Word: michigan
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Last week the William Lawrence Saunders gold medal for distinguished service in mining* was awarded to James MacNaughton, president and general manager of Calumet & Hecla Consolidated Copper Co. of Michigan. Presentation was made by President Cornelius Francis Kelley of huge Anaconda Copper (no corporate kin to Calumet & Hecla) at the annual dinner of the American Institute of Mining & Metallurgical Engineers, convened in Manhattan to discuss mines, metals, men & methods...
...hoisting, ventilating. Mining engineers consider Mr. MacNaughton's achievement remarkable because his deep ore was only slightly higher than the lowest grade of surface ore mined anywhere in the U. S. Mr. MacNaughton had no great scientific tricks up his sleeve. Faced by the long, slow exhaustion of Michigan's "Copper Country," he took advantage of every piddling economy and operating short-cut he could think...
...Today Michigan's Copper Country, on Lake Superior, looks desolate to visitors, gives the impression of having outworn its history. Beneath the birch, poplar and jackpine trees are innumerable outcroppings of lava, last traces of the volcano which brought up the rich copper lodes from the earth's depths. Agriculture is stagnant, and the mining towns of Calumet, Houghton, Hubbell, Lake Linden, studded with company-built houses, have the melancholy look of semi-depopulation. But the streams near the stamping mills still run red with crushed ore rock...
...University of Michigan sends lecturers traveling up & down the State, enrolls 2,500 persons in extension courses. It estimates that 300,000 use its reading lists, pamphlets, clippings. It analyzes drinking water, gives treatments for rabies, fills the schools with health speakers. To its hospital every year come 30,000 patients, to its dental clinic 15,000. Its broadcasting service prides itself on music classes by radio. There are public concerts by the Music School faculty and every spring a May Festival at Ann Arbor. The University holds institutes for parent-teacher clubs, for women's clubs, for owners...
...only at Michigan but in many another state this month universities have been wrangling with legislatures to re-store prosperity budgets. Encouraging to pedagogs was the experience of one of the hardest hit institutions, the University of North Carolina. Governor Ehringhaus had recommended that that University be held to a budget some 40% below that of 1928. Last fortnight the University's small, able President Frank Porter Graham, who calls more North Carolinians by their first names than anyone else in the State, made a personal appeal for a 25% increase, told legislators that his University was "reaching...