1946-07-25; Saline Observer

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The Saline Observer
VOLUME 63
SALINE, WASHTENAW COUNTY, MICHIGAN, "  THURSDAY, JULY 25, 1946
NUMBER    42
The Dog Days
Are Here
And Most Everyone
Gets Mad When He
Gets Bitten
The CAP Cadet program, recipient of proceeds from the
show, is credited with 10,000
enlistments from Michigan in
the Army Air Forces during
the war.
Miller's Daughter In
Biblical Wheat Field
Industry On The Move
ToTheSmaUerTown&
CORP. WURSTER HOME
FROM SOUTH PACIFIC
DISCUSS IMPROVEMENT
OF RURAL HOMES
Dog days are here. This is
the open season of rabies and
hydrophobia. When your turn
comes to be bitten is not predictable, but with stray dogs at
large, the probability is present. The dog that may bite
you may not be mad, but then
again he may be.
Dr. Gordon Prout issues the
warning against stray dogs, in
view of the fact that several
persons have been bitten recently. Last year there was a
quarantine on dogs. There is a
law now against dogs running
at large. The law was devised
for.the protection of the public.
Controlling rabies is merely
the controlling of dogs. Sounds
simple, but- is difficult. Sentimental consideraton for dogs
and other factors interfere with
well-intended quarantine restrictions, dog ordinances and
regulations.
While most species of animals, including man, may become infected, the spread of
hydrophobia is usually through
the dog. It is not necessarily
a seasonal disease, but it is
more prevalent during warm
weather because then the dogs
travel most.
A dog, bitten by a rabid animal, may not develop rabies
for weeks or even months after
introduction of the virus.- By
that time the dog may be many
miles from the location where
infected. He then starts a
rampage of his own. Actual
reports show dogs travel as far
as 60 miles while engaged in
biting animals and persons."
Control of rabies, however,'
will never be effective until the
movement-of dogs is restricted;
stray dogs eliminated; dog.
laws, ordinances and regulations obeyed and due regard
given to dog quarantines.
If the disease kills a child,'
that is' a tragedy which we
must charge to our own unwillingness to comply with sane,
even though irksome, restrictions.
The Southwest Lodi Farm
Bureau met at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Paul Hieber, Thursday evening. Improving Rural
Homes was the topic of. discussion, led by Emerson Heaussier.
Ice cream and • cookies were
served at its conclusion and
euchre games followed. The
August 15th meeting will be
held at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Raymond Klumpp.
Death Comes
To Mrs. Gordon
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MICHIGAN AIR SHOW
AT SELFRIDGE FIELD
The Michigan Air Show,
largest air show ever to come
to Michigan, will be held at
Selfridge, Field, Mt. Clemens,
on Saturday and. Sunday, August 10 and 11.
Sponsored by the Michigan
Wing Civil Air Patrol for the
benefit of its cadet training
program, the show will feature
the celebrated 56th Fighter
Group, commanded by Col.
Dave Schilling, and a special
group of pilots and planes organized by the Army Air forces for this exibition. The
spectacular P-80 jet-propelled
Shooting Star will make its
first -appearance in Mchigan
during the show.
B-29 Super Forts, B-25
Mitchell Bombers-, A-26 Invader Attack Bombers, P-51 Mustangs, P-47 Thunderbolts and
C-54 Skymasters will also take
part.
An exhibition flight by a
radio-controlled target plane,
helicopter demonstrations, mass
maneuvers, acrobatics, group
parachute jumps, simulated
aerial combat, strafing runs and
special flying exhibits will be
worked into the three-hour afternoon show using AAF and
CAP planes."
Showings of combat films,
plane and equipment exhibits
and intertainment features will
start at 10:00 o'clock each
morning and continue until the
start of the air show at 1:30
p. m. Gates will open at 9:30
a. m. each day.
The closing ceremony for
each day's show will be the review of the 200 Civil Air Patrol Cadets stationed at Selfridge Field for their Summer
Encampment.
Admission is $1.20, including
tax, and tickets are being sold
throughout the state hy CAP
Squadrons and Cadets. Children under twelve, accompanied
hy adults, will.be admitted free
of charge.
Mrs. Roberta Gordon passed
away at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Max Goffe, Ann Arbor, Thursday morning, after a
prolonged illness. She was well-
known throughout this community where she had resided
for 36 years, and was an active
member of the Methodist
church and of the Willing
Workers. Born in Dundee,
January 13, 1886, she was the
daughter of Forest and Myra
Goldsmith and was married to
Walter Gordon in October, 1909.
Funeral services were held
here Saturday afternoon at 2
o'clock at the Lockwood Funeral Home, Rev. Bertram Ede of
Mvinith, a former pastor of the
Saline Methodist church, officiating, assisted by Rev. R. S-.
Hocking. Burial was made in
Oakwood cemetery.
Mrs. Gordon was a correspondent for the Saline Observer
and wrote the weekly news
letter from the Hammond District for many years.
Survivors include her husband, Walter Gordon of Willow
road; two daughters, Mrs.
Goffe," Ann Arbor and Mrs.
Robert Puterbaugh, Dayton, O.;
three sons, Bruce Gordon, Lansing; Clark D. Gordon, Saline;
and Kerry W. Gordon, Wayne;
two brothers, Oliver Goldsmith,
Melvindale, and George Goldsmith of Milan; five sisters,
Mrs. Nora Harper-Shaw, Vermillion, G.; Mrs. Edna Yoder,
Romulus; Mrs.' Walter Greashaber, Milan; Mrs. Myra Saffell, Ann Arbor, and Mrs. Wilham Krueger, Louisville, Ky.,
and seven grandchildren.
THURSDAY'S STORM
CAUSES TRAFFIC
MISHAP
Miss Mary Jane Hayden,
daughter of Perry and Elizabeth Hayden, founders of the
well-known "Biblical Wheat"
Demonstration, surrounded by
the world-famous "Dynamic
Kernels."
Miss Hayden is a living symbol of the renowned project,
which started from a cubic inch
of wheat planted in 1940, and
has grown to 2,666 acres in
1946, after deducting a 10%
tithe each year and replanting
the balance. Through tke ir-^,_-
ration pf this project, she was
led to dedicate her life to
Christ. Miss Hayden is now
training at Wheaton College
(Illinois) for service in the foreign mission field.
The sixth and final harvest
of this great Religious Tithing
Demonstration'will be held in a
colorful free ceremony at tbe
Adrian Fair Grounds on Thursday, August 1st.
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An I. H. C. pickup truck
driven by Charles Baker, Jr.,
Ann Arbor, struck the rear of
a car ahead of it near the intersection of State Street and M-
112 Thursday night about
10:30, during a storm. A man
with Baker, v Geyer by name,
whose head struck the windshield, received cuts about the
head and an injury to his back.
He was taken to St. Joseph's
Mercy Hospital for treatment.
The car struck by the truck
was one occupied by Lillian
Burgan and Gladys Benfield,
Saline, who were on their way
home from Ann Arbor. Both
suffered back and neck injuries
and minor bruises and were
treated at Saline General Hospital. Both car tmd truck were
badly damaged.
STATE HOSPITAL
ANNUAL PICNIC
The annual picnic of employees and former employees
of Ypsilanti State Hospital
which was held July 20th on
the hospital grounds, w__J_ a decided success^ with more than
600 people participating. After
a picnic lunch, sports and
games were enjoyed, prizes being given to the winners.
A survey was made to discover the person traveling the
longest distance to the reunion,
Warren Beaumont, of Sault
St. Marie. Mr. Beaumont received $5.00 as a reward.
The world-famous "Biblical
Wheat" tithing demonstration
conducted by Perry Hayden of
Tecumseh, which has attracted
so much attention during the
past six years, will be brought
to a glorious conclusion at the
Adrian Fair Grounds, on Thursday, August 1st, with a huge
free celebration, starting at --
p. m.
A representative field of the
famous wheat has been planted
inside the race track at the fair
grounds, where the celebration
will be held.
The representative field at
the fair grounds will be cut
with sickles, cradles, horse
drawn reapers and, modern
combines, as a demonstration
of harvesting from the Biblical
days down to the present. The
wheat will be cut, threshed,
ground into flour, baked into
biscuits and "Fed to the multitudes", right before their eyes.
Among the many. prominent
personalities to take part in the
ceremonies are General Tom
Campbell, the "Wheat King"
from Montana; Dr. Walter A.
Maier, the famous radio evangelist of the Lutheran Hour;
Floyd Starr, founder of the
Starr Commonwealth; Clarence
Pickett, Ex. Sec. of' American
Friends Service Committee; Gil
Dodds, world's champion in-
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(By Gene Alleman)
,    Labor unrest in the city, not
the revolutionary tnrcai, m. uie
atomic bomb, is prompting
industry to decentralize production in favor of small towns.
While on a brief swing of
West Michigan last week, we
ran into several cases oi this
post-war trend.
At Belding, for example, the
town's business section is, dominated by an imposing mill
structure, many 'stories high,
witii a big cloclc in a tower. It
was built about 1900 by the
Belding Brothers Silk Company
and operated steadily until 1931
when it became a victim of the
depression and remained idle
for nearly nine years.
The Belding mill plant is the
new home of a division of the
Murray Corporation of America
which employs 550 persons to
make springs for the Oldsmo-
biles: Another new industry is
the Extruded Metal Corporation, employing 300 persons to
make airplane parts. GiDson
has a stove factory also at Belding.
Belding is -now back on the
map. Things are booming.
North of Belding is another
enterprising small city, Greenville with plants making Gibson
refrigerators and Federal Mogul trucks. Don Smith, newspaper publisher, reported that
Greenville has a labor shortage;
that local industries hope to
double payrolls in the next five
years.
Cedar Springs, the red flannel
home, was selected recently for
a branch of the Keeler Brass
Company of Grand Rapids. Its
big industry is the Interstate
Creamery which employs 80
persons, pays them $3,500 a
week, and pufcsr$80,000 into the
bank accounts of dairy farmers
every six days.
Through the courtesy of Cy
Johnson, plant superintendent,
we witnessed the assembly line
production of sweetened condensed milk, of which 250,000
cans are being turned out daily
for shipment overseas. Interstate recently opened up
branches at Edmore and Reed
City.
Sparta, also in Kent county,
brags of a "million dollar peach
belt", but it has several prosperous industries including a
branch of the Muskegon Piston
Ring Company and a plant of
the Carnation Milk Company,
only one of its kind in Michi-
gan.Nearby at Kent city is the
Larsen canning plant.
Growers near Sparta are in
clover this summer. Cherries
are bringing $300 a ton, or
around 21 cents a quart. Pickers earn $1 an hour, compared
with $1.50 a day pre-war. One
Sparta grower, a graduate of
Michigan' State College, netted
$2,000 an acre from strawberries on a three-and-one-half
acre tract.
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Corporal Carl Wurster, with
the 5th Division U. S. Marines,
who saw service in the South
Pacific and participated in the
epic invasion and capture of
Iwo Jima, where he suffered a
shrapnel injury in one leg, has
been discharged form the Great
Lakes Naval Separation Center/
and arrived home Tuesday.
Corporal Wurster is the son of
Mrs. Luetta Wurster, E. Michigan Avenue, and entered the
service June 27, 1944 and went
overseas the following November 23rd.
Welcome, Home
War Veterans
, State To Celebrate
V-J Day Which Is
Declared Holiday
Bath Houses
Provided
For Bathers At
SaUne Valley
Farms Lake
W. G. Hayhbw, superintendent of Oaklands, Inc., of Ann
Arbor, here at. Thursday's
meeting of the Saline Rotary
Club, announced plans that
were underway for the observance . of. the first anniversary
of V-J Day, August 14, which
will be in the nature of an
official "Welcome Home" to the
men and women of World War
II.
The big, gala celebration will
be held in Ann Arbor with all
the cities and towns of Washtenaw County participating.
The day will be made gay with
the pagentry and pomp of huge
parades, of marching bands and
floats, with free acts, pavement
dances and Other features.
Two bath houses for the
bathing bfeach at Saline Valley
Farms lake were provided for
through a contribution of $50
from' the Community Fund and
$25'- gach by Henry Leutheuser-
and Dr. Prout. President Miller set Monday night at the
Saline Mercantile Co. yards for
volunteer workmen to build the
structures which would be
transported by truck to the
lake. Mian Rotary Club will
share in the expense as the
swimming place is available for
the young people of both communities.
Mayor Alwin Gross announced that arrangements were
completed for the Black and
White cattle show by the Hol-
stein-Friesian Association at
the City Park ball grounds
August 22, and that the Club
members were invited t& participate in a pot-luck picnic dinner for which the Rotary Club
will furnish the ice cream.
The noon program wound up
by the showing of film, "Crime
Does Not Pay," by Program
Chairman .Gerald Coe. Visitor*?
present were Arthur Mchalke,
G. M. Jones; Guy Miller and
Leon Vedder of Milan; C. F.
Carlton, Clinton; Everett Wol-
fin, Pana. 111.; and W. G. Hay-
how, Ann Arbor.
More than 500 American
Legion posts from every corner
of the state are asking civic,
fraternal and community
groups to join with them in
observing Wednesday, Aug. 14,
as Welcome Home Day for
World War II veterans. Plans
already announced by many
towns, cities and communities
indicate that the celebration
will be wide-spread.
In March, 1946, the Legion's
Americanism commission, headed by Dr. Frank A. Gorman of
Saginaw, conceived the idea of
this special observance of August 14, which will mark the
first anniversary of V-J Day
when Japan surrendered to end
the greatest war in history.
The idea of setting asicbS this
day to officially welcome home
the men and women who wore
the uniform "caught on," and
the Legion asked Gov. Harry
F. Kelly to declare a public
holiday. In turn he requested
the state legislature to go one
step farther and make the date
a legal holiday. This was done,
and the governor has issued
a proclamation proposing that
the day be given over to a gala, state-wide homecoming celebration, and calling upon all
citizens, "through tlieir wholehearted participation, to leave
no question that, our gratitude
will remain forever fresh ia
recognition of the debt we can
never adequately repay."
0Meantime, in anticipation of
such a proclamation. Legion,
posts in many localities went
ahead with "tEeir plans, " and.
with the aid of other groups
made preliminary arrangements
for suitable programs. Free
acts and orchestras for street
dances have been engaged by
a number of communities, and
considerable sums have been
raised to provide a rousing re*-
ception for the veterans.
Michigan is the first state in
the Union to commemorate by
legislative action the V-J Day
anniversary, and every indica.-
tion points to a celebration that
will recall the exuberance with
which the end of the war was
hailed one year ago.
EDISON O. K'D
BYNLRB AID
MATERIAL SffiZ»RTAGE
AT LOW EBB
VISITING DIGNITARIES
ATTEND PICNIC
The Legion Auxiliary picnic
at the city park, Tuesday evening was largely attended and
much enjoyed. Mrs. Benjamin
Alber, Junior past department
president and national committee woman and Mrs. Gertrude
Nichols, department finance offer and vice-president-elect of
the second district, were present. A business meeting followed the potluck supper. Mrs.
Lawrence Deede and Mrs. Clair
Harms were chosen delegates
to the Auxiliary convention to
be held in Grand Rapids, Aug;
16-19.
MRS. KATHERINE
SCHALLHORN*
Local supplies of lumber and.
building materials are almost
at the vanishing point and pose
a difficult problem for anyone
who proposes to build, repair or
remodel. However, some have
overcome the handicap' as in
the instance of Wheeler's Drug
Store, which has completed a
very inviting interior at their
dairy bar. In the meanwhile
the naked steel framework of
Wiedman's new garage awaits
the arrival of steel sash, long
overdue, and the work at the
Saline Mercantile is slowed by
the lack of material. When ever
a break does come, there'll sure
be some clattering of hammers.
ANNUAL MEETING
A recommendation that a
complaint of unfair labor practices brought against the Detroit Edison Co. by the Utility
Workers Union of America
(CIO) be dismissed was made
at Washington by Trial Examiner Charles E. Person, of the
National Labor " Relations
Board.
In an intermediate report
made public at Washington,
Person declared the union's
charges were unfounded.
The union charged at a hearing in April that the company
interfered in its attempts, to organize certain of the T^Oft
utility employes. It also accused the company of dominating-
the Detroit Edison Employes
Association, an indiependent
union.
The  company denied the-
charges'.
The trial examiner found
that there was no interference
with Edison employes and.no
domination of the independent
union.
FRANK FOX NEW
KROGER MANAGER
SALINE AND CLINTON
TO TANGLE SUNDAY
Saline's baseball club was
idle last Sunday, but has a
game scheduled for Sunday
afternoon at 3 o'clock with the
Clinton aggregation.
Funeral services will be held
tomorrow in Ann Arbor for
Mrs. Katherine Schallhorn, 74,
1127 Maple road, whose death
occurred Monday night at St.
Joseph's Mercy Hospital, follow"
Ing a long illness. She was a
native of Gertnany ~ and came
to Saline with her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Samuel Adams, at the
age of 11. Surviving are her
husband, a daughter, three
sons, three sisters and two
brothers.
The Bridgewater Fire Department annual meeting will
be held at the Bridgewater Elevator, Friday, July 26, at 8:30
p. m. The announcement signed
by George Bersuder, president;
Oscar Bersuder, chief, and E.
G. Mann, secretary, that if
there is a lack -of response to
the call, the fire apparatus will
not be available in the future.
Clyde Lowe, manager of the
Kroger Store here during the
past five years, has been succeeded by Frank Fox, of Ann
Arbor. Lowe, who checked
out at the close of business
Saturday, has been promoted to
7x^ managership of a new
Kroger super-market" at Sandusky, in the Thumb district,
and after a couple of weeks vacation, will.take over his work
there.
It is miserable to be blind;
it is miserable to be incapable
of enduring blindness.
Slander resembles counterfeit money. Many people have
great scruples to coin it; but
little to pass :it along.