Hungry Horse news., 1948-09-03
Tots to Top School Enrolment

School district that four years
ago numbered its total grade
school attendance at pa, Tues
day at a. M will have about
120 first graders alone.
Pre-school registration held last
Monday and Tuesday indicates
that the Hungry Horse dam dew
elopment is resulting in a grades
enrolment of 700 nearly 21a times
that of four years ago. High
school attendance will be nearly
double with just under 200.
First grade registrations in Co
lumbia Falls are 81; Hungry
Horse-Martin City So; Coram 10
and Bolton 7. Others have not yet
registered, or will be attending
Apgar, Nyack and Essex schools.
With the start of Hungry Horse
dam activities, the area just west
of Glacier national park has be-
come a mecca for World War LII
veterans, their wives and young
children. This is believed to &C
count for the fact that two-thirds
of the school enrolment increase
is in the lower grades.
First graders in the district Will
almost equal the total number OF
seventh and eighth graders. The
junior high in Columbia Falls Will
have about 130 They will come
from Apgar, Coram, Martin City
and Hungry Horse by bus ano
from Columbia Falls.
Indications are that Columbia
Falls grade school = second
through sixth grades = will have
around 35 in each room. The first
grade with its 81 and more will
likely be split.
At the new Hungry Horse four
room school built by General
Shea Morrison and being turned
over to the district there will be
nearly $50 students. 1873 filled out
cards Monday and Tuesday. Mrs.
Gladys Kilcrease, principal will
teach the IS or more third
and fourth graders; Mrs. Eula
Lancaster the 35 or so first g-ra-
ders; Mrs. Mary Louise Hidden,
% second, and Mrs. Ellen Lee
man, 40 fifth and sixth graders.
Teachers in the other schools
and their grades were announced
August 20
Now under construction are
four-room schools at Coram and
Martin City A $4,000 contract
held by K c Murchison, the schools
are expected to be completed in
December. To be ready shortly is
a 80 by 5O-foot pumice block adj
dition to the high school for shop
and manual training classes. Cor
don Construction holds the &c.
SCALA trough finish" contract.
Up about 25 per cent will be
Coram's enrolment with 70 III
grades one to six. Bolton enroll
ment is not expected to increase
staying about 40; Apgar at 20;
Nyack 6 and Essex 10.
The Hungry Horse Coach line
has arranged to transport Martin
City children to and from the new
Hungry Horse school making a
$50 a. m. and 4 p. m. trip. This
will help keep children off highway
No. 2.
Scheduled for Monday Labor
day. at 2 p. m. is meeting for
all district teachers in Columbia
Falls high school.
School lunches are to start Sep
TENDER IS. Football practice will
get underway full speed" Tues
day, Coach Ralph Bergstrom had
II players out for preseason prac-
tice this week.
Employed by the district to
transport Lake Five children to
Bolton school is John Blankenship.
Bob Parker will have the high and
Junior high school bus run from
Belton-Apgar. Corarn: Roy An
derS from Martin City-Hungry
Horse, high and junior high. Bill
roavs will bring in Valentine stu
Tents, and Ted Witty north of
Ialf Moon.
Books are furnished.