EDITOR’S NOTE: Superiorland Yesterdays is prepared by the reference staff at the Peter White Public Library in Marquette.

30 years ago

NEGAUNEE — Several of the local athletes who competed in the Winter Olympic Winter Games in Albertville, France, will return to Marquette tonight. Wendell Suckow of Marquette, a member of the U.S. luge team, and Charles King, and NMU junior and member of the U.S. speedskating team, will arrive at Marquette County Airport at 9:29 p.m. Peter Vordenberg, an NMU freshman and member of the U.S. cross country ski team, will arrive at 10:50 p.m. The medal-winning women’s speedskating competitors who lived and trained at the U.S. Olympic Education center on NMU’s campus will not return until April. Kathy Turner, who took Olympic gold in the 500-meter short-track speedskating event, and members of the silver medal-winning 300-meter short track team will not return to Marquette until after the World Short Track Championships in Denver, Colo., on April 3-5. They are presently en route to their homes, having been given one-week to rest before they leave for trials in Nagano, Japan.

60 years ago

MARQUETTE — Approximately 200 persons will attend the Tri-City Elks “recognition day program” for communications media in the area tomorrow evening. The program, honoring the press, radio and television personnel, will be held in St. Peter’s Cathedral Hall at 7 p.m. A social hour will be held in the Marquette Elks Lodge at 5:30 p.m. Elks of Ishpeming, Negaunee and Marquette are sponsoring the event “to pay tribute to the cooperative facilities and personnel” of the communications media in the area. Those to be honored are staff members of The Mining Journal and its radio station, WDMJ, and of WLUC-TV and radio stations WJPD and WJAN, Ishpeming. Speaker will be Dr. Allan L. Niemi, dean of students at Northern Michigan College. Kenneth W. Brenner, manager of personnel and public relations for the Lake Superior & Ishpeming Railroad Co., will be the toastmaster.