Bessemer Presses for Upper Peninsula Veterans Hospital Site
City council of Bessemer adopts a resolution urging the Veterans Administration to locate a proposed veterans hospital in the city. The measure praises Bessemer’s location, water and sewer systems, power supply, and access to workers, and offers sites including East End Addition Massie Field and Cavosi’s farm. The resolution calls for city aid, site donation, and cooperation with VA if chosen.
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Bessemer
Veterans’ Administration
Veterans’ Hospital
Upper Peninsula
Veterans Administration
Epsites
Law Warren
H Feo
Ee Lea
Upper Penn
Michigan
East End
Massie
Northwestern Railroad
Hoffner Cited for Leading District VFW Auxiliaries
Mrs. Frank Hoffner of this city led the 10th District VFW Auxiliaries in securing 59 new members at the Marquette rally. The district has 144 units. local unit membership rose from 52 in May 1944 to 144 a year later. The event included a 1:30 pm rally, 5 pm banquet at St John’s church parlors with Rep. Frank Hook among speakers, and an evening entertainment at the Odd Fellows hall featuring a rock wedding. Delegates from Bessemer included Magdalene Keenan and others. five were delegates, rest alternates.
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Frank Hoffner
VFW
Elva Robarge
Marquette
Hoffner
Tron Mountain
10Th District
St John’s Catholic Church
Rank Hook
Cpl Maccani Awarded Infantryman Badge
Cpl Isadore W Maccani son of Mr and Mrs Joseph Maccani of West Lead Street was awarded the Combat Infantryman Badge on April 18 for satisfactory performance of duty in the ground combat against the enemy with the 341st Infantry.
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Isadore
Maccani
Joseph. Maccani
West Lead Street
Baccalaureate Exercises for A D Johnston High
The graduating class of A D Johnston High holds baccalaureate services Sunday night June 3 at the high school gym. The program features processional Holy Holy Holy, invocation by Rev. Clifford Nadeau, hymns, prayers for peace, sermon Faith by Rev. Nadeau, and recessional Pilgrim's Chorus.
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A. D. Johnston High School
Clifford Nadeau
Johnson
Franck
Nadeau
Rev
Pilgrim’s Chorus
Migrant worker Mr Wydetic’s varied career across continents
Mr Wydetic born July 21 1890 in Slovnec Austria later part of Yugoslavia. He left school at 14 and sold religious objects before coming to America in 1907. He worked on railways in Wisconsin mines in Nevada and California before joining smelter construction in Utah. He held rivet iron worker and boiler maker roles across several states then settled as a lineman with Gogebic Electric in Bessemer for 15 years. Continued on page 8.
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Wydetei
Ed Costello
Bessemer
America
Costello
Andreas Baksic
Wyceth
Nick Glatczak
Ironton
Mr. Webb
Webb
Colby
Mr. Wydeth
Toole
Utah
Wydethc
Chicago
California
Wydetic
Hico
Nev
Western Pacific Railway
Wycheth
Kansas City
Kansas
Swift and Co
Juneau
Wis
Peters Furniture People
Fond du Lac
Tel, & Teleg
Minneapolis
Wydeth
Sheboygan
the Light and Railway Co
Louis Tekla
Miami
Arizona
James Kevern
Lake Superior District Power Company
Gogebic Elec
Michigan Bell plans postwar rural service expansion
Lansing May 30 The Michigan Bell Telephone Company announced plans for a 7 500 000 rural program to improve farmer service and extend its scope. The effort will create jobs for 3 000 employees in the armed forces and others, expanding a rural program begun earlier. The plan notes two thirds of rural Michigan Bell territory homes lie along pole lines and about half have service, with 75 percent along lines or near enough to serve without extra charges. It describes new construction methods including long span steel wire, rubber covered wire buried by a plow, and potential small dial switches near farm groups to improve direct farmer communication. Research with Rural Electrification Administration and private power companies on power line carrier and microwave radiotelephone systems could extend service, while radiotelephone bridges already connect storm gaps.
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Lansing
Michigan Bell Telephone Company
Theocore H. Dawson
Michigan Agricultural
Dawson
Michigan Bell
Rural Electrification Administration
Bell Telephone Laboratories
VFW Auxiliary Marks Fifth Anniversary Celebration
The VFW Auxiliary observes its fifth anniversary with a party at the Veterans Memorial building on Saturday June 2. Ironwood VFW members and auxiliary members will join in this event with guests. A pot luck lunch will be served plus music and dancing. Music chairman is Mrs. Frank Hoffner. lunch servers include Mrs. Elsié Slomkowski, Mrs. Pearl Cebolski, Mrs. Margaret Erickson, Mrs. Pucilowski, Mrs. Evelyn Mesich, and Mrs. Anna Eastman.
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Veterans of Foreign Wars
Veterans’ Memorial
Veterans of Foreign Wars Post
Auxiliary of Ironwood
Ironwood
Frank Hoffner
Elsié Slomkowski
Pearl Cebolski
Margaret Erickson
Pucilowski
Evelyn Mesich
Anna Eastman
Poppy Sale Declared a Successful Community Drive
The annual poppy sale was a great success, with Miss Helen Johnston in charge for the Legion Auxiliary and Mrs. Frank Hoffner heading the poppy committee for the VFW Auxiliary.
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VFW Auxiliary
The
Legion Auxiliary
Helen Johnston
Frank Hoffner
VFW
Detroit Port Huron Lakes Area Ship to Shore Service
Dawson said the company will continue converting remaining magneto phones to dial or common battery service and reduce the number of parties on the line where excessive.
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Detroit
Port Huron Lakes
Dawson
One Candidate Files For School Board
Only Mamie Rice runs for the city board of education in the June 11 election. Her term ends this year and her name appears on the ballot. City voters not registered may register at the high school from 9:30 a. m. to 4:00 p. m. A general registration occurs Saturday June 2 in all city precincts.
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Iled
City Board of Education
Mamie Rice
Senior Play Witnessed By Two Audiences
Footloose the three act comedy about teen life was produced by the Senior class on Monday for students and Tuesday for adults. Cast included Clifford Ponchaud Margery Skwor Joyce Cre ger Lawrence Martin and others under Mrs Winifred Opsrande with assistants Annha Skagen Margaret Gamache and crew across stage, props, costumes and makeup.
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Clifford Ponchaud
Margery Skwor
Joyce Creger
Lawrence Martin
Dornthie Turpeinen
Cleepha Krocker
Natalie Mattson
Jack Erickson
Dolores Flippini
Rudolph Lucas
Betty Lou Keenan
Kenneth Alien
Robert Happ
Kenneth Kuivinen
Winifred Opsrande
Annha Skagen
Margaret Gamache
James Lucas
Kathleen Turner
Elsie Hagman
Milton Jakola
Theodre Krakovec
Gene Morici
Mary Ann Repirski
Robert Stevens
Mark Vukovich
Henrietta Bornholdt
Marion Gamechke
Frances Mladenoff
Mae LaChapellé
Arley Mae Chouinard
Eunice Pyykeola
LaVerne Mussatti
Carolyn Lesky
Betty
Betty Carlson
Betty Ann Gustafson
Mary Helen Kaseno
Louise Kiomento
LaVerne Xlussatti
Marion Rigotti
Paper collection to be made Monday
A scrap paper drive will occur Monday June 4 under sponsorship of the Dereas Chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star. Citizens are urged to gather available scrap and place it at the curb for curbside pickup by designated trucks.
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Dereas
Order of the Eastern Star
Bessemer High School 73 Seniors Set for June 8 Commencement
Seventy three seniors from Bessemer High will receive diplomas at the annual commencement, June 8, in the A. D. Johnston gym. Valedictorian John Kallander Jr. and salutatorian Cleopha Kracker will be honored. University of Wisconsin extension dean L. H. Adolfson will give the address. Diplomas presented by Dr. R. J. Mullen.
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Bessemer High School
A. D. Johnston
John Kailander
Cleopha Krocker
L. H. Adolfson
Univesity of Wisconsin
P. B. Shlaist
R. J. Mullen
Board of Education
Kenneth M. Allen
William Edward Autio
Donald Backlund
Henrietta Bornholdt
Betty Bretall
Nina Brydges
Donald Bugni
Marcellino Calabro
Charleen Cebolski
Rose Marie Cerne
Susan Hunt
Bruno Ippolite
Milton Jakola
Ernest Johnson
Kathleen Johnson
Kenneth Karember
John Kallander
Elizabeth Keenan
Rudolph Kelto
Theodore Krakovec
Cleopha Kracker
Kenneth Kuivinen
Mae LaChapelle
Caroline Lesky
Frank Lesky
James J. Lucas
Rudolph Lucas
Kathryn Martin
Lawrence Martin
Mildred Matonich
Natalie Mattson
Frances Mladenoff
Gene
Sgt Harry Adams Wounded On Iwo Jima
Sgt Harry Adams was wounded in action on Iwo Jima and is recovering at a rest camp in the South Pacific. He has been promoted from corporal to sergeant, and readers are urged to buy war bonds and hold them.
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Harry Adams
Iwo Jima
South Pacific
Adams
Eye Witness Account of German Prison Camp At O HRDRAF
Master Sergeant Woodward Gray describes a visit to the former German SS run camp at Ohrdruf. He details corpses with bullet holes, emaciation, and mass execution tactics followed by scenes of corpses loaded for cremation. He notes a brutal sleeping quarter and a torture rack. An SS guard killed by Russians is also mentioned.
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Gray
Cerman Prison
Woodward Gray
Ohrdraf
States
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U. P. Veterans’ Hospital
Rallly
Cpl. Maccani
Peter Wydetic
Mr. Wydetic
Slovnec
Austria
Jugo Slavia
Germany
United Nations
R.A.F. “Dakota
Brussels
American Legion Auxil
Fuolph Kelto
ROTC
American Legion
Eagles Lodge
VFW Post
Chicago Tribune
Donald Nylund
Robert Hellman
Larry Kallander
Richard Hansen
Sgt
Ohrdruf
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