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

30 years ago

MARQUETTE — More than 20,000 people applied for the 5,096 bear harvest tags available in Michigan this year, according to DNR bear program leader Tim Reis in Lansing. Successful applicants in the state’s eight bear management units, seven of which are in the U.P., were notified during July. Hunters who applied for the experimental third hunt only being offered in the Gwinn Unit this year were by far the most successful. A total of 430 permits were available for the Sept 25 through Oct. 25 season, and only 547 people elected to try for one of those tags. All permits were issued in a random drawing.

60 years ago

MARQUETTE — Fifteen new teachers will be on the faculty foster for Marquette’s public elementary schools when they open Wednesday. Olive G. Fox, elementary supervisor, said today there will be five new teachers at Whitman and Sandy Knoll Schools, and two at Parkview and Fisher Schools. In addition, a new elementary physical education teacher has joined the staff. Miss Fox announced there will be no sixth grade class at Parkview this year. Instead, there will be four sixth grades at Sandy Knoll, occupying classrooms in the new wing built on the school last yea