The people's voice., 1959-08-21
WHAT ABOUT WILDLIFE?

constructed.
WHAT ABOUT WILDLIFE?
There are some aspects to the pro.
posed channel that present problems
which my boys with the hose in the
sandbox didn't have to face. One is
what effect the channel would have
on the fish principally cutthroat,
Dolly Warden and Mavkinaw trout
and whitefish) in Flathead Lake and
the geese and ducks which nest
around it. The Corps has included,
in the overall cost estimate Of $6,321,-
900, funds for a survey of possible
effect on fish and wildlife, as rec
commended by the Montana Depart
ment of Fish and Game and the U. S.
Fish and Wildlife Service.
Research on the channel project
led to the following interesting COM
mentary on Hungry Horses contribu-
ton to the stability of the lake level,
which appears in Volume I of the
Engineers June, 1858, review report
on Water Resource Development in
the Columbia Basin:
"The historic maximum lake stage
elevation is about 1900 feet, which
occurred during the 1894 flood. Stor-
age in Hungry Horse Reservoir, be-
ginning in 1851, of inflow from the
South Fork has resulted in control
of all subsequent lake stages to ele-
vation 1898. The period of record
shows lake elevation 1898 was ex-
ceeded 13 times prior to 1851. Had
Hungry Horse Dam been in operation,
lake stages for all but the 1894 flood
could have been controlled to eleva-
tion 1898 and the 1894 flood would
have been controlled to elevation
1885,"
Safeguarding the level of Flathead
Lake has concerned the two senior
members of the Montana delegation
for many years. About 16 years ago
Senator Murray and Senator Mans
field, who was then Western District
Representative, arranged congress
sional hearing in the Flathead fol-
lowing a flood, and testimony taken
there helped speed authorization and
construction of Hungry Horse.
PLAYS CUPID
1t took an Act of Congress, but |
Robert Lewis Hall will be able to
marry his true love after all.
Hall was born in Victor, lived in
Deer Lodge, and received his de-
gree in mining engineering in 1858 |
at Montana School of Mines, Butte.
While serving with the Army in Korea
in 1856 he met PAX Jae Scum, who
was born in Japan and now is citi-
zen of Korea. They wanted to marry,
out Miss PAX was only 10 and her
mother would not consent. So Bob
,ame home and took job with Foote
Mineral Co. in Kings Mountain, N. c.
Miss PAX, now %, applied for
visa to come to this country to marry
Bob. But the quota was so over
"as to make visa issuance
o any applicant even within the
course of his or her lifetime prob
in the words of the Amer
can Consul at Seoul. By this time
Hall had asked Sen. Murray for help.
1urray introduced bill which would
i've her a non-quota visa to come to
his country to marry Bob. Murray
ave Chairman Eastland of the Judi
iary Committee, to which the bill was
eferred, his own endorsement plus
he high praise for Miss PAX which
american officers in Korea had for D
er character, personality, and work ]
S an interpreter-transl The bill {
loved quickly through the Senate, t
nd was guided through the House {
y another Bitterroot native, Rep. t
zee Metcalf, who had introduced a t
bill. Tuesday the senator's
i'll was cleared for the Presidents
gnature. t
ITS AND PIECES c
James w. Campbell was nominated
Y the President to be postmaster at ,
[alta Kessler School District
Helena, received S4,887 for school
under PL 874 Pub
C Works Appropriation conferees
pproved 81 million for the East :
ench Unit "a new start) near Dill q
N, $2,182,0OO to continue work on
lie Helena Valley Unit, $8,250, 900 /
,r continued work on the second c
over plant at Fort Peck, but refused [
allow the Senate-approved So mil t