davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Hungry Horse news. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1948-current, 1955-12-30
Revolver Bullet
Hits Local Boy

Another case of boys playing with
q gun that was supposed to be un-
loaded resulted in Tommy Bertino,
1l-year-old son Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Louis Bertino, Columbia Falls, being
injured.
The 70 bullet from q revolver
entered Tommy's stomach and tore
a corner of his liver, and then went
through his left arm. The boy was
operated on at Kalispen general
hospital Tuesday afternoon, and is
recovering
Tommy and three brothers were
playing with the revolver.
Columbia Falls ambulance ans
wered the call Immediately, ant
the boy was taken to the hospita
within few minutes. Both Column
binr Falls physicians answered tn
call.
Hungry Horse news. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1948-current, 1955-12-30
1855 Weather Adds
UP Disagreeable

1855 adds up to one of the most
disagreeable weather years in Flat
head history.
Ray Hall, federal observer at Flat
head county airp1-t. said Thursday
that 1855 was the secUnd coolest
year since weather records started
in 1899. Only 1916 was, colder. The
year had q days with zero or below
readings, 1916 had IS. Average Flat
head winter has IL such days.
March, May and November each
were colder than any other March,
May and November on record. March
departure was 1913 degrees below
normal, May, ST. degrees, and No
vember 9.3 degrees. November tenn
peratures went below zero for the
first time for any November since
1885, and there were seven Sub-zer0
readings. Coolest reading of year
was II below March S, record low
for March day, but not winter
day. November 16 and II were IA
below.
Temperature mean for the year
was 4O.2 degrees leverage of all
high and low daily readings. Nor
NAL is 49, degrees. In 1916 it was
1872 degrees. Annual 1855 maximum
temperature average was 51.2 de-
grees 3.3 degrees below normal and
average minimum, 1872 degrees for
81 degrees below normal. s'<'
The summer had ten 80 or above
days compared to seven in an or
binary summer. Warmest June day
on record was June % with IS.
Every month of 1855 was colder
than normal except for January ant
June.
Total precipitation for the yea
stands at 1888 inches compared t.
1876 inches at the airport. Dire
months than normal were January
March, April, May and August wit
the rest above average. The frs
three weeks of June-importan
growing season weeks had but 2
Of an inch rainfall, then heavy rain
came.
Most pleasant time of the year wa
the month of August, driest on n
cord. There was just trace OF pr
cipitation.
The high country had a heav
snowfall over the July 4 holda,
Snow blocked Logan pass briefly.
Hungry Horse news. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1948-current, 1955-12-30

lighted his many trends. Then can
Ger struck. Steve seemed to linger
on. Even in these last days, he
amazed nurses AMI friends. The
spark just wouldn'tlea
Survivors are a daughter, Mrs
Ernest (Bernice) Crdwell, Orange
Calf, three grandchildren; nieces
Mrs. Tom Lee, Columbia Falls, Mrs
William Lee, Chen0, WASH, anc
Mrs. Amelia Vinante. Milford, Mass;
Inephews, George Zrzie, Columbis
Falls, Frank Zorzie. Orinda, Calf.
and Julio Zorzie, Mford, Mass.
The body is at Jhnson Funera
Home.
Rosary is Tentatively scheduled fol
st. Richards Sundayevening.
Hungry Horse news. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1948-current, 1955-12-30
District & Shoots
Resume Monday

Christmas vacationis nearly over
and it's back to schbl Monday for
Students in District 8 Other schools
in the county resume classes Tues.
day.
Supt. Dulane Fulton said that the
Monday opening of SHOOT on Jan
? is to fulfill state requirements fol-
humber of school days, while pro
Fiding a longer Eastel vacation.
Monday is legal holiday will
most offices and busiiess firms Il
be closed.
Hungry Horse news. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1948-current, 1955-12-30
To Glue Slide Talks
On Mission &C.

WEST GLACIER-An illustrated
slide talk on mission &C." the Ma
tional Park Service development
program planned for 1856 through
1865 is to be given during winter and
spring months. Harry Robinson. Ola
cier National Park chief naturalist,
heads this phase locally.
Glaciers Supt. j. w. Emmert
commented that the park was inter-
ested in obtaining speaking engage
ment dates before service and other
clubs to present the Mission IS"
talks.
Hungry Horse news. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1948-current, 1955-12-30
Gambling Makes
n e udin es

Flathead gambling will have tenn
porary curtailment as result of an
Olsen letter to Flathead county Of
ficialS.
This has happened before. Mon
tana'S attorney general, who has
considerable support among the
people opposed to gambling, wrote
County Attorney Ed Schroeder and
Sheriff Dick Walsh that his office
had received complaints of gam
bling in the Flathead.
Procedure is for Olsen to forward
this information to the county at
|torney and sheriff.
The Flathead's county attorney
and sheriff, both presently out Of
the county, should be making 8
joint statement shortly. This viii
also get headlines. However, M
great lasting changes are expected
Result meanwhile is expected t
be pinball machines and punch
! boards temporarily removed ant
card games curtailed for a time.
} There is political implication il
the Olsen action with the election
: year approaching. Olsen is a poten
tial candidate for governor. He won
! get any support from tavern opera
: tors, who seem to prefer forme
e Governor John w. Bonner. This er
dorsement may not help Bonner
He would do better with Wet
) blessing.
+ Actually Olsen's office is not
h a position to do much about Fla
}. head gambling, which goes on
J, similar extent to that found in
J. number of Montana counties.
VI All things being equal little wi
come of the Olsen letter to the Fla
u head except to put local gamblir
s under wraps for few days. tt
4 take from gambling. is considerab
:. less now anyway since constructit
days are over. N
Hungry Horse news. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1948-current, 1955-12-30
Flotheod Marriages
Show Increase

KALISPELL-NumDer of Flathead
1855 marriages showed 10 per cent
increase over last year, and divorc-
es went up just under per cent.
Information obtained from Jacie
Willis, clerk of court, Dec. % show
ed 253 marriage licenses issued and
IS divorces granted this year. This
compares with 23O marriages last
year and 81 divorces. The county
has $4,000 people.
The Flathead has one divorce for
every four marriages.
Best marrying months were June
with IS and August with "a. Poorest
were January with 8, February and
April with II each and March with
Is. December so far had q licenses.
Total civil cases in the county
and this includes divorces asked
were 306 compared to $40 last year.
Criminal cases for 1855 total 81, an
increase from q last year. A num-
Der of these are appeals from con-
victions for driving while intoxicat-
ed.
A jury term of district court is
likely late this winter or early in
the spring.
The marrying years are the early
20s. These folks in their early 20's
today were born in the 1905 when
economic conditions resulted in
fewer children per family. A result
is fewer marriage licenses today.
Another five and six years will see
the increased number of babies of
the early 1940s reach the marriage
age. There will be more licenses,
more diamonds and more babies
says Kiplinger.
Miss Willis provided the following
tabulation of marriages and divorc-
es through the years.
Hungry Horse news. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1948-current, 1955-12-30

WEATHER foreeast-Fair Thurs
day and Friday except for possiol-
ity Of ground fog. Predicted high
Thursday 80, low 10, high Friday, 80.
hjqhs and lows q week: Dec. Y,
47-34, Friday 34-28. Saturday 4-lS,
Sunday 27-9, Monday 44-26, Tuesday
40-2c, Wednesday 26-10.
PRECIPITATION: December SO far
2.33 inches compared to 1.H inches
normal. Snow on ground at airport
3 inches, down from Is inches Dec.
10.
Hungry Horse news. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1948-current, 1955-12-30
Park Has Fifth Boom Travel Year

WEST GLACIER - For the fifth
straight year, Glacier National Park
in northwestern Montana attracted
more than a half million visitors.
Supt. j. w. Emmert reports the
1855 travel total as a record 674, O85
persons compared to 6O8,23O last
year, and the previous record of
633, 48O on 1858.
Glaciers total travel for 1855 ex-
ceeds the estimated 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
The 1856 travel figures show that
651, 721 visitors arrived in 1913, LAB
automobiles. There were also 1926
visitors who came Dy railroad; 1,095
by bus, and boat travel on Water
ton lake accounted for virtually all
the other 14,O33.
West Glacier has the most popu-
lar entrance to the park with 294, 739
visitors arriving in Sc, 344 cars; next
came St. Mary with PIG, 421 visitors
in 66,475 cars, followed by 76,240
entries in 23,670 cars at Many Glac.
Ter, and 1878 persons in 14,074
cars at Two Medicine.
A spot check at entrances from
Aug. 20 to 20 showed that most fire.
quently seen license plates were
from Montana and then from AL
berta.
MoNTANA-ALBERTA
/ Montana cars totaled 1,7O2 for thu
period with Alberta represented by
1865; Washington by 1853; Cali
f0rnia, 1908; Minnesota, 400; Brit
ish Columbia, 45O; Oregon, 400. Ev
cry state in the union had auto
mobiles in, Glacier during those nine
days though Mississippi had jus
8 and Vermont 1. There were car
from Alaska, Yukon and Northwes
Territories, Hawaii (9), Canal Zone
Cuba, Japan, West Indies, Austria
liza, Germany and Great Britain a
well.
Canadian travel to Glacier ha
been steadily increasing. The par
! borders Alberta and British Colun
bia.
II Value Of Glaciers more than ha
a million visitors in a summer
: the state of Montana was indicate
in cooperative study by the Blu
eau of Public Roads and Nations
Park Service. 1t was found thu
Glacier resulted in S12 1887, 773 bein
spent in Montana during a year.
! FAVORED ENTRANCE
Of Montana's 1902 cars enterin
: Glacier Aug. 20 through % ther
were 1,OO7 entering through Yves
Glacier, 572 through st. Mary, an
123 at Many Glacier.
s This same trend showed for Wasl
4 ington - 631 through West Glacie1
1913 through st. Mary and 54 at Man
q Glacier; and also for Minnesota
e 253 through West Glacier, 1856 I;
4 ST. Mary, and 81 at Many Glacie
IS and for Oregon - 224, West Glacie
!. 152, st. Mary and "a, Many Glacie
III That week in contrast saw S
Mary favored by Alberta, BIRTHS
,. Columbia and nearly $3.50 by Ca
il ifornia cars. Alberta cars showet
d West Glacier. 500; st. Mary, 81
Many Glacier SO; British Columb
g West Glacier, 1874; st. Mary, Is
If Many Glacier 10; California-We
" Glacier, 40; st. Mary, 434, al
Many Glacier, SO.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-28

A beautiful creature is Blackie, with
his pale green eyes, white whiskers,
black body and tail, and just bit OF
white at his throat and paws.
A real fighting tomcat, and yet when
he came in from tumbling white foe
down the back steps, and greeted the
indoor cats for the first time, he was
not afraid of them and did not make
them afraid of him.
This sudden transition, from the
warrior to the friend, was marvellous to
behold, and made the beholder wonder
why human beings could not do the
same.
Are human beings just animals try
ing to be men?
Mans wars are basically the same
as Blackie's encounters with the white
cat.
Within the last three years, hundreds
of white cats have appeared all over
Washington, but particularly in our
neighborhood.
Evidently these matters go by stages
and years. One time, all the house
cats in given neighborhood will be
tiger striped
Then will come preponderance Of
blacks
Now 1t is white.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-28
Thut Shack at District BUILDING

With reference to the controversy
over the Veterans Service Center, The
Stars stand should be supported by
everyone interested in the removal of
our war-born, dilapidated, temporary
buildings. The center, despite the re-
Gently applied coat of paint, is still a
diSreputable shack and an eyesore. If
the center is performing an essential
service. it seems as though the veterans
organizations (who have been vocif-
erous in its defense) would bend their
efforts toward finding and supporting
suitable permanent accommodations.
Perchance. suite in the American
Legion or VFW headquarters buildings
could be made available.
1t comes to mind that the same
organizations that now oppose tearing
down the center were wholeheatedly in
favor of the destruction of the tempo
which obstructed the view of the 1st
Division Memorial. Apparently, the
view of the District Building isn't con-
Sidered to be worth while Maybe the
veterans have something here, for the
exterior of that building is as grimy as
the Treasury Building once was. Qn-
cidentally. The Star Building could
also stand having its face scrubbed.)
At any rate. let's get along with the
slum clearance. and start with the
"ediflce" in our front yard.
Angus Sinclair.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-28
A Reoctor for Geneva

When scientists from all parts Of the
world, including Russia meet at Geneva
next August for the United Nations confer
ence on the peaceful uses of atomic energy,
they will see displayed and operating there
a full-scale American research reactor.
AS explained by Chairman Lewis L.
Strauss of the Atomic Energy Commission,
this impressive project-which will be the
first open international. demonstration OF
its kind in history-has been made possible
through the cooperation of the Swiss gov
eminent and U. N. Secretary General Dag
Hammarskjold. Unlike most exhibits, it will
not be static thing just standing there to
be looked at. Instead, the reactor Zone of
the so-called swimming poop' type) will
actually react, and although both it and
its fuel will be under the Aces custody at
all times, qualified scientists and technicians
attending the August meeting will be al
lowed to operate it with the intricate con-
trolls that start, maintain and stop nuclear
chain reaction.
In Mr.. Strauss words, this Is an under
taking that should add UNNECESSARILY to the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-28
Medical Advice for Visitors

Newcomers to Washington sometimes
need emergency medical attention, and
they are ignorant as to how and where
to obtain it. A good deal of confusion,
evaporation, worry and suffering could
be avoided If they were acquainted with
the fact that the Medical Society of
medical directory as public service.
1t is called 1.-The Medical Information
Bureau" telephone RE. 7-1600), and
operators are on duty around the clock
Newcomers should phone the bureau
and secure list of qualified family
doctors before the need for one arises.
They should call at the Office of a
doctor in their vicinity and make his
acquaintance, and tell him that they
want to be considered as his patients.
BY this means they identify themselves
and insure prompt response if and
when they are in need of his services,
day or night. You may depend upon
him to do everything necessary, be-
cause he appreciates his responsibility
and his limitations.
Because of the many more or less
valuable medical articles printed in
CuTFelI literature, MANY TeaQerS WHO
lack basic information on these matters
believe that they are capable of self
diagnosis, and when they are i'll they
consult the specialist whom they be-
lieve to be appropriate. They are, of
course, frequently wrong, so they guess
again; and after great expense of dis
comfort, time and money they may
find one who can relieve them. They
should, of course, have consulted the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-28
By Charles E. TroceweH
Donald +. Haynes.

foe toward the steps. and then with
a sudden rush knocks him down them
Usually this results in the complete
discontinue of the foe, usually the
white cat.
This white specimen is called Grand
Paw. not so much because he is the
great grandfather, the grandfather and
the father of so many but because OF
the sweeping way he uses his right paw.
1t is lie grand paw. as the French
might say. but wouldn't, of course; it
is paw that is gray, AS he is all over
White cats were never made for city
and suburban outdoors.
Yet you see them everywhere, now,
and there must be some reason for it.
Maybe the ice age will follow the
great explosions. and only the white
animals will survive, and crafty old
Nature, mother OF us all. knows it.
In that day, maybe not too far off
unless man mends his Ways the white
owls. white cats and polar bears will
fight it out for supremacy.
But what is this black shape coming
over the ice, with pale fiat green eyes,
and bit OF white at throat and paws?
tits Blackie, bless his fighting heart.
ready to tussle it out as of old with his
foe. the Grand Paw of the new universe.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-28
GA and the Parkway

House approval of appropriations for
extension of parks and parkwayS in the
Washington Metropolitan Area came as
officials were evidencing concern over
new factor that might disrupt part Of the
program. Included in the bill was $685.
900 item for purchase of rights of way for
new units of the George Washington Me-
mortal Parkway. Most of this money would
be used to buy land between Chain Bridge
and the proposed site of the new Central
Intelligence Agency headquarters near
Langley, Virginia.
The hitch is that the estimate Of cost
of the needed land was based on realty
values prevailing before it became publicly
known that the CHA was considering estab
fishing little Pentagon" in Fairfax Coun-
ty. If the CHA should decide definitely on
a location overlooking the upper Potomac,
the cost of land in that area inevitably
would soar rapidly. For many Of the
agency's thousands Of employees would begin
looking for homes or homesiteS near their
headquarters. Lesser projects by private
builders in Arlington County caused realty
prices to rise rapidly during the years that
land was being acquired for the down-river
sections of the parkway. Additional ap-
preparations had to be obtained from both
the Federal and Virginia governments to
assure purchase of the right of way through
Arlington County
This is an aspect of the CHA plans that
Government officials cannot well evade in
deciding on permanent site for the coun-
terespionage agency. Any Federal move
that would imperil completion of the George
Washington Memorial Parkway ought to be
avoided.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-28

losophy, politics, poetry, personalities
and pilgrimages.
Some provocative and memorable
observations:
On conversation: (from a letter to
the actress Florence Farr) you cannot
think what pleasure to be fond of
somebody to whom one can talk-as
rule any sort of affection annihilates
conversation, strikes one with silence
like that Of Adam before he had ever
named the beasts To be moved and
laxative, unrestrained, ones own self,
and to be this not because one has
created some absurd delusion that it
all is wisdom, as Adam may have in
the beasts head, but not in Eve, but
because one has found an equal-that
is the best of life"
On youth: "One looks back to ones
youth as to cup that a mailman dy-
ing of thirst left half tasted"
On 1Don,en: 1--WE poets would die of
loneliness but for women, and we
choose our men friends that we may
have somebody to talk about women
with.
On honors: upon refusing knight
hood "As I grow old I become more
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-28
Teachers and Politics

The Arlington County School Board is
right in prohibiting public school teachers
from campaigning for the election of any
candidate for the board. The board an
nounced its agreement with the statement
of the Arlington Education Association that
it would be improper for teachers to urge
the election of prospective employers"
Such restriction does not, of course, inter-
fere with what the association described as
"the rights of full citizenship inherent in our
democratic society"
Teachers with the right Of franchise
ought to exercise that right just as other
citizens do-in fact should set an example
for the younger generation of citizens-to-be.
However, this right does not include active
electioneering for particular representatives
Of any party or political faction. Such ac-
tivity, If permitted, could only prove HARM
full to the schools In the long run.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-28
This and That

Several capable sires may be thought
to be the cause of it all, but maybe it
is something more.
Who can say definitely that the cats
are not getting ready for another ice
age?
Blackies coat cleaned as with butter.
His pale green eyes we're of the goo
goo type. large, almost round, and al
most fiat.
The cat connaisseur, who has seen
scores of fine animals come and go,
looked with approval on the 1.-THE, taut
fellow.
Life had been good to him, so far,
despite the large gaping wound on his
left leg.
The old country attitude, that the
cat is best left alone to heal its own
wounds. went out of bounds with the
discovery of penicillin.
Cats as well as men benefit from the
wonder drugs, administered by COM
petent physician.
Blackie is rough and tumble fighter,
brought UP in the great outdoor school
of four paws and open mouth all going
at once.
He rather specializes on knocking
'em down the back steps.
Whether this is premeditated or acct
dental 1t is hard to say; he backs the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-28
Welcome Visitor From Italy

When Mario Scelba became Premier Of
Italy in February, 1854, political observers
felt his regime would be a brief one. Nearly
ii months later he is still in office, his
prestige heightened by nine votes Of conf
dence in the Italian Chamber of Deputies.
Mr. Scelba is an official visitor in Washing
ton this week. He has brought with him
record of outstanding accomplishments,
especially including his part in the settle
ment with Yugoslavia of the Trieste dispute
and in gaining Parliamentary ratification
of the Paris accords.
AS leader of the Christian Democratic
Party, Premier Scelba heads a coalition
government in which Right-Wing Socialists,
Liberals and Republicans also are repre-
sented. With this group supporting him
thus far, he has successfully fought off the
opposition of the aggressive Italian Commu-
mist Party and its scattered left-Wing fol-
lowers. AS with most coalitions, however,
there are political strains within it and even
among the Christian Democrats there are
strong rivals to Mr.. Scelba's continued
authority. The problems of Italys domestic
economy probably pose the greatest threat
to the country's political stability, although
the Premier has said there are "clear signs
of improvement lately" Still, Italy has
more than two million unemployed and
per capita annual income of only $3.50.
program of land reform and modernization
of agriculture are politically controversial
issues.
The Italian Premier, in his own words,
has not come here to ask further sacrifice"
by the American taxpayers. He is, however,
anxious to increase the investment of Amer
lean private capital in Italy and his govern
ment has pushed through legislation de-
signed to facilitate such investment. His
: visit here will provide an opportunity for
full discussion of his detectives and of his
country's needs.