-. ' " OFFICIAL PAPER
! for Crook County,
oL, FREEDOM1 J ' Town of Sundance,
_ ] I coa r/M//y " --- c'ou r:Y #'ws U.S. Land Office
VOLUME LV SUNDANCE, WYOMING THURSDAY, FEBRAURY 21, 1952 Number 8
i
h Crook. county sportsmen will*
ave a chance to make recommen-
dations for the 1952 hunting sea-
son in this area on Feb. 25.
The Crook County Wildlife As-
sociation has called a meeting for
that date at 8 p.m. in the court-
room of the courthouse in Sun-
dance to present recommendations
for the 1952 hunting season.
! Association members and other
interested persons will meet with
members of the state Game and
Fish Commission to discuss the
~ season desired by hunters in this
area.
Attending the meeting will be
Ken Martin, district game warden,
of Sheridan, Harry Brockley, New-
Castle game war'ten, Bill Und~r-
wooa of Gillette, a member of the
~ame and Fish Commission, and
Marshall Young, deputy game war-
aen of Sundance.
Besides discussing the 1952 hunt-
!ng season, the 1952 officers of the
Wildlife Association wiil be elect-
ed. Association officers urge all
hunters to attend the meeting.
~f ~ Membership in the association is
open t...__ o anyone in the county.
inges
Set to
Fund Disposal
, i , im~
New Athletic Lockers for High School
Final disposition of the plans
for a Crook County Memorial Hos-
pital will be made at a meeting of
the Crook County Memorial Ho:;-
pital Association at the Sundance
city hall at 8 p.m. Feb. 28. All in-
terested persons are urged to at-
tend.
Since the $15,000 in required
funds was never raised, the meet-
ing will decide what is to be done
with the funds already collected.
Members of the association will
vote on whether to keep the money
or return it.
Plans for a county memori.~l
hospital were formulated in Feb-
ruary 1948 with the hospital to tm
located in Sundance. I~efore the-
county would help with the oro-
posed project, it was necessary for
Sundance to raise $15,000.
The city was unable to raise the
required $15,000. Figures released
--- - .- prin 'l'it'e Weather by Bertha
Frolander, treasurer of
Nipped In Bud
the association, show that $3,379
was donated in cash toward the
hospital. Another $3965 was rais-
Snow, Dense Fog
ed through pledges, but still left
The snr'---,- ..... half of the needed money un-
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the: nestled over Sundance and
e rest of the countY for several Sundance Gets$360
days came to a gloomy, fog-shroud- m h r
ed ending last Sunday The fo As
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thie:~ernoon and by night, the Figures showin~ the breakdown I Since the new Sundance high school gymnasium was built, the
and c~...na~a coated trees, wires of the December 1951 cigarette[athletes of the school have been without the convenience of lockers.
On"'~ion~na thick coat of.frost, tax money reveal that Sundance I Members of the general shop class of the high school are now hard at
nleasurin,"U~y,, snow,..°mClahy received $360.55, Moorcroft $213.-Iwork on lockers for the gymnasium.
The mo,~ u ne. men, (lrffted down. 86 and Hulett $55. As its share,[ Under the direction of Vernon Dick, high school instructor, they
also dr~ft~e~trYa in the thermometers Crook county received $143 17 [have started the construction of wooden lockers to be used by high
below M°nda;WnigntP!unging to four In all, $20,464.70 was distributed" " l school athletes and physical education classes• The new lockers are
The readin~. " , to incorporated towns, and $29,- [ 16 feet long and, when co/npleted, will have 36 compartments.
-"~'~" _ I 077.73 to eight incorporated cities. [ Pictured above is the skeleton frame of the new lockers, material
Feb. 12 Max. Min. [ Wyoming counties received $4,- ] for which is furnished by the high school. It is believed that the 36
Feb. 13 ............................... 46 231 342.81 out of the grand total of [ locker spaces will care for the need~ of the eati~ seJ~ml athletic system.
~'eb 14 ............................ ao Z~l $59,766 24 l --Polaroid One-Minuto Photo by The Times.
Feb" 15 ............................... 30 19J " "
Feb' 16 .............................. 34 91
Feb" 17 .............................. 35 12
Feb" 18 ........................... 40 ,17 *
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tdance Jr.
Five Goes
The Sundance junior hi h bas
ketball team w" g "
t,,-~^- _ , ]th two straight vic-
"'=s under its belt, moved into
BUffalo Feb 22 to take art in
twentieth a" P the
basketball nniversary junior high
tournament.
The Bullpups will tan le
l~Pton on Fri~ -- g with
-,.. uay atternoon at 2:00
uClnolr T__ __
falo-~l'a,~:4 ~he ..same bracket, Buf-
s~ wOOaland ark T
er br .... P • he oth-
uezet will have Ne
against Midwes wcastle
' t
- and Gillette meet-
la~ I'Ioly Name.
Cl~e Sundanc_e club, under Coach
. "~ ~llen, has been
naProv' • gradually
last t~ mg m every start. In their
• aree outings, the 'v ,,
~r~ three ~a ~_~ Y e engaoed
--'-,, anu Wooly aftairs
and added several ra h
Coach Allen's head g y ai~s to
After bein- -" -" -
ill 0 ...... S raPPed by Moorcroft
Squeeze~'~e, 20-18, the Bullpups
t~ • . s upton 30-29, and in
ue]r last game, the bree
zn front of • y zed home
the Gillette crew 27-23.
The traveling squad na
ma reed to
ke the
Fall ,~--Buffalo trip is: Alvi
.Rai~h~ ~kn~Y l~eag!e, Russell Trac[~n
Tre . r
~uzer, Dale Mitts, Mickey
Lau~'l.:buck Shewed,, Larry MO-
B ..... "' ~uy Fowler T
enaiek a.a ..... ommy
ager. "" zame Lindsey, man
Sundance Red Cross ? ° Polio Drive Nets
Quota Set at $350 County Farm Bureau $700 In Sundance
Quotas for the Red Cross drive Directors Name Ruth Results of the polio drive in
which gets underway in March Frolander As Agent Crook county are not yet in, but
have been announced by Mrs. Bes- the latest figures show that $700
sie Hauber of Moorcroft, Crook The board of directors of the has been collected in Sundance ex-
county Red Cross chairman. Crook County Farm Bureau at elusive of the funds that were
The qouta for Crook county has their meeting on Feb. 16 selected raised on the sale of the cedar
been placed at $960. The Sun-
dance share in the drive has been
pegged at $350. Other quotas show
$350 for Moorcroft and $260 for
Hulett.
Mrs. Helen Smith is the Ret
Cross chairman for Sundance. Oth-
er community chairmen in the
county will be announced short-
ly. Assisting Mrs. Smith in Sun-
dance are Mrs. A. J. Katches, Mrs.
Harry Nixon, Mrs. A. B. Durfee,
Mrs. Ted Rounds, Mrs. Harry Da-
vis, Mrs. Reuben Necklason and
Mrs. Ca M_._ayer__ _____
Donations of Friends
Sought for Memorial
Plans for a memorial at the Sun-
dance Methodist church honorin~i
the late Mrs. D. 'B. Hilton are be-
ing formed. Friends who are in-
terested in contributing to the Mrs.
D. B. Hilton Memorial altar set
should send their contributions to
Mrs. Hazel Kelly in Sundance.
Miss Ruth Frolander as a special
insurance agent for Crook county
for the Agricultural Indemnity and
Insurance Companies of Wyoming.
John Clay, manager of the compa-
nies attended the meeting and
spoke to the directors about the
progress being made by the coin-
panics.
The board of directors also heard
other speakers. George ttarston,
state entomologist, spoke on weed
and pest control and the possibil-
ities of forming a weed and pest
~control district in the county.
i George Cavin, field supervisor for
:the state entomologist and grass-
hopper control division said that
grasshopper funds would not be
available in 1952 unless further de-
velopments made funds available.
WiIlet Keyser, county agent,
spoke on the highway safety pro-
gram as proposed by Gov. Barrett
and as outlined by Col. Malcolm
Craig at the county safety meeting
held in Sundance Feb. 14.
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chest.
Mrs. David Seeley, chairman of
the drive, has requested all com-
munities in the county who have
been collecting fuv.qs for the
March of Dimes to send in their
'collections to her.
The chairman wants to send the
National Foundation of Infantile
Paralysis their share of the funds
by March 1. One-half of the money
raised goes to the National Found-
ation.
The March of Dimes opened in
Crook county Jan. 2 sponsored by
the Give and Gain Homemakers
club of Sundance. The county quo-
ta was set at $2300.
Various events have been l~eld
in Sundance to raise funds for
the polio drive. Among the events
have been card parties, bake sales
and basketball games. This Friday
a polio benefit dance and bake
sale will be held at the Legion hall
to give the dr:,,e one last boost.
'raft:ic
Skyhigh
1951 Traffic Rate
5th Worst In Nation
Col. Malcolm Craig, Wyoming's
director of highway safety, dis-
cussing Gov. Barrett's highway
safety program in Sundance on
Feb. 14 at Crook County's first
safety conference, declared, "There
is no question as to what can be
accomplished if we put our shouI-
ders to the wheel."
Col. Craig then went on to out-
line such provisions of the safety
program as what is going to be
done, who is going to do it and how
it is going to be done.
Speaking in the Sundance higl~
school gymnasium to an audience
of 70 that included the county
safety committee and representa-
tives from various county organiza-
tions, the Wyoming highway safety"
director said emphatically that
success of the safety program rests
squarely with the people of Wyo-
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J
Legs Broken When
Log Rolls on Him
Fred Crisman, Sundance ranch-
er, was seriously injured Satur-
day afternoon when a log rolled
from a bobsled and fell across his
legs, breaking them--one in two
places. He is in the Deadwoo~i
hospital where his condition is re-
ported as critical.
The accident occurred while
Crisman was taking a log to his
sawmill. He was holding the log
on the sled with a canthook, afire"
unchaining it, when the log began
to slip.
Unable to hold the log with the
hook, Crisman tried to move out
of the way but was hampered by
the deep snow. The log fell across
his thighs, pinning him to the
~round where he remained for
thirty minutes until he was dis-
covered. He was rushed to the
Deadwood hospital in the C. D.
Roberts ambulance,
At the hospital, he was found to
have both legs broken at the thighs
and one ankle broken. Shock and
other complications increased the
seriousness of his injury. He was
given blood transfusions and plac-
ed on the danger list.
Neighbor Night Is
Attended by O er 200;
Sponsored by Co-op
A Co-op Neighbor Night was
~bserved by the Hulett Co-op o~t
Feb. 18. About 200 people attend-
ed the celebration.
After a play was presented by
the Barlow Canyon school, the
audience heard talks by George
Harston, state entomologist, who
discussed weed control, and Rex
Johnson who spoke on co-ops.
Following two films, the group
heard the Neighbor Night address
of Howard Cowden, C.C.A. presi-
dent.
After the program was over, the
rest of the evening was spent in
square dancing.
