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Page 8 January 15, 2009
Pre-confirmation meeting
Sen. Byron Dorgan. D-N.D., meets with Interior Secretary nominee Ken Salazar in Dorgan's
Capitol Hill office. Dorgan urged Salazar, who will oversee the National Park Service if he is
confirmed to the post, to pursue the use of qualified volunteers to thin the elk herd at
Theodore Roosevelt National Park. Dorgan also pressed Salazar to help establish and main-
tain a "one-stop shop" at North Dakota's Fort Berthold Reservation that would expedite the
leasing and issuing of permits for oil and gas exploration on reservation lands, and to push
forward the effort to develop the Red River Valley Water Supply and Northwest Area Water
Supply projects. (Courtesy Photo)
review the effort to deal with the
hospital's financial problems.
June
- This May, law enforcement
officers nationwide and in south-
western North Dakota took part in
the national Click It or Ticket
entorcement mobilization to help
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ensure all motorists are buckled up,
day and night.
- The Vogt-Nunberg farm south
of Wibaux has been listed on the
National Register of Historic
Places.
The Parish Centennial
Celebration for St. John the Baptist
Catholic Church in Beach is set for
June 21-22.
- Local rodeo duo Derek
Weinreis and Ethan Rodne's suc-
cessful season ended on a high note
at the North Dakota High School
Rodeo Association State
Championship in Bowman.
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00tinter snows creating lake concerns
Near-record early winter snow-
fall over much of North Dakota is
generating public and state Game
and Fish Department concerns
regarding the state's fishing
waters. Winter anglers are having
a tough time getting on or moving
around on many lakes, and Game
and Fish biologists may have to
alter plans for winter lake work,
according to Greg Power, depart-
ment fisheries division chief.
In addition, department biolo-
gists are also worried about the
potential for low oxygen levels in
many lakes because of heavy
snowpack.
Game and Fish does not have
the equipment resources to main-
tain access to lakes in winter,
Power said. Even agency fisheries
biologists will likely have to do
their winter monitoring work via
snowmobile on loan from other
divisions. "This year, even if we
could help with access points on a
few lakes, people would have dif-
ficulty getting around," Power
said.
In many cases, Power added,
local individuals or groups pitch in
to try to keep access points open.
'In particular, Devils Lake has an
active local effort to plow select
areas so people can get vehicles on
the lake.
"It's just hard this year," Power
acknowledged. "Every time the
wind blows it plugs up areas that
had been open."
This winter's snow pack is dou-
ble trouble because it also will
likely lead to some fish kills,
Power said. "As in the past during
tough winters, we will undoubted-
ly lose some lakes to winterkill,
but it's just too early to predict
which lakes and how many may be
impacted," he said.
Similar conditions have not
existed since the winter of 1996-
97. To compare the two at this
point is difficult. "We are just get-
ting into the heart of winter,"
Power said. "Who knows what the
next couple months wilt bring."
Game and Fish biologists have
studied and experimented with
ways to avoid or reduce winterkill
for decades. These projects have
included winter aeration systems
and clearing snow from the ice in
an effort to enhance oxygen in the
water. Because of inconclusive
findings and safety concerns,
Game and Fish no longer operates
any aeration systems, and snow
removal experiments were phased
out in the 1970s.
In spite of the rough conditions
so far this winter, Power said there
is a potential upside. "A good
snow pack may lead to a decent
spring runoff event," he added. "If
'this occurs, the department will be
prepared to restock any winterkill
lakes, and with more water in
those lakes, habitat conditions will
greatly improve whichwill lead to
longer term sustainability of those
lakes."
Snow blanket
This horse was either too slow - or the snow too fast - as it ended up with a blanket of
snow on its back last week. (Photo by Richard Volesky)
Jan. 1. 1959:
Jubilee planning group
incorporates
At the third meeting of the
Beach Golden Jubilee Celebration
Planning Committee held at the
courtrooms of the Golden Valley
Courthouse Monday afternoon of
this week, the following decisions
were made:
- The three-day celebration will
include Friday, Saturday, and
Sunday, July 24-26, 1959. The
group will incorporate under the
name of Beach's Golden Jubilee.
Sixteen members of the
Planning Committee were present,
representing practically every
organization in the city of Beach.
The establishment of six com-
mittees was authorized: Publicity,
Parade, Finance, Entertainment,
Historical, and Sunday Activities.
Each committee is asked to meet
and organize before the next meet-
ing of the steering committee on
Tlmrsday, Jan. 15.
Three counties go two
years sans fatalities
Only three North Dakota coun-
ties can boast of having perfect
traffic records (no fatalities) tk)r
the past two years and only nine
can point to a perfect record for
the first 11 months of this year,
judging from the November fatal
accident summary published by
the state highway patrol.
Those counties with perfect
two-year records are Golden
Valley, Griggs and Mercer. Those
with perfect year-to-date records
are Dunn, Billings, Bowman,
Pierce, Sioux, Towner and of
course, the three with perfect two-
year records.
Of the fatalities in November,
nine were non-collision and only
two were collisions.
Some accidents are caused by
several factors, but in November
alone, the highway patrol shows
where speed, liquor and lost con-
trol were responsible for 13 of the
16 causes listed. The other three
were obscured vision, illegal park-
ing and illegal passing.
Jan. 8, 1959:
To inactivate GOC Jan. 31
The County Civil Defense
director has been notified by the
State Civil Defense director that
the Ground Observer Corps will be
inactivated on Jan. 31, 1959. The
ground observers in Beach have
been on more or less standby sta-
tus with the bulk of what duties
were necessary going to Mr. and
Mrs. Art Holland, Mr. and Mrs.
Don Knote, and Mr. and Mrs.
Hank Kohler.
Many Beachites have served in
one capacity or another these past
several years and these individuals
have been the watchdog against
another Pearl Harbor.
The decision to relieve them as
active participants on the Air
Defense Team is based on the fol-
lowing:
The present radar network and
its further expansion and improve-
ment will be accomplished in
January. This gives assurance that
an enemy bomber can be detected
and identified before it reaches the
borders of the U.S.
The increasing speeds of poten-
tial enemy bombers and our own
fighter interceptors make it neces-
sary that we convert to automatic
means for processing air defense
data within the continually reduc-
ing time limits.
Jubilee committee meets
The Historical Committee met
Monday evening at the home of
Madge Niece to plan activities for
Beach's Golden Jubilee to be held
July 24-26. A display of household
articles and pictures of the early
days in Beach will be one respon-
sibility of the committee, as well
as a free banquet honoring the old-
timers on hand for the jubilee.
The sending of invitations to
attend the jubilee will be a large
job to tackle and one which will
require the help of the entire com-
munity. Any suggestions and
offers of assistance will be appre-
ciated.
In retrospect we'll view the
scenes and, my, it will seem fine to
live again among Beach friends we
knew in 1909.
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