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Newspaper
Bessemer Herald
Location
Bessemer, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1964
Page
2
A weekly publication advertises subscription rates for the Herald Publish a eneny at 109 East Mary Street Bessemer. The price is 3.50 per year outside Gogebic County and 3.00 per year inside Gogebic County.
NBC airs Special Project Dream Town a vivid look at prosperity and decay across small towns. Narrator F March contrasts nostalgic rural life with pressures of modern change, urging readers to judge their town and America. Ford announces a $90 million plant near Detroit creating 2.5 million sq ft and thousands of new jobs, while critics praise private industry for reducing unemployment. The piece cites US debt totaling $24 billion more than all other nations combined.
Gogebic County District mourns Congressman John B. Bennett as a prolonged heat wave followed by frost impacts region. Speed Boy gridders prep August 17 workouts while the County Fair runs today and candidates step up campaigning. Joseph Smoids builds a home near Travelers Motel. Readers encounter a string of quips, maxims, and trivia interwoven with local notes and editorials.
Lake Shore Engineering of Marquette delivered four ore car dumpers for Pickands-Mather’s Peterson Mine at Bessemer. The period also notes local events: football candidate turnout, marriages, city plans for Highway US-2 pavement finish, nursing school graduation, Knights of Columbus picnic, newborns, a fatal accident in Alaska, and multiple civic and social notices from Bessemer and nearby towns.
Fifty years ago Chester Williamson left for Arizona for health and died en route near Topeka Kansas while returning home. His body arrived back by Soo Line rail. Also reported is a fire damaging Herman Carlson's Sellar Street home Monday at 6 am. Ironwood store block leased to F W Woolworth Co of New York. Ironwood men Oscar Ojanen and J Jarvelainen killed in a cave-in at Anvil mine Friday morning. Photographer Charles V Pollock wed Miss Coila Parker of Marion Iowa on Wednesday August 12.
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