1945-06-28; Saline Observer

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The Saline Observe
VOLUME 62
SALINE,   WASHTENAW COUNTY, MICHIGAN,      THURSDAY,   JUNE   28,   1945
NUMBER 38
Park Commission
Adopts New Plan
Oval Bowl Designed
By Herring To Cut
Pool Cost 60 Pet.
The .City.Park Commission at
.a meeting in the high school
Tuesday evening had presented
ior their consideration .a new
type of swimming pool by
Chairman C. JH. Osgood. The
.plans as submitted are a radical departure from the conventional designs of swimming and
wading poolp in .general. They
are the brain-child of Edwin
Heririg and are a marvel of simplicity and adaptability to most
.any "location. The conventional
design of straight walls that
Tequire so much excavating and
the building of forms, is entirely eliminated, and the cost of
-construction "is reduced to a
minimum.
A pool such as this can be
built at a much lower cost than
the pool the Commission visited
at Morenci, and will cover twice
the ground. Oval "in design, 150
feet in length, by 75 feet in
width, it slopes toward the center from all sides like a giant
soup-toureen. Shallow wading
pools are constructed at each
end for the little tots and are
separate from the main pool so
that the water of one cannot
mingle with that of the others.
The depth of the main pool
runs from a foot at the rim
to a depth of 4 to 6 feet, or
whatever is finally determined
upon, and the plan calls for a
diving raft centrally located.
The striking thing about this
design of Hering's lies in its simplicity and there is the wonder
why someone had not hit upon
the idea before. It is, in the
opinion of competent engineers,
See Swimming Pool Page 3
There'll Be Music Detroit Planning
In The Air Tonight For World's Fair
When the Milanaires
Revive Barbershop
Harmony Here
Committee of 100
Already Busy On
Preliminaries
What To Do With
Our Waste Paper
Is Query of Those Who
Dislike To Destroy It
¥igorous Rivalry
Among Towns
Air Park Ways Being
Sought By Many
While it is apparent that the
Japs are licked, whether they
- know it or not, it is equally ap-
. parent that the war in the Pacific
. may drag out for some consider-
" -able time.- But the merefact that.
.. we are approaching a period of
■ peace should arouse any commu-
• nity to what may transpire in
that post-war period and cause
• it to plan accordingly.
Any community is lame that
is not taking into account the
mighty development of air
transport and what it will
mean at the war's ending. Any
coxnmunity which fails in its
fiscal policy to provide a sinking
fund against what the future
may demand, is piling up a
great liability. As Manferd
Burleigh says in regard to a
World's Fair in Detroit, "We
must raise our sights," so too,
does the lesser cities and towns
need to clear the scales from
their eyes and the dust from
their brains and do some
mighty straight thinking.
We are not of that ilk who
are obsessed with the idea that
to build one's community it is
necessary or even desirable to
strive to bring in new industry.
Far better, in our judgment, to
make the most of what we have,
improve the local facilities for
more abundant living and Iseep
just a leetle mite ahead of the
times.
There is communal fun in
that kind of living and the town
that practices it will never become dull even to its oldest inhabitant.
After all wars come new development. The railways follow-
' ing the Civil War, the automobile following World War I. It
will be the flying machine after
World War H. Read this in
"Planes", the official publication
How is waste paper being salvaged in Saline.?
It is a question that many
have been asking, and as a result we are passing it along for
the answer.
Recently a business man told
us of a circular letter he had
received with instructions to
"hand it to your local newspaper" ior publicizing. We asked
"him if he knew who or what
organization was handling waste
paper, and he was in the dark
as much as two ladies we met
one day, their arms filled with
magazines, headed for the ash
pile. "We know it is a shame
to "burn them," they .told us,
"but we can't keep them around
forever, and we don't know who
to notify to pick them up or
where to take them."
Here at The Observer we
have been holding several cartons of waste paper" and on
Monday disposed of them to
several boys who were out with
their wagon gathering it up and
storing it in their father's garage. They said there was no
drive on, but that they were
storing it up for the next school
drive.
Undoubtedly this is the very
lowest ebb in the paper situation and it is extremely acute.
Many lines of paper and cover
stock have been entirely eliminated and the need for waste
paper is greater right now than
at any tme. during the war.
So much paper material is being used for purposes never
thought of before the war, that,
added to the .abnormal demands
for the regular lines of stock,
the supply just doesn't balance
up. There would still be an acute
shortage if we salvaip.d every
scrap. And not doing that makes
it "acuter."
When we burn waste paper
and fail to dispose of it at its
cash value, we lose the opportunity to bring solid comfort to
many convalescent servicemen
as set forth in an advertisement
on page two of this paper.
Disregard for these little
things—and little things sometimes mean so much to the men
in service—is one of the reasons tfiey may feel that the
people back home "don't care.'
Leave your whiskers on 'til
the momin' John, for I won't
work a minute looooonger—!
and accordingly a vast majority,
if not all the barbers in Sahne,
will shut up early tonight and
hie themeslv.es to the basement
of the City Fire Hall where the
American Legionaires will play
host to Howard "Fritzie" LeBaron and his Barbershop
Quartette, who harmonize under the fanciful name of "The
Milanaires."
Devotees of the S.P.E.B.S.Q.
S.A., who have promulgated
the program for this night, do
not, however, limit the attendance of barbers alone, but
ehiphatically declare they want
anyone there who has a taste
for the blending of male voices
in song or may have a yen to
harmonize barbershopically.
SPEBSQSA, which exudes a
hint of more alphabetical soup,
and may tend to alienate the
interest of the old conservatives, Is really rather New Deal-
ish in that it is a short cut
for a really long name. .Che Society for the Preservation and
Encouragement of Barber Shop
Quartette Singing In America,
Inc.
The Milanaires, who by the
way, were a feature on the program- of the implement dealers
of Wayne and Washtenaw counties at their meeting at the Saline Hotel Tuesday night, are
charter members of Milan Chapter No. 39 and are affiliated with
the national organization whosw
code of ethics aspires to preserve for its members and for
all future generations of prospective members the sacret.
right of men to seek haven
from the burden of their daily
cares through indulgence in old-
fashioned vocal quartette harmony.
They are restrained from accepting membership of those
who are not congenial and who
do not love harmony and have
agreed to refrain from forcing
their songs upon unsympathetic
ears. Reads the Code: We shall
by our stimulus of good music
and vocal harmony endeavor
to spead the Spirit of Harmony
throughout the world"; render.-
all possible altruistic service ^
through the medium of barbershop harmony, and shall, in our
daily tasks, devote our best energies to Win the War and The
Peace.
In short, they would sing
their way into the hearts of the
peoples of the world, and you
will be welcome along with
those barbers tonight.
Preliminary studies are being
conducted by a group of De-
troiters for a World's Fair in
Detroit after the War.
• The group which will function
as "Detroit's World Fair Com-
rnittee of 100" has declared that
no world's fair could be complete without the co-operation
of the industries and talents
which have made Detroit great
and therefore it is simply logical
and timely to hold a fair on Detroit's home grounds.
Joining with business and in-
dustial leaders, both the UAW-
CIO and the AFL have endorsed
the fair and have pledged their
active assistance in making it
a .reality.
The idea of holding a world's
fair originated with a group of
Detroit business leaders two
y^ars ago. Since then numerous
meetings have been held to discuss all aspects of conducting
such an enterprise.
Studies are now in progress
to determine the extent of
financing required for the fair.
The committee, likewise, is_ reviewing the records of prveious
fairs and carrying on informal
discussions with foreign countries and industries, relative to
their participation in a fair in
Detroit.
Says Manferd Burleigh, presi-
rent and general manager of the
Great Lakes Greyhound Lines,
Inc.: "Detroit stands at the most
critical point in its entire history- A World's Fair could mean
.is..new turn of the road for our
city. It could be the means of
real community co-operation
which will mark the beginning
of a new and greater Detroit.
We must set our sights higher."
Saline's close proximity to the
dynamic city of Detroit makes
it of considerable interest because a World's Fair that close
to our community would affect
us greatly. The Century of
Progress Exposition in Chicago
drew 39,000,000 people! The
influx of visitors would naturally overflow for miles around
and labor and industry would
hum with the preparations for
such a great undertaking.
Peacetime air travel - will
bring London within 12 hours
of Detroit; the most distant
point on the globe within .less
than 50 hours!
Go ahead, Detroit! Stage your
great World's Fair for the postwar period. It probably will not
cost the surrounding towns and
cities anything, but they will
stand to reap a harvest in the
way of up-lift and spirit that
will take many years to dissipate.
Heave Ho! Saline!
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WAR LOAN
Welcome Awaits
Old Employees
Returning Servicemen
Gixen Job Assurance
By Vtility Company
Larry Towe Shows
Campus Pictures
Rotary Guest To Quit
V. of M. Publicity Post
"Michigan on Parade was
shown local Rotarians at their
meeting at The Tavern last
Thursday. The sound pictures
revealed many of the new buildings on the campus and explained at considerable length the
many activities of the University
in training officers for the armed forces—soldiers, sailors and
marines, various mechanical
aids, literary and athletic features, all of which combined to
depict the herculean tasks accomplished by Michigan's pride
—the U. of M.
The films were made under
the supervision of Larry Towe,
director of publicity at the
University, who previous to
taking on that work was publisher of The Jonesville Independent
and will again enter newspaper
work the first of August, having purchased a county seat
paper in northeastern Calif ornia.
His assistant, Will Scott, accompanied him to Saline.
Soldiers representing three
branches of the service
were guests—T/4 Dean Burkhardt, Ens. Max C. Collins and
Sgt. John E. Anderson. James
E. Kelly of Ann Arbor came
with Max Fosdick.
Don Ford, Clarence Haarer
and President Arthur Heininger made a few remarks about
their trip to the district
meeting of Rotarians at
Windsor, Ont., recently. After
driving around the city Don
got thirsty and asked a policeman where one could get some
water and was told that if he'd
turn to the right at the corner
and go down the one-way street
plenty would be furnished him.
Paul Lambarth of the Ypsilanti State hospital, who recently became a member, received
his lapel button, and all sang
"Happy Birthday To You" in
rcognition of the birthday anniversary of Frances Lock-
wood.
What Do WE Do?
of  the  Aeronautical   Chamber
of Commerce of America:
-The greatest landing facility
development program in avia- '
tion history apparently now is  '
underway throughout the Unit- •
ed States as indicated by marked increase in requests for plan-'
ning guidance received by government  and  private   aviation
agencies.    .'-
Reports of seven regional
field offices of the Civil Aeronautics Administration reveal
that an average of 1600 individual consultations are being held
monthly by CAA field engineers
with municipal officials and prhr-.
ate individuals on landing fa-"
cility plans.
This is twice the activity experienced a year ago and does
not   include   consultations   between local 'officials and private
See Air Plans Page 3
pAMILIES of the boys fig&ting the
Japs are the best bond buyers.
If they don't think they have done
enough by giving a boy, then we
should certainly lend our money and
put the Mighty 7th over BIG!
Just. $10,500.50 to finish even. /The
boys don't fight for us on that basis.
What Do We Do?   *
Pre-War Hammond
Is Newest Market
Challenge
Dean Hammood Sells
Plane Rights To
Henry Kaiser
Following is. a report from
Aviation News on .the pre-war
Hammond plane, written by
Alexander MeSurley; under the
caption "Decade-Old Hammond
Lightplane is Newest Market
Challenge." .      .     '
Twin tailboom pusher of 1934,
born in Ypsilanti, was ahead
of time—now emerges- from
obscurity to become post-war
Kaiser project—prophetic progress is foretold. . _
One of the easiest-flying airplanes ever built—according to
pilots who have flown it—the
Hammond is slated for a potent
post-war comeback, this time:
as a five-place personal plane,
Plans for the return of 1200
Detroit Edison Company employes on military leave from
the Company have been completed, James W. Parker, president, announced today, "we
are most anxious to welcome
them back."
"Our plans recognize three
simple facts," Mr. Parker said.
"Veterans do not wish to be
segregated and treated as a
group apart; each veteran is
anxious to resume his own individuality, each has his own
ambitions and hopes; while im-
medate reemployment is vital
to him, he is more concerned
with the years ahead."
In a message to each employe
in the service, the company is
now advising that he will be
restored to his former position
or, if qualified, to the position
to which he would have been
raised by promotion had he not
been away. His wage rate will
include raises granted to his job
while he has been in service. If
the man's position has been discontinued, the company will endeavor to find another position
of like seniority, status and
pay. Life insurance, retirement plan benefits, immediate
vacation with pay and sick leave
benefits will automatically be restored. Other benefits, such as
additional insurance and hospital and surgical insurance
coverage for the family, will be
available to him if desired.
The company has selected
James F. O'Brien and assigned
him to the employment bureau
as veterans' coordinator whose
full-time job wil be concerned
with restoring veterans to their
former jobs and assisting them
in solving any individual readjustment problems which may
arise. "Mr. O'Brien has a long
background of service with the
company and is a veteran of
World War I," Mr. Parker sflid.
"Apprentice training courses
will be accelerated twenty per
cent for returned veteran employes who were enrolled before leaving for military service. Our plans are flexible and
designed to offer the best opportunity we can to each veteran in helping him to take
his position in civilian life. We
recognize that no one pattern
will fit the needs of all. Some
men will want refresher courses,
some will have acquired new
skills, others will wish to complete their apprenticeship training courses, and some will require and receive special consideration because of wounds or
illness contracted in the service," Parker said.             ^
instead of a two-place ship, as in
the original form as reported in
Aviation News last week. Dean
Hammond, designer of the
plane, ; has sold its post-war
manufacturing rights and signed a contract with Henry
Kaiser to produce a post-war
model to be called Kaiser-Ham-
ond. W-hat the decade-old Hammond will become in the postwar vfersion is still a matter of
conjecture. But even on the
strength of first reports, any
appraisal of the post-war plane
-field - from now on must take
very seriously under consideration' the force which this
plane, may be, as a combined
prodljction know-how and
finances of Henry Kaiser anil
the admitted engineering genius
of Dean Hammond.
..Mr. and Mrs. Leo Westphal
had a letter from their son,
Coxswain Herbert Westphal,
about two weeks ago in which
he-^inf ormed them that he had
been_iosptialized for a couple of
weelcs but at the time of .writing
was up and about. _Je had been
in the invasion of Jwo Jima and
•Olap-twa.