C 0NTINUINO THE CROOK COUNTY NEWS
~JIdDANOE, WYOMING 82729
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Official Newspaper for Creek County,
City of Sundance and U. S. Land Office
Sixty-Ninth Year Number 38
THURSDAY, SEPT. 21, 1967
DENISE CLINTON
~a~Y~f~I is continuing to check call .authorities.
.~Vils Tower area .this week At that time, the suspect was
a skeleton ,found in that described as between 5 feet 10
~t: $Ul 27 was identified
~'~d 'y inches and 6 feet .tall, weighing
. a~¢ as th, at of Denise Clint- abou`t 180 pounds, wi.th dirty
~ne-year-old Independence,
blonde ,hair and deep ,blue eyes,
' girl. I
lh~tifica*tion of ~che girl was right handed and very ,polite. He
~vas then estimated at 30 years
~/ae. ,b.y ~;he FBI. The little girl old, .appeared to be .smoking Phil-
.~elZed July 8, 1965 :by a ,gun- ip Morris .cigarettes and was be-
VCho lobbed her grandpar-
lieved
to
have
been
driving
a
,~a motel a,long U. S. 71 in
dence ~tbout 15 miles white 1959 Oldsmobile.
~, .dOWn¢own Kansas City. The
tl~ala~ been under investiga-
~,~, ~Y the FBI rsince then.
After a week of stormy wea-
ther in ~hich Sundance received
3Vz inches of rain, ,the sun finally
shone Wednesday.
WJhile temperatures were on
the cool side, by some miracle the
area escaped any ,frost or snow.
The drenching rain reduced the
Chrea,t of fires in forests and
grasslands.
Heaviest amount of rain was
recorded Thursday when one inch
,was recorded, Nearly 2Vz inches
fell during the ,three-day period
from Thursday to Saturday.
Temperatures failed to ,exceed
58 during the week with a low of
32 bcing posted Sept. 12.
Max. Min. Prec.
Sept. 12 .............. 42 32 0
Sept. 13 ................. 46 -- .55
Sel~t. 14 47 34 1.00
Sep,t. 15 .... 50 34 .60
Sep¢. 16 ......... 50 40 .84
Sept. 17 ,__ 58- 40 .15
Sept. 18 ........... 57 45 .34
Stolen Car Is
Found Abandoned
A car stolen in Lovell Satur-
day night was found abandoned
Sunday near Beulah.
Sheriff Henry 0udin, who
found the ear, said it was aban-
doned in Wyomir~g at the W~yo-
ming~.~outh Dakota line just east
o,f Beulah.
Sundance voters will go to the
polls Tuesday to rhake a decision
on a special $18,000 bond issue.
If the bond issue ,is approved,
t,he $18,000 raised by ~che sale of
general obligation bonds will be
used to purchase and equip a
new fire truck for ,the city.
Voting hours avill be from 9
a.m. to 7 p.m. aviCch voters in
Precinct No. 1 - Northside voting
~at the city hall and Precinct No.
1 - Southside residents voting in
.the Methodist ,church basement.
In order to pass, Che bond is-
sue must be approved by both
.property .and non-prape~y own-
ers.
The election ends several
months of ,discussion by the Sun-
dance City Council on :the prob-
lem of a new truck. The council
set up the :bond issue election at
its Augus£ meeting.
At that meeting, ,the council
discussed the merits of a fully-
Award at Doug
Posting an all4ime record score
of 234 points, the Bear Lod,.,~e
FFA chap,ler ,won lhe farm me-
chanics award in the FFA division
of the Wyoming State Fair.
Chapter adviser Dick IIubbard
said the local chapter is the first
in the s,tate to exceed 200 points.
The Bear Lodge chapter took 30
farm mechanics exhibits to the
state fair and all placed in the
top four places.
Hubbard said 15 of the exhibits
won blue ribbons. The exhibits
also won six red, five whi.te and
four pink. The chapter received
a ~rophy for winning the farm
mechanics.
.Overall in all divisions, the
Bear Lodge chapter pta~ed fifth.
The chal)ter placed sixth in dairy
and eighth in agronomy. Nor-
man Ly,tle showed the reserve
champion Brown Swiss cow.
equipped 500,gallon ,pumper and
a 750-gallon ur~it to be equLpped
initially with existing hoses and
accessories.
Council members finally ao .
greed, if the bond issue is ap-
proved, to leave the speci£1ca-
tions open and ask bidders ¢o of-
fer proposals ~ov e~ther or both
unRs with optional equipment.
Driver Injured
Inl-90 Accident
A Brownsfield, Tex. man, Gil-
bert Archibald, escaped serious
injury Tuesday morning when his
car left 1-90 east of Moorcroft and
landed in Wind Creek.
State ,Highway Patrolman Bill
Conley said Archibald, driving a
Wolkswagen, fell asleep. The ac-
cident occurred six miles east of
Moorcroft at lhe Wind Creek in-
terchange as Archibald was east-
bound.
Conley said the car left the
right side of the .highway, rolled
once, jumped ~the right of way
~ence and landed on its cop in
Wind Creek. The car was a total
loss.
Archibald was thro,wn from the
ear and received cuts on his nose
and forehead. He was treated at
the Campbell County Memorial
ttospital in Gillette.
TV Association
To Meet
Election of officers and se~ting
of 1968 dues ,will feature a meet-
ing of the Sundance Television
Association Friday nigh`t. Th~
meeting will be held at Security
Trust and Title .Co. startin,g at 8
p.m.
In other business, 1:he associa-
,tion will also consider Che pttr-
eha~e of a transistorized transla-
`tor for 'Channel 9.
~erif~ ~enry Oudin said
~.les Gunter and George Ma-
IWi~,..l~BI a gen,ts from Casper,
Ii :,'.~ ~here Thursday Gunter
~th~ here th~s week, ,talking
~t residents in the Devils Tow-
l~l~re~ and searching for leads
,L~ n~W the ,body got there.
Skeleton was discovered in
.by ranchers, Dick Sha~w
~ke Kelley, on the Maurice
er ranch just west of Devils
.r National Monumen.t.
ts girl, a reddish blonde with
~es and freckles across her
, nod been asleep on a eou.ch
!r~m next ,to .that of her
arents who were manag-
. mote']. She wore a blue
aite checkered nightgown.
,robber.kidnapper took $246
,toe couple and bound and
~aem bu.t the couple were
~ase themselves and
!O emakers Club
embers Invited
r Gillette A-Day
,Extension Home-
mem,bers .have been
~o attend the Campbell
Omernakers ~Achievement
~illette Saturday.
Home Economist Vir-
said the event will
• t ~;he Campbell county
~vich registration at
arid a hmeheon at
:said Crook eourtty
~vLL1 be guests at the
Incerested women are
contact ~he coun,ty Ex-
~ffice here.
The bare steel bones of the new
Crook county courthouse rise
against the sky as Weber Con-
struction Co. goes ahead with the
building.
Jack Newhouser, project super-
intendant, said Wednesday that
erection of steel is finished and
the steel decking laid. He said
pouring of the first floor slab will
be started Friday morning.
Bricklayers started on the ex-
terior walls Wednesday and New.
houser estimated that with a
break from th~ weather the build-
ing could be enclosed .in two
weeks.
Other work is going on in the
basement where the electrical
contractor is making electrical
runs and the sheet metal con-
tractor is installing duct work.
