Hungry Horse News (Columbia Falls, Mont.), 1952-05-30
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JM_ «OOieTt! Mtticm bC f HB'-t ;nts a Copy to ot IS ican reat ic9 ; t'j•K-*'! » lood ■ Hungry Horse News for ■i as. ft - VOL. 6, NO. 44 COLUMBIA FALLS, MONTANA FRIDAY, MAY 3a,. W52 “W / . xi i. -, it! Higher Wages Starting at Dam Fatter paychecks—approximate Big Coiiyon Creek ly a 7 per cent boost—are to start 'Tv v next Thursday at Hungry Horse ..*****b».. ‘ * MV 1 . dam. > Forest Service Tree It will be about $20,000 a week : J>. more for General-Shea-Morrison, Grafe-Shirley-Lane, General El ■ i pi Sole Set for July 2 ■;v ectric Co., and subcontractors em « ployes. Reservoir area wages ap - ■ A July 2 bid opening is sche ■ 5- parently are in negotiation stage. I" X* " v ‘ - duled for 28,220,000 board feet of Common labor base wage at the i S5 Flathead national forest timber on dam is now $1.79 an hour up from Canyon creek 12 miles north of $1.67, and minimum pay for a m Y Columbia Falls. seven day week now is $114.56 John Castles, Flathead nation compared to $106.80 under the old ft,., ; i I al forest assistant supervisor in I seal before deductions. V charge of timber sales, termed the v > -m BACK WAGES COMING sale as the largest forest service The pay raise is retroactive to local sale in the post-war years. February 5 with employes to re -* The Canyon creek offering, a ceive the back pay June 26. five year contract, includes 21,000,- *V- The new project wage scale for 000 board feet of spruce with a heavy construction has the ap- minimum acceptable price of I proval of the Construction Indust $11.50 a thousand board feet; the ry Wage Stabilization commission Down to bare highway this week went the last section of 50- mile long Golng-to-the-Sun high- 2,780,000 board feet of fir and and was negotiated last February Bill way that opens to through traffic Friday morning. Here are Foreman Ray Price and larch is being held for $9 a thou by AF of L unions and the con Whitford operating dozers shoving snow (last Friday) away from t he big drift just over Logan pass. sand, and 2,810,000 board feet of tractors. i white pine at $33.50 a thousand. I Total employment at the pro Also included are 1,360,000 board ject is now over 2,550 with pay- Logan Pass Open for Traffic Today feet of alpine fir and merchantable j rolls near $1,500,000 a month. dead spruce with a $3.50 mini- Concrete in place is now 2,700,- Logan pass, continental divide mum. 000 cubic yards with 400,000 more crossing for Glacier national Part of the reason for the large yards to go. Average daily con park’s Going-to-the-Sun highway, sale is control of the spruce bark crete placement figures are drop will be open to automobile traffic beetle that has killed about 1,000,- ping slowly as the dam nears the i'ftj ■ ' '■ '■ Memorial day morning, according 000 board feet which is still mar top and working space becomes •'ft ,, pv- ftft to George Miller, acting park sup ketable. more confined. It is now 5,800 '. : erintendent. It is two way. The Flathead river’s North Fork cubic yards a day. 479 FEET ABOVE BEDROCK ? V; The early opening—earliest since is becoming an increasingly active & pre-war days—was made possi The dam that will be the world’s / m logging area. ft. ble by favorable weather. Snow fourth largest, third highest, is Getting underway are the fol Corporal Erdman Herbst, 78, Great Falls, who saw action In Cuba now up t0 479 above bedrock, m this winter was more than normal, lowing operators; Rex Brown at during the Spanish-American war, and Pvt. Malcolm McNeil, 83, but it came during the early Completed it will be 564 feet high. Yakinikak creek near the Canad Missoula, also a Spanish war veteran, will be among residents of months. Next were the months of 1 The reservoir that is to store 4\ ian line, a 10,130,000 board foot January, February, March and Ap Montana’s state soldiers’ home who will participate In Memorial day iooo,000 acre feet this summer sale with Cy Tonner also partici observances today at 2 p. m. The soldiers’ cemetery is near the : n’ow ’ bas 650,000 acre feet, and ril, all drier than normal. pating; Koenig Brothers, 5,280,000 home. Mr. Herbst came to Montana in 1899 and Mr. McNeil first stretches for 21 miles to the Elk However Memorial day week board feet on Red Meadow creek; saw the state In 1893. The state home, well administered, has made park vicinity. It will be 34 miles end visitors to Glacier will find the American Timber Products, 4,200,- big strides since World War II, and has 66 old soldiers and 13 sold Logan pass snow drift still about long and contain about 3,500,000 000 board feet on Werner creek, iers’ widows as residents. Cemetery here has beautiful Montana set acre feet. :r J 40 feet deep, and likely there’ll ~*r and Superior Buildings Co., 3,950,- ting. Missed was Stars and Stripes. All pictures by Mel Ruder. Sunday will be a day off for 'Ga ft still be material for snow balls on 000 on Coal creek. July 4. most dam workers. In progress mi Being scheduled for July open will be the monthly shutdown for Ordinarily Logan pass is open ings are 11,000,000 board feet on overhaul and repair. to traffic just before June 15 when ParkHas556Miles of Streams the Flathead’s South Fork at Deep WEEKEND OFF t the park’s summer season com creek; 15,000,000 on Trout lake and I A survey ot water resources now Off for the three day Memorial mences. The earlier opening this 6,000,000 between Harris and Can unnderway shows t$at Glacier na weekend will be men who work year is expected to influence an yon creeks also up the South Fork, Project Vista Point tional park has 556Mi miles of na- j on gravel digging and hauling. even larger number of visitors to and 8,500,000 board feet near Tal med streams. Of this total 450 miles’ stock piles at the gravel screening Glacier. Inquiries and reservations ly lake. A June 4 opening is for are considered capable of support- j plant have been built up. A num are ahead of a year ago. 1951 saw Ready for Visitors 2,440,000 board feet on Peter’s ing fish. ber of other men are off two days. a record 500,125 visitors enter the ridge in the Swan. Guide service at the Hungry Prepraing the study here is A. D. E. W. Simpson, GSM■■ general ■■ alpine vacationland. Horse project Vista point is to start Cannavina, assistant chief ranger superintendent, commented that Park visitors in late May and Memorial day. in charge of forestry and wildlife.1 the prime contractor was gomg to early June will see virtually a lÄrif fACic I In Cnr The Vista point, four miles by Glacier’s stream total includes 109 work with full crews until the thousand waterfalls tumbling over I"iCmT Up lüf hard-surfaced road from U. S with names. Bordering streams, big project was completed. He an- sheer rock of the continental di-1 Dnrlr Macs highway No. 2, overlooks construe- the Flathead river's North Fork ticipates no mass layoff this sorti vide mountain mass. Occasionally V^IQCICl rulR IVicbS tion of the/world’s fourth largest, ;s considered half wOhiii the park; Tier, and the outlook for next fall mountain goats are observed up Pork products showed consider third highest concrete dam. Last the river’s Middle Fork'is entirely and early w inter Is more men high, and near the road are a few able increase and beef was slight summer there were an estimated without the boundaries. working at Hungry Horse than a “bum” bears that are apt to bite ly up over a month ago in Glacier 260,000 spectators, who watched: Glacier’s creeks and rivers, year a®°- Cleanup and the slower hands that feed them. Visitors may national park bid openings Wed construction and heard information I4fi _,u, Hr_in »vpntuallv intà work of completing the top of the There’s a lot of snow left for snowballs just west of the con- also see moose and deer. nesday for 4,000 pounds of meat. about the project. Hudson bay while 371 miles are dam wilt require large numbers of tinental divide in Glacier. Here’s a d rift and section of the Glacier already offers accomo Great Falls Meat Co., also hold Hungry Horse dam is 14 miles headwaters of the Columbia river. men- : Garden Wall from Sun highway as it appears for motorists this week. dations for visitors at the foot of er of the May contract, was awar from the west entrance to Gla- ancj 3914 miles are waters that ROTOR INTO STATOR Lake McDonald and at other cabin ded the bid for $2,130.29. cier national park. flow through the Missouri river Progress in the powerhouse in camps in and near the park both cludes placing the first 500 ton V, Ham for June will cost 55.95 Chief guide at the Vista point system to the Gulf of Mexico. m on east and west sides.