Mission Valley News, Nov. 9, 1983

Bond issue loses

A large turnout of voters defeated the school bond issue in St. Ignatius by a substantial margin. The elementary bonds went down 430 to 270.

The high school portion of the proposal lost 447 to 256. The requests totaled $764,000.

Of 1299 registered voters, 704 showed up to cast ballots.

Brooks wins seat 

In Ronan’s only race, Joe Brooks will return to the City Council in January representing Ward 3. Brooks edged out incumbent John Harold 55 to 42 for the position.

Incumbents running unopposed in the other two wards were George Atkinson, who received 65 votes in Ward 2, and Frank Ciez with 31 in Ward 1.

Friday concert/dance to benefit Museum

The Mission Valley Heritage Association is sponsoring a fund raising program for maintenance and expansion of Ronan’s Garden of the Rockies Museum.

The Chosen Few country band of Billings, with drummer Dick Bratton, son of County Agent Ed Bratton, will present a concert from 8 to 9 p.m. and play for a dance from 9 to 12 p.m. Friday, Nov. 4 at the Community Center in Ronan. 

Landfill body identified; Polson man arrested

Events in the murder investigation of a woman’s body found in the Polson landfill Oct. 8 moved quickly last week. On Monday Sheriff Glenn Frame said he still did not have an identification of the black plastic-wrapped body found by a resident while dumping trash in the landfill. By Friday afternoon an identification had been made and a suspect brought to Justice Court.

Charged with deliberate homicide was a 28-year-old Polson man, Matthew Ames Edmundson. Attorney Jim Manley was appointed by Justice of the Peace Charles Meyer to represent Edmundson, and the suspect was held without bail.

According to the sheriff the victim was Sandra Isabelle Gibot, 24, of Edmonton, Alberta.

She was believed to have arrived in Polson about Oct. 2 or 3 and was reported to have been seen in town later that week. According to the subsequent investigation, Gibot was killed soon afterward.

A Missoula pathologist’s report indicated that she had been dead several days and that she died from severe head injuries.

Flathead Courier, Nov. 4, 1948

Going-to-Sun Highway still open

The unusual sunny fall of 1948 is resulting in the 50-mile Going-to-the-Sun Highway in Glacier Park being open for what may be a record length of time. Two years ago it was closed for the winter on Oct. 26, and last year the date was Nov. 7.

However as soon as autumn storms blanket Logan Pass the plan is to put the highway on day shift with hours from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Night closing is advisable, commented Ira S. Stinson, park engineer, to avoid having motorists marooned in the isolated high country in case of sudden storms.  

Flathead Courier, Nov. 11, 1948

Hunters killed chinks for breasts only

Out of the chink hunting season which closes tonight (Thursday) comes one nasty story of waste and unsportsmanlike conduct that is particularly unpleasant.

Some party of hunters killed both pheasant cocks and hens, slit the skin along the breast and cut out a small chunk of the choice meat and threw the rest away. The incident is reported by Game Warden Oz Nollar, who brought the evidence in to Polson Saturday. 

The birds were found near the Nine Pipe refuge, wrapped in newspapers and hidden in a cardboard box in a field.

There were three hens and three cocks in the box, and a small portion of the meat had been carved out of the breast of each one. There was enough meat left on each bird to make a meal, Mr. Nollar said.