The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1949-02-17
RippHng
OF the Rivers

Logan Gookin, owner Of the
local Gamble store, believes he
has had his share Of bad luck
this week and probably a re-
cord for any one person within
the space OF "a hours.
On Monday of this week, the
water pipes at his store frOZe
up. While he was busy fixing
pipes the Stoker at the store
refused to function. Upon in
veStigation-and a couple hours
of Work-he succeeded In re-
moving a mine spike from the
auge..
Thinking his troubles were
over, he got in his car to go
home. But first he had to fix a.
flat tire. While resting up from
the trials and tribulationS of
the day at his home, he was
awakened about 5 a. m. Tues
day by a kissing noise coming
from the basement. fastening
to the scene, he found water
from a broken main some dis
tance away was running into
his basement and already had
filled the room to the level of
the furnace firebox. He believes
he averted a possible explosion
by discovering the trouble at
the time he did, because gas
from the eXtinguiShed burner
was bubbling up through the
Water.
Before the situation could be
corrected he had a full base
ment of water to pump out.
Sometimes we think we have
troubles in the newspaper bust
ness. We have scarcely any.
Some of us got pretty excited
one night last week when the
water in Hardin was turned off
for a short time. Many quite
naturally though the pipes were
We found a neighbor of ours
bellying around beneath his
house trying to ascertain the
point at which the pipes were
frozen.
The local telephone exchange
was flooded with calls for a
time by people trying to call
the water department or their
friends or neighbOrs to inquire
about the situation. We under
stand two different parties,
both trying to call the water
DEPARTMENT, inadvertently got
connected with each other and
had quite a lively conversation
before each discovered they had
the wrong party.
It's a good trick If you can do
i'll
We're far from being experts
on politics-and who wants to
talk politics anyway, except
at election timeSunleSS it's a
politician. However, a reader
and ADVERTISERS gripping this
week because Montana'S Repub-
hcan senator and representa-
tive have not secured an appro-
priation for YelloWtail dam.
We don't know much about
how a Solon goes about securing
funds for a project he happens
to be in favor of but it seems
TO us a senator or a represent
alive would have to turn a
pretty difficult trick if he could
go into a Congress controlled by
his opposition party and put
over his own faVorite projects.
Considering that said opposi-
ton party has been in power
for more than sixteen years
now, it seems to us rather silly
to place the blame on a Repub-.
lican congressman because a
project of benefit to this sec
ton of Montana hasn't gone
over.
We don't savvy that line of
thought.
Cody accident-from the files
of the National Safety Council:
In Marcinelle, BELGIUM, Miss
NELLIE Boussourois was cleaning
clothes with gasoline. Her cat,
mapping near a gas stove, got
too near the burner and its
dur caught fire. A leap and a
yoWl, and it landed smack in
Miss BousSurois' bowl of gaso-
line. That was one NIGHT she
didn't have to put the cat out.
It went out on its oWn-jet-
propelled.
Al CLUB MEETS
Four members of Heart of the
Little Horn Al club met at the
home on February IL.
Members played games and