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

30 years ago

MUNISING — Conservation groups want Congress to put up $3.9 million to buy nearly 12,000 acres near the Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore. The request for the 1995 budget year is part of a $7 million request for the purchase of environmentally sensitive land in northern Michigan. Pictured Rocks Superintendent Grant Petersen said the land is needed to maintain quality, but with federal budget constraints he doesn t expect the park will get what the coalition wants. Money for acquisitions comes from the Land and Water Conservation Fund, which gets more than 80 percent of its money from offshore oil drilling royalties

60 years ago

MARQUETTE — Two former Northern Michigan University students got together in the East, had an idea, and returned to Marquette to put their idea into work. They are Thomas Neumann, a 1963 NMU graduate and Gordon reid, who attended in 1959-1960. They re co-partners of Togo s Submarines on N. Third St. Togo stands for the first two letters of their first names and also comes as a handy reference to the to go delivery service for their submarine sandwiches. They decided to go into business in Marquette when they got together for one of the famous Eastern sandwiches.