Gillette histories

From the Sept. 30, 1986 News Record
Family pet alive, back up to her normal 8 pounds, Buffy spend a great deal of time curled up in a blanket-filled basket near the heat stove in the home of Ken and Mary Whites. Life couldn’t be better for a 9-year-old dog. But two weeks ago, life for Buffy, starving and near death, couldn’t have been worse. The dog looked like a fur-covered skeleton when she was discovered in the crawl space beneath the family home where she had been trapped for a month without food and water. The ordeal began on August evening when Buffy disappeared while the Whites entertained relatives at their Westridge home. Probably chasing a gopher, the dog apparently ran under the front-yard deck and found a loose board that hold the dryer vent in place. “Her purpose in life is to chase things,” said Mary. “For about a week before she disappeared, Buffy was just crazy about going under the deck.” Buffy apparently crawled behind the board, fell into the 5-foot crawl space and was unable to climb back out. “I thought somebody had grabbed her, because she has never run away before,” said Mary. The Whites searched several neighborhoods. They ran newspaper and radio advertisements for two weeks. But the dog was nowhere to be found. Mary even opened the trap door to the seldom-seen crawl space on a hunch. “I turned on the light and called for her, but there was no answer,” she recalled. The Whites eventually put her dish and toys away, giving her up for lost. A month later when the dryer began overheating, Ken went down in the crawl space to investigate. Buffy crawled out from among two or three small nests she had made from insulation.“ Poor Kenny, he couldn’t believe it,” Mary recalled. “I started screaming when I saw her.” Shock turned to happiness because they had finally found their dog.


From the Sept. 27, 1951 News Record
More than one startled Wyoming resident reported seeing a flying saucer last week. Crusade for Freedom workers who heard the reports just smiled. The “flying saucers” were huge plastic balloon, filled with helium gas and each caring 250 messages urging Wyoming residents to contribute to the Crusade. Up to 10 of these balloons were released in the major Wyoming cities and towns last week. Some reached a height of 30,000 feet and were carried a hundred miles or more. The Crusade workers also released big rubber balloons, each carrying 500 messages about the Crusade for Freedom, at the same time. President G. D. Humphrey of the University of Wyoming, who is state chairman for the crusade, said that both types of balloons have been used to send messages of hope to the hopeless people behind the Iron Curtain.

From the Sept. 25, 1946 News Record
In the second game of the season the Gillette Camels and the Edgemont, S.D., Moguls fought to a scoreless tie. In Friday’s contest against Edgemont. Gillette received the kickoff and were soon in Mogul territory, but lost the ball on downs. Edgemont tried her running strength but Gillette’s strong defense held them to short gains. In the third quarter Harry Lee Moore ran thirty yards for the longest run of the game, bet he was called back because of an offside on Gillette penalties were given freely in the first half but both teams tightened down in the last stanza. Dunlap, Hannum, Marquiss and Jacobs showed exceptionally well on defense, stopping several Edgemont runs.