1951-03-29; Saline Observer

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SIXTY-EIGHTH YEAR
NUMBER 26
SALINE, WASHTENAW COUNTY, MICHIGAN
THURSDAY, MARCH 29, 1951 FIVE CENTS PER COPY      $2.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE
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Show You Appreciate Liberty: Vote Monday
Along The
MainDrag
©Five  gallons   of water extinguished a grass fire on a vacant lot at    206  South Harris
street Monday  afternoon.    The
fire department responded with
seven men ready for any event.
©Hull's Grocery has    received
the first carload of P & G products ever to have been shipped
into this county.    A pretty big
consignment ... a carload of
soap.    There are   over   47,000
items in. the lot.    ©In an open
letter last week Att. Pat Roesch
mentioned a   number of Saline
servicemen on  duty in Korea.
The name of Elton Lindemann,
who has been there since early
last fall,   could have been   included.    This newspaper would
be pleased to have a list of all
the men. from this area who are
in service   along  with   the  address of each.    We would publish the list in the paper so that
friends may be able to communicate   with them.     ©Two  persons   pass  on  the Main  Drag.
Says one, "Fine day," says the
other,    "You bet".    Two    kids
playing near a creek.   Says one,
"Betcha I can jump it."   Says
the other, "Betcha hundred dollars." "Betcha million dollars!"
Before   other   things   took  its
place, kids used to start playing
marbles atathis time of the year,
and for keeps.   Odd or even developed  into   quite   a   practice
and the clever boys had a knack
of draining their slower   companions.   Not long ago a kid's
smart answer, even to a lady,
was, "You bet your whiskers."
Brought  to   Mr.  Toby's attention, he might divert the Kef au-
ver committee to an investigation of the primary causes of
gambling which might be   ascribed to the swapping of jack
knives, "sights-non-seen" a generation ago.
Dr. Engelke
Warns Rotary
On A-Bomb
First Carload of P & G Ever To Roll Into Washtenaw County
Three Weeks In
Army; Still Doesn't
Know What It's
Like
Dear Editor:
I've been shipped again. This
time to Ft. Belvoir, Va. I'm beginning to feel like a traveling
salesman. First Ft. Wayne for
induction, then Ft. Custer for
processing, then, Camp Funston,
Kansas (part of Ft. Riley),
where I had an interview with
an interviewing officer (I don't
know why), then I was taken
to Ft. Riley, Kansas, where
along with four others I boarded a train for Washington, D.
C. We had stopovers at Kansas City and St. Louis which
gave us a chance to look them
over a little. Friday morning
we pulled into Union Station at
Washington. We spent the
forenoon touring the Capitol
Building, National Art Museum,
Washington Monument and several others. In the afternoon,
we went to a show and stage
play. •
At 5:40 p. m. we again boarded a train for Ft. Belvoir, Va.,
just 19 miles away. On Saturday I was assigned to the Sixth
Training Co. of the Engineers
Replacement Training Corps.
Now I can receive mail! I
haven't heard anything from
around Saline since I left.
Ft. Belvoir is the best camp
I've been at. There are plenty
of facilities for recreation and
entertainment. Sorry I can't j
write a letter to tell you about
army life, but I just haven't
had it yet.
My address is:    Pvt. Robert
Klueter, US 55125876, 6th Tng.
Co. (ERTC), Ft. Belvoir, Va.
Sincerely,
Bob.
If we were sure that Russia's
intentions were peaceful. If we
were certain that no bombs
would be dropped on Detroit
nor on any other strategic area
in Michigan, we would have little or no need for a civil defense program. Because we cannot be sure, and because of the
terrible calamity that would befall us in the the event we were
bombed and not prepared for it,
preparations are now in the
making to anticipate any such
disaster and the outlines of the
preparations were disclosed by
Dr. K. Engelke, director of the
County Health Department and
County Director of Civil Defense in an address before the
Saline Rotary Club Thursday
noon.
In the event Detroit was
bombed Dr. Engelke pointed
out the problems that would
fall into the lap of the people of
the adjacent towns and cities
and even spread to the rural i
communities. In the bombing,
it is estimated, according to Dr.
Engelke, 60,000 persons-
would be killed outright and
60,000 would be casualties,
mainly suffering from burns in
various degrees. Hospitals
throughout the area would be
unable to care for the great
numbers of injured, and all
kinds of shelters would have to
be improvised. If power plants
were decommissioned, water,
heat and light would become
a problem.
A quarter of a million school
children would have to be evacuated, according to authorities,
and the homes of townspeople
as well as those in the rural
areas would be called upon to
shelter them. With electric
power curtailed on the farms,
water there would become a ser-
krus problem.
-Refugees fleeing the cities
would jam the highways and
chaos and terrible confusion
would be th. result, if plans
are not made to provide for
such a contingency.
Dr. Engelke told of the setting up of a county control
center With Max Peet representing the ^sheriff's department as  Coordinator  of Police
Pictured above is the first carload of Proctor & Gamble products ever purchased by a
retail merchant in Washtenaw County. Hull's Grocery'bought the carload of soap to insure that
no matter how scarce soap happens to become, citizens of Saline will be able to secure all they
need.
J. R. "Bob" Hull, proprietor of Hull's Q.ocery, located on North Ann Arbor St., is shown
with L. A. Siewers, Proctor & Gamble' representative, in the process of unloading the car of
soap . . . 1,000 cases of P & G products.
Bob and Mrs. Hull, successors to Arthur and Elvin Armbruster in the grocery business
at this location, are progressive and awake to the requirements of their tra.de. They have
enlarged the store considerably and with the a ddition of modern equipment and convenient
arrangement have made shopping at their stored real pleasure for their many patrons.
Attention is directed to their full page advertisement on page four of this issue.
—Observer Photo
Michigan Claims Many
Firsts Including Biggest
"Chuck-Holes"
Michigan's highway chuck holes
are the world's best They are bigger, deeper and imore varied in
size annd depth than those of any
other state in the Union. Michigan chuck holes are more numerous than in any other state. j
(Michigan  is  noted   and rightly]
so,  for its production of a great
Saline TC.C.
Expresses Thanks
To 99 Donors
The Saline J. C. C. would like
assortment of natural and manu-  to express its heartfelt thanks
"nd ^te'ctioTservices   Chief factured productS"   We eXCel t0° to those " PeoPle who Save a
ZlL^*^™^™^^ to the production of chuck holes,  pint   of   blood    last    Monday.
Most  states  want   them for   the  Some of that blood is being used
highway     department's    use    as in Korea even as you read this.
gravy boats, but* not Michigan.      All the blood of one    type    is
No—we keep them, but for a flown directly to the battlefield
purpose—a very good purpose, hospitals within 72 hours of the
Tou may have heard that Detroit time it is drawn,
manufactures automobiles, in fact, We should also like to urge
believe it or not, it makes a lot those who were unable to do-
of them. nate Monday for any temporary
The manufacturer knows that reason to attend the Mobile
they have to make a good car. Blood Unit when it is in Ann
They need no longer depend on Arbor April 9th. See your
their own proving grounds. If a newspaper for details,
car will go for thirty—yes, even And to the J. C. C. Auxiliary,
twenty-five miles in any direction the Red Cross Canteen and oth-
from Detroit, it must be good, ers who assisted us, thanks a
otherwise it would be -shaken to million.
pieces in the first five miles. | J. C. C. Blood Donor Com.
Many cars are "chuck-holed" to
Zahn of the Ann Arbor city
fire department, Coordinator
of Fire Protection Services;
Alfred E. Bross, county welfare
director in charge of Welfare
Services; Thomas Fitzgerald,
disaster chairman of the Red
Cross, Associate in the Welfare,
division; Mrs. Merle Malin, secretary of the County Chapter
of the Red Cross; Ernest All-
mindinger of the county road
commission, Director of Public
Works and Engineering section
of the County Civil Defense
staff. Dr. Engelke pointed out
that additional divisions to
handle school problems, private
utilities, transportation, and
township organizations would
be required.
Everyone should plan to his
best ability for such an emergency declared Dr. Engelke, for
our complacency, our belief that
it cannot happen here, will be
a poor substitute for doing what
could have been done in the
event the blow does fall.
Are You
Interested ?
1951 Fair Board
To Meet
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The first regular meeting of
the Saline Community Fair
Board will be held next Monday,
April 2nd, at 8:30 p. m.
Committees for the 1951 Fair
will be appointed by President
Raymond Girbach and several
items of important business are
on the agenda, according to
Charles Osgood, secretary. Any
individual or group interested
in- helping with the details of
the Fair should plan on attending the meeting, he stated.
Hospital Association
Meeting
The Saline Community
Hospital Association will
have an important meeting
in the high school auditorium
Tuesday evening, April 10th,
at 7:30 p. m. All members
of the association, are urged
to attend this very important affair.
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Mother and Son
Meet Tragic Deaths
Mrs". Norman England, Maple
Ave., and her sister, Mrs. Hollis
Vance, Willis road, were called
to Detroit the first of the week
by the tragic death,of their
cousin, Mrs. Raymond Leasure,
and her six-year-old son, Robert
R. Tucker, by a former marriage.
Carbon monoxide fumes from
a water heater caused their
deaths.
Their bodies were found by
noTt^e? £_?%rtJ^ Bihlmeyer-Guenther
No,  they  are   the   old   cars   that. Wedding
came off the line 'way back last 	
summer before the Fourth of July. Bethel Evangelical and Re-
We read in the paper that some formed church in Freedom town-
folks want to repair the roads— ship was the setting Saturday,
actually want to fill these fine March 24, tor the wedding of
chuck holes, but that's not likely Mildred Bihlmeyer, daughter of
to be done. J. G. Bihlmeyer of Manchester,
We have many reasons for and Theodore Guenther, son of
keeping our chuck holes and one Mr. and Mrs. Herman Guenther
is that they compel slower driv- of Saline. Rev. T. W. Menzel
ing, therefore, they will greatly performed the double ring cere-
increase our income from tourists, mony. The church was decora-
Michigan tourists this summer ted with white snap-dragons
will drive more slowly—they will and gladiolas.
reauire more imeals and lodgings Tbe bride given in marriage
in getting up north; they will re- by her father was attired in a
autre more repair work—both for white ballerina length dress of
their cars and themselves; tourists chantilly lace over satin. Her
will stay longer because once they fingertip veil of lace was held
arrive at an attractive place in m Piace by a seed pearl tiara,
the north, they will remain longei she earned a white Bible topped
just from sheer dread of hitting ^^ a wnlte orchid and ivy
the roads. streamers.
Miss Arlean Luckhardt, who
By Leo L. Jensen
Progress is not made by wait
ing, nor are educational opportunities and facilities for our
community provided by good intentions alone. Those who want
the best possible educational
opportunities for their children
and the assurance that these opportunities will be maintained in
the future and are making pre-
mediately. Today is not too
soon to learn more about the
community school; what it
means to you and your children.
Today is not too soon to begin
work and to plan for the kind
of ccmmunity school you want
and your neighbors- are getting.
Our neighbors, Dundee, Dexter, Chelsea, Ann Arbor, Ypsilanti, all have taken a look into
the future and are maging preparations to meet th© problem
of providing for the future needs
of their children.
Our neighbors have not
found the problem so insurmountable that it could not be
solved by community effort and
cooperation. Are we in the
Saline area to find the problem
too difficult, and a few years
hence find ourselves 'without the
facilities necessary to provide
the standard of opportunity
that our neighbors provide, for
their- children?
Good schools, in a very real
sense, are of the community, by
the community, and for the community. If you believe the community school and community
effort is the solution for our
problem, you can do something
about it. Talk with your neighbors; talk about it with your
fellow workers; talk about it
at social gatherings.
The more you talk about it
the more understanding there
will be. But if you are fair
minded you will ignore rumor
and gossip. You will think for
yourself and obtain the facts
and the truth.
Amendments
To Be Voted
Upon April 2
Amendments to be voted upon
at  the Biennial  Spring Election,
to   be  held  on Monday,   April 2,
include the  following  proposals:
Proposal No. i
Sec. 13 The legislature shall
meet at the seat of government on
the second Wednesday in January
of each year and at no other
place or time unless as provided
in this constitution; and each annual regular session shall adjourn
without day, at such time as shall
be determined by concurrent resolution, at 12 o'clock noon. No
motion, bill or resolution pending
in one session of any term shall
carry over into a later regular
session.
Proposal No. 2
Sec. 24. There shall be paid,
from the moneys authorized to be
borrowed under the provisions of
section 23 of this article for the
payment of a bonus with respect
to military service, to the surviving husband or wife, child or
children, or to the surviving
mother or father or, surviving
dependent person standing in loco
parentis, dependent brothers and
dependent sisters, in the order
named, of any person who has
heretofore died or who shall hereafter die from service connected
causes and who served in the military, naval, marine or coast guard
forces of the United States, including women serving in auxiliary branches thereof, between
June 27, 1950, and the termination of the state of national emergency, which state of national
emergency was proclaimed on
December 16, 1950, who served
honorably and faithfully therein
during such period, who was a
resident of this state at the time
of entering such service and for
a period of at least 6 months
prior to entering therein, the sum
of $5-0.00: Provided, That the termination of the national emergency for the purpose of this section
shall be determined by act of the
legislature of this state, and the
liability of the state for the purposes herein set forth shall not
exceed the total amount that may
be borrowed under the provisions
of said section 23 of this article.
Proposal No. 3
Sec. 3. Neither the legislature
nor any municipal authority shall
grant or authorize extra compensation to any public officer,
agent, employee or contractor
after the service has been rendered or the contract entered
into. Salaries of public officers,
except supreme court justices and
circuit judges, shall not be increased, nor shall the salary of
any public officer be decreased,
after election or appointment.
Your Vote Is
Your Exercize
Of Power
Piano Recital By
Talented Students
Monday is election day, the
biennial spring election, when
the townships choose their new
governing bodies, and we in Saline choose two regents cf the
University of Michigan, a superintendent of public instruction, a member of the state
board of • education- and two
members of the state board of
agriculture.
There is nothing unusual
about this election except that
the people of the townships are
given this once-in-two-year opportunity to have a voice in local government. It is also a
town-meeting day which should
be of quite some interest to
those who live in those areas
and like to know what is- going
on.
In Saline the voters will help
choose two men who will have
a lot to do with the future of
the University of Michigan—the
greatest institution of its kind
in the world. There's a lot goes
on there which will have quite
a bearing on the future of
thousands of young men and
women from all over the world
who will exert a tremendous
influence on the way of life for
your children's children. Can
you make yourself believe you
have no interest here?
Also one will have a part in
selecting a superintendent of
public instruction. Recent
events' show that it takes someone on the job there all the
time. What goes for the University, goes- for the public
school system. Mighty important for your kinds, and worthy of your vote.
Two members- of the state
board of education. Can you
make yourself believe you
should have nothing to say as.
to who they shall be?
On Monday a, member of the-
state board of agriculture will
be elected. The Importance of"
Michigan agriculture, of conservation, of progress in the development and production of the
very fundamentals of life itself'
are involved. Can you make;
yourself believe you should;
have nothing to say as to who
he shall be?
Voting is something more
than just having the right to go
to the polls amd slip in your ballot though. To call it a privilege is using a term overworked and without too much
significance. Like calling fire
insurance a privilege instead of
a protection. Voting is the life
blobd of a continuing free America.
If you appreciate life and liberty as we know it in America
—Vote next Monday.
Truly  our   chuck   holes   are   a
great    blessing.-
Messenger.
-Michigan     Milk
acted as the maid of honor, was
Saline Participates
In Model UN
Saline   High  School  will participate in the second annual Michi-
Dinner To Honor
New Members
New members    who    were re-
wedding.     Ushers    were    Roy
Sr X rr^ r^*? S^Xrt'GShfr, Voitr
Easter Season will he honored at    f +h    crrv-vm
Federated Church by a Family "J* f^Feldkamp was the
^SlfTnn ^ ^Srsxas^ecl- . M an4 ^ Pfeif^e the so_
uled at 7:00 o'clock on Monday loj°t *i,Qh  p^-f--*   T _,.-»
evening,-April 2, to be held in the anf "^I^rd's Praver" Pres-
the husband  and father,  who,  church dining  room      An inter- |£t fof the o.caslof were ap-
when    returning    from    work, estmg  program   mcludmg music,  proximately sixty guests, rela-
smelled gas fumes as he neared readings, a skit, and motion pic- lives  g-yj  friends   of the mar
their home.     Their bodies and,tures is being arranged.  Families ^ed couple - ^"^
a little  dog,  Penny,   lay near .are asked to .bring food to lass      m^ Janet Kuebler was
the doorway, dead. I and their own table service. i ^Cont'd oh Page &
gowned in a ripe apricot bailer-! gan High School Model United
ina length dress with white net j Nations sponsored by Hillsdale
over taffeta and had a white j College on the Hillsdale campus,
lace bolero jacket. She car- i April 20-21. The two day program
!ried blue iris and yellow-orange! will feature outstanding students
roses. jfrom more   than  forty  Michigan
Victor Guenther    served    as j high schools representing the sixty
the  best man  at his brother's (countries  of the United Nations.
" Saline will represent Norway. The
issues which will be discussed in
three of the- main UN committees
will concern China and other
Asian problems, threats to peace
in Western Europe, and the ques
in
tions of improving UN machinery.
Dr. Windsor H. Roberts, professor
of History and Political Science
at Hillsdale, is director of the program, which is jointly sponsored
by the college International Re-
tarians Club and the -Ellsdale
Rotary.
On Tuesday, March 13, Mrs.
J. H. Knight presented a group
of piano pupils in a recital at
her studio. A large audience
was on -hand to enjoy the music
these young people had to offer.
The program was as follows:
• Minuet in G, Bach, Judith
Siemsen, Na|ncy Obenauf at the
second piano; Album Leaf,
Koelling, Mary Lou Lee; Dancing Sunbeams, McGregor, Carol Brown; The Clock, Richter,
Janice Harwood; Prelude in C
Minor, Bach, Jimmy Knight;
Waltz in B Flat, Beethoven,
Sharon Larson; The Little
Harpist, Carolyn CarrakGlE rf
Harpist, Bentley, Carolyn Carr;
Wild Rider, Schumann, Gordon
Lambert, Eddie Doll at the second piano; Fawn in the Snow,
Frost, Rosalee Marshall.
Concerto in F Major, andante,
Williams, Anita Engel, Ann
Ross at the second piano; Gypsy Whirl, Kasschau, Bobby
Brown; Tumbleweed, Bliss, Roberta Fredericks; Concerto in
C Major, Williams, Nancy
Woods, Ann Ross at second piano; Sonata Opus 49, No. 2, Beethoven, Nancy Obenauf; Joyous
Waltz, McLaglen, Carol Engle-
hart; Invention in F. Major,
Bourree in A Minor, Bach, Ann
Ross; Partners, Brilbro, two piano .Judith Siemsen and Carolyn Carr.
Rhapsody, Nevin, Jane Campbell; Drink to Me Only with
Thine Eyes, Old ^English, Mair-
iann Boettner; Square Dance,
two piano, Nevin, Carol and
Bobby Brown; A Fog at Sea,
Hibbs, Jean Groeb; Mazurka,
Meyer-Helmund, Anita Engel;
.Concerto in F Maior, Finale,
Williams, Eddie Doll, Ann Ross
at the second piano.
Try A Classified Ad!
Saline High To
Present Popular
Comedy
"Cheaper by the Dozen," a
play to be given by the senior
class of Saline High School here
Thursday and Friday, March
29 and 30, is a dramatization of
the book written by Frank B.
Gilbreth and Ernestine Carey.
The participants in the play
have been coached by Mrs. Mildred Haswell and the scenic effects will be arranged by L.
Mundy and John Ford.
"Cheaper, by the Dozen" is
something out of the usual run
of high school productions. Anyone who has read the book will
laugh again at the antics of the
children and smile at dad's putting motion study in practice in
the home. Dad will demonstrate
on stage how to take a bath
without lost motion.
The cast is as follows: Mr.
Gilbreth, Bob Caswell; Mrs. Gilbreth, Laura Weible; Ernestine,
Joyce Davenport; Frank, Harry Anderson; Jackie, Betty Fee-
man; Dan, Joyce Graf; Bill,
Raymond Niles; Fred, Alwin
Wahl; Anne, Barbara Goble.
Lillian, Arlene Sawall; Martha, Pat Swanson; Mrs. Mtz-
gerald, the cook, Ann Ross; Dr.
Burton, the family physician,
Jack Graf; Miss Brille, the
school teacher and psychologist,
Peg Gleason; Larry, Annie's
"someone special", Richard
Scruggs; Joe Scales, a cheerleader, Kim Jacobsen.
James Lyon observed Ms 83rd
birthday yesterday at the home
of his sister, Mrs. B. J. Spitler.
Mr. Lyons was formerly a resident of North Baltimore, Ohio.