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30 years ago

ISHPEMING–The Hematite Business and Professional Women’s Club of Ishpeming has named Cynthia Thomson of Gwinn as its Young Career Woman. Thompson, a news reporter and co-anchor at WLUC-TV, will represent the Hematite BPW Club in the Young Career Woman competition in April at the annual spring district meeting of the Upper Michigan Federation. The Hematite BPW chose her based on her career achievements and her ability to project an image reflecting the role of today’s young women in society. Thompson attended high school in Louisville, Kentucky, where her parents live, and graduated from Missouri State University. The Young Career Woman program was started in 1963 by the National Federation of Business and Professional Women’s Clubs Inc.

60 years ago

ISHPEMING — Interviews for “bit” and “walk-in” roles which will go to Marquette County residents in the movie version of “Anatomy of a Murder” will be conducted in the commission chambers of the city hall here tomorrow at 1:30 p.m. Only those persons who signed up in the two Michigan Employment Security offices are being interviewed. Representatives of the film company are already arriving in Marquette County. Production crews will arrive tomorrow with Otto Preminger, owner of Carlyle Productions. The cast will be here on Sunday, along with David Golding, public relations representative of the film company. Members of the cast will stay in Ishpeming, production manager Henry Weinberger reported, and the production crew will be housed in Marquette. Members of the cast include James Stewart in the lead as Paul Biegler, the defense attorney; Lee Remick as Laura Manion, wife of the defendant; Joseph N. Welch, Boston attorney, as Judge Weaver; Ben Gazzara as Lt. Manion; Eve Arden as Maida, Biegler’s secretary; Arthur O’Connell as Parnell McCarthy.