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Newspaper
The Wakefield News
Location
Wakefield, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1951
Page
1
Michigan Republicans strain to unite the party while the 18 percent draft sparks college and employer hesitation. Doctors get a lower draft number, Moody draws fire, and Governor Williams markets the Seaway amid tax and inflation talk. Safety programs target small plants after rising accidents, and concerns rise over Detroit defense industry concentration.
Daily mail service to the Gogebic airport starts July 2 with deliveries from Wakefield at 3 50 pm and departures to the plane at 4 pm from Wakefield Verona and Ramsay. Mail must be in by 3 45 pm with no exceptions. Donald Strelcheck of Bessemer is messenger for the route. Garfield Clemo sustains a compound leg fracture after a cement drum fell at Concerto Products Co and is in Wakefield hospital.
Wakefield area residents pressed for Chaney Lake road to be designated as part of M-28 to link with US 51 in Wisconsin. State Highway Commissioner Charles Ziegler pledged maintenance aid from state funds and noted funds may be used to upgrade the road before it reverts to local control. The meeting, arranged by Sen. J. P. Cloon, also discussed abandoning a Wakefield to Bessemer stretch of old US 2 and connecting links via Wisconsin roads.
In a hush hush meeting at Chairman Fletcher’s Roscommon summer home the conservation board moved toward a broad top level reorganization. Wayland Osgood will become deputy on July 1 joining 18 years of admin experience, while Frederick Struhsaker ascends to commission secretary and Charles Millar to lands division chief. Franklin Pardee will lead the geology division after Eddy steps down.
William Ribich an instructor in Stambaugh schools teaches the summer in Stambaugh. Janet and the Rostellan visit chi to see Mr. and Mrs. Len Nowicki. Mrs. Nowicki is Lila Anderson of Wakefield. Marilyn Nowicki joins cousins visiting relatives here. Harold Jane and family staying at the Fisher home in Plymouth. Palmer Swanson resumes Navy service at Great Lakes. Mary Tarro and Miss Arina Karling travel to Marquette for education sessions. Harry B. Sutter and son Joe vacation in Missouri. Norman Niemi visits from Milwaukee. Mrs. Jackson and daughter Munising visit Hammer family in Plymouth. Jackson formerly Agnes Hammer. Yatchak family vacationing in Chicago. Lucille Lischalk and sons visit Chicago. plan to return to Chicago weekend. grandparents host. Tony Sertich heads to Iron River for work. Jeanne Bedell and Greta Bowker, Plymouth, and Arina Mae Karling and Virginia Valesano graduate Wakefield high. Barbara Liedtke returns to Davenport after visit with Oscar Benson. Dr. and Mrs. McCann of Marquette, Mrs. Roland Jackson of Portland, and Peter Villeneuve of Escanaba visit Proteau home. Rauha Korpela, Chicago, spent weekend with Wakefield parents. Mrs. Ivan Milhollen of Superior visits Wakefield home. Carl Korpela leaves for summer work in Waukegan. Evelyn Patyk from Detroit to spend two weeks with parents. Bobbie, child of Mr. and Mrs. Robert, returns from Wausau after visiting relatives.
James Cudahy has completed a comprehensive insurance course at The Travelers Insurance Companies Home Office School in Connecticut. He now is associated with the William Kuivinen Agency in Wakefield.
Cpl. Donald Wagner Cpl. Patrick Spray and Pvt. Eugene Spray, veterans of the Korean War, are on furlough with relatives. Wagner arrived for a 30 day leave with his mother as he nears Fort Custer for reassignment after overseas service begun July 1950. The Sprays, cousins, were wounded in Korea and Pvt. Spray will return to Fort Sheridan Tl for hospital treatment on his eyes.
Gogebic range will host a full Fourth of July celebration featuring a 10 o'clock parade, speeches, sports, and fireworks. Prizes will reward parade floats and decorated cars, with a post parade program of music and an official address. Afternoon events include softball, tug of war, penny scramble, and free ice cream. a 9:30 fireworks display leads to a Legion Club dance. The Clown band and others provide music. Wakefield residents invited to join.
The local Legion post sponsors a July 4 celebration with a parade and an afternoon softball game between the local sports club team and Thomaston Sports club as the day’s main feature. The full program is printed in this issue.
Sunday morning worship at 11 10. The official board will hold a meeting Monday evening at 8 o'clock.
Mrs Lillian Hook flies to Chicago to visit son and daughter in law Curtis Hook. Carl Lepisto and family return to Los Angeles after visiting Victor Lepisto family. Anna Mae Sporcich travels to Minneapolis for nurse training. Numerous relatives and friends visit and relocate between Wakefield, Hancock, Duluth, Chicago, and nearby towns, with engagements and travel plans noted.
University of Michigan marine engineering professor Louis A. Baier says the proposed St Lawrence Seaway is economically unjustifiable and impractical for modern shipping. He notes required depths exceed 35 feet, ports need costly dredging, fewer than 240 sailing days yearly, and that large American vessels cannot be supported by the plan.
Funeral services were held Monday afternoon at First Lutheran Church for Mrs. Ida Johnson 65 a Wakefield resident since 1906 born in Kakava Finland April 14 1886 The Rev S V Autere officiated Pallbearers were six grandsons Richard Mattila Leonard Perttila Ted Sjoblom Matt Wuorinen Leslie Wuorinen and David Anderson Among attendees were relatives from Milwaukee Cudahy Lake of Lakes and North Bessemer Thirteen children and 30 grandchildren survive the union with Mr Johnson who died in November 1932.
Forrest Rosendahl of Floodwood Minnesota earned a dental surgery degree at the University of Michigan commencement. He is the son of Mr and Mrs William Rosendahl, former Wakefield residents, and has joined the army medical corps, stationed in Amarillo Texas.
Girl Scouts and Brownies wishing to participate in the July 4th parade should assemble at the Hanson corner at 8 45 in the morning next Wednesday.
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