Drive Started For Annual Scout Funds Drive
The Gitche Gumee Council of Bay Scouts launches its annual fund drive led by general chairman Irving Voyer. Solicitors cover city halls, schools, mines, logging, and local districts as the council aims for 2800 Cubs and Scouts by 1954 with projects and camp activities noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gitche Gumee Council of
Bay
Irving Voyer
George Mehilock
Victor Lepisto
Sunday Lake St
George Westland
Harry B. Sutter
James Cudahy
Us2
Jimtown
Fritz Gray
Gogebic
Orland Johnson
Fletcher Harvey
George Cretilli
M. C. Beecher
Shirley Handeland
Gitche Gumee Council Inc
St. Croix
Canada
Camp Fidelity
Superior
Lake Amnicon
Voyer
Wakefield Police Ticket 38 for Violations
Wakefield police issued thirty parking tickets for all night winter violations and ten courtesy tickets to out of town residents. The new ordinance carries a 2 dollar fine with a Traffic Violations Bureau run by the city clerk to collect fines, avoiding court costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wakefield
Matt Hill
Mr. Hill
Justice of the Peace
Navy Recruiter Visit At Ironwood Post Office Building
U S Navy recruiter will be at the Ironwood Post Office Building on Wednesday December 10 1952 from 8 am to 2 pm to discuss service opportunities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Navy
Ironwood
U. S. Navy
Olive Butler
Garnet Trudgeon
Mines Shift to Five Day Week Across Gogebic Range
Officials of Pickands Mather announce a five day work week beginning December 1 at the Sunday Lake Mine Plymouth Mine and other Gogebic holdings including New port Anvil Palms Cary Geneva and Penokee. Peterson Mine in Bessemer remains on a six day week while Oliver Mining Division property adopts the change for winter months.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pickands Mather Company
Sunday Lake
Plymouth
Wakefield
Gogebic Range
Newport
Anvil Palms
Cary
Peterson
Bessemer
Geneva
Bessemer Township
Oliver Mining Division
U. S. Steel
Penokee
The
Republic Steel Corporation
Supt
A. J. Christenson
Oliver
P-M
PTA Association Meeting in Wakefield High School
Wakefield PTA holds regular meeting on Tuesday December 9 at 7 30 p m in the high school music auditorium. President Mr William Willis presides and Rev Herbert Ingraham presents a world Christmas program. Refreshments follow in the cafeteria.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wakefield P. T. A
Wm, Willis
Herbert Ingraham
Metalsmith School Attendee at San Diego Center
Eugene Vittone, fireman USN, son of local residents, attends Metalsmith School at the U S Naval Training Center in San Diego California. Students learn to plan make and repair light and heavy metal structures and study welding brazing riveting and calking methods.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S. Naval Training Center
San Diego
California
Eugene Vittone
USN
Anton Vittone
Personal notices list students visiting family during holidays
Lawrence Bruno, Greta Bowker, James Laessig, Dorothy Wiitanen, Rita Regis, Ervin Maki, Patricia Niemi, and others are noted as students or relatives visiting or returning home for holidays or weekends. Also covered are local election recount procedures in Gogebic County and current age taxes due with early payers named.
Christmas Seal Sale Enters Third Week In Gogebic County
Christmas Seal contributions totaling 2041.65 mark the third week of the Gogebic County Tuberculosis Association drive. Chairman Arnold J. Korpi notes 84 percent of funds stay local, 26 percent go to the Michigan TB Association, and six percent to the National TB Association. He says TB remains a major preventable killer and urges continued support for an all out TB control program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gogebic County
Arnold J. Kropi
Mr. Korpi
Michigan Tuberculosis Association
National Tuberculosis Association
Public Library Hosts Story Hour Reader This Saturday
Wakefield Public Library invites children to a story hour read by Mrs Leonard Koski at 10 30 AM This community event welcomes parental encouragement Also congratulating Mr and Mrs Anton Zielinski on their fortieth wedding anniversary observed Thursday Dec 4.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leonard Koski
Wakefield Public Library
Anton Zielinski
Beber Earns Major Letter With NM College Wildcats
Ex Wakefield footballer Tom Beber Jr receives a varsity letter for NM College 1952 squad. He played left half back in an offense key to a near-perfect season for the Wildcats, who lost only one game. Beber is among eleven freshmen granted varsity letters under the grant-in-aid program led by Coach Red Money. He is the son of Mr and Mrs Celeste Beber Jr.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James C. Bedell
Wakefield
Gogebic County
Northern Michigan College
Tom
Wildcat
Cats
Beber
C. V
Celeste Beber Jr
Wakefield Cards travel to Ironwood for key showdown
Wakefield coached by Roman C Yatchak heads to Luther L Wright gym to face undefeated Ironwood Red Devils in a 8 15 p m clash with the 6 45 p m B squad opener. Wakefield seeks its first win on Ironwood soil and boosts a 2 0 start this season while Ironwood has 3 0 with wins over Iron River Negaunee and Kingsford.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ironwood
Roman C. Yatchak
Wakefield Cardinal
Ironwood Red Devils
Luther L. Wright
Wakefield
St. Ambrose
Ontonagon
Red Devils
Iron River
Negaunee
Kingsford
Yatchak
Cardinal
Devils
John Krznarich
LeRoy Goedde
Michigan
Kriss Novak
Joe Tarro
Bob Hero
Teddy Sjoblom
Donald Bugin
Donald Bugni
Novak
Tarro
Communion Rite scheduled at 9 oclock Mass Monday
The text notes Chloe will receive Holy Communion in a body at the 9 oclock Mass Monday morning with the mass offered for deceased members. A hearing is set for Sunday December 7 at 7 oclock. A regular business meeting and card game fundraiser for the hospital fund is planned in the Kol of C rooms. Mr and Mrs Allan Bodoh and daughter Mary Margaret depart for St Cloud Minnesota after visiting Bodoh parents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Doris Lake
Detroit
Andy Lake
Carol Ann Lake
Chloe
Hospital Fund Project
Allan Bodoh
Mary Margaret
St. Cloud
Minn
Mr. Bodoh
James Bodoh
Wakefield Water Project Study Delayed For Expert Meeting
Wakefield city council postpones actions on the water project pending informal talks with Lynn Miller hydrogeologist of the Geological Survey Division. Miller expected Wednesday to discuss water supply options. The council also notes studies by Jones Laughlin Steel and Layne Northwest Co. on mining and water areas, and approves a one way designation for Hancock Street on Sundays and for hospital traffic, plus payroll deductions for Hospital Expansion funding and several routine budget items.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lynn Miller
Geological Survey Division
Miller
Wakefield
Alcherman St
Hancock
North Western Railway
Brotherton St
Hospital Street
Planning Commission
Hospital News Admitted and Discharged Noted Dates
List of hospital admits and discharges with patient names, origins, and medical or surgical reasons. Entries cover Milwaukee Wakefield Ironwood Bessemer Bruce Crossing Bergland Detroit and Marenisco, with accompanying staff and family members. Dates include Nov 27 Dec 1 and Dec 2.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hospital
John Bolka
Milwaukee
Oliver DeRocher
Watersmeet
Steve Matonich
Bessemer
Wm. Thomas
Hurley
David Stevens
Wakefield
Beverley Cook
Bergland
Eino Heikkinen
Ironwood
David Laine
James Frisk
Topaz
Thomas Korpi
Jacqueline Yatchak
Detroit
Thomas Nordine
Bruce Crossing
John Gregorich
Marenisco
Henry Holman
John Cox
Santa Visit Planned by Wakefield Chamber
The Wakefield Chamber of Commerce plans a Santa Claus visit for local children on Saturday December 13. Members also acted on other important business during the meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Santa
Chamber of Commerce
Santa Claus
Wakefield
Also Mentioned on This Page
PTA Association
Lawrence Bruno
Stout Institute
Menominee
Mrs
Domenic Bruno
Greta Bowker
Wisconsin State College Superior
Carroll Bowker
James Laessig
John Ballone
Oliver Willing
Laessig
Marquette University At
Ernest Trettin
Mr. Trettin
Dorothy Wiitanen
St. Luke Hospital
Duluth
Elias’ Wiitanen
Claude Ing
St. Aul
Rita Regis
Theresa Regis
Ervin Maki
Baltimore, Md
Mr. Maki
Maki
Pearl Johnson
Paul Shorey
Champion
al Peterson
Verona
Ernest Proteau
Hancock Street
Alex Rydeski
Joseph Simon
Saxon, Wis
Herbert Benson, Stambaugh
Carl E. Nelson
Minnesota
Patricia Niemi
Northern Michigan College of Education
Marquette
Nestor Niemi
John Beling
William Mezzano
Kenneth Kilponen
William Verch
Michigan College of Mines & Technology
Houghton
Rod Laird
Ed Kes
Steve Bordano
Fred Bordano
Iron Mountain
Charles Rizzie
John Lane
Sigmund Urbanski
George Lane
Lions, Wisconsin
George
Urbanski
Swante Perkola
Willard Tikkala
Mr. Tikkala
Hilja Tikkala
U. S. Forest Service
Plumar National Forest
Quincy
Olga Willa
San Leandro
Jacob Randa
James Chapman
D. Hale Brake
Childs
George Georgie
Frank T. Perlich
Perlich
Tom. Beber
Anton Olson
Mr. Olson
Memorial Building
Edward J. Novak
Wakefield Inn
Michigan State Liquor Control Commission
American Cast Iron Pipe Company
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