13 Feb 1964
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Newspaper
Bessemer Herald
Location
Bessemer, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Feb 13, 1964
Page
1
The Herald Publishing in Bessemer Michigan announces weekly publication and provides subscription rates. It lists mail handling as second class matter since May 26 1900 and specifies yearly costs three fifty outside Gogebic County and three dollars within Gogebic County.
The 1964-65 ski season should bring visitors to Bessemer with the new Big Powderhorn area nearby and Indianhead Mountain four miles east. Local hotels fill Ironwood, but Bessemer housing remains underused, prompting calls for organized advertising to attract skiers.
Speed Boys travel to Stambaugh for non conference game Friday. Bessemer High School ski program urged to revive with $200 donation to support skiing for next season in the M W conference. Nine retarded children enjoy a sleigh ride at Pollari farm aided by a kind donor. Numerous obituaries and local civic notes detail deaths births and public notices across Bessemer Ironwood and Wakefield. Local elections and tax reminders mark the civic calendar alongside school staffing changes and a jail escape arrest in Canada.
Historical records show no winless season for the Bessemer Speed Boys, though 0-11 marks this year prompt fans to ask if a team has ever finished a season without a victory. The note, attributed to Wichita sixth graders, contrasts with poems on fatherhood and motherhood and a courtroom quip about domestic life.
Four years after formation a local corporation of Bessemer Italian lodges completed purchase of the Byrne lot at the Case and Sellar streets corner. A two story brick lodge and business structure is planned for the site with construction to start soon, continued on page 3.
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