02 Mar 1950
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Newspaper
Big Piney Examiner
Location
Big Piney, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1950
Page
1
The annual Masonic dance and entertainment will be held at the Community hall on Saturday night March 18. The affair is semi formal with square and modern dancing. Invitations have gone to Pinedale and Kemmerer lodges. All Masons may bring wives or partners and one guest couple.
Unit No. 78 met at Marie Farrells on February 28 with eight members present. They discussed ways to raise money for the new Legion Hall, planned a canasta tournament, and completed final plans for an April 1 talent show and dance with a plate supper at midnight. A motion funded $18 to the hot lunch fund for February and March and $5 to the Red Cross. The Auxiliary began its annual Red Cross drive and will contact the community within ten days.
Miss Helen Taylor of the University of Wyoming will conduct a General Art course in Big Piney on Saturday March 1. The five week course includes ceramics leather work and painting. Credit options include 2 college credits for $15 or a $5 minimum fee for those not seeking credit. Enroll by March 8 by contacting Mrs John Evenild or Mrs Bob O Neil.
The High School Glee Club will stage The Beauty Contest, a tyre net operetta, at Community Hall on March 10 at 8 00 pm. The Junior Band opens with a short concert at eight.
Wyman members of the National Chinchilla Breeders of America meet in Laramie to organize Wyoming chinchilla breeding and expand the industry. J W Cachena cites Laramie as ideal, outlines costs from foundation stock to feeding, notes basement and small-unit raising possible, and aims for commercial vesting by 1956 with more breeders essential for marketing viability.
Benton near Rawlins was the western base for Union Pacific Railroad construction forces until late 1868 when the line moved on and the town vanished. The archives department of the University of Wyoming Library notes its claim to fame as a place of wickedness.
Mrs Charles Davis hosted a four table canasta gathering on Tuesday evening. Mrs Kenneth Guio won first prize and Doris Erickson received the consolation prize.
Four college scholarships of 304 each prize forestry projects to 4-H Club members nationwide. National winners attend the 29th National 4-H Club Congress in Chicago, with medals for state winners and an all expense paid trip for top honorees. American Forest Products Industries continues sponsorship amid rising youth interest in timber management.
Omaha livestock sale totals exceed 30000 with bulls steers and heifers selling steady to strong. Top prices include heifers 26.45, steers to 20.90. bologna bulls 20.50. vealers 30.00. Stocker and feeder trades brisk with exact figures cited for calves and loads. Ranch and Home Week plans at University of Wyoming highlighted with speakers and activities across March 7 to 9.
A Kemmerer Wyoming Gazette feature describes Joe and Bessie Minton’s Phoenix fruit farm near East Rose Lane, boasting 30 varieties from limes, kumquats, and plums to Eureka lemons and pineapples. Publisher C Watt Brannon highlights the Minton hospitality and curious crops, including fig pollination by wasps and two barber chairs on site.
The past week brought springlike conditions and most of the snow in town disappeared, with further melt along the outskirts as temperatures rose.
Sublette County Farm Bureau directors met at the Cottage Hotel on Tuesday afternoon February 28 1950. County chairman William Hicks reports the annual county membership drive exceeded the set quota by 20 percent. Plans were made for a March 25 victory dinner inviting all members and guests. Invited speakers include Chas Meyers Evanston A E Bowman University of Wyoming Laramie and Ruth Harris International Youth Exchange. A dinner program and dancing are planned. Discussions covered road signs for members and topics for the Wyoming Ranch and Home Week in Laramie March 6–10.
Don Nagel chronicles a field trip visiting Idaho Falls and Star Valley including a potpourri of stops. The party viewed a UV lamp demonstration for virus detection, examined seed potatoes for diseases, toured a foundry pouring manhole covers, watched grain processing and rolling, visited Hughes Chinchil a Farm, visited a zoo, toured a Swiss cheese factory, and sought gilts while noting Wyoming coal production growth from 1868 to 1888 and value at mines.
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