1956-12-27; Saline Observer

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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1956, SALINE," MICHIGAN
5c PEE COPY
The Year
In
Review
Glancing through the files of. the
Saline Observer at the close of 1956
-je _ote a- few important happenings and a ie-vr not so spectacular.
JANUARY
Saline City Council approved proposed plans, in cooperation with
the M'-'iigan. Consolidated Ga-
Company, for provi-iin'-* ->-*.-_.**••*'
gas service to Saline residents and
Saline industries
Alan A. David, Defctoi., Mr. and
Mrs. Jarao.-i A. Rhea cf Royal Oik,
and J__n .s C. Schaefer of Elkhart,
Indiana, were killed in traffic ac-
ci'-ents near lhe Saline city limits.
The annual March of Dimes cam
paign opened.
Plans for the formation of a Saline Chamber of Cecnimeree were
outlined a* a "Greater Saline" dinner meeti:''. a-tendcd by more than
a hundred busine:., prefesJ-oral,
industrial and agricultural men-of
the Saline area.
Mr. and Mrs. WJlUsrn Judson
leased the Saline Hotel and _-_
restaurant frcm Hcary'LeU-h-User...
Rudy Layher, Jr., of Saline was"
elected  to   a directorship  _£ 'the
jufed when struck by'a pick-up
truck at the intersection of Michigan Avenue and Ann Arbor street.
j Saline's Hornets won the Huron
.League basketball ch'amofonship.
APRIL
Creation of a more active summer youth program for Saline was
diseus.ed at the regular meeting
of the - Saline- Ctamber of Commerce.
A -new buUding coda for £ul__._,
deigned to provide mirdtr .-*-.--•- standards to _>__eguard the" r-'iblic welfare, was adopted by the Saline
City Council. The cod., it was "reported, was baste-Fiy tlie same as
that used by the City of Ann Arbor.
Mora t__an 200 faline youngsters
participated in tbe ctfv'-. annual
E-.-rter Egg Hunt at Saline Park.
Marlene Eise-maaoi was named
to .__ten-d Girls* State as Saline's
representative by Saline's. American Eegion Auxiliary unit.
Saline High- School's band attended tlie Michigan. High School
band contest at Lake Odessa and
J_-_i_., and captured top honors.
The Saline High School Junior
Cla_s presented its play, "Maudie
and tihe Opj-osite Sex.*'
Natural Gas Service Now Available
Applicants
Complete Installation
Of Pipe Lines,Meters
Expecte4 This Week
Architect's Drawing Of Ford Plant At Rawsonvilie
Washtenaw County Soil-.Cor,serva-|»1^ayif'A ^^   Lfl*6US?L1 J>ro'
tion district at the ffilfrict's  an- ^™e*j?1* ™ »nd 20 as   Clean-
nual meeting at Ann Apboft...
_J_rw__ Ran- of 310 Nor'"a. Ann'
Arbor Street, completed recruit
training at the U. S. Naval Training Center a,'. Great Lakes, Uli-iois.
Saline High School's Hornets gain
ed first place in the Huron League
by winning its sixth straight league
encounter, defeating Dundee, 61 to
45.
FEBRUARY
The county-wide March iof Dimes
campaign was corn-plated with the.
county goal of $57,600 topped by
more than- §6,000. SaUne residents
contributed $3,123.
Saline's Hornets continued their
perfect pace in baskebbaU, defeating Chelsea for their twelfth victory.
Members of SaUne Chapter, Order of Eastern Star, honored Mrs.
Everett Wbliih, grand committee-
wmian, at a dinner and Teception.
Two new directors were .named
to the Saline Community Hospital
Association's board of directors,
"•creasing its membership from
5ve to seven. The new members
fere Mrs'. William Meister and
Mwin Finkbeiner. Three members re-elected were Wiliam Brit-
•»n, C. A. Curtis and Ernest Gir-
»aeh. Oth-;r members of, the'board
or Heininger.
Three committees of the Greater Same Association met at Still's
testem-ant ta complete plans for
«e special meeting of the Associa-
i.n.
Member- of the Saline Women's
tab held their annual guest night
liquet at St. Paul's Church. Prin-
»Pal speaker was Mrs. B. H. Watt,,
__"?? ¥** of m GMs *^ato-
"_ School, Adrian.
The Saline Chamber of Commerce was organized with fifty-
toe business, industrial, ..profes-
toial and agricultural -firms bold
■fa cnarter m_mbhers<hipsi. Lairry
fcre_?'as elee-ted the organiza-
wns furs, president.
MARCH
The Chamber of Comimerce act-
& to erect -attractive signs at the
£_ e?tl'ances to Saline on Mieh-
C,f?mie* The P«>J«-t was as-
j^nea to a committee composed
•■*•• *• StiU and D. Anderson. Oth-
committee chairmen at .the
arch meeting were George Mains
an-a-rsbip, and Anthony Landi,
erctiant promotions and a_,vertis*-
[Needs of a growing community
«*■ discussed at a special meet-
jg. attended by members of the
S*e ?ity CouncU, officials of
?.' -Pitefield and Saline Town-
Ws.. and  Sanford   S.   Farness,
[as nenaw County Planning C-om-
^s&or director. The session was
Jtt -at the Saline CouncU Chamb-
•aern.
-\
ten Frey,   Saline, was in-
tJp Days"  in Saline
■<- 5V-is_*- Virgimia -H.ow_-.Df-;Gi;bsse':
Pointe Woods   and  Wayne Clements, of SaUne were married at St.
-/pchael's Episcopal Church, Gross
Pointe Woods.
Mr. and Mrs. George C. Koch
of North Lewis Street, observed
their fiftieth, wedding anniversary.
Bea Aim .Kellogg-, representing
Saline at the Future Horriemiakers
-of America Convention at Grand
Rapids, was elected state vice-
president of the organization.
■First Officer L. 'R. Tennis of Saline, a. pUot for American Airlines,
Was named senior copUot of the
Air lanes   Pilots Association.
Ann Menzel was named valedictorian and Rosanne Cambium and
Karen Taylor eo-saltitatorians* of
the Saline High School's Class of
1956.
Pat Teachout was elected! president, of the Saline Steer Clulb.
A special committee was named
by Mayor Leutheuser to seel- another site for the city dump following protests from a delegation
of citizens residing fo the Monroe
Street area.
The Board of Education accepted resignations of' seven Salinr
Area school instructors.
MAY
f -
Mayor, Henry Leutheuser departed for a two-month vacation in
Turope. Cox-tfcilman Fra_tk Deede
was named mayor pro-tern to serve
during the mayor's  absence.   .
'The Saline Bkpti'st -torch membership-observed the churih's one
hundred twenty-fifth anniversary.
'* The SaUne' Community - Hospital
Association's board of -dire-tors.
(Juring a regular meeting, announced that eoU-etions received up to
and including March 31, 956, totalled $50,081.02, ineludinig pledges.
Miss Elizabeth Yates of Peterborough, New Hampshire, was -
Saline visitor as guest of Mr. and'
Mre.R_b.r-fc Tefft. Sheis at-wrell-
known author.
Nearly tliirty years of planning
and preparation were ciilminated
when contractors began construction work for «ihe buUding of- a
sewage disposal plant at Loch Alpine, just west of Anil Arbor.
Lightning struck the.Alfred Hack
barn on Waterworks Road and. a
resulting fire destroyel the structure. ^ ''.'
At a special meeting, members
of the Saline City CouncU passed
resolution prohibiting dumping on
the Monroe Street dumping site.
Claude" N. ly, mayor of Iorth-
ville, was an honbrel guest .in
Saline as part of Michigan's "x-
change Mayprs" Day. Councilman
'Milton Hartman and City Attorney
Stanton G. Roesch, in me absence
of Mayor Leutheuser, represented
the City of SaUe at Northville. **
Lefty WUson,  spare  goalie anl
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Design details of Ford .Mo-toor
Company's new RawsonyiUe, plant
have been announced by John S.
French, general,manager of the
Parts and Equipment Manufacturing Division. __he architect's drawing above shows the exterior  ap
pearance of the new plant'-"which
is being built on a 90-acre _ite in
YpsUanti Township. The 783,000-
square-feet of one-story _i.anu-ac.t-
urrU-g Space, about half of which
wUl be in use by the end of this
year.  A connecting two-story of
fice annex, constructed • of brick,
porcelain-enameled panels and aluminum framing, will provide
space for plant administrfcive personnel and staff offices of the Pants
and Equipment Manuacturing Division, which now are located at
the Ypsilan'ti plant. The office
area wiU face north on Textile
road1. Prking space will be provided for more than 2,800 cars. To
be completed in mld-1957, the Ran.-
sonvUle plant is expected; to employ more than 3,000 persons.'
Michigan Consolidated Gas Company announced today that it wUl
ind rip the ins'taUation- of service
pipes and meters in Saline homes
in the next few days.
AU customers' who have notified!
the Company -they desire gas service* before the end of the year
wiU have it, Charles R. Henderson, district general manager for
the company, said.
Michigan GciisoUda.ed i now has
463 signed applications for natural
gas service in MUan and 326 in
Saline,-
'Henderson pointed out  that aU
gas di&tribuition main construction
and all supply lines have been in
oiper.?tf-'---^.i.-ievei-al, weeks  in both.
Milan and'Saiiiie!  '*    "     '■*'--•'**
In forecaiiting Company expansion in 1957, Henderson said that
the Company expects   to add 100
additional gas customers' in MUan
and 50 new customers in Saline.
More than half the Company's new
customers herei have indicated S
desire to use inexpensive natural
gas for space heating.
. Henderson said the Company
is? equipped with two-way radio systems in its trucks to provide quick'
service for aU local customers.
Henderson pointed out that whUe
virtually all of the Company's construction work has been competed,
Michigan Consolidated's privat
contractor wiU return to Mil_n and
SaUne as soon as' the frost goes
out of the si-ound^to further repai-
roads .•li__^-o-&Jicus^.mers, "iawn.,
that may have been left unlinish-.i
this fall. Both roads and lawr..-
•wiU be restored to their origin -
condition, he said.
inners
Named In
CC Contest
It took the Chamber of Comt
meEce conltest commitltee many
hours to tabulate the vqtes in the
Ohfldren's Christmas Bonus contest last Saturday, but the count
was com-pleted and prizes were
awarded to 40 happy winners on
Monday.
The girls who finished In the top
20 places* on the winning Ust were
Sharon Bay Dieterle, Bonnie Feldkamp, Deborah Sheats, Gaynel
Sloan, Susan Dephaiit, Teresa
Bonich, Sherry Yuhaze, Nancy
Starling.
Susan Wackenhut, Cindy Erskine, Janis Rogers, SaUy Mlkey,
Linda Johnson. Debra Seitz, Nancy
Ann Finkbeiner; Marcia Gokee,
Delynn Fritz, Irene Rosander,
Rene Bernard and Carol Engle.
The'boy winners were PhU.Burk-
hardt, Carl Myers; Mike Armbruster, Roger LoS-img, Mark Girbach, Russ Michalke, Tim Bre-
der-natz, Mike Reed and Carl
Milkey.
'Also Mike Sharkey, Richard
Tackett, Brad CampbeU, Dennis
Ricks, Kenneth Rogers, Jr., Bruce
Uphaus, Carl Goble, John Kink-
beiner, Stephan Hoeft and! Eddie
Feui-backer.
Holiday Party
Planned For
Youth Groups.
Mrs. William Spike, teacher of
Intermediate Girls in -Federated
Church School, anounces that the
girls in her class, together with
boys o- the same age group in the
class taught by Herman Waddell,
and high schoos pupils in the class
of Mrs. Howard Kuhl,. will aU meet
on Friday evening,. December 28,
at the Church for a hoUday party
which will begin at 7:30 p.m-
Plan Dimtes
Kick-off On
January 3
Tiie March of Dimes **__i.k-0_f"
dinner wUl be held Thursday, January 3 at 6;30 p.m. at the new
lodge haU of' the Loyal Order of
the Moose at 390 S. Maple Road,
Ann Arbor,
Key workers?, drive * diairmen
and others wUl gather at that time
to "get their final instructions before the drive actually gets underway in Washtenaw.
Need Protection
'Everybody should be Vaccinated
against poUo with special emphasis on persons up through tlie
'early thirty' age bracket. The percentage of adults contracting poUo
is increasing. Millions of Michigan
citizens remain unprotected.
New Year's Eve
Service Monday at
Federated Church
On New Year's Eve, members
and Mends of Federated Church
are-invited! to attend a Watch Night
social hour and devotional service
at the church, beginning at 10 p.
m.
The eawy part o^fthe meeting
will include music, pictures, and
■pot-uek-ibuffet refreshments. Near
the midnight hour, a brief devotion,
al service wUl begin, so that tlie
old yea.- miay be ushered out the
New Year ushered in with prayer
and worship.-
Library Group
Tlie annual meeting of the Saline Library. As-iDcia-i-n wUl be held
"at the SaUne Library on Friday
evening, January 11, at eight o'clock, it has been announced.
The meeting wUl/be open to the
pubUc 'and persons interested in
the association's activities are welcome to attend, it was' stated.
New Chairman
To Head County
Blood Program
The appointment of Mrs. M. S.
DeWeese of Ann Anbor, as! county
chairman of the Red Cross Blood
Program, was announced today by
Lawrence Ouimet, chapter chair-
■man,     >.
The Blood Progiiam in Washtenaw County includes seventeen
clubs .pr'oviding for the blood
needs of more than 100,000 resi-
denits of the county. Bloodmlobfles'
which come regularly to communities in the county operate from
he Red Cross Regional Blood Center "'in  Detroit.
Mrs. DeWeese is the wife of Dr.
M. S. DeWeese, Associate Professor of Surgery at the University of
Michigan Hospital. OriginaUy from
Freeland, Pennsylvania, Mrs. DeWeese-attended the University of
Houston, Texas, and received her
RN from Philadelphia General
Hospital.  '     ■
Police   Officer Says:
Besfc New Year's Resolution: Stay Alive!
"The best New Year's resolution
you can make," Sr. Police Officer
Earl Kirby said today," is to resolve, on January 1, to. _rive so
carefully that you'll Stay aUve until January 2, and then on that
date make the same resolution for
another day, and continue this until New Year's Day, 1958, for constant safety alertness is necessary
to meet traffic conditions which
vary with the weather and with
the seasons"
"With the year's, worst driving
weather ahead, keep this, in mind,"
he added," If a sudden sleet storm
coats the streets with ice, and
finds you unprepared, it could result in an accident which would
make all your other New Tear's
resolutions just a waste of time."
The first rule of safe driving is:.
If driving conditions become hazardous, SLOW DOWN.
On packed snow, a speed of 28
mUes an hour is equal to 50 mUes
an honr on dry pavement, traffic
safety' experts have found by experimenting. On dry concrete, at
20 miles an hour,- an automobUe
can stop in 21 feet, if' equipped
with adequate brakes. On hard-
packed snow, it takes about 60
feet wiUi conventional tires1, 52
feet with winterized tires and 38
feet with remforced  tire chains.
On glaze ice, the -tire stopping
distances are from 110 to 250
feet,- depending ,on temperature.
Tire chains reduce stopping distance, to about 80 feet, even if the
surface bf the ice  is wet.
The above figures are contained
in reports of tests conducted an-
_
uually hy the Committee on Winter Driving Hazards of the National Saftey Commission. -
Remember, too, that you are not
s'afe unless you can see. This
means good windshield wiper blades' and defroster.
A clear windshild depends upon
live rubber wiper blades, sufficient
power in the wiper motor and a
defroster in good working condition. It is also necessary to carry
something in the car to scrape
ice and s'now off the windshield
and the car windows.
"Here's a slogan for the New
Year" the chief concluded," "Remember these rules before it's
too late, and we'll see you around
in '58."
Saline Area
Newsbriefs +
A-beginners social dancing instruction class for teenagers will be conducted at the Ann Arbor Y. M. C. A. starting Wednesday, January 9, it was announced by Mrs. 1?.
Huston Colvin, CltairnU-fli of the program. The classes are
held every Wednesday evening for ten weeks. Miss Sandra
Wilcox is the instructor.
The series is open to any junior or senior high school
student, hoth boys and girls, in the county. The project is
sponsored by the Ann Arbor .Y. M.-Y. W. G- A. Advance
registration for the class must be made Monday ^evening,
January 7, at the Y. W. C. A., 343 S 4th Ave., Ann Arborf
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A fire interrupted a trip to a local automobile repair sbop.,
early Thursday afternoon, for Mrs. Anita Browi- of, 106 1-2
Mich-gaoi Avenue, Saline. Mrs. Brown knew what the difficulty
was in her car and was enroute to the garage for repairs when
a fire broke out under, the car's hood. Quick service .by Dan Jan-
nuzzi of the Observer office extinguished the blaze.
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' At the 31st annual meeting of the Southeastern M-C-iig__-
Tourist aaid Publicity Association held iat Bloomfield Hills
earlier in this month, Richard H. MbLain of Dee-Thorn Ina
was elected to the presidency succeeding A. B. Pfleiderer of
the Detroit Bank "and Trust Company, Who now becames
chairman of the Board. <A Jiote of interest is that the McLains
are building c. new home near Fellows bridge northwest of
Manchester and expect to take possession early in the spring.
In addition to -reelecting all of the eligible directors from
last year there were two new directors from Washtenaw
County. They are Luella Smith and WiUiBpn Bott.
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Saline High School's Hornets, wihich already has furnished i
some surprises for teams of the Huron League this season, will |
resume its schedule on Tuesday evening, January 8, in a non-
league contest with Carleton. League play .will be continued foi- [
lowing the Christmas hbliiay when the Hornets play Flat Rock!
here January 11. j
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- SP3 Du-jie Westphal has arrived home in time for the '
holidays at his home at 5274 Happy Hollow Jvoad after -two |
years iri service- He was. discharged from Ft. Sheridan, lllin- j
ois, December 1 after flying from Paris, France to McGuire
Air Force Base, <_STew Jersey.
He was stationed with the 39th Army Ordinance and
spent most of his time near Verdon, France. His wife, Lorene.
.   is employed by Michigan Bell'and his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Leo Westphal live in Saline. .'._-•■■