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Columbia mountain uip ptng into Bad Rock canyon. Home under the pines is Jack Andrevi's.
folks drive this hill with caution, though there are no warning signs. Plwtos by Mel Ruder.
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tDovmhillers include Joseph Mason, Elaine Fletcher, Betty Mattheis
and Elaine Fletcher e ach of them actually on their own sleds.
wer national park. The dam
1 itself is 20 miles north of
iumbia Falls, and reached by
west service road from Colum
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lc also has a con "
0D *° Coram.
'igJit miles below the damsite,
mileg from Columbia Falls
lilt of Possible
ownsites Starts
No information is available ss
the location of contractor's town
project offices for Glacier View
, if and when It is built up
Flathead river's nrth fork.
However there is considerable
erest in the Hungry Horse
]m towns as to possible Gla
r View townsites.
1 land in the immediate vicin-1
of the proposed and controver-1
595,000,000 dam is owned by
Flathead national forest or
16 cl °sest privately owned land
Glacier View. Joe Wiedenig J
' as owning 160 acres and
a 'Viprud 150 acres just above
WD creek. J. Neils Lumber
ms 838 acres, while closer to
"mbia Falls is the 123 acres
by R. D. Frederick. An off
bract of 120 acres belongs
Jollns ton.
mi * es above the damsite
ti ârea which would be flood
6 ^st National
ha s 1,620
is
bank of
acres on and near
Week, and there is 462 acres
■owned land. Seven miles
state
Jr.® damsite is the Laden
acres on Home ranch
307
Mas.
Prteen p er cent of the North
L'! j lc t (forest service side)
0Wned with much of
f _ nor th of Columbia Falls.
^ Airport Board
s 0 Connor Contract
itbead
county's airport board
M of j.„ a PP r °ved a contract
ction n 3 ' 715 t0 O'Connor Con
bid Colum bia Falls, and
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Of 56,5
Connor
a Pton
c °nstruct _ i
Graham, Kalis
will hard surface
d ouble the
a nd car
ac
road.
plane park
parking areas,
hicidental driveways
build T ® ide walks. Graham
e toota 2 ° by 24-foot bag
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and
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heeded is the expec
a Pproval. r
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•West 1 lüe k° a rd heard that
l, *««ÏÏ!U tart " ,y
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They pay 53
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set
1 and May 1.
I The forest service men are sür
j veying about 1,000 acres of lodge
pole pine for marketable power
line poles. The plot is just nqrth,
of the ranger station, and it is
ex P ec *- ecl that the mature timbei
wiU 1)6 offered for sale this sum ~
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lc u Da y s slow . M e
Timber Cruise Above
Big Creek Station
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Sub-zero weather of Wednesday
and Thursday temporarily stopped
j the mid-winter cruise of pole tim
^ ber above Big Creek ranger sta
i tion of the Flathead river's north
! fork,
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I The mercury Thursday morning
i was down to 43 below as Rangera
: Ralph Thayer, Bud Daugharty and
I Bob Brown kept close to the sta
tion fire. It's 11 miles to the near
neighbor.
To make way for building Hun
Horse dam, th e Flathead riv
south fork will be diverted
gry
this coming June into the 1,180
foot long, 36-foot in diameter di
version tunnel.
Cofferdams will be placed across
the south fork after the spring
flood peak. By 1952, it is expected
that the partially built world's
fourth largest concrete dam will
be holding back snow waters that
from just west of the contin
ental divide mountains.
come
Completion date for Boyles Bro
thers' excavation of the 955-foot
long about 35-foot in diametei
spillway tunnel t a r . •
the diversion tunnel is ar •
Concreting of the spillway tun
nel is roughly scheduled For 195
Four pours are left on the first
permanent concrete for the b ; g
dam, the inlet gate structure for
the diversion tunnel. About 3.00U
of the 3,800 cubic yards have been
poured under a giant shed-like
structure that keeps out cold.
^ ™ Ho vies
Kirk H. Fox, manager «! Boy^s
mining division, and Harold Bak
of the firm's four partners. |
Road Bid Call Nears
Latest information is that the
bid call for relocating 16 miles of
the Spotted Bear forest service
road out of the Hungry Horse
reservoir area will be after Febru
ary 15. This section of the road
will join the 14 miles under con
tract to F. R. Hewett Co., Spo
kane for $632,448, half completed
before the winter layoff.
Here for the "hole through" is
cr, one
Hear Viewpoints On
Juvenile Problems
A certain tolerance by the pub
lie, belies Judge Dean King,
leads to increased juvenile de
linquency.
In an open panel discussion be
fore 55 persons at the Columbia
Falls chamber of commerce Tues
day, the judge suggested that
people should view thefts of five
cent articles as serious. When
children become delinquent it is
usually associated with stealing.
Theft of five cent articles uncurb
ed often leads to more serious
thievery.
Judge King viewed as serious
adult tolerance that some forms
of stealing were all right; others
were not. You can steal a pencil,
but not a bicycle.
Solution of juvenile delinquency
is in the school system, for here
he added we are training our
future parents. Delinquent child
ren too often are a product of
a faulty home.
Most important individual in
helping mould children, expressed
the judge is an athletic coach in
terested in character building as
well as winning teams. He thought
community projects such as the
skating rinks and swimming poois
were healthy outlets.
Presiding at the meeting was
Lee Dickey, president of the cham
ber. Chet Seymer, who has work
ed with the court on juvenile pro
blems, introduced the judge.
Taking part in the discussion
was Rev. F. B. Hillis, Kalispell,
who pointed out that scientifically
we are way ahead, and morally
about 50 years behind the times.
That when he and the judge were
boys, parents weren't so busy.
They found time to fish and hunt
with their boys
Supt. Clarence L ee expressed
t , he thought that juvenile delin
q U ency was no higher than adult
delinquency and that children
were better today than they were
20 years ago. He said that some
thing should be said for the other
1,048 school children in the dis
tric t. who have not become juven
d c delinquent cases.
Principal Ralph Magnuson ask
e d why manual training and home
economics should be limited to
high school students, and that
education in th e grade schools
was too formalized. If a child
didn't take to book learning,,'
he should be helped in achieving
sR* 11 in various crafts. Our edu
cational setup, he added, shouldn't
be confined to its present nar
row limits, where it makes no
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It's Back to Same Schools
Word from g up t. Clarence Lee
p r j day morning was for Martin
city .0 oram children to keep on
attending their same classes fcr
^ cQming . week<
^ new four . room sc hool at
Coram> it is hoped, will be in shape
fQr accom modating Martin City's
For Another Week
100, on Monday, January 31. A
bus will transport them from Mar
tin City to Coram. Effective Jan
31 also, Coram seventh and
uary
eighth graders will attend Coram
school instead of the junior high
in Columbia Falls.
Martin City's first through sixth
graders now go to the overcrowd
ed working on two shifts a day,
GSM-built Hungry Horse school.
Their seventh and eighth graders
along with those from Coram are
presently bussed to the Falls. Hun
gry Horse junior high students will
continue after January 31 to board
the high school bus.
Contractor for the new Martin
City and Coram schools is K. C.
Murchison, Kalispell, who bid $96,
^ ^ started const ruction Aug
ust 23.
10 cents a copy
Hungry Horse News
Vol. 3, No. 25
Columbia Falls, Montana
Friday, January 21, 1949
H. H. Dam to Boost Lumbering
Most practical raw material in
Flathead county for processing is
timber, and wood processing in
dustry is expected to increase with
completion of Hungry Hors e dam
bringing cheap and abimdant
power.
Being prepared this winter and
spring are economic studies of
the Flathead national forest's
north fork and Tally lak e dist
ricts, by District Hangers John
Castles and William Ibenthal.
Castles' report on the north
fork between Columbia Falls and
the Canadian line shows this area
with
one billion board feet of
merchantable timber containing
596,000,000 board feet of spruce
Flathead county has about half
the spruce in Montana, and the
north fork district, just west of
Glacier national
most spruce concentration in the
county.
It is already known that the
new report will discuss the ad
visability of a pulp grinding plant
or pulp mill tapping the north
fork district. Likely to be
mended is a box factory in view
of spruce making good crating.
Other uses for the,light lumber
are for shelves, chests and various
food containers since it i s an od
orless wood. Spruce makes good
bread boards, cracker boxes, flour
and sugar bins.
The north fork's actual total
of 1,140,000,000 board feet also
includes 178,000,000 board feet of
larch; 124,000,000 board feet of
Douglas fir; 97,000,000 lodgepole
pine and 42,000,000 white pine.
Ranger Ibenthal's study of the
Tally lake district is of an area
adjoining the north fork. Its
omic development tends to center
at Whitefish and Olney, and will
likewise
recom
econ
processing.
Th e two studies take up
vation, recommended cut, fire
trol, access roads, insect and dis
ease control, and finally make
ommendations as to economic
Conferring with Castles and
Ibenthal this coming week will
Don Matthews, Missoula, regional
management
Meeting with them will be S.
Larson, assistant supervisor
charge of timber management for
th e Flathead
J. Neitzling.
conser
con
rec
use.
plan
coordinator.
and Supervisor F.
Cold Winter Allows
Half Week Work
Monday, Tuesday and Wednes
day morning found winter-level
employment of about 800 at the
Hungry Hors e project. This in
cluded the 560 men working for
GSM, the prime contractors.
The cold spell starting Wed
nesday caused a virtual stopping
xf all out-door activity, but GoM
men are watching thermometers.
When it gets above zero and the
weather break comes on any days
besides Saturday or Sunday, they
rjjort back to work.
Wednesday was conside.-e 1 the
toughest day of the winter at the
damsite. Temperatures hovered
around zero; a 20-mile wind blew
powdery snow as drillers grimly
fought to bore dynamite holes in
the blue-gray rock as trucks and
shovels tried to operate as the
temperature headed toward a re
cord 35 below, it forced out-door
work to stop.
GSM's general superintendent,
C. W. "Smoke" Wood, Thursday,
expressed his sentiments when he
commented these men really work
if the weather gives them a chance
With days starting to get long
er, GSM is hoping for tempera
tures that seldom drop below 20
degrees. When those days come,
the GSM employment figure is to
increase to its last fall's average
of 815, and then likely in May
pass 1,000 heading toward 1,500.
Also employed on the Hungry
Horse project and welcoming
spring will be men working for
clearing contractors, road reloca
tions ahd the bureau.
The prime contractor has a ce
ment unloading, gravel process
ing, concrete mixing plants to
build as well as the cableways
from which swing the eight cubic
yard buckets. It will take about
10,000 freight carloads of cement
to build this world's fourth larg
est concrete dam.
Winter's Curse—Idle Men
Estimate or unemployment m
the Columbia Falls to Belton area
is 600, according to Frank Kirk
patrick, manager of the Hungry
Horse area employment office, Co
lumbia Falls and Hungry Horse.
The number out of work in Kal
ispell is apparently 1,200. Total un
employment in the county is edg
ing 2,000 as compared to last win
ter's 1,500. A good thaw will re
duce this by 250.
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HUNGRY HOR^K NEWS PHOTO
John Karn and Sid Lampman were two of 12 miners (three shifts) who received $100 bonuses
for "holing through" the pilot section of the spilhvay tunnel at Hungry Horse project Thursday.
Working space near end of 955 foot long tunnel heading was a scant 11 by 7 feet. Photos by Mel Ruder
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Ralph Mason is a "nipper" for
Boyles Brothers; he's fixing dyn
amite charge to blast rock.
Deer Joins Apgar
Rhythm Class , Uses
Ears, Then Prances
Joining the Apgar school rhy
thm band clas_s Monday was
a white tailed doe deer.
The 27 students in the one-room
school in Glacier national park
were just starting the hand-wind
victrola, when they noticed the
deer looking in the window. As
the phonograph played, the doe
switched her right ear forward
and then her left. Then with her
white plume like tail in the air,
and prancing in time to the mu
sic, she left the school grounds.
Next followed the rytiim band
with its cymbals, sleigh bells,
triangles, jingle clogs, tamborines
and wooden patty cakes. The deer
of completed Hungry Horse Lowery and Ralph Karlsen.
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This is the "glory hole" spillway at Owyhee dam in eastern Oregon, and is what th 9 spillway at
the completed larger Hungry Horse dam will look like. At Hungry Horse the over flow will plunge
through a 61) by 12-foot ring gate capable of carrying 53,000 cubic per second. Reclamation bureau phdto
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You climbed 200 steps, and there
were more than 200 more up the
pilot-sized Hungry Horse spillway
tunel to where light finally showed ;
through at dawn Thursday. This j
upward hole through rock now be
ing enlarged will carry overflow |
Thursday Becomes
$100 Day at Dam
A muffled blast at dawn Thurs
day morning at the Hungry Horse
damsite brought light to the up
per end of a 955-foot long tun
nel through rock. With it came
$100 bonuses to 12 men of the
Boyles Brothers' heading crews.
Tunnelling upward from the di
version tunnel at river level the
men drilled and mined their way
to a point virtually 500 feet above
the stream bed. It is a GSM sub
contract started last fall. The
tunnel now tapers from a 14 to 7
to 11 to 7 foot shaft, but after fur
ther blasting it will become the 35
foot average in diameter spillway
tunnel that will eventually take
care of overflow from the complet
ed Hungry Horse dam.
First news report of the break
through was flashed over radio
station, KGEZ in Kalispell,
the Thursday noon newscast. If
the break through had come to
day, it would have been a $95 bo
nus, and if cold weather hadn't
interfered, it may have been $115
for getting through Wednesday.
This evening (Friday) at the
Mountain View tavern, Boyles
Brothers are throwing a "hole
through" party for their 35 em
ployes. They'll not be tunelling
Saturday.
Here are th e 12 whd received
$100 bonuses: (good going) Davio
Cooper, Russell Elgin, Don Faris,
William Geiss, Mike Jacobs, John
Kam, Sid Lampman, Ralph Ma
son, Mel Sanderson, John Sten
neski Max Williams and J.
Wipplinger.
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Pete Chesler is tunnel superin
tendent and Jack Fitzgerald, pro
ject engineer for Boyles, a Salt
Lake City concern. "Shifters" or
foremen are David Elder, - George