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60 years ago MARQUETTE – An escape try by a federal prisoner being held in the Marquette County Jail was discovered Saturday, Sheriff Adrian A Pequet reported this morning. Officers making a routine check found that Roy Waldo, Reed City, one of three federal prisoners awaiting trial in U.S. District Court here next month on charges of bank robbery, had cut a hole in the ceiling of his cell, using a piece of steel he had concealed in the sole of his shoe. According to Pequet, enlargement of the hole would have furnished Waldo access to the attic of the jail building and from there to ...

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60 years ago BARAGA COUNTY – A Michigan Technological University forestry professor is attempting to increase the songbird population in the Upper Peninsula and save large stands of jack pine from destruction by insects. Dr. Norman Sloan has spent the summer living in the bush on the Baraga Plains in an effort to reduce an infestation of jack pine budworm. Damage to trees in this area is already heavy, and if not controlled, may lead to total destruction of valuable forests. Sloan is working on the theory that an increase in bird population will reduce the insect count. Since the ...

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60 years ago MARQUETTE – Eight Marquette men were arrested this week after it was discovered that the Simmons Brothers warehouse had been burglarized and a large amount of beer and wine taken. All eight appeared in Marquette Township Court before Justice George J. Fezzey Wednesday. The arrests were made Tuesday morning by state police from the Marquette post and Donald Hermanson, Marquette Township marshal. 90 years ago HARVEY – A sewing machine school, to which all farm women in Marquette County have been invited, will be held in the Chocolay town hall at 10 a.m. Friday, ...

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60 years ago MARQUETTE – Unidentified flying objects will be the topic for the Shiras Planetarium programs next week. George W. Girard, director of the planetarium, said the UFO series will begin Monday. “Have you ever wondered whether intelligent life exists somewhere else in the universe besides the earth?” Girard asks, “If so, come to the Shiras Planetarium next week and learn what the most informed thinking has to say about the subject. You will be taken on a tour of our own solar system and hear the possibilities of life elsewhere discussed. Then you will travel beyond ...

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60 years ago NEGAUNEE — With the opening of another school year little more than a week away, Police Chief Ralph Carlson today suggested that parents of children who will be entering school for the first time familiarize youngsters with the route they should follow. “Some of the kindergarten children have been prepared in many ways for their first school year by enrollment in Operation Head Start, but our principal concern is that they be well aware of any traffic hazards they may encounter along the way to and from school,” Chief Carlson said. “This is particularly true for ...

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60 years ago MUNISING — Five Grand Rapids skin divers have returned home after finding what they hope is a ship which sank in 1889 in Munising Bay with a cargo valued at $75,000. The quintet left for the Furniture City with miscellaneous ship’s fittings taken from the sunken steam-sail freighter, tentatively believed to be the Smits E. More, which went down in a storm carrying 350 kegs of whiskey and 150 barrels of high-grade silver ore. On Aug. 3, they plunged into the chilly waters at the mouth of the bay to find on their first dive the hulk of a 300-foot wood freighter, 106 feet ...