1952-05-15; Saline Observer

              POPPY DAY
76eSaU*tz Oitvwen,
SIXTY-NINTH YEAR
NUMBER 33
SALINE, WASHTENAW COUNTY, MICHIGAN
THURSDAY, MAY 15, 1952        FIVE CENTS PER COPY      $2.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE
Room Mothers Are
Hostesses At Tea
Room Mothers Melt
The 1951-52 Room Mothers
of the Saline School entertained
at Tea on Tuesday May 6th in.
the school gym. Honored guests
were the Teaching staff of the
school, Supt. of schools Leo
Jensen, Principal John Ford and
school secretary Esther Land-
wehr. The purpose of this annual tea is two-fold—-first, to
present service pins to the
mothers who have served during the past year and second, to
introduce next years' mothers
to the teachers.
Mrs. Robert Merchant has
been elected chairman for next
year and the following will act
in the various classes: Kindergarten, Mrs. Frank Brittain and
Mrs. George Wood; First Grade,
Mrs. Allan Wiedman. and Mrs.
Armine Westphal; Second
Grade, Mrs. George Burg and
Mrs. Paul Woods; Third Grade,
Mrs. Max Spike and Mrs. Harvey Warner; Fourth Grade;
Mrs. John Ford and Mrs. Meredith Bixby; Fifth Grade, Mrs.
Hollis Carr and Mrs. Robert
Starling; Sixth Grade; Mrs.
Clarence Haarer and Mrs. El-
dean Bernard; Seventh Grade,
Mrs. A. G. Richards and Mrs.
Jacob Lutz; Eighth Grade, Mrs.
Waldo Gross and Mrs. Basil
Badour; Ninth Grade, Mrs. Ora
Bassett and JVtrs. Russell Richards; Tenth Grade, Mrs. Walfred Larson and Mrs. Harold
Miller; Eleventh Grade, Mrs.
Leslie Jordan and Mrs. Henry
Groeb; and Twelfth Grade, Mrs.
Carl Moehn and Mrs. Carl
Marion.
Retiring Chairman Mrs. Clarence Wiebush spoke of the aims
and purposes of the organization—the closer co-operation
between the school and community that has been achieved
by the mothers and teachers
since' September 1949. She expressed her appreciation to the
mothers and teachers for the
fine support they had given her
during 1951-52. Mrs. Wiebush;
mentioned particularly her secretary Dorothy Stimpson and
school  secretary  Esther Land-
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Fad: Something that goes in
one era and out the other. ■
Foster Green won a prize by
naming the Lone Ranger's
Horse. However, he won't tell
what the prize was.
.Have you noticed that most
girls have the skin they love to
retouch?
Funniest sight of the week,
Fred Haarer and Harry Joseph
chasing a chicken up and.down
112.
.Loreen Scherdt is back at
work'at the Saline Hotel after
being out with the measles.
Must 'be second childhood.
A kiss that speaks volumes
is seldom a first edition.
After 14 days of working in
the garden, Luther Dicks has
finally decided to go back to
work.
The editor isn't knocking off
these lines without some pain
and egg-laying, but they do
represent an honest try.
G. L. Parsons says Spike.
Briggs should replace the Tigers with the Red Wings.'
Experience is knowing a lot
of things you shouldn't do.
Marty Hemenway had a good
time picking mushrooms over
the weekend.
Family Life Institute
To Be Held At St.
Paul's Church
St. Paul's Church will be host
for a regional Family Life Institute on Monday evening at
8 o'clock. Dr. and Mrs. Franklin
Sheeder and Mr. Henry Tani,
representatives of the Board of
Christian . Education of the
Evangelical and Reformed
Church are to be on hand to
give leadership to three discussion groups which are to be a
part of the program. They will
bring with them for demonstration purposes four new film
strips in the field of family life.
Neighboring Evangelical and
Reformed Churches will be
sending parents of younger
children, parents of older children and church school workers
to this meeting. A large delegation of parents from the local
church is expected to attend the
institute and to participate in
the group conferences of the
evening.
wehr. She then presented service pins to the following women
who have served during the past
school year: Kindergarten, Mrs.
Robert Merchant and Mrs. Reid
Ross; First Grade, Mrs. Louis
Turf and Mrs. Harry Cogar;
Second Grade, Mrs. Harold Frey
and Mrs. Ken Jeppsen; Third
Grade, Mrs. Don Leidheiser arid
Mrs. William Kealy; Fourth
Grade, Mrs. Vaughn Harris and
Mrs. Bliss Curtiss; Fifth Grade,
Mrs. E-rwin Schmid and Mrs.
Clarence Wiebush; Sixth Grade,
Mrs. Edwin Hering and Mrs.
Edward Burmeister; Seventh
Grade, Mrs. Ted Stimpson and
Mrs. Paul Lee; Eighth Grade,
Mrs. Webb Harwood and Mrs.
LeRoy Stierle; Ninth Grade,
Mrs. Raymond Daniels and Mrs.
Harold Miller; Tenth Grade,
Mrs. Eugene Heusel and Mrs.
Harry Anderson; "Eleventh
Grade, Mrs. T. W. Menzel and
Mrs. H. Laravie; and Twelfth
Grade, Mrs. Don Ford and Mrs.
Walter Schroeder.
Corsages and flowers for the
occasion were from the gardens
of Mrs. Carl Curtiss.
JCC's To Have
Civic Projects
At a regular meeting of the Saline JCC's, held  Thursday night,
May 8, at the Saline Hotel, several projects were discussed.
JCC's to Get Out the Vote
Lee Robison was named chairman of Operation Survival. One
phase of this program deals with
registration and voting.
The Saline JCC's are going; to
attempt. tQ register every eligible
citizen of Saline, prior to the" August primaries. The JCC's believe
that the more people who vote, the
healthier the government will be-
., To help get out the vote in Saline, the JCC's are going to check
the City Records to see who is and
who isn't registered, and all the
assistance possible will be given to
non-voters to aid them in getting registered.
If some people can't register because of the hours, special schedules may be set up according to
Robison.
At the present time, the City
Hall is open from 8 to 5, five days
a week and from 8 to noon on
Saturday.
Persons who live in the city limits of Saline are eligible to register in Saline City Hall. Others
should register in the township
in which they live.
Jaycees to Hol'd Teen-Age Road-e-o
The Saline Junior Chamber of
Commerce will sponsor a teen-age
"road-e-o" in June to promote safe
driving among high school students. The road-e-o will name the
•community's most skillful teenage driver.
Pat Roesch, Jaycee president,
said today the top winner of the
"road-e-o" will compete in a statewide contest-in July. Sponsors of
the National Teen-Age Road-e-o
are the U. S. Junior Chamber of
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Mrs. Clarence Weibush, room mothers retiring chairman,
seated right, turns over, the chairmanship for 1952-53 to Mrs.
Robert Merchant, seated left. .      Photo By Gray
Rating By U. of M.
Annual J-Hop Is
Big Success
The annual junior-senior promenade, and event sponsored by the
junior class/ each year in honor of
the senior class, was especially
successful this year. The event
called the "J-Hop" in Saline tradition, was staged in the American
Legion Home and the local school
gymnasium last Saturday evening.
Dinner, which was served in the
Legion Home, began at six-thirty.
Reverend Engelsdorfer and Dr.
Byron Hughes of the University of
Michigan School of Education,
principal speakers for the occasion
were introduced by Richard Miller,
master of ceremonies. Junior class
president, David Bredernitz, welcomed the seniors and guests. Howard Braun, senior prexy, responded
with apporpriate remarks. Junior-
class sponsor, Miss Beatrice Ms-
Laron, and Glare Collins, advisor
of the senior clas, also spoke.
After dinner the juniors, seniors
and their guests moved the scene
of the evening's activities to the
high school gymnasium which was
beautifully decorated for the occasion. «-• ■ •
From nine until midnight the
frolickers danced to the tantalizing music of Jim Servis and his
orchestra of Ann Arbor Pictures
of the festivities were taken by thq
Orman Hayes Studios of Ami Arbor.
Teen-Age Canteen To
Open Friday Nigjjl
The teen-age Canteen will
open Friday, at 7:30 p.m., May
16, in the Masonic Hall, and a
meeting will 'be held every Friday night at the same place.
Mr. and Mrs. Al Wiedman
will act as chaperons the first
night, and, George Wood is organizing a band for dancing.
Hours v/ill be from 7:30 to
11:30 p.m. so younger teen-agers, as well as the older ones
can attend.
In addition to dancing, ping-
pong, cardsf checkers, and a
reading room will be featured.
The canteen will be open to any
teen-ager from the 7th grade
on up, and no' admission will be
charged.
"The Seniors from the Home
and Family Living Class, taught
by Mrs. Lois Sebastian, are the
ones who have organized the
canteen, and formed the differ-
According to Leo L. Jensen, superintendent of schools, Saline High
School, has received the highest
possible accreditation rating from
the University of Michigan Bureau of School Services. The University bureau is the highest accreditation agency in the state.
Representatives from this agency
visit every high school in Michigan, rating the institutions on the
basis of observatons made during
these inspections.
Four types of ratings are possible: Tentativej .one year, two"
year" arid" Ehree year. A tentative
rating signifies that accreditation
may be withdrawn at any time and
that the school is subject to visitations at any time. One year
schools are rated for a period of
one year and are inspected annually1. Two year schools are accredited for two years and are supervised biennially. The three year
accreditations are top ratings and
denote that schools receiving them
have met the educational standards required by the ..Bureau of
School Services.
In achieving this high accredita
It gives me great pleasure to inform you that at a recent meeting
of the ExepjjFrye Committee oJ5
the Bureau of School Services, Saline High School was approved for
accreditation by the University of
Michigan for a three year period
beginning July' 1, 1952, and expiring June 30, 1955.
Very   sincerely yours,
Lawrence E. Vredevoe."
In commenting on the rating.
Superintendent Jensen stated, "Salle Hifrh_ School has been working
i'or this hoiiSF^rot "tinr pa_> ..^vp
years. We have improved standards
of instruction, and met,, the other
order to make this recognition possible. Now we must strive to retain the three year status and to
use it as a stepping stone toward
still higher ^accreditation—an approved' rating •< by the North Central Association Of Colleges and
Secondary Schools. A North Central rating would enable any grad-.
uate of Saline High School to enter any college or university in
the nation without entrance examination. Our goal is high, but we
can achieve it if we can continue-to
tion, Saline High School has pro- P^-^ess at the rate of the past
Receives Medal
After 8 Years
George Malinczak of -'George's
Tavern, just received the Bronze
Star eight years after he earned it.
Malinczak didn't know he had
the medal. He happened to read
in the Legion Magazine that it was'
costing the Government ?75,00Cj
a year to store unclaimed service
medals, so he decided to write in
for his.
Resides the Bronze Star, he also
received the Croix-de-Guerre, the
Combat Infantry Medal and the
European, Africa, Middle Eastern,
Campaign Medals.
The Bronze Star was awarded
to Malinczak for Meritorious
Achievement in ground operations
against the enemy in the European
Theater of Operations during the
Rhineland Campaign.
Malinczak served as a platoon
runner with Patton's' 137th Infantry Regiment,- Company F. As
a platoon runner he was alone most
of the time, without any chance
for help in case anything happened
to him. y
He fought with the 137th all
across France, from St. Lo to
Metz. He was hospitalized in
Metz and lost touch with his.outfit. He doesn't know who recommended him for the Bronze Star,
since his company had 10 commanding officers the four months
he was with it.
gressed from a one year rating to
a three year rating during the last
seven years. The accreditation
standards are based on qualification of teachers, calibre of instruction, teacher tenure (how long the
school is able to hold experienced
and well qualified teachers), education of teacher, library facilities, size of classes, general appearance of the school, teacher-
teacher relations, teacher-pupil relations, faculty-administration relations and school-community relations.
Superintendent Jensen * releases
the text of the letter he receievd
from Lawrence E, Vredevoe, director -of the Bureau of School Services:
"Mr. Leo L. Jensen
Superintendent
Saline High School
Saline, Michigan
Dear Mr. Jensen:
five years."
School Inspector Kent W. Leach
has submitted the following summarization based on his two visits
to Saline High Schol during the
past school year:
"The pupil-pupil, pupil-teacher,
and teacher-administratr relationships were on a high level and
these relationships helped form a
general tone for the entire school
-which was quite good.
"Considering the enrollment, the
number of teachers on the staff,
and the limited space in "which to
operate, the program of studies
deserves special commendation for
the experiences offered. A fair
balance between the requirements,
eleetives, and extra-curricular activities was noticed.
"The science laboratory was es-
'pecially well equipped. The facilities for the study Of physics,
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Every key but the right one
Announce
Engagement
Engagement
Announced
Mr. and Mrs. Norman Brock
have announced the engagement
of their daughter Rosiland to
Charles Blacklock, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Allen Blacklock of Alberta, Michigan. Miss Brock is
a graduate of Saline and also
attended Michigan State Nor-
_nal. Her fiance is a graduate
of the University of Michigan
College of Architecture and is
itt the*empi_y"6_~t_;e St. Clair
Pardee Architects at St."_Vn's.
Michigan. They plan to be married May 31 at the St. Pauls
Evangelical and Reformed
Church, at Saline.
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SHS Robbery
iliree Wayne youths have
confessed to robbing the Saline
High School Safe the morning
of April J16, according to police
officer Harry Joseph. The boys
are James Clark, 21, Robert
Daws, 22, and Robert McClel-
lan, 20.
The youths admitted stealing
a total of $12,500 rom a total
of 26 schools in Michigan, Ohio,
and Indiana. Their biggest haul
.was $4,500 taken from Ypsilanti State Normal College.
They were caught by the
Marshall Police Department
while taking $1,050 from Marshall High School last week. An
alert citizen noticed their car
parked on a side street, became
suspicious because all the neighbors parked in garages at night,
and called the police.
When questioned, the three
admitted stealing $320 from the
Saline safe and also to breaking into Clinton High the same"
night.
The boys picked on schools
because they considered them
easy touches. They Would park
their car on a dark side street,
break into the school and then
locate the safe. They had
learned that school safes have
big steel doors, but that the
roof, floor, and walls were
made of tile, cement, and even
wood. They could easily crack
these safes with nothing but a
hammer and chisel.
Police- believe that the boys
operated in a gang of about
eight, and used two to three
members at a time when they
pulled a job.
The boys were tried for larceny from a building in Calhoun
County, and plead guilty to the
charge. They may also be tried
in Washtenaw County.
Feels Need Of Rest
Chooses 60 Days
Earl Scott, age and address
unknown, was picked up in Saline Friday for loitering on the
streets, with no visible means of
support. He was arrested as a
disorderly person, and plead
guilty to the charge before
Municipal  Judge Wood.
He was given his choice of a
ent committees,  which will be
rotated.
The idea for a canteen grew
out of a discussion held in the"
class on the limited opportune
ties for dating in Saline. It was
pointed out in the discussion
that recreation facilities in Saline are limited, that many!
parents don't like for thein
-hildr-en to leave town, that
cars and facilities to leave town
are limited, and that a canteen
would enable teen-agers to date
more at less expense.
The teen-agers feel that a
canteen will" take the youngsters off the streets and give'
them a properly supervised)
place to go, thereby combating,
juvenile delinquency.
Mr. George Seeger helped obtain the Masonic Hall for the
Canteen. The first Friday night
will be rent free, but a small
token fee will be charged thereafter." :
The ultimate idea for the canteen is to make it into a community project rather than -a1
school project. So far, the teenagers in the class are supporting the project out of their own
pockets. They hope that businessmen, organizations, and individuals will- become interested
enough in the canteen to aid in)
its support and if possible help!
set up a permanent canteen as
a Community project.
The teen-agers also hop©
that, if the canten is succssful,
funds will be alloted from the
Summer Recreation Program
and from the Community Chest
Budget.
Mrs. Sebastian said that all
interested adults are_ invited to
meet in the Saline High School
Gym, Tuesday Night, May 20th,
at 8:00 P.M. Purpose of the
meeting is to set up a perma-_
--ent-a^_g_xy"tir6Tincil, aiiS'Toos-"
sible rules. " v
Miss Lillian Louise Love
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Love,
Sr.j of Saline, announce the engagement of their daughter,
Lillian Louise to Pvt. Richard
Hoag, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Leslie Hoag of Dundee.
Miss Love is a giaduate of
Saline High School and is employed at Michigan Bell Telephone Co. in Ann Arbor. Pvt..
Hoag is a graduate of Dundee
High School and is now stationed with -the Marines at San
Diego, Calif.
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Woman's Cluh Meets
At Bauer Manor
The Saline Woman's Club
held their last meeting for the
year Tuesday afternoon at the
Bauer Manor at Evans Lake
with twenty-four in attendance..
After a. delicious- three course
luncheon, Mrs. Walter MacAr--
thur, president, presided at the
business session and then introduced the new president, Mrs.
Harold Gray.
Mrs. MacArthur introduced^
the speaker, Mrs. R. R. Feuell,
who showed her collection of
Norman Rockwell pictures. She
has made this one of her hobbies and gave interesting information about the artist and his;
work. The club then recessed
until October.
HulPs Celebrate
Third Anniversary
This week marks the third
anniversary of Hull's grocery
store in-Saline.
Mr. and Mrs. Bob Hull took
possession of the store in May,
1949, from Arthur and Elwin.
Armbruster. Both Mr. and Mrs.
Hull were entirely new to the
retail grocery business when
they first took qver.
However, in the three years
they have been in business,
they have remodeled and enlarged the store, and put in
much  new equipment.
The Hulls keep the store
open from 7 in the morning until 9:30. atnight, 7 days a week
for" the convenience of their
customers.
Mayor Wolfin
Saturday, May 24, was set
aside as Poppy Day in a proclamation issued today by Mayor
Wolfin.
In observance of the day, all
citizens were urged to wear
memorial poppies to honor those
who have given their lives for
America in the two World Wars
and the Korean conflict.
The proclamation stated:
"Whereas three times in the
past thirty-five years the young
men of our city have been called
upon to help turn back a threat
to' America on foreign battlefields; and
"Whereas our young men answered this call with high courage and patriotism, some of the
finest of them laying down their
lives in the nation's defense;
and
"Whereas our memory of our.
war dead and the honor in which '
we   hold   them is   individually;
expressed by the annual wearing of the memorial poppy, now
"Therefore, I, Everett Wolfin,
Mayor of the City of Saline do
hereby proclaim, Saturday, May
24, to be Poppy Day in the City
of Saline, and do urge all citizens to observe the day by.
wearing the memorial poppy".
Memorial poppies made by
disabled veterans in the Michigan Veteran's Facility at Grand
Rapids, Michigan will be distributed on the streets all day
Poppy Day by the members of
the American Legion Auxiliary,
and the Girl Scouts. All contributions received will be used
for the welfare of Disabled
veterans and needy children of
veterans.
Calendar Of
Community Events
Miss Mona Coltinuk of New
Jersey has been visiting for
several days at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Fred Giesel.
The Saline Valley Farm Women were entertained for their
fine and costs totaling $19.80. last tea of the season, at the
or 60 days in jail. Scott chose home of Mrs. Carolyn Landom
the 60 days. I last Thursday evening.   -
May 15, Thursday, Chicago
Club starts on their trip. First
Grade Family Night.
May 17, Eastern Star Bake
Sale, Uphaus Store, 1:30. Regional Track Meet at Ypsilanti.
May 19, Roy Scout Meeting
at 7:00 in the Auditorium.
May 20, Teen Age Club Canteen at the Masonic Hall.
May 21,  Gals Hobo Party.
May 24, Teachers Club picnic
at Saline Park.