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Hungry Horse NewsVol. 2, No. 42 Columbia Falls, Montana Friday, May 21, 1948

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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 hourGeneral-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

averageA 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 portal 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 inraise 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-

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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

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The 200 pound billy, nanny and her two new-born eight pound frisky kids frequent lower levels of Mt. Canon near Avalanche

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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

CoramVme« campground.A mountain goat billy, com

mented 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 milesent 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 anotherEighteen and nineteen year-old “ _____ ,

. 6 . , . ui™! month they 11 be back up near theboys are not being hired, nor are | ".. J alpine peaks. Glacier is believedthere 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 surplus 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. Richard Coveil, field engineer, is from San Francisco.

Local resident, Jim Bose is payroll clerk and G. W. Thurston, timekeeper, and also local for the most part are the foremen, Emmett Steeples, shovel foreman;Raymond Wilkes, Lester M. Anderson, 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

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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 ficesare in prefab 185, Hungry Horse village, the government town.

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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

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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

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