1947-12-18; Saline Observer

              The Saline Observer
VOLUME 65
SALINE. WASHTENAW COUNTY, MICHIGAN,        THURSDAY, DEC. 18, 1947
NUMBER   11
rofixam tenters
Charter Provisions Have Been
Ignored For Years
City To Publish
Statement First
Ox The Year
Con't from last week
same character and effect as the
lien created by general law for
state and county taxes, until
paid. Interest at the rate of six
per cent per annum shall be collected on deferred installments
and interest at the rate of three-
fourths of one per cent per month
shall be collected on delinquent
installments of such, assessments
from such date after confirmation
as shall be fixed by the council,
and in addition to such interest,
a penalty of three per cent shall
be collected on any installment
not paid within the time prescribed for its payment.
Section 42. The city shall have
the right to sell personal property for unpaid taxes and the
council may provide for judicial
sale of such property.
Section 43. The council may
provide by ordinance or resolution that the clerk cr treasurer
shall bid in for the city any lot
of land or premises at any sale
for taxes or assessments levied
or assessed by the city. The
council may sell or lease in such
manner and under such conditions as it reay by resolution
provide, any property of the city,
whether acquired by purchase at
tax sales or otherwise, that is
not devoted to public use.
Section 44. The levy, collection
and return of state, county and
school taxes shall be in conformity with, the general laws cf the
state.
Section 45. The council may
borrow money and issue bonds on
credit of the city for public improvements, for acquiring, owning, purchasing, extending, constructing or operating public utilities, for refunding the public
debt, for paying for public improvements in anticipation of the
collection of special assessments
previously made, and for any and
all other lawful purposes, with
the approval of three-fifths of
the electors voting on the question at any election either general or special to be held at such
time place and manner as is
provided in this charter for holding elections; and without such
approval for emergency purposes
as .authorized by general law.
Any premiums received on the
sale of boafia shall be deposited
to the general account of ttie
.city, except that 'the premiums
x>n special assessment bonds shall
be placed in the account for
which the bonds were issued and
be distributed back to the property owners against whom special assessments were made for
that account along with any other
residue that may be left in the
account and distributed back to
the property owners as provided
for in Section 41. Money received
by the city toward any bond or
the interest thereon shall be de-
"posited to the credit of a fund
for that purpose and. the council
Shall iaeliide in the ahnuai tax
i§vy any amount necessary for
that purpose to be raised by taxation within the year.
Section 46. The issuance and
sale of bonds and ottie* obligations, the limit of bonded in-
" debtedness of the city, the limit
of taxation for municipal purposes, and the limitations On borrowing in anticipation of taxes
or on delinquent taxes shall be
governed by state law.
Section 47. The council shall
audit and allow claims and accounts chargeable against the
city, or may delegate that authority to such officer as it sees fit.
In the month of July in each
year the council shall audit and
settle the accounts of all city officers and persons having claims
against the city or accounts with
it, and. shall file in the office of
" the clerk a full and complete
financial statement for the last
fiscal year of the financial transactions and condition of the city.
The council may- cause an audit
whenever found desirable by certified public accounts, of the accounts of all officers and departments, including the justices of
the peace and constable. Each
annual audit, whether made by
the council or by a certified public accountant, shall be published.
Schedule
Section 48, This charter shall
be submitted to a vote of the
qualified electors of the City of
Saline for adoption or rejection
at a special election which shall
be held on Monday, March 9, 1931.
Section 43. For all purposes
not otherwise provided for herein, this charter shall take effect
on the third Monday of March in
the year 1931.
Section 50. For the purposes
of nominating and electing officers, this charter shall take effect on the tenth day of February, 1931. On Monday, March 9,
there shall be held a special election at which five couneilmen, one
justice of the peace, and one constable shall be nominated by petition as provided in this charter
for rexgular city elections, except
that such petitions may be filed
ten days before the special election, shall be elected to hold office
until the first Monday in January,
1933, except that the justice of
peace shall hold office until the
first Monday in January 1935,
unless they shall sooner resign
or forfeit their offices or be recalled or removed as provid.ed by
this charter or the general laws
of the state.
Section 51. The council first
elected under this charter shall
assemble in the council chamber
at eight o'clock p.m., Eastern
Standard Time, on Monday, March
16, 1931; it shall be called to
order by the president of the
Village of Saline, and- when it
shall have chosen a mayor or a
temporary chairman, the council
of the Village of Saline previously
existing, shall cease to be, and
the office of each and every member thereof shall  terminate.
Section 52. All other elective
officers of the Village of Saline,
except the council, and all appointive officers in office at the
time of the adoption of this charter, shall continue in their respective offices until their successors are appointed and qualified
or until the office is abolished, as
provided by this charter.
Section 53. The first annual
reports for all offices which shall
be made under this charter shall
cover the period from the last
annual reports, under the village
government, to July 1, 1931.
Section 54. All by-laws, ordinances, resolutions, rules and re-gu-
iations of the Village of Saline,
of the council and of all officers
and offices not inconsistent with
the provisions of this charter, in
force in the city when it is incorporated under this charter,
shall continue in full force until
repealed or amended by action of
the constituted authority.
Section 55. The sections of this
charter and the parts thereof are
severable and in the event cf any
provision being declared unconstitutional or contrary to the general law of the State of Michigan, it is hereby declared the intent of the charter commission
that such unconstitutional or ille-
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Two Parties Planned for
Community Children
THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN'S famed 133-
piece marching band will make a trip to Pasadena to
cheer the Wolverine football team in the Rose Bowl
game with Southern California on New Year's Day.
The band's trip to Los .Angeles is being sponsored t>y
the Buick Division of General Motors.   Buick general
"manager, Harlow H. Curtice, said the Ann wishes to
give the six thousand Michigan alumni on the West
vCoast an opportunity to see the band in the Rose Bowl.
iThe band, shown above in "MICH" formation, will make
appearances enroute at Denver, Salt Lake City, San
Francisco, and on the return trip at Kansas City, Mo.'
Saline's young people are to be
the main beneficiaries of the
Yuletide plans that are to be
carried out by Saline businessmen in cooperation with the
Junior Chamber of Commerce.
Through their liberal contributions the city has been decorated
with a profusion of greenery and
a Community Christmas Tree
erected. A theatre party for the
community children will be held
Saturday afternoon of this week
at the Saline Theatre, when all
youngsters of 12 years and under
will be .guests of the management
and the Jaycees. The show will
begin at 2 o'clock and following
Was Pioneer
Resident
Christmas
Programs In
The Churches
St. Paul's Church is presenting the first of its two Christmas programs on Sunday evening at eight o'clock. Of a more
inclusive nature than the traditional children's program, this
dramatic presentation of panto-
mine and song, "Come All Ye
Faithful", provides opportunity
for parents, youth and children
to unite in a common celebration.
Throughout the service the
traditional story of the Nativity
and modern scenes depicting
Christmas as celebrated today will
serve the purpose of bringing the
congregation into .a worship experience. An offering will be received as an expression of the
desire to share Christmas with
the- needy throughout - the world,
in the World Service program.
All persons of the community
as well as the membership of
the church are invited to join in
the carol singing and to let this
service' be part of their celebration of Christmas.
Choir, "Oh Come All Ye Faithful." .ii;.-
Flags of the Nation's; Phyllis
Gilbert, Ardella Hersch, Ruth.
Lutz, Beverly Tower, Shirley -Up-,
haus, Carol Smith, Louise Ramsey.
"Angels of Brotherhood"; Sara
Cook, Mary Koehbe, Ltfida Allen,
Sally Streeter,
Choir, "Hark the Herald Angels
Sing", Jane Funk, Alice Gilbert,
Marlene Hersch, Lois McTaggart,
Elaine Rogers, Joyce White.
Recitation, ''Christ's Birthday
Gift", Marilyn Gillespie. .
Offertory, Kay Austin.
Hymn, Congregation; Benediction, Hazen Jewell; Postlude,
James Austin.
Ushers, James Cook, George
Gilligan, Tommy Scruggs, Bob
Tower.
Director, Mrs. Paul Streeter,
assisted by teachers of the church
school.
Music, Mrs. George Austin;
Stage, Clarence Johnson.
WJR-maKes
Transcription
At Girbaeh's
Will Hold
Open House
The Rev. and Mrs. R. S. Hocking are celebrating Christmas
with Open house at the parsonage, 115 S. Ann Arbor St., Sunday afternoon, Dec. 21, from two
until five o'clock. All their
friends in the community are
-welcome.
Couple Wed
On Saturday
Miss Shirley Stevenson and Elton Bredernitz spoke their marriage vows on Saturday night at
7:30, at the Methodist church. The
service was read by Rev. R. S.
Hocking. Mr. and Mrs. Gordon
Swanson of Saline, were their
attendants. Mr. and Mrs. Bred-
ernitb left fo!r a week's motor
trip in the south and will be at
home upon their return at 104
Harris street.
Mary Lou Lee is   ill    at    her
home with an ear infection.
Federated Church School
Christmas Eve Program 8 o'clock
Organ  prelude,   James  Austin.
Invocation.
Evening hymn, "Angels From
the Realm of Glory."
Scripture  lesson.
Program
Announcer,  Him Jacobson
Theme, "Peace on Earth."
Primary Exercises, "Little
Stars", Douglas McKenzie, Ronnie Rogers, 'Ricky Johnson, Artie
Johnson, Danny Gillespie, Judy
Hersch, Larry Bush, John Reveling, Louis McTaggart, Katherine
Win!?.
Recitation, ''There is Love",
Jean Ramsey.
Solo,  "A Little  Soloist", Janet
Tower;   piano  accompaniment by
Marjorie Tower.
-Piano   Solo,  Joan  Austin.
Recitation, ''Within a Circle",
Earl McTaggart and Billy Austin.
Exercises, "Christmas Baskets",
Judy Wenk, Billy Lutz, Nancy
Keveling, Charles Gilligan, Barbara Mann.
Recitation, "Help the Poor",
Jimmy Gilligan.
Beginners and Primary
Group song, "Away in a Manger."
Solo, Rosine Jaeger.
Exercise, "Christmas Customs
in Other Lands." In France,
Gene Austin; choir, "The First
Noel." In England, "Randall
Rogers; choir, "Silent Night." In
Norway and Sweden, Taylor and
Barry Jacobson; choir, "'Oh Little Town of Bethlehem." In Denmark, Lloyd Dicks; choir, "It
Came Upon a Midnight Clear."
In Holland, Charles Mann, In
America, James Richards; choir,
"Joy to  the World."
Recitation, "The Legend of the
Pine Tree", Ernie Gilbert.
Pageant, "Love Shows the
Way." Love, Lois Finch; Peace,
Betsy Dicks; Joy, Rose Marie
Finley.
The Annual Christmas Eve
program of Trinity Church school
will be held on Wednesday night
at 8. The three beginners classes
will be directed by Mrs. Melita
Hertler, Mrs. Norman Bohnett,
and Miss Selma Kohler. The
primary to the senior groups will
be directed by Mrs. Albert Hoeft,
Miss Joyce Braun, Mrs. Glen Carter, Mrs. R. Marion, Mrs. Mary
Seegar, Mrs. Albert Bredernitz.
The leader for the evening will be
Rev. H. L. Engel. Numbers by
the choir are ''A Christmas Lullaby," by Beck, and "Christmas
Hymn," by F. Melious Christiansen. 	
St. James' Church
At 7:45, on Christmas Eve the
Sunday School will again render
a beautiful two-part program.
The first part consists of a number of fine Christmas messages
given by the children of the various departments in recitations
and exercises, interwoven with
appropriate Christmas hymns
sung by the Sunday School and
the cohgfegatioii.       ~
The second part is a Candlelight Pageant entitled "Light a
Candle for the Saviour." Cast of
characters: Narrators, Phyliss
Hertler, Marie Kuebler. Candle
Lighter, Marie Socks. Grace,
Maxine Hertler. Love, Mary Hertler, Manda Roehm; Peace, Doris
Hertler; Joy, Barbara Loyd. Manger Pantomine, Alice Sheehan;
Cherubs, Karen- Bauer, Diane
Feldkamp. The Bells, Fay Wiedmayer, Janette Wiedmayer, Nancy Taylor, .Blanche Howeisen.
Candle Song Soloist, Nancy Finkbeiner. Director, Mrs. C. A.
Haneberg;. Organist, Mrs. Robert
Girbach.
Christmas Day, 10 a.m., Christmas worship service with Holy
Communion. *
Sunday after Christmas, Dec.
28, 10 ajn., Christmas worship
in the German lanxguage with
Holy Communion.
All members and friends of St.
James* Church are cordially invited to enjoy these Christmas
services.
The mobile studio of WJR
made a visit to- the farm home of
Ernest Girbach Tuesday morning
where Marshal Wells acted, as
moderator in a discussion of the
topic, "Base Rules of 1948", led
by Norman Peterson, in charge
of membership relations for the
Michigan Milk Producers Association. E. J. Pierson, chairman of
the M.M.P. base rules committee,
of Goodrich; Jack Barnes, Detroit, field force secretary, and
Mr. Girbach participated in the
transcription "which was prepared
for the early morning broadcast
over WJR on its Farm and Home
hour  this Saturday.
George Schlegel, 84 years old,
died Thursday evening at his
home, 8353 Klager road in Saline
township. Mr. Schlegel was born
February 28, 1863 in Saline township and spent his entire life in
this community. He was the son
of Henry and Margaret Schlegel
and marred Eda Wolfe on March
13, 1902 in  Saline township.
The survivors include the wife
and one niece and one nephew.
Funeral services were held on
Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock at
the Lockwood Funeral Home with
the Rev. George Daschner officiating. Burial was at the Oak-
wood cemetery.
Winter Here?
Starts Monday
MRS.  EFFJE DODGE
Mrs. Effie Dodge, 63 years old
and a former resident of Saline,
died on Wednesday night of last
week, at the Roosevelt Hospital in
New York City after an illness
of four months. Mrs. Dodge was
born on February 14, 1884 in St.
Louis, Mo. She married Bruce
Dodge.
Mr. and Mrs. Dodge came to
Saline in 1927 and were in business here until 1941, when they
moved back to New York City,
where Mr. Dodge took up his old
job with the American Car and
Foundry Company.
Survivors include the husband
and, her mother, Mrs. Ida Clark,
who made her home with them.
Funeral services were held in New
York city on Saturday and burial
will be made in Ogden, Utah.
it there will be a distribution o£
gifts.
On Monday evening, December
22 another Community Christmas
Party will be held at the Community Christmas Tree when
again gifts will be distributed to
the children.
Programs in the churches aU
center around the children and
the story of the Nativity, and oa
Christmas Eve the bells will ring
the Glad Tidings of Great Joy
over the Saviour born more than,
two thousand years ago.
There will be programs in allot the city's churches on Christmas Eve and at St. Paul's Churchi
Sunday evening there will be an.
additional Christmas program
titled, "Come All Ye Faithful",
and an offering will be taken
for the needy throughout the
world in the World Service program.
Services will be held Christmas
Day in Trinity Lutheran, St.
John's Lutheran, Bridgewater,
and St. James' Churches, beginning at 10 a.m. and a communion service at St. Paul's  Church."
Last year many of the business
places in Saline closed at 6
o'clock on Christmas Eve. Some
of the food stores will do so again
this year, but there is no general agreement among the mer-
. chants. Wood Hardware will
close at six o'clock Christmas
Eve, and, anyway, it will be wise
for all of us to complete our
Christmas shopping by that time.
A nice gesture, coming at this
time, is that on the part of the
Universal Die Casting and Mfg.
Corporation, in the distribution of
nearly a hundred hams to its
employees. Posted, on their bulletin board at the plant is the f01-
lowing notice:
"In keeping with the spirit of
the holiday season and to express
their" sincere appreciation for the
efforts and fine spirit of cooperation manifested during the past
year, each family represented by
an employee here prior to December 1, 1947 will be presented witli
a Christmas ham. The presentation will be made the day before
Christmas at the "plant.
The plant will be closed from
the end of the first shift on December 24 until the regular starting times on Monday, December
29.
December 22 will mark the
official beginning of Winter and
likewise be the shortest day of
the   year.
Although Michigan residents
have had several previews of
wintry weather, only what happens after 11:43 a.m. on«the 22
can really be put down as Old
Man Winter's fault, according to
Miss Hazel M. Losh, assistant
professor of astronomy at the
University  of  Michigan.
At that time, the sun will have
reached its farthest point below
the celestial equator, Professor
Losh reports. She also points to
an oddity in that the sun during
the winter is actually about three
million miles closer to the North-
em Hemisphere than it is during
the summer. It is the direct
angle at which the sun's rays hit
the Northern Hemisphere in the
summer which produces the
warmer weather, Professor Losh
says.
After December 22, days will
become longer until "ahout-March
21 when flays and nights will be
equal, she reports. Then the
days will gradually leflgthen until
June 21 when the longest day
will occur.
REV. SIMON SCHOFIELD
Funeral services for Rev. Simon
Schofield of Pontiac, were held on
Thursday of last week in Flint.
Rev. Schofield died at the General
Hospital in Pontiac following a
serious operation. He retired
from active ministry in the Methodist church in 1930 but continued serving the church in the
Pontiac area and at the time of
his death, completed 51 years of
ministry. Rev. Schofield held the
Methodist pulpit in Saline from
1929  to  1932.
Let's Not
Forget
Let's not forget the Yank who
has no home ties this Christmas.
Contributions are still being, taken at Henry Ormsby's barber
shop for "Gifts Fpr the Yanks
Who Gave."
Methodist Church
Children's party December 23,
in church basement.
Pageant, Christmas Eve, Bee.
24, entitled, "White Gifts for the
King."
Saline Chapter, FFA, held a
Christmas party at the high
school Wednesday . - night. The
Chapter has organized first and
second basketball teams and had
their first game scheduled for
Tuesday night with Chelsea. The
game was canceled because of the
inability of the visitors to be
present-
Merlyn Graff, was honored
Tuesday in ceremonies held at
Adrian College when he was presented a varsity letter for foot-
bail by Coach " Lyman Abbott*-
Merlyn is a freshman and played
at tackle position for the team
that won three of eight games.
On Mondey evening at the Legion Hall the American Lexgion
Auxiliary entertained forty Girl
Scouts and Brownies and their
leaders at a Christmas party.
Movies were shown during which
the girls were served pop corn.
Ice cream tarts and home made
Christmas cookies were served
later and candy bars were given
out at the door as the girls left
for home. The Auxiliary is now
sponsoring the Scouts ahd
Brownies.
Mrs. Wymer Christman of Ann
Arbor and Mrs. Leonard Hutzel
.entertained 25 cousins at a party
given on Wednesday night at the
Leonord home in honor of Dr. and
Mrs. Gerhardt Bauer of Ann Arbor, who will leave soon for California.
Woman's Club
Yule Program
The Saline Women's Club held!
their Christmas meeting at the
home of Mrs. Robert Merchant^
on Tuesday afternoon. The hostess had provided beautiful;
Christmas greens for the occasion,
and her rooms looked lovely. The
business session was in charge
of Mrs. Ray Niles, president. A.
message was read from Mrs. A.
W. Bruce, Traverse City, President of the State Federation asking the support of every Club an(X
its members in President Truman's voluntary food saving program. A motion was entertained!
that the Club accept the proposal.
Following the business sessions
Mrs. Charles Osgood, chairman,
presented-the following program:
Mrs. Louis Lindenschmidt reaS
the Christmas Story as recorded
in the Gospel of Luke accompanied by a musical background -wiOs
Mrs. Merritt Martin at the piano.
Mrs. Frank Campbell rendered
as a solo "The Birthday of a
King", accompanied by Mrs.
Martin.
Mrs. Francis Lockwood read a
delightful story entitled "Chiist-
mas at Springdale."'
_ A pleasing musical number
was an organ and piano duet,
"Christinas Fantasy" by Clarence Kohlmann, offered by Mrs.
Martin at the old fashioned parlor organ and Mrs. Merchant at
the piano.
Mrs. Osgood closed the program with, a reading, of Gene
Austin's famous editorial "I wisb
You all a Merry Christmas":.
Refreshments consisting of tes
and sandwiches and Christmas
cookies were served by the social
committee with Mrs. Ruben Finkbeiner   as  chairman.
Publicity   Committee.
Mrs. Harry Gonser is ill at hfirr
home.