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MAIL TRIBUNE, M.dfortf, Or. Thursday, Jun 11, 1959 Independence Overnight Camp For Yagon Train Independence Rock, Wyo.-(EPD-H i t o r i c Independence Rock, located some 60 miles west of. Casper, Wednesday became the site for an over night camp of the Oregon cov ered wagon train. For the past three days the train of seven wagons has been crossing the Sanford Cat tle Company ranch, a holding - of nearly 500,000 acres on which 5,000 head of cattle are grazed. Ivan Hoyer, news director for the Cavalcade, found that modern rerxirtin? became a problem in central Wyoming when he discovered the near est telephone was 17 miles from th overnight camp ground of the wagon train. That phone was reached ty a back country dirt road. Dinner and Dance The Centennial wagon train personnel were treated to a chuck wagon style chicken dinner Wednesday evening by the Sweetwater Homemakers club. The club consists of a group of ranch wives living in an area some 100 square milM around the famous rock. The dinner war followed by a dance. Today the cavalcade headed into the remote Three Forks nt the state. a telegram was sent to wagon train members Wednes day by the Oregon centennial and Trade Fair. "We await your arrival with great pleasure and assure you . n,oiinm worth? of your JL A - - - MinfriVmtion to OUT lOOtn birthday," the message read. The train is due in Indepen dence, Ore., Aug. 15. 1 Three Bodies Found In Old Incinerator ;nav tiTt. -fllPD A father searching for three missing ohiirirpn. nna of them his own. found their cremated bodies Wednesday afternoon in a make -shift garbage incine- . nenntv Sheriff Ray Atol aid the youngsters apparent" ly crawled into tne incinera tor, an old locomotive boiler mt nn nd. and set fire to gar bage-while playing with matches. . The victims were Larry Dean Slater, a, whose lamer nncovered the tragedy: Rod ney Brenden, 5, and his sister, Debra, 4. Atnl said a stiff nrairie wind probably blew shut a heavy metal door after the children entered the incinera tor. He said the children from a nearby trailer camp bad been warned to keep away from the 1 2-loo t nign Doner. i Cougar Dam Job GoesToll.Y. Firm Portland - (UPD - Merritt- Chapman & Scott Corp., New York- City, has been awarded a S23.985.584 contract to build Cougar Dam on the South Fork McKenzie River, rri Walter T. Wine ear. Port land District Engineer, said today. Completion date is March 1, 1963. The work calls for con struction of the dam and out- let works, power intake works and roads. The project is a unit in the ! Corps of Engineers' compre lionslv Til an for development of the .Willamette River Ba sin. The dam's powerhouse will - have two generating units with a total installed capacity of 25,000 kilowatts. They are expected to be in operation by November, 1962. 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