1945-06-21; Saline Observer

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VOLUME 62
SALINE,   WASHTENAW  COUNTY, MICHIGAN,   THURSDAY,   JUNE   21,   1945
NUMBER 87
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Graduates In Class
rith Celebrities
Former Saline Girl
Receives Degree at
Wayne University
Food Shortage
Most Critical
Food Administration
Catherine Cody Knicely, a
graduate of Sahne High school,
was granted the bachelor's degree at Wayne University at
the annual commencement exercises held there June 1.
Mrs. Knicely, who lives at
10076 Morley, Detroit, was
among the 772 graduates upon
whom President David D. Henry conferred academic degrees.
Honorary degrees were
awarded to Frank Dwight Ea-
man, well-known lawyer and
former police commissioner—
Doctor of Laws; Archibald Nel-
War's Most^ Famous Picture
GIVEN TREASURY—Tea R. Gi Tible, national director of the Treasury's
War Finance Division, accepts tl picture made by Joe Rosenthal, Associated Press photographer, seconi. from left, on Iwo Jima as Brigadier
General Robert Denig- and Lieut. General Alexander A. Vandergrift, Marine
Corps Commandant, look on.   This picture is the 7th War Loan Insigne.
To Build Farm Lines
At Own Expense
Farmers to Pay $2.25
Minimum Monthly
For 3-Year Period
In Emergency Meeting son Goddard, engineer and pre-
In Chicago cision tool expert-Doctor En-
to gmeenng; Icie Macy Hobler, di-
                        rector of .the research laboratories for the Children's Fund
of Michigan—Doctor of Science;
Sarah Mary Sheridan, forcner-
"Grow what you can and can
what you grow" was -the "warning   issued   today  by   William .      . •._...
Jakad,  chairman of the Sahne ^ ™e gre;^ent aI*d ?fles man-
Victory  Garden  Committee  as ^er   of   The   Detroit   Edison
evidence mounted that the coun- Company—Doctor   of   Arts   in
try is facing its most critical Business   Administration;   and
Saline Teacher Ralph Uphaus
Weds Sailor      Wins Wings In
Detroit Eidson Company has
requested and expects to receive
approval from the Michigan
Public Service Commission of a
new ruling which permits the
company to build farm line extensions at its own expense
with the customer paying only
a nominal minimum monthly
bill instead of contributing part
of the cost of the line. Under
the new ruling there will be no
construction charge for any
farm line extension of reasonable length. The farmer will be
asked to pay only a minimum
net amount of $2.25 a month
for three years after the service is connected. For this
amount the company will render
all its usual electric service, in-
mas   ^
Gloomy Outlook For
kbsiasts
Spring Hatch May Be
Ths Smallest Yet
On Record
If   there   is
poor   fishing   a
At Macon Navy Aircrew
eluding the use of 54 kilowatt |ew yea*s ^ now> especially
hours per month. Electricity for smallmouth bass, the blame
will be sold to these new farm'can be placed on weather con-
customers at the same rate ditions of recent months,
which is paid by all other Edi- According to the conservation
son residence and farm cus- department's fish division, the
S. Naval Air Station, Jack- tomers. 1945 hatch of smallmouth bass
The commission has indicat- may be the smallest of record,
secretary of the Detroit Young were   heard   at   Martha-Mary First   Class   (AOM)   Ralph   C. ed   that   the   petition   will   be due    to    the    extremely   mild
Strains, from the opera Lou-     U.
food "^shortage "since""tihe" war Adolph Gustav Studer, genei*al engrin, "Here Comes the Bride," sonville, Fla., June 15—Seaman
be°-an secretary of the Detroit Young were   heard   at   Martha-Mary First   Class   (AOM)   Ralph   C.
The' facts were  disclosed  at .Men's Christian Association and Chapel in Macon,  Friday evt- Uphaus,   117  East  Henry   St., granted. Practically all farm line weather of late March and early
gn emergency meeting called in of the Detroit College of Law— ring   at   9   o'clock  when  M%s Saline, Mich., was presented his extensions   by   Detroit   Edison April, and the unseasonably cold
Chicago by the War°Food Ad- Doctor of Laws. Agnes R. Thomas, daughter of wings as a U. S. naval air-crew- will be on the new basis as soon weather of recent weeks,
ministration to discuss ways of     Because most of the Univer- Dr- and Mrs. H. C. Thomas of man this week when he com- as the request has been formal-     Brcod   smallmouth   bass   in
stimulating the public to great- sity's men students are now in buttons  Bay ^and  Seaman  1/c pleted the^ final phase of train- ly ^approved by the commission, ponds of the Lydell hatchery at
er  efforts0 in  growing Victory the armed sendees, women out- T^"  °   ~fZ"i-1""™   *"™ ^  "^   '"" 1         ^          -              J " *-- "-■    --1-1 --- ^ ~ ~      ■■ " -
Gardens. numbered   men  in  this   year's
Michigan was represented at class by more than four to one
John S. Ketchum, son of Mrs. ing here, it was announced. Commenting on this action R. Comstock Park"near Grand Rap-
Robert Logan of Petoskey, took     Son of Mr. and Mrs. Ben B. R. Brown of The Detroit Edi- ids were fooled into spawning
their places   at  the   altar  and Uphaus,    the    19-year-old   air- son Companv said, "For many earlier than in any year of Tee
the session by Paul R. Krone, Thirty-eight  graduates,  now on sP<£e their wedding vows. crewman has undergone a rigid years The Detroit Edison Com- ord by the high temperatures of
" "        "  ' - -      - -Dr. Fred A. Lendrum o± tlie program of training in aviation pany has been working toward early spring. Subseauent colder
Methodist church performed the ordnance   and   aerial   gunnery, the desirable goal of completing weather and water temperatures
double ring  cermony. -    and  aircrew  and  ground  crew its rural distribution system so killed eggs and fry. Similar ad-
chief of the Victory Garden sec- active   duty   with   the   armed
tion of the Michigan Office of forces, were granted degrees "in
Civilian Defense and member of absentia."
the extension service of Miehi-'    The   commencement   address
gan State College, who inform- was delivered by the Honorable
ed Mr. Jakad that the government was greatly concerned over the situation and saw in the
Victory Garden the only hope
of alleviating   it.
"The facts are that seed sales
to Victory Gardeners and commercial vegetable growers are
much less this year than a year
ago, said Mr. Jakad. "Commercially canned vegetables for civilian consumption will be
sharply reduced. In 1948 vegetable consumption amounted to
38 pounds per capita; on the
basis of anticipated production
this year only 28 pounds will be
available. Unfavorable wreather
in the corn belt area has retarded' all growth. Complicating the
problem is the increased demand on the part of the mili-
Edward J. Jeffries, Jr., mayor
of the city of Detroit.
Mrs. Knicely is the daughter
of Mrs. William Cody of Pittsfield township.
es
eavy lo,
'Phone Lines
For her wedding the bride operations under simulated com- that practically every farm in
wore a street length dress of bat conditions. He is now ready our 7,600 square miles of terri-
hme green crepe and wore a for duty as a member of an air- tory will have electric service
corsage of white roses arjd combat team, either aboard an available to it. The company
white delphiniums. Her fri^./ii.vcraft carrier or at a naval now serves some 34,000 farm-
and only attendant, Miss Betty air station. ers  .and   its   distribution   lines
Johnston of Macon wore pink     Uphaus enlisted in the Navy pass    1,700    additional    farms
and chose pink and white flow- March 23, 1944,
ers. 	
Mr.   Willard   WiedmayAV   ot
Saline w'as best man. ^sa 11--■_>_-_   ^)n S<r.'_£-'_*
A  reception  followed in  the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Charles \\J
Miller, North Ann Arbor street,   VV
where the bride had made her
valine ooictiei
verse effect of recent cold
weather on spawn of native fjsh
in Michigan lakes also is seen
as likely.
The bluegill spawning season
is more protracted and the loss
of bluegill fry may not be so
whose tenants can have electric- large.
ity   whenever   they   choose   to     Following the heaviest winter
take it.    There remains about km 0f fish in inland lakes since
Lightning Now Has
Two Strikes  On
Handle Factory
home for the past two years.
There were thirty guests present. Beautiful pink and white
peonies were in vases about the
rooms. Rose buds from Mrs.
Miller's garden centered the
lace-covered dining table where
coffee, ice cream and cake were
served.
Seaman   Ketchum,   home   on
nzio
2,100 farms or only five per
cent, still to be reached in ordei1
to make the service available
to all of them.
"Until recently, wartime restrictions have curtailed the
company's program of farm line
_986, cold weather of .recent
w"eeks may contribute to a serious reduction in the 1945 age
class of smallmouth bass, particularly.
Was Guest Speaker
On WPAG Farm and
Home Program
,.,_.-_     _,_.      „    . A   round-the-clock   check   of
building but the War Produc- fishermen who visit the con-
tion Board has just given us serVation department's new Rifle
permission to go ahead. It may river area (Grousehaven) in Og-
be .quite a problem to get the emaw C0Unty will be made with
necessary men and materials as the opening of the bass and
quickly as we wish.  However, bluegin seaSon on June 25.
  we are anxious to complete the     Some   of  the  northern pike
,_.__       Saline    people    listening    to ^h ^lch J^i1'^™ th* <xmZ and brown trout that have been
in the middle of the city, strik- ure Island, June 22 for his St ^PAG's Farm and Home Hour ^r^m^taS s™l yea?s ^f/fAPSwLSS
ing the chimney on the William assignment. He has been in the Fnday mormng heard the voice to acco^ish complete y   Some P°rted- *° £ fiS rnnteS
Milhan home on West Michigan Service for 27 months, most of <f J* **«f **"e^ ^ of thes/new line?, ai/needed toA^£JK* ^^
Ave., and one of the maples m which time was spent at Puget uate  oi tne iugn  scnool witn
front of the home of Mrs. John Sound at a submarine detection tne  Class  of 1939, tell of Ins
+_rv force . and the civilian nop- _ Th« electric storm last Thurs-      seaman   jtvetcnum,   nome
S^Stoa^^IfSto d^.Ernoon «emed to center furlough._mil report at Tr
Europe."
Jakad stressed too that it is
not too late to plan a garden.
"There is still sufficient time to
have a good garden which will
produce   many   crops
suitable Landwehr scattering pieces  of station.
experiences in the army as
£™ .Qr.T-ir.o- _r.rl we-<.ervmo- »'he bark over the 3rard and burning Mrs. Ketchum, who is a grad- guest speaker on the program.
«_M '^here is a sneciaf need out the telephone cable running uate of Ypsilanti State Normal, He is home on furlough after
to plant  tomatoes,   corn,   snap through the tree so that tele- taught at Dryden before com- three years overseas where he
beans and carrots   In view of phones on West McKay street mg to  Sahne,   where  she has saw service in seven campaigns.         ..^	
the meat scarcity it is al^o ad- were out of order for several taught   during   the   past   two He landed in North Africa with this order and most farm line
visable to plant such crops as days before the damage coidd years and has been engaged for the first convoy and was wound- applications   hereafter   will   be SPT^0^IdS«_H-S-'   fish
edible  soy  beans,   lima beans, ^ repaired. The heavy wind ac- the coming year as commercial ed at Anzio and was near the taken on the new basis." conservation    department
snap beans and where space per- companying    the    storm    tore teacher. German border when withdrawn Revise Seven .
mits navy beans. By sowing the down branches in various parts   for hospitalization. He aided in
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to reinforce our rural electrical
system by closing long lead
ends into loops and helping to
maintain better voltage on
many of the present farm circuits. We are
the   commission   has   approved
A department crew is engaged in bridge and road repair in
the area.
The spring run of big muskel-
sent rami cir- lu the Torch river f^
dehghted that Rq *nd £j_e into Tordl 1?ke is
approaching its peak and is getting  the  earnest  attention   of
seeds in July a full crop of peas
can be grown. These crops will
help to furnish the protein necessary in our diets, if supplemented with milk and other animal proteins."
Gardeners who want advice
on what to plant, how to plant
it and what to do with crops
when  they  are  harvested
See Storm Page 8
LINER ADS GET RESULTS.
See Anzio Page 8
On Last Convoy To Cross Atlantic In Blackout
Gpl. Sam Gall Home From African-European Campaigns
researchers.
  Starting usually in late May
and   continuing   through  June,
LINER ADS GET RESULTS, the   musMe   run attracts   big
league fishermen from a wide
area. Largest muskie reported
taken during any run weighed
round 40 pounds.
The department's institute for
fisheries research wants to
know whether taking of muskel-
T.  Cpl.  Samuel  Gall,  Jr., is Heidelberg, the University City, days at sea coming through the finally caught sight of about 5 lunge  while the run is on is
         _ can spending, a    45-day    furlough From   Heidelberg   he   went   to Straits of Gibralter and through in the morning by one of the likely to adversely affect such
obtain it through the local Vic- with his parents, Mr.'and Mrs. Dallau where he visited one of the   South   Atlantic,   and   was men who gave the alarm and fishing in future. According to
tory Garden chairman.' Samuel Gall, the first furlough Germany's    underground    fac- told upon arrival in New York the boys swarmed to the decks Dr.   A.   S.   Hazzard,   institute
"Every   ounce _ of  food  that he has had since he went into tores.   This   particular  factory on June  2  that this was the half-dressed    or   in    whatever director, there is some evidence
can be produced, in ajiome jar- gervice 31 months  ago. After was  hidden  in  the  side  of  a last  convoy  to   cross  the At- state the alarm overtook them. that the big fish will not strike
While   in   action   he -. states
den should be produced," Jakad four"months"ofdraining in Tex- mountain and*camouflaged with iantic~~in lhe"~blackout," which ""whjJT inaction* h_T state at lures watil the sPawnhlg act
said.    ' Make sure tnat no> veg- as. he  wag   sent  overseas  and shrubbery. He states that it was accounted for the long voyage, that he averasred about   .even -is completed.
Tho f foodf tot geate°n Tel 5*£? «* Casablanca on March absolutely invisible to any pas- The   convoy,   made   up   of   37 ^LLT.montt^d Te™ ^^LiS^ZJ^
lhose -loods   not   eaten   -^a-i. fl   icu..    TTo wA-nf +>.v.-..<_4. +_.p   .-.-.v...  M-_-m-_ -fm- -.ivnlnTiP.. wwe „i„-—   \.„a  _;«,.„ t .v.._-*..   t.„„+_, T.Y.. _--•.._ _i..--i- .. __•___..    have the advice ana assistance
seems
of taking show that the heed for the "™™ ™ *«_*->*. rrom mere went    to    ^ocnersiemieiu     lu were    tne    first    non-casualty exhausted that they could sleep {" ~the"~ftih7using'"big spoons
home  garden  cannot be  over- Je was^ sent to Sardinia with Mamhardt  Goppmgen andI Win- troops to arrive in New York amid any amount of noise or an| feathers,
emphasized.    Those    gardeners his outfit, Hdq. Battery, 533rd terreiden. He left his outfit at from the European front.   His falling debris. Fishermen take a total of 40 to
wl-o have been tempted to give AAA Bn., AWM for harbor in- Fussen near the Austrian bor- boat was the "Moses Austin."      Cpl. Gall will report again for 50   big   muskehunge   annually
up because of the discouraging stallations   and  airfield  protec- der on a detachment furlough Tlle   last   njght   before   reach- duty at Fort Sheridan on July while the run is on. Presence of
the States was a sleepless 2, and. since this is a detach- the fish in the Torch river was
weather must not do so, those tion, for 11 months. He reach- on April 30" to begin his trek mg
who have not started a garden ed Marseilles, France on Nov. homeward.   They went by .truck one for all men aboard.    They ment   furlough   begun   before noticed first in 1939.
should  do   so,   and  all  should 15, 1944, and then went to the from Essen through the Black 3mew   they   would   reach   the V-E Day he faces the possibility
get   capacity   production   from front lines at Aydoille for ar- Forests   to   Saarburg,   France, mainland during the night or of beine: sent back to join his     It is still illegal to take any
their gardens.   That s the only tillety protection. Then a three-day train trip to early morning  and  paced  the outfit. He has been awarded the species of fish with a bow and
way we can be sure of haying     They  crossed  the   Siegfried Marseilles where he was on V-E decks all night watching for the Bronze Medal for shootine down arrow,   the   state   conservation
an adequate supply o± the right ]jne at Wiesenberg and thence Day in camp awaiting embarka- first sight of the Statue of Lib- a. plane with one shot while on department declares.
kinds of foods tor our lamiues.   to Offenbach, Ivlutlerstadt and to tion.    He   spent the  next  21 erty, and "The Old Lady" was the Rhine. " See Outlook Page 3