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Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1947-05-30
No Over the Fence
Morning Talks At
Big Prairie

For Mrs. Russell Cloninger, a
cup of sugar at the neighbors
this summer will be 40 miles
away. Wife of the Big Prairie dis
trict ranger in the Flathead ma
tional forest, she'll live 40 miles
by horse or foot trail from near
est neighbor, Mrs. Charles Shaw
at Spotted Bear ranger station.
Ranger Cloninger arrived at
Big Prairie, 80 miles from Coram
and civilization, Monday, and his
wife and two children will be
brought into the mountain and
forests isolated station by plane
this coming Tuesday, weather
permitting.
Big Prairie is in the South Fork
primitive area, where law of the
land permits no tree cutting, no
resorts, only the undisturbed out
of-doors. It's continental divide
forest and stream land
where no people except the ran
ger and his family live during the
summer The enemy, lightning
caused forest fires.
Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1947-05-30
New School Delay.
Not Board Fault

Indications are that petitions
circulated for new schools at Co.
ram, Martin City and Bolton will
not be checked in time for the
District 6 school board, Tuesday,
to set the date for a special
election.
The school board will hold their
regular June meeting, Tuesday
evening, and will take up the hi
ring of a new superintendent Of
schools, additional teachers, bus
contracts and dormitory appli-
cations.
Early in May, the board turned
over the petitions for new schools
to Ambrose Measure, county at
torney, and now are being check.
ed in the court house to determine
whether or not they contain names
of at least 20 per cent of the dis
trict's eligible voters.
The school board is not res.
ponsible for any delay in bring
ing the matter before the voters.
Chairman Otto Fehlberg commen-
ted that the board would call the
election just as soon as they were
told the petitions were satisfac-
tory.
Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1947-05-30
G.N. Veterans Hold Meeting

More than 40 Great Northern
employees, members of the Vet
vile association who are plan
ming to build homes and cottages
on Columbia Falls north side are
meeting here today and Satur-
day.
The men are among 70 long
time C. N. employees, many of
them nearing retirement age, who
have bought lots in the 72-acre
tract. Their sessions today and
tomorrow will concern lot sell
ections, civic improvements in
their suburb, and the start of
home construction.
Head of the organization is H.
c. Jimmy" Kreis, Havre, con-
ductor, while E. M. Boyles, Minot,
conductor is secretary.
Members of the local chamber
of commerce "host" committee are
J. T. Andrew E. j. Marantette,
H. H. Davall, Pete Anderson and
Elmer Afseth.
Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1947-05-30
Porcupine Interrupts
Park Phone Line

Mays sun still leaves rs foot
drifts of snow in the Hidden creek
canyon where Glacier national
parks chief electrician, L. H.
Rupp and a nine-man crew are
repairing telephone lines four
miles from the continental di-
vide.
SnoWslides during the late win
ter and early spring are the ter
ror of telephone lines, but this
year a porcupine also went to
work on the wire that sometimes
buried and sometimes. in the air
follows the road for very little of
the so miles between Park head
quarters and st. Mary. Four years
ago, one of the park bears chewed
a telephone line in two.
Where the men are now work.
ing there is waterfall near Hid
den lake that plunges 1900 feet
In the crew of electricians and
linesmen are Stanley Baxter, Ron
Richman, Alex Jones, Frank
Schmidt and Dean Dodson, assis-
ted by Jesse Green, Willis Ste
vens and Bob and Francis Shep-
pard. Working on the other side
of the continental divide are Ing
valid Anderson and Melvin Willis.
Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1947-05-30
Community Saddened
By Jack Cook Death

The sudden passing of Jack
Cook, 10, Wednesday, has caused
sorrow in the community.
Jack became ill Saturday; was
taken to a Kalispell hospital,
Tuesday, and died Wednesday
afternoon. Cause, peritonitis.
Funeral services are incomplete
but will probably be Saturday
or Sunday at the Weggener and
Campbell chapel, Kalispell, with
the Rev. Ralph Werner and Rev.
George Foye, officiating. Cub
scouts, Jack was a member, will
attend. Burial will be in Conrad
Memorial cemetery.
Jack was the youngest son of
Mrs. Enelia Cook, local grade
school teacher, and is also surviv-
ed by a brother, Dwight. He was
born Jan %, 1887. His father pas
sed away in 1887, and another
brother, oldest of three boys, died
at the age of five.
Typical of tributes to the we'll
liked youngster was the comment
heard Thursday afternoon. Gee,
he wasn't scared to play football
with kids twice as big"
Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1947-05-30
|eighbor Visits Falls
br First AT Haircut

Visitor in Columbia Falls Tues
y, Wednesday and Thursday af-
| six months of wilderness is
alton was Anton Van Hook, only
ar around resident of Flathead
anada.
IN November, 1916, snow isola-
Van Hook, caretaker of the
ootenai oil test development.
ace a month, he snowshoed
ross the line to Trail Creek post
4lce for his mail (including the
ungry Horse News). Recreation
IS the monthly cribbage game
IN Charlie Wise the trapper,
Mr.. Cooper, dude rancher
ring the summer, his closest
lsnbors. No trail leads to the
sest Canadian settlement, IS
p'llnaDlted miles over the noun
lins.
l Inc rest of the time, Van Hook,
i only companion a black cat,
Or good luck" cut wood, and
FL snow from piling on roofs.
me North fork country, he has
Veloped quite a reputation for
king bread.
toughest time of the whole
mter, comments Van Hook, who
= stayed through three of them
'ne upper Flathead is the last
r. weeks before spring. Tuesday
Columbia Falls, Barber Ray
|eison gave him his first hair
D IN six months. He's clean
~ cleanly dressed man.
Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1947-05-30
Ernie's Mother Arrives
Here From Dusseldorf

From Dusseldorf in Germany's
Rhineland, Mrs. Helene Massman
dignified white haired lady
has arrived in Columbia Falls tc
visit her son and daughter-in-
law, Mr.. and Mrs. Ernie Mass
man, and grandson, Gene.
This is the first time in 20 years
that she has seen Ernie, who dur
ing the war, served as an airforce
combat sergeant in the European
theatre. He never got to Germany.
However Bill Nadeau, Park
theatre projectionist, was station
ed far a while 20 miles from Dus-
seldorf.
Arriving in New York early
in May, Mrs. Massman has al
ready started to pick up English.
Her "sehr NIGHT gut" describes
the land she left, as she now en-
joys rest and quiet, and Gene.
She is amazed at the signs of
plenty.
Ernie's father is in Portland
and is expected here shortly. He
left Germany just before the war,
which detained his wife.
Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1947-05-30
Hungry Horse Clearing to Employ 100

More than 100 men will be en-
ployed clearing 1885 acres from
the Hungry Horse damsite to
Hungry Horse creek. Building
clearing access roads will start
next week.
j. j. Reese, Columbia Falls, who
has been awarded the $408,320.00
contract, has established offices
in the Quick Service garage. His
plan is to utilize every possible
bit of the up to eight million
board feet of timber, and 10000
cords of pulp wood that will be
cleared.
Now he is comforting with Great
Northern officials for favorable
freight rates for local pulp wood
to Wisconsin mills. If this can be
obtained it will help this pro-
ject and other Flathead county de-
velopment.
Several subcontracts will pro-
badly be let, declared Mrs. Reese
for poles, logs and Christmas trees
in the 1885 acres, the first part of
the 45-mile long reservoir to be
cleared.
He added that local men will be
employed wherever possible; wa
ges will be union scale or above,
working in conjunction with the
Columbia Falls lumber and saw
mill workers local.
s Experienced contractor and pre-
sent part-owner of the Rocky
Mountain Lumber company mill
at Essex, Mr.. Reese expects to
complete most of the present con-
tract before next winter. He is
allowed $40 days.
The present clearing will be
done in the name of the r and S
construction company with J. J.
Reese and E. c. Sever, Kalispell,
principal stockholders.
Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1947-05-30
Cupid Knocks Divorce
For Loop During
Spring

Flathead county records indi-
cate that May was evidently g
month of love. During the first
four weeks, 20 marriage licenses
were granted, and. only three di-
vorces granted.
Generally the county has been
having % marriages and nine
divorces each month, three to one.
Romantic folks can have great
hopes for June. It's definitely a
month of marriages. Last year had
81 and only 6 divorces, while
dreary January, 1947 had 10 mar
riages and 5 divorces.
Clerk of court, Oliver F. Vose,
commented that definitely divor-
ces seem to increase during the
fall and winter, and all seems
happy again with the spring.
Another interesting fact is that
1916 was great year for cupid
in the Flathead. Evident cause
was the return of the boys from
military service. 1916 saw 472
marriages as compared to 1889
with 313, and 1914 when the boys
were away, just 1877. This year by
the way will have about the same
number of marriages as did 1889.
The wars end marriage rush is
a thing of the past.
If your heading for the altar,
the lady you'll meet in the clerk
of courts office is middle-aged
Mrs. Margaret Clifford, the dep
uty. She can make every ner-
vous couple relax and smile with
some such remark as ''How old is
the dog?" Licenses, you know.
Under state law passed this
all marriage license ap-
plicants after July 1 will have to
show proof of blood tests.
Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1947-05-30
Foresters to Inspect
Mills And Camps

Flathead national forest Off
Gals are starting another perio-
die inspection of the so mills and
20 additional cutting operations
in the forest.
Assistant supervisor, John En-
erson, commented that the first
point of the inspection is the mat
ter of fire prevention. This re-
quires that all mills in the nation
al forest have an available emer-
gency water supply and fire ex-
tinguishers, spark arresters on all
gasoline motors including trucks
(but not on diesels), and the adj
equate disposal of inflammable
materials.
Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1947-05-30
May Rains Get Over
With Much Too Soon

The present month ends dry
because this year, May rains, 1.4O
inches, got through in a hurry,
coming down in three days in
stead of eleven:
Ordinarily the Flathead has ell
even May days with precipita-
ton totaling las at Kalispell, re-
ports E. S. Mark, federal weather
observer. That's better for new
crops and the forests.
The moisture curve since jan
uary l, 1947 in the Flathead has
been below normal with total pre-
cipitation at Kalispell now total
ing 4.85 as compared with $50
inches, normal for the first five
months. Precipitation was above
normal for the fall and early win
ter months.
However, cool nights charac-
teristic of the Flathead, reduce
topsoil moisture evaporation, and
this district does not have crop
failures as experienced on the
plains.
In contrast North Dakota with
Bismarck precipitation two in
ches below normal has had dust
storms, and central Montana is
starting to experience mild
drought.
Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1947-05-30
And So Rises Sunrift Hall

ships are being sold. Ed Clark
Lake Blaine, bought the first:
Nina Eckelberry, resident of the
Flathead since 1888, the second;
Mrs. Daisy Sparks, Deer Park,
the third, and Wiley Ford, Deer
Park, the fourth.
Square dances, cake bakes, pie
socials, grange and farmers I'M
ion meetings, stock discussions,
weed control and grasshopper
batting conferences as well as
roller skating, and in the corner
little heated horse trading now
and then, will occupy the new
building.
Sponsoring farmers live in Bad
Rock, Deer Park, Lake Blaine,
Fairview, Montford and neighbor-
ing districts.
Lot-donator, Gerald Eckelberry
added that this is also our way
to offer young people good
wholesome opportunity for re-
creation.
Handy Helpers president is
Mrs. Daisy Sparks, while Mrs.
James Eckelberry (big family of
them) is president of the Bad Rock
Busy Bees.
Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1947-05-30
Jury Rules whitefish
Drowning Accidental

Accidental death due to drown
ing" was the late Thursday at
ternoon inquest verdict IN the
death of Cleve Karstetter. The
eight-year old boy lost his life
Sunday afternoon when the canoe
in which he was riding was struck
bv power boat on Whltetlsh
lake driven by Edward McKen-
zie In addition to coroner Harry
Campbell the following jurors
were present at the inquest: Don
Tibbetts, Eldon Lee, Willard
Reeves, o. L. Hutchinson Ches-
fer Rein and Ran Shoaf. Eighteen
witnesses were called.
This was the second drowning
in 10 days in Flathead county
veon Kair, 10, lost his life May
Is in Flathead river backwater
near Kalispell.
Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1947-05-30
Highway and Electricity
Shortens Local Tempers

Tempers were shorter in the
Martin City to Bolton district
Wednesday.
REA powerlines were not fur
nishing electricity for most of
the afternoon. Filling stations
couldn't pump or sell gas; cool
ing units turned warm, and coffee,
cold.
Then there was dust, clouds of
it, as highway No. 2 kept getting
more gravel topping, and no oil.
Merchants, anxiously waiting for
the heavy tourist season, Won
dered why the highway depart
ment. didn't gravel and then oil
stretches at a time. When would
the oil come?
Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1947-05-30
len Out of Work
|qures Tumble

h two months Flathead county
Employment figures dropped
m 1,133 last March to 212 for
weekend ending last Satur-
Montana Employment service
lice manager, Clifton Merritt
lied that the 212 figure includes
veterans.
Jobs are available for exper-
Iced cooks, mattresses, sales
Fks (including high school gra-
6tes with no experience),
lsekeepers, experienced auto
fchanics, sawyers, and some
DDS and mill laborers. Inquire
Kalispell office of state en-
zyment service.
Jobs are not as plentiful. this
ling as they were last; wages
ID to be somewhat higher, and
|ployers with more plentiful la
i supply, more "choosey." Six
h and seventeen year-olds are
wing a difficult time obtain
mems jobs at mems wages as
ltrasted to the war years.
This past week there were a few
b laid off by mills as a result
a more selective lumber mar
Seasonal employment is typical
the Flathead valley which to a
&c extent depends on lumber
!, agriculture and the providing
vacationers. The past winter
III snowfall of 92.8 inches at
lispell equalled the all-time re-
d, and resulted in almost COM
tie in-the-woods work STOP
5e,
Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1947-05-30
Opening Baseball Game
Slated for Sunday

Columbia Falls VFW versus the
Kalispell Independents in the OPP
ening Northwest Montana League
baseball game Sunday. Tickets
for the 2:30 game to be played on
the local ball park will be go
cents for adults and 20 cents for
children. The Auxiliary will serve
concessions.
Manager Elwyn Mateka states
the probable starting lineup will
be George Davis, catcher; Bill
Taylor, pitcher; Al Reid, first;
E. Mateka, second; Leonard Ack-
erman, third; Bob Reid, short stop;
Dan Saurey, right field; Bob Pc
tiers, left field; George Stalcup,
center. Other players are Jerry
Stalcup, Dempsey Johnston, Bob
Edwards, Jimmy Binns, and Maui
rice Post. Local umpire is 'Skin-
ny" Blood.
Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1947-05-30
Repair North Fork Bridges

Repair of Trail creek and Coal
creek bridge approaches up the
North Fork road are expected to
be completed in time for holiday
Weekenders.
Spring flooding washed out 80
feet of the Trail creek bridge ap-
proach on the forest service road.
The fill had been about 10 feet
deep.
The road runs from Columbia
Falls to the Canadian line 60
miles north, and on the west side
of the F1athead's North fork, Gla-
cier national parks west boun-
Diary.
Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1947-05-30
Fishing Outlook
Appears Better

Fishing outlook for the week.
end appears improved as federal
weather observer, E. S. Mark re-
ports a rising barometer. Theory
is that fly casting and trolling
are better when the barometer is
rising and poorer when the ba-
rometer is falling.
The barometer was heading
downward last weekend. Fishing
the first day of the season was
just fair at best.
First of the seasons 1isn, fish
stories is the printed report of a
28 pound rainbow caught in Flat
head lake.
However though fishing on the
opening day, Sunday was general
~ fair at best, there is a confirm
ed report of a 33 pound mackinaw
caught in st. Mary lake by: Cut
Bank resident.
Actually Cedar creek just north
OF Columbia Falls seemed to offer
fisherman as good an opening day
as any spot in the. area. Some OF.
the kids with their poles walked
up to the creek, and caught more
fish than their more energetic
elders who woke up at a. m.
Sunday, Travelled 20 miles by car
and at S a. m. stood ready to cast
the first fly of the 1947 season.
Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1947-05-30
Hold Memorial Services

Memorial day services are being
held today at 2 o'clock at the
Soldiers home. Speaker will be
Glenn Millhouse, Kalispell. The
program is under the auspices
of the Columbia Falls, Whitefish,
and Kalispell Veterans of For
eign Wars organizations. Com
mandant of the home is Ralph
Higgins.
Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1947-05-30

Date of moving OF hungry
Horse project offices from rams
nell to the new administration
building on No..2 four miles from
the damsite is now June Is. Floors
IN the new building are being re-
finished.
Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1947-05-30
ark Theatre Schedule

.ioay and Saturday motion
l,ufe at the Park theatre is
4, 0'iiny O'Clock with Dick Pow
L on Sunday and Monday, it
Tile technico1or production,
Gs' us OF the South" by Walt
sney. Tuesday and Wednesdays
! 1--we Is the comedy, 'sNo Leave,
= love-" with Van Johnson and
'eenan Wynn.
Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1947-05-30

Clifton Merritt, formerly man
aeer of the Helena office of the
state employment service, on May
y assumed managership of the
Ka1ispell office. Gordon Redpath,
senior interviewer, is on leave.
Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1947-05-30
Property Taxes Due

Deadline for Flathead county
real estate tax payments is Satur-
day, May 81. The county treas
urer's office is closed Memorial
day, but will be open all day Sa-
turday.
Evening star., 1947-07-23
Soviet Rejects
BidtoDiscuss
Jap pPeaeePaet
Note to Washington
Charges UniIoteroI
Action, Radio Says
BY the Assoeioted Press

LONDON, July 23.-The Mos
cow radio said tonight that So
Wet Russia cannot agree" to
accept a United States invita-
tion to join with II powers in
discussing a japanese peace
treaty August 10 in Washington.
The broadcast, heard here by the
Soviet monitor, said Russia delivered
a note to Washington yesterday
charging the United States had
acted in "unilateral manner" and
declaring that preliminary work on
drafting japanese treaty should be
undertaken by the Council of Foreign
Ministers
The note suggested that the Rus
sian, British and Chinese ambas-
sadors in Washington meet with a
representative of the United States
to decide when the Council of For
eign Ministers should be convened.
The text of the Soviet reply, as
broadcast by the Moscow radio:
"On July II of this year the
United States Ambassador, Gen
Bedell Smith, told v. M. Molotov
the U. S. S. R. Minister of Foreign
Affairs, that the Government of the
United States proposed to call on
August 10 of this year a conference
for the preparation Of peace treaty
with, Japan, comprising representa-
tives of II powers, members of the
Far Eastern Commission.
"At the same time the United
States Government unilaterally be-
gan negotiations on this question
with the governments of the re-
naming powers who are represented
in the Far Eastern Commission"
Evening star., 1947-07-23
S1,o00,0O0 Airport Fire
DESTROYS Two DC-4s
BY the Associated Press

ST. JOSEPH, Mo-, July 23.-Fire
razed the main hangar at Rosecrans
Field early today, destroyed ware
house and two DC-4 airplanes caus-
ing damage estimated at 81, 1894 900.
The fire, which started in an elec-
trio motor in an overhead door in
the hangar, was discovered by a
guard. George Bliley. He said he
sounded an electric siren alarm and
then ran to the airport fire depart
ment.
Approximately half OF the fire.
fighting equipment in st. Joseph was
sent to the fire. Many frame build
ings we're saved.
The hangar, of frame construction,
Is located in the midst OF a group of
other frame buildings. Resident En-
gi1eer wilton Wilding said he pre-
viously had some trouble with the
motor which started the fire.
Evening star., 1947-07-23
Youths, IS and Is, Die
In Chair for Staying
By the Asseeiased Press

WOODVILLE, Miss, July a.
Two teen-age colored youths con-
victed of killing white man went
to their death early today in Missis-
sippi's portable electric chair.
The first to die was 15-year -old
James Lewis. The other was Charles
Trudell, 16. Each went to his death
calmly, reciting prayer.
The two youths were convicted in
February. 1916, for the pistol slay-
ing of Harry Mickey. Mississippi
lumber man from whom they took
$64. .-.. .. .---.. -..>. -,
As each youth was seated in the
electric chair, he repeated after a
Catholic priest the words, 20 my
God, I am utterly sorry for having
offended Thee"
A few minutes before the execu-
ton, the Rev. Patrick Moran OF
Woodville told the youths he had
decided it would be better for the
younger, Lewis, to go to the chair
first. The decision had been left
to the priests by Sheriff Richard
Whitaker. Father Moran explained
to the boys that the fatal shot had
been fired by Trudell and that the
priests felt that the greater punish
nnent would be suffered by the last
Of the two to 60.
Evening star., 1947-07-23

Eisler is being tried on charges
that when he applied for an exit
permit to Germany in 1945, he
fraudulently concealed from the
Government his Communist af1ilia-
tions, the aliases he had used and
the fact he had been in the United
States during the 1930s.
The Government put Miss Bryan
on the stand to show that one of
Eisler's aliases was Julius Eisman," I"
which was the way his checks from
the Anti Fascist Committee were
made out.
After she concluded her testi-
mony. Louis Budenz, who last fall
put the finger on Eisler as the back
stage ringleader of American Com
munists, took the stand early this
afternoon. Mr.. Budenz, former man
aging editor of the Communist
(See EISLER, Page A-6)
Evening star., 1947-07-23
By Morton Wode Compbell
Sfnr Sneeioi Carrespondent

FRANKFURT, July 23.-Fraulein-
American marriages should again be
forbidden in Germany and permitted
in the United States only after the
soldier has had chance to think
it over at home" the Rev. DR.. G.
Leslie Glenn, rector Of ST. Johns
Episcopal Church in Washington,
will recommend to Undersecretary
of War Royal after returning to
Washington next week.
DR.. Glenn left Frankfurt for Paris
today after a five-week tour OF Italy,
Austria, Switzerland and Germany.
He will arrive in Washington by
plane Monday with Is other clergy
men to report on general European
conditions.