Yesterdays: Boy Scouts camping in Bad Rock
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Dick Dehlbom and group March 17, 1966. (Mel Ruder photo)
70 years ago
April 13, 1956
Seventeen Columbia Falls Boy Scouts did their first camping excursion of the year. They walked from City Hall down Highway 40, over the silver bridge and then north toward the Bad Rock Canyon flats for the camp.
60 years ago
April 15, 1966
A whopping 150 car bodies were removed from along Highway 40 near the Whitefish River Bridge. Plum Creek had increased the length of it work day to 9 hours, so that employees had 48-hour work weeks, if they chose to work there. Joe Boumans of Valier was fined $25 for operating a chainsaw in the Bob Marshall Wilderness, where mechanical devices are prohibited.
50 years ago
April 15, 1976
Roy Thompson, a Columbia Falls senior, won the grand prize at the Northern Montana College Industrial Vocational Exposition for a grandfather clock he made. His picture was featured on the front page.
40 years ago
April 16, 1986
Timothy “Catfish” Wilson was caught in Oregon. He was wanted for the murder of his wife and her 14-year-old son in Martin City earlier that spring. He was caught by police during a routine traffic stop in Springfield, because his vehicle did not have a front license plate.
30 years ago
April 18, 1996
Locally famous gardener and community leader Bob Gatiss died. He was 99. Gatiss’s gardens in Creston were a well-known attraction at the time.
He also built a feed and flower mill in Creston and was manager for the Flathead Electric Co-op for 13 years as well when electricity came to the area and the Hungry Horse Dam was built.
20 years ago
April 13, 2006
Law enforcement agents dug up the body of an infant that had been buried in the backyard of a Columbia Falls home by a 17-year-old teenage mother three years prior. Deputies received a tip that the child was buried in the yard. The family that once lived there had since moved away.
10 years ago
April 13, 2016
The Many Glacier Hotel would see $13.56 million in renovations, including removing the gift shop from the interior and replacing it with a double helix staircase. The Bob Marshall Wilderness had a 1,000 acre fire in the North Fork of the Sun River already from a campfire that wasn’t completely put out.