1947-05-08; Saline Observer

              VOLUME 64
The Saline Observer
SALINE, WASHTENAW COUNTY, MICHIGAN,       THURSDAY, MAY 8, 1947
NUMBER 3t
Thursday, May 15, Annual Clean-Up Day
Burns Fatal
To Mrs. Eaton,
Judd Road
Burns received when flames
from a fuel oil stove^ignited her
clothing Saturday, proved fatal
Tuesday morning to Mrs. Lucille
El Eaton, 37, of 829 Judd Rd.
She died in St. Joseph's Mercy
hospital, Ann Arbor.
Members of the Eaton family
said Mrs. Eaton, who was conscious when found after the accident, was not able to explain
how it happened but s,aid that a
burst of flames came from the
stove when she opened the door".
She had not used a match and
there was no explosion, she was
quoted as saying.
• Mrs. Eaton waa born April 12,
1910, at Muir and was a daughter
of Herculine and Edith Hayden
Rice. She "married .Joseph O.
Eaton at Lyon, Oct. 7, 1928. The
family came to this community
about ten years ago.
Mrs. Eaton was a ward supervisor at the Ypsilanti State hospital.
Survivors include the husband,
two sons, Daniel Joseph and Gerald Clinton, both at home, and a
sister,  Mrs.  Helen Kosfcar,  Ionia.
Funeral services, will be held
this afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at
the Lockwood funeral home with
Jlev. J. L. Masemore of York
Baptist church officiating and
interment will be made at Oak-
wood cemetery.
the delinquent person- ineligible
to borrow books until the fines
are paid.
The new books listed are:
Mr. Blandings Builds a Dream
House, Hodgins. Of interest to
anyone contemplating, building a
house; Valley of Wild Horses,
Zane Grey; Panama Passage,
Chidsey; The Web and the Rock,
Wolfe; O River, Remember,
Ostenso; New Rainbow Missionary Stories, Rudy,; More Rainbow Missionary Stories, Rudy;
Lone Cowboy, My Life Story,
Will James; The American Cowboy, Will James; Beverly Gray's
Return^ Beverly Gray's Treasure
House, Beverly Gray in. the
Orient and Beverly Gray's Challenge, by Clair Blank.
How th© Trout
Season Opened
Trout fishermen at the season
opening had cold weather, hign
winds, low water temperatures
and light catches, as predicted,
but they turned biit in fair lfeai-«.
bers, also as pretScted, th,e con-
,servaton department reports.
Tom Shurtz, local devotee ofthe
sport, fondled his fishing gear,
cocked an eye toward the weatherman and wisely Ceeided to wait
him out.
Bait fishermen had a fair time
of it on some streams^ but most
fly fishermen were convinced,
after a few tries, to wait for
better weather. Some large rainbow   trout were  reported   taken.
Conservation, officers in plain
clothes, concentrated quietly on
rainbow trout spawning streams
in the week before the! opening,
brought in more than two. dozen
violators. Penalties for spearing
and snagging trout and for snagging walleyed pike ranged from
$10 to ?50 and ten days in, jail,
and in Lake county the sheriff
had to borrow beds- to accommodate tbe unusual surplus of
prisoners.
In. the week ending with the
opening of trout season 71 fires
burned 439 acres, more than had
burned previously in the three
weeks since th£ first fire was
reported.
Rotary Lends
Support To
Jaycee Aims
The joint dinner meeting of the
Saline Rotary Club and the Junior Chamber of Commerce at the
Saline Hotel, Thursday night,
was an affair of considerable interest and was a nice gestu.e on
the part of the older organization
in giving a bocst to tne" young
men of the community.
Rotary president, ±iarold Miller, spoke the cheerful words of
welcome to the Jaycees and
turned the meeting over to Frank
Deede, program chairman, who
introduced ^ Kenneth, Heininger,
president cf the Ann ArBor Junior Chamber who spoke on the
aims, and purposes of his organization. He was followed by Lee
Robison,. local president, and
Myron Gallagher, Jr., secretary,
woh also detailed some of the
objectives the local group had in
view. Alwin Gross, Carl Curtiss
and Fred Wiedman, charter members of Saline Rotary, spoke rem-
iniscestly ot. the ea.ljc days of
the Club's history and'the latter
outlined the aims or Rotary
which have become international
in scope. The three men named
above and Sim R. Wilson are the
only remaining members of the
original   Charter  group.
Airs.   Annie   Locke   MacKinnon
New Books At
The Library
Along with the announcement
of the arrival of new books at
the Saline Library, the directors
are requesting patrons to discontinue the practice of loaning
books to.others and return, them
promptly to the library when
they have read them and as
promptly pay fines when due.
Fines remaining unpaid, after
two   weekg   overdue,   will   make
Eight Hundred
To Attend
Boys7 State
Eight' hundred Michigan high
school boys will get an, intensive
ten day course in the principles
of democratic government this
summer., and among the number
will be Luther Schaible of Saline
who is sponsored by the Saline
Rotary Club.
That fact became evident this
week when, tbe final registration
for- The American Legion's ldth
annual Wolverine Boys' State
was filed at the—Legion state
headquarters in Detroit. The
full quota of 800 boys has now
been reached, and no further ap-
llcations-tcan be accepted.
Chosen for their qualities of
leadership and good citizenship,
the Boys' Staters will assemble
June 12-21 at Michigan State
College. There they will form
into two political parties, organize into city andi country
groups, and set up a mythical
•'-'49th State" patterned after
Michigan's constitutional form of
government. They will elect
-their own officers and gain a
first-hand knowledge »f how democracy functions.
:J The  800  youths attending  the
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Story Teller At
Methodist
Church
A feature of unusual interest
at the Mother and Daughter
banquet at the Methodist church
tonight will be a story recital oy
Mrs. Annie Locke MacKinnon,
sto.y specialist and former president qf the National Organization of Story Leagues. Mrs.
MacKinnon is in Ann Arbor conducting a story institute this
week and tomorrow night will
give a recital at Slauson Junior
High school auditorium.
The Ann Arbor Story League
was organized by Mrs. MacKinnon in, 1940 with the assistance
of Mrs. Travis "Cash of Broadway
St. and Mrs. George Slocum of
S. Division St., Ann Arbor.
Within a year the group had
grown tft. where it was handling
service calls as storytellers to
various organizations throughout
the county.
Mrsc MacKinnon is a graduate
of the Detroit training school of
speech and English, literature,
has been instructor of children's
literature, story telling, reading
and speech in Fostoria, Ohio,
public schools;. Cheney -State
Normal school; Marietta High
school, Marietta college;'^Akron
university and Wichita .university, as well as a popular lecturer
at teachers' associations. She
has compiled three series of
"Over and Over Stories" and
contributed to various magazines.
Mrs. MacKinnon will be the
house guest of Mra Cash, a
former student of hers, and will
be a guest of honor at an, Open
House for out-of-town story
leaguers at the home of Mrs.
Slocum during her stay in Ann
Arbor.
Thursday, May 15, has been
designated as "Clean-Up" day in
Saline, and lest you forget, a
sound truck will traverse the city
during the morning! of that day
and advise you to place your
rubbage at the curfc for the pickup.
Several trucks manned by Jaycees will be used, to cart away
the tin cans and other rubbish
which may. have accumulated at
your place during the winter.
You can lighten the work of the
city's spring cleaning by placing
•it in cartons-, barrels or other
containers or in gunny sacks or
tying in bundles or parcels to
facilitate handling.
The cooperation of everyone in
Saline is sought in order that the
job may be a thorough one. The
accumulation of rubbish is not
only unsightly but unsanitary. It
is in such places that disease
lurks and breeds.
Newspapers and old magazines
are to be bundled separately and
also placed at the curb and will
be picked up by . Saline Boy
Scouts.
So, to get rid of the unsightly
and pestilential rubbishy join in
the effort to sweeten up the city.
Do not include garbage. 'Remember,
Thursda.y, May 15.
Clean-up  day!
Plan To Have Wedding In June
Miss Stephanie Gala (right) and Miss Genevieve Gala (left),
daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Gala of Saline will become the
brides rl James R. Burns and Francis V. Wright, respectively, at
a double-wedding to be held on June 21.
Vacation
With Fay at
Universal Die
In line with the practice which
is becoming operative generally
in the Detroit area and other
industrial centers, the Universal
Die Casting & Manfacturing Co.,
Saline, is giving all of its- employees with one year's continuous service a week's vacation
with pay.
Vice-President William Britton
stated Tuesday that all »m-
ployees on the ^payroll May 15,
1947 who have completed one
year's service through. March
31st, will be given a vacation
with pay.
"Due to the confusion and
general loss of efficiency caused
by staggered vacations, taken a
few at a time while the plant
continues to operate, there will
be a complete cessation of operations for one week," said Mr
Britton.
The plant will be closed from
May 24th to June 2nd.
.■■ The engagements and. double
wedding plans of Genevieve and
Stephanie, daughters of Mr. and
Mrs. Jacob Gala, have been announced by their parents.
Miss Genevieve Gala will marry Francis V. Wright, son of
Mrs. Francis M. Wright of Wagner Rdu, and Miss Stephanie Gala
will marry James, R. Burns, son
of Mr." and Mrsu Raymond J.
Burns of Pinckney. The wedding will take place on June 21
at St. Thomas Catholic church in
Ann Arbor.
The sisters are both graduates
of Saline High school and are
now  employed  at   Argus Inc.
Both vete:ans of World War
H,. Mr. Burns spent 26 months in
the marine corps, including 20
months in the South Pacific. He
is now a student at Michigan
State CoUege. Mr. Wright spent
39 months, in the Army, including
service in the South Pacific. He
too is employed at Argus Inc.
A Good Time For a Murder
By the grace of God nothing
terrible has happened on US-112
within the city'limits of Saline.
But it is only by the grace of
God, whose patience may some
day become exhausted.
Twenty-five miles per hour audi
from there, on up is the record.
maintained here daily. We have
noted-^ three cars abreast negotiating the city's thoroughfare, narrowed by parked cars on either
side of the street. They are not
proceeding cautiously, but eacli.
endeavoring to beat the other to
the straighit-away. We casually
mentioned the incident to a locai
shopkeeper and even while -we
spoke two cars went flashing by.
in a mad race to outstrip eaxAt
other.
"Twenty-five" painted on the
highway is not a daterrar.it unless a set of teeth are painted on
it too and there happens to be
a dentist along, the line somewhere who will see to it that the
teeth have the proper bite.
What is the city waiting for?
Waiting, for a death?
rfct4£ia-^>unM,€Vit TRciet
Reuben C.
Feldkamp
Reuben C. Feldkamp, 62, died
suddenly Tuesday afternoon while
working near his homey 306
Bemis road in Pittsfield township.
Mr. Feldkamp was born December 1, 1884 in Saline township and was the son cf George
and Louise Rentschler Feldkamp.
He married Amanda Geisel in
Bridgewater August 10, 1910 and
had spent his entire life in this
community, which he devoted to
farming.
Survivors include his wife; six
sons, Erwin, LeRoy, and Rudolph
of Lodi township, Milton and
Glen of Saline and Lioyd at
homie;, four daughters, Mrs. Clarence Roehm. and Mrs. Herman
Marion of Saline, Mrs. Lowell
Roehm df Ann Arbor and Mrs.
Raymond Wiedmayer of Freedoms four brothers, Aaron of
Lodi, Arthur of Saline township,
Omer of Saline, and Elmer of
Ann Arbor; two sisters, Miss
Edna Feldkamp of Saline township and' Mrs. ^George Burmeister of Freedom, and 15 grandchildren.
He was a member of the St.
Paul's Evangelical Reformed
church in Saline.
Funeral services will be held
.Friday afternoon at 2 o'cfec'k at
the Feldkamp residence and at
2:30 at St. Paul's church. Rev.
Alvin Siemsen, will officiate and
interment will be made in Oak-
wood cemetery, . Friends may
call at the residence.
Pig-Lamb
Feeding Clubs
To Start
Saline's Junior Livestock Feeding and Show Association have
recently completed plans for organizing pig and lamh feeding
clubs to supplement the steer
feeding program which was inaugurated here last January.
The project, according to Charles
S. Osgood, director of the association is open to any boy or
girl between the ages of 10 and
20t years who will agree to comply with the rules governing the
club members in these feeding
programs.
Three to six pigs or lambs are
to be Selected and fed by each
club member for the fall Fair
and fat stock sale to be held at
that time. The pig project must
be started before June 1 and the
lamb project by July X
Boys and girls _iriterested can
secure the necessary information
and entry forms from. Director
Osgood or from any member of
the  Steer Feeding Association.,
A meeting- of the Junior Livestock Feeding and Show Association will be held Monday night
at the high school at 8"o'clock
and all parents and sponsors are
urged to attend as several matters of interest will be discusser
the directors of the organization
will be officially introduced and
several entertaining features provided. Steer Club members or
others desiring to feed either pigs
or lambs will be made welcome
at this meeting.
Two Veterans
Of U.S.A. Unite
Old Families
Simple dignity marked the 12
o'clock wedding Thursday, May
1, at St. Thomas, the Apostle
Catholic church of Ann ArbSi
where Jean Carleen Burkhart,
daughter ofi the late Mr. and Mrs.
Frederic L. Burkhart was united
in holy matrimony to LaVere
Vaughn Austin, first son of Mr.
and Mrs. Clyde Austin of Dundee.
The impressive double ring
service was solemnized by Msgr.
Warren W. Peek in the presence
of the immediate families.
While profound strains of organ music sounded the traditional
processional, the bride was escorted by her brother-in-law, E..
J. Beasley. They were preceded
to the altar of the Blessed Virgin
by Miss Clara Bowen of Oakland,
Calif., as maid of honor, and Miss
Karyl Jean Beasley of Saline, a
niece of Miss Burkhart, as bridesmaid.
Soft shades of delphinium blue
were chosen, as the color theme.
Miss Burkhart wore a smartly^
styled double peplum, two-piece'
deep blue gabardine suit, accentuated by accessories in old
ivory. Honoring her mother, the
bride carried the white prayer
book and pearl rosary, girts of
many years ago. "Complementing
the bride's costume, her attend-
ants were gowned in subtle
prints of modish basque design.
Their tiny poke bonnets in match-
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"Wings Over
America"
Coming
Fifteen Saline merchants are
sponsoring a free show here
Tuesday, May 13 at the Saline
high school when Billie and Irene
Burns will entertain, with their
trained  bird  troupe.
African lovebirds, who are killers by instinct, and colorful,
gossipy Brazilian macaws are the
stock and trade of the two De-
troiters. Combining     patience
with a wide knowledge of birds,
the Burns have developed a two-
hour show of bird circus tricks
anfi lectures and films. Burns
started training birds 14 years
ago as a hobby. He has worked
with canaries,, parakeets, parrots
and eagles as well as the lovebirds and- macaws and his show
is a spectacular one.
Saline merchants sponsoring the
show, an advertisement of which
appears on another page, are
giving free tickets to their customers. There are no tickets for
sale, but admission is only by
ticket, and they, must be secured
from those merchants participating in this very interesting event.
The Mayor Sets A Record
Heres's one for the book. A.
strike and eleven pins is the
count on the local alleys! Two
bowlers poised to roll 'em, one
slightly in advance of the other.
Through a freak the fellow in.
the one alley causes a pin to fly
in the air in such a manner that
it lands in the alley alongside
and strikes the pins in the rear
as the other bowler's ball strikes
in front. Down they all go anfl
the count is 11 pins down,! Mayer
Gross is the 11-pin champ and
has set a record for all yoa
chaps to shoot at.
Circus Comes
To Town
Greatest Gambler of 'Em AU
Farming, it is said, is not considered so much a business as St
is a way of life.'
This spring has convinced, us
that the latter is quite true-
While gambling is frowned upon
by the minions of the law, the
farmer freely indcuiges in the
practice and stakes his breacS
and butter oli the vagrant winds
that blow—noyf hot, now cold,—
and the other unpredictable tricks
of Mother Nature.
With a dilatory spring still
nestling in the lap of winter—
yesterday it snowed—the farmery
dodging the raw wind, that
nearly, sweeps him offx his feet
as he rounds the corner of his
barn, can view the soggy landscape firom. a dusty windowpane
in the cowshed,, .contemplatively
chew, a wisp of straw and perhaps draw some conclusion as ta.
how much the cards are stacked
against him.
Sure, farming is a way of lifej.
and a mighty gamble. But its
the kind of a gamble that no tin.
horn wants to take. It's a game
where bluffing never wins a.
hand; where the joker is always
present; and the farmer,, the only
legitimate gambler in. the whale
world*,, has the rest of. mankind
living off his .winnings.
MOTHER OF THE TEAR . . . Mis. .Frederick G. Murray, 72, Cedar
Rapids, la., named the American Mother of 1947, scans the art work
of one of her ten grandchildren,' Janet Fiske,. Washington, D. C. The
youngster's picture tells the story -of "the old woman who lived in the
shoe.1' Mrs. Murray, whose husband is a practicing physician, has been
active in child welfare work. She is the mother of five children.
The Ann, Arbor Rabbit Breeders Association wiH meet Sunday evening May 11 at 6:30 in
the Municipal building in Chelsea
.with *a potluck supper to be followed* by a business meeting and
program.
Wheeler Ct.
Development
Shown on page'two of this issue of The Observer is a repro^
duction of the blueprint showing
the layout of Wheeler Court on
Lewis street. The-e are 11 lots
available in this new residential
development vyhich. has a court
leading off from Lewis street to
which all but* three of the lots
are accessible. .
Community
Benefit Party
This is what its sponsors say:
It will be one of the biggest
parties since the Fair, the school
hopes. The Student Council has
worked very, hard on it. Allt the
work will be dene by the six
higher classes of the schcol. The
Senior class will plan the floor
show. The Junior class will take
care of the ticket sales. The
Sophomore class will decide on
what orchestra we will have and
the Freshmen and Seventh grade
will take care of tlie refreshments. The Eighth grade has
the job of advertising the Party.
The Party will start at 8
o'clock with a big flour show so
that the people who can't or do
not want to dance, will have
something  to   ccme for.
At about 9 o'clock Bergls Orchestra will  take over/
All high school students have
tickets'at only 60£ each, so-come
and have a good time.
The proceeds will be used to
buy chairs, for the school.
We remind you that the floor
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American Legion Post of Saline Jire sponsoring a tent show-
on "We_ school grounds here Friday afiieiftoon and evening, May
M
Patterson Bros. Circus comes
witli a dog and pony show, featuring Buck Lucas, western star,
in, whip popping, roping and
horse catching; Fay King, and
her troupe of twenty trained
dogSy and Roba, a magician in
the side show.
There,will be. a matinee in the
afternoon at 3:30 o'clock and an
evening performance at 8.
When a man bites a dog, thaFs
news. Here's another one. A.
white house with a green roof
passed this office Wednesday
morning  going  west.
Post CO Joins
Army Air
Forces
Saline Ladies
Chosen Guild
Officers
Mrs. P. G. Schaible of Chelsea
was elected president of the
Women's Guild of the Ann Arbor region at the regional meeting held in Lansing Wednesday
of last week.
Other officers elected at the
meeting were Mrs Lance Rogers
first vice-president and Mrs.
Clarence Haarer, treasurer, both
of Saline. Rev. O. Walter Wagner
of Japkson-'was "elected pastoral
advisor.'
Happiness is. the legitimate
"fruitage of love and service.—
Arthur S.   Hardy.  .
Norman R- Hedger,. Commander of the local-William B. Lutz
Post of the American Legiony has
received final notification from
the Adjutant General's office that
he has been accepted "in the
United, States Air Corp. and- wiH
report for duty at San Antonio^
Texas, Army _Air- Force Training
Center,, May.26.
" Except for the four years and
eight months tfiat he spent, in
the service during the late war
with the famous First Cavalry-
Division which fought in four
major campaigns, he las made
his home at the Micah Robison
farm, for the- past 16 years, and.
has been very active in the
American Legion audi civic affairs.
He has served* as Vice-Cam^-
mander and for tlle past two
years has been Commander of
the local Legion post and has
definitely decided- to"" make * the-
Army his life-work.   —»;„ *««>r