t
Mary Ellen Ellsbury poses
the Junior class float
won homecoming parade
honors. The senior class float
was awarded second place. The
Sundance Homecoming parade
was held previous to the Sun-
dance-Hulett footb.~ll game.
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Newspaper for Crook County, Town of Sundanee and United States Land Office
LIX SUNDANCE, WYOMING, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1957
Number 44
d
Richard D. Blakeman of Moor-
croft Monday was placed on parole
for five years by Judge Allen Pear-
son after Blakeman pleaded guilty
in district court to a charge of
statutory rape.
County Attorney Scotty Glad-
stone said he recommended parole
for Blakeman in view of Blake-
man's clean record since his ar-
est and family considerations.
The readings:
Max. Min. Prec.
October 22 ........... 52 39 0
October 23 ............. 47 25 .04
October 24 ............ 32 22 .06
October 25 ............ 34 13 .01
October 26 ............ 49 30 0
October 27 ............. 57 30 O
October 28 ........... 52 33 .Ol
II
to Co,
The construction of a highway
to the site of the proposed radar
station in the Bear Lodge will be
discussed Tuesday night at a meet-
ing of the Sundance Commercial
Club.
A representative from the Bu-
reau of Public Roads, members of
the Wyoming Highway Commis-
sion and the county commissioners
will attend the session. Forest
Service officials and delegations
from Hulett, Upton and Moorcreft
have been invited to attend.
The dinner meeting will be held
at the Episcopal parish hall start-
ing at 6:30 p.m.
Veterans' Day
To Be Holiday
For High Schools
Nov. 11, which is Veteran's D~y,
will be a holiday for high school
students in Crook county.
The high school board at its
last meeting approved the holiday
for the high schools at Moorcroft,
Sundance and Hulett.
In Crook County
e
Brucellosis program work in area.
Crook county shifted to a county- Cattlemen must petition the Wy-
wide basis rather than an area oming Livestock and Sanitary
basis on Oct. 21, according to fed; Board and 75 percent of the own-
eral and state officials, ers with 95 percent of the cattle
Most of the eastern part of the in the designated area must ap-
county is already signed up in the prove.
program. The Extension office Each herd in the area must be
here said a concerted effort will tested. Range and semi-range
be made to sign up the remainder herds can qualify by a minimum
of the county by Jan. 1. 20 percent herd test of three.year
A series of meetings have been olds and over if negative. Dairy
Wyoming Hereford done by Pete Jensen.
at the association's Club.
in Sundance Saturday.
registered Here-
calves, and heifers will Junior
in conjunction with the
of 47 yearling and two.year-
bUlls.
association's fall show will
at 9 a.m. with the sale
Underway at 1 p.m. A free
will again be sponsor-
the Sundance Commercial
COmplete slate of officers
Crook County chapter of
An~erican Red Cross was re-
at a meeting Friday night
Petersen, Sundance
Was again selected to head
as chairman.
officers are: Mrs. Emery
vice chairman; Mrs.
Donaldson, treasurer; and
The Northeastern Wyoming
Hereford Association has "extended
an invitation to FFA and 4-H mem-
bers to compete in the junior live-
stock judging contest in Sundance
Friday.
The contest will be held at 1 p.
m. at the association's sales pavil-
ion at the fairgrounds.
Twenty-five dollars in prize mon-
ey along with ribbons will be a-
warded to the winners,
Pete Jensen, county agent from
Sheridan, will be the official
judge and will give reasons on five
classes of bulls and cows. No rea-
sons will be given by the contes-
tants.
two groups - junior for freshman
and under and senior for sopho-
mores and over. Six ribbons will
The judgers will be divided into
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Allen, secretary.
as directors for the next 1958
Preferred
Years were Henry Oudin,
Carl Lathrop, Gil-
Number Plates
and Mrs. Tom El-
as disaster chairman
Bernd. Assuming the
nursing chairmanship is
M. Lorenzen.
fund raising chairman has
selected for 1958.
during the meeting
Thelma Pritchard of
the new Red Cross state
To Go on Sale
County Treasurer Paul Yeoman
said this week that 1958 preferred
number license plates will be sold
during November to those persons
who had 1957 plates. However,
the new plates cannot be attached
until Dec. 1.
Yeoman said it would speed
matters along if persons brought
their 1957 registration when ap-
plying for 1958 plates.
added attraction to the sale.
Weaver Schoolhouse, 7:30 p.m.,
Consigning to the sale are: Char-
lotte Carr, Fred Cundy, Emery
George, Hewes Ranch Herefords,
Kudlock and Perino, Art Schell-
dorf, C. H. Voss and Sons, Hay
Creek Hereford Ranch and Mike
Lindsey and Robert Heald, guest
consignors.
Oct. 31; Oshoto Schoolhouse, 7:30
p.m. Nov. 11; Moorcroft commun-
ity hall, 2 p.m. Nov. 12; Hulett
Legion hall, 2 p.m. Nov. 13; and
Sunny Divide community hall, 7:30
p.m., Nov. 14.
Certain requirements must be
met before an area becomes a
modified certified brucellosis free
Pictured in last week's Mys-
tery Air Photo contest was the
ranch owned by Chesney and
Mac Rathbun. The contest is
sponsored in The Sundance
Times by Tracy Motor Co., of
Sundance .
The ranch, operated by Ches-
ney an~ Roger Rathbun, is lo-
cated 20 miles west of Sundance
on Highway 14.
Winner of the free gallon of
anU.freese was Ted Glover of
Snndanco. Free guest subscrip-
tions to The Sundance Times go
to Velma Eaton of Hulett, lr.
vin Haptonstall of Carlile and
Donald Grubb of Devils Tower.
Three generations of the Rath-
bun family have operated the
place. It was settled in 1888 by
Albert L. Sto~.s. Recent im.
provements include a new house
butt in 1954.
Farming Is dryland with hay,
small grain and corn raised.
Total acreage is 4200. About
275 acres are in farm and hay
An area qualifies when no more
than one percent of the cattle test-
ed are reactors and no more than
five percent of the herds t~sted
are reactor herds.
Once qualified the area is good
for three years and calfhood vac-
cination will be conducted as
ual.
lan& Tillage is summer fal-
low.
Livestock numbers 140 ealww
for commercial use. Rathbua'|
favorite crop, and most profit.
able, is cattle. His favorite crop
is corn.
Machinery includes an IHC
W-4 tractor, Farmhand and a lS-
ft grain drill.
The Rathbnns have a sea,
Roger, at home and a daughter,
Jennie at Casper. Rathbun is a
member of the Farm Bureau.
have been made fox The auctioneer for the sale is A $25 junior judging contest scheduled for the county. Sched- and purebreds must have a corn-
Hereford sale of the Willard Schnell. Judging will be will be held Friday at 1 p.m. as an uled brucellosis meetings are: plete herd test.
