The Glacier reporter. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1953-current, 1960-03-17
A MINUTE
WITH kl


We are happy that the Duck
Lake and Meriwether roads wran-
gle has been brought 70 a success
full conclusion. and 10 mutual sat
isfaction. According to a first
hand report from Hi Woodward.
chairman of the Glacier County
Board of Commissioners. the nor
thern seven miles of the NERVE
Their road will be contracted for
crawling and completed this sum-
mer. and the northern IL miles
of the Duck Lake road will be
oil surfaced this year also.
However. according to a report
in one of the state dailies. dated
March is. several erroneous state
ments were made which may have
confused the issue. particularly
the final decision: which, as yeri-
fled by both Mr.. Woodward and
Tiff Mckay. secretary of the Tri-
bal Council. will give both dis
tricts their desired improvement.
As a matter of fact the chances
of completing the Meriwether
project were nil had an actual
attempt been made to divert the
Duck Lake road funds to the Meri-
wether road - because, in grant
ing the right-of-way for the Meri-
wether road one particular clause
stated that should such a diver
sion of funds take place. the
Meriwether right-Of-way would
automatically become void.
Most individuals. and groups of
individuals, too often forget that
ncerning road construction
projects within the reservation
boundaries, ii is the Tribal Coun-
Gil who has the last word q.
and il is their yes" or mo" that
controls the red and green lights
Anyway. everyone is apparently
happy now . until the next
county secondary roads projects
are readied for action.
One question, however, still has
us stymied Where did the
funds come from all of a
sudden, enough 10 carry out both
projects. when only a few days
ago we were told, or led TO be
Iieve, that there wasn't enough
in the kitty TO complete either
project . . Now, in the neigh
borhood of $4,000 is suddenly
available, and. an expected bal
ance of around $4,000 will be
left over7??
It's high time we thanked our
friend. Henry King, over in Port
land, Oregon. for the highly conn
plimentary letter and generous
bonus. Thanks, Henry. it's mighty
nice to now that someone appre-
ciates our sweatshop hours and
realizes that we of the Fourth
Estate have some human charac-
teristics and interest in our COM
munity.
Henry twhom We have never
metz was born on the reservation
something like 81 years ago and
left here when he was five years
old to pitch his teepee farther
west. He states that he sill has
relatives here and considers
Browning his home town regard
less of where he Is. He is a con-
struction worker, and at the time
he wrote US, was waiting for the
season TO open.
He sends his regards TO friends
and says, Don't let those guys
take your highway away from you
or a lot Of you will lose your liv-
ing" And we agree with him.
Evidently Frank Mccormick
isn't exactly satisfied that we be-
lieye his story about seeing go
piers playing in the snow up at
Babb. This week he brought in
what he claims to be the tip OF
a gopher tail which he took from
the varmiat he shot a few days
ago. II was attached 10 Request
For Public Assistance" form,
which leaves us more in the dark
than ever. Could be he thought
the application was for a big
game Licensed
Anyway mot disputing Franks
word tho) but the alleged portion
of that gopher tail hears a strange
resemblance to a certain type of
fly used to tie back in Wiscon-
sin. known as a Squirrel Tail.
Al the usual rate Of ten cents
per tail. as Is the standard bounty
paid in most states. / would say
Prank had about 2 mills coming
and that he scalped the gopher
on the wrong end.
Upon giving this subject more
thought. it msy be possible that
we could make quite a winter
out of this deal