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PAGE TWO ESCANABA DAILY PRESS, ESCANABA, MICHIGAN TUESDAY, MAY 12, Mrs. H. W. Boyle, Bark Dies Mrs. Henry W.

Boyle, prominently known resident of Bark River, and wife of the postmaster, died at 2 a. m. today at St. Francis Hospital where she was taken Sunday noon. She was 58.

Her death which came as a shock to family and friends was unexpected. She was boro, Helen Hill, in Marinette Feb. 3, 1895. She was a graduate of Our Lady of Lourdes High School and Marinette Business College, and she was an early employe of Pinecrest Sanatorium. She was active in church and civic organizations in Bark River, a member of St.

parish, the Daughters of Isabella of Trinity Circle 362, the American Legion Auxiliary and the Rosary Society. She is survived by her husband, one daughter, Mrs. Leo F. Knauf, the former Mary Boyle, one grandchild, a brother, Clarence H. Hill of Los Angeles, and a sister.

Mrs. Milton Kell of Powers. Arrangements for the funeral which will be in charge of the Skradski Funeral Home are incomplete. St. Joseph Musicale To Be Held Tonight Briefly Told Wells School Board Wells Township School Board will meet tonight at 8 in Wells School.

Bowling League Banquet The Classic Bowling League will hold its banquet tonight at 7 at the Delta Hotel. Players and sponsors are expected to be present. R. A. M.

Meeting A regular meeting of the Delta Chapter No. 118 R. A. M. will be held Thursday, May 14, at 7:30 p.

in the Masonic Temple. Marriage Sauve, Escanaba Rte. 1 and Mary Ann Roberts, Gladstone Rte. 1 have applied for a marriage license in the office of the county clerk. William.

Not Fred Shirley Courier, who is in St. Francis Hospital recovering from an appendectomy, is the daughter of William Courier, 1525 N. 20th not of Fred Courier as printed in Daily Press. 0 Motorists Ticketed Escanaba police have issued traffic violation tickets to the following motorists: Clarence Charles, Gladstone Rte. 1, speeding; Basil Bar- eome, 307 S.

Xlth disobeying traffic signal. Class of 1928 The members of Escanaba High School Class of 1928 will meet Wednesday night at the Escanaba Press news room to complete plans for their 25th year reunion to be held July 8. The meeting will be at 7:30. Tax County Tax Allocation Board will meet tonight at 7:30 in the Courthouse to make a permanent millage allocation for township schools and townships. This will be the last of the current series of meetings, County Clerk William Butler said.

A spring musicale will be presented tonight at 8:15 in the William Bonifas Auditorium by the St. Joseph High School music class under the direction of Sister Cedella. The recital will be given by the private students and St. Joseph students who are studying under Sister Cedella. Also St.

orchestra and glee club will participate. Coleman Nee Services Today Funeral services for Coleman Nee. widely known Escanaba businessman, were held today at. 9 a. in.

at St. Church with a solemn requiem high mass. The Rt. Rev. Msgr.

Martin Melican was celebrant of the mass; Tne Rev. Clifford Nadeau, deacon; The Rev. Stephen, O. F. sub-deacon and The Rev.

Francis Hollenbach, master of ceremonies. Burial was in Holy Cross Cemetery. Active pallbearers were James Degnan, George Stuart, John Bartella. Edward Moersch, Percy Rosemurgv, John Manning, Grover Lewis and William Leiper. Honorary pallbearers represented the Knights of Columbus, Chamber of Commerce.

Rotary Club, Railway Brotherhood, Elks Club, and the Escanaba National Bank. They were Juel Lee, H. H. She- peck. W.

J. Schmit, C. J. Driscoll, Charles Gunderson, S. M.

Johnson, Algot Olson, Herb Hansen, L. J. Jacobs, Louis Hovlcr, John L. Greene. Tim Cassidy, John A.

Lemmer. M. L. LaPlante, George Harvey, B. J.

Gallagher, E. G. Bennett, Mike Walch and Rudy Smith. Those attending the funeral included Mr. and Mrs.

M. R. Deo, Washington D. Mrs. Henry V.

Berry, Norfolk, Lt. David Walch. Scott Field. Barbara Walch. Madison, Mrs.

J. Winterburn, Miss Hazel Dee, Mrs. David Nee. and David Cunningham, all of Ft. Atkinson, Mrs.

Joseph Bailey, Chicago, and Mrs. George St. Peter and Mr. and Mrs. Peter McGalloway of Fond du Lac, Wis.

Delta Sportsmen Will Hear Gaines, MUCC Secretary The Delta County Sportsmen's Club will hear Harry Gaines of Grand Rapids, executive secretary of the Michigan United Conservation Clubs at its meeting Thursday evening. The meeting, at Hall, will begin at 7:30 with a pancake feed. Gaines will speak here as part of a tour of five Upper Peninsula MUCC member clubs that he is making this week. He is an outspoken fighter for wise use of nautral resources and is in a position to reflect present thinking by the great majority of the state's organized sportsmen. The Thursday gathering will open with the pancake feed, the first such venture of the club.

A charge will be made for the feed. There will be the talk by Gaines and a short meeting. More of Wm. movies will be the entertainment feature. Conference Held On Health Dept.

Budget Dr. Arthur G. Baker, in charge of local health administration, and Dan Zurick, his assistant, Michigan Department of Health, today conferred In Escanaba with Dr. William Harrison, director of the Delta-Menominee Health District, on staff and budget matters. Budget conferences with local health departments were held yesterday at Sault Ste.

Marie and Munising, and tomorrow the Department of Health men will be in Houghton. They will go to Iron River today. Until legislatures complete their sessions it will not be known how much state and federal funds will be available to local health departments. The orchestra will open the program with the selection, Pride Following the opening number, 16 solo numbers will be presented. Of these solos, 13 will be piano selections, one a violin solo, one a harp solo, and one a vocal solo.

Solo Numbers The piano solos are de by Jean LaBranche, by Donald Paterick, (First Movement) by Mary Ellen Niederauer, by Mary Jacke, by Carol Sodergren, by Betty Mallmann, and by Gerald Horsehner. from Fifth by Karen Strom, Cherry Lane" by Marcia Root, by Denis McGinn, Rhapsody" by Mary Danielson, by Ruth Anderson, and by Judy Groos. A violin solo. Sole will be given by Jeanette Giegel and a harp solo, will be played by Margie Groos. Carol Valind will sing "Shrimp a vocal solo.

Between the solo selections anti the numbers which will be presented by the St. Joseph Glee Club, the orchestra will play Glee Club Selections The Glee Club will present eight numbers which will include Saw de Wheel" (spiritual), Street (soloist Giegel), "Give Me Your Tired, Your Soldier, Winling and Gary Guertin), Got (spiritual), and Closing number of the recital will be which will be played by the orchestra. Glee Club members are: First Soprano, Joan Bowden, Joan Ferrari, Anne Geigel. Patricia Hicks, Jean La Bl anche, Carol Lancour, Shirley La Valley. Anne McDonough, Mary Paterick, Nancy Rademacher, Elaine Snow, Elizabeth Taushak, Carol Valind, Joyce Winling.

Second soprano, Barbara BmR, Evelyn Faussner, Joyce Jacobsen, Joanne Johnson, Mary Therese Marenger. Barbara Martinson, Barbara Ottensman, Mary Ottens- men, Joanne O'Donnell, Barbara Srock, Pat Valko, Mary Weber. Alto: Lois Bowden, Barbara Boyce, Nancy Brazeau, Mary Ann Chouinard. Shirley Dupuie, Jeanette Geigel, Maxine Hemil, Janet Ammel, Judy Groos, Marilyn Johnson. Joyce LaFave.

Nancy McLaughlin, Mary Manning, Joan Meyer, Pat Rooney. Kathleen Rooney, Mary Jacke. Marcia Root, Cheryl Walker, Jacqueline Peterson. Tenor: Ronald Bink, David Hirn, Harold Koster, Dennis McGinn, Robert Moreau, John Vadnais. Bass, Robert Boudreau, Richard Gasman, Gary Guertin, Gerry Guertin, Elmer Brazeau, Raymond Roy, Venne, Richard Cass.

Draft Meeting Here Thursday State Selective Service officials will conduct an area conference for draft board clerks and members at the House Ludington in Escanaba Thursday, May 14, at 7:30. Members from Delta, Dickinson. Schoolcraft, Menominee and Iron Counties will attend. State officials who will be present are Col. Arthur A.

Holmes, director; Lt. Col. W. J. Myers, deputy director; and Lt.

Col. Charles B. Pearson, executive officer. The conference is called for the purpose of discouraging draft problems and anticipated future plans. PROMOTED Mr.

and Mrs. William Bowden, 513 S. 8th have been advised that their son, William C. Bowmen, was promoted from Airman 2 to Airman 1 at Bergstrom Field AFB, Texas, and wras assigned to Radio Engineering School at Scott Field AFB, 111. Enroute from Texas he visited his sister, Miss Elaine Bowden who is a student nurse at St.

Francis School of Nursing in Peoria. 111. Airman Bowden is a graduate of St. Joseph High School of Escanaba. He enlisted in the Air Force Jan.

2, 1951. (Portrait by Millie) High School Student Speakers Entertain Escanaba Kiwanians Four representatives of the Escanaba high school forensic team and their coach, John Romstad, were guests of the Escanaba Kiwanis Club at a noon meeting Monday at the House of Ludington. The four speakers, who gave selections they presented in a regional speech festival at Marquette last weekend, were: Marlene MeMartin, ninth grade, humorous reading; Mary Larson, dramatic poetry reading; Nancy Farrell, original oration; Robert Peterson, humorous reading. The program was introduced by Clarence Zerbel, who pointed out that promotion of student opeech activities was one of the oldest projects of the Escanaba Kiwanis Club. Mrs.

Donald Fleury, Cornell, has returned home from St. Francis Hospital where she underwent surgery. Rudolph W. Anderson of the Hoyler Baking Co. was admitted to St.

Francis Hospital yesterday afternoon for medical treatment. Mrs. George Herro, 1719 3rd Ave. is receiving medical treatment at St Hospital. Mrs.

Elizabeth Charles of 330 S. 9th who was injured in a fall at her home, is in St. Francis Hospital for treatment. Her daughter, Mrs. R.

B. Torian. the former Vivian Charles, is arriving tonight from Austin, to be with her mother. TRIBUTE TO A LOVED ONE Your eternal love expressed in a magnificent memorial of granite or marble. Honor your loved ones.

Consult with us, today. Adi cost bit io a Job DELTA MEMORIAL CO. Phones Office 335, Res. 1198 Escanaba A. O.

Kam rath, Mgr. Gettleman Home Is Destroyed By Fire The vacant home formerly occupied by the late Mrs. Geraldine Gettleman. 1900 block. Lake Shore Drive, was destroyed by fire at 11:15 p.

m. yesterday. The cause of the fire was not determined, the Escanaba fire department retxirted. The two-story frame structure was located in a field to the south of the Escanaba High School Rotarions Enjoy Travel Lecture By J. L.

Temby An illustrated travel talk was presented to the Escanaba Rotary Club yesterday noon at the Delta Hotel by J. L. Temby of Escanaba. He was introduced by B. M.

Howe of the program committee. color pictures of Western scenes, including Yellowstone and Glacier National Parks, were impressive and his talk was entertaining and informative. At its business meeting the Rotary Club observed a minute ef silence in respect to the memory of Coleman Nee. Escanifba businessman and a member of the Rotary Club since Aug. 16.

1921. Gifts to the Rotary Club's crippled camp fund were received in memory of Mr. Nee and the late John Birkenmeier. 13 Men Will Receive Induction Notices For June The draft call for Delta County in June will be for 13 men for induction and 23 men for pre-induction, Mary Wagner, clerk, reported today. The orders will be mailed to registrants soon.

The group will leave Escanaba June 3 for Milwaukee. Thirteen registrants have been called to report Thursday, May 14, for induction and seven have been called for preinduction examinations on Thursday. Called for induction are the following: Raymond J. Beaudoin, leader, Lawrence Van Effen, Richard Shomin. Wendell Buckland, Escanaba; Wallace Marenger, Rene Brunette, Cornell: William Bundling.

Gladstone: Gerald Rapid River: Ronnv Rettman. Rte. 1. Bark River; George Chaillier, Escanaba: William Kalishek, 1, Gladstone: William St. Vincent Wilson: and Kilo Ma- koskv.

Rte. 2. Bark River. Called for preinduction examination are Rudy Marcella, Cornell: Donald Dishneau, Lloyd Plouff, Marion Jackson, all of Escanaba: Richard Alko, Perkins; James Clement, Garden; George Miller, Nahma. U.

P. Medical Meeting Called About 100 doctors of the Upper Peninsula Medical Society and their wives will come to Escanaba June 19-20 for the 58th anniversary meeting, with the Delta-Schoolcraft Medical Society as host. Eminent physicians and surgeons, outstanding in their field, will address the doctors during the scientific section of the program on Friday, June 19. and on Saturday morning. June 20.

Saturday afternoon is being held open to a recreation program for the delegates. Wives of the U. P. Medical Society members will have a program of their own, arranged by the wives of members of the Delta-Schoolcraft Medical Society. They will join their husbands at the Saturday night banquet at the House of Ludington closing toe meeting.

The banquet speaker has yet be named, but the following sicians and surgeons are scheli. uled to appear on the science section of the meeting: Dr. John L. Emmett, 0 Clinic, Rochester, urologist; L. W.

Freeman, University of Indiana, medical advisor to Paraplegic Foundation of the United States; Dr. Bruce M. lick, University of Michigan, oph- thomologist. Dr. Robert Baldwin.

Marshfield whose subject will be ternal medicine; Dr. M. Cooperstock, Marquette, pediatrics Carl Davis Chicago, University of Illinois, heart surgery; Jack Klieger, Milwaukee, obstetrics. Dr. P.

Mehas, Pontiac, no will discuss the problems of alcoholism in general practice: Francis Senear, Chicago, dermatology; Dr. Lowell D. Snor: Northwestern University: problems of internal medicine: and John Steele, Milwaukee, emergencies. nW mil unwil THRU WEDNESDAY Evenings 7 and 9 p. m.

NEVER HAS A PICTURE BEEN SO complimented iletic fieli Escanaba Escahaba firemen yesterday were also called to control a lire at the R. B. Hawes garage. South Ford River, at 5:30 p. m.

Five grass fires also were extinguished yesterday by the firemen. POSSEE RIDES AGAIN MIAMI, Ariz. i i possemen still ride horses in Arizona. Thirty-seven members of the Gila County Pose recently completed an 85-mile, three-day practice ride through rough, mountainous terrain in east-central Arizona. Longest ride was 30 miles on the final day.

THOSE IN UNIFORM Pvt. Robert J. Gustafison. son of Mr. and Mrs.

J. E. Gustafison, Route 1. Gladstone, is now at Camp Pickett. where he will serve as a typist in the support group of the fifth annual logistical support maneuvers, May 4-9.

The greatest love story you have ever seen, filmed against the most adventurous backgrounds in the world 4 (joSAan Optometrist contact lenses SUMMER HOURS 9 to 5:30 to 9 Fridays 9 to 12:30 Wed. Sat. Other hours by appointment Phone 2541 1515 Ludington Escanaba COMING Wednesday Night 'Chet' Marrier At The Piano Solovox See Jay's Bar Delta Hotel Two Dances May 14 Romy Gosz Orchestra Polka King May 17 Arnold Smiltneck Orch. at Four Corners Hall 4U miles East of Nadeau, Mich. Dancing starts at 8:30 p.

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