Yesterdays: Senators support North Fork as major route to Canada

70 years ago

Feb. 9, 1951

F, K and L Lumber Co. of Martin City was using sleds pulled by tractors to haul logs out of a Desert Mountain sale. The sleds were originally designed to be pulled by horses. They were awarded a 1.1 million board feet contract in October. Lake McDonald iced over for the third winter in a row.

60 years ago

Feb. 10, 1961

Montana Senators said they supported extending the North Fork Road so it would become a major route to Canada and Waterton Lakes National Park. The road was never built, however. Both Sens. Mike Mansfield and Lee Metcalf supported it.

50 years ago

Feb. 12, 1971

A width and length limit would be instituted on the Going-to-the-Sun road for the coming summer season. Rigs could be no wider than 8 feet and no longer than 30 feet. The width limit applies also to mirrors.

40 years ago

Feb. 12, 1981

Glacier Park Inc. owner Don Hummel was negotiating to sell the company to Greyhound Food Management Corp. The sale was pending approval by the National Park Service. GPI ran the lodges inside Glacier Park. Hummel had tried to sell the company to Del Webb Inc. but that deal fell through.

30 years ago

Feb. 7, 1991

Letters home from the Persian Gulf War were a front-page feature. Lance Cpl. Rowdy Houston noted that he was “sitting in a Saudi Arabia bunker under missile attack … They seem to be terribly inaccurate,” he noted, speaking of Iraqi missiles.

20 years ago

Feb. 8, 2001

A study of grizzly bears along U.S. Highway 2 would go on for another year. Biologist John Waller was studying bear movements along the highway where it bordered Glacier National Park. The idea was to find out where bears cross the road, but some of the bears didn’t cross at all.

10 years ago

Feb. 9, 2011

Columbia Falls city council gave the OK for a four-way stop sign on Nucleus Avenue at Sixth Street. A fire damaged the Jaquette home on U.S. Highway 2.