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Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1947-12-26
III. Has First
tcidenta| Death

Utter nearly three years of pre-
struction, the Hungry Horse
ject had it's first fatal accident
hday at II a m when Charles
Powers, SO, was instantly killed.
IN experienced logger, Powers,
employe of the bureau of rec
4ation only since December 2,
unloading a load of logs from
fuck. His head was crushed by
klling log.
burial will be in Missoula Fri
or Saturday. Survivors in
De his wife, a son, Charles, 9,
daughter, Jerilyn, 8. They had
living in Apgar, and during
summer he had conducted his
logging on Emery creek.
Pp until now. the Hungry Horse
ect safety record was better
the national average for con-
actlon and the bureau of recla-
ION average. Hungry Horse had
accidents per million man
rs as compared with the ma
$ construction rate of 22.7.
7 The 259,755 man hours work.
oy bureau of reclamation en-
yes IN the first IL months Of
{, there were only five minor
Poents resulting in 35 lost days.
me 331 1882 man hours work.
u the IL months by contract
employees, there were % mi
iost time accidents and 159
man days.
Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1947-12-26
Warmers Start Logging

Starting logging operations in
the Lion hill area of the South
Fork are Warner Brothers cutting
for the Superior Building company
Columbia Falls.
The Warmers have something ov-
er one million board feet of forest
service sold timber to cut on Lion
hill. They are extending their road
from the new Martin City to ac-
cess highway road. Warmers had
been cutting up the North Fork.
Lion hills foot of snow makes for
easier logging than Crystal creeks
up to three and four feet.
Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1947-12-26

Animal of the year in Glacier
national park was Gertie, blonoe
beauty of beardom. Week arter
week during the summer, Gerlle
made the front page of the Hull
cry Horse News.
Q "Gertie Charms Park Visitors
"Gertie Enjoys Photos; Hash I
Bitten Anyone Yet" 49,,
"Whortle-berries Woo Gerte
On June 27, 1947, we Wrote
"Gertie Picks Spot Where TraVei'
ers Slow Down:
"Glacier national park rangers
are concerned. It's Gertle, the no-
nev-colored two-year-old cinnamon
hear again. She's caused up to 81
traffic Jams a day on Going-to-tne-
Sun highway, and now has ap-
nropriated the only spot in 50 NIL
les between the West entrance anu
Logan pass where red flags are
used to indicate dip in the roau,
.Travelers see the red flags anu
then Certie. Most of them stop,
Manv vacationers believe the reo
FLAGS are national parks service
markers to indicate the tavofeu
snot of Glaciers best bum pear
of 1e47. Going slow, few notice t-le
dip in the pavement.
"Meanwhile the rangers are
waiting for the day when a vaca-
toner reports that naughty Ger
tie doesn't know where chocolaIe
ends and flesh begins. Rangers al
ready know that Gertie doesh
care"
Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1947-12-26
Wildcats Face Libby
After Triple Win

Columbia Falls surprise" bas-
ketball team will play their first
home game of the new year next
Friday (Jan q with Libby here.
Fresh from a Lake county vic
tory iaunt that saw wins over st
Ignatius, So to %; Roman, As to Il
and Poison. As to Al in overtime
play. the Wildcats loom as one of
the best teams in the conference.
It is a squad that has just one Sc
nior, and had been considered
green.
On Saturday, January 8, Column
bia Falls will play the Flathead
county high regular team here.
Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1947-12-26
HungryHorse Plans
Building Additions
With Main Contract

Administration building at tne
Hungry Horse project will be douo-
led in size during 1913, and bids
to be called on housing for loo
more bureau of reclamation fam
lies.
Now living in Hungry Hores WI
,aee are II bureau employees and
their families. The rs duplexes ana
80 prefabs were completed last
spring as was the 101 by 45-foot
administration building.
With the bureau staff being en-
larged as the prime contract aw-
ardine date of March, 194S" ap-
breaches, there is not office room
for the engineers, biologists ana
other personnel needed to build the
dam. One of the duplexes has al
ready been taken over for office
space.
Peak employment on the $780,
100000 dam is expected to be 40
out 1000 men working for con-
tractors and subcontractors.
Seek H. H. Business Lots
AS the January asking for bids
date and March awarding of the
Hungry Horse dam prime contract
nears indications are that influ-
ence is being exercised for bust
ness concessions in Hungry Horse
village itself.
Since the government town Is
convenient to established SHOP
ping centers, the announced pur-
eau of reclamation policy has been
to let private business on private
land take care of merchandising
problems.
This encourages free enterprise
and results in better relationships
and cooperation between the Hun
cry Horse project and nearby res
idents and communities. These re-
lationships have been excellent.
It is expected that the Columbia
Falls chamber of commerce, Cor
am Boosters club, Martin City
Boomtown Builders and likely the
Kalispell and Whitefish chambers
of commerce will take steps to see
that since there is no need, bus
mess district will not be establish
ed on government land near the
damsite.
Tunnel Employs IS
Guy F Atkinson, Monday was
employing 85 men on two shifts
digging the $643,40O diversion
tunnel at Hungry Horse damsfte.
From Tuesday midnight until this
coming Monday, the contractor is
shutting down for Christmas. R
and S employment on timber clear
ing near the damsite averaged 80.
Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1947-12-26
Another Election
Nears on Water

Petitions are being circulated in
Columbia Falls for a special cleo
ton to authorize the town council
to issue general obligation bonds
for the purpose of reconstructing
the towns water supply system.
1t was finally established in He
lena Friday that money is not
readily loaned on water revenue
bonds. On January Z, 1947 Column
bia Falls voted SO to to author
ize sale of $4,000 worth of water
revenue bonds to build new water
supply system. No bond buyers
were found.
Making the Helena trip were
Mayor John O'Connell, Council
man Frank Schmidt, Town Attor-
ney James Cumming and Engin-
eer T A Taschereau. 1t was estab-
lished through conferences with
the RFC banks and other agen-
cies that water revenue bonds find
a hesitant market, but that general
obligation bonds that can be paid
off through water revenue will sell,
often at lower interest rate.
The towns water source, the
bountiful Cedar creek springs are
315 miles distant and 1873 feet alb
owe the community. Columbia
Falls through the diligence of Wa
ter Commissioner Clarence Clap
per and his staff has had better
water service this year than for
some time. They succeeded in re-
pairing a number Of leaks in the
averaged main, which must be
replaced.
Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1947-12-26

Mac T Hardwick, Hungry Horse
project chief inspector, has resign.
ed from the bureau Of reclamation,
and will take an overseas job with
the army and state department as
civilian. A lieutenant colonel in
the army until this summer, Hard
wick had been a bureau employee
before the war. His successor at
Hungry Horse has not been nam
Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1947-12-26

Reqular columns not received IN
time for the final press run, We'd
,aesday, of the Christmas issue in
clude Esser and Hungry Horse oil
hoe. Mail has been sloaoer aoith
No 81 about eight hours late.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-10-13
AFL PLANS NEW MOVE
 IN ALASKA
Convention Urges Infensi- fled Organizing Cam
 pdigns in Territories

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 13.-IR- The convention of the American Federation of Labor today adopted resolutions calling for intensified organizing campaigns, particularly in the southern states and the Ter ritories of Alaska, Puerto Rico and Hawaii.
 The committee on organization had reported exceptionally effec- tive organizing activities in the past year in the lace of anti-labor leg lslation and the attempted raids of the CIO."
 The delegates authorized the AFL executive council to study creation ot a Department of Territories as a means of pushing forward its or ganizing campaigns in Alaska, Ha- waii and Puerto Rico.
 This, and a corrollary resolution, were regarded as an answer to CIO activities, particularly those of Har- " Bridges, west coast longshore leader, in the sugar industry of Ha- waii and Puerto Rico. Also, it was believed to be the forerunner of an AFL organizing drive in the bud ding Alaskan pulp and paper in- dustry
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-10-13
ON BORDER OF
 PALESTINE
Bomb Is Tossed Into U. }. Consulate in Jerusalem
 Slight Damage

Jerusalem, Oct. 13.-lR-Jewish sources reported well-equipped Sy- rian troops encamped today near the Palestine Border opposite an area of Jewish agricultural settle ments, but there was no confirma- ton from British officials or other quarters.
 One British spokesman sad, how ever, that if the report was true the Syrian troop movement pro- bably was the first step on the part of the Arab states to show they will fill the vacuum and take over the Holy Land when the Brit ish move out
 The United States consulate in Jerusalem was slightly damaged by a bomb which was tossed over the compound wall and exploded in the garden. Two women employees were slightly injured.
 Observers were i:icnned to attri- bute the bombing to an attempted reprisal for the U. s. decision to support partition of Palestine in to separate Jewish and Arab coun- tries which was announced Satur- day in the United Nations special Palestine committee.
 Gondon newspapers reported today that the exiled Multi of Jerusalem, Haj Amin Fl Husseini, had visited a point in Lebanon, near Palestines northwestern border after attending the meeting in Beirut where the Arab League Council announced adoption of concrete plans for military mea- sures for the Arab defense of Pal estine"
 GA British Foreign Office spokesman said the Multi would be arrested immediately il he attempt ed to enter the Holy Land while Britain retains her mandate there)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-10-13
EISENHOWER FOR
 PRESIDENT CLUB GOES INTO ACTON

NEW YORK, Oct. 13.-tR-Mau- rice Mumford, executive vice-pres- ident of the Draft Eisenhower for President League" says the organ ization planned to enter the Gen. erals name in Republican presi- dential primaries in number of states.
 Specifically mentioning New York and Wisconsin, Mumford told a news conference held after a meet ing of Eisenhower adherents here we are hoping to get enough sen timent for Eisenhower in each state so that he will be the second choice of Republican convention delegates after they have voted for favorite son candidates
 He added we are hoping to pull another Wilkie stunt"
 Mumford said the Chief of Staff, who will become President of Col umbia University after his retire ment January 1, had not authorized organization of the league.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-10-13
zeusIer Named ASsista nf 10 Pres. Skinner

SEATTLE, Oct. l3-LRt-F. A. zeusler, retired Coast Guard Ad- miral, oceangrapher and veteran of many Alaskan cruises, today was named assistant to the President of the Alaska Steamship Company
 The announcements vas made by Giltert w. Skinner, company Pres ident.
 He said Admiral Zeuslers immed- late duties largely will be concern ed with public relations. Later. negotiations with the United States Maritime Commission and With congressional representatives are expected to take Zeusler fre- quently to Washington, D. C.
 Admiral Zeusler, veteran of both World Wars, retired from the Coast Guard last year after serv- ing as Seattle District Coast Guard Commander for two years. Previous to that, he commanded the Alaska Coast Guard sector of the Northwest Sea Frontier.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-10-13
PLOT TO KILL ERNEST BENIN, FOREIGN 5ECY.
Detectives on Guard Fol- lowing Reported Week.
 end Move by 1errorists

LONDON, Oct 13.-tR-A Foreign Office spokesman said today there had been revival of threats against the life of Foreign Secre- tary Ernest Bevin.
 There had been a certain re- crudescence of threats against MT. Pevin,' the spokesman said
 The British Press Association said detectives guarding the For eign Secretary had been told he might be attacked by terrorists.
 A Scotland Yard press officer earlier denied a report published in the London Evening Standard that "a plot to kill MT. Bevin has been uncovered by Scotland Yard. y
 The officer would neither confirm nor deny a British Press Associa- tion report that "a threat had been received during the weekend Nei- ther the agency nor the Evening Standard indicated whom the pur- ported terrorists might be.
 Asked for comment, a Foreign Office spokesman said:
 T feel fairly sure that no threat has been received during the week end. However, we possibly have some evidence of statements in various parts of the world that some people have it in mind to at tack MT Bevin."
 Bevin was one of several British leaders to whom letter bombs were addressed last June in a murder by mail' plot which Scotland Yard blamed on Jewish extremists oper- ating from Italy.
 Like all such letter bombs-en- velopes which contained small, le- thai bombs adjusted to explode when the envelopes were opened the one addressed to Bevin was in- tercepted and neutralized before 1t could cause harm.
 A plot to assassinate Bevin while he was passing through Belgium in April on his return from the Mos COW Foreign Ministers conference was disclosed officially last June.
 Police blamed the Stern Gang Of the Jewish underground They said it's agents hoped to kill the Foreign Secretary by placing bomb in a railway coach he was to have oc- c,lpied. Acting on official advices from Brussels, Bevin came on to England by air.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-10-13
ALASKA GOLD MINER QUILLAN IN STATES: FIRST TIME, 46 YEARS

SEATTLE, Oct. 13-lR-Alaska gold miner, Joe Quillan, is out side" for the first time in 46 years.
 Quillan, who hasn't been south of Nome in years, arrived by plane at time when local residents were remarking about the rather chilly tall weather.
 Awful warm here" he said, "aw- Gul warm for this time of year"
 Quillan works during the sum- mers at the Graham hammers gold dredging operation on Klarey Creek, North of Kotzebue, and snends the winters in Nome.
 I've found as much gold as the next man." he told interviewers, hut I never struck it rich. I've worked n bonanza fields that are forgotten now but I was always across the ridge when the big pay off came"
 Quillan plans to visit a sister in Rochester, N. Y.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-10-13
Flaming Object Scars Over Southern Border; Explosion
 Results, Pillows of Smoke

FL PASO, Texas, Oct. l3.-tRl- A flaming object which scared over the Texas Mexico border and crash ed near the Zamalayuca mountains of Mexico with a loud explosion and billowing smoke remained a mystery today.
 The point of impact was said to be less than 10 miles from where an off, track V-2 rocket crashed south of Juarez May 29
 Military officials at air fields and other installations in the southwest said that no guided missiles had been fired yesterday and that no rocket planes were missing from fields in the area.
 Two persons claimed to have seen the fiery object and others in the Fabens, Texas, area 28 miles away, heard the explosion.
 The explosion occurred at ap- proxima.ely 9:3o am. Mexican time (8:30 am. MST) yesterday
 Pillows of SmCke
 Pillows of unaccounted for smoke were reported seen by two persons on the Fl Paso-Fabens highway about the time the explosion was heard
 Sabas Aranda a reserve captain in the Mexican Army, reported the incident first. He said he saw the object travelling from east to west, which would indicate that it came from the direction of the United States.
 Aranda said he was near his home at Caseta, Mexico, when he saw the object.
 Trails Blue Flame
 Attracted by a brilliant light" !" Aranda said, T looked up and saw an object trailing blue flame trav- cling at great speed east to west. It made no noise while travelling but two blasts were heard shortly after it disappeared over the sand hills near Colonia Reforma." Col onia Reforma is a small town near the border.
 Several persons in Colonia Re- forma claimed to have heard the explosion.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-10-13
STEAMER MOVEMENTS

Baranof, from Seattle, scheduled to arrive sometime tomorrow af- ternoon.
 Lucidor scheduled to arrive to- morrow.
 Northern Voyager, from Seattle, due October Is.
 Alaska scheduled to sail from Se- attle October IA
 Terminal Knot scheduled to sail from Seattle Oct. 14 for Juneau, Ketchikan and Seward.
 Glove Hitch scheduled to sail from Seattle October IT.
 Aleutian scheduled to sail from Seattle Oct. Is.
 Princess Louise scheduled to ar rive from Skagway Wednesday morning at 6:30 and sails south at 8 o'clock
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-10-13
COMMUNISTS
 BEEN HALTED
 IN ". EUROPE
Travelling Congressman Declares Red Tide Could
 Be Turned Back

WASHINGTON, Oct 13.-iR- Communism's move into Western Europe has been stopped cold for the past 60 to 90 days" Rep. Mundt (R-SD) declared today, and could be turned into an ebb tide very easily
 We very definitely have to make a strenuous effort to in crease our information program in there,' he said in an interview. Russian propaganda is vicious, well financed, and skillfully pro- noted by an active and extensive staff"
 Mundt also urged emergency re- lief for France this winter, and said Italy may need additional food allotments.
 Mundt is chairman of House Foreign Affairs subcommittee which returned yesterday after a months trip through Europe sur veying political conditions and the effect of the U. s. State De- partment's information program including the Voice of America broadcasts. He visited A countries, going as far east as Turkey.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-10-13
The W ashingto ion Merry Go Round
By DREW PEARSON

WASHINGTON Newspapers gave considerable space to the first press conference staged by Food Commit tee Chairman Chuck Luckman and the fact that newsmen severely rattled his usually suave and pol i5.led aplomb.
 But what the newspapers did not know was that Luckman had just come from backstage battle with in his Committee over meatless Tuesday and the only thing he really. had to announce was that the Committee was split wide open. Not wishing to reveal this, he couldn't reveal much of anything.
 What happened behind the scenes was that when Luckman's Com mittee couldn't agree, President Truman, who has a deep personal conviction about the importance of food to Europe, virtually took the bill in his teeth. He tilted the scales in favor of the meatless Tuesday.
 The whole matter was not decid- ed, however, until shortly before the President went on the radio Sunday.
 Briefly, here is the backstage by play:
 When Luckman called the Citi- zens Food Committee together, Mrs. Kethryn Stone of the League of Women Voters staunchly oppos- ed a meatless day.
 There's no sense asking house. wives to observe a meatless day
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-10-13
FREAkISH HURRICANE
 REPORTED
Crop D a m age Runs Into Millions Thousands of
 Residents Seek Refuge

MIAMI, Fla, Oct. l3-lR-South- east Florida, inundated in sections by the highest flood waters in more than quarter of a century, placed its crop damage at between $15,- 100000 and $20000,000 in the wake of a freakish hurricane that whirl- ed northcastward into the Atlantic.
 With winds up to 60 miles an hour the storm lashed across southern Florida Saturday and Sunday and then moved toward the northeast, accompanied by heavy squalls.
 Commissioner of Agriculture Ma than Mayo called the hurricane the greatest farm disaster in more than a generation Tons of water poured down Ipon the Everglades, where many fields and grazing lands al- ready were covered
 He estimated the multi-million dollar farm damage after receiving reports from throughout the area.
 Homes Flooded Thousands of residents sought refuge in schools and other public buildings as hundreds of homes were flooded and mass evacuations were carried out Highways were under water and transportation fa- cilities were crippled
 At Fort Lauderdale the Red Cross added 1900 flood victims to it's list, and about 1000 persons were moved to the Pompano State Farmers Market from the Pompano beach migratory workers camp and near by Hammondville.
 Torrential Rains
 Torrential rains turned thousands of lowland acres, already sodden by two previous storms and almost daily rains for nearly a month, into virtual lakes.
 Three Air Force planes headed for the Atlantic Ocean today to ex- pertinent in spraying dry ice on the storm clouds.
 A B-29 carrying observers was piloted by 1st It. J. A. Ashcraft. Capt. J. E. Williams and Capt. c. N Chamberlain were at the con- trols of two BITS carrying 1000 pounds of dry ice.
 The planes took off from MacDill Field Army Base at Tampa at SIS am. (ESTD in perfect flying wea- ther. They were expected back about pm.
 Storm Moves Out
 At 10:l5 am. tEST) the Weather Bureau said the storm was cen- tered about 300 miles southeast of Cape Hatteras and moving in northeasterly direction about 25 miles an hour.
 Winds near the center were esti- mated at 50 to 60 miles an hour and small craft from Charleston, S. C., to the Virginia Capes were ad- vised to remain in port as strong winds and gales were expected to cover a wide area from the Atlantic coast to Bermuda today.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-10-13
HEAD ASKS OUTLAW. COMMUNISTS
0'NeiI Proposes U. 5. Should Deport Red Aliens
 and Prosecute Agents

SEATTLE, Oct. 13-lR-Declar- ing it "inconceivable' that signers of the American constitution in tended to license abuse and de- struction of our domestic privi leges by an interruptions minority" National Commander James F. O'Neil of the American Legion last night proposed that the United States outlaw the Communist par ty and it's organs, and deport aliens who adhere 'to Commun- ism"
 In a Columbus Day address be- fore the Seattle Council of the Knights of Columbus, the Man chester, N. H., legionnaire pro- posed also that the United States:
 Lock our immigration doors against Communism
 Expedite the loyalty checks without fear or favor;
 "Apprehend and prosecute active agents of the party on grounds of treason, to show the Communists that we mean business. He spoke strongly in favor of universal military training which he described as the core of any defense system
 Four other needs" of a na- tional preparedness program he described as retention of the Arm ed Forces and reserve components at quota strength; continuation of scientific research; stockpiling of strategic materials; and 'an eff cient, central intelligence system