to 10 p.m., while Laramie, Crook, Natrona and Sweetwater counties all have adopted the extended bar hours. CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) Bars in Cheyenne will not be allowed to remain open on Sunday as long as state law allows, City Council members have decided. Council members on Monday agreed to limit the operating hours of Cheyenne bars to from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.

on Sunday rather than from 6 a.m. to 2 a.m. as allowed by state law. The city is the latest to impose more stringent rules on bars than the state does. The state has adopted a law allowing bars to remain open from 6 a.m.

to 2 a.m. and Laramie County commissioners have approved a measure bringing the hours of bars in the county into line with the state law. But during Cheyenne's council meeting on Monday, council members voted 6-1 to adopt the ordinance limiting bar hours on Sundays. The council approved the ordinance despite arguments by businesswoman Carol Watson, a former state representative who holds a liquor license, that because her business is in Cheyenne, it will lose business to bars in the county that can stay open longer on Sundays. "I'm going to suffer damages as a city (liquor) retailer," she said.

"It may be speculative damages, but I'm going to lose money." The new state law become the focus of some controversy because of differences of opinion on whether it must be adhered to. The Wyoming Association of Municipalities is telling its members that they have "home rule" rights and the ability to set more restrictive hours than the state. But Linda Burgess, administrator of the state Liquor Division, said she believes that the only option for local governments is to decide whether bars will open at all on Sunday. Watson agreed Cheyenne has Author From Page 1C an interview before her reading. "The voyage has not only a literal meaning, but a metaphoric one.

There I was, in a separate universe. I could never have done the book if I'd not taken the crossing." Her book details those feelings. In one impressionistic passage, she contemplates the word "I thought about this word all the way back to my cabin. Crossing, as in traversing the sea, or for that matter, the river Styx. Or the act of opposing or thwarting.

Interbreeding, or hybridizing. Or a point of intersection such as the spot on the deck where my life and Carlos Cabrera's had just come together once again." Freeman, on the road with her photographer husband, Anthony Hernandez, also spent several weeks logging her impressions in Guatemala, and in Las Vegas, both of which also play a part in her latest effort. Freeman talks easily about the necessity for a writer to establish a sense of place, as she did in her journey from New York to Southampton. "I needed the feeling of the weather, the feeling of rocking to the motion of the sea," she said. "Once I'd taken the crossing, I had the dilemma of whether to make it more glamorous or more nostalgic, or just let it be what it was, an interesting combination of people, a pleasant place to be for a few days." Taking it alone, though, as she chose to do, was "strange," she said, "for hardly anyone was alone." Often, Freeman isn't either.

She and Hernandez, celebrating their 10th anniversary, are enjoying what they've dubbed their "Blue Highways Tour," an eight-town whistle-stop kind of book tour following an 11-city tour of Minneapolis, Boston, Philadelphia and the like. She logs impressions and bits of overheard conversation in a notebook, a habit perhaps born of her days as a stringer journalist in Ogden and Boise. "You never know what might work itself into a future work," she said. "You always start a novel with an idea, and my approach is to want to weave in my ideas about politics, culture, society. But those ideas start to fall away as the characters emerge.

It is important to be diligent and carefully record what you think might be useful. When you're young, you think those bits are always going to be there, but you need to be aware of them." One of her most memorable interviews, she recalled, was with Ernest Hemingway's last wife, Mary, in the Idaho home in which the writer committed suicide. "I was supposed to be getting a recipe from her for a feature I was working on, but she really wanted to talk about her own writing. I think she had lived so long in his shadow that she was eager to talk about her own work and aspirations." Admittedly not a big Hemingway buff, Freeman lists her own personal favorites and greatest literary influences as Virginia Woolf, Willa Cather and Thomas Hardy. "They made me realize how rich literature can be," she said, "how anyone's experience can be translated, with craft, into a good story." WYOMING IN BRIEF Depot From Page 1C ings, which are separate from the land, to the city.

The renovation and reroofing projects were awarded jointly to Architects and CTA Architects Engineers, both major contributors in planning the renovation. Billings Depot a nonprofit organization, will oversee management and operation of the refurbished depot. Several potential tenants have shown an interest in refurbishing and occupying the interior of the depot and beanery buildings, but no names have been released. Carraro said the names of sweepstakes winners will be released in the upcoming weeks. in the fall.

Postponement of the train's arrival simply means construction deadlines won't be so tight. Alley said. The renovation includes a re-roofing project, with $195,795 in funding through the federal government's 1991 Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act. Another $26,000 in matching money was provided by Montana Rail Link, the company that granted the city a 30-year lease for the underlying land, owned by BN, for $1 a year. MRL granted the build Planning begins on Chief Joseph project Kathy Karpan, who announced earlier this year that she would run for the seat held by Republican Sen.

Alan Simpson, formally announced her candidacy on Monday. "I am in this race to fight for Wyoming's working families," she saidin a release. "I encourage all who are interested in our common, future to come meet me and talk with me about their concerns." Karpan, a former secretary of state who ran an unsuccessful gubernatorial campaign in 1994, emphasized her Wyoming roots: she is a Karpan's campaign swing includes scheduled appearances in Moorcroft, Gillette, Buffalo, Sheridan, Worland, Thermopolis, Lander, Fort Washakie, Green River, Rock Springs, Rawlins and Laramie. Enzi denounces Brady law GILLETTE Now that the U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case challenging the Brady Law, it should overturn it, according to a Republican candidate for Wyoming's open U.S.

Senate seat. Mike Enzi, a state senator from Gillette, said the law requiring background checks of potential handgun purchasers is a restriction of "one of the most basic freedoms granted citizens under the Constitution." "Wyoming needs to choose a conservative senator who won't pass laws like the Brady Bill in the first place and who will vote for Supreme Court justices that want to protect Second Amendment rights," he said in a release. The Supreme Court agreed last week to hear a lawsuit filed by a sheriff in Montana and a sheriff in Arizona. The lawsuit says Congress unfairly burdened local law enforcement agencies around the country by requiring them to conduct the background checks. Grieve endorses Enzi GILLETTE A second legislative leader has endorsed the U.S.

Senate campaign of Republican state Sen. Mike Enzi of Gillette. Enzi said in a news release he has received the endorsement of state Senate Majority Leader Bob Grieve, R-Savery. "I'm proud that the Republicans have so many qualified candidates in the race, but to me, Mike stands out," Grieve said in the release. "Mike Enzi is the candidate who speaks best the conservative ideals of the Republican Party and he's the only one with the experience it takes to transform those ideals into legislation or the repeal of legislation that will serve Wyoming's citizens." Enzi is one of nine Republican candidates running for their party's nomination to fill the seat being vacated with the retirement of Sen.

Alan Simpson. Refinery strike enters 7th week CHEYENNE Replacement workers have arrived at the Frontier Refinery, where a strike enters its seventh week with no new talks scheduled. About 80 picketing workers were surrounding the refinery Monday when eleven replacement workers arrived. Leo Bondurant of Frontier said the workers have been told they are temporary and will give management a much-needed break. Virgil Payne of the union disagreed.

He said the replacement workers will actually give the tired management employees more work because they will have to train new people, too. Payne said the action may compromise safety. But Bondurant said many of the new workers have some refinery experience and he added that they won't be started off at top-level jobs. Taylor named chief justice CHEYENNE Justice William Taylor will become the next chief justice of the Wyoming Supreme Court. Taylor will replace Chief Justice Michael Golden, whose term expires June 30.

Court operating rules require a new chief justice be elected every two years by a vote of the justices, Golden said in a release Monday. Taylor was appointed to the high court Jan. 22, 1993, by then-Gov. Mike Sullivan. Taylor had been a judge in the state's 8th Judicial District since 1980.

Convict Horton still at large CHEYENNE A state Corrections Department official said that under new rules for classifying prisoners, a convicted murderer would never have been sent to the state Honor Farm in Riverton. Raymond Horton convicted of first-degree murder in 1987, remained free Tuesday after escaping from the Honor Farm more than one week ago. Horton had been sentenced to life in prison. But after only 4Vi years at the State Prison in Rawlins, he had been transferred to the minimum-security Honor Farm. Corrections Department Deputy Director Bob Ortega said new rules adopted since Horton was transferred would have prevented him from being sent to the Honor Farm.

But he said when the new rules were adopted, Horton was already at the Honor Farm, so he wasn't affected by the changes. Karpan to tour state CHEYENNE A Democratic candidate for Wyoming's open U.S. Senate seat launched a nine-day statewide campaign swing Tuesday. Vet may get high honor CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) A Cheyenne native who led an all-black platoon on a charge against a German outpost in Italy in 1945 may receive the nation's highest military honor for his actions.

If Congress approves a defense authorization bill that would lift a 1952 deadline for awarding World War II medals, Vernon J. Baker, 76, would become the first black World War II veteran to be awarded the Medal of Honor. Baker, one of the Army's first black officers, was a second lieutenant in the 370th Regiment. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for leading his platoon against the Castle Aghinolfi on April 5, 1945. The Pentagon has recommended Baker and six other black soldiers for Medals of Honor if the congressional waiver passes.

Baker is the only one of the seven still alive. "I feel real good about being considered for the medal, except that the other six nominees are not here," he said. Baker said with the benefit of 50 years of hindsight, he does not believe he acted heroically. "What happened on that day was a lot of killing," he said. "That will happen in any war.

I just wanted to do my job and keep my men alive." Baker retired from the Army in 1968. YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. (AP) Initial panning has started for a major reconstruction of the northeast entrance road inside Yellowstone National Park. The project has been accelerated because of road deterioration and increased traffic on the newly improved Chief Joseph Scenic Highway from Cody to the northeast corner of the park, said park Superintendent Mike Finley. The 29-mile road segment generally follows the Lamar River or Soda Butte Creek and runs through critical habitat for grizzly bears, gray wolves and other animals.

Finley said the major road work may not happen for 10 to 15 years, but they want to start examining various aspects. Comments are accepted on the scope of the project until July 19. BEG YOUR PARDON This section is reserved to correct errors in Gazette news columns. If you spot an error in a news item, please call the region editor at 657-1311. Business title Donna McKamy's title was reported incorrectly in a Business section item in Sunday's edition.

Her title is team manager-director in qualification for Mary Kay Cosmetics. MPC PAC HELENA (AP) The Associated Press incorrectly reported Monday that the Montana Power Co. was the top contributor to legislative candidates during the primary election campaign. The top contributor was a political action committee of Montana Power employees. Election numbers HELENA (AP) The Associated Press incorrectly reported Monday that Supreme Court Justice Charles "Chip" Erdmann received fewer votes than challenger Jim Regnier in the nonbinding June 4 primary election.

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