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Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1948-03-05
Highway Deep Cut
Nears Completion

Union Construction company is
completing the deepest cut on
their $739,94,.77 contract to re-
build 6 miles of highway No. 2
east of Bolton
The cut through mountain rock
is 1O5 feet deep, approximately
$50 feet long, and contained
roughly 10000 cubic yards. The
6-mile Middle Fork canyon job has
required total excavation of near
ly 100000 cubic yards of rock, en-
ough to fill 5000 freight cars.
Eighteen men are now working
on the project that last July had
a peak employment of 10. When
the cut is completed about April
1, the contractor expects to lay
off, returning after spring break
up to finish the rough surface
Oiling will be separate contract.
which is not scheduled for this
year.
Plans have also been complet-
ID for rebuilding an additional
u miles of the Middle Fork can
ION road, but funds are not av-
liable.
Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1948-03-05
Juniors Play Faculty
In Basketball Event

Champions of Columbia Falls
high school, the junior class bask.
etball team, challenged the fac.
ulty, and the game where stud
ents can boo a teacher" is to he
played this morning.
Juniors defeated seniors 80 to
20 in few holds barred con-
test to win the school champion
ship.
In basketball suits for the fac
ulty are expected to be Supt. Cla-
renee Lee, Principal Dulane Full
ton, Coach Leo Schweinfurt, Roy
Anders. George Aubert, Francis
Fleming, Ralph Magnuson and
Phil Nelson. George zorzie will he
referee or timekeeper.
Playing for the juniors will be
Eric Andrew, Duane and Jerome
Neil Banrhart, Norman
Burke, Richard Cavalar, Dwight
Cook, Richard Nichols, Marvin
Reagen and Davis Vail. Coach IS
Max Martin.
Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1948-03-05
Announce Names
Of Top Scholars

Names of top scholars at Col
umbia Falls high school were an.
nounced Thursday by Principa
Dulane Fulton
Having straight AS for the past
six weeks were: Donna Border
and Jane Mcdonnell, freshmen:
Lennis Vail, sophomore; Eric An
drew, junior, and Charlotte Pet
ersen, senior carrying two sub
jects.
Students with B grades or bet
ter included: seniors, Eugene
LEM, Bernice Morehead, Gene Pc
dersen, Robert Smith and Ruth
Voss; juniors, Dolores Anderson,
Janet Hollingsworth, Barbara Res
sler, Pomona Saurey and Davis
Vail; sophomores, Patsy Martin
and Ilene Wyman; freshmen, JAG
kie Daugherty, Benise Green, Wv
an Grigg, Nadine Grigg, Arlee
Elaine Mudgett, Clarence
Rhea and Don Thuring, and Joy
Line, post graduate.
There are 155 students in the
nigh school.
Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1948-03-05
pngry Horse Builders
, Meet at Log Cabin

Next meeting OF the Hungry
'iSe Builders will be Monday at
M IN the Log Cabin cafe
0Mty residents of Damtown.
agsmlth and South Fork last
0nday heard Howard Latham,
usry Horse project safety en-
leer' discuss fire protection in
7 district.
Also discussed was the water
y telephone problems.
|olflcers of this newly organ
g. chamber of commerce are
= nelm, president; Michael Nj
" vice president and Mrs. Ed
'sler' secretary-treasurer.
Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1948-03-05
mo Doubt About
Water Vote

Last Friday by most unusua
majority, 1877 to 1, Columbia Fall
voters gave the green light to a,
improved water supply system.
The town council was author
lied to exceed the legal indebted.
ness and sell 100000 worth OF
general obligation bonds to reb-
uild the water system.
Folks were pleased at the 1877
to 1 vote, and jokingly asked who
is that one XXMzPKQ.
Of the POI taxpaying, register
ed voters in the community, an es-
timated As were out of the COM
Friday That meant only
about 10 eligible voters didn't
get to the polls.
The vote was canvassed Monday
night by the town council, and
Wednesday Town Engineer T. A.
Taschereau was instructed to call
for bids on pipe.
The plan, according to Mayor
John O'Connell is to have three
bids in the matter of rebuilding
he system. First for the pipe;
econd for construction of the big
main from Cedar creek springs,
nd third for building the new
distribution system within the |
own limits.
Meanwhile bonds are being pre-
AIRED for sale, and possibly at
ne April 5 meeting of the council,
ids on the pipe and perhaps the
Their phases will be opened.
It's an interested town, realiz-
lg high building costs, that is
'atching the spending of their
100000.
Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1948-03-05

An air survey of Glacier nation
al park was made Wednesday
when Assistant Chief Ranger A.
D. Cannavina and Ranger Paul
Webb accompanied R A. Kull-
berry, Cutbank. a Montana civil
air patrol leader, in four hours of
flying over the million acre park.
Mulberry donated his services.
The air survey is part of the
late winter game check that park
officials are now making. Largest
elk herd observed Wednesday
was group of $50 on Spot noun
tain near Two Medicine creeks
Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1948-03-05
To Sell Tax Deed Land

Thirteen pieces of property in
Flathead county are being turned
over to the county commissioners
for the purpose of sale as a re-
suit on non-payment Of taxes. The
land generally in Whitefish and
southwest of Kalispen, but none
in this area, has been tax delin-
quent for at least five years. Tax
collections have been good
Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1948-03-05
February Follows Wet
Footsteps Of October

February was the first wei
month in the Flathead since last
October as the month ended with
LII precipitation recorded at Ka-
iispell as compared to a normal of
LA.
Bottoms precipitation, according
to Assistant Chief Ranger A. D.
Cannavina was 3.05 as compared
to a normal of 2.13 inches, while
snowfall during the month was
1913 inches with the average being
1913. Kalispell total snowfall was
81 as compared to a 9 inch av-
erage.
Observer N H. Olson at Hun
cry Horse recorded 2.86 inches,
precipitation, and 25 inches of
snow.
Federal weather observer, E. S.
Mark at Kalispell summarized
Flathead's February as follows:
Temperatures were generally be-
low normal for the first two
weeks, lowest for the month and
below, occurring on the
9Th During the third week read
ings were well above normal, max
imum of SIS on the 18th being the
third time temperature this high
Or higher has occurred so early in
he year.
Sunshine was above average
or the third consecutive month
his winter, while measurable am
cunts of precipitation fell on IL .
different days"
Snow depths varied from par
by in the valley to A inches on
he level at Essex and greater am }
UNITS higher in the mountains. q
'elton had six days with tempera-
Tres going below zero, the cold
st being IA below on February
8. Hungry Horse had 10 below
n February II, and 81 above On
ebruary II. Lake Mcdonald is
ot frozen over. a
Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1948-03-05
Rangers Find Cattle
Queen Snow Nears
Eight Feet Deep
HUNGRY HORSE NEWS PHOTO

Glacier national park snow
depths at Cattle Queen high on
the continental divide between
headwaters of the Columbia riv-
er, Missouri system and Hudson
Bay drainage were found to aver
age 81 inches just 31a inches short
of year ago.
District Ranger Floyd Hender-
son and Ranger George Hill,
however, found that water cont
ent this year was "a inches as
compared to 1873 a year ago.
Travelling into an isolated area
where winter is king from Nov
ember to May, the rangers drove
a snowmobile to the foot of the
Garden Wall, and then used skis
up Mineral creek where it requir-
ed eight hours to go five miles
Snow fell most of the time dur
ing the four day trip.
Sunday, District Ranger Hugh |
Buchanan and Ranger Paul Ber-
ger returned from Kishenehn
creek on the Canadian line where
they found an average snow
depth of 26 9 inches with a water
content of Z inches as compared
to last years measurements of
34.4 for snow and 1913 inches for
water content.
Park rangers take snow meas
1rements each February and ag-
lin late in March to help the soil
service determine
pring runoff.
Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1948-03-05
Local Attorney Beats
KaIispeII Murder Rap

Most interesting case in dist
riot court this week was the tria
of Stanley Stanislawski, Kalis
pell, charged with second degree
murder in the course of a drum
ken brawl.
However, the jury disagreed
with the states charge, and
brought back verdict early Wed
nesday morning of manslaughter
and one year. Successfully defen-
ding Stanislawski before a crowd
ed courtroom and besting the MIR
der charge was local attorney,
James Cumming
Other cases of the week result
ed in Edward James Williams,
Whitefish, receiving sentence
of four years as the result of Sc
cond degree burglary. The jury
found Joe McGregor, Kalispell,
not guilty on charges of unlaw-
fully possessing a cub bear hide.
Among those serving on this jury
was Jim Connole.
Dismissed was the action of
George R. Stebbins versus Ross
Wilson involving defamation of |
character.
On trial Thursday were the diff
'erences of Clarence H. Wink1ey |
yersus Victor E. Stedman and
he Kalispell Pole and Timber
company to do with a collision
,etween a logging truck and a
ar.
Next on the docket is the suit
f Ray Landon versus Plum Creek
lumber company, civil action
bout log delivery. s
Apparently concluding this term
district court likely on Tues s
ay will be Ole Lee, Jr. versus f
heodore Schroeder and others in t
uding former sheriff Duncan \
-cCarthy in the matter of an ar P
st.
Presiding at this session Of s
,urt is District Judge Dean King.
Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1948-03-05
Two Bids Indicated for Prime Contract

With bid opening less than a
month away for building Hungry
Horse, the worlds fourth largest
concrete dam, local interest con-
Germs prospective bidders.
Last fall before the SHOWS came
and at the invitation of the bu-
reau of reclamation, Is contract
ors had representatives viewing
the damsite.
Bids at the April 1 opening are
expected to be between $25, OOO,-
900 and S5O,OOO,OOO. This does
not include power house INSTALL
atoms, reservoir clearing, road re-
locations and other factors that
make Hungry Horse a 100000, 900
project.
None of the nations largest
dams have been built by single
contractors, and it is unofficially
believed that the lineup on Hungry
Horse will result in two bids.
Leading one group of contraC-
tors will likely be Guy F. Akin
son, San Francisco, who is al
ready at the damsite building the
1,180 foot long 36-foot in diameter
diversion tunnel for S643, 400. With
Atkinson if he gets the prime con
tract will probably be several of
the following who have shown in
terest; j. A. Jones, Charlotte, S.
c.; Walsh Construction, San Fran
cisco; L. A. Mcguire, Los Angeles;
Winston Brothers, Minneapolis;
Bates and Rogers, Chicago; Brown
and Root, Houston.
Placing another bid may be &C.
neral Construction, Seattle; whose
lineup is thought to include Nor
rison-Knutson, home office, Boise;
Peter Kiewet, Omaha; The Shea
company, Portland, and possibly
Henry J. Kaiser, San Francisco.
With this group may also be the
Montana firms, such as S. Birch
Ind Sons, S and F, and McLaugh-
in.
However it will be April 1 be-
ore the first definite informa-
ion becomes available as to who
he contractors actually will be.
The book of specifications for
Hungry Horse arrived
ere Monday, and can be pur-
based locally from the bureau OF
Exclamation. It contains 1877 pages
f general specifications; IL pages
f quantities and 81 large draw
lgs.
Meanwhile the matter of OBJ
ropriations comes of more i'm
as March IL is an ap-
roximate date for a house SUBJ
to review the request of
1850, 900 for Hungry Horse. To
opear in behalf of the appropri-
ion in Washington will be A. F.
tinker and Don Treloar, Flat
,ad Citizens committee officers.
his appropriation will pay for
Hiding the dam between July
1948 and June 80, 1919.
The 1947 congress in authoriz-
g an appropriation of $500
0 specified that the dam be
arted.
Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1948-03-05
Rangers Surrey Park from Air

dry fork. Both elk and deer are
more scattered this winter.
Expected to leave today for a
four-day game survey are Dist
riot Ranger Ernest M. Hutchinson
and Ranger Roy Hutchinson (no
relation). On skis the men will
go up Nyack creek around TO-
000-foot Mt. Stimson and over
Surprise pass to Martha's basin
where are Buffalo Woman and
Beaver Woman lakes, headwat-
ers of Coal creek. They will fol-
low the creek back to the Flat
heads Middle Fork and civiliza-
ton.
Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1948-03-05
King Winter Finally
KOS Lumbering

winter shutdown of Flathead
county's growing lumber industry
olont arrive completely until
March l this year as operators
ana men take advantage of wea-
uner and good lumber prices.
Comparatively snow-free open
months of December and January
allowed full-scale logging opera
lions as employment in the Co.
lumola Falls to Martin City and
Coram mills and in the woods
dipped first from 425 to 325. Last
year weather forced a shutdown
shortly after Christmas.
Late February SHOWS, how
ever, that saw more than 80 in
ches of new fall in the lower South
Fork, and the coming of load Ii
mlts on state and federal high
ways, has finally stopped logging
operations.
Stoltze Land and Lumber COM
pany closed their Half Moon pla-
ner, Monday, and now this sec
ono largest Flathead county mill
VINO employs as many as 125 men,
Will wait until after the spring
breakup to resume operations.
Also handicapped by weather
1as been Hungry Horse damsite
clearing, S408,32O contract held
~ R and S construction comp
my. Their employment dropped
rom rs to a complete layoff this
week, but is coming back up.
Still operating in Columbia Falls
re the Plum Creek mill with ~ e
len, and Superior Building with b
3. They plan to continue through n
he winter. Other mills like Gla- tt
Lumber at Martin CT RI
are having part-time opera
ons.
Frank Kirkpatrick, state en- III
oyment office manager, Column CT
~ l. eAiio, PldCcS LOldl LUMBER IN a
lstry employment at just over in
10 in
However taking up some of the in
ack will be construction at the wi
ate soldiers home, Columbia in
Ills, where contracts for a new ar
900 gallon water tank, new WE
ating plant and rewriting total 40
proximately 100000. These Jobs HI
IL take two months and employ tel
to 25 men. TIL
At the Hungry Horse project, COZ
~ F. Atkinson now has 122 ye
n at work on their S643, 400 con- int
let building the 1,18O-foot long arr
feet in diameter diversion tun- elk
!. ito
Bureau of reclamation person.
is being reduced from the 1869 bee
al as the result of a govern owe
Mt directive that all construct VIII
work, wherever possible, must a v
contracted. However total en-
yment at the bureau will 20
as engineers and technical as Co
ants continue to arrive ~
Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1948-03-05
Asks $6,250 for Tank

At the Monday opening, only
bidder for erection of 10000
gallon water storage tank at Hun
cry Horse village, the bureau OF
reclamation town, was Minneap-
oils Tank and Manufacturing
company who asked $6,250. Mat
erials will be furnished by the bu-
reau.
Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1948-03-05
'0Fe About the Clock

|yan 10y Clapper tells of Tim Sui
hstin' seeing the item about the
backward faced clock
|ocL . .l paper. The local
tosnso auat can be seen in right
be ni. only by looking into
.at,,raa 'or behind the bar was
Not" pieys Believe 1t
Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1948-03-05
Move to Hungry Horse

Newest residents of Hungry
Horse village are Mr.. and Mrs.
James McInroe and Mr.. and Mrs.
Glen Mcclure in the duplex Sec
ton, and Mr.. and Mrs. Murl F'rit-
schle and Mr.. and Mrs William F..
Chatfield in the prefabs. The Frit-
schle and McInroe families trans
ferred from Cascade, Idaho, and
the Chatfields from Hamilton. The
McGuires moved out from Kalis-
pell.
Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1948-03-05
West, Stanley Resign

Town Marshal Byron West has
resigned, and the case is consider
ed closed. Water Commissioner
Clarence Clapper is serving as
acting chief of police until a
new marshal is appointed. Herb
Stanley also resigned as patrol
man
Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1948-03-05
F''ens Place Second

iuinola Falls kittens won Sc
place in the northwestern
.'la grade school basketball
! 'ua al in Kalispell last week.
n o. 1ney lost to Kalispen Cen
\. oupetlng in the tournament
El0 u ,wshltefish, Libby, Eureka,
[ou Doia Falls, Kalispell Central,
lid ana Somers. Troy placed
ana Whitefish, fourth.
Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1948-03-05
White to Green

It's March and spring at least
in Columbia Falls high school.
Coach Leo Schweinfurt will start
spring football and track prac-
tice Monday in the gym. Mats
will take the place Of sod in the
next month of tackling.
Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1948-03-05

Park Naturalist Don Robinson is
giving an illustrated lecture on
Glacier national park flowers bef-
ore the Garden section Of the Ka-
lispell Century club.
Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1948-03-05
Snowside Delays Traffic

Highway No. 2 traffic east of
Essex was delayed most of Thurs
day as the result of a snowslide
near the Goat Lick.
Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1948-03-05
Ct Like Molasses

ksnos,vveerrs at the Hungry Horse
hnsite 1pnlc station near the
|om MA, lave a cake Of boiled
bat 10 asses with a little salt
ker. attracting numbers of
Arkansas State press., 1948-05-28
Alabama Names
Library honoring
Father Of Blues"

NEW YORK CITY - As an ad,
ditional honor to one who ha,
received many others, a librar,
has been named in honor OF w
c, Handy. composer of the st
Louis Blues" and several other
pieces.
The library is in Florence. Ala.
Handy's old home town, although
the composer and trumpet man i.
usually identified with Mr.. Crump's
Memphis, where there Is a park
named in Handy's honor.
Dedication Of the Alabama Lii
brary occurred simultaneously with
a Handy broadcast from New York
on 1--WE The People" program
when Handy and Sugar Chile
Robinson appeared together for
the United Negro College Fund,
which is now in the midst OF its
fifth annual campaign to raise
more than a million dollars 70 all
It's 80 affiliated Negro colleges.
The New York broadcast was on
May 10, over the ABC network,
donated a half hours time
O the Fund.
Arkansas State press., 1948-05-28

are e half million graduates
from Catholic Colleges in this
country. This is a tremendous
potential force for leadership in
applying Christian principles TO
u social problems"
This group certainly outnum-
beers the convinced Communists
who are devoted to propagatlng
hate. misery and destruction. Yet
the record shows Communists are
more active and better organized
for their destructive program OF
promoting human misery than are
today's Catholics in leading us on
the constructive way OF a better
social order and a happier life
THE concern, the false sense Oh
security and the indifference SO
many of today's Catholics mani
fest is inexcusable. We cannot
remain at peace if we maintain a
cold, callous indifference to u
neighbours woe"
Arkansas State press., 1948-05-28
MuireI Rain Sets
World Record

NEW YORK - It's news when
someone breaks a world re-
cord, but what happens when one
sets" a world record, but her
reply would probably be Moth
ing In fact, Miss Rain didn't
even know she had set a world
record until she was told about
it two weeks ago,
II took her manager. Dick
Campbell, that long to dig up the
facts and statistics to substantiate
the claim. Campbell mailed out
1000 questionnaires to music cri-
tics. singers. concert managers,
teachers, music schools, opera
houses. concert halls and univer.
sitits, and asked them ONE ques-
ton:
Arkansas State press., 1948-05-28

do you know of any concert
singer in the world besides Mu-
riel Rain who has appeared in
role of soloist at New York Town
Hall, the Metropolitan Opera
House and Carnegie Hal in New
York on THREE SUCCESSIVE
DAYS?"
Music critics from the daily
press scampered through back is
sues Of music pages, files and
date-books OF concert managers
as far back as the beginning of
the twentieth century, but on one
came up with proof of a similar
record. Here in the Muriel Rain
record:
Sunday, May 2, 1913: solo recital
at NEW YORK TOWN HALL for
benefit of Harlem Christian Youth
Council; Monday, May 8, solo ap-
pearance at METROPOLITAN
OPERA HOUSE for benefit of
United Nations Appeal for aid to
overseas children; Tuesday, May
4, a solo appearance at CARNE-
GLE HALL for famous Carnegie
pop Concerts 18th consecutive
time).
In order to motivate further re-
search Miss Rhan's manager, Dick
Campbell, is offering a reward to
anyone who can prove that any
other singer has appeared in the
role of soloist at New York's three
top ranking Music Halls on Three
successive days. Claimants may
contact or write Mr.. Campbell at
81 East 125th Street, New York
IS, N. Y.
Arkansas State press., 1948-05-28
Catholic Priest
Supports Negro
College Campaign

MILWAUKEE,, Wis. - Writing
in the Milwaukee Globe. Negro
weekly published here. Father
Phillip Steffes, pastor OF the
Church of of St. Benedict the
Moor, urges all Americans to sup
port the current fund raising CAM
paign for Negro colleges.
Negroes "are expected to be
able to do anything and every
thing without the ammunition
Father Steffes writes A chance
for an education is the least we
can do for them, That opportunity
would have fitted them in the
past to come up ID otr expecta-
tons
Referring to the school which
is run in connection with St.
Benedict the Moor Church, the
priest declares:
THE representatives Of the Ca
tholic Church in Wisconsin high
" endorse the present campaign.
The interest of the Catholic church
has shown in education is seen at
st, Benedict's where hundreds and
hundreds of thousands OF dollars
have been spent for this same
cause. Annually a cole ction is
taken up in all Catholic churches
of the United States for Negro
education"
Arkansas State press., 1948-05-28
Public Relation
Added To Zion Con.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Delegates
to the 33rd q%uadrennial session OF
the General Conference OF the
AME Zion Church, voted to add a
public relation department to the
office of General Conference Sec
retary-Auditor, in an effort to
boost its crusade for Winning the
World for Christ.
DR.. r. Farley Fisher, General
Secretary-Auditor will announce
plans for this department upon
his return to Washington. d. C..
Arkansas State press., 1948-05-28
Priest honored
For Fight Against
Discrimination

BROOKLYN, N. Y. For MS
work in endeavoring to persuade
the American Bowling Congress
to eliminate its rule that only
whites may compete in tourna-
ments under its authority, Rev.
Charles r. Carow, professor at
Cathedral College here, received
a testimonial from the Brooklyn
Catholic I%nterracial Council at It's
fourth annual meeting at the A.
cademy of Music last Sunday. The
president Of the council, Cottreli
E. Cooper, a Negro Catholic, pre-
sided.
Action of the American Bowling
Congress at its recent convention
in retaining its rule, notwithstand-
ing Father Carow's representations
caused Msgr, Raymond j. Cam
pion, chaplain of the Council and
pastor of St, Peter Claver's Church
to urge Catholics to take a practi'
cal stand against such examples
of interracial discrimination.
Actually the freedom we boast
as every Americans precious
right and heritage Is at this mo-
ment largely denied to u Negro
fellow Americans. This denial
will continue as long as tair-
minded men remain indifferent to
the enslavement the Negro suf.
fers,' he said.
1T has been estimated that there