1950-03-09; Saline Observer

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SLXTY-SE TENTH YEAR
NUMBER 23
SALINE, WASHTENAW COUNTY, MICHIGAN THURSDAY, MARCH 9, 1950 FIVE CENTS PER COPY $2.50 PER YEAR LN ADVANCE
DAIRYMEN TO SEEK FEDERAL ORDER
Along The
MainDrag
$ Appearing in the columns
of this paper last week was a
notice of a meeting of 'the Saline
City Board of Review, in which!
appeared the wrong dates.
{These dates wpre given erroneously as the same dates for the
township meetings. Saline City
Board of Review will meet on
Monday, March 20, at the City
Hall to consider any complaints:
Which may have been filed with
the City Clerk. The assessment
roll will be open for public inspection at the City Hall for the
week beginning March 13.
#This week started off in a
blaze of sunshine with melting
snow, running water, slush and
inud, accompanied by the early
jmorning scimg of robins, eardin-
!als and red-winged blackbirds.
Spring does not arrive officially
until March 20, but we have
observed that Nature was never
a very great stickler for dates.
©Ann Arbor, with its 30,000
population and over 20,000 students at the University, is what
may be called a "saturated" city. Product of the horse and
buggy days and for generations attuned to the tempo of a
(dreamy academic atmosphere, a.
great proportion of its residents
are compelled to park their cars'
on the city streets, having nctf
parking facilities on their own
properties. To conserve parking space and streltch it to the
limit, one-way streets are designated to hurry traffic along
and convenient parking space!
on the streets is metered
because the situation is SO'
acute. One is inclined to think
that the business interests of
the c*ity would see the logic of
building the contemplated new
Court House in a near-by open!
area, more easily accessible to-
people from all parts of the
county—and on land much less
viluabJe. However, the taxpayers of tiie county will have
opportunity to express themselves on whether they will vote)
a bond issue of $2,600,000 and
raise the present constitutional
tax limitation to pay for it.
When the state tax on real property was discontinued, and the
.three per cent sales tax was
provided to take its place, the'
15 mill limitation was placed in
.the constitution. It was generally conceded then, as it is
how, that real estate up to a
certain value, is an inequitable
source of tax revenue. But
gradually, under pressure, the
■home owner and the farmer are
allowing themselves to assume
an ever-increasing burden of
'taxation and in the end will be
jback on the old level of real estate taxes, and in addition, will-
have the accumulation of new
' .taxes which1 have appeared in
these later years. It will be interesting to see how the people
of Washtenaw express themselves on April 3. #On Friday
night the Saline" Girls' Basketball team will play the Ypsilan-
$& Sophisticates at the Saline
School gymnasium. The Saline girls are a speedy, tricky
team and can be counted on to
give you your twenty-five cents
worth of basketball. gA farmer from near Cinton, who attended the Milk Producers' annual    meeting    here
Prof. Heady
Scornful of
TheV.A.
Prof. Heady of the Political
Science Department at the University of Michigan, was the
guest of Art Heininger at the
Saline Rotary Club meeting
Thursday noon and gave a very
enlightening talk on the Hoover
Commission Report.
He termed the Veterans' Administration the most inefficient
and wasteful of all government
agencies and talked of it in very
scathing terms. The unification
bf the Armed Services, he said,
was the 'greatest accomplishment of all, and by it the greatest economies were effected. In
other departments of govern-
mnt, he believed that but small
economies could be brought
about, but by the cutting of
red tape and possibly the consolidation of certain bureaus
and the creation of new ones,
greater efficiency would result.
Government affairs generally
were conducted on a basis of efficiency comparable to private
business, he stated, and added
that the only way in which any
appreciable cut in the costs of
governmental operations could
be brought about would be by
dropping certain public services.
The Agricultural Department
is one of the very most efficient
bf all government agencies he
declared.
St. John's Joins In
Special Relief Offering
—i—i—
Members of St. John's Lutheran
Church, Bridgewater, will bring
an offering to their service at
11 a.m. Sunday for Lutheran
World Action, the over-seas relief
and reconstruction appeal sponsored annually by the National
Lutheran Council. The offering
Sunday will be given during the
"One Great Hour of Sharing," a
nation-wide appeal in which nearly all Protestant and Orthodox
churches of the country are cooperating.
During the past decade Lutherans in the 10,000 congregations
which participate in the National
Lutheran Council have contributed more than $25,000,000 for
overseas aid. The 195Q goal is
$3,200,000, of which the local
church is asked to give $250,000.
Lutheran World Action has
joined iwith other Protestant and
Orthodox groups in 1949 and
1930 to plan a united effort known
as "One Great Hour of Sharing"
in which church people contribute
to the relief program sponsored
by their own church. During the
ten days" preceding the offering,
the four major radio networks
have each scheduled a half-hour
program describing relief needs
and urging all citizens to attend
church on March 12 to contribute
their gifts.
Saline Local, Michigan Milk Producers Assn., Holds Annual Meeting
Nearly 350 members of Saline Local, Michigan Milk Producers Association, their wives and
guests, attended the annual meeting and banquet at the Saline High School Tuesday night
Seated at the speakers' table are President Bill -Hayes of the Saline Local, the first man on the
left with his back to the platform; seated at his right  is  Albert  Gall,   secretary-treasurer  and
directly in front of Gall is Bill Otto of the Lansing Chamber of Commerce.    At the far right, | Four Horsemen of Ypsilanti and
seated, is State President Ivan Maysltead conversing with Ernest  Girback,  a member of the i music by Milan's  "Little  Ger-
Price^Cutting On Detroit
Market Forces Move
By Association
Competition from outside
sources which is losing customers on the Detroit market and
causing a lowering of milk
(prices for the members of the
Michigan Milk Producers' Association, has forced the or-
/ganization to apply for a Federal Order to fix the price for
Class 1 milk in Michigan.
What was pronounced by
President William Hayes as
the largest, gathering of mem
bers of the Saline Local of the
Milk Producers' Association in
its history, assembled at the Saline High School Tuesday night
for their annual meeting. Nearly 350 dairymen and their wives
and invited guests were seated
at the banquet tables which
filled the school auditorium in
a very colorful affair which was
enhanced by the singing of the
3.y water came forth!
A community may be likened
to a great tree, its branches our
schools, churches and other organizations of society. Para-
Isites burrow under the bark of
the tree and when they reach
the heart of it the tree dies.
These parasites are jealousy,
suspicion, selfishness, distrust
land indifference—and the
greatest of these is indifference.
"Not good if detached", is
that person who holds aloof and
Separates" himself from community endeavots which seek
only the good of all, was the
gist of Bill Otto's fine and in-
ispiring address.
board of directors of the State Association.
—Saline Observer Photo
Making Life
More Livable
and Pleasant
Wolfin-Robison
Famliy Party
Tuesday
Co.,  In-
Dealers,
The Wolfin-Robison
ternational Harvester
have issued an invitation to thei
public to attend a free family
party at the Saline High School
auditorium Tuesday, March 14,
Tuesday when they will present -a vari-
night, drove eight miles to get ety show including such num-
on US-112 and when he hit the bers as Jim Valdare, comedy
pavement he was just one mile cyclist; Ted Waldman, comedy
from    home.    Country    roads harmonica player; Frank Kini,
were in some places impassable
.Tuesday and Wednesday. ^The
Saline Fire Department is sponsoring a St. Patrick's Day ball
at the Legion Home on Saturday, March 18, the day following the anniversary of the driv-
-Jng of the snakes out of Ireland-
by the Irish Patron Saint.
While this is no| to be a snake
dance, it will be a most charming event, and the firemen!
know how to make it— that.
Fishing tackle, an electric mixer and a cigaret    lighter   will
master of ceremonies with f eatsi
of magic; Midge Francis, accordionist; and Joyce Ann, 'tap
dancer.
The party is scheduled to begin at 8 o'clock, p.m., and is
open to the public. Wolfin-
Robison couch their invitation
in these terms: "Bring the
whole famiiy and have a lot of
fun with us,
©We almost pulled    a    boner
last week that would have taken a lot of explaining ...   a
play a prominent part  during'news item about someone  en-
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For the 93 members of its
"family" i he "Washtenaw County Infirmary has become a more
cheerful, comfortable place to
live in during the past few
months. More like real home.
They can "go to the movies"
every week, just like you and
I, except that they go downstairs instead of downtown.
They are funny movies, too.
Like Charlie Chaplin's "The
Fireman", and "The Great
Guy". The Business and Professional Women's Club of Ann
Arbor donated the projector
and some of the films, and the
"shows" are arranged and put
on by the Auxiliary, the group
of county women . who havet
banded together for 'the sole
purpose of making life more1
comfortable and a little gayer'
for the old people of the Infirmary.
And there's the television set.
That's probably the most won-
'derful thing that's happened inside those four walls in the thirty year's of the institution's existence. For many of the men
^and women it's the first real
glimpse of the outside world
they have had since going to
live there. And they love it.
Instead of going to bed at 8
o'clock as they used to do, they
will retire only at the switching-
off of the television set which,
with its large screen, makes a
"little theater" of the front sitting room.
Then, there ,are parties every
month at which ice cream and
real home-made cake made by
members of the Infirmary Auxiliary are delighted in. Even the
hospital patients share in the
treat, with the diabetics having:
Special desserts. At these parties music is the favorite entertainment, with Leader Eileen
Lay, a great favorite among'
the guests.
New comforts, labeled necessities in most hospitals, have,
been installed on the hospital
floor where there are 52 sick'
people in the seven ward-bedrooms and the two private
rooms.
A modern stretcher, given by
the Washtenaw County Medical
Auxiliary, has been installed
and is in constant use*—making
more humane "cafe of the hospitalized. Two wheel chairs
carry otherwise .bed imprisoned
patients around the wards and
•ieillin tablets to be always on
tap. In other words, there is,
now more efficient nursing*
inore humane care of the chronically ill. <*
And, for the first time in the
llnfirmary's history, chest x-
rays of all residents have been:
taken, as well as blood tests and
"urinalyses.
Much has been done, but
there is much more still to do.
In the hospital, sterilizing,
equipment is a e?y_nglieed. NeV?
$inks, and hospital size work
tables, and . still more wheel
chairs are other requirements as;
seen by the Infirmary Auxiliary
and it is their hope that gradually, through the generosity of
the many humanitarian organizations in the county these
comforts and small joys can
be provided for the old folks in,
the  county  institution.
Saline Hornets '
Made 'Em Play
Ball^To Wiri
Four To Tell
Of Easter In
Other Lands
'the evening and will be separat- pertaining 28- relatives
ed from the present owners and
no questions asked. Bettef
make it a date! ©There's another dance coming up Saturday night at the Legion Home..
given by the Legionaires . . ";
when Kenny Edward's orchestra will attempt to make dancing feet and lithsome bodies coordinate with~ the rythmic
sweetness of his music. The
ex-service  men  will    welcome"
had it -twenty-Right relatives,
but caught it., and saved our1
neck when we spelled it twenty-
eight. Phew! ©The Camburns,
Frank and Joe, are spreading
fresh paint throughout the interior of Elmer Steejb's sales
rooms and prettying it up a
lot.
Saline Hornets were barely
nosed out as champs in the
district basketball tournament
when U High took the honor
Saturday night at Ypsilanti by
a measly point. " U High had
defeated Saline in two previous
tilts this season and expected
a push-over which failed to materialize.
Saline raced into the;. lead
in the early moments of play,
6-2, but the first quarter found,
U. High leading, 8-6, and the second quarter produced but one
tally on a free throw by Bill
Twining of U. At the end of
the third period ,U High was
leading  by  two  points,   18-16,
Four young Adrian College
students will "appear at The
Methodist church here Sunday
evening at a service which will
begin at 7:30 o'clock and the
four will tell of the observances
of Easter in four different
countries.
Esther Smalley, whose parents were former Saline community residents, and who recently returned from missionary work in Africa, will talk on
"Easter In Africa".
George Bergman, whose parents were interned during the
war by the Russians, and who
came here with his parents as
displaced persons, will talk on
"Easter In Latvia". George's
father is the pastor of the Methodist church in Samaria, Mich.
Charles Reynolds of Ireland,
who is studying for the mission
field in India, will talk of his
homeland,  "Easter In Ireland".
Ed Winters will cover the
subject, "Easter In Germany".
Two Symphonic Band
Concerts At Hill
Auditorium
The University of Michigan
Symphonic Band will perform under 28 guest conductors in two
public concerts in Hill Auditorium
Five Hornet free throws and a Friday --a Saturday, iMarch 10
bucket by Earl-Moehn brought* a_d n. -The concerts will start
the score to 24-23 dm the final, at g p m
moments of play and with butj The ^_0 co-certs are a part of
three seconds to go, Hoeft ^ program = for the American
missed out on a long shot for,Bandmasters Association conven-
the basket, thus drawing the tion at th-e university. Virtually
curtain on further play for the aU   of the   noted bana  directors
Hornets until another season.
Two Couples
Celebrate Wedding
Anniversaries
in the country will be among the
100 members of this Honorary organization -who are expected to
attend the  convention. .
Col. H C. Bronson, noted for
his work with military bands,
and Lt. CoL George S. Howard,
conductor of the well known U.
S. Air Force band will be among
the   14 guest conductors  for the
Ali Baba's Magic Word Was
"Open  Sesame".    Our Phrase,
your presence at itheir  party..' Try a Want Ad.
even down to the television
room. These were the gifts of •ana Mrs. Clyde Griffin and fam-
two .-organizations: The Ypsi-jily. A pothick supper was
lanti  Thrift  Shop  and Phoebd served and a gift presented to
Mr.   and  Mrs.   Walter   Armbruster and Mr. and Mrs. Owen
Cadv  of Ypsilanti were  pleas- „.       ._.  _.
antfy surprised on their 38thlFridav concert. William D. Rev-
.and 43rd wedding anniversary, Iem. conductor of University of
■respectively, Sunday at the Michigan Bands, will take the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Armbrus-.iDaton t0 &Tect the 15th ^ last
ter. Guests were Mr. and Mrs.! number on the Friday program,
Raymond Buss and family ofi"The M -Rhapsody."
Ann Arbor, -Mr. and Mrs. Clif- Saturday's concert will feature
ford Olson, Mrs. Emma Arm- such noted bandsmen as Dr. Ed-
burster, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Wahr, win Franko Goldman and Rich-
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Stollsteimer ard Franko Goldman, of the
and family, Mr. and Mrs. Harold Goldman Band; Dr. Frank Simon,
Armbruster and family, Mr. and noted cornet virtuoso and direc-
Lgvem Armbruster    and    Mr. tor;  Percy  Grainger,   concert pi-
Beal Circle of the    Ann Arbor
King's Daughters.
Moreover the hospital now,
for the first time, has its own
refrigerator    with    ice    cubes!
each couple.
Lucinda Lee Schumm, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frederick
Schumm    was   baptised    Sunday
available 24 hours a day. The' ""'"^ «* SL ^ul's Church,
refrigerator also makes it possible for terminal cases to have!
fruit juices and gingerale, and
for soups and serums and pen-
Mrs. Donald Dechert is now associated with the Lovely Lady
Beauty Salon.
anist and composer and arranger
for bands;, and J. J. Richards, of
the Long Beach, Calif., Band.
Richards will direct the band in
the concluding number, Sousa's
"Stars and Stripes Forever." The
University Concert, directed by
Maynard Klein, also will take
part in Saturday's concert.
Your Treasures Will Plow in
by "Mule Train" if You Use
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man Band". The very sumptuous meal was prepared and
served by the members of the
tome economics class of the
[high school under the direction
of their teacher, Mrs. Olin
Wanty.
Ivan Maystead, president of
ithe state association, spoke
'briefly concerning the present
milk situation and urged a
solid front in opposition to the
colored oleo proposal to be vot-
led upon in next fall's election!.
He asserted that an affirmative
vote would seriously cripple the
entire dairy industry and add
further to the decline of milk
jprices in Michigan
On March 16, at the annual
meeting of the Association at
Northwood Inn, delegates will
vote on the proposal to seek a
Federal Order which, if enacted,
(would establish a price for
Class 1 milk at a certain amount
over that of the condensary
(prices'. While deptotring the necessity of seeking government
■support in establishing prices,
•leaders in the industry, including Ernest Girbaeh, Maystead
and others have found out that
dairymen in other states are
well pleased with the way the
Federal Order is working out
for them. It will take a two-
thirds vote of Michigan producers to volte in the Order, which
can be abandoned at any time
by a fifty percent vote, plus
one.
Following the secretary and
treasurer's reports-, seven delegates and directors were chosen
from among 14 nominees, Max
<Ross, Albert Gall, Ernest Girbaeh, William Hayes, Fred
Braun and Norman Bonnet.
At an organizational meeting
later, William "Bill" Hayes was
renamed president of the local
as were also the former officers,
Avin Marion, vice-president, and
Albert Gall, secretary-treasurer.
Bill Otto, secretary-manager
Of the Lansing Chamber of
■Commerce, was the after-dinner speaker who delivered an
mspiring address punctuated
with many humorous illustrations, and who made a decided
hit with his audience.
"Not Good if Detached" was
the theme about which he wove
his scheme for community progress and happiness, which he
likened to a poker game, in
which everyone was dealt cards
and in which everyone who
played was required to contribute to the "Pot". The player
iwho failed to contribute was
but of the game automatically.
If the contributing principle of
the poker game could be ap-
•plied to everyone in the community—to every dairymani—to
'every civic undertaking—most
of our problems would find easy
land prompt solution, he declared, and illustrated his point
further with the fable of the
wine and water. At an affair
of great import, each person
was required to bring a quantify of his choicest wine, to be
.poured into a common cask and
which was to regale the distinguished guests. Thought one,
"I will save my precious wine
and take water instead. With
\all that wine none will know
.that a flask of water has been
substituted and thus I will be
able to save my precious wine
for myself." When the spigot
was removed from the cask, on
Schools Open;
Coal Stocks
Increasing
With the settling of the coal
dispute and the return of the
miners to the pits, rationing was
discontinued here Monday and
the school reopened.
Saline, it appears, was far
from being destitute of coal at
any time, although hard coal
stocks were completely exhausted. The bulk of the arrivals
here now are composed of mine
run pocahontas and is said to
be of fair quality. Some coal
was trucked in by individuals
during the past week.
Had the miners not returned
to work, no doubt a hardship
would have been experienced
here. The rationing of fuel and
the closing of the schools was a
precautionary measure taken
when the outlook appeared very
gloomy. Had Mayor Elsman,
the school officals and others
been able to peer into the future, no action would have been
taken. The greatest inconvenience of all, perhaps, was that
suffered by the Saline Mercantile Company, which was compelled to make deliveries in such
small lots and at such widely
divergent points, that the profit
motive practically vanished and
ithe operation became p. A.,
"Operation Accomodation".
Mrs. W. L. Rundel
Dies Following
Extended Illness
Death came to Mrs. Amelia
A. Rundel, 71, a resident of this
community for 34 years, at Saline General Hospital Monday morning, following an extended illness. She was the
wife of Wilbur. L. Rundel of 124
E^. Michigan avenue, who survives her. *
Mrs. Rundel is a native of
Paris, Ontario, where she was
•born on January 29, 1879, the
■daughter of Charles and Mary
Thompson Chissus. She was
(married to Mr. Rundel at Paris
on October 30, 1901, and came
to Pittsfield township dn 1916
Where they lived on a farm
until six years ago when they
moved to Saline. She was a
member of the Presbyterian
church and of the Ladies' Aid
society.
Surviving besides her husband are two daughter's Mrs.
Clarence. Cook and Mrs. Henry
Leutheuser of Saline; two
brothers, Richard and Robert
Chissus of Birmingham; two
sisters, Mrs. John Ferguson and
Mrs. William Bell, also of Birmingham; and two grandchildren.
Funeral services were held
Wednesday afternoon at 2
o'clock at the Lockwood Funeral Home, Rev. Henry McKenzie
of the Federated church officiating, and interment was made
in Oakwood cemetery.
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Lee 'and
Mary Lou returned home Sunday
from a two-week's vacation in
Florida. -While there they spent a
day with Mr. and Mrs. William
Austin at their winter home in
Clermont, Florida.