1945-11-29; Saline Observer

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VOLUME 63
SALINE,   WASHTENAW COUNTY, MICHIGAN,   THURSDAY, NOV. 29. 1945
Number   8
Fanned By
The Wind
Best Bet Is Staying Well
A fable is told of an ancient
who practiced tne art of healing and who was approached
by one wiui a great art'liction.
Said the ancient,"I will heal
you of your affliction upon one
condition. It is that you. shall
be nay slave henceforth," to
which the petitioner, in the
throes of great agony agreed
and was  his slave  until death.
A more modern version: One
of the common creatures of
this day who entered a great
hospital for an operation. It
was successful, but the man
will spend his lifetime paying
the bill which had already consumed all his meager savings
of years and thus became a virtual slave to the modern healing specialist.
Both the fable and the modern version are extremes, but
due to the fact that medical
and surgical care reach into
the intimate lives of every
man, women and child in the
nation, it is not strange that
the socialization of medicine
has come to the fore in recent
years. And it is to be reckoned with, as is illustrated by
President Truman's message to
Congress Nov. 19, advocatng
national compulsory health insurance.
This week Gene Alleman,
secretary of The Michigan
Press Association, in his Michigan Mirror, which will appear
in a large percentage of the
state's weekly newspapers,
deals with the subject by presenting the viewpoint of the
average Michigan physician
and surgeon as presented by
his state professional organiz-
aton, which sponsored two volunteer non-profit corporations
for prepaid health insurance.
Incidentally , this program is
frowned upon by the American
Medical Association.
Alleman thinks that the socialization of medicine is the
doctor's dilemma and that the
doctor's dilemma affects us
all.
It is, perhaps, well for Gene
and the medical profession
also, to bear in, mind that it
was the peoples' dilemma first,
emanating from the grass
roots of an economic situation
which burdens too great a proportion of suffering humanity.
To get proper attention to
their ills they are forced to go
to law!
That Heating Element
A great game at Ann Arbor,
Saturday, when Michigan took
Ohio State and all it had to offer—which was plenty—beat
them at their own game and
sent them home rather crestfallen- This football business at
the U. of M. is of much concern to Saline because it jams
our thoroughfares with traffic
overflows our eating places and
the mob psychology affects us
all and everyone gets the urge
to follow the crowd. We're deterred only by the fact that the
85,000 seats were all sold out
weeks ago. Sitting in those
stadium seats on a raw November day may have its compensations. One conservative estimate is that it requires a
quart of liquor for each ten
persons to stave off the cold.
That would mean 8,000 quarts,
or 2,000 gallons, or 40 barrels
of Old Crow, or what have you.
A combination of hot coffee
and liquor, Ohio State and
Michigan in mortal combat,
make stadium seats, it is said,
comfortable in any weather.
* * * *
Mercantile Co. Are
Rebuilding Mill
Old Structure Giving
Way For Modem Plant
A crew of workmen is now
taring down the old Mercantile elevator building, wlncli
manager Arthur Heininger estimates to be at least a hundred years old. The middle
section of the building has been
removed and millwrights from
Eaton Rapids will erect a new
structure on the site with a
capacity for handling 1,000
bushels of wheat per hour. A
steam shovel will be employed
to expedite the work of excavating the basement which will
have a dumping pit holding
600 bushels of grain. The elevator will be able, when completed, to receive, clean and
transfer to a car on the adjoining siding 1,000 bushels per
hour.
Quite a problem confronts
the Mercantile Company in
their undertaking, ln order to
continue giving service to their
customers, only a part of the
structure can be built at one
time. When the new secton is
completed and the machinery
installed they will proceed to
build an adjoining section and
thus complete the whole without discontinuing any of their
services.
The new addition to the store
building is another great improvement to the Company's
plant. The old lumber shed
and warehouse has been dismantled and the site on which
it stood will be disposed of.
This, too, was a very old structure and is said to have been
used as a roller skating rink at
one time.
for the various churches:
1. Have worship service and
sermon on Home and Family
Sunday centered on family life.
(a) Invite couples the paster
has married as special guests.
(b) Encourage families to
sit together in "Family
Pews."
2. Provide a reading table of
materials on family life.
3. Plan study courses on
Homemaking and Preparation
for Marriage. -
4. Seek out new or unchurched families and help them to
feel at home in the church.
5. Study the possibilities., for
family counselling service in
the church community.
6. Hold an old fashioned
church and family supuer. Feature group singing and games.
7. Cooperate with community
agencies in their programs for
better family life.
8. Encourage families to observe "family-night-at-home"
at regular intervals.
9. Encourage familv to have
grace at meals, Bible reading
and worship in the home.
soprano of New York City, will
make her first Ann Arbor appearance. The contralto role
will be sung by Kathryn Meisle,
a former member of the Metropolitan Opera Company. Arthur Kraft, well-know tenor, with
headquarters in New York, will
be heard for the first time in
many years. Mark Love, bass
of Chicago, will be heard for
the first time. All four of these
;-.mgers have won " special distinction as oratorio singers, and
especially in Handel's monumental work.
In order to preserve the continuity of the work, and still
keep the performance within
due time limit, the portions usually omitted * will be read by
Hugh Norton, narrator, a member of the speech department
faculty of the University.
Frieda Op't Holt Vogan will
preside at the organ. The University Choral Union of 300
singers, and a special orchestra, will participate. The performance' will be directed by
Hardin Van Deursen, Conductor, of the University Musical
Society.
Is Modernizing His
Store Interior
Heininger Making
Striking    Improvements
Within This
Area
Lieutenant And
Lieutenant Wed
In  Candelight  Ceremony
At Methodist Church
Legion Auxiliary
To Equip Home
Have Already Made
A Very Good Showing
Commission Seeks
Aid of Churches
In Program To Combat
Juvenile   Delinquency
The Forgotten
Coming back in ever increasing numbers, discharged Ser-
vieerren are finding it difficult
to seeure homes.
Continued  on Page 2
Inaugurating a long range
program of education designed
to combat the spread of juvenile delinquency, Governor Harry F. Kelly has announcer the
completion of plans for a statewide observance, "Home and
Family Week" from December
2 to 8.
As a preliminary to the general observance, the program
was initiated in the schools of
the state during the week preceding Thanksgiving,
The Michigan Youth Guidance Commission, as the coordinating agency, is sponsoring
the observance which is to be
conducted on a community
basis.
Approved at the July meeting of the commission, the
overall educational program is
being developed by a special
committee comprised of representatives of various state departments and private organizations concerned with education for home and family living.
To insure that every community in the state will be afforded the opportunity to participate in the observance, Governor Kelly has sent letters outlining the plans to 1,487 school
superintendents, county school
commissioners and members of
county and community youth
guidance committees.
Recognizing the importance
of the schools in conducting a
successful campaign, the Governor said that initial leadership would be shared in each
community by school officials,
teachers and youth guidance
committies and assumed by the
educators where no youth committee exists.
Outlined in a brochure published by the Commission, are
suggestions for initiating programs for community organization and planning, which suggests   the   following   program
The marriage of Lt. Edna
Ewing, Army Nurse Corp and
Lt. O'Neal Taylor, U. S. A.,
took place Sunday, November
25 at 5 o'clock- in the Saline
Methodist Church. Rev. R. S.
Hocking performed the cere
mony by candlelight before the
alter which was decorated with
white Chrysanthemums. . Lt.
Ewing, the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. George Ewing of Ann Arbor, was dressed in army uniform.
The bride's only attendant
was her sister, Mrs. HughKev-
eling. Mr. Keveling served the
groom as best man.
Only members of the immediate families of both were present. The groom's aunt. Mrs.
Anna Nichols of Ft. Worth,
Texas, and two sisters, Mrs.
Robert Pierce and Mrs. Kenneth Stratton of Marshall, Texas, attended the ceremony.
A wedding supper was served
at Bauer Manor, Evans Lake.
After a short honeymoon the
groom, who is on terminal leave
from the Army, will return to
Texas to resume his work as an
engineer for an oil company
there.
Mrs. Taylor mil join her husband as soon as her discharge
from the Army becomes effective.
While it is generaly understood here that the William
Bryan Lutz Post of the Amer-
icn Legion is planning to build,
a new home in the very near
future on property adjoining
and overlooking the east side of
Ford Lake, but it isn't quite so
well known that the American
Liggi-PP Auxiliary has~taken on
the project of providing funds
to furnish that home. They
have been working diligently
for sometime earning money,
but this fall they undertook to
serve dinners to people traveling through town to attend the
football games at the Ann Arbor Stadium, and thus accomodated visitors to the Michigan-
Minnesoto and the Michigan-
Ohio games and on these two
dates alone cleared between
$450 and $500, a sizeable sum.
The committee in charge of the
dinners is grateful for the
splendid co-operation in work
and contributions on the part
of members and others, and is
especially grateful to Mrs. Edgar Forsythe for her generous
gift of an electric stove to the
equipment of the kitchen of the
new home.
At the dinner last Saturday
for the Michigan-Ohio game,
more than four hundred people
were served.
Herman Heininger, local implement dealer is remodeling
me interior of his place of business on West iviicmgan Ave.
A partition across the rear on
the main floor has been moved
back providing a space 56 feet
in length and another partition
on the west side, which provided an entrance for vehicles, has
been eliminated, and in its place
is a series of booths with thousands of shelves and compartments for the storage of parts
which are necessary for the
servicing of the different lines
of farm equipment which is
handled.
The ceiling has been refinish-
ed in celotex squares while the
sidewallsare to be covered with
celotex beveled panels. The
office is located to the rear,
near the end of a long counter
which extends nearly the length
of the room. The old office
fixtures will be removed and
the floor space thus provided
will be used for display purposes. By closing another entrance on the east side of the
building and replacing it with
large windows, additional floor
space has been gained.
The booths, counters, shelving; the office and receiving
rooms have all been made of
plywood. Compartments in the
counter and in the shelving in
the parts section, are all adjustable, and a unique though
.simple combination filing-inventory system makes for the
speedy location of'any "due of a
thousand machinery parts. The
interior finish will be in ivory,
and when completed will present a very attractive appearance.
Born in Freedom township,
June 17, 1872, the Rev. Ernest
Brenion died Sunday afternoon
at Evangelical Deaconess Hospital in Detroit. He was married to Emma Luckhardt in
October, 1895. She died hi
May 1912. In 1917 he married
Martha Layher. During his
life he held pastorates in several towns in Missouri and Indiana and in 1927 came to Taylor
Center, Michigan, where he retired in 1939. After that time
he was pastor at St. James at
Saline township, for six months.
Surviving are his daughter,
Mrs. Emma Howeisen of
Bridgewater township and a
brother Phillip in California.
Funeral rites were held Wednesday in Manchester, and
burial took place at Bethel
Cemetery,   Freedom township.
Miss Katherine Campbell, a
native of Pittsfield township
and daughter of Andrew and
Catherine Fisher Campbell died
Saturday at St. Joseph's Mercy
Hospital. Miss Campbell was
born Dec. 12, 1865, and until
her retirement 19 years ago,
spent her life as a teacher, 35
years of which was with the
Latin department of the South
Bend, Indiana high school. Funeral rites took place at Ypsilanti. Surviving relatives include
a brother, Daniel F. Campbell
of Pittsfield.
Planting of Legal
Size Trout
Christmas Oratorio
At Ann Arbor
Handel's Messiah
At Hill Auditorium
A 100ft length of paving in
the alley on the west side of
the Saline Hotel, is a splendid
piece of workmanship and a
distinct improvement to the
hotel property. The proprietor,
Henry Leutheuser takes a considerable pride in the upkeep
of his establishment which is
shared by the community generally.
A record 870,428 adult or
legal-size brook, brown, and
rainbow trout have been planted by the conservation department this year in Michigan's
streams and inland lakes.     £
This 42 per cent increase in
numbers of adult and legal-size
fish planted over the 1944 total
of 611,472 of the three species
has been accomplished despite
severe food, manpower, and e-
quipment shortages.
Food shortages, in fact, held
down the total of adult and legal-size fish planted. Growth
rate of fish was slowed by forced use of substitute ingredients in the carefully worked
out diets of trout held in hatcheries and the department has a
heavier- than- usual carry-over
of trout that' failed to attain
legal size in the normal growth
period.
It   was   the   third   year   in
Five persons were injured in
Washtenaw county accidents
during the past week-end,
among whom was Casper Gram-
matico, 28, of 1605 Maple Rd.
who was slighty injured in a
collision when his car was-hit
by a car driven by William
Turner, 2784 Newport Road.
Approximately 45 supervisors and county clerks met at
the court house Monday evening to receive instructions concerning the new permanent
registration laws, which will
enable voters to register permanently if they vote at least
once every two years.
In good health despite her
years, Freedom townships log-
cabin pioneer, Mrs. Barbara
Zastro celebrated her 94th
birthday anniversary at her
home with her daughter, Mrs.
Alma Bangs, 116 S. Seventh
Street, Ann Arbor, Wedesday,
November   28th.
Mr. and Mrs. Ben Wanty of
261 Ferman Ave., Milan observed their golden wedding anniversary at their home recently.
Their sons, Clayton and
Floyd, with their wives assisted on the occasion.
Handel's MESSIAH will be
given its annual Christmas presentation by the University
Musical Society, Sunday afternoon, December 16, at 3 o'clock,
in Hill Auditorium. Four distinguished soloists of national
reputation will make up the
quartet of singers..
Rose   Dirman,    distinguished
WILBUR MAULT AUCTION
SALE SATURDAY
The Wilbur Mault auction
sale will be held Saturday, Dec.
1, a mile south of the Bridge-
water Church on- the Kaiser Rd.
beginning at 12 o'clock when
12 head of cattle, a team of
horses, sheep, a 10-20 International tractor, three new rubber-tire wagons, farm implements and small tools will be
sold. Clarence Gook is the auctioneer and Erwin Feldkamp
will clerk the sale.
Presents a Reconversion Program
*--£-;
The Rev. and Mrs. Richard
Beirlein of Freedom township
have announced the engagement
of their daughter, Adelheid, to
Eugene Bender, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Henry Bender of Franken-
muth.
which the department has concentrated its efforts on producing legal-size trout, a development in Michigan fish culture
based on extended research
which demonstrated that such
plantings provide greater returns to anglers
Public approval of the program is growing.
The department announces
that it about reached the limit
of its trout-prcducing capacity
in 1945; that only the expansion of winter rearing facilities
and a more essured food supply
will allow an incrase in numbers of fish nrcduced in future
years.
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The National Association of Manufacturer's reconversion council,
shown as they presented to congress a reconversion program which
recommended elimination of wage controls and the removal of OPA
price restrictions by February 15, 1S46. Left to right: C. B. Randall,
Washin.gton; K. E. Wason, New Sort City and John Airey, Ann Arhor.
Arthur Miller is the new
plant manager at the Manchester Handle & Turning Co., succeeding Leonard Eadgely, who
separated himself from the job
several weeks ago.
LINER ADS GET RESULTS.