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...prominent name has joined the ever growing list of beleaguered American farmers and ranchers: Governor Ed Herschler of Wyoming filed for bankruptcy this month, becoming the first sitting Governor in his state to do so. His trouble stems from the 18,500-acre Yellowstone Ranch near Lander, Wyo., which Herschler and three partners bought in 1977 for an estimated $4.5 million to $5 million. After the partners were unable to collect a $1.5 million payment for 3,000 head of cattle they sold in 1981, they were forced to borrow at high interest rates to make debt payments. Meanwhile, beef...
...Timberline was earning $500,000 a year before four employees left to form InterFluve in Bozeman in 1984. Another recent start-up, Jim Walsh's Stream Team in Longmont, Colo., has begun hooking big contracts like a six-year job Walsh has with the A Bar A guest ranch in southern Wyoming, rehabilitating a creek that flows into the North Platte River...
...industry he founded is thriving. Clients like A Bar A Manager Bob Howe are satisfied with the work that stream doctors do. Says he: "Our guests are surprised this has been handled by man because it's so natural looking. That's the main reason people come to the ranch." And avid fly-fishermen who have turned into stream doctors find that they can live and talk trout every day, instead of just on two-week vacations...
...whispers in my ear and I have to get up hurriedly and leave the table, don't be alarmed. It is because Pete Rose has hit." Rose did not get his milestone hit until the following night, so the President, uninterrupted, went on to tell stories about his ranch, his old friend Jimmy Stewart and the hazards of official dining and wining, which a President must lead ("Being first is a problem. I have to eat so much...
...downtown Los Angeles. "My wife said maybe we shouldn't leave all the doors and windows open because of that stalker," recalled Charles Prather of Chrisanta Drive. "I said, 'How many houses are there between here and San Francisco?' " Early the following morning, the Night Stalker slipped into a ranch-style house just down the street from the Prathers'. Apparently entering through a backyard window, he shot Computer Engineer Bill Carns in the head, raped his girlfriend and ransacked the house. Carns, 29, was in critical condition at week...