Bessemer Christmas Program Delights Township Schools
A Christmas cantata Come Let Us Adore Him directed by Evonne Jacquart with a four-school orchestra under M O Lamoreux featured junior and senior choirs. Solos by Marjorie Westeen Rose Basso Ramsay and others, with sections from first through sixth grades performing favorite carols. Tuberculosis essay winners Joyce Creger Mildred Korpela and Shirley Braemer honored.
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Evonne Jacquart
M. O. Lamoreux
Plains of Bethlehem
Marjorie Westeen
Rose Basso
Ramsay
Mar Celine Provencher
Betty Lou Goodwin Puritan
Clyde Olson
Evelyn Erickson
Harding
William Nyman
Mary Helen Pribble
Anvil
Herald Angels
Judea
Doreen Shogren
Walter Shefka
Alice Anderson
Jeanne Chouinard
Puritan
John Crawford
Theodore Krakovec
Orient
John Dillion
Robert Rigotti
Lois Dahlgren
Ruth Martinson
Betty Chiapuzio
Shepherds
Noel
Bessemer Township
Joyce Creger
Mildred Korpela
Shirley Braemer
Night School Christmas Party Held by Ram Say Class
A Christmas season celebration was hosted last week by night school class members. Mrs Barron, an instructor from Ram Say, sponsored the gathering.
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Barron
Ramsay
All American guard Heikkinen visits Ramsay and local events
University of Michigan star Ralph Heikkinen arrived home for a few days with Ramsay parents before traveling to San Francisco for the East West all star game on January 2. Local pupils received poems, sleigh ride invites, and a civics class talk by Sergeant F R Enis about crime and enforcement.
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Ralph Heikkinen
University of Michigan
Jacob Teihianen
Ralph
San Francisco
Christmas tree debate sparing forests debated in Michigan
Michigan state foresters oppose outlawing Christmas trees as wasteful to forests. They argue cutting methods, not use, determine impact. Foresters’ editorial in American Forests supports thinning through proper techniques as possibly beneficial.
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Michigan
George S. McIntire
Foresters’ National Magazine
American Forests
Christmas Trees as Forest Benefit Editorial
The editorial argues Christmas trees are a legitimate forest use, supplying happiness and jobs while aiding conservation. It rebuts bans on trees, noting forests in most states could supply demand, and many trees come from logging tops or thinning operations rather than wasteful clear cuts.
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America
Prairie Belt
More Civil Service Exams to Be Held
The United States civil service commission announces open competitive exams with various required qualifications and birthday limits. Positions include Chief Museum Division at $4,600, Chief artist designer at $2,600, Principal artist designer at $2,300, Senior artist designer at $2,000, Junior meteorologist at $2,000, and Associate Physiologist at $3,200. Closing dates vary, with eastern states due January 9, 1939 and other exams due January 10. Persistent age caps and substitution rules apply.
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United States Civil Service Commission
Colorado
Veterans’ Administration
Washington, D. C
Museum Division
National Park Service
Dept. of the Interior
Weather Bureau
Dept. of Agriculture
Miller
Civil Service Biometrician and Parasitologist Positions Listed
The Public Health Service and Bureau of Animal Industry announce openings for Biometrician, Associate Biometrician, Assistant Biometrician, and Assistant Parasitologist (Nem atodes). College training in math public health epidemiology bacteriology genetics zoology anatomy or biology plus biostatistics is required. Age limits apply. contact John Springhetti, secretary, for full details.
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Public Health Service
Treasury Dept
Bureau of Animal Industry
Dept. of Agriculture
John Springhetti
U. S. Civil Service Board of Examiners
Priest Killer in Iron River Hopes for Release
Iron River Massiere LaBelle serving life for the murder of Fr. James Lenhart in Iron River in November 1934, hopes for release from Ionia State Hospital. A wax bag found in Grand River near Lowell contained a note from LaBelle urging aid and asking his Montreal-based brother to seek gubernatorial clemency. The letter dated Oct 25 references Michigan's Secret Institution and was turned to Sheriff Hugh M.
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Iron River
Massiere LaBelle
James Lenhart
Ionia State Hospital
Grand River
Lowell
Michigan
LaBelle
Montreal
Murphy
LaBelle’s Criminal History Tied to Wisconsin Prisons
Blacklock of Kent county and Deputy Jack Wiest to Sheriff Emery J. King seek information on LaBelle. A former inmate of Wisconsin state prison at Waupun and reform school, he faced assault with intent to kill in 1933, and later killed an aged Tron River priest in 1934 before transfer to a hospital for the criminally insane in 1935.
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Tron River
LaBelle
Breach
Marquette
Tonia Hospital
Navy transports 1 720 360 soldiers to front without loss
The United States Navy carried 1 720 360 American soldiers to the World War front, reporting not a single life lost.
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United States Navy
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Soul Flight
Dorothy Lumerean
Ed Win T Motkkinen
Jaine Lanitu
Eileen Olson
Harding Julis
Babieh
Lloyd Wigman
John East
Lois Sharpless
Shirley Carlson
Moiacrot Keski
Jack Jasper Seynfeoy Keshi
Dmuus
Robert Annear
Roy Makela
Robert Trevarthen
Ann Christenson
Heikkinen In
Ramsay School
Little Jane Tregarthen
Harding Junior High
Starding Girls’ Athletic Club
Uiem
F. R. Enius
Trout Creek
Xmas Trees
O. K
Bureau of Home _ economics
Perotti
Hugh M
Hansen Lumber
Merry Christmas
Sonce
Milwaukee
Andrew Pricco
Bessemer
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