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Smyrna times., 1954-04-15

ing: The meeting of the Contact
Club on Monday, April 10, at 7:45
pm. in Fellowship Hall, and the
meeting of the Commission on
Education on Tuesday, April 20, at
8 pm. in Fellowship Hall. This is
another reminder for those people
wishing to place memorial flowers
in the church at Easter to contact
Mr.. Harry Moor. Easter is the eli
max of the total life of Jesus
Christ for it draws together the
life and death of our Lord and al
lows mankind to see in part what
God has done and is continuing to
do for Man. God by Easter is an
swering the oldest problem of Man
Death. He is also placing before
every age and it's people chal-
lenge to live lives that are worthy
of Eternal Life. May the God of
our Lord Jesus Christ bless and
keep us, and may we consecrate
ourselves to Him this Easter Sea-
son.
Items: Mr.. and Mrs. Fred ].
Burke, and children, with Mr.. and
Mrs. William c. Ennis, Centerville,
DEL, visited Washington over the
weekend to view the Cherry Bios
SONS and visit places of interest.
Mr.. and Mrs. Amos Mast and
children were Sunday visitors with
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Hastings, of
Laurel, Del. Birthday congratula-
tions this week to Margaret Ann
Hurd, James T. Vaughn, Robert
Spencer, and Noble N. Naylor.
Jane and Janet Johnson, and Miss
Sadie Guseman, all patients this
week at the Kent General Hospi-
tai. The Sacrament of Infant Bap-
tism was administered to Linda
Sue Massey, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Elwood Massey, at the Pres
byterian Church, Smyrna, on Sun
day, April 18th. After the cere-
mony Mr.. and Mrs. Massey gave
a dinner at their home with Mr..
and Mrs. Charles Nase, and child
rem, Monroe and Ethel, of Will
mington, and Mr. and Mrs. Orville
Myers, and daughter, Diana Lynn,
of Hartly, as guests. A special
occasion birthday congratulation
this week for Mr.. John Hobson,
Sr. Mrs. Wesley Conley, recent
patient at the Kent General Hospi-
tai is convalesing, at her home.
The weakly wit: No man can
read women like book, but it's
fun to turn the pages.
Smyrna times., 1954-04-15
CLAYTON

Ewell's st. Paul Church Notes:
On Easter Sunday, April 18th the
minister will speak on, 'rhe Su-
preme Gift" The Senior and Juni-
or Choirs will present special Eas-
ter anthems. In the evening the
intermediate Youth Fellowship
will present an Easter play, 'eThe
Cloak of Calvary" at 7:30 pm. in
the church Recreation Hall, to
which the pubic is invited. The
Church Calendar lists the follow
Smyrna times., 1954-04-15

Sincerity is no test of truth. You
may take poison sincerely believ-
ing it the needed medicine, but
will it save your life ?-Tyron Ed.
wards
Hungry Horse news., 1954-07-23
Traffic Economics

Volume of traffic Glacier National Park at
tracts is almost phenomenal when compared to the
population pattern out here in Montana.
This state had 591, ,O24 people in the 1850 CEN
sus Last year Glacier attracted 630,448 visitors.
The figure becomes of more consequence when 1t
is realized the average visitor drives 1000 miles
to see the park.
Last Sunday there were 9,479 visitors enter
ing the park. This figure is nearly the population
of the entire city of Kalispell. Monday saw 1920
visitors and bright July days attract from 5000 to
$500 persons.
Situation of having this flow of visitors has
growing economic consequences
Opening Logan pass and the summer season
shows a definite upturn over the whole state as
motorists come into Montana headed for Glacier.
In terms of dollars one study showed an estimated
S12,OOOO0O spent in year by these travellers IN
Montana.
Here at the gateways of the park, the past two
years have seen over $1OOO,OO0 spent in motel and
cottage improvements to accommodate visitors.
Facilities in process of doubling, and type
of housing is designed to attract visitors.
This area can have 100000 visitors in summer,
and then through lack of initiative and vision gain
very little. The visitors pass through with as
few stops as possible.
1t is the development of attractive cabin camps,
clean service stations pleasant shops and cafes that
provides the incentives to have tourist dollars spent
here In this respect there has been fine progress
of late MR.
Hungry Horse news., 1954-07-23

ing a concrete skirt along the perimeter to help
keep the basin clean Also to be erected are dressing
rooms, wading pool for tots and drainage sys-
tenn.
There has been fine support. The four Colum-
bia Falls mills are donating lumber Columbia Falls
Lumber Gateway Lumber, E. j. Lundstrom, and
Mike O'Connor are donating equipment use and
materials
A list of donations doesn't exist, but examples
are Jim Jeffries donating his time finishing con-
crete; Jim Clark and Al Atwood putting in pipe;
R. G.. Ferguson repairing the boiler to heat the
pool; Bob Moody buying two kegs of nails and
working; Hy Van Allen purchasing playground
equipment and helping the project. Many of
the men are not Lions club members.
The pool will benefit the whole community,
and there will be satisfaction in being able to work
together, and finally have pool in use. MR.
Hungry Horse news., 1954-07-23
Farm Union Juniors
Meet at Hollands
by Mrs. Grace Reed

CANYON VIEW-FarmerS Un-
ion Juniors met at the home of
Carol Holland, July 13. They are
studying "Seed Time and Harv-
est" The last lesson on the sub
ject was discussed Tuesday eve
ming at the home of Arlene Conn.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. o. Holland and
Mr.. and Mrs. John Opsand spent
Sunday at the Lutheran Bible
camp on the west shore of Flat
head lake.
Mrs. Charles Reed and daugh-
ter, Carol, spent four days of last
week visiting in Williston, N. Oak.
at the home or Mrs. Reeds moth
er, Mrs. Annie Morgan, and other
relatives. Her brother, M/Sgt. Ben
Morgan, was home on furlough be-
fore leaving for duty in Korea.
Mr.. and Mrs. Tommy Reed,
Great Falls, and MIR. and Mrs. L.
Squires, Parkdale, visited at the
Ed Reed home over the weekend.
Terry Reed, son of Ed Reed, re-
turned to Great Falls with his
brother, Tommy.
Farmers Union picnic was at the
F. U. camp site near Echo lake
June 18. Dick Shipman, Great
Falls, was main speaker. He spoke
at length on the problems facing
farmers. Dick is Farmers Union
vice president.
Carol Holland was Monday
overnight guest at the Rose Marie
Hungry Horse news., 1954-07-23
Other Editors Say
Cities Deserve Share of Funds
From Gasoline Taxes
phillips County News, Maltal

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| Gaining momentum throughout
the Treasure state is a proposal
which would have Montana's 1855
Legislature increase the states gas
oline tax by one cent to provide
more funds to match federal mon
eys available for highway con-
struction.
A similar proposal was defeated
by the voters of the state in 1852,
but the tempo of the times has
changed since then SO that the
! people would probably approve the
extra tax now if the measure were
promoted properly.
We believe that Montana needs
additional money for road con-
struction, and the people should be
willing to stand the cost if they
expect their primary road system
to measure up to the requirements
of modern traffic. At the same
time, however, the people have the
right to expect dollars worth of
value for each dollar in the high
way departments budget. At times
in the past, the people have not
had value received.
Pressing as is the need for pri-
mary and secondary highways,
many Montana cities find them
selves confronted with a problem
equally as serious in the improve
ment and repair and maintenance
of their streets. The tax revenue
available to cities to finance their
street projects simply is not suf-
ficient to do the job. Therefore it
is common practice for the cities
to charge the expense of street
improvements up to the owners
of adjacent property through spe-
cial improvement districts.
Though it goes without argument
that street improvements do in
crease the value of adjacent prop
erty, it seems strange that the real
estate owner should be made to
bear the entire load. More logical
would be a method by which the
automobile owner has a more di-
rect interest in the street pro-
jects. After all street improve
ments these days are designed pri-
marily for the convenience of the
motorist although the property
owner also benefits through the
alleviation Of the dust problem and |
the filling in of mud holes which |
make pedestrian traffic messy and |
difficult.
If the legislature is in a mood
receptive to gasoline tax increase,
we suggest they add on enough
so that the cities of Montana can
get a cut out of the proceeds. If
the city of Malta were to receive
one cent for every gallon of gas
sold within its limits, the total col
lections would go a long way to-
ward maintaining our streets. The
income would not be sufficient to
pave every street in town but it
would provide some money for
some expensive maintaining jobs.
Unlikely as realization of the
idea may be, we would like to sug-
gest for the record that the legis-
lature, at its next session, cut the
cities in on the gasoline tax kitty,
1t will be necessary to increase the
total gallonage tax to do so be-
cause the state can i'll afford to
Hungry Horse news., 1954-07-23
CIeon-up Problem

Major problem in this vacationing area is to
keep beer cans, cleansing tissue and candy wrap
pers from adding ugly touches to scenery.
Motorists frequently are inconsiderate as they
dump garbage out windows, and campers and
mixers often unthinking when it comes to leaving
trash about.
YET progress is being made. Excellent example
is the trash bag handed each car entering Glacier.
They are used
Visitor in the Flathead and Glacier this past
weekend, R. F. Bob" Hill, scout executive for the
San Fernando council in California, told of clean
up project where scouts helped in California.
Older scouts held regular cleanup hikes In the
Sierras. They buried glass, cans and other refuse
along trails and in back of area campgrounds. If
the cost of such trip $15 the scouts paid $5,
the Sierra club, $5 and the Packers association, S.
It became vacation with a purpose, the scout
executive reported.
1t would seem that the refuse problem isn't
as acute here in less populated Montana. Yet we've
seen areas in Glacier and wilderness sections of
Fathead National Forest where tin cans and bottles
mar scenery. The situation will become of more
consequence travel increases.
There's certainly merit in plan that encour-
ages boy scout to get out on the trails and help
keep them clean. The young citizen obtains better
idea of this defect in Americans, and he learns to
better appreciate the back country. MR.
Hungry Horse news., 1954-07-23

of the earth's orbit. The resulting
weather beneath the dust was
great precipitation of rain and
snow, with the the tendency to
drag into its influence the normal
distribution of moisture over a
wide area contiguous to the zone
all around the globe.
These contiguous areas or zones,
robbed of their moisture, were
subject to the direct rays of the
sun and became very hot and dry
in summer, and cold and dry in
winter. Thus it is in southern
Greenland; which was south of the
great dust belt, are fossil remains
of tropical-like summer vegeta-
ton. While from Russia come stor-
les of animals usually found in
more temperate zones having been
trapped and preserved until now
in old glaciers. These data both
date from the last great ice age.
AS a corollary idea, it seems
to me that this years unusual
weather is the possible aftermath
of the atomic explosions at BIZ
kini. Here in northwestern Mon
tana we are barely on the fringe
of $50 mile wide belt centering
on Bikini. This year we have more
rain and more snow in our noun
tains than usual, while 200 miles
south of us is the edge of a real
drouth zone extending into Texas.
No snow at all, 1 am told, in the
mountains of Wyoming and Colo
rado.
Recently 1 wrote Admiral Lewis
Strauss, chairman of the Atomic
Energy Commission, asking him
to check this concept against av-
ailable weather data in a round
the-world zone centering on BIZ
KIM and in a round-the-world
zone 200 miles removed from it,
for comparison with previous pre-
cipitation in these zones.
If this concept proves to be cor
rect, in the event of an atomic
war between Russia and the Unit
ed States we could bomb Russia
without climatically affecting any,
one except the Russians and a
few people in northern Alaska.
if Russia bombed the
United States, dislocations of wea-
ther would affect large population |
centers all around the globe.
Hungry Horse news., 1954-07-23
Tractor Behind News
Office Makes Circles

Harold Tolley, Hungry Horse
News printer, drove his tractor to
work Tuesday morning from his
Deer Park farm. Objective to pick
up a trailer in town at 5.
Next development Tue d ~
morning was a neighbor lady
dashing in to say "whose cat is
that out there running around in
circles?"
What happened was that five
or six year-old climbed on the
tractor, turned the switch on,
started the machine, and then
scurried off.
The tractor was running in
short circle in low gear just be-
hind the Hungry Horse News Of
flee. No damage, but bit of ex-
citement. Tractor ignition isn't
lockable.
Hungry Horse news., 1954-07-23
Hold Services For
Perry Sonnubend

HUNGRY HORSE = Funeral
services for Perry Charles Soma
bend, SIS, were held Saturday at
$3.50 pm, in the Catron chapel,
Whitefish, with Rev. Leo B. Hin
ton, pastor of the Hungry Horse
Assembly of God church officiat-
ing. Burial was in Whitefish cem-
etery.
Mr.. Sonnabend was born in Filler
City, Mich, April 8, 1899. His IA
ther was a logging contractor in
Michigan.
He came west to Spokane when
16, and lived in that area until
1881, when he moved to the Flat
head. On June 10, 1888, Mr.. Son
nabend and Anne Murdock of
WhitefiSh were married, and the
couple returned to Spokane and
then Fernwood, Idaho where they
lived until 1947. They returned
to Whitefish, and then moved to
Hungry Horse in 1851.
Mr.. Sonnabend worked for Cy
Tonner cruising timber and as
scaler. Three years ago april %,
1851, he had a stroke, and was
in i'll health since that time. He
passed away July Is.
Survivor is his wife, Anne, en-
ployed at the Bureau of Reclama-
ton offices at Hungry Horse.
At the funeral Saturday, Mr..
and Mrs. Art Johnson sang a duet
accompanied on the organ by Leo
Hinton, Jr. Friends who were pail
bearers were Harrel Yadon, Ellis
Shelhamer and Bill Macleod, all
of Hungry Horse; Oscar Peterson,
Sam Hahn and Orville Barton,
Whitefish.
The Sonnabends were well
known in Hungry Horse and
Whitefish, and the situation of a
well man suddenly being stricken
three years ago was tragedy.
Hungry Horse news., 1954-07-23

There's excellent opportunity here in Columbia
Falls at this time to make the community better
place to live.
One such project is Columbia Falls Lions club
efforts toward improving the swimming pool last
used in 1916.
What seems to be lacking is sufficient turnout
of volunteer labor for work nights. Next donated
labor session is Friday at $50 pm Cal Crouch Ce
eli Hudson and Bob Sanders the men to see.
Older teen-agers as well as parents of young
sters who intend to use the pool especially have
something at stake in seeing that Columbia Falls
has swimming pool that can be. used.
Improvement includes patching the pool, plac-
Hungry Horse news., 1954-07-23
FLATHEAD
Rcet'A Connen
LOGAN PASS ROAD
(Glacier National Park)

LOGAN PASS ROAD
(Glacier National Park)
The road creeps up its rocky way
AS if to watch the shadows play
At hide-and-seek, then swiftly
glide
Away across the mountain side.
It gnaws its way through rocky
ledge
And leaves a tunnel at the edge
OF Glacier Wall, where Heavens
Peak
It's never-ending vigils keep.
Then round the switch-back curves
its way
Where man made marvellous
masonry.
1t looks on fields of ice and snow
Then down into the gorge below
On beaten trail of long ago;
Where man and beast passed to
and fro
And watched the suns last mellow
glow
Upon the same broad fields of
snow.
It sees the many mountains stand
As sentinels for surrounding
land;
Their rough and rugged peaks
flung high
To meet the soft blue of the sky.
It feels the gray mist lightly fall
Along the spraying Garden Wall.
And through the banks of frigid
snow
In July's torrid weather goes;
Or watches summers green's and
blues
Change to brilliant autumn hues.
In September's tagging days
It sees the mountain sides, a
maze
OF yellow, red and golden brown
With mountain brooklets trick
ling down.
A picture from what artists hand!
God has been the painter grand.
On green background soft as plush,
His hand it was, that held the
brush.
To the top it slowly crawls,
Then turns and looks. All nature
calls
For the admiration due
To the last word in Mountain
VieWi
HARRIET S. WALSH
West Glacier
Hungry Horse news., 1954-07-23
Guests Of HiIdens

HUNGRY HORSE-Visitors at
the Marc Hidden home last week
were Mr.. and Mrs. Arnold Brandt
and Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Hagen
and daughter, Katherine, Hot
Springs, S. Oak.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bill Oberem are
the parents of a baby girl, Sharon
Lee, born July Is.
Guests at the Greiner and OBJ
erem homes, Sunday, were Mr..
and Mrs. Carl Greiner and Mr.. and
Mrs. Dean Greiner and family,
Poison.
Hungry Horse news., 1954-07-23

For the summer cabin or
porch, a handy piece of furni-
ture is a fold-away table, easily
made with hammer, saw, and
screw driver.
A table top, 4S by S01s
inches, is made of three pieces
of lumber: one piece 1114
inches wide, and two each 91s
inches wide. These are cleated
together on the under side with
two 1 by 3-inch pieces, 20
inches long.
The legs, / by 8 by 291s
inches are hinged to the table,
/ inch from the outer edge
Hungry Horse news., 1954-07-23
Stevens to Speak
At Press Meeting

MISSOULA-Robert T. Stevens,
Secretary of the Army, Washing
ton, D. c., will be principal speak
er at the annual Montana State
Press Association meeting to be
held in Missoula Aug. 81.
Stevens is a New Jersey resident
and has ranch near Twodot in
Montana President of the Mon
tana Press association this year
is Homer Murphy of the Flat
head Courier, Poison.
Hungry Horse news., 1954-07-23

Great Falls distributor is today
over &c per gallon lower than the
laid-in price of the same grade of
gasoline (unbranded) from Tulsa,
Oklahoma. l am enclosing a page
torn from the latest issue of the
National Petroleum News" Show
ing the quotation on regular grade
gasoline F. o. B. Oklahoma as
1034c to 113sc. The freight from
Tulsa to Great Falls is $1.54 per
hundred-weight in tank car lots,
plus Is per cent tax or 1880 per
gallon.
Also, contrary to statement
carried in many newspapers of the
state several weeks ago to the eff
feet that oil companies raised their
price &c after the last legislature
adjourned, this is to definitely
state that that is not true, and that
to the best of my knowledge and
belief, no such advances were
made by any oil companies
throughout Montana. For your in
formation, during the past six
years my own company's tank car
or transport price in Montana
has advanced only once and our
price at Great Falls today is only
s4c gallon higher than it was
six years ago Exclusive of taxes,
state and federaD. These are the
facts and 1 do wish you would see
fit to discredit the utterly false and
malicious TULSA Plus" accusation
that you have been misled to level
at one of Montana's most import
ant and valuable industries.
Sincerely,
Branson c.. Stevenson
Hungry Horse news., 1954-07-23
HERE'S HOW
MAKE A PORCH TABLE

with card-table type locking
hinges.
A wall fastening is made Of
a piece of 2 by 4 forming a
38-inch rail. The rail is sup
ported on two pieces of 2 by a,
each 10 inches long and tapered
at the lower ends.
The table top is then hinged,
with butt hinges, to the wall
fastening, as shown.
When the legs are folded
back and the table dropped
along the wall, they will clear
the edge of the wall fastening,
as will also the short 20-inch
cleats.
Hungry Horse news., 1954-07-23
Farm Magazine Has
Story on Glacier

"Take a Good Neighbor Vaca-
ton" is subject of an article that
includes Glacier National Park in
the August, 1854 issue of Cap
per's Farmer" magazine.
Grant Salisbury writes of a cir
Gle trip he took of Glacier, then
Waterton, and north to Banff and
Jasper in Canada last summer. He
liked the trip, and it's down-to-
earth article.
Hungry Horse news., 1954-07-23

slash its own road funds.
The automobile owners of Mon
tana, if they are honest in their
desire for improved city streets
as well as more and better high
ways, should accept the higher tax
as the legitimate price of such.
The day is past when motorists
should expect real property owners
to provide them with streets. Un-
der the American system, the mo-
torist should pay his share of the
cost of streets.
This idea is not revolutionary
but so far it has never been able
to enlist strong support. Now is the
time to get behind it and put it
over. PEW.
Hungry Horse news., 1954-07-23
Atomic Dust and Drouth

The following article is an in
tereSting premise on atomic eX'-
plosions and weather. The author.
Horace Chadbourne was former
college instructor in the East, and
author. More recently he was a
ranger in Glacier, and now retired
lives at Lake Mcdonald in the
summer.
WEST GLACIER-One of the
frequent questions asked park
rangers by visitors to Glacier Ma
tional Park is about glaciers and
their origin. 1t is rather easy to
explain our present shelf glaciers
as the product of long hard wint-
ers and a brief summer melting
period that does not quite con-
sumo the winters snowfall, which
results in each years surplus of
snow being gradually packed and
hardened into ice. Or as in a few
recent years the melting period
consuming both snow and some
old ice. Our present small glaciers
in Montana are thought to be less
than 5000 years old.
But how about the great glaciers
of the ice ages $4,000 and 100000
years ago that carved out our val
leys? There has been much scien-
tific speculation about this, but 1
believe the correct clue is given
in paragraph, which / quote
from the Oct. 80, 1913 issue of The
Youths Companion.
Volcanoes and the Ice Aee:-In
connection with the great volcanic
eruptions of recent years, meteor
ologists have observed a marked
dimunition in the amount of solar
radiation that reaches the surface
of the earth. They attribute that
fact to the fine dust that explos-
i've eruptions discharge into the
upper strata of the atmosphere.
After the eruption of Mount Kat
mai, in Alaska, in June, 1912, vol
canic dust greatly affected the
transparency of the atmosphere in
many parts of the earth. Observers
at Bassour, in Algeria, and at
Mount Wilson, in California, found
that the direct radiation of the sun
was reduced by nearly or quite
one-fifth at each of these stations,
and that the amount of heat re-
ceived from the sun was reduced
by nearly a tenth. Prof w. J.
Humphries of the Weather Bureau
suggests that prolonged volcanic
activity may be the cause of gla-
cial periods. Such conditions, he
believes, might produce the low
temperature of an ice age. Geolo-
gical records show that such a
period began shortly before the
last ice age, and that it has con-
tinued with diminishing intensity
to the present time.
1t is easy to check in an en-
cyclopedia that Japan, "Child of
the Earth's Old Age" was actual
ly forming, erupting great clouds
of volcanic dust, at the same per-
iod as the last ice age. This dust,
1 believe, having first been erupt-
ed into the stratosphere, settled
to form wide belt
around the earth, in a plane of |
declination parallel to an equator |
Hungry Horse news., 1954-07-23
Picture Edition

Summer pictorial issue of the
Hungry Horse News is scheduled
for publication Aug. 13.
Printed on book paper, the sup
plement will present about 60 pic
lures of Glacier National Park
scenery, Anaconda Aluminium Co.,
construction, Hungry Horse Dam,
and the Flathead.
Plan of presentation for adver-
tisers is to follow the idea of a di-
rectory. These are the firms that
make the edition possible.
Hungry Horse News staff is
small. If you don't hear from us,
and want to be included among the
advertisers, please let us know. n
Hungry Horse news., 1954-07-23

Kohl home.
Frank West came home from
John B. Simons hospital Saturday
evening where he was a surgical
patient.