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Newspaper
Big Piney Examiner
Location
Big Piney, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1947
Page
5
The senior play A Ready Made Family presented at Community Hall on Saturday night April 15 1947 drew a large enthusiastic audience. The cast showed brilliant performance with strong acting and band selections by the high school under Mrs George Moffat. Dancing followed the show as the director Mrs Brewer received compliments for a perfectly trained cast.
Three thousand young athletes from Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, Arizona, and Nevada travel to Provo for the 34th BYU Invitation Track and Field meet at Brigham Young Stadium. The program features the 100, 220, 440 yards, mile, shot put, discus, javelin, and pole vault with national and world record holders appearing. National stars include Edward Conwell, Chiff Bourland, John W. Weber, Ray Cochran, Felix Jumonville, and Leslie Mitchell among others, with junior high and senior events scheduled across Friday and Saturday.
The regular monthly meeting of the Parent Teachers Association is set for Monday April 25 at 8:00 p.m. at Big Piney High School. State and National P T A officers will attend to provide information and guidance. The Juniors invite all alumni to the Junior Prom on May 2, 1947, with invitations by invitation only.
Arnold Olson was reelected chairman and F D Ball Jr reelected secretary treasurer of the Board of Supervisors of the By Piney Soil Conservation District at a meeting held Thursday at the District office with all supervisors present. Dan H Budd C A Fear Sr and Phil Marinck were to update the supervisor roster. The machinery superintendent noted the return of a 1% ton Chevrolet truck from the Soil Conservation Service and the large grader would remain for district use. Plans included using the large and small graders and the district received 22 lbs of intermediate wheatgrass seed from the Soil Conservation Service to establish seed plots.
Newell Gardner of Afton was appointed to fill the Sublette County game warden vacancy created by Jim Harrower’s resignation. Gardner, long based in Cokeville, is described as a good citizen and efficient official. He and his wife and family will reside in Pinedale.
The report highlights top milers with a second-place at Atlantic City and mentions Clarence Robinson of BYU. It lists shotput and discus winners Irving Kamitsch and Wilbur Thompson, plus Braly Walter and Stephen Seymour in javelin and pole vault stars Fred Winters and Russell Peck. Official honors may include USC professor E Roberts as honorary referee and Utah figures awarding trophies amid a Tuscaloosa Goodrich plant investment.
The Pentagon in Washington features 17 miles of corridors and 6,000,000 feet of floor space, built at a cost of 64 million dollars. Daniel Defoe, author of Robinson Crusoe, is credited with originating the idea for mutual type savings banks.
Mesdames Clifton Fear Jr George Bledsoe and Harold Bly Miller hosted a bridge gathering last Thursday night for sixty invited guests. Mrs Inez Bennett won high prize, Mrs Nina Cranney second high, and Mrs Madeline Weber with Mrs Pearl Spencer shared the low scores. several out of town guests attended.
Local items list visitors and moves including MOY and Mrs John Budd and son Joe from the ranch last weekend. Glen Petersons now in Myrtle Creek Oregon running a saw mill and a gold business. Big Prey friend Logan Homer remembered. Kemmerer visitors, Harold Hlymuller hosts, Blakesleys at Harold Hlymuller home. Marvis Howerleys arrived from Oklahoma. he takes a job at Bob’s Service Sta. Open house at Ex Piney airport drew many. Norman Perkins came from Beck place to visit sister Mrs Mermitt Hopkins who is improving. Chas Howerton, longtime barber, returns from LOM hospital. Geo D Rowland, Masonic instructor, visited Big Piney lodge. Per capita US debt 1946 about 1 910.97. milk consumption over a pint per day per person. Radio devices aid fishing on herrings. heat-detecting devices spot distant stars. Howard Hughes 1938 world flight notes coastline errors near Berne Sea. Walter Ball from Canton SD reports gloomy spring weather. he and family plan May departure.
E F Delaney, a major local oil investor, visited this week to back a company drilling deep tests in the Dry Piney Basin. He and partners previously brought in a large gas asset for the Texas Co in the Cretaceous field. Delaney projects the Big Piney fish gas field to rank among the largest in the country, with at least four deep tests planned this summer.
The American Cancer Society launches a county campaign to raise 25000 in Sublette County. Mrs John Bloom of Pinedale explains the slogan one in eight will die of cancer unless action is taken, noting about 184000 deaths expected in the year and education, research and service as key. Contributions can be sent to the local county committee or state headquarters at the old city hall building in Casper Wyoming.
Dr. R F H Denniston, nursing advisor at the University of Wyoming, says a student nurse replacing a graduate nurse saves money for the hospital. A regional price survey estimates the three year training value at 1500 dollars, while Wyoming loses money with only pre nursing training. The student nurse also benefits the out of state hospital where the education is completed.
Notice states a Town Caucus will meet at Big Piney Town Hall on Friday April 25 1947 at 8 PM to nominate a mayor for two years and two councilmen for four years. The slate will be voted on at the town election May 6 1947. G T Morgan mayor. Attest Muriel L Gray town clerk. Publication dates April 10 17 24.
Do not send any jewelry repair work to Glen R Johnston in Big Piney Wyoming until further notice.
Church at St. John the Baptist holds a service every Sunday at 4:00 PM. The brief notice states regular weekly worship at the church.
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