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Newspaper
Big Piney Examiner
Location
Big Piney, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1940
Page
5
Thieves broke a window at Bob's Service Station Tuesday night and stole a radio field glasses chains gasoline and other items. R H Gunter reported the break to authorities and a search for the thief or thieves is now in progress.
The High School Glee Club rehearses the operetta Big Tig with orchestra, and the program features a Mardi Gras dance and dances by seventh and eighth grade boys and various high school groups. Costumes and songs promise a colorful show set for February 10. Jane Jackson Tharon Mickelson birthday noted. Gloria Howell named Retreat organizer with substantial salary.
The Big Piney Mercantile Co stockholders will meet at the company store at 2:00 PM on Tuesday February 13 1940 for the annual gathering.
Governor Nels H. Smith pushes a genuine merit system for the health, welfare, and unemployment compensation departments. Examinations will be required for new hires and current workers. federal officials dispute the 1937 system in unemployment, urging real qualification standards and political neutrality. A state personnel supervisor will run exams. health and welfare duties fall to a three member council while unemployment compensation is governed by a seven member advisory board.
The state highway department reorganized to reduce maintenance costs by about 10 percent last year. Frank Kelso, the state highway superintendent, said the change trimmed district engineers from five to seven to two district construction engineers plus one maintenance engineer and ten regional engineers. He noted centralized timekeeping and a smaller accounting staff lowered administration expenses and equipment upkeep. Uniform practices and better cooperation between accounting and engineers followed the reorganization.
The National Youth Administration will organize an All American Youth Orchestra of 109 young musicians aged sixteen to twenty five for a South America tour in June to August led by Leopold Stokowski. Wyoming picks August Molzer to run auditions with preliminaries February 16 in five districts and final auditions March 2 at Casper.
Yellowstone Oil Co. continues operations at Yellowstone Oil Company H. L. Budd No. 1 amid severe weather. They report successful completion of 10 inch casing, escaping a troublesome water zone and expect a heavy gas flow within 150 feet. Roy Blair oversees stations and says all precautions are in place to preserve gas for fuel or other uses as needed.
Hearings in the tri state North Platte river water suit resume in Denver January 20 as the federal government begins its evidence. Attorneys predict the hearings will last about ten days with Colorado and Wyoming presenting their case in later sessions and Nebraska providing rebuttal before the case is taken under advisement.
QCHEYENNE The state game and fish department launched a mid winter sage chicken survey assigning Lester Bagley to oversee two field workers Malcolm Martin and Warren Allred. The effort aims to locate winter habitats and gauge flock changes over three years. The commission bans sage chicken hunting until 1940 and may relocate birds to depleted areas to restore hunting levels. Sublette county reports the most sage chickens in the state.
The administration hopes Congress will be brief but faces a fight over the budget and new taxes. Defense plans, reciprocal trade law renewal, air trade agreements, and domestic economic policy drive clashes among Republicans, Democrats, labor, and business as presidential contenders emerge. The British war cabinet reshuffle, including Hore-Belisha’s exit and Churchill’s involvement, adds international tension to the era’s political turmoil.
D. G. Richardson, publisher of the Rock Springs Daily Rocket, was elected president of the Wyoming Press Association at the close of its annual convention. George House becomes vice president, Mart T. Christiansen reelected secretary treasurer, with L. L. Newton and Ralph Blackledge named new directors and Fred Clough and Breck Moran staying as holdovers. The group backed highway safety efforts through 1940 and praised speakers from newspapers, universities, and theatres for their insights.
C Ed Lewis general manager of Wyoming Prtvo team Corp says Budd No 1 test well near Big Piney Wyoming has not resumed this week. Winter weather blocks operations as temperatures often drop to 25 below. Plans to proceed once conditions improve. the historic gasser blowout from four years ago is now bottomed at 3044 feet and will be drilled deeper.
Services will be held each Sunday at 6 30 P M at the Episcopal church. Reverends Walter W McNeil of Kemmerer and Dudley McNeil of Evanston will officiate.
The Sublette County Republican Central Committee invites attendance at a Lincoln Day Dinner on Monday February 12 1940 at Masonic Hall Pinedale Wyoming starting 7 00 p m The notice requests attendees to notify Secretary George Rowland to aid committee planning Signed Sublette County Republican Central Committee J 25 Fo
The London press attacks Chamberlain’s leadership as war progress sparks calls for his resignation. If the government falls, Churchill likely becomes Prime Minister, ending Hore-Betish a chance of return. Parliament’s next session will reveal the outcome.
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