1947-02-27; Saline Observer

              VOLUME    64
The Saline Observer
SALINE, WASHTENAW COUNTY, MICHIGAN,     THURSDAY, FEB. 27, 1947
NUMBER    21
Red Cross Campaign Opens March 1st
Will Present
Local Talent
In Comedy
life in a strange land. Britian
and British and American, oil In^
terests are largely responsible for
troubled Palestine, Rabbi Lyanan
declared;, and devoted much of
his address to an appeal for
racial and religious tolerance,
without which there can be little
The American Legion Post of peace among the nations of the
Saline,  is im the process of  or-  world.
ganizing a threa-aet comedy play      Visiting Rotarians were E.  A.
to  be  presented  some  time  the   Scharbeale,     Ann    Arbor;    Leon
latter   part   of   March   or   early Vedder, Milam; and George Gu'c-
April to raise funds for the Le,-  kelberg,. Birmingham,
gion    Memorial   Home   Building 	
Frank Deede,  chairman of the  Three  CltlUCK
play committee, has stated that
"all of Saline's Charles Boyers
and Grata Garbos who would be
interested in trying out need only
attend the meeting to be, held at
the Legion Hall Friday, February 	
28, at 7:30i p.m. You need not The Rev Cornelius Loew of
l»e a member of the Legjon to y^ Bethlehem Evangelical Re-
participate, it's open, to anyone formed church in Ann Arbor de-
ability rates first. Let'si get be- uVered a very interesting address
hind this play. If you've never ^fore 155 persons present at the
been on the stage before don't st Paul-S father and son ban-
let that stop you. You may have ^uet on Friday evening. He told
hiddeni talents. So, we'll se,e you of a mailj w}!0 COuld play one
at the tryouts!"
Banquets Well
Attended
Will Observe
50th Wedding
Anniversary
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Stierle, will
be 50 years married on Monday,
March 3rd. Their golden wedding anniversary, will be celebrated with a family dinner on Sunday, March 2nd, at the home of
their son, Adolph Stierle, 4345
Brown Rdy
Mr. and Mrs., Stierle were married March 3, 189.7 in the same
house where they will have their
celebration Sunday. They have
two sons, Adolph, and Erwin of
Ypsilanti, and two grandsons.
Mrsj Stierle will be 70 years old,
June 25 while Mr. Stierle was 77
the 20th of February.
Farming until 1927,. they
moved to Saline, where they resided until April last year when
they moved back to the country
to a small farm near their son
on Brown road.
Celebrate Golden Wedding
Discuss Fire
Protection
Problems
tune, which was "Hot Time in
The Old Town Tonight." This
tune he, played at funerals, wedr
dings, church services and then
finally he became so accomplished he was asked to play it
in concert style. Then Recy.
Loe.w sat down to. the piano and
illustrated what he meant,   end-
  ing   up   with   the   concert style*
At a meeting in the City of This he followed with a more
Saline council chambers Monday serious part of his talk on tha
evening,, the subject of present importance of families going to
and future fire protection was church and that dad and son
discussed between, the supervi- should help keep up their part,
sors of Lodi, Saline, Pittsfield, The program, included a talk
an<J York townships,, and City of from a father by, Arthur Hagan;
Saline ofiicials. from   a   son  by  Harry Fosdick;
It was brought out in this quartet numbers by Kenneth
meeting by City, Manager Hart Voltz, Orrin Girbach , Erwin
that the present fire-fighting Schmid and Rudolph Layher, Jr.,
equipment is inadequate for the accompanied by Mrs. Lucille
continuance of city-township Henderson. Toastmaster Arthur
fire protection. It was stated Heininger presented gifts to the
that if present arrangements be- oldest father, John Heininger;
tween the City of Saline -and the youngest sonr Keith Armbruster,
variou?, townships,, are to be^conr ^.sori.of 131vin„Armbruster, and to
■tinuedx, the acquiring of addition-"the father with the largest nunv
al fire fighting apparatus is ber of sons present, Roscoa Cam-
mandatory, met, who had fiv© in attendance.
Several plans of financing the The table de<3orations were
purchase of new equipment, and carried out traditionally with
the manning of same by the City cherry trees and hatchets as
Fire Department were discussed, center pieces, flanked with in-
Ofi the plans presented, three dividual hatchets around the.
were selected and will be drafted table.
into tentative agreement form, by Mrs. Kenneth Taylor and Mrs."
City Manager Hart for consider- Lloyd Dell were co-chairmen, of
ation by tha townships and the the, dining- room and Mrs. Reu-
city at a meeting to be held"on ben Finkbeiner and Mrs Andrew
the evening of March 25th, Hartman were co-chairmen of
Also during the evening, color the kitchen. Chairman of the
movies with ,sound;'~were shown, tickets was Mrs. Rudolph jVahL
depicting the latest type of fire The dinner was sponsored by the
fighting equipment. " Ladies Aid Society, and the, Wo-
                   mans' Guild of the church.
Last Rites Held
Monday For
L. D. Harrison
Mr. Green and Mr. Peterson of
the Michigan Associated Telephone Co., were guest spea,kers
and covered the, subject of "Comi-
plaicits" as they ana received by
the company, agreeing to investigate same promptly, and make
the telephone service all that it
should be. Joining the group as
new members were Men. and Mrs.
Claude Thomas, Mir. and Mrs.
Alfred Wiedmayer, Mr. and Mrs.
Rudolph Feldkamp, and Mr. and
Mrs Erwin Feldkamp. Refreshments and card games followed
tha meeting. Thirty-threa members and two guests, Mr. and
Mrs. Lawrence Weber of Ann
Arbor were present.. Friday,
March 21, tha group will meet
with Mr. and Mrs. John Klumpp,
Sr.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Daniels
Funeral services were held
here Moojday for Fred D. Harri-
son^ 104 W. Bennatt street, a
resident of this community for
the past 16 years. His death
occurred Friday afternoon at the
University hospital in Ann Arbor,   after   a   lingering   illness
Mr. Harrison, a native of
Ridgeway, Mich., was born Nov.
22,. 1878, tha son of James and
Eliza Fagan Harrison and was
married to Daisy Riggs Barnes
at Toledo, O., on Nov. 11, 193a
Surviving are his wife; a stepson, Lorea Barnes of Chicago.;
three grandchildren; two brothers, Roy" of Pulaski, and Earl of
Tecumseh. , One sister, Mrs^ Ella
Hindes, proceeded him in death.
Services were held; at 2:30 p.m.
at tha Lockwood funeral home,
Rev. R. S. Hocking officiating,
and interment was made in the
cemetery, at Ridgeway.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Daniels
will celebrate their fiftieth wed^
ding anniversary on Friday afternoon by having open house for
their friends and relatives, from
1:30 to 5 o'clock, to be held at
the home of their son, Raymond
Daniels  at 212, E. Henry St.
•Mr and Mrs. Daniels -were
married Feb. 28, 1897, in Ann
Arbor by the Rev. Caldwell, the
same minister who married her
parxgnts Mrs. Daniels was the
former Mattie Rogers. They
have   two   children^  a   daughter,
Mrs. Gladys Plont of Lainsbcurg
and the son here im Saline and
nine grandchildren and two great
grandchildren.
Mr. and Mrs. Daniels, who
have lived on the Macon road for
the past 12 years, have spent
their entire life in the vicinity "of
Saline. Mrs. Daniels was 72 in
February and Mr Daniels will
be 78 in August.
A family party is being planr
ned for 100 guests, to be held
Friday evening at the American
Legion hall.
Woman's Club
Tuesday
The Saline Woman's Club will
meet Tuesday afternoon, March
4 at 2:301 p.m. at the home of
Mrs, T. J. Irelan,, 102 E. Henry
Street. It will be tha annual
meeting and all members are
urged to be present Harry
Holmes will be present and, give
a talk on "Banking Laws." A
social hour will follow with Mrs.
S.  Boyd assisting.
World Day of
Prayer of Deep
Significance
The community observance of
the World Day of Prayer, which
was hel<5 in tlie Federated church
on Friday afternoon, was attended by about fifty women.
Mrs Henry MceKnzie was leader
for the afternoon with Mrs.
Ronald Tower, soloist, and Mrs.
Merritt Martin, organist. Mrs.
R. S. Hocking, Mrs. Alvin Siemsen, Mrs. Edwin Hering, and
Mrs. Harold Brown gave short
talks on the work of the United
Council of Church Women, who
sponsor these programs all over
the world. Prayers were led by
Mrs. Gerald Coe, Mrs. Martin
Blair., Mrs. Grace Cook,. Mrs.
Graydon Everett and Mrs.
Clarence Fritz.
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LOCAL PASTOR
ON RADIO
Station WABJ, Adrian, has invited the Rav. Henry McKenzie,
pastor of Federated church,, to
lead the morning devotions over
their station, March 3 to 7 inclusive. Tha program goes on
the air at 8:15 each morning and
is sponsored by tha Ministerial
Association.
Lodi Farmer      County Fruit
Dies Following Growers Meet
Long Illness   < March 3
Rabbi Talks
Of Tolerance
And Peace
One of tha most" thoughtful
and intelligent discourses on
man's inhumanity to man and
the inter-racial strife now prevalent throughout the world, was
that given here Thursday by
Rabbi Herschel Lyanan, Ann
Arbor, at tha dinner meeting of
the Saline Rotary club.
Rabbi Lyanan quoted from a
conversation ha had with tha late
General "Vinegar Joe" Stillwell
while serving as chaplain on
Okinawa during tha war. Said
the General, "War is dirty, but
paac© is often dirtier. In war
aU classes and creeds and ra,):s
are united against a known common enemy. In peace you do
not know who your enemies
are." The Rabbi told of the aspirations of his people in Europe,
to whom- that country is now
a graveyard, and said Palestine
beckoned with greater appeal
than ever before as the land of
promise for the Jew. However,
he asserted, Jewish people who
have established themselves in
other countries have no desire to
leave their homes for Palestine
and adjust themselves to a new
One hundred and two were in
attendance at the Methodist
father and son banquet on Thursday evening, including a large
number of varsity boys. The
tables were appropriately centered with a picture of George
Washington surrounded by the
colors of red, white and blue.
Rev. William Shaw of the First
Baptist church in Ypsilanti was
the guest speaker for the evening
with Randall Coates as toast-
master. Father and son remarks
were given by Rav. R. S. Hocking and his son, Paul. Mrs.
Walter MacArthur was chairman
of the dining room, with Mrs. Don
Ford, Mrs. Fred Larson, and Miss
Katherine Briggs as. her committee. Mrs Cecil Davenport headed
the kitchen committee with co-
chairmen Mrs. Rosie Woodbridge,
Mrs. Arthur. Mailer, and Mrs.
Luther Briggs.
Prof. Hemstead Bull of the
University of Michigan addressed
72 at the Federated father and
son banquet on Thursday ever
ning. Ronald Tower presented
three gifts, one to the oldest
father, Ernest Jaeger; the youngs
est father, Fred Gillen,. and to
the father with tha largest
number of sons present, who was
Charles Gilligan with his four
sons. The table motifs were carried out in patriotic colors, with
the head table center piece being
Uncle Sam-, who, was pushing the
future generation. The rest of
the tables were centered with
large Uncle Sam hats, flanked
with tall tapers. Mrs. Arthur
Cuff- was chairman of the dining
room committee with Mrs. Alwin
Lewis, Mrs. Paul Klueter, Mrs.
Henry McKenzie and Mrs. Hazen
Jewell. Mrs. Fermaix Clements
headed the kitchen committee.
Milan Church
Choir Sang
Here Sunday
Twenty-four members of the
Milan Methodist church choir
gave a concert Sunday evening
under the able direction of Mrs.
Karl Witten; organist was Mrs.
Clayton Woolner. The program
included three groups of three,
songs, one mixed quartet and one
solo by Mrs. Earl Cosner. During the program Rev. R. S. Hocking installed the officers for the
W.SuC.S. which was followed by
tha musical number, "Master
Speak," by Lorenz, sung by the
Milan choir.
The following officers were installed: Mrs. Cecil Davenport,
president; Mrs. Dean Brandt,
vice-president; Mrs. Charles H.
Miller, secretary and Mrs. William. R. Stierle, treasurer. Committee chairmen are: Spiritual
Life,, Mrs., Harold Francis; Missions, Mrs-. Rosie Woodbridge;
Local Activity, Mrs., Martin
Fuoss; Youth Work, Mrs. R. S.
Hocking. Circle chairmen are:
Mary. L, Mrs. (Arthur Miller;
Ruth,, Mrs. Rosie Woodbridge;
Esther, Mrs. Luther Briggs.
The Rev. and Mrs. Johnson,
who are members of the choir,
were also in attendance from
Milan Methodist church and- they
together with the choir were
served light refreshments following the service by the Get
Acquainted class.
William J. Kauffman, 76, Lodi
farmer, died Saturday aiternoon
at his home, at 4640 Textile to&6.
following,  a  long  illness.
Ha was born August 19, 1870
in Freedom township, the son of
Gottlob and Barbara Buss Kauff-
man. On Feb. 25, 1904, he married Mary. Eiseman in Freedom
township, where ha lived up until 1938. Since that time ha had
lived in Lodi township. He was
a member of Zion Lutheran
church at Rogers Corners.
Mr. Kaufiman is survived by
his wife and two daughters, Mrs.
Ellwyn Guenther and Miss Bertha
Kauffman,, at home, also a sister,
Mrs. Mary Farm, of Ann Arbor,
and two grandchildren.
Funeral services"^- were held
Tuesday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock
at tha Lockwood funeral home
and 2,:30 o'clock at the Zion
Lutheran church, with' Rev. M.
W. Breuckar officiating. Burial
was in Zion Lutheran cemetery.
ALUMNAE LOSE TO
STENOS, 33-30
The second spring meeting of
the Washtenaw County Fruit
Growers will be held Monday
afternoon, -March 3, at 2:00 p.m.
at the Saline Valley Farms. Mr.
C. A Langer, Horticultural Department, Michigan State College, will be present and discuss
in detail research work being
conducted by. the State College
as it applies to fruit xgrowing
problems.
The discussion period with the
growers will "cover such subjects
as: Cover crops, fertilization,
some of th© new spray for control of disease and insects,- and
the use of hormones for thinning,
fruit. County fruit growers
committee that arranged for this
meeting are: Dahue Riker, Carl
Schumacher, Philip Wiardv E. B.
Sorensen, John Metacek, Bruce
Haig, Lewis Ridley, Hugh Austin,
and W,  L» Sherman.
The third meeting will be held
on April 3tt This will be a
demonstration an grafting. These
meetings are open to the public.
/^ *&e£ten, ^tom ^tOMce *
Below is a letter received by we appreciate them doubly,
the Federated church from a The, coat will fit Yvonne very
French family they have been well, the nightgown will be
corresponding with for over one John's birthday present. In
year. Fourteen boxes of much short, everything is useful and
needed food and clothing have precious None of. your packages
been mailedi. Tha family's name were lost and, all arrived in per-
was obtained through their feet condition,
church mission. They are the For Christmas we prepared 8,4
Rev. and Mrs. Henry Eberharcl, packages for the aged people of
who have six children, yet at our parish. All those who -in
home and live in Lyons, France. *their rniSery can no. longer work
Mrs. Harold Brown* is tto^*^r ea'r^enougtj. t# supply their
translated: of this letter and does l&f&s. Their means do not evepi
the corresponding while Mrs. permit them to buy the neces-
Hazen Jewell packs all the boxes, saries of. life. Wa do our best to
Lyons, France share what God gives us.
Jan. 4, 1947 In December we all went to
Dear Friends: Geneva   and   became   acquainted
If you knew how much we with Mr. and Mrs, Butch. Mr.
love you and thank God for hav- Butch is one of the_ meat that
ing sent you to. us. Never will heaoTa the restoration fund in
we ba able to thank you enough, Europe). They, are v brotherly
ta express ta you our boundless alLd> understanding. We love
gratitude! Your packages help tnem "very much. We hopa that
us to live; they bring us delight- *&*& will come to sea us at
ful produce which wa are never Lyons. We were touchy by
able to buy, all of which are y°ur Christmas greetings, your
nevertheless    so    useful.      Your  pretty     cards    with     ribbons.
cake mixes,  boxes  of  chocolate,
coffee,     canned     meats,      dried
Thanks* you are our true friends.
Here,  Mrs   Brown, is  a  long
fruits, tea,- everything, makes a tetter  to   translate  but I  know-
precious gift to, us.
that you will do  it gladly—bell
Cam- you ima^a me with no the members of, your church, the
tea   having   a  church   gathering woman's   organization,' that   our
on Saturday,, asking myself, what gratitude to all is immeasurable.
I was going, to, do, as I wanted Thank for us those who give
to offer a cup of tea to all; just money   or   the   various   articles
then your package arrived—with which   wa    receive,,    those    who
some   tea!   I   was   amazed   and make up the packages and mail
still am!   Without your packages them; all this constitute | a huge
wa would lack so much and be task z^ it —f necessary, to have
needing   so   many   things.   And much    Christian,    love    to    help
A flaming chimney at the home
of Brown Bros., S. Ann Arbor
street, was the objective of the
fira department at 6:30 last
night.   No damage.
Novel Method
Of Drainage
Joe Pinter, who lives near
Ypsilanti, is featured in an article in Capper's Farmer entitled
"Tile Drains to Well", The
drainage ditch that runs by
Pinter's farm is not deep enough
to carry water from a tile
drainage system of 35 acres.
Some of tha land is lower than
the ditch bottom. To solve his
problem, he dug a wall and
emptied the tile into this, To
take away, the water ha uses a
pump,- operated by tractor power, which throws 70fll gallons a
minute into tha drainage ditch.
Only a few feet of lift is necessary so the load is not heavy, v
In a nip and tuck* basketball
game which featured the shooting, of Steno Mary Beacon and
Saline's Hildegard Riba, tlie
visiting Ann Arbor Secretarial
School sextet took the measure
of the Alumnae and walked off
with a hard-earned 33-30 victory. -
Saline led at the close of the
first period, 13-12, and at the
half, 26-25. Tha end of tha third
stanza found the score deadlocked, 2&-29. Two well-timea
buckets by, Mary Beacon in tha
closing moments of tha contest
erased the one point adga gained
b y the Alumnae o n Peggy
Steiner's foul shot and put the
game on ice for tha Ann Arbor-
ites.
Mary Beacon paced.- the Stenos
with 21 points. For tha Saline
Alumnae Hildegard Riba and
Peggy Steiner tallied 14 and 9,
respectively.
The Saline Valley Community
Party will be held Monday evening, March 3rd, at the Saline
Valley Recreation hall. The
feature of tha evening will be a
presentation of soma of the star
pupils of Jimmie Hunt Dance
Studios, Ypsilanti. Both solo and
group dances in costume will be
featured Joa Cook's Orchestra
will furnish the music for the
square dancing with Irwin Clark
as caller.
Lindentanns
Have Silver
Anniversary
Ninety friends ana relatives'of
Mr, and Mrs Otto E. Lindemann,
R. 2, Saline gathered at the
American Legion Hall, Saturday
evening to help them celebrate
the 25th anniversary of their
wedding day. The evening's entertainment started with all playing games. Prizes were awarded
to those winning high and low
scores. Rav. H. L. Engel gave a
reading of a Jewish wedding,
which was followed by, group
singing. A mock wedding, caused
much merriment when the bride
appeared with all male attendants and the bridegroom was
escorted by girls, dressed in
funny costumes. A lovely four
tiered- wadding cake was cut by
tha bidde and groom and served
with refreshments. The couple
received many, lovely gifts of
silver, also a'purse of silver j
especially wa would not be having the    joy    of    sharing    with
brothers and sisters with whom
one is not acquainted.   But God
of
others, to share with tha families  will   bless   you.   Ha  is   faithful.
He returns one hundredfold everything, which wa do. for others.
Wa pray for you constantly.
Every day. we Mess you in our
of    the    church tha richness
your gifts.
Our money, depreciates in value daily and preachers' salaries
can not assure our material hearts and pray that God will
needs. We receive at the be.ginr reward you with his richest
ning ofl tha month with which to  blessings ^^
live 19 days andi the rest, of the I nave been very sick for sev-
time God provides. He, naves eral "weeks and that is why you
There  is  a song  of  have1 waited so long, for am ana-
leaves   USu
gratitude which ascends from our
hearts toward   God  constantly..
Next Sunday we will have a
pastoral dinner in our home,
with 10 ministers of Lyons and
their families present. We will
have 20 at table in the dinning
wer. I suffered pains in my
back, a kind of rheumatism
which prevented ma from walking. Every, movement- was painful. I am a little batter but
from, time to time the pain returns.   I  was   quite   strong   ba-
room.   The  children  will   eat   in  *«? m9 war-   * wa? n^« si?k-
the kitchen because there will not *** T We ***6 S?5?* **!? ptlCe
Cool Milk
Milk must be cooled in order to
prevent the growth of bacteria which
cause flavor and odor defects.
Pastors Hosts
To Lodi Farm
Bureau Group
Mr. and Mrs. David Pastor
were hosts to the Southwest
Lodi' Farm Bureau group, Friday, February 21. The president
opened the meeting with a hymn.
be room, for all in the same
room. I rejoice at the, thought
of putting on each plate a little
package coming from American
fallow-mambersy tha package received yasterday, containing a
supply of candy- which I quickly
hid in order to distribute them,
to our colleagues, January 12.
Today three new packages arrived but tha whole family was
there to open them, and each one
shouted, with joy at finding just
what he needed* my husband a
razor and some blades. "His own
razor, whiph dates cfcrom'1914 is
beginning" to coma apart. My
daughters a pretty comb, which
will do for all four, the bo^s,"
some soap and a toothbrush* 3?or
me, some needles and th*cadi
food and all that candy. We
We have become very greedy.
We have been deprived of so
many  things so long, that now
of much want and hard^iip.
Goodbye dear Mrs. Brawn,
thanks for your good letter, so
easy to read and without error.
Keep it up. I send you all my.
most  cordial  xgreetings.
Blanche Eberhard.