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vacationers on Logan pass in Glacier national park likely
an opportunity now to see the most snow they've seen this
With blue skies and snow, it 's still shirt sleeve weather
ontinental divide. The m ountain is Going - to - the - Sun.
on
Determine Gravel Sou
rce
ractor officials will meet
next Wednesday,
lay and Friday to decide
the gravel to build Hungry
dam will come from.
consideration are tested
Hungry Horse creek
area
1er
its on
bove the damsite. This is av
government land in the
^oir area; of good quality, the
contains some clay, and will
jnore washing than the test
sposits being considered on
just west of Bad Rock can
(two miles from Columbia
where there is a bigger hau
on
■factor.
those who are coming
meetings that will also take
construction phases are;
McEachern, president, Gen
Blonstruction; Ben Cook, Gen
president; J. Samuelson,
vice president and chief
Gilbert Shea, president
Shea company; Charles P.
Horrison-Knudsen vice pre
Bpresident; Otto Herman, Gil
■rice president; George Havas
■Tom Price, Kaiser company
lals.
I charge of the meetings will
I W. "Smoky" Wood, General
l-Morrison general superinten
I; D. H. Henderson, GSM off
Imanager, and R. W. Jones,
le 12 companies who are buil
r Hungry Horse dam are Gen
[ Construction, Seattle; The
I company, Alhambra, Calif.;
kison-Knudsen, Boise; Henry
Kaiser, Oakland; F and S,
le; J. L. McLaughlin and S.
|h and Sons, Great Falls; Pa
I Bridge, San Francisco; Pet
Siewitt, Omaha; J. C. Boesp
[, Seattle, Gilpin Construction,
tland, and Walsh Construction,
Francisco.
inisters, Laymen
iof Tabernacle
^■ine ministers, one evangelist
■ six laymen made up this
Hk's Assembly of God taberna
H which will be dedicated July 1
Assembly of God campsite,
^fcsored by 70 churches of the
■b in Montana, is near the junc
■> of the Flathead river's mid
■ an d south forks, adjacent to
■ Hungry Horse boom towns,
■ eight miles from Glacier na
■al park. Each week a new crew
■ ministers and laymen go to
■k with hammers and saws on
■dings in the 57-acre pine-sha
■ tract. Visitors are welcome,
■ammer and saw users this
■k included: Rev. Currell Muir
•d, Great Falls, state superin
■dent; R ev . Leo Hinton, Butte;
v - J- H. Arneson, Glasgow; Rev.
W. Brown, Poplar; Rev. R. N.
Pden, Ronan; Rev Elmer Trygg,
Rev. Leon Mitchell, Scobey;
|v. Gene Peritti, White Hall, and
v - A. A. Howell, resident past
Evangelist was Don Palmer,
Pttle ,and laymen, Frank Park
Judith Gap; Harry Dudley
David Balzer, Missoula; Don
pm, Miles City; Alvin McFate,
l r k City, and Burton Pearson,
Inan.
Pudding their own cabins near
[campsite are Rev. D. R. Miller,
I'dng'ston; Leo Hackley, Culbert
n ' Emil Netzer, Missoula; N. C.
or t°n, Shelby, and Don Pelk,
feat Falls.
htry < Station Has
F s from 22 States
Cars from 22 different states,
as ka and Canada stopped at
°htana's port-of-entry station on
! opening day, Wednesday.
Columbia Falls courtesy
■ation, one of nine in Montana,
located at the junction of high
es No. 2 and 37 in Columbia
eights.
Attendants at the station are
"adwick Smith, Helena, a Mon
university senior, and Gor
Christianson, Broadus, a un
ersity junior. The station is open
° m 7 a.m. to 9 p. m.
Reading out-of-Montana trav
The
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as * J ' n grton and Oregon residents.
Black Tailed Fawn
Takes to the Bottle
And Rubber Gloue
A rubber glove and beer bottle
saved the day for a new-born black
tail fawn found along the Gar
den Wall on Glacier national park's
Going-to-the-Sun hghway.
Park officials discourage pick
ing up fawns, since the mothers
may not claim their young if they
acquire a human scent. However
this particular fawn was found
Monday laying in the middle of
the road, and may have been run
over if not removed.
The animal was taken to the
Fred Greve cabin camp along Lake
McDonald by Vic Nadeau, and
park officials notified. The bottle
and rubber glove became an ac
cepted provider of milk.
R & S OKs $1.40
As Minimum Wage
A minimum scale of $1.40 an
hour went into effect on the R
and S Construction company clea
ring contract at the Hungry Horse
project. R and S now has 115
employes.
The new wage scale, 10 cents
over the previous minimum, was
negotiated with Columbia Falls
local 2797, Lumber and Sawmill
workers, AFL. Signing for the
company was J. J. Reese and for
the union, Howard Role, presid
ent, and Robert C. Weller, busi
ness agent.
Truck drivers on this job in
creased from $1.48 to $160%.
and hand sawyers from $1.45 to
$1. S? 1 /*, an hour.
Also granting a wage increase
effective June 1 was the Glacier
Coram Lumber company, minim
um scale $137%, which is the Gen
eral-Shea-Morrison, Hungry Horse
dam prime contractor's negotia
ted minimum.
40 Engineering Students
Get Hungry Horse Jobs
Now reporting to summer jobs
at the Hungry Horse project are
40 engineering college students
from all over the United States.
The students are assigned to
surveying crews, inspection and
other field parties, and as drafts
men. It is a part of a program to
help train men, some of whom will
eventually become regular bureau
of reclamation engineers. Project
officials feel that the summer jobs
better equip the students for year
around bureau of reclamation em
ployment after they receive their
degrees.
As part of their indoctrination,
special classes in safety, forest
fire prevention, first aid, trails and
woodcraft are scheduled for Wed
nesday. Teachers will be Howard
Latham, project safety engineer,
Glenn McGuire, first aid man;
former Glacier na
tional park district ranger,
project inspector, and B. A.
Bealey, Flathead national forest
district ranger.
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County's 43 Bars Up
For New Licenses
County licenses for the 43 bars
in Flathead county outside of Ka
lispell, Whitefish and Columbia
Falls must be renewed by June
30.
County licenses cost $225 if the
establishment is within five miles
of a city with more than 5,000 peo
ple; $150 if within five miles of
a city between 2,000 and 5,000,
and $100 elsewhere.
Licenses are
county commissioners
renewal, the new
must be produced.
renewed by the
, and before
state license
there were 77 mar
during June in Flathead
Last year
riages
county. This year with cupid on
vacation only 14 licenses were
granted during the first 15 days of
June.
Flood Waters Trim
Travel to Glacier
High water conditions just east
of the continental divide on the
plains and the Washington-Oregon
Idaho floods somewhat curtailed
travel to Glacier national park
this week.
Travel during this first
of the summer
an estimated 30
vy rains stopped highway traffic
Thursday from the east. Vaca
tioners from the coast states num
ber somewhat fewer
week
season was down
per cent as hea
than last
year. In 1947 the park had its all
time record number of 324,396.
First to come through the west
entrance checking station
day as the
Tues
summer season started
were cars driven by F. Heilman,
Kalispell; Charles Justice, Colum
bia Falls; W. S. Guynup and F. W.
Hocking, Sarasota, Florida; C. E.
Wagner, Wilmington, Delà.; C.
Hedlund, Parkland, Wash.; C.
Fonce, Kalispell, and R. G. Jacob,
Colonna, British Columbia .
First entrants as the checking
station opened at St. Mary
cars driven by E. C. Halvorson.
Rochester, Minn. ; R. w. Bagan,
Sioux City, Iowa; H. A. Wallace!
Webster Grove, Missouri; E. C.
Peterson, Grand Forks, Oregon,
and Frank Drga, Big Sandy, Mont.
were
School Board Asks
Bids for New Shop
Bids for a 40 by 60-foot quon
set type building to be used for
manual training and shop purposes
will be opened July 6 by the dist
rict 6 school board.
The building with a concrete
floor and foundation, and erected
adjacent to the Columbia Falls
high school will be paid for in
cash as provided by voters' ap
proval of a 12-mil special high
school levy April 3.
The special levy also provides
for other high school extra costs.
The school board last Friday
also approved a contract for $160
a month to Ted Witty, present hol
der, for transporting up to 10
children from the north of Half
Moon section to Columbia Falls.
Highway Patrol Aids
Happy Reunion of
Young Park Visitor
One little Glacier national park
• vacationer left behind Wednesday
was Jimmy Jarrett, 10, Grand
Forks, N. Dak.
His father was driving one car,
and his grandfather, the other.
Each thought Jimmy was with the
other, after a stop at Belton.
Montana state highway patrol
man, Bud Ward, was hailed by
John Washburn, Belton, and took
the anxious little fellow on the
trail of his parents. He caught up
with them just north of Kalispell.
It was a happy reunion.
Geologist of 1934-36
Report Visits H.H.
Visitor at the Hungry Horse
project Wednesday was Charles
E. Erdmann, regional geologist for
the U. S. geological survey, who
from 1934 to 1936 had charge of
a general feasibility study of the
proposed Hungry Horse project.
First study of the damsite area
was in 1921 by B. E. Jones, geo
logical survey hydraulic engin
eer, who proposed the Flathead's
south fork as a good damsite; E.
E. Jones of the geological survey
made another survey in 1923.
The Erdraan report contains 116
He was accompanied by
pages.
James Stiles, draftsman.
Paul Jones was Hungry Horse
project engineer from January,
1945 until September 15, 1947,
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'Z! , Zhl7TâXïat mraam's main line. For more Bantry Horse tons, iovelopmen, see p, 4
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Hungry Horse News
Vol. 2, No. 46
Friday, June18, 1948
Columbia Falls, Montana
Dam to Get *14,611,650 Push
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Columbia Falls' new 12-inch water main is expected to be in operation by July >1, replacing an
8-inch main. Onlookers to the O'Connor Construction company shovel working just north of town
were Russel Garlough, .9, his brother, Richard, 8, and "Punkin
operator, and Donald Beller, oiler. The $105.901^.07 contract will give Columbia Falls a new water sup
ply line and distribution system from Cedar springs, with contract completed in late summer.
Ellingson, 6. Joe Smith was shovel
Leanest* Looking
Horse Wanted for
July 10 Ceremony
The Montana horse that shows
the most ribs is wanted by the
Flathead Citizens' committee,
sponsors of the July 10th cere
mony that marks the official start
of Hungry Horse dam construc
tion. The lean appearing animal is
to have an important part in the
ceremony as well as a big bag of
oats. For the committee feels that
there should be a hungry ..look
ing horse when the world's fourth
largest concrete dam, the 520
foot high, Hungry Horse is star
ted.
The damsite is just below Hun
gry Horse creek, an important
tributary of the Flathead river's
south fork.
Chamber to Dine
See Dam Picture
Columbia Falls chamber of com
merce will hold a 7 p. m. dinner
meeting at the new' Pastime cafe
Tuesday.
Topics for discussion include:
participation in the July 10 Hun
gry Horse dam starting ceremony;
oiling town streets; summer ad
vertising, and completion of the
new town hall.
After the meeting, arrangements
have been made to show the bu
reau of reclamation 20-minute
film, "Construction of Boulder
dam" in the VFW club. This film
will show conditions similar to
those that will occur at Hungry
Horse.
, .Nine-year old Roger Peterson,
barefoot and with willow pole,
Frida, y morning caught a 3*6
pound Dolly Varden and a nat
ive trout near the Red bridge.
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Laying of Jf,500 of the 6,000 fee t of the 12-inch main for Columbia
Falls new water system will be c ompleted this week by O'Connor
Construction company. Placing a s ection were Jake Saske. James
Salmela, J. J. Ryan, Bill Salmela, Tom Walters and Roland Crider.
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Radio Range May Bring
Daily Flights By Fall
Word has been received unoff
icially that installation of the ra
dio range system into the Flat
head valley from the east (Cut
Bank) will start this summer.
As soon as the radio range sys
tem is installed, Northwest Air
lines, as authorized by the Civil
Aeronautics board in Washington,
will begin daily stops at the Flat
head county port on the Spokane
Great Falls run.
Meanwhile, Northwest Airlines,
who will participate in the July
10 Hungry Horse dam official
starting celebration, may start
"fair weather" flights even before
the radio range system is com
pleted.
Bears With Triplets
Delight Glaciers'
Summer Visitors
This is a triplet cub year in
Glacier national park. There are
already reports of three cub famil
ies at Lake McDonald, East Gla
cier and Nyack.
Three cubs are unusual, com
mented A. D. Cannavina, assist
ant chief ranger in charge of for
estry and wildlife; two cubs are
common, and four very rare. Glac
ier has an estimated 400 black
and 100 grizzily bears.
Creating daily traffic jams on
Going-to-the-Sun highway in the
park is the Lake McDonald trip
let family, who've found pan-hand
ling cookies and candy from de
easier
to make a living. The black mo
ther bear has been named Sophie.
Her kitten-playful teddy bear
looking cubs now weigh about 12
pounds each.
There is a report that Gertie,
the blonde bear that became Gla
cier's most popular animal of 1947
was back along Going-to-the-Sun
highway Monday above Avalanche
campground. Another cinnamon
colored bear with two cinnamon
colored cubs was observed near
the base of the Garden Wall.
So far there've been no reports
of vacationers being bitten while
feeding bears; there will be.
To Play Donkey Baseball
Columbia Falls team will play
a donkey baseball game Monday,
June 28 at 6:30 p. m.
Point of the game is that both
teams, the travelers from Idaho
Falls and the local players, ride
donkeys on their way to bases.
The Whitef ish-Columbia Falls
game ended in a 2 all tie Tuesday.
An appropriation of $14,611,680
means full-speed ahead at Hun
gry Horse. Congress and the ad
ministration want the dam built.
As a result of the Columbia ri
ver floods, there is increased in
terest in this largest post-war bit
reau of reclamation project that
will hold back 3,500,000 acre feet
at the very headwaters.
Final approval of the $14,611,650
twelve-month appropriation for
building the 520-foot high, 2,115
feet across concrete dam, the
world's fourth largest, is expec
ted any day. The figure is the
result of senate and house com
promise. The house recommend
ed $8,100,000 (insufficient for full
scale activity) and the senate,
$15,115,500 (after the floods).
General-Shea-Morrison, Hungry
Horse dam prime contractors, can
now head toward their announced
plan of more than 2,000 men wor
king next year. Their contract is
for $43,431,000 with a total cost
of the project (including genera
tors, turbines, clearing, housing,
etc.) set at $100,000,000.
Later this summer, the bureau
of reclamation, operating with suf
ficient funds, is expected call for
further timber clearing of the re
servoir area, and additional reloc
ation of the Spotted Bear forest
service road out of the reservoir
area. The present timber clearing
is for 1,335 acres at and near the
damsite, underway by R and 3
construction company at $408,320.
while F. R. Hewett, Spokane, is
relocating 14 miles of the Spotted
Bear road for $632,448.
Open Temporary Offices
Columbia Falls temporary off
ices of General-Shea-Morrison will
open Monday in the old Pastime
building. This will be an account
ing and draftsmen office. Moving
here from Seattle Monday is K.
W. Jones, GSM chief engineer.
Purchasing headquarters are still
in the Webster-Brinkley building,
Seattle, and the on-the-job office
is in prefab 185, Hungry Horse
(government) village.
To Build Cableway
Construction will start late this
summer on a cable way at Hun
gry Horse damsite. Prime cont
ractors, General - Shea - Morrison
are designing the material haul
ing conveyance with one 200-foot
high steel tower, another 100-foot
tower and several of more than 50
feet.
Employment Passes 700
Employment on the Hungry
Horse project this week passed
700. This includes the increase to
290
who had a weekly payroll of $21,
000; R and S, 115; Atkinson, 51;
Hewett, 36 and C and F (F and SI,
8, and the bureau of reclamation,
just over 200.
General-Shea-Morrison
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To Give Drivers' Tests
As a convenience to construc
tion workers, the Montana statt»
highway patrol expects to give dri
vers' license tests at the Hungry
Horse project in July. The $1.50
fee will still have to be paid at
the County Treasurer's office.
South Fork Drops
The Flathead river's south fork
at the Hungry Horse damsite
dropped to a flow of 13,100 cubic
feet per second Wednesday. From
May 17 until June 11, the flow
was in excess of 20,000 cubic feet
with a May 22 peak of 42,000.
Here this week was C. P. Daly
Plumbing company, Seattle, who
have a General-Shea-Morrison
subcontract.
To Schedule North Fork
Timber for August Sale
A sale of between three and six
million board feet of North Fork
timber is planned by the Flathead
national forest for August.
The timber is between McGinnis
and Depuy creeks, both tributar
ies of Canyon creek. It is spruce,
fir and larch forest with some pine
No other Flathead national fo
rest timber sales are now planned
in the North or South Fork drain
ages this summer.
take until Monday.
Highway No. 2 is closed betioeen
Browning and Cut Bank; No. 89
is closed between Browning and
Chateau. No. 91 is out between
Shelby and Conrad. This is Friday
morning information from the
highway department. Repairs may