The Senior Voice - October 2008

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tober 2008 The Senior Voice

Energy Source

Mounting energy prices hitretirees especially hard. Theyspend almost a third more for energythan those under age 65.

We need to secure domesticsources of energy. It takes years todevelop new sources, and we needto start now in places like the RoanPlateau in western Colorado. Therewe have more oil in the form of oilshale than all the known oil reservesin Saudi Arabia.

We also need to develop wind,solar and alternative forms ofenergy. That wont be an instantvictory either.

Many Americans cant affordenergy-saving products like newwindows for a house, an efficientfurnace or a hybrid car.

We need American-made energyto help us get to a place where wecan have more renewable energy, andwe need a diversified strategy to keep

Sean Conwayis an 18 year resident and property owner in Weld He is a third generation Coloradan who grew up on a family farm

Sean Conwayis a problem solver who has 25 years of Public ServHe currently serves as Chief-of-Staff to U.S. Senator Wayne Allard

During his career, he has worked with local officials and citizens oTransportation, Economic Development, Water and Public Safety

Sean Conwayis a proven leader whose experience and backgroununite Business, Agriculture, Law Enforcement and the EducationaCommunity to make Weld County a BETTER PLACE to work aour families.

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The high price of ecripple our economy areduce the standard of livAmerican worker and ret

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Squeaky Bob Wheeler

By Bill Lambdin

Northern Colorado has many scenicplaces with interesting storiesassociated with them.

If you hike along the headwatersof the Colorado River in the northwestpart of Rocky Mountain NationalPark, you will come to the formerlocation of Squeaky Bob Wheelersplace.

It was three miles below the oldghost town of Lulu City, just over theContinental Divide from Long Draw

Reservoir west of Fort Collins.Squeaky Bob got his nickname

from his high, funny-sounding voice.He was a colorful character and ranone of the early guest ranches in whatlater became Rocky MountainNational Park.

Guests said he seldom changed thesheets on the beds. He simply scentedthem with talcum powder.

In 1885, when he first came to hisbrothers ranch in North Park nearWalden, Bob was wearing a silk hat,striped coat and kid gloves. He soon

learned to dress differently in theWest.

Born in 1865, he served with theRough Riders in the Spanish-American War, according to someresearchers. He claimed that three ofhis relatives had come to America onthe Mayflower.

When he came West, he worked inmines at Encampment, Wyoming, andLulu City, Colorado. He also did somegambling and earned money from afew questionable activities,according to some people.

He saw how beautiful the moun-tains were around Lulu City and

decided to establish a tent camp therefor hunters and fishermen.

His camp was an immediatesuccess. People flocked there to enjoythe scenic outdoors, eat Bobs excel-lent cooking and listen to the colorfulstories he told in an amusing voice.

Bob laced his food with strongWestern spices and mixed his storieswith ample amounts of profanity.Hunters and fishermen loved him. Hehad a reputation of being the bestcook and most talented story teller inthe region.

Bob called his place the Hotel deHardscrabble. He and his guests

Squeaky Bob and his dog, Jack, at Bobs Hotel de Hardscrabble in what later became

Rocky Mountain National Park. Colorado Historical Society.

enjoyed the incongruity otouch in this wildernesconveniences. The outdothe Hotel de HardscrMontgomery Ward catalog

Over the years, Bob bureplace the tents, hired moeven changed the sheethen. He liked to cook anto do that until he sold h1924.

The new owner changto the Phantom Valley years later the Park Servic

all the buildings to returnits natural state.

But you can still hike tSqueaky Bobs Place andmajestic Colorado Rivthrough this serene spot, julong ago.

If you listen with imagmight hear his high, squechoing though time andtains.________________COVER PICTURE: The C

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ors Note: Fort Collinsrian Josephine Clements wrotellowing story years ago.)

sephine Clements

he south end of Horsetootheservoir west of Fort Collins areuins of the old Stout Boardinge and Hotel.uilt of native stone quarried rightthe walls blended into the ridge

d them, from which their stones came. The building had goneack and ruin long beforeetooth Reservoir wasructed.his was the Stout Hotel built by

Union Pacific Railroad when thestone quarries were in full oper-

he hotel was managed for someby Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Geary,hen by my grandmothers sister,e Guest Rutledge, and her

and, James Rutledge.he Fort Collins Courier news-

of September 15, 1898, carriedllowing item:

Mr. and Mrs. Rutledge moved to

the Stout boarding house Saturday.Mrs. Rutledge has taken charge of theboarding house...

My grandparents, John and AlicePayson, lived at Stout for some time

before purchasing the Robert Westranch on the divide between RistCanyon and the upper Redstone.

My great-grandmother, AnnieMorris Guest (Mrs. Dave) Markle,helped her daughter Addie at thehotel. In the evenings, they helpedsome of the Scandinavian quarryworkers learn to speak and writeEnglish.

One was Martin Peterson, wholater had a ranch between Log Cabinand Red Feather Lakes and was on theWestlake School Board when mymother, Mildred Payson Lambe (laterMrs. Ben Beatty) taught at WestlakeSchool in 1925-27.

Addalade Louise Guest, my beau-tiful great-aunt Addie, was bornNovember 19, 1871, in New YorkCity, the daughter and youngest childof James and Anne Morris Guest, mygreat-parents who had come fromLondon, England, in 1867.

Soon after Addies birth, some

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time in 1872, the family came toColorado, to Denver and then BlackHawk where James Guest had a storeand practiced his trade of goldsmith.Colorado was still a territory, and so Iam eligible for the organization ofTerritorial Daughters of Colorado.

After Guest deserted his family inGolden, his wife Annie obtained adivorce and married David G. Marklein Denver. The Markles and the fourGuest children (Henry, my grand-mother Alice, Emily and little Addie)came to Fort Collins.

Addie married James Thomas

Horsetooth Lake now covers this area near Stout

Photo courtesy of Josephine Clements.

Rutledge, and they ran thHotel in the early 1900sdied tragically young on 1905, a few months befo35.

As the stone quarryiwas nearly replaced by cquarries in the glade cloStout Hotel was abandone

Founded on rock and bsome of its walls, ruinedbling, still stand over a cas a ghostly monument toWilliam H.B. Stout, and alived there long ago. I


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Question About Estate Planninon Rutz, Attorneyl Correspondent

: I just moved to Colorado. Dod to change my documents?: Wills, Living Trusts, Durableers of Attorney, and evenng Wills executed in another

are valid in Colorado. But eachd be reviewed by a Colorado

ney.he out-of-state Will needs to be

looked at to determine if provisionsproper in a sister state would beenforceable in Colorado, and if not,how the presence of those provi-sions affect the other parts of theWill.

For example, some states permitdesignation of the estate attorney.

Colorado does not. Many Coloradoattorneys insert protective provisionsthat most states do not customarilyrecognize in order to prevent Will

In the world of commerce, the energy sector occupiesa powerful position, impacting each of us at the mostpersonal level. In the home, in the car, at work and atplay, energy in a variety of forms has a continuous

and direct effect on our daily lives. Of course, energy isnot an unlimited resource, and ensuring its availability

for tomorrow means developing solutions today.

On Oct 15, 2008 at 6 pm at the Sod Buster Inn in GreeleyWaddell & Reed in Greeley will continue its FinancialLiteracy Series focusing on energy, where it has beenand where it might go. An investment expert from the

Waddell & Reed Home Office will be the presenter.

There will be a second energy presentationOct 16, 2008 at 6 pm at Pelican Lakes in Windsor.

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contests or to guard against thewhole Will being invalidated justbecause parts of the Will are unen-forceable.

For a standard Will (no trusts anda persons net worth of less than $1million), expect to pay $200 or less.For a testamentary trust Will (a net

worth of $1million or less but anestate beneficiary who is inheritingand in need of trust protection), thecost should be $300 or less. For atax Will, expect to pay $600 or less.

If you bring a Living Trust intoColorado, it can be used in here,provided the Trust is funded (assetsare owned by the trust) and providedfurther that the Living Trust is notoverkill (i.e. a tax trustfor someone without tax exposure).

However, if most of the assetsare not titled in the trust or if the

maker was placed into an inappro-priate Living Trust document, do notbe surprised if the attorney suggestsdoing Wills, putting everything injoint tenancy, and using unsuper-vised administration to settle theestate at the second death. If a clientinsists on a Living Trust, the costwill normally be $1,200 or less.

Every state has a format for Durable PAttorney. A few sentePower of Attorney arenecessary in some staother states prefer a launpowers where each desireis checked by the ma

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multiple page documenColorado, even though state Power of Attorngood, I would suggest juColorado format so thenot encounter problemsance or interpretation.

Finally, I would suggyour Living Will forreasons the Durable Attorney should be chalegal form is free at an

hospital. I suggest avoidof the so-called FivLiving Will.________________Attorney Ron Rutz will ations sent to 2625 Redw#180, Fort Collins, Cemail: rutz@ronaldrut223-8388. I


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Ovarian Cancer TeBy Peggy Hunt

OvaSure is a new blood test thatis supposed to detect ovariancancer, and many women and theirdoctors are eager to try itbecauseif ovarian cancer is detected andtreated early enough, most woman

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groups have questions about the test.They say it could result in false posi-tives and cause unnecessarysurgeries. It also might not be accu-rate or dependable enough, asituation that also exists withprostate cancer tests for men.

The FDA told the company thatowns OvaSure (LabCorp) that theirdata appears insufficient to back upthe products claims: We believeyou are offering a high-risk test that

has not received adequate clinicalvalidation and may harm the publichealth, said FDA officials.

The American Cancer Societysays approximately 21,000 newcases of ovarian cancer are reportedeach year, and over 15,000 womendie from it annually. So its under-

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eggy Hunt

e Pinewood area southwest ofLoveland has gone by many

s since pioneers first settled then in the 1860s: Bald Mountain,Hill and Rattlesnake Park.he area is west of Flatironse and Pinewood Lake

merly called Rattlesnake Lakeuse of the snakes found there).ay you can see the Bigmpson water diversionline coming east from theand many people have fished

by Pinewood and Flatirons.inewood was the official

e of the region when, in 1879,t office was established there.1921 the post office served

ly 70 pioneer families whoin the area.

Many of them operatedmills that, for years,ided lumber and poles foreland pioneers. Hence the

name Pole Hill.In fact, many of the poles cut

there were used for fence posts inWyoming, Nebraska and Kansas.Which gives you an idea of howlarge the lumber operations were atPinewood.

A one-room log schoolhousewas built there in 1879. The oneteacher, often a young woman 16or 17 years old, boarded with localfamilies and taught all elementarygrades.

The wagon trail throughPinewood was the first roadbetween Loveland and Estes Park,used before the Big ThompsonCanyon road was built in 1905.

The trip then by wagon or buggywas a grueling five hours up andfour hours back.

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Stories About Greeley Settleors Note: Greeley historianl E. Johnson wrote thewing story years ago.)

Hazel Johnson

re are some brief remem-

rances of early Greeleyents, who gave a glimpse oft life was like in the lates:

Mabel Brink recalled:My parents lived 35 miles easteeley. When I was three yearsI was bitten on the leg by asnake.

My parents quickly roundedcrate full of chickens, puton a wagon, and we made atrip to Greeley.

As they drove, every so oftencken was killed and the warm pressed against the snakeAccording to the doctor, this

ment saved my life. 1881, Mrs. Brink drownede trying to cross a swollenm in the vicinity of her home.he was an excellent horse-

and so filled with debris, it provedfatal.

Her body was swept away. Herhusband offered a substantialreward, but her body was neverrecovered.

Another settler, Ella Mead,recalled the time a circus came toGreeley.

Of course, all the Mead chil-dren had to get down there thatmorning to take it all in.

One tent had been erected.Walking around it, we discovered ahole.

We peered in to find elephantsstanding by it. I got a long stick,stuck it in the hole and proddedone of the elephants.

Later, when the pdue, I refused to go. I rethat an elephant never fo

Settler Earle Baker rtime Teddy RoosevelGreeley:

He was met at thstation by a delegation my father, W.C. Baker.

As a 10-year-olcrowded to the front anmy fathers coat and sato meet him.

Whereupon Teddy this knee, and I rode fromto the band stand in thTeddys knee. I was t10-year-old in Greewhile.I

Greeley in the late 1800s. Hazel Johnson Collection.

woman, but the stream wasrunning so swiftly after a hard rain


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The Senior Voice Octo

YourQuestions

AboutInvestments

By Scott Burns

Financial Writer

Q: My husband and I are bothnearly 60, retired and without a

pension plan. We live entirely offour investment income. Ourmarginal tax rate is 25 percent. Wehave significant stock funds in our

personal account. Our traditionalIRA contains REITs, bonds and oilstocks.

My husband thinks that, astaxes are sure to rise, we shoulddraw down the IRA first. I think

that, since capital gains rates arelower than ordinary income rates,we should draw down our personalaccount first. Who is right?

A: Its a guess, but mostadvisers will tell you to draw downthe personal account first. Thereare two reasons for this. First, the15 percent tax rate on qualifieddividends and capital gains islikely to expire in 2010; so its nota bad idea to realize capital gainsnow, while you can.

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uisa Cody swooned when sheaw the body of her late husband,lo Bill, as his casket was openedre his burial on Lookoutntain near Denver.nd well she might, for thective widow had sold his body

he died six months earlier toy Tammen, early owner of Theer Post newspaper.er friends said she thought herand was returning from the graveuse of her belief in clairvoyantsspiritualists. The Denver Postted that she fainted due to the

of the June day.ody died in 1917 in Denver. Healmost broke due to bad invest-s. His show and all the trappingsin hock to Harry Tammen.ouisa was a bitter woman afterng up with a lifetime of her

ands drinking, womanizing and

largess to others. So for her, his deathwas an opportunity to recoup someassets.

Codys body had lain in state atthe Colorado capitol building for threedays, and more than 25,000 peoplehad viewed the body, which was puton ice until a tomb on LookoutMountain was completed.

Tammen ordered Codys body tobe re-embalmed every month beforeburial. He was also shaved and hisfamous goatee trimmed so he wouldlook much as he had in life. Nowonder Louisa fainted when they

opened the casket to prove to themourners that it was the body ofBuffalo Bill.

He was lowered 12 feet under theground, and six feet of concrete werepoured on top of the casket. That wasnecessary because the residents ofCody, Wyoming, wanted to bury the

Buffalo Bill

body on Cedar Mountain, whichlooked down on the town ofCody. Buffalo Bill had always said hewanted to be buried there.

Several plots were hatched to getthe body to Wyoming. Once a possewas formed to go to the funeral homein Denver and exchange the cadaverof a homeless cowboy for Codys. Butthe posse, it was reported, got only asfar a saloon in Meteetse, Wyoming,where it was disbanded.

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ay and Helen Bonfils weresisters and two of the richesten in America after their fathern 1933 and left them the Denver

newspaper.hey gave millions of dollars toado charities and organizationstill benefit the states residents.did that, in part, to make up for

fathers reputation as a crook.rederick Bonfils operated aulent land scheme and lotterye coming to Denver in 1895. Henother con man bought a failingpaper, renamed it the Denverand set out to make money withway they could.

hat included threatening businessers with bad publicity if theyt advertise, publishing scan-

us stories, rumors, and doinging that would sell newspapers.er Bonfils nor his partner, Harry

men, had any newspaper experi-

nder them, the Denver Postoped a reputation for being thenewspaper in the nation. But it

e moneylots of money.

Everyone hated it; but everyone readit, partly in self-defense and to seewhom the rag was attacking.

Bonfils daughter May was born in1883 and was six years older than hersister Helen. As adults, they foughteach other in court for control of theirfathers fortune.

They hated each other. When Maydied, Helen refused to attend herfuneral.May was a petite, beautiful woman.Helen was tall and striking but notbeautiful. Both were dominated bytheir father as children. He insisted onaccompanying May to a party whenshe was 21 years old.She was embarrassed by his behaviorand in 1904 married the first man shecould in order to get away fromhomea piano salesman namedClyde Berryman.

It was not a great marriage. May wenther own way, and Clyde never quitefit in. But they stayed together until1934.

May had one of the worlds mostimpressive jewelry collections, whichincluded the famous Idols Eye, a 70-carat diamond set in platinum andsurrounded by 35 carats of smaller

Poor Little Rich Girls: The Bonfidiamonds.

She was something of a recluseand did a few odd things as an adult.Instead of attending tea parties, shepreferred to stay at home and sewclothes for her expensive doll collec-tion. When she played Chopin on herpiano, she whistled the music.

But she was beautiful and rich,and she could have whatever shewanted, including a second husband.

In 1956 she offered a handsomefurniture salesman, Edwin Stanton, amillion dollars to marry her. She was72 and he was 53. He married her, shegave him the million, and they livedhappily until she died in 1962 at age79.

Her sister Helen was different. Shewas highly sociable, loved the theaterand acted in many plays, both inDenver and in New York City.

In fact, Helen was the grand dame ofthe theater in Denver, supporting thefamous Elitch Theater, organizing theDenver Civic Theater, creating theDenver Center for the PerformingArts, and helping to produce the firstU.S. tour of the Royal ShakespeareCompany.

She also gave millions of dollarsto the University of Colorado MedicalCenter, churches, hospitals and virtu-ally every major charity in Colorado.

When Frederick Bonfils died, itwas Helen who took over the Denver

Post. May had no interest in the news-paper business.Helen hired good editors and

turned the Posts reputation around,making it one of the most respectedpapers in America. She ran certainparts of it with an iron hand, mainlythe society sectioninsisting that hersisters name never appear in thepaper.

In 1936 Helen married GeorgeSomnes, a successful New Yorkdirector and producer. They livedhappily until he died 20 years later.

After that, Helen became lone-

some and, like her sister, made an oddmatch in 1959 by marrying her chauf-feur, Michael Davis. She was 69 andnearly twice his age. She was havinghealth problems and felt she neededsomeone.

Helen divorced Davis in 1971 andspent the last few years of her life inand out of hospitals, dying in 1972 atage 83.

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Medicare payments to doctors arescheduled to be cut by 20percent in 2010, which would promptmany doctors to stop treatingMedicare patients, said AmericanMedical Association president NancyNielson at recent House Ways andMeans Committee hearings.

A 10 percent reduction wasscheduled in 2008, but that wascancelled at the last minute. Similarcuts have been proposed almostyearly as Medicare officials try to

find ways to reduce costs

program that is headedruptcy as more baby booand use it.

Among suggestions topaying doctors a set aMedicare patient over time. This might discourfrom ordering excessive sdrive up costs, said formdirector Gail Wilensky. Sorder excessive services their incomes, she said.I

Acommon antibiotic, minocycline,might significantly reduce thedamages caused by stroke, accordingto research reported in the journalNeurology.

Patients who received the drugwithin 24 hours of a stroke showedmuch less damage to speaking ability,movement, facial palsy and otherusual effects of stroke.

All of the patients in the study hadmild strokes. Those receiving the drugshowed little or no disability afterthree months. Those not receiving thedrug were at the high end of milddisability.

Researchers said more studieswill be needed, and for now strokepatients will continue to receive the

standard treatment of clot-dissolvingdrugs if those can be administeredwithin the first three hours of a stroke.Otherwise the clot dissolving drugsare not effective.

That time limit means strokepatients should get to a hospital assoon as possible, say researchers.

Elsewhere, another studyvictims do not get to the henough, and hospitals otreat them soon enough.

Thats the conclusion

reported in the medical joby researchers at the UnNorth Carolina.

Dr. Kathryn Rose surveyed records of ostroke patients. Fewer thaof them got to a hospital s(within 3 hours) to rece(tPA) that can dissolve blthe brain and limit stroke d

Of those who did arrivthe drug treatment, onlyreceived the treatment recommended time of

after arrival. Which meantals were not responenough.

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autiful Palmer Lake betweenastle Rock and Colorado

ngs was named for Williamson Palmer, who came to

rado in 1870 and founded theof Colorado Springs.e was born in 1836 in Delaware.parents were peace-lovingers; but he served in the Civil

as a union general.When silver was discovered in

rado, Palmer organized theer & Rio Grande Railroad andover 1,500 miles of tracks to

ng areas, including the narrow-e line along the Arkansas Rivergh the Royal Gorge 1870, he met and marriedQueen Mellen. She founded

rst school in Colorado Springshelped name the towns streets

and area landmarks.She had trouble adjusting to

Western culture and climate. Palmerbuilt her a beautiful castle called Glen

Eyrie (Eagles Nest) in a sceniccanyon northwest of ColoradoSprings. It had 67 rooms, a tenniscourt, bowling alley, its own dairy,stables, and lovely gardens.

The high altitude had ill effects onPalmers wife. She and her daughtersmoved to New York and later toEngland where she died at age 44.Palmer made frequent visits there andencouraged many Englanders to visitColorado Springs.

He continued to live mostly atGlen Eyrie where he died in 1909 atage 72. He left several million dollars

to Colorado College, the local libraryand other charities.I

almers Glen Eyrie castle. Photo courtesy of Arlene Ahlbrandt

To Senior Voice Readers:

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crossword puzzle.

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ACROSS1. Lotion additive5. Largest natural body of water in

Colorado10. Chief Left Hands Arapaho name or a

Boulder neighbor12. Shaggy-haired wild ox of Tibet13. ___ Springs16. Acorns destiny17. The Million Dollar Highway connects

this mining town with Ouray21. Hee ___.24. Relationship of Caroline to Ted

Kennedy25. Tests which determine a schools ranking

in relation to others27. What a debit signifies in a ledger29. Mechanized person31. This first territorial governor was

appointed by President Lincoln in 186133. Clint of the Rockies35. Scene of the first Nicklaus designed golf

course in Colorado36. Perches for birds37. Roughed it while camping39. Noted movie critic42. Kind of lips that sink ships43. John of fur trading fame45. Cake or pie serving47. Pig___ .48. Madam Butterfly, perhaps51. Carpenter, for one53. High school singers57. #8 down might recommend a good one58. Longest river in France59. Colorados first congresswoman60. Dryer filter finding

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14. Lead-in for garchy or gop15. Cereal box prize in the 1940

1950s, perhaps18. Johnny___ .

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RememberingFrank Sinatra

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ger Frank Sinatra reportedly

id, You only live once. And thelive, once is enough.

e did live an exciting life. Manyder him the best popular singerica ever had.ritic Stephen Holden said,tra transformed popular singingfusing lyrics with a personal,ate point of view.ut Sinatras life was also full ofroversy, with ties to Mafiaes, his many affairs with women,his violent encounters withographers who hounded him

ever he went.e was born in 1915 at Hoboken,Jersey. His father, a Sicilian boxerireman, had come to AmericaItaly in 1895; and his mother hadin 1897. Frank was their onlyand he nearly died at birth.

s a teenager, he began singing aty parties and local social clubs.e 17 he told his parents he wasto be a singer. They argued, he

chool and left home, working atal newspaper and then as ar at a shipyard.

is mother soon helped him get awith a local singing group, theoken Four, which won a radiost that allowed them and Frankform at several places.

rank then worked as a singingr at a popular New Jersey clube bandleader Harry James heardand hired him for $75 a week in

when Sinatra was age 24. Hed the Tommy Dorsey band later

that year and recorded several songs,including Ill Never Smile Again,which rose to the top of the charts in

1940.Sinatra was on his way. By the

next year, he was named the top malesinger in America by Billboard andDownbeat magazines.

He married Nancy Barbato in1939, whom he had known since hewas 14 years old. They had three chil-dren, Nancy, Frank Jr., and Christina.

Many people said Sinatra was adevoted father, but he was a knownwoman chaser and unfaithful to hiswife. They divorced in 1951. Hemarried actress Ava Gardner, but after

several tempestuous years theydivorced in 1957. Gardner helped himget a role in the movie From Here toEternity, for which he won anAcademy Award.

He married actress Mia Farrow in1966 when she was 21 and he was 50.They soon divorced, and he made hisfinal marriage to Barbara Marx in1976. She remained with him until hedied.

Throughout the years, he had rela-tionships with Lauren Bacall, AngieDickinson, Juliet Prowse and other

women. Stories about his many affairsdidnt help his reputation.

Neither did stories about his linksto Mafia figures. The FBI maintaineda file on Sinatras underworld connec-tions, said researcher T.J. English.His first wife was a cousin of a Mafiahenchman. Sinatra sang at weddingsand other events arranged by gang-land members, and he met with themin 1946 when they decided to make

Havana, Cuba, their private gambling

empire.Sinatra did not deny friendships with

such figures, and they helped advancehis careerthough few wanted to talkabout how they did it. According tofriend and fellow singer Eddie Fisher,Sinatra once said, Id rather be a don ofthe Mafia than president of the UnitedStates. Comedian Jackie Masoncontended that, after he made jokesabout Sinatra, his hotel room was tornup and he received threats.

In the 1940s, Sinatra was the idolof bobby soxers, and teenage girls

swooned at his live performances.Some actually fainted. From then on,singers and rock bands followedSinatras formula of performing infront of wild, screaming fans.

When rock and roll musicappeared, Sinatras popularity dimin-ished. It looked as if his career mightbe over from the 1950s to the 1970s.

In 1971 at age 56, he announcedhis retirement. But raucous rock songs

couldnt destroy the app

love ballads whose worddrowned out by noise.

He came back againwith hit records such as Small Hours, StrangNight and My Way. Hto make movies, and fewever matched his ability toin Las Vegas.

He was a friend of PreF. Kennedy and Ronald Rhe often spoke out againthe turbulent 1960s. Irefused to perform at Las V

that did not allow black paHe continued to per

1995 when he turned 801998 after a heart attack, daughter Nancy at his sidafter his death, every lighVegas strip was dimmed in

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all the fatalities that occurredn the Oregon Trail, accountst the death of children are

cularly poignant.he diary entries about these of Salita Jane and Littleare even more moving thanhe norm.

n 1846, little Salita Janederson observed her olderr and a girlfriend sample theents of a bottle their motherplaced in a bag hanging on theoard of their wagon.

When the older girls refused toer taste it, Salita waited untilwent on to other activities.

a then drank a whole bottle ofanum(opium in alcohol for.

Presently she came to thepfire where Mother wasing supper and said she feltlly sleepy. Mother told her toaway and not bother her; so

she went to where the beds werespread and lay down. WhenMother called her for supper, shedidnt come.

Mother saw she was asleep, so

didnt disturb her. When Mothertried to wake her later, she couldntarouse her. Salita had drunk thewhole bottle of laudanum. It wastoo late to save her life.

Before we had started, fatherhad made some boards of blackwalnut that fitted along the side ofthe wagon. He took these boardsand made a coffin for Salita, andwe buried her there by the roadsidein the desert.

The story of ten-year-oldJohnny Williams was summarized

with agonizing brevity by Lucia L.Williams in a letter she wrote toher mother:

We have been living inOregon about two weeks, all of usexcept little John, and him we left12 miles this side of Green River,Wyoming. He was killed instantlyby falling from a wagon and thewheels running over his head.

It was the morning of June 20,1851, Esther M. Lockhart laterrecalled in her reminiscences.Young Johnny had asked to ride,not in the carriage his fatherprovided for the family, but withEdwin Fellows, who drove thebaggage wagon.

According to Mrs. Williams,the oxen were frightened by ahorse tied to the wagon ahead ofthem. Spooked, they started to run,as did a couple of other teams.Apparently, Johnny had been in theback of the wagon, but cameforward to find out what washappening. He grabbed hold of the

driver and the driver held ontohim, but the violent swaying of thewagon tore them apart, and Johnnywas thrown from the wagon,landing under its wheels.

The innocent victim neverknew what had happened to him.The boys father was besidehimself with grief and anger. Inthis state he ran for his gun andwas about to shoot the unfortunatedriver when four men overpow-ered him and took his weaponaway. Later, when reason and calm

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mograms to spot cancers. Themolecular breast imagingI) test found 10 out of 13rs in 940 women with densets in the study. Mammograms

found three out of 13.The MBI gave false readings in

7 percent of cases; mammogramsgave false readings in 9 percent ofcases. This means patientsreceiving the MBI would havefewer unnecessary biopsies ifMBIs prove successful in futurestudies and can be used.

Currently MRIs are often usedfor women with dense breasts, butthey give many false readings andcost much more than MBIs wouldcost, said researchers.I

New Treatment for Gout?n experimental gout treatmentmight prove to be effective fory people, according to a reporthe journal Arthritis andmatism.

esearchers at Duke Universitya drug called pegloticasered uric acid levels in goutrers within a few hours andeffective over a period of

he most effective dose of thewas eight milligrams every

weeks. The drug is adminis-

tered by infusion that takes abouttwo hours.

Researcher Dr. John Sundy atDuke University said, We weredelighted to see this response

because all of the patients in ourtrial had already tried all theexisting treatments for gout, andnothing was helping them.

He added that more studieswill have to be done, and he didnot say when the treatment mightbe available if further studiesprove successful. I


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Historic Namesin Estes Park

ill Lambdin

hen you drive or hike around

the Longs Peak area nears Park, youll probablyunter places that prompt youk, Why did they call it that?is how some places there gotnames.abin Creek. Named for a

n that famous scout Kit Carsonalong its banks, according toEstes Park settlers. They said

on spent a winter here trap-beaver, perhaps in the 1830s.e spring, he bargained with

Indians to help him carry outurs.the early 1900s, settler Joesaid he found the walls, the

th and part of the stoneney (that) marked the site oftone cabin built by Carson.he mid-1900s, only a pile ors remained at the cabin site.you can still see the creek andmagnificent scenery Carsond have viewed from this loca-

hasm Lake. Located in am at the base of the massiveface of Longs Peak. An Indiannd said a strange creature livede lake, with a human head andody of a horse, somewhat likeentaur of Greek legend.his made early settlers wonder

Indians had heard the Greekfrom whites and adapted it, orstory had been passed along

ugh ancient people foruries, possibly before theks told it. No one ever found

nswer. In 1873 railroad builderard Berthoud, for whom

houd Pass was named, said hed about the Indian story.ast Face of Longs Peak. Its over 1,000 feet straight

n and has long been consid-one of the most challenging

nical climbs in America byessional mountaineers. Aceton University professor,

Alexander, made the firstnt of the face in 1922. But the

t difficult part, the smoothmond on the north side, was

not climbed until 1960 when twomen took nearly three days toclimb it. Amateurs take a much

easier route to the top of LongsPeak.

Elk Tooth. This 12,848-footrock on Ogalalla Peak is the onlygeographic feature in RockyMountain National Park that bearsthe name elk. The reason: Therewere no elk here when most of theParks features were named in the1880s and 1890s.

Elk had been here earlier.Pioneer Abner Sprague said he sawthousands of them in the 1870s.

But hunters began slaughteringthem commercially after 1875 andwiped out the herds by the late1880s. The reason you see elk nowis that the people of Estes Parkraised money in the early 1900s tobring elk in from Montana. Theyare now so plentiful that they takeover the golf course every spring.

Halletts Peak. A popular moun-tain seen from the Bear LakeRoad. Named for William Hallett,an avid mountain climber whocame to Estes Park in 1878. Agraduate of the MassachusettsInstitute of Technology, he workedas a mining engineer, had a cattleranch west of Loveland, andhelped start the huge Powder RiverLive Stock Company in Wyoming.

He also helped start the firstmountain climbing club inColorado and was the groups starclimber. One of his friends said,He spends all the summer monthsin the mountains and knows thor-oughly every trail and stream for

many miles around. Apparentlyclimbing was good for him. Hallettlived to be 90.

Jims Grove, in Glacier Gorge.Named for Rocky Mountain JimNugent, who came here in 1854 asa hunter and trapper, was mauledby a bear and later killed byanother settler. Jim guided Britishtraveler and author Isabella Birdup Longs Peak in 1873, and shewas impressed by his rugged goodlooks.

On their way up Longs Peak,they spent two nights in the grove

that now bears Jims name andwhich Isabella described as agrove of beautiful silver spruce...Itwas exciting to lie there with nobetter shelter than a bower ofpines...in the very heart of theRocky Range...hearing the sound

of wolves, with shivering starslooking through the fragrantcanopy, with arrowy pines for bedposts, and for a night lamp the redflames of a campfire.

Isabellas book, A Ladys Lifein the Rocky Mountains, waspublished in 1879 and has beenpopular ever since.

Keplinger Lake. Named forL.W. Keplinger, one of the collegestudents who in 1868 accompaniedJohn Wesley Powell on the firstascent of Longs Peak. Powellallowed Keplinger to be the first tostand on the summit becauseKeplinger had scouted the routethe day before Powells groupclimbed it.

Keplinger did that alone in thedangerous notch section andlater recalled, I started up usinghands and feet. All was well until Ipaused and looked down...A lone-some feeling came over me. I

The Longs Peak Inn about 1920. Colorado Historical S

1525 Riverside, Suite-Fort Collins

started back. Finally I gcould let go withouover. He took the groudangerous route the nex

Mount Alice. This 1peak southwest of Longleft a mystery: Who w

The peak might have bfor Alice Munroe, actress who accompaniof Dunraven on his lEstes Park in the laDunraven named severin the area, and he named Mount Alicmistress on that trip.

Or the name may hfrom Elkanah LambEstes Park settler and oLongs Peak Inn. Lambof recalling the gibehind, a sweetheart nain Indiana. Lamb namother geographic featuEstes. Although he hhappy marriage, he anever forgot the Alice win his memoirs, leftover my life which moyears cannot efface.

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The Federal Drug Administrationand other groups say consumers needhelp, and that has prompted U.S.Pharmacopeia to launch a website(www.usp.org/hqu/similarproducts/ch

oosy) that lets people distinguishbetween look-alike and sound-alikedrugs.

Another group, the Institute forSafe Medication Practices, also has a

Avoiding Medication Errors

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in Northern Colorado?

People over age 50.

They have twice the spendable income of other

consumers.

They account for 51% of all consumer demand.

Colorado has had a 65% increase in this age group inthe past seven years the largest in the nation.

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was nearly dark when Dilbertback to camp lugging a deer,

is partner Bubba was not with

Wheres Bubba? his friendsd.He had a stroke and is lying onail about two miles back.

You mean you brought back theand left Bubba? Why?Well, I figured nobody wasg to steal Bubba.

woman went to a Chineseurant and ordered Chickenrise from the menu.he waiter set a big steaming potnt of her. As she reached for it,d slowly opened by itself and

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