The Missoulian from Missoula, Montana • 11

Western Montana News Briefs Fire Slowly Destroys Pirker Home in Belknap BELKNAP Fire of an undetermined origin completely destroyed the ranch home of Mr. and Mrs. Ronney Pirker Tuesday noon while Mrs. Pirker helplessly watched from the outside. A passing motorist first discovered smoke pouring from the home about 10:30 a.m.

while Mrs. Pirker was hunting deer in the woods nearby. She arrived home shortly after 11 a.m. and spent about an hour watching the smoke boil inside the house, unable to save any of the contents or attempt to extinguish the fire because the flames had cut the electric power from the pump. It was not until noon that flames actually broke out and then in a matter of minutes the house was engulfed.

The only things saved were a television set and a small steel file box sitting on top of it which contained their personal papers, which the motorist had rescued from the house. Coroner Calls Inquest In Libby Shooting Death LIBBY Lincoln County Coroner Harold Gompf has scheduled an inquest into the death of Mrs. Amber Spence, who was killed Sunday when a hunting rifle apparently accidentally discharged and struck her in the abdomen. Gompf said Tuesday that he had sworn a coroner's jury and that an inquest into Mrs. Spence's death would be held Tuesday, Nov.

26, in the county courtroom at 8 p.m. Funeral services for Mrs. Spence will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday in the Waggener and Campbell Chapel in Kalispell. Burial will be in the Lonepine Cemetery at Bigfork.

Guy Wilbur Davies, 66, Found Dead in Home TROUT CREEK Guy Wilbur Davies, 66, was found dead in his home on the Charles Gardner Ranch Tuesday morning by his niece, Mrs. Gardner. Death apparently was due to natural causes. Mr. Davies was born Nov.

12, 1902, at Moore, Mont. He was a World War Two veteran and had never married. Survivors include two brothers. Herschel in Kansas and Birgie in Lincoln, two sisters, Mrs. Edith Morley of Coeur d'Alene, Idaho: and Mrs.

Ruby Miller of Alberta, Cana- da: and a niece, Mrs. Gardner. The body is at the Shrider Funeral Home in Plains where funeral arrangements are pending. Kalispell Air Force Lieutenant Awarded Silver Pilot Wings BIG SPRING, Texas Sec- Lt. Burtsfield ond Lieutenant Lloyd L.

Burts- signed to the field, son of Mr. and Mrs. for flying duty. Charles L. Burtsfield of 485 Second E.

Kalispell, has been awarded U.S. Air Force silver pilot wings upon graduation at Webb AFB, Texas. Libby Sergeant Awarded Medal SPOKANE, Wash. Technical Sergeant Thomas W. Welch, son of Orren W.

Welch of Libby, has received the U.S. Air Force Commendation Medal at Fairchild AFB, Wash. Sgt. Welch, an administrative specialist, was decorated for meritorious service while assigned at U-Tapao Airfield, Thailand. The sergeant, a 1959 graduate of Billings (Mont.) Central High School, is married to the former Gay R.

Marmon. Kostman Returns On Navy Carrier LONG BEACH. Calif. (FHTNC) Data Systems Technician Second Class Dale J. Kostman, USN, 23, son of Mr.

and Mrs. Carl L. Kostman of Route 2, Kalispell, returned to the United States aboard the nuclear powered cruiser USS Long Beach. Long Beach returned to its homeport in Long Beach, from a seven month deployment with the U.S. Seventh Fleet off the coast of Vietnam.

In Vietnam since April this year, Long Beach provided air surveillance in the Tonkin Gulf and provided anti-aircraft support against enemy aircraft. The Long Beach-based cruiser is equipped with the latest in Navy detectional equipment and three separated missile systems including the Navy's long range Talos missile, the medium range Terrier, and ASROC (anti-submarine rocket system. Lt. Lloyd Burtstield The lieutenant, a graduate of HAMILTON A 46-year-old is being a as- Hamilton man, Lyle Sanderson, Pacific Air Forces was fined $250 in Police Court Tuesday when he pleaded guilty to the charge of driving while intoxicated. Sanderson was arrested Monday by Policeman Cliff Dye.

Kalispell The Missoulian. Wednesday, November 20, 1968-11 IN FLATHEAD COUNTY Airport Board Shoots For June Co Construction KALISPELL The Flathead County Airport Board is shooting for an early spring bid opening and construction in June on the first of several improvements approved by the voters this month. William Heinecke, board chairman, said Tuesday that $215,000 worth of the $470,000 Hunter Dies Of Attack Near Libby LIBBY Joseph William Sheffield. 71, of Libby died of an heart attack late apparent, He was found late Monday near his cabin on the East Fisher River after his wife had reported him missing. Lincoln County Coroner Harold Gompf said Sheffield was found in his car.

Sheffield had shot and dressed out a deer, which also was in the car. Sheffield was born June 27. 1897. in Rathdrum, Idaho. He moved to Libby in 1917 and was an Army veteran of World War One.

He and his wife, Helen, were married Oct. 4, 1924. Sheffield was a member of the Lions Club, Royal Arch of Masons, American Legion and the Presbyterian Church. He is survived by his wife and one brother, Leonard of Libby. Funeral services will be Friday at 2 p.m.

at the Gompf Funeral Chapel with the Rev. Wilford H. Luce, pastor of the First United Presbyterian Church, officiating. Masonic graveside rites will be held at the Libby Cemetery. Intoxication Charge Results in $250 Fine approved bond will be sold as soon as possible.

Advertising for the bonds will be drawn up by the county attorney and then submitted to the state for approval, Heinecke said. If the interest rate is right the bonds should be sold sometime after the first of the year, he added. Meanwhile, the Helena engineering firm of Morrison-Maierle has been engaged to draw plans for strengthening and lengthening to 7,000 feet the airport's main runway, as well as strengthening and expanding the parking apron. Additional land will be acquired for the extended runway, Heinecke said. He said the federal allocation for Flathead County is available and will be paid as soon as construction plans are approved and bids let.

Heinecke said there is no federal participation as yet for the projected new taxiway, but the board is now applying for these funds. The taxiway therefore will not be part of the initial contracts. Polson City Council Opens Water Bids POLSON Bids for water improvement were opened Monday night at a meeting of the Polson City Council. The bids were taken under advisement until they can be approved by the Economic Development Administration in Seattle, which is allocating matching funds for the project. The city received four bids for pump installation for a new well near the golf course, modifying and existing pump on the south hill, and replacing lines from the reservoir eastward on Seventh Avenue.

The R. C. Tyne Co. of Kalispell was apparent low bidder with a bid of $82,330.20. Two bids were received for drilling a well for the improvement district, with Liberty Well Drilling of Missoula apparent low bidder with a bid of $4,809.50.

The city set aside the sum of $43,000 for this project last year to match the EDA fund. Morrison-Maierle, of Helena are the engineers. In other business, the council accepted a bid from Carl Seifert for gas and fuel oil for the coming year. RETIRED RANGER Charlie Shaw of Spotted Bear District, Flathead National Forest, has a new hobby. He's manufactured seven spinning wheels this year, and is also making his own yarn.

(Mel Ruder photos.) USES THEM Former Forest Ranger Makes Spinning Wheels By MEL RUDER Publisher Hungry Horse News KALISPELL The newest hobby of retired Ranger Charlie Shaw of Spotted Bear District, Flathead National Forest, is the manufacture of old-time spinning wheels starting from boards. Charlie-his birth certificate wasn't Charles- got his start making spinning wheels when repaired a spinning wheel owned by Lillian Tubb, retired Flathead County home demonstration agent, who has a scarf she knitted from yarn that originated from Montana mountain goat hair. Then Shaw repaired a broken spinning wheel owned by Mrs. Robert Harvey, Stillwater District farm housewife and originally made by Mrs. Harvey's great The repair tasks led Shaw to turning out seven working replicas of the wheel since last April.

Six of these spinning wheels have been sold. Mrs. Shaw for years has knitted Ranger Shaw's socks. He laughed and commented. "I won't let her knit socks from yarn I spin.

It's too Mrs. Shaw was knitting a sweater from home produced yarn. Now 70, Ranger Shaw retired from the U.S. Forest Service in 1964. He'd been at Spotted Bear, gateway to the 950.000- acre Bob Marshall Wilderness for 23 years until 1958.

Then there were assignments in Missoula and Kalispell. He was graduated from the University of Nebraska College of Agriculture in 1919, taught school and worked as a cowboy in Wyoming before coming to the Flahead. Asked about tackling the making of spinning wheels complete with leather bearings and hinges, Ranger Shaw replied: ADVERTISEMENT Heartburn? Gas? Millions now get more complete relief Extra-action antacid relieves both excess acid and gas One of the prices we pay for modern civilization is the tense, taut stomach, the heartburn and gas that too often result from our frantic pace. Eating too much or too fast, working under pressure, can hit us where it hurts the most, right in the stomach. Millions have found the modern solution to excess acid and gas.

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iest of the hard woods to work. "You talk about hobbies," Shaw said. He pointed to a clock. "Besides, I repair clocks for people." He showed a pair of homemade pliers, and remarked: "Up at Schafer, I needed some pliers and made these." He referred to remote Schafer Meadow on the Flathead's Middle On the wall are oil paintings of mountain scenery by Ranger Shaw, and another hobby he's enjoyed has been rock done that for about 40 years," he said. The couple also travels especially since retirement.

There was six weeks in Europe, two months in Alaska, and Hawaii is in mind for this winter. En route they'll see their son-in-law and daughter and two grandchildren in Portland, Mr. and Mrs. Gary Walrath, Marnie, 11, and Mike, 8. Back home in the Flathead the retired ranger also serves Fork.

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PHONE 549-6933 Use ground floor entrance just west of First National Bank parking lot LIBBY Lincoln County Attorney Bill Douglas has asked the county commissioners and members of the Montana Railroad and Public Service Commission to attend as spectators an inquest Nov. 20 into the death of a Eureka woman at a railroad crossing in tht city. Mrs. Ruth L. Hibbert, 71, was killed Oct.

30 in a car-train collision on the Great Northern Railway's main line crossing in Eureka, Douglas pointed out that this Kalispell Girls Enter Junior Miss Pageant KALISPELL Six Flathead High School seniors have so far been entered in the Kalispell Junior Miss Pageant to be held at 8 p.m. Dec. 8 in the high school auditorium. The high school will be the scene also of the State Junior Mis: Pageant Jan. 7-11.

Howard Grainger, co-chairman of the Kalispell event, said Tuesday that a second registration party for entrants will be held at 7 p.m. next Sunday at the Traffic. Entrants so far are Lindsay Walterskirchen, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Walterskirchen; Sandie Winter, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. William Winter; Geri Clothier, daughter of Mr. IS the second fatality in the past year at the crossing, and that at the present rate. We'll have four more persons killed before the railroad's main line is Douglas said he is attempting to point out why a signal light is needed at the crossing. Such a light has been requested of the railroad, but Great Northern officials claim such a light will cost $80,000.

However, the Great Northern Railway will relocate its main line in a few years. Their main line, which now goes north of Libby along the Kootenai River to Eureka, IS being relocated because of the construction of Libby Dam on the Kootenai. When the relocation is completed, the railroad line will bypass Eureka. and Mrs. Eugene Halvorson; Danlynne Korn, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Korn; and Shellie Bergeson, daughter of Mrs. Dorothy Bergeson. All are from Kalispell. The Kalispell Jaycees have conducted the annual pageant here for the past half-dozen years.

The winner here will receive a $200 scholarship through the Jaycees and the Conrad National Bank as well as a chance to compete in the State Pageant. Senior girls may register either by attending the registration party next Sunday night or by contacting Grainger or Larry Loughney. Carson To Talk In Whitefish Flathead County High School, received his commission in 1967 upon completion of the Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps program at Montana State University where he earned his B. S. degree.

He is a member of Sigma Nu fraternity. Sgt. Rasmussen Receives Medal WITH U.S. COMBAT AIR FORCES. Vietnam Staff Sergeant Willard D.

Rasmussen, son of Mr. and Mrs. David E. Rasmussen of Rt. 2, Hamilton, has received his second award of the U.S.

Air Force Commendation Medal at Tan Son Nhut AB. Vietnam. Sgt. Rasmussen, a supply inventory specialist in the 377th Combat Support Group at Tan Son Nhut, was decorated for meritorious service while assigned at U-Tapao Airfield. Thailand.

The sergeant, a 1954 graduate of Corvallis High School, is married to the former Carmen A. Islas, daughter of Mrs. Carmen A. Islas of S. Rubio Tucson, Ariz.

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10-20. $3300 WHITEFISH Herb Carson, director of special education for Missoula schools, will speak to the Flathead Association for Retarded Children, at 8 p.m. next Tuesday in the multi-purpose room at the Whitefish Elementary Schools. Carson will speak on, "What we need to know about our and the public is welcome. Mrs.

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