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30 years ago

ISHPEMING – William Fischer, president of the Francis A. Bell Memorial Hospital board of trustees, has announced the appointment of Paul Argall, Eric Beinlich, W. Scott Chilman, and Annette Larson to the hospital board. Argall is an Ishpeming native, resides in Negaunee with his family, and is a past president of the Ishpeming Rotary Club. Beinlich has served as the Cleveland Cliffs Iron Company’s general manager of mines for the past two years and has worked for CCI since 1952. Chilman has been a partner in the Ishpeming law firm of Clancey, Hansen, Chilman, Graybill and Greenlee since 1972.

He currently serves as president of the Bethany Lutheran Church Council in Ishpeming. Larson has an extensive background in health care, having been employed as Bell Hospital in Ishpeming and Orthopedic Surgery Associates of Marquette. She is a past president of the Upper Peninsula District Association of Hospital Auxiliaries.

60 years ago

ISHPEMING – The “coming of age” of Henry Vogeler and Co. – now in its 21st year – has been marked by a steady growth in the company, coupled with an even steadier insistence on a quality product. Fresh, smoked and frozen meats and poultry of all kinds can be found at Vogeler’s. Vogeler’s started as a one-man operation in Barnum Location. Today, 12 employees work at the modern sausage kitchen, and modern refrigerated trucks deliver Vogeler products to Marquette County and Munising grocers. Henry Vogeler learned butchering and sausage-making in Liepzig and brought his skill to this country in 1923, when he settled in the Copper Country and moved to Ishpeming 13 years later.

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30 years ago

MARQUETTE – Studies on how travelers evaluate air service and what can be done to maximize service were discussed by the Governor’s Air Service Task Force this morning. Herbert Swan, chairman of the Michigan Aeronautics commission, led the panel consisting of Mark Suman from the consulting firm of Kurth and Company; Thomas Baldini, Gov. James Blanchard’s Upper Peninsula representative; Robert Mitchell, chief deputy director of the Michigan Department of Transportation; James Pitz, director of MDOT; Bart Littlefield from Northwest airlines; and Peter Piper, representing Simmons Airlines.

90 years ago

MARQUETTE – The Marquette central office switchboard has been provided with equipment which indicates to telephone users that the bell of the called party is being rung, according to K. B. Baker, manager here for the Michigan Bell Telephone company. The new service is known as “audible ringing” and will go into operation today. The audible ringing signal is a “burr-burr-rr-ring” sound. This sound, heard at irregular intervals, indicates that the bell of the called telephone is being rung. The use of this signal will make it unnecessary for the operator to give the calling party a verbal report that she is ringing the called party or that they don’t answer, as has been the practice heretofore. Mr. Baker reports that there are 3,000 telephones in operation in the Marquette exchange and that about 16,000 local calls are being answered each day. In addition, 350 long distance calls originate in this exchange daily, many of them to distant points outside the state of Michigan.

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30 years ago

MUNISING – State Representative Pat Gagliardi presented the Alger-Marquette Community Action Board’s Director, Rochelle Cotey, with a check for $2,000 from the Office of Services for the Aging. The check was presented at the recent Alger County Senior Citizen’s Picnic. The check will help cover costs for the AMCAB group’s transit system incurred on senior citizens routes between May and September 1986.

90 years ago

MARQUETTE – Marquette may well be proud of a 16-year-old boy who swam around Presque Isle yesterday.

He is Louis Pinard, North Front street, who has been making long practice swims in the lake this summer. A 2 o’clock yesterday afternoon, Pinard, with two companions, William Parker and Louis LeMieux, began his “round the Island” trip. His mates were tired out after the first mile and a half, and they climbed into the boat that was following them.

Pinard continued his steady pace without a rest and finished the grind at about 5:30 p.m. near the Presque Isle breakwater. Pinard is a carrier for The Mining Journal and attends Marquette high school.

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30 years ago

NEGAUNEE – Finishing touches were being done at a frantic pace this morning as workers at the new Negaunee High School hurried to prepare for the first day of school Tuesday. “There’s nothing right now that’s going to stop us from opening,” construction manager Lewis Vredevald said this morning, noting that the only formality that needs to be completed is a state inspection of the school’s fire alarm system. Meanwhile, demolition of the old high school ground to a halt Saturday night after a piece of heavy equipment fell into the basement of the building while knocking down the last remaining walls. The equipment was expected to be dug out of the basement today and work is scheduled to resume as soon as possible. No one was reported injured in the incident.

60 years ago

MARQUETTE – LeRoy Sheller, disc jockey on WDMJ, was featured on a coast-to-coast broadcast of the “Wheel of Fortune” program. The program features a contest among disc jockeys to pick future hit tunes. Prizes are given to those whose pick ends up in the top 10. As a result of his appearance, Sheller’s picture will appear in a national song magazine. Sheller’s appearance on the program marks the second time in recent months that WDMJ has been represented. About six months ago, former WDMJ disc jockey, Gene Humphrey, appeared on the program

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30 years ago

MARQUETTE – Superiorland will be well represented on the 1986 Northern Michigan University football team as 14 former area players will be donning Wildcat uniforms. The group includes: assistant coach Mark Marana of Ishpeming, Tom Seeke of Marquette, Steve Blank of Shingleton, Fritz Rauch of Marquette, Bill Palomaki of Negaunee, John Schlosstein of Little Lake, Bryan Wittman of Marquette, Brad Schlientz of Marquette, Matt Schlientz of Marquette, Steve Sandona of Marquette, Mike Wichar of Marquette, assistant coach Al Sandona, Tim Dellangelo of Ishpeming, Greg Olson of Marquette, Andy Pool of Marquette, and student assistant coach Tom DePetro of Marquette. NMU opens the season Saturday, Aug. 30 at Texas-El Paso.

60 years ago

MARQUETTE – Ground was broken this week for the new Marquette Medical building, which is to be erected at the southeast corner of Hebard Court and West College Avenue. The 330,000 sq. ft. building will be completed and occupied by Jan. 1, 1987. Prekach Construction Co. has the general construction contract. The building will contain doctors’ offices and is across the street from the St. Luke’s Hospital Square.

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30 years ago

MUNISING – Michigan Department of Corrections Deputy Director Jim Curran met with John Hermann, member of the Alger Economic Development Corporation, Bob McQuisten, Munising Township Supervisor, Bill Mazzali, Alger EDC President, Spencer Nebel, Munising City Manager, and Jack Krueger, Alger EDC Director regarding the proposed Alger County Prison site. Curran toured the proposed Munising Township site Thursday as part of a trip through U.P. counties interested in a prison. Several U.P. counties are currently competing for placement of a new state prison in their areas. One new prison has already been slated for construction at Chippewa County’s Kinross.

60 years ago

NEGAUNEE – Although its organization dates back only eight years to 1943, the Negaunee Co-op Federal Credit Union, located at 440 Iron St., has grown so rapidly that it has a total of 491 members at the present time. The organization had its inception in a group of eight persons who had as their objective making credit available to persons affiliated with the group. Charter members included Betty Wainio, Viana Koski, Harvey Koski, John Savala, Donald MacDonald, Edward Jeij, Neil Ahola and Wilho Vertanen. Loans are made at low cost. Interest on credit loans are never more than 1 percent a month on the unpaid balance. One of the busiest members of the Credit Union staff is Miss Irma Jurmu, who handles the bookkeeping, serves as assistant treasurer.

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30 years ago

MARQUETTE – Kevin Jokipii and Nicole Stetson have been studying math at the Summer Institute for the Arts and Sciences with Lowell Kater, associate vice president for public service and continuing education at Northern Michigan University this summer. NMU played host to the two-week institute, sponsored by the Michigan State Board of Education, with this year’s program for gifted and talented high school juniors and seniors focusing on the visual arts and mathematics. Jokipii is the son of Paul and Violet Jokipii of Baraga, while Stetson is the daughter of Bonnie and Richard Stetson of Champion.

90 years ago

ISHPEMING – Governor Alex J. Grossbeck and Lieutenant Governor George Welsh created a favorable impression with about 200 Ishpeming voters yesterday afternoon in the city square. The speakers were introduced by Mayor K.I. Sawyer on a truck platform used as a speaking stand. Lieutenant Governor Walsh spoke first and told of his 19 years as a state officer rebuilding the state government. He declared that during the past five years there has been no necessity for investigations of state institutions as in the past. In his introduction of Governor Grossbeck, Mayor Sawyer said he was “the best governor Michigan has ever had.” The governor said the campaign was an unusual and a unique one, due to the fact that as yet he has not heard one important issue discussed by the opposition.

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30 years ago

NEGAUNEE – Graduation exercises for the 100th Michigan State Police Recruit Class took place on the Michigan State University campus on August 1. Gov. James J. Blanchard was the featured speaker for the 120 recruits who were sworn in and presented with badges. Post assignments for the new troopers from this area are: Michael Anderson of Marquette to Newberry; Ronald Brown of Negaunee to L’Anse; Timothy Heideman of Marquette to Sault Ste. Marie; and Christopher Pascoe of Negaunee to Gladstone.

60 years ago

CHATHAM – According to Marquette County 4-H Club agent Douglas S. Turini, two county 4-H club members will take part in the four-day activities of the state Michigan 4-H Club Show on the campus of Michigan State University. Jerry Luoma, 16, of Skandia is a member of the Skandia Plowboys 4-H Club and was recognized for being outstanding as a judge of land and soil. Martin Clish, 17, of Green Garden Hill is a member of the Chocolay Township 4-H Club, and was noted for excellent work as a vegetable garden judge.

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30 years ago

SAWYER AIR FORCE BASE – Richard Salisbury of the Eagles slow pitch softball team looked like a roadrunner as he beat out an infield hit Friday afternoon at the Sawyer Air Force Base field. First baseman, Roy Arnold, awaited the throw, while pitcher Ron Ryoti of the Chickens squad watched the play. The Eagles team was comprised of colonels and lieutenant colonels from Sawyer, while the Chickens were representatives of the Marquette Area Chamber of Commerce. The contest was held in conjunction with the annual chicken barbeque at the base.

60 years ago

MARQUETTE – Larson Distributor is listed as the fifth oldest beverage distributor in Marquette County among the 11 doing business in the area. F.L. (Swede) Larson started in business with Erick R. Erickson under the firm name of Erickson & Larson in 1937, and they continued in business as partners until December 1947. In January 1948, Larson bought out Erickson and purchased the property at 415 N. Third St., changing the firm name to Larson Distributor, the franchised distributor in Marquette and Alger counties.

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30 years ago

CHOCOLAY TOWNSHIP – Four area boys found that registering their bicycles with the Chocolay Township Police Department can really pay off. The boys won four new bikes after their names were randomly selected in a drawing of the names of all Chocolay-area children registering their bikes. The drawing is done annually. The bikes were donated by the police department and Chocolay Township merchants. The winners are Daniel Collick and Brian Lantto of Beaver Grove, Tracy Hendrickson and Bill Courtright of Harvey. Police officers Gary Heinzelman and Ron March officiated at the drawing.

60 years ago

ISHPEMING – Sponsored by the Ishpeming Beagle Club, the 16th annual licensed hare trials will be held at the club grounds three miles south of Ishpeming Aug. 25-26. Trophies for the 1956 trials have been donated by Palm Bottled Gas, Negaunee; Peninsula Insurance Agency, Ishpeming; Paul Olilla, Ishpeming; and Sheriff Al Jacobson, Marquette.

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30 years ago

MARQUETTE – Peter Ruokola demonstrated use of a wheelchair with elevated leg rests for Tammy Rader, patient services coordinator at the Marquette Medical-Dental Center and Virginia Paulosky, center volunteer. Foster Medical Home Health Care, represented by Kevin Bacon and Mark Betz, is located in the center and recognized the growing need for a wheelchair by orthopedic patents. The donated wheelchair will be available at the Waldo Street entrance to the center.

90 years ago

MARQUETTE – Members of the Boy Scout council and parents of scouts gathered at Camp Harlow last evening and enjoyed the campfire “stunt” program which brought to a close the twelfth annual encampment of Marquette scouts. Each patrol contributed a stunt to the campfire pow wow which was enjoyed by the audience. Following the program, the executive board of the Boy Scout council met and R.C. Young, scout commissioner, presented merit badges to several campers. A marshmallow roast was the final event of the evening. The scouts will break camp this morning and return home this afternoon. Sixteen automobiles will be needed to transport Boy Scouts from Camp Harlow to Marquette this afternoon. Persons willing to use their cars for this purpose are requested to phone Muss Hurley, 249, this morning and report with their cars at 2 p.m. on the Big Bay road at the turn-off to the Scout Camp.

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30 years ago

SAWYER AIR FORCE BASE – Approximately 75 civilian aircraft are expected here during the yearly fly-in, slated for Sunday. According to Terry Prout, assistant chief of base operations at Sawyer, arrivals are expected from 6:30-8:30 a.m. and breakfast will be served from 7-9 a.m. A welcoming session will take place at 9 a.m., and a safety seminar will be conducted from 9 a.m. to noon. Tours of a B-52 Stratofortress, KC-135 Stratotanker, and T-37 trainer aircraft are also scheduled. Those flyers wishing to attend, but who can’t fly in, will be allowed to drive into the base, Prout said.

90 years ago

ISHPEMING – The Ishpeming drum and bugle corps, headed by R.T. Bettison, director, went to Camp Minneyata on Ross lake for members’ annual outing. The boys met early Wednesday morning and made the trip to camp by car. The morning activities consisted of hotly contested baseball and volleyball games. Swimming in the clear waters of Ross lake proved to be very popular and Wilfred Isabelle and Billy Walters were the champions. The afternoon session was full of many events lasting until supper.

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30 years ago

NEGAUNEE – The K.C.s captured the Minor League championship in the Negaunee Little League with a 12-0 record. Members of the team are Jacob Garceau, Theresa Poutanen, Jeff Poutanen, John Hartman, Chris Hartman, Davin Malette, Mike Hill, Cory Aho, Andy Maino, Steve Turri, Tara Hill, Brad Kellan, Jerry Laitinen, Robbie Veale, Coaches Jerry Poutanen and Bill Hartman and Manager Bill Scarffe.

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30 years ago

ISHPEMING – Ray “Buck” Johnson, co-proprietor of the Brown Derby with Tim Davey has just acquired and is managing Buck’s Restaurant, just a block away at the corner of Division and Main in Ishpeming. The menu includes a wide variety of breakfasts, lunches and dinners available at any time of day. Just added to the menu is a Friday night fish fry with five or six different kinds of fish available. A grand opening is scheduled for Aug. 30. Johnson, who formerly worked at the Tilden Mine for nine years, lives in Ishpeming with his wife, Jo Ann, and their two children, Christy and Jodi.

60 years ago

NEGAUNEE – Gary Hendrickson won first place in the division for older students and Dominic Jacobetti took honors in the section for younger pupils in the summer recreation program archery tournament, completed Thursday afternoon at the playgrounds. Third place in the division for older children was won by Jim Thomas. Michael Gronseth finished second in the completion for younger pupils, and Roger Herman was third. According to director Lowell Morris, 40 youngsters competed in the two classes.

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30 years ago

ISHPEMING – The Ishpeming Carnegie Public Library now has a selection of video cassettes available for circulation for patrons possessing a borrower’s card from the adult library or the high school room. The cassettes have been purchased with money obtained from the sale of the former Ishpeming Youth Center. The project is sponsored by the Ishpeming Friends of the Library and more of the VHS format cassettes are expected to be purchased in the future. The cassettes may be checked out for two days for a fee of 50 cents. Titles now available include, “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” “Sounder,” and “Island of the Blue Dolphins.”

60 years ago

NEGAUNEE – Lowell Morris, program director for the 1956 summer recreation program, announced today that youngsters who have been regular attendees will have a picnic Friday at Champion Beach. Enrollment in the summer program set a new record this year, with 378 children registering.

Activities included swimming, baseball, archery, tennis, and story hours for early elementary pupils. Morris and his staff also supervised activities at Jackson Park.

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30 years ago

MARQUETTE – Several area teachers of grades 5-9 took part in a recent space science and astronomy class sponsored by the Seaborg Center for Teaching and Learning Science and Mathematics at Northern Michigan University. Instructor Ralph Winrich supervised preparations to launch rockets by Ishpeming teachers Ruth Perucco and Tom Neznanski. Also attending the class were Marquette school system teachers, Frank Bailey, Ann Carter, Vonda Case, Fran Hyska, Joe Perket, Joann Schullinger, Judy Sarosik, and Roseann Sullivan.

90 years ago

ISHPEMING – The Ishpeming Lions have endorsed the drive for funds which will be made next week by the Salvation Army, under supervision of the advisory board. A committee of Lions has been appointed to solicit in the business section. The Lions committee is composed of Thomas Cancey, K.I. Sawyer, W.H. Moulton, C.J. Shaddock, V.K. Keene, C. H. Tripp, C.C. Cowpland, Peter Headberg and Sam Cohodas. A meeting of the various committees appointed for the drive will be held at 4:30 Monday afternoon in the council chamber where Mrs. C.C. Cowpland, general chairman, will outline the program for the campaign.

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30 years ago

MARQUETTE Marquette Little League’s First National Bank team captured the Great Lakes Western Division championship with a 19-8 record this season, then came from behind to beat both VFW and Plaque Attack by 8-7 scores to win the league playoffs. Members of the championship team are David Peterson, Erick Roderigo, Jeff Carlson, Chad Kauppila, Scott Reynolds, Mark Larson, Joe Schetter, Mark Phillips, Sean Jensen, Bill Alexander, Steve Simula, Erica Thomas, Kevin DeMarse, Ben Smith, Brett Lunney, Manager Jack Reynolds, Coach Jerry DeMarse, and Coach Jerry Simula.

60 years ago

MARQUETTE Miss Mary McMahon , 226 West Hewitt avenue, is leading in the popularity contest conducted in connection with the Marquette Pageant of Progress, which opens in the Palestra Monday night. Closely following Miss McMahan is Miss Elizabeth Ryan, 515 High street, Miss Marie Jeanson, Prospect street, is third, and fourth, fifth, and sixth places are held by Miss Philomena Pompo, Miss Lidia Rowe and Miss Irene Gingrass, respectively. A large stage is being erected in the center of the Palestra floor so that it may be seen easily from any point in the building. Special electric lighting will be arranged by Joe Bren Producing company, which is furnishing the vaudeville entertainment and directing the Pageant. Every night during Pageant week there will be dancing in the Palestra ballroom following the vaudeville show. The Merrymakers, an eight-piece orchestra, will furnish the music.

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30 years ago

NEGAUNEE The Negaunee Township Fire Department recently took top overall honors at the 92nd annual Upper Peninsula Fireman’s Tournament, which took place in Marquette. According to Dale Rogers of the department, the township’s teams also took first place in community parade competition and third place in the split coupling and ladder races. More than 60 departments competed in the events and it was the first time in six years of competition that the Negaunee Township department took the top overall honors. Rogers also noted that five of the top six teams were from Marquette County. Additionally, the department’s running team has won 15 trophies in race competition this year, according to Rick Uren, Henry Hellin, and Bill Carlson of the Negaunee Township Fire Department.

60 years ago

MARQUETTE – If you went in or out of Marquette on U.S. 41 today, you were probably stopped at a roadblock and questioned as to where you were going and where you came from. Two checkpoints, one at Bancroft and one at the prison, are part of a statewide traffic count and evaluation being made by the state highway department to get information needed for the planning of highway interchanges. Automatic counters with cords across the road can only count the number of vehicles passing by. In order to plan an adequate interchange, it is necessary to know where people are going, whether they plan to make stops and what kind of vehicle they are driving.

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30 years ago

MARQUETTE – Swings, lawn chairs, furniture, clocks and other equipment valued at $1,000 have been donated to the D.J. Jacobetti Veterans Facility in Marquette by the Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary. Facility member, Joseph Dapaz of Norway, tried out the new swing with Marlene Maki of Negaunee, auxiliary chairperson for the facility and Sue Taylor, facility activities director.

60 years ago

SKANDIA – Modern dial telephone service is about to become a reality for approximately 150 homes and businesses in the Skandia area. Officials of the Chatham Telephone co. which now operates exchanges in Chatham, AuTrain and Trenary, have announced that the cutover of the new exchange will take place at 2 a.m. Sunday. The new exchange will have the central office name “Wilson,” and subscribers will reach each other by dialing “WI,” followed by the five numbers. It will serve the people in the Skandia, Yalmer, Dukes and Carlshend areas.

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30 years ago

MARQUETTE – Dan Trotochaud, president of the Marquette Area Chamber of Commerce, presented “Someplace Special” hats to Sadeo Futahashi, vice president of the Yokaichi (Japan) Chamber of Commerce and to U.S. Air Force General O.K. Lewis, commander of the 40th Air Division, at the brunch prior to the local chamber’s annual golf outing at the Marquette Golf and Country Club.

60 years ago

GWINN – Forsyth Township electors will be given opportunity to express their opinion on a two-year program to blacktop roads in the area when they receive a special ballot in connection with the primary election Aug. 7. Over the two-year period, it is planned, if the proposal is approved, to blacktop all principal streets in the five main residential areas in the township, which include Gwinn, Princeton, Austin, New Swanzy and Little Lake, plus thoroughfares leading to some of the major resort lakes in the area.

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