30 years ago

MARQUETTE — Although Lake Superior iron ore shipping declined this season, production was up in Marquette County mines, officials said. The Superior shipping season ends at midnight today when the Sault Ste. Marie locks officially close for the winter. This season some 6.8 million tons of Cleveland-Cliffs Inc. iron ore traveled through the locks, down from 7.5 million tons in 1994 and 7.1 million in 1993. Located on the St. Marys River, the locks are the gateway to Lake Superior. Each Jan. 15 they close due to winter conditions and generally reopen around March 25. T 7:35 P.M. Sunday, Marquette’s last vessel, the Phillip R. Clark, pulled away from the Lake Superior and Ishpeming Railroad ore dock in Marquette’s Upper Harbor with 18,600 ton of Tilden Mine hematite flux ore. The ship was headed for the United States Steel plant in Lorain, Ohio on the southern shore of Lake Erie.

60 years ago

ISHPEMING — Parking meter and miscellaneous parking receipts last year hit a record high of $32,483 and this year’s figure is expected to go even higher. So reports City Manager Thomas R. McNabb. Who cited three major factors in the increase in meter receipts. They were given as follows: (1) New meters, which are more efficient and had no malfunctions, were in operation for the last half of the year. (2) the economy of the area has improved, as more shoppers were evident in the city, meter statistics show, and (3) the city had two meter maids this year and enforcement has been improved. Parking meter receipts last year amounted to $27,795, the highest ever, with the balance of revenue coming from rental parking and miscellaneous sources.