1947-12-11; Saline Observer

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VOLUME 65
SALINE, WASHTENAW COUNTY, MICHIGAN;     THURSDAY, DEC. 11, 1947
NUMBER   10
District Governor's Address
Was An Inspiring One
Young Man of
The Year
This evening there will be
a joint meeting of the Rotary
Club and Saline Junior Chamber of Commerce which will
start promptly at 7 o'clock.
The topic for discussion' will
be "Civic Improvements."
portion of what is left of "Blocky",
the grand champion of the Saline
Community Fair.
Rotary's District Governor,
George P. Smith, visited Saline
Thursday of last week and delivered an inspirational address
at-'the" club's weekly dinner meeting at the Saline Hotel. Joe
Brady, of Howell, former district governor was also an honored guest.
Governor Smith declared that
Rotary's membership was. generally comprised of "men who care,"
and said that the movie, "The
Miracle of 42nd Street" could
well have been written of Rotary;
"Where friendship binds for
man's uplift; Where each one
striv-es his best  to xgive. .-."
The main entree at the dinner
was from a prime beef roast, a
To Hold Pubiic
Installation
Saline Lodge No. 133, F. & M.
will hold a public installation on
Tuesday evening, December 16 at
eight o'clock. Hugh Austin will
be the installing officer.
At the- annual communication
last week the following officers
were elected for the ensuing
year:
George Martin, W.M.; Louis
Bowen, S.W.; Glen Weber, J.W.;
Harry Holmes, treasurer; Clarence Fritz, secretary; Leon Greashaber, S.D.; Dean Brandt, J.D.;
George Seeger, Chaplain; Cecil
Davenport and Oscar Hosmer,
stewards;  Emanuel Cook, Tyler.
City Charter Deals With
Ordinances
The Junior Chamber- of Commerce of Saline is sponsoring a
Distinguished Service Award
contest.
The aim of the contest is to
choose the outstanding young
man. citizen of Saline according
to his community work and
achievements, during this year.
Also his personal, and community works, various projects,
and any other achievements will
be taken into consideration in the
final judging.
The winner from Saline will
be entered in the State contest
to decide the best man from the
State, and so on to the National
contest.
There will be a committee of
three townspeople, to be announced later, and a D.S.A. chairman who will elect the Winner
from, the various  entries.
The person whom you wish
to nominate must not have
passed his 36th birthday at the
end of this year.
Dear Readers, what young man
in your opinion, did the most
good and was the most active in
Saline this past year? Please
send your nominations along with
your reasons fcr choosing your
nominee to box 41 Saline, or see
Allen Wiedman the local_D.S.A.
chairman.
Section 25. All ordinances when
legally enacted shall be recorded
by the clerk in a book to be called "The Ordinance Book" and it
shall be the duty of the-mayor
and the clerk to authenticate
such records, by their offical signatures. .,All ordinances when
legally enacted shall be immediately published by the clerk in
the same manner as provided for
pubication notices in Section 21
of this charter, and the clerk
shall enter his certificate as to
the manner and date of publication under each ordinance in the
ordinance book,, provided, that
publication of any ordinance with
the regular council proceedings
shall be sufficient and that if any
ordinance is published in full in
advance of publication of the
council proceedings it need not
again be published in full with
the regular council proceedings.
Any ordinance may be repealed
by reference to its number and
title only, or any section of any
ordinance may be repealed by
reference to the number and title
of the ordinance and the nuro
ber of the section to be repealed.
If the council shall order a general revision and compilation of
all ordinances, the printing and
binding of not less than one hundred copies of the compilation
shall be deemed sufficient publication, and all ordinances published in said .compilation shall
be read and received in evidence
in all courts without further
proof.
Section 26. Ordinances may be
initiated by petition. Within sixty days after certification by the
clerk of the sufficiency of a petition, the council shall take action
either by passing the initiated
ordinance without alteration, or
in amended form, or by rejecting
it. If the council shall pass the
ordinance without alteration or in
amended form, it shall become
law; but if the initiated ordinance
is adopted in amended form, it
shall not take effect if the committee of petitioners named in
the petition certify to the clerk
within ten days after the measure is adopted that they require
submission of the initiated ordinance without alteration to the
vote of the electors; and if the
initiated ordinance so submitted
be approved by a majority of the
electors voting thereon, the ordinance as passed, by the council
shall stand repealed. If the council reject the initiated ordinance
outright, it shall be submitted
without alteration to the vote of
the people. Whenever an. initiated
ordinance is required by this
charter to be submitted to the
people, the council shall call a
special election within sixty days
but not within thirty days, after action has been taken by the
council in accordance with the
provisions of this section, unless
a regular city or state election
or primary is fixed within nine-'
ty daysf- but not within thirty
days; and if approved by a majority of the electors voting thereon, it shall be deemed enacted
and shall be recorded and authenticated as are other ordinances.
The repeal of any ordinance may
be initiated as here provided for
the adoption of ordinances.
Section 27. If within thirty
days after the passage of any
ordinance by the council a petition shall be filed "with the city
clerk protesting against the ordinance, or any part of it, the protested- ordinance or pat t shall he
suspended from going into operation, and where an ordinance mis
already gone into effect as an
emergency measure, its furthei
operation shall be suspended." At
the next meeting of the council
after certification by the clerk
of the sufficiency of a petition,
the council shall vote upon whether the protested ordinance or part
shall be repealed. If not repealed
by the council, it shall be submitted to the electors at the next
regular city or state election or
primary, or at a special election
which may be called for this purpose at the discretion of tfie council; and. unless approved by a
majority of the electors voting
thereon, it shall stand repealed.
Section 28. To be effective,
initiative and referendum, petitions shall be signed only by
qualified and registered, electors
of the city to the number of at
least 25. per cent of the registered
electors, and attached to every
signature shall be added the place
of residence of the signer, the
street and number, or other adequate description. The signatures need not be made by one
paper, but all petition papers circulated with reference to any.
ordinance shall be uniform in
character. The circulator of* each
paper shall make an affidavit
that each signature appended to
the paper was made in his presence and is the genuine signature of the person whose name
it purports to be. Signatures
shall be in ink or indelible pencil.
Initiative petitions shall contain
the purported ordinance in full
and initiative and referendum
petitions alike shall name five
persons as a committee to represent the signers.
Section 29. All papers comprising an initiative or referendum petition shall be filed with
the city clerk. The clerk shall
proceed immediately to determine the sufficiency of the petition, and upon completion of the
examination shall attach his certificate of the result. If the petition is defective, the clerk shall
show by his certificate in what
respect, and shall at once notify
the committee of the petitioners
of his finding. The petition may
be amended within ten days after
*the making of the certificate by
the clerk by the filing of a supplementary petition upon additional papers, which shall be examined and certified by the clerk
as before. If the certificate of
the clerk shows the petition still
insufficient, proceedings thereon
shall be terminated-, without prejudice to the filing of a new
petition for the same purpose.
The clerfe shall cause any ordinance or proposition which is required to be submitted to the
electors,, to be published in full,
with the notice of election therefor. See page 2
To Make Land
Stay Put
How long could you continue
writing checks on your bank account if you made no deposits ?
How long can our country continue exploiting our soils and
still maintain a strong nation?
To date soil studies indicate
that 14 per cent or more of our
continental surface has lost its
crop growing vitality. Maybe
Washtenaw has not been as badly
affected but there is plenty" of
evidence that much top soil has
been lost to crop production. It
has been filling ditches, streams
and lakes. Some has even been
blown away. .
This national problem came to
a focus in 1935 when the Soil
Conservation Service of the.
United States Department of
Agriculture was organized.
The method of attack for soil
erosion problems has been for
the landowners themserves to set
up and direct Soil Conservation
Districts, usually on a county
wide basis. Many states have
these organized districts. Michigan now has around 30 such districts. Surrounding us, Livingston, Oakland and Lenawee have
already organized districts. Jackson is considering such a program.
An increasing "number of Washtenaw land owners have been
making ^inquiries about a soil
conservation district for Washtenaw  county. "
A group of 25 to 30 folks that
should be interested in Washtenaw's general welfare has been
asked to meet Friday afternoon,
December 12, at 1:30 p.m. in the
Y.M.C.A., Ann Arbor,' to discuss
the advisability of such a program for-Washtenaw county. It's
not entirely a land owner's problem but a problem, for all citizens.
Saline Loses
By A Point
Coach Joe Colby.'* Saline Hornets dropped a cl^e 19-18 decision to Myles Kick's 'Tecumseh
High cagers here ~-Tuesday night
The game, a hotly^ fought nip
and tuck affair all the way, was
tied up four times in the second
half, with first one and then tiie
other team, taking a slim, one
point lead.
The two teams were never
more than four points apart. Tecumseh led 7-4 at the end of the
first quarter and 11-7 at the half,
but going, into the final period
the Colby cagers were in command of a  16-12 advantage.
With two minutes left to play
Hoppo Anderson sank two.: free
throws to narrow the Hornet lead
to two points. Norb O'Hanfvthen
dunked in the equalizer, and Dick
Colson's gift toss pu^the visitors
into a 17-16 lead." . But Don
Jaeger gave the Blue and White
new life, making it .18=17 with a
neat two-pointer.
Hoppo Anderson won the game
for Tecumseh with a corner shot
when only seven seconds pf actual
playing time remained in the
contest.
Anderson paced the Orange and
Black tossers with four baskets
and five charity heaves for thirteen points. Saline's Wayne Clements and Don. Jaeger tallied seven
and six points, respectively.
Officials: "Referee, Glenn Hart,
Umpire,   Earney  Dyer.
Ernst's Tractor
Club Grows
LITTLE HORNETS WIN
IN WALK-AWAY
Coach Joe Colby's scrappy little Hornets made it two in a
row as they shellacked^ the Tecumseh High - res^^eST Tuesday
night.
Taking an e'arly. lead which
they never relinquished, the fledglings won going away. Tjhe only
close period was the first when
only one point separated the two
quintets. At halftime the Colbymen enjoyed a comfortable 20-10
lead which they increased to SOIO going into the final canto.
Wayne Predmore sparked tlie
locals to the impressive victory as
he sank five buckets for points
and high scoring honors. Don
Van Camp was high man for
Tecumseh with six points.
The Washtenaw County 4-H
Tractor Leaders' Association met
Wednesday night, Dec. 3, in the
Agricultural Extension office, to
organize and plan the 4-H Tractor Maintenance program for the
year. »
This asscciation he." grown out
of the interest developed by implement dealers and 4--i leaders
in teaching farm bo-s better
methods in care and operation
of farm tractors. Two years ago
a club was organized by Clayton
Ernst in Saline v^lh an enrollment of only a few. This year
the tractor leaders' association
was organized to promote a more
effective and interesting program.
Seven clubs are now in. the process of organizing.
While the asscciation has. met
but once, it has many fine plans
for the 4-H tractor clubs of
Washtenaw county this winter.
Clayton Ernst of Freedom township, was elected • president, -Robert Mast of Dexter, vice president and Stanley Beal of Chelsea,
secretary-treasurer. Ernst immediately appointed Ernest Cole
of Milan, as chairman of the annual spring plowing contest and
Paul Cheney, Ann Arbor, as recreation chairman. Various other
committees will be appointed at
a later date.
Farm boys interested in taking
part in the tractor program
should contact the following leaders immediately in tbeir own vicinity: Davidter & Dresselhouse
Hardware, Manchester; Alwin
Gross or Clayton Ernst, Saline;
Ernest  Cole, Milan.
Yuletide Greetings Extended
Visitors aind Passersby
.who liberated the town in World
War I. Mrs. Pearl visited many
of the cemeteries where-our boys
are buried and reports them
beautifully kept. Her desperate
plea is to save the starving
children and peoples of Europe
for though we know of tlie hardships they are suffering we cannot imagine how hard they really
are.
Delegates:  Mae Harms,
Luella Dell.
UMTGoodFor
Youth Morals
Information has been received
from the photographic studios
who recently "took pictures of
many local children for publication in the Saline Observer that
the proofs are ready and will be
on hand for selection by the parents, at the Legion Hall, Tuesday, December 16 at 2 p.m.
ATTENTION
All social organizations, -
school groups, church and rural correspondants. The deadline for copy will be Tuesday
2 p.m. previous to both New
Years and Christmas.
Advertisers
The deadline for all Display
advertising including Christmas and New Year greetings,
will be Monday, 6 p.m., and
classified, cards of thanks, etc.,
Tuesday. 12 p.m. previous to
both Christmas and jNew
Years.
The Observer will be published a day earlier on the last
two weeks  of  the year.
Group Meets
InPittsfield
Many members of our group
went deer hunting during the
week of our regular meeting and
so we met at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Dwight Baylis, Packard Road, on November 24. Mrs.
Henry Groeb opened the meeting by dividing the group into
two sections for a nut catching
contest which proved very exciting.
Mr. Baylis presided and Mrs.
Baylis presented the topic for discussion—Expanded Farm Bureau
Program. All. agreed that there
should be more active organizations to do things for the farmer
which he cannot do .'himself. The
County Board asked our opinion
as to the duties of a County Organization Director and the group
thought he should help with
membership work, supervise and
organize community. - groups and
assist individual members with
their problems.
F. Clements .gave a report on
the work of the resolutions committee for the annual meeting at
Lansing.
The hostess served sandwiches,
relishes, pumpkin pie and coffee
to the twenty-two guests. Meeting adjourned to meet with Mr.
and Mrs. Dan Hertler-In December.   Contributed.
St. Paul's church., is. preparing
a dramatic presentation, "Oh
Come All Ye Faithful," to be given Sunday evening, December 21,
at 8 o'clock' at the church. Mrs.
Gordon Anthony is director, Mrs.
,Lee Robison, costumes, and Edwin
Hering, lighting and properties.
This" special Christmas service is
open to the public.
The American Legion Auxiliary
will meet Tuesday evening at the
home of Mrs. Max Fosdicx at 8
P. M. The meeting is one week
earlier because, of Christmas.
Each member is urged to attend
and bring a 50 cent gift for exchange.
At the Mid-Winter Conference
of the American Legion Auxiliary
held in Lansing, Saturday and
Sunday, many interesting things
-were learned by the delegates of
the Saline unit. The conference
was a school of instruction for
presidents, secretaries and chairmen of units and, districts of the
State of Michigan. At the Child
Welfare meeting at 10>:30 on
Saturday morning Miss Kenny of
the Billet at Otter Lake spoke on
the wonderful care the. 100 children there are getting. These
children, who are veterans' children, are placed there only for
periods of less than one year until matters in the home are again
normal. .       ■
In 1947, $5,642.57 was spent at
the Billet by the Auxiliary and
$952,828 on child welfare-.throug-
out  the United  States.
The national vice-president,
Mrs. J. J. Jerabek of Algoma,
Wisconsin, spoke on the Universal
Military training program. After
ah 18-year-old boy has taken his
six months training he has nine
choices for his program. Of the
boys first trained at Fort Knox
under this, program, 47 per cent
had never been in a church and
seven out of ten did not attend
church. By the time the six
months were up the chaplins had
baptised nearly all of these boys,,
and they were regularly attending church.
Mrs. Carol Leman reported on
the Streptomycin Fund which is
the medicine now used in the
treatment of T.B. During the
three months which the pleas for
this good cause have been out,
$3,364 have been raised by the
Units of Michigan.
At the banquet on Saturday
evening the delegates had the
honor of hearing the National
Commander, James F. O'Neil who
broadcast his message from the
banquet hall. On Sunday morning 350 delegates attended the
Child Welfare breakfast held at
the Hotel Olds and heard Ernest
L. Bridge, Registrar of Wayne
County Juvenile Court, address
them on "Where are We Going
With Our Children?" The Past
National President, Mrs. Norton
-H. Pearl of Detroit told of her
trip to Europe. In the seven
weeks abroad the 45 members of
the Legion and Auxiliary party
visited seven countries. A special
effort was made to visit St. Die,
France where 7,000 orphans were
sent boxes of clothing and food,
last year by the-Auxiliary. All
that was left standing of St. Die
was the front wall of the House
of America where the American
Legion plaque • hangs and which
was dedicated to    John   Emery
Poor Cows
Lower Wages
James Reid of Macon road, and
Fay. Ery, Jordan road, attended
the first annual Oakland county
Bull Club meeting, of which Reid
is president, held at Jackson,
December 6, during which he engaged in a fifteen minute round
table discussion over radio station WCAR on the selection of a
herd sire and the sire's effect on
income  and production.
The following facts were
brought out by Mr. Reid during
the discussion, and might well be
of interest to local dairymen.
The production of 125,000 lbs.
of 3.5 per cent milk, or its equivalent, per man on a dairy farm
is necessary to provide a standard
of living comparable to industrial
workers of equal ability. Some
farm units reach above the 200,-
000 lb. per man mark. The 125,-
000 lb. per man efficiency would
"require about ten cows per -enjan,
averaging 400 lbs. of fat. In 1945
throughout the United States,
their production would have returned a gross income of $3,710
per man. These are not very
high wages even at a relatively
high productive level. If the ten
cows averaged 450 lbs. of fat,
the gross income would have
been about $4,570 per man. If it
dropped to 350 lbs., the returns
woqld drop to about $2,800. The
average ''good" dairy farmer sells
less than 8,0fl0 lbs. of milk per
cow (280 lbs. fat per cow). He
is limited by the productive ability of his cows, inadequate feed
and care, and often poor management. Bulls and strains of cattle that do not consistently improve the productive ability, of
our dairy herds, are contributing
to unwanted poverty on our
dairy farms.
A wind blew in from the East .
yesterday . morning and carried
before it a snow cloud that
blanketed the city in a soft,-
white covering, which, with the
evergreen sprays that adorn the
lamp posts and fronts of the
buildings throughout the business section of Saline, gave to
the city a marvelousiy beautiful
Christmas effect.
"Yuletide Greetings" hang over
the intersection, of the main city
thoroughfares, and gave point to
the efforts of City Manager Hart,
City Superintenent Milhan, the
police and other municipal employees in aiding traffic stalled
on the long grade approaches in
town. The municipal Christmas
tree in front of the Saline Hotel,
weighted down with snow, appeared like a great white spire
pointing   to the skies.
Yes, indeed, Saline has taken
on a festive, holiday air, and
the fireplace scene arranged by
Giltrow in his pharmacy windows,
that of Commercial ■Refrigeration,
and the profusion of pine boughs
in Burkliart's. store, along with
the other attractively decorated
stores, cbmbine with the multicolored lights in town to accentuate the beauty of it all.
And the spirit of the town is
in accord with the time. Santa
Claus still lives and will make
his appearance here Saturday afternoon and again on Monday
night, December 20k and 22. On
that Saturday afternoon the community children will be guests of
the Saline Theatre and Junior
Chamber of Commerce at a matinee and treated to Christmas
candie-%. Another party is planned
for tWini on ;t%_;__ .__■■..: ■ing Moii-<
day night at the Christmas tree.
The merchants have contributed
generously to the Christmas fund,
which is in custody of the Saline
Junior Chamber of Commerce, and
anyone wishing to contribute may
do so by contacting Luther Dicks
who is chairman of the committee,
on  the   Community program.
Saline merchants are in better position to supply the needs
of Christmas shoppers than they
have been for several years.
Their stocks are good and dependable, and at home you can
shop with confidence and know
that you are getting dollar for
dollar values* Christmas, an essentially family affair, and shared
in by your friends, can be made
far. more homey and happy by
sharing it with your home town
business associates and friends.
FAMILY NIGHT AT
FEDERATED  CHURCH
Tonight will mark family night
in Federated church. All members and friends of the church
are invited to gather for a potluck supper at seven o'clock,
bringing their own table service.
The program will include the
singing- of carols, special musical
numbers, plans for coming Christmas activities in the church and
an introduction to the church of
the new Bell and Howell Motion
picture projector, recently purchased, by the church school. Interesting films have been secured
for the occasion through the
courtesy of Hazen .Jewell, church
school superintendent.
Child Study
Club Meets
Baptist State
Leader Here
At the Sunday evening service
in the Federated church, the
guest preacher will be the_ Rev.
Dr. O. V. Robinson, chairman of
the work among missions and
rural churches for the Michigan
Northern Baptist Convention. All
interested persons are invited to
hear him. Formerly -pastor at
the Baptist church in Tecumseh,
Dr. Robinson served other Michigan churches before entering upon
his  present work.
At six o'clock the Baptist families of the congregation will meet
in a fellowship potluck supper
honoring Dr. and Mrs. -Robinson.
Mrs. Fred Otto is in charge of
arrangements for this meeting
which will be. followed immediately by the worship service, in
the  church auditorium.
The Child Study group met December 2 at the school. Miss
Marjorie Stewart, a teaching.. dietitian at the University Hospital
in Ann Arbor, was guest speaker.
Her topic was "Feeding, the
Young Child."   .
The same basic foods of which
we have heard a  great  deal in'
recent years is also the basis for
feeding the young child.
Some of the problems, Miss
Stewart discussed were, eating
between meals, should a child eat
with its parents, eating jags,
dawdling.
A committee composed of Mrs.
Don Ford, Mrs. William Miester
and Mrs. Russell Richards was
appointed to plan the reorganization of the Cub Scouts in Saline.
There -will be no evening meeting this month. -   /
Publicity Committee.
Fred Aprill left Detroit on Friday for Winter Haven, Florida
where he will spend the winter.
NOTICE!
Due to the increased cost of
everything that enters into the
production of a newspaper, we
will be compelled to raise the
subscription price of The Saline Observer to $2.50 per year
in Michigan and to $3.00 per
.year out of the state, effective
January 1, 1948.
You may renew your subscription now at the present
rate of $2.00 per year up until
the first of the year.
Note the dale of expiration
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