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Thursday, July 25, 1974 Star-Tribune, Caspar, Wyo. 1 7 Gillette to get two new doctors Wyoming I arents check GILLETTE Campbell County Hospital administrator Robert Shannon has announced a plan for two new doctors who will establish a family practice in Gillette later this summer. One of the physicians, Dr. Paul Kaufman 36, had already announced his intention to practice in Gillette. The other, Dr.

Gary Becker, 29, has been an army physician for the past five years. Becker Avill arrive in the second -week of September after attending a four-week post-graduate training session at the University of Colorado' Medical school next month. Shannon said Dr. Kaufman will attend training session later this fallrfie will, arrive in Gillette Aug. 15.

Kaufman is a physician at the DallasTt. Worth airport clinic, practicing airport aftd industrial medicine. The hospital board had tentatively agreed to pay a $2,000 living, expense allowance to each of the doctors while he attends school." --In addition, the board will grant the two' free home and office rent for three months. A third doctor, Tom Nicholas, director of the Colorado-Wyoming regional medical program, has tentatively agreed to establish a medical practice corporation'' with Becker and Kaufman; Shannon said. Nicholas will alsoiake charge of doctor recruitment efforts for Gillette.

Shannon said the three physicians plan to set up a clinic in the Interim building now' under construction as soon as it is completed. Prior to that time, Shannon said, Becker and Kaufman's office will be locatid in one the mobile units behind the hospital. i 4 Worland approves its final budget Taking a mouthful WORK of installing new 36-inch storm sewers closed a portion of west Big Horn Ave. at Worland recently. Work continues on the projectieading io eventual direct connection of the avenue with Highway 20.

(Picture by Barbara Committee sets decision modmeci school plan By BARBARA SONNEMAN WORLAND The city council Wednesday noon adopted the final 1974-75 budget. The budget Jiad been approved without protest in a hearing Tuesday evening. Estimated revenues totaled $399,215. Estimated cash on hand was $50,000. Other income sources included revenue sharing, $44,349, and taxes $110,000 giving a total budget of $603564, the report showed.

In expenditures, cost for retirement for city employes totaled $13,000. The city had allowed various departments who wished to join the state retirement system. The change resulted from a program that would help the police department in particular, Included in the budget is the city's cash reserve, maintained at $2,500. Other expenditures included for the, various city -departments in the final budget included general government, CityXAttorney Clerk- Treasurer, Buildings City Engineer, XStreets Sanitation, Parks and Recreation $29,465. Cemetery, Police Dept.

Fire Dept. Inspection City Hall, Alnort, Legal, $2,000, 4tInsurance $14,000 tjBond Premiums; $150; Workman's Compensation elections, $1,100, one half of one per cent to the county treasurer, $500; Social Security traffic meters, Ordinances Goal study By SHANNON FORBES i SHERIDAN A coal 'mining impact Committee hasnamed a chairman here. The action came at the first meeting of the Buffalo-Sheridan Subcommittee of the Wyoming Mining Association was hld here Tuesday. The group was formed in response to Gov. Stan request that industry" provide inform ationtor local and state governments regarding potential coal development Ron SpaHn of Peter Kiewit Sons Co.

mining division was jelected chairman of the committee and will serve as liasonr between the coal companies arid local government officials. AlllcompanieS having coal reserves within commuting distanceof Sheridan and Johnson counties were contacted levy 2 million on LOVELL A state committee will decide Aug. 8 whether to approve a revised school organization plan for Big Horn County. The matter will come up early in the meeting of the State Committee for School District Organization which begins at 1:30 p.m. Thursday, Aug.

8 at the Lovell grade school auditorium. Barbara Erickson, attorney for the state committee, said in Cheyenne that attorneys, are attempting to negotiate a settlement in the Big Horn County school BY SUSAN BANGS "GILLETTE Thepity council adopted a 12,558,904 budget fdr lie 1974-75 fiscal year at its special meeting Tuesday night. The meeting was originally scheduled as a public hejrinx only with adoption of the budget slated Wednesday'. But when it was learned that a quorum would not be present Wednesday the council decided to adopt the budget Tuesday night. Only four members, Mayor Cliff Davis, and councilmen Lee Worman, Robert Rhoades, and James McManamen were present Tuesday.

Bud Clements, Ollie Kane, and Loy Banks were not in attendance Mike Enzi, a -candidate for mayor, criticized the council for alloting only $84,000 for street repair and maintenance. Last year, the council allotted $80,000 for street repairs, but Da said only $59,000 was spent. Enzi said results of a community. Gitpfo CHEYENNE Some parents evidently are concerned about the progress of renovations at Alta Vista School. At a meeting between some parents and trustees of Laramie County School District No.

1, it was noted that the multi-purpose addition to the school and renovation ot present space will not be completed. Jn'" time' for school's opening this fall. Earlier this spring, the school district decided to close Fincher School and relocate these students at Alta Vista. Parents apparently were under the impression that the revisions to the building would be done when classes' started, but land on which a pre-fabricated metal all purpose building is to sit hasn't been prepared yet, charged parents Monday, although the building is to arrive next week. Parents also were critical of failure to order a sprinkler system for the basement classroom area at the same time the building was Dynamite goes RIVERTON-Fremont County Vny dersheriff Dual Price said Wednesday 3,200 pounds of dynamite was stolen from the Petty-Geophysical Seismograph site seven miles west of Riverton.

Price said it was the'same site from which 600 pounds of dynamite was stolen earlier this year. He said law enforcement officers in the area were worried because a sheriff's department patrol car and a Wyoming Highway Patrol car were blown up with dynamite within the last year. A car assigned to Price was one of the two blown up. Peck travels GREEN RIVER State Rep. Roy Peck may go underground in his campaign ior governor; Peck will visit trona mines in the Green River area Thursday afternoonrrmd travel to nearby impacted communities of Lyman and Mountain View, his campaign' itinerary shows.

Fridayythe candidate will Visit Star Valley and other communities in the western part of the state. Peck will attend the Wyoming Employes Association district meeting in Casper-Friday evening. Wreck kills GILLETTE-John Raymond Cummings, 27, of Gillette, died early Wednesday morning when the vehicle he was driving went out of control seven miles "east-of Gillette on Highway 14-16. There were no passengers in the vehicle, the report said. According to county coroner Robert Nqecker, Cummings died when he was thrown from the vehicle after it went off the road and struck a culvert Cummings was a Lewmont Drilling Co.

Four die CHEYENNE, Wyo. (UPI)-The -Wyoming Highway Patrol said Wednesday that four persons including a Colorado -couple, died from injuries in" traffic accidents on state highwaysTraising the 1974 traffic fatality toll to 96, compared with-86 on the same day last year. A two-vehicle collision on Wyoming 530 about 19 miles south of Green River Tuesday killed three j)ersonsDead were the driver of one of the vehicles, Elmo F. 64, of Rock. Springs, arid his passengers, Melba' andj Elsie Beeman, both J7, of Littleton, Cola Willard" David Struble, 17, of Casper died Tuesday in a Salt Lake City Hospital of injuries receiyed in an accident on a county road July 15 near Pinedale.

The patrol said Struble lost control of his trudk and it rolled over. Hearing set CHEYENNE-The Wyoming Public. Service Commission Wednesday scheduled an Aug. 8 ihearing at Saratoga on an application by the Union Pacific Railroad to abandon its stockyards at Overland in Carbon County. Any protests to thf 'application will be heard at the hearing.

Levies are set WORLAND The Washakie Counly Commissioners have approved mill levies to coverneeded revenue forthe county here. Final mill levy, exclusive of schools is 9.094, and the manadatory school levy is 1.553. Total county levy is 10.647, compared to mills last year, figures showed. --Wepd and Pest will require .732 mills. -All levies are based on county assessed of $385,935,, district reorganization lawsuit.

The state, she said, has filed a motion in district court to withdraw the four-district plan approved earlier by the state committee. Miss ISrickson said only two points of difference remain-assessedvaluation between certain districts and an additional trustee for Manderson-Hyattville. The state committee at the Lovell meeting, the attorney said, will decide whether to approve a modified plan. If the action ends litigation in the Big Horn County case, only two school district Congress questionnaire indicated that Gillette residents are willing to pay more- "money for better streets. Enzi said, "The same amount of money won't reach the same distance," The anticipated income for the 74-75 year totals $2,197,600.

The city plans to balance the budget by spending $200,000 in timed certificates of deposit and $147,000 in cash on hand reserves, city clerk Mildred Hurfiritch said. Law year, the city spent $140,000 of its timed deposits, Mrs. -Huravitch said, leaving $510,000 in that account by June 1974. 'r Last year's operating budget totaled $2,175,590. Total income-generated last year was $1,832,567.

The power department ias the largest budget this year, $702,392. The city spends $30,000 each month just to purchase the power from Black Hills Power and Light Co. 7' The general expense fund, which includes of residents of Ecgemont and other sec- tions of South Dakota near the border," he said. Alvarez said the cumulative effect of withdrawal of surface and underground water has not been taken into consideration by Wyoming and the pipeline company: 1 And so far, he said, neither the state nor the company has produced any concrete evidence that the pipeline will not drastically reduce the already low water pressure in South Dakota communities. He said the cumulative i effect on agriculture in these same 'communities will be adverse.

He also charged there has been" no consideration given to theffects of water withdrawal in the entire Upper Missouri River Basin region. $1,000, Worland In-! dustrial Development $2,500. General Tacility, traffic signs' street lights $22,000 ambulance, $4,000, auditorium Little Municipal Court, $3,784.. Worland Board of Adjustment and Planning and Medical Insurance, Total of all expenditures, Including retirement and exclusive of revenue sharing is $566,715. V-In other action, Albert Wortham superintendent of public works, said the city crews are sweeping the streets twice a week and fogging for insects three times i week.

Wortham said the fogger usually begins about midnight and sprays until 6 or 7 a.m. No parking signs and paint will be in- stalled along one side of 10th St. to widen the traffic area. And construction work on Pulliam St, between 9th and 10th is ex pected to be completed in another week. The mayor will pronounce July 27-Aug! 3 as annual cleanup week, a report at the meeting said.

Frank LeBaron, city councilman, said he' has been investigating complaints about garbage lids and weeds and trash. LeBaron said sanitation crews have.been instructed to take care with garbage can lids. During cleanup week they will pick up large items such as tree limbs, he said. One 'canacompany has been asked to clean up weeds along its right of way, the report continued, and homeowners and business are asked to clean up outside areas including weed patches. group meets regarding the meeting and all expressed a desire to participate, Spahn said.

He declined to give names of the companies. At the meeting, preliminary employment projections were reviewed, and areas of inadequate information were defined for additional study, Spahn said. The participating companies will now work the data into final form. These results will be made available to the governor and appropriate local, leaders, Spahn said, in about two weeks. "The Buffalo-Sheridan subcommittee plans to meet in the future on a continuing basis in order to keep projections current, he added.1 The subcommittee will also provide other information requested by local authorities, he said.

July 12 at Warren Air Force Base where Guthrie was a civilian employe. He was charged with striking two'Air Force "officers who, tried to question him about his presence on the base. Thomas said the federal government had filed and obtained an order for a mental examination for Guthrie. Wiederspahn said he and officials from the U.S. Marshal's office were investigating the death.

Guthrie was a welder and had served in the Army, according to a spokesman at Schrader's Funeral Horned where funeral "services are pending. RAWLINS Concern side residents over storm sewers has resulted in an announcement by city councilman DeBari Martinez that an improvement district will be formed for future construction of curbs and gutters. Sduth side residents had contended earlier this summer that'eurbs and gutters had been included in a 1955 bond issue. That, however, proved false as a check by the city of the bond Issue indicated curbs and gutters were not included in the issue." Martinez said he will seek cost estimates for such improvements, and then present a proposal tqsouth side residents for approval. The improvement, district would only I encompass areas on south side which do not presently have curbs and gutters.

organization lawsuits will remain before the courts those involving Fremont and Goshen Counties. The state committee will also decide whether to approve the proposed bond issue for Lander School District No. 1. Sitting as the State Board of Education, members will review requests for special innovative education projects; increased mileage payment for isolation, and an additional demonstration classroom for the multi-handicapped at the Big Horn Basin Children's Center. city property, payroll, bond retirement, advertising, and insurance money, totals $541,970.

The Police Dept. was allotted $297,420, of which $207,000 will be used for salaries. The Sanitation Dept. budgeted $178,000, or which $115,000 will be used for salaries. The Water Dept.

was alloted $156,500, of which $48,000 will bepentfor salaries The City Hall budget, totaling $104,000 included $84,000 which will be Spent to remodel the old fire hall into the new police quarters. Almost half of the remodeling cost will be paid for with a federal grant. The Street Dept. budget totals $190,300, of-which $86,000 is for salaries. --The council postponed discussion on a new- power substation untiLa proposal I from Black Hills Power and Light could be submitted and studied.

Westinghouse Corp. submitted three bids for the project. The council will meet again July 29 to discussthe He said this area; with its small grains and livestockproduces pf the food upon which the nation is dependent "If you take one-third of thfr water in the Upperl Missouri River Basin, you take. 1 away one-third or more of this nation's agricultural yield." And. this, Alvarez said, "does not take int) considerationithe effects' of industrial land use." "Thevarious companies concei'ned with industrialization are attempting vertical integration or monopoly of electrical generating plants as well as synthetic fuel markets and the current administration is encouraging this by refusing to regulate coal slurry pipelines and the gasification of coal," Alvarez said.

hearing Monday evening at the Weson County Court House. County Commissioner Chairman Homer Pringle, of Upfon noted that although this year's budget will be $493,684 greater than last year's budget, there will be a mill levy reduction because of increased valuationu and revenues. Police check RAWLINS Rawlins police "are Jn-vestigating the burglary of the Rawlins Corral Tuesday night. rW ,4 Police report said the front door of, the business was kicked in, and quantities of Indian jewelry were missing. utE13akoia fearsiater-losses Coroner investigates death -7CHEYENNE Laramie County Coroner Arling Wiederspahn said Wednesday the death of a Cheyenne man in city jail is still undei; investigation.

Rickie Lee Guthrie, 21 was found hanged early Wednesday in the city jail where he Was being held on federal assault charges. Federal officials said Guthrie was founo1 hanging from a waistband portion of his trousers which had been attached to the cell bars. Guthrie, according to U.S. Attorney Richard V. Thomas, was being held on two assaujt counts arising from in incident Concern brings plan for curbs By GERTRUDE SPOMER SHERIDAN Western SoutlT Dakota "stands tojose 20,000 acrefeet of water per year if a proposed coal slurry pipeline is built from Wyoming to Arkansas.

The statement tame from Bob Alvarez, aide to C.S. James Abourezk, D-v junior senator from South Dakota. Alvarez made the statement during the Sheridan-Johnspn County water meeting at thejSheridari Renter Inn here. He said the water would be withdrawn frpni an area 15 miles north of the South Dakota border. "Our only recourse, if engineer of Wyoming approves the permit for this pipeline, is to enter a federal court action seeking an injunction to protect the rights Rate rise asked WHEATLAND -JJe town of Wheatland has applied for" a 10.32per cent increase in -electrical rates.

The application filed with the Wyoming-, Public Service Commission, which would affect' customers both within and without the Wheatland city limits, would bring an additional $27,937 in revenue per year. The jarea outside of the city, representing about seven per cent of the city revenues, is under PSC jurisdiction. Reasons for the proposed increase, said the application, are Tising costs due to' 'inflation and a five per cent wholesale power cost increase this past April. The PSC has suspended the new rates, announced that protests and objections to the increase must be filed prior to Auk. 1 at which time a decision will be made as to whether or not a public hearing is required.

Commission approves budget NEWCASTLE The proposed budget of $1,764,491 for Weston County for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1973 was accepted Tuesday by the county commissioners. At the public budget hearing Monday', night it was noted that the $35,125 proposed for the county sheriff's department did not I jllow for salary increases, according to Roberta Landrigan, county clerk Three items under the general fund requirements were changed from the original proposal but the total remained the same. $1,145,156. Changes made included roads and bridges. up from the original -proposal of sheriff's department, $35,425, up from the, proposed and justice court, $5,400, down frorif the $7,200 requested.

Fourteen persons turned out for the yt f. 1.