The Escanaba Daily Press from Escanaba, Michigan • Page 7

TUESDAY, NOV. 2, 1948 THE ESCANABA (MICH.) DAILY PRESS pAoenvai COUNTY GOV'T FORUMJH.ANNED Aten, Wittenburg And Vic Lemmer To Talk A forum on county ment reform will be held under the sponsorship of the Delta County Planning committee at the House of Ludington Monday evening, Nov. 8, Charles Burton, Gladstone, committee chairman, announces. Speakers on the 6:30 dinner program will be Murl K. Aten, auditor general of Michigan; William F.

Wittenburg, supervising auditor; and Victor F. Lemmer, director of the Gogebic Industrial Bureau, Ironwood. Steps that could be taken to promote efficiency in county government will be outlined by the speakers. A general discussion will follow. Members of boards of supervisors of surrounding counties and others interested in local govern" ment are invited to attend.

Fall-Winter Program To Be Offered Soon By Recreation Unit The fall and winter program of activities sponsored by the city recreation department is now being arranged and many projects will be opened soon, it was reported this morning by George Grenholm, director. Classes in baton twirling will be taught by Miss Agnes Ogren on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday from 3:45 to 5 p. m. Classes on Mondays and Wednesdays will be limited to those children in grades under the fifth, and the other two days will be open for the fifth, sixth and seventh grades. The first class was held this afternoon.

Mrs. Bertha LaChapelle will again offer classes in handicraft for women, on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday from 7-10 p. m. on Tuesday and Thursday classes will also be offered from 2-4 p. m.

The first class begins next Monday. All women are eligible to take these courses, and are asked to register early with the recreation deparlment. Felt hats, purses and jackets and Christmas toys are among the projects offered, for a small registration fee. Senior and junior basketball leagues, and dartball teams are now being organized. There will be a meeting of dartball managers and captains from both industrial and church teams in the center tomorrow night, at 9 A boys club will be I organized within a few weeks, and will be one of the largest projects undertaken by the department.

WAY DOWN IN DIXIE! Vernon Berg, (left) interlocutor of the Escanaba Kiwanis Minstrel Show, listens with approval as endmen, Neil Bailey and Jack Morin, give a sample of their crooning at a re- cent rehearsal. The Kiwanis Minstrel Show will be presented at the Wm. W. Oliver auditorium Monday and Tue.sday nights. Nov.

8 and 9. A performance will be given 7:30 Saturday night. (Harry J. Gruber Photo) First StatC'Subsidized Theatre Travels Widely Cigarette Throat Irritation Can't Be Differentiated throat irritation caused by smoking cigaretts cannot be told from the irritation caused by various bacteria, chem" icals and heat, the Journal of the American Medical Association will state in an editorial in its forthcoming issue. be a wise physician indeed who could between two, is the way the Journal puts it.

Cigarette advertising on the basis that the product advertised does not irritate the throat is a point where the advertising is no longer the Journal states. Besides the impossibility of telling whether the throat irritation is due to cigarettes or to something else, the methods for measuring throat irritation are not standardized. truly scientific studies and respect for intelligent the Journal says, would do away with the need for more trials before the Federal Trade Commission to determine whether cigarette advertising claims are justified or not. Groggy Panhandler With $1,000 Hunted Detroit, seemed like a good gag at the time but Alphonsus Harper of Highland Park, said it a bit funn.v any more. He told Detroit police that an acquaintance tried to borrow a dollar from him on the east side early Monday.

Harper reached in his pocket and handed the man a $1,000 bill, according to his complaint. was a detectives quoted him. thought it would be funny to give him the giand and then watch him But the friend did not faint He I ran. And he held onto the $1,000 bill, according to Harper. Detectives are looking for him.

BY GERARD TETILEY NEA Special Correspondent Abingdon, Va. reeling off more than 53,000 miles in the fullest sense of the thespians of the Virginia Barter Theatre are ready to go into rehearsal for a new season on the road. Meantime the unique treatrical organization, only state-subsidized theatre in America, makes its headquarters in this little town high in the Southwestern Virginia hills. The home season at City Hall is in full cry. It was conceived by Robert Porterfield of Abingdon, during days of economic depression and waning interest in the theatre during war days.

It was his idea of recruiting jobless actors of merit from New York for a repertoire of light drama. At the start, admission was not necessarily paid for coin but by a plucked fowl, a ham, a mess of snaps and other things which the actors really needed most. This enterprise appealed to Virginians so much that after the first season in Abingdon the company carried drama into the provinces, with production in rural high schools and in th? auditoriums of the large and smaller towns. Porterfield suddenly realized a great public thirst for theatre. He discovered that the new' jgeri- eration of young Virginians knew nothing of the stage except at such intervals during which visits to York made it possible to see the stage in full flowering.

Everywhere the Barter players appeared they had large and eager audiences. The fresh greens as a price of admission gradually gave way to lettuce of the folding kind Barter theatre prospered. The single company was magnified by two more companies and Virginia Barter began to into outside territory. Because the actors travel by bus and trailer truck, the properties and costumes are necessarily boiled down to essentials. Porterfield feels that this merely sharpens the focus on histrionic ability.

they all seem to love he says. The tours have called for sharp wits and lightning decisions. There was the instance in which had to be performed without props because the scenery van burned out a bearing Robert Porterfield: At first, fowl or a mess of snaps. miles from town. There is the case of Stuart Day, one of the leading stars of Barter, who is now encased in a heavy cast.

Playing in Hasty at Leesburg, Day took a step, caught his foot in a footlight and toppled over backward into the pit. Some of the audience seemed to think this was part of the script. Day climbed back on the stage for the remaining 15 minutes, took his curtain calls with other members of the cast and, as the curtain dropped, collapsed. At a hospital it was found he had crushed two vertebrae. During the past season, the organization trouped 53,610 miles In 22 states, gave 535 performances in 241 cities before 206,782 people.

Next season, Barter will expand with engagements in Kentucky, Delaware, Indiana and Illinois. The state of Virginia has assured it of another stipend of $2,500. Porterfield believes that his organization, which was founded when nearly every cast member had, like Cassius, lean and hungry has done much to recreate interest in the American stage. And he retains the affectionate memory of when the box office was loaded wdth good things to eat. During days when Ropid River Mr.

and Mrs. Melford Porath of Casco, were recent visitors of the senior Porath family here and at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Behrend of Powers. While A were here, a birthday party was held for Mr.

Pc- mother. Among those attending the party were Mr. and Mrs. Carl Dittrich of Ford River, Mr. and Mrs.

Peter Pecore of Rapid River, Mr. and Mrs. Alex LaChance and the De- of Perkins. Girl Scout Dance Festival Wednesday, 8 p. m.

Wm. W. Oliver Auditorium Public Invited Escanaba Rifle and Pistol Club Meets tonight, 7:15 Daily Press, second floor Plan now to give to The Community Chest Barbershop Singers, Important Meet Thursday, 8 p. m. Elks Club, second floor Rehearse Christmas music Tbiouqh the Courtesy of Ik Escanaba National Bank SB Years of Steady Serrice Barter Theatre wa.s a toss-up between failure and succes.s a farmer came to see the show and produced a small pig as his entrance fee.

The pig was removed to the Porterfield ancestral acres. Presently she produced a litter, which was raised and sold at a good price and helped put something more solid into the waning treasury. These days. Barter Theatre is on the giving end. Each year it presents 150 acres of Virginia a ham to an American actor or actress contributing to the and dignity of the American Vandenberg Picked For Peace Award On Armistice Day Philadelphia, Sen Arthur H.

Vandenberg (R-Mich.) will be honored here Armistice Day as the of the United States who in 1948 has done th( most toward the establishment ol a permanent Vandenberg was named Sunday as the recipient of the 1948 Reserve associatioi award, established last year and won then by Secretary of State George Marshall. Governor James H. Duff of Pennsylvania, headed the committee that made the selection. Other prominent members of the selection group included former Supreme Court Justice Owen J. Roberts, Robert L.

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Accompanying the check mailed to Miss Morse was a letter, signed by Vining L. Bjork, potentate; Walter C. Drevdahl, recorder, and Roy C. Yungbluth. chairman of the circus committee.

It follow.s; a recent meeting of Ahmed Temple, it was voted unanimously to contribute the sum of $1.500 to Bay Cliff health camp. This represents the entire proceeds to Ahmed Temple from the Polac'k Brothers Shrine circus, which was July 22. 23 and 24. 1948. check is enclosed and we sincerely hope that it will bring as much pleasure and benefit to you and your organization as has in presenting Presentation of the circus profits to the Bay Clitf health camp is only part of the Shrine program for helping underprivih'ged and crippled children.

Ahmed of 1.066 members from all parts of the Upper in maintaining Shrine hospitals in the United Slates, annually send- ng part of each dues to the national organization for that purpose. It also has set up a fund for the purpose of defraying traveling expenses for needy persons going to the nearest Shrine hospital, in Minneapolis. Fezette Rites Saturday The body of Pvt. Clarence J. Fezette, returned from a United State Military cemetery at Margraten, Holland, will arrive in Bark River, accompanied by military escort, Thursrlay morning and will be taken to the Boyie funeral home.

It will be in state at the funeral home until 10 a. Friday and then will be removed to the home of Pvt. mother, Mrs. Evelyn Fe.zette. at Powers.

Funeral servico.s will be conducted by Rev. J. Roberts of Iron Mountain Saturday afternoon at 1:30 at the home and at Grand Marais Try a Classified Ad today. Call 69S Grand Mich, Hallo- I wt'en held new for Grand Marais childicn this ye.ir. Thf' Ladies' Auxiliary to VFW post 6030 sponsored a party for all children from the kindergarten throngii the sixth grade.

Nearly 100 children attended, all in costume. James Thorrington, Leone St. Martin and Carol Sayen weie auaided ))t izes foi' the most original fostumes. Games and contest.s were offered and prizes of candy and were given out. F-very child was given candy, pop.

noi.se- makcrs, popcorn, and a luncii of home made cookies and chocolate milk. The VFW cottage was liecorat- ed with, black and yellow streamers, corn stalks, pumpkins and autumn leaves. Myrtle Soldenski. junior activities chairman, was in charge of the party. 2 o'clock at Zion Episcopal church.

Burial will be in the church cemetery. Tony Revard Post of the American Legion. Powers, will have charge of the military rite.s, assi.sted by the LeRoy Floriana Post of Hermansville. Pvt. Fezette wa.s killed in action by an artillery blast while holding a captured position with his company March 1, 194.5 at Konigshaven.

Germany. He first was reported missing in action and later his death was confirmed. He was born in LaBranche, November 26, 1918 and was graduated from Powers-Spalding high school in 1937. He enlisted June 8, 1944 at Menominee and received his training at Fort Sheridan, and Camp Blanding. Fla.

He was assigned to Headquarters 119th Infantry. 30th Division and went overseas in November, 1944. The Purple Heart which he was awarded posthumously was presented to his widow. At the time of his en- li.stment he was employed by the Ideal Dairy in Menominee. He was a member of Zion Episcopal church.

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