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« y VOL. 6, NO. 41 COLUMBIA FALLS. MONTANA FRIDAY, MAY 9, 1952 * • -* < s» ^ **' 'là a# • ;c.s» I | 3i Dam at Top in Two Months ,fa* *¥V*. » & I “ Concrete blocks at Hungry é»- n m I Horse dam during the next two :*ÄV Columbia Falls High * I months will be nearing their ul- I timate height of 564 feet above ■; f »V i , J ■i School Graduation bedrock. l/v À V ■j I All of the 3,100,000 cubic yards M J 1% I of concrete needed to build the Dates Announced î»fe I world’s third highest, fourth lar- * 7* 4~ II gest concrete dam is to be in place Graduation exercises for 40 Co I ( late this fall. Concrete total in < lumbia Falls high school seniors j * Pr ? I place is now virtually 2,600,000 cu- will be Wednesday, May 21 at 8 | <- . ! bic yards. This week concrete p. m. in Columbia Falls high school j .s*. I placement was averaging 5,754 cu— 4 gymnasium, according to Princi- j II bic yards a day. pal Dulane Fulton. ■ £ FIRST BLOCK UP mm: ■83 ■id ■k Ben Frost, Montana State uni- j First concrete block to reach the 4 7*5 versity professor at Missoula, will ! j ultimate height of 564 feet above alk on “What Age Do We Live j [ bedrock will be No. 28 near the ^In.” The high school band and j Vista point. E. W. Simpson, Gen- glee club will present numbers, eral-Shea-Morrison’s general sup­ invocation will be by Rev. Leo > s w a r*m erintendent, expects block No. 28 within a mile of Logan pass, continental divide Hinton, Hungry Horse, father of I.will be completed in May. Snow plows on Glacier's Sun highway are now L i crossing for the 50-mile trans-park highway. Snow conditions and depths are considered average me of the graduates. > Other activities of graduation However the major part of the for this time of year. Ahead, however, just over the pass is the big 50-foot drift which should be Areek include baccalaureate Sun- j j dam will be reaching its top level cleared early in June, and the road opened by June 14. The Garden Wall road camp, three miles day, May 18 in the high school j u late in July and in August. from the pass, is to be opened Monday with Mrs. May O. Seelye, Kalispell, cook. This 1952 pic- gymnasium- with Father Hugh A. I Next stage of construction will by Mel Ruder. I ture was taken when the rotary was about five miles from the pass. Photos !_ Faley, Columbia Falls scheduled to j be slower as concrete for the ele­ give the talk. j vator towers, parapets, the road­ Class picnic is to be Monday, j way and sidewalks are placed. Schedule Large Canyon Creek Timber Sale May 19 at Flathead Lake lodges, J Crossing the top of the 2,100 foot Bigfork, and senior breakfast, I long dam which will be 39 feet Scheduled for a late June open- Wednesday, May 21 at Reeve’s I wide at the crest will be a 30-foot Road Issue Could p\ne Squirrel Takes ï ““I mil‘l0”>oard f“‘ cafe, Whitefish. i wide highway, and a two foot and 1 " 1 of 8forest!5 “ service'28 timber in the Valedictorian of the class is ] four foot wide sidewalk. This type John Allton, Columbia Falls rural, I of work will require a fot of man Block New School Offensive for Bread Canyon creek drainage of the Flat- ! I hours. with Don Patterson, Hungry Horse, I / Columbia Falls town council; ;; , „ _ . head river’s North Fork north of salutatorian. George Aubert is the I V At present the major part of discussed the pros and cons of 1m G/rfr/Pf / rClfK Columbia Falls. This is one of the class faculty sponsor. j Hungry Horse dam runs up to 454 closing the streets between the j ‘largest local sales in forest service Members of the class are as fol- I J feet above bedrock, and is 81 feet high school and present grade A pine squirrel that likes bread history. lows: (from Columbia Falls) John ■ J f thick and 1,680 feet across. At the school that is being built and en- —often part of a slice out of each bottom the concrete is 321 feet One of the reasons for the sale Allton, Delores Ball, Edward Ban- tirely equipped with a $326,400 loaf—is causing trouble at the Gla- pan, Lester Black, Joan Brew, Lois thick. federal grant. cier national park warehouse. j js to curb activities of the spruce Byrne, Wilbert DeFlyer, Sam Ell- LARGE PAYROLLS Mayor Herman Benzien express- Storekeepers Grant Anderson bark beetle that has recently kill­ man, Ted Hoerner, Bill Holt, Ros- * General-Shea-Morrison payrolls ed the sentiment of the town gov- and Jerry Cigliana are trying to ed trees in a section containing alie Kessinger, William Opalka, are considered virtually at their eminent and council with a state- find the hole that the squirrel uses about 1 million board feet. Log- Howard Role, Dave Sanders, May­ 1952 peak with 1,834 which repre­ ment to the effect that a lot of to enter the warehouse. Once in, Sing plan according to John Cas- nard Saurey, Fairelyn Staaleson, sents about 150 more jobs than money was being received for a the report is the little animals go ties, assistant supervisor, Flathead Jack Tillman, Ray Stanley, Ellis While lower elevations of Glacie r are now completely clear of snow, last year’s peak. Total project new school in this community, and straight to the bread supply. ( national forest, in charge of tim- Vail, Eva Jean Walker, Jean Wor- there is still a white blanket higher up. This is late April, 1952 view employment now is at 2,300, and that actually it was no great prob- | Additional information tells of ber management is to cut the this summer it is expected to equal lem to open up new streets north ! the squirrel putting on a hazing beetle killed or effected trees and rail; (from Martin City) Dale An- of Morrison-Knudsen camp at Logan creek just coming out of winter, person, Phyllis Ingraham, Avis In background, Mt. Cannon. M-K will complete contract this summer >r pass the last August high of and south of the schools. This campaign by running and chatter- then log in 40 acre units leaving Lietz, Connie Lietz and Arlis Sa- to improve 10-mile section of highway, Logan creek to Logan pass, 2,450. Another 150 to 200 men are tould be done ing up and down the porch of the about half the timber standing. ther; (Creston) Dan Anderson; ------to return to work in the reservoir This writer feels, and he believ- warehouse with worried store- The sales contract will provide (Coram) Don Lee; (Essex) CaroL a ■ # _ . . area. es it is the sentiment of Columbia keepers wondering what to do for logging during a five year per- Payrolls are now about $2,400,- Falls, that many other communi- next. No guns allowed, it’s a na- 10c*. BÛSu'TTedSonr'S Aluminum Picture Favorable J00 a month. ties have blocked streets to ac- tional park. Also slated for this year are Bucholz, Don Dunwell, Leo Hin­ Employment pattern at Hungry commodate schools. Others have------♦ Flathead national forest timber of- ton, Marietta Lee, Carolyn Mitch-! , Recent developments concerning Horse actually calls for a large rivers, railroad tracks and other nîc*i*îrt PrpcpntPfJ flings of 11 million boardfeet on the Anaconda Copper Mining Co. crew working through September features through the town that UISItICT rreSenTea the Flathead river’s South Fork SÂÂSîieÂS'Pa'* v,sltors T,,IS aluminum plant for the Flathead and October into November. GSM take out streets. n* tave been encouraging commented employment during December—in On the otherhand access must 3CllOOI UT n.H n.H Deep0ve creek; H“ngry another block of near-near sÄSÄhbL,J Summer to Recelue cleanup—will likely be larger than be provided to the rear of the' «Title of the eight room Hungry ly 6 million board feet is to be sold Frank O. Case, ACM vice presi­ it was last year at the time. school buildings anr’ to property Horse school that houses 243 stud- between Harris and Canyon creeks idelit; Lois Byrne, secretary; Ray Free Bags for Trash dent in charge of aluminum. Cement car shipments to Coram development that may come in the ents and was built by General- on South Fork, and also 15 Stanley, treasurer; Charles Storm,' Mr. Case in New York City was for Hungry Horse dam are cur­ r future in order to safeguard such Shea-Morrison, Hungry Horse million board feet near Trout lake student council representative. Each car stopping at Glacier na­ contacted Thursday morning by rently 72 bulk cars a week. Poz- matters as fighting fire. Also ac-} prime contractor, is to be transfer- op the same river. These will be (Please see picture on page 4). tional phrk entrances this summer telephone by the Hungry Horse i^°^an shipments are averaging 2S cess to the town should be pro- ! red to school district 6 for $1. llve year contracts, will receive one stout paper bag Hews. He had returned from I bulk cars with about 30 a week vided for residents directly west Agreement for the transfer was A Tally lake sale of about 8Vz from the National Park service. , Washington, D. C. late Tuesday, |needed. of the schools. I made Tuesday at a conference be- million board feet west of White- Slate Grade School Lettering will read: This is your 8 , i Other. ,construction . , . activity. at . the, It seems that both the school tween the school board. Bureau of fish is also being readied. It will trash bag, please use it as a eon- and has been working on the al- dam includes placing two 20-foot board and town council have ag- Reclamation and GSM représenta- be a four year contract, Graduation Days tainer for your wastepaper, tin ' uminum plan; si.ua.ion. concrete liner sections in the hori­ reed that this will be done. There tives held at Hungry Horse. Meanwhile opening in Kalispell District 6 grade school gradua­ cans, bottles and other debris and | Apparently the ACM’s biggest zontal part of the spillway tunnel, is also realization that the schools ( Wednesday the board completed June 4 will be bids for 2,440,000 tion exercises are scheduled for deposit it, or empty it, in one of problem of getting a sure source with the third section to be pour­ need more acreage for playgrounds th'eir annual spring inspection of jjoard feet of forest service tim- Hungry Horse, Tuesday, May 20 the trash cans provided for your of “alumina” for the Flathead plant ed Saturday. The spillway tunnel, and future expansion. district schools that include Essex, ber in the North Krause creek Columbia Falls, Thursday, May 22 convenience. Trash along the roaa- will be solved when the Reynolds here has a 24 foot six inch diam- Columbia Falls has some reason | Nyack, West Glacier, Apgar, Cor- drainage on Peter’s ridge, 20 miles Principal Otto Nordstrom will sides is a national problem. You Metals Co. completes paperwork eter. to fear that concern over blocking! am, Martin City, Hungry Horse east of Kalispell and 25 miles be in charge of the Hungry Horse can help solve it by carrying and details of obtaining a loan for the r WATER STORAGE this street will become an obstacle ' and Columbia Falls, southeast of Columbia Falls, in the school program with D. P. Lang- using containers similar to this new Corpus Christi, Tex. “alum- Water in Hungry Horse reser­ to successfully meeting time dead- | At the Tuesday evening regular Swan lake district. bell, Flathead county high school wherever you may travel.” ina” plant. Involved are actually voir now totals 282,000 acre feet. lines and completing plans for the May meeting the board discussed Commenting on the trash bags 16 insurance companies, three Inflow Thursday was down to llt- This sale includes 1,470,000 board superintendent, the speaker. It is 070 cubic feet a second compared new school for which the federal plans for the new Columbia Falls feet of Douglas fir at $4.90 a thou­ to be in the Bureau conference ;hat are to be siven out at all na- banks and governmental agencies, government is providing $326,400. grade school with Architect Geh- tional parks this summer, Glac- Qn the basis of what inf0rma- to a late April peak of 25,000 cub­ sand board feet minimum. There Receiving diplomas at Columbia ic feet. Outflow through the three No man or woman in this com­ res Weed. A check for $32,640 or ,is also 480,000 board feet of spruce falls will be eighth graders from ier’s Supt. J. W. Emmert said that jjon the Hungry Horse News has munity wants the responsibility of 10 per cent of the cost of the keeping roadsides clean was a ma- obtained from New York City and wide open eight foot-diameter out­ at $8.35; 90,000 white pine at $18.90 »Essex, West Glacier, Coram, Mar­ let tubes is now 9,200 cubic feet helping keep Columbia Falls from building and its equipment has and 70,000 board feet alpine fir tin City and Columbia Falls. Co­ jor park problem. In Glacier alone Butte, we believe the announce- getting a $326,400 school build- just been received from the fed- cleaning roadsides of debris toss- ment as to location of the plant and a second. pt $2.35. The contract is to be lumbia Falls principal Leo Mus- The outlet gates are to be clos­ ing with no increase in the local eral government. The government ’completed Dec. 31, 1953. ,burger has charge of arrange­ ed out of cars by visitors cost at construction start will come in tax levies. | plans to take care of the entire least $10,000 a year. The superin- June or even about July 1. ed this month with the idea at ments. Music will be by the sev­ storing 1,000,000 acre feet. Power This time it is a prayer that ( construction and equipment cost, enth grade girls chorus directed by tendent continued that debris cer­ The entire negotiations that are generation using the first of four people who attend the Friday 101 A delegation from Columbia Mrs. Tom Wilson and District 6 tainly could detract from the nat­ m. hearing before the county j Falls Volunteer fire department, j Slate Blood Donor leading up to an aluminum plant 71250 kilowatt generators is to r,. Supt. Clarence E. Lee will give the ural beauty of the out-of-doors. j in the Flathead take into account start next October 1. Total capac- commissioners on closing the street Al Shay, Darwin Lundstrom, Dean Day at Project address. The program will be in ! the fact that the plant is to cost Ry 0j {be 34-mile long reservoir considerate. The stakes are Harrison and Bill Smith were at the high school gymnasium. more than $50 million. will be 3,500,000 acre feet. high, a $326,400 school building. the meeting in interests of the new plans f{Jr the May 22 blood do- Planer Starting I p It happens that the road in ques­ resuscitator. Also brought up was nor at tbe Hungry Horse pro- Plum Creek mill expects to re­ A check with County Assessor Other news at the project in- sume planer operations Monday. Ed Jystad Thursday morning eludes J. H. Trisdale, clearing cou­ tion is already school district land. the matter of the street between jec^ arg being completed. The A- Set Again for Big The planer has been down for 10 showed that land at the Rose tractor, piling and burning in the Issue is closing a route that is in the two school buildings being merjcan Red Cross bloodmobile days. Sawmill operations are sehe- Crossing plant site is s ill listed as Dead Horse creek vicinity. Miller general use. There is a responsi­ closed in order to provide space frQm Great Falls will be here, Lions Park Picnic duled to resume late in May as owned by the Harvey Machine Co., and Strong, west side road build- bility on the part of our govern­ for the new school. blood will be taken and sent to Arrangements are all set for the soon as log hauling is permitted. Torrance, Calif. Farmers interest- ers, are opening their camp at ing bodies to see that another con­ Resignations accepted wßre Berkley, Calif, for processing and big Lions public picnic at McDon­ Meanwhile enlarging the sawmill ed in leasing or renting the Rose Flossie creek. Sam Wicker, ranch- venient route is provided. M R those of Mrs. Betty Taylor, first shipment overseas, ald creek meadows in Glacier na­ grade and Mrs. Jean Giles, third T u „ t building, equipment installation Crossing land for a crop have been er at Spotted Bear, is moving the . -i wolle In charge of the blood donor day tional park Sunday starting at 1 and general overhaul has been in informed to contact the Harvey old Elk Park ranger station build- Now back to the town council grade, Columbia Falls. at Hungry Horse is Grail Dawson, p. m. It was postponed from last progress at the mill. company. ings he purchased. meeting Monday. Seven more The following teachers who do c0-chabmanisRoyMetcalf. Sunday as a result of wet skies. ■ street lights are to be installed, no have tenure m view^of therr Committee chail.yen are as £ol. The picnic ground is between Three in the Kelly-Lenonville ad- not havinB taught in the district j (canteen) Mrs. Phil Young; West Glacier and Apgar. Spon­ dition and four elsewhere. The for three years are being offered cursing) Mrs Orvis Lovely; (der- 1 street light mill levy amounts to new contracts: Edward Gilk, com- ^ Criswell sors of this annual spring event in > $1.43 for a 50-foot lot. . I mercial subjects, and Fred Sie- 1Ca^^ngCkre™ntatives are Glacier are the Lions clubs of West Glacier, Martin City, Whitefish, Byron West, the town’s chief bert, social sciences, high school, sharr, Hungry Horse; Libby and Kalispell. of police, received a raise in car Mrs. Marion Armstrong, Columbia ^0 Hinton South Fork’ Mrs. expense money from $30 to $50 a Falls junior high; Mrs. Agnes Cada, ■ «ev. Leeq_ William McGregor, West Glacier, A momh. $30 wasn't covering the Columbia Falls; Mrs Lou.se S'4“ ?aÄtiS'i RCa.- is general chairman, with Ross Lu- mi1 ding, Martin City, master of cer­ Y gas and oil he used on town bus- John, Coram; Mrs. Ruth Nordstrom, emonies. u fness (and Delores Anderson, Hungry navma> wesr uiaciei. It is to be an old-fashioned fam­ A quit claim deed was received Horse. Paul Casey talked to the The last blood donor drive at m- Hungry Horse was in October. ily day picnic, McGregor com­ for a 10 foot strip that will widen board about fire extinguishers. mented with games for children K Vj Eighth street in Rutherford ad- Members of the school board. are and at least 50 prizes. dition to 70 feet wide. It had been Otto Fehlberg, Coram, chairman; ■ ;; that the town street was 70 feet James Marantette, Columbia Falls, To Start Building Columbia Falls high school band in their new uniforms are to play. Ax V' wide and then there was a jog vice chairman; Con Lundgren, First Lions sponsored picnic in down to 60 feet where the addi- ! West Glacier; Herman Byrd, Mar- Outdoor Theatre Glacier was held May 15, 1949 at V, tion connected. tin City and Bil1 Knapton, Co- Avalanche campground. The day ! X The town council adopted a res- lumbia Falls. Construction of the new outdoor l olution that starts the process for The hearing before Flathead theatre between Columbia Falls, saw a mid-May record of 2,400 c persons enter the national park. ijp* a the block south of the Hungry county commissioners on the school j Whitefish and Kalispell is schedul- KGEZ again, and if possible the ; V # Horse News plant to come within district closing the road between j ed to start this coming week, daily newspapers, will carry word town incorporated limits. Resi- the two schools—land the school The site is three miles west of if the picnic is called off as a re­ dents of the block made the re- district owns—will be Friday at Columbia Falls just west of the sult, of rain. ■ quest. 10 a. m. corner where the LaSalle road Mayor Herman Benzien and the turns south to Flathead county air­ WEATHER forecast: Partly clou­ town council are looking for a jus­ Congressmen Help port and Kalispell. dy Thursday; decreasing cloudiness tice of the peace. Judge Floyd P. The new enterprise is being Friday; increasing cloudiness Sat­ Jones is in California. He is town Support Forests started by A. E. Massman and urday and Sunday with possible judge and justice of the peace. The May 1 Congressional Rec­ Walter Thompson, owners of Co­ I ord shows where Montana’s Con­ showers. Predicted high Thursday The township is entitled to a sec­ lumbia Falls’ Park theatre and the 65; low 40; high Friday 65. Tem­ ond justice of the peace. gressman Mike Mansfield (D) and Orpheum and Lake theatres in -er, Wesley DTEwart (R) helped lead peratures have been averaging be­ the fight to keep the forest ser­ Whitefish. low normal. High for week 65; low 1 To Apply New Oil Mat vice appropriations for the com­ , A 50-foot screen is to be in­ 28 Monday, no damage reported. r ing year from being drastically stalled and plans are to take care Precipitation total .75 of an inch A bid opening to apply a level­ of up to 500 automobiles. (airport). Normal for whole month — - , ,, _ . . , , f ing course oil mat to eight miles of cut. The Department of Agricul­ 1.50 inches. Thursday it was rain- Winter pastime for Dick Mekkelsen, right, while caretaker at Lake McDonald hotel was carvin# the Blackfoot highway between St ture appropriation bill was before Land for the theatre is 10 acres i purchased from Leonard Dowler, ing south of the Flathead down bears and other animals mostly from cottonwood. him m tbs carvi"9 °n p-?* Alaska* Mary and Babb is slated for June the house. As it stands the forest through Wyoming. Most Montana ell, Apgar, left, Flathead artist and wood sculptor. Mekkelsen ‘aH Vind. reid J^market m F it I head at Glacier national park head­ service budget will be about the former Columbia Falls resident, animal statuary business- This type of product finds ready market In Flathead* points are reporting rain. where he is starting an quarters. same with a few items cut. now of Troy, Ohio.