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The Escanaba Daily Press from Escanaba, Michigan • Page 6

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TEN HIGH S' rf It 6 WHISKEY HIRAM WALKER USES MORE MICHIGAN GRAIN THAN ANY OTHER DISTILLER CODI NO. 1927 Hiram Peoria, Illinois 90 PROOF LOCAL FLEET IS ENLARGED Club Sponsors Building of Rowboats for Youngsters I Yachting activities In Escanabn nre not only growing, hut from everv aneln future looks cx- ceptlonally bright. The Kscanaba Yacht Hub roster now comprises mom than fifty regular associate members 1 1 1 1 several applications yet to be considered The list is not only growing numerically. but it will bo noticed that tho roster contains nnnipx of a large number of mi'ii whose influence in the munity is necessary in order that any civic project might ho ful. 12 in Kh'ot roster of boats owned by members now totals twelve.

in- dudlng sail and power. This number flops not take into eonsldera- tion so mo smaller outboard motor boats, which if counted would brine the fleet to about sixteen craft. (Jeorgo and Hert left yesterday for Chicago to work on C. Stoll's new boat which will ho sailed to Escanaba on or about June 1. Clarence Falk and Emerson Kidd are also planning on leaving about May 2'1 for Detroit where they will rin and launch Commodore new racing sloop and she will he sailed to Kscanaba as soon as she can bo put into commission.

Vice Commodore Joseph H. Shipman, who recently sold the Sandra to John Anthony has purchased the Venus from Paul Vez- Ina of Manistique and will hring her to Kscanaba within the next Remember Mother! Make Mother with A pair of Humming Itird hose. Service at OJ- Others OtiL at 69 Surpri Mot ber witli a new cotton tlie ccnter of Kscjt tutta. 1t0 1.95 Mothpr will wrlrnmr a new Silk that'll rnake ber vparn 4 9810 7.90 tilve Mot ber a new Nlip, flt nt il OK Others at 79 ct New and mi practical. AH rtibber.

79c The Leader Store Corner Ludinglon at 13th few days. She will bo known as i the Sandra II. The Thatcher hoys' Onaway Is having power installed and will Join the auxiliary class. Bill Beckstrom. who recently acquired the racing boat Nosedive, Is Just about ready to launch and will probably bo the first boat In the water this season.

To lliiild At the last regular meeting of the Kscanaba Yacht club it was decided to sponsor the building of fix 14-foot flat bottom rowboats to be used by Kscanaba boys between the ages of ten and fourteen years, free of charge. These boats are to be staunchly and easily capable of carrying eight boys. By judicious niefit these six boats should give every boy in Ksranaha within the age limits, a chance to get out on the water at least once a week during the boating season. The boats are to be placed on the south shore the new bathing heach and yacht harbor and their use will be strictly confined to the yacht basin proper, llefrattjiA Planned The Yacht club has also made extensive plans for holding regattas this year. Aside from the annual autumn regatta, races will also he held on or near July 4 and the date of the autumn regatta will he earlier.

The second annual Venetian night will be held about the middle of July and plans call for the start of a fleet cruise to Washington Island as soon as the Venetian night program closes. Tho committee in charge of Venetian night fully realize the Interest shown in I their first venture last year, which brought out some five thousand spectators, and are making elaborate plans for an evening of entertainment on the north water I front that will greatly surpass last yearn spectacle. The tentative! program calls for maneuvering of both sail and power boats, augmented by an over water display I of fireworks. IntervM In Harbor Interest is being shown in the local Yacht harbor, not only by Kscanaba, but by yacht owners located at various points about I.akH Michigan. The Kscanaba Yacht Hub has been the recipient of many letters from outside boat owners Inquiring about the new yacht basin and advising their intention to make Kscanaba a port of as soon as suitable anchor 1 is provided.

These letters the result of information recently published In a Chicago yachting magazine. Mackinac Inland The annual Mackinac Island run from Chicago will take place on July IN this year. This cruise is to be enlarged by sevoral stops on the return journey. After leaving the island, the boats will sail through the Door and visit Kayette, then to Detroit Harbor, Washington Island, then to Mar- Inette and Menominee and on through the Sturgeon Bay canal to Milwaukee and Chicago. It is hoped that the local harbor Im- provement will be completed so I that the Kscanaba Yacht club may invito tho Mackinac cruisora to Just Sharing a Few Key Notes fukf danc Music liy Bill Syncopators BLITZ ANI) RIBBON BKEK ON Chit ken Sandwiches Home made Chill Ered, a tlp from an old time keynoter," what Senator Alben W.

Barklpy, (Dem. Ky.i was telling Senator Kredcrlck C. Stelwer (Hep. when, as shown above, the and llcpublican conventlon keynoters had a get tognther at the Capitol. And Senator Barkley had a right to hold forth on What Every Keynoter Should Know.

for the Ken- tucklan also rang up tho curtain at the Dcmocrats' Convention in Chicago. make Escanaba a port of call on their 1937 cruise. An addition to thh Inac Island will light cruisera of not fivo foot line year's Mack- be a race for over twenty- These boats will start on the 17th. Inasmuch as Commodore Mitchell's racing sloop comes under the specifications, his boat will be entered in that contest, giving Escanaba representation for the first time. The following is a list of the officers and regular and associate members ot the Kscanaba Yacht' Hub for 1936: Commodore, John Mitchell; Commodore, Jos.

Shipman; Secretary, t). V. Thatcher; Treasurer, Ceorge Jacobson. Members Art Aronson, Oust Asp, Ted Baldwin, Dr. (ieo.

Bartley, William Heckstrom, Bev. C. K. Berger, C. J.

Burns, Nick Carr, Sheldon Cobb. Walter Dixon, Kr. Dunleavy, William Duchalne, Stanley Derwln, Jack Krlckson, Clarence Falk, Art Flllion, Bay Ford. Nate Fryer, II. W.

tiasmau, Charles Harold (Jessnor, Art (loulais. Herb Hughitt, Bert Jacobson, Jacobson, Merten Jenson, Kmmerson Kidd, M. J. Lang, Harold EindsUy. Tom Lynott, John MIU iieii, CUjrton Moore, Dennis McClinn, Donald McLean.

Harry Needham. J. Horace Provo, F. F. Boyce, Wm.

Schmidt, N. T. Stephenson, Austin Stegath, Jos. Shipman, Bev. Boss W.

Stoakes, stoii, V. Thatcher, B. Vtn ette, Wallace Weden, Sam Wick- mun, Wm. Warmlngton, K. K.

Voght, B. F. Young. Honorary Members Captain Dan (iarrett, Keeper Kscanaba Light; Captain Walter Hanson, Keeper Minneapolis Shoal Light; Captain Kincaid, Keeper I'lumb Island Light; Wm. Lathrop, if.

H. Weather Bureau; Captain James Armstrong, Betired. ZONING GROUP HOLDS PARLEY State Planning Cornish Wilt He Asked to Assist County Members of the zoning committee of tho Delta county board of supervisors, at a meeting held at the Kscanaba Chamber of Commerce offices yesterday, and decided to apply to the state planning commission lor financial and tech- nital assistance in drawing up a zoning plan for Delta county. The planning commission, It was explained, lias funds at its for aiding counties in putting the zoning plan into effect. All nipmbers of the zoning committee were present at the meeting.

They are: John Luocke, chairman, A T. Mercier, Carl I'earson, Julius Brodahl, John K. Olson. Henry Wyllo and H. P.

Lindsay. Mr. Wylie was appointed secre tarv of the committee. During the World War, tho strength of or military police, was nearly today It Is Laing Hospital John Burnett, Brampton, submitted to a serious operation on Thursday. Jack Helm of Bark Blver, submitted to an operation for relief from appendicitis.

Bagnar Peterson, tiOii Superior avenue, Gladstone, is a surgical patient. Jack Nleml, 20o North Tenth street, was admitted as a surgical pat lent. William Rogers of Gulliver, is a medical patient. William Stromquist, of Knsign, was admitted as a medical patient. Patients dismissed are Mrs.

William McKeever, of fill South Twelfth street, and Vera Marlon Blttenhouse, small daughter of Mr. and Mrs. David Ilittenhnuse SUPPORT GIVEN TO LIONS CLUB Coordinated Projarram of Winter Sports Will He launched Efforts of tho Kscanaba I. ions Club to bring tho national skatinjr moot to f. P.

were given enthusiastic support at a conference hold in Ishpeming Thursday, attended by winter sports backers from 11 cities of the peninsula. At this meeting, a plan was also approved to set up an organization within the Ipper Peninsula Development Bureau to promote a coordinated program of winter sports in the Upper Peninsula. Communities Interested in de vebiping tho winter tourist trade were form clubs provide sports facilities and equipment help finance winter recreational programs. These Hubs be asked to send delegates to a conference the Development bureau plans to call within six weeks to work out a schedule of dates for winter carnivals that will bring the lpast possible conflict between the various clubs. ilrMilutlon The following resolution was un inimously adopted at the mept- ing.

which marked the first collective effort on the part of U. cities to cooperate in fostering a broad program of winter sports: that an organization up within t'pper Peninsula Development bureau to coordinate winter sports. hereby request the Peninsula Development bureau to cooperate in tho promotion and coordination of winter sports tivlties In upper peninsula, especially in setting funds for advertising these winter sports events and in furnishing a photographer to take pictures of these events, including stills and colored movies. "Wo further recommend and it is the sense of this meeting that each delegate present will endeavor to formulate a winter sports club in his own community whose purpose will be to crystal- public Kontiment in favor of provhling adequate physical equipment for the promotion of winter sports and also to develop an organisation which will adequately represent his community and ably finance the program to be sponsored. To Work Out Schedule "We as being favorable to a coordinated program of those events and to a working out of a schedule of dates them in a manner that will bring about tho possible conflict and we recommmnnd such effort bo done by committee to be formulated.

"Besolved, that organization hero tender its assistance and "I can taste my best grain in HIRAM TEN HIGH Whiskey cooperation to the Kscanaba Lion-! Hub in to bring to the upper peninsula of Michigan In 1 the national skating meet, that upper peninsula organizations tendor to tho I pemlng Ski dub their cooperation in bringing to the upper peninsula of Michigan In February, Hie national tournament. "Resolved, that we thank Wilson McDonald, of Petoskey, for bringing us his message." Speakers told of what had been accomplished along the line winter sports in such cities Nh- pemlng, Menominee, Iron Mountain. Kstanaba. Gladstone. Muni lng.

Marquette a' Sault ate. Marie. conducted r.n business-like basis has ceased be a child's plavthing and is a tourist proposition to this Just like our summer business," it wav by Wilson McDonald, secretary of the Petoskey Chamber of Commerce. Petoskey we believe In win ter sports us a winter Industry and we believe it has possibilities from the experience gained In 12 years of definite program McDonald said. ascribed Petoakey's success along these lines to the following factor hard work of committees assigned to certain tasks.

celling our local on tho Idea older folks as well as tho younger spending some money, most of which is raised through membership in our winter sports Hub. having a vision of the fu- if you do not reach the outside world through your efforts during the first few McDonald said, at least have tho satisfact Iikji that you are doing something to help shorten the winter, give your children a place In which to enjoy themselves and know where they are." I ufam Industry George K. Bishop, secretary- manager of the Development bureau, who presliled as chairman, said the tourist ami resort industry in tho upper peninsula is in its Infancy. upper peninsula Is highly adapttwl for a winter sports lie said. "We have had events in various C.

P. towns for years, largely our own amusement. The time has come for us to capitalize upon our snow, climate and proximity to with the end that wo derive cash dollars from tourist to Harry W. Froir and H. J.

Beer, of Chicago, representing the traf division of the Chicago and North Western railroad, said the railroad is willing to cooperate with I' p. communities through; special rate and service to i where an adequate of winter ports been developed Frejr emphasized that the most important consideration In plan nlng fhese programs Is to develop, sports that visitors will enjoy and! In which they may personally par-, tlcipate Their activities should be! when they their' destination, he said, ami comfortable accommodations should be provided. Kellogg Patterson, of Chicago, a midwest group of large dally newspapers, said that "winter sports is just, beginning" in the t'. P. and that Interest in has been the last sever- stressed tho "want, to do rather than by skilled lting winter and old R.

O. 11a Park H. liai McCarthy. Marie- Merrf. ddent of the t'pper pen- velopment bureau.

fl. F. Biekola and B. M. I.

RTeeton, C. L. B. Kverett, Development club; Munlslng Ski metropolita greatly increased in a I years. He all point thai tourists themselves" witness exhibition sportsmen vl sports centers Milo of the Natlon- il Outdoor Life exposition, also of Chicago, stressed the need for cooperation and warned that "jealousy' can be the greate-t enemy of the winter sports program in tho upper peninsula stressed the need for well laid plans, showmanship, dramatization of and adequate publicity.

Klmer Jones, of Marquette, was named chairman of publicity for the Development bureau's new winter unit. in Attendance The following persons attended tho morning and afternoon sessions In tho Mather Inn: M. Patterson. Midwest. Bosort group; Milo K.

brook, National Outdoor Life exposition; Harry W. Frier and H. J. Beer, C. N.

W. railroad. Menominee C. Cook, Chamber of Commerce. Iron Mountain Walter Brattlund and Irving Johnson, Klwanis Ski club; Harold F.skil.

chairman of the Dickinson county board of supervisors. Kscanaba Alfred I). LaRranche and A. J. (Joulals, Lions Hub; H.

Chamber of merce. (Badsti o. Knuts Blaney and John Hault field, Insula De -C Negaunee Munlslng Peters and Munlslng Thomas Hub. Charley Spurr, J. C.

fierllng, C. W. Gustafson, Lions Hub; B. Jones, Horrigan and Simon B. Anderson, Rotary club; H.

A. St. John, A. Syverson. Chamber of A.

D. Newton and George Bishop, Development bureau. C. McOllfert, J. Adams, Harry T.

Hulst, Joseph Kennedy. S. R. Elliott, 8. H.

Col- iick. James Flaa. Fred J. Nelson, L. W.

Hallberg, C. J.JS’eugebauer, W. H. Newett, Helden, B. L.

(juaal, O. Tripp and Jacob P. Nleml, St. Francis Hospital Mrs. Fred Krueger, OM State Road, was admitted.

Dorothy Gereau, Ifermansvllle submitted to an operation for relief from appendicitis. Flora Morris, Schaffer, Js a medical patient. BIG DANCE AND PACKAtiK AKTION TONIGHT UNITY HALL Given By OBDKB OF Bt'NKBKBG 11 By BOSK OBCHKSTB AdtnlHMlon ITm- The Public Inviteli Farm Insurance protecting against damages caused by fire and lightning written by the Upper Peninsula Farmers Mutual Fire Ins. Co. Bock, Delta Ooonty, Michigan Ask For Oar of St.

Jacques, both medical patients; anil Nick Peterson, a surgical patient. STOR 1 KS IN STAMPS By I. S. Klein InDefense Of The nion pOURTEKN YEAR OLD Daniel Webster could not find his tongue when called upon to speak liefore his class. Yet that frightened schoolboy became brilliant orator, and greatest defender of a united nation Born in 1782, probably the first of the log-cabln school of statesmen, Webster took to the law and entered Congress In 1S1H.

For moat of the next 37 years he served as ive and senator from Massachusetts, and twice became secretary of state. His oratory was supreme His opponents could not face his withering logic. Yet. with all his brilliance, he twice failed to attain the presidency The climax of his oratorical career was his famous reply to South Carolina's senator, Bobert Hayue, who had threatened seces slon In his opposition to a protective tariff Rising In defense of the Union. Webster held his listeners spellbound for four hours, and ended with the memorable words, "Liberty and Union, now and for ever, one and In Daniel Webster btamp wus The Finest Remembrance Of All FLOWERS FOR MOTHER On Day Da nitl Wtbs ter Sc violet sued, 0 a a death.

ou the un uiver- of his In 1932, another stamp in'niemorated the 150th anniversary of Webster's birth. NKA Service, Inc.) NKXT: Who was the first automobile manufacturer? 2 Special DA Plants Calceolaria Garden and others Sunday, May loth The fresh, fragrant beauty of a beautiful blooming plant or an assortment of fresh out flowers will please Mother more than any other remembrance. PLACE YOUR ORDER EARLY We wire flowers to any part of the world C. PETERSON SONS Home Grown Flowers Escanaba Gladstone rar SATURDAY, MAY THE ESCANABA (MICII.) DAILY PRESS PAGE FIVE Escanaba Yachtsmen Make Elaborate Preparations for 1936 Season.

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