1955-12-29; Saline Observer

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SEVENTY - SECOND YEAR
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1955, SALINE, MICHIGAN
FIVE CENTS PER CWT
Employment Security Will
Cover Michigan Workers
More than four out of every five Michigan workers will be
under the protection ot the Michigan. Employment Security Act in
1956, according to the commission director, Max M. Horton.
An expansion of the Act to cover employers with as few as four
persons on their payrolls during
any 20 calendar weeks of the
year is expected to add more than
200,000 additional workers to the
1,850,000 already covered by the
Act.
It will also double the number
of employers affected, adding more
than 30,000 to the 32,400 already
enrolled in the program.
Effective date of the expansion,
approved last spring by the Mich-
s a brief listing of the various
categories of workers who must
>e included in figuring liability
is well as those who may be
excluded  from  consideration.
The payroll tax is 2.7 per cent —
Dr ?81 - of the first $3,000 earned
by .each employe during the year.
This rate is maintained for four
years after which it may be adjusted to as low as one-tenth of
1 per cent or as high as 4 per
cent, depending on how much the
employer has contributed to the
igan State Legislature, is Jan. l,(Fund   and  how  much  haa   been
paid from the Fund to his former
employes.
1956.
The Michigan Employment Security Commission is sending explanatory letters about Jan. 15 to
more than 50,000 of the state's
employers who might possibly
come into the prograip under the
new expansion. On the back of
the letter is a form which the
employer may use in electing to
pay the required payroll tax on
a quarterly basis.    .
Otherwise the amounts due for
two or even three quarters may
become payable at one time, Horton warned.
The tax payment is due on the
25th of the month following the
close of the quarter in which the
employer's payroll records make
him subject to the Act, Horton
said Am;,, employer who beeches
liable at any time of the year
is liable for the entire year under
the terms of the Act.
About May 15 each of the employers listed in Federal Social
Security Records as having employed from three to seven persons during the second quarter
of 1955 will receive from the
MESC its "UC-9" form from which
liability is determined.
As an aid to the- employer in
keeping his necessary reports, the
MESC .has devised a small card
listing each of the calendar weeks
of 1956. Space is provided in which
the employer can list at the end
of each week the number of persons on his payroll that week.
At the end of the quarter he
pan briefly review this employment record and determine on how
many weeks he employed as many
as four persons.
Horton pointed out that the Act
is based on the calendar week and
not on the fiscal week which so
many businessmen use as . their
payroll basis.
On the reverse side of the card
Juvenile Suspected
Of Saline Burglarj
SALINE— A deer rifle valued at
$60 was stolen from the Mercantile store Monday evening, Sheriffs
detectives report.
Undersheriff Charles Shaw said
footprints indicate the thieves were
young. A panel in the garage of
the hardware, lumber yard was
kicked in so that small bodies
could slip through, he reporte. A
S5 air rifle was also stolen.
Social Security For
Workers On Farm
District Director of Internal
Revenue A. M. Menninger issued
the following statement today to
remind employers that social security taxes apply to cash wages
paid to every farm® worker to
whom the employer pays $100 or
more cash wages during the year*
1955. The taxes (2 percent employer tax and 2 per cent employe tax)
apply only to cash wages paid to
covered farm workers.
Every farm employer who.owes
*Ssese taxes must file a returnton
Form 943, and pay the taxes, on or
before January 31, 1956. Farm employers should file their returns on
time in order to avoid the penalty
which may be charged for late
filing.
Any employer of covered farm
workers who has not already registered with the district director's
office should do so.at once. The
registration form SS-4 can be obtained from any internal revenue
or social security office. The district director will mail the necessary return,,forms and instructions
to all: registered employers.
Contest Winners
Are Announced'
Prize winners have been announced in the Junior Chamber
of Commerce Christmas decorating contests. A committee of
judges from the J. C. C. had a
difficult time selecting the prize
winners from all of the lovely
residential and commercial displays. First place in the residential division went to Bruce Far-
son, W. Michigan; second place,
Chris Volz, Mills Rd.
In the commercial division top
place was won by the Railroad Depot for the.,yard display. The
Methodist Youth Fellowship took
second place with the religious
display in Dancer's  window.
Mr. and Mrs- Fred* Eichel entertained their children on Christmas
Day. Mr. and Mrs. Nonbert Eichel, Mr. and Mrs. Lance E- Rogers
and Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Stierle iwere present.
Celebrates
90th Birthday
Mrs. C. F. Unterkireher was
guest of honor at the Saline* Convalescent Hospital, Friday afternoon, at a tea in observance of
her 90th birthday. The open house
for her friends was given by Mrs.
Basil Badour and her hospital
staff, and the Saline Women's
Club were ho6ts. The club presented Mrs. Unterkireher with a corsage. A beautiful centerpiece
adorned the tea table at which
the club president, Mrs. Cecil Davenport, presided.
Affectionately called Fannie.
Mrs. Unterkireher is the daughter
of thexRev. and Mrs. William E.
Caldwell. The family came from
the east in 1881 when Rev- Caldwell became pastor of the Presby:
terian Church which was connected with the old Nutting Academy, located on the-Ann Arbor-
Saline road near Textile Road. She
was educated in" music at the
Conservatory of Music at Bostor
where an uncle wets a prominent
organist and composer. Mrs. Unterkireher taught music in Saline
!or many years, was organist foi
14 years at the Presbyteriar
Church and at the Methodisl
Church for 35 years.
She is the widow of Dr. C. F
Unterkireher and was one of. thr
nunders of the Saline Woman'*
Club and the Saline Library. Shr
received callers during the wee1
'rom Ypsilanti and Ann Arbor an
a large number of greeting card:
iom relatives and friends*.  *
YPS Holds
Dec. Meeting
The Y.P.S. of the Trinity Lutheran Church in Saline met Dec. 22 at
the parsonage for their annual
Christmas Party. After caroling
for aged of the congregation, they
they helped assemble tire church
calendars, making them ready for
distribution. They also enjoyed an
old-fashioned taffy pull, followed
by the exchange of gifts.
Delicious refreshments were then
served by the committee consisting of Eileen Lindemann, Anita
Engel, Norman Lambarth, and Alfred  Gross..
Wilkie Cow Gets
Production Rate
Announcement has been received from The Holstein-Friesian
Association of America of the completion! of an official production
record, by a registered Holstein
cow owned 'by Howard Wilkie, Milan.
Michigan State University supervised the weighing and testing
of tihe milk for this record and it
is a part of the Herd Improvement
Registry Department of the Holstein-Friesian Association of America in Brattleboro, Vermont.
This program is designed to give
an official production record on
every cow in the herd every year
so that wise selection for increased
efficiency can toe made.
Greetings
Former Students From
Germany Write Letter
To The Observer
The following letter was received by The Observer _at_t-dk__.
day from a group of students who lived in Saline where they attended the univerity in Ann Arbor.
Berlin-Zehlendorf, 13_W55.1 was one of tiie German __k_s
For some years we have been]that had the pleasure to stajr to
sending   short  notes,   mentioning [ Saline ta 1951-1952. Now the _*_--
THREE STUDENTS from Germany who spent many pleasant
months in Saline send greetings to a host of local friends.
To Be Soloist
At Federated
Church Service
James Austin, a student a*
Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New, York, will be thr
soloist at Worship 'Services in
Tederated Church Sunday morn
ing at eleven o'clock. The adul?
shoir will sing "Cherubim Song'
by Tschaikovsky.
The pastor, the Rejr. Henry
McKenzie, has announce- as hi.
heme, 'The Same Yesterday, To
lay and Forever."*
Inji
Local Woman
jured In
Auto Accident
Mrs- Lillian Burgan, 119 West
Michigan ave.j-was injured in a
3-car collision on US-112, 3 miles
east of. Saline last Friday.
Mrs. Burcgan, enroute to Willow
Run airport when the accident occurred had planned to visit her
son in Charleston, W. Va. She is
in St. Joseph's Hospital, Ann Arbor recovering from her injuries
The occupants of the other cars
were unidentified  and   uninjured1.
New Ribbon Of Concrete Into The Northland
.  five miles of new 22 ft. concrete pavement 8   *
inches thick, reinforced '.villi steel, from Grayling
■"■""th or. US-27 was opened to traffic on Becem-
l.or 1. -,....."' '"".■:.■'•■
This section is a part of the alt .mate four-lane V
divided interslale hijehway  from ■ Detroit' to "the
Straits cf Mackinac, State Highway Commissioner
<■ harles M. Zie_;lcr said.
'his new  pavement' roughly  parallels  the old
set-tit,,, of road which is narrow with many steep
hills and poor m,gl.l Jt^taiue.   It ... .....lie „n the
, left in ihewpTcture. On the ri-rht of the picture is _
seen, one .of the State Highway Department road-'
pide: parks. .The new road levels the hills, has no
steep gradeTi and affords clear vision the entire
distance. _   ,.; .,..„.. .,
Pending the construction of two additional lanes,
the new section will be used during the winter
months for two-way traffic. During the rest of
the vear it \* ill be the north-bound lanes.
Death In Hotel
Investigated
Washtenaw Coroner Edwin C.
Gams-horn ordered an autopsy and
asked the sheriffs department to
investigate the death of a man
found in the Saline Hotel early
this week.        \
Ganzhorn identified the man as
Joseh Janesek, a man ini his late
60's who lived at the' hotel.
The coroner said they there is
nothing at this time to indicate
Soul play but because the body
was partially under the hotel
room bed, as if some attempt
might have ibeen made to hide it,
the investigation had been requested. Sheriffs detectives began a search of the room immediately.
As a result o£ the investigation
it was Sound the man had died of
_ heart attack. Lieutenant Detec-.
tive.Meivia Fuller of the sheriffs
department said the case bad
deartment stateed the case was a
routine one,-but bad been investigated because of tbe (unnatural
position in Which the body was
found-
Look At
Your Tax
Dollar!
• Your past ""Summer Tatx of 20
Mills or $20.00 per thousand of
Assessed Valuation was split as
follows:
General Obligation Bonds '(Sewage -Disposal & Fire Hydrant
Charge, 54.057 per M. City operating (only monies City received
from your Tax Bills for operation
and maintenance), $15,943 per M.
Total, ?20.00 per M.
You£. Winter Tax of "33.21 Mills
or liJf-wise $33.21 per thousand of
assess*©! valuation:
County Tax (To) $7.94 per M.
Court House Tax (County) $.97 per
M. School General Operating Tax
(To school) $14.95 per M. School
Dei?-* t_x (District) $9.35 per M.
Total,  $33.21 per M.
As stated above, the City does
not get any portion of your A-
ssessed Winter Tax Bill, signed
E. J. Muir, Treasurer City of
Saline.
Accident
1__ Automobile driven by Joseph
A Carr of 12364 Stoney Creek Rd.
ran off tbe road on North Ann
Arbor about 3 ______ north of Saline last Saturday at 7_*0 p.m.
Mr. Carr said be was driving
about 49 miles per. hour when a
ear «$pR>ac_-_i_g from the south
did sot dim its lights and blinded
him, causing him to make a right
turn into tbe~diteh.  '
Mr. Carr was uninjured.
Church Pageant
Presented
A pageant of the Nativity was
presented 'by the young people
of the Church School at the First
Methodist Church on Christmas
Eve.
The huge pageant presented the
Christmas story both past and
present in tableaus, speaking parts
Scripture readings, and songs by
the' choir and congregation. It was
a presentation   in four   episodes.
Episode I: The Prophecy of
His Coming. Duet, "Watchman Tell
us ,of the Night". The prophecy,
Isaiah 9 :l-7. Anthem by the choir,
"Veni Immanuel".
Episode 2: The Announcement
of His Coming. Appearance of the
Angel to Mary. Mary, "The Magnificat". Choir and congregation,
"Come, Thou Long Expected Jesus".
Episode 3: The Fullfillment of
His Coming. The Nativity scene.
Reader; The Birth of Jesus, Choir
and Congregation, "Silent Night,
Holy Night". Reader:. Announcement to the Shepherds." Choir, "It
Fell Upon a Night" (Davis). Reader i The Cdming'bf the Shepherds_"
Choir, "What Child is:. This?"
Reader: Coming of the Wisenieri.
l__l_'***h_Mi_   **U7__ *n«««___ v.m__ _*
Male'Chorus, "We .Three
Orient Are." Choir and .congregation, "As With Gladness Men of
Old. Offering ana" Offertory.   *
EpisodeJl: Christmas Around the
World. 1st Speaker, "&.eiVwhere£
"Rs Christmas Tonight" 2nd
Speaker, "Christmas Around tiie
World." Junior girls representing
the various nations tell about
Christinas in their homeland. Clos-
ing song, "Joy to the WorkL; _■_-'. _
a few facts about our lives since
we were in Saline and asked you
to publish them. Would you please
do us the favour again this year?
this way we'd like to show to"
everyone in Saline wbo is interested that we still think of them
very much, and we hope to be
remembered by some of your readers. It would be a special joy to
as if -you could also publish the
picture enclosed;! We would be
/ery grateful for your help and
remain sincerely, Sabine Zettl,
_5hrista Breitkreutz, Eckart Topp.
Dear Friends in Saline!
Maybe some of you still remem-
.er the German kids, who were
so fortunate to spend one year,
Jrom summer 1951 to summer
1952, in your community.
Now four years have already
elapsed since those Christmas-days
I so happily spent with the Fords
and the Grosses (but unfortunately
couldn't see the Jensens because
they were in Florida at the time).
In the meantime I had to repeat my German high school grad
uation, which I* quite .successfully
did in February 1954. ,Jn May 3
started my -first semester at the
Free University of ESferlin, majoring in American studies and history. I very much like both sub
jects, but prefer the first one
since we have an excellent Amer
ican professor from Harvard Uni
versity, who teaches most of the
classes and gives all the lectures
This is. now my fourth semester,
and it will take me about five
more to graduate'dr to get the
doctor's degree.
Of course very much stress is
put on the fluency and correctness of speaking English and at
the end nobody should he able to
correct us the way Noah Webster
corrected his wife, who cried out
loud when she saw her husband
•kissing another woman: "Noah, I
am surprized!" And Noah replied:
"No, my dear, I am surprized,
you are astonished!"
In the summer I was for four
weeks at the Riviera in Italy with
my folks. The constantly sunny
sky and the clear dark-blue water were a beautiful and perfectly
new experience for us "northerners", but the endlessly long lines
of cars, the noise and the crowds
of everything, cars, people (especially Germans) and babies drove
us away again.
Next semester, which will be
form 5-1 to 8-1 1956 I hope to
spend in Hamburg for "private,
reasons". So cross your fingers
for me please.
I'll be crossing mine for you,
wishing you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy and successful
New   Year! 	
Yours, R. ZETTL.
My father sends his best regards
to all the people he came to
know on his visit to Saline in
1952. He hasn't forgotten any of
bis friends he could make!!
A Merry Christmas to you and
a Happy New Year!!
Some years have passed, since
I left. I hope you remember that
day- season approaches and as always my. thoughts are wander__
back to good old USA. To all, ___to
are interested I want to tell Mthtt
has happened to me since I-left
in 1952. Coming back to.Bofa
I had to attend high school fear
another one and a half years* 1
graduated in March 1954. A month
later I enrolled at the Free Unw«iv
sity in Berlin, where I am _nfl_
studying history, English language
and literature. I want to beealM
a teacher in a secondary 3ebM&
By the way, the whole 1&mfm
Saline, as well as Barbara «•#
Ed Lauhone may be sure tbert I
have not forgot them.- And neither
the  class of  '52.
Best wishes, ECKART TO-*-?.
It just does not seem possible
that it is already four years ago
since I made the -experience *«_
an American Christmas. I wteb 1
could join my foster-family «etf
Christmas, and have a talk wttb
everyone I know in Saline. Attending medical school at the Free
University there is5'no time left
to send a Christmas card to every-
ori- of my American friends. So.
I make use of this way to wish
everyone, a Merry Christmas-tiBM
and  a Happy New  Year!.
My greatest pleasure in the Jast
year was .the visit of my foster-
sister Sallee Wood. She stayed!
with us for twelve days, I think
nowhere in the world was talked
more about Saline, than when both
of us were together. My speeial
thanks are going to the members
of the Rotary Club, who made it
possible for Sallee and me to see
each -ipther   again.
After I* returned to Berlin in
'52 I graduated from our high
shcool and started medical shoool.
t am now in the fourth'semester
but eleven will be necessary to
get a degree of a doctor. I hope
so much that sometime in the ia-
hire I will be able-to return to
USA. It has been a wondearful
time I spent in Saline! A hello
to the class of '52!
Christa Breitkreuta
Mr. and Mrs. Otto Lindemann
and Eileen and Mr. and Mrs. Ray
Burmeister. and family were din.
ner guests "at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Alton Lindemann on Thursday in honor of their son Michael's
second birthday.
Ladies Aid
To Meet
January 4
The Ladies Aid of the Trinity
Lutheran Church will meet January 4 at 2:00 p.m. in the Churdi
meeting, Rev. Engel "will 'lecture
on the fifth Commandment Refreshments will be served by the
committee; Mrs. Ray Klump,
chairman, Mrs. Clara Bredernitz,
Mrs. Reuben Marion, and Mrs. Me-
lita. .HgrOer.    ..,.    •_.-_,.
Attendance
Campaign
Under the banner" "The Answer
is God,!' the Methodist Church of
Saline-will join' in a nation-wide
.Church Attendance Campaign beginning January 1, 1956 and continuing through Easter, April 1
This is not only a campaign carried on-in'Methodist- Churches a-
cross the nation but many churches
of other denominations will, also
participate in it This is an all-
out effort to bring about the
spiritual revival that is so. much
heeded, This is* a preliminary sap.
peal to all Christians to gird themselves for the campaign and to;
undergird it with their prayers.
Annual Meeting
Annual Meetings of tbe congre-
Prison Inmate
Age Increased
Nova F. Stacker, warden of fBe
Federal Correctional Institution al
Milan, was the speaker at tbe
December 20 meeting of the Milan.
Rotary Club. He was introduced'
by the program chairman, Harry
Jaycox. *   -"■
Mr. Stacker spoke on variopef
phases of the institution's wprk
and procedures. The average i_h
mate population is 650 and lite
staff numbers 135. Of these, 65
belong to the custodial group and
the remainder are employed _■
administrative, culinary, medical,
educational and religious phase*.
In spite of all the talk of juvea_
ile delinquency,  during the past
year the average age of the 1_
mates has risen one year,  BOW
being slightly over 35.
Of the 650 inmates, 250 are wa.
tinually engaged in some form ef
education toward then; individwi
betterment.
The- cost for maintenance is AC' "
cents per day, per man. The ac .ual
cost of feeding a man is 26 or
27 cents a day. This lowT cost !■-■
due^itd tlie. fact that 52 per cent-.
bi &n food consumed is raised «•,.
the _-_servat_c_a. The. amouirt ani
variety of food served follows, a-
standard ration developed, by fte
U. S. Depaortment of Agriculture.
Five pomyds of food per day per
man must be served or the FedOk
al Bureau of Prisons immediato*
ly demands rectification. f '
Tbe remaining cost per. das *_"
used for clothing, tobaceo, ciga»-
etts and remuneration upon <-___->
charge.
Visitors at the Rotary meefiog
were Leon Vedder, Rotarian, ~3»-
line, and Myron Hazen, borne fMM.
the U. S. Army. The latter "mm
completed^ his training at the _a_»
uage school in California and *M_
will-be beld. next week, the Baptist meeting "'being on Monday
evening at 8:00 o'clock and the
Presbyterian meeting scheduled
for Tuesday evening at 8:00. The
joint meeting of the Federated
congregations will be held a week
_ater„.on Tuesday,.. January J.Q.   -
gations of the Federated Church soon leave foac Europe where It
will ^e an interpreter in the Sell*.
Croatian language. . .   .,
Mr. and Mrs. Don Copeland ami
son David, Saline, visited MM.
Copeland's sister Mrs. Broil
Breeding in In«_ia__ over *M)
.weekend.