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The Escanaba Daily Press from Escanaba, Michigan • Page 16

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Escanaba, Michigan
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Batanaba, Cc lobrr PRESS Electric Plant Engineers Hired RfcKACINNG THE NO. 1 DAM of the Paper Company on the River iff now about RO per cent completed and Will be finished before thr end of the current construction MMi bT the t'. H. A Sonn of tbihkosh, W'U, An elevated catwalk heinc Installed on the top of the dam In the reconstruction now underway. (Daily Scouts Benefit In Chest Fund Always ready to assist in community projects of sorts whenever needed, 654 Boy Scouts.

Cub Scouts and Explorer Scouts and 152 leaders are curently engaged in a year-round program of activity in Delta County, Ray Rose, of Escanaba, district Scout commissioner, reported today. There are 27 units in the county, nine of them Cub Packs, 16 Scout Troops and two Explorer Posts. Boys eight to 11 years of age are Cubs, those 11 to 14 are Scouts and the Explorer program is for Scouts 14 years of age and over. have had a very fine summer camping program the past two Rose said. were 573 county boys at Camp Red Buck in the Hiawatha National Forest and at Camp Minneyata near Ishpeming in 1954 and 683 at those two camps this past summer.

Winners Of Trophy Among community projects undertaken by Boy Scouts are distribution and collection of fire inspection permits for which they won a special trophy from the City of Escanaba, cantuster and poster distributions for various drives other than the Community Chest, collection of toys for the Junior Chamber of Commerce Christmas gift program, particip- Scouting program, Cubs, Scouts and Explorers. Without the services of the 152 volunteer leaders and the support of the Community Chest, it would be impossible to provide the citizenship training and character building program of Scouting in DeUa County, Rose stressed. In Nine Communities Communities in this area which have registered Scouting units are Gladstone. Nahina, Powers, Rapid River, Wells, Garden, Cooks and Rock. Leaders in this area are: Kscanaba Fletcher William Niles, William Fisher, i Robert E.

Meyer. Donald McGee, Robert Jones. Joseph Rousseau. Clifford Reese. Robert Richards, Duncan Cameron.

Ciladstone- Harvey James Roddy, Len Newendorf, LeRoy Hamilton. Rapid River Myron Whipple. I Ted Talvette. Nahma Gene Hartman. August Veeser, Lesler Srnka.

John Ullman. Robert Krngie Garden Roy Hivela. Cooks Charles Nelson. Rock Jack Larson. Officers of the Red Buck district are Clarence Zerbel, Escanaba.

chairman; James Gribble, Hermansville, vice chairman: Ray Rose, Escanaha. district commissioner; Glen Mathison, Escanaba; Cub commissioner; Lyle Shaw, Ray Shaw, Dr. A. A. Gossan.

Escanaba neighborhood commission- Dummy Anaesthetic Relieves Suffering In Tooth Extractions SAN FRANCISCO Chicaito medical researcher reported today he had successfully anesthetized sr.me people for tooth pulling with a physically inactive solution. In a test on 200 patients who were deceived into believing that they were getting a real tic, 18 were sufficiently to undergo extractions, some of them involving impacted teeth. Dr. Stanley Harris, professor of physiology and pharmacology at Northwestern University Dental School, reported the results to the American Dental Assn. Dr.

Harris said probably 40 per cent of all people suffering from pain could get relief through ana.sthetica. Chicago Prices (Noon Black A Veatch, consulting electrical engineers of Kansas City. will be retainer! by the city I of Escanaba to design a 25,000 kilowatt municipal electric gener- ating plant, it was decided by the i Escanaba City Council in specinl meeting today noon at City Hall. The engineering firm is one of four interviewed by tho Council i within recent weeks in making a selection. Black A Veatch reprc- I sentatives will come to Escanaba soon to meet the Council in arriv- i ing at an engineering contract.

The motion to hire the firm was by Councilman Edward Cox. supported by Councilman Jacob Bink. John H. Warden, president of the Upper Peninsula Power Houghton, present at today's I special meeting of the Council, said that his company will cooperate with the engineers in plan- 1 ning the plaot. The City Council proposes to I issue revenue bonds to finance construction of the plant, estimated to cost $5.000.000 to $6.000,000 and to hire the Upper Peninsula Power to operate the plant as an agent of the city.

In other business the Council: Discussed briefly and held over until Thursday's regular meeting a proposal by Councilman Cox that two members of the power study committee prepare information for the Council and the public on the power program, and receive compensation for their services. Authorized turning over delinquent utility accounts of between $5.000 and 56.000 to an agency for I collection. The agency would re- 1 ceive 50 cents of each dollar col- I lected. The delinquent accounts! Jdate back several years and the I city has been unable to collect -1 them, said G. Bourke, city i controller.

Officcr FI ies Flag To Announce Baby PALM SPRINGS. Calif. Motorcycle policeman Nick Maff triumphantly flew a pink pennant from the radio antenna of his three wheeler Monday, He also passed cigars to his merchant friends. For two weeks they had been stopping him to ask if his first child h.id arrived. When Mrs.

Betty Maff presented him with a daughter. Nikki Lynn, on Sunday, officer Maff decided the pmk pennant was the quickest way to the joyous news through the business district Two Sentenced In Circuit Court for resentencing, wa sentenced to three to ten years dating from April 15, 1 IB. Judge Jackson recommended the lei in bt three In the civil non-jury case of Auburn Beauchamp versus Hermanson, the defendant wh No, bei Couillard was sell- ordered to pay a default judgment tenced to two to five years in of and court costs of quette Prison Monday for proba- $30.50. tion violation by Circuit Judge In this session Cht- Glenn Jackson. lord Lassen granted a divorce William Visnaw, of North from Phyllis Bay Shore, pleaded guilty to buy- ing stolen property.

He will he More people get more news from sentenced later. newspapers than tmm all other Richard Hescott, who petitioned sources combined on save throe ways on your auto insurance costs 49 ft i Michigan Mutual Liability's new lowered rates Actual costs been reduced from to 2(V for driscrs who can quality. But there's no sacrifice in the complete protection you enjoy. i wm cash dividend refunds that further reduce your costs. Our low rates arc based on estimated claims payments ami operating costs.

And because this company is operated solely for the benefit of its policyholders, earnings are returned to them in cash dividends. can Clili A A. 23. CHU HI TIO GO UV-Butter. unse I MIC 3 lower, tai i cent A 32 CIIICMSO POT OKS AGO I HS.

on track 232 and total U. its supplies liftht. demand id rmirket steady. Carlot track Washington russets. S3 40 to Minnesota-North Dakota Pon- 2 Ho to $2 8S.

Sequoias. 30 un; Wisconsin round reds. Burbanks. A3 washed, and 40 unwashed. Broker Sentenced PONTIAC vT-Franicis E.

Miller. 41. former real estate broker, was sentenced to to 10 years fori embezzlement and to 14 years for uttering and publishing in Oakland County Circuit Court Monday. I Miller was accused of swindling! customers of up to $30,000. I touring bureau and road service.

Pocket what you might expect to pay for club dues for these sersices; your savings in this respect alone are substantial. tSf Fnjov extra motoring peace of mind with the knowledge that you and vour familv nr a protected h) a company with an unt-kcelled record for prompt, fair payment of claims. PAY-AS-YOU-DRIVE spread your insurance costs ovir many months if you prefer Phone today for full information and now low rates on your car, before you renew or buy othor auto insurance. PENINSULA TORDEUR 1606 IUDINGTON 2692 AufomofeWe Workmen's Compentoftoo Casualty Insurance MITTAL LIABILITY COMPANY OP DETROIT DtvkUnrf Paylnf population has in- in 111,000 in 1948 tc Buy and Sell the Classified Way 346.000. ation in many city parades and crK OliverLund, Rapid River com- distribution of air warning posters.

The Boy at least in scribed in the uts are one of nix work is financed rt by money sub- Cominunity Chest missioner; Alfred Anderson, Bark River commissioner: Oscar Oh- inan. Gladstone commissioner, and James Gonsowski, Wells commissioner. Red Ruck operating committees campaign now underway. If their; are George Rusch, organization; budget is not met. their health- Rav Shaw, leadership and training; giving and character-building pro- Or.

W. C. Harrison, health and gram in Delta County suffers ac- safety: Oscar Ohman, Reuben cordingly, it was pointed out. Sjoquist. camping and activities; Among budgeted items for which Ted Baldwin, advancement, and the Boy Scout organization uses William Anderson, finance.

Community Chest money are or -1 ganization of new' units including! cost of materials furnished to these new units, overhead expenses of Scout Camporees, Klondike Derbies, Scout Expositions and New Met Planned NEW YORK The Board of Directors of the Metropolitan rallies, insurance on camp build- Opera have voted in favor of buildings and leadership training of ing a new opera house. The pres- adults who are volunteer work-1 ent one, built in 1883. seata only in the three phases of the 3,500. Expect more BCM flY than ever before! '56 CHEVROLET FRIDAY, NOV. 4 THE HOT EVEN Em I Lorey Chevrolet Inc.

6th At Ludington Escanaba, Mich. NEW 1955 SEMI-AUTOMATIC DELUXE SPINDRIER ACTION by Curved unit tfte out i tfirt! flMOlK'NF CONTROL with powta sum inc. MODEL SDE $209.95 HANDY SWING FAUCETS TWO MB. CAPACITY TUB. THRIFTY SUOS SAVER NEW AOVANCEO STYL1N6 It your biggctt salue! iho big work through a whole week's wash in than an hour.

One tub any fabric cleaner and brighter other and another load drier than a wringer. NO MONEY DOWN EASY BUDGET TERMS 95 Only Advanced Electric Co. 1211 Ludington bf. Phone 3198 THIS SPACE RESERVED FOR IHI GREATEST SALE OF THE YEAR PRESS! STBII.

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1924-1977