Hes a true public servant

It's 2:20 p.m. and Allan Ost is nowhere to be found.

His appointment with a Havre Daily News reporter was at 2, but he had other things to do.

Jim Rice, Havre city shop foreman, said that Ost probably got held up somewhere on the streets.

"That doesn't surprise me," he said. "The job comes first."

The job has come first for Ost day in and day out for the past 29 years. But after today, his last before retiring, he'll have to find something else to do.

Ost, 50, was hired in February of 1973. He didn't like how his job was going at Northern Tire Co., and a friend of his who worked for the city m...