Jones and
to right, were
scenes last Saturday
all the delicious beef that
~ comu~ty
'. ~ine 60 lb. chucks were bar.
Community Day con.
not listed last week
Bear Lodge SuewmobUe
Mrs. Mildred Curt-
aad Mrs. Geor~ Bengte,
Mr. ami Mrs. Francis Hejde, Odd
Fellows Lodge No. 18, ~L"s and
Kara Mountain Kids 4-H Club.
Other Smdance Commercial
Club members who made dona-
fleas to the event in addition to
their membership dues were+ B &
M Ameciates, Carman Machine,
Security Trust and Title, Snn.
danoe T~aoo Service and gum'.
gy Ekc/ric.
Contest
Close
voters turned out in
numbers for Tuesday's
and when the firing was
had smashed several
apparently
nomination
Dick Jones, Cody,
the narrowe~ of mar-
Big Horn rancher Mal-
445 of the state's 450 pro-
Jones had 15,387
14,975. Roy Peck
14,113 while Bud
trailed Fith 13,987.
Democrats gave the
nomination to Ed
He piled up 19, ,530
to r~l home handily over
Res.idem
Inlury
Car Crash
Harry I,dmbeck, 14,872, aad John
J. Rooney, 7,636.
Other unofficiM results on the
state level were:
U. S. REPRESENTATIVE
Republican
Stroock 36,387; Johnson 8,480;
Hamburg 3,221.
Democrat
Ronca~'o, 32,329.
SECRETARY OF STATE
Republican
Thov~on 51,160.
Democrat
Carroll 20,881; Crane 14,001
STATE AUDITOR
Republican
Griffits ,48,971.
STAATE TREASURER
Republican
Witzenburger 46,478.
Democrat
Phelan 22,146. Adams 17,387.
STATE SUPT.
Republican
Schrader 47, 145~
Democrat
Spigel 19,194. Seyfang 16,136.
Stmdance re~ddent
escaped death
• Senior Citizens
an accident 25 miles
~ Torrington.
D w, Program Here
her mother,
Brimmor, here and To Be Discussed
nephew Lov~e Newman
at the Torrmgton
a.fter the crash. Locmie
cracked a shoulder
the accident and both
bnfises. Neither re-
sam Tuesday
occurred as Mrs.
was starting to pass a
truck The truck pulled
another car and
her Stephens applied the
car flipped five times
Was demolisl/ed.
A senior citizens program will
-be discussed here Friday during
the visit of two members of the
Eastern Wyoming Area Agency
on Aging, Caspor.
Meeting here with interested
persons will be Mrs. Jacelyn
Howard, director, and Mrs. Eve-
lyn Kay, coordinator. They will
be in the courthome juryroom .at
11 a.m. to visit with people mr
terested in a program for Croook
county senior citizens.
The S UNDA NCE TIMES
CONTINUINO THE CROOK COUNTY ,NEWS oma.w U,~pap, r eor Crook ComW,
City of Send-nee aml U. S. Lead Oqfliee
IUNDANCE, WYOMING 82729
IN THE BLACK HILLS FIFTEEI~ CENTS Seventy.Sixth Year No. 34
OF WYOMING , PER COPY THURSDAY, AUGUST 22, 1974
Surprises are Feature
Of County Primary
Crook county voters turned out
in near-record numbers in cool
weather Tuesday and caused
some surprising results in the
primary election. Over 1600 hal-
lots were cast in the election
which covered national, state,
county and school board seats.
Crook county Republicans gave
strong support to Malcolm Wal-
lop in his bid for tahe 'party's
nonfina~ion for governor.
Wallop
piled up 527 votes in the county
to easily lead Dick Jones, who
had 288.
Tom Strouck won handily in the
county totaling 802 votes to win
easily over two othe~ challengers.
The county's Republicans de-
feated one incumbent and also
caused s~ne other incumbents a
few anxious moments.
Clerk of Court Marion Cure,
who was seeking her fifth term
in office, was ~feated 980-370 by
Mrs. Bin,lab Rich~rds, New Ha-
ve~.
Present Republican county com-
missioners Joe Svoboda and Neal
Garman won nomination. Svo-
beda, Alva, was never in trouble,
lea~ng ~
the way and piling
up 95) votes.
Garman, current chairman of
the Board of Omuty Commission-
ers, Wailed Hulett rancher Mar-
vin Snook most of the evening
before taking the lead in the late
returns.
In other action, Ira Rcadifer
received the Rblmblican nomina-
tion for county clerk, defeating
Martha Bailey 760-478. Cotmt~
Clerk Francis (Red) Hejde, who
has held the office for 38 years,
did not seek election.
Loug-time state representative
Nels Smith, Sundance, had a
tussle to win the nomination for
the seat in the state "legislature.
Sundance rancher Ted Orr, who
challenged Smith, trailed inthe
early returns lint came on strong
at the end and made the contest
dose. Smith had an edge of
7{)4-654.
Unopposed Republicans win-
ning nomination were Thyra
~nmzson, secretary of state; Jim
Griffith, state auditor; Ed Wit-
zeMmrger, state treasurer; Rob-
ere Schrader, state superintead-
ent; State Sen. Earl Otristeasen;
Coroner Alan Roberts;. Sheriff
John Peterson; and Assessor Vic
Cole.
Democrats
Ruth Jones Tops no
elsie, s to make oB, the county
level affecting county offices.
Moorcroft Voting
However, they backed Ed Her-
sclder for nomination as gover-
nor and gave other nominations
A rash of write-in votes lea- to Charles Carroll, secretary of
tured the Moo~creft city election
in Tuesday's primary election.
In the mayor's contest, Mrs.
Ruth Jones piled up 128 votes,
all write-ins, to lead Raymond
Petersen, who had 96. Bo~ will
appear on the November ballot,
Leading the way for four-year
terms as com~ilmen were David
No rman~ 190, and Robert Smoot,
182. Dick Clam" rolled up 226
votes for the two-year term mon
the co~cil.
,Receiving one write4a vote
each for the two-year term were
Harold Darnell, Jack Hughes,
John Doe, Carl Seebanm and Lyle
Riley.
state; Bob Adams, state treas-
urer; and John Seyfang, ~ate
superintendent.
Do~aldno~ed Democrats were
e and Floyd Brunson,
county commissioner; Curt Mo-
berg, county clerk; Richard
Macy, county attorney; and
Karen Glover, county treasurer;
and Rep. Teno Roncalio.
School Board
Crook county voters al S o
named four school board mem-
bers with the hottest race occur-
ring for the one-year unexpired
term in Hulett Area No. 2. Rich-
ard (Dean) Bush came from
behind to defeat Ted Wilson, who
iS currently serving on the board.
Reynard Mills won handily in
Moorcroft Area No. 6, polling
1271 ballots. Robert Up~.e,
who waged a write-in campmgn,
tallied 253.
Mrs. Cleo Rober~ won re.elec-
rico ~o the board in Sundance
(Cjmlm~l m Last Page, ~ I)
Moorcroft Bank
Application is
Given Approval
Stare Examiner Dwight
ham Monday ~
ai of the appticafion for state
cha.z~ of t~e proposod Mo~.
• croft State Bank at
lkvhara ~d ~e awro~ ~
subject to notification of
Fedea~ Reserve System.
~ are ~a~ B.
Willis A. t'~l~es, Cha.rl~ m.
lard, Alden C. Rob~ Thomas
L. Whitley, Bernard E. Sdmricht,
Woodrow Petemen, Stuart En-
+ DeWolf, Ancil E. Sisson, Edwi~
R. Jones, Leo ~ mad
Prentias A. Hail.
Rshing Derby
Planned Saturday
The Sundance Rod and Cam
Club is sponmring a "
at 1 p.m. and last until 4:30 p.m.
Fo~ the three and oue-
half hour test of fishing skills,
prizes will be awarded in divi-
sions to the fishermen who causht
the first, biggest, ~alleet. m~!
most fish. ,
Registration will be held Satur-
day prior to the contest.
School Halls Become
Alive Again Wednesday
School bells will toll for the
first time in O.ree months Wed-
nesday as ~a~ begin anew for
the 1974-75 school year.
Buses will run regular sched-
ules and school lunches will be,
served, however students will be
&smissed early the first after-
noon with the first full day sched-
uled for Thursday, Aug. 29.
Junior high ~ have com-
pleted regnstration and senior
high studen~ will be registering
Tuesday using the following
schedule: seniors, 10:30 elm. to
noon; jurdors, 1-2 p.m.; sopho-
mores, 2-3 p.m., and freshmen,
3-4 p.m.
Though classes won't start un-
til Wednesday, the first signs
that school was not far off were
etched onto the scene last week
as the football team started
workouts and the marching band
~han drills.
ool activities will begin im-
mediately as the first football
game is scheduled Friday, Aug.
Stevens
Teadm~
Five new elementary teachers
and two high school teachers
have jvb~od the Sundance school
staff.
Sc~ teachers in the elementary
system are: Mrs. Joceiyn
Smith, Grade 3; Mrs. Elaine Al-
bert, Grade 4; Dennis Vail,
Grade S; Mrs. Cheryl Wales,
music, and Betty Shonn, special
omr.ation. Mrs. Valery McDon-
Md, who was last year's speech
therapy intern, has returned and
Weather
Maz. Min. Prec.
Aug. 13 ..~ ............... 78 50 .29
Aug. 14 ................. 75 52 .34
Aug. 15 ............... 74 41 0
Aug. 16 ............ 77 46 0
Aug. 17 ............. 8O 47 0
Aug. 18 ................. 83 46 0
Aug. 19 .................. 90 62 0
will be the speech therapist.
The 1974 Sonth Dakota State
Un]versit~ graduates are begtm-
ntug their ~ od=~m
teaching professions here. Chris-
tine Nelson will be ~ Eng-
lish and will coach the debate
team and Deborah Textey will
be girl's albletic coach as well
as elementary and junior and
sen~or high girl's physical edu-
cation instructor.
Retamlag Teadmm
areRe.. Mrstm~. acqelomentary teachers
ueline Mclneraw,
KindergarUm; Mrs. Ruth Hib-
bard-and Mrs. Lincla Petersou,
Grade 1; Miss Sylvia Draine and
Mrs. Maxine Ripley, Grade 2;
Walter Qtdllian, Grade 3; Mrs.
Dee Hoist, Grade 4; Mrs. Mil-
dred Cun~, Grade S. and Terry
King,~_ Edward ~gnery,
Grade 6.
Others returning with spe¢_ ial
classes are: Mrs. Verna Mille~,
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