1946-10-10; Saline Observer

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The Saline Observer
[VOLUME 64
SALINE. WASHTENAW COUNTY. MICHIGAN.     THURSDAY, OCT. 10, 1946
NUMBER   1
Refused the
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CommunityFair
Huge Success
»- Local Cooperative Event
Aroused Intense Interest
Throughout   Countryside
Benevolent Nature smiled
and set the stage for a weekend
performance here unmatched m
Indian Summer loveliness and
autumn splendor. The Dame
saw' virture in Saline's three-
day Community Fair and was
evidently carried away by the
enthusiasm of the moment.
Anway, she outdid herself and
provided the one great element
which contributed so much to
make the 1946 edition of
Saline's fall festival such a
hugh success.
Unmarred by either' accident
or vexation of any kind, the
Fair, now history, was about
. as successful an event as' cpuld
be imagined. Unprecedented
crowds attended every event
and seemingly let their hair
down to enjoy it to the full.
Good nature was rampant and
laughter and neighborly good
fellowship were the dominant
notes. The mid-way a new
inovation at the Community
Fair, was an experiment that
proved highly successful. The
exhibits in all departments
equalled those of any previous
years and in many respects
excelled. The Saline Woman's
Club put on a flower show of
"superlative beauty and in the
crops department even the ap^
pie display remained intact
from pilfering kids, although
deliciously tempting. It is
; doubtful if any neighboring
county fair this fall matched
the corn display. There were
over 30 entries. "
The horse pulling event was
of unusual interest, with two
Milford entries by professionals, one of whom carried off the
main purse, but the crowd gave
the palm to the local Robison
team which was obviously the
pluckiest of them all.
Speculation is rife concerning
the fate of two watermelons,
prize winners, upon which Supt.
Jensen focused a calculating
eye. It may have been only
calculation; however, the fireworks Thursday, which followed
the WJR program, provided a
thrilling climax to an eventful
day.
The pig scramble and tractor-
backing events were followed
Friday afternoon by the Saline-
Milan football game which resulted in a local defeat, 14-0
It was conceded, however, by
the crowd which witnessed the
event, that Saline High put
up a game fight against their
husky oppenents ^ind were congratulated on their good showing.
Saturday was a day dedicated
as a home-coming for Veterans
and the afternoon parade—a
mile long—bade them a welcome. It was colorful and exciting and featured the Ypsilanti High School girls' drum
and bugle corps. They made a
striking appearance in their
kilts and high headdress as
they came high-stepping along
With the majorettes and their
whirling batons in the lead.
Veterans with the colors, the
large troupe of horsemen, the
High School band, the floats,
the pet stock, the many marchers and special features along
with the showing of farm
machinery made it .an event of
exciting interest to the throngs
which lined the course of the
parade. The rodeo at the ball
grounds near the City Park
drew hundreds of interested
spectators and the dance in
the school auditorium and the
mid-way Saturday night kept
a tremendously large crowd occupied -until long after mid-
•night.
William Austin, David Gor-
"Hear Wilham R. Kelley, veteran candidate for Congress,
speaking over WPAG (1050 on
your dial) at 1:15 P.M. on Sunday, Oct.^13." Political Adv.
don and Dwight Carr were
responsible largely for the fine
livestock show, - and Stanley
Gall for the horse pulling event.
Michael Sheehan, Gerhardt Cekau and Harold Vaughn contributed largely to the success
of the Fair by putting on the
rodeo. Art Hagen and Don
Wiedmayer as solicitors did a
bang-up job, while the community merchants and several
manufacturers lent their unstinted efforts toward building
up the fine displays in the merchants' tents. The F.F.A., who
have a large part in the conduct
of the Fair, were led in their
activities by the indefatiguable
Charles Osgood, secretary of
the Fair Association. Charley
is the moving spirit behind this
annual event and the recipient
of many compliments.
Many others, too, gave   un-
stintingly of their time, among
To be able to qualify as a voter in the November
election you must be registered in your voting precinct. The
office of the city clerk will be open Friday and Saturday,
each day until noon, and from 8 a.m. until 8 p.m. Monday,
and Tues., Oct i4 and 15, and Wed., Oct. 16, the last
day for registration.   The office is located in the City Hall.
v .    . Glenn Hart, City Manager.
The Sports
Dopecaster
Optimistic, But
Refuses To Give
Alibis Any Longer
Boy, 4, Kitted
0nUS-112
Two Others Seriously
Injured in Traffic
Accidents' Saturday
DeathTakesOld
York Resident
Herbert W. Gilman
Had Been Resident In
County All His Life
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Whom Swas"crarence"c^)k; whS early   Wednesday   morning   at   j-
from the first day on was busy his home at 11982 Moon Rd.    «,>.
issuing premium checks. m York township  He was the
One voice rose preeminent son of Gaston and Katherine
over all the hubbub of the Gibnan and was born May 27,
Fair .activities. It sensed the 1859 m York townsip He had
spirit of the occasion and been a htelong residence of
grasped the true significance of tni| county- .
it  all  and  contributed largely     He was united m marriage to
to the solidifying of the com-
was ^e^E^r^eedS g, g* «? «&&? «*£*
on the microphone during the 2 ™£L b* QX
entire three days and nights of ^ilfLf™
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Vena M. Clark at the residence
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iEVEBETT M. ELWOOD
munity  cooperative  effort.    It ™  ^J?  \eJie\ September ^
, the voice of Frank Deede 2^ J885 and they had celebrat- '	
4-i.x, x-vT.,™,v-.i,'-.t,« Annner ±\,ex ed their  61  wedding  anniver-
the microphone during the oory ^ month_ ^^ M> Elwood; & natiye
the Fair    More nower to the      ^urvivors  include   his  wife; of  Lenawee  county, Michigan,
™   Ta  .1Tt LViZL„   Jhn   one son> Fra11^ of Clinton; two has joined the staff at Michigan
f*   '™;r&_tJw   ^f tfi daughters,   Mrs.   Harold   Mac- State college as extension spec-.
SL.S^W^iA. J° 1   Lachlan   of   Ann Arbor,    and ialist in farm management.   In
,v!   w   emLa LifL^t Mrs- Kenneth Laidlaw of Yale, this position.Elwoo4.will work
inl_ fo^r__.!S_iare.„ behmd_._t^ and  eight  grandchildren. with farmers and farm groiips
Funeral services will be held throughout Michigan.
Friday afternoon  at 2 o'clock     Elwood    is    a graduate    of-
at the Stevens and Bush funeral Michigan State college and re-
home in Milan. Burial wiil be in ceived his master of science de-
the Mooreville cemetery. gree this past June at the Un-
■    iversity    of    Illinois,  Urbana.
Plans   are   being   completed FUNERAL FRIDAY FOR From 1942 to 1945 he served in
for the annual regional banquet EUGENE COE the U. S. Army Air corps.   He
and   dance   sponsored   by   the   served as a farm management
Washtenaw  Junior  Farm   Bu-    - Eugene Coe, 91, a resident of Specialist with the Farm Seeur-
reau to be held at the Saline Bridgewater   during   the   last ity administration   from   1935
High ■  School   on     Wednesday four   years,   died  at  the  Rest to 1942.,—^ . ,
evening, October 30.- Edgar A. Home   in   Willis,    Wednesday THURSDAY DANCING
Guest, Jr., will be the speaker m0rning,   where  he   and  Mrs PROGRAM RESUMED
for the evening. Coe   had iateiy   been,  making  .
their home.    He was a native     The Thursday evening square
new. .adventure  in   community
affairs.
JUNIOR FARM BUREAU
PLANS BANQUET
BARN AND CONTENTS
DESTROYED BY FffiE
of Nelsonville, Ohio,- where he dance   program   will   be   held
was born oh October 19, 1855. again this week in the school
—-.— He had lived in Manchester be- gymnasium, after being- skipped
A three o'clock alarm called fore taking up residence in last week because of the Com-
the fire department to the Bridgewater*. His remains were munity Fair. Commencing this
residence of Mrs. Sam Boyd, taken to the Genter ,Funeral time there will ,be a slight
South Ann Arbor street, Tues- Home in Manchester where ser- change . in the schedule, with
day morning when a bam along vices will be held Friday after- the grade school group meeting
with the contents, "consisting noon at 2 o'clock, with burial earlier, at 7:00 P. M. and con-
of   hay   and   farm   tools,   was in Clinton cemetery. Rev. John turning until  8:15.-   As usual,
burned to the ground.
Bunney officiating.
On *76e£>i Way Tip
the program for the second
group, those of high-school age
and over, will follow the first
gathering immediately. The
eharges, of course, will remain
the same; fifteen and twenty-
five cents.
Those who have been following these regular meetings are
enthusiastic practicularly about
the way the younger group has
been mastering the art of
square and folk dancingj under
the competent leadership of
Scotty Colburn. Scotty, incidentally, is now devoting himself full time to his dance and
recreational leadership work,
and has similar groups on other
evenings in surrounding communities.
Attendance among the older
The above is the home of All it lacks now is the plumb-^er8 has not been so con-
Mr. and Mrs. Ray Hunt, also ing, plastering and decorating, %f^g ^ but the?e hat
on Maple road, construction on and siding on the exterior. ^ Sve^ TnlStv fo^thosl
which started last spring, and Hunt and his father are doing *>«* gay^ W^tor those
which the Hunts hope to have most of the work of construe- J^^ ^ ggg* */3
completed by  Christmas time. tion. _     thege ^^ gatheringSj ^hy
not plan to come on down to
the school this Thursday around
8:30 P. M. and join in the fun?
The more the merrier! It's a
fine oppontunity to spend an
enjoyable evening and perfect
your square dancing under Mr.
Colburn's skilled supervision.
Everyone is welcome!
Sahne fans are asking
"what's wrong with the Hornets?" As spectators who shell
out good money to see football
games, local sportsfans have a
right to ask questions . . .
especially when the boys are
not winning.
So far the Hornets have met
Clinton, Flat Rock, and Milan.
In the Clinton game they displayed plenty of defensive ability but only embryonic Offensive spark. Even though Coach
Everett's boys did not win that
one,- neither did they lose it.
This fact made them in our
books, at least, a better team
than last season's eleven. At
Flat Rock, where they lost 18-0,
they looked very bad on offensive and slipshod on defense.
But almost every football team
has at least one bad day. In
our opinion the Blue and White
can't possibly turn in a more
miserable performance than
they did in that game.
Against Milan the Hornets
did look better. They tackled
more . viciously, v as if they
meant it. The Milan backs can
testify to that. The Everettmen showed that in the blocking department of the game
there is ever" so much room for
improvement.; Time and time
again they have demonstrated
power and deception in the
backfield, but poor blocking
nullified both. There isn't a
fullback in the Huron League
who can hit .harder than Don
Mueller. In Schaible, Hocking
and Merce Everett are backs
at least, equal" to if notbetter
than any,, others in the confer-
enc. The Hornet line is certainly just as heavy and just
as seasoned as most of them.
Just what, then, can be the
matter ?
The fault certainly does not
lie in the coaching. This fact
must be emphasized, for George
Everett, an athlete's athlete
•himself, knows the game and
how to teach it. Also the losing streak cannot be attributed
to lack of equipment or to playing and practice conditions . . .
all of which« compares favorably with any in the league.
This-leaves only one other alternative for us to resort to in
order to explain the Hornet
showing so far. Are the Hornets coasting? Are they napping
on the job? Are they quitters?
We have no reason to believe
that the current Hornets are
guilty of coasting. But we do
know that they haven't been
playing for keeps, that they
Continued on Page 3
Ronald Taylor, 4, son of Mr.
and Mrs. riarlos Taylor, died
instantly when he was hit by
an automobile Saturday afternoon in front of his home at
11933 Michigan Ave. The little
fellow, who had been making
his home with his grandmother,
Mrs. Minnie Lewis, at the
Lewis Cabins on US-112, had
started to run across the pavement to where his sister and a
friend were gathering hickory
nuts, and ran directly in'front
of the automobile driven by
William E. Brown, Detroit, who
had no- opportunity to avoid
him. The victim was hurled
150 feet when struck.
Two residents of Napoleon,
O., were severely injured in a
truck-automobile collision on
US-112, four and a half miles
west of Saline, about 4:30 Saturday afternoon, while returning home from 'the Michigan-
Iowa  football  game.
D r. Anthony Delventhal,
driver of the car, who was
observing his 51st birthday,
suffered several rib fractures,
a Broken thigh and knee cap,
and a possible fracture of the
base of his spine.
Dale Palmer, 38 owner of the
car, suffered scalp lacerations,
a possible brain concussion and -
a possible fracture of the knee
cap. Both are being treated at
St. Joseph's Mercy hospital.
The.  truck   driver,   Gus   A.
Dunbar,    of Inkster,    received
bruises''*atid his two 'daughters, '-"
passengers in the truck, were
quite  badly injured;   one was
taken to an Ann Arbor hospital.
Dunbar and the other daughter
were brought back to the C. E. ,
Ray   home   where   they   were
treated and later taken home.
The   Dunbars   had   spent   the
day  at  the  Ray home Where.
Mr. Dunbar had been working
on a milk house.
Dunbar told state police he
was heading east when the
west-bound Ohio caj; pulled out
of a line of traffic and crashed,
head-on into the truck. Police
said that Dr. Delventhal and
Palmer had apparently left the
game early to avoid traffic.
ST JAMES MISSION
FESTIVAL,  SUNDAY
CHILD STUDY CLUB
MEETS OCT. 15TH
The next meeting of the
Child Study Club will be at
the home of Mrs. George
Jacoby, 107 E. Henry St.,
Tuesday, October 15, at 8
o'clock.
The speaker will be Russell
W. Yfest, assistant superintendent of Ann Arbor public
schools. Mr. West is a graduate
of the U. of M. and has taught
for twelve years in the junior
and senior high schools of that
city. He attende*d school in
Sahne one year when his father was pastor at the Saline
Methodist church.
SALINE-DUNDEE CLASH
MOVED UP ONE DAY
IT COULD HAPPEN
TO. YOU—
This prefabricated dwelling being erected by Walter T. Skingley on Maple road was started
August 12 and he expects to
occupy it by the end of this
month. The prefab was delivered to the site 48 hours after
ordering. The house will have
a 1 full basement, fou? rooms
and bath. -Mr. Skingley is' employed at the Don M. Ford Oil
Co., and is at present living
in Ann Arbor.. It took work-,
men 24 hours to erect the
building up to the point pic-,
tured above. ,.,^._....
• Shortly after the break of
-dawn Monday morning, there
was the crash of two early
morning drivers at the intersection of Michigan Ave. and Ann
Arbor Rd. Snyder of Elkhart,
Ind., was coining from the east
.and McClure of Saline, R. 1,
from the west. No one was injured but the cars were badly
damaged.
i-The.' football game between
the Saline Hornets and Dundee
has been moved ahead to
Thursday afternoon at 3:30. It
will be played here as originally
planned, but a day earlier. The
shift was made to, accomodate
coaches and faculty members of
both schools who wish to attend
the M. E. A. conclave in Detroit
this week-end.   .    .... -       . ,
Have You-Registered?
St. James Church, "The
Church On The Highway" (US-
112, halfway between Saline
and Clinton) will celebrate its
annual mission festival next
Sunday, Oct. 13. The Rev. A.
R. Lambarth of Hampshire,
HI., will be the guest speaker in
the morning service at 10 a.m.
Rev. Lambarth was born and.
raised in this community. His
parents are Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Lambarth of Lodi
township. No doubt, many of
his relatives and friends would.
Uke to see him again and hear
his message. Tliey can feel
assured that they are heartily-
welcome to this privilege.
"The Rev. Armin G.  Frohne
of   Detroit,   vice-president   of
the Michigan-Indiana Synod of
the Evangelical and Reformed
church  and   chairman   of  the
Synod's national mission board,
and the Rev. George^.E- Gaiser,
pastor of Christ church at-^ast
Grand Blvd., Detroit, .who has
served as chaplin in the armed
forces for four years and is.,
brimful of.'4%e mission spirit,"
will fill St.'-James pulpit in the:
evening servfe^ at 8 p.m.
All members and friends of
"The Church On The Highway"
are cordially invited to share
the blessings of the informing
and inspiring message of the
speakers at this mission festi- ■
val. The ^offering will be used
to help healing the® wounds of
this physically and spiritually
broken world of ours. A. liberal
offering twill be gratefully appreciated, v *.*""""