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LVI SUNDANCE. WYOMING THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1954 Number 5
ine Speakers Slated For
-Day Farm Institute Program
Schools
pt $75,000
Fund Money
tion Fund
Distributed
of $220,000 from
state equalization fund to
in Wyoming Feb. 1 was
Wednesday by the
Department of Education.
Senator A1 Harding of
president of the county
board, said that Crook
schools received $75,458 in
funds, double that of
schools in Crook
received $60,297 as com-
last year's figure of $36,-
The three high schools,
received no equalization
year, were paid $15,161
said the equalization
was especially Welcome to
m the county because of
County,s low valuation.
last session of the state
$250,000 was appropri-
In equalization money for
for qualified schools under
o The completed program of the'
two day Farmers Institute at
Moorcroft Feb. 9 and 10 was re-
leased this week by County Agent
Willet Keyser and revealed:
1. Nine featured speakers.
2. Election of 1955 Institute
committee officers.
3. Free lunches both days.
4. Entertainment by various
Farm Bureau locals.
The program for both days opens
at 10 a.m. and ends at 4 p.m. The
free lunch, sponsored by various
business firms in the county, will
be served at noon in the Moor-
croft Community hall.
Scheduled to speak during the:
first day are Don Davis, represent-
ative of the Soil Conservation Ser-
vice; A. W. Willis, Extension econ-
omist; Ken Faulkner, Extension
'Continued on Last Page, See. 1)
Highway Dept. OK's
Gravel Surfacing,.
Stockpiing Project
The Wyoming highway depart-
ment said last week that it has
accepted as completed a major
project calling for the crushing
and stockpiling of crushed gravel
surfacing in Crook and Weston
counties.
Under a contract let last Sep-
tember, the Black Hills Construc-
tion Co., Inc. stockpiled the mater-
ial at various points in the two
counties.
Highway officials said that with
the material now ready, road con-
tractors are set to handle antici-
equalization law rewritten by pated highway and road work in
last year. this area this summer.
EA Studies Million
r Clareton Line
$1,000,000 TCEA
to run new power lines
Clareton oil field was
Tuesday by TCEA man-
Lorenzen. Lorenzen
that at the pres-
only a preliminary study
raade to determine if
License Plate Sales
In County Seen
Climbing Over 1953
The sale of license plates in
Would be feasible. Crook county is likely to show an
.~1 increase this year, according to
cost figure of an~.County Treasurer Paul Yeoman.
only an estimate
Yeoman said his office would like-
Project became definite, ty sell 150 more auto license plates
Would have to approve
TCEA manager said thai
being developed for an
of lines into the Clare-
to provide adequate pew-
Well pumping as well as
and other users in the
said that Frank Squire
specialist from the
office in
D. C. had recently
Study of the area.
Lorenzen said, had
ured an additional 5,000
of POWer so the system
capacity to serve
involved in the
he said, were un-
to furnish the
out the possibilities of
the area, Lorenzen
had an investment
and was putting out
as would be
oil field.
added 5,000 kilo-
Would handle 5-6
oa L~ Page, See. I)
than it did last year.
The treasurer reported that
plates sold for cars had passed the
1100 mark while over 900 truck
registration plates had passed over
the counter. He said he expected
automobile plates to go past the
1500 mark. "
Total sales last year showed
1362 sets of car plates sold and
1262 sets for trucks.
Grocery Store Open
House Is Set by
Waiters for Friday
Free coffee and doughnuts plus
drawings for door prizes will hold
the spotlight Friday at Willie's
Food Mart in Sundance. Mr. and
Mrs. Billy Walters who purchased
Richards Grocery Feb. 1 will hold
open house at their store that day.
A $10 box of groceries and one
of $5 will be given away as door
prizes with the drawings to be
held at 4:30 p.m. Free coffee and
doughnuts will be served through-
out the day,
WEATHER
The readings:
Max. Min. Prec.
Jan. 26 .................... 24 0 0
Jan. 27 ..................... 32 6 0
Jan. 28 .................... 45 25 0
Jan. 29 .................... 38 20 .03
~an. 30 ................... 41 19 0
Jan. 31 ................... 50 ,25 0
Feb. 1 ..................... 44 25 0
Mrs. Cola Shepard,
Widow of Colony
Rancher, Dies at 61
Less than two months after her
husband Cola was killed in an
auto accident, Mrs. Ruble Shepard
of Colony died Jan. 29 in the Belle
Fourche hospital. The 61-year-old
woman had been ill for some time.
Funeral services were held
Tuesday from the Frost and Son
Funeral Home with the Rev. Har-
old Salem conducting the services.
Burial was in Pineslope cemetery
at Belle Fourche.
Born Ruble Claire Moss Feb. 8,
1892 at Lavonia, Ga., Mrs. Shep-
ard attended public school there
and later Piedmont College at
Demorest, Ga. She was also a
graduate of La Grange Female
College at LeGrange, Ga.
(Contin"ed on l,ast Page. Sec. 1)
Charge Mail Carrier
Used Mail to Defraud
The list of candidates for state
officers grew longer Saturday when
Marvin L. Bishop, Casper attor-
ney and stockman, announced his
decision to enter the Republican
race for nomination as governor. 1
Bishop, in recent weeks, had]
2
frequently been mentioned as aI
possible candidate. He is a for-]
mer member of the state legisla-~ ]
ture and a former speaker of the
House of Representatives.
Hule'tt School Bid
Openings Set Back
Week Until Feb. 18
Opening of bids for the construc-
tion of a five classroom and gym-
nasium-auditorium addition to Hul-
ett high school has been set back
one week, Frank Wagner, deputy-
secretary of the high school board
said Tuesday.
The bids will be opened by the
board at Moorcroft Feb. 18. Orig-
inally, Feb. 11 had been advertised
as the date of opening.
Enter Grocery Business
George Riehards Feb. I.
To celebrate new ownership,
free coffee and doughnuts will
be served Friday while two bas-
kets of groceries will be given
away.
Bottom photo shows Mrs.
Ruby Sager of Sundance who
will continue to be employed in
the store.
Open house will be held Fri-
day at Willie's Food Mart, form-
erly Rlchards Grocery, in Sun-
dance. New owners of the store
are Mr. and Mrs. Billy Waiters,
shown in top photo.
Waiters, a former rancher,
returned to Sundance from Buf-
falo when he purchased the
grocery store from Mr. antt Mrs.
"Bessie Mitts
I:ree on Bond
Charged with Taking
Packages from Mails
An Aladdin mail carrier, Mrs.
Bessie Mac Mitts, was arrested
here Jan. 28 by a United States
Marshal on a charge of using the
mails to defraud.
Mrs. Mitts was brought before
U. S. Commissioner Edwin Rounds
in Sundance last Thursday and
bound over to Federal Court in
Cheyenne. She is free under
$500 bond.
A complaint filed by Post Office
Inspector Howard Mattson of
Cheyenne said that Mrs. Mitts had,
under assumed names, ~ordered
goods from various mail order
houses and had taken the packages
from the mails for her own use.
Mrs. Mitts had nothing to say
following her arrest by U. S. Mar-
shal Noah W. Riley.
Three Local Breeders
Head Feb. 10 Sale
At Sturgis Ring "'
Three Sundance breeders will
be among four consignors at a
Hereford sale Feb. 10 at the Stur~
gis Livestock Exchange, Inc. The
three are Fred Cundy and Art and
Harold Schelldorf.
Thirty-four bulls and 35 females
are slated to go on the block at
2:30 p.m.
Cundy has consigned one herd
sire, seven coming two-year-old
bulls and 35 bred females. Art
Schelldorf has consigned seven
coming two-year-old bulls and Har-
old Schelldorf will sell three com-
ing two-year-old bulls.
138 Sheep
Die as Fire
Razes Sheds
Fire Jan. 27 raced through the
sheep sheds at the John Schuricht
ranch seven miles north of Moor-
croft and 138 ewes perished in the
blaze.
Origin of the fire was undeter-
mined but there was a possibility
it started from combustion in
ground feed.
The fire roared through the
sheds about 4 a.m. and was too far
advanced when discovered for the
sheep to be saved. The L-shaped
sheds were located some distance
from the house where Schurieht
and his son Bernard live.
Three Cases Heard
In Police, Justice
Courts Last Week
Two Sundance men and a Tim-
ber Lake, S. D. truck driver drew
heavy fines in Sundance Justice
and Police courts last week.
In the lone Justice Court case,
Orlo Jensen of Timber Lake, a
truck driver for the England and
Roth Construction Co. of Rapid
City, pleaded guilty Feb. 1 to a
charge of driving a truck with an
excess load following his arrest by
State Highway Patrolman D. L.
Webster.
Jensen was fined $50 and costs
by Justice of the Peace Sidney
Harvey. Justice Harvey also heard
two cases in City police court.
t In the first, Jan. 30, Steele
of Sundance to a
tcharge of
ed. He was h$'
City Marshal
Steele was
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