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...Casper, Wyo...
...individual independence. "There's a way of life disappearing," says Orson Rollins, 69, a retired rancher who now operates a service station in Craig, Colo. "We never used to lock our doors. That's gone." Says Postal Clerk Helen Stout, whose onetime sheep town of Parson, Wyo., is now filling
...town's shopping center. In Grants, N. Mex., the self-proclaimed "Uranium Capital of the World," the population has gone from 9,000 in 1975 to about 14,000 today. In the past decade, crime has doubled, rising to 1,421 felonies last year. In Rock Springs, Wyo., where the population grew from 11,000 in 1970 to 26,000 today, one-third of those who need hospital care must go 185 miles to Salt Lake City...
...government should split its strategy, giving insulation subsidies to the poor and increasing tax incentives for those above median income. In addition, the Congress should act swiftly to adopt Senator Malcolm Wallop's (R-Wyo.) bill that would increase industrial tax credits for the installation of energy-efficient equipment from 10 to 30 per cent. While they're at it, Congress should also pass the Building Energy Efficiency Performance Standards Act, shelved last year because of enforcement difficulties. The bill would coordinate six federal agencies in the regulation of the building and housing industries...
Giant semitrailer trucks groaning under loads of heavy oil-drilling equipment churn up dust on the dirt roads of Evanston, Wyo. On the high buttes surrounding the town, tall trapezoidal rigs often push drilling bits 15,000 ft. and more into the earth in search of oil and natural gas. More than 100 wells are already in operation in the area, some of them pumping oil from directly beneath Main Street...