1948-05-27; Saline Observer

              -h
A Mirror of Community
Progress and Aspirations
The Weather-: Always perfect
for shopping in Saline.
VOLUME 65
SALINE, WASHTENAW COUNTY, MICHIGAN      THURSDAY, MAY 27, 1948
NUMBER      34
Drum Corp and Band To Spur Fund Drive
Editorial
Comment
It would be rather nice to feel
that the Saline Community Athletic Field project nad the enthusiastic support of not only the
residents of Saline, hut also of
the residents of the surrounding
community, and that they, too,
feel that, after all, Saline is their
ho'me town, and iftat whatever
contributes to local betterment or
progress is shared by all of us.
In Saline a final drive will get
underway by the Junior Chamber
of Commerce and the Rotary Club
for the solicitation of contributions for construction of the field.
It will start on Tuesday next, and
a company of 42 .men will, cover
the town in the succeeding days.
At the moment, no drive has
been planned in the rural districts but it is well known that
there is widespread interest in
the project there. A large number of students in the Saline
school come from the rural districts and will continue to ao so
in the future. The benefits to
be derived from this community
project will be felt far beyond
the confines of the city and the
outlying countryside. And because the city of Saline and the
schools and the farm area which
converges upon them are knit
together in a common interest and
purpose, it is but natural to believe that ruralites are as vitally
interested in our common problems as are we who live in town.
The editor of this column has
been approached by several farmers on this very subject. They
feel that they want to help -and.
it is because of then? prompting
that we are offering the suggestion that the rural members of
this community take: matters into
their own hands and volunteer
their aid unsolicited.
Either of Saline's two banks,
the Salme Savings Bank or the
Citizens Bank will take a farmer's contribution and give him
a receipt for it, and assue that
the money will be promptly credited to them in the records of
the Athletic Field Fund. We believe that one of the finest gestures, and one of the most heartening, . would be a voluntary
movement on the part of the
rural community .folks to lend
their support to  this .movement.
Dr. Prout, William Britton and
Arthur Heininger have made an
intensive study of construction
details and the only thing .now
holding up the starting of work
is  the  cash.
May we suggest that, if you are
at all in sympathy with the project, that you appoint yourself a
committee of one to solicit yourself and leave your contribution
at either bank.
Memorial Day
Observance
In Saline
Memorial Day will be observed
here Monday when members of
the American Legion and Legion
Auxiliary will meet at the High
School at 9:30 A. M. and at ten
o'clock the Saline High School
Band and the Drum Corp will
parade down Michigan Avenue on
their way to the cemetery where
memorial services will be held. A
firing squad composed of Lee
Robison, Milton Hartman, Ralph
Uphaus, Jack Winkle, Kenneth
Rogers, Myron Gallagher, John
Green and Bob Leonard, under the
direction of Lawrence Deede, will
fire a salute to the honored dead
and taps will be sounded by Legion Post Commander Dean Burkhart.
On Sunday morning Legion and
Auxiliary members will attend
services at the Federated church
and -hear .an ad-dress by Rev. Henry McKenzie. This service will
take place at ten o'clock.
Tecumseh Products Band Which Will Furnish Music   At the Annual Alumni
- Banquet Here Friday, June 4
•     ?        .i      i    -
Fourteen Three-Man
Teams tox Cover the City
For Contributions
MRS. ROSE RENZ
Mrs. Rose Renz, 80, died early
Wednesday morning at the home
of her daughter, .Mrs. Ernest Wild,
53S5 Webber Road in Lodi township, where she .had resided for
the past two and one half years.
Mrs. Renz was born April 2,
1868 in Lodi and was the daughter
of Christian and Barbara- Klumpp.
She was married to George Renz
and he preceded her in death on
April 16, 1933. She spent her entire life in Lcdi community £V
was a member of the Bethel
church in Freedom township and
of the Bethel Woman's Guiic 'Mrs.
Renz had been an invalid for the
past eight years.
Survivors include the daughter
she lived with, and one other, Mrs.
Erwin Webber of Lodi, four sons
Robert of Freedom, Edwin and
Oscar of Ann Arbor, and Elmer
of Lcdi. Also one brother, John
Klumpp, of Lodi and ten grandchildren.
The funeral services will be held
Friday afternoon at 2:30 at the
Bethel Church with the Rev. Theo-
phil Menzel officiating and burial
will be made in the Bethel church
cemetery! in F_eiedom. Friends
may call" at the Lockwood funeral home until noon on Friday
when the body will lie in state
at the church until the time of
service.
Saturday
Poppy Day
In Saline
Saturday will be Poppy Day
in Saline and throughout the nation.
From early .morning until nightfall, volunteer workers of the
American Legion Auxiliary and
the Girl Scouts will be on the
streets offering memorial poppies
to be worn in honor of the dead
of the two world wars.
In exchange for the flowers
they will receive contributions
for rehabilitation, work among
the»disabled war veterans and
for child welfare -work among
children of veterans.
Much depends upon the success
of vPoppy Day. On the public
response to the Poppy Day appeal depends the Auxiliary's atai-
ity to earry -forward its work
for the disabled war veterans
and for the children from ■whom
war "has taken a father's support.
■'We would not like to go to them
with empty hands." Poppy Day
contributions furnish the means
to serve them with more than
words of cheer.
The poppy 5s more than a badge
for those who contribute to the
rehabilitation and child welfare
work; It is a symbol of individual
tribute to the war dead—a sign
that the wearer holds in his heart
a place of Iionor for those -who
■died for America.  •
FATHER   OF  SALINE
LADY   DIES
William J. Schroen passed away
at the St. Joseph hospital Wednesday morning at the age. of 76
following, a brief illness. The
son of Henry and Elizabeth
Schroen, he was born October 18,
1871 in York township. Feb. 25
.19.03 he married Lulu Alchin and
they made-their home on a farm
in York township.
In 1933 they moved to a farm
in Lindon township on Darling
road, leaving it- for residence in
Milan, 404 North street, iiy 1946.
Survivors include his wife, one
daugfeter, Mrs. Maude Jaeger, c_
Saline, and four grandchildren.
Two sons and a daughter preceded him in death, Mabel in
infancy, Charles, who was drowned in the Saline, river June 3, 1934
and Wilson, who was hilled in an
automobile accident Sept. 20,1940.
Also remaining are two brothers,
Andrew, of Clinton and Jacob, of
Willis and a sister, Mrs. Martha
Houch, of Whittaker.
Services were held Saturday
afternoon at 2:30 at the Stevens
•and Bush funeral home, with the
Rev. J. B. Harris, of the Milan
Free Methodist church officiating.
Burial was at Mooreville cemetery.
ANTQNI CBxYLSTEK.
ALBION — Antoni Chylstek, 59,
who came to Albion from Saline
four weeks ago to become a partner in the Gold Top Dairy, died
here Saturday after a heart attack. He had resided in Saline
since 1929.
Born in Poland on April 28,
1889, Mr. Chylstek came to the
United States in 1912. He married
to Anna Szwyzk in Passaic, N. J.,
in 1918.
Surviving besides the wife are
a son, Frank, with whom Mr.
Chylstek was in partnership in
operation of the dairy; a daughter, Mary; and two sisters and
two brothers who live in Poland.
ITuneral services were held at
10 o'clock Wednesday morning in
St. Dominic's Church' in Clinton,
with "burial in Clinton cemetery.
From the Far,
Far East
Tokyo, Japan
May 15, 1948
Dear Mike: _
Just a few lines to let you
know I'm O.K., hope this finds
you the same. I want you to
know that receiving the home
town paper is just like a letter
from home to me over on this
side of the world.
I've wanted to write to you
for some time, buT; it seems as
though something aiways comes
up and then I put it off. However you realize what the life of
a soldier is like; s_ X don't believe I'll heed to go into details.
Thought maybe you and a few
of the folks back heme would be
interested in .knowing what it is
like over here. I can assure you
that it is nothing like America.
The B-29 bombings did a terrible lot of damage to Japan. Very
little construction is going on, everything seems to be at a standstill. I don't believe the Japanese people intend to do much of
anything un^l the Allied Powers
make up a peace teaty of some
kind. There seems to be no definite policy for Japan up to the
present time. I don't believe the
Japanese Government wants a
treaty until America and Russia
settle their differences.
The majority of the Japanese
are expecting war between America and Russia. The situation is
tense over here, you feel it in
the air. Something is bound to
happen, you can not help feeling
it.
I sincerely believe that, unless
sometime, before too long, there
can be found a basis for dealing
with Russia, war wal be inevitable. Two great powers cannot
go on forever, jockeying for positions, snarling at each other,
making moves just short of war
without touching off the sparks
of war at some point. If there
cannot be a meeting of minds,
then there will be war.
'Either the door will be left
open to future understanding or
the shooting will start. The great
majority of the Japanese people
share these same thoughts, 1
know, I've talked to a great
many of them. And don't kid
yourselves, a good many of these
people understand and speak the
English language. Its been taught
in the public schools for years.
The Japanese people are just
now beginning to get a taste of
Democracy. They are finding out
how it works. I actually believe
from what I nave seen, that democracy will work out for the
best over here. However, it will
take years for them to leam it,
such as we know it in America.
I don't believe the people back
home are getting the full story
of what its like over here. Conditions are terrible. So many
millions of people are unemployed,
I don't think anyone has any idea
of how many there ^actually are.
Hundreds of factories are being
dismantled and being taken for
reparations, some are going to
China, the Phillipines, Austraila,
fortunately none have gone to
Russia yet The Russians don't
shoot off their mouths here like
they do in Europe. MacArthur
is one man that can shut them
up.
Well Mike, its time for me to
take off, so I'll close" for now.
Hoping this finds you in the best
of health.
I remain your good friend,
Cpl:   Norman   W, -Hedger.
Real Lesson of
the Day
The dead need no praises, no
laurel wreaths: They are serene, they want'nothing. What
we do in their memory is in
the end for ourselves, not for
them. It is good for us to
remember that the virtues of
courage, of endurance, of fidelity, of generosity, of love, of
intelligence, go through the
generation, and to wonder at
■ times whether those better
traits have not been worn a
little thin while in our poses-
sion. It is gocd for us to remember that life goes on
though* the' individual passes
from the earth, and. that just
as men from countless ages
have found the earth beautiful
and life worth living, so will
there be, long after .we are
fcrgotten, peopticF like ourselves,
and with sorraetning of the
same t>lood in their veins, taking the same -delight in the
visible world that we do today.
On Memorial day we remember that death is as much a
part of the life process as birth
and that after "we are linked
with the past just as much as
we are linked -with the future.
It is a day on which to remember those who handed on
to us the xgift of life, and with
it, the xgift of tears and joy.
—Wallace's  Farmer,  20   years
The St. Paul's Ladies' Aid Society will meet at the Fellowship
room Wednesday.
From the
Golden West
At last that long talked of
and longer thought of trip through
tche west is at hand. Only a few
days were needed to prepare for
it while in the days of long ago
months would havfe been needed.
And. ii the old days months would
have been neeed to cover the distance we now cover in hours or
weeks at most.
I remember well standing on
a street corner in a small Indiana
town holding to my father's hand
as I gazed in wonder at one of
those old Conestoga .wagons passing along the street headed
west. On.the side of the wagon
in large red letters was the line,
"Kansas or Bust." A year oi
two later I was playing in our
front yard when 1 ;saw a coverec
wagon coming from west. Beside
coming from the west. Beside
the driver sat the faithful' wife.
On the side of the wagon in faded
re'd letters' I reac£ "Kansas or
Bust," but just below this significant line had been added in
bright new colors,; "Busted By
Gosh." Here is heping we may
fare better than the Kansas emigrant.
For those of our readers who are
unable to take a vacation at this
time, we hope tp jpoirit a word
picture which may give, you a
measure of pleasure in the scenery
as it unfolds before Us.
Today we have oMven through
the heart of Hie' Indiana corn
belt. Great level fields, all ready
for planting, lie on Either hand,
but too much fain* K&s delayed
the work as at home.
About aie homes are a profusion
of flowers and well' mad& gardens.
Morning glories form archways
above the. smokehouse doors,
while peonies and iris guide you
up the "front walk." Kindly,
eyed Durhams and lazy Herefords
linger under the trees in the pastures. Over it all there seems to
Continued, on Page 8
From the Old,
Old World
TRIP   TO  HOLLAND
As a little girl I learned more
about the wincmills, canals,
dykes, and bicycles of Holland
than any other country. I "had
always hoped some day I might
see that land Last week the.
dream of my childhood came
true when I took a six day conducted tour to Holland.
Holland has 2,000 miles of canals; the greatest is the ship canal 26 .feet deep and 197 feet
wide, leading from the North
Sea to Amsterdam. To my surprise other canals are almost as
large; we would call them rivers.
All over Holland are small
streams varying in size from 2^
fe«t'to 4 ieet deep: Instead "oi
fences most of the fields are
small plots of land with little
streams around them. These
small canals have no current and
are drained every 24 hours into
the North Sea, refilled with fresh
water from the Rhine River stored in huge reseviors, taking about
two hours fcr this process.
The winters are much colder
than in Great Britam. As the
canals are- practically without
current they are frozen over with
regularity and afford fine skating for a country where most
everyone skates.
Holland has millions oi bicycles.
One could not doubt this after
driving through miles of bicycles,
especially when people are returning from work. On each side of
the road are two lane drives for
the bicycles, except in the cities
where one has to dodge them like
automobiles at home. The country was heavily damaged during
the war but the Hollanders are
ambitious and have done a great
deal of reconstruction in spite of
strict rationing.
Their exports are cheese, eggs,
butter, elctrical equipment, cotton, linen, and fish. At the present time they are rationed one
egg in two weeks but by the time
you read this it will be increased
to one more egg, eight onces of
meat, two pints of mik per week.
They told- me that they never
pity themselves for their past
suffering and the newspapers are
never looking back on their fate
but always looking farward re-_
building for the fut»re.
I stayed at the Palace Hotel,
Noordyk, on the North Sea. Our
first tour was to Marken Island,
stopping at the Alkmaar famous
cheese market and the beautiful
tower on top of the weight house
which was built in 1852. From
there we went to Volendam for
lunch where all people were dressed up in old Dutch costumes. 1
never .tasted better fried sole fish
than there. At 2:00 o'clock we
left by .boat to Marken island,
in 1856 twenty people moved
there and today they have 1440
people living on the Island, all of
the original!; seven families. The
women are never avowed off the
Island. They have intermarried
for so many years that their I.Q.
is not very high. The girls and
boys dress alike until they are
seven years old, the boys letting
their hair grow. The only difference between the children's
costumes is their ,caps, the' boys'
are pointed in back while the girls
are rounding. The boys are. nine
yepxg old before they "wear their
Dutch panties. The women Wear
the same clothing the year around
—the theory being "what will
keep the cold out will keep the
■heat out." Before marriage the
boy must carve his wedding shoes
and the "girls make six pillowcases. That takes about two
months and gives them time to
think it over. It is very . commercialized and they have many
souveniers to sell. Their houses
are lined on the inside with plates
and fancy dishes.' They never use
these and hand them down from
one generation to another. The
women make their cloth and sell
trimmings. Before the tourist
trade their only outlet was fishing. Without this trip I wouldn't
have felt that I had seen Holland
as one seldom sees the Dutch
costumes in the southern part of
the country.
Once a land," of hundreds of
wind mills, machinery has taken
its place and there are only two or
three hundred in Holland now.
One can drive for -miles and not
see any. People living in* the
■yvindmiills live on the first floor
and we were permitted to go in
one.
One day was given over- to the
Tulip Tour going through miles
of tulips, each small field or
place, with different colors anc
with the sun shining it looked
like a carpet of velvet. Every
place had a large bouquet of tu-
Continued on Page 8
Rev. Haneberg
Strickep^
Suddenly
Death earae suddenly Tuesday
noon to Rev Carl A. Haneberg
pastor of St. James church, at his
home about four miles west of
Saline. He had served the congregation of the "little white
church on the highway" for the
past seven years ar.d had by his
gentle demeanor and kindly manners endeared himself to his people and a wide circle of friends.
Rev. Haneberg was born in Germany on June 4, 1876, the son
of Ferdinand- and Amaiie Haneberg, and was married on October 18, 1904 to Minm. Pfeiffer.
He was pastor of the Zion Evangelical Lutheran church at-Bar-
ode" for 11. years and had held
the pastorate of St. Peter's church
in Detroit for 20 years. He had
attended Elmhurst College in Illinois and Edin Seminary, St. Louis,
Mo,.
Survivors include the widow;
two brothers, Otto of Cleveland
and Herman of San Gabriel, California and two sisters, Mrs. Ida
Hoehm and Mrs. Hattie Kennot
of  Cleveland.
F-tnoral services will be held
Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock
from the St. James Evangelical
and Reformed church on US-112,
and burial will be made in the
St. Jamee cemetery. Friends
may call at the Lockwcod funeral
home until 10 o'clock on Friday
after which the body will He "111
state at the church until the time
of service.
To get the construction of the
Salme Community Athletic Field
under way, contracts for which
are ready to be let, they must
be substantiated with cash. To
date, cash contributions are not
sufficient for the purpose as the
construction committee cannot go
ahead with the project until at
least $10,000 in cash b?s been
raised.
Next week, starting June 1, "i
big drive for contributions will
get under way. Solicitors will be
members of the Junior Chamber
of Commerce and of the Saline
Rotary Club and the drive will
likely be on during the evenings
throughout the week, or until
completed.
The Saline High School Band
and the Drum Corp will parade
throught the city Tuesday night
and the Deede Electric sound-
truck will broadcast th« drive
and the appeal for contributions.
Fourteen teams of three men eacT*
will make a house-to-house canvas. Saline's response to every
appeal for funds for "outside"
purposes has always been very;
liberal. This drive is for a purely local project for community
benefit. The school faculty members of the board are backing it;
city officials, -civic organizations,
businessmen, farmers and all the
youngsters in the community are
enthusiastically for it
When the sound truck proclaims
if. and the marching Band, and
Drum Corp lends color to the
opening of the drive, let us all be
responsive to the appeal of the,
following teams:
1. Alwin Burkhardt, Charles
Osgood,  Martin  Blair.
2. Carl Curtiss, Gerald Coe,
Max  Fosdick.
3. Don Ford, Ken Jeppesen,
E. J. Muir.
4. Myron Gallagher, Gerhardt
Cekau, Harry Hersh.
5. Alwin Gross, Sam Lambarth,
Clifford Simmons.
6. Clarence Haarer, Clarence.
Cook,   Herman Heininger.
7. Arthur Heininger, Williani
Brittain, Albert Lange.
8. Leo Jensen, Arthur Hagen,
Charles  Schultz.
9. Henry Leutheuser FranK
Deede, Francis Lockwood.
t   10.   Dr.   Harold   Miller,   E.   J.
Beasley,  Gordon Gary. »
11. Dr. Gordon Prout Fred
Wiedman, Walter Osgood.
12. Alfred Schmid, Ed Warner,
George   Wood.
13. L. Hughes, Erwin -Schmid/
Myron Gallagher, Jr.
14. Milton Hartman, A. Wied-
man, Lawrence Deede.
r
No Building
Boom; But
Progress
While Salme is not experiencing a building boom, nevertheless
a slow but steady progress is
noted in the development on Saline Heights and elsewhere
throughout the city.
One especially qlieerful note is
struck by the announcement that
Ray Niethammer will very soon
start construction on a dwelling
at "The 'Heights" which will lje
offered for sale when completed.
Niethammer will be pioneering the
building of homes in Saline for
the avowed purpose of resalfe and
The Observer will be joining with
a lot of otiier Salinites in applauding his venture.. Oscar Weber
has purchased a lot on the new
subdivision and will start the construction of a home for himself
and Christ Volz has bought two
lots on 'the corner adjacent to the
American Legion Home and will
erect a home there for himself.
Along The
MainDrag
©Dennis    Haver,    famous    big
game hunter, sportsman, and lecturer, was in Salme last week. . .
has a summer camp for boys in
Ontario. . . arranging   for   printing an attractive  folder for the
present   season,    outlining   camp
activities  fcr youngsters  on  the
Mississaugi River. . . shows little
boys   with   wondrously   big   fish.
-Indian   guides,   canoe   trips,   rifle
and archery ranges, riting, hiking   »
... .. . what   an   experience   for
youngsters 'way np on the fringe
of the. jumping-off place. ^Cold-
water by a vote of 1&74 to 212
turned thumbs down on a proposal for a city manager, the elimination of several boards and Uie
establishment «f a municipal
court. . . *Chelsea by two votes
refused, to become a city. . . and
Sturgis on June 15 will let the
voters decide whether they will
go hack to angle parking. 0The
next issue of The Ypsi Statesman,
monthly publication, of the hospital Employees' Asociation, will
be their second anniversary number. .. . a unique journalistic venture, duplicated, -very rarely by.
such institutions in America. . . i
Ijut then Ypsi State Hospital is
an institution set apart from others of that nature. ©Saline's
entry in the Tri-County Baseball
League will open the season here
• Sunday afternoon in a game with
Confd on Page 8 j