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

30 years ago

ESCANABA — Eight Upper Peninsula businesses are taking advantage of a $300,000 state job training program starting this month at Bay de Noc Community College in Escanaba. The grant will provide specialized instruction to almost 1,000 workers from the firms with the aim of upgrading employee technical proficiency and developing management skills. Among the firms participating is Total Contracting Inc. of Lansing, an environmental engineering firm that plans to begin operations in Escanaba sometime in the spring. Others sending workers to Bay de Noc for training are Valmet Logging of Gladstone, the City of Escanaba, Lakeshore Inc. of Kingsford, Khoury Inc. of Iron Mountain, Specialty Minerals of Gulliver, Dickinson County Memorial Hospital, Anderson Memorial Hospital of Norway, and Lakeshore Machine in Gladstone.

60 years ago

MARQUETTE — Only one draftee will be called from Marquette County next month by selective service. Michigan’s local draft boards have been ordered to deliver 540 men for induction into the Army next month, according to an announcement made by state selective service headquarters in Lansing today. Only 10 Upper Peninsula counties had calls listed, with no young men apparently being summoned from the other five counties. In addition to the 540 summoned for the draft, another 808 registrants will be ordered for pre-induction physical examinations to determine their physical fitness for service. All men ordered for induction next month will be at least 22 years old, with the exception of volunteers. Four Marquette draftees left today for the regional induction and examination center in Milwaukee to be inducted into the Army. They comprised the 153rd draft contingent from Marquette County under the 1948 selective service act.