Hungry Horse news., 1949-02-25
Win WhittIecraft Awards

An estimated 600 persons view
ed entries at the upper Flathead
first annual "Whittlecraft" art
and crafts exhibit at the VF'V
club last Thursday, Friday an
Saturday.
There was a general commen
of 'well done and good craft
manship" to this Columbia Fall
chamber of commerce affair tha
is now slated to become county
wide and an annual event.
Helping with the cash prizes i:
the Bank of Columbia Falls. These
along with printed certificates ar.
being mailed this weekend. Judg IS
were George Miller, Glacier nation
al parks assistant superintendent;
John Officer, Hungry Horse pro-
ject field engineer; Lee Dickey,
Columbia Falls chamber of COM
merce president; Jack Andrew,
local artist, and John Perry, Co.
lumbia Falls high school manual
training teacher.
Prizes were as follows: wood
carving, first, Mrs. Ruth Matter,
Hungry Horse, for albums; sec
ond, Fred Collins, Columbia Falls
rural for bucking horses; third,
Thomas J. Daniel. Creston, for a
miniature coffee table; honorable
mentions, M. N. Reynolds, Column
bia Falls rural, for wood inlaid
picture; Henry Klouchek, Kalis-
pe1 for a boot lamp; Ole Ness,
Columbia Falls rural, for a picture |
frame
George Harker, Columbia Falls, |
took first for whiting; he had
knots, chains, pulleys, figurines
and cane. Second was Howard
Struble, Martin City, for inter-
locking wooden beads out of n
piece of stove wood, and third,
Dick Buck, Soldiers Home, for
diamond willow cane.
Herb Holland, Columbia Falls
rural, with his exhibits of plaques,
an album and an elkhorn lamp,
won a prize for the most market
able exhibits. Showing commend {
able skill in painting, wood carv- ]
ing and metal craft, Mrs. Jacque- t
line Lance, Columbia Falls, was Y
awarded prize for being the most I
For juvenile entries, Maynard 6
oaurey, IA, Columbia Falls rural, L
Won first for thornapple lamp; q
Bobby Rem, 13, Columbia Falls
rural second, for carved horse S
ind elk land Jimmy Mcdonald, II, C
3elton, third for carved ski.
Mrs. o. E. Wendt, Columbia p
9alls rural, took first in leather :
raft with fooled purses; Eugene
, Lance, Columbia Falls, second
or belt, and Fred Lathrop, Bel b
on, third for miniature chaps. te
First in basketry went to Mrs. NJ
oe Gales, Columbia Falls, for g.
sewing basket made of pine II
eedles. Honorable mentions were CT
acqueline Lance for beaten cop sJ
er bowl; Marie Beach, Martin TO
ity, for plaques; Charmaine Dan
Is, Columbia Falls rural, for at
flower wall plaque eV
I'd collection; Mrs. Charles Gass re
t for plaques, and w. L. Davis, tel
'ldiers' Home, for fish flies. ma
Mrs. R. B. Macarthur, Columbia
Ills rural, took first for loom ia
'rk, and Eugene Lance, Columbia CIV
Ills, second. ..
L. B. Henry, Columbia Falls, had Inc
, exhibit that attracted the most atl
crest. It was large floor lamp
de out of burls along with a re1
ndmade pipe and tobacco can. Ell
is also receiving a cash prize Mr
Mrs. Beatrice Nugent, Colum-
Falls, was awarded first in Sh
nting for her pastel of Trick
Is; Mrs. Marie Beach, Martin Z
Y, second for goat scene, and sho
3. Ruth Morris, Columbia Fails, hos,
ID, for a Flathead winter view. -
1orable mentions went to Billie at =
Andrew, Mrs. Lance and J r. q II
u ieeen' ai1 Coi.unpla aAls. Sue
ot in competition, but much ad- will
ed were exhibits by Ace Pow.
Darothy Fitzgerald, Jack And 1oa
~A 1iAS'' entn