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Smyrna times., 1954-04-22
SEEK INDUSTRY
FOR DELAWARE
State Industrial Development
Committee Holds Initial
Meeting at Dover
DISCUSS PLANS

New industries brought in to
Delaware should be diversified and
spread throughout the state in
order to continue a stable econ
omy, it was declared last week at
the initial meeting of the State
Industrial Development Commit
tee appointed by Governor ].
Caleb Boggs. 1t. Governor John
w. Rollins, Sr., presided over the
meeting following a luncheon at
Dinner Bell Inn, Dover, attended
by sixteen of the committee men,
bers and one guest. After a round
table discussion of the states
needs in trying to secure addition
al industry, it was deemed advis-
able first to follow through with
all existing prospects and service
them with complete information
concerning Delaware. 1t was the
concensus that more travel should
be done to visit heads of interest
ed firms in their own areas, in
order that a better selling job
could be accomplished.
Smyrna times., 1954-04-22
Consider All Areas

All areas of industry were TAX
en- into consideration from broil-
ers in Sussex County to large in
dustry in the vicinity of the Mar
ine Terminal, Wilmington, with
an eye toward placing business or
industries in localities where sea-
sonal work may cause temporary
shut-doWns or unemployment.
Secretary of State John N. NC
Dowell pointed out that Delaware
has a great school and road i'm
provement program underway for
which bonds are continually being
sold. In order to maintain the
credit rating which the state en-
joys he said that additional indus
try and employment, which would
insure larger revenues was desir-
able. This would insure that Della
ware bonds could be sold at favor
able rates. Mr.. Rollins called for
Hungry Horse news., 1954-11-05
Forest Funds Help
Keep Taxes Down

| Favorable factor for helping
keep taxes lower is announcement
that Flathead county's share of the
National Forest Service revenues
for that past fiscal year is S71,-
855.95. Information was obtained
from Ed Morris, forest engineer
at KaliSpell.
The law provides that one
fourth of the receipts from forest
service timber sales, grazing and
lease sources revert to the counties
for school and road use. In addi-
ton 10 per cent of the forest rev.
enues remains in the forests for
road and trail improvement.
This years check is down from
last years $75,049.55, and compares
to $50, 9,816.14 paid in 1852. Increase
in federal funds from timber sales
has helped reduce the Flathead
county tax levy which was 1884
mills in 1858 and is now 29.12
mills. Other favorable factor is
the increasing number of homes,
plants and businesses which h
spreads out the tax base. There is
more property to pay the costs of
government.
Flathead National Forest rev.
enues returning to the counties
this year total $90,761.44 down
from last years $95,027.31. While
this money is paid respective coun-
ties on the basis of timber sales and
other revenue factors, it is split |
among the counties on the basis of |
their area included in the national
forest.
Therefore the forest share to !
Flathead county is S71,855.95, and
then Powell county (Which in
cludes the most of Big Prairie
district in the Bob Marshall wild
erness area) receives S9,502.89;
county, $6,864.8O; Lake
county, $5,958.61; Lewis and Clark
county, $1,575.45, and Lincoln
county, $551.43 from Flathead Ma
tional Forest timber sales and
leases.
On the other hand, Flathead
county contains small portions of
xootenai forest and receives S3,-
-23.80 from this source, and ST.
t23.89 from the Cabinet forest now
into the other forests.
rhe Flathead total from forest re-
:eipts is the ST., 1,855.95 figure.
Region forests are paying a to-
al of S504, ,77288 to Montana coun-
les. The check apparently goes to
he governor, and then through
hannels back to the counties.
The United States Forest service {
yer the nation is returning $751;
1863 to various counties over 9
he country.
Hungry Horse news., 1954-11-05
Elk Season Still Mediocre

The Flathead's South Fork il
experiencing one of the poorer
elk hunting seasons.
A Thursday morning check OF
the Coram-M Martin City and Hun
cry Horse Dam checking stations
show a total of II elk out in the
past seven days. The preceding
week had So elk out.
A total of 299 elk have come out
through the two checking stations
since they were opened Oct. 13.
Number of hunters in now totals
2,115.
Jay Penney and Dick Motichka,
game wardens at the Coram-Mar-
tin City east side road have
checked out 245 elk and checked
in 1866 hunters since Oct. 13 when
the station opened. Mr.. and Mrs.
Ernest Hatton at the checking sta
ton for the west side road just
above the dam have checked out
81 elk and checked in 549 hunters.
The figure of 299 elk out through
the two checking stations with
2,l15 hunters, in compares to 1,9OO
hunters a, year ago with 384 elk
out. These figures do not include
the comparatively fewer elk TAX
en- out by way of Holland lake and
the Missoula area, or for the early
season.
Indications are that the 1854
elk hunting season which ends
Nov. is il shaping upa n 2 total
kill of about 900 as compared to
last years 1,240 which was some
what above average.
Pheasant hunting season opens
noon. See story on page Z.
Shooting hours conform to the
duck season. Free copies of shoot !
ing hour schedules may be obtain
ed from the Hungry Horse News.
Hungry Horse news., 1954-11-05
Name Carey AS
Top 3. 3. Player

Webb Carey Columbia Falls 6'5'
basketball center and a junior IS
termed one of the $500 of the ma
TONS top high school stars" in the
Dell All-America Basketball mag
azine 1855 issue.
The selection was on the basis
of play during the 1854 season and
promise for 1855.
The Montana top players number
II and are: Don DeDobbeler, Glas-
gov; Larry Thompson, Billings
Central; Jim Kelly, Helena; Jim
Powell, Missoula; Butch McCum-
Der, Anaconda public; Darrell Sew
ier, Glendive; Gene Stevens, Bill
ings; Francis Connor, Miles City;
Joe Johnston, Deer Lodge; Bren-
dan Murphy, Roundup; Harold
Dunham, Shelby, and Carey.
Carey, Is, is also an honor roll
student at Columbia Falls high.
He is the son of Mrs. Jane Carey.
Hungry Horse news., 1954-11-05
SET Bod Rock Vote
Doy for Nov. IS

Residents of the Bad Rock COM
munity are scheduled to vote Mon
day, Nov. is on the question of
annexing their school district to
school district 6. County Supt. Lu-
lu Barnard set the date as provid-
ed by law.
Bad Rock residents approved an
nexation to the Columbia Falls to
Essex district last Feb. by a vote
of 81 to 54. Legal question of the
Bad Rock board not having ap-
proved the adequacy of signatures
on the petition requesting the cleo
ton resulted in Judge Shea of
Glasgow, sitting on the case, de-
claring the election void.
A new petition with 40 names
was submitted to the Bad Rock
board Aug. II. The board found
the signatures to contain more
than the required 20 per cent of
the Bad Rock votofs. The district 6
board re-affirmed its decision per-
mitting annexation if Bad Rock
residents so desired.
Last September more than half
the parents of Bad Rock students
requested that their children at
tend school in Columbia Falls. De-
velopment was 25 enrolling in Col
umbia Falls and 13 at the two
room Bad Rock school.
County Supt. Barnard was to
meet with the Bad Rock school
board Thursday evening on vot-
ing procedures and picking judges.
Two of the three members of the
Bad Rock board opposed annexa-
tion
Hungry Horse news., 1954-11-05
New Park Contract
FinQI Next Week

WEST GLACIER-NeXt week
will see final execution of the new
20 year contract for operation of
facilities in Glacier National Park
by the Great Northern owned sub
sidiary Glacier Park Co.
In response to a query by the
Hungry Horse News, Senator Mike
MansfieldS' office advised that the
contract becomes eligible for exc
cution Nov. 8.
A new law requires that after
park concession contracts are sign
ed by the Secretary of the Interior,
they are subject to review by Con-
gresS for a period of go days. If
Congress takes no action the con-
tracts go into effect. The new Gla-
cier contract 60-day waiting per-
iod is over Nov. 7.
The Great Northern has been
operating on a series of three one
year contracts in Glacier since
their 20-year contract expired
three years ago. Temporary ma
ture of contracts tended to reduce
the whole development program
in the park needed to accommo-
date increased number of visitors.
However the Great Northern did
llvs Scrta'Tes extensive remodelling
of Many Glacier and Glacier Park
hotels, which are to be continued.
The new contract does not Spe-
officially detail improvements, butI
it is understood that the Glacier
Park Co., plans major develop
ments in a cabin camp way at
Swiftcurrent and Rising Sun-not
at the foot of Lake Mcdonald.
Mcdonald hotel is the only hotel
in Glacier owned by the govern
ment not counting Sperry and
Granite Park chalets. Major alter
ations of Mcdonald hotel by the
are being considered
for 1956-57.
The Great Northern was instru-
mental in seeing that Glacier was
as national park in
1910. Early days of the park saw
all visitors arrive by rail.
Now rail traffic is small fraction
Of the total, but the railroad still
handles supplies.
j. S. Jeffries, general manager
If the Glacier Park Co., is now
vice president and manager of the
John Budd, Great Mort
hern president is also president
If the Glacier Park Co.
Final execution of the new 20
year contract is considered a big
;tep toward a new era of visitor
accommodation improvement in
he park.
Hungry Horse news., 1954-11-05
Add Motel Units
AT West Glacier

WEST GLACIER-This fall sees
% additional units being added by
West Glacier motel owners.
Highland Co., is erecting a new
two-story "a by 46 foot building
across from the Great Northern de-
pot that will contain offices and six
motel units. A 26 by 80-foot sew
en-unit motel building is also un-
der construction. Last year the
Highland Co., built 20-unit motel
building.
The company also operates a
store, service station with adjacent
cafe.
A mile west of West Glacier on
U. S. highway No. 2, John Blank
enship is moving in 100 by "a
foot building purchased from Cen
eral Shea Morrison at Hungry
Horse. This structure is to be 10
Gated at Blankenship's Vista Mo-
tel, and will be remodelled and
refinished inside and out into 10l
motel units with picture windows.
Blankenship and his son last
year erected the nine-unit Vista
Motel in addition to the Blanken-
ship River Cabins which have been
in operation for a number of years.
Four cabins from the river prop
erty were moved this fall to the
Vista Motel on U. S. highway No.
that looks across the mountains
At the head of Lake Mcdonald in
Glacier National Park. Blanken-
ships River Cabins has nine cab
ms.
Hungry Horse news., 1954-11-05
Falls Council And
Lions Club Study
New DUmpgrOUnd

Columbia Falls city council anC
Lions club are working on plan.
to move the community dump
which crowds the west edge of the
town to a point three miles from
Columbia Falls up the North Fork
road.
The new dump would be locat-
ed on a grant of land from Flat
head National Forest on the west
side of the North Fork road. Wood
conditions, drainage and terrain
are considered favorable for mod
ern dumpground use.
Appearing before the city coun-
ell Monday in behalf of a new
dump location were Lions club
members, E. J. Lundstrom, Cecil
Hudson and Bill Knapton. Council
men Fred Krona and G.. w. Flem-
ing met with the Lions committee
to review the dump question We'd
nesday.
At its November meeting, the
council voted against approval of
an ordinance that would have es-
tablished health and safety regu-
lations for trailer courts and re-
stricted trailer parking in the
community to trailer courts.
Chet Seymer, former member of
the county airport board, who with
A. E. Massman, present Columbia
Falls member of the board, rep
resented this area at Civil Aer-
Board hearing in Spokane,
on the session.
Seymer told the city council
that a CAB ruling was expected
about Jan. l on Northwest Air
lines request to drop the Flathead
from its schedules. Whatever the
decision Seymer continued, there
would be an appeal made in Wash
ngton.
Seymer said that it appeared
hat if the Flathead had naviga-
ional aids, Northwest could con-
inue service here. This was con-
idered the most profitable stop
lmong those that Northwest is now
rying to eliminate.
From the Flathead's standpoint
total of 100000 in improve
nents has been spent at the port
matched federal and county mon
.y-since the airport with its run
Ways were constructed just before
he war.
Seymer paid his own expenses
o Spokane (as did Massman) and
vas given a vote of thanks by the
ity council.
Condemnation proceedings were
discussed at the meeting against
he old taxidermist building, the
formerly occupied byI
Cleaners on Nucleus
venue, and Mar-U's old house ac-
oss from the city hall. The build
lgs, not kept in repair, were con-
idered in terms of public haz-
rds.
Other city business includes es-
of a dog pound on
roperty owned by Vern Brandes, ! !
lief of police. {
Hungry Horse news., 1954-11-05
Park Wdter Job
Being Completed

WEST GLACIER-Being COM
pleted this weekend in Glacier Ma
tional Park is the $66,606 Schim-
mels and Schnell contract for wa
ter system Improvements serving
park headquarters and the new
Apgar campground.
The Dishman, Wash. firm in
stalled $500 feet of 6 and 10 inch
cement asbestos pipe bringing wa
ter from the Rubidoux springs on
Apgar mountain down to the COM
munity. There was also a 1900
foot long inch pipe laid to the
existing reservoir on Bolton hill.
The three buildings in the Bait
rusch and Powell contract for new
81 by 1873" comfort stations at
Apgar campground are up. The
Havre firms contract is for $24,-
1880, and is to be completed next
year.
Hungry Horse news., 1954-11-05
Montana Reflects
MUrruy, MefcuIf

By a margin of less than 5000
votes, Montana returned James E.
Murray to the u. S. Senate for the
fifth time. Murray, a Democrat,
becomes the first Montanan to be
elected to the United States SEN
ate five times, and is the fifth
ranking member of the senate in
point of seniority. He has been in
Washington since 1884.
Close victories are not new to
Murray. Twelve years ago he de-
feated Wellington Rankin by 1912
votes and then six years ago de-
feated Tom Davis by 30,735.
This is the year of close victor
les. States with much greater num-
ber of voters are seeing senators
holding less than per cent leads.
Oregon, Ohio and New Jersey are
among them. Result is the Demo-
Gratis will control the House of
Representatives, and apparently
have one vote lead in the Senate.
Back in Montana Murray polled
114,036 votes in 1,080 of 1,094 pre-
cincts with D'Ewart receiving no.
896. The campaign between the
five-term eastern Montana Repub-
lican Congressman and the 78-year
old senator was bitter. The two
congressional races were Waged on
a much higher plane.
Congressman Lee Metcalf, a
Democrat, was reelected to his
second term as the western Mon
tana congressman defeating Win
field Page, Missoula, by 52,534 to
1882 with only one of 385 pre-
cincts missing. Metcalf did little
campaigning.
Eastern Montana is sending a
congressman to Wash
ngton to succeed D'Ewart. He is
0rvin B. Flare, Big Timber, SO
year-old merchant who had 64, ABB
votes to Leroy Anderson's 62,678
With all but 19 of 709 precincts in.
Anderson was a state senator from
Conrad, and Identified with ma
ional guard and farming circles.
Democrats won control of the
freeman Railroad and Public
service commission with Demo-
rat incumbent Austin B. Middle
(Please turn to page ~
Hungry Horse news., 1954-11-05
Outlines Future FOR North Fork Road

Continued Improvement and
maintenance of the North Fork
road and question of a new bridge
at Polebridge in the opinion of the
Hungry Horse News will best be
accomplished if North Fork road
becomes a part Of the Federal Aid
Secondary Highway Systems. We
view the road as having an i'm
portant future connecting with
Waterton's Akamina highway,
providing a through route into
Canada.
Virtually all North Fork road
construction has been through the
forest service with maintenance
shared to some extent with the
county.
The following letter was receiv-
ed by Senator Mike Mansfield
from Scott p. Hart, state high
way engineer in Helena. Mansfield
sent copies to the Flathead coun-
ty commissioners and Mrs. Ruth
Sondreson, secretary-treasurer of
the North Fork Improvement as
sociation.
Here is the letter from the state
highway engineer to Senator
Mansfield:
Dear Senator Mansfield:
"In reply to your inquiry of
October 9th, wish to say that the
Montana State Highway Commits
sion would offer no objection to
the placing of the existing Forest
Service road extending north from
Columbia Falls, and crossing the
North Fork of the Flathead river
at Polebridge, upon the Federal
Aid Secondary Highway System.
"Under the provisions of the
Federal Aid Highway Act, how
ever, the request that the road be
placed on the Secondary Highway
System would have to be initiated |
by the Board of County Commits
sioners of Flathead county. Justi-
fication for the action, as request
ed, would have to be shown, and
he concurrence in the action by
he Bureau of Public Roads would
De necessary.
"Once the road was placed upon
he Secondary Highway System,
he programming of construction
hereon would be subject, under
he Federal Aid Act, to the prior
ties expressed by the Flathead
ounty Board of Commissioners.
1t the present time, there are
ther presently approved second
ry highways within Flathead
ounty for which earlier construc-
ion priorities have been requested
y the county authorities.
"Inasmuch as the state match
lg funds for Federal Aid second (
ry road construction are limited !
by state law, insofar as the var I
Jus counties are concerned, it is
question in my mind whether or Z
OF the Flathead county commits I
.oners would be desirouS of de-
erring their presently planned I
road construction in or
er to give the Polebridge struc- '
(Please turn to page a.
Hungry Horse news., 1954-11-05
American Bridge Finishes at AAC Plant

a Structural steel erection at the
Anaconda Aluminium Co. plant IS
viewed as 80 per cent completed
with American Bridge division OF
\ U. S. Steel Corp. completing their
contract at the plant this week
American Bridge becomes the
first firm to windup major con-
tract at the plant. They had en-
ployed UP to IS men.
The U. S. Steel division furn-
ished the steel and erected the
frame Of the four 1,100 foot long
potline buildings heart of the now
nearly two thirds completed plant.
Vinne1, Inc, Baldwin Park,
Calf. will complete structural steel
erection with two large remaining
structures, the paste plant and cas-
\ ting building. There will be 25
buildings in all.
The J. A. Mcneil Co., Inc, ex-
cavations and foundations contract
at the plant is to be completed in
about a month. Foundations are
95 per cent completed. The Alham-
bra, Calf. company started actual
construction of the plant June 9,
1858.
This week also saw final en-
closure of the 483-foot long recti-
fier building by Foley Constructors
crews. Foley is the general con-
tractor at the plant. Thursday
Fischbach and Moore men started
moving electrical equipment into
the new building which is walled
with precast concrete.
Weather generally has favored
construction this fall. Sign of the
season, however, was Anaconda
Aluminium Co. renting a steam To-
comotive from the Great Northern
Railway. This locomotive is hook
ed up the the plant distribution
system, and the warehouse, shop,
office building and other struc-
lures are being heated. In prog
reSs is plastering, painting and Ia
ter floor tile work that will need
warm interiors. Within a few
weeks heat will also be needed for
the workmen.
Inc OIIlce DullQlng mas DeSu
tentatively scheduled for occupan-
cy in January.
For the first time since Sept. 20,
employment dipped below the
1000 mark and is expected to con-
tinue downward. Thursdays fig
ure was 1860. Outlook is for a
sharp drop late this month and in
December. However the employ
ment figure is expected to stabil-
ize somewhere between 1000 and
1900 Considerable overtime is be-
ing worked Saturdays and Sundays
to beat the weather.
First aluminium at the plant is
scheduled by next July. Permanent
employment has been set at 450 in
the operational phase.
Hungry Horse news., 1954-11-05

WEATHER forecast: Continued
| fog or low stratus clouds Thursday
and Friday. Predicted high Thurs
day 38, low 80; high Friday 35 to
40.
Highs and lows: Oct. 29, 48-19;
Saturday 49-19, Sunday 1921,
Monday 47-19, Tuesday 1871,
Wednesday $3.50, Thursday So
33. Temperatures are currently
running five degrees below norm
al.
Precipitation: for November so
far .04 of an inch. Whole months
normal is 1.55 inches at the air
port. October precipitation was so
of an inch compared to 1856 inches
normal.
The fog: Observer Ray Hall said
that relatively cold air on the sur
face of warmer air aloft was Gre
ating fog conditions. There is alb
sence of wind. Most of the foggy
condition has been in the noun
tain pocket of the Flathead. Trib-
utary valleys have had less fog,
near Flathead lake, the most.
Hungry Horse news., 1954-11-05
Installing New Hand
Rail on Logan Pass

WEST GLACIER - Last trail
improvement in Glacier National
Park this year is installation of
foundation pipes for a new hand
rail on the path from the Logan
pass parking area to the alpine
meadow on the continental divide
Bill Yenne is in charge of the
project working with Stuart Swan
berg, Frank L. Karnes and Roger
Anderson.
Major trail crew project of the
fall was the new 94-foot long foot
bridge below the outlet of Two
Medicine lake. This replaced
bridges destroyed by avalanches
last spring. A location out of the
path of the early spring avalanches
was picked for the new bridge.
Hungry Horse news., 1954-11-05

Columbia Falls volunteer fire
department went over the top in
its fall drive for funds. A total of
$3.50 has been raised with the
quota $1,000.
The solicitation was handled en-
tirely by letters, and the $3.50
results from half the letters being
returned with donations.
Money will be used to buy hose
and other equipment for the volun-
teer department
Members of the firemen's COM
mittee for the drive are Murry
Giles, Dulane Fulton and Al Shay,
with Roy Anders, department
treasurer.
Hungry Horse news., 1954-11-05
Question Boost
In Tax Notices

A number of district 6 resident:
are questioning the tax increase:
as observed in 1854 notices now
being received.
County Treasurer Merlyn En-
inert at court house is having &
number of queries.
She points out that Columbia
Falls residents last year paid taxes
on the basis of mill levy of 112.-
04, and this year it has increased
to 1887. District residents paid
on the basis of 1858 mills last
year and 98.99 mills this year.
Therefore taxes on the same
piece of property in Columbia
Falls have increased about 19 per
cent, and outside the city % per
cent.
The tax increase is largely the
result of the grade school levy be-
ing raised from 9 mills last year
to 32.93 mills this. The Columbia
Falls city levy went up mills, and
the county levy dropped 7.
Major reason for the school le-
Wy increasing was the federal
funds for operations and mainten-
ance received in 1852 and 1858,
and drastically reduced in 1854.
These federal grants cut the tax
levies. The newest federal grant is
for building purposes and cannot
be spent for operations and main
tenance.
Local levies however are less
than in Kalispell and Whitefish.
Columbia Falls levy is 1887 up
from 1924; district 6 is 98.99 up
from 1853; Kalispell has 1888 up
from 1914, and Whitefish 1878
up from 1926. They were not
favored by federal grants.
Hungry Horse news., 1954-11-05
ACM Officials Here

Edward McGlone, New York,
executive vice president of the
Anaconda Copper Mining Co., and
Chester Steele, Butte, vice presi-
dent in charge of western opera
tions were in the Flathead We'd
nesday and Thursday. They visited
the Anaconda Aluminium Co. plant.
Hungry Horse news., 1954-11-05
New Phone Building

HUNGRY HORSE = Nearing
completion on U. S. highway No.
opposite the Hungry Horse Pro-
ject administration building is a
concrete block structure that will
house the new dial telephone sys-
tenn for the canyon area. This will
take the place of the Hungry Horse
switchboard,