From our files: Polio strikes the region in 1949

100 years ago, Aug. 8, 1924

The Cowley Progress

Five persons were drowned in the Shoshone reservoir, 8½ miles west of Cody, when a broken front axle on the car in which they were riding to Yellowstone National Park sent the automobile with its passengers hurtling over a 40-foot embankment into the water. The dead are Mr. and Mrs. Junius Tanner of Clover, Utah, and son Carl, 9, and Willard Welch, 12, and Sarah Welch, 10, children of Mr. and Mrs. John Welch of Cowley. Mrs. Welch and Mrs. Tanner were sisters.

Leora Tanner, 11-year-old daughter of the Utah couple, was in the car at the time it went into the reservoir, but escaped the fate of her parents, brother and two cousins by jumping just as the car left the terra firma on its plunge into the water.

75 years ago, Aug.  11, 1949

The Lovell Chronicle

The second case of infantile paralysis (polio) was diagnosed last Saturday when Lionel, 7-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Alma Brown, was taken to the Billings hospital after examination by local doctors. He is affected by paralysis in his side and one arm. His condition was reported as unchanged yesterday.

Reports continue to be favorable on the progress being made by polio victim Robert Sadler, who is still in an iron lung at Billings but shows improvement.

50 years ago, Aug. 8, 1974

The Lovell Chronicle

Rose City West officials are not the least concerned about the changes that had to be made to lower the construction cost of the retirement home. On the contrary, they all feel that the building is now much better designed than the original plans were.

25 years ago, Aug. 5, 1999

The Lovell Chronicle

Steve Facciani, Game and Fish Deputy Director, said during the public comment portion of last week’s meeting (in Buffalo) only one person stood up to voice concerns about the elk ranch (on the Crow Tribe reservation in Montana). Facciani said the man was from Lovell, but he did not have his name.

Concern has been raised over the initial number of elk proposed to be captured, 550 the first year and 330 every subsequent year for 10 years. However, there is a discrepancy as to how many elk are in the Garvin Basin herd that migrates from Hunt Area 39 in the Bighorn National Forest to the reservation.

10 years ago, Aug. 7, 2014

The Lovell Chronicle

Quinn Lindsay set a world record in the bobsled push in the 10-year-old division, placing first with a time of 6.65 seconds in the AAU Junior Olympic Games National Championships Monday and Tuesday, July 28-29, at Drake University at Des Moines, Iowa. He also placed first in the deadlift with 34 reps at 121 pounds.