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Hungry Horse news., 1955-06-24
Storm Follows
Hot June Duy

Record June heat Wednesday and
then severe electrical storm COM
bined to give the Flathead more un-
usual 1855 weather.
The spring had been the coolest on
record.
Rainfall at the airport for the
storm totaled SO of an inch.
Official weather bureau thermo-
meter at Flathead county airport
scared to 96 Wednesday for the
warmest June day since records
started in 1899. Observer Ray Hall
commented that the previous hottest
June day was June 9, 1918, with IS.
He continued that the Flathead
can expect seven 80 or above read
ings in summer but in July or
August.
The storm started developing ear
ly in the evening, and crashed with
violent thunder and frequent long
zig zags of lightning to a climax in
the early hours of Thursday. There
was some hail but little serious
damage, as far as Hall knows.
Columbia Falls fire siren sounded
shortly after midnight. Lightning
had struck a frame building used
by McElroy and Wilken for gravel
processing at the Anaconda Alumni
um Co. plant. Back of the frame
shed burned. Damage was cOnSid-
cred small. Plant watchmen had
hose on the fire and were Joined
by the Columbia Falls truck and vol
unteers.
| Columbia Falls substation of Pa
cific Power and Light Co. was hit
by lightning or wind caused two
wires to short with resultant II
minute power outage that started at
9:55 pm. Wednesday. At 11:35 pm.
and again about / am. there were
brief valley-wide power outages.
Bill Ren, local maintenance man
for Pacific Power and Light, termed
the storm the worst that he'd seen
since coming to the Flathead in 1916.
4 A number of transformer fuses
went out as did fuses in telephone
!, lightning arrestors, but generally
damage here was minor.
Kalispell and Whitefish phone and
: power crews likewise had sleep.
|. less night.
Hungry Horse news., 1955-06-24
Rain Bo|sters F|athead Valley Crops

KALISPELL-Flathead crop pros
poets were improved somewhat by
the heavy rain Wednesday night and
Thursday morning, commented Walt
Mauritson, county agent.
However he said that while SO of
an inch was recorded at the airport.
the fall was considerably lighter in
the Creston farming community.
Maurltson summarized the unusual
years weather pattern that included
a record dry spring with 4.47 inches
of precipitation so far this year COM
pared to normal 8.33 inches for this
period.
A dry, warm June followed the
coolest May on record.
Result is Mauritson viewing the
winter wheat crop now starting to
head as about so per cent of a
good crop at best.
The weeks rain likely helped
spring wheat and barley more.
Thursday showed an improvement
in being overcast and humid COM
pared to the leaf drying clear days
with low humidity that scared the
Flathead earlier in the week.
MauritsOn concluded that the Flat
head needs lot more rain, and he
sees no prospect for good crop.
However the heavy shower was
bound to do some good, he told the
Hungry Horse News.
A spot check of farmers near Col
umbia Falls brought information
that the rain helped. Mrs. j. E.
Sparks said almost million dol
lar rain" Mrs. George Mattheisen
commented ''things look better"
Norman Bergen over in the LaSalle
district said ''the rain helped; it is
awful late, and not enough. Ten
days ago it would have made a great
difference"
There is the thought that if the
rain-for what it was-hadn't come
the Flathead would have been near
er a crop failure, something that is
said to have never occurred in this
valley.
Hungry Horse news., 1955-06-24
Glacier Has Fire
On Aduir Ridue

Glacier had its first fire of the
season reported at 2:3O Thursday on
Adair ridge near Polebridge. 1t is
a big yellow pine that is burning
from the top down.
Bill Sharp, Logging fire guard at
Logging, and AL Jensen, fire guard
at headquarters, were sent to the
fire, which is expected to be con-
trolled shortly.
In addition there were three flare
ups reported. One was on Logan
creek, another near Pinacle up the
Middle. Fork, and the third on Ap-
gar mountain. They are being OBJ
served, with no smoke showing as
yet.
Bob Crook, park aerial observer,
was flying over the park Thursday
at 8 pm. ~
The rain except at Corarn and in
the upper portions of the Flathead
valley is considered inadequate to
meet an unusually severe fire threat
for June Fire danger has been into
the 40s, on the scale to 100, a figure
uOt VI ullidl uy ICdCllCO uiltu ldlS
July, was the comment of Carter
Helseth, forest dispatcher.
Don Isbell and Carl Marsh of the
Forest Service are to go up Thurs
day in plane as observers looking
for fire.
Reports of the storm include a
few flooded Easements in the Kalis-
pell district.
There was a report of about 100
trees down across U. S. highway No.
2 west of Kalispell mostly in Lincoln
county. Crews worked all night to
reopen the highway Thursday morn
ing.
The Northern Montana Forestry
Association had 13 lightning fires
reported Thursday in the area west
of Kalispel.
Flathead National Forests first
fire was man-caused on Cyclone
lake up the North Fork June IL.
Hungry Horse news., 1955-06-24
Slate AAC Plant Dedication Ceremonie.

Date of formal dedication of the
new $65, 900, 900 Anaconda Aluminium
Co. Flathead plant is now viewed
as from August Is to September l.
A number of visiting dignitaries are
expected for the event.
Heading plans for Columbia Falls
Chamber of Commerce participation
is Chet Seymer with Clark Mason
representing the Kalispell chamber
and Harry Burr, the Whitefish group.
All planning is still preliminary.
First production of aluminium at
the plant is now indicated for late
July.
Operations force at the plant in
creased by II this week, 81 last
week, and now totals 16O heading
toward the $50 figure expected when
full operations are underway next
fall.
Construction force numbered l.
IT'S this week and is remaining
steady. Completed this past week
were the Grinnell Co. contract for
fire protection sprinkling systems,
and the Armstrong Cork insulating
contract.
Signs of the plant nearing compile
tion include landscaping in progress
with large lawns being planted near
the office building, change house
and chemist laboratory.
Work on the parking area is also
underway. N and X Construction
Co., Butte, has IA men working on
subcontract for Mclaughlin Co.,
Great Falls, crushing rock.
Mclaughlin representatives re-
ported Thursday. Rolling and COM
pacting of areas to be asphalt paved
is to start. A 21a inch mat of approx
imately 10000 yards is to be placed
in parkways and roads in the plant.
This will be the equivalent of abou
two miles of streets.
The IL new operations employees
this week are as follows: Columbia
Falls-Charles Geer, paste feeder
Carroll Lindsey, inspector; Dor
Nash, maintenance mechanic; Rob
ert Coverdell, watchman; Terranc'
Crosswhite, laborer.
Hungry Horse-Gilbert LaPierre
shift maintenance mechanic; Harol
Dumay, formerly Hungry Horse
more recently Seattle, diesel loco
motive engineer; Ernest Clairmont
shift maintenance electrician; Fran
Singer, custodian;
Kalispell-Robert jackson, past
bumper; Ray Linrude,t paste dump
er; Gerald Ness, maintenance mech
| anic; James Mebust, draftsman;
Whitefish-John Simons, laborer
Leo Rowlan, weighmaster;
Somers-Paul Shatto, paste dump
: er; Red Lodge-William Reid, pitc
truck operator.
: Part of the new employees repre-
, sent transfers from construction (
: operations forces. ~
Hungry Horse news., 1955-06-24
Parade to Open
|Wuferfon Fefe

WATERTON LAKES - Starting
Saturday at 10 am. will be the big
western parade opening the annual
Waterton Lakes National Park Inter.
national Days celebration.
Indians, cowboys, floats, bands and
other features will be included in the
parade. Supt. j. H. Atkinson of Wa.
terton is parade marshal.
Boat races are to be held during
the day, and the evening will con.
clude with the dance.
The Waterton fete is the first bis
event to be held in the province dur
| ing Alberta's 5Oth Jubilee year.
Hungry Horse news., 1955-06-24
Uncle Mickey Neuer
SQU June Like This

Mike Berne, Sc, has been farming
on the same piece of Flathead ground
three miles west of Columbia Falls
since 1890.
He remarked Thursday morning
that he had never seen another June
like this, and wondered if the Nevada
atomic blasts weren't causing some
of the problem.
Uncle Mickey doesn't see much
chance for wheat. In the first place,
the active oldster remarked, it start
ed too late as a result of the cold
spring.
However he felt that the heavy
showers Wednesday and Thursday
would aid barley which requires a
shorter growing season. The rain al
so will help grass pastures and hay
fields.
Reports about the present alfalfa
crops are dismal, however.
Hungry Horse news., 1955-06-24
Sprinkler Irrigation
Helping Flutheud

s
in the Flathead is use of sprinkler
irrigation to help safeguard crops
from Junes like the present one.
Walt Mauritson, county agent, says
that about percent of the Flat
heads cultivated acres are being
sprinkler irrigated, and likely pro-
ducing about Is per cent of the crop.
In 1945 the Flathead had one
sprinkler irrigation system that of
the Parkers on ITO acres near Big
fork.
In 1947 there were systems, and
in 1850 a total of IS systems taking
care of 1888 acres. The number has
jumped to 153 sprinkler irrigation
systems last November taking care
of 9,266 acres.
In addition there is the long es-
tablished Ashley conventional irri-
cation system taking care of about
1000 acres.
This has been a difficult June for
sprinkler irrigation, Mauritson add
ed. Evaporation has been so severe
and rainfall so lacking that the sys
TENS just, couldn't keep up with de
mands.
Annual Flathead precipitation i:
1876 inches with June the wettes
month ordinarily with 2.43 inches
This year June was down to .21 O
an inch until this week plus beinl
hot and dry.
Advantages of sprinkler type sys
TENS include absence of ditching
a problem in the Flathead's grave
base soil, movability and independ
ent ownership operation.
Hungry Horse Dam had an &C
companying Kallispen Irrigation dis
trict that would have brought land
from Flathead lake to the vicinit
of Columbia Falls in its province
However this failed to develop i
+ view of the valley having almos
enough rainfall.
Hungry Horse news., 1955-06-24
Seek Street Extension

KALISPELL-Petition to extend
Third Avenue East in Columbia
Falls from the flat down to Low
ellis Service garage was submitted
to Flathead county commissioners.
Carl Stocking has indicated willing
ness to deed land for the street right
of-way, and Commissioner H. w.
Irwin and County Surveyor Tasch-
ereau have investigated the site.
Hungry Horse news., 1955-06-24

WEST GLACIER -Selective moth
er robin is the bird that picked a
window in the Glacier National Park
naturalists' laboratory to build her
nest.
There's a million forested and
mountain wild acres in the park,
but this particular family that now
includes three young robins is being
raised where Naturalist Don Robin.
son can just look up from his files
Hungry Horse news., 1955-06-24
Travel Increases

WEST GLACIER-Glacier Nation
al Park travel favored by a bright
sunny June is over 20 per cent ahead
of year ago.
Travel total this year up through
Wednesday was 57,184, compared to
sos a year ago.
Hungry Horse news., 1955-06-24
WEATHER forecast: Considerable

WEATHER forecast: Considerable
cloudiness with few showers or
thunder showers Thursday afternoon
and evening. Friday partly cloudy
and warmer. Predicted high Thurs
day rs, low So, high Friday 80 to
Z IS.
Highs and lows Of week: June 16,
71-42, Friday 69-37, Saturday 71-5O,
Sunday 74-46, Monday 87-48, Tues
day 92-58, Wednesday 1854.
Temperatures are running about
7 degrees above normal for the
week.
Precipitation: total for June Sc
far 80 of an inch compared to 2.4s
normal for the whole of this ordin.
inarily wettest month. The Thurs
day storm brought SO of an inch.
Hungry Horse news., 1955-06-24
Park improvements
Discussed in Confub

WEST GLACIER - Coming inn
prov rnents in Glae Ter National Park
were discussed this week in confer
ences that included Tom Vint, Wash
ington, D. c.. chief of design and
construction for the National Park
Service; Sanford Hill, San Francisco,
chief Of the western design and con-
Struction office, and George Bagley,
Omaha, regional chief of operations.
The men conferred with Supt. j.
w. Emmert of Glacier and his staff.
Underway and nearing completion
are improvements by the Glacier
Park Co., Great Northern subsidiary,
at Swiftcurrent that includes three
new 14-unit motelS, a 20 room
employees dormitory and doubling
the size of the Swiftcurrent cabin
camp dining room.
Being planned are new multiple
units at Rising Sun and in a more
preliminary stage new and improved
facilities at Lake Mcdonald hotel
Plan for Mcdonald is to accOmmO-
date about 300 persons, a similar
number to Many Glacier facilities.
Underway in Glacier is improve
ment of telephone lines and services
by Mountain States Telephone an(
Telegraph Co. who are taking ovel
operation of park telephones with {
May l, 1856 target date. Lem DeSkir
is the telephone company official il
charge of construction.
Completed this week at Lake Nc
Donald hotel was drilling three teS
holes of 40 to so feet deep by OlSel
and Justin, Columbia Falls, to deter
mine soil foundations. The explora
tion was termed satisfactory.
Another park project that is to b
improved eventually is the Mort
Fork road.
Underway is construction of a ne1
bridge at the outlet of lower S,
Mary lake on the Blackfeet highwa
and four miles of new road. Thi
is 100 per cent federal aid proje(
on Indian lands. Also scheduled
rebuilding the Blackfeet highwa
from Hudson Bay divide to st. Mar
with construction start likely tn
fall.
In Glacier itself, S. Birch and Sor
has a 25,3OO improvement contra
for Sun highway. Mclaughlin In
has been recommended for a $28t
1880 asphalt paving contract on tt
Garden Wall section and is compile
ing a $414,7 ,798 contract for the Bah
Many Glacier highway.
Glaciers tentative budget cal
for $124,2OO for water system al
other improvements of service faci
ties in the Many Glacier basin; $6
500 for roadways, parkways a
other improvements at McDonal
$4,000 for roadways and parking
Swiftcurrent, and $9,4O0 for MOI
Fork campgrOundS and roads.
Hungry Horse news., 1955-06-24

L. P. Barney Construction Co. filed
for a building permit to erect a three
bedroom residence valued at $4,000
in the Rutherford addition. This is
the third permit for the Helena firm.
Milford chronicle., 1955-01-28
Forming Pony Ball
League DOWH State
Will Replace Old Set-up
In Operation For Past
Several Years

An official Pony League of Kent
and Sussex Counties has been
formed replacing the old Pony
League which has been in opera
ton for a number of years. This
new league, to be sanctioned by the
National Pony League with head
quarters in Washington, Pa, now
includes entries from Milford, HaF-
ringtOn, Greenwood and Frederick.
It is hoped that Bridgeville and
Georgetown will enter teams at a
later date.
Officers are P LWwOOd Taylor
of Milford, President. Fora Tat
man of Frederick, Vice President,
Luke Hatfield of Harrington, Trea-
surer, and Ken Shelton of Milford,
Secretarys Eddie Taylor of Harring-
ton will serve as Chairman of the
Executive Committee.
To be eligible for participation
in this league, a boy must be be-
tween the ages of 13 and IA. A
ffteen-game schedule has been
adopted and will be released at a
later date.
At an OrganizatiOnal meeting
held at the Carlisle Fire Company
last Wednesday night. President
LynwOOd Taylor pointed out that
the word PONY is derived from
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Milford chronicle., 1955-01-28
w. C. Anderson To
Head SunGtOriuRl
Dover Man Will Take
Over Post February
1st

The appointment of Wilbur G.
Anderson, Dover, to serve as Exc
cUtive Director of Emily p Bissell
SanatOTium, effective February /,
has been announced by DR.. Floyd
/. Hudson, Executive Secretary of
the State Board of Health. Mr. An
dersOn, a native of TarentUm, Penn
sylVania, has been serving as act
ing administrator at Bissell Sana-
tOriUh since July, 1854, as well as
being administrative assistant to
the Executive Secretary of the
State Board of Health. His new
duties will include the RESPONSE
bility for the entire administra-
ti0n of the sanatorium.
He obtained his Phi G. and BIS
degrees in Pharmacy from the Uni
versity of Pittsburgh, and his NJ S,
in Bacteriology from the same in
stitutiOn. At the Johns Hopkins
School Of Hygiene and Public
ETealth, he received an NJ p. H. in
Hospital Administration.
During World War III he entered
Army service in 1912 as a private
in the Medical Administrative
Corps and was quickly promoted
I'd officer status. His foreign SER
vice was IN Egypt with the 3Sth
General Hospital and the seth Sta
tiOn Hospital. He was separated in
June, 1916, with the rank of Major.
Mr.. Anderson served as Chief,
Branch Pharmacist Philadelphia
Brancn Office of the Veterans Ad-
ministration from 1946 to 1949.
Continued on page twol
Milford chronicle., 1955-01-28
Total Of 1922 Persons
Added To Rolls In 81;
Grand Total Is Now
224,5O3 In Entire State.

Membership in the Blue Cross
Plan gained 1929 persons during
1854, to reach a new high total of
224,503, it was reported January
oath at the annual meeting of the
board of trustees Of Group Hospital
Service, where officers we're re-
elected.
At the same time, the surgical
medical plan-knOwn as the Blue
Shield Plan gained 8,211 members,
for a new total Of 213,O37 members.
Reports covering the operation
Of both the hospital plan and the
surgical-medical plan were pre-
sented to the meeting by II. v.
Maybee, managing director.
The hospital plan, the figures
showed, operated at a loss during
1854. disqualification expenses came
to s2,888,731.57, which was 93.9 per
cent Of the income received from
members. Operating expenses. came
to 1851 ,043.70, which was 8.5 per
cent of income. The, operating loss
was $72,66607, which was "a per
cent of the subscription income.
The loss was reduced to $46,239.34
by other income. This amount had
to be taken from the reserve fund.
At the end of the year the plans
reserve amounted to $956,58z21.
The surgical-medical plan, on
the other hand, managed to get
through the year slightly on the
plus side. Surgical-medical expense
came to S2,070,57I3S, which was
81 per cent of subscription income.
Operating expense came to $780,
494.S9, and this was 8.3 per cent
Of the income The net operating
income thus was or per cent of
income from. subscribers. With the
addition of other earned income,
the amount applied to reserve was
$28,090.12. The reserve fund at the
years end came to $471 1,332.12.
For the month of December alone,
/ the hospital plan deficit was a
Iflngher proportion Of income than
the years "a per cent. In the one
month disqualification expense went
up to 94.4 per cent of income, Op-
Grating expense took 10.6 pei. cent,
and the deficit was FIVE per cent
of the income.
The surgical-medical plan on the
continued on page fivel
Milford chronicle., 1955-01-28
Public Is Cordially In
vited To Come See 1855
Bucks At Modern
ShOWrOOms, Garage.

J. Gordon Smith, owner. and
George W. Marshall. manager of
Kent and Sussex Motor Company,
now located in modern cOmmodiOus
quarters on the corner of North
east Front Street and the RehOboth
Boulevard, are extending a cordial
welcome to everyone in Milford and
vicinity to visit their new building
and make a tour of what is prob
ably one of the most up-tO-date es-
adjustments of its kind on the en-
tire DelmaTva Peninsula
Both Messrs. Smith and Marshall
are quite sure that the highlight
of your visit will be the glamOrOus
highly efficient new 1866 Bucks
themselves, now on display. Every
model is on display from the low
priced Buick Special, which is one
of the finest cars ever produced by
Buick or any other car manufac-
turer at such a low price, to the
magnificent custOm-built ROadmas-
ter, said by autOmOtive engineers
both here and abroad, to be the
finest car on the road.
continued on page BeVen)
Milford chronicle., 1955-01-28
DR.. John Munroe Has
New State History
University Professors Latest Book
Is On Federallst Delaware

University Professors Latest Book
Is On Federalist Delaware
I'm the four decades between
l775 and 1916 an obscure English
colony cut It's ties with the
mOtherland, experimental with in
dependence, and finally emerged
from these trials as the State of
Delaware" Thus does DR.. John
A. MunrOe chairman of the Depart
ment of History of the University
of Delaware, introduce his latest
book "Federalist Delaware, 1775-
1915"
Acclaimed as the only reliable
account of this period of the states
history, DR.. Munroe's work explains
the transition from colony to state.
occurring at a time when the Fed
eralist Party was maintaining its
power and persistence in this state
alone.
Analysing the vitality Of the
Federalists in terms Of the socio-
economic life Of Delaware, the
noted historian examines local con-
lContinued On page severn
Milford chronicle., 1955-01-28
State Sheep Breeders
Elect NeW Officers
Archie B. BagWell Succeeds
Cal Hollis AS President
OF Association

Archie B. Bagwell succeeded
Calvin V. Hollis. Jr., weIl-known
Shropshire breeder Of Houston. as
president Of the Delaware Sheep
Brooders' Association at the reg
ular meeting of the association on
January Is. Mr. Bagwell. who
raises purebred Corriedale sheen at
his farm near Smyrna is also a
member of the Maryland Sheen
Breeders Association and the Am
erican COrriedale Association.
Other officers are. Don COnciliO.
Dover, president-elect for 1856
Mrs. Henry r. Goggin, Camden.
secretary; Mrs. Don COncilio. Do
yer, treasurer. Directors for three
years are John b. McOuail. Of
Smyrna, and Calvin v. Hollis. Jr.
Of Houston; for two years: Floyd
X. Blessing, of Houston, and Ed
ward Strauss, Of Marydel; and for
Continued On bags nval
Milford chronicle., 1955-01-28

Man Elected
r. R. Director
Delaware Railroad Elects
Fulton ]. Downing To
Staff; He Succeeds The
Late HI. p. George.


Fulton ]. Downing of HaTring-
ton, has been elected to the Board
Of Directors Of The Delaware Rail-
road Company at the 103rd an
nual meeting of that group, held
last Friday at Dover. Mr.. Down
ing was elected to fill a vacancy
created by the death of Hyland p.
George.
Mr.. Downing was born at BIZ
valve, Maryland, and lived In Mil
ford, from 1912 to 1912. He has re-
sided in Harrington since 1912.
Mr. Downing is an official of the
Harrington Lumber and Supply
Co., and at the present time is
president of the MaEyland-Dela-
ware Lumberman's Association.
Active in civic, church and fra
ternal groups, he is president of
the Harrington Chamber of Com
merce; director of the Kent and
Sussex Fair Association; member
and past president of the Harring-
ton Rotary Club; is a past presi-
dent of the Harrington School
Board; is a member of Asbury
Methodist Church; a member Of
the official board Of the church
superintendent Of the church Sab
bath School, and Lay Leader of the
church. At the present time he is
Lay Leader Of the Peninsula Con
ference; President of the District
Parsonage Trustees. Mr.. Downing
has consistently attended sessions
of Peninsula Conference as Lay
Representative. In 1852, he was
hOnOred by being elected Lay Rep
resentative to the Northeastern
JurisdictiOnal Conference held a.
Harrisburg, Pa.
His Masonic affiliations are many
He was Master of Temple Lodge
Milford, in 1886; member OF
Delaware Consistory, Tall Cedars
of Lebanon, Kent Chapter No. IL
Order of Eastern Star, and in 1854
served as Worthy Patron of thai
group. In 1912, at the time he left
Milford, he was Secretary of the
Milford Chamber of Commerce.
The stockholders reelected thC
other directors, of whom Victor G
Record, Laurel, has been on the
board the longest. He was frs
named a director on Dec. 3, 1928
The other directors and the years
from which their services on thC
board started are:
continued on page sixl