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Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1947-09-05
Grid Season Opens
Against Choteau

A tentative Columbia Falls high
school football schedule was releas-
ed Thursday afternoon.
Opening game for the local team
here will be September 13 with
Choteau, followed by game with
the Flathead Reserves here Sep
TENDER 20; Libby there, September
81; Eureka there, October 10;
Flathead Reserves, there, October
II; Whitefish, here, October 25;
Poison, there, November 1, and Mo-
vember 7 or 8, open.
Coach Leo Schweinfurt has 90
men out; joining the squad this
past week have been Don Burke,
Duane Byrd, Bob Bryson, Buddy
Boyce, Neil Christensen, Max Mar
tin, Lennis Vail, Tom Peck and
John Cavalar.
Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1947-09-05
Heavy August Rains
Break Record With
3.18 Inches
HUNGRY HORSE NEWS PHOTO

Flathead valleys wettest Aug
ust on record ended with rainfall
totaling 1928 at the Kalispell sta
ton of the U. S. weather bureau
as compared with normal of 81
and the previous record of PSI in
August 1920.
Other record breaking month of
the year was June when 4.56 in
ches fell as compared with a nor
NAL of 2.61-
August % and % also were ere
cord busters" The rainfall of EOS
inches was most for a "a hour per-
iod in the past SO years.
Temperatures for the month av-
eraged slightly below normal, re-
ports Observe" E. S. Mark. Low
est for the month was 81 on the
10th, and was the fourth time in
SO years that temperature has
been this low or lower during the
first 10 days of August. Warmest
days were So on August 1 and 2.
Ten August days were clear as
compared with a normal of IS; Il
were partly cloudy as compared
with a normal of 5. On no day did
the wind blow more than 20 miles
an hour, and for only two hours
was there wind over Is miles.
County Agent Walt Mauritson
reports that crops were delayed
by rains, but not to a
particularly damaging extent. A
lailstorm on August 1 in the To-
yer valley caused up to $1,000
700 damage to grain and peas.
Since damaging hailstorms are
are, little hail insurance was car
led.
The heavy rainfall has benefited
he forests and reduced fire dan
er.
Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1947-09-05
So Far So Good For
Forest Fire Danger

The August record drenching OF
1928 inches appears to be dampen-
ing the Flathead national forest
toward its third best free from fire
year
The 21a million acre. second lar
gest national forest in the United
States has had 76 fires this year
including man-caused. Thirty
five acres of timber have been de-
stroyed.
Best year on record was 1912
with 81 fires and Il acre burned.
Next best was 1914 with 55 fires
and - acres, and the worst, 1929
with its Half Moon fire; 1910 when
$50 fires burned 5000 acres; 1884
when ITO fires destroyed 10000
acres.
Last Friday night several Co.
lumbia Falls residents noticed a |
strike flareup about
1920 on Whitefish mountain.
Four fires resulted from the storm,
all minor; two were in the North
Fork; one Spotted Bear and one
Big Prairie. |
Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1947-09-05
48 Local Vets Cash
$4,000 Bonds

Cashing terminal leave bonds at
the Bank of Columbia Falls Tues
day were 48 former servicemen.
A total of $4,000 was paid av-
eraging $3.50 with one former CT
receiving $500. No particular eff
feet has been noted on local bust
ness. General retail business in the
community is showing the start
of-school, approach of fall, first
of the month boost.
Bank of Columbia Falls Cashier
T. J. Sillers commented that the
bank was glad to offer the bond
service, but urged veter-
ans to keep in mind that the gov
eminent bonds bearing 21a per
cent interest are a best savings and
Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1947-09-05
Glaciers Hidden Lake
Bear Established
As Grizzly

The phantom bear of Hidden lake
near the continental divide in Gla-
cier national park has turned out
to be a 4OO-pound grizzly.
Latest encounter with the bear
was experienced Saturday by Mrs.
Samuel w. Crawford, Jr., Mem
phis, Tenn, who hearing footsteps,
and thinking it was her husband,
asked him, how fishing was. The
answer, a grizzly, "woof." The
Crawford's lunch disappeared, but
Mr.. Crawford is said to have
caught his limit of native trout.
Glacier park officials common
ted that vacationers seldom see
grizzly bears who frequent high
err attitudes near the continental
divide, and avoid human beings.
Where a black bear would just
as soon bite the hand that feeds
him, there is no report of a vaca-
toner brave enough to try to feed
a grizzly. The two bears are diff
erent as to head shape, shoulders,
color, claws, size and dispositions.
Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1947-09-05
Park Rangers Get
Fall Assignments

BY October 10, Glacier national
park rangers will take up theiI
fall and winter assignments.
Chief Ranger Elmer Fladmark,
Thursday announced stations for
the 16 permanent rangers, who pro-
tect the million acre, size-of-state
-of-Rhode-Island, alpine area, and
it's wild life.
Don Barnum will continue as
district ranger for the Hudson Bay
section with headquarters at st.
Mary. With him will be Rangers
Adolph Opalka and Dave Stimson.
At Sherbourne ranger station (of-
ten isolated by winter snow will
be Ranger Horace Chadbourne.
E. M. Hutchinson is district ran
ger for Marias headquartering at
Glacier Park station, and will be
assisted by Rangers Joe Heimes,
George Hill and Francis Guardipee.
At Walton essex will be Ranger
John Lindahl, and at Nyack, Ran
ger J. r. Hutchinson.
Floyd Henderson continues rs
district ranger for West Lakes
(west side). At Logging creek will
be Ranger Glenn Harner (isolated
by snow during winter, and at
Polebridge, Ranger Hugh Buch-
anan, likewise snow isolated.
Assigned to park headquarters
are District Ranger Richard Mel
son, and Rangers Stanley Spurg-
con and Paul Webb.
Also at headquarters are the
three assistant chief rangers, Jack
Alton, Dave Cannavina and Elmer
Mess. Chief park naturalist is M. e.
Beatty with Don Robinson, park
naturalist.
Last of the seasonal temporary"
rangers will leave October 1.
Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1947-09-05
lis Grade and High
nds Start Practices

olumbia Falls grade and high
,ol bands started practices this
X.
hilip Nelson is scheduling a be-
lers section at 10 a. m. each
:, for grade school pupils, and
II an advanced class of Is at L
n.
the high school Miss Betty
ght is instructing a beginners
an advanced section, and is
starting a baton twirlers Sec
in connection with girls ply
| education.
le difficulty Of finding instru-
is that can be purchased is
,enting students from joining
bands.
Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1947-09-05
Slate Prime Contract Notice

In about four more weeks, major
dam contractors in the nation will
be given advance notice to look
over the Hungry Horse project.
Actual call for bids on the dam,
power plant and pertinent works."
is scheduled for about January 1,
1948. Prime contract construction
is expected to start in March, 1913.
Already looking over the Hungry
Horse project have been two rep
resentatives from Morrison-Knud-
son, one of the companies that built
Boulder dam.
Bureau of reclamation construct
ion engineer for the Hungry Horse
project, Clyde c. Spencer is sche-
duled to arrive September Is. Bids
to paint the interior bedrooms, liv-
ing rooms and halls of the rs du-
plexes in Hungry Horse village, a
minor contract will be opened Sep
TENDER 10.
No further information is avail
able on the proposed tunnel at the
damsite. Complete details are not
available, although Thursday it
appeared that the tunnel, as the
result of change in design of the
dam, will serve first as a method
for diverting the South Fork flow,
and later with an addition as a spill
way.
Not yet in the area are repres-
entatives of F. r. Hewett company,
Spokane, who have the $632, 448
4-mile long Spotted Bear road re-
location out of the reservoir area
contract.
Inspecting the damsite on Sep
TENDER 81 and % will be the SUBJ
committee of the house appropria-
tions committee including con-
gressmen Ben F. Jensen, Iowa;
George B. Schwabe, Oklahoma, and
Ivor D. Fenton, Pennsylvania, ac-
companied by William E. Warne,
assistant secretary of interior.
Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1947-09-05
men Take Pack Trip


ednesday evening, Miss Hor-
, Friedman, Chicago, and Miss
gle Johnson, New York City.
2leted a four day pack trip in
park that started at Kintla
With Freddie Grob as pack
md guide and using Kintla
b saddle and pack horses, the
women rode over Boulder and
N passes with side trips on
continental divide. During pre-
!, summers they have been
>bers of American Forestry
Iiation trail rider parties il
RADIO and California.
Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1947-09-05
Employment In Area y
Remains about Same"

Employment in the Hungry
district stayed steady during the
past week, according to Frank
Kirkpatrick, manager of the state
employment office, Room II, Bank
building, Columbia Falls.
There is a gradual building up
of a surplus in ordinary laborers.
This is a result of seasonal layoff
by the Flathead national forest,
and the nearing completion of the
c and F contract on the access
road at Hungry Horse.
Hiring during the past week CEN
tered around the Hungry Horse
reservoir area clearing contract.
Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1947-09-05
Bigfork Road Status
Aired by W.ink|er

Flathead county commissioners,
Thursday had the issue of poor
shape of the Bigfork road" placed
squarely in their laps.
A. F. Winkler, state highway
commission chairman, declared
that the responsibility of the en-
tire east lake shore road from the
intersection on highway No. 2 TO
the intersection with No. SO near
Poison is wholly that of Flathead
and Lake counties, and that the
public must look to these counties
for maintenance of this road.
He added that secondary high
way program is so setup that the
county commissioners have pre-
viously agreed that the counties
would assume responsibilities for
adequate and satisfactory mainten-
;ance of all secondary highways
built in the county with state and
federal funds.
The penalty for unsatisfactory
maintaining the roads results in
the federal public roads admins
tration withholding federal funds
until the roSds built with federal
money are adequately maintained.
AS a result of lack of proper
maintenance, by the county on the
East lake shore road Mr.. Wink
Ter states that Flathead county
can not expect further state or
federal funds to be expended in the
county until this particular high
way is brought to a satisfactory
maintenance standard.
A similar situation exists in seve-
raj other Montana counties.
Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1947-09-05
Plum Creek Starts
Bachelor Quarters

Construction started this week
on a 80 by 40-foot bachelors quar-
tiers clubhouse at the Plum Creek
mill, it was announced by William
Knapton, president.
The new building will have four
bedrooms, four closets, bathroom
and four showers, a modern kitch-
en- and dining room and a large re-
creation room. Chris Raaen is SUI
perintending the building.
Plum Creek now employees 4S
men. The concern moved here from
Bemidji, MINI. late in 1915 bring
ing IL families.
Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1947-09-05
Labor Day Weekend Boosts
Park Travel to 100000

Glacier national park travel Tu-
esday passed the 300,000th mark
after the best Labor Day weekend
in its history.
A total of 1924 visitors entered
the park during the three-day no
liday. Saturday rains held trav-
elers down to 1854, but on Sunday
it bounced up to 4,048 as compar-
ed with 1892 a year ago.
Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1947-09-05
Appoint Two Case Workers

Two new case workers joined
the Flathead county public well
fare departments staff this week.
The appointments announced by
Oswald Braaten, department sup
ervisor, include Lyla Nygaard,
Wolf Point, Concordia college
graduate, and Romayne Diehl, Mis-
soula, a University of Idaho grad
uate. Newly employed as STEM
ographer in the office is Marjorie
Fincher, Kalispell.
Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1947-09-05
Jost Gets Flathead Job

Former Coram District Ranger
in 1910 and 1871, Jack Jost report
ed Tuesday at F1athead national
forest headquarters in Kalispell as
staff assistant in charge of fire
control and improvements.
A Montana State university gra-
duate, Jost has recently been at
the regional offices in Missoula
and succeeds A. w. Foskette, now
in charge of grazing for the Gal
latin national forest, Bozeman.
Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1947-09-05
To Aid Old Folks

Old age assistance payments in
Flathead county during September
will total $19,836 with 542 resid-
ents receiving an average of $780,
go. Last month SAT residents rec
eived an average of $36.43.
Oswald Braaten, Flathead coun-
ty welfare supervisor, also reports
that AZ aid-to-dependent children
cases will be handled with S2,916
being paid for 1875 children. Ten
blind persons will get 1856.
Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1947-09-05
ady, Retired College
Teacher Holds Park
Hiking Record
HUNGRY HORSE NEWS PHo1

Holding the trail hiking rec.
d in Glacier national park this
MINER is believed to be Mary M
lusuch, 81, Boulder, Colorado.
retired college teacher.
Gray haired and of slight build
SIS Bausch left the park Wed
sday after a month on trails
r hiking took her across the con-
entail divide 10 times. She climb
three different park peaks, and
,pected three glaciers, jackson,
%ckfoot and Sperry, closehand.
r trail travels also took her to
! b spots as Notch in the Gar
/ Wall, Helen, Elizabeth and
ECKER lakes, and the following
ses, Two Medicine, Dawson,
nbank, Pitmaken, Lincoln, Cum
It, Siyeh, Hidden, Logan, Swift
rent, Ptarmigan and Stoney In
4.
his was Miss Bausch's first vi
to Glacier. She has climbed five
erent seasons in Switzerland
in the South American Andes,
last summer in Mexico. Her
sr climbing fetes include reach
the top of 20 of Colorado's So
ks that are above IL, 900 feet.
he commented on the good con-
On Of Glacier park trails and
unspoiled appearance of the
k.
Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1947-09-05
Grade School Classes TANNED
HUNGRY HORSE NEWS PHOTO

Hungry Horse dam develop
ments resulted in damned class
rooms Tuesday as the fall school
term opened.
Three new classes will be start
ed in Columbia Falls grade school
Monday to relieve the crowded
condition caused by new families
moving into the Hungry Horse
area.
Mrs. Rokie ThOroman has been
employed to teach a combination
first and second grade, announced
Supt. c. E. Lee This will be in
addition to the regular first and Sc
cond grades. Mrs. Agnes Everett
is scheduled to teach a combined
additional third and fourth grade
instead Of the second section OF
enth grade In Columbia Fails.
Mrs. Crist, Martin City, Friday
morning, was employed to teach a
combined additional fifth and sew
enth grade
Mrs. Marguerite Hoist has ar
anged to teach the seven pupils
at Nyack and school Will be re-
opened there probably Monday.
The number of grade school stu
dents in the Columbia Falls
through Martin City section has
Increased so per cent over last
spring. The school at Martin City
has 81 first and second graders;
last gear there a1as no school. COL
unab5a Falls grade school had 800
in May; moaO it mas $50 pupils.
Meeting Tuesday evening in spe-
cial session the District 6 school
board, Chairman Otto F'ehlberg,
presiding, authorized the employ
ment of the three new teachers, and
arranged to purchase additional
seats from Thompson Falls.
Grade school enro1lments in Co.
lumbia Falls Thursday afternoon
we're first, 43; second, AZ; third,
" and %; fourth, 48 including II
desks; fifth, So including
IL without desks; sixth, 80; sew
snth, As and eighth, 40.
G. E. Jenkinson is preparing the 1
small rooms used as grade school |
library and for boy scouts as new |
At Coram II were enrolled We'd |
lesday afternoon including 81 in
he first and second grades; "a in
he intermediate grades and % in
he upper grades. There is a desk
shortage, and the community
hurch basement room used for the
PIPER grades qualities as the least
desirable classroom in the district.
Martin City's new school We'd
esday had "a registered in the
irst and second grades. The rest
f the grade school students are
AIKEN to Columbia Falls by bus.
Bolton had a total Of AZ includ-
1g Is in the first three grades; Fl
and II in the seventh
nd eighth; Essex had Z Lake Five,
and Apgar, IS.
Bob Parker has been employed
, make a second bus run. He has
full load of go from Belton-Apgar
, the canyon, and now starts Sc ]
md run from Columbia Falls to
adrock canyon and return for AZ
lore. Roy Anders has bus load .
80 from Martin City and immed-
tie vicinity.
High school enrollments showed
lie freshman class jumping from :
st years figure of 80 to SO, while =
'phomores increased from 81 in
AS to 81 in 1916 and now "a;
niors were % last year andnow,
); seniors were IS in 1915, 80 in r
'46 and 10, Thursday; and two \
School enrolment increases in
cate that younger families are
owing into the district. Typical
Hungry Horse government viii
ge where 10 Of the "a children
q first and second Graders and
Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1947-09-05
Take Over Leonard's Bar

Agreement has been reached on
the sale of Leonard's bar, Column
bia Falls, to Hal Dickey, Kalispell.
Dickey also owns the new unoc-
cupied building across from the
Bank of Columbia Falls. Doe and
Mary Ann Leonard, residents of
the community for two years, have
no definite plans as yet.
Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1947-09-05
Clean Chimneys Now

Residents of Columbia Falls are
reminded by Fire Chief Bud Darl-
ing that now is a good time to clean
chimneys. Most of the communi-
ties fires last winter were caused
by sooty or defective chimneys.
Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1947-09-05
Appoint Greene Judge

j. E. Greene, longtime Saco ed
itor and now a retired resident of
Columbia Falls, has been appoint
ed police judge by the town coun-
Gil and justice of peace by the
county commissioners.
Mr.. Greene succeeds C. w. Flem-
ing who has left the city.
Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1947-09-05
log Up North Fork

to 100000 board feet of
nd dead spruce from the Flat
North Fork appear destin-
a pulp mill near Spokane.
/ It is that Hans Larson, AM
/ Timber company, Kalispell,
start operations shortly II
up Big Creek. It is hard to
ntO section" Mouth of the
is 20 miles north of Column
Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1947-09-05
Five Lookouts Still Up
In Glacier National Park

Five of the 13 lookouts in Glacier
national park are still manned,
and the parks fire fighting or
ganization is being held in read
mess during early September days.
Still on mountain tops are Mr..
and Mrs. Les Gunzel at Huckle-
berry, Scotty Beaton at Numa
ridge; Robert Grow, Apgar; Doyle
and Carol Kincaid, Mt. Brown,
and Janet Stem, Lone Man.
Fire in the park this year to-
tailed II including four man-cau-
sed. Timber damage was less than
five acres Forest fire danger con-
tinues through September.
Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1947-09-05

head county woolgrowers
>ntion will meet in Kalispe.l
Dnber %.
Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1947-09-05

All forest service lookouts are
down except for Mrs. Sanborn at
Nine Mile.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-12-20

For those thot do not attend world series We
are moine out 1877 jackie Robinson Dogef
World Series Pennonts, soyenit. IT you can not
see the series, you con get the jackie Robinson
podoer Pennont Pin one dollar to Of or use Pos.ol
note add Sc stomp, for return moIl lit sold OUT
MoiI all orders on or before Monday Oct. 9Th.
R IA JOHNsTONS &C 4O3l St. Ferdinand
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Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-12-20

II properly done, cross-fencing Of
fenced pastures win make them
more useful and sometimes more
productive. Adequate water and
shade for each area to be enclosed
are important considerations in
planning cross-fencing operations
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-04-30

bases on balls: off Rodriguez 8,
off Valdez 2, off Lewis 2; hits: off
Rodriguez 3 for 5 runs in 4 and
2/3 innings; double play: Sands
to Malgrat; time of game: lis.
Score second game:
r. H. E.
Legion --.-- 101 ITO 81 z 5
Gilmore 80 OBJ 3-10 Is 6
Hancock and Acevedo; Ermin,
Porter and Collins, Fallon.
Home runs: Willard, Schucht,
Porter; two-base hit: Stenger;
stolen bases: Edelman, Tucker,
Valdez, Barber; sacrifice hits: J..
Ogden, James Ogden, Steele;
struck out: by Emrin l, by Porter
1, by Hancock L; bases on balls:
off Porter 3, off Emrin 6; hits :off
Emrin for 2 runs in 2 innings;
time of game: l.20; umpires: F.
and ]. Villareal; scorer: Aguilar.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-04-30
rsrtse; TRUCKS. White and Teb-
bssss. Swilt. u

0ovo1e, EOWler, VuElStUpleT
add Md. cdcrra; Blacl andslo-
pcx.
New York at St. Louis. post
poned, rain.
Washington at Chicago post
posscd, rain.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-04-30
ooCnXN SD(IIES CUBS, 10 10 s,
- Oh STRAIGHT; TIGERS TRIM
- COX. 3 10 !, TAKE md PLACE
Merchants Take Class B' Lead
From Dairy, IS; USS Gilmore
]. Upsets American Legion, 10 to I

The USS Gilmore won its first
game Of the Class A. city foot
BAH campaign last night at Bay
view Park when il out-slugged
the American Legion for 1O-7,
victory. In the Class B game the
Key West Merchants knocked
Adams Dairy out Of first place
with 6-5 win and took over the
pacersetting post.
The Merchants scored all their
runs in the first three frames, on
six hits, and from then on little
Joe Lewis held them to two hits.
The Dairy boys came to life in
the third and two walks and a
double by Ingraham. gave them
two runs. In. the fourth they
scored two more on two hits and
a sacrifice hit. /.
In the fifth four walks forced
home "a run and Valdez went to
pitch for the. Merchants, and
from then on no one else scored.
He allowed but one hit. a dou-
BILE by Sands, in the seventh. y
At bat the leaders were Alonzo,
with three, and casado, two
Sands Hit two for the losers: In
the. field, Sterling and Malgrat
led the losers and Alonzo and
.Beire the winners. 's.. y, h, /,
In the nightcap the Gilmore
won in the last frame. With the
score tied, the first man up,
Stenger, doubled, his fourth hit
in as many times at bat. Smith
was safe on an error and Porter
won: his own game when, he. hit
the ball outssof the park for q
homer. 1872 s
The Legion scored one 7 in the
first on atWalk, a. sacrifice and a
single by Barber. The. Gilmore
scored three runs in the first on
three hits, and two, errors, ). and
added. sones in the second on. q.
homer by SGhucht. 4. 4 IS. !. 1,
In. tie third the Legion toied
one OF twoswalks, am err6ft Ind 4
single, and one more in. the
fourth, on homer by Willard,
which tied the score, but in their.
half 81 the fifth the Gilmore add
ed two on four hits and one err
ror,t and scored one in the sixth.
The Legion tied the count in
the seventh after Barber hunted