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Evening star., 1954-12-05
STURBRIDGE, Mass.

The nostalgia pleasures of
early Yankee country living,
plus a lot of the comforts neither
you nor the Yankees ever got
at home, are in store for the
winter visitor to Old Sturbridge
Village Mass t Ns,4
'AA1''ee' "Aooo' sr> SID 4s.e%
For the third season the
museum is combining with the
TreadWay Inns to present Yankee
winter week ends from January
8 to March IL. The ski-less
winter week ends have been
planned for the snow-bunny,
snow-hater, or ordinary mortal
who finds winter in the country
pleasant provided he does not
have to Cd ski or toboggan, or
(2) stray too far from the
creature comforts of blazing fires
and robust food and drink.
The purpose Of the week ends
is to give city folk q taste of
Evening star., 1954-12-05

or wander around the village
watching demonstrations of the
early crafts-pottery, CANDLE
clippings, printing, weaving and
cabinetmaking.
A game dinner of venison pie
served with burgundy at the
Publick House starts off the eve
ming. Later, guests are at
liberty to work off their calories
at Hnt old fashioned square
dance, complete. with Yankee
caller and fiddlers.
On Sunday there's another
big breakfast, more trips to the
village, and general feeling of
well-being that even makes a
gray and slushy Monday in the
city seem less formidable. ,
Sturbridge lies just off the
Connecticut line on the New
York to Boston Parkway. Auto
mobile travel is advised, but
there are bus and train cennec-
tionS,
Evening star., 1954-12-05
Jamaica. Increases
Free Port Shops
KINGSTON, Jamaica.

This popular resort island now
has a dozen free port" shops, In
which visitors can buy quality
English and European imported
merchandise at low prices, duty
free and in-bond.
There are six such shops In
kingston three at Montego Bay.
two at the Palisades Interna-
tional Airport. near Kingston,
and one at Ocho Rios. Before
the 1954-5 winter season begins.
other shops will open their doors.
The huge reductions in price
in the free port shops are pos
Sible because of government
valves all import duties on their
goods, and there is also no ex-
else. luxury or retail sales tax.
The result is that the island
collects from such purchases q
large amount Of dollar currency
with which to pay for the pur-
chase of needed imports.
Evening star., 1954-12-05
Miami Gains
As Caribbean
Cruise Port
MIAMI, Fla.


Side trips to neighboring
Caribbean islands are expected
to be more popular than ever
with visitors to this tropical
resort center this winter.
You can "drive to Havana -
hop over to Jamaica for a week.
end or cruise to nearby Nassau
in luxurious style, adding foreign
spice to your Miami vacation at
low cost.
The long-awaited Key West
to-Havana ferry is now in oper-
alton.
Numerous ocean cruises are
available at low cost. The Flor
ida makes three round trips a
week between Miami and Ha-
Vana.
The Queen of Nassau plies
regularly between Miami and
Nassau. The Evangeline, which
formerly operated between Bos-
ton and Nova Scotia, now offers
Today cruises between Miami
and the Dominican Republic,
with visits to other West Indies
islands en- route. n A
You can make even longer
cruises via the Silverstar. which
touches San Juan, Puerto Rico;
st. Thomas, Virgin Isles; St.
Johns. Antigua; Point-a-Pitre,
Guadelope: Fort de France, Mar
Unique; Bridgetown, Barbados:
Port of Spain, Trinidad; La
Guaira, Venezuela, and Curacao,
Netherlands West Indies, on a
16-day cruise out of Miami.
If you prefer a quick trip,
half a dozen airlines offer nu-
merous flights daily between
Miami and all principal points
in the Caribbean area.
Evening star., 1954-12-05

old = fashioned winters - minus
the hardships. The setting,
which even Hollywood couldn't
improve, Is Old Sturbridge Viii
lage. a reconstructed early 10Th
century New England town, and
the Treadway Inns famous
Publick House, a coaching
tavern built in It'll. Nj.
The real-life props include a
working farm, grist mill, black
smith shop. houses on the vii
lage green, a meeting house, a
tavern, OK carts and trencher-
man meals, complete with pie
for breakfast.
Activities start on Friday
nights with a syllabub party
syllabub being an especially
efficacious Yankee anti-freeze
compound-followed by a Tread
way dinner at the Publick House,
served in the taproom or
ordinary. Weaker week-enders
may then retire; the more ener-
Evening star., 1954-12-05

getic dance until midnight, and
sometimes a lot later.
After a breakfast of fried
mush, popoyers, pancakes with
pure maple sirup and deep-dish
apple pie (besides more genteel
dishes like bacon and eggs. the
week-e lenders head for the village,
providently bundled in clothes
like figures from a Currier &
Ives print. Transportation is by
OK cart or sleigh along 18th cen
tury roads. The route winds
through pasture and woodland,
over a covered bridge, and past
the houses, mansions, shops and
farm buildings, and ends under
the welcoming sign of the
tavern.
Here at noon mulled cider is
served directly from an open
fireplace, and precedes the
tavern lunch and sugaring Off
maple sirup on snow. After
lunch the guests take more rides,
Evening star., 1954-12-05
By Jacques Futrelle. Jr.
The Stor's Travel Editor

Vacation habits are changing.
However loyal you individually
may be to the same pleasurable
summer retreat year after year
and to the usual July or August
dates. there is a growing yen for
winter trips. For some, that
means splitting an allotted vaca-
ton time into two periods; for
others. foregoing a summer holi-
day entirely in order to escape
winters refrigerator when nature
delivers 1t.
Several factors are inducing
this change. One is that millions
of workers have gained vaca-
tions with pay since the days be-
fore World War II and by now
are ripe for something different
in the way Of trips. Another is a
mechanical contrivance some
businesses have come to consider
essential. 1t is air-conditioning,
which achieves workday COM
fort and makes postponement Of
hot-weather vacations not only
acceptable but preferred. In
troduced into homes, cool-air
machines have extended pleasant
temperatures virtually through
"a hours Of willing summer
days.
Some of the other factors
tending to promote winter trips
are increased recreational facil-
ities, no farther away from
home than a streetcar ride, and
more automobiles and fast roads,
permitting enough satisfying sal
lies to the shore on summer week
ends to dispense with a formal
vacation until a more compelling
time comes along.
Several Fovored Spots
Whatever the inducements,
winter vacations are becoming
more popular, and the 1954-5
season is expected to generate
a record migration toward balmy
climes. Almost every place in
the world the sun shines benignly
can expect the ubiquitous Ameri-
can yacationer; but, of course,
he has favorite channels through
which he paddles.
Among the regions expected to
get the greatest play this winter
are the West Indies, Florida,
Mexico and Hawaii. The South
west, Southern California and
South America will get a varying
share.
That's the way travel objec-
tives seem to be shaping up in
the national mind. But those
who live on the Eastern Sea-
board have long considered
Evening star., 1954-12-05
The Travellers Notebook
Sun Tan Lands Generate
More Winter Vacations

Florida their special recreational
travel preserve. in summer as
well as winter, and this year.
round sun tan land promises to
pull them again like orange bios
SONS draw the honey bee.
This winter, though, Florida
resorts will have to do a major
selling job to hold tourist dollars
on the mainland. For Florida's S
"extension'-the West Indies
are tempting winter vacationers
as never before.
Those who like a Christmas of
poinsettias and palms instead of
(See NOTEBOOK, Page B-8.)
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(see NOTEBOOK, Page B-so
Hungry Horse news., 1954-12-31
Park Has Fourth Boom Travel Year

WEST GLACIER - For the
fourth straight year, Glacier Ma
tional Park in northwestern Mon
tana attracted more than a hall
million visitors.
Supt. J. w. Emmert reports the
1854 travel total into Glacier as
6O8,230.
Glaciers travel total for the year
is nearly the same as the estimat-
ed population of Montana, $4,000.
Travel to the alpine park has
been virtually triple the best pre-
war years when 1886 set a record
with 10000.
A major change in park travel
has been the increasing numbers
of Canadians. The Canadian per-
centage of visitors to Glacier has
increased from II to 20 per cent.
The Aug. / to count of cars
by states and provinces in Glacier
showed 1,196 Montana cars fol-
lowed by Alberta with 1,lz1, CALI
fornia with 1856, Washington 612,
Illinois 461, Minnesota 1888, Oregon
267, British Columbia 260, Sask-
achewan 200, Iowa 1879 and neign-
boring states Idaho 1873 and North
Dakota 1874.
The park no longer keeps total
season travel records by states cx-
cept for the one week survey. Fig
ures for travel are based on 3.25
passengers N each car.
The 1858 and 1854 travel fig
ures are for calendar years. Before
that it was Oct. to Sept. 80 sea-
sons.
Current years travel figure of
(Please turn to page 81
Hungry Horse news., 1954-12-31
Weather Favors
Elk NOT Hunters

WEST GLACIER-The extended
open season on elk up the Flat
head rivers Middle Fork each Sat-
urday and Sunday continues to see
few elk kills.
The season opened Dec. 4 and
5 with % kills; next weekend Dec.
4 and IL was a blank; Dec. 18 and
19 saw eight killed near Nyack;
Dec. 25 and 26 so far are reported
as blanks.
Mild weather sees the animals
continue to be high and scattered.
Deep snow and cold would tend
to drive some of the elk down out
of the park where there is a sur
plus. This is the reason for the
extended open season.
North boundary of the open
season is the park boundary and
south, U. S. No. 2.
Hungry Horse news., 1954-12-31
Rocky Mt. Opens
Los Angeles Office

Summit Lumber Co., local lum-
Der wholesalers affiliated with
Rocky Mountain Lumber Co., Col
umbia Falls, has opened brok-
erage office in the Los Angeles
area.
Stanley London will be in charge
of the office in Beverley Hills. In
California helping set up the new
office is James Raskin, Rocky
Mountain president.
There has been a developing
market for lumber milled in Coll
umbia Falls in southern California
and Arizona. This has been indi-
Gated largely for 2x4x8s which is
Rocky Mountain speciality.
Underway at the mill which was
established in Columbia Falls IN
1948 is erection of a 30-foot addi-
ton to the sawmil building which
will include a new gang saw.
Al Reid, office manager, COM
mented that the whole sawInil is
TO be revamped this winter.
Chris Lauman is yard foreman
at Rocky Mountain which in sum-
mer employs up to 10 men.
Logging contractor is Russell
Warner who has four trucks
bringing in logs from the HALO
watt creek purchase up the Flat
head rivers North Fork. This la
a Flathead National Forest pur-
chase. Logging conditions are good
though some snow has been plow-
ed.
Hungry Horse news., 1954-12-31
Post Office Shows
Bio 1854 Growth

Columbia Falls post office fol
1854 shows an increase of 80 pei
cent in postal receipts over 1858.
Total receipts for 1854 are $780,
O95.03 compared to $19,853.31 for
1858, according to Postmaster
Dudley w. Greene.
Columbia Falls post office has
doubled in receipts since 194e
when the total revenue was S13,-
548.49, and now has four times
the volume it had during the early
1940s.
Postmaster Greene and his crew
during December took in $1,015
more than was taken in during
December, 1858. This December's
stamp sales and other revenue to-
tailed $5,202.16.
All the $50 boxes at Columbia
Falls new post office are rented,
and there are 200 families getting
mail through general delivery.
Greene believes the local popula-
ton is at the 1000 mark.
Development of the lumber in
dustry, Hungry Horse Dam con-
struction and now establishment
OF the new Anaconda Aluminium
Co. plant reflect in more letters
handled locally.
Hungry Horse news., 1954-12-31

The Flathead showed little
change in the number of mar
riages and divorces this year COM
pared with 1858.
Information obtained from the
office of Jacie Willis, clerk of
court, Dec. 20, shows 225 marriage
licenses issued this year ESQ far)
compared to 226 last. Divorces
granted totaled SO compared to IS
last. The county has $4,000 peo-
pie.
Total civil cases in the county
and this includes divorces asked
were 80, an increase from last
years 298, and up just slightly
from 309 in 1852. Criminal cases
total q down from last years 81
and % in 1852. A number of these
are appeals from convictions for
driving while intoxicated.
There are 18 civil cases at issue
waiting for a jury term. A num-
Der will be settled before court
convenes likely in February.
Months with the most marriage
licenses granted this year were
June with 25 and July with 80.
Having the least were January and
Hungry Horse news., 1954-12-31
Falls CarIoadines Reflect Active Year

Most active year in the history
',of Columbia Falls is reflected in
Great Northern incoming and out
going shipments.
The years total outgoing freight
cars Of lumber have topped $500
or 26 100-car trains. Incoming car
loads, mostly construction mater
ials and equipment for the Ana
conda Aluminium plant were at the
1850 mark Thursday.
Result is that Columbia Falls is
considered the most active ship
ping point on the Great Northern
in the Kalispen division between
Havre and the Spokane area.
Record year of 1854 compares
with the previous record year Of
1858 when total outgoing lumber
shipments were 1893 carloads,
mostly lumber, and incoming car
loads, 57s, mostly for the alurni-
mum plant.
In 1947 Columbia Fails had rec
ord lumber shipments up until
that time with a total Of 779 car
loads. Incoming cars in a typical
good year was 55 for 1852.
Carloadings reflect themselves
in jobs in and near Columbia Falls.
Local mills are turning out rec
ord 85,0O0,0O0 to 100000 board
feet of lumber this year repre-
senting 225,000 man days of en-
ployment and payrolls of $780,
BOO for the year, including woods
operations.
At the Anaconda Aluminium Co.
1lant two miles east of Columbia
Falls employment for three months
opped 1000 and now is at a win
er level of 1,156. Construction
ayrolls this past fall reached
100000 month.
Over half the lumber shipped
rom the Flathead this year was
nilled in Columbia Falls. The city
f 1900 to 1000 was also the cen
er Of construction payrolls that
Exceeded $5,000,O00 this year.
At the same time the Martin
lumber industry has
cen growing. Mills there ship
trough Columbia Falls and Cor
m.
Hungry Horse news., 1954-12-31
Mcdonald Shore
Sink Not Caused
By Earthquake

WEST GLACIER = Shorelint
sinking of a $50 to 200-foot sec
tion of Lake Mcdonald in Glacier
National Park is believed to be
the result of Snyder creek per-
collation. through lakeshore gravel.
M. E. Beatty, Glaciers chief ma
turalist, checked the seismograph
film at the Hungry Horse station,
and there is no indication of an
earthquake cause.
However there is a geologic
fault that runs through the upper
end of Lake Mcdonald and con-
tinues northerly on the west side
of the park. At times the Hungry
Horse seismograph has indicated
slight tremors along this fault, but
practically none have been severe
enough to be noticed by residents.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Fabian, win
ter caretakers at Lake Mcdonald
hotel, Dec. 81 about $3.50 pm,
heard a sharp noise. They went
outside, saw nothing and heard
no more.
Next morning, Fabian walking
along the lakeshore noticed that
the boat house was missing. He
walked over and found that a $50
to 200-foot section of shore line
had sunk mostly straight down.
District Ranger Bud EStey was
called, and he reported that the
section was up to 20 feet wide and |
had sunk approximately 10 feet
down into the water.
Big cottonwood trees still erect
were out in the lake with their
branches up above water. Beaver
were already at work stripping
branches for food.
Mcdonald is largest lake in Gla-
,ier. 1t is ten miles long, up to
.hree miles wide, and its deepest
point offshore where the slide oc-
,urred is down 400 feet.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fabian are former
Great Falls residents. He worked
or the Great Northern in the
hops there, and last summer went
o work for the Glacier Park Co.,
Is engineer at the hotel. Their son,
lynn Fabian lives in Great Falls.
Hungry Horse news., 1954-12-31
Use MoiI to Order
'55 License Plates

KALISPELL - Most efficien
way to obtain automobile plate
in the Flathead is to order b,
mail.
Nearly 300 orders have already
been received by Flathead county
treasurer's office for the 1855
plates, which go on sale at the
window, Jan. 3.
Mrs. Merlyn Emmert Taborsky
commented that the mail orders
seem to work out very well.
She outlines the four steps as
follows: (1) Send your 1854 regis
tration card. (2) Make out a check
to Flathead County Treasurer,
leaving amount blank. (3) Or send
money order or bank money
order of sufficient figure. A re-
fund will be made promptly of
amount not needed, and receipts
are sent.
Mrs. Taborsky asks that a sep
arate remittance be sent for driv-
er's license, if there is one expir-
ing soon. Month, day and year of
birth should be sent.
The 1854 license sales in the
Flathead are a record. Total tags
sold during 1854 up until Monday
were II, ,409 cars with 4,450 trucks.
1858 total sales were 1882 cars
and 4,312 trucks.
The new 1865 plates are red
with white numbers. Paint job on
this product of the State Prison
looks patchy. Next year aluminium
tags are to be used.
Where the mill levy was higher
this year, up 10 per cent in Col
umbia Falls and % per cent in dis
trict 6, property tax on cars will |
be higher. However assessed worth
of year older car is down and |
may about equal tax increases in
many cases.
Hungry Horse news., 1954-12-31
jan. 3 10 See New
County Officers

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ers in Flathead county court house
Jan. will include Harley Hous-
ton (D), Kalispell, and Henry Ir-
win, CRY, Whitefish, county COM
missioners succeeding Wallace
Monk, (R), Kalispell, and Charles
Luke (D), Whitefish. Holdover
member of the commission is Reu
Carr (R), Creston.
Dick Knowles (D), deputy coun-
ty treasurer, will move down.
stairs to become county auditor
succeeding Iver S. Iverson (R).
Sol Catron (D), succeeds Harry
Campbell (R), as county coroner
with the office continuing at Wag-
gener and Campbell Funeral
Home.
Other new office holder doesn't
take over until IL noon, March Z.
Mrs. Freda Shanahan (D), White
fish, becomes county treasurer on
that date succeeding Mrs. Merlyn
Emmert Taborsky (R).
Reelected last November to
a two year term was Ed Schroeder
(R), county attorney, while the
law provides four year terms for
others on the ballot that were re-
elected. They are Sheriff Dick
Walsh (D); Lulu Barnard (R),
county superintendent; A. ]. Shaw
(D), county clerk; T. A. Tascher-
eau (D), county engineer; Grant
Campbell (R), county assessor, and
W. t. LAWN (R), public admins
traitor.
That leaves Jacie Willis (D),
clerk of court, and Judge Dean
King who serves both the Flat
head and Lincoln county district.
These positions are filled during
years lin 1866.
Representing the Flathead at
Helena will be new state senator,
Charles Jellison (R), who succeeds
G. M. Moss (R). Return
ng are three Republican incum-
,ents, Dry Armstrong, Fred Broe-
Ter and Clifford Haines with
George Siderius (D) a newcomer
aking the place of Robert Sykes
RI, not a candidate.
The two new commissioners
will receive $12 day. Holdover,
leu Carr, gets the old wage of
10 day, the rate when he was
lected.
The other county officers will ,
ct $3,820 a year, an increase from
$500. This results from the coun-
US valuation and population in
rease, according to law.
The county engineer gets a per |
lem wage which together with
aad supervisor results in wage c
f $12 a day plus mileage. The ]
1roner is paid on a fee basis of q
a day when he serves. The clerk L
court salary remains at $500 v
nee the office was filled for four L
ears two years ago. 7
Hungry Horse news., 1954-12-31
Home Asks Moin
BIdo. RemodeIinq

Montana Soldiers Home is ask
ing the state legislature for $685.
900 to either remodel the solo
main' building or erect new
structure.
Commander Vern Kelly points
out that there are "a residents al
the Home with waiting list for
admission. The Home is filled to
capacity, and the old building is
not suitable or safe to use.
Soldiers Home appropriations
for 1953-54 was $77,143 and $751;
143 for 1954-55. Being asked for
the next biennium is $75,715 a year
plus $125,000 for new construction
or remodeling.
Repairs were made during the
past two years to the heating plant
and roofs.
Hungry Horse news., 1954-12-31
Sierra Club Plans
IS Park Outing

WEST GLACIER-Information
has been received here that the
Sierra club of California is plan
ming To-day hiking trip through
the southeastern part of Glacier
National Park next summer.
The group will enter the park
near Fielding up the Flathead's
Middle Fork and include the up
per Two Medicine drainage. Pack
horses will transport camping
equipment and supplies for the
hikers.
Last summer 145 members of the
club took the North Circle trip
in the park from Many Glacier to
Waterton lake and Browns pass.
Hungry Horse news., 1954-12-31
Scouts Have Winter
Camp i'm Glacier

WEST GLACIER-There were
155 boy scouts from Western Mon
tana attending a winter camp
Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday
at Glacier National Park Head
quarters.
In charge of the II to 18 year
olds assisted by eight leaders was
Raleigh w. Smedley, Missoula,
western Montana scout executive.
He said the boys came from Ham
ilton, Missoula, Bonner, Alberton,
Charlo, Poison, Somers, Lakeside,
st. Ignatius, Creston, Kalispell,
Whitefish, West Glacier, Coram
Columbia Falls and Libby.
They arrived Monday afternoon
and left Wednesday afternoon.
Most of them were quartered in
the park conference training hall
with other buildings also used.
The schedule included a wildlife
and naturalist program with Don
park naturalist in
charge. There was also tree and
plant identification, mapping and
reading and lessons in
Rangers assisted.
Tuesday afternoons recreation
included skating at Lake
five and skiing near West Glacier.
The camp originally was plan
led for 100. Attendance was 155.
Claire Story, Kalispell, field ex-
cutive, was unable to attend. He !
S laid up with a broken pelvis /
'one received when a saddle turn
d while he was riding horseback. ]
Hungry Horse news., 1954-12-31
Tot Arriues While
Parents VISITING

/. MARTIN CITY-Alvirda Irene
Hartley, daughter of Mr.. ano
Mrs. Bill Hartley, Lake Five is
Martin City's Christmas baby of
1854.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hartley with son,
Gawaine, 2, arrived at Joe With
row home in Martin City Christ
mas morning at 10:15 to spend the
day and have dinner.
Forty-five minutes later, Alvir-
da Irene Hartley was born. Mr.
Hartley and Mrs. Withrow assist
ed in the absence of a physician,
who arrived after baby was born.
Mother and the Christmas-day
youngster are doing fine.