The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1935-06-13
Highlights Of An Auto Tour
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few cars in the high land but luckily
each time at place where passing was
easy.
1t will be remembered that approach
ing spring had brought warmer wealth
er. The snow was melting rapidly. Pass
ing cars had cut channels in snow and
ice down to the hard highway. These
channels were from to 6 inches deeu
and were full of clean, snow water
Through that water we plowed for hour
after hour and mile after mile, with
no other result except that our car was
given a good washing, with clean, cold,
mountain water. However, did find
as we began to descend on the eastern
side of the mountains that the excess
sive water had temporarily reduced The
efficiency of my brakes and much care
had to be used in handling the car
down hills.
Returning the Favor.
just before we pulled into Glacier
Park Station, on the eastern side of
the park, we had opportunity to play
Good Samaritan ourselves and to re-
turn the favor extended to us earlier
in the day. We were driving along
what was apparently a newly made
road, cut out of a sidehill, when before
us we noticed car in troubk ..nired
down as deep as it could possibly get
in mudhole about the width of the
length of the car We drove up care
fully to investigate and see if help was
needed. As we brought our car to a
stop, young man walked the few steps
back to us, a young man exceedingly
polite and we soon discerned also ex-
ceedingly drunk. In other words, he
was in that condition so frequently de-
seribed as corkeyed. He politely and
insistently told us that we could drive
right around their car without diff
Guilty But ! had a different opinion as
the mudhole extended entirely across
the highway and / knew that if / at
tempted to drive by. would be mired
as deeply as they were. | got OUT pf
the car and soon perceived that theTe
were three other young men in the
party, working on their car, and That
all of them, with the exception Of one
were badly under the influence Of
what they had been drinking and that
wasn't water. The exception showed
the effects. but was easily in control of
himself. They were making no progress
whatever in freeing their car, and Il
nally asked if would try to pull them
out, saying they had a chain Of course
| was glad to do all could to help
The chain was hooked onto The Two
cars and in couple of minutes had
their car pulled out of the mud They
then pointed out to me how I could
back up for couple hundred yards
and take a short detour safely around
the wet spot
While the chain was being disengaged
from the cars, the exceedingly polite and
drunk young man walked back TO our
car and was visiting with Mrs. Rowe,
leaning against the car fer badly needed
suppogt. When the car was freed rom
the chein, and not noticing that The
young lnan was leaning against our
car, | threw it into reverse and sharply
stepped on the gas, with the surprising
result to the young man that the car
shot from under him and he almost
measured his length on the highway
SO helpless was he.
This was but a mile or two out of
Glacier Park Station. There we babe
the quartet goodbye after the COM
paratively sober one had given us some
road directions and after Mrs. Rowe
had advised him that he 'had better
take that young man home and put
him to bed
As we. cleared the mountains and
started east over the more open coun-
try, the mountains were left behind
us-a sight beautiful beyond descrip-
ton, a great rampant of peak after
peak all solid mass Of snow glistening
and sparkling in the brilliant sunlight
An Experience With Dust.
We made Havre that night and Sun
day morning sped on over a fine oiled
highway to Glasgow There we had
lunch and fine visit with our friends,
Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Mass, former Libby
people As we left Glasgow we noticed
ahead of us misty, fog-like appear
dllCe. we lilldily IbIlIluQtQ llldt IL might
be dust and later found our conclu-
sion was correct The wind had de-
veloped to gale and soon we were in
the worst dust storm Of our experience.
Visibility at no time exceeded hun
dred yards or two and many times we
couldn't see foot ahead Of the car for
the clouds of dust This continued all
that afternoon. We put up for the night
in Williston, N. D., with the wind rag
ing throughout the night and when we
got few miles out Of Williston the
next morning we were in the midst
of flying dust worse than the day be-
fore. Black masses OF. it would sweep
up from the plowed fields, driven by the
fierce wind, clouds Of it as dense as The
snow in the worst kind of blizzard
Time after time had to stop the car to
let the dust clear away. AT such times
positively nothing could be seen ahead
of the car. couldn't tell whether | was
on the right side of the highway
whether / was verging on the edge OF
the grade, or whether | might be in
the way of traffic on the wrong side Of
the roadway. Mrs. Rowe would try to
give assistance by watching the edge
Of the highway to keep me on the safe
side. All cars were driving with lights
on, not that the lights helped the driv-
er in penetrating the murky darkness
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