Michigan Legislature Faces Tax and Reform Bills
A Michigan legislature session stretched with many bills introduced and few resolved. Debates over sales tax exemptions touch food, manufacturing inputs, and religious and educational groups while House and Senate consider bar integration, breach of promise laws, and state funding. A crowded chamber and packed galleries reflect high stakes as votes loom on key measures.
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Senate Taxation Committee
Cestedian
Senate State Affairs Committee
Michigan Public Trust Commission
Senate Committee On Educaee
State Bar
House
Senate
Bers
Second
Saginaw Valley
Michigan
Keyworth Clarifies Stand On State Aid For Schools
Dr M R Keyworth new state superintendent clarifies position on aid for schools. He backs minimum 68 million dollars in state funding, notes delinquent taxes cannot fully cover costs, and supports tuition payments for rural pupils to high school. He urges use of primary fund and direct levy, stressing relief from property tax.
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M. R. Keyworth
Stanley R. Williams
Leslie A. Committee
Michigan Education Association
Soinhd
Dr. Butler
Keyworth
St Marys Club Alters Women Night Schedule
The St Marys Club shifts Women Night to Tuesday May 7 from April 30. April 30 bingo pees are planned in club rooms with roone and ziggity games plus five hundred and bridge. Attendance at Monday night events grows, prompting continued bi monthly parties. plans for the next event and final details will follow. Open bids Monday for angel improvements to the Junior High School building. plans by architect N A Albert Nelson. formal notice published.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Marys Club
St. M Club
Roone
N A Albert Nelson
Local Easter News Items From Ames Maywood and Relatives
Ames Maywood and Miss Margaret Clark spend Easter recess with relatives at Lake Linden. Several residents, including Miss Janet Cavender and Miss Velma Luoma, visit family while others travel to Chicago Duluth and Appleton for holidays. Notable moves include John Eliason’s recovery from throat surgery and James Cummings’s transfer to L Anse highway office.
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Ames Maywood
Margaret Clark
Lake Linden
Margaret Ronan
Marie Ronan
Janet Cavender
Villa Scholastica
Duluth
Arthur Cavender
Lawrence Bawden
Chicago
Carl Mussels
Birch Lake
Wis
Velma Luoma
Luomi College
Hancock
Waino Luoma
E. R. Hillis
Jefferson , Mo
Celcil Petrie
Fred Lansgford
Iron Mountain
Harlan Johnson
Whitewater
Peter Trezise
Appleton
A. F. Olson
Margaret
St. Olaf’s College
Northfield
Minn
John Eliason
Ashland
James Cummings
L.anse
Cummings
Mohawk
L’anse
W. A. Rose
Howard Prescott
Pickands, Mather & Co
Cleveland
N. P. Chinn
JOOF Lodges To Attend Church Services Sunday
Members of the JOOF and the daughters of Rebekah lodges will attend Union church services Sunday at 5:00 PM. Rev H C Cooley will deliver the sermon. Special music includes a violin solo by Mrs Kenneth Duncan and an instrumental duet by Rolland Mniece and Robert Duncan. Public invited. Next week services will be Sunday at 9:30 AM with a member reception and baptism.
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Joof and Daughters of Rebekah
Union
H. C. Cooley
Kenneth Duncan
Rolland Mniece
Robert Duncan
County Board Meeting Forms Election of Chair
The county board of supervisors will hold its organization meeting Monday in Bessemer. A chairman will be elected. Pat Kelly of Watersmeet seeks re election with H M Wick of Ironwood as the main opponent though some fear a dark horse may be proposed at the meeting.
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County Board of Supervisors
Bessemer
Pat Kelly
Watersmeet
H. M. Wick
Ironwood
Kelly
Northern Woods Market Sees Slow Demand In Lumber Trade
Wholesale demand for Wisconsin and Michigan lumber remains spotty in the Chicago district as mills respond to heavy early year buying. January showed a 20 percent rise in cut and 42 percent more hardwoods moved. softwood and hardwood prices stay stable while spring trade opens.
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Wisconsin
Michigan
Chicago
Buat
John M. Bush
Negaunee
Northern Manufacturers’ Association
Immanuel Lutheran Church Sunrise Service and Cantata
Immanuel Lutheran Church holds a sunrise service at 6 30 a m with special choir music and sermon Upon the Cross I Build My Hope The Sunday school meets at 9 30 o clock The choir performs the cantata Jesus Lives at 8 p m Public invited Choir rehearsal Wednesday and Men's club Friday evening
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Immanuel Lutheran Church
Jesus
One-Sixth Of Entire Population On Relief Rolls On March 1
About one-sixth of the U S population was on relief in March per FERA reports. 22,375,000 dependents received aid, with relief expenditures totaling 3.27 billion dollars for 1933 and 1934. Heavily urban, most dependents were industrial workers and their families, including 3.485 million workers aged 16 to 65.
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United States
Federal Emergency Relief Administration
FERA
13 Year Old Boy Struck By Automobile in Storm
Theodore Valle aged 13 sustained a fracture of the left leg above the knee when hit by a car on Castile mine road Monday afternoon. Victor Wuorinen, driver, said he could not see clearly due to a violent wind and snow storm. The boy was taken to Wakefield General hospital and remains a patient. Police described the accident as unavoidable. The youth, son of Mr and Mrs Isaac Vali, is in the seventh grade.
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Theodore Valle
Castile Mine
Victor Wuorinen
Wakefield General Hospital
Wuorinen
Isaac Vali
Immanuel Lutheran Choir Presents Jesus Lives Cantata
The Immanuel Lutheran Church choir will perform the cantata Jesus Lives by Charles H. Gabriel at 8 p m Easter Sunday. Public invited. Directed by Harry Jacobson with Mable Collins as accompanist. The choir includes Sopranos Mrs Paul Thompson Mrs J Stelnak Mrs Harry Jacobson Mrs R E Byquist Altos Miss Clara Johnson Mrs J Elmer Hanson Miss Alfie Windberg Tenors Harry Jacobson Mr Albin Erickson Mr Chester Jacobson Basses William Jacobson Mr Clarence Jacobson Mr J Elmer Hanson.
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Immanuel Lutheran Church
Charles H. Gabriel
Harry Jacobson
Mable Collins
Paul Thompson
J. Stelnak
Arthur Johnson
R. E. Byquist
Clara Johnson
J. Elmer Hanson
Alfie Windberg
Albin Erickson
Chester Jacobson
William Jacobson
Clarence Jacobson
Boy Scouts Reorganize Under New Leadership
A troop of 22 Boy Scouts has been organized with Joseph Gouza as scoutmaster under the direction of Commissioners R. B. Wortley and J. A. Frederickson. Members will begin tests to qualify for various Boy Scout ranks, with a very active summer program planned.
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Boy Scouts
Joseph Gouza
R. B. Wortley
J. A. Frederickson
Relief Lift Stirs U P Solon To Ire
Michigan congressman denounces relief administration probes in the upper peninsula. John McEwen from the Washington office leads inquiries, while Representative Hook accuses officials of politicking with relief funds and criticizes prearranged introductions to county administrators. He vows a full investigation, aiming to clarify conduct and access to complainants.
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Upper Michigan
House of Representatives
Frank E. Hook
Michigan
John McEwen
Washington
Hook
Walter M. Barry
Upper Peninsula
FERA
McEwen
Joseph M
United States
Grand Rapids
Poyr Hopkins
Inland Lake Fishing Closes Tuesday in Michigan
Inland lakes in Michigan except designated pike lakes close to general fishing on Tuesday, April 30, and stay closed until the lake fishing season resumes June 25. About 200 pike lakes stay open year round for certain species. Trout lakes reopen Mar 1, with pike and trout allowed per species list. bluegills, sunfish, and other bass close April 30 and reopen June 25 with black bass season.
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Michigan
Director of Conservation
Rotary Club Guests Of Connor Co At Connorville Mill
Wakefield Rotary club members will visit R Connor Co at Connorville next Thursday noon. They meet at the camp at 11:30 for dinner, then tour the new mill led by Gordon Connor. Notify the committee by Tuesday if bringing guests. Mill operations began this week with the first log run Monday and 17 000 feet per shift by Wednesday.
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Joe
JOOF
Northern Woods
Isconsin
E. W. Tinker
Milwaukee
Tinker
National Forest Preservation Commission
United States Forest Service
U.P. Solon
F. E. Hook
Medinah Club
Deluth
Messaba Range
Gogebic Range
Ferninand Remeondino
Earl Jacob
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