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CITY STATE The Billings Gazette 2C Wednesday, August 25, 1993 Campbell County mops storm debris Art Center acquires collection ill if r'' if A i I for about 300 yards where the tornado hit, eight miles east of Gillette in Silver Hills. Tucker had a preliminary insurance inspection of his property Friday and hoped to have an adjuster evaluate it this week. It could cost as much as $37,000 to replace the large shop, but Tucker said he's sure insurance won't pay that much. "The shop is a complete loss," he said. "We got out what we could save.

There wasn't much. We tried to piece together a little shop to at least put some tools and garden supplies in. It's just pitiful." Just over the hill southeast of Tucker's place, the tornado also ripped the roof off a nearby barn and damaged corrals owned by Jim and Nancy Slattery. "It took the roof off the barn and messed up the corrals a little," Nancy Slattery said. "It raised some havoc on the roof and I had a little water.

But it's nothing that can't be repaired." Insurance agent Dave Ebertz said he has received reports of leaky roofs and damage from water in basements. "A lot of them were aggravations from earlier damage." A survey of hail damage to county buildings is still under way. Ebertz said he and didn't have an estimate on the latest damage at Campbell County Public Library. The library suffered some water damage as the result of a faulty drain pipe, he said. The leak was aggravated by the storm.

All evening Thursday fire, police and public works crews responded to emergency calls. Numerous volunteers also helped out. Calls included lightning strikes, haystack fires, downed power lines and moderate to heavy damage from winds reaching 70 mph at times. GILLETTE, Wyo. (AP) Campbell County residents are cleaning up and assessing the damage from the storm that spawned a fatal flash flood and a tornado east of here.

The devastating storm that broke over Campbell County Thursday afternoon continued until late evening. Severe rain, hail and wind knocked out power for a while and caused a flash flood that killed a Gillette man who was working in an oil field. Precision Well Service Owner George O. Shaner, 52, drowned while apparently trying to rescue two fellow workers at a site near Rozet, about half a mile east of Adon Road. The men were caught in the flash flood that streamed down a gully on Deer Creek, a riverbed that is usually dry.

Workers had to struggle to get free from the rushing water and debris and county rescue workers were needed to reach two of the men by boat. Shaner drowned in the flood and his body was not found until about 5:45 a.m. Friday about three-quarters of a mile north of the well site. More than 200 emergency calls received by local dispatchers Thursday. Richard Hauber, the county's acting emergency-risk manager, still is working on a damage assessment Most of the work will be up to the individual insurance companies, he said.

"I went out (Friday) and did some looking around at the damage," Hauber said. "The water is receding real well. Everywhere people seem to be getting things picked up and cleaned up." A tornado touched down on Joe Tucker's property late Thursday afternoon, destroying a 45-by-65-foot shop building and lifting a small shed off the ground. Debris was scattered Photo by Kyle firehm Virginia Snook describes pieces of the art she donated to Yellowstone Art Center to Art Center Director Donna Forbes, board member Larry Martin and Corby Skinner. The oil on canvas in the background is by Will James.

By CHRISTENE C. MEYERS Gazette Arts and Travel Editor With champagne and mountain flowers, the Yellowstone Art Center took a giant step Tuesday toward realizing its dream. A lavish party and much merriment celebrated two pieces of good news, and more than 200 people toasted the double victory in a formal dinner at Radisson Northern Hotel. Guest of honor was longtime Billings resident and collector Virginia Snook, who after years of being wooed, gave her Will James collection to the growing museum. The party also heralded the expansion campaign's topping of the S3 million mark, putting it within $2.2 million of its goal for an expanded facility, planned on the space north of the existing remodeled jail.

Snook, whose art and frame gallery was legendary in the area for years, gave the center her collection of several hundred paintings, drawings, prints and sculpture. By far the most important part of the collection are the drawings and paintings by renowned cowboy artist and author Will James, who lived from 1892 to 1942, built a home in Billings and was a local personality while gaining international attention. Snook's donation of art, books, photographs and memorabilia also includes the work of Joe DeYoung, LeRoy Greene, Isabelle Johnson, Hans Kleiber, Charles M. Russell, Joseph Henry Sharp and Snook herself. Museum director Donna Forbes celebrated Tuesday what she called "a major milestone in the history of the Yellowstone Art Center.

Virginia's gift enables the museum to better address its mission, by collecting both the contemporary and the historic art of this region." itage, Forbes said, "because until now, the Montana collection has been defined by contemporary work, mostly produced since 1950." Dressed in cocktail finery, museum supporters got a sneak preview of Snook's lavish collection, with about two dozen of the James pieces on view in the Radisson's banquet hall walls. Tuesday's dinner also paid homage to the region, the West and the harvest. Vegetables were grown by the Hutterites, local beef was the main course, potted plants were grown in Billings greenhouses over the summer, and guests were able to take a Will James shot glass home with them. James was known as a painter, raconteur, writer and lover of bourbon. During the course of the evening, hosted by museum patron Miri UW students register by phone BLAA director backs trona royalty increase LARAMIE, Wyo.

(AP) Almost 9,000 University of Wyoming students have registered for fall classes over the telephone, according to Registrar Rebecca Macon. Macon said many students are using the university's new telephone registration system and staff members in her office are urging students to use the system rather than sign up for classes in person. "They can come in," she said. "We discourage it because we're trying to remove that crutch from taxpayer an 8 percent royalty," Baca said at a news conference. "If we're serious about giving the taxpayer a fair shake, then we should get what everybody else gets." Meanwhile, U.S.

Sen, Malcolm Wallop said he is disappointed by Baca's statements. "Interestingly enough, they do not propose putting it on the trona in California. Figure that one out," Wallop, said Tuesday during a Many of the James pieces, she said, have never been seen. According to the terms of the gift, the works will be retained in the expanded museum as a distinct group within the Art Center's permanent collection. "They will not be available for loan," Forbes said, "and in fact they will be displayed in part in the expanded space, to be called the Earl E.

Snook Family Gallery." Snook collected art on his sprawling ranch, along the crown of Sacrifice Cliff, and he and his wife, Eleanora, and their daughter, Virginia, collected images of artists working and living in the region before the mid-century. The addition of the Snook collection to the museum's permanent holdings complements the Art Center collection's diversity and artistic her In a visit to Rock Springs, BLM Director Jim Baca said a final decision would be made in a month or two. And it appears, based on Baca's statements, that the rate will be increased to 8 percent, which is what Union Pacific Resources charged the industry for mining on company land. "I think that if they can pay private enterprise and other entities an 8 percent royalty, they can pay the Monday. July 7.

1995 TV EXTRA The Billings Gazette is your source for news entertainment Be sure to pick up your copy today. If your license you win $50. am Sample and designed by Corby Skinner, Billings attorney Lairy Martin paid tribute to several backers who recently put the capital campaign drive above $3 million. Martin, noting the strong base of corporate and private support, said; "The campaign is now moving into a more public phase and 20 community leaders are beginning to solicit contributions." Construction is scheduled to begin in the summer of 1994, Forbes said. The expanded space will show off the permanent collection more than 2,000 pieces of art, considered one of the finest contemporary Western art collections in the nation.

The two-story gallery complex will allow more changing exhibitions and provide a forum for education programs, lectures and performances. separate news conference in Rock Springs. "Secondly, isn't it strange that an administration that has set one if its priorities to take care the balance of payments deficit goes after the competitive status of one of America's real contributors?" Wallop asked. "Trona is a big export. And their competitive stature, especially in Europe, is going to be severely damaged by this." 108th year.

No. 39 1 wo them so that they learn that it is easy. If they come in, we will register them, but lots of times we'll set them up at a phone and talk them through it. After they've done that, they get their confidence up and find out how easy it is to use." Macon said registration by-phone is much easier than registering in person and added the telephone registration system eases the paperwork load on her office. Fall classes begin at the university on Tuesday.

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