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Along The
MainDrag
Q Saline Savings Bank is now
insulated and yeggs gaining entrance through the roof will have
to tunnel through a maze of
rock wool. 9 There is a watch
and clock doctor coming to town
to set up practice, in fact, his
equipment has already arrived.
Now yon will more fully realize
how times flies.
9 Improvements pending a t
Commercial Refrigeration and
Schmid's Market. New tile floor
laid at Deede's Radio Shop.
Steeb's Garage in four weeks, according to progress so far—will
be  ready  for  occupation.
0Who wrecked the Girl
Scout's cabin is a mystery for the
Sheriff's Department, State Police
and our own local sleuths to
ponder. % The City Manager is
hack on the . job and the town
wakes up. again. There was a
hot time while he was gone—.
% Kids in the shade of the
sheltering pine did a thriving
husiness during the recent heat
wave. "Pop, 6c a bottle!" was
the attraction for the passersby.
0 The proper air-marking of all
towns in the state is a major
project of the Michigan Department of Aeronautics. Markings
that will help keep aviators on
their routes especially in unfamiliar territory. £ T h i s week's
nomination for the Ancient Order of Inconsiderates: The fellow who expects to share in the
profits but not in the labor.
% With traffic on US-112 increasing with the tempo of the times,
and contemplating the influx of
students with the beginning of
the school year Tuesday next, it
appears to us that the ingredients are just about right for a
concoction that can spell death
to someone. If we are not ripe
for some sort of police work now,
we never will be.
Will some bright student tell
us what d-i-1-l-y d-a-1-l-y spells'?
The Saline O
VOLUME 64
SALINE, WASHTENAW COUNTY, MICHIGAN,     THURSDAY, AUG. 28, 1947
NUMBER   47
Editorial
Comment
OCTOBER 1-2-3-4
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What Do You Think?
&W,
Joint Picnic
At City Park
Today
Oyer forty members of the Saline. Rotary Cluh were dinner
guests of the Kaiser-Frazer Company, Thursday of last week and
made a tour of the mammoth
plant which is now turning out
automobiles at the rate of one a
minute. Company cars transported their guests from Saline
to the Willow Run plant and returned them after the tour. A
picture of the group was taken
in front of the administration
building. B
Don Ford, who arranged the
trip as program, chairman for
that day, announced that Club
members and their wives were
expected to attend a picnic dinner at -the City Park in connection with the Black and White
show being held there today at
12 o'clock noon, and which the
Rotary Club is sponsoring'. The
picnic lunch will be provided by
the Saline Hotel and the only
thing required by Club members
is their attendance in company
with their wives.
Steer Club
Show
RetiredFarmer
Died Sunday
Funeral services were held
Wednesday afternoon at the family home, 87.0 Manchester road,
for Charles F. Burkhart, retired
farmer, who passed away Sunday at the Saline General hospital. Deceased wao born, _ept."c
3, 1866,, the son, of Charles. F.
and Marcia   Case  Burkhart.
In November, 1893, he married Carrie J. Davenport in Saline, who with' one son, Raymond,
two grandchildren and two great
grandchildren of Saline; two sisters, Mrs. Louise B. Cotton of
Saline and Mrs. Catherine Cody
of Pittsfield township, survive
him.
of    the    Modern    Woodmen    of
America.
Rev. Henry McKenzie, pastor
of the Federated church, officiated at the funeral  services.
Interment took place in Oak-
wood cemetery.
An event of more than, county-
wide interest will be the showing
of 27 fat steers at the Saline
Community Fair, October 2-4,
anfl the auction sale, which will
take place on the last day of the
Fair.
The steers are the property of
members of the Community Steer
Feeding Club, organized here last
fall and sponsored by local business men. - The hoys-and girj^.-of
the club have some very promising animals and their show will
without doubt be the finest presentation of finished steers shown
in the county this year.
Forsee Heavy
Expenditures
In County
Farm families in Washtenaw
county will spend more than
$1,75^,0001 for new housing in the
next three to five years, according to a forecast released by the
Tile Council of America.
"As a result of high incomes
during the last few years, farmers in every part of the nation
are prepared to invest record
amounts in new home construction and in general farm improvements," said F. B. Ortman,
chairman of the Council's Residential  Construction  Committee.
Pointing out that the comforts
and conveniences of urban living are now available to farm
families, Ortman said tliat new
rural homes will incorporate
such features as central neating,
tiled bathrooms, and modern kitchen  facilities.
Rapid electrification of rural
areas of Michigan is making
possible the incorporation in new
homfes of many labor-saving and
comfort-providing" devices undreamed of a generation ago.
Rural Electrification Administration estimates disclose that
more than 87 per cent of all
farms in the state now receive
central station electric service.
Refrigerators, electric washing
machines and deep freezing
plants, as well as plumbing systems, will go into many new
homes as a consequence.
SING ON THE MOUNTAIN ... Every year for 23 years, mountain folks of North C Molina, Tennessee,
Virginia, Kentucky and Georgia gather at the base of Grandfather Mountain, Linville, N. C, for an old-
fashioned "sing." cThey lift itp their voices and sing the old hymns, brought into the hills by their forefathers. There is also intermittent preaching, speachifying, picnicking and other gregarious Catherines.
Pictured above is part of the 20,000 who took part in the recent "sing."
Barnyard
Tournament
Breakfast at
Hollywood
Tom Brenaman's "Breakfast
at Hollywood," .will be a feature
e of thfe fouiSday Saline Community Fair to be held here October
1-4. The famous radio program
which originated in "Breakfast at
Sardi's" is on tour throughout
the United States and will be
the opening number on the Fair
program on Wednesday night,
October 1.
Wild West
Rodeo
Plans are under way for a real
wild west rodeo ta be held here
on the Sunday preceding the
Fair. It is to be a real wild
horse and wild steer riding event
and, promises the thrills which
were lacking in the more amateurish  event  of last year.
The Saline Junior Chamber of
Commerce will conduct a horseshoe pitching tournament at the
Saline Community Fair beginning
on October 2 and winding up on
the afternoon of Saturday, October 4.
The tournament will be open to
aU comers and will be played
pro^essively from day to day
with the top high scorers battling it out in the finals on Saturday afternoon. There will be
some very attractive prizes offered to the contestants.
Discuss Blue
Cross Plan
County
Farm Bureau
Picnic
The Southwest Lodi Farm Bureau met at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Fred Phelps, Friday evening, with 22 members present.
The Blue Cross plan of insurance was the topic of discussion
after which refreshments were
served by the hostess and cards
were played.
The annual picnic of the Washtenaw County Farm Bureau will
be held on Saturday, August 30
at Dexter Park, located on the
Huron River Drive, one and, one-
half rhiles east of Dexter.
A potluck dinner will be served at 12 o'clock and the afternoon will be devoted to a program of sports, bingo, a ball
game and a horseshoe tournament, With prizes for the winners.
Horse Pulling
Contest
Rex Gleason and Mike Robison and their committee which
will conduct the hoicse-pulling
events during the Community
Fair, come next October, have
their program all completely arranged and have provided for
two classes, one the heavyweight
class of 3,000 pounds or over
and, the other under 3,000 pounds.
The rules they have set up to
govern the event are as follows:
Drivers must ride on and drive
from  the  "Boat".
Bridles may be either open or
blind, but no change may be
made  during the contest.
Horses to be weighed previous
to the contest under the supervision of the officials.
Whipping, carrying whips, undue use of the lines, profanity or
shouting,  prohibited.
No advantage is to be allowed
on the doubletree to either horse
of the pair.
Three trys allowed each team
each pull, with tightening of the
tugs  constituting   a  try.
Contest to be governed by
rules of Horse Association of
America. t
Whipple-
Hartwig
St. Paul's church in Saline
was the scene of a very pretty
wedding, Friday at 5 o'clock
when Miss Marie Hartwig, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Hartwig,
and Charles Everett Whipple, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Everett Whipple, repeated their marriage vows
before an altar "beautiful with
palms and pink and white gladiolus flanked on either side by
candelabra. The single ring
ceremony was performed by Rev.
Alvin Siemsen, pastor of the
church.
The bride was lovely in a whitf
marquisette floor length gown.
Her finger tip veil was caught
to her hair with orange "plos-
soms. and she carried an arm
bouquet of white roses and white
mums.
The   matron   of   honor,    Mrs.
Harold    Pixley,    sister    of    the
groom, chose pink taffeta for her
dress  and carried  a  bouquet  n
yellow roses and yellow mums.
Little   Donna   Howden,   cousin
of the bride, wore blue net over
blue   taffeta   and   carried   mumf
and roses. * '_''__'
For   her   daughter's   wedding?,,
Mrs.   Hartwig   chose   a   flowered
crepe dress.      Mrs. Whipple Wiire
black crepe.   Their corsages were
roses and  carnations. *\
Mrs.    Lucille   Henderson    pre- -
sidedi at tlie  organ.
A reception at 7 o'clock was
held at the Polor Bear Inn with
125 guests, attending. A four-,
tiered wedding cake topped by a
bride and groom in miniature
was made by Mrs. Walter Mach,
an aunt of the bride. Cousins of
the bride assisted at the reception and Miss Betty Crawford
had charge of the guest book.
The couple left for a wedding
trip   in   northern . Michigan. -'--.
Mrs. Whipple is employed at
King-Seeley, Ann Arbor. Mr.
Whipple works for the Randall
Cement Block Co., Ann Arbor.
He was in the U. S. Army, serving thre£ years in Germany.
hung from the, prayer book. Her
matron of honor, Mrs. Louise
Ehnis, sister of the groom,, chose
a dark aqua street length dress
and were a corsage of talisman
roses and white delphium. Mr.
Raymond Bauer, brother of the
bride,  served as best man.
The bride,'s mother wore a
black crepe dress with pink eyelet and a corsage of red roses.
The groom's mother wore a sheer
black figured dress and her corsage was red roses,
A reception was held for approximately  fifty  guests.
The bride is a graduate Of
Saline high school and is' employed at King-Seely, Ann Arbor.
The groom, graduated from Ann
Arbor high school and is. employed by the Michigan Consolidated Gas Co., Ann Arbor.
After a short wedding trip,
the couple will make their home
in Ann Arbor.
Lodi Township
Resident Dies
It's our-brand, of thinking thai:
makes a screwball out of you
and your brand of thinking that
makes a screwball out of us.
That makes us pretty weU
balanced.
Some time ago someone termed
the proposal to provide housing
for Saline school teachers a.
screwball idea. But to date ve
have heard no one suggest that
the .proposal for lighting, fencing
and fitting the athletic field, at
the school was a screwy idea-
Yet our new athietia director
will arrive in Saline: to take- np
his teaching duties next week and
there is no place provided; cfiar
him and his family in which, to,
live.
Which- is the screwiest?" For
city and school officials and eivie
organizations to exhaust every
means to finance a play park, or
to exhaust every means to finance a place in which the play
instructor may live while on the
job?
While  athletics are  an important part of any school program;,
they   are   not  important   enough*?   ■  *.__■
to   overshadow   the   rest   of  thfe JF-?!-*
educational program, and if the^s- "&__%''
da it will be just too bad for iij?. '>.£.■
public   school  system.   We   givp7-';T;. i
the play field its due considera^; ""-f„
tion and support,  but hold that. jp-s^
a   well-domiciled   teaching   staff* s7_<
will  be  much  more   valuable  to
the community than one that is
compelled to live under unfavorable condition*,.
We venture the thought titat
a school faculty with its domestic problems fairly solved, would
be in a position—and in the mood
—to tackle the play ground prcrs-
lem   themselves,   and  solve  it.
If "that happens to be a screwball ideat remember, it's your
thinking,   not  ours.
Arthur H. B.echt, age 47 years,
died at his home, 5665 Zeeb road,
Lodi township, after a long
period of ill health.
He was horn in Detroit, Dec.
4, 1889, the son of Charles and
Helen Wendt Becht and on Sept.
30, 1924 he was united in marriage ta Mable Davis, also of
Detroit.
Survivors are the widow, two
daughters, Mrs. Ray Carleton, of
Ann Arbor and Miss" " "Marilyn
Becht at home; one grandchild
and a sister, Mrs. Henry Budde,
of Detroit.
Funeral services were, held
Monday afternoon at the Lock-
wood funeral home. Rev. Alvin
Siemsen, pastor of St. Paul's
ehurch, officiated. Burial was
made in  Oakwood  cemetrey.
No  School Bell!
The back-to-school movement
is on again and" next Tuesday,
Young America will start buckling down to learn the things
the past generations of mankind,
have learned,—and a lot of things
former generations never dreamed of.
One thing here we miss is the
ringing of the school bell. It
probably is an old fashioned device, but it was the only reminder to a lot of jis, that there was
Stach'• ail institution as a school in
town.
Legion
Meeting
The Ruth Chapter of the W.S.
C.S. of the Methodist church will
meet on Tuesday evening at the
home of Mrs. Delmar Schrader.
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Armbruster are spending this week in the
north.
Says UP Is Neglected
y&t
Gerhardt Cekau is in St. Louis,      Mr.   and  Mrs.  Charles  Osgood  There   11 Bf*
Mo., this week, attending tht. Na- are   vacationing   this   week   in
tionaJ Convention of Butchers.        Canada. Fj.!fg\i_f ___*]_;«_
WHEAT RUSTLERS 'S.\ Wheat fanners near Springfield, O., where
one of the biggest "crops in history-is being harvested,-not only
plagued with lack of grain cars and elevators to handle crops 'have
also ieek victims of "wheat, rustlers.* Farmers armed with rifles and
shot guns for 24-hour --guard over thousands of bushels of wheat at
about 52 a bushel. Photo shows R. E. Morhead, acuarding wheat with
his 30-30 rifle.
Lending added interest to the
many and varied attractions
which are bound to appeal tc
residents of Washtenaw county
during the coming. Saline. Community Fair, is. the fireworks
■display which will be touched ofi
on Thursday and Friday evenings.
The enthusiastic comment on
the display of last year led to
the Fair management's decision
to "shoot the works" on two
nights instead of one this year.
The display will be fully up to
the standard set last year and
will be under the direction of a
professional in pyrotecnics which
are planned to end in a blaze of
glor>. -
Wednesday of last week,
lightning struck a brooder house
at the Lodi Hatchery and electrocuted, 125 pullets which were
just coming into production.
Stoll-Bauer
Wedding
In an early evening ceremony,
Saturday, August 23, Miss
Mildred Bauer, youngest daughter of the late John S. Bauer and
Mrs. Emma Bauer, Saline Waterworks road, was united in marriage to Paul Stoll, son of Mr.
and. Mrs. Henry Stoll of Scio
Church road, at the spacious
farm home of the bride's mother. The double ring ceremony
was read by the Rev. George
Daschner of St. John's Lutheran
church, under an embankment of
palms and gladioli.
Before the ceremony, Miss
Frieda Waekenhut sang- "Ber
cause" and "God Gave Me You."
She was accompanied at the
piano by Miss Dorothy Betz, who
also played softly during the
ceremony.
The bride chose a pink crepe
street length dress and. carried
a prayer book with red roses
and while delphinium^ and
streamers with white delphinium
ignace—T h i s Michigan
M.arcp Polo, after rambling about
titis. tffp-ar Peninsula for two
weeks'in a new cabin-on-wheels,
has.,-just'vf/bout come to an un-
happ^c//doh'clusion.
Iti'liasn't a thing to do with
the climate which has been delightful. The nights have been
cool, dnd we have slept under
phe and two wool blankets every
evening^ It hasn't a thing to do
with the' pros and cons of life in
a 19-foot trailer. The missus and
I haven't had a fight yet.
But after ruining a six-month-
old tire en the US-45 highway
between Watersmeet and Ontonagon and after visiting four
state parks, we have reluctantly
arrived at a hunch that has been
growing steadily into a firm con-,
viction. The Upper Peninsula,
blessed with, a delightful summer- climate-and rich in tourist
potentials, -is getting the round-
around with respect to state
roads and state parks.
The US-145 highway, north of
Watersmeet "to * Ontonagon, is a
direct route to the new Porcupine Mountain State Park. It is
also perhaps the worst neglected
federal-state highway in the
state, at least to bur knowledge.
Ontonagon merchants told me
that efforts to get. this road fixed
up have been in vain. The tire
replacement rate is about double
what it is in the average comity
south of the Straits.
George A. Osborn, editor of the
Sault Ste Marie News, recently
charged editorally that "Northern Michigan has been the victim of discrimination."
"The condition of our secondary, roads, torn to their raw
corduroy bottoms by billions of.
revolutions of visitors' automobile
tires, is certainly a challenge to
every Upper Peninsula county,"
writes Mr. Osborn. "We . have
waited' through a generation of
road builders for good roads.
We have waited in vain."
If you stick to concrete highways^ you'll never experience the
rocky, rough corduroy roads,
some of which pose as, state and
federal highways.
The four state parls^ which we
visited were the Porcupine Mountain State Park near Ontonagon,
the Gogebic Lake state park,'the
Indian lake state, park, and, the
Straits state park at St Ignace.
Although the tourist potentials
of the Porcupine parS are great,
and we have consistently publicized them, this, park is sadly
lacking in accomodations for
travelers and .Knox » ^Jarmso^i,
superintendent, is the? *ftfst * one
to admit it. The m$(J> Shows a
camp ground along TEa&e Superior
with electricity, actually the iand
is under private ownership; there
is no drinking water or electricity.
__The Gogebic lake state park
is about everything you would
want to have, and we visited it
at Mr. Jameson's recommendation. But we frankly can't say
the same for the next two places
visited—Indian lake and St. Ignace. Indian lake near Manistique is 25 years behind the times;
it is wholly inadequate for postwar needs. The St Ignace park
is next to a disgrace, and it cpuld
well be turned over to the Mackinac Island Park Commission
which has niade such a success
(and with fees, too) of the Mackinaw City state park. A good
fire would threaten a disaster at
the St. Ignace park. We were
badly disappointed, as this place
is far below the quality of well-
run parks below the Straits.
. We do want to compliment the
counties of the Upper Peninsula
for sponsoring recreational parks
of their own, most of -which are
open to traveling visitors. . The
local people are friendly. * Joe
Davis, a Soo railroad employee
near Gulliver lake, came over to
a township park on Gulliver lake
where we were parked for the
night,, just to xsay that we were
welcome to camp on his land
nearby "as long as you wish and
it won't cost you a cent, either!"
When we exnressed complete
surprise, he said, '7tty wife and
I enjoy company." ,t You can't
be%t Jhat for hospitality.
The local unit of the Americaia
Legion Auxiliary wish to express
their appreciation to all the members of the "Husbands In Service
Club," for the coffee urn presented them, at the unit meeting on
Tuesday evening. It was purchased with the funds remaining'
in the treasury of the cluh which
was recently disbanded.
Several guests were presents;
and heard the report of Miss;
Joan Wurster, who was the unit,
representative at Girl's. State iis
Ann Arbor in June. Miss Wurster was honored by being electee^
governor of her colony, the
Virginia  Colony.
On display at the Le-giort
rooms were some 65 gifts whicli.
are to be sent to the hospitals
at Dearborn and BatCe Creek fertile annual Christmas Gift Shop-,
from which each veteran may-
choose gifts free 'of charge t©
send his loved ones at Christmas time. They will be wrappeS:
in Christmas wrappings ancfc
mailed hy the Auxiliary workers-
This is a much appreciated, feature of the Auxiliary work and
is conducted entirely with monejr
raised by the sale of poppies.
CAMP FIRE GIRLS MARCH . .„
The annual national Membership.
March of the Camp Fire Girls,
begins  September 15 and runs
through November 30. The purpose of the march is to secure-
new members and acquaint the.
public with the work being done.
Photo    shows    the    three    ag»>
groups, Ho.rizon, Camp Fire Girtr,"
and the Blue Birds.