1953-02-19; Saline Observer

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Who's
In Saline
Clarence Haarer
Clarence Haarer was born and
raised in Manchester. He operated
a meat market in Manchester for
sax years, and for two of those
years, he also operated a meat and
grocery market in Tecumseh. In"
spite of his varied business activities, Haarer found time to serve
six years on the Village Council
in Manchester.
In 1930, Haarer came to Saline
and opened the Haarer's Quality
Market at 106 W. Michigan. Since
coming to Saline, he has continued to take an active part in civic
activities. He served three terms
on the Saline City Council and
wasi Mayor pro-tem for two of
those terms. Haarer is now serving his ninth year as a member
of the Board of Education for
Saline High School. He has always
been an active member of the
Saline Community Fair, and has
been a Board member ever since
it was organized.
He served for two years as
Vice-President of the Fair, and in
1945, he went to Marshall, Mich.
and purchased . 18 steer club
calves. The Saline Junior Livestock Association was started with
these 18 calves1. They were purchased by Haarer with the hopes
that they would start a steer club.
His hopes were realized, for the
club developed into the present
active organization, and began the
ground work for our present successful Community  Fair.
In addition to his other activities, Haarer has been a member
of the Saline Rotary for ten years,
and has served as President in-
1948 and 1949.
Haarer is a member of St.
Paul's Church. He is married and!
has two sons, Gerald, 18, who is'
presently attending Michigan!
State College, and Neil 11, who is
a  student at Saline High.
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O&wwen,
SEVENTIETH  YEAR,
NUMBER 21
SALINE,  WASHTENAW COUNTY, MICHIGAN
THURSDAY,  BEB. 19,   1953
COACH PADJEN
RESIGNS
According to school superintendent Leo Jensen, the board of
education has accepted with regrets the resignation of athletic
director and physical education instructor John Padjen, Jr. Padjen's
resignation will take effect at the
termination of the present school
semester in June.
The yoimg^ mentor who was a
member of the 1950 University
of Michigan Rose Bowl Team will
become head football coach and
physical education instructor at
Boulder City High School in Boulder City, Nevada, effective next
September."
While at Saline High School,
Padjen coached the only Saline
team to ever win a Huron League
championship —the 1951-52 Saline
basketball team. His basketball
quintets have won a total of 22
out of 83 games, and his gridiron
teams of the past two seasons
have compiled the best record of
CITY TO BID ON
PARKING METERS
At    Monday    night's     Council
Meeting a motion was made   by j
councilman J. C. Little that park- "'
ing meter companies be contacted
to submit bids for the installation
|*of parking meters in Saline. !
Tentative plans call for the
•meters to run on both sides of
Michigan Avenue from Haarer's
Market to Hall Street, on N. Ann
Arbor to McKay Street, and on
South Ans Arbor to Henry Street.
Purpose of the meters is to raise
money to finance off street parking for merchants and shoppers.
All the council .members were
present at the meeting, and the
motion   was  carried unanimously.
Stratton Brown, an authority on;
municipal financing from the law
firm of Miller, Canfield, Paddack
and Stone was present to answer
questione and discuss the types of
bonds which could be issued, and
the method for doing so for such
issues as the Sewage Disposal,
Storm and Sanitary Sewer and
Water Softening and Purification I
system. I
Types of bonds which could be
issued are General Obligation,
Bonds which would be paid from
general revenue on tax from city;
Revenue Bonds which would be
paid for from the city utilities,
such as water; and special assessment bonds which calls for special'
assessment of property owners.
The approximate amount for
which bonds can be issued is 10%. j \
of assessed valuation plus income
from revenue which would total
approximately $320,000. In arder
to exceed thi amount, an authorization by a court of authority is
necessary. If the deadline of 1955
is not met by "the city of Saline
for a Sewage Disposal plant, the
Water Resources Commission may
obtain a court order and force the
jcity to proceed without vote of
the  people.
It was decided to have further
•consultation with Brown after a
breakdown of costs for individual
projects is submitted to the city
after June 1st.
New Patrolman to be Hired:
Chester E. Straka, 23, of Dexter, was hired as patrolman for
the City. He will begin on March
1, at a starting salary of $285 al
month. Straka served in the Marines and he was on the Ann
Arbor police force for four
months. Part time policemen are
not to excee'd 10 hours a week
working under the new arrangement. The motion was made by
Little that Straka be hired, seconded by Buck and carried with
Collins voting no.
Wage increases for city employees was discussed and councilman Coe requested a wage increase for his P.W.D. I twas discussed and decided that if one department was granted an increase
there should be an overall increase
for all city employees, and further discussion showed that the
budget could not support such an-
increase at' this time. The issue
was not closed for the fiscal year
and city employees were assured
that if no action was1 taken before
the close of the fiscal year it
would definitely be considered in
the next budget.
For further details on the meeting, read the minutes of ,the meeting in next week's edition.
Robert Harrison Jr.
Wins Service Award
SALINE OBSERVER
WINS AWARD
In the picture at the top Robert; Harrison at the right is being presented
with the Distinguished Service Award as the outstanding young man in Saline'
for 1952. Last year's winner, Mike Strait is making the presentation. Also in
the picture are Councilman Gerald Cos seated left, and John Wanty. In the
lower picture Harrison, who is president of the Saline Jaycees is presenting
Fred Giesel, publisher of the Saline Observer a JCC special award.
i (Photos by Martin)
VOTE ON SCHOOL
REORGANIZATION
FRIDAY, MAR. 6th
3
COACH PADJEN
any in the last 12 years—winsing
six of sixteen  contests.
During Padjen's two years tenure, Saline High entered for tha
first time in organized track competition. Last spring the local
track team was rated among the
first ten Class-C track squads in
the   state.
When Padjen assumes his duties
at Boulder City next fall, he will
have a new athletic plant in a
city of 6,000 people at his disposal. His teams will compete in
two leagues, the Tri-State League
(California, Arizona and Nevada)
and the Nevada Interscholastic
League, and will travel as far as
400 mles to play contests.
According to Jensen, Mario
Marchisio, who served as Padjen's
assistant last fall, will be named
athletic director and head football and track coach at Saline
High.
Marchisio played football at the
University of Illinois. Jensen also
named Howard Hill, present junior varsity cage mentor, head basketball and baseball coach for ne"xt
yer. An assistant football coach
and social studies teacher is yet
to be named.
LEGION DANCE
Another big dance will be
held at the Saline American
Legion Home Saturday night,
February 21. The committee in
charge says that there will be
some special surprises at this
dance so everyone is advised to
come early.
The Root-Schuman Quintet
will again be on hand to furnish the music. Dancing begins
at 10:00.
The proposed reorganization of j
seventeen school districts in the
Saline area into a Rural Agricul- |
tural School- District has received j
the approval of the State Super-1
intendent of Public Instruction \
and now awaits only the approval
of the electors in the area to be- j
come a reality.
Mr. Julius Haab, County Superintendent of Schools, has set Friday, March 6th, as the date of
the election. The school law requires that two voting places be
set up—one for the Saline Graded
District and one for the rural districts. Mr. Haab has selected the
Church School of the Trinity
Lutheran Church, corner of Michigan Ave., and Harris St., two
blocks east of the traffic signal
as the voting place for rural residents. The voting place for the
electors of school district No. 1
Fractional, will be the regular
voting place—the city hall. The
polls in both voting places will be \
open from 10:00 a. m. to
8:00   p. m.
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BOY INJURED
David   Burmeister,   aged  6,  of,
M-ll  SalinelManchester  road fell
underneath   a   spreader  Saturday
being pushed by his older "brother
Donald 23.
The spreader passed over David's right foot bruising it severely,
but David had to go to a Valentine's party and didn't let his injury stop him.
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This year's Jaycee show is decidedly   different   from   anything
previously attempted by the Jay-
I cees.  The   show   features  a   plot
Local Briefs
Oklahoma    for    the    past    four
months.  He   will   return  to  Fort
Sill   Sunday   afternoon   to   await
_____________________________ I transfer   to  somewhere  with  the
"~"~™""""^™™"~———— p'o-j.j.jj Army.
Mr. asd Mrs. Reuben Finkbeiner ,  —
entertained the following   people ! ri at*  ■CVYFTYm
a.t a  Saturday night supper: Mr. j V^i-JtC TiJlJINJJ
and Mrs. Arthur Hagen, Mr. and j    L. Z. Still's car which was stol-
Mrs.  Arthur  Heinisger,  Mr.   and, en last week was found by police
Mrs. Carl  Moehn, Mr. and   Mrs. ] abandoned   in   Detroit.    The   car
Ed   Hering, Mr.  and  Mrs.   Chas.  was slightly damaged and the gas
Kern,   Mr.  and  Mrs.. Wm.   Muir,  tnk was  empty.
Rev. and Mrs. Alvin Siemsen, Mr. |
i-v   i      i-» -i-T I revolving around a setting of the
Dale RothlUSS Home {old west and a horse theft corn-
Dale Rothfuss, son of Mr. andjb™£ ™th a bank robbery.
Mrs. Elmer Rothfuss of 217 Mon-! ™e sh™ *£° io1.™ a m?sl-
roe, arrived home on leave from cal theme of the west. It promises
the Army Saturday night. Pvt. *» ** a^°°4 evening of rip roar-
Rothfuss has been   at Fort   Sill,
Airman 3rd class Robert Bredernitz and Mrs. Bredernitz arrived
from Park's Air Force Base in
Livermore, Calif. Sunday for a 25
day leave. The couple surprized
their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Karl
Bredernitz, and Mrs. Bredernitz'
mother, Mrs. Winifred Dieterle,
who hadn't expected them until
April.
They drove through from California. They encountered heavy
snow blizzards^ but made good
[ time since they left California at
5 a-m. Thursday and arrived in
Hllsdale, Mich, at 11 p.m. Saturday night.
groups. Price of admission is still
85 cents and 50 cents. Tickets' are
on sale now and can be purchased
from any J. C. member or at the
door. Don't miss this year's presentation, "THE HOSS THEFT."
Next Tuesday and Wednesday,
Feb. 24 and 25, at  8:00  p. m.
Altar Being
Installed
A Children's  Altar, to be dedi-
Copenhagen and Mr. Oscar Weber, j    Mr. and  Mrsi   Dale   Goble and
Mrs.   George "Martin, who suf- • daughter Barbara, Ivlrs. Raymond' cated   in the near future to the
fered a broken wrist in a fall last ( Schroeder, Mrs. Glen King,   Miss  memoi-y of John W. Keveling, is _ 	
week, is much improved. : Joyce Davenport "and  Miss  Jerry  jn the  process of being installed, man. This is not the first time
HOME ON LEAVE
Robert Harrison, Jr. won the
Junior Chamber of Commerce's
Distinguished Service Award as
Saline's outstanding young man
of 1952.
The award was made during the
JCC's annual bosses' night dinner
held Thursday, Feb. 12 at the Saline Hotel.
The committee that picked Harrison for the award wrote a letter
that was read by last year's -winner Mike Strait. The letter read:
"To the Saline Junior Chamber
of Commerce,
"Your committee, honored ,to
have been chosen to select Saline's
Outstanding Young Man of the
Year, 1952, is pleased to present
and congratulate your own President, Robert Harrison,  Jr."
Bob was selected with the aid
of nominations by eight organizations, including the Rotary Club,
Cub Scouts, the Methodist Church,
City Councilmen, Girl Scouts, St.
Paul's Church Jaycee Auxiliary
and  American Legion Auxiliary.
Each organization nominated
from one to four candidates and
the names of eight young men
were submitted. All were carefully
considered. Harrison's name was
the only one to appear on all
eight reports.
The achievements, which make
Bob outstanding, are many and
varied. They are best enumerated
by quoting from one of the nominating letters as follows:
"Robert Harrison has a notable
record of service to St. Paul's
Church. He has been circulation
manager for the monthly Church
Newsletter. He is a teacher in the
Junior H' -> department of the
Church S .> i and a member of
St. Paul's senior choir. The Young
Married Couples group has also
counted heavily upon his leadership for many of its activities.
His service to the community
through J.C.C. activities should be
taken nto account. Hs news column, contributions to the Community Fair program, and his
contribution to Saline's Christmas
decorations should be remembered"
... ,      ^    We are confident that you will
Number Fivp in the series of 1 concur that Robert Harrison, Jr.,
Famfy Night Dinners will be held ls lne outstanding young man of
next Thursday, Fob. 20, in the th* vear and eminently worthy
*ning room of Federated Church. ?»d .wel1 qualified to receive the
No meeting is scheduled for this Distinguished Service Award,
week because the painters are at! Jf accepting the award Harrisos
work completing the redecoration said ^ ,he was greatly touched,
of all  basement rooms.
College Students
To Take Part In
MYF Program
Three   students   from Mieh-
igan State Normal College, Yp-
Jsiianti, will be in Saline Sunday
i to   take  part in-   the   evening
program of the  Methodist
Youth   Fellowship.  These   students are members of the Wes-
,ley   Foundation,   which   is   th:-
organization-for Methodist  c '
lege students to  participate  L
I while they are away from their
home church. The students are:
!    Barbara    Borgen,    a    junior
who   is   taking   an   elementary
teaching   course.   She  is   vice-
president of  the Wesley Foundation   and   her   home   is    at
Fenton.
Lois Bowmen of Blissfield is
personnel chairman of the
Wesley Foundation. A junior,
she is majoring in English and
Speech. In October she directed
an all-college cast in the play.
"Ways  and Means.''
Dan   Hehnkamp   studied   at
the University of Michigan during his freshman year and then
transferred   to   Michigan   Nor-
;mal where  he is now a junior,
land is taking a pre-med course.
iDan is president of the Wesley
I Foundation and is also a mem-
jber of the   Sigma Tau Gamma
'fraternity. His home is in Pon-
tiac.
The local MYF group will
■ each bring a dish to pass for
the pot-luck supper scheduled
to start at 6:30. Following the
men! there will be singing, recreation, a worship service and
i film strip on "Understanding
Yourself."
FAMILY NIGHT
i and that he regards it as ose  of
i   j i j    j-    ' the   highest awards  he has  ever
Circle   Meetings   scheduled   for; ~eceived  or'  eyer ^i receive.
today will  be   held in the homes j
of   members   rather than  in    the
Church proper.
GIRL SCOUTS
On Saturday, Feb. 12, at 9:45
a. m. on W. P. A G. the Saline
Girl Scouts will present the program usually given by the American Legion Auxiliary, who are
the Scouts sponsors. The girls
have been working very hard on
this program and hope everyone
will be listening in. Miss Pamelia |
Sehmid will be the announcer
under the direction of the leader,
Mrs. Verona Little.
Mis Myma Lobb of Linden wa
a week end guest of Kay Austin.
Miss Lobb is a clalihhhhhhhhhh
Misn Lobb is a classmate of Kay's
at  Cleary College
ed Cross Starts Drive
"Answer The Call"
$70,400 is the goal set in
Washtenaw County by the Red
Cross in their annual drive in
'heir "Answer the Call" campaign which starts March 1st.
Mrs. Frederick A. Collier of
Ann Arbor is the general chairman. This will be the first time
that Washtenaw County has
had a woman as general chair
Mr. and Mrs. Earl Culliton and  Jordan attended   the   wedding  of j }n  the   Primary   Department    of, that Mrs. Collier has     held    a
son  were    dinner   guests ■ at the  Miss Edie Metz in Lima, Ohio, on" Federated  Church. It is the gift ■ man's job. In 1940 she was the
I home of Mr. and Mrsi Ray Davis  Feb.   14. Miss  Goble  was. one of  0f friends of   Johnnie,  who  died 1 first woman to be elected to the
irv
A surprise birthday party was
held at the Hersch home to cele*-
hrate the seventeenth birthday of
Ardala Hersch. Class mates of Ar-
daJa were the guests.
Sunday.
the attendants.
Community Calendar
Feb. 21, Saturday—Dance at the
American Legion Home.
Feb. 23, Monday—Legion Auxiliary  at 8:00 p. m,*
Feb. 24-25,--J. C. C. Show at
Saline High. "Hoss Theft" at 8:00
p. m.
Feb.  25, Wednesday—Fun Club
meets at Mrs. Kenneth Johnson's.
Feb. 28, Saturday—Methodist
Youth Fellowship Bake Sale at
Woods Hardware Store. .
March 1, Sunday—Bishop Marshall   Reed   will * be    the    guest
last spring. Public" announcement Washtenaw County Board of
of the Dedicatory Services will be '■ Supervisors, a post she held for
made and all friends of the Keve- j [en years. Mrs. Collier's hus-
ling family and of the Church poand is a noted surgeon and
are invited to attend. _ j chairman of     the     University
The kitchen and dining room of Department of Surgery,
the   Church are  now in the pro- •    Manchester's  quota has "been
cess of being redecorated, and the set at    $1,100;    Milan,  $1,500;
Ladies   Aid   Society  has  ordered Saline,  $1,100; Chelsea, $1,675;
for Installation new folding chairs 't and Ypsilanti, $12,600.
The award states that Harrison
through his loyal, faithful and
unselfish efforts hs made a great
contribution to his community,
state and nation.
OBSERVER WINS AWARD
An award was made by the
Junior Chamber of Commerce to
the Saline Observer in reconition
and appreciation f orthe inestimable benefits which have accrued
from a cordial -relationship together with hope that the future
may witness the same splendid cooperation. F. W. Giesel, Jr., publisher of the Saline Observer,
Manchester Enterprise, and The
Milan Leader was presented with
the award! for the paper.
WORLD DAY
OF PRAYER
Tomorrow at 2:00 o'clock
Saline women will join with women around the world in observing the Annual World Day of
Prayer. A Union Service will be
conducted in the Federated
Church to which women of the
Methodist, St. Paul's, St. James'
and Bethel Churches have been
invited. Women from some of the
visiting groups will participate in
the Service which will be led by
Mrs. Henry McKenzie, wife of the
host   pastor.   The  Worship    Pro-
ive of  paralysis from r>olio. A
percentage of all blood  donations to   the Red Cross  is   ear- _j gram ,built on an African theme,
marked for this purpose.
The larger goal this year, the
will  follow  closely the  program
designed for use around the world
_,   , _ ., . , , An African exhibit will be on dis-
Red Cross said, was set because I piay-
sufficient in number to care for
all the Church needs. As soon as
the chairsi arrive and the painting has been completed, the "ed
preach at the Methodist Church j velvet back drape for the al ax j globulin, a blood derivative
at the" morning service. (will "be hung. i now being used   as   a prevent-
According to the Red Cross,
a larger portion of its funds
than ever before will be used
this year to    produce    gamma
of the increase in gamma globulin production and because
the National Red Cross has re-
alocated quotas based on population shifts.
The county chapter provides
such direct services for Washtenaw residents as maintenance
of highway first aid units;
first aid units; girst aid, home
nursing and water safety . instruction ; .reading to the blind
helping -hospitalized and institutional patients with handicraft projects; a motor service
for various hospitals and
health and welfare agencies;
and a blood donor program
used to maintain blood banks
for local state and national
needs.
In addition a series of colored
slides on the topic "For All Of
Life," will be shown by Mrs.
Hazen Jewell, with Mrs. Alvin
Siemsen reading the accompanying script. These pictures will
give an interpretation of world
missions as a powerful influence
for enriching- "all of life," in the
translation of the Bible into many
tongues, in medical and agricultural missions, in mission schools,
and in prayer.
This service is open- to all women of the community. A nursery
for the use of women with small
childreh. will be provided under
the care of Mrs. Allyn Phelps.
Mrs. Leta Davis was a week end
guest at the home of her daughter   and husband, Mr.   and Mrs.
Don  Sprague   in Ypsilanti.