1945-09-13; Saline Observer

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VOLUME 62
SALINE,   WASHTENAW COUNTY,  MICHIGAN,   THURSDAY,   SEPT.   13,   1945
NUMBER  49 •
IS GE
Another Swing Around
That Vicious Circle
Funds Available to Meet
Broad Needs of Borrowers
Former Saline School Teacher
Declares Low Salaries Force
Them To Seek Other Employment
With total victory, 15,000 national and state banks
throughout tiie country are geared to meet the credit needs
of postwar America, Robert M. Hanes, chairman of the postwar small business credit commission of the .American
Bankers' association, declared.
Since money serves as the ,great<^
transmission belt permitting the
flow    of    s<" '        3 and   materials,
1117   Mill   St.
Midland, Mich.
Dear Mr.  Gallagher:
I was quite interested in
your front page editorial on
the Michigan school system and
agree with you that something
ought to be done. I am speaking as a former public school
teacher. In fact I left Saline
school system, under practically the same conditions as you
mentioned, six years ago.
Plan For Annual
Community Fair
Persons  Interested
Urged To Attend
Friday Meeting
Preparations  are   going  forward for the annual community
However  m place of putting fair   sponsored   by   the   local
another   club   over   the   poor Future Farmers  Chapter.    In-
teacher's   head,   and   goodness teregt in this .event hag al
knows there are enough now, been Mgh and lagt ft defi_
why not make his position at- nite   community   fair   associa.
tractive enough so that he will tion wag formed which is affih
~ot  Tf'KJ?  -iUnip   c?ltract; iated with the state organiza-
Granted   that  it  is  not  good tion  and which  ^tributes  a
practice to jump contracts but substantial portion of the fair
how else is a teacher to obtain expenses
a better position  except when     K ig   janned tQ hoW
better positions are open. This at an earlier date than usual
may happen m the  spring or providing satisfactory arrange
in the tan. ments  can  be  made.    Arthur
I enjoyed teaching but found H president  of the  asso-
that  I   couldn't  afford   it,     T adSen> President  ox tne asso-
sr ■
Hanes' sts was not without
signiflcancf "c.ostwar   p^psper-
ity. Backed ly two years c^*3tudy
of the credit needs of the nation's
economic machine, the banks'
peacetime lending apparatus" was
oiled up for the inevitable return
to normalcy even while the war
raged.
"Banking has produced a new
postwar credit product—the bank
credit group," Hanes declared.
"There   are   now such  groups
C..t£th total -p=ou:. .. in excess of
$600,000,00*,, ••'"ose operations extend through; .i- every area of the
nation. These credit groups are
designed to provide a third source
of bank credit within the banking
structure itself, the local bank being the first and its correspondent
the second.
"The individual banks themselves, with deposits in excess of
$140,000,000,000, constitute the greatest reservoir of potential credit in
the history of banking. In addition
these banks are rapidly beioimng
skilled in the uses of credit methods that were developed in"5 .the
years just prior to the war. M^ny
of these were  used  primarily by
large business, such as term loans,
accounts receivable, and field warehousing. Today, however, all
these useful credit methods are being applied by the banks to the
needs of small business.
Backing up the local bank in
this postwar credit activity is
an active correspondent system
whereby loans are being made in
co-operation with the country banks
in cases where the country bank,
because of its size or for some
other reason, is unable to make the
loan itself. Too, many banks where
the volume of business warrants
are creating special facilities for
providing expert counsel and special service to smaU business.
Banking is determined thai small
business shall live and shall be given the opportunity to grow and
prosper."
Banking's program, according to
Hanes, will provide the means for
making available jobs to the veteran and the war worker, and it Will
speed the reconversion process of
business and industry and will permit many enterprises, particularly the small ones, to swing rapidly
into peacetime production. He sees
through its operations the re-estab
lishment of many concerns blacked
out by wartime restrictions, priorities and manpower shortages.
"This constructive credit program," Hanes declared, "will be
made available to the people of
.America out of the credit resources and through the facilities of
the banks of the nation. It will he
done without placing any additional
burden upon the taxpayer through
the creation of government subsidized lending agencies or through
the operation of new and unnecessary government bureaus for insuring, guaranteeing or making
loans."
Hanes' assertion ujat the nation's
banks were equipped to handle important postwar financing was corroborated by the U. S. treasury's
announcement that assets of
over 5,000 national banks totaUed
nearly $82,000,000,000 as of June 30.
The figure represented a gain of almost ?11,500,000,000 over the same
date in 1944.
Of the $82,000,000,000 in assets,
the treasury revealed, $77,000,000,-
000 were in deposits. Investments
in U. S. government obligations
soared to over $47,000,000,000 and
unimpaired capital stock stood at
over $1,500,000,000; surplus almost
$2,000,000,000; undivided profits
$500,000,000, and reserves $281,000,-
000.
Further indication of the nation's
banks' strength was furnished by
the Federal Deposit Insurance corporation, which stated that no insured institution went into receivership since May of 1944.
Income of the FDIC itself totalled $61,000,000 for the first six
months of 1945, from premiums and
earnings of surplus funds. With expenses and deposit losses amounting to only $2,000,000, the FDIC was
able * to shift $59,000,000 over to
mounting reserves.
Awarded Medal
For Heroism
Was Member of Beach
Party At New Guinea
Eary In 1944
There Where The
at an earlier date than usual, Tn«ll P/yi*Tl PrOWS
Sunday Wedding
At St. Paul's
Mrs. Christina Wiedmayer
has just received from her
grandson, Willard Bredernitz,
MoMM2c, USNR, the Navy and
Marine Gorps Medal for Heroism which was awarded to him
for heroic action as a member
of a naval beach party in New
Guinea early in 1944. The decoration was pinned on his uniform by the Commandant of
the Fifteenth Naval District at
a presentation ceremony in
Panama August 18th, 1945.
Willard enlisted in the Navy in
July of 1942, was 20 months in
the South Pacific, and has "Been
stationed in Panama since early
in 1945. The citation accompanying the medal, signed by
Vice-Admiral Kinkaid, Commander Seventh Fleet, recites:'
"By virtue of the power delegated to me, I take pleasure in
awarding in the name of the
President of the United States,
tlie Navy and Marine Corps
Medal to:
Willard Otto Bredernitz,* Motor Machinist's Mate Second
Class, U. S. Naval Reserve.
"For distinguishing himself
by heroism on 23 April 1944 in
evacuating wounded personnel
from the vicinity of fires caused
by enemy bombing. After assisting in the removal of casual-
  ties, he retumed to the danger
tt   v.  u.   a    xTZ,a    ai   -r<_-_,^ area to build a fire break and
Herbert A.  Reed,. 61  yeais remained there until all other
Funeral Services
For Herbert Reed
tnat   jl   cuuiuui   auuru .xt.     s. cja+ion    ua„   r3npd   „  Woi-ma-        a ,n°L ?JL,e> %r.J lt>a hfxrrx     A  simple  ana  miormai  out years
afford not to as I had plans ^th rgh«°^ °She? SC' Cee a£d a\& acres formed church on  Sundayafter- in Wh _  ._    j  „	
on being married.    Now I can ^ ^ f* «»  g£ j^i taller. Three and . M«» September   9    at  three N y   and was a son of Daniel ^ ^c^nc^Tk £ffi&
tJ Jn%  ?gwith in the community who has an an   Ohio   section  for" hominy, o'clock- when Miss Mary Ann and Martha Stockwell Reed. He equipment that was subsequent-
not affoid it with int?rest  ^ the   event  &nd   .a aJ^™out three weeks more Groeb ^ Dwight to were mamed Jessie^Dickson^n Feb. £ ^ as the primary mea„s
A  simple and informal b^t years   old,   died   Saturday   at nnel were  removed from
rely  wedding  took  place   at Wayne General hospital the vicinity of the fire. He then
ThprXn^ in the hi^h sch°o1 t0 complete irows7~and not  only tall but »*• Pau\f Evangelical and Re-     He was bom March 23, 1884  d A        communica-
I had plans the   organization   and   fuirther g°ws, Th d ■   \alf acres formed church on  Sundayafter- m Wheetland,  Monroe  county ti     vehicieS, thereby prevent-
not   go.  back
again I can
?fS?.S?Lftl d ^^^^ "lis   ^-nvSTomT^ 13ir1907' i*-?*-**^- .   of cummunication ashore.   IBs
Isnt that rather a sad state of       gresg and. the welfare of its ^00n   The plot is. located on Ata  Siemsen; who read the     He came to Saline from Ypsi- courageous and untiring efforts
ft    r cently     after " "-'- youth' is urff6d t0 attend this ™ * ^   ^Idt  fa™  south- doable ring servicem the pres- ianti seven years ago and had
the y°uth» is urged to attend this the * Dan  Levieit  farm  south-
,    ■ .    ,.        - _    ttu^**. 4-i,« meeting  when  helpful  sugges-       ■    -'-----■■ •- - ■—•J--ui-
STS tS C7l P *»"- wiU be appreciated,
came   employed   here   in  Mid-  _, XT,      ._   _^
land.   Four   other   men,   also Capt. Virgil UWenS
from Willow Run and former   . J   J C4-
school teachers, came wel here Awarded otar
at the  same  time  as myself. .
They all feel as I do that they
in.
uie   uau.  ucvicit  lauii  vxsixvxx- j. ,,- .        ,. .       i ..    „ ,    -,    .^ -^    m-   .     xxx   the   performance   of   duty
east of town and is a veritable ^ of the immediate relatives been employed with the Trojan were outstanding and in keep-
forest.   A stalk, pulled up after *** % few friends. Laundry Compnay m Ypsilanti ing ^th the highest traditions
the rain Monday morning, was r,-?ef»re    %./er^ony   ™€ for the past five years of   the   Navy   of   the   United
brought   to   town   and   placed^1"1?   organist   • Mrs    Lucile     Surviving are his wife, two states."
against the front of The Ob- Henderson, played^weddmg mu- daughters,  Mrs.  Dean Brandt, - c> iqnKAID,
server office where it obscured sw ai}d, to %_ strains of Lo- Saline>  and  MrS.  Glen  Miller, Vice Admiral, U. S. Navy,
the view of the street from the hengrm s  wedding march  the Ypsilanti;  one brother, Henry     Commander Seventh Beet.
second story window. Itmeasur- bndal party formed before the Reedj  k^^oo; two  sisters, _     *
Captain Virgil R. Owens was ed 13 feet, 8 inches long with altar-„ Large bouquets of aut- m&_ Martha Manley, Dearborn,
SSnn?   wSSa   3   of.   S awarded the Bronze Star "for a big fat,' ear nine feet,   six unm flowers formed^an attrac- and ^ Clara Reed, Kalama
school   teaching   and   one   of „   .+   .M,„   OQ_T1-„a>,   __-:fV,   4.u<_ t.7L.Z. ^ '    +i.__ ^t.   •Nr^Hr,^ tive background for the service  „_  ^a fnnv .rraTidchildren.
- Future Farmers
meritorious   service"   with   the inches from the roots. Noting
zoo, and four grandchildren.
SSStt^JSS" Casvsetemm S **^**^B- ~ SS"«?°SdS  menaceT^e *». ta&. P-eded   by   the ^-5^^^^^^^^ at Ekct OffkerS
J{™ tj£^L,£T;  ^ with the Radio Signal offi enteed   the 3:30 m.   Monday   at   the .	
£ c     w  HJ? ^  irff  »1 HQ XIX corps, which landed in disposed of it during the noon church on the arm of her fath- Lockwood  funeral  home,  Rev.     An   introduction   party   for
fc Ire rea? men  men whom Normandy oh b-Day and which hour.   While the stalk the kids ^^ ffi^ «■ &■ H«ck^ <«*%*% Burial the freshmen who are about to
xney are reai men, men wnom ^n„„yli.   an   c„/,„,occ.F1.In-0-   Q^t.f>ac ct.T.TxaA ^^.ia moto ,. mnns,™ nage. Jjor ner weumng sne naa was  ma(je   m  Oakwood   ceme-
j „L,\a\   «La Z. wl JTcnt. fought   so   successfully   across swiped would make a man-size ™e-        .     .    ,       -   .    . .,    „~-
I Y.ZV?eI ilJr\u       y        France,  Belgium,  Holland,  the fishpole, there  are  even taller chos.en %^an^ ***** of whlte tery.
follow as an example. ,     t,..!...  '__j   ?t„^i.    ^ . . „ ~,-L .4- ^^.e. ^^^,   t <_.t_ wool  with which   she  wore   -
m
Z Mr T.iww   T hxA-Jv, Kuhr  and Northern Germany ones where it came from. Lev- »»' ™»  ™'«° ."" ™" "
So Mr.  GaUa^er^^beW Jq ^ Elbe,The ftmous, 29th »  dedar^there  is  gough ^.^CerTwere a^? Hertler Family
this    contract
^VlXi^stt g *^S ~StS =Si-SJ^^SS^ Reunion
Her only attendant was
was
dressed in a poudre blue crepe
become "Green Hands" was
held Friday night by the
F.F.A., who were assisted in
the initiatory ceremony by the
alumni. About 35 were present
among  whom were  Supt.  Leo
  Jensen,    Principal    Jerry    Ed-
The second annual reunion of wards  and Earl  Culliton.    Ice
community, as is Saline, if he Je   original   First   Army   and   ___ _ a _ ^ _	
is making the living he should. then the Ninth Army. — ~ ^      with black hat and shoes. Her the Hertler family was held at cream and cookies were served
How to remedy it I will not- at- A Captain  Owens  is  scheduled Wpvp There When   flowers were a corsage of pink the Saline park on Sunday aft- following  the   election   of  offi-
tempt to say but it does involve to return to the Umted States   " ^^rtT ,  ll roses. ernoon, Sept. 2. A potluck* din- cers.    The  Green Hands  who
a greate* equality of salary in m a few weeks.    Mrs. Owens, JaDS 8lSfneU  UD Waynard    Carr    served   his »er was served at 1 o'clock and were initiated as _chapter fann-
the state schools as well as a, the former Erma Theurer, who        r »         r brother as best man refreshments of ice cream and ers are Aaron Girbach  Luther
higher level of pay if they are has been living with her^ par- n\ch,rA  Fvank   was     Following the wedding a re- cake were enjoyed before  the Schaible    Charles  Kohler,  Roy
„„-_._ „_...._      A son,  Richaid  Jjrank,  was       ^   &r   abQut   ^        & company broke up in the eve- Klager, Lloyd Finkbeiner Lyn-
euests was held in the ehnrch nrig. ford Rentschler, Lloyd Klager.
R. N. at the TJ. of M. hospi- ^pn ^ m^   uu,^,  ^xui ^.^  r^uem m me cimiCR     Recognition was made of the Bill   Wells   and   Eldean Fink-
already left the profession.
to retain present teachers and ents Mr. and Mrs. J. L Theur-     ^
possibly recall some who have er,  has  been  employed  as  an ^m on bunday, J^^tM.       _sts was heM in the church nng
K. in.  at uie  u.  oi m.  nobpi *- dmmg   room. y R<3    _
Sincerely, .    tal while her husband has been ^i,   to   i^   ana  ^s-   ^4     The bride is the eldest daugh- oldest   member,   Mrs.   Charles beiner.
Don Francisco.     overseas. ™- ^^^Ll*^Ts a ter   of   Mr.   and   Mrs.   Henrv Hertler, and the youngest, her     Officers elected are:
  m m& Maiianas ^f *U*J Groeb    of   Pittsfield   township grandchild, Earl Klager, son of     President - EldeanTmkbem-
_=.-__!.   oomoei^ and ^  ^^  .s ^  gon jf m^ and m    Edwin K^ge^    er
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Carr of     Clarence Hertler was chosen     Vice
navigator  on  a
Oorfion Familv Tn   Haarer Introduces He recently notified
VJ-JJ.UU1L X dlllllj   All that at the time Qf tue B1JS1UU14
First KeUnion IVlan OI IVlaglC of the  Japanese surrender  on
his
the signing
President
Luther
South
m,     j.   x.  rx   j      j:     -i The prestidigitator who un-
The first Gordon family re- ceremoniousiy  puned  the  long
union was held at the  Saline strin   of sausage from beneath
Saline,   where   he   has to act as president for the year Schaible.
-, •.,     T.,r_. •_.   «_.„_. __      Secretary—Aaro,n Girbach
farm, "andis" proininent'inl-H secretary-treasurer. Treasurer—Louis Spiess
Club work. The bride has been The reunion will beheld next
„ v T attendirig the Saline High school year at the IomI park on the
A    V-J until recently. ~    "rst Sunday m September,
short  wedding trio
■xt T t^     i. •       ^d on «     been emnloved on hU father'<? and Mrs. Melvin Armbruster as
V-J Day he was m a B-29 fly- £^   ™^ ?._...?.,___.,_, T? son-ptarv-irp^niw.
ing over Tokyo Bay.
"Tokyo   Bay,   Sept.
park Sunday Sept. 9th with an the^a^et^rf^t^rS ?a£* was, the postmark on a ^^
attendance of fifty-eight. Rela- wfl       at last Thursday's din- ^l*™3?** ^ ^ and ^ the couple will be at home at Q&f   SkintHpV 1.^
tives were present from Milan, meetin    of tlie Saline Ro. Leo Westphal, Monday evenmg, 20Q   w£t  mcM avellue.     Ogt. OKingiey IO
Macon   Ann  Arbor   Ypsilanti  t         Qub    continued   for   an fr°m *eir son Herbert.    The                  .*  Month S Oversea
Caro, Lansing, Royal Oak and hour thereafter with an exlii-   etter   was   dated   Aug.   26th  LOCKWOOD SUCCEEDS' „" !    « _.     Xr i      ^- «
Wayne.                              ..... bition    of    sleight-of-hand    •" but evidently was not released KTTCTw.Ar msr  rmTArrTT. Fu-st     Sgt.    Walter    Kieth
Reporter—Lloyd   Finkbeiner.
Sentinel—Charles   Kohler.
Advisor—Charles  Osgood.
Major Hertler In
Calcutta
 ^ Two years after he arrived in
1^"     V   XT"   ~"~*"v*""" Skingley    has    recently    been India    with    the    Army    Air
Francis   Lockwood   was   ap- transferred  from   Okinawa   to Forces, Luther B. Hertler, offi-
, Jlle Gltn 90rdm ^^l S-ad which   he   ably   demonstrated ™^ ^ hJ8t°ric date-Jn Jt ^ie
100%   attendance   and   Walter that the hand ig jndeed quicker stated  that  he  was  there  on , -    „,„__.._...-_._  ^„^   v,^^„«.   ^ ..:v,_.-.^, ^_.._.^ ~. _.__.._-.., „„.-
Gordon's family the same with than tlie eye and f^^ghe^ a "the Captain's ship." A week pointed to Ml the vacancy on Luzon where he is with an am-.cer in charge of operations and
the exception of Max Goffe and lot of entertainment all of before, he wrote he had the the_ aty council made by the p^bious tank battahon which traffic unit, statistical control
to„t—_.    T...4._..i,„..„x.     .„    4-i,„ .      > _ pleasure of paying a surprise resignation   ot   Mark   bugden, j^g taken part in the invasion section,     was     promoted     to
*uu  -«n An    rr....„    rm.e...   a:„   whose term  of office fixtures  a. -*  i ;~i j„-»j; j-t... <n xi. ,•      tt_  -•_ 4-x.. _j -SxT	
Robert
Service:
Puterbaugh    in    the wMch ig to be chalked
.up
the credit of Clarence Haarer  cal1 on AUen Karn- They dis_ whofe term of* office expires a of several islands*of the South major.   He is the son of Mrs
Officers elected for the follow- wll0  is  pr0gram  chairman  of covered   that   they   had   been year trom tms fall,
ing year were: tiiTmonth'"" " ^0Se together for considerable nA1VTn  ,,.
President-Mrs. Lloyd Catey. ^e month time, without  being  aware  of "JJ1?^  HAND OJ
Vice   President—Bruce   Gor- „TP"nn^ the d«m?:' President it.     Th        ,a   t°   gee   each RIP-SAW MONDAY
don.   .
Secretary    and   Treasurer-
Mrs. Ardis Heininger
Wiedman   proposed   that   the   ^     often^;
local club sponsor a like organization at Manchester, the pro-
Pacific.    He recently was pro- M. B. Hertler of Saline.    Be-
moted to his present rank,"and fore entering service in June,
has    been    overseas    for    15 1941,  Maj.  Hertler was grad-
months.    "Walt",    as    he    is uated from Saline High scli6ol,.
Arthur Miller lost the end of known to his friends, is 1st Sgt. Cleary Business Colloge, Ypsi-
the  thumb   on  his  left  hand of the Headquarter's Company, lanti, and was employed as a
Rev. R. S. Hocking attended while operating a rip-saw at the His   wife,   the   former   Betty senior     accountant   with   the
now.
The next reunion will beheld Proposal being adopted unam- the Ann Arbor District Metho- Manchester Handle ,& Turning Thomas, resides in Saline with Evans & Keays firm, Detroit,
the first Sunday in August. mously' and announced the dist Ministerial Association Company factory,'Monday aft- her mother, Mrs. Jospeh He is on duty in the Calcutta
1946. :.l Continued on Page 8 meeting at Belleville, Monday, ernoon. ■       - _       - Thomas. area.
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