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T.ekL.Forest ServiceMans Threeie-lt-•il-Lookout StationsBuThree of the seven Forest Service lookouts in the Thompson Falls ranger district are d. I now manned, Irwin Puphal, dis-1 trict ranger, reported this week in announcing that the local district’s full summer staff of iat j personnel has been hired and is now on the job.St. ReLumb;a-?reithInfield the I son Fail?(ST. REted ThomW VIII me jvr^. I . ,A total of 28 men, including “J ine the district’s permanent staff, Moula‘ are employed by the Thompson JJ.ea Falls office now. Summer em- \ani ployes recently attended a five- Jday fire training school staged ™ree 1 at the Bend ranger station by Marshal Puphal and Ralph Hanson, dis- jn,aB-°f I trict ranger at Plains, the With the exception of his Fishtrap lake-Vermillion river I alive witIP loop route, all Forest Service from theygs roads in the district are now the fray' a j open and being maintained, N. McCPuphal said. Considerable flood pair of damage on the west fork of the Regis Thompson river has been re- Thompslt; paired and the Dry creek road nine an 6 bladed. The Eddy peak lookout score: een road is open, except for the last St. Reg U?* half mile which is still blocked Trevask,oir L U 1had y snow banks.The district’s permanent per- Bennettsonnel includes Forrest Dobson, Humbleassistant district ranger; Frank GunderGummer, fire control assistant; J. McCLouis Rosenthal, dispatcher, A1 N. McCMegrund, scaler; Earl Hendren, Marshalost Pac^er; anc* following sum- Welch,• mer month employes:Dillon Wetzler and Clarence . Dodge, Thompson Falls, fore-AKBimen; Jim Sutherland, Thomp-j aa ' voir son Falls, headquarters guard; . -icks Robert Krai, Illinois, Eddy Peak p. few lookout; Don Courtney, Okla-1 cur-1 homa, Cougar peak lookout; „ ... Dennis Brown, Oklahoma, \ Drivgway peak; Douglas Weitz-to fmanTNew York; Bernard John-andjston, Plains; Jasper Green, Thompson Falls; William Smith, Oklahoma; David Werner, West Virginia; Earl Pickenheim and David Allison, Pennsylvania;Tom Hoskinson, Big Timber;Tom Spolar, Iowa; Jack Truck-ner, Missoula; Daniel Stuner and Charles Weldon, Thompson Falls; William Taylor, Ohio;^ Kenneth Shultz, South Dakota,Robert Ford, Nebraska, and Gerald Metcalf, Helena.Metcalf is the son of Congressman Lee Metcalf.Most of the temporary employes are currently engaged in maintenance work within the district.iverver.lox-iyedup/oir.Totsro8smp-ybee , ar-reralPickeiWernlt;WilkeGrahaTot T. Fa St RErrsonWilke5, *WilkeMarsliterWhToWlmark
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Thompson Falls Sanders County Independent Ledger
Thompson Falls, Montana, US
Thu, Jul 01, 1954
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