Continuing the Crook County News Since 1884
Continuing the Crook County News Since 1884
50 Years Ago, July 11, 1974: Rest easy, kids, that fenced enclosure in front of the old Sundance elementary school wasn't for you naughty ones after all. As you can see, a strange looking critter has been corralled inside the woven-wire fence. Installed last week was this receive-only terminal, a $4000 antenna/receiver. The equipment is part of the Satellite Technology Demonstration (STD), a project of the Federation of Rocky Mountain States which will bring televised career education programs to junior high students and teachers in seven communities in Wyoming. The satellite for educational television was launched in June. The ground terminal shown above will receive a signal from the satellite and a transponder will convert it so that it can be picked up by a television monitor in the classroom.
1 Years Ago
July 17, 1924
It may have been noticed in and about Beulah that for the past few weeks Sheriff Otis Zimmershied and Deputy Frank C. Haselton have been devoting some time to whipping the Sand Creek stream, but it now develops that the sheriff and his deputy were not so much interested in the finny members of the tribe disporting themselves in the Creek as in a much larger fish located further up on Sand Creek. The fishing operations were apparently a well-planned screen for a thorough investigation of the locality, which on Friday, July 11, succeeded in landing behind the bars Geo...
