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Hungry Horse news., 1955-08-12
Boxcor Shortage
Hurminu Mills

An increasing shortage of railroad
boxcars threatens to disrupt the
Flathead's lumber industry.
Inability to bring railroad cars to
local mills was termed as causing
a loss of markets as well as leading
to men out of jobs in this area.
Thursday report from local mills
was discouraging. Superior Build
ings Co. reports that they were at
least 10 cars short this week; at
Rocky Mountain Lumber Co. there
wasn't car set out Wednesday or
Thursday, and the mill ordinarily
uses three and four cars; Plum
Creek mill where usually upwards
of 10 cars are set out daily, Wednes-
day saw and Thursday, 1; the car
problem also showed at StOltze Land
and Lumber Co.
Wires are being dispatched to the
Montana Congressional delegation.
The present boxcar shortage was
termed the most acute in years by
local mill official.
+ A. E. McKane, local Great North.
ern agent, Thursday afternoon, said
he had no information on the cause
of the boxcar shortage except thai
there are reports of it being general
in many parts of the country. He
added the Great Northern was do
ing it's best to bring in cars.
Columbia Fails last year shipped
2,6OO freight cars of lumber out ovel
/ the Great Northern.
Hungry Horse news., 1955-08-12
Glacier Park Experiencing
Record Number Visitors

WEST GLACIER-Glacier Nation
al Park travel for the year contin-
ues at record pace with a total of
425, ,492 for 1855 compared to $685.
075 year ago.
The present travel figure is 8
per cent over last year which end
ed with 6OS,230 visitors
Sunday saw 1883 visitors enter
Glacier, Monday 1905, followed by
8,O03 Tuesday and 1877 Wednesday,.
These are the highest travel days
for mid-August in park history.
Total number of automobiles en-
tering Glacier this year stands at
126,617 with 1854 entering through
the west entrance, 42,264 through
st. Mary, 5,133 through Many Glac-
ier, 1851 at Two Medicine, lob at
Polebridge.
The park figures that each car
has 3.25 passengers.
Rail travel total for the year SO
far is 5,856 compared to 5,2O1 a year
ago at this time.
Hungry Horse news., 1955-08-12
Finishing Last Big
Dam Contract

HUNGRY HORSE-Last major
contract in connection with Hungry
Horse Dam construction was in
cleanup stages this week.
Long Construction Co., Billings, is
completing $154,993 contract that
provided for channel dredging, a
concrete retaining wall and repair
of an access road just below the
dam.
The $l02. 900 900 Hungry Horse Pro-
;ect was completed in 1858. The
1855 contract removes pool that
formerly occurred below the tur-
bine outlets, and has the effect Of
making the 564-foot high dam nine
! feet higher.
Hungry Horse news., 1955-08-12
School Sterling
Sept. E and 7

Columbia Falls high school regis
tration will be Tuesday, Sept. 6 and
District 6 grade schools registration
Wednesday, Sept. 7, according to
Supt. Dulane Fulton.
Hours for the expected 320 high
school students on the first day will
be 9 to IL. The district anticipates
about LOO grade school students,
and Sept. z will see registrat-
ion for them from until IL. Buses
will run.
Annual fall grade school teachers
meeting will be Sept. starting at
$50 a. m. with high school teachers
joining the group that afternoon.
The district has 13 high school and
AZ grade school teachers.
Pre-school registration is being
scheduled for first graders in Col
umbia Falls, Sept. / and 2. from
$3.50 to 1870 a. m. at the dorm build
ing. First grade registrations al
Hungry Horse, Martin City, Coram
West Glacier and Apgar will be
Sept. 2 at $50 a. m. at the respect
i've schools. A pre-school registration
for Essex first graders is not plan
ned.
Fulton commented that all frs
graders must be six years old b.
Oct. Is, 1855 and birth certificate.
are required at the time of registrat
ion.
The new Essex school building i
expected to be ready for classes
Sept. z. Completion of the nev
seven-room Columbia Falls grad,
school addition is scheduled fo
Dec. %, 1855.
Hungry Horse news., 1955-08-12
Falls Bldg. Permits
jump $4,000

This week saw the building permit
total in Columbia Falls jump $137,-
600 to a figure of $642, 1856 for the
year so far.
This compares with $253 ,295 for all
of 1854.
Joe Monegan applied for build
ing permit on his 18-unit apartment
building under construction in the
new Crescent addition. Value was
placed at $135, 900. The building in
a 2 form measures 456 by "a feet.
l. j. DuBose filed for a permit to
move residence near highway No.
40 and Nucleus avenue, with con-
struction valued at $1,000.
Hungry Horse news., 1955-08-12
busro BaIks at Park
Trail Waterfall

WEST GLACIER-A waterfall at
the head of Lake Ellen Wilson in
Glacier National Park stopped the
trail hike of Mrs. T. o. Court, Spo-
kane, who is walking through the
park with her burro, Uranium.
The large burro, also known as
Ukulele, is carrying Mrs. Courts
outing equipment on a pack saddle.
He went alongside her to Sperry
chalets, over Lincoln pass and then
enroute to Gunsight pass reached
a point where a waterfall comes
down right next to the trail. There
was delay for full day.
Finally four hikers shouting at a
safe distance behind the burro plus
some help on the halter rope pull
ing him, resulted in the trip being
resumed.
See story and picture on Mrs.
Cour, and her burro on page 1 OF
last issue.
Mountain goats and the burro
have a mutual disregard for each
Other The burro's yodel echoes in
the high mountain area.
Hungry Horse news., 1955-08-12
Senotor Byrd Hikes
Across Glacier

WEST GLACIER-Blue sky wealth
er was enjoyed by Glacier National
Park three-day hiking group that
included Senator Harry F. Byrd of
Virginia, his son, Dick, and E..
Blackburn Moore, speaker of the
Virginia Assembly; Conrad Wirth,
Washington, D. c., director of the
National Park Service; Glaciers
Supt. j. W. Emmert and Chief RAN
ger Elmer Fladmark.
The group left Logan pass Tues
day morning and hiked Tx miles
to Granite Park chalets, and then
Wednesday to camp on Fifty noun.
tain, coming into the American END
of Waterton Lake, Thursday. 1t was
31-mile hike.
Hungry Horse news., 1955-08-12
Piont Results In
Lower Local Taxes

Columbia Falls and District 6 re-
sidents will pay less taxes next
November and May as result of
the Anaconda Aluminium Co. broad
ening the district tax base.
A Columbia Falls home owner that
paid about $1O0 last year will be
paying about 800 this year. This is
a rough estimate.
Amount of the tax levies still a.
waits computations by the county
superintendent's office. These de-
layed when the State Board of Ex-
aminers utility figures were late in
coming, and as a result final total
mill levies generally are not known
over the whole state.
Last year Columbia Falls residents
had mill levy of 1887; Whitefish,
1878; Kalispell, 1858 and District
6, $3.50.
Total mileage for grade and high
(PIedSe turn TO pace al M
Hungry Horse news., 1955-08-12

near Bad ROCK canyon start at 10
a. m. when tours will be conducted
at half hour intervals until l D. m.
These tours through the plant will
resume at $3.50 p. m. and last until
5.
The dedication ceremony is sched-
uled for 2 until $3.50 p. m. In honor
of the occasion Columbia Falls
stores are being closed from l to 4.
Estimates of the crowd that will
attend the dedication range up
ward of 10000. Seating arrange
ments just south of the plants Of
tIce building have been provided for
1000 in bleachers, 500 on folding
chairs and about 80 on the speakers
stand. There is also ample standing
room and space for cars.
The dedication speaker, Cornelius
F. Kelley, Swan lake resident dur
ing the summer, is now chairman of
The Anaconda Company executive
committee. He joined the company's
legal department back in 1901, be-
came chief counsel in 1908, vice
president in 1911, president in 1918
and served as chairman of the board
of directors from 1940 until 1855. It
was during Mr.. Kelly's years as
chairman of the board that Ana
conda decided to become an alum
mum producer and the Columbia
Falls site was selected.
Even as visitors tour the plant
and Montana's Governor j. Hugo
Aronson delivers the official vel
come followed by the dedication ad-
dress, the new operation will be in
actual production.
Last Saturday cryolite was placed
in the pots that had recently gone
through the "bake-out" period. This
week alumina was being placed in
the pots 'cutting into production"
Visitors will see a plant with a
number of its 240 pots starting to
produce aluminium. By late Septem-
ber all of the 240 pots will 60 into
production.
Operations employees at the plant
now total $50 and will reach 450
this fall. Construction forces reduc-
ing slowly are down to about 1000.
Construction windup will be IN
terupted Monday for the dedication
with only few bricklayers and 9TH
ers working in the potlines building.
For the operation production force
it will be another workday for the
new plant is scheduled to operate
365 days year round-the-clock.
In connection with the dedication
Ia Great Isortherll special train Of
four sleeping cars, diner and
lounge cal, will arrive in Column
bia Falls Sunday. Motel and cabin
camp facilities in the Flathead have
also been obtained for the occasion.
A countrywide committee of Chet
Seymer, Columbia Falls; Clark
Mason, Kalispell, and Harry Burr,
Whitefish, have been working with
! AAC plant manager, H. G. Satter-
thwaite on plans for the dedication.
Hungry Horse news., 1955-08-12
Glacier Goats Now
EQtinQ Mud Pies

WEST GLACIER-New item of
diet for Rocky Mountain goats near
Sperry chalets in Glacier National
Park is reported to be mud pies.
Ross Luding, chalets manager, OBJ
served that the goats are actually
eating mud pies-the common old
backyard variety-made by Connie
Beth and Marcia Anne Somers,
daughters of Mrs. Bill Somers,
housekeeper. Connie is 10 and Mar
cia, a.
Goats are known to display un-
usual diet preferences. At Mt.
Brown lookout and Sperry chalets,
soapy dish water is Tapped up with
fervOr.
Another peculiar taste is for paper
that wraps dynamite sticks. When
trail crews opened the last snow
drifts on the Sperry trail with small
charges of dynamite, deer ran away
at the noise of the explosion. Goats
come oyer to see what made the
s'boom" and eat the paper wrapping
Hungry Horse news., 1955-08-12
Burning Index Up

WEST GLACIER-Glacier Nation
al Tark burning index Thursday
RANGED from 38 at Numa ridge to a
high of So at Park Headquarters.
Parl average is As.
Ringer Bruce Miller, assistant
dispatcher, said that the dry, warm
weather is bringing the index up.
No smoking while travelling signs
areup. Fire danger is termed aver
agefor this time of year, but rising.
List park fires were two light
MINI strikes July Is that were class
A, ess than a fourth acre. Glacier
has had five lightning strike fires,
! Ilelass A, this year so far.
Hungry Horse news., 1955-08-12
New Big Industry
Boosts FIutheud
County Tax Base

The new Anaconda Aluminium Co.
plant reflects itself on the Flathead
tax base as if another city the size
of Kalispell were added to the coun-
ty.
The partially completed plants
valuation as of last March was $16,-
200, ,440 up from $685. ,45O the year
before. This compares with the
county's previously largest taxpay-
er, the Great Northern railroad with
a valuation in the Flathead of ST.
000, 900. Last year the Great North
ern paid $230,OO0 in Flathead taxes.
The AAC plants $4,000, ,44O valu-
alton compares with $18, 1T, ,758 for
the city of Kalispell. Kalispel lar
gely as a result of higher Pacific
Power and Light Co. valuation went
up from $18,0O4, ,678 in 1854.
Whitefish valuation is now $780, :
800 up from $3,765, ,O92 last year.
Columbia Falls valuations increa-
sed more than Kalispell and White
fish put together. This year it is
$1,000, ,284 and last year $1,894, ,691.
AS result of the new AAC plant,
school district 6 from Columbia
Falls to the continental divide, jum-
ped in valuation from $12, 17O,1 ,154 to
$26, ,657, ,770. County Assessor Grant
Campbell commented that this was
likely higher figure than most
Montana Counties
Flathead county's valuation went
from $62, ,261, 1857 to $78,945, ,O62 lar
gely as a result of the new plant.
The county's final figure may
change slightly. Still missing is the
Northwest Airlines valuation. Last
years figure was used.
Many districts seem to have hao
increases in valuation.
Tax base figures this year anc
last are as follows: Kalispell $5,O44,
906, $4,937 ,245; Whitefish, $1,O87 ,331
81, ,036, ,262; Columbia Falls, 1854, ,O82
$543, 1857; District 6, $7,876, ,621, So,
753 1888; Deer Park, $1O0, ,O91, $99,
522; Fairview, 1,517, SIS, ,758; Dis
trict 49,, $4O4.775, 1851 ,528; Distric
40, $1l5,819, $lO5,463; Bigfork, $426,
081, $387, ,862
Hungry Horse news., 1955-08-12

WEATHER forecast: Fair Thursday
night and fair except for possibility
of afternoon thunderstorm Friday.
Little temperature change. Predict
ed high Thursday 80, low As, high
Friday IS.
Highs and lows Of week: Aug. 4,
8O-45, Friday 84-45, Saturday 91-51,
Sunday 89-46, Monday 1880, Tues
day 8O-4O, Wednesday 86-45. Tenn
peratures so far this month are aver
aging l degree below normal.
Precipitation for August so far at
airport o. Normal for whole month
is LII. July had 1.32 inches com
pared to Lie inches normal, con.
tinued Observer Ray Hall.
The Flathead ordinarily has seven
summer readings 80 or above. The
1855 score is June 81 and % with 81
and 96; July Is, ,16 and II with 80
"a and 95, and Aug. 6 with 81.
Hungry Horse news., 1955-08-12
Col. Falls City Mill Levy Up;
More Funds Are Available

City government will cost Column
bia Falls residents a 41.21 mill levy
tax during 1856 compared to 1876
mills during the previous IL months.
The new budget adopted by the
city council has indicated expendi-
lures of $93,258 for the July / to
next June 80 period compared to
$85, ,016.85 last year. This does not
include special street and waterline
Improvement districts for certain
sections.
The new 41.21 mill levy is to
raise $26,955 through taxation COM
pared to the $21, ,542 that 1858 mills
raised last year. The city's assessed
valuation increased from $1,894, ,691
last year to $4,000, ,284 this year, a
larger dollar increase than occurred
in either Kalispell or Whitefish.
In addition to the $26,955 that Col.
umbia Falls will derive from real
estate and personal property taxes
the city fathers count $4,000 as
anticipated rents from the 32-unii
city owned housing project. The
water department anticipated rev.
enthusiastically growing-from sale
of water principally, is set at $780,.
0O3.34.
Other income to run Columbia
Falls city government includes $12(
year from Pacific Power anc
Light Co. for pole, site rentals;
$2,210.75 from dog, bike, electricians
plumbers and similar license collect
ions; $1,000 from a proposed ordin
ance that would license businesses
and $500 from police court fines
A review of the budget shows tha
Columbia Falls expects to spent
50, ,628 for city administration that
did not spend last year. The mayo
will receive $50 a month salary an,
$25 for expenses, and the council
men $12 a meeting not exceeding
$24 a month. Up until July 1, 1875
they were not paid.
Another new expenditure is $50
for the city ambulance, and the par
fund was boosted from three to fiv
(PIease turn to page
Hungry Horse news., 1955-08-12

WEST GLACIER-A Ptarmigan
hen with four half grown chicks gave
Glacier National Park visitors a
close look at an alpine grouse Tu-
esday on Logan Pass.
The Ptarmingan family scurrled
across the parking lot.
These birds in winter change to all
white in color, and in summer have
a spotted camouflage.
Hungry Horse news., 1955-08-12
Auditing Books

Harding Hanson, Helena, deputy
state examiner, was making routine
audits of Columbia Falls city books
this week. A report of the audit will
be published in the Hungry Horse
News as soon as received.
Hungry Horse news., 1955-08-12
HISTORICAL SOCIETY
-|athead to Dedicate AAC Plant Monday
Occasion Will Mark Montana
As Producer Of Aluminium

Montana officially becomes an aluminium pro-
ducng state Monday when the new $4,000, 900 Ana
conda Aluminium Co. plant two miles east of CoIum-
bia Falls will be dedicated
The new plant started June 9, 1955-will add
10000 tons Of aluminium to the nations economy,
and provide 45O steady jobs in the Flathead valley.
Events of the dav at the scenically located nlant
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Drunk Count Dismissed;
Crosby Son Off 10 Army
By he Assoeloted Pres,

LOS ANGELES, Jan A..
Eleven hours after he had won
dismissal of q drunk charge,
Dennis Crosby. 20. a twin son
Of Crooner Bing Crosby. left
here for Fort Ord and Army
induction.
"I'll Just serve my two years
and hope they forget who my
dad is" Dennis said last night.
Dennis originally was sched-
uled for induction December
Is. but received q regular
Christmas layover. His twin
brother Phillip is attending
Washington State College with
an educational deferment.
Dennis was acquitted OF
drunkenness yesterday by Mu-
nicipal Court Judge Robert
7 Clifton, who noted that ''the
boy has never been in trouble
before. =
Dennis was arrested Sunday
in an auto driven by . friend.
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Professional Killers
Hunted in Staying
OF Panama President
D. NE As.oe,iessd res.

PANAMA, Jan. 4.--Authorities
pressed a nationwide search to-
day for band of unidentified
professional killers accused Of
assassinating President Jose An
tonic Remon at the instigation
Of his political enemies,
The ''guns-for-hire" charge
was made by Minister Of Gov
ernment Catalina Arrocha Graell
in a funeral Grafton late yester-
day over the body of the slain
chief executive. who was moved
down by machinegun fire at a
race track Sunday night.
"Mercenary hands armed by
his political enemies" fired the
bullets, Mr.. Arrocha declared.
There was widespread specula-
ton that the killers MAY have
been imported.
Thousands Watch Cortege.
{ 1
Mr.. Arroclia spoke during bu-
rial services at the national GEM
etery. Thousands Of persons
lined the capitals streets to pay
their final tribute as the funeral
cortege passed from the Roman
Catholic cathedral to the ceme-
terry.
There was no clue to the iden-
tity of the assassins. The Ma
tional Assembly has decreed a
To-day state of siege--a modified
form Of martial law temporarily
suppresSing some constitutional
guarantees--to aid secret police
in their hunt.
At least a score Of persons, in
Guiding ex-President Arnulfo
Arias and two women, have been
rounded up for questioning. The
women were officially identified
as Thelma King and Olga Yanis.
the former once a follower Of
Arias who had recently been sid
ing with Mr.. Remon.
Col. Saturnino Flores, deputy
commander of Panama's Ma
tional Guard, has indicated
strongly that the weight Of sus-
picion is on followers of Arias.
who was ousted from the pres
idency in 1851 by a bloody Ma
tional Guard coup. Mr.. Remon
then was head Of the guard.
Panama's chief military force.
Cabinet Almost Intact.
Former Vice President Jose
Ramon Guizado. who was sworn
in yesterday as Mr.. Remon's
successor, kept the dead Presi-
dents cabinet almost intact.
Mr.. Guizado led the impress
sive funeral cortege that ac-
companied Mr.. Remon's body to
the cemetery yesterday. The cof-
Nm was carried on Q fire engine
from the cathedral to the burial
place.
Marching in the funeral pro-
cession were an honor guard
from the United States armed
forces and delegations Of cadets
from various Latin American
countries.
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Newspapers Cited,
Arrests Ordered in
|CouIi Photo Ban
8, a As,Io-ia,ed Prs,,

GREEN6BURG. Pa, Jan. 4.--
The Common Pleas Court Of
Westmoreland County today
cited two newspaper publishers,
three photographers. an editor
and Z reporter for contempt Of
court and ordered their arrest,
Sheriff Howard Thomas said
the order, called q writ of at
tachment, cited the newspaper
men for contempt Of court on
December 28--tl1e date that
photographs were taken In the
Westmoreland County Court
house despite q court ban against
photos.
Sheriff Thomas listed those
cited as:
William Block. publisher Of
the Pittsburgh Post Gazette:
David w. Mack, publisher Of the
Greensburg Tribune Review
Publishing Co.: Andrew Bern
hard, editor Of the POST Gazette:
Vince johnson. . Post-G Gazette
reporter; James Klingensmith
and Don Bindyke. Post Gazette
photographers; and Robert Pur-
dy. . Pittsburgh studio photog-
rapher.
Took Pictures as Test.
Both newspapers took the pic
lures deliberately to test the
courts authority.
Sheriff Thomas said none OF
those cited had yet been ar
rested. He said the order was
signed by the three Westmore-
land County Common Pleas
Court judges.
The Post Gazette and the
Tribune Review assigned pho
tographers to cover the sentenc-
ing December 20 Of John Wesley
Wable. convicted Pennsylvania
Turnpike slayer who was con-
demned to death In the electric
chair.
The photographers took photo,
Of Wable and both newspaper
published them.
Order Issued February Is.
The court-ordered ban against
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Japan Tells Radford
She Will Cooperate
Firmly in Defense
LAP Wirephoto via Navy Radio.
BY IN. Associated Pres.

TOKYO, Jan. 4.Japan's de-
Tense policy lis firmly based on
long orange cooperation with
the. United States" Defense
Chief Seiichi Omura today told
Admiral Arthur w. Radford
chairman of the United States
Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Mr.. Omura told newsmen
after meeting with Admiral
Radford, that he had assured
the admiral that the December
change of government ''in nc
way altered Japan,s basic stand
of cooperation with the United
States.
He said he also stressed.
/. American loans of ships
aircraft and war rnateriel are
indispensable for implementa-
ton of Japan's plan to expand
its own defense forces.
2. Japan's share of the cosi
Of supporting United States
forces based in Japan for ia.
pans defense should be cut $4s
million because Japan is budget
ing that much more for build.
ing up its own defense force.
I. Mr.. Omura said Admiral Rad.
ford y.arslind fhot Arnariro mil
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THE EVENING STAR AS
Washington. D. G. as
TUESDAY, JANUARY {. lnBs
Where
Are
Y GU?

We've . big, half -century-oId
department store here with
newest items In name-
brand merchandise - every
thing for home and family.
We have free parking behind
the store and . central loca-
tien ON . street ear line, yet
out Of heavy traffic. We've
prices that you have to see %
believe discount stamps
ON top Of that.
Old residents like and pa
tronixe cur store. Wed like.
you new folks TO know the
wonders we have to offer.
Come down and see what
you've been missing plenty
Of room 70 shop hut plenty
We're right here on It'll be-
tween N and O--but where
are you?-Harry Ka4fman's
Department Store.
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Z Girls Face Mental Test
In Downing 81. Vandalism
B. tbe As.oeia,ed Press

LONDON, Jan. 1.-Two girls
with a record Of window smash
ing in their native Scotland ad-
mitted in court today they
.heaved pieces of coke through q
pane at No. 10 Downing street
Prime Minister Churchill's ON
cial residence.
Sir Winston was not near the
shattered window.
The coke tossers, Jane Cross
man. IS, and Margaret Wilson
a. also admitted breaking two
windows in the nearby Privy
Council Offices. They got the
coke from back of the treasury
building. Neither gave q reason
for the vandalism and Magis-
trate Bertrann Reece ordered
them held for mental examina-
tions.