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B2 Casper Star-Tribune WYOMING Saturday, June 3, 2006 CATTLE: Quarantine could be lifted if cattle were vaccinated for brucellosis or spayed mum penalty for this intentional violation of Wyoming'; import regulation." Marty Griffith and Jin Cagney, range officials witl the Wyoming Bureau of Lane Management office ir Cheyenne, confirmed late Friday afternoon that some of th( imported cattle had beer laced on a BLM grazing al-otment When the BLM was notified that state anima health regulations were noi complied with, the agency contacted the local permittees anc said, "get them off." The cattk were removed Friday afternoon. Cagney noted that the cattle won't be allowed back onto th allotment until the situation i. remedied. take time and money, and then the animals would need to recover from the procedure before shipping. Once Clark got all the information together, he slapped a quarantine on all the animals on Wednesday.

Clark said while the quarantine will be lifted if the cattle were either vaccinated for brucellosis or spayed, the parties leasing the ranches hired a licensed veterinarian to spay the animals, which began Friday and would continue for several more days. The investigation revealed that about one-quarter of the heifers were vaccinated as calves, but the majority of the animals were not. Clark said local ranchers' concerns led state officials to preparing in information for the court summons. Reached via cell phone, the broker declined to comment on the case. The executive committee of the Green River Valley Cattlemen's Association met earlier this week to discuss the matter and passed a resolution noting, "These cattle were imported illegally, intentionally, without knowledge or clearance of the state, and; this situation, if not dealt with in an expeditious and very firm manner will compromise this state's battle to reclaim marketability and reputation of Wyoming cattle." The cattlemen's association requested state officials "aggressively pursue the maxi where charges will eventually be filed.

Clark said his recommendation to the Sublette County attorney will be for a "severe" penalty, with fines in the "thousands of dollars" and with jail time. He noted that under Wyoming Livestock Board rules, each animal illegally im- orted is a violation. That's at east 920 violations in this case. "He hasn't been charged yet," Clark said. "This case is under control, and I think the situation is under control.

There is nothing else I know of we can do." Interviewed as he was completing his investigative report Friday, Clark said the report will be used by the Sublette County attorney's office in demand the cattle be tested for brucellosis, in addition to the spaying. Once the spaying is complete and if the blood tests come back disease-free, the quarantine will be lifted. But the legal ramifications are just beginning. The cattle broker is a licensed Utah Jive-stock dealer. The trucking com- Eany involved in the matter is ased in Logan, Utah.

Clark emphasized that the trucking company was cooperative in the investigation, but two citations will be issued to each of the drivers of the 16 loads of cattle for not having health inspections and permits. Each citation carries a $210 fine. Clark said the broker will receive a summons to appear in court in Sublette County, model of his plane brought back Continued from B1 revealed that two Sublette County ranches had been leased by parties not implicated in the case. These parties had contacted a cattle broker from Woodruff, who arranged to have cattle delivered for summer grazing. The cattle are actually owned by two individuals in Utah who are also not implicated in the case.

Clark said to comply with Wyoming's animal health rules, the cattle broker would have had to either work with the Wyoming state veterinarian's office in testing and adult-vaccinating the cattle, or have the animals spayed before shipping into Wyoming. "It would be a nuisance" to spay, Clark said, as it would PILOT: Seeing a Continued from B1 including the day he notched his first victory, July 6, 1944. "We were on a joint mission, there were three squadrons involved, and as we came out after finishing a dive bombing and strafing mission, we got a little bit split up, especially my squae'ron," Mil-liken said. "There were 11 (German) 190s from an air base very close by, and they came in and attacked and shot down two guys out of our flight of four. One parachuted, and one was killed going down." The squadron' members heard a call for help, and as they went to the area, they could see tracers being fired and two planes on fire with several parachutes in the air.

As they joined the fight, Mil-liken and his element leader closed in on a 190 and set him on fire, "We started talking on the radio, saying, 'I got one, I got I never will forget that," Milliken said. Right after that, Milliken told the element leader to break right because there were Every time he pulled up, I would fire a short burst. He made a turn to the right, went over some trees and then pulled up sharply to the left and leveled off I was right behind him and bailed out." The 190 went down to the ground after the German pulled his parachute. Forty years later, Milliken found out that the man he was chasing was Wolfgang Ernst, a German ace only two months older than Milliken, who had gotten his 29th victory that day. Ernst broke his arm on the ejection when he hit his arm on the tail, and after it healed, he would come back to score six more victories against the Americans in the war.

Mementos Two years ago, Milliken and his son went to France to the small town of Mont Marie where the dogfight took place. A Frenchman they had met on a trip two years earlier, Jean-Claude Clouet, had been doing research on the significant dogfights of the European The-. memories ater. Clouet had found the wreckage of a German 190 in the area, and after piecing together the clues, Milliken determined that the plane Clouet found was the plane he shot down on his first dogfight. Milliken now has a piece of that plane, a mangled piece of aluminum that was once the fuse box on the 190.

"That was an exciting time, of course," Milliken said. "I was genuinely surprised when I found out that (Ernst) had all those victories, because I chased him down and out-turned him and shot him down." Milliken continues to research the events he was involved in during the war. He has many books, articles and pictures about the dogfights and has even been honored at events for his accomplishments. He and his wife Zella's house is full of P-38 memorabilia, but the model made by Corgi is a first. "That was really amazing to have that happen and have no idea it was being done," Milliken said.

In House District 36, Republican Gerald Gay once again faces Democrat Liz Gentile. Gay currently holds the seat after defeating incumbent Gentile in 2004 by four points. Gentile ousted Gay in 2002 after his first term in office. TEACHERS Continued from B1 experiment. In his own experience as a history teacher, the speaker said, "My students will come into class with almost religious convictions about what they think they understand about what happened in our country.

Sometimes we have to offer our students emotional support as they begin to encounter challenges to some deeply held paradigm." The object, he said, is to "put the learners into a situation in which their existing mental models will not work. Also, the learner actually has to care that their existing mental model does not work." Bain also told also of a lecture he gave in the 1940s to his class on American diplomatic history about Woodrow Wilson and the Versailles Treaty at the end of World War I. He thought it was a fascinating subject, how the country's stubborn 28th president fought for the treaty, suffered a stroke on his return to Washington, and finally urged his supporters to oppose Senate ratification because the pact had been amended and he wanted it all his own way. When Bain was finished, one of the brightest students in the class walked up to his desk and asked, "Who cares?" "I was devastated," he said. "But what we have to do is find those big questions- that our students are interested in." A relevant question in the 1940s, he said, was whether "it Two districts to have new faces Elsewhere in Casper, Sen.

John Barrasso, a Republican, is running unopposed for reelection in Senate District 27. In the House, District 58 is open to newcomers with Democrat Ann Robinson's decision to seek the position of Natrona County Clerk. Vying for her open seat are Republicans Sgt. Doug Beran of the Casper Police Department and Lisa Shepperson, along with Democrat Cynthia Li. By LESLEY LIPSKA Star-Tribune staff writer Two Casper legislative districts are open to new candidates this year, as incumbent legislators aren't seeking reelection.

In Senate District 29, former Casper mayor and state legislator Larry R. Clapp, a Democrat, will face Natrona County Commission Chairman Drew A. Perkins, a Republi was possible for anybody to have done anything back in 1919 that would have made a difference in 1939 and the coming of World War II, and the 40 million who died in that war." Bain also told about driving a niece from Austin to San Antonio, Texas, when she was 5 years old. It's about an 78: mile trip, and "she asked me about 7,800 questions," he said. They were all about a subject she didn't even know the name for.

They were about astronomy: "Where are the stars during the day? Where is the sun at night? Why is there a sunset?" He encountered the niece at a family reunion years later when she was a junior in college and asked her what she was studying. She made a wry face and said she had to take a required course in astronomy. "Something tragic had hap- Eened to her," Bain said. "She ad gone to school, in the process of which she had lost her childlike curiosity, and didn't care any more." However, the story has a happy ending. The last time he met her, she told him she is now an eighth-grade teacher, and she teaches astronomy.

"That course she took revived her interest in the subject," Bain said. "There was a 5-year-old inside her." Star-Tribune correspondent W. Dale Nelson can be reached at wdnelsonbresnan.net. I enemies on his tail. He left him and turned toward the plane that was coming for him.

Luckily for Milliken, he had a G-suit on that day, which forced blood up out of his midsection so he wouldn't black out. That enabled him to make a tight turn and evade the 190 on his tail. "Everything was working, I was really out-turning him," Milliken said. "The second one, I pulled my sights through him and he rolled over in a Split-S and dived." He then looked to the left to see another enemy shooting at a U.S. pilot who had bailed.

He went and cut him off, and then that enemy dove. Milliken followed him and eventually caught up to him when he turned. Milliken said he may not have been able to catch him if he had kept flying straight. "He turned and I cut him off and got behind him. He went over a power line then he hit the deck and was flying at a very low altitude, and he flew up and over a haystack trying to get away from me.

can, for the seat long held by Republican Bill Hawks. Clapp said he wants to reduce escalating residential property taxes and find ways for the state to mitigate high gasoline, natural gas and prescription drug costs for residents. Perkins, on the other hand, said his priorities would be to keep the expansion of government in check, delegate responsibilities to the local level and monitor state spending. -2 Smith, author 6f'fX i i. iie rroua; ft lessons all i Learn to do offered at Join Bustard's Funeral Home and Crematory along with Larry Cappetto In celebrating the lives of veterans Tuesday June 6, 2006 at 6:30 P.M.

Highland Park Community Church Admission is Free, one hour presentation "Omaha Beach D-day Volume Two" Special Guest and keynote speaker Larry Capetto, Producer of the powerful DVD documentary series "Lest They Be Forgotten" Teacher Salaries What do the salary Increases mean for your child's future? Cabinet Making If yourself through courses Junior colleges. Read more in Home Garden Welcome to Boot Camp Bv Larry Smith Contributing Editor Larry i i T-i r- me new pook i ne reu ana 11 I Marine Corps Drill Instructors in Their Own Words, discusses how drill 1 i Our gift to For Marine-and that there are of us can learn from them. you in honor of those who gave so much our country and the Greater Good Don't Let Hidden Fees Pick Your Pocket By Lynn Brenner Many of us don't pay much attention and are paying more than the sticker price these days-on just about everything. Here are six tips that can help you become a smarter consumer and avoid paying for what you don't really need. jyustord'a SCariTribune i.

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