1947-07-31; Saline Observer

              VOLUME 64
SALINE, WASHTENAW COUNTY, MICHICJAN,        THURSDAY,4 Jtfly 31; I94T
NUMBER 4S
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A Commission WiU Promote Athletic Field
Seventeen men of Saline sat at
the long dining table in the
Saline Hotel, Tuesday noon, and
discussed the appetizing roast
pork dinner provided by Mine
Host Henry and the problem facing the community in the matter of the athletic field at the
high  school.
The food and the field were
both absorbing topics, but the
latter prevailed in the end, despite the wiles of the lady in
waiting with the sparkling pitcher  of iced tea—and it was hot!
Represented were the Beard
of Education, the City Council,
the Rotary Club, the Junior
Chamber of Commerce, the
American Legion and a ^number
of prominent business establishments.
" Most important outgrowth of
the meeting was the selection of
E. J. Beasley as temporary chairman of the Saline Athletic Commission, which it is hoped will be
composed of representatives of
the various civic and service organizations together with a member of both the city council and
the school board.
As neither the school district
nor the city have authority to
expend public monies in behalf cf
the athletic field, the financing
of the project will have to be
done   by   popular   subscription.
The Saline Savings Bank and
the Citizens Bank have been
named as official depositories of
the funds subscribed, and it is
the general concensus of opinion
that they will be forthcoming
alright.
The organization is yet to be
perfected and before any campaign is instituted a complete
analysis of the project will be
made, plans will be drawn and
the costs estimated. "When this
ammunition is all prepared, the
opening gun will be fired with a
bang!
New Fire
Truck Fails on
Its First Run
Shavings used to stoke the
boiler at the Saline Company's
plant on Bennett street, ignited
ar»4 caused an estimated damage
jf $400 to the roof over the shavings storage room and to a conveyor, according to Donald A.
Gilboe, manager, and William A.
Bice,  assistant manager.
Tlie Saline Company is successor to the Manchester Handle &
Turning Company, and are engaged in the manufacture of
bowling pins, handles and baseball bats.
Saline's new fire engine made
the run to the scene, but for
some reason- it proved ineffective,
and the second engine was used
to blank the fire.
Collision
Injures
Seven
Family Night
At Saline High
School
There will be a family party
on Saturday, AUxgust 2, in the
Saline high school, starting at
8 p.m., for the purpose of raising money to pay the dancing
instructor, so that there will not
have to be a charge for the
Tuesday  evening  dancing classes.
The family party will include
refreshments and square and
round dancing. The charge for
the party will be adults, 50 cents;
children, 7-12, 25 cents, and little tots, 1-6, will be admitted
free. Spectators will be charged
15 cents, which will include refreshments. They will be served
early so that the smaller children will not miss them. There
will be a door prize fev the lucky
ticket holder.  .
Scottie Coburn, the instructor
of the Tuesday night dancing
class, will be in charge of the
dancing.
Will Hold Open House
Pictured above is the new
home of the Wiedman Auto
Company, Saline, located at 1G6
North Ann Arbor street, modern
in every detail and equipped
"with the latest devices for efficient auto service,
Fred O. Wiedman, proprietor
of  the   establishment,   is  holding
open house Friday and Saturday
and is inviting the public to see
the first showing of the new
Ford tractor and the largest display of new Ford cars in eight
years.
This ' year   marks   Mr.   Wied-
man's   32nd   year   as   the   local
Ford  dealer.
Home On
Gives Resume
Of Trip To
California
At Thursday's meeting of the
Saline Rotary Club, .Aj-thur Heininger gave an account of the
trip he made to San Francisco,
accompanied by Mrs. Heininger,
Mr. and Mrs. Alwin Gross, and
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Heininger.
The party left Saline on May
27 at 5:30 that morning and
spent the first night in Bloomington,. Iowa. They viewed the
stone quarries at Bedford, Ind.,
and had dinner at Vincennes,
were amazed by the many windmills in a small Kansas town and
were impressed by tne mud deposits in the town of Colby, the
result, of the flood waters which
had but' lately subsided.
On Memorial Day they were in
Estes Park, Denver, and went on
to view the wonders of the West:
Castle Rock, Garden of the Gods,
the Roger's memorial, Boulder
Dam and the Grand Canyon. At
Las "Vegas, they visited the palaces of Chance, stopped at Long
Beach, California and visited Dr.
and Mrs. Shaw, relatives of
Mayor Gross. The Farmers'
market in Los Angeles^ which
covers three city blocks, was as
marvelous in its way as Yosemite
National Park, which they also
visited.
The Rotary-International convention which they attended in
San Francisco haa the xgreatest
attendance in its history, 14,678.
Among the famous personages
who addressed the gathering
were Past President Dick Hedke;
Attorney General Tom Clark,
Governor Warren of California,
Walter Lippman, and Ken
Guernsey,  new Rotary president.
A two-car collision on US-112
Wednesday night of last week,
resulted in injury to seven persons. Most seriously hurt was 4-
year-old Charlene Frederickson
of Route 3, Manchester, who was
taken to University hospital, Ann
Arbor, with severe internal and
head injuries. Her mother, Evelyn Frederickson, was also taken
to the Ann Arbor hospital with
a broken leg and severe abrasions and shock.
Others injured and taken to
the Saline hospital were Harold
Frederickson, 26, cuts and
bruises; William, 55, of Detroit,
fractured right leg; his wife;
Celia, 55, broken left arm. and
lacerations; his brother, Clifford
H:,^56, of- Detroit, cut on, eye;
and CliSTorars wife,= Catheryii," 68,
chest  injuries.'
The accident occurred, about
six miles west of Saline as the
Draheim car crasiied into the
Frederickson car as the latter
was mafcng a left turn off the
pavement into a driveway.
SALINE—Cpl. Merritt Warren
Martin, jr., of the U. S. Marine
Corps, is spending a 45-day fur-
lough at the
home of hi§ par-'
ents, Mr. and
Mrs. Merritt W •
Martin, sr., 223
S. Ann Arbor St.
The   Saline
youth,   who   enlisted    in    January,     1945,     has
just returned after    spending    201
months in China.
He has been stationed   at  Tsing- Martin
tao,  Peiping and Tiensin. He  received his training at- Parris Island,  S.  C, and  Camp Lejeuene,
W c.
Cpl. Martin is scheduled to return to Camp Pendleton, Calif.,
on Sept. 6. He has a year and nine
months yet to servo.
The ^Kernels'
Vacation Trip
Is Fatal to Two
Mrs. Helen Barker, 59, of Eber
White Blvd., Ann Arbor died in
a Sutherland, Neb., hospital July
21, of injuries received earlier in
the day in an automobile accident near Paxton, Neb.
Her husband, Clarence Barker,
70, died shortly before. Three
other members of the family
were injured when their car hit
a concrete culvert on US-30.
They were on their way to California on a vacation trip. —
Listed as injured were Erwin
Martin, the Barkers' son-in-law,
who suffered a broken leg; his
wife, Mildred, cuts and bruises;
and their son, Frank, 13, cuts
and bruises.
Mrs. "Barker was a sister-in-
law of William Harris, Saline,
and Mildred Martin was a niece.
Softhallers
Win Three
Straight
Although handicapped by a
late start, a softball team composed cf lecal players, has won
its first three starts- against the
Rube's Service team of Milan by
scores of 8-2, ■ 5-1, 7-5. George
Everett was the winning pitcher
in all of the games. ff
The first two games played
were two-hitters and the last
was won with a two-run rally in
the seventh inning.
There will be a game here
this evening with Saline Valley
Farms and another with Rube's
Service in Milan on August 5.
All games start at 6:30- and there
is no admission charged for the
local games.
White Show in
August
. The Washtenaw County Black
and Wfrite show will be held here
on Thursday, August 28. HoU
stein breeders fcropi ail over the
county are expected here on that
date, when they will hold, elimination contests in preparation for
the fall fairs. The judging will
start following a picnic dinner
at Saline park, where the show
is  to  be held.
Rotarians to
Visit Kaiser-
Frazer Plant
The Saline Rotary Club will
be guests* of the Kaiser-Frazer
Automobile Co., Thursday, August 21, when company cars will
take them from Saline to the
Kaiser-Frazer plant, dine them,
and take them on a tour of the
plant,  and. bring 'em home.
Prominent
Citizen Taken
Ralph McHenry, associated
with Mrs. McHenry in operating
the Saline General hospital since
1933, died, there Friday afternoon, following a stroke which
he  suffered several weeks ago.
Before coming to Saline he had
owned and operated a restaurant
in Milan and for nine years prior
to that, was a popular chef on
the University Campus in Ann
Arbor.
Mr. McHenry was born in
South Whitely, Indiana, July 7,
1888, and had worked as a chef
since he was 14 years old. His
widow is the former Hilda Niethammer, who with a son by a
former marriage, Max Wilson
McHenry, of Saline, and a sister,
Mrs. Alta Conklin,- of Rochester,
and five grandchildren, survive
him.
He was a member of the
Moose Lodge of Ann Arbor.
Funeral services were held at
2:30 o'clock Monday afternoon
from the Lockwood funeral home
with Rev. William Bach of Hazel
Park Baptist church, officiating.
Interment was made in Washten-
oong Memorial park in Ann
Arbor.
Editorial
Comment
There's   Brain   and   Brawn
But No Training
Haines-Hehr
Should Teach
Driving in
School
Couple Wed
In Church
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HENRY  FORD—PERRY  HAYDEN
Legion To
Start Work
On Home
William B.'Lutz Post, American Legion, are planning to begin construction of their long-
proposed Legion Memorial Home
this fall on the site overlooking
the  Saline mill pond.
New plans are being made for
a less costly structure than that
originally proposed and Legion
members will themselves work on
the building and grounds aad employ local contractors and builders for the most part.
Community folk in general
will applaud the determination of
the Legion to go ahead with the
building of their Home and The
Saline Observer stands ready to
cooperate in any way possible to
make it an accomplished fact.
Henry Ford, whose last public
activity was to help Perry Hayden stage his phenomenal six
year "Dynamic Kernels Biblical
Wheat" demonstration, will play
an important part in the color-
sound movie, "God is My Landlord" to be' shown for the first
time at the Adrian Fair Grounds
this coming Saturday night, Aug.
2.
Inspired by a sermon in 1940,
Perry Hayden, Tecumseh miller,
planted one cubic inch of wheat
to prove that it pays to tithe.
Each year for five years, the
harvest was tithed, with Henry
Ford furnishing land, labor,
equipment, ahd much of the inspiration. The 19(45 planting required 2666 acres for the 5000
bushels of seed, after the fifth
crop of 5555 bushels had been.'
tithed. This was furnished by
276 farmers from 30 different
faiths and beliefs, each of whom
agreed to pay a tithe of the 1946
crop to his own church.
"If this project were continued
for ten years, it would require all
-of the land in the United States,"
says Perry Hayden. "In 13 years
it would cover the entire globe."
Based upon the average yield
of 30 bushels per acre from two
bushels of seed, one cubic inch
of 360 kernels, planted and replanted   for   six   years   without
See Kernels, Page 7
Will Be Guests
Of Detroit
Baseball Co.
Members of the Saline Steer
Feeding Club, Boy , Sccuts and
Junior baseball team, with their
sponsors, who are members of
the Saline Rotary Club, will be
guests of the Detroit Baseball
Company at Briggs Statium,
Wednesday, August 6, when the
Cleveland Indians play Detroit in
a   double-header.
The youngsters are. limited to
tile ages of 12 to 16 years, and
with their sponsors will leaye for
Detroit at 11:30 a.m., from the
Saline high school grounds. Not
over seventy-five. can be included
in the group and only the amusement tax will be charged.
Child Struck
By Car
Bonnie Kay Cammett, two-
year-old daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Elmer Cammett, was struck
by a slaw moving car on Lake-
view Drive at Warnpler's lake,
Sunday, as she ran out in front
of the - car as the driver was
making a turn. The child has
a fractured thigh .bone. The
Cammetts were spending the day
with Mrs. Cammett's parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Webber,
who are at the lake for the
summer.
There is no good reason, why
every qualified mgn school in tile
state cannot include driver training in its 1947-48' curriculum,
according to the Automooiie UlUu
of  Michigan,     ..v.   '.--.        '    . ...
Despite an awareness of the
■problem». unskill-ed auto drivers
present, Michigan now' lias only
18 high schools which offer botn
classroom and behind-the-wheel
driver  training.
Lack of teachers and dual coJi-
trol cars have held up statewide
adoption of high school driver
training in the past, says Ernest
P. Davis, Auto Club Safety and
Traffic director. Seven ariver-
training seminars held during the
past two years have prociuced
about 300 trained instructors
not now teaching the subject.
Tne seminars, attended by teachers, policemen and school superintendents, have been sponsored
by the State Department of Public Instruction and Auto Clut>.
Next seminar has been scheduled
for some time in October.
Enough dual-contrc* cars, will
soon be made "available through
the American Automobile. Association and. Auto Club for all
qualified high schools in Michigan to offer the course in the
1947-48 school year, Davis predicts.
.With the 18. complete courses
now .in operation and 110 schools
offering classroom driver education only, Michigan leads the nation in teaching its youngsters
how to navigate safely on hign-
ways, Davis says, u'he lead will
be maintained only if more
schools adopt driver training this,
fall.
Two recent national polls rate
driver training as the most important safety subject. Only
through such training can accidents be cut appreciably, Davis
feels.
"When every high school student who plans to drive can take
driver training, accidents and
deaths on the highways will be
cut in half in two generations,"
he predicts.
It is estimated that a million
high school students begin driving autos each year ih the nation. The average boy or girl
will drive 175,000 miles in his or
her lifetime. Records show that
untrained high school age drivers
have the worst accident rate of
any age group.
Lighted candles, Madonna lilies
and white gladoli formed a pretty background for the ceremony
performed Saturday, July 26, at
4 p.m. in the Methodist church
which united in luarriage Miss
Serena May Hehr and Victor
Maxwell Haines, both of Ann
Arbor. Rev. R. S. Hocking officiated.
Strains of "I Love You Truly"
and Lohengrin's "Wedding
March", organ music, were
played by ivlrsi >'cj&frllfc ■■ Martin;.
as Benjamin Hehr of Ann Arbor,
accompanied his niece to the
altar.
The bride, daughter of Mrs.
Emma Hehr, wore an aqua suit
of gabardine with pink accessories. Her hat v. as an* or: ..he
face halo model cf while .ncy
straw. She wore a corsage of'
gardenias.
Miss Luetta Bena Hehr of Ann
Arbor was her sister's maid of
honor. Her costume^ was yellow
with white accessories and she
were a yellow and white corsage
of  roses   and .carnations.
The bridegroom, son of Mrs.
Jessie Haines of Lake City, "was
attended by his brother, Norman
R. Haines, of Pittsfield, Village.
.Harold Armbruster and Merlyn
Graf. of Saline were ushers.
A reception at the bride's home
in Ann Arbor followed the ceremony.
Mrs. Haines was employed at
Kline's department store in Ann
Arbor. Mr. Haines is an employee of Haarer's Quality Market.
They will make'their home
at 3420 Saline-Ann Arbor road
after August 3, following a motor
trip to northern Michigan.
Having witnessed a demonstration of a fog-nozzle fire apparatus in action at the City HaH
one night—a moving picture affair—we were greatly thrilled, -
Terrific fires were built of o£L.
and gasoline and a fireman, wltcli
a fog-nozzle -would blank them
out in a matter of seconds, and
use only a few gallons of water-
The blaze at the Saline Company's plant seemed a perfect
set-up for a demonstration of our
new piece of equipment. The
fire was confined to a small
room with cement walls and, if a.
fog-nozzle could be operated effectively anywhere, and with a.
minimum of water, there was the
opportunity.
We are of the opinion, that too
much is expected of a volunteer
fire fighting organization witla
too little training. Men maj
know theoretically how a. machine may operate, but undeff
stress, under the emotional strain
of a hurried action, training 13
necessary to make that opera.-*,
tion perfect.
We would suggest that a fire
be simulated—a practice event—■
several of them, if necessary,
with, hard conditions imposed,
and the city department trainecl
in the techniques ot diis newt
kind of fire fighting. To expect a crew to deport themselves
with precision and perfection, at
a -given time, with no previous
experience is foolish. They
should not be experimenting wltls.
actual emergency fires. They
should practice on set-ups whica
will prepare them for the emergencies.
, /x^he^crgS-r--"?-+^ Wille-* Rife-c-cfeaJs
similar ^ppartui1- to -fight -Cine'-
fierce fires- that are the result
of plane accidents. They have._.
spent hours, and ma.ny pf them-,
in training for the actualities..
Don't you think -it.. ^oj-is-rcii?*r~-
sary for thec-e men ' £ o-?rs-? V..-;
do.
We  Have Always Been    »
Forebearing
Mrs. William H. Guenther was
Katherine F. Kuebler before her
marriage Friday night in St.
James Evangelical and Re- .
formed Church, Saline. Mr. and
Mrs. Guenther, now honeymooning in northern Michigan, will
make their home in Ypsilanti.
Detroit Edison
Tv. Broadcasts
A meeting of the women's
bowling captains will be held at
the home of Dorothy Weibusch,
August 5, at eight p.m. Anyone
wishing to enter a cnew team may
also  send  a  representative.
Detroit Edison is sponsoring
two broadcasts of 15 minute
periods over WWJ-TV each week,
Wednesdays and Fridays, at 8:45
p.m.,. which are handled by Ted
Grace with a running commentary of special on-the-spot news
events. -""
Reay-Fish
Wedding
Mrs. Mary Fish of Detroit,
daughter of Mrs, George Wolff
and the late Mr. Wolff of
Windsor, Kanada, and! Graham
Reay, son of Mrs. James Wheeler,
of Old Mission, were united in
marriage on Saturday afternoon
at 1:30 o'clock by the Rev. John
W. Borderf at the Methodist
parsonage in Angola,  Ind.
The bride chose a raspberry
gaberdine suit with navy accessories and with this she w^ce an
all white  sweet  pea  corsage.
Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Griffin attended the couple and Mrs. Griffin was dressed in a light blue
gaberdine suit and chose white
accessories and a pink corsage
of sweet peas. Both men were
clad in  -grey suits.
Mrs. Reay is employed as
cashier at the Detroit Leland
Hotel, while Mr. Reay is employed by the Saline Body Bumping & Welding Shop on N. Ann
Arbor street. Mr. and Mrs. Reay
expect to make their home in
Saline and will take their wedding  trip   some time  this fall.
But, b' gosh it does get exasperating. By the clock, it tools
us five minutes ana several seconds before we got central—and
we don't know who she is, so
it isn't anything personal—and
we do dislike to kick otiout anything.
We have not b,ee? uccustomed
td the kind "of telephone service
that Saline tolerates. We do
not know the answer to the telephone problem. It is caoc our
business. We do know! that we
pay our bills promptly for a
service   which   is   questionable
We are of the opinion that
those who do give service, have
few complaints. We haye yet to
hear of a local compliment for
the local service which we nave
tried to champion for a long,
long time, but we are .now giv>-
ing up in disgust.   '
We have finally joined tlie
ranks   of   the  discontent.
We too, say, our local tele-
phone service is irritating.
Now—do we have any rs»
course ?
Hello! Central! Hello! Hellol
Hell Ohl
A Certain Number Gotta
Stay Poor
Miss Betty Feldkamp is enjoying a vacation from her work
at" the C. F. Smith store.
Dr. and Mrs. Harold Miller
and Mr. send Mrs. Sam G. Lambarth spent the weekend in Chicago visiting at the home of Dr.
and Mrs. James .Mospr and attended the- Cub-Giant baseball
game,-
There's an. old philosophy, bom
many years ago, but of recent
years termed, the abundant
life.
Who is the abundant life for?
Everybody? No, no, Pauline.
Just figure things out for yourself.
The wage for the common soul
used to be a dollar and a half a
day. With it he could live, bnt
how? He washed in a wash
bowl and bathed in the same.
"She" scrubbed on her hands anfl
knees and washed on a furrowed
board. You know how "they™
lived. Let's ' skip, the harrowing
details.
Comes '47 and the round ot
better wages and a glimpse of
what might be, but those to the
manor born won't let things level
off, and allow tlie mass of "com-*
mon"  folks to  catch up.
Raise wages and give the commoner a chance to live more
abundantly, and up go prices, so
that he can't.
What is tlie r- x--?er? Can't
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