Charles Nelson Dies After Vehicle Crash Friday Night
Charles Nelson 26 died Saturday morning at Lander hospital from injuries after his pickup left South Pass highway Wednesday night to avoid a deer and plunged over a steep embankment. A blood clot from a leg injury caused the heart failure. he leaves a daughter Terry, mother, stepfather, and brother. Nelson, a veteran, was a longtime employee of Pete McLelland Construction. Interment was at Big Piney Cemetery with services at Congregational Church conducted by Rev Robert Botley. Out of town attendees included relatives from Idaho.
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Charles 8
Nelson
Inme Lander Hospital
South Pass
Lisite
Pete McLelland
Cir
Coaries Smith Nelson
Idaho
Paris
Terry
Clarence Davis
Walt
Robert Botley
Pinedale
Lydia (Tanner) Corthell
Laramie
George Moffat
Jo Cart
Richard Griggs
Arthur Weber
Benny
Kenneth Pearson
Robert Olson
Edward Finnegan, Jr
Wiliam Ludi, Jr
Ben Manning
Edward Carr
Taps
Chip Hicks
Charles Christensen
Floyd Nelson
Marvin Neleton
Pearl Poneman
Big Piney
Tanner Mortuary
Card of Thanks for Bereavement
We extend heartfelt thanks to all who befriended us during our recent bereavement and for tender ministrations and floral tributes. My family and Mrs. Clarence Daivis Sr Clarence Davis Jr Mr and Mrs Pete McLelland.
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Clarence Daivis
Clarence Davis, Jr
Pete McLelland
General Petroleum Corp Wyoming Drilling Report
General Petroleum Corp reports exploratory drilling in the Green River Basin and Red Desert Basin. Buckhorn 738-21 begins at 366 feet, Tip Top 26-12 at 226 feet, Greenberg 73X-30 at 413 West, and Batt Wells 54-24 at 6168 feet with activity in Sublette and Sweetwater counties.
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Green River Basin
Sublette County
New, & 30
Red Desert’ Basin
Sweetwater Co
Mountain Fuel Abandons Deadline Ridge Well
Mountain Fuel Supply Company reports the Dead Line Ridge well, touted as the world’s second highest drilling site, has been abandoned and plugged. Vice President M. M. Fidler stated the well reached 12 605 feet with Nugget sands showing no commercial gas or oil, after operations began July 11, 1993. fourteen families lived at the camp and a grades 1 to 7 school was maintained nearby.
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M. M. Fidler
Tike Deadline Ridge
County 4-H Camp Set for Alpine Idaho
County 4-H members from Sublette and Sweetwater counties gather July 6 7 8 for an Idaho camp at Alpine. About 75 boys and girls participate in nature hikes scavenger hunts riflery outdoor sports crafts and safety demonstrations led by local leaders and a Bedford forest ranger with Idaho Highway Patrol involvement.
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Stella McKinstry
Subrette-Sweetwater Counties
Idaho
Alpine
BTML
Bedford
Idaho Highway Patrol
Sublette County
Witherspoon Announces Candidacy for State Treasurer
J W Witherspoon a prominent Wyoming Democrat and businessman declared his run for State Treasurer. A native of South Carolina he has held three Wyoming legislature terms and led civic groups including the Lions Club and Lincoln County Fair Board. He now runs the Kemmerer Ford Agency and promises a clean vigorous campaign.
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W. J
Jud Witherspoon
Saithwestern
Wyoming
Kemmerer
Lincoln County
Jud
Kemmerer Lions Club
Lions International
Witherspoon
Ford
Big Piney Prepares Weekend Chuck Wagon Days Rodeo
Big Piney readies a two day rodeo with a Saturday 1 30 pm start at the Rodeo Grounds a free Lions Club barbecue at 11 00 am a kiddie parade and a late night rodeo show. Commemorative Mass noted at DeSmet Monument in Daniel on July 8. Wool market news covers Casper Cheyenne suppliers reporting CCC sales and rising 1954 clip figures amid drought threats.
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Edward Carr
Sublette County
Green River
Daniel
Heath
DeSmet Monument
Dan H. Budd
Walter Yoseard
Commodity Credit Corporation
Australia
Casper
Cheyenne
Ahso
CCC
Boston
Mass at Desmet Monument July 4 Service in Wyoming
The annual commemorative Mass at the DeSmet Monument Dan dee Wyoming will be celebrated at 10 30 AM July 4 with Rev Charles Bartek as celebrant. The event recalls Father Pierre J DeSmet who said the first Mass in Wyoming on July 5 1840. Knights of Columbus erected an altar. Mass has been held there since July 5 1925. Attendance nears 500 each year with thousands at the centenary in 1940.
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DeSmet
Dandee
Charles Bartek
Pinedale Parsh
Wyoming
Pierre J. DeSmet
S. J
Knights of Columbus
Social Security Beneficiaries Receive $61,235 Monthly in Wyoming
Rock Springs district reports December 31 1953 payments total $61 235 monthly to 1937 residents in Sublette Teton Lincoln counties. The figure shows a 23 percent rise from the previous year as retired workers wives widows and dependents receive varying monthly amounts under the old age and survivor program funded by employer employee payrolls.
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Wyoming
Rock Springs
Suouelte
Devaneqin
Ulita
Sweetwat
Mannager
Willam J Rivers
Rivers
Sublette County
Teton County
Lincoln County
Raveis
Western Square Dance Festival 70 in Laramie Oct 29-30
The 5th Annual Western Square Dance Festival will be held at the University of Wyoming in Laramie on the weekend of October 29 and 30. Co sponsors include the Laramie Chamber of Commerce the University of Wyoming and local square dance clubs.
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Laramie
University of Wyoming
Red Cross disaster relief aid and tornado victims
During the last fiscal year 41 17 percent of the year's disaster relief operations involved tornado victims and 48 percent of the total families aided by the Red Cross were tornado impacted.
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Red Cross
Rock Springs Man Sworn In as U S Senator Crippa
E D Crippa of Rock Springs was sworn in as a Republican U S Senator to fill the late Lester C Hunt’s term. Gov. Rogers witnessed the oath with Mrs Crippa in Washington as Vice President Nixon administered the oath.
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Ted) Crippa
Rock Springs
National
J “Doc” Rogers
Lester C. Hunt
Richard M Nixon
Crippa
Washington
Rogers
U S
Warn Campers on Fire Danger in Bridger Forest
An advisory warns campers and anglers vacationing over a three day Fourth of July weekend in Bridger National Forest to extinguish fires completely and avoid fireworks. Unseasonable dryness and winds raise wildfire risk. A Forest official urges proper disposal of cigarettes and hot equipment and stresses not to light fireworks.
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Tver
Pires
Belgie
Forest Green
R. B. Jonson
Erlest Supuryi Ur
Fat cattle hogs and sheep steady to lower at Omaha market
Livestock heavy run at Omaha Monday shows fat cattle, hogs and sheep steady to lower. Slaughters and yearlings mostly steady with top steers $24.50 to $25, heifers $23.25, cows $18 to $19.50. Hogs weak to $1 lower with butcher weights $25.25, sows $15.50 to $20.50, light weights up to $21. Feeder lambs and spring feeders weak, good native feeders around $18. Prices held firm for fat lambs near $23 to $23.50, ewes $3 to $5.25.
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Mentury Run
Ab -Matia
Nore
Omaha
Family Returns From Brief Vacation Across States
Mr and Mrs Paul Scherbet and Samily are back home after a short vacation. Paul stayed at the Nava Training Center at Gren Lakes Illinois while Mrs Scherbet and their children visited relatives in Salt Lake City.
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Paul Scherbet
Samily
Paul
Nava
Gren
Lakes Illinois
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General Petroleum Corp, Wyoming Drilling Report
Suberibe
The
Examiner
Mountain Fuel Supply Company
County Hda News
J. W. Witherspoon
Evans
Casper Wool Warehouse and Marketing Co
Finneran
OOO
Finnepan
Haruki Josen~dahl
Wyoming Wool Growers Association
Jefferson
Adams
Patrick Henry
America
E. D. Crippa
New U.S
Bridger National Forest
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