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Newspaper
Bessemer Herald
Location
Bessemer, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1940
Page
2
The Bessemer Herald publishes weekly in Bessemer Michigan. Rupert W Wrowleski and Maurice R Bart are publishers under Herald Publishing Company with annual prepaid subscription of two dollars.
The Hancock chamber and Houghton association call for the national advisory defense commission to end the 12 cent per pound copper peg and for the government to stop duty free imports. They warn high costs and mine closures could drain copper from Michigan's Copper Country and hurt labor. Local executives urge higher prices to recover past losses and build future reserves amid looming wartime demand.
Local news highlights six Bessemer men who rose to state police ranks including Caesar J. Scavarda captain at Lansing traffic and safety division and five others at detachments in Marquette Flint St. Ignace and Grand Haven. Also notes Eli Avenue joins U P Club with overnight Main Street parking tag and other town happenings.
A locally noted pair, Sophie and Mary Street, are praised for festive outfits during the Christmas season, with onlookers saying they look wonderful in green, red, and white. A lighthearted column also mentions a Michigan Minnesota football dispute, raspberries, and local civic quirks as the year winds down.
Sentence handed to Richard Terro, clerk at the Peninsula Bank of Ishpeming, by Circuit Judge Frank Bell to 1 to 20 years in Marquette prison after pleading guilty to embezzling 1254 dollars. Michigan anglers pay about 250000 dollars annually for fishing rights.
Five years ago in December 1935 approval was granted for a WPA project to finish the Bessemer city hall. The estimated cost stood at 25 902 with the city share 483 dollars. Construction had begun two years earlier under the CWA as part of the Gogebic county effort led by WPA administrator S P Fitzpatrick.
The Michigan Historical Commission notes milestones from December across years. Highlights include Rev Gabriel Richard becoming the first Catholic priest in Congress as a Michigan delegate in 1823, survey funding for the Detroit Chicago turnpike, Bingham born in 1808, a 1795 bid to purchase Michigan, Ottawa and Eaton counties organized in 1837, and Governor Sleeper born in 1862.
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