1977 - Ray Hitchcock, Onaway Fire Department Chief Warns to Stay Calm When Reporting a Fire...and...Onaway High School Homecoming Game Against Sault Ste. Marie...and Onaway School Board Approves Boxing From Presque Isle County Advance and Onaway Outlook October 12, 2017

  
CAPTION: During National Fire Prevention week, Onaway Fire departmant chief Ray Hitchcock
(pictured) requested that people calling in to report a fire remain calm as possible and stay
on the phone until given full directions.  He said lives can be lost and a home destroyed if
firefighters waste valuable time determining the location.  In other Onaway news, 1976 homecoming
queen Lee Ann Smith was getting ready to crown the 1977 queen during halftime festivities at the
homecoming game against Sault Ste. Marie...the Onaway Area Community Schools board of education
approved a boxing program on the condition that it did not interfere with any other sports'
programs at the school.


From the The Presque Isle County Advance October 12, 2017 page 7B. 


Retyped by J. Anderson