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The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1947-12-01

Raymond, Mrs. Anna Laird, of
Marysville, called one day at
Mrs. Bowersmith's home. Mr..
Ivan Wilson and son, Richard,
were supper guests.
Mrs. Forsythe and Miss Turn
Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1947-11-14

Columbia Falls started grade
school band instruction last year,
and the present advanced class In
cludes: Jenny Lee Greene, Marcia
Mansfield and Dolores Parker, ella
rinets; Larry Carlson, Alan Kues-
pert, Dennis Raaen and Jack Till
man, trumpets; Elaine and Pat Mo-
tichka, saxaphones; Rita Crum, Ca
rol Lee and 10 Ann Hill, alto horns:
Sally Seymer, drums and bells.
Beginners class at Columbia
Falls has with LaVerne Chap
man and Larry Johnson, clarinets;
Bobby Bjornstad, Leslie Gsigg, Ro-
bert Mack and David Thoromau,
trumpets, Glen Pollreisz and Ra-
leigh Flint, trombones; Sam Ell
man, bass horn; Francis Wester-
lund, saXaphone; Henry Byerly,
baritone horn, and Doug Nc Gully,
Lyle Tiensvold and George West
erlund, drums.
In the high school, Miss Betty
Wright has class of IS band stu
dents.
Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1947-11-14
With or Without the
e. We Have Most
Greens andGeenes

Kalispell may have it's 81 John
sons and Whitefish its half dozen
Smiths in the new 1947-48 tele-
phone directory, but when it comes
to Greens (Greenes) with or with
out the e, Columbia Falls has five,
Kalispell two and Whitefish none.
The with are Dudley W., Mrs
Ferd c and Viola Greene, the To-
cal telephone agent W'ithouts are
Mrs Clara and Arthur Green. Not
in this years directory is the town
judge, J E with an e, and Green
Brothers service, who are await
ing a telephone.
Columbia Falls showed an in
crease Of nearly a third more tel
ephones in the past year. Number
last year was 90. The new directory
has 1913. In addition there are ~
telephones on the Columbia Falls
to Bolton toll line; IA on the North
Fork line, and 8 by way of Coram
ranger station.
Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1947-11-14
South Fork Hunters
Find Elk Still Rare

Tomorrow ends one of the poor
est elk hunting seasons in Flatheae
county history.
BY Friday morning at 10, the
total elk kill up the Flathead riv-
er's South Fork was 366. 1926
hunters have entered the area,
and 1,134 hunters are out by way
of the Hungry Horse checking
station.
This compares with last years
elk kill in the South Fork of 1858.
The total for this year is expected
to be under 400.
Special deputy game wardens,
Bert Coan and Norm Herbkers-
man reported six inches of snow
on the ground Friday morning at
Hungry Horse creek, and 10 inches
at Trout lake.
There are reports from Glacier
national park of elk coming to the
west and south slopes but in the
hunting country, few elk are being
seen. Snow did not help the hunter.
The road to Spotted Bear is open
for cars with chains.
A special open season on antler-
ed bull elk continues up the Mid
die Fork from Moccasin creek
(Nyack) to Bear creek. 1t closes
December 81 Middle Fork elk hun
ting has not been as good this year
as last when 200 were shot.
Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1947-11-14
November Weather, Lousy
Running True to Form

November is running more or less
true to form from the weather
standpoint, commented E S Mark
federal observer.
Folks want June weather in No
vember, but the so year average
for the Flathead finds November
month that normally has just
four clear days; seven partly clou-
dy and 10 cloudy with the sun shi-
ming just 20 per cent of the poss-
ible 278 hours. In contrast July or
dinarily has II clear days; II part
ly cloudy and three cloudy with
II per cent of the 372 hours of pos
sible sunshine.
Normal November precipitation
is 1875 inches. So far SO has fallen
and there has been ga inches Of
snow at Kalispepll, and two feet
on the level at Spotted Bear. Cold
est day so far was November Is
with "a degrees (at KalispelD.
Don't have much hope for Dec
ember. It normally has just two
clear days; six partly cloudy and |
% cloudy, but January will i'm
prove.
Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1947-11-14
Nelson Rides Grade School Band Circuit

, superintendent, c E Lee believes
that the system of having a quail
flied instructor ride a grade school
band circuit to the smaller schools,
at least different.
At Belton-Apgar, Nelson has the
following students: Rae Marie
Price, Shirley Anderson and Rita
Williams, clarinets; Kenny Kee,
Shirley Knox, Jimmy Mcdonnell
and Ian Sanders, trumpets; Mary
Joyce Cigliani, saxaphone, Clark
Bussey trombone; Jimmy Knox
and Jack Washburn, drums. Three
others are joinig the Bolton group.
With no room in the Coram
school or church, Nelson holds his
COram band class in Mrs.
Hanson's home. Players are: Jerry
Corbett, 10 Ann Dougherty and
Marilyn Fehlberg, clarinets; De-
Wayne Bruce, Duane Elliot and
Skip Hanson, trumpets; Dalton
Smith, saxaphone; Byron Martin,
-rombmone and Donald Lee, snare
1rum. Two other students are ex-
oected to join this class this month. ]
Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1947-11-14
Up Hungry Horse Wages
To Prevailing Scale

Effective November 16, all con
struction workers employed by the
bureau of reclamation on the Hun
cry Horse project will receive a
wage readjustment averaging Ii
cents an hour.
The scale for workers employ
ed by the government has been be-
low that paid other construction
men in the district. Loggers gen
orally have been paying their less
er skilled men from $12O to S1.30
an hour. The new increase will
bring the government wages to
nearly the same scale. It does not
effect the salaries paid engineers
and clerical help.
Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1947-11-14
Four More Contractors
Bid Minded, View H. H.

Representatives of four addition
al contractors viewed the Hungry
Horse damsite Wednesday after
noon and Thursday.
At the invitation of the bureau OF
reclamation, they looked over the
damsite with the idea of submit
ting bids on the prime contract
which will be announced formally
in December or January, and let
this coming spring. In all Is con-
tractors have had representatives
at the damsite with the idea of sub
hitting bids on the prime contract.
Here Wednesday and Thursday
were representatives of Brown and
Root, Houston, Texas; Bressi and
Los Angeles; Peter Kie-
wet, Omaha, and Adolph Teicher
and Son, Sacramento.
Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1947-11-14

In spite of school enro1lments al
ready doubled as a result Of Hun
cry Horse developments, Flathead
county's hard-pressed District 6
believes the starting OF grade
school band instruction a forward
and practical step.
Each Friday afternoon, Column
bia Falls band teacher, Phil Nels-
on, rides a circuit that takes aim
to Coram at 1870 and Bolton on the
edge of Glacier national park at 8.
He also teaches the Columbia
Falls grade school band, and con-
siders the fifth, sixth, seventh and
eighth graders, the best band stu
dents. They have more enthusiasm
is the way he puts it. By 1850 with
the grade school beginners in high
school and veterans on their ms
Nelson as well as the
parents, expect the district high
school band will be tops.
Grade school band instruction
sn't new in America, but school !
Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1947-11-14
Park Bears Hurried
Bv Snow Start Five
Month Winter Sleep

Glacier national parks most at
tractive feature next to it's seen
cry, the estimated 1856 black and
1O5 grizzly bears, are reported to be
starting their five-month-long win
ter sleep.
The snow blanket in the higher
areas of the mountain and lake
park is now in excess of two feet
as the bears begin their nibernaA
ton.
First to find dens for the winter
have been the fatter bears. Griz-
lilies generally pick rock caves or
clefts around 5000 foot elevation,
while the blacks tend to choose
rough nests under log windfalls at
somewhat lower elevations. Snow
covers up the entrances except for
breather holes.
Park rangers when they happen
on bear dens during the winter US
ually are greeted by growl. Bears
are sleepy, but if disturbed will
meet the situation, is the comment
of A D Cannavina, assistant chief
ranger in charge of forestry and
Wildlife.
Bears also account for the great
est weight difference of any an
imal. A full grown grizzly averages
500 pounds, and a black bear, 300
pounds. When they are born this
coming January and February, the
little naked grizzlies will weigh alb
out 16 ounces, and the black cubs
about IL.
A newborn gopher is half the
size of a newborn bear, but
-947 cubs in Glacier starting
o hibernate with their mothers,
Llready weigh from 70 to 100
pounds. Black bear sows ordinarily
ave cubs every two years, the griz-
lies every three.
When we first see the cubs born
his winter next May and June,
1ey will weigh about Z pounds. /
Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1947-11-14
Columbia Falls Host To
Law Officers Meeting

Columbia Falls was host Thurs
day evening to the November meet
ing of the Northwestern Montana
Peace officers association.
Speaker was Norbert Donahue
Missoula, FBI agent, who discus
sed police public relations. Also
announced was the FIJI police
school scheduled for Kalispell from
December 2 through IL.
Members of the association are
law enforcement officers from the
10 western Montana counties. Pre-
sident is Sheriff Dick Walsh; Nor
ris Blake is vice president, and
Kenneth Madsen, secretary.
Hosts at the Thursday meeting
here, and serving the cake, ice
cream and coffee were Byron
West, Herb Stanley and Joe OPP
aka.
Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1947-11-14
Park Wants Fewer
Elk Up North Fork

AS a result of overgrazed winter
range, Glacier national park is see-
king to reduce the number of elk
especially in the North Fork, &C.
cording to press release received
Friday morning.
There are an estimated 1928 elk
in the park. Federal regulations
forbid hunting within Glacier, and
the big problem is the increased elk
herd up the North Fork that is re-
sulting in loss of range and fewer
deer.
The park may ask the fish and
game commission for an open sea-
son on the forest service side of
the river, and then try to have the
elk leave the park by driving or
sailing. An open season on the
North Fork would likely be in Dec
ember.
A natural balance in elk num-
bers is being maintained on the
parks east side by the annual mi
grafton of the animals in the fall
to the plain where numbers are le-
gally killed outside the park by the
Blackfeet Indians.
This winter an estimated 200
will be killed in the vicinity of Wa
terton lake across the line and the |
meat given to Canadian Indians.
In an effort to keep the number
of elk at figure that the winter
range will sustain, there is an OPP
IN season on the Middle Fork ac-
ross from the park until December
81.
Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1947-11-14
Park Gets Modern
Winter Touch In
Borrowed Snow Cat
HUNGRY HORSE NEWS PHOTO

Progress has finally arrived for
winter travel in Glacier national
park.
This winter for the first time, the
park, through courtesy of U S Ar
my engineers will have a "snow
cat" With crawler type rear drive
and skis on front, it will be used
for game checks and emergencies.
Previously all land travel in the
million acre park during the win
ter was by snow shoes or skis. 1t
required five days for the Cattle
Queen trips taken each year for
snow measurements. BY late win
ter at Cattle Queen the snow usu-
ally gets about eight feet deep on
the level.
The parks main road, Going-to-
the-Sun highway was closed by
snow on November Z as compared
to October 26 last year. Now park
engineers estimate the drifts in
Logan pass are about 10 feet deep.
Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1947-11-14
County Farm Income
To Pass 7 Million

Farm income in Flathead coun
ty will exceed 100000 this veal
as compared with the estimated to.
att of S6,164, 500 in 1916.
County Agent Walt Mauritson
IS preparing his annual report. In
dications are that farmers (there
are 1900 part and fulI-time in the
Flataead) are taking advantage
OF the high market price of beef.
. The estimated cattle total is 49,
600, down from 5 to 10 per cent be-
low last year.
Wheat is the principal cash crop
In Flathead county, and the yield
this past fall was somewhat lower
than in 1916, but the market price
is higher. The $4,000 acres of win
ter wheat averaged 80 bushels to
the acre; spring wheat with 5000
acres averaged Is bushels; barley
with $4,000 acres, SO bushels; oats
with 5000 acres, SO bushels; peas
with 5000 acres, 10 bushels, and
10000 acres of hay, 1 ton.
Christmas trees account for
more than just rural pocket mon
ey, and in 1916 provided an estim-
ated $457, 900 with a cut of 1885,
300 trees. The 1947 figures will be
about the same.
Dairy products are expected to
bring 100000 to Flathead farm
rs this year as compared to $780,
700 last, from fewer cattle. The
ounty has about enough milk and
'utter for its present needs. The
population influx as a result of the
hungry Horse project will create
hortages.
In 1916, Flathead farmers rec
lived 100000 from sale of beef
attic, $4,000 from dairy prod
cts; $150,OOO, hogs; 5000, 900
heat; $45O,O0O barley, and $780,
DO from peas. It will be higher for
947.
Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1947-11-14
Northwest to Stop Here

No further information is av-
ailable in the Flathead as to how
Northwest Airlines proposes to fly
into the county airport. The air
lines has been granted permission
to have a Flathead county stop in
connection with Missoula to Spo-
kane run. Local sentiment is ag-
ainst any kind of feeder line ser
vice, and prefers that the local
port be a stop on through run
from Great Falls to Spokane :.
Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1947-11-14
No. 2 Open "a Hours Day
Want Additional Sanding

With Going-to-the-Sun highway
through Glacier national park clo-
sed, highway No 2 from Bolton
east is now open "a hours a day
except for delays caused by blast
ing and equipment moving. The
BeltonNyack stretch is still under
construction, with about three mi
les of the road, rough.
This past week also witness
sed the first fall traffic stall
ling near the South Fork bridge as
the result of road ice. There is con-
siderable sentiment in the district
that larger quantities and more
frequent road sanding be done this
year than last.
Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1947-11-14
! Taxes Doubled
s Not the Levy

Flathead county residents arc
Eating a record for speed in pay
taxes this year with more than
OO having reported at the coun.
treasurer's window in the court
use. Total number of taxpayers
about 1O,15O.
Most are paying both INSTALL
ents, the first is due, November
and the second, May 81.
There is considerable protest in
e district and throughout Mont
"a over the tax increase. Actu-
~ the levy for residents of Col
pola Falls is up FL per cent, and
4 Columbia Heights to Bolton,
Psex, up 26 per cent. Most of the
crease is the raise in the school
Pll from OTIS last year to a pre-
Pit .O355.
" your taxes went up more than
OF 70 percent, then the property
20 per cent, then the property
Fiuaelon was changed. However
was a result of assessor revalua-
~ Tor the county re-appraisal
ARDS figures don't take effect
Jul l948 and 1949.
last OF the mountains, the Liber-
county Times, Chester, common
=, many people of Liberty coun-
nave been both surprised and
'suseed when they received their
statements school leyies in
lis" ~ ~ No
.ue western News, Hamilton,
'orcs Ravalli county tax increas-
ranged from 81 to 81 per cent
n, ~ ~ per cent in the city of
Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1947-11-14
employment on Rise
hungry Horse Area

~ -.ovember snow has created the
Il ~ notlceable unemployment in
81 spring. S -''
aux Kirkpatrick, state emp
(sn Ment office manager, Room 10,
o- aA building, Columbia Falls. re-
|sa. 10 mat logging in the area has
i - = curtailed because side roads
|houo result of temperatures lust
az irezing, have no bottom.
Erea4 S JOB openings are with the
|on northern railroad as sec
Thee a,en and carpenter helpers.
he ~, VIII be a labor surplus in
ext , ,aenead valley until at least
cen ~ aarch or April. There has
,g ian l increased flow of men seek
iii I fins ! the area. Very few
-'ia Jobs, Kirkpatrick added.
Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1947-11-14
IS Families Live in H. H.

Now living in Hungry Horse vii
lage. the bureau of reclamation
town for government employees are
65 families. Mr. and Mrs Kent Da-
Wis are the latest family to move
into the east side, and Mr. and Mrs
Frank Singer and Mr. and Mrs
Charles Seng, the most recent in
habitants of the west side.
Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1947-11-14
st 1gnatius Game to Open
Falls Basketball Schedule

A basketball game with st Ig-
natius here November % will open
Columbia Falls high school 1947-
48 schedule. The game with Supt
j M Tindalrs school team was book
ed this week. Previously schedul-
ed opening game was December 6
with Joplin here. Supt John Mime
han is now at Joplin. Both men
were formerly here and well-liked.
Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1947-11-14
lib Work at Hungry Horse; New Jobs Few

Employment on the Hungry
/ Horse project will average 400 mer
a month until next spring. New
job openings will be scarce.
With the end of the harvest sea-
son in agricultural areas, and a
slowing of logging activities, there
has been an influx of men into the
Hungry Horse district wanting
work
Meanwhile Frank Kirkpatrick,
manager of the state employment
office in Columbia Falls, reports
that for the first time since late
last spring, there is actual unem-
ployment in the district as a res
ult of weather and influx of men
from other sections.
With the letting of the prime
Hungry Horse contract scheduled
for next spring, it is expected that
there will be several hundred Job
openings in April, May and June,
but not until then.
Down From September's 489
October figures show that en-
ployment on the Hungry Horse
project fell from the September av-
erage of 489 to 418. The Septem-
Der weekly payroll had been about
5000
Employment during the winter
months, government and contract
ors, will continue at about 400, and
the payroll will average better
than $4,000 a week.
Breakdown Of October employ
ment on the project is as follows:
MISREPRESENTATION company COM
plotting the $91, 288 warehouse av-
eraged 43 in October as compared
with IS during September; S Birch
and Sons on Hungry Horse village
streets and utilities, a $4O1, 377.6O
contract, IS as compared with 80.
Birch has no men working now.
and will return in the spring to fin
ish the job by oiling streets.
G and F construction company
on the 3.9 mile $479,494 access
highway to the damsite and Lion
lake dikes, had 26 in October as
compared with 60 in September. R
and S construction company on the
$4O8,320 timber clearing at and
near the damsite, employed 1O7 as
compared with "a, and they may
hire a few more men.
Olson Has 10
Olson construction company on
the Hungry Horse village distribu-
ton system, II as compared with
10 on a $49,155 job. Earl Wag-
ner, subcontracting on the Hew-
EFT $685. 48 Spotted Bear road re-
location out of the reservoir area,
averaged II men during October
as compared to 16 in September.
is clearing right-of-way
Hewett can be expected to en-
oloy more than rs men in the
spring.
Arnold's paint shop averaged 2
employees during October as they
$1,000 contract paint
ng interiors of 25 Hungry Horse
1illage dupIexes.
The Guy F Atkinson company
tarted work in November on the
SAB, 400 diversion tunnel A shovel
1as moved in Wednesday, and dig
ing has started. Gordon construc-
on company is erecting an office
uilding and Change house" for
-tkinson at the damsite Employ
lent on the tunnel contract will
e between rs and 100, in spite of
that predicts figure of $50.
Principal contractor employers
I the project this winter will be
and S and Atkinson.
Employed by the bureau of rec
nation are 1853 as compared with
IL IN September.
Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1947-11-14
No Car Licenses Yet

1913 Montana car and drivers
licenses will not be available I'M
til January 2. individuals are al
ready asking for the licenses at the
county treasurer's office. They
have no 1948 licenses.
Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1947-11-14
Catching Up on Sleep

Herb Stanley has been acting
town marshal this week in the alb
sence of Byron West, who is catch
ing up on sleep.
Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1947-11-14

The front yard of the Martin
Stringfellow home was a former
blacksmith shop in Columbia Fails
early years. The Stringfellows still
find horse and OK shoes.
Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1947-11-14

|oard state meeting of school
fear in 'RRe a,i is being held this
|uled - n halispell with sessions sche-
wi Monday and Tuesday.
Evening star., 1947-10-03
Burns HospitaIize Two,
Prove Fatal 10 Baby

A year-old boy died and two
other persons were treated at Dis
trict hospitals as the result of
burns yesterday.
Jon Lou Pellerzi, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Leo Pellerzi, 1920 I street NV,
died at $3.50 o'clock last night at
Children's Hospital after a pot of
scalding coffee fell on him in his
home.
Police reported that the boy re-
ceived burns OF the face and body
when his mother accidentally tipped
over the percolator while cleaning
the stove. A certificate of acci-
dental death was issued by Deputy
Coroner Christopher j. MURPHY.
Painfully burned when attempt
ing to light gas stove Mrs. Ida
Ford, So, and her grandson, Chris
topher latham, g. were treated at
Garfield Hospital yesterday for first
degree burns of the face and neck.
Mrs. Ford told police that as she
was preparing supper in her apart
meht at 1852 Kilbourne place NV,
the burner flashed back in her face.
The boy, she said, was standing
nearby.