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Hungry Horse news., 1955-09-02
Plant Construction
In Wind-Up Siege

Construction forces at the virtually
completed Anaconda Aluminium Co.
plant tumbled this week to AL from
722 a week ago and 1,104 a month
ago. Late September is to see the
construction wind-up except for a
small crew.
Meanwhile the operational force
is virtually at $50 at the new, plant
that started aluminium prodaption
Aug. IL and made It's first ship
|fnents Aug. Is.
Foley Constructors, the plants
general contractors, along with
principal subcontractors, Donovan
Construction Co., has 1863 men work
ing down from $50 last week. B. and
L. Painters, Missouri, finished their
contract.
The AAC field construction force
dropped from IS last week to Is
this, and Mclaughlin, Inc, paving
crew force from 43 to %; Fischbach
and Moore joint venture electrical
contractors has 80 men down from
50 last week, and Westinghouse has
the same four.
Two of the four potrooms at the
plant are in aluminium production
with the balance of the plant coming
in this fall. Full production is pegged
for Jan. l. Plant capacity is 60,0Oo
tons of aluminium year.
Hungry Horse news., 1955-09-02
N. F. Auto Coruvun

WATERTON LAKES The Water
ton Lakes Chamber of Commerce is
considering sponsorship of an auto
mobile caravan trip from Corbin, B.
C. across the Canadian line down the
Flathead's North Fork into the
Flathead valley.
Previously horseback ride from
Waterton over Akamina pass-route
of the proposed highway-was plan
ned. The auto caravan is viewed as
more practical method of public
izing a new route to Waterton and
Canada, commented George Baker,
president of the Waterton Lakes
Chamber of Commerce.
Bridge across the North Fork just
across the Canadian line is reported
as repaired and passable.
Hungry Horse news., 1955-09-02
Weather Good for Harvest

Flathead county was experiencing
ideal harvesting weather and an av-
erage crop this week. It is dry and
warm.
Both James Gustin, president of
KalispeI Feed and Grain Co. and
Walter Hetland, elevator manager
for Equity Supply Co. feel the grain
harvest is from half to two-thirds
completed, and should be essentially
over next week.
Crop yields are running from 20
to 60 bushels an acre. Yields were
termed by both men as about Is
per cent less than year ago, but
the protein content is the highest in
several years, and the weight of the
wheat good, running 81 and 62 pounds
per bushel.
The 1855 spring was late, and then
a disastrously dry June followed.
Late June and July were excellent
for crops.
Gustin commented that he felt the
northwest part of the county was
harmed most by the June dry wea.
Their, and southeast section, the least
damaged
! Sections of eastern Montana, mean
while, are completing harvest o.
generally excellent crops.
The Montana Weekly Weather ane
Crop Bulletin says: Some low yield.
have been noted in small widel!
scattered areas, but all county yield
are running average or above witt
the predominance above average"
Hungry Horse news., 1955-09-02
Council Meeting
Set For TUesduv

Columbia Falls city council will
hold their September meeting Tues
day evening at instead of Monday,
which is Labor Day.
Topics before the council will in
clude setting the mid-November
election date on the question of the
$12,500 bond issue to pay for the
grade survey now in progress. The
survey is viewed as necessary be-
fore sidewalks and permanent type
streets as well as sewers and other
improvements can be built.
Another question slated for the
ballot in November is the lin a
pen or on a leash" dog ordinance
adopted by the council followed by
a petition which stopped enactment
and places the issue on the ballot
at the next city election.
Third question for the ballot is
that of three-way land exchange
involving the ball park, the old Col
umbus school block and purchase by
Plum Creek Lumber Co. of tract
near the new high school site. De.
tails of this exchange may not be
worked out in time for this question
to be placed before the voters.
Hungry Horse news., 1955-09-02
Naturalist Program
Concluding Season

WEST GLACIER-In the wind-up
stage is the 1855 naturalist program
in Glacier National Park. 80
August with % of its 81 days clear
encouraged increased participation
in naturalist-conducted trail hikes,
commented M. E. Beatty, chief park
naturalist.
Final activity in the naturalist pro-
gram at Many Glacier is Sept. 8
with the last boat and trail trip to
Grinnell lake and final evening talk.
The information office at Sun
Point closes Sept. 10 and the last
evening talk will be held at st. Mary.
At Logan pass the final trail hike
conducted by naturalists to Hidden
lake is Sept. S and the information
service ceases Sept. 10.
Final evening talk at Lake Nc
Donald hotel is scheduled for Sept,
or IL, with the final overnight hike
to Sperry chalets Aug. "a and the
last all-day hike to Granite Park
Sept. /. However Sperry chalets re-
main open until Sept. and Gran
lite Park chalet until Sept. Is.
Last evening campfire talk at the
new Apgar amphitheatre is Sept.
and the last activity by naturalist
at Two Medicine Sept. 2.
Beatty with Don Robinson, parl
naturalist, are aided in the summer
by IL ranger naturalists, who dur
ing the other nine months are col
lege or high school science teachers
or graduate students in natural sci
enceS.
Both Beatty and Robinson may b.
contacted after the summer seasol
activities cease at Park Headquar
| tiers.
Hungry Horse news., 1955-09-02
School Bells Ring tuesday, Wednesday

School days resume in District 6
Tuesday and Wednesday.
Tuesday morning at 9 will see Col
umbia Falls high school students reg
lister with dismissal at noon. Wed
nesday, the high school students are
scheduled to start regular classes.
The districts grade school stud
ents are to register Wednesday at
8 a. m. and be dismissed at noon.
Buses will run.
District elementary teachers are
to meet Tuesday morning at $50 at
Columbia Falls grade school with
high school teachers joining the
meeting Tuesday afternoon, announc-
ed Supt. Dulane Fulton. The district
has 81 teachers.
Glasses will not be held Friday in
order that students may attend the
Northwest Montana Fair in KaliS-
pell.
Last year Columbia Falls high
school enrolment was 279 on open
ing day and topped 300 in two weeks.
Total enrollments showed a 10 per
cent increase over the previous fall,
and increased to more than 1000
grade school students in district.
Present indications are that the
total enrolment may be somewhat
less than last fall in view of Ana
cOnda Aluminium Co. plant construc-
ton being nearly completed. How
ever there is still a housing short
age in Columbia Falls and the city
is growing.
The list of faculty members was
published in last weeks Hungry
Horse News.
Hungry Horse news., 1955-09-02
Falls Has Bridge
And Dump Fires

A careless smoker early Wednes-
day evening threatened the Red
bridge across the Flathead river.
Columbia Falls volunteer firemen
answered a call at 7:10 and found
fire covering about a square foot
in the planking toward the middle
of the bridge. TWAS easily put out.
Major local fire problem during
the last days of August, a month
completely without rain, was the
dumpground. The fire truck was
called to the dump just after 10 p.
m. Tuesday. The whole dump was
on fire and tossing burning particles
into the nearby brush. A half dozen
firemen and the truck stayed out
until a. m. Wednesday. CHIEF
Howard Greene then arranged with
Chauncey Beebe, Jr. to stay on the
spot through the night. Roy Anders
with the school dozer was given ar
emergency call and stayed on un
til 2 a. m. helping control the fire
The dumpground still smoulderins
little Wednesday was being watch
ed and was believed safe.
Cause of the fire at the dump i.
not known. It may have startet
from hot ashes or sun shinin,
through glass.
A call last Friday was to the Bill
Good residence, but the polio,
chief got the fire out and informe,
the firemen before the truck lief
the city hall.
A grass fire near the Great North
ern section house, Aug. Is occurre
when the firmen were holding thei
weekly meeting. The grass fire wa
put out and the meeting was re
sumed.
Greene urges residents of tn
area to be unusually careful in viev
of dry conditions, long, cured gras
and other fire factors.
j The hay crop is unusually thic
in view of wet early July days an
a definite threat to property exist
Greene added.
Hungry Horse news., 1955-09-02
Oil Men Up N F.

POLEBRIDGE - Two representa-
tives OF Standard Oil Co. subsidiary
were in the North Fork of the Flat
head area for ten days leaving Mon
day.
The men were interested in the
Gil industry Of TIE drainage, where
in 1928 Pacific Petroleum Co.
drilled well just north of the Can.
adam border down 10000 feet Oil
prospecting in the drainage dates
back SO years.
Hungry Horse news., 1955-09-02
II Register For
Falls First Grade

Pre-school registration for Column
bia Falls first graders Thursday
morning saw a turnout of Al, reports
Supt. Dulane Fulton.
Friday morning from $50 to 1870
will see pre-school registration for
first graders continue in Columbia
Falls, and also be held at Hungry
Horse, Martin City, Coram, West
Glacier and Apgar. Early registra-
ton will not be held at Essex.
Fulton reminded parents that all
first graders must be six years OLD
by Oct. Is, 1855, and birth certlfl-
Gates are required.
Hungry Horse news., 1955-09-02
Set Plant Union Hearing for Sept. 9

A Friday, Sept. 9 hearing at 10
a. m has been called by the Nat
ional Labor Relations Board on pet
ition of the Aluminium Workers AT
of L.
The public hearing will be held
at the Flathead county court house
with representatives of unions and
management attending.
The AT of L in requesting the
hearing informed National Labor
Relations Board office at Seattle
that they represented more than rs
per cent of the hourly employees at
the new Anaconda Aluminium Co.
plant.
Originally the hearing was set for
Sept. 8. Pat Reilly, international
representative for the AT of L, was
contacted by telephone by a NLRB
official, and informed that the CLIO
Steelworkers had requested delay.
A delay of one day was granted.
The notice of hearing in Kalispell
was signed by Thomas P. Graham
Jr., Seattle, regional director for
the National Labor Relations Board
In order to request hearing 8
union must show that it represents
80 or more per cent of the employee:
at a plant.
When an election is held to de
termine the bargaining agent eacl
union that can prove it has signat
ures of 10 per cent or more of tn
plant employees can be on the ballot
| In addition to the AT of L, TIL
| CIO SteelworkerS and Internationa
Union 81 Mine, Mil and Slnelte
y Workers have offices in Columbi
Falls.
1 The notice of hearing also states
Although we are issuing notice Q
formal hearing-this does not mea
that this case may not be dispose
; of informally by consent election. -
Reilly explained that if all partie
, including the Anaconda Aluminium
Co. agree, an immediate electio
; can be held with secret ballot, an
the bargaining agent for the plar
( picked He said that this was tn
: wish of the AT of L.
r Factors favoring an earlier cleo
ion include the matter of determil
) ing pay scales at the plant. The n
cent general wage increases ar
S not apt to apply at the Columbi
S Falls plant until such time as tt
h bargaining agent is certified. MIR
: regulations prohibit wage increase
S during the time a plant is being o
e ganized.
J. Reilly concluded that as soon ;
union is certified as the ba
f gaining agent, the present series
/. wage increases would soon tai
y effect.
d New AT of L scale at the Reynolt
# plant at Longview is laborers, 81 {
hour; car unloaders, $208; pas
+ plant dolly operator, $2.16; castir
IS man, $2.1915; room craneman, S.
D 281s; potroom tender, $2.28Az; ia
ping crew, $2.281z; head tappil
crewman, $685.; mechanics, S.
St 561z.
d Laborers went up liz cents ;
v. hour.
Hungry Horse news., 1955-09-02

KALISPELL - Flathead county
passenger car license sales are at
record levels in this county of $4,000
people.
Mrs. Freda Shanahan, county trea-
surer, Wednesday afternoon said
that 1902 car licenses have been
sold so far this year compared with
IL 1888 for all of last year. Truck lie
ense sales total 1854 compared to
4,552 for all Of last year.
Hungry Horse news., 1955-09-02
FIotheud Valuation
Takes New Jump
(LaSaIle folks, please note
last Two naraurAnhsl

KALISPELL-Flathead county's
assessed valuation was boosted over
the SIS, 000, 900 mark by an increase
in Northwest Airlines assessment.
When time came for Flathead
budgeting and setting levies, North
vests assessment figures were not
available. The Airline was appeal
ing its case to the State Board of
Equalization. Without 1855 figures
for the Airline, Flathead County
Assessor Grant Campbell used 1854
Airline assessment figures.
Northwest had appealed a new
law that put a 40 per cent instead of
20 per cent tax base for their assess
ment.
Word has been received by Camp
bell from Helena-after the 1855
levies we're set-that Northwest
assessed valuation in the Flathead
is $74,569 with a tax base of $29, 1923
compared to last years $22,395 full
valuation with a tax base of 81, 479.
There was also other slight adjust
ments in determining the new total
assessment for the county.
The new Flathead county valuat
ion as result stands at $40 ,054, 28$
with tax base of so, 637, 464 com
pared to last years So, 261 1857 witt
| a tax base of $l7, 705. 800. Anaconda
aluminium Co. with Vi valuation o
SIG, zoe, 44O and tax base of A,663,
$50 accounts for most of the increase
Second largest taxpayer is the Grea
Northern with a $1,000, 900 valuation
Last year Anaconda Aluminium Co
full valuation was $2,662, 45O.
Change in the Northwest Airline
valuation means little to Flathea'
county totals percentagewise.
However there's one school dis
trict that benefits. No. 40 LaSalle
as result has a new valuation @
| $445, 1894 with tax base of $136, 68
compared to 1898, 583 with tax has
of $1O5, 1853 last year.
All the levies have been set. Las
weeks Hungry Horse News carrie
the complete list of total levies b
/ school districts and cities. LaSall
is slated to have a larger cash ba
ance as result of their new valua
ion, and it indicates a lower lev
will raise more money for the ali
port area folks school next yea
This year it's just more money fe
the kitty" since budget and levie
are already completed.
Hungry Horse news., 1955-09-02
Falls Police Problem:
Homes for Dogs

Columbia Falls residents who want
homes for dogs are asked to con-
tact Bill Good, chief of police.
Good also asks that families leav-
ing Columbia Falls, and want
homes for their pets to contact nm.
Problem is families moving away
and just leaving their dogs to make
their own way.
There is also one half-grown tom
cat that needs home.
Hungry Horse news., 1955-09-02
To Measure Girth Of
GrinneII Glacier

MANY GLACIER-Grinnell glac-
ier, second largest ice mass in Glac-
Ter National Park, will be measured
again starting Tuesday.
Participating in the annual sur
vey of the $50 acre ice mass-equi-
valent of 70 city blocks-will be
Arthur Johnson, Washington, D. c.,
glacier specialist for the U. S. Geo.
logical survey; M. E. Beatty, Glac
ier's chief park naturalist, and Nat
uralist Don Robinson.
Last weeks Hungry Horse News
contained picture story of Grinnel
glacier and coming survey trip.
Hungry Horse news., 1955-09-02

WEATHER forecast: Fair Thurs
day and Friday except for high
thin ice" clouds. No important
Temperature change Predicted high
81 Thursday, low 40, high Friday
IS.
Highs and lows Of week: Aug. Is,
7444, Friday 1886, Saturday 1884
Sunday 78-46, Monday 83-45, Tues.
day 91-47, Wednesday 9047.
Precipitation: Trace on Aug. Is.
Hungry Horse news., 1955-09-02
August, FIotheod's
Driesf on Record
Into the reel.

The whole month of August in the
Flathead produced just trace of
precipitation at Flathead county air.
port. The date was Aug. Is, reports
Weather Observer Ray Hall.
This is the driest August since re-
cords started in 1899.
There was just one other compar-
able dry month in these S. years,
Hall continued. It was October, 1907
with trace.
The dry weather has aided the
harvest, threatened the forests and
dried up pastures.
August normally has Ill inches
at Flathead county airport. The
whole mountain area has been dry.
Missoula reported .02 of an inch
in August. Jumbo lookout in the
wilderness area had is of an inch
and Walton Essex .O4 of an inch
as the areas wettest August spots.
Most locations recorded none.
August temperatures were char
acterized by warm days and cool
nights a cause in part of the dry
weather. The month turned out tC
be 6 of a degree below normal.
Spotty frost was reported Aug. 26
and q with readings So and "a a
airport, but at the Powell airWay!
station across the LaSalle road from
the airport the readings were 3.
and %. In Columbia Falls itself
there has been no frost damage re
ported.
Coolest August reading was 33 il
August, 1949
1t appears that the recent Angus
was the clearest month on record
There were % clear days, and tw
partly cloudy. Normal is II clear
9 partly cloudy and II cloudy. Hal
said.
Halls conclusion was that if W
are to have have dry weather, thi
is the time to have it except fc
the fire danger and pastures.
The Flathead's summer that o.
dinarily has seven days with {
or above readings, this summer hi
had nine. There was June q an
% with 80 and IS, July Is, 16 ar
II with 90, "a and IS, Aug. 6,
and 81 with 81, 81 and 50.
First three weeks of last Jul
had but 81 of an inch. Month ends
with sos inches compared to q.
inches normal at airport for til
wettest Flathead month. Last Ju
had 1.32 inches compared to Lie
ches normal. Other recent d
months include September 1913 wi
10 of an inch and September 1e
with IL. Normal is 100 inches.
Hungry Horse news., 1955-09-02
Forest Fire Danger
Acute in FIufheud

KALISPELL-F1athead National
Forest this Week-as q result of the
whole month of August without rain
has the highest fire danger in
four years.
Extreme caution was urged by
Forest Supv. F. j. Neitzling.
Carter Helseth, forest dispatcher,
said that fire danger Ton the new
scale) reached So for the forest with
a high of 70 at Spotted Bear.
Federal regulations prohibit snok-
ing in the national forest at this
time, and operators in the forest
are supposed to designate safe
places for smoking and cooking
fires.
Recent fires are as follows:
Aug. Is, Haskell creek, Tally Lake
district, smoker started.
Aug. 26, Lagoni lake, Tally Lake
district, lightning.
Aug. 26, William Hirst ranch six
miles south of Condor ranger stat
ion where the home and two other
buildings burned.
Aug. 80, Bouen creek, Tally Lake
district, sawdust pile fire.
j Flathead National Forest fires
now total 26, all of the recent fires
we're class A, less than a fourth
acre. Only one fire-Condon dis
trict Aug 8, chain saw started wa.
: class B. 1t burned an acre. Of tn
!, 26 fires, II were lightning strikes
the balance, man caused.
Morning papers bring reports o
major fires in the Missoula area
Forty smoke jumpers Wednesda.
dropped on a rs acre blaze lashet
by winds about IL miles north o
Avando up the Blackfoot.
A fire in the upper Salmon rive
( drainage Wednesday morning wa
! reported at two acres and blew u
7 to 100 acres that night.
Hungry Horse news., 1955-09-02
More Bldg. Permits

Columbia Falls building permit to-
tai for the year 1855 increased ST.
600 this week to $685. 1856 for the year
so far. This compares with total
of $253, 1895 for all of 1854.
Applying for permits this week
were Einar Hanson, Robindale addi-
ton, $4,000 residence; P. T. Smith
ey, Fourth Avenue West, 5000 re-
modelling residence; B. l. Gratner,
Kennedy addition, 81 900 remodelling
residence, and H. L. Barnhart, 10
Second Avenue West, 81 900 garage.
Hungry Horse news., 1955-09-02
Guided Trips

Visitors are being taken through
the new AAC plant at 10 a. m. and
2 p. m. on hour-long guided tours.
Les Storie is the guide Tours are
made five days a week and Satur-
day morning Only persons over
IA may take the trips.
Hungry Horse news., 1955-09-02

KALISPELL-Tax sheets those
sent taxpayers starting Nov. l.
are being printed by the Flathead
county treasurer's office. Assigned
to preparing the tax notices are
Merlyn Emmert and Margaret
Blanchard.
Hungry Horse news., 1955-09-02

Columbia Falls stores in most
cases and cry offices will be closed
Monday in observance Of Labor Day.
Kodiak mirror., 1955-11-05
BASE HOSPITAL BIRTHS

Mich John, 6 lbs. B ozs., Octo- Der 26 to Beverly Jeanne and Ro- bert Lewis Galanis, SN.
 David oger, ' lbs. 10 ozs., Octo- Der 27 to Ruth Elizabeth and Rod ger B. Wolfram, LCDR.
 Kenneth James, lbs. 21s ozs., October 29 to Nadine IsabelI and James Frederick Eckrnan, ENC.
Kodiak mirror., 1955-11-05

inc was the Perch" It was on T D, preparatory cruise, in conjunction with rnanauyers to be held. It was not supposed to be sighted.
Kodiak mirror., 1955-11-05
Alert eiaa4 Spot $ Sub

Gil Jarvela, pilot for the K Kodiak Airways, spotted a submarine m Ugak Bay last week. He reported it to Kodiak via radio.
 The. Navy disclosed the snbmar-
Kodiak mirror., 1955-11-05
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F Today Saturday

Fsae Today T Saturday vta7
 Lloyd Bridges, Vera Miles and Margaret Sheridan head the cast of Allied Artists Pride of the Blue Grass which opens today at the Orpheum.
 It is a heart-warming exciting and romantic drama, of what takes place behind the scenes at horse race tracks. It is in full color.
 Sunday and Monday
 The sensational book that reveal ed to the world that space travel can be realized has been turned in to an electrifying movie. It is Para mounts Conquest of Space, which opens tomorrow.
 Based on the startling work by noted astronomers Chesley Bone stell and Willy Ley, the Techni- color thriller is a giant step be- yond the realm of Science-fiction.
 Conquest of Space" is said to be more than fascinating look at the mechanics of space travel. It is the remarkable story of the men for whom the machines were built = of their rigorous training, their personalities as the training re- veals them, their private lives, their families, their hopes and fears on the eve of light toward an adventure no man has ever faced before.
 Produced by George Pal, the film is the outstanding story of mans first space station and his first interplanetary flight. A fas- cinating step beyond the realm of science-fiction, Conquest of Space" is the thrilling dramatiza- ton of the biueprints of the space laboratories, true to the most up to-date findings science has made on space travel.
 Tuesday and Wednesday
 A gay, sophisticated comedy built around the female of the species perpetual quest to main tain youth is Paramount's For ever Female" which is the next offering on the local theatres screen. Il. has a super top-notch cast which is headed by Ginger Rogers, William Holden and Paul Douglas with James Gleason and Pat Crowley. The picture is said to deliver charming and delight full bit of entertainment. The story is played against Broadway legi- innate theatre background and concerns an aging actress, Ginger Rogers, who won't own up to the fact. N.
 The original play was written by James M. Barrie. -
 Thursday and Friday
 The shocking thriller, Phantom of the Rue Morgue," has been brought to the screen by Warner Bros. and opens in Kodiak Thurs day.
 Based on the classic. mystery, Murders in the Rue Morgue," by Edgar Allen Poe, the suspenseful film drama stars Karl Maiden, Claude Dauphin, Patricia Medina and Steve Forrest
 Action of the film revolves about the terror loosed upon the city of Paris by a gargantuan phantom whose physical strength coupled with an illusive cunning brings panic to the populace.
 The film is in color. Roy Del Ruth directed it and Henry Blanke pro duced.
Kodiak mirror., 1955-11-05

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