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Poverty & Progress. All this grew from a single store which 27-year-old James Cash Penney started 47 years ago in the mining town of Kemmerer, Wyo. (pop. 1,000). Young Penney, frail and ailing, had gone West for his health from Hamilton, Mo., where he grew up in poverty on the farm of his father, an unpaid Baptist preacher. From the age of eight, young J.C. had to buy his own clothes; at 19 heard his dying father murmur: "Jim will make it. I like the way he has started...
...Headed for a night out, Mr. & Mrs. Ed Rumney of Lusk, Wyo. were unable to locate a baby-sitter in their home town. In their two-seat private plane they flew 28 miles to Lance Creek, found one, flew her back. The next morning they flew her home...
Died. Forest ("Nubbins") Hoffman, 7, the solemn little boy who fought a four-year losing battle for his life; of a bladder ailment; in Cheyenne, Wyo. In 1944, newspaper readers across the land helped Nubbins celebrate Christmas six weeks early because he was not expected to live, filled his home with letters and presents (Railroad Tycoon Bill Jeffers sent a toy automobile, Harry Truman sent a book), have since closely followed his two major operations and long fight in hospitals...
...them last week was one of the most severe blizzards in U.S. history. It invaded the U.S. from Canada, bellowed across the Dakotas, parts of Wyoming, Nebraska, Kansas and Colorado almost without warning. It lasted for three days; temperatures dropped far below freezing (lowest: 11 below zero at Laramie, Wyo.), and the wind ran as high as 75 miles an hour...
...drifts formed behind them almost as soon as they had passed. Trains were halted, one after another. When the storm ended there were six passenger trains in the yards at Omaha, eight in Ogden, five at Salt Lake City, five at Cheyenne, six stalled between Sidney, Neb. and Cheyenne, Wyo...