The Peter White Public Library in Marquette is pictured. (Journal file photo)

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30 years ago

ISHPEMING — A committee may be formed to look at ways to reduce ambulance costs in Ishpeming. Representatives from Negaunee, Ishpeming and six west-end townships that have contracts with Ishpeming Fire Dept. EMS met for 1? hours Thursday night to discuss Ishpeming’s proposal to raise rates by nearly 40 percent. The group finally decided to ask the Ishpeming City Council to appoint the committee, according to Ishpeming City Manager John Korhonen. The committee is expected to include all participating governments and a Bell Memorial Hospital representative; Bell previously handled billing. The Negaunee City Council recently voted to cancel its contract with Ishpeming EMS on April 1 if a compromise isn’t reached on rate increases and collecting unpaid bills. Korhonen said governments who use the service don’t want to be responsible for collecting unpaid bills.

60 years ago

MARQUETTE — A feasibility study to determine the need for additional facilities for registered nurse education and type of program necessary has begun at Northern Michigan University under funds provided by the Upper Peninsula Hospital Council. The study grows out of a need felt by Upper Peninsula hospital administrators for an expanded educational program for registered nurses, officials said. Up to the present time the major burden of education of registered nurses has been placed on two hospitals in the Upper Peninsula. Numerous conferences were held. Participating were consultants from the field of nursing education and officials from the Michigan Board of Nursing. It was decided that a feasibility study should be implemented to determine the need for further facilities for registered nurse education. Funds for such a study were raised by the Upper Peninsula Hospital Council and made available to NMU. A consultant in nursing education, Mrs. Hazel M. Kinville, R.N., was appointed, and a nursing education study was set up within the school of arts and science under the direction of Dean Luther S. West. The nursing education study is concerned with the health service needs of the people of the Upper Peninsula as well as with the educational needs of nursing students and registered nurses. The type of nursing education program contemplated at Northern will be dependent upon the findings of the feasibility study, which will be completed in approximately one year. It is possible that the first class in the university’s registered nurse program would be admitted in the fall of 1965