1979 - Onaway Celebrates the Fourth and New Officers Are Elected to the Onaway School Board From Presque Isle County Advance and Onaway Outlook July 11, 2019

  
CAPTION: More than 4,000 people clogged the streets of Onaway to look at floats
and water fights, jammed shoulder-to-shoulder along the parade route.  That's 
parade grand marshal Edna Lound, who brought along her broom with her.  The caption
states that it had quickened the steps of more than one troublesome youngster in
her grocery story.  While the city's population more than doubled, the crowd was only
half as big as in previous years, according to Presque Isle County sheriff Duane Badder.
He said there was about 9,000 in 1978.  The near-perfect cloudless blue skies could
not be blamed for the lower attendance figures, but gas shortage fears and a midweek
holiday could. In other Onaway news, new officers were elected by members of the 
Onaway Area Schools board of education. Allen Dittmar was selected to replace board
president Claude Hyde and Bill Breed, who won a seat on the board in a June 11
election, was named to replace Dittmar as board secretary.
   


From the The Presque Isle County Advance July 11, 2019, page 7B. 




Retyped by J. Anderson