1948-04-29; Saline Observer

              The Saline Observer
VOLUME 65
THE OBSERVER, SALINE, MICH.
THURSDAY, APRIL 29,1948
NUMBER 30
1 ime
Fund Drive Jo Get In High Gear
Solicitors Will
Coyer City For
Recreation Field
Contributions
Highway Department To
Resurface Michigan Ave.
The local campaign for contributions to the Saline Community Recreation Fund will start
on Thursday, May,6th. The drive
will be handled by the Junior
Chamber of Commerce, which will
divide the city into sections and
make for a whirlwind finish. Several large contributions already
have been made and last week
the Saline -Rotary Club pledged
$500. Other organizations have
funds in the process of piling up
and the goal of $18,000 is sure to
be attained if everyone participates to the extent of his ability
to  give.
To acquaint you with the plan
of solicitation, the Pledge Card
which will be offered you will
read as follows: Read it carefully
and be prepared to make your
contribution when the Jaycees
call.
Saline   School Recreation Fund
Contributor  Date	
Address  Phone ;—
In consideration of the donations of others and as my
contribution to the Saline Recreation Board for expense to
construct and equip the Recreation Field adjoining the
school, I  promise  to   subscribe
and pay the sum of $ ■—
which  amount will  be jiaid  as
follows:       This date	
-(Balance)  July 1, $-
August 2, 1948 $-
Signed.—
Slick Chicks
City Champs
Here's to the City Champions!
None other than the Slick Chicks!
Five good bowlers, no doubt about
it! And we congratulate, them.
However, next year will be different. So with stiffer competition in view you xgirls will have
to keep in the groove for sure;
come next season.
Here are the five other teams
that placed in the championship
tournament: Second; Bombardiers
of the Wednesday night league;
third, Striketts; fourth, Lucky
Strikes, also of the Wednesday
night league; fifth, Salinettes and
sixth, Atomies, both of tche Thursday night league.
W.e had 38 couples enter the
doubles and 31 singles entries. In
the singles, Jackie Mitchell was
the finalist. She averaged 145
for her 15 games which is bowling 19 pins per game above Jher
average. Peg Hunt was the semi-
finalist, averaging 22 pins above
her average for the 15 games.
Wilma Wahl, Dorothy Betz, "Mabel
Haarer' and Ruth ililler were
runners-up. Wilma averaged 22
pins above her average and Dorothy had a 7-pin plus average.
Dolores Spicer had 200 even for
high game and Leona Eichei hit
518 for high 3 game total.
The semi-finalist in the doubles
are Julia Barnes with Annn Coe
as pardner and the Dorothy Jep-
peson-Doris ^Robison team. Because of illness these girls have
had to postpone their final games.
Up to this time the Barnes, and
Coe team have 933 for high total.
Jackie Mitchell and Marion Gillespie had a 908 total and the Helen
Welch and Zita Bersuder team
hit  905.
This Thursday night we will
bring our 19_7-48 bowling season to a close by having a banquet
at the Masonic Temple in Ann
Arbor. Seven o'clock is the time
to be there! —"Hi Folks!"
Final arrangements were completed at a meeting cf the city
administration and state highway
department representatives here
Tuesday for the resurfacing of
Michigan Avenue in  Saline.
In announcing the pact .made
with the highway department,
City Manager Gordon Gary stated Tuesday, that the cost to the
city will be reduced from 60 to
20 per cent. This savings will
be brought about by meeting the
condition that parallel parking be
put into effect here, which would
be in compliance with State ;and
Federal regulations.
The State's responsibility exists for only the entering and exit
width of 2i> feet, according to
Mr. Gary, and the cifcy's responsibility would cover tlie remaining
expense of the street to the curb.
The estimated cost of the resurfacing job is approximately $30,-
000 and with 60 percent of the cost
falling £>n the city, its share would
be $18,000. By agreeing to the
parallel parking demand, the cost
to the city will be reduced to
about $6,000, with a saving of
$12,000.
Parallel parking will place an
added strain on the parking situation here, but arrangements are
being made for parking areas in
the neighborhood, of the B. & B.
Recreation, a space adjoining the
Federated church and other's in
the neighborhood of the City Hall
and the R & B Tcol Company,
according to^Mr. Gary, who added
that the payment of the city's
share for resurfacing could be
extended over three tax-paying
periods, those of 1948, 1949 and
1950. He also stated that the
lower step, of which two run along
the sidewalk in mid-town, would
be widened sufficiently to enable
a car dcor to be opened without
striking against the second step
to the walk above. It is estimated that the resurfacing job
would take about two days.
ScienceCiasses
Complimented
By M. S.C.
It all began when the social
and physical science classes of
Saline- High School collaborated
to order an atomic energy exhibit
from the Michigan State College
Extension Library. The exhibit
—the one usually sent to small
schools like Saline—arrived and
was received with much dissatisfaction by the students who immediately decided, to do something about it.
They went to work delving
.into current science periodicals,
texts on nuclear physics, and
Atomic Energy Commission releases in their quest for material.
In several weeks they managed
to. piece together a chronology
of the development of nucleonics
from, democritus °to fermi, explanations of nuclear fission and
the chain reaction, and numerous
possible future uses for atomic
energy.
Aided by prepared charts, thej'
recently presented successfully -the
fruits cf their labors before meetings of the Saline Rotary and
Women's Clubs. Their latest re-
»ward_ came when librarian Irving
Lieberman of MSC asked for an
outline of the combination panel-
discussion  and demonstration.
Arbor-Saline Road.
Ii is expected that at least fifteen boys nom all over the county
will compete, Klaeh one will Diing
the tractors and plows that tliey
have been using on  their iarm_.
Two of the three judges have
already been selected, 'ihey are
Fred Roth of the Agricultural
Engineering Department of Michigan State College and John
Vlesh, Farm LaDor Specialist
from Wayne.
The contestants will be judged
on tche straightness of back furrows and dead furrows, eveuness
of crowns, straightness ana uniform depth of furrows, puueri-
zation, neatness of- head lant_ and
coverings.
The boys also will be judged on
the safe mechanical conditions of
their equipment and the safety
practices they use in its operation.
Awards VKill .be given to the
three high contestants. The champion plowman will he sent to the
State Contest later in the summer.
Th
Letter
Has No Alternative To
To Avoid Confusion
To Vote On
Conservation
Program
The last requirement to be met
according to State Law in organizing a Soil Conservation District will be the referendum vote
Thursday, May 6 at the usual
township voting places .except
York Township where they will
only vote at Precinct No. 1 at
Mooreville Town Hall. Polls will
be open from 12: to 2 and 7 to 9,
Eastern  Standard Time.
The voting places in the different townships are in the charge
of Wayne Teaehout, Lndi; Ellsworth Lindsley, Saline; Wm. McTaggart, York and Sam Morgan
of Pittsfield Township.
Three directors are also to be
elected from the following nominees: Ed. Sclraman of Sharon,
Lloyd Boyce of Lydon, Neil Nixon of Dexter, Sam Bailo of Salem. Ed. Wasem of Augusta, Wm.
Hayes of York, L. G. Steiner of
Lodi and Walter Wolfang of
Lima Township.
Persons eligible to vote are land
operators and owners. In case of
joint ownership or contract, both
husband, and wife are elixgible to
vote.
MOTHERS'  AND   DAUGHTERS'
BANQUET MAY 12
The Wm. B. Lutz Unit (No. 322
of the American Legion,Auxiliary
met. at thp home of Mrs. Clara
Finkbeiner with 19 members present. Miss Phyllis Hall, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Dan HaH, was
chosen to attend Girl's State
which is sponsored by the Auxiliary of the State of Michigan and
which will be held in Ann Arbor
in June.
Mr. and Mra. F. B. Catey of
Peru, Indiana are guests this
week of Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Catey.
Mrs. Daniel Hail, president of
the Ladies* Aid Society of Federated Church, announces that reservations for the annual Mothers'
and Daughters' Banquet, iSay 12.
may be made with Mrs. Fred
Koebbe, chairman of the ticket
committee." The banquet is to be
served by a committee of men
from the congregation which includes Arthur Jacobson, Charles
Gilligan Fred Otto, Hugh Keveling, Russell Hansen, Harold
Brown, and Russell Richards, under the direction of Eugene
Dicks, Jr., Don Jaeger, Wayne
Clements^ Howard Scruggs, Bob
Cook, Richard Scruggs and Jim
Jacob.
Will Combine
All Soliciting
Agencies
Washtenaw county will take its
place with all other counties of
the state in organizing a Sponsoring Committee for the United
Health and Welfare Fund Arthur
F. Nissly,' a director of the United
Health and Welfare Fund of
Michigan has announced.
The United Health and Welfare Fund plans a federation of
the fund, raising activities of all
worthy state and national health
and welfare agencies operating
in Michigan.
"The directors of the United
Health and Welfare Fund believe
that one of the first steps in effecting this federation is organization of __ County Sponsoring
Committees in all counties of the
state to bring the story of the
plan to the people," Mr. Nissly
said. "We believe tnat the people
will enthusiastically welcome the
Health and Welfare plan when
they realize that they can adequately support the agencies in
which they are interested without annoyance, confusion and
work of ene campaign right after another."
The United Health and Welfare
Fund of Michigan *?as organized
July 15 of last year at a meeting
called, in Detroit by Henry Ford
n which was attended by 125
community leaders representing
all sections of the state. Its
Board of Directors of 200 persons
come from 68 counties of the
state. 0.
"Conferences with the major
health agencies last year found
them reluctant to enter into a
federation," Mr. Nissly explained.
"Organization of the County
Sponsoring Committees will indicate to the agencies the degree
of interest the people have in
federation.
Re-opening of negotiations with
the agencies is expected to begin
early in  June, he said.
To Consult
With Local
Taxpayers
Notice of property assessments
in Saline for 1&48 will be mailed
to all property owners this week,
according to City Manager Gordon Gary, who also states that
he will be available _A the City
Hall during the week of May 3
to go over the assessments with
individual taxpayers who may desire to confer*'wife. him andT'e'n-'
deavor to iron out any inequities
that may occur.
On the following week the
Board of iReview will be in session from 1:00 to 4:30 each afternoon at the City Hall, the
dates being Monday, Tuesday and
Wednesday, May 10-11-12, when
the assessment may be reviewed
and grievances heard .
A new evaluation of city real
estate was recently completed by
a. staff' of men under the supervision of Walter Lahde, Ann Arhor city assessor, who is rated
as an authority in such -matters.
All real estate within the city
was appraised on<>a footage basis,
with location .and* improvements
being the determining factors in
arriving   at valuations.
Gentlemen:
Let's keep the tempest raging
within the teacup. ^erha_s it
will stir up the sugar that has
settled to the bottom.
We are counted among - the
minority who believes Saline cannot afiord iess than the best in
police  protection.
Located as we are on a busy
U. S. highway, we are in a position that requires more projection than is usually necessary
for other towns of similar size.
If, by providing adequate protection, the life of one of our own
is saved, we consider the money
,well spent. Even if the entire
cost were to be bourne by you
and I it still would cost less than
a spray of flowers for the accident victim.
But, and it has already been
demonstrated, .the cost of maintaining this protection is shared
by those whose very carelessness
makes this protection necessary
which is as it shculdi be.
Part protection is worse than
none at all. It simply invites
violations and crime while we are
lulled into a false sense of security.
Traffic control is but a single
phase of Police duties. Protection against other crimes and
misdemeanors is perhaps more
important, though fortunately
less frequently needed. All this
is given us at practically no cost
whatsoever.
This year we are contemplating
spending for a lighted football
field double the maximum amount
required to receive this protection.
We are all for the field but just
can't compare the relative importance of the two issues.
'"•' Facf be it from us 'to tell another how to run his business but
.... we do helieve that a newspaper to be successful must carry
all tlie news plus a progressive
editorial policy that is constructive and informative. We believe
Cont'd on Page  8
Our Homes," during fair week hi
the fall. The Educational Department of Consevation has requested the class to reconstruct
their exhibit for showing at the
Michigan Education Association
Convention this fall. The exhibit
represents a new phase of teaching conservation effectively in
Homemaking classes.
Editorial
Comment
THE   HIGHWAY  GAMBLER
CLUB CONTEST AT
SHULTZ FARM
Washtenaw County 4-H Tractor Maintenance Clubs will stage
their second Annual Plowing Contest, Saturday, May 1 at the
Charles Schultz farm on the Ann
The Cancer
Appeal
"One of the hardest ".working
dollars in America is the one donated to the American Cancer Society," Richard Eckhart, Washtenaw County Campaign manager,
said today.
Because of the society's far
reaching research program, we
continue to benefit for many
years from the dollars donated
to the drive 'now, he said.
Only through research and education can we slow the ruthless
march of cancer as" it _ weeps the
country bringing" * death to someone every three  minutes.
If the Washtenaw. County unit
is successful in meeting its $8,000
quota this month, it will probably
be able to provide Beyer Hospital, in Ypsilanti, with radium
so that this treatment !a> more
accessible to the people of this
county.
Beyer has the technical equipment and trained personnel qualified to administer radium, Mr.
Eckhart pointed out. The cancer
society has donated $1,500 for
the purchase of X-Ray equipment
and last year started the Tadmm
fund. About $1500 is needed
to   purchase  a^good supply.
Fifty percent.of the funds donated in Washtfchaw-County remain here to help our own people,
Mr. Eckhart reminded. Funds
are desperately needed to educate
people to cancer^signs, and help
those who are financially unable
to help themselves.
The other half, of the dollar donated to the canefer drive goes to
researchists who work tirelessly
to discover the cause of cancer.
"Give generously to tlie cancer
drive, Mr. Eckhart is appealing.
"Ycu may save a life and that
may be yyur own."
Will Visit
Chicago
In May
The Homemaking classes of
Saline High school have had a
particularly successful year. The
currieulm was planned so as to
give the girls varied experience
in many phases of home and family living as well as community
living. Early in .the year they
organized a chapter of Future
Homemakers of America. This
club helped to tie the activities of
the younger and older groups
together. During Fair week last
fall the girls had charge of the
food concession as well as prepared educational exhibits. During the Christmas season the
classes united in their efforts to
entertain their mother to an. afternoon tea. The program consisted! of the girls modeling their
clothes which they had made in
class.
Throughout the study of house
planning and interior decoration
the junior and senior girls visited
many of the homes in Saline, including the oldi Davenport estate
which now is owned by Carl Curtiss. Through this activity 1ftie
girls had an opportunity t5 study
traditional and modern furniture
as well as good furniture arrangement in the home enviorn-
ment and not entirely from pic-,
tures.
The sophomore girls have been
busy earning money through bake
sales, school luncheons, andi serving banquets, to make the trip
to Chicago in May. The object
of the trip is to visit some of
the famous test kitchens, the
merchandising department at Marshall Fields> the University of
Chicago and Fields Museum. This
experience should give the girls
a birds eye view of some of the
opportunities for women this day
and age.
The Junior and Senior girls received recognition from the State
Conservation Department and the
Conservation Institute for their
educational exhibit on "How Michigan's Natural  Resources Enrich
It is hard to imagine a gambler so desperate to win a very,
small prize that he would stake
his own life, his family's or some
other person's.
Unfortunately, it is not at all
hard to imagine a motorist doing
the same thing on the highway.
Reckless passing, of which gambling is the • prime ingredient,
causes 49,000 accidents a year in
which someone is killed or injured, according to accident reports.
That is a lot too much gambling
with life, and it does not include
the thousands of chance-takers
who have won the toss thus far.
Unless they mend their ways,
and soon, they or their victims
will be next year's statistics.
The psychology of improper
passing seems to be a blind optimism on the part of the driver
that nothing is- coming around
the curve or over the Bill to "datCH
him while he is on the wrong
side of the road. The fact that
he has no possible knowledge cf
whether or not the way is clear
—no second sight, no X-ray eye
and no radar equipment to guide
him—does not enter into his calculations at all. He is tired of
poking along in line, it makes him
feel superior to the other fellow
to go whizzing past, and he feels
pretty smug when he makes it
safely. "Smart driving," he tells
himself. "I knew nothing was
coming!"
What if he fails? Have . you
ever seen a bad accident? Do
you remember the grinding of
metal, the shattering glass, the
screaming passengers, the blazing gas and oil, the blood on ..the
highway ?
Shocking? Of course. But so
is our annual toll of criminally
wasteful, preventable death and
injury.   Don't gamble with lives
Time marches on:
•One hour ahead of what we
already have, beginning at mitj-
night, Saturday.
The City Council, M special session on Tuesday afternoon, voted!
to follow the trend throughout
this area and adopt the faster
time. The Universal Die Casting Corporation started off on
fast time the first of the week;
local residents who work at Ypsilanti State Hospital and at Kaiser-Frazer are on fast time. Already the confusion over the time
situation was getting in people's
hair. Saline really had no alternative and with the certainty
that Ann Arbor would, adopt it
the first of May, the Council took:
the only course that was left it.
So, set your clocks ahead an hour
at midnight Saturday—if ydu
haven't already. It will straighten you out with jour favorite
radio programs and let you know
for sure when it is time to te
hungry.
Blood Clinic
The American Red Cross blood
donor clinic held at the Armory
in Ann Arbor, reports 243 pints of
blood donated by the county. It
is reported as the best clinic Ann
Arbor has ever had. Three generations were represented at the
clinic from Chelsea when Mrs.
Elsie Jones, her daughterj Mrs.
Viola Slane, and her granddaughter, Miss Joyce Hughes, all gave
blood. The clinic was a mobile
unit from lansing and Mrs. Clair
Harms, local chairman, reports
the clinic will come to Saline
next fall if 50 donors can be
guaranteed.
Advise Rabies
Vaccination
In Dogs
At its last meeting the Executive Council of the Washtenaw
County Medical Society passetS
the   following   resolution;
The Executive Council of the
Washtenaw County Medical Society urgently. recommends compulsory rabies innoculation of aU
dogs in Washtenaw County before license may be granted, in, •
order to protect tlie lives of the
residents of the County.
This resolution has been mailed!
to Mr. Otis Tooze, Chairman o£
the Board, of Supervisors. The
Executive Council was pleased to
note the Board's interest m dog:
vaccination, expressed, in its resolution passed, on April 13. This
resolution stated that the provision of Public Act No. 171 of the;
Acts of 1947, requiring that alB
dogs be vaccinated before licenses
were granted, woula receive mis-
mediate study upon the quarantine of dogs in this area for xas-
bies.
Dr. Harry Towsley, President
of the Society, said "It is extremely important tnat the citizens of the County recognize the
seriousness of the rabies situation. The death of a four year-
old child caused by the bite of
a rabid dog has focused the pufi—
lie attention upon a danger, -winds
has existed in" this County fas-
some time. We sincerely hope-
that the people in the County-
will inform their Supervisors oeff"
their interest in requiring the
vaccination of all dogs."
The* following attended the 2nd
District meeting of the American
Legion and Auxiliary held at
Dundee, Sunday: Mir. and Mrs.
Lloyd Dell, Mr. and. Mrs. Clair
Harms Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence
Deede, Mrs. Merritt Martin ana
Mrs, Walter Mac Arthur. At the
meeting at 3 p.m., Mrs. Deede
Mrs. Dell, Mrs. Harms and. Mrs.
Martin< were presented Volunteer
Hospital Workers' pins by Mrs.
Carol Lemon, Department Rehabilitation chairman of Michigan.
These pins are only given after
a worker has served 50 hours in
a veterans hospital. The Dept.,
President, Mrs. Odile Miller of
Menominee, and Dept. Sec'y-
Treas., Miss Bertha Proestel of
Detroit  were  also  present.
Two ^presentatives of the
Gideons <1&lled at the Dell school
Thursday and. presented the school
with a beautiful Bible and gave
Testaments to each school pupil.
A little liner is a handy salesman.
Woman Dies
After Crash
At Bridge
A 20-year-old woman .was killed. »
and four persons were injured.—
three of them severely-—when the
car in which they were riding;
rammed the concrete abuttment of:
the overhead bridge on US-112
half-way between Ypsilanti an*
Saline shortly after 8 o'clock Fri—
''day morning.
Gladys Louis of Quincy, Mass.,,
was dead on arrival at Beyer Me— - ■
morial Hospital, wnefe  all occupants of the car were taken.
Seriously injured were the dea<3_'
girl's parents, George A. Louis*,
51, and Julia N. Louis, 45, both, ofi"
Quincy, Mass.; and Badar Kherdy"
34,-of Toledo, O. Their condition: j
was termed "not critical later-.
in the morning. _
The driver, Ann Sawaya, 27, pf"
Detroit, received minor cuts an<£
bruises.
State police said the accident
apparently occured when the driver lost control of -the westboun62
car on the sharp curve just east
of the bridge. .
Four persons were injured 012
Thursday morning at 8:30 in ee.
two-car crash near the west city
limits. Although both cars were-
badly wrecked, * none of the occupants were killed, though alE
were more or less severely in*.
jured. o