Yesterday's Memories

10 Years Ago

Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Glasgow and Valley County law enforcement officials have been awarded a $210,000 grant to begin a new program, providing drug prosecution services to 17 counties and two drug task forces in Eastern Montana. The grant from the Montana Board of Crime Control will fund a drug prosecution coordinator, an attorney specializing in drug cases, for two years.

The winter storm that hit northeast Montana on Thursday night wasn't a surprise. It had been making its way across the state, heralded by the forecasters. But its intensity on Friday brought on the winter grumbles. The storm deserved the term blizzard, with heavy snow that was blown by winds up to 41 mph, causing white-out conditions and drifts reported up to 9 feet deep.

A committee is being formed in Nashua to study the possibility of creating another level crossing of the BNSF railroad tracks in town. Nashua Mayor Pat Hallett said people requested the committee during the Town Council meeting on Monday. In November, the town accepted the offer of the Montana Department of Transportation to design and build an overpass that would take Highway 117 over the tracks on the west side of town and create a new intersection with U.S. 2.

It was a down week for the Scottie wrestlers, no matter how you look at it. A group of 11 Scotties traveled to the Cowboy Invitational on Friday and Saturday but were shut out of the top six in each weight class and only tallied 18 points in the entire tournament.

25 Years Ago

Thursday, January 15, 1998

A Sunday morning fire destroyed a large hangar and its contents at Glasgow International Airport. Four aircraft, two boats, five collectable cars, snowmobiles and a golf cart were among the items stored in the hangar. No one was injured in the blaze.

According to the Reservoir Control Center, Fort Peck releases averaged 10,700 cubic feet per second (cfs). They were cut from 15,000 cfs to 10,000 cfs in early December and will increase to 11,000 cfs this month. The lake will drop a foot to elevation 2,235.

SGT Michael Bond is the new Army National Guard recruiter for the eastern Montana area, which includes 14 high schools. SGT Bond was in the Infantry Branch while he was regular Army, and has been an active Army recruiter.

He saw a need and he filled it. Bob Stormer is installing a pizza oven at Planet Bob on Highway 2 east of Glasgow. " I wanted pizza delivery. Nobody was doing it so I had to do it myself," he said. Stormer is remodeling and enlarging the snack bar to accommodate the newest style oven, a short- wave infrared model supplied by the Pizzas of Eight franchise company in St. Louis.

50 Years Ago

Thursday, January 18, 1973

Safeguard Army Depot at Glasgow Air Force Base will soon be in civilian hands. Western Electric Co., a North Carolina- based weapons system firm under private contract to the Safeguard ballistic missile defense system, will take over depot operations. Details of personnel changes resulting from this reorganization of the Safeguard depot will not be available for 90 days. But seven military and 100 civilians now employed in the supply and maintenance operations for the missile defense network will be affected by the change.

The announcement that Glasgow Air Force Base would be "aircraft- ready" by Feb. 15 and that the base population had doubled in the past year, coupled with hints that 150 new jobs might come from two private industries interested in locating at GAFB, highlighted Monday night's quarterly open meeting of the Valley County Development Council. No less surprising to area residents attending the meeting in the Elks Club, was the veiled revelation that Francis Mahon Deaconess Hospital in Glasgow now fails to meet state and national hospital regulations and that plans for a new hospital facility were in the wind.

Discussion focused on the hot lunch program in school district 1 and 1A at last week's meeting of the board of trustees in the junior high board room. Mrs. Eunice Moen, bookkeeper, presented a report on receipts, reimbursements, amounts and expenditure for the first half of the present school term. It was noted that a lack of government meat commodities makes it necessary to purchase meat for the lunch program. This expenditure plus rising food cost make current charges per meal inadequate to enable the lunch program to be self supporting.

75 Years Ago

Thursday, January 15, 1948

Operations were nearing normal today at the Glasgow Livestock sale-yard after a Sunday blaze that caused an estimated $5,000 damage and was miraculously brought under control before it caused more extensive destruction.

F.S. McIntyre, owner of the Bootery, Glasgow ready-to-wear and shoe store, announced this week that the Bootery will be moved to a new location three doors west of its present location next to the Roxy, within the coming month.

The committee on European food relief announced Wednesday that $1,018 has so far been received in cash as Valley County's donation toward the Northwest food ship.

Rep. Wesley A. D'Ewart from eastern Montana district reported this week to The Courier that budget requests totaling $2,200,000 for the construction of Fort Peck power transmission lines, substations and other facilities have been requested of Congress in the President's budget message.