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ay 2008 The Senior Voice

The Colorado Legislature hasfinished its work on the statebudget for next year.

We increased funding for OldAge Pension cash benefits by $3.4million. We were also able toappropriate over $1.2 million inadditional community services forretirees, largely from increasedfederal revenues.

We were able to pay back $2.2million borrowed from our stateVeterans Trust Fund during therecession of 2001. This fundprovides key services forservicemen and women, and assis-

tance to them in applying for andreceiving veterans benefits.We have also begun a pilot

program to increase support to ourcounty Veterans Services officers.They are the key contacts for ourveterans.

We were able to increase supportof our states colleges and universi-

ties by over 8.5 percent.for our states students

higher education, and itregion to benefit from thspin-offs from a trainedand research activities.

I am most pleased thable to begin to addressands of disabled Colowaiting lists for serviceeligible for. We have funding to serve an additColoradans who cannneeded mental health trea

Our state general fun just over $8 billion. Th

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e cover picture for this monthsenior Voice shows an Indian in ang done by early Western artisty Farny.he painting appears in a recent, Out of the West: The Gundection of Western Art, whichins paintings by Farny, Fredericington, Charles Russell andal other Western artists.he book contains biographicalmation on each artist as well as

color paintings. It includess by some of the first artists whored the Old West on canvas.enry Farny spent his boyhoodnd Indians after his parentsd in western Pennsylvania inHe trained himself as an illus-

r, working for newspapers,pers Weekly magazine andpublications.1879 he illustrated an editionclassic McGuffey Reader thatused in Americas pioneer

ols. He also did circus posters,ons and anything that wouldhim a living.

ut his main interest wasican Indians, and he eventuallyme well known for depictingon canvas. In 1894 he traveledrt Sill, Oklahoma, to sketch the

ious Apache chief Geronimo,was imprisoned there.

Farney is often compared to thetwo giants of Western art, CharlesRussell and Frederic Remington.Some of their works are also includedin this book.

Charles Russell is considered thepremiere cowboy artist for goodreason. He lived the life of a cowboyafter he went from St. Louis toMontana at age 16 in 1880.

His parents were well off and senthim to good schools, but youngCharlie ignored the teachers and spentall of his time drawing pictures ofcowboys and Indians. His parentsfinally had to let him go West. Theythought he would get his fill of fron-tier hardships and return home, but helived in Montana for the rest of hislife.

As a young cowboy, he often

traded his sketches for drinks insaloons. And when he drank, he said,it was no secret. He was a wildyoung man who thoroughly enjoyedraising hell in the untamed West.

Luckily, a beautiful young womannamed Nancy Cooper married him in1896 when he was 32. She was aheadstrong girl who realized he waswasting his artistic talent, and shequickly set about to change that,becoming his manager, arranging artexhibits, sales and building his career.He readily admitted that she made

him successful.Later in life, Russell liked to tell

stories about his cowboy years, and hewas very good at it. Famed storytellerWill Rogers said Russell could tell astory better than any man that everlived.

Frederic Remington was different.His Western art became famous, buthe depicted a West he didnt knowfirst hand. He lived all of his life inthe East, traveling occasionally to theWest to get photographs and ideas forhis art.

But he was fascinated by the earlyWest and was determined to keepmemories of it alive through hispaintings and sculptures. He alsowrote Western stories that werepopular.

By the time Remington died at age48 in 1909, he had succeeded increating a romantic, mythic view of

the West that still survives today.When we think of a cowboy, it isprobably one who looks like aRemington figurerugged, inde-pendent, hard working and fun-loving.But not the man you want yourdaughter to marry.

This colorful 142-page, hardcoverbook is full of art and stories thatanyone who likes the West will enjoy.Its size is 11 inches by 10 inches. It isavailable for $34.95 at bookstores orfrom Western Edge Press, 126Candelario Street, Santa Fe, NM

87501; email [email protected].

Early Cowboy Artists

Henry Farnys painting from the book Out of the West.


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Frontier Towneggy Hunt

me of northern Colorados earliest

oneers settled the little village of

nville just west of Fort Collins,

has an interesting historyfrom

mines to dinosaur digs.

mes Mason, for whomonville was named, arrived in

. He had come to Colorado in

as an impoverished boy of 14. He

ed the Great Plains driving a

n loaded with whiskey for miners

ntral City.

ater he hauled timber from the

tains to Longmont. One winter,

ot caught in a snowstorm and

nt get out of the mountains for

al days. He nearly starved to

the 1890s, prospectors foundnear Masonville, and it looked as

peaceful ranch valley would

me a boomtown. Locals built

al buildings, including a hotel and

al store.

ut the ore was low grade and the

proved unprofitable.

Prospectors gave upexcept for

one named Cal Carter. He believed

there was a mother lode here and

continued to search for it until 1936,

when he died at age 91.

Cals lonely grave is on a ridge just

west of Masonville, and today you can

still see evidence of the gold mines thatdisappointed so many.

You can also see the old hotel, now

a private home, and the general store,

later called the Masonville Mercantile.

The town was a rough place during

its gold-rush days, with gunfights and

robberies. Once a gang attempted to

rob the store in the middle of the night.

The owner surprised them with blasts

from a double-barreled shotgun.

He wasnt sure he hit any of the

robbers, but he knew that one shot

blew away the stores pot-belly stove.After the gold rush played out,

different miners began stone quarry

operations. The beautiful pink stones

from here were used for many build-

ings in Fort Collins and nearby towns.

Because of the quarry operations,

archaeologists were able to find

dinosaur bones dating back 140 million

years. A few years ago, archaeologist

Robert Bakker announced the find, and

someone dubbed the dinosaur the

Masonville Monster.

Reporters tried to get Bakker to

reveal the exact location of the find,

but he refused. All we kno

fossils are there.

Earlier in the 1860

Milner family settled in t

ranchers. Milner Mountain

Masonville and south of

Rock was named for them

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ors Note: Greeley historian

l E. Johnson wrote the

wing story years ago.)

azel Johnson

bridge Gerry may have beenWeld Countys first white settler,

ng in the mid-1800s.e had at least two Indian wives.records showed that he traded

ponies for the first wife. Whendied, he went back to thens and traded more ponies forer wife, maybe two.erry became known as the Paulre of Weld Colorado when he

to Denver to warn officials ofmpending Indian attack. He haded of it from one of his wives.lry troops were able to prepare

ward off the attack.ears ago, H.G. Rogerson ofley and Fort Collins told meElbridge Gerry.

He must have been a wonderfulacter, smart and brave andtious, said Rogerson. Heinto wild Indian country alone

made friends with the tribes.

His last squaw was buried withon the old Gerry ranch east ofey, where he had built a houseobe blocks.The house later served as a fortwas fairly dilapidated when weused to go there and dig for

wheads. There is no trace of theort now.Gerry started a horse ranch thatded several thousand acres ofwhere Crow Creek enters the

South Platte River.An act of Congress gave a grant

of the land he claimed and also paidhim damages of over $13,000 forstock Indians had stolen from him,

plus burning him out. That happenedin 1864.With the money, Gerry built a

hotel and saloon in Evans just southof Greeley. He lived there with hisIndian wife until he died in 1875,said Rogerson.

Gerry was smart to build asaloon in Evans then. Greeleysettlers allowed no liquor in theirtown, and anyone wanting a drinkhad to go to Gerrys saloon.

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do not want to treat each of my

ren the same in my Will. How

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right to receive part of the estatealid Will is in place. In Colorado,ot necessary in the Will to specif-disinherit someone like a child

or give that person a minimal amountsuch as $100.

However, under the intestate laws,if a person would be entitled to ashare of the estate in the absence of avalid Will, then the Will itself isusually attacked.

The first argument might bedirected at the capacity of the makerto execute the Will. However,Colorado has such low threshold of

capacity necessary to do a valid Willthat few contestors of the Will arelikely to succeed using that argument.

Often Wills are successfully inval-idated because one or more of thenamed beneficiaries exerted undueinfluence over the maker, thus

harming an individual who wouldotherwise have benefited undernormal circumstances.

Often the attorney will meet withthe maker alone and determine if theWill matches the makers intent andreflects the Markers free choice.

Besides the undue influence argu-ment, a related issue concerns the useof a beneficiarys attorney who hadlittle contact with the person makingthe Will. A definite conflict of interestseems to be present, but the taintcould still be overcome if the attorney

acted in an arms length manner andinsured that the Will provisions wereunaffected by the attorneys relation-ship with the beneficiary.

Sometimes a disappointed benefi-ciary argues that the maker wasmistaken and if the maker only knewthe correct facts, he or she would have

provided otherwise in the Thus, the less said in th

why the Will was drafted aless ammunition is provideattempting to set aside the W

Occasionally Wills abecause the challenger

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Social Security and Medicareott Burns

ncial Writer

n the one hand, you recommendelay taking Social Security bene-ntil we reach full retirement (66e), if we can afford it, because theent is higher and we will realize

money in the long run.n the other hand, you paint apicture of Social Securitys long-

solvency. That makes me think Idr start taking Social Security asas I can. I could go either way,hat is a 60-year-old boomer to

: The squeeze that is comingably wont be a direct hit onl Security benefits. There are twons, financial and political.he financial reason is that our

government has accumulated SocialSecurity trust fund assets from all theextra employment taxes weve beenpaying since the last big SocialSecurity reform in the 1980s. Thoseassets are on the official books. Theycan, and will, be redeemed by SocialSecurity in order to make the necessary

payments to retirees.Basically, the cash flow hot potato

will be passed to the Treasury. Facedwith billions in bond redemptions inaddition to perpetual governmentdeficits from other sources, theTreasury will have to borrow realmoney rather than simply make book-keeping entries.

Worse, it will have to borrow realmoney from an increasingly skepticalworld (China, India, Japan and SaudiArabia). It is clear that our dollars are

less welcome than they have been in thepast.

Retirees will get their promisedSocial Security benefits because it is apolitical necessity, whatever the conse-quences in the financial markets.

I dont think we can be as confidentabout the really big promise of

Medicare. The unfunded liabilities ofthe Medicare Part D drug program arenearly as large as the unfunded liabili-ties of Social Security. And thats just asmall part of the program!

The future costs of Medicare aremassively greater than Social Security.That, I believe, is where retirees canexpect to see the most weaseling, andfrom both political parties.

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ongs Peak Climber in the 1800eggy Hunt

We talked of things thattouched the soul.hat was how Anna Dickinsonibed the conservation around afire in 1873 after she had just

me one of the first women tob Longs Peak in the mountainsrthern Colorado.he was 31 years old, a beautifulan who found inspiration ande in Colorados snow-capped

s. She had been the first womancord to climb the states highestMount Elbert near Leadville,

he climbed several others over0 feet.nother woman, Addieander, had climbed Longs Peake Anna did; so she was not the

on that peak. But Anna maybeen the second.nna was a well known lectureromans suffrage on the Eastt and had spoken before theSenate to encourage Congressnish the Civil War and endery. People said she had the

of an angelic prophet, stronghunderstorm at times, soft as asong at other times.eople who knew her said shemany beaux. One of them wash Meeker, son of the man who

ded the town of Greeley in, Nathan Meeker. It was Ralphconvinced Anna to come to

rado in 1873.he had been depressed for someand Ralph thought Colorados

nificent scenery might bring her

out of it. He was right.Anna couldnt get enough of the

high, challenging peaks. She rode aburro up Pikes Peak, Grays andLincoln peaks. But Longs Peakrequired a difficult climb, and shefound it most inspiring.

After that climb, she sat aroundthe campfire with Meeker andseveral other young men. Also inthe group was William Byers, firsteditor of the Rocky MountainNews.

They decided to name two othermountains near Longs: MountMeeker for Ralphs father; andMount Lady Washington, perhapsfor Mount Washington in New

Hampshire, which Anna hadclimbed earlier.When she stood on the 14,000-

foot summit of Longs, she said itwas one of the most thrilling experi-ences of her life. She could seeacross vast distances of the frontierWest and felt her spirit soaringinside her.

She carved her initials in a smallmetal case and left it on the moun-tain. Later in Rocky MountainNational Park, Mount Dickinsonwas named for Anna. It stands high

and alone, as inspiring as the beau-tiful woman whose name it bears.

Mt. Meeker, left, Longs Peak, and Mount Lady Washington. Senior Voice photo.

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Chapeaux chapter of the Red HatSociety.

Years ago, the custom was forladies to always wear hats inpublic. In fact, in some churches

women were not permitted to enterwithout a hat or head covering.And it was traditional at Easter towear an Easter bonnet withmatching gloves and shoes.

Winnette was born in easternColorado where her parents home-steaded in 1913. She attended aone-room school and drove a horseand buggy to school.

In 1940 she graduated fromFort Morgan High School,attended the university in Greeley,

and worked as a parachute riggerfor the Air Force during World WarII. After the war, she marriedMeredith (Bud) Payne and hadthree children: Jon, Susan andMaggie.

At age 40, she went back to

The Hat Ladyce Mothers Day is in May,is story is about a mother andual lady who wears many

Winnette Payne is a longtime

Collins resident known foreautiful hats she wears. Heruation with hats began 40

s ago when her husband and

daughter gave her a lovely bluevelour hat for Christmas. Says, Itwas love at first sight. Its nice tohave for a bad hair day.

She has about 30 hats in a

variety of colors and styleswithribbons, feathers, bows, fedoras,sailor and picture hats. She is theQueen Mother of the Les Rouges

school at CSU, earneEnglish and taught Junior High. She latemasters degree and

language arts coordPoudre School District.

She also contributedthe community in volunher church and other tions. I am proud to be many friends.

Winnette Pay

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Festival at HistoricStage Coach Station

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e Virginia Dale Community Clubill hold its annual festival at theric Virginia Dale Stage Station

of Fort Collins, June 14 from 94 pm.

vents include a raffle for an-size quilt made by ladies oflub (decorated with boots andcattle brands); a silent auction;prizes; and an arts and crafts

istorian Wayne Sundberg willa history of the stage station,

h was built on the Overland Trail62 and still stands. It is on thenal Register of Historical Placess one of the few such stagens left in the U.S.ugh Bingham will perform asTwain. Cotton Dent will perform

mountain man, and Bill Temperoerform as a cavalryman.here will be games and prizes forren. Admission is free; you canunch and refreshments.o reach the station, go 35 miles

north of Fort Collins on Highway 287,turn right on County Road 43F, andfollow it about one mile. For information,call Sylvia Garofalo at 970-495-1828 oremail [email protected].

For additional information, see theclubs website at www.VirginiaDaleCommunityClub.org.

In the 1800s, the stage station wasonce operated by the notorious JackSlade, whom Mark Twain describedin Roughing It. Slade robbed thevery stage coaches he was supposedto protect and shot several men,including Jules Beni, the station agentat Julesburg.

Twain wrote that Slade shot Jules,then cut off the dead mans ears andput them in his vest pocket, where hecarried them for some time with greatsatisfaction.

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eing foreclosed on. It is also theirbors whose home values haveed as a result of foreclosures in the

borhood. And its their communi-at are seeing tax bases depleted andservices cut back.ccording to the Center foronsible Lending, Colorado will

experience nearly 50,000 additional fore-closures in 2008 and 2009 asadjustable-rate mortgages reset and ashome values continue to plummet. Ontop of that, almost 750,000 homesapproximately 35% of all the homes in

Coloradowill suffer declines in value.When homeowners began to default ontheir mortgages in greater numbers in 2006,credit became harder to obtain. Investors inmortgage-backed securitiesrepackaged

and resold mortgages that helped injectliquidity in the mortgage marketwere nolonger as willing to provide needed cash.

As our neighbors homes decline invalue, so do ours. As more and more loandefaults occur, the harder it is for the rest

of us to get credit and for businesses toget the capital they need to invest, createjobs and grow.

Government has a responsibility tohelp families stay in their homes and to

stem the tide of foreclosuresCongress took an importandirection when the SenateForeclosure Prevention Act othat seeks to provide assistalies affected by foreclos

prevent other families from fselves in the same situation i________________You can call Sen. Salazars

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e: The Senior Voice story onHorn.ow my grandfather Williamart Ingham and Tom Horn met, It know, except that my grandfa-had come to America (fromand) at age 19 as a remittanceHe failed at that and became a

boy. He ultimately became

ger of a sheep ranch and thenled in the very first class at theersity of Wyoming and was aber of the first graduating class97.round that time, my grandfatherTom Horn, who visited myparents on numerous occasions

at their home. My grandmother toldmy mother that Mr. Horn was neveranything but a gentleman when attheir home.

Grandfather went on to becomehead librarian at the University ofWyoming and the acting president of

the university during the later part ofWorld War I.

My grandfather was summoned totestify at the trial of Tom Horn. Whengrandfather arrived, Horn was heardto say, There is Stew Ingham. He cantell you that I could not have shot theNickell boy.

My grandfather was one of manywho did not believe Tom Horn killedyoung Willie Nickell. Much of thedoubt came from the description ofthe wound caused by the rifle bulletthat killed Williea bullet from a

rifle of a much larger caliber than wasever carried by Tom Horn.

Paul S. Baldwin, age 77

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Some university researchers previ-ously put their names on articles thatsupported the drug Vioxx even though

the researchers did not actually write thearticles and knew little about the drug.

Thats the conclusion of a recentreport in the Journal of the AmericanMedical Association (JAMA). Vioxxwas withdrawn from the market in2004 after the FDA determined itcould cause heart attacks.

Employees at Merck, which manu-factured Vioxx, produced the articles,and then the company found univer-sity researchers who would put theirnames on the articles and submit themto scientific journals.

JAMA editors said, Whenintegrity in medical science or prac-tice is impugned or threatenedsuchas by the influence of industrypatients, clinicians and researchers areall at risk for harm, and public trust inresearch is jeopardized.

Of 24 clinical trials published, 22were by academics who receivedfinancial support from Merck, saidinvestigators. Such disclosures havealso led analysts to wonder how long

Merck officials knewdangers of Vioxx befortook it off the market.

The drug was sold as a and anti-inflammatory for

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The review of Merckshowed that the compasystematic strategy to fapublication of guest-aughost-written medical liteJAMAinvestigators.

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dies show that the averageolfer walks about 900 miles a He also drinks about 22ns of beer a year. Thats an

age of 40 miles to the gallon.

bad.

n airliner was diverted to arent city than scheduled, andttendant told the passengerscould get off and stretch their

blind woman sat alone witheeing-eye dog at her feet.he captain asked, Would youssistance getting off the plane?he said, No, but could youmy dog a little?

he captain agreed and walkede plane with the dog.When the other passengers saw

aptain, they made a frantic dashckets on other airlines.

young clerk was working latePentagon one evening.

As he left his office, he noticed ageneral standing by the documentshredder in the hallway, a piece ofpaper in his hand.

Do you know how to work this

thing? asked the general. Mysecretarys gone home, and I dontknow how to run it.

Yes, sir, said the young man.He turned on the machine, took thepaper from the general and fed itinto the machine.

Thanks, said the general. Ionly need one copy.

An Iowa farm boy went off tocollege but went through hisspending money before the first

semester was half over.He knew his dad wouldnt givehim any extra money; so he calledhome and said, Dad, they have anamazing program here that willteach our dog Old Blue how to talk.

Really? said his dad. Howmuch does the program cost?

Just $1,000.His dad sent the money and Old

Blue, and the boy had a great timethe rest of the semester. But asChristmas vacation approached, herealized he couldnt take Old Bluehome and reveal the scam; so heshot the dog.

Then he called his dad and said,Something has come up you shouldknow about. Old Blue finished theprogram and talks very well. Butone of the first things he said to mewas, Is your dad still seeing thatredhead in town?

Jesus! said his dad. I hopeyou shot the damn dog before hetalks to your mother.

I did.

And the boy went on to be asuccessful lawyer.

A Sunday school teacher askedlittle Johnny, Do you think Noahdid a lot of fishing when he was onthe ark?

Johnny replied, Probably not,with just two worms.

From Steven Wright:Curiosity killed the cat, but for a

while I was a suspect.

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