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Western News AND LIBBY TIMES Published every Thursday at Libby, ICont., by Western Montana Pub lishing Company. Inc. EnUjed at the postoffice at Libby, Mont., as second-class matter. .$2.50 . 1.50 Yes, we expect to vote for the new Gymnasium and Auditorium, We do not .have any children in the, Libby schools, but we do believe all of the children who attend our schools are deserving of our support. We have not lived in Libby long enough to feel free to tell folks how they should vote, but we do feel we have the right to tell them how we will vote and why. We feel that the town needs the improvement now. and as the years go by, will need it more and more. The schools need the improved facilities 0 for maw purges set forth n recent SffiTes to 8S news Da D er The communit? nods the accommodations for public gather fngs and inorderto grow and pros mfasH s'hould every citv needs to keeJ constonüv improvingas fi nances permit. Good public build «reatlv' 'to the^Doeaf of'an'y ^ity ^ 1 greatly to the appeal of an> city. : „ , 4 . The Genesis story of creation is told in 797 words. The Ten Com mandments are given in 297 words. Lincoln's Gettysburg Address was given in 266 words. The OPA changes the price of cabbage and takes 2,500 words! Now is the time when Sweet "William bears pistils, the Pussy Willow steals through the valleys, and Daisies won't tell: the dog tooth is found on the violet plant; dandelion time and occasionally the ; ' bulrush's out—but the tick in the bills, adds most to our ills! i î The summer months will bring'be out many more motorists engaged in pleasure driving — and also many more pedestrians to take advantage' of the good weather for hikes and strolls. The National Conservation Bureau warns that approximately j two-thirds of the pedestrians killed by cars in 1944 were either violating a traffic law or committing some, other unsafe act. W. R. LITTELL. Editor,and Manager * OFFICIAL PAPER FOR LINCOLN COUNTY Subscription Rates: One year .. Six months Gcwnlled ' Oi . JOHNSON* ■ 1 . y **/.• hcon FOUS* uu**~ ; floor K*A*^ ' -vie IU JToWtl r i £ rV î '-j. ", ! CLLAMH \ & $Ci Df « Aunt Sue's Dry Cleaner 1 Gal....69c 2 Gal...$1.19 Save a Day Glass Cleaner 8 oz. Toilet Bowl Cleaner, Wizard 12 oz. kV «s>^ l()c 10c Drain Pipe Cleaner, Wizard 10c 12 oz. SRAlilFif® Lady Helen Wax 1 pt.35c 1 qt.59c Prime, All Purpose Cleaner 1 qt.60c 1 Cal. .$1.50 Aulwood Furniture Polish 8 oz.. Johnson's Wax 1 lb. Johnson's Glo-Coat 1 pt ■ ■ '.î 29c MX 59c 59c 1 qt.98c \ GoutKed The Friendly Store î !.Jc! Eureka Drive Along River Delightful; Speed Work on No. 37 » , rw o Charles D. Rowe Spring, so they say, Is the time when the town dweller likes to get out on the highway and breathe plenty of gasoline fumes. As yet we are not so bothered here in this corner of Montana. The person who joyfully succumbs to the irresistible urge to get out and ehjoy the glorious beauties all around him can also enjoy a great abundance of pure air and sunshine, We succumbed to such an urge last Sunday afternoon and chose to point the old car over one of our favorite drives, that along the Koo tenai river between Libby and Eu reka. Sunday we drove as far as Big creek and found the drive as marvelously beautiful as ever. Leaf, trees and bushes were just putting on their new gowns of tender green leaves for the coming season; the tamaracks were stately and beauti ful in their new, light green foliage; the darker green of pine and cedar added a delightful contrast in nature's color scheme; certain road side bushes and trees were balls of white with a mass of blossoms: the majestic Kootenai flowed grandly |along at ones side, and m the 9 1S ' tance mountain peaks still carried their glistening mantle of the win ters snow. A few startled deer hounded away as our car sped along. Ordinary little creeks were raging * orren * fed by the spring run-off f r om the mountains. Birds flitted throu S h the forest or paused long enou ^ ?" V T Ch l ° P our fort ? delightful music for our enjoyment. The highway was m ex wîrK/Se^mln emploi ed by the state t0 maintain il - All in all the drive nrovided a few hours of delight on an enjoyable Sunday, afternoon. There is no exaggeration in say-' j ng t hi s drive over No. 37 between Lioby, Warland. Rexford, Eureka anc j Whitefish is one of the most beautiful in the Northwest. When this highway is finally converted in to a modern, standard highway, it will carry over it. a tremendous tourist traffic. Its scenic beauty as sures that. We understand No. 37 is the only highway left in this dis on which money for new con_ struction can be spent, under Mon tana highway law. That assures a reasonably early finishing of this popular road. Every effort should exerted to get this section of No. 37 completed at an early date. It will prove an added attraction to call tourists to this delightful vacation land. - What is the world coming to any way? Old Mother Earth is in a dreadful turmoil, turned topsy turvy by quarrelsome mankind. And because of this turmoil, some of our cherished traditions are going over-1 The last of such jolts was caused by an item in a recent daily news paper. A certain lumberjack ap. peared in court and sued his wife for divorce because she got drunk board. and beat him up. ye gods and little fishes! Think of it! A lumberjack being beat up by a woman! For many long years a lumberjack has been to us an ev ample of manly virility, with hard muscles and hard fists, ready to stand up to any man and fight it out to a finish at the slightest pro vocation. it has been our good luck to count a number of these old-time timber workers as close friends. There comes to mind such a man down in central Oregon. Mike Mor r i son had followed the woods all h is life. He was a typical lumber j ack and had helped log off the magnificent timber crops in Wis-1 C onsin and Minnesota. Mike was " a jj woo l and a yard wide." His word was better than any written bond. He was as honest as the s hine and loyal to the last degree. j reS pected and honored him. Many's time I have listened to his stor j es as h e chuckled and told of the ear i y days when the men would come off ; the spr jng drives and ( then play, carouse and fight in the | towns T h en there were John Stan j forth and Don McCoy, two other Wisconsin-Minnesota jacks who used j occasionally to come into my of-! fice to vjsi ' t and te u 0 f t h e days in. Mi nneso t a and of the tragic forest fi t they had seen. Thus it y was that we carre to think of lumbe rjacks as a fearless breed of the Paul Runyan type, he-ipen ith hair on their chests and full of pepper and vim. And now we read £ f H £ ne of the m seeking a divorce , beC ause his wife beat him up. Oh. w ° 6 is , me! What iS the W ° rld COm ' j ing to ' _ - .. May has been set aside as a_na j tion-wide Safety Month, aimed at curbing our appalling toll of deaths I and injuries—a situation that is fast • becoming a national scandal. I should like to reprint here something good that I ran onto this week in nay reading. It was in a circular put out by the Northwest Casualty Company. We quote. "Does this Safety Month mean something positive to you. Or have you been content to think of salety and accident prevention as somo thing intangible something that concerns only the other fellow, "You wouldn t—you couldn t if you have ever had to walk to a door, ring a bell and_ say .Your a hrimrinir him in now' They re bringing turn in now ■ . . if you have 7 « n s . to °d «, atc ^n| the face of a friend who suddenly rea ,? J h ui iLf y ££ v ir—'it wïï arm may be j° st J? r ^ er ■ V lf ™ a „ ever yoqr ^ad lot to pick up child from under the wheels of an automo P, 11 , . .. ni „ tur _ moments P vibrant health and joy! a child that but a few "We can dö something! You and I and every citizen in our land, can contribute a portion of his time and energy to making our community and oty: city a safer and happier place in which to live! "Remember, it isn't the magni tude of your effort, or the form that it takes, that counts. What counts is that you do something—that you contribution, however Your fellow citizens are make a small! counting on you!'' "Four-wheel brakes are useless without fore-sighted drivers." Following appears further cor respondence received by A. J. Agather, President of the Libby Chamber of Commerce, regarding the proposed Kootenai Dam pro ject. The letter from Governor Ford was dated March 1. 1946 and the communication from State En. Buck was dated March 6 gineer The letters follow: Dear Mr. Agather: This will acknowledge receipt of your favor of February 16, enclos ing re-print of a newspaper article which appeared in the Great Falls Tribune, which came during my absence from the office and will account for the delay in answering Personally, I do not feel we have anything to worry about for many, many years to come in connection with the matters mentioned in the article. It occurs to me that this is Political Announcements For State Representative I wish to announce my candidacy for the office of State Representa tive from Lincoln county, subject to the will of the Republican vot ers at the July Primaries. Your support is solicited, and if elected I will do my utmost to serve the interests of the people. ALLEN GOODGAME For County Commissioner I hereby announce my candidacy for the office of County Commis sioner from the Third Commission er's district, subject to the will of the Democratic Primary. Your sup port is solicited and will be ap preciated. R. L. FAGAN For State Representative I wish to remind the people of Lincoln County that I am a can didate for nomination as State Rep* resentative on the Republicar ticket, subject to their approval al the primary election on July 16. 1946. If you believe that I could serve you and the interests of Lin coln County well at the State Legis lature, your support would be very muv'h appreciated. CHARLES D. ROWE merely an engineer's dream. How ever, I do think we should keep on i the alert and be ready at all times to protect our interests, Your letter is being referred to Mr. Fred E. Buck, State Engineer, with the request that he provide you with any information that he has on the subject. You may feel sure that the Gov ernor will work with you and your organisation to fully protect the in terests of the State and its citizens. Cordially yours, SAM C. FORD neighborhood, asking the purpose) ! of making surveys, drilling dam Ï sites, etc. along the Kootenai River. | We had no official knowledge in! office of any kind concerning ! the work being done, and supposed Î that it was a part of the Army i Engineers' investigations to bring, [ their so-called "308" report up to i date, as ordered by Congress some 1 two years or so ago. While in Den t ver last winter. I was informed that 1 the report on this particular pro ject had beer* prepared, and was promised a copy. This arrived in my office just recently. In order to advise the people in your neigh borhood of what was going on, I thought it was only proper to give a digest of this report to the press, We don't care to have another Flat head Lake experience in the Koo tenai Valley, and for that reason I wanted your people to get what information was available. The report is strictly on geology ^ ^ engineering fea ' thing we should take too seriously. In the first place, it has not been aut horized by Congress and. so far ag j knoWj Congress has never even he ard of the project. If a bill should I be introduced, authorizing the same. we wiU learn about it immediately and I will certainly advise the people in r locality of such informa t j on Dear Mr. Agather; Kootenai Project - Lincoln County Your letter of Febr dressed to Governor Ford, regard ing the newspaper article proposing a large dam in the Kootenai River, has been referred to me for reply. Last summer I received letters from the good citizens in your; 16, ad I don't think there is any I o K\ 10 z\fv 9 5 ■I I 6 5 It's High Time .... You stopped here and had your car checked completely. 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