Diversion of Highway Funds Criticized by Official
Lansing report notes a nationwide push to keep highway funds separate from general public moneys. Commissioner Murray D. Van Wagoner urges uniform laws to end misapplication and fund mixing, calling for expenditure based on use and taxpayer class.
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Lansing
Murray D. van Wagoner
American Road Builders’ Association
Washington
van Wagoner
Association
National Gas Tax Diversion Committee
Bessemer Township School News and probate order
Ninety one ninth graders from Ram say, Anvil, Puritan and Harding schools receive certificates of promotion to Bessemer High. The same issue includes a Gogebic County Probate Court order setting September 29, 1937 as the deadline to file claims against the estate of Frank Stempi, with publication to run in the Bessemer Herald.
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Ramsay, Anvil
Puritan
Harding
Bessemer High School
John Aho
Robert Ahnen
Ruth Annear
Doris Ahola
Margaret Anderson
Arnold Bayer
Ruth Brydges
James Bachand
Glen Bradley
Dorothy Bushie
Bessemer
M. E. Nolan
Frank Stempihas
Bessemer Herald
Said
Gogebic County
Michigan
Gogebic
Marriages and Divorces Rise Sharply in Michigan
Michigan vital statistics released by the state health department show a 1936 marriage total of 47,023, a peak not seen since 1920s, with divorces at 11,419 the highest since 1929. Births rebounded to 88,457 after a depression-era low, death totals at 54,777, and the population estimated at 5,080,000. The report notes prosperity boosts both marriages and divorces, with significant reliance on eight million records dating to 1867.
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Lansing
Dan Cupid
Michigan
Michigan Department of Health
Massachusetts
Conservation Heads In State Re-elected
Lansing administrative heads of Michigan's conservation program were re-elected by the state conservation commission at its May meeting. William G. Loutit of Grand Haven was re-elected chairman and Wayland Osgood was re-elected secretary. The commission also re-appointed P. J. Hoffmaster as director of the department of conservation.
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Lansing
Michigan
State Conservation Commission
William G. Loutit
Grand Haven
Wayland Osgood
Commission
P. J. Hoffmaster
Department of Conser
New Office Building by Pickands Mather & Co at Hibbing
Pickands Mather & Co begins construction of a new district office building in Hibbing Minnesota. The current office site lies on the proposed extension of the Scranton mine open pit. Michigan legislature passes occupational disease compensation law.
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Pickands, Mather & Co
Hibbing
Minn
Scranton Mine
Michigan
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Archibald Chapman
Lena Colla
Charles Ceronsky
Eugene Cocco
Mary Dellich
Shirley Dahlgren
Emma Dianich
Eugene Eliason
Ruth Erickson
Vincent Epposite
Claire Frederick
Corrine Forte
Arlene Gustafson
Lorraine Guiliani
Lorraine Gustafson
Laverne Hocking
Kathleen Jarvi
Agnes Johnson
Donald Johnson
Agnes Jacobson
Bessie Jasper
Bernice Johnson
Mamie Julio
Ann Kavechan
Irma Koivu
Oscar Korpi
Elmer Koski
Toivo Kyrola
George Kevern
Violet Koivunen
Ernest Koskela
Edward Kulik
Elaine Lillrose
Betty Liljegren
Mike Lampart
Dorothy Maki
Viola Mattila
George Mattson
Mae Matera
John Mattson
Elsie Mikko
Nito Napo
Eleanor Nelson
Geraldine Niska
John Nelson
Donald Newman
Delores Nyman
Eila Ollikainen
Mildred Parent
Leone Pinter
Eva Patnick
Irene Parobek
State OF Michigan
W. B. Fauhl
Nation
Harold Titus
Traverse City
Tom Masterson
Iron Mountain
Titus
Philip K. Fletcher
Alpena
Masterson
M. J. Fox
Patronize Herald Advertisers
Township
Ified
Boards of Registration
Ramsay School
Puritan School
A. D
Nesto Erickson
Ramsay
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Walter E. Kuusisto
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