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Hungry Horse news., 1955-11-11
Re-Advertise For
Home Additions

Bids will be opened in Helena Dec.
S by the State Board of Examiners
for an addition to Old Main building
and other improvements at the Mon
tana State Soldiers Home, Columbia
Falls.
All bids were rejected
at the Thursday morning bid open
ing by the Board in Helena, in view
of there being just one general bid
and several plumbing and electrical
bids. More than one general bid is
wanted.
The last legislature appropriated
$4,000 for improvements at the
Home.
Scheduled is a new 20 room addit-
ion to Old Main constructed of pum-
ice blocks, which will provide quar-
tiers for 81 additional members.
There will be II double rooms and
single. The addition will measure
1856 by 80 feet, and viii overlook the
Flathead river joining Old Main on
the south.
Second unit to be constructed viii
be a dining room addition to thu
women'S building measuring 20 BY
{ A feet, and accommodating 60 per
sons. Cost of this wood addition wa!
estimated at $4,000.
Weed and Fehlberg, Kalispen. ar
the architects.
Hungry Horse news., 1955-11-11
Road Cable Takes
Phones to PoIebridge

WEST Notwithstanding new
for telephone line construction in
northwestern Montana is laying ca
bic from Apgar to Polebridge in
Glacier National Park in the middle
Of the North Fork road for 30 miles.
Mountain States Telephone and
Telegraph Co. Tuesday started lay
ing the cable in an IS inch deep
trench. A special ditcher is used.
From Polebridge ranger station,
overhead telephone lines will run
to Polebridge store and the McFar-
land ranch.
Mountain States Telephone and
Telegraph Co. signed a contract to
take over Glacier National Park tel
ephone facilities and service a year
ago. Target date for the transfer is
May 6, 1856.
There have been eight crews to-
falling As men working on new and
improved telephone lines and cables
this fall. L. w. Deskin is supervis-
ing foreman.
The entire park telephone system
will be from dial exchanges at Park
Headquarters, St. Mary and East
Glacier Park. Long distance calls
will be handled from Kalispen and
Cut Bank.
Hungry Horse news., 1955-11-11
FIathead Expecting
Winters Arrival

The Flathead Thursday faced pro-
spect that a storm of blizzard pro-
portions but with little sn0w-w0uld
sweep in from east of the continental
divide.
Observer Ray Hall at the federal
weather bureau at Flathead county
air port Thursday afternoon said that
a cold air mass (high pressure area)
was moving down from Canada east
of the divide.
Barometric pressure was low in
the Flathead Thursday, and prospect
is that the cold air mass will over
lap the divide and hit the Flathead.
Again it may not.
If it does. Hall predicts partly
cloudy and quite warm weather
thigh Of 49, Thursday with showers
mostly over the mountains, follow
ed by late Thursday night seeing
strong northeast winds. These will
reach 50 miles in the Columbia Falls
to West Glacier area in spots, and
80 miles in the Kalispell section.
Little wind is expected in Whitefish
Hall continued that by Friday
morning temperatures will be dowr
to 10 to Is degrees above zero. Hal
added that it will be partly cloudy
and cold Friday with winds dimin
ishing in the afternoon, with a higl
of Is degrees. He concluded: lit i.
a possibility the storm will stay cas-
of the mountains and avoid the Flat
head"
Wednesday night and Thursda.
morning, the Flathead experienced
strong westerly winds with gusts VI
to SIS miles an hour at the airport
Precipitation at the airport totalet
SO of an inch for IL hours. BIZ
Creek ranger station estimate wa
! an inch; Hungry Horse Dam hat
10 Of an inch.
However the wet fall up the Soutl
Fork results in water in Hungr,
Horse reservoir being a half foo
over the full mark, and flown
through the Spillway tunnel
/ High and lows Of week: Nov. 3, A
80, Friday 51-39, Saturday 44-26, SUI
day 1925, Monday 41-28, Tuesda
41-29, Wednesday 1879. Hall sal
that temperatures this week averal
ed about two degrees above norma
y Precipitation: for month so fal
10 of an inch compared to fu
months normal of 1.55 inches ;
airport.
Hungry Horse news., 1955-11-11
Easter Lily Blooms
For ThQnksqiuinq

Seasons are a bit mixed at the
Henry J. Kalla house on highway
No. 40 west. There's an Easter lily
coming in full blossom for Thanks
giving.
Mrs. Kalla said that last spring
she placed the plant outside, taking
it in late in September. Now it has
four large blossoms opening up.
Hungry Horse news., 1955-11-11
Interior PuneIing
Sfurfed at Library

Underway at the Columbia Falls
branch of Flathead county library
is placing knotty pine-spruce panel
ing on interior walls.
Rocky Mountain Lumber Co. is
planning the paneling with Plum
Greek, Superior Buildings and Stoltze
Land and Lumber Co.,. the commun-
ity's four mills also donating to this
project.
Carl Lundborg with Charles Taylor
and Ed Peterson are the starting
crew on the paneling as well as in
Sailing acoustic tile.
Union Natural Gas installed the
propane tank and hookup for the
building at no cost; the tank was
donated. Monarch Lumber Co. dom
ated toward the tile. Cash donations
were received from DR.. w. F. Ben.
nett and the Park Mercantile Co.
Mrs. Carl Lundborg who heads the
local library drive. commented thai
several hundred dollars is needed
to complete the project. Any sizt
donation viii be appreciated.
Hungry Horse news., 1955-11-11
Falls Council Hires, Sells, Awaits Winter
Col. Falls Voters
Approve Bonds
For Engineering

In the Flathead'S only election
Tuesday, So per cent of the eligible
418 Columbia Falls registered tax
paying voters approved a $12, 500
bond issue for an engineering sur
vey that is to lead to improved
streets, sidewalks, additional water
lines and eventually sewer system.
Vote was 125 for and SO against,
unofficial tally.
Columbia Falls turnout of So per
cent compares to the United Press
report of the Missoula city election
having Sc per cent turnout of ell
igible voters, higher than was the
turnout in either Bozeman or Helena
city elections.
Columbia Falls Ward (voting at
Canyon) showed So for to q against
for a total of 50 or 60 per cent of
1875 possible voters.
Ward (voting at city halD was
50 for to AZ against for total of
l01 or A per cent of 231 eligible.
Many business district voters did
not 60 to polls.
Ward 3, Kennedy addition (voting
at Mrs. Ross') did not favor bond
issue with Is for to % against for a
total of IS votes or 81 per cent of
So eligible.
Columbia Falls Chamber of Com
merce and city council favored the
bond issue. Last summer to take
advantage of suitable weather, Nor
rison- Maierle, Helena, consulting en-
gineers were employed to start the
survey considered necessary to i'm.
proving streets.
Original Columbia Falls engineer.
ing survey (about 1907 does not in.
include new additions and informant
ion considered necessary to modern
planning.
] City election turnout of So per cent
was better than Mayor Herman Ben
zien or city council anticipated
Two factors mar outcome.
There is the lack of notice o.
election in prediction preparation
that may deter purchase of bonds
This factor will not be determined
until attorney for buyer of bonds
as yet unknown-is satisfied. Column
bia Falls during the mid 194O's ex
perienced similar legal technicalitie!
! in water bond sales.
Il A moral though not legal facto'
is that only about two thirds Of tn
i registered voters in Columbia Fall
, were allowed to vote Tuesday. Lega
! stipulation of being on 1854 tax roll
and excluding the 1855 tax rolls
served to disfranchise a large por
: ton of local residents.
Il An election held early in 1876
!. would see over 600 registered tau
!, paying voters instead Of 418 Tues
day. However new residents tende
Ito favor bond issue more than di
: old as evidenced by Ward / vote
{ where city has had the most built
= ing and new home owners.
Hungry Horse news., 1955-11-11
Helene Meeting
On II. n. Spawning

HUNGRY HORSE-E. L. Coch-
nauer, Hungry Horse Project sup
erintendent, will attend a Helena
conference Wednesday on improved
spawning conditions for creeks flow
ing into 34-mile long Hungry Horse
lake reservoir.
At the meeting will be representa-
tives Of the Federal Fish and Wild
life service, the Montana Fish and
Game department, U. S. Forest Ser
vice. Other Bureau of Reclamation
representative will be F. G. Whit
aker, Boise regional office.
Problem is that in construction Of
east and west side roads along Hun
cry Horse reservoir, there are cul-
verts for creek crossings that in
some instances have blocked move
ment Of fish to spawning grounds.
Proposal is to correct this situa-
tiOn.
Hungry Horse news., 1955-11-11
One More Pot to Go at Plant

Thursday afternoon saw 239 Of the
$40 pots at the Anaconda Aluminium
Co. plant charged and in production
The one pot to 60 is in room 8.
The new plant is considered to
have made unusually good speed in
getting its pots into production. First
aluminium production took place
Aug. IL. The plant was officially ded-
icated Aug. Is.
Last month production passed 50
per cent, and by Jan /, 1856 is ex-
pected to reach full capacity at the
rate of 10000 tons of aluminium a
year.
Each of the plants pots are tap
ped once in "a hours, yielding about
1,400 pounds of metal.
The plant employees 500 men and
operates around the clock.
Hungry Horse news., 1955-11-11
Observe American
Education Week

American Education week was OBJ
served throughout the nation Nov.
6-12 and in Columbia Falls obser-
vance was marked by grade school
rooms having special events and
invitation to parents to visit school.
Typical of the events was one class
presenting a play on China as eli
max of a social studies project on
that country.
National theme is Schools Your
Investment in America.
PARENTS INVITED
Parents are always welcome to
attend school, according to grade
school principal Phil Nelson. A spec
ial effort to talk with parents will
be made at the end of the second
six weeks period Nelson, said, when
they will be asked to have confer
ences with teachers. Parents of stu
dents with scholastic difficulties will
be asked to attend a regular class
room session and have a personal
talk with instructors and parents will
be invited even if their children are
doing all right Conferences are sche.
duled for Nov. 28- Dec. 81.
There will be no stop in the schoo
routine to talk to parents as is done
in some schools, Nelson pointed out
! Here it is preferred to talk with par
ents in a normal school day, whel
teachers have free periods, rathe
; than condensing all conferences in
! to few days with no classes.
!, In the high school, Principal Car
Launer said that parents of student
with difficulties are asked to come j
for talks and response has bee
good. Improvement by the student
has been shown following such dis
cuSSions, he added.
BUSES INSPECTED
Coinciding with education wee
was periodic inspection of schot
! buses in the county by state high
way patrolmen. The nine buses {
district 6 were found to be in exceI
!. tionally good order, school Sup
Dulane Fulton announced. Patr0
! men AL Rierson and Don Reksto
= made the inspection Of the buses
Monday. Plans are being made
form student patrols on buses to al
= in unloading students on highway
Supt. Fulton commented.
y, Part of the schools job is to kee
: records of all the students and man
2 calls are made for them, Fult6
;, ;, pointed out. A complete file
) each students academic achiev
: ments, tests, talents and activiti'
y is made and is available to ASST
Job applications, service recor'
y schools and other situations. A scho
d record is important part Of ea'
q Students life, even after getting o
ID of school, Fulton commented.
I In reviewing school accomplis
Is ments this week Supt. Fulton col
"a | mented that the program of teachil
"a students to take care Of their scht
please see paqe y
Hungry Horse news., 1955-11-11
Elk Hunters Enter Last Weekend

With the last weekend of the 1855
big game hunting season at hand,
Flathead total elk kill stands at 786
for what is termed nearly an aver
age year.
Carter HelSeth, Flathead National
Forest dispatcher, from forest and
fish and game department sources
also listed the white tail deer kill
in the Flathead as 235 with 49 mule
deer, 10 moose, legally, "a black
bear, IS grizzly and So mountain
goats harvested.
Game Wardens Jay Penney and
Dick Motichka at Coram-Martin
City checking station report 236 elk
checked through compared to 1877
last week and 275 year ago. Hun
tiers checked in totaled 1851, COM
pared to 100 a year ago. About so
hunters are still in, with increased
numbers expected Saturday and
Sunday.
Report from the hunting front
was high winds Wednesday night
and Thursday morning. Ranger Char
lie Shaw from Spotted Bear report
ed by radio: terrible wind all night
Made you think that buildings were
coming down." Rain exceeded ar
inch in the mountains and snow
line retreated.
South Fork of Flathead accounted
for $50 Of the 786 elk killed so fal
by 2,299 hunters. Whole Flathea(
hunter total is figured at 1850.
Hungry Horse news., 1955-11-11
Call Meeting For
Adult Basketball

First meeting of a proposed Col
umbia Falls independent basketball
team has been called for Monday
at 1880 p. m. in Room 6, Bank build
ing.
Columbia Falls has had adult bas-
ketban teams in the past, and the
desire is to see if there is sufficient
interest in having the program this
year. Calling the meeting is Wayne
Molgard, Great Northern operator,
who played with the local team
in 1949 to 1851.
Hungry Horse news., 1955-11-11
Loggers Welcome
Good Hard Freeze

Forecast of a hard freeze Thurs
day night and Friday morning is
good news to the Flathead valley
lumber industry.
Mud has plagued hauling.
Typical of industry's view was
Lawrence Rude, Plum Greek Lum-
Der Co. general manager, Thursday
morning commenting: mud cut
hauling efficiency in half"
In Plum Creeks case, the upper
reaches of the North Fork at Whale
creek remained partially frozen, and
the main North Fork road was good
There was mud in between. Royal
Creek is logging-hauling contractor.
Bert Morris, assistant ranger in
charge at Glacier View ranger stat
ion, Big Creek, estimated that ESQ.,
600 board feet of logs came out of
the North Fork Tuesday. With mud
conditions, he added, II don't know
how they did it"
Logs were bound to Plum Creek,
Superior Buildings and Rex Brown.
Charles Jellison was skidding and
decking for Stoltze. Koenigs are
cleaning up Moose creek sale.
Russell Warner has better thar
SOC, 900 board feet logged ane
decked for Rocky Mountain On Hal
lowatt creek waiting for goot
freeze to start hauling.
Other activity up the North Forl
include two Forest Service engineer
ing crews locating roads for the con
templated sales in Kletomas creek
a branch of Hallowatt, and Skookol
feel creek, a branch of Big creek
There are heavy pockets of spruc
/ bark beetle infeStati0n.
Mud conditions have also slowe
activity up the South Fork wher
i F, X and L of Martin City are bring
ing logs out of the Qrintonken cree
purchase they share with Rock
Mountain. Plum Creeks Sulliva
creek purchase is not PARTICULAR
! active. Nearer the dam on Lo:
Johnny creek, Rex Brown is built
! ing road and cutting timber, report
Robert Croskey, Coram dispatcher
On Doris mountain, Coram range
station has a cruising team of JOB
] Brinkerhoff, John Hauer and Geore
Ostrom checking a beetle infestatie
and contemplated sale.
Hungry Horse news., 1955-11-11
NLRB Orders Election at AAC Plant

tentative dates OF NOV. Il, = and
q are indicated for the National La
Dor Relations Board conducted Sec
ret ball0ting that will pick the union
that will be bargaining agent for
employees at the new Anaconda Al
minimum Co. plant
Determination of final dates for
the election depend on agreement Of
unions, Anaconda company and
NLRB offices in Seattle.
Thomas Graham, regional director
for the NLRB in Seattle, is contact
ing the several parties with present
outlook that dates Of Nov. 81, u and
q are acceptable.
The National Labor Relations
Board Wednesday informed head Of
fees of the Anaconda company, Al
minimum Workers of America AT Of
l., CIO Steelworkers and Interna-
tional Union of Mine, Mill and Smell
ter Workers of the NLRB decision
made in Washington, Tuesday.
The AT of L in Columbia Falls
received word Wednesday about II
a. m. and the CIO shortly thereafter
The Hungry Horse News seeking
information contacted Senator Mike
Mansfield who called the National
Labor Relations Board. Mansfield
teleph0ned Wednesday that the Board
had reached a decision that an cleo
ton be held within 80 days of Nov. 8.
Melton Boyd, Seattle, representa-
tive Of the NLRB Seattle office, held
a hearing at Flathead county court
house, Kalispell, Sept. 16.
| At this hearing the Anaconda COM
pany, Aluminium Workers of Amer
lea, AT of L, and International I'm
ion of Mine, Mill and Smelter Work
ers agreed to an immediate cleo
ton. The CLIO stand was "stipu-
lated consent" election with the Ma
tonal Labor Relations Board in
Washington, D. C. to decide whether
the plant was ready as yet for an
election or not. A CLIO concern was
that the plant was not fully in oper-
alton, and there were more main
tenance men usually AT Of L mem
bers) on the payroll than there
would be later.
In the meantime, with the matter
of selecting a bargaining agent n
process, the local wage scales arr
the lowest for any Anaconda plan
| in Montana. The summer wage in
crease at other Anaconda plants, and
the aluminium industry-wide increas
es of 10 to Is cents an hour did no
apply to the Columbia Falls plant
The wages could not be changed
during the time of an impending
NLRB election.
AS soon as bargaining agent
; selected at the secret balloting con
Quoted by the NLRB, and election
results are certified, negotiations ar
expected to be underway betwee'
the certified union and Anacond
Aluminium Co. as to a new wag
; structure At the F1athcad plant. III
; may be achieved by Jan. /.
. Agreed to at the Sept. is hearin
! by ali parties was the wording a
who will vote at the coming MIR.
election. and who will be represen
ed by the union that wins the ele'
: ton.
: This wording is as follows: "A
> production and maintenance emplo,
es excluding office clerical emplo!
es, superintendent clerks. offie
q janitoresses, executives chauffer
= fuIl-time safety and first aid en-
! ployes, laboratory and control tecl
: nicians, professional employee
q guards and supervisors as define
in the (NLRB) act"
= Exclusion generally concern
= monthly paid people.
= Of the 500 employees at the plal
- about $50 are eligible to vote. N
Hungry Horse news., 1955-11-11
Help With Taxes

AS a service to the upper Flathead
the Bank of Columbia Falls has ar
ranged with Mrs. Freda Shanahan,
county treasurer, to handle the cur
rent November tax payment bills.
Area citizens can bring their tax
notices to the bank, and pay their
taxes with the money forwarded to
the county treasurer by the bank
The taxpayer gets his tax notice
stamped paid.
There is no extra cost for this ser
vice.
Hungry Horse news., 1955-11-11
S ovings Bond
Drive CofnQ Over

Outlook at the Anaconda Alumni
UNI Co. plant is that IS per cent of
the 500 employees are signing up in
the current U. S. Savings Bond
drive.
John Kearns. plant personnel dir
ector, who heads the drive, COM
mented that the drive was going
over surprisingly well for q new
plant.
The machine shop became the first
AAC department to 60 100 per cent
in the drive that will conclude late
this month.
Employees, may, if they desire,
starting with their Nov. 10 pay
checks, have as little as $1.25 for
each two weeks deducted to apply
on a savings bond. s. saved in nine
years and 8 months will return 81.
All local Anaconda employees have
received a letter from E. S. Nc
Clone, Anaconda company executive
vice president, in which he states:
when you buy bonds through the
Payroll Plan you are taking two con-
structive actions: You are provid-
ing for your future security and you
are helping your government to pro-
tect that security"
Assisting department Superintend-
ents at the Columbia Falls plant with
the U. S. Savings Bonds drive are
the following potline foreman: Ben
Bowerman, Joe Slobojan, AL Steele,
Bernell Hedrick, John Latson, Yer.
non Roe, Pete Morrison, George
Kopitzke, Jack Cook, Fred Eyre
Lloyd Aldrich, Bill Lawson, Dear
Tusing, John Beckwith, Fred Vos
burgh and Bill Head.
Paste plant foreman assisting witt
the drive are: Don Miller and Bot
Trodick.
Casting foremen: George Sowl, W
D. Kinney, Ken Averill and Boil
Matteson.
warehouse foremen: Neil Klein
and AL Alvord.
Electrical: Frank ConnorS. Bill
Potter, Ray Nunnally and Jane
Hooper.
Mechanical: Bernard O'Neil, Mic
key Sullivan, Wilbur Reynolds. Chal
les Fisher and Dean Croskey.
Watchmen'S department: Ore
Barnhart.
The general offices, chemist
force and general services employe
are being contacted by departmel
heads.
Hungry Horse news., 1955-11-11
TO Sell School

Bids will be opened Dec. 6 by the
District 6 school board for sale of
the one-room Lake Five (not Nyack)
school building and about 200 feet
away from the building sale of a
one acre tract of land. The building
is no longer used.
The school erected about IS years
ago was located about 200 feet from
the acre owned by the school dis
trict. The situation of building and
land being apart was discovered
this fall.
Hungry Horse news., 1955-11-11
Fishing Continues

Fishing season this year is from
May % until Nov. 80, according to
Montana Fish and Game commiss-
Toner regulations. The fishing sea-
son continues for two weeks after
close of hunting.
Hungry Horse news., 1955-11-11
Building Permits

Building permits issued this week
at the city clerks office was to j.
A. Gimbel for a garage to cost $500.
A number Of other structures have
been started in the city without fill
ing for building permits.
Hungry Horse news., 1955-11-11

Big game harvest by districts is
as follows:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-25
TODAY,S SCHEDULES
STAGE

NATIONAL-Dark. "A Quiet Place." with Tyrone Power,
opens tomorrow.
SHUBERT-Dark THE Boy Friend" with 10 Ann Bayless,
tomorrow
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-25

back in anybody's teeth. This
was. it is true, unintentionally
funny for awhile as Kirk Doug
las. clad In beard and toga,
cavorted about the Italian
countryside. secure in the
knowledge that he was being
paid for it and no one ever
yet managed to fell an actor
by shooting his image on a
movie screen. Its producer
achieved great eminence for it
among the 10 worst. however.
by allowing the actors to speak
in whatever tongue was ham
diest, then clubbing English
dialogue. It made ulysses"
easily the years most nerve
racking motion picture.
This leaves, now, a flve-way
tie for second place and no
computer this side of Univac
measures fine enough to break
it. In alphabetical order and
no other places two through
six on the list are occupied by
1.-THE Egyptian" Land of the
Pharaohs," THE Prodigal,"
Sign of the Pagan" and THE
Silver Chalice."
One Large Blur
They cannot be separated
here because they all are jun
bled together in memory in one
vast, improbable blur. They
shared one thing-DeMille size
without the DeMille touch.
They had mammoth casts,
gargantuan sets and still strike
one as the ponderous bores
they seemed to be the first
time.
Two bright spots can be re-
called in these five triumphs
of the budget over art. One
was Lana Turner's plunge
into a f1re-filled pit in one.
The other was Jack Palance's
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-25
A Busy Year This Was fo'
Film Folk Of Hollywood

the startling separation of
Alan and wife, Sue Carol. But
Sue isn't gal to stay mad
long. She's too wise in wifely
lore. So. all's okay again in the
Laid menage.
Proud Parents
Love and marriage is fol-
lowed by a baby carriage all
over the world. The proud
parents Of 1855 locally include
Jan Sterling and Paul Douglas,
with Jan making a new kind
Of baby history among Holly
wooditeS-a natural birth at
home, and up and about an
hour afterWard. Kirk and
Anne Douglas. with two boys
already. wanted a girl-but
they settled gladly for another
boy, Peter, born November %.
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