30 years ago

MARQUETTE– In an effort to aid economic expansion in the Upper Peninsula, CellularOne is offering free phones and services to new businesses. Cellular phones, including a year of unlimited airtime and access, will be offered to new firms as part of a nationwide plan to help spur growth in PriCellular Corp’s service areas. An undetermined number of new jobs must be created to qualify for the offer. Nationally, PriCelluar Corps., parent company of CellularOne of the U.P., requires that at least 40 new jobs be created to receive the phone and service, but that number is expected to be smaller in the U.P.

60 years ago

MARQUETTE– Temperatures throughout the Upper Peninsula remained below zero this morning as the severest cold wave in over a year extended into its third day with no sign of a letup. The mercury plunged to 10 degrees below zero at the Marquette Weather Bureau Station last night, the coldest temperature recorded here since Jan. 29, 1965, when it was -13. It was even colder inland, with the Marquette County Airport in Negaunee Township haying 12 below. Unofficial readings from the interior of the county ranged from 10 to 17 below.