Yesterdays: Mayor had enough of citizens and their complaints
Children enjoy a ride on the Weyrauch pony and sled on Jan. 2, 1961. This photo was not published. (Mel Ruder photo)
70 years ago
Jan. 19, 1951
Columbia Falls Mayor Ernie Massman said he would not be running for re-election. Massman was getting battered by the public — some people wondered why the streets hadn’t been plowed, others said plowing them now would just turn them to ice. Massman had enough of the voting public.
60 years ago
Jan. 20, 1961
The Flathead National Forest reported a record-high cut of 98.339 million board feet. The previous record in 1959 was 98.25 million in 1959. West Glacier postmaster Helen Bigg was retiring. She had been postmaster since 1930 and came to Glacier as a telephone operator at the Many Glacier Hotel in 1916.
50 years ago
Jan. 22, 1971
The Flathead County Zoning Board OK’d a variance for a landfill on 80 acres owned by Pat Warner off Highway 93. The area was seeing a January thaw as temperatures were in the 40s.
40 years ago
Jan. 22. 1981
James Watt, the man who founded the Mountain States Legal Foundation and had argued that there should be mineral exploration in the Bob Marshall Wilderness, was now the Secretary of Interior under the Reagan Administration. Mountain States continues to argue for oil and gas interests on public lands, most recently in the Badger-Two Medicine region north of the Bob.
30 years ago
Jan. 24, 1991
The former West View School was renamed Ruder Elementary after Hungry Horse News editor Mel Ruder. The school board renamed the school in his honor. Ruder had been a school board member in the past and had also helped the school financially.
20 years ago
Jan. 18, 2001
The Montana Veterans’ Home was planning to add a 15-bed Alzheimer’s wing to the facility. The Forest Service and the Montana Wilderness Association were at odds over snowmobile use in places that MWA claimed were supposed to be non-motorized. MWA was suing the Service over the matter.
10 years ago
Jan. 19, 2021
A man who was allegedly drunk and abusive at the A&W was arrested by police in the middle of the day. He was arrested by two game wardens and then, later, police. They finally had to hit him with a Taser to get him into custody.