1955-07-14; Saline Observer

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SEVENTY-SECOND    YEAR
SALINE, MICHIGAN.. THURSDAY, JULY 14, 1955
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Real Estate Boom
inues In County
Saline Mill Theatre
In New Production
The Saline Mill Theatre will present the Michigan premiere of Tennessee Williams' "You Touched
Me!" Tuesday evening, July 12, at
8:30 P.m. The play, a romantic
comedy in three acts, was written
in collaboration with Donald. Windham, and is based on a story of
the same name by D.H. Lawrence.
It is scheduled for a two-week run.
This will be the second piay of
the Saline Mill Theatre's third season. The first, Jan de Hartog's
sparkling domestic .comedy, "The
Fourposter", closed Sunday, July
10, after winning the highest praise
from Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti
drama critics and frequently packing the' house during its fourteen
day stand.
"You Touched Me!" is the sometimes gay, sometimes poignant story of the return of vigor and life
to a sterile household. Cornelius
Rockley, an alcoholic sea captain,
has been retired from his command
for letting his ship founder. He
returnes to his home in rural England, where . he comes under the
domination of his maiden sister,
Emmie, a waspish spinster in her
middle    forties. Emmie runs    the
Saline Beats
Howell Team
Behind the four hit pitching of
Dick Hoeft, Saline nailed Howell
with its fifth defeat of the season,
2-1. This was another of those one-
run losses that have plagued the
Howell team this season. It also
came in the late innings, as Saline
pushed across the winning tally
in the last of the ninth with one
out. Manager Ernie Stemen doubled, took third on a passed ball,
and scored on an infield out.
The line score; -
TJ    TT    Tl
SALINE  000 001 001   2 7 2
Howell  000 010 000    14 0
Hoeft and Drake, Schiel and Wylie.
Standings
Fowlerville      6 0 1.000
Chelsea    , 6 0 1.000
Ypsi. Ford  4 2 .667
Saline     ....4 2 .667
Leslie     , _ 3 3 .500
Latin Amer 3 3 .500
Stockbridge     2 4 .333
Local 602  1 5 .167
Howell      1 5 .167
Wolve-Park 0 6 .000
Dutch Elm Disease
Found  in  Saline
A representative of the Department of Agriculture has just visited tho city and with the Department of Public Works ha _ made a
(oninlete inspection of Elm Trees
for lhe "Dutch  Elm Disease".
On this initial visit, specimens
v.vivi taken from eight trees and
sent in to the laboratory at '-.ast
I.nnsinsr. Their confirmation should
he returned here within ten days.
Symptoms of this disease are
the drying up of leaves of dieing
branches throughout the tree.
All property owners are instructed to carefully watch either elms
an notify the city if any of the
above symtoms show tip. An inspection will  be  made.  This  dis
joint   Fellowships
To Meet Sunday
Members of the Saline Churches
Youth Fellowships will participate
in a joint Youth Fellowship meeting to be held Sunday afternoon and
evening at Clear Lake in Jackson
County.
St. Paul's Methodist, St. James
and Bethel Churches will send
youth groups to participate in the
meeting. The program will include
swimming, a. potluck supper and a
worship service.
Market Fined
State Food inspectors Monday
pressed charges against a Manchester township food store for selling
pork sausage containing more than
50 per cent fat.
Kamed in the warrent was CL,
Calton Jr. of the Manchester County Market. The ' complaint was
signed by State Food Inspector
Kenneth Dilloway.
Carlton, pleaded guilty wlien arraigned in municipal court.Mo%
day and paid a $25_irio-
household with an iron hand. The
Captain's only refuge from her is
his own room, his "cabin", where
he eases With rum the burden of
his existence.
Emmie is also working her spell
upon the Captain's 19-year-old
daughter Matilda, seeking to mold
her into an exact duplicate of herself. Matilda, a chaste young girl
rapidly approaching womanhood
seeks escape from the oppressive
influence of her aunt through phantasy. She dwells in an ephemeral
realm of dreams and imaginings, in
which the real and the fancied are
not always distinguishable.
Into this ossified household bursts Hadpan, once a spindly foundling adopted by the captain but
now a vigorous young officer in
the RAF. It is 1945, and Hadrian
has just returned from the mass
bombing raids on German cities.
But instead of being bitter or apathetic as a result of his experien-
ces, Hadrian is full of confidence
and idealism. He too dreams, but
his visions are of power, progress
and peace.
Hadrian falls in love with Matilda, and woos and wins her despite the opposition of the antiseptic
Emmie. In doing so he and the Captain almost undo the Plantonic
courtship of Emmie with the "Reverend Guildfard Malton, the middle-
aged vicar of great delicacy and little force. Hadrian gets Matilda, Em
mie gets the vicar, and the Captain
now emancipated, becomes a new
man.
"You Touched Me!" was first.pro
duced at the Booth Theatre, New
York City, September 26, 1945, by
Guthrie McClintic. Edmund Gwenn
starred as the captain, Catherine
Willard as Emmie, Marianne Stewart as Matilda, and a relatively
unknown named Montgomery Clift
played Hadrian. It was very warmly received by the critics and enjoyed a moderate run.
To the discening playgoer
there will be evident in this play
several of the major motifs of Tennessee Williams, presently a two
time winner of the Pulitzer Prize,
but then a young playwright struggling for recognition. The virile
young man disrupting a sterile fern
inine household, the young girl
fleeing reality in a world of dreams,
the interweaving of a symbolic
theme in counterpoint with the
main dramatic line—these are
here, but in a gentler setting than
those in which they later appear
in "The Glass Menagerie", and ''A
Streetcar Named Desire".
This is a younger Tennessee Williams, writing a romantic comedy.
Some of the main ideas are there,
but they are not developed with
such skillful savagery as in lis
later plays.
The ingenue role of Matilda will
he performed by 21-year-old Gillian Connable, who was born and
raised in Jamacia, B.W.I. She previously played Matilda with great
success at Russell Sage College,
Troy, New York in the spring of
1953. Emmie will be played by Nan
cy Born, who won raves from audiences and critics alike for her portrayal of Agnes in "The Fourposter"
during the last two weeks.
Mrs. Miller
Passes Away
After  Illness
Mrs. Delores M. Miller, 43, died
Wednesday morning at the University Hospital after a serious illness. She was born October 18,1911
at Fremont, Michigan the daughter of Heman and Ida Kempf Miller. She was the wife of Dr. H.A.
Miller. They were married in Columbus, Ohio September 8,1929. She
has lived in Saline since 1937.
She was a member of the Methodist Church and the Eastern Star.
She is survvied by her husband,
three sons; Richard of the Marshall Islands, Gerald of Gross Hie
Naval Air Station and Stephen at
home, one brother, Heman, one sister, Mrs. Arthur Royce and her
Mother,  Mrs. Ida Johnstone.
Funeral services will be held Friday at 2 p.m. at the Lockwood Funeral Home with Rev. Reginald
Hocking officiating: Burial will be
at Oakwood cemetery. The family
has requested that flowers be
omited and instead contributions be
made to the Saline _ Community
Hospital Fund.
CAPTAIN KOCKLEY, played by William Taylor, drives the
meddling vicar, Howard Malpas, out of his house in Ihis scene
from the Saline Mill Theatre production "You Touched Me".
The play opened Tuesday njght and is scheduled to runun-
til July 24.
Green Acres Plat
Approved Here
The City of Saline is keeping up with the rest of the county
as the buildingg boom which has been sweeping the area this
year continues. Mrs. Patricia Newkirk Hardy, regisgter of deeds,
is keeping her staff working nights to catch up with the downpour
of deeds and chattel mortgaggegs being received at her office.
Mrs. Hardy reports that the number of registrations since January first are up 21 per-cent, compar
Extremely  Light  Voting
Marks  School  Election
Only 44 citizens of the Saline
Area School District were interested enough to cast their ballots at
the annual election held Monday
at the school auditorium. While
the issue to be voted upon were
Past Matrons
Plan   Picnic
Thfc Past Matrons met at the
home of Mrs. Luther Brings on
Monday evening with sixteen members present.
Dessert of pumpkin pie with whip
ped cream and coffee was served
by the hostess assisted by her
daughter Miss Kathrine Briggs.
At the business meeting, which
was conducted by the president,
Mrs. Cecil Davenport, plans v. ere
completed for the picnic to be held
on August 14th. The picipc will be
held at the Saline Park and m case
of rain will be moved to the Masonic Hall. A potluck dinner will he
served at one o'clock. All past
matrons aud patrons and their families are urged to attend.
The birthday of Mis. Charles
Schultz was celebrated and sho
"was remembered wi.h many lovely
aid useful sifts. Mrs. George Leh-
ma*.i of Royal Oak was present for
the meeting.
ver   100   Farmers .
Pasture   Tours
Twilight pasture meetings were
held on four Washtenaw farms
last week to help carry out the
Washtenaw Soil Conservation District's pasture improvement program.
The series got off to a good
start Tuesday at the Amsdill-Hag-
gard farm near Dexter. 37 farmers
and Agricultural specialists, including Milton Erdman, farm crops
specialist from Michigan State University, arrived for the event.
On Wednesday evening anotiier
similiar meeting was opened up on
the Leonard Burmeister farm west
of Saline by Clayton Parr, district
director from Manchester. After a
pleasant tour around the pastures
of Leonard's rolling "grassland
farm" there was a program-discussion period on the use and management of reed canary grass, and
the advantages of crushing hay.
Thursday -venjng the scene shifted to Walter Zeeb's beef and dairy
farm on Earhart Road, north of
pivmouth road. Walter showed two
fields which he has soil tested,
limed, and now has very excellent
new stands of alfalfa and clover.
His guests than sat comfortably on
the beautiful lawn and enjoyed a
lively discussion on the value of
forage crops* if used for livestock
consumption^ hqw ato pjjtain and
maintain*'nigh "pasture, yields, and
the principles of providing pasture
From May to October. Everyone
lingered awhile after the meeting
!o enjoy talking with other farmers
and quench their thirst with cool
refreshments, courtesy of Mr. Zeeb.
Several specialists participated ui
'he pasture meetings amoung -.-hom
were Bill Dexter, assistant county
extension agent for Washt _aw;
Patrick O'Malley and Joseph Randolph from Farmers Home Administration.
These pasture improvements meetings we.re organized by the Washtenaw County Soil Conservation
District assisted by the Soil Conservation Service and cooperative
Extension Service. Greener pastures brought about by conservation practices help to rejuvenate
our worn out land, increase livestock production, and strengthen
our nation.
On    Hospital    Staff
(Picture on page 3)
Dr. D.G. Leidheiser of Saline will
serve on the staff of the new Ridge
wood Osteopathic Hospital on Geddes Road just east of Ypsilanti.
The hospital will be formally opened and dedicated Sunday July 17.
Open hojusejyill" be help |or the pub
lie.   "."'■"' "
not of a seriojls nature, it does seem
as though there should have been
more interest shown.
Dr. Harold Miller and Dr. Gordon
Prout were re-elected to three year
terms on the Board of Education.
The proposition empowering the
board to sell several parcels of
land was passed.
At the annual meeting held at 8
o'clock in the evening Dr. Prout
conducted the business in the absence of Dr. Miller. The question
of why there are only five members on the Board of Education was
brought up and it was pointed out
that the number of members on
boards of education are set up by
the State Legislature depending upon the qlassification of the school
district. This latter is also decided
by the state ligislature.    .
The ways and means of presenting sealed bids for the parcels of
land to be sold by the board will be
found elsewhere in this issue. The
Board of Education will meet on
Wednesday evening, July 20th at
S:30
Little Leaguers
Drop First Game
(Pictures on page 10)
The more experience Manchester
Little Leaguers defeated the Saline team on Thursday of last week
at Manchester. The home team
will try for a win in a return game
at the high school field Friday afternoon at d p.m.
Batteries for the Saline team
were Butch Armbruster and Bob
Starling; Jim Walters and Jaek
Kuebler. Jim Jordan, Armbruster
and Starling obtained to aid the
Saline cause.
Tea at St. Joseph
Fetes Mrs. Towler
Mrs. Walter Towler was the
guest of honor at a surprise tea
held July 1st at St. Joseph's Mercy Hospital. The occasion marked
the completion of Mrs. Towler's
twenty-fifth year of service in the
business office.
Tea. was served by Mrs. Valerie
Kenyon and Miss Mary Katharine
Mangan from a beautifully appointed tea table. A large cake appropriately decorated for the occassion
centered the table. Mrs. Towler
wa*_ presented with gifts of sterling silver from the Sisters and
from her co-workers.
Lange-Teschke    Reunion
The Lange-Teschke reunion was
held last Sunday at the Saline
Park, Over 100 persons were present. People came from Saline, Pittsfield. Detroit, Flint, Mt. Clements
and St. Clair Shores. AH enjoyed
themselves and plans were made
for another reunion to he. jagjdjiexl.
year in Detroit. *~ ~  '
Celebrate 25th
Anniversary
Friends and relatives of Mr. and
Mrs. Carl Bredernitz ^gathered at
their* home on W. Michigan Ave.,
Sunday to help them celebrate
their 25th wedding anniversary.
A buffet supper was served to the
more than fifty guests. Mr. and
Mrs. Roland Bredernitz of Fenton,
who were in the original wedding
party were present.
to the same period of last year
She said, "The buying and building
boom has swamped us." Deeds registered during the first six months
of 1954 amounted to 2,561, while
3.145 deeds were recorded for the
same period of 1955. There were
5,187 chattel mortages received at
the office during the first half of
last year while this year, for the
same period, the figure mounted
to 7,043. .
Here in Saline, final approval has
been given to the "Green Acres"
subdivision now in progress on
West Bennett Street. The plat was
recorded and approved at the Court
House Monday, July 11. This is
one of Saline's several subdivisions and developments that has
more than accounted "for the city's
share of the county improvement
boom."
During the first six months of
this year Saline-has been witnessing a heretofore unprecedented increase in land transfers, real estate and chattel mortgages. Land
transfers alone • in the city have
shown a 100 per-cent increase over
the first six months of 1954. At
the. same time, transfers in Lodi
township have increased 40 per
cent and Pittsfield Township has re
corded a 65 per-cent increase.
Meanwhile, the city of Milan,
while not having a large a number
of transfers as Saline, has shown
that city in the last six months.
Mrs. Hardy Stated that the night
work is only to catch up with the
overflow of deeds, etc. that comes
in during the day. The office will
not remain open i n the evening.
She said that at ngiht she and her
staff can do a day's work in three
hours because of the absence of
customers and telephone calls. She
expects to reorganize the whole
system of recording deeds as the
county grows and progresses. ■
In order to be able to handle more
work efficiently, she plans to put
her staff on a production line basis
within the next two or thr.ee years.
Then, with the office working on a
metropolitan system, they will be
able to cope with unforseen increases such as they are witnessing at the present time.
Attend Mission
School At Adrian
Several members of the Women's
Sac iety of Christian Service of the
Saline Methodist Church attended
first session of The School of Mission at Adrian College on Monday.
Those attending were, Mrs. Cecil
Davenport, Mrs. Martin Fuoss Mrs.
Roy Rogers, Mrs. Walter Mac Arthur, Mrs. David Toth, Mrs. Claude
Scruggs^ Mrs. F.F. Benish, Mrs." Ray
a 200 per-cent gain of transfers inDavis and Mrs. William Martin.
Teen Canteen in Full Swing
. _£?*£&
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CARD GAMES are among the many means ot recreation and entertainment available at the
Teen Canteen. Here a group of youngsters enj oy a friendly game of cards. In the background
another group is engaged in a lively game of ping-pong.
DANCING to music furnished by the canteen.s stock of new recordings lends fun and relaxation
tp thesejcopples. The canteen, is held each Friday at the high school gjm. They have prchased
*'tfiree*new'ping-pong tables and some new card tables* to adS to their 'facilities.    *