100 Years Ago

June 6, 1918

Goshen County Journal

Farmers, move your wheat

Because of a late season, many of our farmers have been unable to dispose of wheat in storage, but the time has come when every bushel should be placed on the market and as soon as possible ground into flour.

The wheat flour situation is grave and the Department of Agriculture has requested that every bin be swept clean and that no wheat be carried over until next fall. Seeding should now be completed and there is no reason why supplies should be held back any further.

We must have all the wheat, and no efforts will be spared to see the request of the government is carried out. If you have no wheat yourself, carry the message to your neighbor who has.

Don’t hesitate any longer. We know where every pound of wheat and flour in Wyoming is located.

All idlers must fight or labor

General Enoch Crowder’s new “work or fight” regulations may require professional baseball players either to engage in some useful occupation or to join the Army. 

Baseball players, as well as jockeys, professional golfers and other professional sportsmen will be affected by the regulations, if strictly enforced, Gen. Crowder said today. He said he did not desire to make specific rulings at this time and would make rulings only when cases came to him from local boards, after July 1.

Theatrical performers have been excepted from the new draft regulations, at the discretion of Secretary of War Newton Baker, who is said to believe people cannot do without all amusement in war time and that other amusements could be dispensed with more readily.

75 Years Ago

June 10, 1943

Heavy rains reported in county

With only .18 inches of rain falling in the vicinity of Torrington, as reported by the Experiment Farm, many parts of the county received heavy rain storms with only slight damage to crops reported.

Several ranchers from the area south of Hawk Springs reported last week the rain which fell there Tuesday evening was very extensive. Some damage to corn and summer fallow land was reported.

Arnold Lewis, living south of Hawk Springs, announced that about four inches of rain fell within a few minutes. Some hail stones were observed but did not do as much damage as the heavy rain.

Model airplane enthusiasts 

urged to enter contest

Jerry Welsh, who has been instrumental in creating a great deal of enthusiasm among younger local boys in regards to the construction of model airplanes, is urging them to enter a contest to be held in Scottsbluff, Neb., on July 18.

The exhibition is being sponsored by the Kiwanis Club and will be known as the Panhandle Model Contest. About 18 or 20 boys are eligible to enter, Welsh said, and he urged them to do so at once.

All models must be the work of the contestant, boys younger than 14 being considered juniors and 14 and older as seniors. Models may all be hand launches, as there will be no run-way facilities.

As many plans as each boy wishes to enter may be exhibited in the events for display and judging. In the flying events, a boy may have only one entry.

50 Years Ago

June 6, 1968

Land Bank merger approved

Stockholders of the Federal Land Bank Associations at Torrington and Cheyenne have approved a merger, effective July 1, it was announced recently. Headquarters of the merged association will be in Torrington.

The merger will provide a strong management team to serve the long-term credit needs of agriculture in southeastern Wyoming. The merged associations will make loans to ranchers and farmers in Goshen, Platte, Niobrara, Converse, Laramie, Albany, Natrona, Carbon and parts of Sweetwater counties.

Max Bellis will be manager of the expanded Torrington Association. He has been with the Land Bank system since 1951 and, for the past 17 years, has served as manager of the land bank office in Lingle.

Muhm to receive MD

John Robert Muhm, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Muhm of Torrington, will receive his Doctor of Medicine Degree at the University of Colorado’s 138th Commencement to be held June 7 in Folsom Stadium on the Boulder campus.

Dr. Walter Orr Roberts, director of the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, will give the Commencement address. College Pres. Joseph R. Smiley will confer degrees.

Upon graduating, Mr. Muhm will report June 23 to Grady Memorial Hospital, Atlanta, Ga., for his internship. After this phase of his training, he will go to the Mayo Clinic, where he has been accepted to serve his residency in Radiology.

25 Years Ago

June 9, 1993

Gate receipt policy back to drawing board

Public comments and criticism have prompted the Goshen County Unified School District Board of Trustee to send three policies back to committee to be reviewed and rewritten.

A proposed policy to implement gate fees and admission charges to varsity high school volleyball, football, basketball and wrestling events was defeated on second reading during Tuesday’s regular meeting. The policy had met with opposition at a public hearing May 25. Residents expressed concern the policy would not allow family-rate passes or season tickets to be sold.

In supporting the policy, board member Carie Campbell said, “I would like to see us make a stand that we are going to charge gate receipts so that hurdle is over.”

EWC board faces opposition over closure

A decision in the Eastern Wyoming College’s reorganization plan eliminating the Adult Re-Entry Center and replacing it with a Student Services Center has students and citizens up in arms.

During the standing-room-only board meeting Tuesday, area residents and students voiced their disapproval of the measure, most stating that cutting the program would be a mistake.

The state- and nationally-recognized program, which helps with tuition, books, childcare, counseling and many other services for non-traditional students, will be cut July 1. EWC Pres. Roy Mason backed up the changes by stating the SSC would offer generally what the current center offers specifically.

“It will be utilized different than in the past,” Mason said. “It will continue to provide services for adults (and) minorities, but in different ways.”