Blood Clinic Scheduled in Gogebic County July 9 12
The second annual blood donation clinic will be held in Gogebic County from July 9 through 12. Donors aged 18 to 50, weighing at least 115 pounds, with normal blood pressure and no malaria or tuberculosis history, may register via the Red Cross for an appointment card. Blood will be shipped to the Lansing state laboratories for plasma processing and potential supply, with no discrimination by race.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gogebic County
J. H. Rangery
Ironwood
Red Cross
Lansing
Lawmakers name Mezzano to interim conservation committee
Legislative member Louis Mezzano of Gogebic and Ontonagon counties was named to an interim committee to collect facts and information and to recommend legislation on conservation. Fred Johnson of Milwaukee is visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Herman Johnson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louis Mezzano
Gogebic
Ontonagon
Fred Johnson
Milwaukee
Mrs
Herman Johnson
Local Happenings Highlight Wartime Travel and Visits
Oreste Bruno heads to Eau Claire Wisconsin for work while many locals travel and visit relatives in Duluth Detroit Chicago Milwaukee and other cities. Soldiers and veterans including Pvt Carl Salmi Lt Ernest LeRoux Sgt John Anderson and Cpl Lawrence Bawden visit homes and relax on furloughs amid postwar family reunions and summer plans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Teressa Ricca
Solvang
Cal
James Negro
James Olson
Detroit
Frank Ribich
Beach
George
Carl Salmi
Fort Lewis
Wash
Elmer
Lavinia
Beverly Salt
Sed Claire
Wis
James O. Johns
Sire
John Haanpaa
George Steinmetz
Mark
Indianapolis
Sela
Capt
Steinnets
Metz
American Red Cross
New Guinea
Washington
Myrtle Ross
Stoughton
Elwood Sanders
Marie Wedenoja
Mary Wedenoja
George Zinglar
Ammicpo
Jeanette Wertanen
Danny
Key West
Fla
Gagne
Verne Roberge
Ernest B. LeRoux
Ernest Benoit
Estancia
N. M
Lt. LeRoux
Hawaiian Islands
Air Corps
LeRoux
Elizabeth Constance
Inez Thomas
Ind
T-5
Lloyd Johnson
Herman’ Johnson
Frank Skolasinski
Chicago
John T. Anderson
Baa Anderson
South Pacific
Oliver Wedenoja
Fort Snelling
Minn
Onni Somppi
Virginia
Somppi
Ida Rintamaki
Misa Mayme Ferratto
Watersmeet
Ed Foster
Joan Maki
Victor Maki
Oscar Fournier
Milwaukee
Wilbert -Ruona
Mias Tyyni Nikula
Ted Niemi
Teddy
Hinev Hoppa
Andrew Yatchak
Seinen Eo
Michigan College of Education
Amelia Linn
John Gilson
Negellery Ber
Minneapolis
Date
A. ¥. Cleon Ae
Mimsey Shirley
Norma Cloon
Michigan State
Cpl
Lawrence E. Bawden
Tampa
Army Air Force
A. A. Bawden
Plymouth
Kenneth Kitto
Pontiac
Ernest
Watton
Alias Aronen
Gardner
Maas
Alfred Mattson
Hobson Williams
Erwin Cormier
Henry Mattson
Mary Tarro
Marquette
Joseph Tarro
Mae DelFavero
Los Angeles
Mary Louise Stannard
Barbara Glidden
Wheaton
Ill
Mary McCartney
Rade Orlich
England
Ireland
New Gogebic sugar plan splits canning allotment
Axel Frederickson announces wartime sugar distribution in Gogebic county with a total 12 pounds per person allowed, issued in two rounds. L L Farrell says certificates resume Monday June 18 with initial five pounds per person, later second issuance for remaining quota as supplies permit. Processing aided by volunteer women helpers. earlier applications encouraged. Lower peninsula residents receive eight pounds. Mennegolip district residents receive 15 pounds. 1945 allotment derived from last year’s canning records.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gogebic
Axel Frederickson
War Price and Ration Board
L. L. Farrell
OPA
Upper Peninsula
Peasan
Lower Peninsula
Minnegpolig
Resaes Oe Cees Ae
Shaws Per Peninsula
Cleveland
Teachers Appointed At St Claire Shores And Ontonagon
Miss Bernice Anderson of Ontonagon is assigned to teach in the primary grades with seven years of experience including the past two years at Big Rapids Michigan She studied at Marymount College in Salina Kansas and will teach in the upper elementary grades at St Claire Shores Mich.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Claire Shores
Mich
Bernice Anderson
Ontonagon
Big Rapids
Central and Junior high stamp sale totals reported
The record shows elementary grade stamp sales reaching 17,969.40 dollars over 1941 to 1945. Central school and Junior High totals for all grades amount to 5,188.95 dollars, while the overall school total is 2,968.25 dollars. Senior and junior high student council sales at Central and junior levels contributed to the figures.
Wakefield reports all POWs accounted for
Wakefield's 11 former prisoners of war are accounted for and most have returned home. Keskey was taken prisoner. a card from him reached his mother from a German camp as the war ended. In Austria, Keskey shared a camp with S-Sgt Brennan, while other locals, Sgts Brennan and Luoma and Cpls Bonello and Pvt George Orlich, spoke at a Rotary meeting about camps and Italy and Germany combat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Keskey
Army
War Department
Brennan
Austria
8Th Air Force
Luoma
Cpl. Bonello
Pvt
George Orlich
Rotary Club
Also Mentioned on This Page
Michigan
Conservation Department
Institute of Fisheries Research
Ann Arbor
Albert Hazzard
86Th Blackhawk
New York
Arthur
Europe
342Nd
Oreste Bruno
John Bruno
Eau Wis
Sue Erickson
Duluth
Miss Aili
Alden Lumakka
Thomas Durand
Negaunee
U. P
Wakefield
Orlich
Cam
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