1953-06-11; Saline Observer

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SEVENTIETH  YEAR,
NUMBER 37
SALINE,  WASHTENAW COLuvf\,  ivlICHICAN      THURSDAY,   JUNE   11,   1953
Tornado
Pleasant Lake
NEIGHBORS HELP IN TIME OF ST31
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I'Misrs Jep.n Carolyn Nichols,
dai_rrh'r- -v '.'j*. and Mrs.
Harold Cray o: Saline Valley Farms w-** grad"atod
from Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio, Mo:idr.y, June 8,
with  an A. B. Degree.
The     tornado     which     howled
across  southeastern Michigan and
northern   Ohio     Monday   evening
reached a furious hand up into the
Pleasant  Lake  area  northeast   ot
Manchester     and     left   one   man
dead in its wake.
Aim Haeussler,     30,    huddled
. with four  other members  of  the
' Oscar Haeussler household and a
'neighbor was  the  only victim as
the    tornado     roared    down  and
I leveled    the  large,     substantially
.      _    ,       ,i built  farm  home.   Apparently   he
Approximately 0ne hundred and * ^  m  by   gome   of   ^  falUng
fifty  guests   are   expected  to   at- • ddn.-B and kmed almQst instantiy_
tend  the   annual  banquet    to   be i His   chegt w£,s   cmshed  and  necI,
held   this   Friday   June  12,   19o3   hmluaL   Miraculously,   the   others
Saline Alumni News
at  6:30 p. m. in the high school
auditorium.
A few persons without reserva-
tiors may be allowed to attend,
pro 'ding they arrive before the
nun r of plates which we are
d over our reservations are
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tak.
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Eight Seniors Finish
With High Averages
According to Principal John
Ford, eight of the recent Saliiv"-
'Ugh School graduates finished
their studies with "B" or better
averages.
Valedictorian Ehp*i Menzel earned an average of 3.9—praetieally
a perfect record. The salutator:an.
Larry Wiedmayer posted a 3.8
average.
The others are John Braun
3.6, Eunice Meske 3.4, Ba bara
Begole 3.3, Alice Gilbert 3.3, Dorothy Marion, 3.1, and Irene Trin-
kle     30.
James Gleason and Helen Graf
each had an average of 2.8—•
practically B's.
The averages are figured on
the following basis: A, foutpoints;   B, three; C, two; D, oue:
in the house escaped relatively
unharmed. His father, Oscar Haeussler, was blown clear of the
wreckage.
Roaring northeast  across  Fx*ee-
dom   and  Lodi     townships,    the   „
. tornado   cut  a  swath  of  destruc-      '
•e is to be no sneaker at'tion more than five miles lo^
nquet but a verv splendid I and UP to 200 feet wlde leaving
1 program is planned for!tn6 one de.ad and at least tw':>
>alure of all i others    injured.    Allen Alber of
V-blie is 'coidially invited.13011 Bethel Church road said he
ed our dance to begin j saw the twister forming and that
y at D-30-p. m. Admission   at  flrst   it  seemed  to  have   twin   born Jmle gth weigMng. 6  poun<ls
Saline Hospital News
Births:
Mr.   and   Mrs.  Herman   Hitchcock  of   Saline  have  a   daughter
per couple or 75 cents - funnels which as it gained speed
singl^*Hop into your formal and 'finally molded into one near the
join    us  in    having  a  wonderful   intersection   of Bethel church and
time.
Eiseman roads.
and 5 ounces.
Mr.   and  Mrs.  Wilbur Brososky
of Saline have a son born June 8
We wish to exnress our appre*-'\     According to Frank Weiss who   weighing   8 pounds 9%   ounces,
ciation   to   the   Saline   Mercantile   runs a filling station  at Pleasant       ""
for the loan of property and to
all others who so willingly cooperated in making this year's
decorating theme, a garden of
memories, a most outstanding one.
Hope we'll be seeing you tomorrow night,  don't miss  it.
Red Cross News
The Saline Red Cross furnished
the volunteer staff for the Kaiser
Frazer blood bank on Friday
June 5. The four registrars were:
Margaret Hunt, Ethel Hunt. Sally
MacArthur  and  Ruth  Johnson.
The six nurses aides were: Ella
Finkbeiner, Thelma Burkhart,
Minnie Kern, Betty Finkbeiner,
Berniece Armbruster, and Winifred Dieterle. Luella Steffe of
Ann Arbor worked as the registered nurse. Mrs. Meritt Matin
was the hostess.
Lake, the storm gathered headway and took off northeast toward Pleasant Lake He said he
thought maybe it would hit- the
lake and blow itself out as did
one in that area over thirty
years ago when a twister roared
down from Rogers Corners leaving a path of destruction and finally spent itself as it churned for
several days in Pleasant Lake But
this was not the case It caved
in barn doors at the Edgar Little farm at 6181 Ernst road and
struck the Edwin Linke home at
5870 Lima Center Road. Mrs.
Linke aid she stood "petrified
and praying" as the two funnels
—one large and one small—circled on opposite sides of the
house, knocking down a chimney,
a windmill television antenna and
several trees. At the Oscar Reii2
home it blew down the garage,
ruined six windows and uprooted
trees.
L. Herschel Snyder, owner of
a grocery store at the lake,
watched a huge column of water
about 150 feet picked up as
the tornado snaked across the
lake. Luckily the roaring -funnel
missed the Michigan Gas Stor-
•ilgei's Pleasant Lake plant but,
bent on 'destruction, it roared
down on the Haeussler home
Oscar Haeussler and his sons
The first rehearsal of the Sa- Alvin and Glenn were outside
line   Summer    Community    Band  with a neighbor, Luther Schaible.
Jaycees To Elect
New Officers
A JCC dinner and election of
officers will be held Thursday
-niq-ht, June 11, at the Saline
Hotel. All members are urged to
attend.
Summer Band
Mr. and Mrs. Wilbum Mayers
of Milan have a daughter born
June 9th weighing 5 pounds 14
ounces.
Mr. and Mrs. Lynn Reese of Te-
;cumseh have a daughter born
June 9th weighing 5 pounds and
6 ounces.
Tonsillectomies: Gerald Fee-
man, Saline; Teresa Jedele, Saline; Richard Lauhon, Saline; Virginia Cammet, Ann Arbor; Mar-
cia Fritz, Ann Arbor; Patty Williams, Saline; Chas. Neithammer,
Saline;   Bonnie   Cammet,   Saline;
i~iic.x> coai'te-y A.A. News
r.ti'Jz'-rts of tl:*i Oicnr Haeujsiev's i-itch in and he'? after
Mcidtiy night's devastating tGriiEdo, which wrecked tl a Haeussler fami and killed one member of the family. The new are
salvaging dishes which cama through the storm undamaged?.' ^
Other pictures of the tornado are on page 8. s- ' *;
Old Church Metiers*
Attfiid Service*   *
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Two' members of t*. „ Class of
Michael   Coga^.   "--aline.
Surgery:    Wilma   Hague,   Ann j iversity of ' ""hk*-aij
Arbor. Two accident victims were  He replaced Fred I;
Two Saline
Teachers Resign
Two   Saline   teachers   resigned j
their teaching positions  at Saline I
High School last week in order 11887, and six members of the
to accept similar posts n the j class of 1903 were present at
Monroe school system. The two . services and dinner at St. James
are Mario Marchisio, baseball j Evangelical Church, Sunday,
coach and football assistant, and i Mrs. Mary Bredernitz, and
Robert Wells, junior high school Mrs. Thomas Zahn were conscience instructor. (firmed in 1887.  Members pres-
Marchisio had been recently -*jnt who were confirmed in 1903
named head coach and athletic [ were Herman Kohler, Bernard
director to replace John Padjen,' Boettger, Andrew Ernst, Mrs.
who will coach football at Boul- j Roy Fisher, Mrs. Matilda Kohl-
der  Ci.y,  Nevada, next fall. I er, and Mrs. Walter Luckhardt.
•-*-•-.»-<-. --« +~ <?. >ne directly. Mrs. Laura Longfellow of the
it the Un-|1903 class was prevented from
t January. | attending^-aecause of'illness a^d
ki Oif-Street Parkins
Firemen To
Start Fires
At a meeting of the Businessmen's Association, held Friday night, it was voted 5 to 2 to
circulate petitions requesting the
City Council to repeal the Park-
At 8:00 p. m. Thursday, June ina' Meter Ordinance. The petitions
25, the Saline Fire Department which were circulated previously
will demonstrate the effectiveness ' were declared illegal, and the" com-
of fighting oil fires with fog. The t mittee had to secure new legal
oil fire will be started in a 20 ' petitions and start securing sig-
by 30  foot  pit,  and  flames will' natures  all over again.
leap from CO to 70 feet in the sir.
The firemen expect to put out
the fire with 60 gallons of water
in fi'mi 10 to 20 seconds. The fire
department will use abou* 12 har-
a-eflij»«f'oil and will ha-'f -vS-iieast
a-9*.£ dozen fires.   ■"'*
The  demonstration, will be held j the  Business Men at the meeting
A. L. Giltrow, Alfred Sehmid,
E. J. Beasley, Everett Wolfin,
pud Claude. Englehart are in
charge --x/ '"<*fcommittee representing ''th »!-.iers of the ^,tr<^
tion. ' - r *\J*
It was   the feeling of most of
at the back of Saline Park at
the old ball diamond. The public
is invited.
after finishing studi.
treated   for    lacerations   of     the j resigned after the i.,
forehead:     James    Hamilton     of  idays
Dearorn  and  Jodia  Wray of   Saline.
Medical patients: John Mott of
" "berg who
stmas hol-
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No successor to Mji rchisio has
been named. Charles , 5. Jacciuith
of Jackson, will succeed Wells.
Ypsilanti and Louise Weinman of. Jacquith is graduating from the
Ann Arbor. University of Michigan this week.
CELEBRATE 50th ANMVEE^IIIT'
another member, Mrs. Herman
Alber passed away years ago.
Her husband came to honor the
memory of his wife. In every
case in the class of 1903 either
wife or husband of the member
was present.
i    After the service a dinner was
i held in the parish' house. Singing cf eld religious hymns, visiting,   story  telling   and   reminiscing took place.
Saline High School
Graduates 48 Students
Saline High School graduated
forty-eight seniors l?st Thursday evening at tb"*1' school's
eighty-fifth eo'ihrnenci jient ceremony which'..was I /d? *in the
gymnasium. ; '. _y
The senio'TO-:*and their famines and friQ»8s heard their sa-
lutatorian '""and valedictorian,
Larry Wiedmayer and Rhea
Menzel, and Dr. E. L. V. Shel-
ey, chief psychologist from
•Boy's Vocotational School of
Lansing.
Dr. Shelley gave the graduates
his formula for a successful
'ife. The essence of his talk pro-
*idgd ai "secret of lige."
that people should be encouraged
to shop in Saline, and that parking meters would tend to drive
them away unless off-street parking is  secured.
Mayor Leutheuser attended the
meeting and stated that it was
s.Ta*(aui Supj.red l"3*fl uoiuido SIt[
would help, and would not hurt
business. He said that parking
meters would correct the parking
situation, and would raise revenue to   obtain off street parking.
Advisory Council
Discusses School
Building Sites
At a—meeting of  the  Saline
Advisory--Council held Tuesday
night types-.-of buildings desired
and   location  of  buildings  was
discussed.
v-VT-pf-'ve'-.'    Wilfred Clann -""-om the State
then lose yonrseh-es. Don't spend, Department  of Public Instruc-
^oo mi-eh time becoming a sun-'tion was present to advise the
--ec.c.. Get p good siMritual goal." i Council.  He suggested that the
Puincipil. John "Ford present- j high school be for the District
efr-'the class to Dr. Harold A and   at   least   one   elementary
filler,  pres-'V^f'  of the 19*line i school be located in Saline.
-      - "it"-*-*-— )*'  -    i     Clapp said'that other natural
^eigMlQ!^.0/! areas where   ele-
aen"   .-■    --.nools  should be  lo-
SJate^     +—.near Textile RgU be-
t-TO'7:.' • *ine   and   A^wst^rhor
in the"LSai Plains J>js^rlc*.0*a"jid."
B
will be held at the High School
Gymnasium this coming Saturday
evening at 7:30 The rehearsal
will last for about an hour and
one half and will be spent on
playing new, interesting, and
easy mueic.
All members of the regular
High School Band and former
members are encouraged to attend. Also welcome will be the
musicians of this community,
people who have played instruments in the past and would like
to get the horn from the attic.
Come, bring your friends, bring
the family if necessary, but be
sure to come for the first rehearsal   this  coming  Saturday.
Arthur Katterjohn will direct
these rehearsals and has planned
concerts for the following- dates:
June 27, and July 25. Rehearsals,
will be held each Saturday evening except the 4th of July until
that- last date. The music will be
made on the easiness of the mu
interesting, but stress will be
sic.-    We want to have all    who
The men sounded an alarm when
Oscar, seeing the twisting mass,
recognized it and told the rest
to go to the basement of the
house. Alvin's wife, Ruth, and
four months old son were m
their tracer nearby and were
summoned, as the storm approach-
(See   TORNADO, Page 8)
Ground Breaking
At Trinity Church
On   Pentecost    Sunday,    the
Trinity    Lutheran    Evangelical
Church   of   Saline   observed   a
brief ground-breaking ceremony
for   its   new   parsonage.   That
week the basement was excavated, forms for the footings were __
built, and cement for the foot-1 Couple  Honored
mgs  were  poured.   Since  then'  . ,    A
there has been rapid progress. At Anniversary
Raymond Niethammer is the
contractor. The active members
of the Building Committee are;
Harry Anderson, Harold Lam
Approximately three hundred
attended the Open House at the
Methodist Church on Sunday afternoon from    2:00     p. m. until
barth,   Albert   Bredernitz,   and
come to he able to play the mu- j Edward Mamarow.The new par-
sic So join us this Saturday at sonage is being built at 108 Mc-1 ,,-.- . - ,, A
7:30 for the first rehearsal of,Kay Street. It will consist of!^eddmS anniversary of Mr. and
the Saline Summer Community; 8 rooms and bath. The church mrs- Martm *uoss.
Band. office will be in the parsonage. I The couple was married at the
 ;  country home of the bride's parents, on June 2, 1903. Mr. Fuoss
operated a grocery store in Saline for 23 years and has been
connected with the Citizens Bank
for 8 years. The couple had two
children, the Irte Hael Fuoss Baker, who died in  1947 and Robert
irlioto Couil-;sy A.A. Mews
Mr. and Mrs. Martin Fuoss
on  each.   Both  coffee  and  punch
were served.
Pouring at the reception were,
Mrs. J. B. Wallace of Hudson
Ohio, Mrs. Luther Briggs, Mrs
Carl Curtiss, Mrs. S. Y. Cottor
and Mrs. Edward Feuerbacher, al
of Saline. Mrs. Howard LeBaron.
a niece, also poured. Mrs. Harn
Members of the Trinity Lutheran Church break ground for
their new Parsonage. - ,-■ •
6:00 p. m., in honor of the fiftieth j Friis cut the cake
Six people were present at the
reception who also were present
at the wedding fifty years ago:
Mrs, J. B. Wallace, Mrs. C. A
Jordan, Mrs. Roy Rogers, Mrs.
Clara Lindenschmidt, and Mr.
and Mrs. Luther Briggs.
Mr. aid Mrs. Fuoss renewe'
many old friendships and receive '
the congratulations of the:r manj
friends.  Mrs.  Casper Nauman  o
Fuoss of Philadelphia, managing j Detroit, who played the wedding
editor of the Saturday Evening j maj.ch ;!rd the miid of honor.
Post. TLey have three grand- j jMrs William Parmenter also of
children and one great-grand- I Detroit, called at the Fuoss home
-eh'd; ion   Saturd-.y   and   extended   their
Mi*s. Pearl Friis, with the assistance of the officers and chairmen of t.i-* W. S. C. S. was in
charge of the a'fair. The table
was exrnisitely decor "• ted with the
two silver service sets and yellow candles The cake was beautifully decora+ed with white icing
trimmed with little yellow roses
and Iit'.le s"ver beads. The irtt'e
individual cikes were cut in  tiny
squares
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alow rose
congratulations. For the past sev
eral  days   a number   of    friends
from    surrounding     communities
have called at the Fuoss home to
also wish them well.
An interesting fact was related
by Mrs. Fuoss concerning the
transportation provided to bring
the Detroit guests to the wedding
in 1903. A streetcar was hired for
§50 to bring them to Saline and
take them back.
Third Grade Visits
Ford Museum
The third grade of the Saline
School visited the Henry Ford
Museum and Greenfield Village,
one of Michigan's great tourist
attractions, on Tuesday June 2.
The group, with Mrs. Doris
Hummel in charge, visited
craft shops where weaving, pottery making and cooperage are
demonstrated; the homes and
early workshops of such famous Americans as Noah Web-
t"-ter, Luther Burbank, the
Weight Brothers, and William
"rloir-^s McGuffey; and such
lostaljrc landmarks as the oldest windmill in America, a
•root'in covered bridge and an
->ld pnddlewlvel s^amer. They
->re all a part of the rambling
*>00-af--es that make up Green-
';o]rl Vi■"-•*«>.
One of the highlights for the
31 students mpking the tour,
was a "'-it to Thomas Edison's
Menlo Park (New Jersey") Laboratory, where the great wizard developed some of his mosti
significant contributions to
science: the phonograph, electric light and carbon transmitter.
Area Board"./M6*3»F m-
-iresented "th,      ?¥\r\    " ■**>
mtendant, L(* . '(••
duced thejs- tilt »• ; t.1 *
-a .in -the Sr effi. • ; j,\ a-f "•<?• -
mas. Rev. Alvin Siemsen of St.
Paul's - Church nronouneed the
invocation   and  benediction.
Music  for the  occasion   was
provided   by   the   Saline   High
in    the Bridgewater    District
near the boundary of the Union
District.
Plans for    future     growth
Sr-hool   brpss   pi-*oir  under   the (should be considered, Clapp said
direction of Arthur Katterjohn.
Mr. Katterjohn also plaved a
<T*'mT>et solo. 'Chorale and Variations,"  by Delmas
He pointed out the building of
extra rooms in anticipation of
future growth would be justified, since it would save money
The 1953 graduates are B^ttv if Tne  price level  remains  the
Mber,    B^rh^ra   Begole,   John same.
Clapp  also  pointed   out  that
schools. "You get exactly what
■-*rp-*n, Kelvin Braun. David
-"-reriernitz. Kenne+h B""-iei<*-
ter. Georce Burns. Edward Cam- ; you pay for, he said He ad-
-~.pt Jpmes Cook. Lavverne y°u Pay for,' he said. Head-
n^ire. Douelas Elfring. Calvin i vised the couneil ir-t to start
-•--wiehart Norma Faust, Lois, out with a compromise. Schools
TTjnch -Ronald Finkbeiner. Alice !ar- built to last 50 years, and
Gilhprt James Gleason. Helen mistakes made now cannot be
Graf. 'Joseph Graf, Marion .undone later.
Harold I    •*-**  was  brought  out  at   the
Guenther, Larry Haf emeister,, meeting that the Rentschler Dis.
Tjra--0i<I Hanson Paul F^rhecke, trict had voted to annex. It now
nvathe HiJp-e, Carlene Hinderer, remains   for   the   Saline   Area
Taenuelyn Hoeft, James Jacobs,
lean Klumpp, Robert Leutheuse
-Tpin Klumnp, Robert Leutheuser, John McCov, Dorothv Margin, John Marion, Rhea 3,re>"7;el,
School District to accept or refuse the annexation request.
Arthur Lutz reported that the
Union School District had decided to wait until the annual meet-
■ '--nice >-"*-*-*ke, TH-hard Miller, ing before deciding on annexa-
■"■iton Mophn.  Marilyn Murray,  tio?
Wiima Rhoades, Elain Rogers, I The location committee of
Shirley S^d^-son, P-^bert Tow- the advisory council will meet
er Marior'" Tower Irpnp Trin-' Monday, June 15 at 8:00 p.m.
He. Larry Wiedmayer and Nan- in the school to consider sites
ey Woods. ,for schools.
Rubbish Hauling*
It has been called to our attention on several occasions, where
people hauling rubhish to,the
city dump do not take necessary
r.recautions to keep some troni
falling off the trucks. This is
especially true along Monroe St.,
-t the  c-metery.  where the  lawn
xtens'ons must be cleared of old
-ans, bottles, papers and wu*es before mowing can be done We have
broken   our  mower   as   a   result
tt,  ,,r-n   -..,_„   t-0  5,5k  that  m0re
care be taken in this  respect
E.   J. Iluii*, City Clerk.
F,v3 Demonstration
' The public is invited to -i i'ir<-
demonstration at the South end of
the City Park at 8:00 p. m. on
Thursday, June 18.
Saline  Fire  Department.
' Mr. and Mrs. Hudson Morton,
jfaughter Martha and Miss Anna^
"Gregory of Ann Arbor were Sun-
»lay dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs.
•Lloyd Catey. - .   *
Six Saline Girls To
Attend F.H.A. Camp
Sally Cook, Carol Burmeister,
Nancy Ross, Sharon Larson, Anne
Menzel, Donna Wahl, left Wednesday with Mrs Kenneth Rogers,
to attend the F. H. A. Camp at
St. Mary's Lake in Battle Creek.
■ Purpose of the camp is to. enable the girls to learn more
about club crafts. F. H. A. girls
frftm all over Michigan attend'
the camp The local club is going
on proceeds from the style show
they put on recently
| Car Rams Giltrow's
Pharmacy
A car driven by Mrs. Peter
Smerecki rammed into the front
of Giltrow's Phpmaey Saturday
night causing damage estimated
at $700- Mrs. Smerecki had parked
in front of the store. She s'epped
on the starter while.the car was
in gear causing it- to: jump? over
the sidewalk into the building. A
whole new front to the store will
have to he put In; and the, glass
show" windows were buckled and
may break when the glass is '
removed.
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Pictured above is the George's Tavern, .and Wilmac. Co.
Bowling teams at an "outing" in Detroit. They journeyed to
see last Friday's night baseball game, and the game -^as; called after the third inning because of rain. Socoool!ill
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