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Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1941-09-11
HOTEL MEN TO MEET

About rs hotel men and WON
en- are expected to attend a meet
ing of Ohio hotel operators at the
Warden hotel here Friday, spon-
sored by the Ohio Hotels asso-
citation. Reno G. Hoag Of Mariet-
ia, a nationally prominent hotel
man will be the moderator.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1941-09-11

LOOK FOR YOUR NAME
SEE A MOVIE SHOW FREE
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1941-09-11
Sharritt Delegate to
BARRIERS Convention

Mr.. and Mrs. John Sharritt
left this week for Indianapolis,
Ind, where Mr.. Sharritt will be
a delegate to the international
BARRIERS convention which starts
next Monday. They will be gone
about ten days. Mr.. Sharritt is
also secretary of the Newark
BARRIERS union.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1941-09-11

/ am a man, and nothing in
mans lot can be Indifferent to
me.-Terence.
To judge human nature right
ly, a man may sometimes have
a very small experience, provid-
ed he has very large heart.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1941-09-11
MISSION PRAYER BAND
MEETS FRIDAY NIGHT

The Evangelstic and Serbian
Mission Prayer band will meet
at 1880 Friday night, Sept. II in
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. P. F.
Bartlett, 81 Western avenue.
The meeting is interdenomina-
tional and open to the public.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1941-09-11
INJURED

Clifford Miller, 35 Boner street
an employe of the Wehrle Oil
company is in the City hospital
from head injuries suffered when
he was engaged in removing rig
ging from a well.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1941-09-11

The regular social meeting of
Delta Chi Sigma sorority was
held in the sorority rooms, Mon
day, Sept. 8.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-09-18

President of the Ely drum and bugle
corps. twice state champions, the YER
satile Kapsch turned chef for the
dinner corps members gave their
wives Sunday night in the Community
Center, preparing a barbecued rib
banquet that won the praise of the
ladies'
Matthias j. Smrekar acted as toast
master, introducing the members
wives and also President (and Chef
Kapsch. E. H Anderson, retiring
president, welcomed the guests.
Entertainment program included a
quiz contest conducted by Smrekar;
the evolution of coronet player,
Floyd Dunstan; limitations, Fred La
Land, Duluth, and piano selections, in
Guiding a demonstration of how to
play wearing mittens, Guy Hallock,
French River.
Harold j. Dillon, drum major, pre-
sented corp members with their 1941
championship medals, and also awarded
Music Master Dunstan and Majorette
Rose Belehar life membership cards
in the American Drum Corps associa-
ton Dillon is a charter member of
the organization.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-09-18
New CCC Camp May be
Constructed Near Winton

ramp, and dock on Shagawa lake,
which will be used by the forest serv-
ices Seaplanes. Another is the dam
at Prairie Portage. A side camp has
been established there and the dam
will be well along before winter sets
in.
Co. I'll at Portage River will be
housed this winter at the Baptism
camp at Isabella. moving to Baptism
about the middle of October Co. I'll
occupies one of the oldest camps in
the Superior National Forest, and be-
cause of the large amount of repair
work needed on the buildings the
army refused to approve the build
ings for occupancy for another winter.
The company stationed at Baptism was
disbanded earlier in the summer
Portage River enrollees are construc-
ting the Shagawa lake base, and are
also building the Prairie Portage dam.
Work on the seaplane base will be dis
continued when winter sets in, but will
be resumed next spring.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-09-18

their greatest enemy, fire, would I'LL
several good sized volumes.
Based at Ely, where a three-plane
hangar, ramp and dock is now under
construction on Shagawa lake, the for
est services Seaplane has travelled a
distance nearly equal to twice around
the earth during the two seasons it
has been operated. In addition, it saw
service from September TO November,
1899, when first used in the Superior
Merle Moltrup, a veteran of over
$1,000 hours in the air, has piloted the
ship from the start.
In the days before seaplanes canoes
and launches provided the only means
of transportation in the millionaire
roadless area of the Superior. Some
times two days were required to reach
the area in which fire had been re-
ported, and by the time the crew
arrived the fire had grown many times,
to considerable size All additional
supplies, equipment, and men had to
come in by water.
Now the seaplane fire fighters get
the Jump on the flames. Within a
matter Of minutes the ship can reach
most isolated points, while distant
sections are but an hour away. The
speed with which a crew is taken in
makes the seaplane system effective.
Besides the pilot, who has developed
into something of a woods fireman
two men fully equipped for
action are transported by plane They
carry all necessary articles-marine
power pump, two packsacks Of fire
hose each having 800 feet; equipment
box containing nozzles, hose connec-
tons, electric lantern; oil and gaso-
line pump, pulaski, a shovel, sleeping
bags, emergency rations for "a hours.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-09-18
WILL DISCUSS
PENSION PLAN
Representative of Program
Offered by State to
Come Here.

A representative of the Public EN-.
ployes Retirement association is ex-
pected here this week to explain the
associations program to non-certif.
Gated employees of school district No
IL.
He may also meet with city official.
to discuss Inauguration of the retire
ment plan for city employees.
The school board by resolution has
placed the retirement program in oper-
alton for school employees, and it viii
take effect the first of next month
Eligible are janitors. and other en-
ployes, but not including members OF
the teaching staff. Teachers have a
separate retirement program.
A state law enacted in 1881 created
the Public Employees Retirement asso-
citation. Sole obligation on the part
Of the school district is to provide
bookkeeping for the local group, and
deduct from pay checks local men,
bers' contributions.
School employees who become men,
bers will pay 81 per cent of their
wages toward retirement fund at the
age of IS. Present employees may join
up to two years from now without
penalty All new employees viii auto
matically come under the plan If
after four years a member leaves the
employment of the school he can still
remain a member of the association.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-09-18
Forest Service Seeking Army
Approval of Location; Co.
I'll to Move.

The U. s. forest service is seeking
the establishment of new CCC camp
in this immediate vicinity, and it is
believed that the army will approve
the construction of new facilities.
1t is believed that the forest service
will select a site near Winton or Gar
den lake, and will submit the location
to the army for consideration.
Whether or not a new camp will be
constructed is dependent upon decisions
reached by the army, the region nine
forest service Office, and the director
of the CCC in Washington.
The new camp will be located near
Garden lake, or near Winton, because
of its close proximity to a large num-
Der of projects now under way or con-
templated by the forest service. One
that is started is the seaplane hangar,
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-09-18

There are numerous instances OF
speedy action on the part of the plane
transported firemen, but the best
record was established last summer In
81 minutes the crew was battling an
island fire in Jackdsh bay of Eastwood
lake 10 miles by air from Ely. The
fire could not have been reached in
less than two hours by launch.
Regular patrols are maintained to
spot lightning fires following thunder
storms, and during periods of high
fire danger when poor visibility limits
the vision of towermen. 1t required
about two hours to cover the western
half of the inaccessible area, and a
like period for the eastern half Often
the fires amount to no more than a
burning trunk, and are Immediately
taken care of.
This summer 10 lightning fires were
spotted in about 10 days but none Of
them grew to be more than an acre
in size before the plane crew extin-
guished them.
Besides it's f1re-fighting activities, the
ship is used to maintain connections
with CCC side camps and administra-
tive points in the wilderness, and to
transport officials on inspection trips.
It has hauled great quantities of sup
plies and equipment to border and
interior areas in a few minutes flying
time that would have required dayS
of laborious travel to have reached by
canoe and boat
But its main activity has been in
combating the scourge of the woods,
the fire. Working Systematically with
fire lookout towermen and ranger
stations. the ship has proved its value
MANY times as a fire-fighting agent
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-09-18
8 TO ATTEND WV
DISTRICT MEETING.

The Eighth district pow-wow of the
Veterans of Foreign Wars will be held
Sunday, at Grand Rapids. Ponti-
Peterson Post No. ITO viii be host to
posts of the district.
A school of instruction will be con-
Quoted at 10 a. m. for service officers.
The business session will open at 2
p. m, followed by banquet and dance
as the evenings entertainment.
Delegates and alternates elected to
represent the Ely Post No. 2717 are:
Commander John j. Maier, Peter
Kocevar, Louis c.. SLENDER, Ansol
Skantze, Adolph S. Hanson, Waino E.
Starkman, John Ranta and Dan Jarvi
All members are invited to attend and
are requested to get in touch with any
of the above men who are arranging
for TRANSFORMATION.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-09-18
Seaplane Proved Best Fire Fighter


Fighting interior fires in the Super.
lor National Forest by seaplane is ths
most effective and cheapest methoc
devised.
This conclusion has been reached a
the forest services pontoon-equippec
monoplane nears the completion of its
second full season Of operation. A
second ship was purchased this sum-
mer, but was kept from service because
defense demands have made it diff
cult to secure pontoons.
The fire-dghting seapIane has saved
the day more than once for the guard
lans OF the nations largest national
forest, Ranger Jack Valentine of the
La Croix district. declares.
Ranger Frank Legat of the Kaw-
wishiwi district is equally enthused.
The planes two-man crew is more
effective, because of the speed with
which it goes into action, than 30
man canoe crew" Legat says.
Since fires along canoe routes, 80
per cent Of them man caused, are
close to water, they are easily reached
by the seaplane," he pointed out.
These two men have the longest
service record Of any rangers in the
forest. Valentine has spent 81 years
in the Superior, a record that is un-
equalled in region nine with the
exception Of that for a ranger in the
Chippewa National Forest who has
been stationed in the region about an
equal number Of years. Legat came to
the Superior in 1923, but first joined
the forest service 81 years ago in the
West.
What they have experienced in ad-
ministering thousands of acres of the
nations greatest timber reserve and
recrea tional country, and in combating
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-09-18
JACOB |. Pete
FORUM HEAD
Annual Arrowhead Meeting
Announced; Local Man
to Direct Forum.

The Internationally writer
and publicist, Margaret Culkin Ban
ming, native Minnesotan, will address
the annual meeting of the Minnesota
Arrowhead Association Friday, Sep
tember 26th, in the Hotel Duluth.
She will speak on the topic "This
Minnesota Arrowhead Country OF
Ours" following luncheon at 12:15
P. NJ, which is expected to attract
more than 400 civic leaders, conser-
vationists and public officials from all
sections of the States major tourist
region
Following the luncheon program, the
new board will name officers for the
ensuing year and resort and hotel op-
orators will conduct a conference.
Jacob L. Pete, of this city, will direct
the open forum discussions, and a
large number from Ely and vicinity
plan to attend the sessions.
The author has served as chairman
of the Advisory Committee in prepar-
ing material for "THE MINNESOTA
ARROWHEAD COUNTRY-A Guide
for Visitors" compiled by the Federal
Writers Project, and wrote the FORE
word for the publication which will be
ready for distribution October 18th.
Hanford F. Cox, Cloquet, Association
President, viii preside. Reports of
Valentine Saxby, Executive Secretary,
and other Officers will be presented in
printed form. Association Members
will elect 80 Directors from a slate be-
ing drafted by a nominating COM
mittee, of which DR.. w. T. Coventry,
Duluth, Association past president, is
chairman.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-09-18
Council and Business Men
Discuss Property Valuations

President A. j. McMahan of the Ely
Commercial Club presided at meet
ing Friday evening at the Community
Center where the matter of personal
property valuation was discussed.
Business men and several members
of the city council headed by Mayor
Kapsch were present
The meeting was brought on by the
protest filed by the mining companies
over their raise in personal property
valuations while other personal prop
erty in the city was not raised.
A reassessment of all personal prop
erty IN the city had been made and
all valuations had been increased. The
city council sitting as board Of
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-09-18
ADD FOUR TO
SCHOOL STAFF
New Music Supervisor, Two
English Teachers, Coach
Secured by District.

-Four new teachers have been added
to the school system to replace in
structors who resigned.
Latest addition to the staff is Miss
Vera Mae Glemmestad. Minneapolis
who began work Monday, replacing
Miss Chestine Knight. Miss Knight
left Friday to teach at the River
Falls, Wisconsin, State Teachers col
lege.
Miss Glemmestad, who will teach
college rhetoric and high school Latin,
obtained her B. S. and M. A. degrees
from the University of Minnesota. She
was enrolled in the university during
the last term, but proceeding that she
taught for six years at Hutchinson,
Minnesota.
Miss Doris Bergh, Wayland, Iowa. is
the new music supervisor, replacing
Miss Elizabeth Wilkin who resigned
just before school started to accept
a position in Atlanta, Ga.
Miss Bergh is a graduate of Iowa
Wesleyan university, Mt. Pleasant,
Iowa, where she received her B. M.
degree in public school music. She
secured B. M. degree in voice from
Northwestern university, Chicago, after
which she continued her studies at
the University of Washington, Seattle;
Thurston Studio, Minneapolis, and
University of Iowa, Iowa City. She was
enrolled at the Iowa institution dur
ing the 1904 term, and has just
completed a thesis for her masters
degree. She was supervisor of music
at Aurora from 1931-34, and was a
professional soloist in Minneapolis
from 1936-40.
Continued on Last Page)
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-09-18

equalization ignored all valuations as
submitted with the exception of the
mining valuations and the same were
submitted to the county board of re-
view, who passed the same on to the
state commission without recommen-
dalton. The mining companies feel that
this is discriminating and have pro-
tested
Council members present were of the
opinion that rather than get into a
legal squabble over the matter which
at the most would only amount to
about $500 a year, the old personal
property assessment should stand. This
opinion was concurred in by many of
the business men present.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-09-18
RAN OVER, NOT
SERIOUSLY HURT.

A youngster escaped serious injury
even though the front wheel of an
automobile passed over his body.
The child. Ronald Brady, years
old, son of Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Brady,
ran out from behind a parked car
directly in front of an auto driven
by Mrs. Dewey Hardy, near the inter
section of Fifth avenue east and Sher-
idan street Thursday evening. Other
youngsters with whom the Brady boy
was playing said that a wheel passed
over his middle
He was taken to Shipman hospital
for treatment and released next day.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-09-18
OLIVER, CIO MEET
SITE is SHIFTED.

The meeting between representatives
OF the Oliver Iron Mining company and
Of the Steel Workers Organizing COM
mittee of the CLIO scheduled for Du-
luth last week was shifted to Pitts
Durgh and held Friday, according to
local union officials.
No information as to the outcome
OF the conference has been received
here.
The union is asking for contract
for Oliver employees on the Mesabi and
Vermilion ranges.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-09-18
Defense Planning

The Supply Priorities and Alloca-
ton Board ordered its executive direc-
tor, Donald NJ. Nelson, to compile an
overall list of q. S. and lend-lease
defense needs as part of a detailed
master plan for the defense effort. The
SPAB ruled that no materials will
be allowed for new plants for civilian
goods if the materials are needed for
military purposes.
Aid to Britain
British Foreign Minister Eden in
formed the United States all materials
received by Great Britain under the
Lease-Lend Act were used exclusively
for war purposes and that none is be-
ing diverted to private channels.
Federal Security Administrator Nc
Mutt said the o. S. Employment Ser
vice plans TO seek several thousand
American specialists between ID and
so for employment by the British Civ
ilian Technical Corps as radio and
automobile mechanics, electrical wire
men, instrument repairers, metal
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-09-18
Inauguration of City
Recreational Program,
Expected This Month
Board Meets Saturday to
Hire Director; FiUe
Seek Position.

Ely's recreationals program neared
inauguration when the recreationai
board this week announced it would
meet Saturday afternoon to hire a
! director
Converting in the Community Center
at o'clock, the board viii select a
director from a list of five applicants,
according to John Smrekar, board
chairman. The fifth man TO apply
for the position will be interviewed
preceding the final selection.
The director named must be ap-
proved by the state wPA Office, which
will pay his salary for the first year.
Before beginning his duties here the
new director viii make an extensive
survey of recreational activities carried
on throughout the range Smrekar said.
1t is anticipated that the program
will be inaugurated the latter part of
the month, or the first of October.
Two men from ST. Paul, and one from
Eveleth, Gilbert, and st. Cloud are
seeking the position of director. All
are college graduates, except one who
has a Junior college certificate. All
have had special training in recrea-
tional work.
Hugh Walters architect who works
under the st. Paul WPA Office, will
come here Sept. % for a three-day
inspection of facilities, Smrekar said.
Walters will work with the local board
to line up facilities for a long range
program.
At the regular council meeting Tues
day night. the board made several rec
concentrations to the council, and asked
for a joint meeting to discuss prob
lens relative to Inauguration Of the
program.
Recommended were:
/. That an attempt be made to
complete preliminary work on skating
Kinks before the freeze-up so that they
could be properly flooded before freez-
ing temperatures arrive.
2. That 12-inch sideboards be con-
structed around the Chandler, Savoy,
Lincoln and Whiteside park Kinks.
3. That a special area for young
sters be built at whiteside park. It
was recommended that the hockey
rink be moved to the south so that
the present rink can be kept at present
size. Added space would make more
room for softbaIl
4. That the construction of a ski
slide has been brought to the boards
and that the Ely Ski club
has some lumber available.
The old ski slide site or the one
used last winter at the abandoned
golf course had been suggested for a
slide, w. v. Langen, board secretary,
said in answering a question directed
by Alderman John NJ Maxi.
Maxi then asked City Attorney Peter
Moscatelh if it were possible to lease
the former golf course grounds.
81 doubt it, unless you put in
golf course" Moscatell replied.
The entire matter was turned over
to the parks, grounds and buildings
committee for investigation and a re-
port at the next meeting.
At the school election last spring the
voters of the district by a large major
Ity gave the board authority to enter
into a contract with the city to jointly
conduct a recreational program here
Both the school board and the city
council have granted the recreational
board use of extensive facilities which
will soon be employed in conducting
an extensive recreational program in
,he CITY.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-09-18
SHAVE, FUTILE HERE.

Ed Shave, outdoor editor of the
Minneapolis Star Journal; Ries Tuttle,
outdoor writer for the Des Moines
Iowa, Register; Fred Hartig, Mime
apolis real estate man, and Jacob L.
Pete and Ray Hoef1er of this city
spent the weekend on Eastwood lake
1t was Tuttle's first trip to the "Play-
ground of a Nation"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-09-18
On This
Occasion
A Few Observations on Matters
Material and Immaterial by
the Editor.

Unless the rain lets up the Mime
sofa potato crop will be entirely
ruined even in high ground which has
hopes of saving enough to keep the
price level Low ground potato fields
are under water and the crop is ruined.
Twenty-Five years ago under European
war conditions and the ruination of
many potatoes by scab and rot, the
price scared to as high as So per
busheI in many parts Of the country.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-09-18
COUNCIL HOLDS
SHORT SESSION
Move to Close 3D. Places at
Midnight Fails; Seek WPA
Aid for Savoy Road.

In one of the shortest meetings OF
the year, the city council transacted
routine business Tuesday night and
adjourned in As minutes.
The city's 80 places, if they care
to, can stay open until l a. m, for
the amendment to ordinance No. SO,
which would have made the closing
hour II o'clock midnight lost on a
80 vote. Two councilmen who approved
the earlier closing hour at a recent
meeting were absent.
Mayor John Kapsch said after the
meeting that he intended to bring the
matter up again at the next session.
Although 80 places could have stayed
open until a. m until the ordinance
was amended, many of them were
closing at midnight, he said, in view
of the original action on the part of
the council. Opposing the amendment
were Aldermen Gust R. Anderson,
Rudolph Tisovich, and John NJ Maxi,
and favoring it were Mayor Kapsch
and Alderman Toini Ahola, who
moved the amendments adoption.
Aldermen Edward E. Porthan and o. T.
Friedsburg were absent.
WPA sidewalk projects in Wall
banks and Whiteside's park additions
can be started Sept Is, City Engineer
Waino Somero said he had been in
formed Tuesday.
Mayor Kapsch suggested that in view
of the fact that the street running past
the old Savoy school would not be
knocked out by the extension of sur
face operations at the Zenith mine.
that the road be repaired through a
WPA project.
Somero said that the project would
probably be approved but warned that
such approval could be secured only
after considera de time had elapsed.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-09-18

Women are dangerous says scien-
fist who has analysed the situation and
has come to the conclusion that, while
dangerous, man or the world cannot
get along without them. On the face
of this comes an assertion from an
Eastern editor that a man got into
trouble for marrying two wives and a
western editor snaps back that many
have done the same thing in marrying
one. Then a northern editor joined
the argument with the statement that
a number of his friends got into
trouble by merely promising to marry
without going any farther. A Mis-
souri, editor says that a friend of his
was plenty bothered when he was
found in the company with another
mans wife Opinions differ in this
as well as in other things.