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Friday, Feb. 20, 1976 Star-Tribune, Casper, Wyo. 5 Pipeline downed, LETTER but still an issue lelttn mould Mia 10 HO Itu and muK gnM l( rfgimied. tn nimi mill vitMniA The all-weather tent EDITOR: -1 have spent hours up at Hogadon Basin (n the sub-freezing and mendation, on a 6-5 vote. Committee Vice Chairman John Crofoot, R-Cedar Point, said the rejection by the Nebraska committee "sure won't help the bill," except that the pipe could go through Colorado.

"If it couldn't go through Colorado, we'd probably let it die on the calender," Crofoot said. The vice chairman noted the bill has been sitting near the bottom of the debate calendar since early February, indicating leaders expect it to be a controversial measure that could Involve lengthy debate. Doyen said he hoped debate on the bill could be set for next week. occasionally sub-zero weater watching ski races. I get awfully cold and the racers have to put up with snow in their eyes and high winds which cause them to miss gates.

Therefore I have a modest proposal to place before the good people of this state. We will build a tent over the ski slope. It will have to be a pretty big tent and my careful calculations show it will cost, including the-snow making machinery, just $20 million. Now in case anyone would try to claim this was only good for the slalom crowd, we will call it an "all-weather canopy." It. will be used by expert and snow bunny alike, and will even keep summer hikers from getting snowburned.

Since it would not be fair to ask Wyoming citizens to'pay for the "all-weather canopy" (as mostly Wyomingites would use it), I have even worked out a scheme to pay for it without costing Wyoming a dime. Some 10 to 15 million acre-feet of water flow out of Wyoming to neighboring states each year. We will charge a dollar an acre-foot (that's not much for 326,700 gallons of good, clear Wyoming water) TOPEKA, Kan. (UP1) -Senate President Ross Doyen, R-Concordla, Thursday said Nebraska's action on a coal slurry pipeline bill may not affect the fate of a similar measure before the Kansas Senate. The Public Works Committee of the Nebraska Unicameral Wednesday killed a bill to give coal slurry pipeline companies the right of eminent domain to acquire property in Nebraska for a line running from Wyoming to Arkansas.

A bill granting a similar condemnation right in Kansas, sits on the debate calendar of the Senate. Doyen said he had no idea whether the Nebraska action will affect the judgment of Kansas senators. "I understand the group which is after the pipeline really didn't need Nebraska's concurrence," Doyen said. "They can still go through Colorado." The pipeline company, Energy Transportation Systems, last month presented the Senate Transportation and Utilities Committee alternate proposals indicating a Colorado route could bypass Nebraska and still run through Kansas. The committee sent the bill to the floor, without recom as it crosses the state line to Nebraska, South Dakota, Montana, Idaho and Utah.

(We will exempt Colorado for what flows down there in Savery Creek because they might slap a tax on the North Platte where it enters Wyoming). If these states refuse to pay, we will just divert the water to slurry pipe line and gasification companies. So in a couple of years, the Tent oops the All Weather canopy will be paid for and I won't have to freeze up there at the races ever' again. WILLIAM YOUNG 5108AlcovaRt. Casper Posts filled CASPER Appointments to local boards and commissions were approved by City Council members at their last meeting.

The appointments were: Open Space Commission, Jerry Deines, Don. Weishaar and June Calmes; Electrical Appeals Board, Ted Cross and Everett Holcomb and Building Appeals Board, Mike Sullivan and Tom Gray. Angeles Time! Henry Block has a special reason why you should come to us for income tax help. Michener boost was costly for Colorado Leash law complaint EDITOR: Seems the town council can break the law in order to catch law breakers of the leash law here. They hired a 17-year-old student to be dog catcher and I might add his methods are somewhat in question.

Dog catcher is an appointed office and has to be held by an 18 or 19-year-old. Question is can even the office be given to the student or was this done because of his connection to the law enforcement office? Town's people are upset and have a petition going around but will they be able to fight the council? Can they get away with breaking the law to catch law breakers? BARBARA ROZELL Meeteetse EDITOR'S NOTE: Mayor Marlon B. Collier said the council checked with its attorney before hiring the teenager. Technically, he said, this dog catcher Is not employed by the city because he paid by a commission and makes his pay depending on how many dogs he brings In. The mayor said he is "completely satisfied" with the town's leash law and he said the petition drive is being directed by a person whose own dog has been picked up three times.

The law, he said, simply requires residents to keep their dogs on their property and purchase the proper licenses. OMING 1ST SI GENCER A new low? receiving 2,000 free copies of the Colorado section bound as a 16-page supplement. Lamm said he thought it had been a good business arrangement. He said the magazine was as eager to publish an article by an author like Michener as the state was eager to have it published. McGraw-Hill paid Michener an added sum of about $5,500 for the Colorado article, state officials said.

Lamm said he thought Michener could help him overcome an anti-business image that his administration has had. "I thought it was important to get a guy that could really articulate" Colorado's attitude toward business, Lamm said. "I just thought he was a natural." Michener is a graduate and a former faculty member at the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley. DENVER (UPD State officials admitted Wednesday all those nice words about Colorado In the Feb. 23 issue of Business Week were not free.

It cost the state $11,000. Author James Michener, whose best-selling book "Centennial" is based on the early history of Colorado, received $2,000 for writing an article in praise of the state, and the writing was personally reviewed by Gov. Richard Lamm three times before it was approved for publication. In addition to the money paid to the author, Dwight Neill, director of the Colorado Di vslon. of Commerce and Development, said McGraw-Hill publishers of Business Week, were given $9,000.

The amount is the price of a one-page advertisement in Business Week. However, Colorado received 13 pages, clearly labled as an "a(f vertisement." The state also is If you received the Short Form for filing your taxes, our preparers are specially trained todetermine if it's best for you'. If it is, we'll complete it at a very low because the simpler the return, the less we charge. BLOCK THE INCOME TAX PEOPLE 1520 EAST SECOND 736 CY Open 9 o.m.-9 p.m. Weekdays, 9-5 Sat.

Sun. -Phone 237-3304 OPEN TONIGHT NO APPOINTMENT NECESSARY EDITOR: Oliphant has sunk to a new low with his carton (Star-Tribune, pg. 4 Sunday) about Ronald Reagan, who supposedly asks his wife, "why aren't you out there saying a lot of neat stuff about pre-martial sex and abortion and pot and women's and the little gutter bird who comments "to this pair holding hands is immoral!" There is nothing prudish or "immoral" about taking a bath. It is a different matter when one decides to take a bath in a tub in the middle of main street Ladylike modesty is the vast difference in the bathing instance as well as the comments on pre-martial sex and abortion and pot and women's rights. Both are tragic, but hardly commendable! In re: The giant circus tent which is being promoted so vigorously now by the State legislature and the University of Wyoming Trustees Barnum and Bailey knew better than to try to stage a three ring circus in Laramie year around they come only in June! By the time most of Wyoming's coal supply is converted to energy to heat the place, then a 25 cents a ton of coal on this huge amount the taxpayer still foots the bill, not the coal industry! MRS.

FRANCIS YATES 1118 Gamed Laramie WELCOME BACK, KIMBALL "I just wanted Senator Johnson to know I'm back today and I wish him good health during the rest of the session," Sen. Robert Kimball, the Natrona County Republican announced Thursday morning. Kimball was excused Wednesday and thus gave the senate Democrats a crucial one vote edge. The result was that Sen. Robert Johnson of Sweetwater County was able to get through an amendment to give the governor the discretion to use as much of the new state employes compensation and classification plan as he wishes.

The day before, all 15 Republicans were on the floor and Johnson couldn't get his amendment Johnson responded gallantly to Kimball's sally Thursday and welcomed the Republican back to the hallowed halls of the senate or words to that effect. The Republicans at first balked against adopting the personnel plan at all this session then relented but insisted it should be used in toto, despite reports the state personnel division dislikes some 6( the recommendations. Another reason given for the Republican stand is plain old politics the GOP's resistance to the Democratic governor's attempts to use the senate to ram through his pet programs, particularly in an election year. At any rate, illness is a calamity in the senate this session. It is not too far-fetched to envision the day when a senator will be hauled in on a stretcher, pale, coughing and retching, to cast his vote.

FLORAL APOLOGY The State Department of Administration and Fiscal Control apologized to Casper's Edness Kimball Wilkins Wednesday. Tuesday, Mrs. Wilkins had complained during the debate on the budget that her name was left off a list of Natrona County representatives In a DAFC publication. Wednesday morning, Cheyenne's Mary Kay Schwope told House members she was bringing an espression of love to one of the most respected and prestigious members of the House on behalf of DAFC for the unintended slight, and presented Mrs. Wilkins with a bouquet of Tropicana roses.

The card on the flowers read "With Love and Apologies from the DAFC Administration." CHECK THAT BUDGET Rep. Esther Eskens, R-Big Horn, presented an amendment to the budget bill Wednesday morning to delete Irom the capital outlay of the State Department of Administration and Fiscal Control, $325,000 slated for renovation work in the Senate chambers. At first, House members thought she might be kidding, but she explained that she hoped by such action, the Senate might take a closer look at what the House spent several days doing. Speaker Pro Tern Nels Smith told the body he thought they should vote for the measure and see what happens, and Rep. Russ Donley, R-Natrona, co-chairman of the appropriations committee, said on the basis of what's happened so far, the Senators probably could do quite a bit of their own work over there.

The measure passed overwhelmingly, with many of the House members perhaps remembering an earlier remark of Majority Whip Warren Morton, R-Natronarthat the Senate had passed an appropriations measure in 30 minutes that the House had worked on the better part of two days. CAUSE AND EFFECT The announcement in the senate of party caucuses sends staff members, observers and Republicans stampeding for the coffee pot. Why? Because the 15 senate Democrats use the coffee room for their caucuses. The 15 senate Republicans meet in a room on the other side of the chambers. Sometimes those causuces drag on so the alert now know to move fastorgobrewless.

THE SOFT TOUCH The gavel wielded so deftly by Senate President Wes Myers of Evanston was muted Thursday Someone has swathed it in gauze. Myers' quick work Wednesday with a bare gavel brought in for consideration the judicial district reorganization bill geared to even court caseloads. He was so fast, startled opponents of the bill protested that they had not even had a chance to object to the late introduction, let alone vote. Nonplussed, Myers, who favors the bill, asserted that his method of handling the introduction was correct. He explained that he learned parliamentary procedure from Dick Greene.

Greene, from Johnson County, served as Senate President in 1955. Coat cost questioned EDITOR: On the pg. 14 issue of the Casper Star-Tribune was picture of Ed (600) Hadley wearing a Llama wool coat. The caption under the coat stated "recently the same coat was Valued at $2,500, since llama wool has been banned for export. Who put the value on the coat? I have one like it, 100 per cent pure Alpaca Pile (Llama pacbs), I can't help but question your valuation.

M.D. CRAWFORD Gillette EDITOR'S NOTE: The information about the coat was supplied by Mr. Hadley. Bring back the water EDITOR: Much has been said about the proposed coal slurry pipeline. Most of the controversy is about the amount of water that will be lost.

It seems to me, that quite a long while ago someone suggested laying two pipelines side by side. One pipeline would transport coal to Arkansas. The second pipeline would transport the water back to Wyoming to be used over and over. 1 I understand that this would involve pumping stations along the way, but why wouldn't this be better than throwing Wyoming's water down the drain? If this is not a feasible idea, I would really like to know why it's not. i SHARON PALMER 204 South Sixth 1 Casper It's Our First jlli 're ant i'asi'c frames lif '-f many shapes, styles and gg I We have adult and "i ehildren frames.

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