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2 - SANDERS COUNTY LEDGER, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1977 Sanders County Ledger Published weekly at Thompson Falls, Mt. 59873, Box 219. K.A. Eggensperger Business Manager Printer Clerk Sherry Hagerman Want Ads & CompuWriter oper. Lucile Hanson Circulation & CompuWriter oper. Colleen Douglas Darkroom Technician Publisher Gladys G. Eggensperger Jack Stephens Mona Turk MONTANA PRESS ASSOCIATION MEMBER AP NAL 1111ElirWRMPER Association - Fount/ad 1885 Second class postage paid at Thompson Falls, Mont. SUBSCRIPTION RATES 1 Yr. in Sanders County $7.50 1 Yr. elsewhere in Montana $8 1 Yr. outside Montana $8.50 Vol. 73, No. 37 The Way It Was Lorraine Dufresne TEN YEARS AGO, DEC. 21, 1967 Calvin Wilson settled all argu- ments about the date the spruce trees were moved from the old . _ - . 7.7 courthouse gounds to the north side of Main St. According to his diary it •: • was February 8, 1952. The move required two days by Ed Muster, the late Les Schmoyer, Norm Jacobsen, Jim Wakefield, Billy and Jerry \- • Watters and others. : - fWENTI -FIVE YEARS AGO DEC. 17, 1952 The Volunteer Fire Dept. of ;•. ; Thompson Falls stages only two • • • social functions during the year. One is the Fireman's Ball and the other is the annual banquet. This is for members and their wives and invited guests. Harry Racitot prepared the dinner served at the Women's Clubhouse. Guests were Mayor and Mrs. Norm Cross, WM Tom Ryan of the Montana Power Co., M&M Cal Johnson, Alaska, Miss Edna Flaten, Mrs. Frances Willis, Mrs. Kathy Willson and Mrs. Pearl Gliddon, all employees of the telephone com- pany. Also City Clerk Helen Alvord and Ledger editor Irene Dunlap. Fire Chief Earl Davis was master of ceremonies. He called on Mayor Cross. Johnson,and Mike Miller for talks (they made them short). Mention was made of the three charter members (the department was organized in 1935): Davis. Bert Gliddon and GeralAreen. The next were Les Kemmerer, Claude Friel, Harry Kemmerer and Earl Tennant. Now there are 22 members. Seventy men and women enjoyed the evening and Norm Cross showed slides taken of fires in and around Thompson F'alls, Winnifred Berrisford held an open house honoring her mother in law, Madge Berrisford, on her 85th birthday. FIFTY YEARS AGO, DEC. 21, 1927 The Northern Pacific will discon- tinue Burlington trains Nos. 41 and • 42 beginning January 1st. Local work between Dixon and Paradise ' will be done by Nos. 1 and 4. The \Dinkey\ will be put on again and to people living along the route, no • doubt this will please them consider- .. ably as a great kick was put up when was taken off. (The Dinkey was a • one car passenger train which students used to travel to and from the dormitories. Those living in outlying areas such as Belknap. Whitepine and other towns had no means of transportation hut horse and buggy.) One of Montana's unduplicated \types\ for years, planned a great hotel and summer resort of which a great pile of stones on the shores of Lake Pend d'Orielle is the only reminder. He was Gen. C. S. Warren and was a Police Magistrate of Butte. Shaped like an almond shaped emerald, near the mainland, a few miles from Hope or Sandpoint, tenanted or untenanted, it will ever by one of nature's pieces of gymetry draped with balsam, pines and sandy beitiches. The general had almost closed a deal to make Warren Island one of the famous resorts of the northwest. But it was only a dream. Such resorts do not thrive when the sale of liquor and gambling is frowned on by the government and in turn not a sod was ever turned, altho some rock for landing was hauled and still stands on the shore. The magistrate of Butte, his decisions are still quoted. No stranger was ever fined for getting drunk; \You're dismissed,\ he would shout, \It's the outside money that keeps up this mining town.\ Such daring edicts were his, such as: \Well if it's the law in this case, I'll decide against the law. The law is all wrong.\ \Wife beating'? If a man beats another man's wife give him 30 days. If he beats his own, there may be extenuating circumstances.\ He proved in his court that many cases of wife-beating ended by the wife coming to him to have sentence suspended, declaring she herself was to blame. Sheriff's log 12-5: Sheriffs deputies investigat- ed an accident in Thompson Falls. 126: Sheriffs deputies investigat- ed an accident on Camas Prairie. A Sanders County warrant was served on Jerry McClure, Dixon, for issuing bad checks. 12-7: A hit and run accident near Noxon was reported to the sheriff's office. 12-8: A disturbance call in Perma was handled by sheriffs deputies and Plains police. A break-in in Hot Springs was investigated by sheriffs deputies and Hot Springs Police; they subsequently arrested Basil Left- hand Jr., 39, Elmo and charged him with burglary. An accident east of Paradise was investigated by sherifs deputies. Two accidents east of Thompson Falls were investigated by sheriffs deputies. The theft of a gun in Hot Springs is under investigation by sheriffs deputies. 129: Two Thompson Falls ju- veniles were cited to the juvenile officer as runaways. A Hot Springs juvenile was arrested for burglary by sheriffs deputies. 12-10: An accident near Plains was investigated by sheriff's deputies. Mrs. Genieve Nieman, Trout Creek, was transported to Clark Fork Valley Hospital by Thompson Falls ambulance. Traffic citations were issued for: speeding. leaving the scene of an accident, and careless driving. JP Ledger Lines 1 by K A I had rather have a fool to make use merry than experience to make me sad.—Shakespeare A note from Opal and Roland Matthews reports: \We are really enjoying our stay here (at Edmonds, Wa.) this winter. The weather has been real nice all fall long, but we did have an early, unusual snowstorm over the Thanksgiving holidays. And as it turned cold, the snow stayed on the ground for a few days. It was nice not having to get out in it unless we wanted to. \I see you have some snow up there, too. \Tell all hello from us. See you all next spring, Opal and Roland Matthews.\ Missoula County Commissioner Jim Waltermire stopped in Thomp- son Falls Thursday afternoon en route to Libby on a preliminary campaign swing through western Montana. Waltermire says he plans to seek the republican nomination for Western Dist. congressman --the spot being vacated by Max Baucus who plans to run for the U. S. Senate seat Lee Metcalf will leave upon his retirement. Letter to editor , 1•1116 Waltermire is a personable conser- vative, young commissioner, only six years out of the University of Montana. It was on the UM campus that he first proved his vote -getting talent by being elected as student manager of ASUM, the student government body, by opposing the liberal block of students. Waltermire notes that he won his first election just as the student body was emerging from the period of Vietnam protests and campus riots. He says that he feels most of the people in the lumbering industry in Missoula County are in his corner. He said he's heard reports that one of the two other possible candidates for the GOP nomination--Sen. Bob Brown of Kalispell and Professor Erickson of Bozeman --may not make the race. \I hope someone opposes me,\ commented Waltermire. \I would not want to obtain the nomination by default and I think a primary fight would be healthy for me and the voters.\ The democratic field is expected to be full of candidates seeking that nomination. A merry heart doeth good like a medieine.—Proverbs 17:22 Can't thread moving needle Editor: I read the letter by Bill Carter of Aberdeen, Wash, printed in the Ledger of Nov. 24, 1977. In his letter I quote \I don't see how a woman can be penetrated if she doesn't cooperate. You just can't thread a moving needle.\ unquote. The above was in his letter titled, \Dislikes 'sick joke'.\ Did it ever occur to Bill Carter that in lots of cases of rape, the woman is forced by the point of a knife at her throat or by a gun shoved into her ribs? Or won by being partially checked? The man may have a means of County gets FS check WASHINGTON, D.C.--The U. S. Forest Service says Sanders County in Montana will receive $934,368 as its share of Forest Service receipts from timber sales, grazing permits, minerals, recreation and other land use revenues in the fiscal year 1977 which ended Sept. 30. The checks were mailed to the various counties concerned last Friday and Montana will receive a total of $9,428,000, Sen. John 'Welcher has been advised. The Forest Service is required to allocate 25% of its receipts from national forest lands back to the states and counties where the lands are located, in lieu of taxes, to be used for public schools and roads. There are 912,265 acres of national forest lands in Sanders County. In court Terry Luke Caldwell, 17, Plains, $22 bond, night speeding. Ray Albert Ewen, 18, Trout Creek, $20, night speeding. Joan L. Frank, 38, Reedsburg. Wis., $20 bond, night speeding. Stanley D Hamilton, 49, Libby, $20 bond, night speeding. 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Hildebrant 851 Washakie Lander, Wyo. Letter to editor Water laws aid all Can they tell me what to do on my own land? This seems to be the crucial and most frequently asked question relating to the streambank law, the implication being that such a thing would be unjust or unconstitutional. In the sense asked, it probably would be, so in that sense, the answer is no; not without compensation. But that is an empty victory because it only means that a state or federal agency can tell you how to do what you are doing, triple your cost, pay half and go on to your neighbor's place. A better answer requires a better approach. The fact is, a man should be able to do just about anything with his land except dump it into the creek to be carried all or part way out to sea. But how about allowing barnyard runoff or septic tank discharge to enter a stream? We immediately get involved with natural erosion and our list of offenses for merely existing is bad enough and if we try to make a buck, it is endless. The right to own property simply doesn't include the right to contaminate the water and air which flow over it. Towns and industries have been the worst offenders. Roadbuilders seem to rank second and farmers are hard to place on the scale because some have good setups and some don't. The point is --the common good of all property owners requires each of them to consider the effect of his way of life on other people. Obviously, somebody is going to make some rules, and now is the time to remember 94% of the voters are not farmers. All we have going for us is the Constitution, the strength of rural legislators, the fact that most Americans know where their food and fiber comes from and a thing called a conservation district. During the past two years, the districts have made agreements with the EPA, Corps of Engineers, SCS, ASCS and Dept. of Health and Environmental Sciences. All the agreements tend to allow districts to handle environmental problems to some extent and lay foundations for districts to assume total responsibili- ty as soon as they demonstrate their ability to do so. The object is to solve problems with a minimum of delay and red tape and most state and federal agencies are pleased with the arrangement. Our main problem is how to communicate all this to all our landowners. The gulf between the kind of problem solving we do and the landowner's determination to be an island has so far been too far to swim and too deep to wade. Fortunately, we have been able to cover the situation with a few very simple rules. We require a permit for any project which alters the alignment, slope, or cross section of a stream, and any project on adjacent banks which would adversely affect the stream. The permit is easy to get, and it is free. In some cases the board will rule that no permit is necessary, clearing the landowner of problems that could arise if he proceeded on his own without consulting the district. In others, we need to inspect the project in order to understand what is being done and this usually turns out to be a friendly visit with the permit being issue(' within a few days. We have only encountered real difficulty with two or three applica- tions and on those we came up with solutions which minimized impact on the stream, saved money for the operator, and satisfied the law. So if you have a project with a problem, or know someone who does, please call one of your district supervisors and tell him about it. Our only duty is to help. Harley Carlson, supervisor Green Mountain Conservation Dist. Trout Creek Ledger want ads get results FOR A MERRIER CHRISTMAS NEXT YEAR JOIN OUR CHRISTMAS CLUB NOW! Deposits will start mid -January. Don't Miss Out. 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