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Dec. 1971, Lori, John, Carl and Rooy Radabah along with Steve Taylor and Les Ford built this giant snowman in Martin City. (Mel Ruder photo)
70 years ago
Dec. 3, 1948
“At the switchboard Thursday morning as the new Hungry Horse telephone office started service was Myrtle Nordberg, South Fork. First “number please” girl is 20, blonde, blue-eyed and slender.” That was the lead to the story on the new telephone service in Hungry Horse.
60 years ago
Dec. 5, 1958
The Blackfeet Tribe was expected to help the Park reduce the elk herd in the St. Mary Valley. Some of the elk would be killed in the Park. The Park had about 1,700 elk total, with about 300 in St. Mary. The goal was to reduce the St. Mary herd by about 50 animals to keep them from overgrazing.
50 years ago
Dec. 6, 1968
Editor Mel Ruder went on patrol with Glacier Park ranger Al Hoover. Hoover found a set of fresh lion tracks near Bowman Lake. They were 16 inches apart. Meanwhile, a snowshoe hare had jumped 8 1/2 feet. They also saw 49 elk in Big Prairie, three coyotes and some mule deer. School District 6 was worried about crowded schools, with 700 students in the high school.
40 years ago
Dec. 7, 1978
Two buck whitetails were fighting when their antlers locked. Warden Louis Kis and landowner Bob McAtee and others were able to chase the bucks down, rope them and cut one of the antlers off to free the bucks, which were tangled up west of Kalispell. The movie “Johnson County War” starring Kris Kristofferson was to be filmed in the Flathead. Director was Michael Cimino. The name would be changed to “Heaven’s Gate” and would be one of the biggest box office bombs of all time.
30 years ago
Dec. 7, 1988
Patrick Sullivan, 19, of Hungry Horse put on a ski mask and tried to steal a donation jar at the Hungry Horse Supermarket. The patrons in the store, however, grabbed him, wrestled away the jar and made him sit there until Sheriff’s deputies arrived. Sullivan, even if he got away, would have ended up with just a few bucks. There was a $100 bill in another jar, but Sullivan didn’t have that one.
20 years ago
Dec. 3, 1998
A whitetail buck fell in a hole near Tally Lake and was rescued. Deborah and Greg Schatz were walking in the woods when they found the hole with the deer inside. The buck was tranquilized and removed unharmed. The hole may have been part of an old mining operation. Glacier National Park received 2,000 comments on how best to deal with Going-to-the-Sun Road reconstruction. One person suggested they replace it with a railroad.
10 years ago
Dec. 4, 2008
Despite gas prices topping $4 a gallon, Glacier National Park still saw more than 2 million visitors. Flathead County set aside $100,000 to treat its 700 miles of dirt roads.