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30 years ago

MARQUETTE — The city of Marquette is applying for a Michigan Forestry grant for a street tree inventory program that would cost nearly $8,700. The grant would provide half the money needed for the project. The city would fund the rest. “In order to properly manage Marquette’s urban forest, the city arborist is in need of a street tree inventory,” said Steve Lawry, public works superintendent in a report on the grant. “The city has undertaken several hundred plantings in the last decade and tracking the maintenance needs of these trees by hand is not practical.” If the city gets the grant, the inventory will survey all the trees on public property and also document their location, age and condition, Lawry said. Funds for the survey were going to be requested in the next budget year, and the grant could save some money, he said. The grant program runs form Oct. 1 to August 31, 1993. The city estimates there are about 5,000 trees that need to be inventoried.

60 years ago

HOUGHTON — The Michigan Tech Department of Mining Engineering in cooperation with the Institute of Extensions Services will offer a five-week course in mining analysis, starting Oct. 15. This will be a repeat of a course offered earlier this year for nine engineers from five local mining companies. Response was so enthusiastic that this second course was scheduled for a wider audience. Course instructors will be Clarke K. Olson, assistant professor of mining engineering, and Dr. G. Cleaves Byers, associate professor of mathematics and director of the Tech digital computer laboratory. The course will cover fundamentals of engineering statistics, evaluation of sample data and statistical control, as well as problems in linear programming, questioning theory, evaluation of models under certain and uncertain conditions, equipment investment analysis and digital computer programming. Designed to give practicing mining men a practical beginning in operation analysis, the course will help them gain a working knowledge of the terminology involved, become familiar with accepted techniques in the field, recognize areas of application for these techniques, prepare for continuing self-study and improve communications between the operations research theorist and operating engineer.