Yesterdays: Body of missing hunter found seven months later
Ranger Dave Casteel at Iceberg Lake, July 28, 1973. (Mel Ruder photo)
70 years ago
May 23, 1952
The body of James Wishart was found. The 21-year-old hunter had gone missing up Doris Creek while hunting in October. He was found about 3 miles from his original camp, and the story said bears had found his body as did porcupines.
60 years ago
May 25, 1962
Glacier National Park snow plow crews reached Logan Pass. Rex Brown of Coram was featured on the front page. He raised Arabian horses, some of which were valued at $10,000.
50 years ago
May 26, 1972
Steve Kracher, one of the best football players in Columbia Falls history, was given the Tom Dumay Award, which each year honors the top senior athlete at the school. Bids would soon be open to remodel part of Columbia Falls City Hall for a new library branch.
40 years ago
May 27, 1982
Someone hacked up two piglets at a home in Hungry Horse. The pigs looked like they had been cut up with an ax or a hatchet. Some local youths were suspected in the gruesome crime. Like 1962, Glacier Park plows were closing in on Logan Pass.
30 years ago
May 28, 1992
If a third crack at a mill levy for School District 6 failed, school officials said that school athletics for the year would be axed. The levy, which was asking for $250,000, failed a second vote by 19 votes.
20 years ago
May 23, 2002
The weather was just right (though there had been snow on the ground in town) and folks had been out picking morel mushrooms from the Moose Fire burn. The Moose Fire up the North Fork near Big Creek burned from near Moose Lake into Glacier National Park north of Camas Creek the summer before. The mushrooms were sprouting en masse and were worth $6 to $10 a pound.
10 years ago
May 23, 2012
A free Glacier National Park shuttle that was designed to lower traffic on the Going-to-the-Sun Road was having another effect: It was overloading trails in the alpine reaches of the park, the park brass conceded.