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30 years ago

NEGAUNEE–Free food will be distributed to the 1,800 striking miners and their families beginning at 11 a.m. today. The food will be handed out at Ronn Union Hall, 1206 Baldwin Ave. The groceries are donated by the Marquette County Food Coalition, which has received more than $400,000 in donations from the minters represented by the United Steelworkers, according to Local 4950 Vice President Bill Romback. “The members of the union have been giving to it for years,” Romback said about the Food Coalition. “They’re returning the favor.” Romback said the food will be given away until it’s gone. The nearly 1,800 workers at the Empire and Tilden mines win western Marquette County have been on strike for three weeks.

60 years ago

MARQUETTE–Marquette Citizens for Decent Literature officials today reiterated their support and urged others to back U.S. Senate Bill No. 8736. The bill would set up a commission on noxious and obscene matters and materials, and it is expected to be quickly approved by the House of Representatives, then going to the President to be signed into law. The Marquette group asks backing of the bill and support of Charles H. Keating Jr., Cincinnati, as a member of the 17-member commission. Keating was founder and first president of the Cincinnati Citizens for Decent Literature. Mrs. W. L. Casler, president of the Marquette group, said approval of the senate bill would be a “vital and important victory, perhaps sounding the death knell of obscenity.”