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rjf is • vs V ■HM| 10 cents a copy « I $ : Hungry Horse News Vol. 2, No. 42 Columbia Falls, Montana Friday, May 21, 1948 10 to 15 Cent Raise Indicated Ml y L % 1 t - I: a. m £ ¥ * vT I Negotiations Sunday through Wednesday in Seattle between organized labor and General-Sbe^- Morrison, prime contractors for Rivers Approach Last Year's Peak Contractor Clears Campsite % Hungry Horse dam, indicate an 10 to 15 cents an hour General-Shea-Morrison employ-1 ment reached 92 this week as [ clearing of the prime contractors ! campsite on government land near ! Hungry Horse village neared completion. At work are carpenters, laborers, two shovel operators and one “cat” driver. High Rock Billy Goat Family Delights Early Park Visitors average A small boat was carrying men to work on the 1,180-foot long 36- foot in diameter diversion tunnel at Hungry Horse damsite as the Flathead river’s south fork tins week was in spring flood. Water in the river is now more than 22 feet above the tunnel floor, but is being held back by cofferdams. However a section of the access road to the tunnel por- tal is flooded which brings about use of the small boat in the back water. The river’s flow jumpd from last Sunday's 9,250 cubic feet per second to 32,000 cubic feet at 1.30 p. m. Friday. Last year a peak of 33,800 cubic feet per second was reached on May 9; by May 12 it was down to 20,600. over prevailing wages in raise the Flathead. Contracts between General-Shea- Morrison and organized labor are now in the process of being signed. The agreement is to run until November 1, 1949 and then be subject to a wage review: ing conditions are for the duration of construction. A 48 hour week will be in effect with time and a half orer 40 hours, and on Satur- 9 J m-u High Rock Billy and his mountain goat family are delighting Clearing of the right-of-way for I early visitors to Glacier national rebuilding the lower 4-mile road park, to the damsite has started. A 20 f • ; Bi, work- >«J m ■s* «ïmM The 200 pound billy, nanny and her two new-born eight pound frisky kids frequent lower lev- els of Mt. Canon near Avalanche - B®»/ ■ . hungry horse news photo by 48-foot quonset tool shed and warehouse is up, and electricians and carpenters’ sheds and an oil house will be built next week. First permanent type structure to be erected will be an office building; dormitories and houses will Elliott, Barbara Bock, Larry Jones, Dick Bruce, Irene Stedman and Russell Martin. follow. Meanwhile temporary of- General-Shea-Morriscn ? e national forest dist riet ranger, B. A. Bealey went through a rehearsal of tree plant- children, who today (Friday) in conection with their school picnic are planting 2,000 seedlings. The tin y trees, bought by the Montana Federation of Women’s clubs, ar; burned-over pi ot along highway No. 2 just outside of Glacier national park. In be seen a j ew of the 32,000 pines planted in 1938 as part of the women’s club those in the picture are Myrna Adams, Ranger Bealey, DrWayne Bruce, Colleen i - day and Sunday. Present carpenter and painter in the Flathead is $1.75; labor is $1.25; truck dri- around $1.50: plumbers and Coram V me« campground. A mountain goat billy, commented A. D. Cannavina, assistant chief ranger In charge ot forestry and wildlife, is most family conscious of Glacier national park’s larger animals. A male bear often has tomcat instincts Stripping operations at the dam- toward cubs; buck deer and bull I site will start soon after flood elk tend to be uninterested, but water in the Flathead river’s south not so the mountain goat, he’ll fork subsides fight off coyotes or other threats There will’ be little additional *o his playful young, hiring this coming week. Appar- Gomg-to-the-Sun highway s . & , , if now open to Avalanche, 16 miles ent are good labor relations as ^ inside the park, and the Mt. Can- supervisors express satisfaction * . .. , . Vi,hei®®oi non goats, as many as 17 have as to the working ability of local & ’ ___ been seen at one time, are relativ- „.j ely close to the road. In another Eighteen and nineteen year-old “ _____ , . 6 . , . ui™! month they 11 be back up near the boys are not being hired, nor are | " .. J alpine peaks. Glacier is believed there any lobs for women. *V *AA , . . _. . * i,. . ,, , »hoi to have 900 mountain goats. It is unofficially known that ap- ° plicants for jobs find it better ro proceed through local unions and the Montana state employment service office, Columbia Falls. Peak employment by General- Shea-Morrison, a combination of 12 contractors, is expected to reach this year’s peak of 600 in September. Peak employment on the $43,431,400 contract will be something over 2,500 reached in 1949 or 1950. Clearing and road building operations may bring the total number of men on the job at one time to 4,000. At present there is a labor sur- plus in the Flathead. Here from Seattle and working for General-Shea-Morrison Richard H. Savage, paymaster; Leslie S. Gardner, excavating superintendent; clearing superintendent; Diss, survey party chief; A. L. Chouinard, instrument man, and William C. Hall, stakeman. Rich- ard Coveil, field engineer, is from San Francisco. Local resident, Jim Bose is pay- roll clerk and G. W. Thurston, timekeeper, and also local for the most part are the foremen, Em- mett Steeples, shovel foreman; Raymond Wilkes, Lester M. An- derson, George Lindseth, ’William Durham and Harry Lee, all labor foremen, and Leroy McFadden, carpenter foreman. The contractor is giving Flat- head residents preference in job osa pne - on a M it scale common « I placed It J mchground ct. Among ■ Duane can So r vers electricians who do not maintain, shops, $2.00: equipment operators around $1.85. Highest indicated raise under the new contracts with the prime contractor is 20 cents an hour. j fices are in prefab 185, Hungry Horse village, the government town. of lot ( I - This information is unofficial. , Representing organized labor at Seattle were E. R. Melton, president of the Kalispell building Leon The tunnel is a $643,400 contract held by Guy F. Atkinson company and nearing completion, though flood waters have already stopped final excavating. At Columbia Falls west of Bad ■ 01 Bedell, iis isi council: trades ^Whitofish-Columbla Falls carpenters’ local; Charles Knick and Rock canyon where the Flathead’s' Joe Dzjvi operating engineers; three forks unite, the river guage Jess Tenny, teamsters: Ralph measured 15.6 Friday morning as compared to last year’s high of Fastwood. plumbers, Carl Ryd- 17. There is flooding near Kalis- berg. laborers. Also in attendance members of the parent la- used, os <vvv & t* ts Laurich, iron workers, and Earl y - 52 W f pell. were bor organizations. m ' % v* NorlhwBt Air Stop Lis(Can||idatKFllr Outlook Improves n: vv Betty, the Mule Deer Welcomes Rangers Return to Big Prairie (?{j 1 Soil Supervisors Congressman Wesley D’Ewart informed Flathead county’s airport board that establishment of a radio range beacon system into the Flathead is scheduled for this year. Lack of a range system is believed to be the only obstacle pre- venting Northwest Airlines from landing at the local port, six miles from Columbia Falls, eight miles from Kalispell, and eleven miles from Whitefish. It will be en a direct Great Falls to Spokane run. The CAB in Washington last November authorized Northwest to stop here. In Seattle conferring with North west Airlines Thursday was G. A. Miller, Kalispell, president of the county airport board. He is mak- ing the trip at his own expense. The Flathead port was estab- lished in 1939 by the county com- missioners as a part of the national defense program, the federal government spent $359,184 to hard-surface runways, and now nearing completion is a $70,090 administration building. t On the ballot for Saturday’s election to choose sol! conservation district supervisors are: (division 3) Finley Arnett and Tim Sulli- ( division 4> Henry Marken, Jp Betty, a gray-old mule deer, back at the kitchen door of was Big Prairie ranger station in the Flathead national forest wilder- area an hour after it was fj van; Robert Gatis, Elmer Beeman and A. W. Reimer; (division 5) George Siderius and Ransom Brown. One supervisor from each district will be elected, and polling places are; court house, Kalispell; city hall, Whitefish; Hungry Horse News, Columbia Falls; stores at Creston and Swan Lake. 0S C • • m ness reopened. District Ranger Ray Gardner, Ranger Ted Paullin and Trail Foreman Oscar Southern landed by plane at the 90-mlies from civilization post last May 11. The station had been closed since last ■ < e ten are attv 8s A tiny ponderqsa pine ThaThas better than a 50-30 chance of becoming a towering treeJspM- in the damp spring soil by Elizabeth Adams and Gerade\Gor*^ti °™rt of the burn 0f 1929. Ä their school picnic today planted 2.000 seedlings It is reforesting part o;------------- ----------------- fut * Ormond V. Hill, Frank oriji November. As soon as smoke started to curl from the station chimney, Betty was on hand begging for bread crusts, and with her were six other deer. When the plane circled at the Big Prairie landing field, it scat- tered an estimated 250 elk. Big Prairie is the forest ranger headquarters for an uninhabited mountain, forest and meadow area the size of the state of Rhode Island that is just west of the continental divide. Polls will open at 9 a. m. and close at 6 p. m. Holdover members of the Flat- conservation district includes the entire Conrad Gilbertson Plans Underway For Dam Starting Day Weatherman to Help Fishermen With Barometer Forecasts ite Emery Creek niter Auction head soil which now county are Stillwater, and Ed Dortch, Pleas- or in ing. ant valley. All farmers can vote. The soil conservation program is comple- tely voluntary. The local district (division 31 includes everything north of Lake Blaine and east of the Whitefish to the continental divide. is the slo- Northwest Progress for the July 10 ceremony 3,280,000 For the second summer, the L'. will officially of Wie auction J feet of Emery creek’s block ill be conducted Thursday at by the Flathead national It. It will be held in the post g building, Kalispell. itional forest timber is ord- ly sold by use of sealed bids, jublic auction is believed more rable to local timber operat- Sealed bids may also be sub- gan that will mark start of Hungry ill S. weather bureau perform an experiment in the Flat- head with the cooperation of ang- if fly fishing is act- the barometer ziPPO Horse dam construction. Sam Ford has just of Washing- m. iw. Governor invited the governors ton, Idaho, Oregon and Wyoming to the ceremonies pected to attract more lers to see i nei il ually better when is rising. Forecasts for fishermen barometer will do arc Kalispell’s ■ray that are ex- than 10,- Flathead Tops In Montana For Recreation would likely triple use of the Brad Seeley. Whiteifsh chamber of commerce president, described the year around recreational plans of his community, and urged for better leadership in a more rounded county-wide recreational 15 of placements. Also employed on the Hungry Horse project are 99 men by the R and S construction company, a $408.320 timber clearing contract the damsite; C and what the being broadcast over radio station, KGEZ, and printed in the Daily Inter Lake. Observer E. S. Mark at Kal- many ex- 000 persons. Coming as it does during the the Glacier national park at the start of IrSed. south fork recreational area. Pre- vious estimate was 2,000 cars and 7,400 persons in a season, now it would be 6,000 cars and 20,000 people. Arrangements are being made with the bureau of reclamation for additional campgrounds along the river. With 17.500 hunting and fishing Flathead county the past year standing tim- prices have jumped about $3 ousand board feet. There has a "freeze out” tendency as I operating in an area s find another more distant ator has submitted a bid con- ■ably above going prices. The It is either a shutdown, long- ^■auling or moving the mill. aery creek’s ‘block L sold on sh 12 at $10.75 a thousand d feet for larch and fir; $11.75 spruce and $16.15 for white peak of season, onlookers sold, licenses leads Montana declared Walt Ev- erin, chief deputy game warden. and at and near F (S and F) construction completing the 3.9-mile long top ac- road, 18, and Guy F. Atkin- _____ completing the diversion tunnel 64, down from an April peak Hungry Horse dam construction will undoubtedly include citizens of every one of the 48 states. Sponsors of the event is Flathead Citizens committee, a. in the county ar^ ispell comments that perienced fishermen have come to believe that fly Ashing is best when the barometer is rising, an poorest when barometer is fa i- ing. It has to do with the air sac in fish that function much as do air chambers in submarines. Du- ring times of rising barometers experts say. tend to the water’s surface, is falling, ,dt Cascade county is second: Gallatin, third. Everin, a 1929 graduate of Col- umbia Falls high school, spoke at the Tuesday evening round ta- ble on Flathead county recreation sponsored by the Columbia Falls chamber of commerce. for Io« cess son n.:®j al program. Phil Kington, Kalispell chamber of commerce secretary, explained the Kalispell housing bureau set- and the need to please visitors that the good name of the Flat- head would help result in more and more vacationers. At the end of the meeting. De- puty Game Warden Everin had two outdoor motion pictures shown His talk also included a descrip- tion of state fish and game department revenues, about $1,00,000 in all, none from direct taxation with about $800,000 from license sales and $200,000 federal aid. The state now receives 42 per cent support for its fish and the of 144. now the towns “,km* itS ■)! Neitzling estimated that Flathead county received $350.- 000 each year from hunters and fishermen. The south fork elk herd alone accounted for a direct in- of more than $200,000 to the Mr. Blister Control Jobs Not Open in Park up and community please the visitors. the arrangement comn-t- tee from the upper part of the county are Chet Seymer and x T Reese, Columbia Falls, Homer Carter, Columbia Heights; Ncl Keim, Hungry Horse, Jean chaud and Si Tonner, Martm ! Tack Forsyt.be, Coram, Elmer ! Fladmark, Glacier national park, result of reports du-j c w “Smoky” Wood, Gene months gjjea.Morrison. ideal Oi SO Vacationers bring in an estimated $3,000,000 to the Flathead, and the county leads Montana as a vacationland. Supt. J. W. Emmert told the au- dience of 65 that indications are Glacier national park this year will even exceed last year s record of' 324,396 visitors. .Glacier Park hotel company bookings are ahead of last year. There has been a “tremendous” fish, some On Virtually all of the men who get blister control prog- Jld come nearer and when the pressure head toward the bottom away fisherman and his jobs on the ram in Glacier national park this will be last summer employes. will come Flathead as a result of money spent by hunters and the value of the meat. they from the casting I June 17 sealed bid opening (Compartment 10, Lost creek, p lake district, is also being Muled by the Flathead nat- t forest. This includes 1,970,000 N feet including 1,300,000 p: 570,000 Douglas fir, and [000 spruce. pulsing and surveying timber Me Flathead’s north fork near [yon creek north of Columbia Is will start shortly, and there likely be mid-summer sales. ^[Oditional Emery creek timber H ■'B5' above Coram and Martin î11 W "re not now scheduled. year The blister rust program about 40 men as compar- fiy- The Flathead national forest by state fish and game estimate has about 35 per cent of Montana’s grizzly bear; 13 per cent of the black; 16 per cent of the white tail deer; 17 per cent of the state’s elk; 11 per cent of the moose and 30 per cent of the mountain goat. However there is a problem in fishing. It is getting worse, and only an energetic planting prog- remedy, commented Mr. Neitzling. In the past 10 years through cooperation of the Cros- ton hatchery, the forest service planted 5,000,000 fish. Dr. J. S. McFarland, Polebridgo, official of the Montana dude described employ _ , ed to last year’s 73, according to A D. Cannavina, assistant chief or forestry and Last summer's experimen s i Flathead with the fishermen “ forecasts were not conclusive, proved as a ring the coming barometers will become an gift for fishermen fathers. the ranger in charge wildlife. Blister rust is a spore that destroys white pine trees. nd three foul advertising cam- the Canadian parks more game program than it did in 1946. Introduced at the meeting was George Van Gieson, information officer at the Hungry Horse project. In introducing Mr. Van Gie- David Culver, Hungry Horse p«a paign for which will help Glacier. Effective this summer, Canad- ian visitors’ money will be accept- for the Glacier $1.00 Office Filing Slow Get 25 Cent Raise We Get Scooped election is July 20; candidates to file is A wage increase of 26 cents an Primary it- the principal cnange in jagj. (jay for rU contract being signed by ; June 19 and last day to register. £e Hungry"Horse News with Ka- ,f you arp not already registered, «spell Local 723, International y-1 is *me 4. ^ ^ ^ ^ house> ^SfbSigB11^”’ union scale ^ ' according to A. J. Shaw, county This bring Flathead to r)r,rk (as of Tuesday afternoon) autour ' comparable to printer’s j ^ Robert Sykes, Rep., Kalis- h in similar areas. Largely as ty attorney: Charles E_ wages m similar _ous lower Pe • Dem. Half Moon, and a Pb was dfficult for this area J Gpalka, Rep., Columbia Falls, t^ompS witb others both for coimty £ i°ume^1 yearTpprenticeship, but has not yet announced his steady employment. j candidacy. Seeking the are i first time since the Hungry Horse News was esta lished August 8. 1946 we are com- pletely scooped. °ur ,ha. ndpI.SOv, to Promoters Roland Anderson and Ward McMillan ^ for real y g ting headlines with their gry Horse post otf.ee op«.- We were the first newspaper^ announce intention o ’ ing the post office on the^May 16 date, but from then on, missed the boat We,«JJ«'°of, ^ a of our engravings of th I , fice opening. We like ^ genial Postmaster Strong a ^ ry is a good kid, but e ^ ^ giptefS already “old stuff. <i i':] ed at par entrance fee. Mr. Emmert told of tearing down Going-to-the-Sun and Cut- bank chalets. He said that the intention to set aside the Cut- bank grounds as a spot for 4-H, boy scout and other youth camp- For the ram seems a son, project engineer, said that plans were not complete for routing of visitors to see Hungry Horse dam under construction, but that there would be arrangements. Chet Seymer, president of the Columbia Falls chamber, presided, and also introduced Lee Dickey, who takes over as president after irzem Succeeds Lockey ■w district engineer for Mon- state highway department ■kay Spurzem, who succeeds M. ■Lockey, promoted to a Helena 5 ■‘tion’ Spurzem served as res- ' enf*neer with headquarters Kalispell. The Western Montana from the 'tinental divide an association ranchers’ the North Fork area just west of Glacier national park as one of the really primitive areas ible to some extent by motor ve- hicle. He said that the Whitefish divide country was seldom visited by man; offered some of the nation’s best fishing and had a near- ly undisturbed wildlife popula- te n to ers. An extended season is also an objective of Glacier, lanches highway prevent the road from being opened before June 15, but the park is at its scenic best in September and October. The possibility of winter game shows using snowmobile pulled snow sleds was brought up. ÄTÄtEmmert reported on Frank Ev- forest suoervi- ans Wilderness Trail trips where- Flathead nationa f^p by visitors could hike into primi- sor, said that the areas with nack building, animals carrying supplies. Snow ava- ,'ut css- Going’"to-the-Sun on June 1. Present at the meeting were residents of Belton, Coram, Mai - tin City, Hungry Horse, Columbia Heights, Columbia Falls, White- fish and Kalispell. district includes clerk of court’s incumbent, Wendell Willis, both de- to the Idaho position Johnson and Jacie i mocrats of Kalispell. Dodge, j _, Gonhild Henderson, Bel- democratic precinct • w. J- McGreg- Drag Store Contrary to another promotion rumor, the school that will be built by the prime contractor is still scheduled to be on government land, and not on private property. rord is io the yv Horse Both Mr. McFarland and Mr. expected any time now amount of the 191/8-1,9 appropriation. Un- word is that it may be e than the when 1947 o« OO Hr» titw .=aro«-d by Sunday afternoon. Tue ■ ... Afseth car p mjtteeman “ÄSoW Driver! ton. for republican Mrs. ton filed for rommitteewoman Belton, for democratic com- • h. W. Hutchings, Bel- committee- Elmer parked in was - Knaub impact pushed er the high curb store plate glass Loretta Grainger. sod M. O. Alexander ba* two blocks in Hungry M Roland Andersen and Ward Millan, and is establishing em trailer court w^cht vail hau_ showers, mod«“ la clearing ities and electn« lights- the area is complete. tcioz 4 or. $9,850,000 asked congress convened. the pie into the area Hungry Horse as a dam Glacier ; man. View dam hearing Mr” m' THesday in Kalispell’s ( ry club is open to the public. to was ( V m

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