1947-02-13; Saline Observer

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VOLUME    64
SALINE3, WASHTENAW COUNTY, MIGHI^I,     THURSDAY, FEB. 13, 1947
NUMBER 19
City Plans I
The Saline City Council is
planning a meeting -with representatives, of the neighboring
townships when a proposal will
be made for a more adequate
system of fire protection than
that which is being furnished
those communities by the Saline
Fire Department at the present
time.
Local officials are concerned
about the present equipment, especially from the standpoint of
giving service to areas outside"
the city limits, While is is considered entirely adequate for the,
city's requirements, it is questionable if it should he depended
upon    for
Ask $5.50 Cwt
For
CAN BE DONE!
By RANCK
PRODUCERS OF THIS
AREA CAMPAIGNING
FOR THEIR PRICE
that can conceivably arise. In
the event of simultaneous fires
in rural and urban areas, a situation might arise which could
i * result very disastrously.
XJataer the present arrangement
With the townships, the city fire
department responds to all rural
alarms  and is paid    for    these
The annual meeting of the
Saline Local of the Michigan
Milk Producers Association was
held at the Saline high school
Wednesday evening, February 5,
greater   emergencies  with a dinner which, was served
by the senior class of the school.
The Song Busters from WPAG
entertained while the group was
being served.
Following the dinner the meeting was called to order by President Earnest Girbach, and the
secretary read the . minutes of
the meeting of February 7, 1946.
The  treasurer's  report was  also
runs   on  an  annual   basis.     One
fire truck remains to  cover any. -read  and  accepted.
other fire that may break in the      Officers   elected for   the   year
city,    but    in    the    event of  a   are:    President, Earnest Girbach;
break-down,     the     rural     truck, vice-president,   Norman, Bohnatt;
would necessarily have to be re-   secretary^treasurer,    Max    Ross;
called from the fire it was
fighting in the country and service the one in the city.
The proposal to be made, according to the City Manager,
Glenn Hart, is for the townships
to   purchase a new,   fire    truck
delegates,  William, Haas,   Albert
Gall, Waynard Carr.
President Girbach reported on
the county meeting at Ann
Arbor and the district meeting
at Willis. Other speakers were
Circuit Judge* James R. Breakey,
-which the  city will house    and Jr., William Haas, who  reported
maintain and also furnish a crew on the Pontiac-Lansing meeting;
to man it. With, the purchase of Norman Peters, Detroit, Director
this    extra    equipment    it    is of    Membership    Relations;   and
thought that fire insurance rates Ivan    K.     Maystead,     Hillsdale,
in the rural areas  could be re- president   of   the   state
DeathTakes
Mrs. Camburn
ENGAGEMENT
ANNOUNCED
Dorothy Blair, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Martin Blair, of 309
East Michigan Ave., has  set the
  time for her marriage to Orville
SAUNE WOMAN WAS Finkbeiner,   son   of   Mra    John
RESIDENT HERE DURING  Finkbeiner.   The    wedding    will
ENTIRE   LIFETIME
Last Rites For
Mrs. Zahn
DEATH CAME  VERY
SUDDENLY TO S.A1XNE
TOWNSHIP RESIDENT
duced and the savings in premiums would offset the expense
over a period of years. The
added truck would also place
this area in a tip top position in
the matter of firerfighting facilities.
'ANNUAL BANQUET AT
FEDERATED   CHURCH
The annual Fathers' and Sons'
Banquet of Federated Church
will be held in the dining room
of the church at seven o'clock on
Thursday, February 20th.. Mrs.
Ronald Tower, president of the
Ladies' Aid society of the church,
has announced committees in
charge of the affair and they include: Ladies' Aid committee for
the dinner, Mrs. Ferwan Clements, Chairman and Mesdames
Harold Finch, Maurice Henderson, Edward Henna, Carl Carr,
Orpha Birkle, Ronald Tower and
Fred Otto; dining room and decorations: . Mrs. Arthur Cuff,
chairman; Mrs. Hazen Jewell,
Mrs. Henry McKenzie and Mrs.
Clarence Johnson.
The tickets are being handled
by Arthur Cuffordi and Harold
Finch, who have been assisted
^Miss Mary Mordon and Mrs. ^^ an
SBgfe *-—** The program
committee consists of Ronald
Tower, Clarence Johnson, and the
Rev. Henry McKenzie, pastor of
the church. Special musical
numbers, a speaks and motion
pictures hold promise of a fine
evening's entertainment for the
fathers and sons in attendance.
association. The Singing Sentinels of
Kaiser-Frazer Corp., and the
Song Busters entertained. An
open discussion followed and a
resolution was adopted instructing the sales committee to work
for a price of $5.50 per cwt. for
milk .and 4o. publicize-,,^: in the
newspapers and on the riclio, and
report back at a special meeting
to he held March 5. A motion
to limit the terms of directors
to two, of three years each, was
defeated.
A subject for discussion at the
next special .meeting is that the
Association refuse to accept a
drop in the price of milk unless
it is ratified, by a two-thirds
vote of the producters.
Waynard Carr, Sec.
TiJonid *Day o$ 0P%€Ufe/t
Death came to Mrs. John
Camburn, Friday morning after
an extended illness of more than
fourteen months. She died at
the Saline General hospital at the
age of 64.
Grace Camburn was the
daughter of George and Ellen
Collins Kuder and was born in
Macon, January 12, 1883. She
was married to Mr. Camburn,
November 25, 1908 and had lived
in this community her entire life.
She was a member of the Methodist church.
Besides the husband., the survivors are three daughters,
Mrs. Alvin Gross, and Miss
Marilyn Camburn of Saline, and
Mrs. John Spetter of Ann Arbor;
a son, George of Saline; a brother, Earl Kuder of Macon; a
sister, Mrs. George WintersteeA
of Tecumseh; and five grandchildren.^   ■.••!    ....
Thfe Reverend-*R> S. Hocking,
pastor of the Methodist church,
officiated Monday afternoon at
the funeral services, which were
held from the Lockwood funeral
home and from the cemetery at
Macoi\ where interment took
place.
SALINE   BOYS   MEET
THURSDAY EVENINGS
BROWN SWISS
FINISHES  TEST
Last, Monday, evening at the
Chelsea High, school a 4-H Tractor Maintenance school was organized. Similar 4-H groups have
already been organized in Manchester, Saline, Milan, Ypsilanti
and Dexter, according to H. S.
Osier, County. Agricultural Agent.
One hundred farm boys are enr
rolled in this 4-H project which
intensive study of
farm tractor maintenance problems.
The project consist of a series
of ten lessons. These groups are
being sponsored by the imple,-
ment dealers association. Clayton
Ernst, Saline township, has been
assisting, in getting these groups
started.
The officers of the Saline group
are: President, Paul Woods;
vice-president, David Marion;
sec.-treas., Clarence Kohler; leader, Clayton Ernst.
The  Saline   boys   meet   every
Dewejy,    Farm   Duchess    Ada	
Pride 96158,  a registered Brown Thursday evening" ' .
Swiss    cow    owned   by   R.    C. '■ .   .
Merchant & Son, SaUn^, has re- BXJRT        BOGERS WAS
cently. completed a 305 day lacta- FORMER RESIDENT
tion   record   on   Herd   Test   of
World Day of Prayer will be
observed by St. John's Lutheran
church, Bridgewater, Feb. 21, beginning  at  7:45 p.mt
"The World Day of Prayer,
Feb. 21, will be observed first
in the Fiji Islands and New
Zealand, since Friday,... dawns
there while we are still sleep-,
ing Thursday night. As the
sun moves westward, new groups
in many countries will join in
the same universal service of
worship;, dusky women from
distant coral strands, and steaming jungle trails; peasant women from the fields; East Indian
believers in picturesque saris;
veiled sisters from harems;
Chinese in blue trousers; Japanese "in kimonos. Germans,
Norwegians, Hollanders, now
joining- publicly instead o f
secretly; until late Friday night
"when the final reverent observance will be held by fur-clad
Eskimos on little St. Lawrence
Island off the coast of Alaska,
thirty, miles from the Arctic
Circle—the whole family of the
whole church in the whole world
remembering, one another with
love. Ihterracially! Internationally!      Interdenominationally!" /
Tha program to be 'presented,
is adapted from that prepared
by Mrs. Isabel Caleb, a talented
Indian woman on the staff of
Ewing Christian College, Allahabad, India. Her imagery of
deserts, mirages, oases, and caravans interests people of all lands;
for are there not dangerous
deserts for all? If not actual
shifting sands, there are spiritual desert spaces that lure and
deceive us all.
You are cordially invited hy
the Women's Missionary Socifety
of St. John's church to attend
"this prayer * service.
Remember the date and place:
First Friday in Lent, Feb. 21 at
7:45 p.mv at St. John's Lutheran
church,   Bridgewater.,
The March
Of Dimes
LOCAL CONTRIBUTORS
GIVE GENEROUSLY IN
POLIO FUND DRIVE
V.F.W. WOULD ESTABLISH
POST HERE
Miss Dorothy Blair
take place in June. Announcement was made of the en-gage-
ment when- her parents entertained friends of the couple at their
home Saturday evening. Miss
Blair is attending. Saline high
school. Mr. Finlsheiner is employed at Ypsilanti. He was a
member of the Army. Air Force
for three years, stationed in the
south west Pacific area.
Funeral, services were held
Monday afternoon at the Lock-
wood funeral home for Mrs.
Mary. Anna Zahn who passed
away Friday morning, February
7 at her home in Saline township. Death, caused by a cerebral hencsorage, came very unexpectedly, as she was able to be
about the home and cfo light
housework until the day before
her  death.
Mrs. Zahn was 76 years old.
She was married to John M.
Zahn, May, 7, 1891, in the same
housQ in which her death "occurred-. Mr. Zahn died in May,
1933. She was a member of St.
Paul's church and a member of
the 'Ladies' Aid society.
Left to mourn their loss, are
three sons, Harold of Ann Arbor,
Carl of Detroit and Ernest at
home; two. daughters, Mrs. Kenneth Wheeler and Mrs. Eugene
Lama of Detroit; three brothers
Charles, John and Fred of ^Lenawee county; one sister, Mrs.
Thomas Zahn of Saline township
and six grandchildren.
Mrs. Wheeler was staying at
the home of her mother, at the
time of her death.
The Reverend Alvin Seimsen,
pastor of St. Paul's church of-
ficated at the services. Interment took place at Oakwood,.
A new post of the Veterans of
Foreign Wars of the TJ. S. is in
prospect for Saline, according to
an announcement by George H,
Gee, Commander of the 5th Di&v
trict of Michigan., who has been
in   Saline   several   times   in   the
Saline Hi-Times
BR-R-R „
By Ruth. Clauson
January   26,   1947   left
us   to
March of Dimes collections in
Saline during the recent cam-
paixgn netted the sum of $225.00
according to a report submitted
by Mr& Arthur O'Neil, local
chairman of the drive. She was
assisted in making collections by
Miss Joan Wondergem and Miss
Janice Gallagher.
The money will he sent to the
Washtenaw County Chapter of
the American Red Cross, "which
will retain a certain per cent to
be used in the county, and the
balance will be sent to the National Foundation i.of Infantile
Paralysis founded 'by Ihe late
Franklin D. Roosevelt.^   •
local overseas veterans..
The  VFW,    composed   of
overseas  veterans   of  all  America's   wars,   campaigns   and  ex-
past two weeks,  conferring with  think    that    spring     was    just
around  the  corner.There was  a
the  hlue  sky, the  sun  was  shining,
and a fairly, warm breeze.   But
nature still had a few tricks up
p-editions, now numbers well over  ner sleeve, which was shown by
two million members, about 85%   the weather   which
of whom are veterans of World  29th of January.
War   n.   The   organization   was
founded in 1899, and has an enviable 48 years record of service.
started   the
It started as rain, which began
to freeze on the windows of your
car and houses. Then continued
Establishment bf a post in on through the night. About
Saline will make available to vet- two o'clock a freak thunder and
erans and their dependents in lightening storm broke loose. To
this area all the services of both top it all about four or five inches
state and national agencies of of snow fell leaving tha condi-
the VFW.   These agencies have  tion   outside  in a   hectic  state.
serve the purpose^ to make us
want to do better in our studies.
A new semester has just
started. In six weeks, new report cards will be issued I believe it should be the desire of
all students to study more, read
more good books, use spare time
in a more profitable way, and
then sit back and smile with the
rest as we gaze at our report
cards in June.
SCHWOCHO YOUNGSTER
INJURED
been developed on the background of 4 years experience in
veterans welfare and service
work.
An   undetermined   number   of
Saline  veterans  already are af-
The snow froze into a hard crust
Tommie Joe, threfe and one-half
year-old son of Wc. and Mrs. W.
P. Schwocho, will be laid up at
least a month as the result of
injuries he received Saturday,
when he coasted "dawn hill on a
sled and crashed into a brooder
house. He was treatest at St.
Joseph's Mercy hospital when it
was thought his lfeg* was broken,,
and theh taken to the Saline
General hospital where several
broken toes were set. The accident occurred on the Fred
Atend farm whfefe'TSst fall he
plunged down a hay. chute arid
recfelvfed a fractured skull.
"HORNET   GIRLS"
VS.   ALUMNI
By Thelma Wahl
On Monday, January 27, Coach
filiated  With   the  VFW,  holding  Marion Voglesong's team met the
membership   in    posts   at   Ann Alumni, their first opponents of
Arbor,  Clinton MUan, and Ypsi-  the year.   The game was a fight
lanti.   Several of these men are  to the finish, as both teams went
OHto the floor determined to win.
Several   times   the   score was
interested in the plan for a local
post.
A meeting will be held in the tied, and during the third quar-
Saline Hotel dining room at 7:30 ter the .Alumni gained excessive
p.m, next Monday,  Feb.  17, for ground on our "Hornet Girls" and
the purpose of receiving applica- the  score board read 22  to  16
tions for charter membership in with Alumni on top,
the new unit,   and laying . plans
for    the    organization.   If   suffi-
But our team, stayed right in
there fighting  and with  several
cient interest is shown, and the minutes to play they had again
require minimum number of ap- become tied, 24 to 24„ In those
plications are received, tbe local  few  minutes  Alumni  rummaged
school spnm
By  Heinie   Gilligan
When I came to Saline High in
September, I got the impression
that it was a "dead" School. Tha
student body wouldn't back its
team.
But now, four months later, I
realized that we have one of the
best teams in our league. Our
students are really pepping things
up now.
Ini our last three of four games,
tbe students of Saline have outnumbered and out yelled our opponents. Also, in the last three
games our Hornets have played
top-notch basketball. >It's realty
nice to know we are appreciated!
We've got the feel of winning,
we've got a good team> and we've
got the spirit and the loyaUty to
back Saline to the very last
game. So what are we waiting
for? Let's get "active" and outclass those Milan Reds, both
team and rooters.
We've got it Saline, let's show
itl
group will immediately elect officers," Select a Jfiine for the post,
and  set  a  date for  the formal
two   points   while   'the   fighting
"Hornet Girls" managed three.
The audience was cheering the
11047.3     pounds     milk—474.69
Burt E. Rogers, son of Hattie
pounds fat on twice a day milk-  Faxsons ^ j^ Edgar R
ing, according to Fred  S. Idtse, ■-..-*».        °
secretary,   of   The  Brown   Swiss
Breeders'
Wis.
This   record
five year oldi
Association,      Beloit,
was made  as  a
FEB. FURNITURE
SALE FULL OF
BARGAINS
i
To the people of Saline
and vicinity, we cordially invite you to call and look over
our stock of world famous
furniture.
• This sale now going on is
a continuation of our previous
month sale and will continue
jthrough February.
! We have two warehouses
full of furniture that is being
thrown into this sale because
the building must be vacated.
That ia why we urge you to
ers was horn on his parent's farm
southeast of Saline. From high
school he attended deary's
Business College in Ypsilanti,. and
was assistant penmanship teacher while there.
After college, Mr. Rogers
studied telegraphy- under Mr.
Bennett, station agent in Saline.
He filled many positions with the
Lake Shore and Michigan Southern, serving at Hanover, where
he remained for a number of
years.
In 1896 he maiTied Miss Joe
RusseE. Mr. and Mra Rogers
observed their 50th wedding ahv
niversary. in Sept, 1946.
Mr. and Mrs. Rogers lived in
Jackson for about thirty-five
years, where he worked for Consumers Light and Power Co., and
with the People's Banks for
fourteen years.
Death came to Mf. Rogers at
the age of 78 years.   Be ia sur-
The World Day of Prayer will
be observed on February 21 with
a meeting to be held in the auditorium of Federated church at
2:00 o'clock. The public is invited.
The annual observance of the
World Day. of Prayer on the
first Friday in Lent is promoted
jointly by- the Council of Women
for Home Missions, tbe Federation of Woman's Boards of
Foreixgn Missions, of North America, and the National Council of
Federated Church Women,
l?ARTt AT SALXNE
VAL*LE3T FASMfS
The puMifc -is ihv&ed to -attend a party "at the Saline
Valley" Farm's on Tuesday evening, February 18, when Harry
Heath and his "WPA'G Scoijg-
busters wQl furnish Ore music
for dancing.
FREEDOM TOWNSHIP
NATIVE DIES
visit    the     Smith    Company
Store "at 15 South Washington. <*vived by. his wife and one sister,
street  in   "Ypsilanti   and   see Mrs. B. B. Gates of Detroit.   He
these wonderful bargains. was brought to Saline ior burial
.        Smith Furniture Store. Sunday, January 26th.
Mrs. Eva Dietle, 71, wife of
Edward Dietle, a former Manchester resident, died Sunday at
a Detroit hospital. She was born
in Freedom township March 30,
1875, the daughter of the late
Mr. and Mrs. Rufus Gappa/
The funeral was held Wednesday in Manchester.
The Child Study Club will meet
"Tuesday evening, Feb. 18. MDrs.
Clarence Johnson will be- hostess
at her home at 315 2>Jo. Ann
Arbor street. Anc illustrated lecture by Dr. Joseph Hartsook of
the University .Dental Clinic, will
be the high light of the evening's
program. His subject will t>e
"Dental Care for Children."   .
crrr taxes
The Home Nurses group wfitt
meet Monday evening, Feb. 17,
at the home o£ Mrs. Harold
Frey.
I will be at Saline Savings
Bank Friday* February 2&th, to
collect meter, and dog taxes.
No house caHs.until after 6 pjn.,
please.
F. Camburn, ^Treasurer.
*   Feb. 13-20-27
institution ceremony. The Disr giris on, enthusiastically,, and as
trict Commander and other VFW the final gong blew the score was
officers will be present to answer 27 to 26. Coach Voglesong and
^JUSstiohS and assist in the her high school team walk^
organization work.. triumphantly   off   of the   court,
Overseas veterans of all wars victors over their first opponents,
are invited  'to be  present,  and the Alumni.
bring their discharges. 	
The proposed new. post should REPORT CARDS
prove an  asset to   Saline,   since by Phillis Hall
■cfotiSffliMty service has always One half of our school year is
been high on the list of VFW over and the last half has just
interests. The post will be begun. When we assembled in
pledged, in advance to fullest co- 'school on Monday our report
'opBraSabn With all other civic, cards were ready, and handed
fratemali and patriotic bodies,, in out (believe it or" not). ■ I'll bet
the interest oi the community the teachers worked overtime to
and its Veterans* according to 'get all of those papers graded
tfefe. anfl final reports made out
 :— Talk about activity—the study
halls   and  class  rooms  hummed
with   questions   and   statements
like these,   "How did you come
—-—— out?"   '"What   did   you get   in
Friday evening, the eleventh history, pal?", "Gee,- I'm glad
birthday tit Eugene Hunt was 'thait a "half year of geometry is
observed at bis heme, 313 ^last over—and to think I passed."
Michigan Ave., when his parents, Some look a little disgusted, as
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Hunt invited 'they gazed at their report cards;
eleven of his. young friends to while others just smiled and
help him celebrate the occasion, "seemed satisfied. "Why. shouldn't
Promptly at six o'clock, the boys they if tha A's amid B's shine out
sat down to a wonderful birth-  all ;over?
day dinner^ after which they at- 'Of course, 'the purpose of a
tended the local theater and en- -report card is to show our-par-
joyed the technicolor picture^ eBts just how well we are doing
"Romance of tha West."   •' rin  school "and perhaps it  may
EUGENE BUNT H&S
A BMCtY
PEP   MEETING ,
By Joann Winkle
The Pep Assembly of Saline
Highi held" Friday," Febi. 7, was
one of the shortest pep meetings
this year. About ten minutes
before Sth period ended the students were called down to tha
gymnasium.
The Assembly was called to
order by the Cheerleading Captain, Joann Groeb. Then~" tha
second cheerleading squad introduced two new yells which were
"We've Gotta F i g. h t" and
"Shout for a Basket.")'After
that Joann called on Coach
Everetts to speak. He gave a
short pep talk and then the first
and second squads did "Horse
and Buggy." Wayne Clements
was then, called on to speak.'
When Wayne had finished ^Jieaki-
ing, the assembly was closed
with a great, big "Yea Team."
TUB1.  WEATHER
By Lee MacArthur
For the past week, the shift*,
ing sands ofi the Sahara have
had nothing on the swirling
snows of Saline. The two consecutive cold waves which struck:
the nation, have certainly not
spared lower Michigan. Repeated
safeMra and strong winds have
made driving conditions poor and
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