1950-02-23; Saline Observer

              SIXTY-SEVENTH YEAR
NUMBER 21
SALINE, WASHTENAW COUNTY, MICHIGAN THURSDAY, FEB. 23, 1950      FIVE CENTS PER COPY §2.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE
The Jaycees' Darktown Minstrel Show packed'Em In and Rolled 'Em In The Aisles
Pictured are the home talent... .and talented... .players in the Junior  Chamber of Commerce minstrel show at the Saline High School Auditorium,
last week Tuesday and Wednesday.   "Alabamy Bound,''' they took their audiemces with them on both occasions and delighted and thrilled them no end.
• —Photo by Saline Observer.
Dairymen To
Meet Here
Monday Night
tion will be held Monday after-  Tells Women Of
noon  at  the  orchard  of Jacob    .      .   .   .        -. _ TT
Grant  on  Jackson   road.    The  Activities Ul Health
second   pruning   demonstration  Department
will be held Tuesday morning at "
10 a. m. at the Lee Talladay or-< ~
chard, Augusta township. As Mrs Reuben Finkbeiner was
meeting of the fruit growers) hostess to the Saline Woman's
will be held Tuesday afternoon! Club Tuesday afternoon, Febru-
at the Austin orchard packing! ary 14, with a good attendance,
house south of Saline at 1:30 ini spite of bad weather. The.
p. m. meeting opened with the reading
Seasonal orchard manage- of the club Collect and flag sa-
ment problems will be discussed lute, after which the president,
Washtenaw dairymen will be
interested in two meetings
.scheduled for February 27 and ibv }&• Bailey.   A number of in- Mrs.  Edwin Hering,   conducted
Along The
MainDrag
©Herbert Bodwdn's talk on
"The Happy Family" at the meeting of the <Child Study Club Tuesday' nighV shbtffd-'bS^tSf "jra8ticular
■  interest in that he, as an author-
; ity   on   mental    health,    will ,*no
''■} douibt be able to point the way to
i that happy state. The dinner that
.* evening will honor the past presi-
* dents.- of  the   Study   Club,   Mrs.
„: "Max Haswelf, Mrs. Harold Brown
. and Mrs. tHarry Anderson and the
committee in charge of the af-
~\ fair  is 'composed of Mrs.  Edwin
Hexing,   Mrs.   Elvin   Armbruster,
Mrs- W. P. Schwocho, Mrs. Al
; Hagen, Mrs. Howard Johnson, and
-. Mrs. Paul Rogers.  The Club will
dine   a la   planned   pot-luck and
may bring  guests   if they make
reservations.   The  Study   Club. is
a forward-looking group and one
of the mainsprings of our civic
, progress. © Detroit Edison stepped up Michigan's electric power   supply by   100,000   kilowatts i
Tuesday,   with the  starting of  a
giant new turbo-generator at the
Trenton Channel plant. The throt-
, tie   of  the  massive, steam-driven
• generatox-,   tlhe replica oi  one in-
. stalled at the same plant last October, was opened by J. W. Parker
Detroit Edison president at 2:45
that afternoon. The amount of
juice produced by the new machine and its twin could satisfy
the full demands of Ann Arbor,
Tpsilanti, Pontiac and Port Huron combined. Q Reo Christensen,
204 E. Michigan avenue, writes:
Dear Sir: Thank you for your
generous remarks regarding my
talk on National Health Insurance. Frankly I think it is a trib-
- ute to the local Rotary Club that
I was given an opportunity to
present a rather unpopular viewpoint, and that I was received so
cordially. The experience certainly
helped heighten my appreciation
of a community which seems to
embody the best features of the
small town. Thanks again for
your kindness. © It's amusing
to note how the boys and girls
get heped up over bowling, and
of course that's what makes it
so interesting. Saturday night the
Saline Hotel and Five Points
bowling teams tangled on the alleys   for   a   steak  dinner.     Five
Points   took   the  first   game   by  change  will   hold   their  annual
eight pins; Saline Hotel, the sec-! meeting Tuesday evening, Feb-
ond, by _5 pins and went on to'ruary 2.8. in the Farm Bureau  , ,.._-,      ^    ^ .     =-
take the third game iby an even!Store hall in Ann Arbor at 8 p. !ls found to a limited extent in. m an advisory capacity.where
- 100. It was noisy, for awhile! |m. There are 2000 members in. Poultry flocks and swine herds ever required. They are inter-
0 The Saline school board and | Washtenaw county. Chairman; according to Mr. Osier,
the City Council are planning on of the program committee, Ro-'
getting together to work out a bert Gilbert of Dexter, reports;
summer recreation program'. It • that an interesting program is,
seems that the city did not par- being prepared. Dr. B. J. Kill-
ticipate in the program last year'nam of the State college will
from a financial standpoint. It i dis"cuss livestock diseases and
has been customary for the city j feeding feeder cattle and lambs,
to contribute about four ■ hundred Quite a few livestock feeders:
dollars to the recreation fund have had losses from shipping
each year, but the present council fever in cattle and overfeeding;
members were not aware of the in lambs. Control of these trou-
arrangement when they made up | bles . will be discussed by Dr.,
their budget last year. Later, Killham. . ' '
when the school requested that! Ike Waltoin, manager of the
they come across, they refused on Detroit office, Michigan Live-
the grounds that their budget did '. stock Exchainge> will discuss:
not provide for it and there were, 'market trends -and livestock
consequently, no funds available, marketing. There will also be:
for it.   ©Milan's Big Reds took the election of delegates to the
March 2. Dr. Glen W. Reed, animal pathologist, Michigan State
college, will meet 'with the G. I.
classes and farmers of the vicinity at the Saline high school,
Monday evening, February 27,
at 8 p. m.    Dr. Reed will dis
dividual orchardists will be vis- the usual business session. The
ited Monday and Tuesday by nominating committee, Mrs-. Ar-
Mr. Bailey and Mr. Osier to thur Heinirager, Mrs. Oscar We-
take care of individual requests ber and Mrs. Ray Niles, was ap-
for assistance which have been pointed as the annual meeting
received by the County Exten- will be next on the club calen-
sion Office. j dar.
cuss the importance of control-1 County Poultry Survey |    Among committee reports was
ling   such  diseases'  as  Bang's,.    A poultry survey program is an interesting account by Mrs,
mastitus and parasites common' getting underway in Washtenaw Merritt Martin, chairman of the
"    "                            county according to Harold S. Red   Cross   committee,   of  the
Osier, county agricultural agent, meeting which she recently at-
A number of years ago a care- tended in Detroit at which Gen.
ful  check was made of tuber- George    Marshall    was    the
to farm livestock.
Don Murray, dairy department, Michigan State college,
will meet with the same group ati
Chelsea high school, Thursday
evening, March 2, at 8 p. m. and
discuss "Quality Milk Produc-*
tioa". Mr. Murray will report
recent experiments" and material
used in the cleaning of milking
machines, milk utensils, etc
Livestock Exchange
Washtenaw   county  members,
of the Michigan Livestock Ex-
Additional Uniforms
Supplied Band
And Majorettes
Through the generosity of Carl
A. Curtiss, three high school band
majorettes have been furnished
with complete new uniforms and
additional uniforms have been
supplied to members of "the high
school band, some of them being replacements and some being
for neiw band .members.
At the annual meeting of the
local    Michigan    Milk    Producers
Club Invites
Public To Hear
Noted Speaker
The Child Study Club announces that at a dinner to be
held in St. Paul's Church, Tuesday  evening, Feb.   28,  when  the
ladies  of the Club entertain their
Association here  March 0th, the i nUstaatldSj   tte  puMi<J is  also  j__
high school band will play and
again on March 16th, when the
Saline Rotary Club will hold its
noon meeting at the school. On
March 18 they will appear in the
District Band Festival at Ypsilanti and are planning on giving
a concert here this spring.
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Saline F. F. A.
Does Well In
Competition
culosis    infection    in    poultry speaker.
flocks in Washtenaw county. Dr. Mrs. Henry McKenzie, director
Jacoby of the Federal Bureau of of the Public Welfare Depart-
Animal Industry started the ment, introduced the speaker,
work under the direction of Dr. Dr. Otto Engelke, of the Wash-
Beck^ who supervised the-work tenaw County Health Depart-
in Michigan. Several other vet- ment. He told in an interesting
erinarians continued this work, manner about the work of his
Later on a study was made of departments and its branches. The* annual district contests oi
poultry flocks on farms from He said the three engineers are!the Future Farmers of America,
which T. B. was found in hogs., busy -  in    maintaining    health _f ^^tf6  __^d_!:Lff _?™00n ™
Washtenaw cattle are practi- standards ini sanitation, and re- il" 1"" '      T"~"  "
cally free from T. B._ but it still gulating new buildings and act
vited to attend. According to their
announcement, those interested in
attending are requested to place
their reservations with Mrs. Edwin Hering not later than Friday. There will be no charge for
the  dinner.
An address will he given by
Herbert L. Bodiwin, consultant in
mental health for the Michigan
Department of Mental Health,
(Lansing, formerly a clinical psychologist with the Michigan De?
partment of .Social Welfare. He
has a bachelors and masters degree in psychology from Michigan
State College and has had grand-
uate work in psychology at the
University of Michigan.
Mr. Godwin's special interests
are in the field of family mental
health and the adjustment of old-
rayer
The World Day of Prayer to
be observed on Friday, February
2_th, is an expression of the
faith that prayer is the mightiest
force in the world. It occurs each
year- on the first Friday of Lent
and twill be held in Saline at 2:30
o'clock in Federated Church, with
.women from St. Paul's, the Methodist and Bethel Evangelical and
Reformed Churches also in attendance.
The World IDay of Prayer was
observed last year in 86 countries
(The United Nations numbers 59)
and  the program  was translated
into    more    than   60    languages.
Services were held in over 10,000
communities in the United States.
I The offerings received on this day
' support     the    literacy    program
among   the   Navajo   Indians,   as
well as increase cultural and religious   uplift  for our  migratory
population;   give aid  to   the  26,-
000 foreign students intheU.S.A.;
give  stability  to   colleges in  the
Orient, = and   Christian   literature
for industrial  centers and forest
villages,  of    Africa    and    South
America, for India, Burma,  Kor-
; ea, Mexico and China,
j     The   theme   for    the   1950   ob-
j servance    is     "Faith    For    Our
| Time," and the program has been
I prepared by Miss Michi Kawai, a
famous   Japanese    Christian   woman  who_ received her education
in America.
|    Mrs. R. S. Hocking will preside
over the meeting tomorrow. Mrs.
Rudolph   Layher,   Jr.,   will   sing,
! and Mrs.   Harold Brown will be
| organist. Ushers are Mrs. Charles
, Kern and Mrs.  Maurice  Henderson.    Other   participants   on   the
program   are    Mrs.   Lloyd   Dell,
Mrs. Myron Gallagher, Mrs. Gor-
\ don   Anthony,   Mrs.   Gerald Coe,
Mrs. Cecil Davenport, Mrs. Howard Johnson and Mrs„ Hugh Austin. <&
This service is interdenominational, interracial, international.
All are urged to join in observance of the World Day of Prayer
as we bow our heads in reverent acknowledgement of our debt
to and our reliance upon Almighty
God. A
the Hornets 41 to 27 Friday night  annual meeting in March, and a^has been ^greatly reduced. Pre- There_ are also part-time work-
.... as was expected. 'Flat Rock special  discussion  period.     All v~ " '      J"~      "  "" "' "   - -" * - "-- --"=-- *
comes here Friday night for the farmers" interested in marketing
final   conference   game.   Tuesday j livestock  are   urged   to   attend
says, Mr. Gilbert.    Other mem-
night the Hornets took Oexter
in a sharp tilt, 30-29, with Bur-
meister *niaking the winning
counter in the final 30 seconds
of play. The Litle Hornets (were
also winners over the Dexter Tots,
32-29. ^Yesterday was Washington's birthday, Ash Wednesday and the beginning of Lent.
It also marked about the heaviest
snow fall of the winter to date
and fills us with the foreboding
that there can be a lot of winter packed into that long month
of March..
the high school gymnasium, were,er citizens and has worked extensively throughout the^ state with
parents, teachers and professional groups in the area of mental
health. Mr. Bodwin, who is Very
much   in   demand    as   a   public
opened with an address of welcome, to the 100 visiting guests by
John (Feldkamp, president of tht
estedto^pianiing"for the~future,, Sa^e Chapter- ^     _, a
At the present time another also, as    increasing population:'    The value of the FFA V10^™
check on T. B. infection in poul- makes expansion  of sanitation of P«rsonal development was the
try flocks is being made in Free- necessary.    They see that res-*ubJect Qfie?arta to? ,fupt\ ^° «., -„«„* _-n, *„   ..-»,    _,
dom town-hip.    Dr. Mary Mai- taurants observe health laws in!L-  Jensen «"*  was foUowed b*, S-LS^"* vnn te'    The HaP^
loy, a graduate veterinarian of their equipment and handling of announcements   by   Chanes   Os-
Miehigan State college, is doing- food, and supervise milk stain- j S°°d' ***■ ™st™ct°r\   .
this work under the direction of dards.    Trailer  camps  are  in-1    Ciflsea- Placed *™t in Parlia-
Dr. Beck of the Bureau of Ani- spected and closed if unhealthy, m«?t?Jy   frofeduJ? /^T^f0"
mal  Husbandry,  Lansing.    Dr. conditions prevail.   Dr. Engelke 1 ond Manchester, third and Milan,
MaUoy has already done similar gave a great deal of eredit to !T^_.f5mfi  Par^pants were
work in Ionia and Gratiot coun- the nurses of the    department, 1 ?°^ Feldkamp,   Eldean   Bauer,
ty, Michigan. She reported that who   have   specialized  training,  David   Manon.   TV""'q    A""—
41%  of the hen    flocks    were; ito assist in many ways and are
found to  have T.  B.  infection ±he meaas of  contact between.
David   Anderson
and Thomas Love,
In Demonstrations, Saline took
and 22% of the pullet flocks. At ithe family physician, hospitals' ^st pl^e' tte, ^f? *emS
one time T. B. in poultry was rmd the department. He gave! Favm Fires f^ f^ feas'
quite common in WashteriaW Credit to the doctors of- the! £e!\ demonstrated by James
flocks according to Mr Oder, ^county who have cooperated ^±™\*»^Z*t^t
but in recent years the. infection 100%   with   the   department,
nniinary tests already made' ers who add to- the efficiency of
indicate low infection. This /their work. Through clinics and
would indicate good flock man-j regular vacination and inocula-
agement practices and the prac- tion,   many     dreaded   diseases,
pullet    flocks'particularly of  children;    have:
speaker,   has   been   booked   with
the Study Club since November.
Family."
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Mr. and Mrs. Otto
bredernitz Celebrate
25th Anniversary
sea placed second and Manchester
third.
In public speaking, Chelsea
placed first with ""Soil," By Walter Zeefo, Saline second /with "Soil j
Erosion and Its Control," by Du-
ane Girbaeh, and Manchester
third  with- "Conservation:   What
Walter Mast,    Webster;    Jack
Bradbury,   Lima;   and  William
Hayes, York township.
A. B. A. Annual Meeting
The annual meeting of the
Chelsea A. B. A. is scheduled
for Friday, February 24, at the
Lafaytte  Grange    hall,     Lima
toers of the committee arranging i tice of keeping
ing  for   this  meeting    include rather that keeping over year, (been checked. -. The county dpes ^ ,«■„„-,->„   Vin   n-_rt  ,,„„   w
._*..      ._    .     __. ..   .   oM hens#    Dr. MaUoy   reports• aot yet have a cancer^ clinic, but R0^t ^othe
that it may take several months) he hoped that details could be      ___   ,_*_„,'      „„ ,._.,._ +        .,,
to test all the flocks in Free--eventually worked cut to mak* Jg*^S ^wlStehS.
dom township.    Dr. MaUoy has that possible.    Dr. Engelke an- rePresent ^   area-   Washtenavi
been  a  practicing  veterinarian swered questions at the close of
in Shiwassee county.    She has, his talk.
also worked on the Bang's pro-l    Mrs. C. A. Curtiss and Mr&
gram in Michigan for two years. Luther Briggs sang two en joy-
Center.   A. C. Baltzer, manager She also was employed in meat able solos, accompanied by Mrs
Saline Girls Score
In Ypsilanti
Music Festival
li
Saline  schools lia_  two entries
in the Solo and Ensemble FestS
val   held in  Tpsilanti,   Saturday.
One of the two, Miss Karen Taylor, for  a  piano solo, received a
" superior   rating   and   the   other,
Miss (Christine Schnierle received
a rating of good for her number
on the flute. The superior rating
made Miss Taylor eligible to -enter
...the   regional contest  which  will
; fce held at Lansing in April.
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1-et a liner ad buy it for y«u.
of the state organization will be inspection work in Detroit
present.    He will illustrate hia , 	
talk with colored pictures which -pv   •    -RnarrJ Mpprino-
he took on his trip to Europe >-^ air'J30ara -Wieeting
last summer. ' Postponed
Everyone interested in hear-i	
ing the program of the Chelsea,
Martin. Refreshmprts were
Served with the rpnoiutments
I -appropriate to- Valer.tine's Day.
; Assisting hostesses were Mrs.
i Alvin Siemson, Mr--. Lloyd
■ Steiner and Mrs. Mnrtin.
and Monroe counties, in the regional contests to be held at
Pittsford, March 7.
Dr. Harold Fildy Of
Cberlin College Spoke
Here Sunday
A. B. A. unit are urged to at-
Fair s-ecretary,' Charles Osgood,
Br.  Harold Fildy,  Professor at
Oberlin   Graduate School of  The-
■Publicity Committee,  ology,    Oberlin,   Ohio,   was   the
guest   speaker   at   the   Methodist
tend, says Clifford Bradbury, in-  annoufces that the regular meet-  ---.-,. ---     , J_     T\/r--<. clmrcn Sunday morning, his topic
seminator-manager     There will mg of the Salme Community Fair   Willing-  Workers Meet being,    "Friends.-"   The  Dr.    and
be an election of directors and £oard.wM6h *^«» Monday next   A „
a report of the past year's a_- has   been   canceDed   b6cause   of  At ^aZey  "-OTn
tivities
Fruit Grower Demonstrations
Two orchard pruning "demon-  _      .    ,,    .
stations and  a fruit growers 6ay m March
meeting   are  being     scheduled
February 27 and 28, - according;
to H. S. Osier, County Agricultural Agent.   Karl Bailey, fruit
the farmers' meeting at the iug-h
school that night. The next meeting will be held on the last Mon-
Rev. Hocking attended college
■ together at Alma and had lost
I track  of   each   other   until   last
Mr.
The   Willing   Workers   met. spring. Dr.- Fildy motored to De-
Thursday,   February   16,   at    the  troit   along  with  several   of   his
home   of   Mrs.   Lloyd   Catey   on J colleagues to attend a ministerial
' — __   Willow Road. A bountiful  lunch- j meeting  Saturday   and   returned
and Mrs.  Ardis Heininger  eon   was   served,  followed  by   a ] with Rev. Hocking and spent the
;0_ Milan, Mr. and Mrs. Matthew  business meeting, led by tne pres- j night here  as  his  guest. During
Seege'r and son Matthew, Mr. and  ident, Mrs. Everett Gilbert. Time j hia   speech on "Friends"  he told
and vegetable specialist, ^ill be\^ -Sf1^6^.^! <fWren' iff   T*  Sp?nt   ta  a  "d^^S. o^  the 37 months that to wife
, ,f!      : .J^   ,     ...{*"*   a110-   Mrs.   Earl  Bush  were bee'   and  sewing, rags for  rugs.> and  two little  girls and himself
in the county those-two days."^ Sunday   dinner    guests   of   Mrs. There were 40  present,   five   of I spent in a Japanese prison camp
The first pruning    demonstra- Mary Seeger. whom  were guests. \ in the Phiffippines.
Mr. and Mrs. Otto Bredernitz
celebrated their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary Friday evening
of last week. The celebration took
place at the Polar Bear Hall iwith
approximately one hundred and
seventy-five guests present. The
couple received twenty-five silver
dollars and a purse of money. Refreshments were served.from the
refreshment table which had as
a center-piece a beautiful wedding cake baked by' Mrs. Riiby
Wild. The eyening was spent playing cards and dancing. The party
was given by the children of Mr.
and Mrs. Bredernitz, Mr. and Mrs.
Duane Bredernitz, Mr. and Mrs.
Robert Roos, Miss Joyce Bredernitz and Donald Bredernitz.
Julius Bredernitz
Lifetime Resident
Dies at Age of 82
Julius Bredernitz, 83, a resident
of this community all of his lifetime, died at Ypsilanti State Hospital, Tuesday night, following a
long illness. He was born in Lodi Township, the son of August
and Katherine Hesse-Bredemitz,
on July 30, 1867. He married
Clara Luekhardt in Saline on
Apra 12, 1898, who preceded 'him
in death November 7, 1937.
Surviving are one son, Arthur
Bredernitz of Jackson; a daughter, IMrs. Paul Klueter of Saline,
and one sister, Mrs. Frank Williams of Oakland,  California.
Mr. Bredernitz /was a member
of Trinithy Lutheran church of
Salme and in his earlier life was
active in the affairs of the community, having been in charge of
the water department of the city
and manager of the Saline Mercantile Company from 1918 until
1938.
Funeral services will be held
Friday morning at 11 o'clock at
the Lockwood Funeral Home, Rev.
H. L. Engel officiating, and interment will be in Oakwood Cemetery.
Friends may call at the Funeral Home.
Federated Ladies Aid
To Meet Wednesday
'  s
The March meeting of Federated Ladies' Aid Society will be
lield on Wednesday, March 1, at
the home .of Mrs. Reuben
Rogers. Missionary sewing'under the direction of Mrs. Clarence Johnson and Mrs. C. R.
Burkhart, will begin at 1:30
o'clock, with the business meeting scheduled for 2:30 o'clock.
Mrs. Harold Brown, president
of the group, announces that the
devotional service will be led by
Miss Mary Morden, and the Baptist missionary report made-by
Mrs. Rodgers. The quarterly
Presbyterial offering will be received." Mrs^ A. W. Cuff is. in
charge, of the program for the
day. Social committee includes
Mrs. Archie Lawrence, Mrs. C.
G. Everett and Mrs. Heary McKenzie.
THE JAYCEES'
KOLYUM
.The minstrel show is gone but
not forgotten. I wish to personally thank everyone-who helped
to make this a grand success. We
had a lot of fun putting on the
show and we believe that everyone who saw it, liked it.
Jaycee business meeting tonight, February 23, at^8:C0 p.m.
at the Salme Hotel.
Saline Jaycees,
Allan B. Wiedman, Pres.
Paul Davis is among the 1,515
graduates who complete-" requirements for degrees during the
fall semester at the University of
Michigan. No formal exercises are
held in February since the University stages its commencement
in June. The February graduates
are all eligible to takejiart in the
June program.
Liner mis cost lita©—-work fast!
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