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Secreary of, the Interior Fred night.
Seaton speaking before 2,000 per- He said some areas might not be
sons at Devils Tower Monday out- reached for several years for the
lined the goals of Mission 66, the improvements they required. And
National Park Service's 10-year he said, in such cases, patience
improvement and development and understanding would be re-
program, quired from the public.
Seaton, who read a message from Seaton said the rewards from
President Eisenhower during the the program will be many.
Devils Tower anniversary event, He said. "The economic benefits
cited R. M. Bernd, 50th anniver- that come to communities in the
sary committee chairman, for his vicinity of national parrs and
great work in bringing about the monuments are clear to all of you
50th anniversary celebration of here."
Devils Tower National Monument.
Seaton, commenting on the fact Seaton added, "As the areas of
that he had spoken before 250,000 unspoiled open country inevitably
persons at the Fishermen's Fiesta decrease under the impact of our
in California, said, "You cannot expanding population, the Park
measure in size, the number of Service must consider expanding
people in a crowd." certain areas - such as here at
Devils Tower where ad~litional
He said, "We, ll never forget campground space is needed - and
that we banded together to mark possibly adding new areas of ha-
the 50th anniversary and mark
~some of the principles that set tional significance which are not
aside Devils Tower and "kept it now represented in the system."
down through the years."
Seaton devoted the majority of
all
his
speech to Mission 66. He said --inwAr
the ultimate goal of Mission 66 is
~'to give the American people ao( Continued from First Page)
park system adequate in all ways
necessary for their enjoyment and Sen. Al Harding of Moorcroft pre-
inspiration - a park system so de- sided as program chairman.
veloped, managed and used that Others who were introduced dur-
our children and our children's ing the meeting but did not speak
children will enjoy to the fullest included: Col. Percy H. Lash, chief
the values of their great American of the Wyoming Military district;
Heritage which the Park Service Newell Joyner, former superinten-
administers for all the people of dent at Devils To,vet; ~lan Corm,
the nation."
first woman to climb De~,ils Tower
Starts Pony Express
Devils Tower Postmaster F.
z. Owen, left, hands a special
pouch of mail to 13-year.old
Virginia Driskfll at Devils Tow.
er to open the re-enactment of
the famed Pony Express.
Miss Driskill was the first of
40 riders, who each rode five
miles in carrying the special marl
pouch from Devils Towe~" to
Casper. The Pony Expre~
event starte@ at 8 a.m. Saturday
at Devil Tower and was com-
the issuance Monday at Devils
Tower of a special commemora-
tive stamp honoring the 50th an-
niversary of Devils Tower.
In addition to Miss Driskill,
five other Crook county girls
carried the mail on the first leg
of the Pony Express from Devils
Tower to Mooreroft.
They were: Phyllis Jean Storm,
representing the Hulett Roping
Club; Jeanne Williams, Moor-
croft Riding Club; Alberta Cox;
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terests were among those
invited to~ attend.
However, the Devils Tower
perintendent emphasized that
meeting would be open
everyone would be welcome
tend.
Additional details about
meeting will be released as
as possible, McIntyre said.
Dr. R. I. Port
Receives Malor
Surgery in
Dr. R. L Port, Sundance
arian, underwent major
at St. Luke's hospital in
Tuesday morning.
Port is expected to be
ized for two or three weeks.
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BELLE FOURCHE, SO.
Friday-Saturday, Sept.
Richard Widmark
in
"THE LAST
In Cinemascope &
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"A BULLET FOR
iExpansion and improvement of using regular mountain climbing
tl~e Park Service's important inter- technique; Secretary of State Ev- pleted at 5 p.m. Sunday in Cas- Billie Proctor, 1956 Moorcroft
per. . rodeo queen; and Donna Davis,Sunday-Monday, Sept. 30,
pretive service, Seaton said, is one erett Copenhaver; State Auditor The event called attention to Frank. Sinatra
of the major goals of the Mission Minnie Mitchell; and several Na- __ ..... 1957 Moorcroft rodeo queen..
66 program, tional Park Service superintend- -- ,, m ,, ~t A,
Another Mission 66 goal is the ents including Tiny Semingsen, the special Devils Tower Commemo guests at a lunch served by the
preservation of the wilderness Wind Cave; John Rutter, Badlands, orative stamp. Sundance Commercial Club at the
qualities and primitive settings Charles Humburger, Mt. Rush- Goff, assisted by Cecil Hughes, Devils Tower picnic grounds. ~ ~ 1!
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which give the national parks and more; Da~le Hieb. Ft. Laramie, and presented special souvenir albums James Cagney - Barl~ara St~¢~:i
monuments the values which led John Jay, Theodore Roosevelt Na- containing a full sheet of the Devils in
to their establishment, tional Park. Tower stamps and signed by Post-
Seaton said a third major goal The Lowry Air Force band play- master General Summerfield to
was the providing of physical fa- ed during the special event. Myr- Bernd, Sec. Seaton, Gov. Simpson, (Continued from First Page)
cilities to keep up with the inereas- tie Jones played an interlude of Sen. Barrett, Sen. O'Mahoney, Rep.
ing millions of park visitors, organ music and Grace Hawken Thomson, Wirth and Supt. McIn- Sheriff Oudin, State Highway Pa-
He said the task ahead was a big sang several numbers, tyre. Goff also received one of trolman Jack Babcock, Dr. J. F.
one and that all the accumulated The anniversary event also in- the souvenir albums. Claren}ach and Justice of the
deficiencies in the national park eluded a first day issue ceremony Wirth in his talk covered the Peace George Richards, who acted
system could not be remedied over- to mark the issuance Monday of early history of Devils Tower and as coroner in the absence of Court-
W
pointed
made there this year.
He said improvements already
programmed for Devils Tower tot-
aled $150,000 for roads and trails,
better campgrounds and improved
utilities.
Other developments, Wirth said,
have been planned during Mission
66 and total $250,000. He said the
record breaking attendance at Dev-
ils Tower would be doubled in a
few years.
Wirth said Mission 66 was an
opportunity to make the National
Park Service what it should be.
Thomson reminisced about the
early days when President Theo-
dore Roosevelt visited this area.
Sen. Frank Barrett, who intro-
duced Seaton, said he thought
Wirth was too conservative. He
said he believdd that before three
years, 500,000 persons would visit
Devils Tower because of the new
interstate highways.
O'Mahoney, vice chairman of~ the
Theodore Roosevelt Centennial
Commission, reviewe~! Roosevelt's
out the improvements ty Coroner Ike Dudrey.
Spearfish, S. D.
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i interest in conservation during his II
talk.
The Wyoming senator said that VIRGINIA •JOHN
the fate of the 20th century will MADISON" t.~TH" HODIAK
in no small degree depend on the
type of citizen developed in this I _
country.
OMahoney said~the world stands Sun., Mon., Tues.
on the brink of serious trouble in
the Near East because of the Suez Sept. 30, Oct, 1-2
Canal dispute.
Sept. 30-
StaTring
Bill
O'Mahoney, in commenting on .......... .~, ... Wed.
Devils Tower, concluded by saying," :~.i. *-*
"As you gaze up the Tower pointing think
of it as a finger Of God ---.--~¢'t.-----~'4
from beauty and resources to the .~
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heavens as a symbol of the use to ~
which they should be put."
PLUS
"Man Against
Artic"
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S .ring
Also heard on the program was
Jan Corm, 3vho sang two climbing
songs.~
TheeRev. Levi Louderback read
the invocation and Father Ter-
rence McGovern read the benedic-
tion.
Before the program, the dignitar-
ies and the Lowry band were
