Casper Star-Tribune from Casper, Wyoming • 9

8 Saturday, July 17, 1976 Star-Tribune, Casper, Wyo. 9 Montana Goal Council hires 2 James D. Mockler, R-BIg Horn, will not seek BASIN Rep. reelection. IM.HI.jpWl.

Lo veil, Powell protest wording LOVELL Wyoming Highway Commissioners agreed to change the wording on highway signs on US 14A, after residents in the Lovell and Powell area protested the present wording. Meeting In Cheyenne on Thursday, a delegation from the Powell and Lovell Chambers of Commerce appeared to charge that the wording on signs which went up on the road last fall, were hurting the area financially by discouraging people from traveling that route. The flashing light signs say, "Thru Trailer Traffic Not Recommended, Steep Grades 20 miles." Dean Pond, president of the Lovell Chamber, charged that the wording was discriminatory since there are no steeper grades nor sharper turns on that road than on other mountain roads, including US 14. He also charged that the Chamber of Commerce personnel manning the Sheridan Information Center were sending people stopping there into Montana Instead of across Wyoming. The Interim chairman of the Joint Revenue Committee said he is leaving his Job as real estate broker to take a position as executive director of the Montana Coal Council In Helena, Mont.

"My family and I truly regret leaving Big Horn County and the State of Wyoming," he said, "but feel It is a tremendous opportunity in accepting this I I jr 1 GULF OF MEXICO 7 0 Mi it position with free enterprise. "The years I have served In the legislature certainly have shown me the lembers are dedicated and that Wyoming Ik Indeed fortunate with Its legislative Mockler said. JAMES MOCKLER system It was hoted that though US -Mockler was co-owner and operator of a ranch near Dubois and then became a real estate broker. 14A Is a bad road for trailers, large trucks and buses, it's better now than It's been in years, and has resulted in only No worse than others? TVfockler is married and has two children, ages nine and 13. ti Also nirca oy uie mumaiia I rVutnHI uflQ Pnt Stuart Quake areas LEVELS of ground shaking for different regions, are shown by contour lines which express in percentages of the force of gravity the maximum amount of shaking likely to occur at least once in a 50-year period.

reporter for the Sheridan Press. She will be assistant director. A native of Cheyenne, she came to Sheridan from Cheyenne where she was a reporter for the Wyoming State ytibune and prior to that had been a public Information assistant at the Wyoming High-way Dept. She has two children, ages nine and 11. The announcement was made bj Jack Ratchye, president of "ihe-council.

He said Mockler and Mrs. Stuart will Join the council Aug. 1. Western Wyoming prone to quakes two traffic fatalities In many years. Commissioners voted to strike the warning about trailer traffic from the signs, and also to Install additional signs near the dangerous portions of the highway, the steep grades and sharp curves.

Robert Bishop, president of the Powell Chamber, also asked the commission to take some action to Improve the road between Byron and Garland, which Is getting some heavy traffic and is in bad shape. In other action, the commission approved the purchase of Xerox reproduction equipment which had been used the past year under a lease-purchase agreement, for the balance of $32,000. The machine is used for reproducing plans and saves the department from stockpiling plans while releasing the duplicating equipment of the State Department of Administration and Fiscal Control, from having to stop other work and gear up for highway department projects. Commission members also rejected a request from the Worland City Council that the department assist in financing a rest stop within the Worland City limits. The city had requested that the department construct restroom facilities, parking, access-from the highway to the parking, a storm sewer and required signs on city land on the bank of the Big Horn River.

The city would have provided playground and picnic equipment, landscaping, sprinkler system, installed utilities and been responsible for maintenance and repairs. Chairman Bob Ostlund of Gillette said he thought such a project would be setting a dangerous precedent and other commissioners agreed, noting the project was more in the nature of a park for Worland than a rest stop. JACKSON Most residents have heard dishes rattle and felt beds shake, but the U.S. Geological Survey now is trying to estimate the force of earthquakes that can be expected. PAT STUART St.

Michael's gets new vicar Father Edward Shepherd of Minneapolis, has selected as a temporary vicar at St. Michael's Mission. Both he and his parishioners will decide later if the appointment -will be permanent. I Jte will succeed Father David Duncombe, 55, who died April 24 as In a new report and map the U.S.G.S. uses contour lines which circle through western Wyoming and particularly the Yellowstone National Park region to indicate probabilities of earth shaking.

The agency of the Dept. of the Interior says this is "a first attempt to show expectable levels of earthquake shaking hazards on a national basis." The U.S.G.S. says the contour lines "express in percentages of the force of gravity the maximum amount of horizontal acceleration (shaking) likely to occur at least once in a 50-year period." The higher the figure on the contour line Indicates the greater chance of a violent quake. Highest is the 60 "per cent of gravity" area along the San Andreas Fault in California. The U.S.G.S.

says that "a contour at 60 per cent of gravity means that scientists are 90 per cent certain that the region in the vicinity of the contour will not experience ground shaking more than 60 per cent of the force of gravity It also says that in regions of 10 per cent gravity, during a 50-year period, at least one shake can be expected of that magnitude and that at least one shake up to the 60 per cent gravity can be expected once every 50 years in the San Andreas Fault area. The report does not deal, with frequency of quakes. But the estimated forces of the quakes are calculated as they apply to solid rock. "Because the surface materials. In many areas of the United States are not solid rock, the maximum acceleration at a particular location may be quite different from that shown on the map," says theU.S.G.S.

Blue merge Police track down suspect in burglary LOVELL Police who followed oily footprints from a burglarized service station have filed charges against Harold Britton, 22, a carnival worker. Police said a window was broken on the east side of the Minchow Mobile Service Station and some $60 and two keys were taken from a pop machine. Of fleers said, however, that they found footprints on the east side of the station in an oil spill area and also on the window sill. They said they were able to follow the footprints to a carnival area about a block away where Britton was found sleeping. Police said they recovered the two missing keys and some quarters and that the shoes found near where Britton was sleeping and photographs of the scene will be sent to the state police lab in Cheyenne.

Fire is contained CHEYENNE Wyoming Blue Cross and Blue Shield will merge into one company, said Insurance Commissioner John Langdon. "There's no.question about what I will approve It because it will cut costs," Langdon said. Establishing one board of directors instead of two sets will save money in itself, he noted. "They're in the process of doing that," he said of the merger. The Wyoming Blues have virtually dual administration.

Arthur R. Abbey serves as president of both Blue Cross and Blue Shield and draws his $58,378 annual salary from both companies. Earlier this year Langdon authorized rate Increases for both Blue Cross and Blue Shield after the companies' annual report showed a loss of nearly $3 million in 1975. Blue Shield rates Jumped 14 per-cent and major medical coverage about 47 per cent. The rate boost for Blue Cross, effective July 1, was between 10-14 per cent.

Langdon blamed the Blues' financial woes on soaring hospital and physicians' costs. He said Friday that his department is working with the companies on a complete revision of the Blues' contract. He also reported the department has received complaints that Blue Cross-Blue Shield refuses to pay chiropractors for treatment administered to policyholders. Also being investigated is another complaint that physicians who do not participate in the program are paid less for treatment to a Blues' policyholder than participating physicians. Langdon said the complaint Is that this system discriminates against the in-suured.

Esther Eskens runs LOVELL Rep. Esther Eskens, R-Big Horn, will seek reelection. She says that the University of Wyoming dome study, state water and a severance tax on coal will be among the major issues faced by the next legislature. i She said Chuck Acklin will again serve as her campaign manager and Calvin Jewell will be assisting. Mrs.

Eskens is a member of the Judiciary Committee and chairman of its subcommittee to study sexual assault laws. Cranfill asks reelection The report said that in some areas the force of the quakes, because of the surface materials, could be two or three times more violent. The U.S.G.S. said the report and map will be useful to purposes constructing buildings since they will be nformed that they are building in earthquake-prone areas. Rangers let fire burn YELLOWSTONE LAKE Rangers flew over a 50-acre, lightning-caused fire on the south arm of Yellowstone Lake Friday, but said there are no plans to put it out.

Mac Berg, superintendent for. special services in Yellowstone National Park, said it was the latest in a series of about five fires spdrked by lightning storms in the last three days. Berg saW that the blaze on the south arm of Yellowstone Lake is in a natural fire management plan area and, therefore, the National Park Service would "like to allow it to burn Its course." Berg said there are no developments in that area other than a few wilderness campsites. He said the flyover was to see if there was any need to close those campsites to campers. He saidthis particular fire was ignited Wednesday but was "beginning to get quite active.

i Manville postmaster appointed 4he result of stab wounds. Billy Tillman, a 16-year-old Shoshone, was found guilty of second murder charges in June by a federal court jury in connection with the death. Shephard, 50, is expected to arrive at the mission about the end of July. "i He has worked with urban Indians In the Minneapolis area and Is trained in alcohol and drug abuse. He will receive a Masters degree in social work from the University of Minnesota and received a Bachelor of Library Science degree from the University of Washington in 1946.

He received a Master's Degree In library science from the University pf Illinois in 1949 and his Bachelor of Divinity Degree from the of Chicago in 1969. He had been working for the Episcopal Diocese in Minneapolis. Mrs. Patricia Duncombe, widow of the late vicar, will leave the mission at the beginning of August to assume a teaching position In the social work department of the University of Wyoming. "She has been a social worker at the mission.

Lander City Council okays housing project By BONNIE KIER LANDER The City Council has approved a low-cost housing project. The project, a 20 apartment complex to be built at the corner of Jefferson and North First Streets adjacent to the old railroad right-" of-way, was approved over objections of Dr. James Summers, who owns and operates the Lander Veterinary Hospital on adjacent 1 property. The project, to be called Sunrise Villa, had been turned down for the Sunset Addition In May after a group of residents had objected It. The council also voted to join the Fremont County Association of Governments.

Mayor Delbert McOmie said that while main pur-' pose of the organization is not to get the optional one per cent sales tax passed for the county, It was very important for them to get the tax implemented because all the municipalities need the additional revenue badly. In other action, City Attorney John Pappas explained to the council the process the city must follow to form a cemetery district. He said it would take several months of legal work to set up an election for that purpose and if a cemetery is formed, additional revfenue will come from a mill levy on property said that in order to put the cemetery on a self- supporting basis, prices for plots would have to be increased to $350 ffor residents and $510 for non-residents if the district is not formed. Cemetery lots now cost approximately $40 for residents and $60 for non-residents. An emergency ordinance was passed to raise overnight parking fees at City Park to $3 a night with a three-night limit.

Blocks 127 and 130 on Capitol Hill were re-zoned to an 'A' residential zoning a 'B' residential. Residents of the area have been protesting the building of clinics in the area which is near the hospital, which is permitted in the zones. The council also approved the re-zoning of four blocks on both sides of Amorctti Street between North First and North Third from a 'D' to a 'C" zone. Skorci Electric was given a building permit build a shop and warehouse in an unzoned area between the Garage and the Hitching Rack Restaurant and Lounge fronting Highway 27. CODY UPI A 260-acre fire in northwest Wyoming's Shoshone National Forest was contained Friday and officials expect to bring it under control Saturday.

John Ross, a U.S. Forest Service spokesman, said the service originally estimated that the fire covered about 350 acres, but when the smoke began to clear officials discovered the burn area was only about 260 acres. The blaze, which broke out Wednesday, Was apparently man-caused, he said. About 55 smokejumpers and 20 additional firefighters remained at the scene 25 miles southwest of Cody. Planes dropped 4,000 pounds of chemical fire retardant into the blaze Thursday.

"A high pressure system sat on it last night, which kept the generation of heat down," Ross said. "Also, there were natural features, such as a big cliff on the north side, which keep most of the fire from spreading." The favorable weather and natural features both were major factors in the early containment of the blaze, he FPC delays curtailment SHERIDAN The Federal Power Commission has delayed action until Oct. 1 on the plan to curtail natural gas usage to industrial customers in the Sheridan areas. Montana-Dakota Utilities Co. had intended to put the plan in operation July 1.

MDU officials had expressed concern about serving new future customers with the limited gas supply. They said residential and small commercial users have earned the right to MDU gas because they have always paid a higher price and larger users had lower rates. They contended the limited gas supply of the future should go to the small user who cannot easily convert to more expensive oil or electricity MANVILLE Fred W. Sullivan, a Massachusetts native employed at the Lusk Post Office since October, 1953, is new postmaster at Manville. The announcement was made by Robert Nab of the Cheyenne district office of the Postal Service.

Nab said Sullivan received his appointment under the postmaster selection program. Sullivan was in the Army August, 1945, to October, 1947. He and his wife, Margot, and son, Michael, plan to move to Manville at an early date. But he did not identify "the path." I He said, however, that he plans to introduce legislation on lobbyists "limiting significantly the amount they may spend per He said he wants to improve child abuse and neglect laws. "I can stand up for my rights.

A two-year-old cannot," Cranfill said. Rock Springs tables new subdivision WORLAND Rep. Steven R. Cranfill, D-Washakie, says he will seek re-election. "We don't need federal regulation," he said.

"The people of Wyoming know our own needs and limitations best, and what is necessary to satisfy those needs and compensate for the limitations. "Our plant siting laws are the strongest and most comprehensive in the nation," said Cranfill. "Additional federal intervention Is not needed, much less desired." Cranfill is an Instructor at the Wyoming Industrial Institute and during the last legislature served on the Corporal ion, Elections and Political Subdivisions Committee. He said the legislature would be "foolish" not lo increase the mineral severance tax. He also said he was concerned alxRit the natural gas shortage.

"I don'l have the immediate solution to the problem, but I do know the path to follow in finding the answer, and intend lo be a regular visitor until some sei-tirily is achieved," (Yanfill said. using the sites were slim, if drilling did take place a public road would be blocked and taxpayers would have to pay for repairs. The two other drill sites and part of the third were designated as parks in the subdivision but the commission also questioned if the city or county would want to accept land with the drilling stipulation. There are currently no standards for park set-aside requirements In the county, but the commission is in the process of developing a subdivision ordinance which might include such a reservation. Mesa representative Wayne Johnson said he thought It "unreasonable to ask a developer to donate expensive land" for parks, when the county could purchase Bureau of.

1-and Management land nearby for recreational purposes at $2.50 an acre. Johnson also pointed to the one-acre size lots Mesa planned to offer for sale, saying the residents there would be "creating their own recreation." But County Planner Dennis Wall said It might be desirable lo locate a small neighborhood park within the subdivision, and he indicated he would consult with the county parks and board to determine their feelings on the matter. At a special meeting Wednesday night, the Rock Springs Zoning and Planning Commission also withheld approval of the plat, pending examination of any revisions by Iheir county counleiparls. By PAUL KRZA ROCK SPRINGS Approval has been withheld for a proposed subdivision which borders on the city's north limits. A request for approval of the preliminary plat for the Moun-tainaire Subdivision was tabled at this week's meeting of the Sweetwater County planning and Zoning Commission.

A motion approved by the commission asked that the developers, Mesa Investments of Rock Springs, submit alternative plans for later consideration. Mountainaire Is composed of 118 one-acre single family lots on which either mobile homes or houses are to be placed, 16 commercial-residential 1 'A -acre lots where a person can both live and carry on business, and a tract reserved entirely for commercial development. It is located In the one-half mile jurisdiction area of the city, and within a one-mile radius where a stale subdivision law requires approval from both city and county planning and zoning agencies. In tabling the request, the commissioners expressed concern about the presence of a Union Pacific Corp. drill site on a public street.

There are three such drill sites in the subdivision, where the UP has reserved areas in case it desires to explore for minerals, which is a standard provision when it stills land. Commissioner Tex Juscrson said though chances of UP ever PSC approves raise CHKYKNNK Trans-American Airways passengers and shippers will be paying higher fares. The Wyoming Public Service Commission Thursday approved the air carrier's application to increase passenger fares for the Gillette-Casper run by one-way, and $6.04 round trip. The new freight fare for the (iillelle-Caspcr, Casper-Douglas, and Douglas-Gillette schedule represent an increase of $2.56 for 1--2aibs. and I4.rlh.

over 20 lbs. for single segment flights. For double or triple segment flights, the minimum will be $15 for 1-10 lbs. and Z0flb. over 10 Ibfj.

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