Deer season tales and town updates from Wakefield
Several hunting stories mark the season including I L Voyer's miss and Gordon Connor’s deer and a wolf catch. Rotary debate on one deer season and bear season timing is aired. John Mezzano helps capture a juvenile suspect linked to a mutilation case. News of Hurley fire viewing via Milwaukee TV and Wakefield blood donor surge follow.
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Wakefield
Bucks
I. L. Voyer
Connor Company
Presque Isle
Irv
Gordon Connor
Peter Yea
Minneapolis
Rotary Club
J. P. Cloon
Conservation Commission
Milwaukee
Hurley
Michigan approves colored oleo legality and amendments
Michigan voters certified the repeal of the oleo ban with 1 090 000 in favor and 562 034 opposed. New law takes effect Dec 7 along with three constitutional amendments, including a 65 million dollar hospital bond and election law updates. Minor parties fail to meet ballot threshold and will be dropped unless re petitioned before the next general election.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Michigan
State Board of Canvassers
Board of Canvassers
Prohibition
Progressive
Socialist Labor
Socialist Workers Parties
Forest Fires Record Best in History
Fire Technician John Anquilm of the Department of Conservation reports the 1950 forest fire season in Michigan's Upper Peninsula ended with snowfall. 203 fires burned 532.43 acres, the smallest season in years due to ideal weather and strong public awareness aided by newspapers and radio.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Anquilm
Department of Conservation
Marquette
Upper Peninsula
Michigan Conservation Department
Michigan Woods
Perry Mason Daily Detroit Times comic feature
The piece promotes a seven day Perry Mason comic strip by Erle Stanley Gardner in PUCK and the Detroit Sunday Times starting this Sunday December 3, highlighting a weekly detective thrill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Perry Mason
Detroit Times
Erle Stanley Gardner
PUCK
Comic Weekly
Detroit Sunday Times
Austria’s economy and borders snag smugglers on postwar scene
A travel essay on Austria describes cheap beer and milk prices, inflation, and wage levels, then shifts to border controls and a large smuggling ring broken by French authorities. It notes wartime casualties among Austrian males born in 1924 and surveys tuberculosis risks, followed by local civic notices and weddings in Wakefield.
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Austria
International Exchange
Switzerland
Wonderworld
Germany
Africa
Europe
Russia
Edwards and McNamara announce marriage in Virginia
Announcements report the engagement and forthcoming marriage of Ruth Elizabeth Edwards, daughter of Mr and Mrs John A Edwards of Alexandria Virginia, to Jerry T McNamara son of the late W H McNamara of Wakefield and Washington, with connections to the Misses.
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Mae
Kathryn McNamara
Wakefeild
A. J. Wagner
Ironwood
Shrine of the Blessed Sacrament
Washington, D. C
G. Gorman
Wakefield
Washington High School
Navy
Navy Reserve
Washington University
Washington D. C
Washington
Ruth Elizabeth Edwards
John A. Edwards
Alexandria
Virginia
Jerry T. McNamara
W. H. McNamara
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PM Magazine
Penguin
Equator
North Pole
South Pole
Byrd
John Mezzano
Jonesville
John Rodney McRae
University of Michigan Neuropsychiatric Institute
Ann Arbor
Joey Housey
Detroit
Roddy
Lower Michigan
Indiana
Mezzano
Joseph Mezzano
Park Falls
Eagle River
Wis
Wakefield Hospital
Mexico City
Linz
William B. Dillingham
The
Tuberculosis League
Legion Club
Memorial Building
J. H. Kent
William Jacobson
Remondino-Anderson
Shirley Ann Anderson
Anthony Louis Remondino
Michael Hale
St. Mary’s Church
Edwin J. Anderson
Hook Street
Edward Luoma
Ramsay
Louis Remondino
South Street
Ann Trian
Stanley Radowski
Luoma
Wakefield Community
Milda Bristol
John Brottlund
Miriam Bristol
Adele Romstad
Luther L. Wright High School
Gogebic National Bank
Wakefield High School
U.S. Navy
Gogebic Junior College
Michigan College of Mining and Technology
Houghton
United States Rubber Company
Woodcrest
F. J. Remondino
Mary Katherine
Frances
Matt Hill
State Safety Commission
Hill
Wakefield District
Vicar
Plymouth
Ashland
Kansas
McNamara-Edwards
Johnson Coal CO
First National Bank of Wakefield
Ing saturDi Wa
Chevrolet
Hanson Bros
Sunday Lake Street
Wakefield, Michigan
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