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Si pi Statewide Coverage VJyoming's Largest Every Day 78TH YEAR NO. 150 Casper, Wyoming Oil Capital of ihe Hookies -friday, may 30, 1969 Mt 10 CnH Pollution Battle Set Wyoming's Meda Nixon Puts Cabinet-Level Council on Job Of Honor Winners KEY BISCAYNE, Fla. (UPI) President Nixon Thursday appointed a special, cabinet level by sniper "The problem is how we can make maximum use of our environment without despoiling it," Dubridge said. "Human beings, especially human beings in a technological society, produce enormous amounts of waste." The council would be composed of the vice president and the secretaries of Agriculture, Commerce, Health, Education and Welfare, Housing and Urban Development, Interior and Transportation with the President presiding over its meetings. The President spent most of the day relaxing in 80 degree temperatures at his palmshaded villa on the shore of Key Biscayne.

he was struck down fire. council to develop ways of halting "the declining quality of the American environment" The eight-member group, called the Committee on Environmental Quality, was charged with developing programs and technology for preventing man from fouling his surroundings. It plans concentrate first on air pollution and disposal of solid wastes, but later will go into such proolems as improving or finding a substitute for the internal carried on the Wyoming Voster of recipients but a check of the official role reveals he was born at Fort D. A. Russell (now Warren Air Force, Base.

Cheyenne) to a service family. He entered service at the Cheyenne Agency, South Dakota. His official home of record remained at Fort D. A. Russell and historical authorities have recommended that the Wyoming Military Department make an effort to correct the official record to claim Lt.

Roberts as a native son, since he had no other home than Wyoming. By WANDA BANT A Memorial Day 1969 provides a fitting moment to recount a little of" the history of the Medal of Honor, the highest military decoration for bravery that can be given any individual in the United States of, four Wyomingites awarded it and of others who earned it while passing through here. The little symbol of bronze worn around the neck held by a white starred blue silk ribbon wreathed in green enamel and bestows upon the recipient a great privilege that of sharing Ihe fearlessness and aggressiveness and leadership of Sgt. Carey, his courage in the face of heavy fire from superior enemy fores, provides an inspiring example for his comrades and materially helped his battalion to withstand the German onslaught, he account reads in the Medal of Honor book, U. S.

Department of Army. His widow has never remarried and his two sons, now grown and married are Richard School Board Makes Deal, Riggs Hearing Cancelled Nixon issued an executive order establishing the council from his bayside vacation home where he is spending a four-day Memorial Day weekend with his family. Dr. Lee A. Dubridge, former president of the California Institute of Technology and now the President's chief adviser on science and technology, flew here Thursday morning for an hour-long conference with the President and then explained the new program to newsmen.

Business Offices Are Closed Today Today. Memorial Day. the business office, including advertising and circulation departments of the Star-Tribune, will be closed all day so that employes may enjoy the holiday. The editorial department, however, will be open from five to 10 m. today.

combustion" engine in automobiles so as to eliminate smog-generating exhausts. "The deterioration of the Bv ELSIE PRATT SHERIDAN A scheduled hearing on dismissal action against Sheridan School Supt. Dr. Deanne Riggs was canceled Thursday night. W.

K. Archibald, attorney for the School Board, said an agreement had been reached in which Briggs resigned and the board agreed to pay him the equivalent of eight months A large crowd had begun to gather at the Sheridan High School Auditorium Thursday night for the Riggs hearing, which was expected to last for several hours. The School Board took four hours of testimony Wednesday night in a hearing on a dismissal action against Raymond Jergeson. high school journalism teacher. For the story on the hearing, turn to page 8.

environment is in large measure the result of our inability keep pace with progress." the President said in a statement announcing the council "We have become the victims of our own technological genius. we have damaged the environment and together we can improve it" salary for his two year contract. Pictures by Apollo Crew Give Breathtaking. Views -J I 7Pi -i fax WYOMING Partly cloudy Friday and Saturday, scattered showers and thunderstorms mostly north and east: warmer south and east Friday. High Friday 75 to 85 north, 80 to 90 sweep down this summer toward man's first walk on a waterless lunar sea.

SPACE CENTER. Houston UPI-The world got a breathtaking film preview Thursday py" landing craft as it dipped within 9 5 miles of the moon, the color -movies released south, 5 to 75 in the mnunl he path Apollo 1 1 must Shot-from Apollo 10 Snno- Thursday presented a view-of CASPER Partly clmidy Friday through Saturday, slight chance of afternoon or evening showers or thundershowers: not barren, tan mountains and canyons, bright craters and dark plains passing below in eerie silence. much temperature change Friday and Friday night, a little cooler Saturday. High Friday in middle 80 s. low Friday night upper 40's.

Precipitation probability 10 per cent Friday and Friday night. Sunset 8:36: sunrise "3 Saturday 5:30. Maximum wind Thursday 22 miles per hour, prevailing direction NW. Thursday high of 87 tied the record for the date. May 29.

Also 'included in the 205 feet of movie film and 87 color still pictures made public in the second release of Apollo 10 pictures were a "stunning" view of earthrise over the lunar horizon and shots of the astronauts inside their landing craft. The men who will take the first moon walk, meanwhile, ran through their first full-scale simulation of the descent and landing they hope to make July 20. lt was a major milestone in the quickening pace toward achieving the national goal set eight years ago by the late Presdent John F. Kennedy. Apollo 11 astronauts Neil A.

Armstrong and Edwin E. "Buz" Aldrin. working in a moon landing simulator at Cape Kennedy, and linked to Houston's mission control room, "flew" the touchdown phase of their mission as though ti were the real thing. Later they will study the films shot from Apollo 10 until they know each landmark by Wyoming Stott Archivtf Francis E. Warren EDWARD L.

BAKER, -Sergeant S. Calvalry Negro was awarded the medal at Santiago, Cuba, July 1898 in the Spanish American War for "leaving cover and, under fire, rescuring a wounded comrade from drowning." Medal was issued July 3j 1902. i Baker was born in Laramie County but little is known of his life besides his mention in the Medal of Honor book. He was a member of one of the two famed negro cavalry organizations, the Ninth and Tenth, called "Buffalo Soldiers" who played a dominant part in the Indian Wars and the settlement of the West. CHARLES F.

CAREY Cheyenne, World War II, was awarded the medal while serving as a technical sergeant, 379th Infantry, 100th Infantry Division at Rimling France, Jan. 8-9, 1945. He entered service at Cheyenne where his widow still resides. According to the official account, he was in command of an antitank platoon when about 200 enemy infantrymen and 12 tanks attacked his battalion, overrunning part of the position. After losing his guns, Sgt.

Carey, acting entirely on his own Charles F. Carey Jr. and Ronald Carey, both residing oof 'state. KNOWS NO COLOR The records reveal that gallantry above and beyond the call of duty knows no color, creed or national origin. The recipients of the Medal of Honor have come from all ethnic and cultural backgrounds including many foreign bom.

Of foreign born recipients, 104 were awarded to U. S. soldiers born in Ireland and 54 from Germany. Scandanavia, England and Canada as well as many other nations are represented in smaller numbers, according to the records. By conflict, the number of-recipients includes Civil War, 1200 including one soldier who received the medal twice; Indian Wars, 415 including four soldiers who were awarded the medal twice and a string of American Indian scouts; the War with Spain, 30; the Philippine Insurrection, 70; the Boxer 'Rebellion four; the Mexican revolt, one; World War I 95; World War II, 293 and the Korean War, 78.

The Vietnam list has not been officially published in total. which was first set in 1958. Cody Center Rites Slated Ernest Childers in the company of only a few heroes who have received the same award. Standing at the "pyramid of honor" of the United States, the decoration is the only one given in the name of Congress and is received for a "deed of personal bravery or self-sacrifice above and beyond the call of. duty provided by the incontestable evidence of at least two eyewitnesses by an act so outstanding that it clearly distinguishes gallantry so great from lesser forms of bravery; it must involved the risk of life; and it must be the type of deed, which if the person had not done it, there would be no criticism." Who are the men from Wyoming holding the Medal of Honor? FRANCIS E.

WARREN was awarded the medal in the Civil War for taking part in a movement that was made upon the enemy's works under a heavy fire in advance of the general assault at Port Hudson, 27 May, 1863. He was awarded the medal Sept 30th of the same year, a sergeant in Co. 1 49th Massachusetts Infantry, Union Army. Ironically, the official Medal 3 4 CODY, Wyo. (UPI More than 500 out-of-town guests were expected in Cody Saturday for Houston-SNOOPY COMES BACK: The Apollo 10 dedication of a $1.3 million building addition at the Buffalo Bill Historical Center.

lunar module is shown as it approached the command ship after flying within 10 miles of the Moon's surface NASA Photo via UPI Telephoto i. Dr. John Walker, director of the National Gallery of War Art. Washington, will be the Memorial Rite This Morning featured speaker at the ceremonies in the Cody High School heart. They include a mountain shaped like a cowboy boot and Picnics and weekend trips are Set aside as a day to remember the war dead and to lonihe agenda for many families.

called "Boot Hill," a rugged ridge called "Apollo" followed decorate the. graves of loved ones, Memorial Day also is a day of Honor book of the Department auditorium, according to Dr. Arnold McCraken, director of the historical center. Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, of the Whitney Gallery of West-em Art, and Wyoming Secretary of State Thyra Thomson also were scheduled to speak. McCraken said ODenine of the by a deep unnamed canyon, its bottom obscured by inky for fun and relaxation, the first of Army lists Warren as a holder initiative organized a patrol and of the long summer holiday weekends.

shadows, and a winding ditch called "Sidewinder Kille." rescued two of his squads from a threatened sector, evaculating In Casper, veterans' and These movies are the road- ROLE OF FAMOUS Some of the great names connected with the medal of honor General of the Army Douglas MacArthur and his father, Maj. Gen. Arthur MacArthur Sergeant Alvin map of the Apollo moon patriotic organizations will conduct a service at 11 a.m. in pfddition, situated at the east en pilots. Highland Cemetery.

Naval Reserve Lt. Cmdr. Maurice P. Edward V. Cartier, president of the York; Lt.

Rickenbacker; i THE OLD Lt. A i Golfers those that are members of the Casper Golf Club, anyway may enjoy a men's two-balH best ball handicapped tournament at the Casper Municipal Golf Course. It's a 36-hole event which may be played 18 holes on two of three days Friday, Saturday or Sunday. Men and women golfers will be able to participate in a mixed Scotch two-ball tournament there at 3 p.m. Sunday.

On Memorial Day. flags should be flown at half-staff until noon, then raised to the peak. City and county offices will be closed except for the police, sheriff and fire departments, of course but garbage pickups will be made. Department of Wyoming Reserve Officers Assn. of the United States, will be the speaker.

The program will include a reading of Gen. John A. Logan's General Order No. 11 in laying of wreaths. Memorial Day was first observed May 30.

1868, on The best safety device is a rear view mirror with order of the general who was commander of the Grand Army of the Republic. trance to Yellowstone National Park, would provide Wyoming with a museum complex of major size and importance. The complex is dedicated to preservation of the factual story of the Old West, of the North-em Plains and adjoining Rocky Mountain region all the frontiersmen who have etched a galaxy of prototypes on the pages of history and fiction and the Indians whose ancestral home the region had been for thousands of years, McCraken said. The entire museum complex is contained under a single roof. The addition was added to the Whitney Gallery.

The complex includes the Whitney Gallery ami the Buffalo Bill Museum. Four times the previous exhibition space is provided by the addition. The main floor is 203 yards long. The entire structure was constructed of native stone and steel-reinforced concrete. a patrol car in it.

of "unknown locale" with blanks on his birthplace and entry of service. After the Civil War, Warren, like many others of both north and south came west to seek his fortune. GOVERNED TERRITORY He came to Wyoming in 1868 eventually becoming territorial governor, Wyoming's first state Governor, a United States Senator and the first Adjutant General of Wyoming. At the time of his death, Nov. 24.

1929, he had the longest serve record in the U. S. Senate, 37 years. He was founder of one of Wyoming's most prominent families and the state's largest military installation, Warren Air Force Base today bears his name. He was born in Hinsdale, Berkshire County, June 20, 1844 and entered service with Co.

49th Rgt. Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, serving as a private and non-commissioned officer. LT. CHARLES D.ROBERTS, 17th U. S.

Infantry, was awarded the medal for gallantry in assisting in the rescue of the wounded from in front of the lines under heavy fire of the enemy at El Caney, Cuba. July 1, 1898 in the Spanish American War. The medal was awarded June 21, 1899. Roberts has never been those who had been wounded. He organized a second patrol and advanced against an enemy-held house from which vicious fire issued, preventing the free movement of our troops.

CAPTURES It Covered by fire from his patrol, he approached the house, killed two snipers with his rifle and threw a grenade in the door. He entered alone and a few minutes later emerged with 16 prisoners. Acting on information he furnished, the American forces were able to capture an additional 41 Germans in adjacent houses. He assembled another patrol, and, under covering fire, moved to within a few yards of an enemy tank and damaged it with a rocket. As the crew attempted to leave a burning vehicle, he calmly shot them with his rifle killing three and wounding a fourth.

Early in the morning of Jan. 9, German infantry moved into the western part of the town and encircled a house in which Serg. Carey had posted a squad. Four of the group escaped the attic. By maneuvering an old staircase against the building, Sgt.

Carey was able to rescue these men. Later that day. when, attempting to reach an outpost' Cody Board Rejects Stock Offer Murphy. Also, Sergeant Hiroshi H. Miyamura, Lt.

Powhatan H. Clarke; Col. Charles A. Lindbergh and General James A. Doolittle.

During the Indian campaigns in the West from the end of the Civil War until December 15, 1890 when Sitting Bull, the last of the great Indian warriors was killed, leather skinned, iron legged cavalrymen made the frontiers safe for the settlers. In hundreds of engagements, they carried out their duty with little attention and publicity and died doing so, in the hot, dusty Arizona or the bitter Wyoming snows. Some of them won Medals of Honor. There was little public ceremony connected with the event when they did. The records are scanty and sometimes no more than a few essential lines speak briefly of "gallantry in action" to provide clues that when fitted together with other historical accounts can give us a picture of the deeds of some of these men.

CODY The Cody Hospital He gave an indoor swimming pool last year and a new bandshell in the city park the year before. Board Thursday rejected an offer of $250,000 from oilman Paul Stock to help build a new hospital because it could not accept his stipulation to retain the present hospital location. Board Chairman Ted Roes explained in a letter to Stock that might jeopardize passage of the bond issue. A public meeting will be held in Cody June 19 to explain all facets of the issue. Plans for asking voters to indicate a choice for the hospital site were scrapped.

Members of the hospital board said a site of 8 to 10 acres is needed to meet state and federal requirements. Hill-Burton funds will be sought to supplement the cost of the project. Stock, considered the largest individual stockholder in Texaco, is noted for his generous gifts to the community. Cespsr Ltrr.bsr Collins and Durbin WILL BE OPEfl SATURDAY the present site of 3'i acres is1 considered inadequate under state and federal regulations. The community is scheduled to Harrison Gets Post on Renegotiation Board WASHINGTON (UPI) President Nixon named former Wyoming Congressman William Henry Harrison Thursday to the Renegotiation Board.

1 i. The board supervises adjustment in government contracts. vote June 24 on a $1.75 million bond issue to build a new hospital and medical center in Cody. 7:30 Ml to 5 P.M. Concern was voiced that V-'Aw'MjliMVVMMAnjUUJUAAAUuu rejection of the $250.000 gift.