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60 years ago
NEGAUNEE -- Although a final contract covering salaries of teachers for the 1966-67 school year has not been signed, the Negaunee Board of Education has approved salaries for other employees of the school district. School officials indicated today that they were hopeful that a contract for teaching personnel would be signed within the next week. Negotiations between the committee of the local chapter of the Michigan Education Association and representatives of the school board have been under way since last spring. Covered in the salary increases approved by the board are the administrative staff, custodians, bus drivers, hot lunch personnel, and secretarial force. An increase of $8,379--from $45,400 to $54,379--has been authorized for administrative personnel. Budgeted allotment for salaries of custodians has gone from $54,550 to $59,300. Bus drivers during the ensuing year will receive a total of $31,966, as compared to $29,199. To cover salaries of personnel employed in the hot lunch program, the board has approved an increase of $2,300 from $16,814 to $19,114. The additional amount will provide raises of $220 in elementary schools and $240 in the high school where hot lunch employees are required to put in more time. Salaries for members of the secretarial staff will cost the school district $2,975 more next year than during the 1965-66 year with the allotment for this purpose being increased from $17,825 to $20,800. The additional money will provide secretaries with raises varying from $400 to 4600, depending on their job classifications and number of years of service in the school district.
90 years ago
MARQUETTE -- It begins to look like a capacity crowd will assemble at the fairgrounds tomorrow night to see the "Chamber Rats" and "City Cherubs" play donkey baseball for the benefit of the Upper Peninsula Softball Tournament fund. The tilt is scheduled to begin at 6:30 p.m. with a "donkey derby" as a pre-game feature. John Siegle, president of the Marquette Softball League, which is sponsoring the benefit affair, said last night that a large number of tickets had already been sold. Ticket sales will continue at Donckers and Pendill's Pharmacy until game time, he added. In the added attraction before the game, four prominent Marquette dignitaries will perform as jockeys, the winner to receive a red plush pillow - for which he will never have any use after tomorrow night. The derby course is from center field to home plate, although, as often happens when donkeys are concerned, the rider taking the longest jaunt probably will win the race.
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