Look Back: Decmber 22, 2017

Posted 12/22/17

A stroll down memory lane from the archives of the Torrington Telegram

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Look Back: Decmber 22, 2017

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100 Years Ago
Goshen County Journal
Missing Issue

75 Years Ago
Dec. 24, 1942

Red Cross receives appreciative note from England
The Goshen County Chapter of the American Red Cross received the following letter from a grateful lady in Staffordshire, England, to whom one of the Red Cross layettes from the local chapter was sent.

Dear Madam:
I am writing to thank you and to show my appreciation for the Red Cross parcel which I have just received and also to tell you how the things have helped, as my husband is serving in the RAF and I could never have bought all those lovely things. I expect you would like to know it is a little boy. I cannot think of any more to say except to thank you and the people that have made them.
Mrs. V Cachia
5 Postern Road
Tatenhill
Burton on Trent

Edelmans entertain state guard troops
With 44 of 48 members present, the local Wyoming State Guard held an unusually fine meeting Monday night at the armory. Several local persons watched the troop drill, among them Mar. H. B. Rae who is in Torrington on a brief furlough. Following drill, Edleman Drug were hosts to the troop, serving doughnuts and coffee.

Rapid-fire .22 caliber target practice resulted in at least six perfect scores and was followed by a general review of marching and sighting bar exercises.
The next drill will be devoted to inspection practice as the regular troop inspection is scheduled for the following Monday, under the direction of Floyd Roush, executive officer of the Wyoming State Guard.

50 Years Ago
Dec. 21, 1962

Yoder girl tops in coloring contest
A 9-year-old Yoder girl is the grand prize winner in the Telegram’s Christmas Coloring Contest.
Becky Essert won first prize of $5 for her entry, which was deposited at Valley Mercantile Co.
Second prize of $3 went to Debbie Marks of Laramie. Debby entered the contest while on a Thanksgiving visit with relatives in Torrington. Her prize money will be mailed to her. Debbie is 10 years old.
Janet Kemper of Torrington, 12 years old, was third prize winner of $2.
Debby’s second place entry was deposited at Penney’s, while Janet’s was entered at Gibsons. Winning entries are on display in the Telegram window.

’67 sugar payment nearly finished
Amos Gillaspie, chairman, Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation, Goshen County, said today the 1967 Sugar Act payments are almost complete, with 245 producers earning approximately $410,000.
Sugar Act payments are earned by producers who comply with requirements of the Sugar Act. The payment is based on the percentage of sugar contained in the cane and beets, and the tons of beets and cane produced. A producer is paid 80-cents per hundredweight of commercially-recoverable sugar in the beets. Small payments are also made for crop deficiency or abandonment due to drought, flood or other natural disaster.
Program costs of conditional payments to growers and administration costs are offset by a 1/2-cent per pound tax on imported refined and domestically-produced sugar, including the large amount of foreign raw sugar refined in the United States.

25 Years Ago
Dec. 22, 1992

Local landmark changes hands
A Torrington lumber yard, which has become both a family tradition and local landmark, will change ownership Feb. 1, 1993.
A contract for sale of the R&M Lumber Company, Inc., was signed Dec. 15 by R&M and Chicago Lumber Company of Omaha officials.
R&M corporation principal Jim Montgomery said the decision to sell was “a terrible hard” one to make.
“I pretty near bawl every time I think about it,” Montgomery said.
R&M was started by his father, “Monte” Montgomery, and Roy Raben in 1922 at Huntley. A LaGrange yard was opened in 1927, Gering in 1937 with the Torrington location opening in 1962.
“Roy (Raben) came out here to homestead,” Jim Montgomery said. “He and my dad grew up together in South Dakota. He decided to start a lumber yard and he called my dad.”
Jim Montgomery has been a part of the lumber business since birth.

Project CARE coordinator works herself out of job
Mary Pendley has worked herself out of a job. And that’s not bad, she said.
Pendley is the Goshen County coordinator for Project Community Action to Reach the Elderly. The program is the heart of the National Eldercare Campaign by the federal government, she said.
“It is a message from the federal government to the local communities that communities must begin taking on the responsibility for their senior citizen care,” she said.
Pendley, who’s last day will be Dec. 23, began work with the project in March. The Goshen County Project moved “right along” so well that she no longer has a position.
There were two primary requirements for the Project CARE communities: First form coalitions and second to hold community forums on the needs of the elderly in the area, she said.
“It was always the game plan for them to have a coordinator for a limited time,” Pendley said. “The original proposal was for three years but we accomplished what we needed to in 10 months.”