Ironwood Daily Globe from Ironwood, Michigan • Page 11

TUESDAY, JUNE 7, 1960. MEA Committee Meets June 15 A i a conference study committee representing Regions 16, 17 and 18 (the Upper Peninsula) of the Michigan Education Association will meet in the Delta Hotel, Escanaba, June 15, at 2 announced Cecil C. Elmore, Qirector of regional conferences. The purpose of the session is to discuss problems concerning conference attendance and improvement of conference programs and to recommend dates and places for the 1961-62 and 1962-63 regional commonly known as state teachers' institutes. Region 18, which consists of Keweenaw, Houghton, Baraga, Iron, Gogebic and Ontonagon counties, will be represented by George Beissel, Ironwood, member of the MEA board of directors and Arnold Wakefield, 1960-61 president-elect.

IRONWOOD DAILY GLOBE, IRONWOOD, MICHIGAN. Program Given AtRockland ROCKLAND---' Michigan Week was observed at the Roger Clark School here recently with a large number of persons viewing the various displays in the class rooms. A skit, "The Wedding of Aggie Culture and Home Economics," was presented by the home economics class. Mrs. Clifford Crase accompanied the skit with musical numbers on the piano.

The skit was directed by Mrs. Denver Leinonen, home economics instructor. In connection with the skit, a fashion show was presented by the girls of the home economics class. Each girl modeled the garments she made during the school year. A band concert was presented by the Rockland School Band, with William Saari directing.

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a THREE DEDICATION JUNE 25--The new $11,000,000 Portage Lake lift bridge between Houghton and World's Heaviest Lift Bridge Dedication Is Set at Houghton Hancock will be dedicated June 25. The bridge is the world's heaviest lift span. HOUGHTON Michigan officially opens another "biggest bridge of its kind" on June 25. when the Portage Lake Lift bridge is scheduled to be dedicated. the world's heaviest lift span weighing 4.5 million pounds, the bridge carries automobile, ran, and pedestrian traffic across the busy Keweenaw Waterway between Houghton and Hancock.

It's the only link between the mainland and the 40-mile-long Keweenaw $11 million structure was costlier, on foot-by-foot basis, than the mighty Straits of Mackinac Bridge. Secretary of the Army Wilber M. Brucker is slated to be the speaker at the dedication ceremonies, and Michigan State Highway Commissioner John C. Mackie will address guests at a banquet the evening before the dedication. Constructed by U.

S. Steel's American Bridge Division, the bridge was completed in less than two years. Into it went more than 7,000 tons of steel and 35,000 tons of concrete. The unique 1310-foot lift bridge has two levels of roadway--the level to carry train traffic, and the upper to carry motor vehicle and pedestrian traffic. It operates in three positions.

In the first or normal the lift span is lowered all the way so that motor, rail, and pedestrian traffic can use the bridge simultaneously. The lower deck carr'es the rail traffic. Because there 1 are only seven feet of clearance between span and water in this position, a second position provides a 32-foot water clearance for larger pleasure craft while providing for motor and pedestrian traffic. In this position the lower deck of the lift span is raised to the upper level of the approaches. However, the lift must be lowered before train traffic can cross.

The third position will see the huge 250-foot-long center span lifted to a height of 100 feet to allow for the passage of large ships. The ancient two-lane swing span which was replaced by the new lift bridge has been a source of inconvenience for many years, both to water and land traffic. Constructed in 1906 after a lake freighter had rammed and toppled its more ancient predecessor, it had a horizontal clearance of only 118 feet and water clearance of about six feet. Large modern lake carriers were barely able to maneuver through the draw while motor traffic was halted as much as half hour between the busy cities of Houghton and Hancock. To make matters worse, the old structure had to swing completely open to allow for passage of practically every small pleasure craft.

When closed, its two narrow lanes kept traffic at a snail's pace. The new lift, boasting towers 200 feet high, has four spacious lanes and convenient approaches. "The new bridge cuts 10 minutes off the time it used to take to cov- i er the mile between Houghton and Hancock's business districts," say pleased local residents. Each of the 200-foot towers rests on concrete caissons sunk more than 60 ft. to reach bedrock or hardpan beneath the water of Portage Lake.

A rare feat of engineering skill and ingenuity was involved in floating the vertical lift span from where it was constructed on barges about a half mile from the bridge to its position. Accomplished in August, 1959, moving the span and attaching it to the husky cables that lifted it.into place required less than a 12-hour break in lake carrier traffic. Lake carriers on Lake Superior use the Keweenaw Waterway to avoid the treacherous waters north" of Keweenaw Point, where more than 40 ships have foundered. Country residents are planning a gala weekend June 2426 as part of the dedication celebration. They'll feature parades, street a boat a a boat races, and an air show.

The Coast Guard will send one of its ice breakers to Houghton for the occasion, and the Lake Carriers' Association is urging as many lake ships as can do so to use the Keweenaw Waterway i this weekend to salute the new bridge. Australia has a population of 10 million. Summer Deeds Borrow $50. to $500. on your signature and' i a i monthly installments to suit budget.

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(AP)--John H. Rudy, 36, father of three children from nearby Rothsville, says he has quit a SlO.OOO-a-year job with the Radio Corporation of America to become a pastor of the Mennonite Church near Gettysburg, Pa. He will make $1,300 a year in his new post. "From the financial point of view it is foolish, but dealing with the spiritual" needs of people is more important to me now," Rudy said Monday. Yes, middle age has its compensations.

So says author W. Somerset Maugham, who added. "Youth is bound hand and foot with the shacldes of 'public opinion. Middle age enjoys freedom." Meals Planned For Guardsmen The old cliche that "an army travels on its stomach" still holds true even for the modern atomic- age soldier and much attention is being given to this important subject by officials of the Michigan Army National Guard in preparation for the annual "invasion" of Camp Grayling, its 'historic training ground during the summer, according to First Lt. Frank A.

Drazkowski, commanding officer of the Ironwood National Guard Battery. Menus for the 1960 camp training period are being taken from the National Guard food service guide, the local Guard leader points out. The menus, supplemented by additional items which call for a greater quantity ot food than is normally given to regular Army personnel, will -be supplied to the local cooks as guides in preparing well-rounded meals for the outdoor-sharpened appetites of the men in unit, he said. Local Guardsmen after a hard day in the field, and every day in the two week period will be just that, are scheduled to sit down to such dishes as grilled steak, hashed-brown potatoes, a ham, "apple pie, roast turkey, fried liver and onions, fried chicken, meat balls and spaghetti, grilled pork chops with apple sauce, chicken ala king, beef chop suey, baked macaroni i cheese, Salisbury steak and baked fish fillets. The mess personnel of the Ironwood Battery will be supervised at Camp Grayling by CWO W3 A.F.

Inicis, mess officer, assisted by S- Sgt. Joseph P. stew- ard. The battery will be at camp from July 9 to July 24. Estimated cost of food for the nearly 8,000 Ml i an National Guardsmen while at summer encampment is Lt.

Drazkowski said. Bagwell Is Speaker at South Dakota College YANKTON, S. D. (AP) Paul D. Bagwell, Republican candidate for governor in Michigan delivered the commencement address at Yankton College here Monday and was awarded an honorary degree.

The degree was conferred by Adrian Rondileau, college president and former faculty member at Michigan State University." Bagwell is on leave as MSU's scholarships director during his campaign for governor. Bagwell will return to Michigan tonight to resume his campaigning. British Honduras in a America has a population of 79,000. 100th Anniversary Jamboree REPUBLICAN MEETING THURSDAY, JUNE 9th 7 Wakefield Memorial Building Ov I Banquet Hall All Republicans and All Interested Persons Are Invited. All Local Candidates Will Be in Attendance.

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