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Newspaper
Bessemer Herald
Location
Bessemer, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1934
Page
1
An opinion alters voter qualifications for the 15 mill tax limitation issue. Only taxpayers may vote on the measure. The district seeks to escape the tax limit to prevent a 50 percent local revenue loss, plus prior cuts, which would jeopardize a minimum program for Bessemer pupils. Taxpayers are urged to vote Yes on June 1 to maintain essential services.
Sault Ste. Marie in the eastern U P league, the Northern Michigan Baseball league has organized and started its season. The Sec team aims for the championship with Lefty Kimball, ex college star, as ground man. Taffy Abel, defense star of the world champion Chicago Black Hawks, is the first baseman.
Rhinelander-Herman Walser, known as El gin and DL, captain of Illinois 1988 grid team, is named director of physical education and football and basketball coach at the local high school. He will graduate in June with a physical education degree.
Conway Peters resigns as head of the music department at Northern State Teachers College to join Albion College in Albion Michigan. He will start September first and direct the band and orchestra and head the violin department at Albion.
A newly developed vaccine stops psittacosis in parrots and related birds. It shows promise in preventing the disease in poultry and handlers, reducing risk of transmission to humans in areas with large bird populations. Further trials planned to confirm efficacy and safety.
Three deaths occurred in Gogebic county over the weekend. Arthur Jarvinen age eight and Clemens Ingala age nineteen drowned while swimming in an old gravel pit in Wakefield after cramps slowed them. Five year old Mary Pusakinch of Ramsay died Sunday afternoon when her clothing caught fire while playing with matches.
Hurley hosts the Eleventh District American Legion and Auxiliary spring conference on Saturday and Sunday June 2 and 3 with a joint program at the Memorial building. Festivities include a monster parade with ten bands and drum corps, a memorial service, a 12:30 banquet, and plenty of exhibitions. Local and visiting units, including groups from Superior Ashland Rhinelander and Chisholm Minnesota, will participate.
The Order of Runeberg sponsors a three act comedy The Wild Oats Boy to be staged in the Swede Finn hall Sunday evening June 3. The piece was recently presented at Harding school by South Bessemer residents. Lunch will be served and dancing will follow.
After completing its season's log cutting the Underwood Veneer saw mill in Bessemer closed on Tuesday for an indefinite period. The mill operated a little over four months since starting the season's cut on January 15. About 75 men were laid off.
Four candidates contest two school board seats in the June 11 election. Incumbents Dr Kulascewicz and Charles Lutz seek reelection. Frank Abelman and Peter Wyceth also run. The filing covers both three and four year terms. classification of Bessemer may affect term length. Registration closes June 2 with boards at the high school and two city schools from 3 to 8 pm.
Judge G O Driscoll hands down an opinion on Mrs Honora Byrne’s election to the school board. Prosecuting Attorney William F Petlow plans to appeal to the supreme court. The case centers on whether the district is third class and whether Byrne was elected for a four year term in June 1922.
The Department of State prepares a manual for local election officials reflecting 198% legislative changes. Voters may transfer primary or election day registration between precincts in the same city or township regardless of ward residence. Three man boards limit two from one party. larger boards limit 50 percent same party.
The Bes semer high school ROTC held its annual inspection Tuesday morning at the athletic field. Major EB Carr of Chicago served as inspecting officer as 82 cadets marched in review. Already 105 boys have signed up for ROTC next fall and the corps will add two uniforms, a khaki serge dress uniform and the current khaki dress.
Mrs. Marie Annala, formerly Mrs. Matt Reini, died Monday in Ely Minnesota. She lived years on a farm in South Bessemer. The body was shipped home yesterday for a funeral Saturday at the Finnish church with Rev. Jacob Hirvi officiating. Interment will be in Hillrest cemetery. She is survived by her husband and two daughters.
Baccalaureate services for the 1944 graduating class at Bessemer High will be held Sunday evening in the gym at 7 39. The program includes processional invocation anthem sermon Life s Chariot Wheels hymn benediction recessional. Final exams are underway and commencement exercises follow next Friday in the gym with Rev Axel Pearson of Moline as speaker who will also address Wakefield and Ironwood ceremonies.
Commencement exercises were held last evening at the Puritan school for 70 Bessemer township junior high graduates. Anvil 14, Harding S 21, Puritan 27. Rev. Fo HH Sullivan gave the address on Dams and Reservoirs. Supt. Lo Ho Dibboln presented certificates to graduates from Anvil, Harding, Puritan, Ramsay and other schools, listing named students such as Mat. Stemprhar, Petr Perpich, Evelyn Massi, Elizabeth Versecky, Toivo Thompson, Ingrid Bergman, Fern Roberts, and Richard Banfield among many others.
Lansing reports from the Emergency Welfare Relief Commission show that by June end about 1.86 million will have been spent in Michigan on direct and work relief since January. Peak aid was in April with 146,184 on the rolls, dropping to an estimated 133,000 in June. Single persons aided peaked at 22,030 in March and are expected to fall to 17,000. Transient cases remain about 5,000 monthly. Supplementary ERA aid reached 139,745 in May after 74,256 in April. Also notes Marconi predicting an abundant future for radio with microwaves, and Puerto Rico relying mainly on charcoal as fuel.
James Scholar of Ramsay dies at home after heart ailment. 63, born in Czechoslovakia, immigrated to the U S settling in Texas then Bessemer before Ramsay. Survived by wife Barbara, four daughters and three sons. funeral at St Mary’s Wakefield. Burial Hillcrest cemetery. Relatives attend from Newberry Lansing and Wausau.
The death of Mrs Samuel Esabio, formerly of Ramsay, was announced by relatives. She died at her Caspian home yesterday morning after a short illness. Mrs Esubio and her husband owned the Ramsay Theatre before moving eight years ago. Survived by two daughters Ethel and Pearl and three sons Jack William and Harold, all of Caspian. Funeral services will be held in Caspian at 2:38 p.m. Sunday.
Memorial Day was observed in Bessemer on Wednesday with splendid weather. The American Legion organized the exercises as planned. A parade featured 75 CCC marchers led by the detachment. Capt Volney W Wort man, commander of the SHCCC district, delivered the address at the cemetery.
The May term of Gogebic county circuit court will resume next Monday with Judge Frank L. Covert of Patch presiding. He relieves Judge G O Driscoll who has been in ill health. Nearly 33 percent of the national income last year was absorbed by the government.
Lansing officials announce the upcoming state political rally at Riverside Park in Grand Ledge to back Frank D. Fitzgerald for the Republican gubernatorial nomination. Motor cavalcades from across Michigan will precede talks by Fitzgerald and former governors Osborn and Green, with Rushton and Gray presiding, and a noon ox roast and barbecue to start the event.
Superintendent J. E. Webster acquires tax-title lands for Watersmeet Board of Education for a school forest in Section 25 near Grass Lake and Watersmeet Township. Plans call for planting about 5,000 pine seedlings next fall.
The state department of public instruction reports 1,853 crippled children 182 percent blind and partially sighted 615 hard of hearing and deaf students to receive special instruction this school year as it closes.
The state administrative board approved establishing three penal farms for rehabilitation of young first offenders. One will serve as an adjunct to the branch prison in the upper peninsula. the other two will be linked to the Ionia reformatory. W Alfred Debo parole commissioner will study possible sites.
Caesar J. Scavarda, son of Mr and Mrs Joseph Scavarda, is named a supervisory officer with the state police radio staff in Lansing. A former state police captain, he previously served as Flint chief of police and will move his family to Lansing. The report also notes a 30,000 year old lion tooth pipe found in Czechoslovakia and early Himalayan Stone Age discoveries, plus President Roosevelt being legally required to pay income tax on his $75,000 salary.
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