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Evening star., 1953-05-08
17-Yeor-OId Gives Up Be-Bop
To Join National Symphony
Young Boss PIoyer
A Music Student
Only Three Years

A 17-year-old Woodrow Will
son High School student is CIV
ing up a be-bop dance band
job to become a double-bass
player in the National SYM
phony Orchestra.
The youth. John Ricketts, of
5501 Broad Branch road NV,
was signed up this week by Con-
ductor Howard Mitchell. He will
be the e5-man orchestra'S S
youngest player and one of the
youngest in any major SYM
phony in the country.
John, a handsome, slim g.
footer, is the son of Noble G..
Ricketts,, a retired Coast Guard
commander. He is to be grad
uated from Wilson next month.
A music student for only a
little over three years. he has
played the double-bass in Will
sons orchestra. He also plays
trumpet in the school band.
His be-bop job has been with
the StardusterS, a high school
aggregation managed by a Cool
idge High School student. John
has been playing for dances at
least once a week with this group
for a year and half, at So a
night.
During the past winter, he also
has belonged to the American
University Sinfonietta "a So
piece orchestra of college stu
dents and a few amateur and
retired musicians.
He has been studying bass with
Joseph Willems, a former Ma
tional Symphony player. His
trumpet teacher is Lloyd Geisler,
the National Symphony's first
trumpeter. John took up the
trumpet first, he says, and later
added the bass because I liked
the sound of it, I guess"
His first bull fiddle cost $3.50.
After a year, he bought a better
one, for around $500.
Johns ambition to be in a
symphony orchestra started al
most as soon as he began using
the bow.
He began going to concerts
and listening to good music on
Evening star., 1953-05-08
R0TC Military Day
Al GU Draws 1,5OO;
Awards Presented

Georgetown University's ROTC
Military Day, held for the 23rd
time yesterday, drew about / 500
persons under threatening skies.
John j. Madigan, 1910 Della
field place NV, cadet comman-
der Of the Army ROTC unit. re-
ceived the Capt. John Paul Beall
Trophy, the highest ROTC
award.
The highest Air Force ROTC
award, the Presidents Cup, went
10 William j. Delaney, 1920
Seventh street NV.
In a drill competition between
the Army and Air Force units,
the Air Force was declared win
ner. A soldier, an airman and
q sailor were judges.
The most colorful event in the
day-long program of parades,
competitions and exhibits was
the maSsing of the colors Of the
IL nations whose men are fight
ing in Korea under the United
Nations.
On hand were military at
taches of Australia, Belgium,
Canada, Colombia, Ethiopia,
France, the Republic of Korea,
New Zealand, the Netherlands,
the Philippines, Thailand. Tur-
key, the Union of South Africa
and the United Kingdom.
Exhibitions were given by the
Air Force Drum and Bugle Corps,
and the Spraker Rifles, a uni
versity drill team named after
Harry Spraker, the first alumnuS
to die in the Korean war.
Maj. Gen. Hugh M. Milton, in
charge of Reserve and ROTC
affairs for the Army, spoke last
night at the concluding event
of the Military Day, after a
band concert in the schools
gymnasium.
Evening star., 1953-05-08
Argentine Senate 10 Act
On Foreign Press Probe
BY the Associated Press

BUENOS AIRES, May g.
The Argentine Senate was ex-
pected today to follow through
quickly on the Chamber of Dep
uties' approval of a resolution
calling for investigation of for
eign news agencies here.
The government-backed reso-
luton, approved yesterday in
the lower house by a show of
hands, authorizes q committee
of three senators and six depu-
ties to check on activities of
foreign agencies that might
affect the press. defense, insti-
tutional order or international
position" Of Argentina.
President Juan Peron last
week charged three United
States serviceS-the Associated
Press. United Press and Interna-
tional News Service-with a
campaign Of international de-
famation" of the country.
Evening star., 1953-05-08

the radio. And it wasn't long
before his mind was made up.
When a chance at a National
Symphony berth came along this
spring, he jumped for it. Con-
ductor Mitchell auditioned him
and thought him good enough
to pick over number of older,
experienced applicants.
John isn't the youngest mu-
sician ever to be hired by the
National Symphony. One of the
present clarinet players joined
up when he was 16.
Evening star., 1953-05-08
Eden Guins STRENGTH

LONDON, May 8 P.-A doc
tors bulletin said today that
Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden
recovering after two gall bladder
operations, had another good
night and continues to gain
strnegth." It said the jaundice,
which made the second opera
ton necessary last week, has
steadily diminished"
Evening star., 1953-05-08
Thames Barge Fleet
To Resemble GuIIeons
By the Asseeiated Press

LONDON. Cumbersome
Thames barges will be dressed
up to look like intrepid galleons
of old as part of Britain's cor
onation celebration.
A huge fleet of the decorated
barges will sail up the Thames,
through the heart of London, to
the steps of Parliament. They
will resemble ships which car
ried Britain'S flag during the
reign of the first Queen Eliza
beth.
Queen Elizabeth II and hel
sailor husband, the Duke OF
Edinburgh, will witness the river
pageant.
Evening star., 1953-05-08
Swiss Submits to Bites
To Test Snake Serum
BY the A.seeioied Press

SAIGNELEGIER, Switzerland
May 8.-Jack Pontet, %, Swiss
snake expert, absorbed full poison
charges from three vipers yes
terday and appeared unaffected
seven hours later.
Mr.. Pontet was inoculated II
days ago with an anti-snake
bite serum which he says he de-
veloped after four years of re-
search with a secret formula.
1t was the first test of the
serum on a human being.
Evening star., 1953-05-08
Bids on BRIDGE Asked

BALTIMORE, May 8 (P).-The
State Roads Commission called
yesterday for bids on construc-
ton of 62-foot bridge to carry
State Route 118 over the new
Washington National Pike near
Germantown.
Evening star., 1953-05-08
Women in Jumuieu Cabinet

KINGSTON. Jamaica, May 8
R.-A beauty shop operator,
Mrs. Rose Leon, yesterday was
named Health Minister in ia
maica's first cabinet. She is
believed to be the first woman
ever to hold a cabinet post in q
British colony.
Evening star., 1953-05-08
Power Plant Spending

NEW YORK.-Electric compa-
nies spent 2l2 billion last year
for plants and equipment, nearly
10 per cent of the $26 billion
spent by all industries.
Evening star., 1953-05-08
ADVERTISEMENT.
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Hungry Horse news., 1953-03-13
First Foreigners Of
50 See H.H. Dam

First foreign visitors of 1858
were at Hungry Horse dam this
week.
They were Indar P. Kapila and
j. D. Jain, both from India. Jain
is a technical consultant attached
to the Indian embassy in Washing
ton, D. c., while Jain is with the
Denver office of the Bureau of
Reclamation where he has helped
design Bakra dam in India. This
100000 cubic yard structure will
be exceeded in height only by
Hoover dam.
Hungry Horse, a project that
is costing less than the $108,000,-
900 anticipated at the start of the
project in 1947, was pointed out to
the Indians before they came here
as an outstanding example of gov
ernment and contractor enterprise.
9 Hungry Horse total cost is now
figured between $102,000,000 and
S103,000,000 with the project 95
per cent completed.
Last year there were 83 official
foreign technical visitors at the
dam. Arlet Lane is the Bureaus
technical service officer.
Hungry Horse news., 1953-03-13
Seek Bids for Falls
Theatre Addition

Enlargement of the Park Thea
ire in Columbia Falls includes a
call for bids to be opened March
Is for a 20 by 35-foot extension
to the theatre lobby. Architect is
Richard l.. Taylor, Kalispel.
Theatre owners, A. E. Mass
man and Walter Thompson, who
also own the Orpheum and Lake
theatres in Whitefish, are build
ing the Midway outdoor theatre
two miles west of Columbia Falls
on the road from Kalispell and
Whitefish.
Bids are being called to furnish
80 cubic yards of reinforced con-
crete as foundations for the new
outdoor theatres screen. The
screen structure will measure 46
by go feet with the actual picture
size 38 by 52-feet. 1t will be curv-
ed, sustained without guy wires,
and the largest outdoor motion
picture screen in western Mon
tana. Timber Structures Inc,
Portland, are furnishing and er-
ecting the laminated structure.
The Midway outdoor theatre is
to open about May /.
Hungry Horse news., 1953-03-13
IL Bidders Seek AAC Plant Contract

Information from Anaconda Of
fices in New York City Thursday
morning is that II bids were rec
eived for starting construction OF
the new Anaconda Aluminium Co.
plant in the Flathead.
Contract that will be awarded
likely next week calls for exca-
vation of about 375,000 cubic
yards of dirt and gravel and plac-
ing about 10000 cubic yards of
concrete for building foundations.
Deadline for receiving bids in
New York City was Wednesday
with the contract award previous
lv announced as being slated for
on or about March is. 1t could be
later.
Meanwhile it has been learned
that specifications for steel to be
used in erecting some of the build
ings are in the hands of prospect
i've bidders for this phase of build
ing the new plant.
Present schedule is for the sue
cessful contractors for foundation
work to be on the site April /. EN-
ployment is expected to increase
on the project to a 1858 summer
and fall peak somewhere between
600 and 1000.
The Anaconda Aluminium Co.
has purchased a 40 by 130-foot
quonset used by GSM at Hungry
Horse dam for a warehouse. 1t was
bought from the F'lathead I'M
provement Co., and will be erect
ed early in April at the aluminium
plant site. Klaas Dewitt, Anacon-
da employe at Bonner since 1888,
will be warehouse foreman, and is
here.
The Flathead Electric Coop
12,400 volt three-phase powerline
crossing the Flathead river to the
plant site is expected to be COM
pleted next Tuesday. 1t is to fur
nish construction power.
Olsen and Justin, Columbia Falls
well drillers, expect to be testing
and pumping this first water well
drilled at the site Wednesday. The
well was driven down 200 feet,
and had a water producing zone
from about "a to 116 feet.
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Hungry Horse news., 1953-03-13
AAC Will Build IL
Additional Homes

Eleven additional Anaconda AL
uminum Co. homes are scheduled
to be constructed in Columbia Falls
and underway this spring.
One of the new homes is slated
to be located on Fourth Avenue
West across from the schools. The
two lots were purchased from Mrs.
Eva Jordan by Dwight Lohn, CO.
lumbia Falls realtor, who is act
ing for the Anaconda company.
All the other new homes to be
started this spring are scheduled
for the eastside where five Ana
conda Aluminium Co. homes are
already under construction. The
next contract may call for four
houses, but IL more are planned.
The new residences will gener-
ally contain about 1,042 square
feet with an attached breezeway
and garage.
Anaconda already owns or has
negotiated for most of the land
to be used for the homes.
HOME LOCATIONS
Two of them will be located
near the Satterthwaite home, an
other to the rear of the Smith
home, and on the block just south
there will be three more. Across
from present homes No. a and D
there'll be another.
The Anaconda company also
owns 38 acres of land purchased
from the Hoerner brothers adjac-
ent to Columbia Falls Kennedy ad-
dition. Additional housing can be
expected to be located here,
though none of the spring build
ing is slated for this tract.
w. c. Rae, Butte, Anaconda's
general land and tax agent, was
in the Flathead Tuesday and We'd
nesday, leaving Wednesday after
noon. He expects to return late
this month.
EXTERIOR SHAKES ON
Meanwhile Monegan and Rowe,
Whitefish, are proceeding on the
contract for five homes.
Outside shakes were going on
this week. The $500 square foot
home for H. G.. SatterthWaite,
plant manager, is beechnut gray.
The approximately 1000 square
foot home of James Smith, plant
production superintendent, is be-
ing finished with white shakes,
and next door, the home of Carl j.
Lundborg, plant chief engineer,
has chamois brown shakes.
The fourth house, a standard
three-bedroom home with 1,O42
square feet, is being finished with
light green shakes. This will be
the first house completed with
plastering to be underway this
weekend. Living here will be
John w. Irvine, plant construction
engineer. The Irvines will move
in shortly after April l. Other
homes will be completed in April
and early in May.
Fifth house will be finished in
gray shakes.
Hungry Horse news., 1953-03-13
Elect Con LUndgren
President Of REA

Con Lundgren, West Glacier,
was elected president of the Flat
head Electric Coop at the annual
meeting of the REA association
in Kalispell Tuesday.
Lundgren, a holdover director,
succeeds Charles Green, Coram,
whose term as a director expired,
and who was not a candidate.
Mrs. Ellen Logan, Bad Rock, an
other holdover director was re-
elected secretary-treasurer, a pos
ition she has held from the time
the Coop which now has 1000
member-users was organized.
Frank Sharr, Hungry Horse,
was elected a new director, while
Mark Hodgson, LaSalle, and Will
liam Koenig, Saltwater, were re-
elected as directors.
Other holdover directors are
Otto Fehlberg, Coram; A. w.
Reimer, Creston; Sam Parker, Big
fork; and Petrina Buckley, Mar
ion.
R. H. Gatiss, Creston, is manager.
About 500 were present at the
meeting with 256 persons voting.
Hungry Horse news., 1953-03-13
File Petitions for Coming
Columbia Falls Election

Deadline for filing for the Col
umbia Falls April 6 town election
is March 81.
Petitions already filed with
Chuck Hetzer, town clerk, are
Herman Benzien, candidate for re-
election as mayor, and Clarence
Clapper, former street and water
commissioner, candidate for may
or.
Other petitions in are Fred
Krona, candidate for reelection
as ward No. alderman, and F. w.
sBil" Schmidt, candidate for aid
erman ward No. 3.
Other petitions already in are
those of Fred Krona and George
Ridpath, incumbents, candidates
for Ward No. 2 aldermen, and F.
w. "Bill" Schmidt, candidate for
alderman in Ward No. 8, and
/ George Settera in Ward l.
Hungry Horse news., 1953-03-13

, Columbia Falls citizens last Fri
day evening witnessed the liber-
alton of a mountain lion from its
muzzle and bindings into a cage
at Thacker's.
Story starts Friday about 10
a. m. when Frank Lyons, resident
of the Rhodes mill section IL
miles northwest of Kalispell, spot
ted a lion. He called Ross Wilson,
Kalispell, district game warden.
The mountain lion expedition of
Wilson with Lawrence Deist, an
other game warden, and Ed Wal
den, Columbia Falls lion hunter,
started out at 2 p. m. Deist and
Walden had dogs.
The big 175-pound male lion
was freed.
Walden used stick to put a
loop over the animals head. Wal
den is man who would climb a
tree after a lion. If sports are a
thrill, that's it.
Then the three men pulled.
Down came the lion, branch and
all.
Walden and Deist grabbed the
animals tail, and Wilson held the
moose around its head. The AMI
NAL spit, Kissed and claWed.
Ropes didn't hold around its
head. Teeth went through them
like a knife. A small chain held.
Finally the expedition was un-
derway with a muzzle on the AMI
mails head, and his feet bound. The
king of the forests was dragged
for about mile to where the ex-
pedition's truck was waiting. 1t
was hard work.
In Columbia Falls, Troy Thack-
er has a mountain lion cage. Feb.
"a saw Walden, Bob Mengon and
Cliff Sedivy capture two noun
tain lion five-month old kittens
about three miles north of CO.
lumbia Falls on Teakettle noun
tain. One of the kittens was in a
divided part of the cage at Thack-
ers. Feb. % Mengon shot the mo-
ther cat and another kitten.
Columbia Falls bout with the
big male lion included showing
him into the cage, then taking off
his muzzle and removing the
ropes that held his feet together.
There's lot more thrill to cap
turing a mountain lion alive than
freeing the animal and firing a
bullet through his head.
Wilson held the lions head tight
against the side of the cage by
means of chain. Deist reached in
and took the muzzle off. He wasn't
bitten, or perhaps it would be
better to say his hand didn't come
off.
Then the door of the cage was
let down on top of the lions feet
with his head still held tight
against the side of the cage. Wal
den and Deist united the ropes,
and the big paws were showed.
The lion was free-in cage.
Meanwhile the five-month old
kitten was completely quiet, more
like a house kitten than the bel
ligerent forest animal it had been.
She huddled in a corner on the
other side of the partition. Miss
Half Grown Mountain Lion knew
that tom cats eat kittens in addl-
ton to their staple diet of deer
and elk. NM
Hungry Horse news., 1953-03-13
StoItze OverhuUls;
Rocky Mt. to Open

After 13 months of continuous
operation, the Stoltze Land and
Lumber Co. sawmill at nearby
Half Moon closed down Thursday
for improvements and overhaul.
About one-third of the los men
will work as machinery is over
hauled, a new concrete foundat-
ion placed under the gang saw and
three boiler ovens rebricked.
Harry Preston, the mills gen.
eral manager, expects the saw
mill to be down for about a
month and the planer for about
two weeks.
In Columbia Falls Rocky Noun
tain Lumber Co. expects regular
sawmill operations to commence
next week. The adjoining North
ern Timber Co. 2x4x8 mill is
operating.
Hungry Horse news., 1953-03-13
Plum Creek Has
Record Suwinq

Plum Creek mill in Columbia
Falls Tuesday sawed a record a.
600 board feet a day, and the mill
is presently having daily saw
mill output of 10000 board feet,
or enough to build seven average
sized American homes. Planer
capacity is 100000 board feet a
day
Employment at the mill is at q
record high of 88, according to
Lawrence Rude, general manager
c. F. Cronhagen, Seattle, u S.
Army engineers inspector, is in
Columbia Falls this week as a
shipment of 100000 board feet of
fir and larch 1x4s sold by Plum
Creek are being sent defense in
stallations in California.
Under construction at the mill
by Montana Builders, Kalispell, is
a new double Moore dry kiln
measuring 66 feet long and 81 feet
wide. This double unit is in addi-
ton to a double and single dry
kilns built in 1850.
Established in Columbia Falls
in 1945-46, Plum Creek mill is
the subject of an illustrated article
in the March issue of "The Tim
berman," lumber journal publish
ed in Portland.
This story tells of the expan-
sion of the mill, and relates in de-
tail the various types of equip
ment used.
1t also describes the new mill
pond with a capacity of 100000
board feet, and the new ITO by
160-foot dry storage building
erected last winter. Other struc-
lures include the 200 by 100-foot
planer mill. Equipment described
includes the new band resaw
which went into operation this
winter, and raised daily sawmill
output from $4,000 to nearly u.s.
900 board feet.
Logs now coming to the mill are
being hauled from the Lloyd Son.
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Hungry Horse news., 1953-03-13
District & Schools
Get $28, ,92o Gront

School district No. o is receiving
! SOS, ,9Z8 from the federal govern
ment under public law 874 fol-
school operational and mainten-
ance expenses.
The grant in lieu of taxes re-
suits from burdens placed on the
district by Hungry Horse dam
construction and other federal ac-
tivities off the tax rolls such as
Glacier national park.
Word of the grant was received
from Senator Mike Mansfield.
Supt. Dulane Fulton comment
ed the grant was coming at an
especially helpful time.
The payment will apply on the
1953-54 school budget.
The check comes to the district
that as a result of Hungry Horse
dam construction had to build new
four-room schools at Martin City
and Coram with 20 year bonds
being paid by the taxpayers. Lo-
cal school taxes doubled.
Then the federal government
sent the district checks that total
ed S124,420 which were applied
to the 1928 budget. The total
mill levy in Columbia Falls as
result dropped from 136.885 to the
present 1888 mills and in the dis
trict from 104.645 to the present
1853 mills.
Another federal government
grant of $326,400 is paying most of
the cost of the new Columbia Falls
grade school.
Ninety six per cent of the land
in the school district, which is
Montana's largest for area, is own
ed by the federal government.
Hungry Horse news., 1953-03-13
FIutheud Has First
Thunder Shower

The Flathead had its first thun-
derstorm of 1858, Wednesday from
1885 to lis a. m. There was oc-
casiona1 lightning and one espec-
tally loud clap of thunder.
Federal Observer Ray Hall, at
the airport, commented that it was
unusually early. The Flathead ac-
tually has recorded a thunder
storm in every month except Dec
ember and February. May aver
ages three thunderstorms; winter
months very seldom have them.
March temperatures are averag-
ing 9 degrees above normal. Pre-
cipitation total for March so far
is .16 of an inch with the normal
at the airport for the whole
month 1.01 inches.
Hungry Horse news., 1953-03-13
Construction Underway in Falls

Columbia Falls, town that hac
637 people by U. S. census in 1880
and the same number, 637, in the
1910 census, is now growing stea-
dily.
Hungry Horse dam construction
and a revived lumber industry
brought about by trucks and roads
boosted the .Flathead county COM
| munity to population of 1,23i
within incorporated limits in the
1850 census.
Now the community is heading
toward 1000 people as the Ana
conda Aluminium Co. is to start
construction of its $45,000,000 al
uminum plant two miles away.
eox15o FOOT STORE
j. E. Brown and Arnold Beck
of the Kalispell B and B grocery
have called for bids for so by
$50 foot market in Columbia Falls
This will be 18 feet wider and 25
feet longer than their Kalispell
store.
The Columbia Falls B & B, to
be built this summer and opened
next fall, will be located on a 200
by 125-foot land purchase in the
center of Columbia Falls business
district. Parking space will be
provided.
The new grocery store is expect
ed to be as large as any in Flat
head county.
NEW LUMBER YARD
Monarch Lumber Co. is calling
for bids to erect the 39th Monarch
yard in Montana to be located in
Columbia Falls on Nucleus ave-
nue. near the Great Northern de-
pot. Monarch owns six lots.
The new lumber yard building
will measure % by 125 feet. Man
ager for the business that will open
in June is R. j. Dakin, former
Conrad resident. Parking facili-
ties will be provided.
Dakin with Lyle Marsh, Waller,
has purchased property near the
new Monarch yard for a self SER
vice laundry and modern trailer
court. The laundry building will
measure so by 100 feet including
living quarters.
Homes under construction in
Columbia Falls eastside near the
new Anaconda homes include the
So by 30-foot residence of Don
Mansfield being built by Russell
Anderson, Kalispell contractor.
The two bedroom home on Third
Avenue East has a full basement
and fireplace.
MORE HOME BUILDING
Within a block of the Mansfield
home, Fritz johnson, former Great
Falls resident, has purchased two
lots from William Ford, and is
erecting "a by 26-foot home.
Next door, Grover Jordan plans
to put siding on his new one bed
room home this coming week.
John Stone on Second Avenue
East Wednesday started construc-
ton of a new two-bedroom home.
The Stones sold their former home
in the same neighborhood to MIR.
and Mrs. Jean johnson.
Another residence being started
in the same section is house
being erected by Charles Justice.
SO BY 26-FOOT HOME
On the same block with the
Smith and Lundborg, Anaconda
homes, Monegan and Rowe have
a SO by 26-foot basement dug for
a loxide type home that will be
erected and opened for inspection.
Columbia Falls high school prin-
cipal, Carl Launer this week had
a basement dug for his new home
on Second Avenue West near the
schools. He is purchasing a two
bedroom former GSM home to be
moved in and remodeled.
This week also saw Leonard
Nash purchase a lot on Second
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