1953-11-26; Saline Observer

              Saline
Sidelights
Today is Thanksgiving and a
good many people .will be seated
at tables loaded with all kinds
of delicious food. We found a
poem -which is appropriate for the
occasion:
Modern Thanksgiving
This is the day which I deplore,
Modern science and all its lore,
Chromium  trim   and   hooks   and
racks,
Rainbow    pottery    in    gleaming
stacks.
Spoons to lick, and pantry shelves
Piled with goodies for prying elves
Disorder should  reign  on sfach a
. day;
Bowls and platters in disarray,
Crocks  of   goodies,  a  stove that
sends
Into the kitchen savory blends;
Curtains billowing, pumpkin pies
Cooling on sills, and prying eyes
Peering to ferret out each reason
For all the specialties of the season.
But here routine now governs all:
The electric clock lets minutes fall
Precise   and    ordered:   a    button
turns.
And   nothing   ever    scorches   or
burns.
A switch flips  low and a switch
flips high,
Mixers revolve and  griddles fry.
Electric gadgets do every chore—
What busy housewife could wish
' for more?
I could—for I remember well
Grandmother's kitchen, its marvelous smell.
Children forgive me for  robbing
you
Of the kind of Thanksgiving that
once I knew.
—Frances Rodman.
Mrs. H. L. Engle, wife of Rev.
Engle, told us that everyone is
asking "How do you like your
new home?" Mrs. Engle says that
they like therir new home very
much and think it is wonderful
and are very grateful to the members of the Trinity Lutheran
Church for their beautiful home.
She said that their only regret is
missing all their good neighbors
on Maple St.
Mrs. Ray Burmeister tells us
that as one grows older, the time
seems to pass faster each day and
he says that it will be 25 years
this Friday that she and her husband have been married. They will
celebrate by having open house, to
all their friends and relatives and
will enjoy recalling old times.
Did you know that when our
American forefathers selected the
eagle as the emblem of our young
nation, there was one dissenter?
Benjamin Franklin said that the
turkey is a much more respectable bird and a true native of
America. That he is a bird of
courage and would not hesitate to
attack a grenadier of the British
guards who should presume to1 invade his barnyard with a red jacket. Franklin was overruled however, but a lot of Americans will
agree that a turkey is a great
bird, especially on a platter.
Birthday 'Greetings
The Saline Observer is celebrating the birthdays of the following
people:
Dan Haeussler   Nov. 26
Richard Goltz    Nov. 26
Eileen Austin Nov. 27
Mrs. Leland Dicks Nov. 27
Joyce Ann Graf Nov. 27
Walter MacArthur Nov. 28
James Austin Nov. 29
Mrs. Carl Burmeister . Nov. 30
Mrs. C. D. Miller Dec. 1
Leland Dicks Dec. 3
Robert Gable ...' Dec. 3
Family Night At    .
St. Paul's
There will be a family night
gathering on Tuesday, Dec. 1, at
St. Paul's Church. Coffee and rolls
will be furnished by the commttee.
Parents are asked to furnish a1
gift for their children not exceeding 50 cents. Supper will be served at 6:30. Bring your own table
service. Come and share in the
fellowship.
Hospital News
Births:
Mr. and Mrs. Roger "Van Doren
of Saline have a son born Nov.
17, weighing seven pounrs three
ounces.
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Duke of
Ypsilanti have a son born Nov. 21,
weighing seven pounds six and
one-half ounces.
Tonsillectomies: Trudy Edwards,
Ann Arbor; David Sweet, iMlan;
Clark Cargil, Milan.
Medical: Edith Towler, Saline;
Jane Kellogg, Saline.
Delinquent
Water Bills
There are still some Water
Customers whose September 30th"
water bills have not yet been paid.
Please "remit at once.   ,
E. J. MUIR,
Treasurer.
H&e ScUchc   Oi&erw&i
SEVENTY-FIRST   YEAR       NUMBER 9
SALINE,  WASHTENAW COUNTY,- MCHIGAN       THURSDAY,    NOV.   26,    1953
Grand Remodeling Sale
At Gamble Store
The Gamble's store, located at
104-106 E. Michigan Ave., Saline,
is holding a grand remodeling sale
Friday and Saturday, Nov. 27 and
28.
The store has just been expanded to take in the building formerly occupied by Still's restaurant.
This expansion adds 1500 square
feet of sales area and 1500 square
feet of storage space to the original store.
According to store manager Bob
Harrison, the recent expansion is
designed to fill out lines of merchandise already carried. The store
handles Coronado Appliances, Artisan tools and garden supplies,
Crest tires and tubes, Hiawatha
sporting' goods, Varcon auto supplies, Lady Helen houseware,
Home Guard paint and supplies^
and Haddon Hall furniture. Gamble's store also features a complete
basement toyland.
The remodeling sale will feature
many outstanding bargains in all
types of Merchandise, and the
basement toyland will be ope_. Refreshments will be served, and
gifts and special prizes will be
offered.
Gamble's has been completely
remodeled, with new fixtures anu
color styling. Harold Socks was
the contractor on the job.
The Gamble's store was first
opened in Saline in the spring of
1949. Bob Harrison became manager of the store in Oct. 1952, after working four years for Aero
Radio in Ann Arbor. In the summer of 1952, the basement was
developed into a sales area, and
is now used exclusively as a toy-
land. The present remodeling was
started in September, with the
wall being removed from the present store and the building at 106
E. Michigan.
The store also maintains two
warehouses in Saline. One is lo-
c*xted on N. Ann Arbor St., just
beyond the city limits, and the
other is at the rear' of 98 Maple
St.
Gamble's will be open Friday
and Saturday from 9 to 9. The
management invites you to come
in, "and to let them help- you with
your shopping problems.
Mrs. Dorothy Donner, Detroit
Edison's Home Economist, will be
present to answer your questions
on electric cooking, washing, drying, and proper use of home freezers. She will also bake cookies
that you are invited to sample.
Annual Christmas
Dinner Party
The women's class of Federated
Church School is announcing plans
for its Annual Christmas Diner
Party for the husbands, to be held
in the church dining ror-m on Friday evening, Dec. 4 at 7:00 o'clock.
Each couple is asked to bring their
own table service and the potluck
dinner will precede the party. Mrs.
Ferman Clements and Mrs. A. W.
Cuff in charge of arrangements
for the meal, and will provide the
coffee.
Mrs. Dwight Reynolds has been
named program chairman and will
plan the evening's entertainment,
according to announcement of the
class president, Mrs. Howard John-
Christina Schnierle
Resigns Student
Court Position
Christina Schnierle, chief justice
of the Saline High School Student
Court, resigned last week when it
was determined that she could not
.be a member of both the judicial
and executive branches of the Student Government simultaneously.
The situation, which is not unique even in cases of some real
governmnt officials, arose "when
Christina, already a justice, was
elected to the Student Council secretaryship. She had served in both
capacities for approximately two
months.
SHS Students Take
IQ and Aptitude Tests
Last week the entire student
body of Saline High School took
a) battery of intelligence and aptitude tests. The testing program
included grades seven through
twelve and was administered by
guidance director Mrs. Lois Sebastian, in co-operation with the University of Michigan Bureau of
Field Services.
. A (Similar program, is how being
conducted in the Saline elementary school.
Marvin Rorick Heads
Saline Teachers Club
Marvin Rorick vocational agriculture instructor at Saline High
School, will head the Saline Teachers Club during the 1953-54 school
term. Mr. Rorick was; elected to
the presidency of the) organization
at a regular meeting held at the
high school last Wednesday afternoon.
The 45 Saline Area Teachers
also elected Mrs. Una Dicks, a.
rural school teacher, to the vice
presidency. Theypicked Mrs. Ross,
elementary teacher, for secretary;
and G. J. Bonich, senior high science instructor, was elected treasurer.
The new slate of officers will
constitute the executive committee
of the club. Mr. Rorick expects *to
name his standing committees in
time for these committees to begin
functioning before the December
meeting of the group. Committee
members will be notified of their
appointments by mail.
Retiring officers of the Saline
Teachers Club are Mrs. Alberta
Rogers, president; Mrs. Lois Sebastian, vice president; Howard
Hill, secretary; and Daniel Coffey,
treasurer.
SHS Applies For
North Central
Membership
Last week Saline High School
made formal application for membership in the North Central Association of Secondary Schools
and Colleges. According to Principal Elmer/Houghton, the application was/ made with Kent W.
Leach, the now state chairman of
the association.
The entire secondary faculty of
Saline High School, led by Mr.
Houghtrn. hr.s been bnsy **inea the
opening of school last .September,
preparing the check lists _nd mak*-
ing ths required evaluations. The
teachers worked singly and in
committees in order to accomplish
the task. Every' phase of the
school organization had to be
checked and evaluated. Evaluations of such items as professional
preparation of the staff, plant and
physical facilities, instructional
areas, student organizations and
activities, student publications, library facilities, curriculum development, guidance, and non-teaching personnel were made.
A committee of nine educators,
appointed by the North Central
Association, will check the report
compiled by Mr. Houghton and the
faculty of Saline High School. Before passing judgment on the Saline application for membership,
this committee will visit the
school. This visit will be made
some time in  January.
Saline teachers who worked on
the application compilation include
superintendent Leo L. Jensen,
principal Elmer Houghton, G. J.
Bonich, Mrs. Mildred A. Haswell,
Mrs. JElmine Sweet, John Luidens,
Douglas Race, Duane Hooker,
Dwight Reynolds, Charles Jaquith,
Mrs. Lois Sebastian, Howard M.
Hill, Jack Hayes, Mrs. Alberta
Rogers, Mrs. Jean Taylor, Mrs.
Homer Kuebler, Marvin Rorick
and Arthur Katterjohn.
Our First Thanksgiving
Let Us Thank God
Let's have our turkey dinners,
football games, family reunions
and all that" today—but let's remember that it is Thanksgiving
Day, and observe it as such with
at least a brief moment of. gratitude to God for our blessings.
It is, from our Pilgrim Fathers' grateful prayers in the wilderness a long-ago November
that our present Thanksgiving
derives. They set an example in
word and deed which we might
well remember at least once a
year. Even before the Mayflower
landed them at Plymouth they
had written in the Compact;
"We whose names are undpr
written have undertaken, for tne
glory of God, to establish in
Virginia the first colony for the
advancement of the Christian
faith." . . .
So glorious our heritage, so
short our memories!
Its History
The observance" of Thanksgiving on a fixed day and on a
national scale stems directly
from a 36-year campaign carried on by Mrs. Sarah J. Hale
of Boston, editor of Godey's
Lady Book. In 1827 she began
her campaign to have the last
Thursday in November designated as America's Thanksgiving
Day, but it was not until 1863,
with Abraham Lincoln in the
White House, that she succeeded.
In September, 1863, Mrs. Hale
wrote in an editorial:
"In a time of national darkness and sore troubles, shall we
not recognize that the goodness
of God never faileth, and that
to our Father in Heaven we
should always bring the Thanksgiving offering at the ingathering of the harvest?"
Thirty states had observed
the holiday in 1859, and four
years later President Lincoln
issued the first Thanksgiving
Day proclamation.
Ervin Grody Camp
Bats Good Average
Cecil A11*er1*-<*n v»pr-*-'-_ f-"-pi •-V
north woods thtt the Ervin Grndy
farm located three miles w-v-s or
I Mancelona, Michigan, accounted
for six bucks out of a party of
eight the first three days of the
deer hunting season. Plus this
they hit another buck aid found
one 6 pointer which had been shot
by some other hunter. Albertson
bagged his the first day with his
father scoring the second day at
1 p. m. He also stated that between Mrs. Grady's cooking and
the good hunting he didn't know
which was the best. Both were
VERY good.
Range Riders Club
The Range Riders Club meeting
was held on Saturday evening,
November 21, at 114 East Michigan Avenue. The following officers were elected: president, Geo.
Miller; 1st vice president, Glenn
Carter; 2nd vice president, Thomas
Schumaier; secretary and treasurer, Karen Beckington, and publicity chairman,'Sandiland Bowen.
The next meeting will be held
at the same place on December
19 at 7:30 in the evening. Anyone
interested in joining the club is
welcome to attend the meeting.
Notice To Taxpayers
Your Winter Taxes are due
and payable at the City Offices
December 1st thru January 19,
1954 without Penalty. From Jan.
20th thru February, 3% penalty_
will be added.
E. J. MUIR,
Treasurer.
Correction . . .
Last week we printed that
$1,000 in checks were being mailed to the Saline Saving's Bank
Christmas Club members. .The
figure should have been §11,000, |
The 1954 Cliristmas Club is now
being formed. -
Mrs. Sophia Austin
Mrs. Sophia Austin, 76, wife of
William A. Austin who operates
the Austin Orchards ahout 1%
miles south of Saline, died early
Saturday at the Saline_ General
Hospital after a long illness. She
lived at 9375 Saline-Milan Road
in York township.
Mrs. Austin was born July .5,
1877, in Wayne, a daughter of
George L. and Amelia Ziegler
Sawslayer.
She married William Austin on
Feb. 21, 1900, in Wayne. He survives.
They had lived in Wayne until
1919 and in York township since
that time.
She was a member of the Presbyterian Church here, the Order
of the Eastern Star, of which she
was a past matron, and of the
Past Matrons' Club.
Besides her husband, Mrs. Austin is survived by one daughter,
Mrs. Frank Scott of Wayne; two
sons, Hugh and George, both of
York township; one brother, Samuel L. Sawslayer of Wayne; two
sisters, Mrs. Fred Hoops, Wayne
and Mrs. Clyde Furlong of Fen-
ton; and eight grandchildren. *
Funeral services were held at
2 p. m. Monday at the Loockwood
Funeral home with the Rev. Henry
W. McKenzie officiating. Burial
was in Oakwood Cemetery.
Willing Workers Hold
Thanksgiving Dinner
The .1 -1'ne "Willing Workers met
No vein'-er 19th at the Macon
Methodist Church for their annual
Thanksgiving dinner, with a good
number of 65, considering the
hunting season. The three long
tables looked very festive and everyone enjoyed the delicious meal
prepared by the various committees.
Mrs. Leon Greashaber had devotions. Prof, and Mrs. Daniel Ling
of Ann Arbor, showed colored
slides of their western trip and
Boy Scout Jamboree which were
very interesting.
A short business "meeting was
held and it was announced for all
to come early with needles and
thimbles for a little sewing. Mrs.
Paul Hammond to be hostess for
the December meeting at the nome
of Mrs. Herman Mehler. Each one
is to bring a 25-cent gift for exchange.
The president very graciously
thanked all who helped for the
success of the meeting.
Hazel  Scudder,  Cor. Sec.
Family Night At
Methodist Church
Sunday, Nov. 29th, at 6:30 with
the Mary L. Circle making the arrangements and the program in
charge of the Youth Fellowship.
That's the date to remember an
plan to be present. The rolls, coffee and milk will be furnished and
the rest will be the usual potluck. Bring your own table service.
Educational Advisory
Council Recommends
Heeded Building Plan
Fire Fighters Fight
Fires
The Saline Fire Department was
called out at 4:45 p. m. Thursday
to fight a brush fire on the
Jedele Farm on Water Works Rd.
Over ten acres of brush was burned off.
About 11:00 a. m. Tuesday, the
department extinguished a car fire
at Lewis St. and Michigan Ave.
The back seat cushions of the car,
a Hudson, were on fire. The car
was locked, and the firemen had
to break a window to get to the
blaze.
High School Band
To Present Concert
The Saline High School Band,
under the direction of Arthur Katterjohn, will present its first concert of this year at the High
School Auditorium on December 9,
at 8:00 p. m. The band will present a program of varied music
including marches, concert pieces,
modern music, and novelties. Also
included in the program will be a
cornet solo by Jim Austin, and a
selection of solos hy our guest
soloist from the University of
Michigan Band.
Two bands will perform at this
concert, even though the whole
urogram will be rather short.
The newly-formed Honors Band,
which is composed of about thirty
outstanding members of the regular concert band, will perform two
more difficult and interesting
numbers. This special group meets
during the regularly scheduled
rehearsal time, and must prepare
its music with only one rehearsal
per week.
The program will be the first
of three scheduled this year instead of the traditional two concerts. It will not be long, running
only about 90 minutes in length
There will be o charge for admission as has been the consistent
policy of the music department. So
plan now to reserve this evening
fov yonr own m'T.c-1 enjoyment
and come to support your own
band. December 9, Wednesday,
8:00 p. m.  No Admission Charge.
Mr. and Mrs. Howard Scruggs
of Niceville, Florida, are the parents of a- baby girl, Sherril Diane,
horn November 14. Mrs. Scruggs
is the former Carol Schrader.
Rev. Dr. Elbert B. Dodd, a missionary who has been in Japan,
Korea, China and Formosa, will be
the speaker at Federated Church
on Sunday evening. The public is
wecome to attend.
Howard Braun, John Marion,
and Kenneth Burmeister haVe
gone north for several days of
deer hunting.
Christmas Toy
Project Under Way
Again this veir the c^Udren of
the Church School at Federated
Church are participating in a
Christmas giving project of large
proportions. During the next two
Sundays, their gifts are being
brought for shipment to the Rev.
Robert McClure, of Booneville, Ky.
Under the jursdiction of Dr McClure, there are eighteen rural
mission Sunday Schools with about
2,000 pupils who need Christmas
remembrances.
The Church Circles of the Ladies Aid Society are also engaged
in helping with this project and
have purchased a dozen dolls
which are being dressed for sending to the same mission field.
Missionary From
Orient To Speak At
Federated Church
On Sunday evening, Nov. 29, at
7:45 o'clock, the Rev. Dr. Dodd,
Presbyterian njissionary who has
spent forty-five years in the orient, will be the guest sneaker at
the Federated Church. The public
is invited to hear him.
Moi-e recently from Formosa,
Dr. Dodd formerly was stationed
in Shanghai and has served in
other areas of China and- the orient - : .
Members of"'; the congregation
are planning an informal social
hour following the evening worship hour to ePable friends to ask
questions and visit informally with
the guest speaker.
Dance At Legion Club
Saturday Night
A Hunter's Ball will be held at
the Saline Legion Home Saturday
night, Nov. 28. The dance begins
at 10:00 p. m. Ken Edwards and
his band will furnish the music.
Legionaires and friends are invited.
The Saline Area Educational
Advisory Council, at a meeting
held at the High School on November 17, adopted the following
as its recommendation to the
Board of Education as the educational needs of the school district.
1. Two elementary schools both ,
of thirteen rooms each or one
thirteen-room building and one
seven-room building — the plan
adopted to depend upon the cost
of the total program as presented
by the architect. The two thirteen-
room schools would furnish facilities for- all the elementary pupils
in the district for the foreseeable
future.
The thirteen and the seven-Toom
buildings would furnish room for
all the pupils for probably two
years and then additional rooms
would be needed. These rooms
would be added to the seven-room
building as needed much the same
as rooms have been added to the
present building during the past
four years.
2. The construction of a. Farm
Shop and an Agricultural class
room. This department would be a
one-story addition to the present
high school on the north end. It
would be approximately fifty by
eighty feet in size and conform to
the construction and lines of the
present building. The construction
of this department would make
available additional needed space
in the present building for the
regular shop program of mechanic
cal drawing, woodwork and metal
work.
3. Remodeling three of the four
recently constructed elementary
room additions to the present
building into a music department.
The music department now holds
classes on the stage in competition with the many activities that
take place in the gym. It also uses
the kindergarten room after the
tots have gone home. Very few
changes will be needed, therefore
the cost should be relatively small.
4. Gymnasium facilities: Addition of a kitchen for hot lunches
and for community use on the east
side of the present gym and the
construction of one additionnL
locker and dressing room on the
east siVe. Also included in plans
for better gymnasium facilities is
a proposal to enlarge the gymnasium thirty feet to the south.
With so large a- number of the
high school pupils coming to
school by school* bus, a hot lunch
program is badly needed.
Furthermore, an ever increasing
number of community functions
I which require kitchen facilities
are being held at school and often
interrupt the regular home-making classes.
The present gym is woefully
lacking in seating capacity. As the
high school continues to grow this
situation will become more critical not only for athletic contests
but for community meetings as
well. The small dressing rooms
under bleachers are entirely inadequate now. It is impossible to
maintain cleanliness and sanitary
facilities in rooms as overcrowded
as these.
There are other minor changes
that will be required, such as enlarging the Home Economics and
the Science Departments, but.
these are not expensive changes,
requiring mainly additional equipment.
The estimated cost of the proposed building program was seven
hundred fifty to eight hundred
thousand dollars. It the eight hundred thousand figure is adopted,
the tax necessary to retire the
bonds would be approximately
eight dollars per thousand of
county equalized valuation.
Some concern regarding the indebtedness on the present' bunding
was answered hy Dr. Harold Miller, President of the Board of Education. He explained that with
this year's three dollars per thousand deKt retirement tax no further
tax will be necessary to retire the
remaining outstanding bonds
amounting to $54,000. There is at
present $38,110.34 in the debt retirement fund. With the $25,605.25
which will be collected this year
the fund will be more than sufficient to retire all remaining
bonds.
The Saline Area Advisory Council expressed the opinion that with
the district's high valuation per
pupil, higher than most of .it-
neighboring districts which are
providing* adequately, that tibia
district is able and should provide
a fully adequate program of education for all its pupils.
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