Casper Star-Tribune from Casper, Wyoming • 15

Coiptr Stor-Tnbunt Sunday, July 13, 1969 IS Thyra Seeks Safeguards Wool Judgers 3rd'ih Nation Boys Find Fossils in Wyoming By TUTTY COLLINS Stock Promoters county agricultural Extension agent They were a young bunch: and, besides, third is not LARAMIE Converse county's 4 wool judging team, best in the nation last year, has placed third in this year's national contest at Sonora Texas. Teams from Sutton and Edwards county, Texas, tied for first with scores of 1,760. followed by Wyoming with 1.714. Two Wyoming 4 H'ers, Cindy Burks and Larry Prager. were the contest's third and fourth highest scoring individuals.

Miss Burks finished with 589 points and Prager had 588. Also judging for Wyoming were Gene Pexton andTimPexton. "We felt the team did a good job this year," commented Coach Orville Nicholls, Converse X'-'- Sundance Awards Bridge Contract Against By JOAN WHEELAN Stale Hmsc Reporter CHEYENNE Secretary of State Thyra Thomson and Deputy Secretary Kim Briggs will attend a meeting of the Midwest Securities Administrators at Land 0-Lakes. Wis, July 14-17. Mrs.

Thomson said the program would feature discussion of the manipulative devices being used to by-pass registration requirements in the sale of public securities. Registration offers protection to the public by requiring full and fair disclosure in a prospectus which must be delivered to prospective purchasers. The Securities and Exchange Commission '(SEC) has expressed concern with the methods being employed by a growing number of companies and persons to effect distribution to the public of unregistered securities, she said. "The practice has become so prevalent that stock promoters Governor, Peck On Mission To Minneapolis CHEYENNE Gov. Stan Hathaway and Roy Peck, dir ector of the Department of Ec onomic running and Develop ment leave Sunday for the Minn eapolis are where they will con tact several major industries tha have shown interest in locating in Wyoming.

One of the firms to be contacted is Control Data of Minneapolis, which recently located a plant in the Casper ara Tnjs js Ml a promotional tour in the sense that we are looking for prospects who might be interested in Wyoming." Hathaway said. "The firms on which we will call have expansion plans and have expressed an Interest in Wyoming." He added that JOAN WHEELAX she covers Capitol Star-Tribune Scribe Finds Work Interesting By NORMA BERND SUNDANCE The Sundance city council awarded a bridge contract to Roberts Construction Co. of Sundance in the amount of $4,360. Four building permits totaling $28,500 were also issued during the session. Mayor G.

W. Popham said the bridge contract calls for the removal of the existing Third SL bridge decking and foot bridge, the raising of the existing grade level by approximately two feet, and the installation of an oval-shaped culvert measuring 10 ft 11 in. by 7 ft 1 in. by 48 feet long. Work on the bridge is to be completed this summer, Popham said.

Building permits were issued to TedGlover, $1,500 for a garage; Bob" addition to existing home; Dennis Hart, $18,000 for a borne; and Fred Wade, $3,000 for a double garage. An application for the transfer of a liquor license was submitted to Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Jones of Buffalo, for the transfer of such worked as a registered nurse for several years in Iowa, but maintained her interest in writing by taking a couple of courses, mostly in the creative field. She and her husband came to Wyoming in 1961, residing in Cheyenne for about 18 months before moving to Rock Springs.

They have two children. Joe, 17, and Rachel, 9, and the household includes two dogs. 8 13 year old Beagle and a 10 week old Bassett puppy. "Go back to nursing?" Mrs. Wheelan was asked.

"Not as long as I find this writing field so fascinating." she replied. are presently boldly seeking shell or inactive corporations for the express purpose of by passing securities laws which protect public investors," Mrs. Thomson commented. Under the law, registration of all new issues sold to the public in Wyoming is required, she added. -Also, a prospectus must be published disclosing facts about offices and business of the companies and certain minimum requirements must be met including, among others, limitation on promotional expenses, sales commissions and cheap stock taken by insiders.

"The wheeler-dealers who are by passing our securities laws generally do so because thev want to establish a quick market with action trading which will drive stock up, making them a quick profit," said the Secretary of State. The best protection for the public investor, she explained, is to get good information, either through reading a prospectus of new issues, or from stock brokers on public traded securities. Mrs. Thomas noted that promoters have not been so successful In finding "shell," or inactive corporations in Wyoming "because the Wyoming Business Corporation Act provides for revocation of corporate charters whenever a corporation fails to pay its annual tax for two years." She said Hugh Owens, SBC Commissioner, has urged Rally Time In Wyoming Late July and early August will be "Rally Time" in Big Wyoming as the Cowboy State plays host to three recreation vehicle rallies: National Holiday Rambler Travel Trailer Club in Cody, the National ElDorado Camper Rally in Dubois and the National Red Dale Camper Rally Holiday Rambler National Director Chris Moffett. Nappanee, reported this week registrations for the Rambler conclave at the Eagle Valley Guest Ranch had topped the 625 mark and should pass the 650 level.

Activities officially start Monday, July 21, and a full slate of festivities is planned, including a professional talent show, arts and craft and hobby shows, tours of Yellowstone National Park and the Whitney Gallery of Western Art and Buffalo Bill Historical Center. The rally closes July 24. More than 400 Red Dale Campers are expected to invade Cheyenne August 1 3 for the national get together of the popular pick up camper group. A full schedule of activities has been arranged at the Frontier Park Pavilion area. The National ElDorado Camper Rally is expected to entice 350 400 units to the Circle Up Camper Park in Dubois for three days of convention activity August 5 7.

National Wagonmaster and Secretary Mrs. Christine Spencer, Dallas, announced rally plans will include a buffalo barbecue, square dancing contests, chariot races, a rodeo and an assortment of contests. i CHEYENNE State House Reporter Joan Wbeelan, former correspondent for the Casper Star Tribune in Rock Springs for nearly three years, is now reporting news from the Wyoming State Capitol and Cheyenne. Mrs. Wbeelan moved to Cheyenne recently when her husband, John, a senior material! engineer with the Wyoming Highway was transferred from Rock Springs.

A native of Cedar Rapids. Iowa, her first interest In journalism was sidetracked when she took up nursing and was graduated in 1951 from the University Hospital School of Nursing in Iowa City, Iowa. She i. Fromfcommnnlcatton bet weenfm Cheyenne. Veteran Canal Official Retires other states to adopt similar laws lo "dry up this avenue Mrs.

Thomson was hostess to the Midwest Securities Administrators when they met in Wyoming last year Participating in this years program will be Don L. Calvin, vice president of the New York Stock Exchange: John Harper, assistant general counsel of the Investment Bankers Assn and Wallace Johnson, president of Howe, Barnes and Johnson luc a Chicago investment firm Osage Sets Hearing on School Budget OSAGE A public hearing on the proposed budget for school district 9. Osage for 19670 will be held at the school Wednesday evening. July 23 at 8 o'clock, according to Bruce Ammons. superintendent.

The proposed budget of $93,605 is smaller than last year's budget of $95,712, Ammons said, but explained that there is a balance $11,158 left over from last year is to be used this year The 1968-69 budget allowed for six teachers, but the school had only five for part of the year, and then four, assisted by teachers' aides. The budget had also allowed for more tuition payments than were actually used. These factors resulted in a balance of funds which is a resource for 1969-70 perating expenses. Ammons pointed out that although the school board will give final approval of the budget itself without residents voting, as has previously been -done-residents should be present at the hearing for an explanation of the budget and to have any questions concerning the budget answered at this time. The 'superintendent also said that he has need of two more teachers for the Osage Grade School.

They are needed for the upper grades iHLand one of them should also be a physical education teacher. Mrs. John Daum, the former Kathy Buchanan of Sturgis, has been hired to begin teaching in Osage this fall. She is a graduate of Black Hills State College and very talented in the field of music. Her husband has been employed to teach at the Newcastle Junior High School and the couple will resided Newcastle.

Teton Co. in Oil News Again Teton County is back in the oil news again with a wildcat to be drilled by Shell Oil Co. 19 miles southeast of Jackson. The venture. listed as No.

21- 36 Govt, is located in the ne nw 36-39n-U4w, some 20 miles northwest of the shut-in Menu gas discovery. Sinclair previously abandoned a 4590 foot hole two miles to the northwst Shell's test will drill to 9500 feet in the Nugget formation. Teton County has no oil or gas production. Mobil Oil drilled a 13,336 feet prospect nine miles west of the new Shell location in 1966. The firm set pipe and gauged natural gas at the rate of 1.6 million cubic feet per day but the flow diminished C7 11 I LUSK Several fossil heads of prehistoric rhinos found in eastern Niobrara county proved a bonanza for a group of traveling students from the Webb School of California.

The heads of the Caenopus or Hyracodon, a rhino type animal of 30 million years aeo were found in brule formation encased in white mud shale. When the shale was chiseled off, the heads were in complete and total shape and were wrapped in burlap soaked in plaster of Paris for the ride back to the new mus eum at the Webb School for boys in Claremont, Calif. Raymond M. Alf. noted paleontologist and headmaster at the Webb school has been bringing boys to this area of Wyoming for the past 20 years to study fossils and Indian artifacts.

Thirty one boys, aged 13 to 17, and six teachers made the trip this year, traveling in five large busies. They camped in tents for three, days on the Platte River at Orin and hunted in the surrounding vicinity for fossil specimans to be housed in their museum which was built in 1968 and dedicated to Raymond Alf. Their field trips in Niobrara yielded arrowheads and petrified opalized hackberry wood in addition to the rhino heads. One ranchwife baked homemade cookies for the boys, which were such a hit that they thanked her in writing, each boy signing his name and his home town. Most of the students were from including two newcomers to the school this year, Professor Ossy Butler and bis son Jeremy from Oxfordshire, England.

One student from Bangkok, Thailand, had to spend a little more time writing than the rest of the boys, his name being Dongath Ath-kravisoonthorrf The tour will last for six weeks and the boys visit historical sites en route. in Orin they toured Fort Fetterman and the DougtasTiniseTi Wyoming they went to Agate Natl Park and Scottsbluff. Neb. Fab Judges Attend School- LARAMIE Fair time is only a few weeks away in most parts of Wyoming. As a result, fair; judges in various areas are; taking one-day 'refresher" courses.

The Wyoming Extension Service sponsors the sessions i both for experienced home' economics judges and for; graduate home economists who will judge this year for the first time. Mrs. Mayme Schoonover. Extension nutritionist; and Mrs. i Ruth Elliston, Extension home furnishings specialist, are conducting classes this week in Kemmerer, Riverton, Worland, Casper, Lusk and Cheyenne.

JOHN STELLERN. native of California, has began his duties as assoicate professor of guidance and counselor education at the University of Wyoming. He received his bachelor's degree from the University of California at Berkeley, his master's degree at California State College. Los Angeles, and his Ed. p.

degree in school psychology from Colorado State College at Greeley. A licensed psychologist, the new UW faculty member engaged in. private practice from 1966 to 1969 and served as psychologist for the Greeley. Mental Health clinic and also in the Pasadena schools. Director of the special education clinic at the Pasadena Unified Schools.

Stellern was an. associate professor of school psychology at the University of Southern California from 1966 to 1969. if- La a bad showing in a national contest." The 1968 Wyoming team, also coached by Nicholls, was the first non Texas entry ever to win the top trophy. None of last year judges was eligible to compete a second time. Nicholls said, so all of this year's state champion crew was relatively inexperienced Sponsoring the team's trio to Texas were the Wyoming Wool Growers Association, Wyoming Agricultural Extension Service.

and Converse county firms and individuals. license from Wesley and Grace Nussbaum to themselves. Sundance Boy Scouts were named to continue summer maintenance of city park for $300; a retail liquor license was issued to Cleo and Edna Nairn; and the Sundance State Bank was designated the official depository and the Sundance Times the official publication for the City of Sundance. Mayor Popham outlined the recent meeting that he and other Sundance delegates attended recently in Cheyenne regarding the development of a proposed para-medical school at the deactivating Sundance Air Force Station facility. Popham said that be was impressed with the strong support of the proposed development expressed by the Lutheran Hospital and Homes Society of America (LHAHSl.

representatives said that they are anxious that a para medical school be set up in this region and said that they would support such a school no matter who operated iL I credit for this. There has never been a crop failure under the canal in all it's 60 years. "But we've had some tough times, Kennedy pointed out During the depression we had to take chattel mortgages from the farmers, because the banks couldn't We've had the usual catastrophes of hail, cloudburst and early frosts. "Then there was the 1929 crash. Four banks failed in Basin; the old Big Horn County Bank, in 1321; the Basin State Bank, twice, once in 1922, and again in 1929 and the First National in 1927.

But the canal continued to grow and pay off it's debts." Kennedy is proud of the fact that the canal has met every interest and principal payment on time, to the day, and sometimes 30 days ahead of time. The Board was able to keep the assessments at $1.50 an acre for nearly twenty years, but they have been raised in the last ten years to $2.50 per acre. For many Big Horn Canal farmers, some of them third generation it will be hard to think of the canal without thinking of Kennedy. He has been associated with it nearly all it's growth and knows more of history and policy than anyone else. He personally adjudicated most of the land under the canal, so permits could be filed.

The Canal Board has announced that Vera Estes of the Big Horn Land and Title will assume Kennedy's duties. Vandals Cause $5,000 Damage At High School RAWLINS Vandals who entered a window at Rawlins High School Wendesday night caused an estimated damage of between $5,000 and $7,000. Several, departments were ransaked by the vandals with damages occurring in the home economics rooms, business education wing, and language. Food products from the shelves in the home economics department were emptied and dumped on the floor. Head sets had been cut from laboratory booths in the language department and thrown on the floor.

Adding machines, calculators and an IBM typewriter were thrown on the floor the business education department If these machines do not have to be replaced by new equipment, damages will not run as high as estimated. HIGH O.N A HILL stands the DeSmet Monument, overlooking the verdant valley of the Green River near Daniel. Wyo. Memorial Mass Held Wyoming and the business firms has been going on for over a year. The governor will return Wyoming Tuesday night.

lo Student Held In Burglary SUNDANCE Sundance Justice of the Peace, Amos Ewing. bound Rochard Hicks, a Black Hills State College student over to district court when Hicks appeared before him on a charge of unlawfully breaking and entering the Sand Creek Trading Post at Beulah. July 1 Hicks waived his preliminary hearing and the reading of the warrant and complaint and was freed on a $1,000 bond. He will appear in district court Aug. 12 before Judge Rodney Guthrie.

Hicks, who waived extradition in South Dakota, was arrested Tuesday by Deputy Sheriff Curt Moberg and returned here. In his attempted break-in at the Beulah firm, Hicks allegedly broke a window to unlock a door but was frightened from the store by Edward Kuene, a relative of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Wendt, owners of the Beulah store. PINED ALE The Wyoming State Council of the Knights of Columbus sponsored this years Commemorative Mass at the De Smet Monument War Daniel.

Father Francis Clerkin, S. J. of St. Stephens Mission was Celebrant of the Mass Saturday morning. The Mass was a memorial for the late Frank Plemel who had been instrumental in the arrangements for the annual Animal Disease Exercise Staged By MARY SACIETT BASIN Gilbert V.

Kennedy, secretary-treasurer of the Big Horn Canal Association for 45 years, retired Jujy 3. Kennedy was appointed secretary in 1924 and had held the position continuously, seeing more of the canal operation and growth than anyone else in it's 60 year history. The canal was just 15 years old when Kennedy began as assistant secretary-treasurer. In the past 45 years it has increased it's assets nine times. The 1924 statement showed assets of $55,799.

The statement issued in June of 1969 showed $484,358. The canal is one of the largest and oldest in the Big Horn Basin. It carries water to 24,000 acres of farm land, beginning at the diversion south of the State Industrial School, through the Worland Manderson area. Orchard Bench, south of Basin and North Bench south of Greybull.lt is 55 miles long. The canal enjoys a high reputation in the state, both for management and fiscal responsibility.

Farmers and various boards of directors have given Kennedy much of the 4-H Clubbers Judge Stock SUNDANCE Approximately 60 4 H'ers and adults from Weston, Crook and Campbell counties attended a livestock judging at the Mirich ranch near Upton, Wednesday with six classes of Columbia sheep provided for the event by Steve and George Mirich. Ken Faulkner, Extension Livestock Specialist was official Judge. Working for a total possible score of 350 points, 4 H'ers were scored on five of the six classes since only five classes are judged at the county fair. Reasons were given on two classes. The four top scorers in the senior division: David Canfield 292, Sulley Simons and Gina On-tied at 269.

Gary Canfield 260. and Linda Simons 234. In the junior division, top four scorers were: Zane Moseley 258. Mark Priewe 252, Brian Bridges 238 and Gene Jensen and Jan Orr tiedat 236. The next and final livestock judging in Crook county was to be held Saturday, July 12 starting at 9 a.m.

at the Russell French Alva Hereford Ranch. The. selection of the State Fair Livestock judging team was also scheduled. Mass since the monument was erected in 1925. The event commemorated the first Mass ever offered in the territory that is now the state of Wyoming.

The first Mass was offered by Father Pierre De Smet on July 5, 1840 to over 2,000 people. Father De Smet was known as a true friend to the Indians, and many of them were present at the first Mass. and Dr. H. A.

Hancock, State Veterinary Laboratory, Laramie. L. J. Hoffman and James Ramey, Statistical Reporting Service; Dr. Norvan L.

Meyer, Animal Health Division, Hyattsville.Md.; and Dr. W. M. Reynolds, Dr. C.

E. Duncan, Dr. J. K. Harding.

Dr. H. W. Kinne, Dr. R.

F. Noah, J. S. Reukauf, Dr. E.

F. Sanders, pr. L. M. Stewart, G.

M. Thomas, Mrs. Lois Cuthbert, Mrs. Margaret Davis, Mrs. Vivian Krieger, Mrs.

Helen Shockley, and Mrs. Margery Vickers, Animal Health Division. Hay Destroyed GREYBULL Two bales of hay were destroyed by fire, and one side of a barn and garage was smoked up in a fire at the Alfred Rath home on Greybull about 10:30 a.m. Friday. Three small boys were playing in the vicinity when the fire started and came running in to notify Mrs.

Rath. Edgar Shoemaker, neighbor, and a young boy had the fire almost extinguished by the time the city fire department arrived, and they weren't long in arriving. Mrs. Rath said. imn -iht- riittui "r-i hit (mm i nn miSMCE LARAMIE Procedures to be followed in case of a severe animal disease outbreak in Wyoming were outlined recently in a test exercise in Cheyenne.

The exercise, "Milestone," involved a theoretical outbreak of a disease in an auction yard and the possible spread of disease to other areas. Participants discussed problems of diagnosis, quarantine, supplies and equipment, disposal of infected animals, cleaning and disinfecting, and restocking. Dr. Harry W. Kinne, field veterinarian, was chairman of the 1W day exercise, sponsored by the Wyoming Live Stock and Sanitary Board and the Animal Health Division of the Agricultural Research Service of the S.

Department of Agriculture. Attending were Major Key Boyer. Wyoming National Guard; Robert F. Frary and Vera E. Shelton.

University of Wyoming: Glenn J. Hertzler. Jr. and Dr. A.

B. Right. Wyoming Department of Agriculture: Dr. Norman R. Swanson.

State Veterinarian: Carl A. Gaer. N. D. Lieuallen and Don Swanson.

Wyoming Live Stock and sanitary uoara: ur. J. Kyff STARTS TUESDAY, JULY 15th 9:30 A M. Ve Be Closed Monday RQ SUNRISE HILLTOP.