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Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1946-10-31
Fire Spares Glacier
This Past Summer

Fire, red-roaring enemy of man
animal and forest, destroyed but
three tsnths of an acre in Glacier
National Park this past summer, re-
ports Park Superintendent J. w
Enlmert.
Only eight fires were reported
and these were quickly snuffed out
Just two were caused by man; one
of cigarette origin, the other a neg
lected campfire; the rest were the
result of lightning.
Safeguarding the million acre
park, an area larger than the state
of Rhode Island, this past summer
was an organization of wartime eff
ficiency under Ranger Dick Nelson.
Their enemy was fire, and the past
summer was drier than average.
There were 125 men in the Civilian
Public Service camp, conscientious
objectors; Is fire guards and 80 trail
men. M. E. Sullivan assisted Ranger
Nelson.
Five permanent and Is portable
radio stations were ready for fire
fighting information, and fleet OF
Is rowboats prepared to carry eq-
uipment on any of the Parks 20O
lakes. Trucks, 81 horses, readied
pumps, and complete camp setups
were just another part of being pre-
pared to fight.
After each severe lightning storm,
airplane patrols were made Of the
park area, and if need be, fire fight
,rs were parachuted down to stop
ire before it whirlwinded through
he helpless timber
Thirteen mountain-top fire-watch-
ng lookout stations were manned
n the park this summer. Watching
or fires from Glacier Park mountain
peaks became summer occupation
or five married couples. Two of the
ouples were honeymooners, and
our out of the five men were vet
rams.
They watched for fire and their
losest neighbors were mountain
oats. The five couples included:
Tr. and Mrs. Rrobert Grow, Water
%, Iowa; Mr.. and Mrs. Floyd Gun
erson, St. Paul; Mr.. and Mrs.
harles Creon, Whitefish; Mr.. and
Irs. Robert Freer, Kalispell, and
If. and Mrs. Richard Perry, Cho-
eau.
Park officials comp1imented the
u, 145 vacationers of the past season
II being so careful of their parkland
,rests.
Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1946-10-31
Banana Belt Escapes
As Fall Clouds
Dump Snow

AS neighboring Kalispell, shoveled,
grunted and slid out from under a
burden of II inches of wet snow over
the weekend, Columbia Falls, Martin
City, Coram, Bolton and the other
West Glacier towns happily enjoyed
their "a bit cooP but banana belt
weather.
And there was heavy snow to the
east, as reports of a IA to 2O-inch
fall and raging blizzard came from
the Browning and Cut Bank area.
In this banana belt island of
mountain and valley with only the
peaks and high slopes cloaked by
winter, sportsman continued to hunt
and fish, and all were happy in the
thought that as the clouds dumped
tons of October snow, this district
was spared.
Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1946-10-31
Bolton PTA Holds
Halloween Party

Nearly 100 school and pre-school
children will be guests tonight at the
Belton-Apgar PTA sponsored Hal
loween party in the Park conference
hall.
The party, with Mrs. Myrtice Pow
ell as chairman, starts off with a
grand march at pm. to pick the boy
and girl in the most original, best
dressed and funniest costumes.
Judges will be Mrs. Ida Coos, Mrs.
R. R. Vincent and Mrs Lundgren.
Next will follow games. Fred
Hodgson and James Wocasek will
supervise the seventh and eighth
graders; Mrs. Fred Bussey, the sixth
graders; Mrs. D. D. Crumley those in
the fourth and fifth; Mrs. Nichols,
the third; Mrs. Richard Nelson, the
second, and Mrs. A. C. Thuring, the
first. Even the pre-school children
will have their games with Mrs. Fred
Hodgson.
There will be a witches corner
with Mrs. V. L. Mcdonnell and Mrs.
James Wicasek, while Mrs. Vincent
and Mrs. Coos will tell the children's
fortunes.
It is a party for the children, and
their slaves for the evening will be
the PTA members
Mrs. James Stevens is chairman of
the refreshment committee; Mrs.
William Lindsay and Frank Savage
will have charge of music. The Bel
ton Mercantile is the Halloween
Santa Claus, giving two boxes of
apples and candy bars.
Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1946-10-31
ark Theatre to Receive
70 New, Deluxe Seats

oelofe the end of November, 100
deluxe streamlined seats will
Installed in the Park theatre.
We ueneral improving of the local
wv mouse also includes the build
u a new emergency exit with a
'p instead of steps.
mld-Week double feature with
SHOWS, the first at 7 %. m. and
second at 9 D. m. is being sched-
!, ior next Wednesday and Thurs
(m me pictures are Blondes
Er .A Day. and That Texas JAM
No. musical western.
bo tli,ghts show is The Bride Wore
H. D. !, with Barbara Stanwyck. Fri
anu Saturday it will be Dorothy
Ia our IN Masquerade in Mexico
n next = Sunday, Monday and Tues
h. Love Letters with Joseph
'''0n and Jennifer Jones.
Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1946-10-31
10000 County Citizens to Vote Tuesday
Happy Hunters
Shoot 272 Elk
Up South Fork

Happy hunters by 4 p. m. Wednes-
/ day had shot 272 elk up the South
Fork of the Flathead river.
A total of 791 hunters have entered
the area, reports Bert Coan, deputy
game warden at Hungry Horse
checking station. The 272 figure in
cludes 40 elk obtained during the
special earlier season at the South
Forks headwaters
Heavy snowfall ranging from 9
inches at Hungry Horse creek to Is
inches at Trout Lake during the past
week has driven game from the high
ridges. Best hunting is reported from
upper and lower Twin creeks, 40
miles up the South Fork from No. 2
highway. Three-fourths of the hunt
ers in this district are bringing back
elk.
The South Fork game trophies
also include 8 bear, 8 grizzly and 6
blacks; II deer and 10 coyotes. The
South Fork is not deer hunting
country.
However, trigger happy hunters
are said to be killing does and fawns,
which is illegal, and leaving them
lay Many local sportsmen favor an
open season on does, for the female
deer population far outnumbers the
male, with resultant fewer fawns.
Others want coyote bounty. There
also has been complaints as to scar
city of game licenses. Three Neb-
raska hunters were not able to buy
licenses this past week. The state
lost 500, and business firms as re-
suit sold less gasoline, food and
housing.
Mrs. Alfred Neuman, near Coram,
has killed eight black bear and one
grizzly in her day. She's anxious to
find a bruin this fall since lard is so
scarce.
Admiral Joseph j. Clark, USN,
storied skipper of the carrier York
town, didn't get his buck. However
Friday, one of his staff, 1t. Comdr.
Robert Carr shot four-point buck.
The Admiral was to have spoken at
Columbia Falls high school Thurs
day morning. His plane was ground
ed, and he proceeded from Cut Bank
by car. He arrived in the valley
Thursday night; made a few brief
appearances; hunted for part of Fri
day, and left for Cut Bank early
Not far from his front door, Ken
1eth Farley, IA, Sunday afternoon
caught IS whitefish near the South
Fork bridge, and Alan Kuespert, IL,
went one better with IA. Both live
n Martin City.
Other sportsmen are bringing back
lucks and geese from the various
axes of the area Reports are also
coming from the North Fork of sue
.essful hunting parties into Canada
where moose and mountain goats
nay be killed.
Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1946-10-31
tJ.Storm Obtains Four
|ize-Winning Heifers

-Four registered Shorthorn beef
pc heifers of prize winning stock
Pre- purchased at the Inland En-
Re Shorthorn Breeders Association
ow in Spokane, October "a and
BY H. j. Storm, Columbia Falls.
With Mrs. Storm and daughter,
Rn, Mr.. Storm purchased the four
|ung cows for prices that ranged
om S575 to $1,035 each. Grand
|amplon at the show was the $4,000
reside Dorothy sold to an Oregon
ttle raiser. Lakeside Dorothy is
MALI sister of MIR. Storms bull,
Reside Jasper, which he has had
/ two years.
me new additions to Mr.. Storms
FRA include: Lakeside Fairy Queen
he Calrossie Mercury strain;
reside Tammany Janet End, out
Cluny Bank Standard; Command
p I, and Prairie Rose, both of
ELL known stock.
Nlr' Storm has been active in the
y 'hwest Montana Breeders assoc
'lun. Another active member is B.
Violin, Columbia Falls.
Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1946-10-31
Closing No. 2 Road
Is Warm Subject

Closing of highway No. 2 from Bel
ton east has become warm" SUBJ
ject, especially among people living
between Bolton and Essex.
Six miles of the highway are being
rebuilt by the Union Construction
company on $739, 941.77 contract. 1t
is in the rocky and steep-sided Mid
die Fork canyon just east of Bolton,
where if present plans proceed, blast
ing at three principal points will
close the road for two or three
months
Closing of the road is expected
late in November-two weeks notice
will be given first-and then all
automobile traffic between north
western and north central Montana
will stop except for a 200 to 300 mile
detour by way of Missoula.
Unless there is change in plans
only the weather can interfere, for
if winter stops construction, the con-
tractor will reopen the road.
In the meantime, Going to-the-Sun
highway in Glacier National park
has been winter-b bound. Road Fore
man M. ]. Mcpherson is blowing two
feet of snow and six and eight-foot
drifts On Logan pass to open Going
Lo-the Sun once more before winter
closes it for seven months. This is not
a practical winter detour.
Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1946-10-31
Home Ec Girls Take
Turn At House
Planning

Placement of windows, heating in
stallations and complimentary colors
for rug and picture became / o.
clock matter for II Columbia Falls
high school home economics stu
dents. At their early morning class
the II girls discussed home building,
room furnishing, and even the mat
ter of cost.
It is part of their course in home
planning, and they'll visit a number
of residences in the district. The
final test will be to draw plans for
a home and furnish it. Except that
pays the bill; its just on
paper and for practice.
The II students include: Edith
Bauman, Corrine Brayson, Theolyn
Farley, Montana Fowler, Ruth He'll
man, Shirley Hyvonnen, Virginia
Mason, Marylu Peck, Lois Pfeifer,
Gloria Peterson and Marion Voss.
Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1946-10-31
Moratorium Repeal 1haws
Funds for Hungry Horse

The federal moratorium on puollc
works spending didn't hold. AS ex-
.pected, this moratorium never ser
iously harmed the Hungry Horse
project and finally has been re-
pealed in respect to most reclaim
alton projects. ,75
IF continued the moratorium could
have hurt local dam prospects. Help
inc to get the moratorium set ASIDE
was Congressman Mike MansIielo'
II does not mean additional funds
for Hungry Horse, but rather that
funds already appropriated will not
he frozen, so dam pre-constructlon
work continues.
Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1946-10-31
Wildcats to End Unhappy
Season With Poison Game

Columbia Falls Wildcats will play
their last game of an unhappy season
Friday at 2 pm when they meet the
Poison gridders here.
Poison is rated second team IN the
conference topped by Libby, while
the Wildcats emerged from grid
gloom only once to defeat Eureka
50 to 0. Last Saturday the local team
bowed to the Flathead Reserves IL
to 6.
Meanwhile Columbia High stu
dents are already thinking OF the
approaching basketball season, with
the first workout scheduled Tor Mon
day, Nov II, and the first game here
with Shelby on December ..
Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1946-10-31
Complete Shortcut Road
Except For Oiling

Except for Notwithstanding which
will be done next summer, the re-
4-mile stretch of the short
cut road between Columbia Falls
and Kalispell has been completed.
Rebuilding and crawling of the
road which also services the county
airport, started September 3, and was
a Union Construction company job.
Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1946-10-31

Mr.. and Mrs. Bill Tyra, Coram,
left Tuesday for Helena to make
their home for the winter.
Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1946-10-31
C. & F Gets Lake Shore Road Job

c & F Trucking and Construction
company, one of the Hungry Horse
pre-construction contractors, was
successful bidder Tuesday on the
Flathead Lake east shore road, which
will shorten the smooth-surfaced
route to Missoula. Their bid for rs
miles was $498,307.
Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1946-10-31
kstander Inspects
mas TreeCenter

ood and Lincoln counties, the
l nn's largest single 9; area suppliel
on r;stmas trees, will start more
IN MS roillion evergreens on their
IVA American homes this coming
s.head county itself will ship
laN .han one million trees from
Iii Columbia Falls, Coram,
i.afisb and the other towns. They
' ranee from the two-foot models
Po foot graceful ladies of the for
for department stores, town
ares and hotels
a acEv mountain trees have sup
lasting properties over Pac-
.oast products, according to fed
'T reports, and so Flathead and
min county trees cut in October
las last well into the new year.
,r rsa busy in Kalispell, which
! Eur Eureka vies for title of Christ
tree capital, are a dozen large
linz firms, mostly from eastern
.ars New stacks of trees, neatly
sod are piled along the railroad
nos in the county seat.
|-,cks are hauling in the fresh
evergreens that bring ten cents
Iii over last year, with prices APP
lximately 95 cents bail delivered,
[S5 cents undelivered.
| hail is made up of eight two
/ trees or "deuces," six fourfoot
Is. four six-foot trees, three eight
\ trees, or two ten-footers.
h the frosty fall air, with steam
ching switchboard engines chug-
D by mittened men, many of them
er high school students working
D. school, sort evergreens, trim
ore necessary, and tie them into
Is It's a job that pays five cents
,ail, and averages better than ST. |
hour.
7eteran freight agent ]. M. Mont
oery. Kalispell, expects this years
pments are likely to pass last
rs total of 2O1 cars from the
nty seat. Each car contains up to
10 trees, and they're shipped to
nv metropolitan center of the
ted States from San Francisco to
Y York and from Dallas to Min
polls. Car shortages may handi-
tree shipments this year. Only an !
mated S per cent move by truck.
his is Flathead county's big con-
ution to the Christmas cheer of
nation. For around trees from
mountains and valleys will CEN
a million families enjoyment of
Yule season.
eanwhile the Christmas tree in
ry in Flathead county furnishes
months employment to an est
ed 125 people in addition to the
y residents throughout the coun-
Tho bring to town their loads of
greens. There also has been de-
ped several businesses in the
ufacture of Christmas Wreaths,
VS. garlands, evergreen ropes
cone arrangements.
st of the trees will be shipped
mber 10.
operly harvested Christmas tree
5 produce valuable crop each
reports Farm Forester William
oyer, and their cutting usually
vs. faster growth of remaining
into poles and sawtirnber.
Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1946-10-31
Girls To Have Basketball Team

Columbia Falls grade school girls
will start basketball practice Tues
dav The squad will be made up of
seventh and eighth graders with
second grade teacher, Donna Gilman,
as coach.
Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1946-10-31

Bazaar, carnival and bingO this
coming Sunday afternoon at the st.
Richards Altar Society funfest in
the Columbia Dome.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1946-08-17

COW Weather, whittier the So
Wet Union?" and THE Mystery
of the kremlin".
To be sure, this makes good
reading. However, the dramatic
speculations of special correSpon.
dents have ring about them
that is reminiscent of the sort of
stuff that flooded the world
press in the years from 1920 to
1921 and one is reminded of the
old French proverb: The more
the thing changes, the more it
remains the same.
l should like to cite as an ex.
ample a recent dispatch by Jo-
seph Alsop in the New York
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1946-08-17
Ethiopia to hit
British Iond grubs

PARIS-Ethiopia is not salts
fled with the Italian treaty being
discussed at the q nation peace
conference, and is awaiting an
opportunity to bring up the mat
ter of land grabs by Britain.
The African nation, first victim
of European fascism, is seeking
to regain Eritrea and Somaliland,
which were held by its Italian
enemies. There have been wide.
spread demonstrations in Somali.
land for affiliation with Ethiopia.
Ethiopians believe the Bevin
strategy is to hang on in the
African nation, now that both
Egypt and Palestine seem destin-
ed to be, trouble spots for British
rule.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1946-08-17

Poland, Yugoslavia and Czecho-
Slovakia.
Although decisions made at the
peace conference will serve mere.
ly to advise the foreign ministers
in future deliberations, Molotov
further knows that any action
voted by a simple majority will
be used by Byrnes and Bevin as
an excuse to depart from pre-.
vious agreements.
However, American and British
spokesman have been forced to
back down from some positions.
n n
WHEN Sec'y. Byrnes as chair.
man ruled Monday that he would
recognize only Yugoslavia's an
swer to Italy's plea for a softened
peace, Soviet Delegate A. Y. Wish
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1946-08-17

ma, linn said that Korean work
ers are loyalty supporting the
peoples parties in spite of the
AMG terror.
KOREA is probably the only
country in the world formerly
occupied by Americas enemies
where no war criminals are be-
ing tried, linn stated "On the
other hand, the Japanese pup
pet rulers are being generally
used by the AMG to run the
country just as they did for the
Japanese"
Describing us. Korean policy
as using fascist methods on
the victims of fascism", Zinn
said that it appeared to him
that the governing factor of this
policy was the Truman-Byrnes
"get tough with Russia" pro.
gram. Conditions in northern
Korea, under Russian occupa.
ton, contrast sharply with those
in the south.
American troops stationed IN
Korea are becoming increasing.
ly alarmed at what's going on,
said linn. "They feel that
they're going to be stuck in an
other war; and one not of their
making or to their liking"
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1946-08-17

at this conference and are able
to muster simple majority at
will. 1t is also felt that this gives
a puppet government of a minor
state such as Greece equality
with the big and powerful ma
tons on which world peace
hinges.
COUNTRIES in the Anglo
American bloc are there because
they have received or expect to
get American loans or because
their governments are anti-Soviet
or exist through British or Amer
lean support. Of the 81 nations
starting the conference, only six
are independent of Angio-Amel'i-
can imperialism. They are Rus
STA, White Russia, the Ukraine,
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1946-08-17

When the workers complained
TO A. M. Thurston,7 ~. S. civil af-
fairs officer in charge. of labor,
he told them that, although they
had given "a hours the notice
prescribed by MacArthur's direc-
tives, the old laws applied, since
the Japanese police and not the
Americans were breaking up the
rally.
When they wrote out Thurs
toms statement and asked him TO
sign it, he tore it up and threat
ened to "call out the army" Now
they're asking Macarthur, by pc
tition, how the Japanese workers
can protect their democratic
rights.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1946-08-17

the Five Year Plan and the iron
grip of the secret police which
keeps the Soviet people in terror.
as well as the punishment of in
efficient Soviet administrators,
and various signs of corruption
within the Soviet Union.
THE STORY reads very plan
sibly and yet if Mr.. Alsop were
to read through the files of
American and British newspaper S
of the '20s, he would find literal
ly hundreds of dispatches which
read very much like the story
which he uncovered in Paris.
The journalists who wrote
those stories believed them too
They too had their special
sources. They too painted pic.
ture of tremendous difficulties
inside Russia, of police terror, of
corruption and of Industrial
breakdown, with the possibility
of political collapse.
In other words, the attempt
was made to convey the idea that
the Soviet Union was weak and
that therefore it was easy to be
tough with the Russians. What
happened to their hopes we all
know.
(TO be cOntinued)
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1946-08-17
|:
Hoeus-poeus from Paris

Herald Tribune. Mr.. Alsop is a
bright and "savvy'', as well as
a socially excellently-connected
newspaper man.
THIS is, of course, legitimate
political and journalistic practice
and he who has the best connec-
tons, social and political, man.
ages to get the greatest number
of scoops. Sometimes these
scoops are not much more than
trial balloons or part of dipio-
matte maneuver to establish a
certain atmosphere which is de-
signed to influence policy.
The Herald Tribune dispatch of
which we write starts out with
the dramatic and yet slightly dis
statement: "At scme
moment in the future, as yet I'M
ascertained, Moscow will give the
answer to the question: Peace
or war;"
III one examines this SEN
tenee closely, one finds that II
is simply a new variation on
the old "Have you stopped
beating your wife," line and
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1946-08-17

that 1t might be paraphrased
by saying that Moscow will
soon give the answer as to
whether or not it will stop
beating it's wife.
THIS article which then pro-
ceeds to say that because Soviet
aims are a riddle, it is impossible
to develop an American and a
British policy.
At the same time, it is said
that American and British for
eign policy are based on the hope
that a change in Soviet policy
will take place which would per
nit the nations to live in friend
ship together. That sentence
seems to suggest that the policy
is, after sail, not so much a rid
die and that the Allies have made
up their minds as to what Rus
sia's aims are.
The body of the article is more
interesting. 1t consists of a num-
Der of points which tell of the
exile of Marshal Zhu-
kov to the command of the gar
riSon at Odessa, the harshness OF
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1946-08-17

Biggest battle was on the vot-
ing issue. Big Four foreign min
listers, at their meeting prior to
the peace conference, had agreed
that two thirds majority vote
of the 81 participating nations
would be necessary to assure con-
sideration of any proposed
change in the peace treaties. But
England and the U. S. backed
down when the conference start
ed, holding that simple major
ity would be sufficient.
The western bloc has been able
to obtain passage of a rule re
quiring a simple majority on
some issues and two thirds on
others. The simple majority rule
is opposed by Molotov on the
ground that England and Amer.
lea control most of the nations
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1946-08-17
Huk's fight praised
by Philippines vets

WASHINGTON A statement
protesting the 'inhuman cam
paign of determination" waged
by President Roxas against the
Huks in the PHILIPPINES and
praiSing them for their deter.
mined fight against the Jap in
vaders has been received at the
White House.
This message, signed by 135
American soldiers who served in
the Philippines, was addressed to
President Truman.