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...same period stood at four airliner crashes, 33 deaths. One morning last week United Air Lines Flight No. i took off from Newark for Oakland, Calif. - an 18-hour, 2,600-mile journey. Chicago, Omaha, Cheyenne, where passengers changed to a 21-passenger Douglas DC3, and Rock Springs, Wyo. slid by below. A few miles farther along, skimming the mountains at 10,000 ft., veteran Pilot Earl Woodgerd reported clouds but "OK." It was 8:19 p. m. with the ship about 140 miles northeast of its next stop, Salt Lake City. Then for twelve hours there was silence. Finally...
...came to the home States of three Democratic Senators who last spring helped defeat the Roosevelt plan to enlarge the Supreme Court: Wyoming's Joseph C. O'Mahoney, Nebraska's Edward Raymond Burke and Montana's Burton Kendall Wheeler. Its first scheduled stop was Cheyenne, Wyo...
...Cook Masters; from Thomas Fortune Ryan II, 38, grandson of the late financier, who in 1931 was disinherited by his father for marrying her after a brief courtship on a Wyoming dude ranch; charging "intolerable indignities, desertion, and failure to support," asking alimony and division of property; in Cheyenne, Wyo. Four months after they were married, Heir Ryan declared: "I would rather have my little wife than all my father's millions...
...mind to go. Plans called for one major speech, at Bonneville Dam, rear platform talks along the way. After his five busy days in Washington the President at week's end went back to Hyde Park to rest and map his itinerary. First public appearance scheduled was Cheyenne, Wyo., home of Democratic Senator Joseph C. O'Mahoney. Tentative program thereafter included a week-end at Yellowstone Park, a stop at Boise, Idaho, a visit to his son-in-law, Publisher John Boettiger of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer...
...room was the announcement of another prize and its winner. This was Country Home magazine's award for the best country newspaper correspondent of the year. The winner, who gets $200 and a trip to New York and Washington, was Finlay ("Fin") Petrie, 53, reporter for the Kemmerer, Wyo. Gazette in the woolgathering town of Opal (pop. 50). The envy of his profession, Petrie never got through grammar school. He came to the U. S. from Scotland as an itinerant house painter, turned up in Opal where the general store gave him the job of clerk. It seemed natural...