Yesterdays: 50 years ago, Cats in semifinals
Back in January of 1950, the Bureau of Reclamation employees on their own time cleared a hill above Hungry Horse and put in a tow rope for a skiing hill. (Mel Ruder photo)
70 years ago
Oct. 30, 1953
The Hungry Horse Dam became one of the leading power producers in the Northwest, as all four generators were now producing power. It was estimated the output was a maximum of 285,000 kilowatts an hour. The dam was completed the previous year.
60 years ago
Nov. 1, 1963
The Great Northern Railway was extending the tunnel located about 2.5 miles east of West Glacier about 275 feet. The state needed the tunnel extended so Highway 2 wouldn’t be located on rock that could slide in the future. The state was paying about 66% of the cost of the tunnel extension.
50 years ago
Nov. 2, 1973
Columbia Falls was to face Cut Bank in the state A semifinal football playoffs. The Wildcats were 7-1 and first in the Western A. Coach was Harold Hughes. The Cats had one loss, 13-12 to Stevensville. Steve Anywaush, Craig Finberg, Tom Cheff, Kirk Walker and Brian Lane were key members of the team. Finberg was the quarterback.
40 years ago
Oct. 27, 1983
Feature story on Tom Ulrich of Blankenship, who was a world-renown photographer, talked about his craft. Back then, he used slide film and estimated he had 40,000 slides of animals and birds in his collection and had thrown out 50,000 more. He was working on a photo book of Birds of the Northern Rockies.
30 years ago
Oct. 28, 1993
Columbia Falls had switched its water supply to deep water wells and now the talk was about what to do with the Cedar Creek Reservoir. One idea was to make it an area for senior citizens to relax. The city eventually sold most of the land around the reservoir to private buyers and it just owns the land around the dam today.
20 years ago
Oct. 30, 2003
The Forest Service was planning to sell about 92 acres of land it owned in Hungry Horse. The funds would be used to build a new Hungry Horse/Glacier View Ranger Station.
10 years ago
Oct. 30, 2013
F.H. Stoltze Land and Lumber had a celebration of its new co-generation plant which burns wood waste to heat the mill’s kilns and produces enough electricity to power about 2,500 homes. The plant had actually gone online late that summer.