1956-09-06; Saline Observer

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A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEDICATED TO PUBLIC SERVICE, CIVIC   ENDEAVOR AND  AGRICULTURAL PROGRESS  IN THE SALINE AREA
VOLUME LXXTV—No. 34    (Member:  Saline Chamber of Co
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1956— SALINE, MICHIGAN
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onsider Charter Amendment For Council Pay
Around
Our
Big City
Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Sawall spent
Labor Day weekend at Charlevoix,
jlich. They returned to their home
Monday evening.
it has been reported that
all is not well in the- police
department. Mayor Leutheuser
and Police Commissioner Milton Hartman have been called
upon to correct the situation.
It is said that preliminary investigation — prior to employment of police officers— will
be more stringent in the future.
	
Mrs. Robert LaRose, the from-
er Ruby Giltrow. has returned
from a wedding which took the
couple through Canada, Pennsylvania and New York. They were
married August 18th in St. Ignace
Presbyterian Church. Mr. LaRose
is employed in the Ford Plat-in
Glenns Falls. They are at home,
207 W. Russell Street, Saline.
Natural Gas Pipeline
Nears City Of Saline
The lack of interest in city
government becomes more and
more evident as council struggles with city-wide problems.
A mere handful of citizens
attended Monday evening's regular council proceedings.
Michigan Consolidated Gas Company is pushing its efforts to complete construction of its gas pipeline into Saline, it was announced
this week by George Henderson,
general manager of the company's
Ann Arbor office.
"The work is being completed
according lo schedule and in some
instances it is progressing ahead
of schedule," he stated.
It is expected, from this week's
report,- that within a very short
time the construction men will be
ready to lay main feeder lines into
Saline and through to the western
limits of the city.
Service will be available 24 hours
a day, the company has announced
and rates for residential cooking
and beating will be 25c per 100
cubic feet for the first 500 cubic
feet. The rate lowers to 14.9c per
100 cubic feet for the next 1,500
cubic feet, then drops to 11,2c per
100 cubic feet for the next 3,000
cubic ft. Over that amount used,
a rate of 9.7c per 100 cubic feet
will be charged for the next 45,000
cubic feet.
Special rates for commercial and
industrial useage of gas will be
available, it has been  announced.
Full information concerning services may be obtained at the Ann
Arbor office of Milton Kendrick,
area sales manager for Michigan
Consolidated Gas Company.
Community
Chest Elects
New Officers
Plans for Saline's annual Community Chest drive were outlined
at Tuesday night's meeting of the
Community Chest Committee.
New officers elected for three-
year terms a tTuesday's meeting
were Mrs Robert Tefft, Frances
Lockwood, Loren Wild, Mrs. Robert Hammond and Mrs George
Austin They succeed James Beal,
Mrs. Luther Dicks, Milton Hartman, Mrs. Edwin Hering and William. Crim.
Next meeting of the committee
will be on Tuesday evening, September 11. At that time next year's
needs of the Library Association,
Boy Scouts.-Child Study Club, Girl
Scouts and -the city's recreation
program "will be reviewed and discussed;.'
. It is expected that Saline's Community Chest quota for the next
year will be established during the
latter part of next Tuesday's session:
The Saline Rotary Club will again provide University of Michigan
Football fans with Saturday Chicken dinners The project raises
funds for crppled children's funds.
The Saline. Community Fair will
open next Wednesday. A goodly
portion of hard work and long
hours have gone -into the preparation of this Annual evt'dt The Fair
Board has whipped together." many
interesting and entertaining events
that promise to make this year's
performance the biggest and best
How much does it cost to..
vote? According to the City
Cleric: too much. Only 237
votes were cast in the city primary at a cost of $306.00 or
$1.29 per vote. This compares
with a national average of a-
bout 12c. Tax money is used.
The Women's Bowling League
will start the season next Thurs
day, September 13 in Frank
Deede's new Recseation Center'
at the west end of town. Virginia Bassit, secretary' of tho
league urges members to begin bowling promptly at 6:30
p.m.
Mr and Mrs D C McCormick
were guests of Mrs. J. A. Salmon,
Kneedmore Farms, Pittsford, Michigan, Labor Day
Brig. Gen. R. D. Salmon, Quantico, Va, had a Saline visitor -in
the person of Ray McCormick. After a brief vacation in Virginia
Ray returned to Saline last Tuesday
In more than a year of publishing the Saline Observer, the
writer has yet to see printed
any financial report from the
city administration. Revenues
from parking meters, taxes', ex
penditures, receipts, etc. arc a
matter of public interest. Too
few know too little about the
operations of City Council.
While little publicity is given to
the School Board's activities or
the Saline Hospital Association
an occasional report is printed
in the public interest. These
three bodies are of vital interest to the citizenry.
Prizes Mount
For Fair Queen
The Saline JCC's announce a
total of 28 Saline Businessmen are
making it possible for the Queen
Contest to be bigger and better
than ever.
Following is an up-to-date list
of contributions:
' Anderson's — Ladies Hose -
Citizens _Bank—  Savings j86nd
Giltrow's Pahrmacy — Costume
Jewelry
Gamble's — Portable radio
Dancer's —, Evening   bag .
Schmid's Food Market—- Orchid
Cut and Curl — Futurama lipstick
Keveling's- Drug Store- — Soph-
isti-Kdt 8
Saline Jewelry Store — Bulova
Wrist Watch.
J)eede Electric — TV Lamp
"Cash Donors are as follows: •
* Woods Hdwe, Hulls Grocery, Saline   Dairy,  Saline   Food  Center,
Adair's Paint and Wallpaper, Lambarth Hdwe., Country Market, Hoeft's   Gulf Service, Carter's  Texaco, Feeman's Shell, Saline,. Bakery,   Amstutz   Hatchery,   Ormsby
and Gage- Barbers,  Hartman Insurance, Coe's  Barber Shop. Saline-, Savings Bank, and Universal
Die -Casting.
Now all we need to really make
this a big success is a few more
girls to enter the ■eontest. Remember girls, the winner this year
goes to the "Miss Michigan" contest at the State Fair in 1957.
Local
News Briefs
LUCKHARDT  REUNION
The luckhardt reunion was held
at the home of Mr. and Mrs. David Wahl and family on Sunday
September 2, 206 N.; Harris St.,
Saline, with 98 people present
from Battle Creek, Detroit, Chelsea, Ann Arbor,.Dexter and rural
area's in and around Saline. Mr.
and ifiurs. ;Brown were guests from
New York.
The we'ather was perfect for the
happy occasion and everyone enjoyed the afternoon by playing
games, both - children  and  adults.
Pictures were also taken before
departing late in the afternoon.
Governing BodyPrevailed Upon
To Submit Question On Fall Ballot
BOWLERS  WANTED
There's room for one team of
men bowlers for Monday nights at
7 p.m. to bowl with the Universal
League. Any teams' interested may
contact Clyde Hoover. The ' bowling, will start September 18.
RETURN HOME
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Stremler will be leaving this week end
for Holland, Michigan.
Housing Appeal
Issued By U-M .
• With the .highest enrollment In
its history bearing down on its
campus in two "weeks, The University of Michigan has issued an
appeal to homeowners in Ann Arbor and surrounding communities
to contact" U-M officials if they
have space for rent.
An, increase in foreign students
and U.' S. Government sponsored
students has resulted in greater
housing pressure than expected, according to Peter A. Ostafin, assistant dean of men. Mostly graduate
students of older age, these' students do ■ not fit into the U-M's
housing control.
Ostafin points out that the pressure is" greatest in the fall term
and commitments of space need
not extend beyond the end of January.
SAFETY FOE OUK CHILDREN. Through clear or stormy,
approaches to the elementary scliool are constantly policed.
Shown here is Mrs. Helen Starling, directing traffic as school
open its fall term Wednesday. Mrs. Starling greets the children with a ready smile and a warning to be careful as they
cross Michigan Ave. and Harris Sts.
St. Paul's Annual Festival
Plans Complete Bqjt Sunday
Welcome
The Westside Hardware Co.
will soon be a reality City
Council granted a tentative
building permit to a group of
business men that will start
construction immediately on a
building to house hardware,
The company will also offer
plumbing and heating services
construction immediately On a
building to house hardware,
The company will also offer
plumbing and heating services
James Gross, George Brookings and Wallace Smith head
the new concern and they announced work on the new building will be completed in early
November For this purpose
they purchased the lot between
Frank Deede's Recreation Center and the Country Market
Welcome again, to the "City of
Opportunity"
Proposal By Newspaper Editor
Given Favorable Consideration
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Sunday will draw members and
friends of St. Paul's Evangelical
and Reformed Church together
for their annual mission Festival.
The Rev. F. Nelson Sehlegel, field
representative for the Commission
on Christian Social Action of th
denomination will speak on the
subject "Modern Missionary Frontiers" at the morning service at
10 o'clock. Before beginning his
work with Commission of Christian Social Action in 1953, the
Reverend Nelsen Schelgel had served on the faculty of the American University at Cairo, Egypt; as
a director of the American School
or Boys at Bagdad, Iraq, two pastorates in Pennsylvania churches
and a 13 year pastorate in Washington D.  C.
An evening service of worship,
scheduled for 8 o'clock will bring
to the congregation the opportunity
to hear ev. R. E. Eshmeyer o
St. Paul's Evangelical and Reformed Church at Lansing. Before
assuming the Lansing pastorate
he has served for many years in
Akron, Ohio.
St. Paul's Church is apporach-
ing the 50th anniversary of its organization which will be celebrated in November. The Mission Festival is one of the events on its
calendar to help in the continuing
Christian outreach toward commun
ity and world, a task accepted for
itsel,   ity years   a'go.
Synod Honors
Former Pastor
Delegates to the General Synod
of the Evangelical and Reformed
Church today honored 161 ministers of the denomination who have
died since the last meeting of the
Synod three years ago.
Among those-honored was:
The Rev. Frederick H. Engelsdorfer, pastor St. James' Church,
Saline Township/Michigan, at the
time of his death, age 57, October, 1955.
Monday Opens
Fall Activities
Tlie Ladies Aid Society of Federated Church will open its fall activities on Monday evening at 7:45:
o'clock at the home of Mrs. Vera
Burkhart, North Ann Arbor St.
This September 10th meeting will
be the first since the vacation period began after the annual picnic
for the group. Mrs. Lewis Ernst
and Mrs. Howard Kuhl wiE seve
as social committee.
This is the last time at which
articles may be turned in to be
packed in the boxes for Korea that
are to be made up the following
day. Plans will also be completed
for the Federated Church- women's booth a tthe,.Saline Fair where
baked goods, home made candy,
aprons and other bazaar articles
will be for sale. Gifts for the annual hospital shower are also to be
brought to this meeting.
Program for the evening's meeting will be a bood review by Mrs.
Thomas King, "These My Brethren."
Sheriff's Office   .
Issues Warnings
" A double warning was issued today ' in connection with the opening-of schools this week.
The warning came from the County Sheriff's office. Sherif Erwin
Klager cautioned area motorists
to exercise extra care when driving on highways near schools or in
areas where school children board
or get o -o buses. Children will
be crossing busy highways at the
peak o trafic rush hours and it
remains "the duty of every operator to be certain that his speed is
reasonable and his car under control- at all times, the Sheriff said.
Church To Share
Uphaus Elec. Booth
The women of Federated church
will have the use of the Uphaus
-Electric Company booth at the
Saline Fair, and a committee -composed of Mr. and Mrs, Silas Nord,
Mr. and Mrs. Ferman Clements,
and Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Jacob-
sen, will be in charge.of preparations.
The booth is to be staffed by designated members of the Circles,
the Afternoon Circle being -in char
ge on Thursday and Saturday, and
the Evening Circle members taking over on Wednesday ahd Friday. Baked goods and.bazaar articles and home made candy will
be offered for sale with the Circles
providing the food on days alternating with their work at the booth.
Dairy Show Will
Open In Chicago
America's dairyland will reveal
its best products and its finest
herds at the forthcoming -4th annual International Dairy Show, October 6 to 13,\ in the International
Amphitheater at the Chicago Stock
Yards. The Amphitheatre is undergoing a third big expansion which
when completed will make it the
world's largest exhibition building.
Owners of purebred dairy animals from coast to coast and from
Canada to the Gulf plan to send
their best animals to the competitions of the six breeds of dairy
cattle that will be featured at the
Chicago show. The management is
preparing quarters in the Amphitheatre to house more than 2000
head.
Plan "Golden Spurs" Rodeo
A world-championship rodeo, one
of the country's biggest in number
of competing riders, will be featured daily during the 8-day run of
the International Dairy Show.
Top cowhands o the world have
indicated they will be in Chicago
competing for the International
Rodeo's coveted and unique awards — Golden Spurs plus big
cash purses and championship pts
They risk life and limb in this
dangerous sport that includes bull-
riding, steer-wrestling, bare-back
and saddle bronc-riding, and bull-
dogging.
The management anticiates an
entry of rom 200 to 300 Quarter
Horses in the .International Quarter Horse show* »^,|ino.theE-JcoJe.at--
*ure "of tfe^li'alryShowV These Worses wfll ^e seen competing in
both conormation and performance
trials. The Quarter horse derives
its name for being the fastest horse
over a' quarter of a'mile.
5 Days of Judging.
Judging o the six .dairy breeds
will fill most of the' daytime
hours from Monday, October 8
•through Friday, October 12, according to those in charge of the cattle
department. All junior classes, consisting of entries owned and shown
by young 4-H and F.F.A. members, will be judged on Monday,
October 8.
Three breeds — Brown Swiss,
Guernseys, and Jerseys,,— are
scheduled or judging October
9 and 10; Holsteins, Ayrshires, and
Milking Shorthorns are set for October 11 and 12.
Group tours to Chicago and the
show for farm people, organized
last year for the first time, .will
be-repeated. It will include transportation to the show and return,
hotel rooms if desired, and reserved seats for the International Rodeo.
Citizens Committee Reports On Dump Site . . .
Mr. and Mrs R. A. Van Doren
R'elcomed Jeffrey Lynn, a daughter born August 28, .to their home
for a long visit.
A son, Mark William, was born
to Mr. and Mrs. Albert Hoeft, Jr.
August 26. Welcome to Saline and
stay a long, long time.
The Saline Observer wishes the
foUowing  people Happy Birthday
Jerry Hering, Fred Korte, Flo-
gne Ormsby, Jim Knight, Hilda
«eusel, Randall Coates, Dr. Fred
^endrum, Abby Young, Alice Shee-
*an. Raymond Daniels, Helen
Jantz Edward Luckhardt, and
Martha Esch.
September 4, 1956.
To the City Council of Saline,
Michigan:
The following is a report of the
activities of your City Dump Committee that you appointed last
spring when you closed the former .city dump..
An extensive survey has been
made by Everette Wolfin and La-
Mar Schmidt seeking a location
of a-city dump outside the city limits. The few suitable places found
involved objections either by the
owners, or-their relatives or neighbors. Acquiring them would also
necessitate leasiing or buying the
property which could become "cumbersome for .the City to own or
control an odd pice of property oufc-
side of the city.
It would also'mean- extended negotiations "With the Township in
which it was located. The cost on
a per capita basis might also become exhorbinant because if would
involve purchase or lease of land
fencing, maintainance, servicing'
and -possibly building a road into
it.
LaMar Schmidt and Art Hagen
then interviewed Mrs. Strang of
E. Ann' Arbor, who manages the
dump at Ellsworth and Platt Roads
and got from her the committments which has prevailed in our
use of that .dump this past summer.
Your committee has kept three
things in mind in working on this
problem:
1st — Arranging for rubbish disposal outside the city limits which
would not be a nuisance to residences in the vicinity, either city
or township dwellers.
2nd — If the residents of Saline
City are to bear the entire cost
of disposal of, rubbish, either
through public -taxes Or by private
expenditure, the facilities should
be limited to-them only.
3rd — The cost should be kept
as low as possible with adequate
service to our citizens.
It seems to "us thatowning, maintaining and adequately servicing a
city dump, either within or without the city, entails a too great
a per capita cost for our present
population .and any attempt on the
part of the city to ask non-resident
users to help share that cost would
result in animosRy toward our city.
Therefore we. investigated' other
methods of rendering this .service
to our citizens. The following alternatives do not require the city to
own or operate its own dumping
facilities. The garbage disposal figures used below are our present
costs of that service.
We are also basing our estimates
below on the following: Saline has
approximately 535 water meters.
Making adjustments for multi-dwellings serviced by one water meter
and deducting about 75 meters for
business places, we estimate that
we have about 500 residences. On
the same basis the approximately
1050 water meters in Milan should
account for about 1,000 residences.
The Chelsea comparisons are based on estimates of 1800 population
in Saline and 3,000 in Chelsea or
around 830 residences in Chelsea.
Mrs. Strang has offered to contract with our city to pick up and
dispose of rubbish, placed at tbe
curb on designated days in metal
or wooden containers, every two
weeks for a fee of 51.00 per Mo.
Garbage pick up and disposal
(our present "contract) $4,000.00.
Rubbish pick up and disposal a-
bout 500 residences) S6.000.00..Total, $10,000.00, or about $20.00 per
residence get year.
Ray Hirth has proposed rubbish
pick up at residential curb every-
two weeks, (% of the city every
week) at a fee of $50.00 er week,
making total costs:
Garbage pick up and disposal
(our present contract) S4,000.00;
Rubbish pick up ($500 residences)
$2>00.00. Rubbish -disosal (Mrs.
Strang) $1,500.00 TOTAL $8,100.00
or about $6.00 per residence per
year
The Village of Milan found it
absolutely necessary to institute
Garbage and rubbish pick up in
order to eliminate the cost of main,
taining and servicing a dump for
the general public outside the village of Milan.
per residence and $3.00 per llo.
for business places. This wculd
make our total costs of garbsfee
and rubbish disposal for residence's:
They still bury their garbage
and rubbish in their own city dump,
Their total costs of picking up
and disposal of rubbish and garbage is (per year) S7,807.(|o, or
about $7.80 per residence perfyear.
Milan offers service to business
places  on a fee basis. |
The Village -of Che^ea I contracts for complete garbge and rub-
Council at its regular meeting
Monday night listened to a proposal that the City Charter be
amended to permit the citizens of
Saline to vote on the question of
pay for   council members.
The matter had long been discussed and The Observer, taking
the lead a year ago, was successful in the long process of gaining
consideration for the measure Monday night. It is expected the proposed amendment will be on a special ballot in the November election.
There was no opposition to the
move at the meeting and members were in agreement that remuneration should be on an annual basis.
ARGUMENTS  FOR
It was pointed out by the Observer spokesman that Saline area
school board members are paid
for their services,. The Board's
activities are limited to about 12
meetings a year, whereas Council
meetings have numbered 31 since
the start of 1956.
Another consideration was the
incentive that some form of remuneration would allow candidates
to compete for city office who could
not ordinarily afford the time or
expense connected with the required services.
,   OTHER BUSINESS
A bill presented by University
Hospital, Ann Arbor, for services
rendered James J. Humphry of
Milan, injured in a street fight
last month, was disapproved Other bills totaling nearly $8,000 were
approved by the Council.
Council also approved an appro-
cprlatiOn<to have the. City represented- at the annual convention of the
Michigan Municipal League So be
held in Grand Rapids September
6, 7 and 8 The City's representatives will be Mayor Leutheuser and
City Clerk Muir,
A building permit to construct a
two-car garage by Robert Love of
Wheeler Court and a contract for
purchasing the southerly portion
of lot 21, plat, 3 for $3,000 were"
also approved.
'Boxes For Korea' Drive
Closes Monday, Sept. 10
Mrs. Silas Nord, president of the
Ladies Aid Society of Federated
Church, announes that the annual
drive for clothing for Korea -will
close on Monday, September 10,
and that the boxes will be packed
on Tuesday. Warm clothing, children's shoes and bedding are especially, acceptable, as are gifts of
.money to help with transportation
charges.
Large boxes labelled for Korea
have been placed in the Ghurch
kitchen and articles may be brough
"to  the Church on Sunday.
bsh p ickup anddipsiao ainfnysl
bish pick up and disposal in a private dump for residences only.
Private contracts for business places.
Total complete costs (About 830
residences) $6,240.00, or about $7.50
per residence per year..
OUR  RECOMMENDATIONS
In view of the fact that these
figures indicate that our present
garbage disposal alone cost, our
taxpayers as much or more per, .residence as the total cost of garbage and rubbish disposal in Chelsea and Milan, this committee recommends that' we complete'^our
present years contract for garbage
disposal and that our residents continue private . disposal of rubbish
for that period.
At the expiration of that contract
we recommend that an attempt be
made to contract with a private
contractor for complete servie .for
.both garbage and rubbish disposal
at a cost more comparable with
Milan and Chelsea.
Respectfully submitted:
James little, Everette Wolfin, La-
Mar Schmidt and Aft Hagen
MICHIGAN FERTILIZER DEALERS were on hand in Lansing August 30 when the "Ammo-Phos Special," a 34-car
train load of chemical fertilizer arrived- Shown here at the
welcoming ceremonies are (left to right): Arthur Henninger
of Saline; Russell E. Davis of New Gastie, Indiana, supervisor for Olin Mathieson Chemical Corporation- and Pope Bar-
*tx*^ of Baltimore, an Olin Mathieson executive.
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