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Barb Conrad, junior miss pageant winner, Dec. 11, 1971. (Mel Ruder photo)
70 years ago
June 3, 1949
There were 1,600 people now working on the Hungry Horse Dam, with a weekly payroll of $150,000. Three honeymooners would be stationed in three Glacier National Park lookouts. The Park Service fund that married couples made the best lookouts. The men of Vetville had their annual meeting. The organization of Great Northern Railway employees bought 72 acres of land near Columbia Falls in 1946 with the idea of building a community where they lived close to one another and were 10 minutes from a trout stream when they retired.
60 years ago
June 5, 1959
Glacier National Park was undergoing a “fishing study.” The plan was to find out if there were fish in a given lake, what species, and the time it took to catch a limit. Thy also wanted to ask fishermen if the fishing was good or poor so they could readjust the program to provide fishing for the visitor.
50 years ago
June 4, 1969
Larry Pedersen was featured in a photo on the front page with a 90-pound sturgeon he caught on the Missouri River near Malta. Glacier National Park received an emergency grant to put in a 20,000 gallon septic tank at Logan Pass visitor center. The existing tank often overflowed and sewage was sent into Reynolds Creek.
40 years ago
June 7, 1979
Glacier National Park Superintendent Phil Iversen said that director Michael Cimino would no longer have permission to film his movie “Heaven’s Gate” in Glacier National Park. The park said the filming already had done damage in Two Medicine, including rutting roads and other abuses. The film company said the pulling of permits was “nothing earthshaking.”
30 years ago
June 7, 1989
The Inside North Fork Road in Glacier was closed until about 80 truckloads of salvage logs from the Red Bench Fire could be hauled out. Flathead Lumber Co. of Polson bought the logs. It tried to haul them out in the winter and the earlier spring, but had a host of problems.
20 years ago
June 8, 1999
The Canyon Hotel in West Glacier was heavily damaged by a fire. The damage was estimated to be between $250,000 and $300,0000. Granite Park Chalet in Glacier National Park was set to open July 1, but not as a full-service facility. It would be a guest shelter, the same as it is today.
10 years ago
June 4, 2009
Guns were officially allowed in national parks. The change in the federal law was a rider on a credit card protection bill. The bill would allow someone to carry a firearm for personal protection in a park like Glacier, but firing one, except for self defense was still illegal and hunting was illegal as well. Since the law was passed, there have been several incidents of people firing guns in Glacier and one man even shot a grizzly bear.