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10 The Mlssoullan, Friday, May 26, 1967 Dam Slo wly Becoming Reality Inquest Is Continued In Mrs. O'Hare Death By PAUL VERDON Publisher, Western News LIBBY Preparations for jury in Ravalli County pouring the first bucket of concrete on Libby Dam are under HAMILTON An inquest into the death of Mrs. Myrtle O'Hare, killed April 23 in a two- way, a large step in building courtroom that one important witness could not be located. Witnesses called were Stan the mammoth structure. vehicle head-on crash five The photo on the right was miles south of Florence, was continued Thursday after two Healy, Missoula, and Bernie taken from the left bank of the Kootenai River on the line of axis of the dam, and about 35 hours of testimony.

Sheriff-Coroner Dale Dye told Cash, Hamilton, photographers; Harold Whitesitt, Stevensville, mortician, his wife, Delpha, and a youth, Pat Kane. feet above the dam's top, looking upstream. The open clearing on the right of the river will Mrs. O'Hare died in the crash be the location of Morrison- Knudsen's aggregate plant. Material from the Yarnell aggre Eight Volunteer As Local Guides HAMILTON Eight persons on Bass Creek Hill as she and her husband were returning to Stevensville from an outing on wafer a a hu ll -h: gate will be processed there Flathead Lake.

and transported by a conveyor to a concrete plant She was driving a truck camp channels necessary to get the river out of the working area. The long metal tube pictured below will direct Dunn Creek under Highway 37. Libby Dam Builders, a combine headed by M-K, holding an $83,000 contract, will construct a concrete impoundment of the Kootenai River. Part of the contract is for construction of three miles of highway for access to the east abutment of the dam. This culvert measures 274 feet long and 12 feet in diameter.

It was transported to the site in sections and spliced together with three-quarter-inch bolts. More than 75 feet of earthfill will cover the culvert. Long the home of one of the most colorful personalities of the Kootenai Valley, this pioneer's shack, lower right, is now the center of a staging area for Morrison-Knudsen Co. just below the Libby Dam site. This was the home of "Dunn Creek Nell" Hovis, early day settler of the area who was renowned for the pistol she packed with her habitually.

Many were the loggers, hunters and other woodsmen who were escorted away from Nell's home under guidance of the pistol Dunn Creek Nell died in February, just a few days before bids were opened on the contract that would change forever her beloved Dunn Creek. have volunteered for the newly just below the ridge at bottom right of the picture. er with a boat trailer when her vehicle was involved in a head-on crash with a car driven by The cliff at left will be the established guide service of the Hamilton Chamber of Commerce. Grant Pratt, secretary-mana quarry for much of the rock rank Dorvall, Missoula. Mrs.

O'Hare's husband, Edward was riding in the truck and was in used to riprap the diversion ger, said the guides will serve touists who wish to enjoy rec reational activities in the gen Hemmy Accepts New Appointment NOXON Darle L. Hemmy, eral area. In other action, President Ken Robbins said the chamber has former superintendent of Noxon received no word from the Mon schools, has accepted an ap jured. Alberton System Wins Approval WASHINGTON Preliminary approval of $170,000 to improve Alberton's water and sewer system has been announced by Sens. Lee Metcalf and Mike Mansfield.

The announcement said the approval came from the Federal Housing Administration. tana Highway Department re- pointment as superintendent of garduig the proposed west side schools at Columbus. bridge and road. Hemmy served at Noxon from It was announced also that a 1959 to 1961 and now is superin retail trade division meeting is tendent at Geyser. Prior to coming to Noxon he served a scheduled June 1 to devise a plan for chamber cooperation in the Sheriff's Posse Rodeo, year as superintendent at Virginia City.

WHERE THE DAM WILL BE LOCATED Loran D. Barnier, 25, Dies in Airplane Crash 21, 1942 in Poison. He went to schools in Charlo and Deer Lodge, and attended Eastern Montana College and Northern Montana College. He was a meat cutter while ttending school in Havre. RONAN Loran Dean Barnier, 25, whose parents live in Lone Pine, was killed Wednesday when the light plane in which he was a passenger rashed near Havre.

Barnier was killed when the 20-year-old Taylorcraft in which he was riding crashed into trees near High Bear Paw Lake, 28 miles south of Havre. Pilot Larry Ritter, 22, Havre, was injured. Services will be at 2 p.m. Sat Surviving are his parents, Mr. and Mrs.

Albert Barnier: two brothers, Lynn, Helena, Cecil, Havre; a patenal grandmother, Mrs. Mary Barnier, Bainville, and a maternal grandmother, Mrs. Merle Miller, Helena. urday in the Shrider Chapel, the Rev. Marvin Northcutt, St.

Ignatius, officiating. Burial will be in Mountain View Cemetery. Mr. Barnier was born March EXCLUSIVE CLUB The New York Stock Exchange has 1,366 memberships. Area Servicemen lml i 1 WILLIAM VOGEL SAN ANTONIO -Airman William D.

Vogel, son of Mr. and Mrs. William J. Vogel of CULVERT TO DIRECT DUNN CREEK UNDER HIGHWAY NELL'S CABIN-LAST OF A TRADITIONAL FIGURE Hamilton, has received his first U.S. Air Force duty assignment after completing basic training at Lackland AFB, Tex.

Winners of $100 Scholarships Announced Officers Elected At River Ranch Flags Destroyed SUPERIOR American flags He will train as a personal flight equipment specialist at HAMILTON Four 1967 win THOMPSON FALLS A new DAVID L. DEY OAK HARBOR, Wash. -Electrician's Mate 2-C David L. Dey, U.S. Navy, is serving at the U.S.

Naval Air Station on Whidbey Island. The station is a support base for the Navy's patrol craft operating over the Pacific. Dey is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Dey of Kalispell.

DOUGLAS RIFFLE SAN ANTONIO, Tex. Airman Douglas E. Riffle, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Riffle, Thompson Falls, has been selected for technical training at Sheppard AFB, as a construction specialist.

He recently completed basic training at Lackland AFB, Tex. Fairchild AFB, Spokane, Wash. board of directors and new offi ners of $100 scholarships, given by the Ravalli County Bank, have been announced. Blahnik is the son of Mr. and Mrs.

Jack Blahnik; Miss Kitzke is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Kitzke, and Miss Pile is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Pile.

ton school, and the outstanding graduate in the graduating classes from Darby and Corvallis. Miss Lind is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Allan J. Lind; cers for the Thompson River Ranch, have been elected Ann Kitzke, Darby, and Lois Pile of Corvallis, received the awards.

They were given on the basis of the "outstanding boy and the outstanding girl" in the Hamil- which had become tattered and unserviceable have been burned at the 4-H Building in Superior, following the Cub Scout Pack meeting. Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts, Blue Birds and Camp-fire Girls attended the rites, JOHN GINGERY PARADISE John G. Gin Patsy Lind and Mike Blahnik, at a Plains reorganization meeting of stockholders. Hamilton High School, Jolaine gery, U.S. Navy, is spending two weeks visiting relatives in mmm I Jill I 1 I I Lawrence J.

McCarthy, who taking part in the services. recently purchased a major interest in the firm, was elected Frey-Ridings Post No. 82 of the American Legion conducted preside. Harry Scott was Paradise. He has just completed an eight-month tour of duty in the western Pacific aboard the U.S.S.

Eversole. the rites. A color guard, led by I elected vice president and L. Adjutant An drey H. Olson, LaRock was elected secretary- I treasurer.

marched to the area. Lawrence Finley Killed In Arlee Truck Accident accident was about one mile I Survivors include a sister, in a nearly straight line and from the Louis Ninepipe resi- Mrs. Red Crow of Arlee. The By ROBERT C. LARSSON Missoulian Correspondent ARLEE A pickup accident crashed into the railroad abutment.

Jackie Cheatham, 9, was dence where Finley had been body was taken to Fearon Mar-living. Ituary in St. Ignatius. Thursday evening killed a Flat LOIS PILE PATSY LIND MIKE BLAHNIK JOLAINE KITZKE watching from the patio of the house, and she called the coop Rites Set for Mrs. Marsteller STEVENSVILLE Services her life in Colorado Springs and station which notified Noel Sinclair, deputy sheriff stationed in Arlee.

Sinclair called an ambulance, but on reaching the scene, can fib- Burglars Get $425 From Bruce's Baron HAMILTON Burglars took about $425 in bills and change head Indian man a mile southwest of Arlee on a county road at a railroad crossing. Dead is Lawrence Finley, 47, Arlee. A witness, Jace Cheatham, 8, said he heard the crash and looked up to see a pickup truck roll over three times. Tracks Indicate that the vehicle was eastbound, swerved O'Brien Rites POLSON Mrs. Hazel O'Brien, 76, Poison, died Thursday in Havre.

Rosary will be recited at p.m. Sunday in the Mosely Chapel in Poison. Requiem high for Edna Fay Marsteller, 81, (Sterling, coming to Stevensville celed this call and called Sher who died Thursday at a 199- rest home, will be conducted at SunJvfa8 dhter' from a juke box and cash regis iff-Coroner Bill Phillips who ter at Bruce's Baron Main oieveiis- pronounced the man dead. p.m. flioiiaay in uie tme-uhii-.

-nn r-w lne Street early Thursday. mass will be celebrated by the across the gravel road through a fence, traveled about 100 feet sitt Chapel, the Rev. Monroe, les. two M'rs Wilcox Officiating. Vol, TorrinFton.

Wvn nnH XIrs Officers said entry was gained Rev. Leonard Jensen, Sinclair said it appeared that Finley had fallen from the pick- Burial, with graveside serv I Ijl, 1 Xar II Paul Botkin, Furria, up ana inai naa roiiea over ices by members of Eastern Star, will be in Riverview Cem him. through a ventilation vent in the front of the building. Police also reported burglars attempted to enter Joseph's House of Pizza. A latch on a back door had been broken, but the door could not be opened.

The front bumper of the pick- etery. Mrs Marsteller was born July brother, Glen Kennedy of Bak-ersfield. and 11 grandchildren. Choir Will Appear In Rcnan Concert TRY OUR HAND-PACKED CHOCOLATE MARSHMALLOW ICE CREAM up was severely bent, indicating it might have wrapped around one of the poles. The 16, 1885, in Fairbury, Xeb.

She married Ivan Marsteller, Jan. 18. 1905. in Wilcox, Neb. She was a charter member of the Eastern Star in Wilcox and was a member of the White NOTICE Paradise cutoff highway, also known as FAS-461, which is now under construction will be opened to traffic daily with 30 minute delays beginning June 3.

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