50 years ago in Glens Falls area — ‘Best snowmobile trails in North America’

Fifty years ago, readers of Snowsports magazine voted Warren County the location having “the best snowmobile trails in North America.”

The Minnesota-based magazine, working with Warren County Publicist Walter Grishkot, sent a film crew to document what readers touted.

“On Tuesday, a movie crew from Snowsports paid a visit to the county’s new 80 miles of reconditioned snowmobiling trails and shot film footage that will be seen on local television, as well as on major networks, next November,” The Post-Star reported on Feb. 22, 1974.

Queensbury Supervisor Thomas Murphy was among those interviewed for the documentary.

In other 1974 Glens Falls area news collected from The Post-Star archives:

• It was free movie nights at Glens Falls parks.

The Glens Falls Recreation Department presented the double feature “The Hound Who Thought He Was a Racoon” and “They Call It Pro Football” at the Murray Street Playground field house on Jan. 31 and the East Field fieldhouse on Feb. 1.

“Record and candy Bingo will follow Friday’s showings.”

• Local rock band “Rainbow Jack,” comprised of Jack Howard, David Mayette, Hal Mayforth, Tin Horrigan, and Bill Hammond was performing Friday and Saturday evenings at The Back Yard restaurant on Route 9 in Queensbury.”
• Diane Gordon won the Glens Falls Marine Corps League Americanism poster contest.
• The Rev. Michael Farano, a Glens Falls native and St. Mary’s Academy graduate, was appointed secretary to Bishop Edwin Broderick of the Roman Catholic Dioceses of Albany.
• Brian Thompson of Boy Scott Troop 16 of Queensbury received his Eagle Scout badge on Jan. 28.
• Mrs. Frederick Hay and Mrs. Daniel Robertson won first place in the North-South category at the Glens Falls Duplicate Bridge tournament at the Glens Falls Country Club, The Post-Star reported on Feb. 2. Mrs. Abbott Pozetsky and Mrs. John Comeskey won first place in the East-West category.
• The committee organizing a joint celebration of the 125th anniversary of the founding of the village or Fort Edward and the 100th anniversary of the founding of the George Satterlee Hose Company recommended that the village and town boards enact temporary local laws requiring all men to let facial hair grow into either a beard, mustache or sideburns, or a combination thereof, for the week of the celebration.

“Those persons ‘arrested’ for not complying with the law will be fined $1 for the day,” The Post-Star reported on Feb. 14. “However, those who know that their wife will not allow the ‘hair raising’ schemes can purchase a passport for the week for the price of $3.”

• Connie Roosevelt won a black and white television set by rolling a 609 series in the Early Bird Tournament at Lake George Bowl, The Post-Star reported on Feb. 26.

Dorothy Billington placed second with a 602.

• Nine-year-old Scott Brannon of Glens Falls placed second in the state Elks Free Throw basketball contest, The Post-Star reported on Feb. 25.
• M. Allison Jameson was named valedictorian and Margaret A. Connelly salutatorian of St. Mary’s Academy, The Post-Star reported on Feb. 26.
• Daniel Flyn of Gansevoort caught a seven-pound, one-ounce lake trout to win first place in the Lake George ice fishing contest the previous weekend, The Post-Star reported on Feb. 26.

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