, 1927-08-31
WYOMING PRESS ASSN
MEETS In YELLOWSTONE
Editors Attend From All Over State
Meet President Coolidge at
Canyon Hotel

The annual meeting of the Wyo-
ming Press association was held
at Mammoth. in Yellowstone park
on Thursday and Friday of last
week, and was n of the best at
tended meetings to be held for sew
eral years. Editors from many of
the leading papers of wyoming
were present. as we'll as the repre-
s%entatives of practically all the
printers supply houses of the West
ern territory.
Many of the newspaper men en-
tered the park via the Cody en-
trance. arriving in Cody on We'd
nesday evening. and being met al
deaver by cars furnished by F. F.
MCGEE. Ora Sonners and E. F. Shaw
Spending that night here, an early
start vas made the next morning,
and the trip made directly to Mann
moth where the first meeting was
held at two o'clock p. m. that day.
Several other cars bearing editors
from the southwestern part of the
state entered the park via the
southern entrances
The meeting was called to order
by the president Ross A. Alcorn
of Rawlins, and a most interesting
program carried out.
A banquet was held in the dining
room at the Mammoth hotel Thurs
day evening and some very fine
addresses made by those on the
program.
On Friday the members of the
press were the guests OF Supt. Hor-
ace M. Albright at a buffalo round
up and stampede at the Buffalo
ranch on the Lamar river. The
trip was made in cars to the ranch
from which point the balance of
the journey was made in several OF
the old Concord stages once used
for park transportation. About a
hundred people attended the STAN
pede.
Meet President
On Friday evening those attend
ing the press meeting assembled
at the Canyon hotel, in the spa
cious lounge were given an audience
and an opportunity to shake hands
with President Coolidge. Mr.. Cool
idge made no talk to the members
of the press but expressed himself
as most pleased to, meet them while
in Wyoming. Later in the evening
a big dance was held at the canyon
which was attended by Mrs. Cool
idge and son John.
Two Accidents Mar Trip
Two auto accidents. fortunately
nAtthn~ .ttr -..r I'll. ,r,l& ~.
Cured to "A the pleasure of the
trip to Yellowstone. Upon APP
preaching the Thumb station on
the south entrance road, the ear
driven by L. L. Newton left the
road and turned over on its side.
Mr.. Newton was accompanied by
his wife and daughter, and George
Hand of Cheyenne, the latter being
quite severely bruised and possibly
a rib or two fractured. The second
accident occurred on the Cody road,
just the other side OF Cub creek,
when the park bus in which a
party Of the newspaper men were
riding was forced off the road by
a passing tourist, and narrowly es-
capped rolling to the bottom of a
80 foot incline. Tracy McCracken,
editor of the Wyoming Eagle of
Cheyenne was thrown from the car
and received several bad cuts about
the face in alighting on the rock
below. The car was soon righted
by a tractor secured from a con-
struction crew. and the trip made
on W Cody without more serious
mishap.
Those attending the meeting in
cluded Mr.. and Mrs. R. A.. Alcorn
OF Rawlins. Mr.. and Mrs. f. c.
Thompson of Cheyenne. Mr.. and
Mrs. Tracy McCracken OF Cheyenne,
Mr.. and Mrs. Will Goodale of Lar
annie. P. P. Anderson of Basin. c.
w. Cooms of Basin. F. w. Bris-
tow Of Gteybull, d. w. Greenburg
OF Casper, T.. Joe Cahill of Chey-