Helping out
Can't wait to be bowled over again
Stamp G&F a deadbeat
Wolves, grizzlies like eating vegetarians
Israeli bombs say made in U.S.A.
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Helping out

Editor:

On Sept. 8, Kimberly (Shovelhead) Croy was seriously injured in a motorcycle accident. She was in the hospital for one month and is now learning how to walk again. A benefit raffle to win a ticket to the Vietnam Vets \\ Legacy Vets MC ball was held, the winning ticket was drawn by Kimberly on Dec. 2. The winner was Dean Urbatsch of Casper.

We would like to thank the Vietnam\ Vets MC chapter D for sanctioning the raffle, Vicki Hill for printing tickets, purchasers and volunteers that sold tickets. Last but not least, thank you, Butches Bar, for helping out.

LORRIE and KIM CAPASSO , Casper


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Can't wait to be bowled over again

Editor:

Football season is finally over. I feel badly for the players and coaches that gave it their all, week in and week out.

Wyoming will not be going to a BOWL game this season, but when you think about it, the whole season was a bowl game. We were bowled over by Texas, Washington, Central Michigan, and so on.

But, it is time to move on to next season with a search for a new coach. Mr. Moon has said the search is going to be done his way. It is time for Lee to put the money where his mouth is, or perhaps, put his mouth where the money is. It hasn't been that many years ago that an athletic director did just that and I think Paul Roach did a very commendable job. Does Lee have the same fortitude?

The new coach will be picked from Lee's criteria. I'm not sure what that is, however, I have heard that one of the criteria is that the new coach must like Sinatra music. He must be able to sing at least two verses to the Sinatra favorite "I did it your way" while he dances to the music of "I-80 Shuffle."

There will be aye and nay-sayers for whichever coach is picked. He will be living in a glass house. People will be watching and also listening to his every move, even when hunting for that trophy back.

I am sure the motel and restaurant associations in Laramie already have their representatives in place to help A.D. Moon pick a replacement. After all, they have lost revenue for a few years with the current program.

I can only hope the next "good ole' boy" likes long travel, snow, wind, rodeo, and likes playing home games in opposing teams' stadiums and in front of their fans.

A marriage made in Laramie is about to take over and it will be interesting to watch.

PAT CURTIN , Thermopolis


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Stamp G&F a deadbeat

Editor:

To All Customers of Dubois Mercantile, Welty's General Store and Whiskey Mountain Tackle Shop:

We are sorry to inform you that as one of the 1st of the year, we will no longer be selling Wyoming Game and Fish licenses. Some of you may be asking why. The reason for this decision has come down to this: Before Game and Fish decided to do a license increase Game and Fish was paying the selling agents .50 a license and .25 a stamp. That wasn't even covering the cost of having someone write the license, not to mention the paperwork involved. Now Game and Fish has decided to no longer pay the selling agents anything! Instead have them charge an additional $1 to your license and .50 to the stamp. Keep in mind your license will have already been increased, due to Game and Fish's inflation adjustment.

If you have any questions or comments, please contact Game and Fish at 1-800-842-1934 or e-mail at (wgffunding@wgf.state.wy.us) or you can write them at Wyoming Game and Fish Department; 5400 Bishop Blvd; Cheyenne, 82006.

We will still be taking care of any other sporting good needs. We will also still be looking forward to seeing you, and hearing about your hunting, fishing, and camping stories.

BOB DOLL , FRANK WELTY and WAYNE STANERT , Dubois


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Wolves, grizzlies like eating vegetarians

Editor:

To the Sierra Club, Humane Society, Land Trust, environmentalists, animal rights and more: To get cattle off the range, the federal leases, etc., now the outfitters also have to go. Make Wyoming into a national park. Import all meat if you are not all vegetarians. Use no guns - cameras only - on wildlife. Stop rodeos; use college-classroom-educated words to show the world we are smart. Get on the bandwagon, march in the gay parade. Fight for abortion rights. Wait for the next prospect of an endangered species animal. Do away with property rights and individual liberty. The above policy of the war on the West.

The other side of the war on the West: Whistle-blower Mr. Jackson from Iowa, the part-time line rider for Yellowstone Park Service, doesn't realize without salt, free choice, loose grazing horses will not stay in the Thoroughfare on the soft mountain grass. Mr. Jackson kept his horse at the ranger station corrals, or on a picket rope, and fed feed with salt to his little Iowa-raised pony. Mr. Jackson is charging outfitters with baiting trophy game out of Yellowstone Park, by planting salt licks to lure them - a completely false accusation. Salt has no odor to draw animals.

The Old Mac Wilde camp is located near the Yellowstone Park boundary, at Bridge Lake in the Thoroughfare. Could this be the location of the so-called salt-baiting? If you give some people a badge and a gun, they get carried away.

Before the grizzly went on the endangered species list, and the wolves planted in our Yellowstone National Park, the outfitters kept the game in the Thoroughfare balanced with an outstanding program with the Game and Fish Department. With the above protesters having no knowledge of their statements, they should have an experienced guide in the mountains for their protection and education, if they ever plan to go in the Thoroughfare or any wilderness area.

MERLE FALES , Thermopolis

Licensed guide and wrangler


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Israeli bombs say made in U.S.A.

Editor:

As one travels and sees this big, broad, beautiful, bountiful land, it is hard to realize that this great experiment in democracy is in jeopardy from within, by our politicians.

Patriots have fought and died for this purpose of ensuring the American principles of duty, loyalty, right and justice. Our troops win wars to insure these principles but politicians lose the ensuing peace by violating these principles.

Most politicians have a different purpose. Their purpose, for the most part, is to get re-elected and in the doing they sacrifice American principles by duplicity, hypocrisy, pandering, injustice and support of terror. Who can accept the atrocities at Dier Yasin, Kibya, Ein el Helweh, Tantura, Bierut, Sabra, Shatila, Jenin, Ramallah, Nabullas and other locations while processing belief in American principles of right and justice, especially when American made and supplied weapons are used to kill and destroy innocent civilians as if it were acceptable to kill some people but not others.

Is the office of a politician so sweet that he will sacrifice American principles to hold that job when his actions will cause the loss of American lives and treasures through retaliation for injustices done with American politician's support. Then support for injustices done must be bought with tax dollars.

The billions to be spent on Homeland Security could be saved if we citizens demanded of our politicians that they extend rights, justice and fairness to all people. Then not only would we be secure in our nation but we would be respected.

For many years now politicians have violated both U.S. and U.N. principles by not only allowing but also supporting terrorism in the Middle East. Then when these victimized people of that area retaliate, politicians, in their guilt for denial of right and justice to those people, make the taxpayer pay for the revengeful damage done to lives and national treasures.

How many more lives and national treasures will be squandered before politicians prevent revengeful retaliation and "insecure domestic tranquility" by demanding right and justice throughout the world for all peoples? Must we continue to support politicians disastrous deceptions and betrayal of principles?

TOM LINDSEY , Ft. Laramie


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Editor:

I am a Saratoga High School student doing a history day's project on the Montgomery GI Bill of Rights. I have a couple of questions to ask:

Is there anyone that has gone to school on the GI bill?

Can you tell me your experiences?

Did you have to pay the money back?

Did you think you benefited from the program?

Did you think the government had a responsibility to pass the GI bill?

If you could write to me and if you could also send me a copy of an original document or pictures, it would be greatly appreciated. Contact me at: Jeff Nock; C/o Mrs. G. Miller; Saratoga High School; P.O. Box 1710; Saratoga, 82331.

Thank you for your time.

JEFF NOCK , Saratoga


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