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Newspaper
Bessemer Herald
Location
Bessemer, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1934
Page
8
June brings brides graduates and roses with Flag Day celebrations. Suggestions include decorating cakes with tiny flags, flag centered table pieces, and teacher led flag drills to spark patriotism. Also includes Omelet Souffle recipe using eggs cornstarch salt pepper water and optional fruit additions for versatile salads.
Recipe fragment describes assembling pineapple nests on lettuce with celery and nuts in the center, garnished by orange sections, and served with dressing. Also includes instructions to dissolve lemon gelatin in boiling water and fold in diced pineapple and halved strawberries.
Mining notes report Amalgamated Iron, Steel and Tin Workers led by Michael F. Tighe served wage and conditions bargaining demands on over 150 steel masters with a June 10 deadline. The move follows rising pay and a shifting steel code that will establish Duluth as the basing point for prices on bars and billets, affecting local and regional steel markets.
The method will shift from all rail freight rates to actual delivered water costs. The change is expected to markedly benefit iron and steel fabricating industries in Duluth and nearby areas.
In Bessemer May 18 1934 Judge M E Nolan orders creditors to present claims by September 26 1934 at ten in the forenoon at the Probate Office. Public notice to run for three weeks in the Bessemer Herald.
A fragmentary true copy from probate records dated May 18 shows scattered dialogue about government control and small town observations. Vignettes touch on a waitress, a scout for a movie producer, and a dramatic race against death at a grade crossing, ending with an advertisement plea for Herald ads.
Gogebic county will canvass for its share of 1660 signatures on a petition to remove supreme court justices and circuit and probate judges from partisan politics. The drive is part of Michigan’s Non-Partisan Judiciary Committee effort to amend the constitution for a nonpartisan judiciary. Andrew F. Olson of Wakefield leads local solicitation with other residents. over 100,000 signatures exist nationwide and 65 counties are represented in the state's temporary committee. The aim is 523 counties in Michigan to file by July 1, so the amendment can appear on the November ballot. Supporters say the change is a measured reform benefiting judiciary selection and tenure. Local leaders expect Gogebic counts will be easy and view the proposal as popular across strata. They argue offices of judges are too important and dignified for partisan contest.
The speaker emphasizes selecting officials for experience ability and fitness rather than loyalty to a party or skill at winning intra party battles, arguing competence should guide appointment decisions over partisan considerations.
The Semmerling brothers at Besseme plan to remove Timothy from the farm and seed 28 more acres to alfalfa this spring. They will plant nurse crops Sogold oats and Wisconsin No 38 barley and inoculate alfalfa seed for dairy cow feed profitability. Damaged alfalfa fields will be plowed for planting Rural Russet potatoes next.
Bergland Highs stars earned state honors at the Class Do meet at Michigan State College in East Lansing. Boerseth led with 17 points, setting a Class D pole vault record at 11 feet 4.5 inches, plus wins in high jump and broad jump and a third in shot put. Olson of Teveland set a Class I mile mark in 4:46.2.
Dr Paul Heyl of the Bureau of Standards says the earth is lighter than earlier figures. Dr A T Todd of England advances a cancer treatment using radiation and selenium colloids. A sunspot eruption is expected after four years of poor radio reception and weather. In 1933, U S highway taxes totaled 1 170 000 000, about 11 percent of all taxes. TVA plans to use 1 000 000 to 1 500 000 tons of sand and gravel for Gen Joe Wheeler Dam. Building and loan associations financed home lending for 1 000 000 families during 1930 31 32, totaling 3 000 000 000.
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