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Carl Daniels, granddaughter Leslie Davall and sunflowers, Sept. 10, 1967.
70 years ago
June 4, 1948
Beer distributor Chattin Distributors was opening a new warehouse on Highway 37 just east of Columbia Falls. It would hold 3,600 cases of beer. That would probably be enough to quench the thirst of the new workers at the Hungry Horse Dam.
60 years ago
June 4, 1958
Morehead and Lee of Spokane was the successful bidder for the Hoke Creek drilling for the proposed Spruce Park Dam. At the time, the plan was to put a 405-foot high earthen dam on the Middle Fork and then run the water through a 37,000 foot long tunnel to Hoke Creek where there would be a power plant and the water would flow into the reservoir. The project was never built, but Morehead and Lee were paid $4,540 to do the drilling for the Bureau of Reclamation.
50 years ago
June 7, 1968
Voters approved a $65,000 bond issue to build the Cedar Creek Dam north of Columbia Falls. The 60-foot high earthen dam would make a 52-acre lake and passed by a vote of 419-84.
40 years ago
June 8, 1978
Dennis Overcast, 20, of Martin City was lucky to be alive. He was rafting in the Middle Fork with friends when the bottom of the raft he was in tore out. Overcast had a life jacket on, because he didn’t know how to swim.
30 years ago
June 8, 1988
A marmot hitched a ride down the Going-to-the-Sun Road to park headquarters after it apparently got into the engine compartment of a rig at Big Bend.
20 years ago
June 4, 1998
Officials confirmed that Craig Dahl was killed by a bear while hiking May 20 near Appistoki Falls in Glacier National Park on May 20.
10 years ago
June 5, 2008
Jim Dupont beat Gary Hall in the Republican primary for county commissioner. Michelle Obama was in the Flathead Valley to drum up support for her husband Barack Obama, who would go on to become president.