Yesterdays: Worry about future of aluminum plant
Wallace Donaldson on Feb. 18, 1950 with two twin lambs and their ewe named “30 below” as the lambs were born Feb. 3 when it was that cold and survived. The Bad Rock 13-year-old was the grandson of farm owner Finley Arnett. (Mel Ruder photo)
70 years ago
Nov. 7, 1952
They were floating about 80,000 board feet of logs down the Hungry Horse Reservoir that were logged from Graves and Wheeler Creeks by L.P. Tonner, a Martin City lumberman. Crews were also finishing work for the season on the new West Side Reservoir Road.
60 years ago
Nov. 9, 1962
Front page picture featured George Bartlett, who shot a grizzly up Gorge Creek in the South Fork. Bartlett had shot a pair of goats in the same area and when he went to retrieve the goat, the bear was eating one of them, so he shot it, too.
50 years ago
Nov. 10, 1972
Glacier National Park biologists counted 287 bald eagles gathered at lower McDonald Creek to feed on salmon spawning in the creek. Of that count, 85 were immature birds. President Richard Nixon received 61% of the vote in the Flathead over challenger Democrat George McGovern and Conservative John. G. Schmidt.
40 years ago
Nov. 11, 1982
Representatives of ARCO were expressing concern about the future of the aluminum plant in Columbia Falls, as energy prices were on the rise and the economy was in a swoon. Having said that, they said the plant would not shut down.
30 years ago
Nov. 12, 1992
Columbia Falls building inspector Lloyd Goldston was under investigation by Sheriff Jim Dupont for allegedly lying about his military service. Goldston claimed he was a POW in Vietnam for more than a year, but his record didn’t support that.
20 years ago
Nov. 7, 2002
Former Columbia Falls Mayor Gary Hall was elected county commissioner. He beat Democrat Karen Reeves and incumbent Dale Williams, who ran as a write-in candidate.
10 years ago
Nov. 7, 2012
The Columbia Falls volleyball team won just two conference games in the regular season, but they had three big wins in the divisional tourney to earn a state tournament berth. The Wildkats beat Whitefish and Polson to make it to the divisional title game, where they lost to Frenchtown, but a second-place finish still earned them a state berth.