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Memorial Day Activities Schedule Set Memorial Day services honor- Ing the nation's war dead will be held at the Memorial Building here beginning at 9:15 a.m., the Joint Memorial Day Committee has announced. Meditation music will be played by Mrs. Ruth Ticknor preceding the service which will get under way at 9:30 with the singing of the "Battle Hymn of the Republic" by the I wood American Legion Glee Club, under the direction of Percy W. Treloar, followed by "How They So Softly Rest." During this number, small children, Gretchen Grandahl, Susan Rosen and a Nagro will place U. S.

flags on three simulated graves. Choirs to be represented include St. Ambrose School Choir, directed by Sister M. Joleen, and St. Paul Cancel Choir, directed by Mrs.

T. R. Wirtanen. Mrs. Michael Albert will sing the traditional Jewish hymn, "Eli, Eli." Members of Luther L.

Wright High School Club then wil sing "There Is No Death." The club is directed by Mrs. Michael Burla. The three children and the clergy will be escorted to platform by Sfc. Raymond Rooper, Gunnery Sgt. Tony Couteau, and Chief Petty Officer David Lindstrom.

Prayers then will be offered by Rt. Rev. Msgr. Joseph J. Dunleavy, pastor of St.

A brose Catholic Church, Rev. Oliver A. Hallberg, pastor of St. Paul Lutheran Church, and Ted Friedman, representing the Jewish faith. The prayers will close The Legion Glee Club then will sing the Navy Hymn.

The audience will sing "God America." This memorial service, the committee noted, is being made possible through the cooperation of the clergy and congregations of the Ironwood churches and servicemen and their friends. In the event of rain, the parade will be cancelled and the service scheuled for the cemetery will follow shortly af- fer the singing of "God Bless America." Parade units will assemble in front of the Memorial Building at 10 a.m. The parade is scheduled to begin at 10:30 with the line of march from the Memorial Building west McLeod Ave. to Suffolk then north on Suffolk St. to Ayer where the parade will pause at the war memorial on the Post Office lawn.

Wreaths will be placed at the memorial base. The parade will then head west on Ayer St. to Lowell then north on Lowell to Ridge and from there west to the cemetery. The order of march will consist first of the massed colors, followed by the American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Legion and VFW firing squads, Blue Knights Drum and Bugle Corps, veterans of World Wars I and II and the Korean a Vietnam wars, speakers and dignitaries, auxiliaries, Knights of Columbus marching unit, Gold Star mothers, Luther L. Wright ROTC and high school band.

At Riverside Cemetery traditional rites will be held at the soldier's monument. The Blue Knights will play the march into the cemetery. After the invocation by Pastor Hallberg, the American Glee Club will sing and a portion of the ritual of the Grand Army of the Republic will be read by Percy Treloar. Wreaths will be placed at tile monument by the VFW, gion, the auxiliaries, Korean and Vietnam war service clubs, the Daughters of the American Revolution, and the Gold Star Mothers. After a selection by the Legion Glee Club, the VFW and Legion firing squads will fire a salute and "taps" will be sounded.

The rites will close with playing of the national anthem by the high school band. D. Karling Transferred David Karling, lands staff assistant on the Ottawa National Forest since 1965, has been transferred to the Toiyabe National Forest at Reno, according to Forest Supervisor Ralph Kizer. He will assume a similar position on that forest. Karling.

a native of Wakefield, began his Forest Service rareer on the Shawnee National Forest at Elizabethtown, 111. He served as an assistant ranger at that location from 1962 to 1965 when he was transferred to Ironwood. He is a graduate of Wakefield High School and also attended Michigan Technological University at Houghton where he earned a B. S. degree in forestry in 1962.

While assigned to tbe Ottawa, Karling was instrumental in the purchase of the Sylvania Tract in He also did much of the preliminary work involved in (he exchange of the Black River County Park in 1967, and the acquisition of the McCflCmick estate in 1964. Sf ock Market Slips Lower NEW YORK (AP) The stock market slid lower In active trading early today. The Dow Jones industrial average at 10:30 a.m. was down 4.71 at 933.95. Losses led gains by 125 issues.

A block of Atlas Corp. traded at up Vs. A 16,700 share block of American Telephone Telegraph traded at 56V4, off V4. Steels, motors, aircrafts and electronics mostly were lower. Utilities also had a lower tone.

Opening prices included: Mobil Oil, off Ys at 68y 4 on 20,100 shares; General Motors, off 1 at 80 on 15,100 shares; United Air Lines, off Yt at on 13,200 shares; Benguet off at on 12,600 shares, and Commonwealth Oil, up at 247s on 9,800 shares. The Dow Jones Industrial va- erage dipped 8.28 Tuesday to 938.66. The Associated Press average of 60 stocks was off 1.9 at 334.7. Brokers reported continuing concern over tight money including fears of an increase in the current 7Yz per cent prime lending rate.Prices were mixed on the American Stock Exchange. Stock Market NOON QUOTATIONS NEW YORK (AP)--Following is a sectioned list of stock transactions of the New York Stock Exchange at Midday with net change from previous close.

Allied Ch 4 Am Can Am Mot 107s Ys Am Tel Tel 56 Armour Beth Steel Ches Ohio Chrysler 51V 8 Cities Sv Consumer Pw Con Can 69 7 8 Copp Rge Det Edis Dow Chem du Pont 139 5 East Kod Ford Mot 50 Gen Fds Gen Motors Gen Tel 39 Gerber Prod Gillette Goodrich 44 Goodyear Inland Stl Int Bus Mach Int Nick Int Tel Tel 54 John Man Ligg My Mead Cp Nat Gypsum Penney, JC Pfizer RCA Repub Stl Sears Roeb Std Brand Std Oil NJ Std Oil Ind Stauff Ch 46 Un Carbide 43 7 Un Oil US Steel Wh Un Tel Westg El U--Up. D--Down. Obituaries Wilbert Haapala KENTON --Wilbert Haapala, 58, died Tuesday at a Crystal Falls hospital. He was born at Bruce Crossing Sept. 13, 1910, and was a member of Trinity Lutheran Church, Trout Creek and the Kenton American Legion Post.

Surviving are his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Antti Haapala and a sister, Mrs. Arthur Pentilla of Kenton. Funeral services will be held Saturday at 2 p.m.

at Trinity Lutheran Church, Trout Creek, with the Rev. Kenneth Engstrom officiating. Burial will be at Hillside Cemetery, Bruce Crossing. Russell Nichols Russell Nichols, 58, formerly of Ironwood, died Monday at a Mankato, Minn, hospital. He had been in ill health two years.

Burial will be Thursday, May 29, at Holy Rosary Catholic Church, Mankato. He is survived by his wife, the former Elizabeth Buda, Ironwood; three sons, Russell Randy and Carlton; one daughter, Constance, and nine grand- chtildren. The deceased was born here Sept. 27, 1910. Mrs.

Ida Spahn Mrs. Ida Spahn, 71, Milwaukee, a former Ironwood resident, died Tuesday afternoon at a Milwaukee hospital. The former Ida Holrnan was born Jan. 21, 1898 at Ishpeming, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs.

Alfred Holman. They moved here and resided at 224 Norrie St. She- was preceded in death by two brothers, William and Albert. Mrs. Spahn was a frequent visitor at the Albert Holman home in Hurley.

Surviving are two nieces, Mrs. Jean Ware of Milwaukee a Miss Ellerine Holman of Los Angeles, and one nephew, Willis Holman of Menomonee Falls, Wis. Funeral services will be held Thursday night at 8 at the Harder Funeral Home, Milwaukee. Burial will be in a Milwaukee Cemetery. Holiday Closings Set City and county offices, banks, schools and most business places on the Range will close Friday, which is Memorial Day and a legal holiday.

Post offices in each of the communities will observe their usual holiday schedule. Each of these business places will reopen at the usual hour Saturday and classes will resume Monday morning. Briefly Told The Hnrley American Legion Post will not meet night. All members are encouraged to march in the Memorial Day parade Friday. The Ironwood American Legion Glee Club will have its final rehearsal for Memorial Day tonight at 8 in the legion clubrooms.

All members are asked to attend. The Iron County Finance and Salary Committee will meet at 4:45 p.m. Thursday in the county clerk's office at the courthouse in Hurley. Two Groups Serving On Memorial Day MASS--Bishop Baraga Guild of Ss. Peter and Paul Catholic Church of Greenland will serve a luncheon in the church parlors Memorial Day, starting at 1 p.m.

and the Adventure Sportsmen's Club will serve a pancake breakfast at the i Chalet from 7 a.m. until noon on Memorial Day. Mrs. Sally Hardin has left for Lansing to take her state board exams for practical nursing. She is employed at the Ontonagon County Medical a Facility.

Russell Hnhli, Wa'ertown, visited his parents. Mr. and Walter Huhti, Greenland. Mrs. Helen Lespi Mrs.

Helen Marie Lespi, 52, formerly of Kenton, died May 10 at a Tuscaloosa, hospital. Funeral services were held May 12 at Tuscaloosa. Mrs. Lespi is survived by three sons, Ronald Sloma, Kenosha; Larry Sloma, Bonners Ferry, Bobby Lespi, Thomaston, five daughters, Mrs. Don Laduron, Linden, Alec Metos, Bruce Crossing; Mrs.

Billy Stokes, Thomaston; Mrs. im Maki, Trout Creek, and Miss Carol Lespi, Linden, 13 grandchildren; two brothers, Reino Soder and Bill Nelson, Trout Creek, and three sisters, Mrs. Jack McLaughlin and Mrs. James Madden, Trout Creek, and Mrs. Alger May, Watersmeet, Mich.

Student Loan Unit Has Meet at Mass MASS The Student Loan Fund Board of Trustees met recently at the elementary school with Eli Isotalo, president, presiding. Represented at the meeting were: Chamber of Commerce, Raymond Hardy; Evergreen Extension Viola Hendrickson; Elementary Parents Club, Aune Nara and Isotalo; Lutheran ch Board, Onni Filppula; Bishop Baraga Guild, Mary Miilu; Veterans of Foreign Wars, Frank Kubic; Greenland Township fire department, Robert Lukkari. Four applications were received from Mass area boys graduating from the Ontonagon Area High School. Two applications were approved in the sum of $200 each. The board was unable to approve the other applications and as a result there there was considerable discussion with the end view of making either more scholarships available or increasing the amount of loans.

With the slowing down of loan repayments, the increasing rise in college costs and the increasing number of students from the area" entering institutions of high ed- cation, the board voted to have a chicken barbecue Aug. 30 at the Veterans Post Home at East Branch to raise funds for further funds. Kubic was named chairman of the event. The by-laws committee report was received. The revisions and additions to the by-laws were approved.

The treasurer's report showed several recipients of loans had sent in payments on their accounts. One of these is serving with the armed forces in Vietnam. The president will call a meeting of the board to report progress for the fund raising event. Man Electrocuted GRAND RAPIDS (AP) -John Anderson, 47, of Walker, the brother of Grand Rapids Police Supt. Robert Anderson, was electrocuted working in Grand Rapids Monday.

Authorities said he was holding an end of a cable attached to a water pipe that was being moved by a crane at the time. The pine touched high tension wire, nolica DR. JOHN A. NIEMI Niemi Speaker At GCC Rites Jacob A. Solin, dean of academic programs at Gogebic Community College, has announced that Dr.

John A. Niemi, acting head of the department of adult education at the University of British Columbia, Canada, will be the guest speaker at the college's 36th graduation exercises Thursday, May 29, at 8 p.m. in the Luther L. Wright High School gymnasium. Dr.

Niemi, a former resident of the Ironwood area and an almnus of Gogebic Community College, has a varied educational background. He recently was promoted associate professor in the adult education department at the university, and from 196466 was adult education intern in engineering extension at the university of California. From 1962-64 he was department head of the evening off- campus and correspondence department of the University of Alaska, and in 1961 served as assistant to the president of the University of Alaska." Dr. Niemi received his bachelor of arts degree from Michigan State University in 1945, his master of education degree from the University of Alaska in 1963, and his doctorate in 1967 from UCLA. He also has had many honors conferred upon him in the field of education, holds many professional memberships, and has co-authored a number of articles in adult education periodicals.

Dr. and Mrs. Niemi will be visiting with relatives and friends while in the area. E. Engstrom Heads Legion Everis Engstrom was unanimously elected new commander of the American Legion Post 58, Hurley at a recent meeting.

Other officers are Dominic Gicomino, first vice commander; Alphonse Giannunzio, second vice commander; Roy Engstrom, adjutant; George Reader, finance officer; Thomas Ga-" mache, chaplain; Joseph Erspamer, sergeant at arms; Felix Obertone and Joseph Jelinski, executive commanders. Outgoing commander Joseph Gayer was presented with a membership in the Past Commanders Club of Wisconsin and with a past commander lapel pin. The installation of officers will be held June 11 with a dinner to precede the installation at 6:30 p.m. Funerals MISS D. ALEXANDER Funeral services for Miss Dora C.

Alexander, 94, who died at Marshall, were held at 9 a.m. Monday at St. Ambrose Catholic Church, the Rev. Jack Banach officiating. Interment was at Riverside Cemetery.

Pallbearers were Eugene Zinn Frank Talaska, John Gorrilla, William Wagner, Joseph Lesco and William Tobin. Out of town persons attending the services included Mrs. A. C. Meyers, San Francisco, Mr.

and Mrs. Robert Antonino, Marshall, Mrs. Ernest Kivisto, Aurora, 111., and Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Langford, Marquette.

REV. AMBROSE MATEJIK Funeral services for the Rev. Ambrose C. Matejik, 58, pastor of Holy Trinity Catholic Church, who died last week, were held Monday at 11 a.m. at Trinity Church.

Celebrant was the Most Rev. Charles A. Salat- ka, bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Marquette. Concelebrants were the Revs. Charles Herbst, B.

Neil Smith, Norbert Freiburger, Joseph Kichak, Thomas Ruppe, Chester Franczek, Clarence Bogetto, Norbert LaCosse, Frederic Beller, Paul Ischler, Emmet Norden, Donald LaLonde, Weber and Norbert Landreville. Interment was at Holy Cross Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pa. Pallbearers were Charles L. Santini, Joseph C. Gorrill, Joseph Mrofchak, Robert Vida, Paul Brisson and Robert Smaltz.

Out of town relatives and friends attending the services included Father Matejik's brother, Albert Matejik, Philadelphia, and numerous clergymen and friends from the Upper Peninsula and Northern Wisconsin. MRS. JACK MC BRIDE MASS--Funeral services for Mrs. Jack McBride, 63, who died May 11 at Butte, were held May 14 at the Wayrynen Funeral Home, Butte, with the Rev. Oliver Jones officiating.

Burial was in Mountain View Cemetery, Butte. The former Peggy Manninen was born in Atlantic Mine in 1906, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Manninen. She was married at Fort Dodge, Iowa, to.

Jack McBride and resided there for several years. For the last 17 years they resided in Butte. Surviving, besides her husband, are one son, Harry Johnson of San Francisco, six sisters, Mrs. Hilda Aari and Mrs. Helen Aari of Mass, Mrs.

Alma Lampi of L'Anse, Mrs. Margie Puera of Detroit, Mrs. Edna Treadway of Cudahy, and Mrs. Esther Campbell of Mount Clemens, and three brothers, Edwin Manning of Mass, Carl Manning of Detroit and Herbert Manning of Negaunee. Mrs.

George Aari of Mass, Mrs. Edna Treadway of Cudahy and Roy Montray of Houghton attended the services. 3 Classes Travel to Black River Harbor PRESQUE ISLE, children of the 5th, 6th and 7th grades of the local school, with their teacher, Mrs. Shirley Bailey and Mrs. Daniel Galbrecht, chaperones, went on a trip to Black River Harbor, Lake Superior.

The 8th graders traveled to Madison fo rtheir class trip. Mr. and Mrs. Milton Tice, Phelps, visited here with friends. All of Mrs.

Cora Spencer's children were home for Mother's Day. Included were Mr. and Mrs. Earl Spencer of Mercer, Mr. and Mrs.

Charles Spencer and family of Winchester, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Spencer of White Pine and Mrs. Lucille Eschenbauch of Presque Isle. Mr.

and Mrs. Prosser and son, Clark, Wausau, also were here. Prosser is a grandson of Mrs. Spencer. Mrs.

James Rutherford, Madison, is at their place on Oxbow Lake, supervising the erection of their permanent home here. Frank Barta has returned from a 14-day vacation in Guadalupe. Mr. and Mrs. William Hill were at Marshfield, to visit their son, Leighton, who is a patient at the Marsiifield Clinic.

Leighton, a former Presque Isle resident, now resides with his family at Antigo, where he is with the Department of Natural Resources. Robert Eesley Sr. and Robert Eesley Two Rivers, stopped here to visit friends, on their way home from Hayward, Wis. They are former Presque Isle residents. Mrs.

John Seamen, Milwaukee, is at her home on A a Lake for the cummer season, wervice in Vietnam. Rites Set for Memorial Day MASS Memorial Day rites will be held at the Rousseau and Maple Grove Cemeteries. The members of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post will meet at the veterans hall in East Branch at 10 and will march from there to the Rousseau Cemetery where the Memorial Day program will be held at 11. The veterans will meet at the Greeland Town Hall at 12:30 accompanied by the band, firemen and possibly others. They will march to the Maple Grove Cemetery, Greenland, where the program will begin at 1.

The veterans will hold their rites and the band will furnish music. Guest speaker for the day will be a former local resident, the Rev. Olaf Rankinen, chaplain at Suomi College, Hancock. Several members of the Veterans of Foreign Wars attended the 15th District Convention at South Range May 17. Included were Commander Ray Hardy, Frank Kubic, Glen Thomas and Wilmer Sedig.

Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hermansen visited friends at Stambaugh, Iron River and Crystal Falls. Mr. and Mrs.

Urho Wuori, Pelkie, visited Fred Wuori at the Ontonagon Medicare Facility. Mr. and Mrs. Wilhart Hendrickson, Detroit, visited re- cdntly with his mother, Mrs. Lydia Wesander, at Ontonagon Medicare Facility, his brother and sister in law, Mr.

and Mrs. Andrew Hendrickson, and her sister, Mrs. Lillian Jordan of Mass. WITH THE COLORS MARENISCO Pfc. Terry J.

Whitley, son of Mr. and Mrs. Derald Whitley, is serving with the First Air Cavalry Division in Vietnam. He received his basic training at Fort Campbell, and advanced individual training at Fort Lewis, Wash. After spending a 14-day furlough with his parents, Whitley embarked April 18 for a year's Reds Fire From DMZ Continued from Page One the battle for Dong Ap Bia--Operation Apache Snow--is continuing in and around the A Shau Valley, the North Vietnamese stronghold which the mountain overlooks.

The valley is a staging area for attacks on Hue, 30 miles to the northeast, and Da Nang, 55 miles to the southwest. The objective of Apache Snow is to hinder or destroy North Vietnamese troops and supplies moving from Laos into the A Shau Valley. North Vietnamese troops attacked a South Vietnamese regimental command post in the valley about 10 miles north- northwest of Dong Ap Bia. The government said 22 North Vietnamese were killed while South Vietnamese casualties were reported as light. Another artillery attack was reported from inside the demilitarized zone.

U.S. headquarters said North Vietnamese gunners firing from 300 yards inside the southern half of the zone Tuesday slammed 10 rounds of 100- pound rockets into the U.S. logistics base at Cua Viet, five miles south of the eastern flank of the zone. The attack caused no casualties or damage, headquarters said. A spokesman said a U.S.

destroyer just off the coast fired on the enemy firing position, "resulting in one secondary explosion. Enemy losses are unknown." It was the 22nd rocket and mortar assault reported from inside the DMZ since May 12, when the enemy command stepped up its attacks throughout the country. Program Set At Marenisco The Marenisco Memorial Day program will begin at 10:30 a.m. with a parade from the Town Hall to the Cemetery. At the Pond, the High School Band will play the "Star Spangled Banner" directed by Donald Stand, followed by a salute, Legion Firing Squad; taps, High School buglers, Toni Obfden and Jim McKenzie.

At the Cemetery, "Battle Hymn of the Republic," High School Band; pledge to the flag, Post Commander, B. J. Conterio; address, Arno Lugviel; "God Bless America," Band; legion auxiliary services, Mrs. Shirley Pennock, Mrs. Agnes Fairfield; Royal Neighbor services, Mrs.

Gladys Brightsman, Marge LaRock; decoration of graves, Leo Arnestad; benediction, Post Chaplain Anthony Grudnoski; salute, Legion Firing Squad; taps, High School buglers. All members of the American Legion and American i Auxiliary, all veterans and other servicemen, and all firemen are asked to take part in the parade. In case of rain, the program will be held in the Marenisco Township Hall. Officer of the Day is Leo Arnestad and Post Commander is B. J.

Conterio. Royal Neighbors Has End of Season Meet WATERSMEET The Royal Neighbors of America Lodge held its end of the season dinner meeting at the Steak House in Eagle River. Lois Brunelli asked for volunteers to march in the Memorial Day parade and to go to the cemetery to place flags and memorial markers on veterans' graves. A let! ter was received concerning participation in the Italiano Festival in Hurley, but no action was taken. Eighteen members attended the dinner meeting.

Mr. and Mrs. Martin Schutte Jr. and family, Milwaukee, spent a weekend with his parents, Mr. and Mrs.

Martin Schutte and also visited Mrs. Schutte's father, Wiley Sparks, Land o'Lakes, who is a patient at Memorial Hospital, Eagle River. Mr. and Mrs. Walisciewcz and daughter, Patricia, Milwaukee, visited recently with Mr.

and Mrs. Martin Schutte here, and with relatives and friends in Ironwood. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Congdon, Wisconsin Rapids, have opened their summer home here and will be there for the summer as soon as school closes for this school year.

Congdon is superintendent at Wisconsin Rapids. Building is Erected At Boy Scout Camp Volunteers from the I Workers Local 783 have completed a Butler storage building at Camp Hiawatha in A1 County, the summer camp of the Hiawathaland Council, Boy Scouts of America. The building was donated by Kincheloe Air Force Base. The volunteer Iron Workers spent two weekends at the camp erecting the building. USE DAILY GLOBE WANT-ADS PAGE 2 frenweed Daily Globe, Wednesday, May 21, 196t Hospital Notes GRAND VIEW.

Admitted Tuesday: Charlotte Route 2, Hazel Silanpa, 1333 Cloverland Drive; surgery; John Pasanen, 623 Cloverland Drive, medical. Discharged Tuesday: Roger Fesnick, Bessemer; Oscar Loff, Mrs. Jennie Johnson, Leonard Saari, Ironwood. Number of patients Tuesday, 56. DIVINE INFANT, Wakefield.

Admitted Tuesday: Linda Johnson, Bruce Crossing, Joseph Mezzano, Wakefield, medical; Mrs. Howard Weaver, I wood, Thomas Scheels, a e- field, surgery. Discharged Tuesday: Cheryl Brunello, Frank Humann, Ironwood; Mrs. Raymond Glatczak, Bessemer; Blanche Shisko, Marenisco. ONTONAGON MEMORIAL.

Admitted Tuesday: i 1 Burke, Mass; Wendell Anderson, Ray Martin, Ontonagon. Discharged Tuesday: Elden Burke and daughter, Mrs. Iva Klups, Mrs. Rose Kangas, Kelly Broemer, David Kalivoda, Ontonagon; Mrs. Mabel Pene- gor, Rockland; Gladys Spitz, Milwaukee; Mrs.

Lillian Stenson, Kenneth Martin, Greenland; Susan Perttu, White Pine. LAKELAND MEMORIAL, Woodruff. Discharged day: Lawrence Labarge, Tripoli; Henry Simon, Chicago; Clara Dunham, Minpcqua; Melvin Jacobi, Arbor Vitae; Albany Potts HI, Lac du Flambeau. Train Begins Area Service The Flambeau 400 begins its vacationland runs to this area Thursday. There will be one train each way daily, beginning Friday.

However, the initial schedule is as follows: On its northbound schedule, the train will beave Chicago Thursday at 11:20 a.m., Milwaukee 1:10 p.m., Rhinelander 7:47 p.m., Lake Tomahawk 8:15 p.m., Woodruff 8:29 p.m., Lac du Flambeau 8:45 p.m., Manitowish 9:03 p.m., Mercer 9:08 p.m. Hurley 9:53 p.m., Iron- wodo 10:01 p.m., Saxon 10:27 p.m., and" arrive in Ashland 11:20 p.m. Friday's southbound schedule includes an Ashland departure at 9:10 a.m., Saxon 9:50 a.m., Hurley 10:18 a.m., Ironwood 10:25 a.m., Mercer 11:12 a.m., Manitowish 11:17 a.m., Lac du Flambeau 11:36 a.m., Woodruff 11:52 a.m., Lake Tomahawk 12:04 p.m. and Rhinelander 12:35 p.m. It will arrive in Milwaukee at 7:40 p.m.

and in Chicago at 9:30 p.m The Chicago and North Western passenger train service to the Lake Superior port of Ashland is only during the summer months and each trip between terminals takes a day. During the off-season, from Labor Day to Memorial Day, it goes no farther north than Green Bay. Find Boy's Body in Lake LAC DU FLAMBEAU The body of a young boy, reported missing Tuesday night, was recovered from Crawling Stone, Lake on the Lac du Flambeau Indian Reservation here at 10:10 this morning, by a search party of Vilas County Sheriff's deputies and Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources officers. Identification of the boy was withheld by authorities and further details were not available, pending a report by the Vilas County coroner's office. Suffered Heart Attack CLIO (AP)--Clio police report Robert Churchill, 66, apparently suffered a heart attack shortly before his car rammed into a house Monday.

Churchill, a Clio resident, was dead on arrival at a Flint hospital after the accident. Police said the house suffered extensive damage, but no one inside was injured. THE WEATHER TEMPERATURES IN IRONWOOD Wednesday, May 28, IMS). For 24 hr. period ending at 12 noon.

2 p.m, 4 p.m. 83 6 p.m. 84 8 80 10 p.m 751 a 68 86 Midnight 741 8 a.m. 72 2 a.m. 4 a 73110 a.m.

78 noon 84 Barometer: 6 a.m. 29 84; Naan 29.83. RANGE SKIES Sunset today 8:42. Sunrise tomorrow 5:13. Moonset tomorrow 3:33 a.m.

The planet Mercury is between the earth and the sun today. Tomorrow it will be only million miles from the earth, about as close as it comes. The last time Mercury was so near us was on May 27, 1956. FIVE DAY FORECAST Temperatures expected to average about 5 degrees above normal high of 66 and normal lows of 44 Thursday through next Monday. Cooler Thursday or Friday and warmer Sunday or Monday.

Precipitation expected to total less than one-tenth of an inch in showers mainly late afternoons or evenings Thursday through Monday. Bills Advance In Lansing Continued from Page increase in the minimum to $1.45 an hour on Jan. 1, 1971 and $1.50 by Jan. 1, 1972. The vote in the Republican- controlled Senate was 20-16, bare minimum needed for pais- age.

Levin was unsuccessful in ing for an amendment to raise the scale to $1.50 by 1970 and $1.60 and $1.75 in the ing years. The bill now goes to MM House, controlled by Democrats. House speaker William Ryan, Detroit, has saidt "We'll try to get as much as can." Also passed and relayed to the House was a bill to permit issuance of resort liquor to established golf courses. courses must have been in operation at least two years. Miniature golf courses will not qualify- The Senate approved a bill authorizing the state building division to meet with Lansing city officials to agree on zoning regulations around the capitol complex.

A measure to limit the life of grand juries to two years lost by one vote. Backers won approval of reconsideration of the vote today, however. A measure asking that Michigan join an interstate agreement on teacher qualifications was defeated. Moved up to final passage stage were bills to: --Increase contempt penalties that could be imposed by grand juries. --Allow expert witnesses to report in writing rather than in person before grand juries or in preliminary examinations.

--Permit smaller counties to combine the office of prosecuting attorney. --Restrict the use of political party funds by candidates itt primary elections. --Create a State Hospital Finance Authority to help in the building and improvement of nonprofit hospitals. --Permit persons to keep and use unsolicited merchandise sent through the mail. --Tighten the law forbidding liquor retaile to have an interest in any other segment of the liquor business.

Expenditures Are Approved MINOCQUA, Wis. The Minocqua town board at a meeting this week approved a pay raise for the town's police force and approved expenditures to beautify the town before expected influx of summer tourists. A salary hike of 25 cents an hour was approved for the policemen after a comprehensive study of salaries and benefits paid to other town personnel was made by the board. In an extensive project to beautify the town, the board approved purchase of 12 disposals for Main St. and Torpy Park at a cost of $60 each, ordered frti- ficial flowers to be hung from the Christmas decorations holders on the town bridge, ordered new play equipment for Torpy Park, purchase of a flag for the pole outside the town office, ordered a fence to be installed around the pond at Torpy Park, and approved purchase of a seeder and seed for planting grass on the shoulders of town roads.

Bids for blacktopping 17.8 miles of town roads were opened and the contract was awarded to Pitlik Wick Construction Co. for $70,555, and to Lake Tomahawk Sand Gravel Co. for $92,112. Acceptance of contract will be contingent upon approval at the annual meeting. Watersmeet School Notes Michigan Week WATERSMEET A program was presented by students at the iocal school in observance of Michigan Week.

The program opened with a style show by students in Grades 7 through 12; Sandy Oxley was narrator, Charlene Jenkins was accompanist and Robert Zelinski, Arthur Peterson and Jay Shifra were escorts. Junior speech contest winners presented their selections: Dramatics, Corrine Caron, "Angel Unaware," and humorous, a Jenkins, "Number please." During the intermission the 7th and 8th grade boys removed the chairs and those in attendance moved to the bleachers for the physical education demonstration. The Porcupine Mountain Conference girls volleyball champions for the last years were challenged by the 7th and 8th grade boys and boys and girls chosen from the 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th grades played a game of "bounce volleyball." There was a home economics display in (he home economics jroom and the shop disolay was iset up in the hall. INEWSPAPERif.

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