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60 years ago MARQUETTE – Unidentified flying objects will be the topic for the Shiras Planetarium programs next week. George W. Girard, director of the planetarium, said the UFO series will begin Monday. “Have you ever wondered whether intelligent life exists somewhere else in the universe besides the earth?” Girard asks, “If so, come to the Shiras Planetarium next week and learn what the most informed thinking has to say about the subject. You will be taken on a tour of our own solar system and hear the possibilities of life elsewhere discussed. Then you will travel beyond ...

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60 years ago NEGAUNEE — With the opening of another school year little more than a week away, Police Chief Ralph Carlson today suggested that parents of children who will be entering school for the first time familiarize youngsters with the route they should follow. “Some of the kindergarten children have been prepared in many ways for their first school year by enrollment in Operation Head Start, but our principal concern is that they be well aware of any traffic hazards they may encounter along the way to and from school,” Chief Carlson said. “This is particularly true for ...

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60 years ago MUNISING — Five Grand Rapids skin divers have returned home after finding what they hope is a ship which sank in 1889 in Munising Bay with a cargo valued at $75,000. The quintet left for the Furniture City with miscellaneous ship’s fittings taken from the sunken steam-sail freighter, tentatively believed to be the Smits E. More, which went down in a storm carrying 350 kegs of whiskey and 150 barrels of high-grade silver ore. On Aug. 3, they plunged into the chilly waters at the mouth of the bay to find on their first dive the hulk of a 300-foot wood freighter, 106 feet ...

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60 years ago MARQUETTE — An in-depth discussion of Northern Michigan University’s common learning program which will go into effect this fall highlights programming this week on the university’s educational television network, WNMR-TV. Dr. Vito Perrone, dean of the common learning program and associate professor of history, will be interviewed on “Northern Dimensions,” which will be telecast at 9:30 p.m. Wednesday. The common learning program is linked with the four-course plan which Northern will introduce this fall. Common learning includes 10 courses—eight required and ...

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60 years ago ISHPEMING — Francis Dishnow, Ishpeming High School principle, today asked all parents and students to cooperate in arranging proper dress and appearance for all students when attending school. Through efforts by junior and senior high schools, a dress guide has been approved for all students. “During a time of rapidly changing hairdos, it is difficult to set rules and regulations,” Dishnow said. School officials noted that the primary purpose of a dress guide is to make the student aware of dress and grooming so that his appearance will always be an asset. They ...

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60 years ago 
NEGAUNEE — Acting on recommendation of G. Arntzen & Co., Escanaba, school district architects, the Negaunee Board of Education, at a special meeting yesterday, awarded the contract for installation of a new basketball playing floor at Memorial Gymnasium to Bauer-Foster Floors, Inc., Detroit. At the regular meeting of the board earlier this week, the Detroit firm, which was the only bidder, submitted a quotation of $17,320; and the board referred the bid to the architect for study and recommendation, before approving the bid. The project will include necessary ...