1947-10-16; Saline Observer

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The Saline Observer
VOLUME 65
SALINE, WASHTENAW COUNTY, MICHIGAN,      THURSDAY, OCT. 16, 1947
NUMBER
Study Choice of Sites For Athletic Fiel
Saline School Votes To
Adopt German School
Through the history class conducted by Randall Coates, a
movement was instituted in the
junior and senior high school
groups to undergird the relief
movement for Europe, and the
class invited the Rev. O. Walter
Wagner, pastor of St. John's
Evangelical and Reformed Church
of Jackson to present the plea
for help to them on Tuesday afternoon at the 2:15 general as-
. sembly.
hi* Mr. Wagner spent sometime a
year ago visiting ten different
countries in Europe under the
auspices of the Save the Child
Federation. He made lists of
children, families and schools for
adoption in this country. A forceful speaker, Rev. Wagner related
the difficulties he met in the mode
of travel due to bombed out
transportation facilities in Finland, Germany, France and Holla n d. T o 1 d of the starvation
among children in these countries,
due to inability to import food
supplies because there was no export on their part;, of the heroic
sacrifices being made through
'- voluntary ration of their own
meager supplies of food and
clothing in England, Ireland and
Sweden to meet the greater need
ii* across the channel; and he chal
lenged the children of the school
in view of their own well-equipped building, of their own luxury
in food- and clothing, to do what
they could to help relieve the
situation for the sake of world
lieaee and brotherhood.
Mr. Wagner predicted that
when snow flies this winter, there
will be food riots in Europe when
the city folks will storm the
farms for food and fuel, for the
situation grows worse instead of
better unless relief comes.
The school, as a whole, voted
to adopt a German school, and
many grades voted to adopt families. In addition, one grade
volunteered to send relief articles
to five families  in Europe.
John W. Cole
Died in Pontiac
I' John W. Cole, 72, of Pontiac,
passed away October 7 at St.
Joseph Mercy Hospital, Pontiac,
as the result of a heart attack.
Mr. Cole was a resident of
Saline from 1932 to 1,942, operating a feed and- Seed store and a
portable feed grinding mill. He
Served as a member of the city
council in l94i and 1942.
He moved from Saline to
Northville where he resided until
about two years ago. when he and
Mrs. Cole moved to their Pontiac
home.
'. He is survived by the widow at
Pontiac, one son and-two daughters, all of Northville, and three
grandchildren.
Funeral services were held at
the Schrader Funeral Home in
Northville October 10, with, burial
in the Oak Hill Cemetery at
Pontiac. i
Republician women of the county are invited to meet Thursday
Oct. 23 at 2 p.m., at 311 Wallace
Blvd., Ypsilanti, writes Mrs.
George L. Ennen, of that city.
xBlocky f Wins
First In Steer
Show
Prof. George Brown, head of
the .Animal Department, MSC,
who judged the steer show at
the Community Fair, awarded the
coveted blue ribbon rosette to
"Blocky", the black Angus
owned and fed by. Eldene Finkbeiner. It was a close contest
and Prof. Brown stated that
there was not a better class of
show steers in the state this
year, and he ^as judged nearly
all of them.
Other Angus-club steer members placed as follows: Donald
Wiedmanr Francis Ross, Louis
McTaggert and Gerald Haarer.
In the 'Herford class Gerald
Haarer placed, first and reserve
champion, followed- by George
Osborn, Bruce Arend, Walter
Sally and  David Marion.
All the steers were graded by
Brown into five market classes,
prime, choice, good, medium and
common, with all steers placing
in the first three classes. The
other steers in the prime class,
not mentioned above were Janpes
Stierle, Donald Mueller, Charles
Goodnoe and Wayne Luckhardt.
Choice: Frances Ross, Dorothy
McTaggert, Kendell Rogers, Barbara Goodnoe, David Levleit,
Bruce Phillips, Clarence Kohler
and William Wallo.
Gerald Haarer Wins In
Feeding Contest
In feeding competition" among
the steer club members, Gerald
Haarer was first on his Herford
with an average daily gain of
2.07 Nlbs. per day,- Bruce Phillips,
2nd with 1.99, George* Osborn,
3rd, 1.96; James Stierle, 4th, 1.93.
The grand champion, owned
and fed by Eldene Finkbeiner
was 5th with an -average daily
gain of 1.91 lbs.
Grand Champion Bid In "*"
By Henry Leutheuser
The Club's first auction sale
attracted a large number of buyers and the steers sold at prices
well above the current market
quotations. The grand champion
steer of the show was bid in by
Henry Leutheuser. of the Saline
Hotel, and brought 48c per
pound. The reserve champion
went to Serhardt Cekau at 36c,
and the remainder to other buyers including three to Schmid's
Food Market, at prices ranging
from 30c to 35c, only two going
at the lower figure.  ,
Eldene Finkbeiner's grand
champion barrow, 185 lbs. sold
to Clarence Haarer for 37c and
the other two in the pen sold
for 33c, Four other pens of club
pigs owned by Finkbeiner, David
Russell and Bruce Phillips
brought 28c and 29c lb. Raymond
Girbach's champion barrow was
sold to Peters Sausage Co., Ann
Arbor, for 31c and the two others in the pen sold for 30c.
Clarence  Cook  was  auctioneer
and.    kept    the    bidding    active
throughout the sale.
Winds Up With Banquet
At St. Paul's
Over 100 were present at the
banquet at St. Paul's church par
lors Tuesday night, Oct. 7 when
the Steer Club members had their
sponsors with their wives and
their parents as their guests. The
delicious dinner was served by
the ladies of the church under
the direction of Mrs. Clarence"
Haarer. ;■ ■ ■
Arthur Heininger presided as
toastmaster and speakers included Clarence Haarer, Mrs. Fred
Arend; Eldene Finkbeiner, GeralPd
Haarer, Clarence Cook and
Charles Osgood.* Max Ross presented the checks to the club
members and a check for $25 to
Eldene Finkbeiner for producing
the grand champion steer was
awarded by the Saline Observer.
Movies were shown by Alwin
Gross and musical numbers, were
furnished by Lujher Schaible and
Mrs. Bonnie Bergan. At a short
business session plans were made
to continue the project next year.
Lay Plans for New
Steer Feeding Club
Young people and their parents
interested in organizing a new
Junior Steer Feeding Club f6r the
coming year will meet on Monday
night at the Saline High School
and discuss plans concerning the
project and also sources of supply
of young feeding stock.
Mrs. Robbins
Again Wins
Point Award
In the point awards at the
Community Fair, Mrs. Edna
Robbins duplicated her feat . of
last year by again winning first
place among the exhibitors. She
earned 222 points on her entries
which exceeded 75 in number.
She won a premium, on 65 of
them. Second and third places
went to Eldene Finkbeiner with
96. points and John Feldkamp
with 92. Mrs. Florence Sheehan
placed fourth with 84. There
were aver l,400i entries by approximately 300 different exhibit-
tors.
Keep Home
Fires Burning
The fire department was called
out early Thursday morning by
a blazing truck on East Michigan avenue which fire was extinguished by the time they
reachefl it. The fire truck swung
around in-the street without stopping and returned to quarters. It
was called out Sunday night to
blanket a blaze that started when
someone dropped a, cigaret in a
pool of gasoline at the scene of
the accident west of town when
Buick and Frazer automobiles
met headon, injuring eight persons. Monday morning at 8
the truck made a run to 3142
High street in East Ann Arbor
where a 1937 Palace house trailer was damaged by fire to the
extent of $1500.
Youngster
Runs Into
Path of Truck
Tri-Couftty
Teachers'
Meeting
The Tri-County Sunday School
Teachers' Association met at St.
John's Church Sunday afternoon
for its annual rally. About one
hundred and twenty-five Sunday
School teachers were in attendance. The meeting opened with
devotion led by the Rev. George.
Daschnet, who also welcomed the
delegates' in the name of St.
John's congregation and the
teaching staff of the Sunday
School. Mr. William Herring,
president of the Association responded briefly and then called
upon Pastor Spenn of Ida who
introduced the main speaker, the
Rev. N. A. Menter, DJX, president of the Michigan district and
chairman of the Board of Higher
Education of the American Lutheran Church, who spoke most interestingly on different phases of
Sunday School work. He was
followed by Walter Piehl, teacher
of mathematics and assistant
athletic coach of the Ida high
school, who. led the discussion on
"The Three Hundred Thousand
Question," or how to-reach that
enrollment in our Sunday Schools
by 1950. An interesting discussion followed, in which many
present took, part Pastor M..
Lucht of Blissfield introduced the
second speaker, Mrs. Clarence
Steinert of Fowlerville, a former
Bible woman and nurse in Lutheran hospitals in India, She
spoke very feelingly on her work
among the women of India.
At the business meeting the
following officers were elected for
the ensuing year. President, Erwin Feldkamp, Bridgewater; secretary-treasurer, Clayton Fisher,
Ottawa,Lake. These with Pastor
George Daschner of St. John's
Church and Pastor Dallas Adler
of Ottawa- Lake,- comprise the
executive committee of the association.
The next annual meeting of the
association will be held on the
second Sunday in October, 1948
with the congregation of the Rev.
M. Brueekner at Rogers Corners
near Chelsea.
F.F.A. Discovers Power
Of Housewives        ^
*
Youngsters who would make
farming a career learned at first
hand last week the tremendous
influence housewives cm exert on
market prices. .       *
Attending the Future Farmers
of America (FFA) fat stock
school and sale at the Detroit
Stockyards, some 600 high school
students of agriculture learned
that Detroit housewives are buying only the cheaper grades of
meat and will set their own price
ceiling eventually.
Commercial meat -graders and
buyers told the youngesters that
prime .grades of livestock: are
not selling well in Detroit although the commercial or third
grade stocks are in demands
There were 175 "teen agers
from all parts of the state representing 29 vocational agricultural schools.   They  brought  88
steers, 475 hogs and 101 sheep
for grading and sale to commercial packing and slaughter houses.
Classes on xgrading livestock,
caring for and feeding of -animals,
and .prices and marketing channels were under the direction of
Luke H. Kelly,' executive secretary of the state FFA," and Prof.
George A."Brown, school of animal husbandry, Michigan State
College.
AH of the offerings are fat animals, ferd as part of the boys1
supervised farm programs under
the vocational agricultural schools.
The FFA atiaWs 7,000 members
in its 202 Slate chapters.
It was PrO":. Brown who judged
the fat steers shown and aiic-,
tioned here during' the recent
Community Fain, and which were
raised by members of the Junior
Livestock. Feeding Club.
Ten-year-old Barbara S a r v e r
was struck by a pick-up truck
driven by Fred Finkbeiner Wednesday morning when she dashed
across North Ann Arbor street
on her way to school. Witnesses
said that Finkbeiner, who was
traveling at about 15 miles per
hour, was moving slower • than
the little girl who was in front
of his vehicle before he could
stop it She received lacerations
about the head which necessiated
several stiches by a local physician and was taken to her home
on the Dan Slall farm on Saline-
Ann Arbor road.
Federation of
Women's
Clubs to Meet
Rev. Baumann
Leaves For
New Field
Child Study
Club Hears
Dr. Struthers
The Child Study Cluh met
Tuesday, October 7, at the school.
Dr. J. N. P. Struthers, director
of The Huron Valley Children's
Center, in Ypsilanti, was the
gnest speaker.
The Center is a contribution
of the Statex Medical Department
to the welfare of children, serving Washtenaw, Monroe, and Lenawee counties and Belleville and
Wayne in Wayne county.
Dr. Struthers stressed the need
for security in children if they
are to live successfully in this
ever changing world This security can be brought about first,
by love and affection; second,
protection of the child's rights;
third., freedom, at least enough
to enable them to rely on their
own resources; fourth, discipline;
and fifth, education and education toward parenthood.
The Child Study Club is again
sponsoring a Halloween party for
the children of the community.
The committee for this event is
Mrs. George Austin, Mrs. Don
Campbell, Mrs. Clare Collins, "and
Mrs. &ebrge Wood.
The next meeting will be held
Tuesday evening, October 21, at
the "home of Mrs. Hugh Keveling.
Dr. Brown, assistant medical superintendent of the YpsiTanti
State Hospital, will be the "speak-
Manchester
Girl Bride of
Charles Rapp
Marjorie C. Bertke, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Glen Bertke of
Manchester and Charles Rapp,
Jf!, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Rapp, Sr., of Saline were united
in marriage Saturday, evening,
Oct. 4, at 7:30 at Emanuel Evangelical and Reformed Church of
Manchester. Rev. Raque performed the double ring ceremony
before an altar decorated with
palms, lighted candelabra and.
two vases filied with colored
asters and white gladioli.
Miss   Nellie   Ackerson   played..
the traditional wedding music and
Miss Marjorie Kuhl sang "I Love
You   Truly"    and   "Oh   Perfect
Love.^   __
-^The* bride, given in marriage
by her father, wore a gown of
white satin and marquisette. Her
long sleeves ended at a point at*
the wrist The gown was fashioned with a yoke of marquisette
forming a high neckline and a
fitted, lace trimed bodice. Fastened with several tiny satin buttons at the back, the marquisette
skirt ended in a train. The finger
tip veil edged-in lace was held in
place by rows of matching lace.
She carried a bouquet of wliite
roses and wore a string of pearls,
a gift of the groom.
Miss Arlean Bertke was her
sister's matron of hqnor. She
wore a gown of blue taffeta and
her headdress was of lace net dnd
satin ribbon.
The bridesmaids were Laura-
may Niles of Grass Lake and
Nadine- Pratt of Clinton, who
wore yellow gowns, and- carried
bouquets.of rose asters, and
Dorothy Waekenhut of Saline and
Nellie Pratt of Clinton, who wore
pink gowns and carried purple
asters. Their headdress was of
lace net and-satin ribbon.
The attendants each wore a
string of pearls and matching ear
rings, gifts of the bride.
Donald   Rapp,   brother   of   the
groom,   was   best   man.   Ushers
were  Henry  Johnston   of  Milan,
cousin   of   the   groom;    Russell
Continued on Page 8
Luncheon and
Program at
Macon
After more than." twelve and a
half years as minister, at Bethel
Evangelical Church,. Rev. W. F.
Baumann will conduct, his farewell service Sunday morning, at
10 o'clock prior to leaving Oct.
21 for Chicago, where; he has accepted an appointment as minister at St. John's Evangelical and
Reformed Church.
During his pastorate at Bethel
Evangelical Church, which is located on the Bethel Church Rd.
near Schneider Rd., Mr. B§.umann
has officiated at 66"baptism- services, 49 wedding services and has
confirmed 74 children. More fiian
$12,137 has been raised, during
the past 12 years for mission and
benevolent purposes. The congregation has increased from approximately 200 to more - than
300 members.   •
Friday night Mr. and Mrs. Baumann were the guests of honor
at a surprise party in the church
given by the congregation and attended by more than 300 persons.
Jacob Bihlmeyer of Manchester,
chairman of the church board,
headed the committee. which ar-
rsuiged the affair. The women of
t$e church served refreshments.
A purse of $300 was presented
to the. Manchester minister, and
the Ladies' Aid Society and the
Young People's League gave both
Rev. and Mrs. Baumann presents.
Rev. P. H. Grabowski of Chelsea <was master of ceremonies.
Ministers from churches throughout the area were present at the
party and gave brief talks bidding the minister and his family
farewell.
Rev. Baumann came to Washtenaw county from St. Paul's
Church, Cleveland, Ohio, and
preached his first sermon at
Bethel ■^OnitjA.prH ..7y if Sol During
his term of service at the church
here an extensive renovation program, was completed including repairs to the church exterior, installation of a new heating plant,
redecoration of the interior of the
church and installation of a new
lighting system.
The Bethel Church minister has
served at various times as chairman of the Ann Arbor Evangelical and Reformed Pastor's Circle,
as chairman of the former Ann
Arbor Regional Conference, and
for the last four years as secretary of the Michigan-I n d i a n a
Synod of the Evangelical and Reformed Church. He is a veteran
of World War I, having served
for more than a year with the
Army Medical Corps at Camp
Grant, HI.
Rev. and Mrs. Baumann and
their son, Carl Adam, plan to
leave Oct. 21 for Chicago. Their
two daughters will remain in
Michigan, Miss Ruth Mae Baumann at Coldwater, where she is
a teacher at the high school, and
Miss Barbara Ann Baumann at
Ypsilanti, where she is a sophomore at the State Normal College.
Rev. Alvin Siemsen of St.
Paul's Church will take charge of
services at Bethel Church until a
new minister is appointed. The
services will be held at 7:3*0 Sunday nights.
At a "noon luncheon T*_e__a_?'
at the .Saline Hotel represesflat-
tives of the City CouncU,. She
Board of Education, the RcfcsQ?
Club, the Junior Chamber of. Casa-
merce, the American Legion, tSse
Saline Woman's Club,, the T.pg-«g>
Auxiliary and the Child Stcfiy
Club met to discuss the. Tra»l
athletic field project.
Latest estimates place ffieccsist
of the project on the Henne _i___
adjacent to the school house, act
approximately $17,000. There are
two schools of thought as to the
location of the field;, one Erasing the school site because __f
its central location and the other-
the field at the city park lie-
cause of the lower cost ot jnae— ■
paration. Lighting costs "-woB__r
be the same regardless o£-3aca~-
tion; however, at the part _a_»
fencing would be required and __&-
fencing item entails an. e_pen___
of nearly $^4110-
On the school" site there as a&
parking problem to overcome—_s_.
the event that large crowds materialize,   which  problem  Is les-,
sened at the park site.   Gra_xng,
seeding and seating facilities sxb
also declared to be a lesser problem   there.       Advocates   of  t__
park site also have an argnroeni
in the fact that the facilities al
the school for the use of the Caro-
munity Fair are frowned on t&
school  Officials for its disruptive
influence on students while schodt
is in session.
Anyway, the various ci-viae
groups are to study the proposal
and come, to a decision <me way
or another, and another meeting
has been dated for November
when the die will be cast.
Reckless
Driving
Does It
At. 8:45 Sunday night HnTfr#?
residents were "in. a dither of es>-
citment, with ambulances, __ei_-
iff's and state and local policse
car sirens screaming back. ?fre**"}
forth on Michigan avenue as fh__
result of a two-car crask two*
miles west of town which resulteS
in the wrecking of a Buick. rmS*
a Frazer car and sent five C3m~-
cagoans, one Garden City girl a_s_"
two Ihksterites to hospitals. __S
are on the way to recovery.       c
The unnecessary catastrophe
occurred when one car attempted
to pass another in a no-passing
zone.
The driver of the car fhaS
caused the trouble was given a
ticket for reckless driving. ISe
had no license on his person sxeI'
had a loaded pistol in Ins case,
police stated. He. was from. Chicago!
Use Offering
For Foreign,
Missions
Local Milk
Producers
To Meet
The Washtenaw County Federation of Women's Clubs will* meet
at two o'clock Friday, October
17, at the Methodist Church in
Dexter. An interesting program
has been arranged by the de-*
partment • on Americaii homes.
The speaker for the afternoon
will be . Prof. • Eric A- Walter;
Dean of ..the Literary College of
the Uniyersity- of Michigan,^ who
will speak: oif the subject,' "-"HonKS",
for Veterans."
The -Saline Local of the Michigan Milk- Producers Association
will hold a meeting at the Saline
High School Friday night, according to an announcement by
Ernest Girbach, Monday. -„
Miss JTannie Friis had the misfortune to fall, on the east step
of the Citizens Bank Saturday
afternoon, landing, on her face.
Officer Raymond Carleton assisted her to the office of a local
physician. She received several,
bruises about "the face.
There were forty present for
;fche joint meeting of the Macon
Woman's Club, Saline Woman's
Club and the Willing Worker's
Society held at the Macon Methodist Church Tuesday afternoon,
following a one o'dock luncheon.
Presiding" was Mrs. Ruby -Biger
low, president of the Macon Club,
who introduced the two visiting
organizations. Responses were
made by Mrs. Lloyd Catey in behalf of .the Willing Workers and
Mrs. Ray Niles in behalf of the
Saline Woman's Club.
An outline of the work of the
Michigan State Police was given
by State Trooper -Krantz of the
Clinton Post, which proved highly
interesting. A program -announced by Mrs. Leon Hall, included
the singing of "America", a piano
solo by Mrs. "Myron Gallagher;
vocal" solos by-Mrs. Frank Campbell, "The. Lord's Prayer" and
"Calm as". the Night", accompanied by Mrs. Merritt /Martin;
a reading by Mrs. Everett' Monroe^ and group singing Tif "God.
Be. With ."You Till "We Meet
Again".
Dynamic
Ditch Digging
Demonstrated
A ditch blasting, demonstration
has been scheduled for Tuesday,
October 21 at 1:30' P. M. at the
farm of Harry Losey, 6325-Willis
Road, Augusta Township, according to H. S. Osier, County Agricultural Agent. Mrctosey'sfarm
is just west of-the: Lincoln Consolidated school. George Amundson1, MSC engineer, will conduct
the demonstration; Dynamite will
be used for- cleaning:: out 20 rods
of epett ditch and'there will be a
discussion of- the general use of
dynamite in blasting boulders,
stumps, etc. The comparative
cost of opening ditches by dynamite and by* dredging will be
compared.-
The Thankoffering and IngaHaa-
ering service of. the.Ladies' -fr*****?
Mission Society _ of St. John's.
Church was held last Friday esce,—
ning and a large audience attended A well-balanced" pro-grana
was_ listened to very attentivEl_E-
The program consisted of asso—
tionals anti different selections !_?
the. .senior choir Under, .the leadeE—
ship of -Miss Dorothy Betz. Shorfc
talks, were, given by Rev. ansS.
Mrs.-Daschner, both former hbs-^-
sionaries in Brazil. At the <____;
of- the service the tharikfiiTfTUxif.
boxes were collected by Wtk.
Harold Feldkamp, Mrs. BrrnnB>
Girbach, Mrs. Erwin Feld&amia
and Mrs. Erwin Wild. A. 73^
substantial offering was tnrtrffl?
over to Mrs. Eugene Betz* __a__-
manj The offering wiH Be.*p=ra£
to promote the work of the *""*""""»-
men's Missionary Federation: «**
the ■ American Lutheran Cfinnt
in India, 'New Guinea, Mexico -__f
other countries.
The Michigan Council of Chard
Women has planned nine one-j&s
area meetings for this fall anil
the meeting for this area -onEL _s»
held in Memorial Christian ChUTCls*
Ann Arbor on Oct. 22. $
The Trinity Eaaies' Aid Society
ta e t last Wednesday afternoon
**ith a guest night starting at
seven o'clock with a potluck supper. Rev. TUT. Boeneeke of Ply-
niOuth, one of the members of the
indiatt Missionary Board; .showed
* colored.. movies ; On the Apache
Indians in Arizona;- which; he
filmed himself^ .   . ^ ■:
Dr. Leroy I. Lord of the Cb^-
sea Methodist Old People's Isoarafr *
gave the morning address at "Ste
Methodist Church at their 3hh»-
vest festival, Sunday manfi^
Mrs. Lord accompanied'hiin_iem.
The church has raised its
for the building fund of the '
The Churchmen's Brof&erSocS
organization are landscaping- flip-
grounds of St. Paul's C&urcb- ^.