1952-06-19; Saline Observer

              "It is not the qualified voters, hut the
qualified voters who
choose to vote, that
constitute the political
power of  the .state."
Abraham Lincoln
7AeS<dixe
SIXTY-NINTH YEAR
NUMBER 38
SALINE, WASHTENAW COUNTY, MICHIGAN
THURSDAY, JUNE 19, 1952      FIVE CENTS PER COPY      $2.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE
New Building For School
Hinges On Result Of
Special Election June 26
This & That
In marriage it's the woman who
pays—with the  money   her hus-1
(band dutifully provides.
♦
Best offer of the week—George
Malinczak will let anyone set in
his cooler and furnish them all the
beer they can drink for $10 a day.
Most any man will love his
neighbor as himself—if she's pretty enough.
♦
Favorite songs. Lee Robison—
"Don't Fence Me In".
♦
Then there's the girl who drinks
like  a firecracker—no good after
the fourth.
Rumor has it that the euchre
players in the park are going to
petition the city to- fix the cracks
in the park tables and to cut the
grass. Seems they are losing a lot
of dimes.
♦
Recipe for a successful garden:
Never plant more than your wife
can cultivate.
♦
Gossip has been well defined as
putting two and two together and
making five.
♦
Some people don't    care    what
they wear on their head.    Get a
load of Bobby Leutheuser's hat.
Soft snap—the job that belong-
to somebody else.
Dan Giltrow
Graduates From
U. of M.
Two Issues In
Pleasant Lake
Freedom Balloting
A new five room school for elementary students oi the newly
formed Pleasant Lake' School
Freedom District No. 1—plus a
community hall—will be a-building
in the very near future if voters of
the district give their OK in a special election to be held Thursday
June 26.
Next week's balloting will be on
two issues, both of which must be
approved before plans for the
school can proceed:
1. Removal of the 15-mill tax
limitation in the district. According to the school board and the
building committee, construction of
the school will involve an eight
mill increase in the present tax
structure, for a maximum of 18
years, but present plans call for
paying off all indebtedness for the
school in only 12 years.
2. Authorization for the school
board to issue $125,000 in bonds1 to
cover the cost of the building,
which will cost 6 mills to build,
but it is necessary to raise 8 mills
to sell the bonds.
Building plans drawn by Walter
Anicka, Ann Arbor architect, call
for a cinder block structure, with
brick facing. Site of the school
and community hall would be a six-
acre plot on Pleasant Lake Rd. between the properties of Phillip
Cerwinka and Alton Horning. The
six acres, owned by Mr. and Mrs.
George Frey, at present are under
option to purchase by the school
board.
The new building would accomodate students of the former Silver
Lake school district, Irish school
district, Dresselhouse school district, St. Thomas school district,
Pleasant Lake school district and
Kuebler school district, all of
which were consolidated as the result of a ballot held earlier this,
year.
The five-room school would have
a capacity of 175 pupils. There
are 120. students of elementary
school age at present in the district.
Working on the initial plans for
the new structure have been the
following members of the building
committee: Alton Lutz, chairman,
Erwin Wiedmayer, Willard Kuebler, Willard Manor, Andrew Luckhardt, Norman Kothe and Lawrence Burkhardt; and the following members of the school board:
Alton Homing, director, Nathan
Alber treasurer, and Bioy Bihl-
meyer, moderator.
FENCE BLOCKS PARKING LOT
i   _
Photo by Gray
The owner's of the property in back of Mci-ritt's Store, 104
W. Michigan Ave. have done it again. They b«* lit a fence which
blocks off the parking lot in back of Haarer's Market and the
Saline Hotel. '   .
Apparently, the owners of the property don't want it used
as a public drive way. The fence prevents anyone from using
the drive way to park on the hotel and Haarer's Market parking lot. It also makes it difficult for some trucks to negotiate
the alley for unloading purposes. .    ;   "
Prior to the time the property was used as a drive-way, it
was grown over with weeds. Last year the owners put up a
fence, but something happened to it. However, this fence looks
a little more substantial.
The operators of the Merritt store want it clearly understood
that they had nothing to do with putting the fence up. They
have a sign in their window which reads: "Notice! We are not
responsible for the fence erected at the rear of this lot. If we
had any say in the matter, the fence would not be there. C^ L.
Merritt, M. H. Williams.
Full Field Of Candidates For
August 5tli Primary Election
Harry Joseph Resigns Police Post
Dan Giltrow, son of Mr. and Mrs.
A. L. Giltrow of Saline, graduated
from the University of Michigan
with a Bachelor of Science degree
in pharmacy, Saturday, June 14th.
Dan's immediate plans are to
join his father in his drug store in
Saline. With the expanded services of Giltrow's Drug Store,
Dan's helping hand and pharmacy
background will be welcomed by
Mr. Giltrow.
Calendar Of Events
June 20, Friday, Teen-Age
Canteen Group at Masonic Hall.
June 21, Saturday, Bake Sale
at Woods Store, Ruth Circle of
Methodist Church.
June 25, Wednesday, St.
•Pauls Evangelical and Reformed Church Ice Cream Social on
church lawn. Also a Country
Store Bazaar.
Commencement
B_W
Ends School Year
Local Firm Gets
Jamesway Dealership
Arrangements have been completed ** whereby Gross Farm
Equipment will handle the nationally known Jamesway line
of barn, hog and poultry equipment in the Saline area. Since
1906 the James Mfg. Co., with
branches in Fort Atkinson, Wis.,
Mount Joy, Pa., and Los Angeles, Calif., has specialized in the
planning, equipping, and ventilating of farm buildings. In addition to selling and servicing
the Jamesway equipment, Gross
Farm Equipment will be in position to offer planning help to
the dairy, poultry, and livestock
farmers in this' territory.
Summer Recreation
Program
The summer recreation program opens Monday, June 23.
Hours will be from 6 to 9 p.m.
Tuesday, there will be swimming at Wampler's Lake, with
the age group from 5 to 12. The
Thursday age group will be
from 12 to 18.
All girls interested in the
softball league should contact
Lou Mundy or Frank Randall.
Those interested in midget baseball should contact Mundy at
the Saline High School between
6 and 9 p.m.
Police Officer Harry Joseph resigned from the Saline Police
Force effective June 23, to accept
a position with the Ypsilanti Police Department.
Joseph has been with the Saline
Police for 14 months. He came
here from Dexter, April 15, 1951,
after being with the Dexter Police
for a year.
In a stater-ont to this reporter,
Joseph said t/k-A his- reasons for
resigning were because of insufficient pay. Joseph makes $275 a
month, but he pointed out that he
only has about $230 a month take
home pay.
Joseph said that he would start
with the Ypsilanti department at
$3,690 a year, and that he could
work up to $4,000 after the first
year.
The City Council has accepted
Joseph's resignation, but have not
as yet found a replacement for
him or Albertson who resigned in
April.
Saline Dairy Team
Takes Four Straight
The Saline Dairy team won its
third straight victory, Thursday
night, June -12, by beating the
highly touted VFW team from Milan. Once again the Saline team
was paced by Al Hoefts' hitting.
Hoeft contributed a home run, a
single and a double, driving in seven of Saline's 18 runs. Frank
Teachout and Al Hoeft were the
batteries for Saline with Teachout being relieved by Roy Dechert.
In beating the VFW Saline hurdled one of its biggest obstacles as
the VFW was touted as being one
of the toughest teams in the
league.. Final score: Saline 18
runs, 14 hits, 1 error; Milan 12
runs, 7 hits, 2 errors.
On Friday night, June 13, the
Saline Dah-y team met the State
Hospital team. Behind the very
good pitching of Roy Dechart and
the strong hitting attack of the
Dairymen, they took their fourth
straight victory from the strong
Hospital team.
This victory firmly entrenched
the Saline team in first place,
since they haven't lost a game this
year. Hoeft once again contributed a home run to the Dairymen's
cause, but at a crucial time with
two men on base he was called out
on strikes with his bat on his
shoulder.
The final score was 12 to i.
GOP Has Number Of Contests
In County; Denis Only One
Forty Per Cent Of
Saline Residents
Not Registered
With Tuesday the final day for
filing nominating petitions for
candidates for the Primary Election which takes place on August}
5, a full slate is presented. Quali-
A  recent   survey   of   people fied voters who nave _,ntil July 7 to
el-f£ble^t0r4eglTS-er+ ^ ^ .reefer, ™11 have ample time tq
within the City Limits disclosed jstudv  thp  Pan^ata *__,,  mtt£
the following facts.
j study  the   candidates   and make
their  individual    selections.    The,
Approximately 40% of the I importailce of the Pvim&iy elec_
people eligible are not registered ' tion is that at that time the party
and unless immediate action is representatives are chosen. The.
taken by these persons, they November elections determine the
will be unable to vote in the I parties. Study the candidates, incoming  presidential election  or form yourself about them and be
Scouts Look Forward
To Fun At Bruin Lake
in the August primaries.
If you registered in 1950, you
are eligible to vote without
registering. You must have
lived in Saline for at least. 6
months to be eligible to register
and vote.
The City office will'be open
July 7 from 8 A.M. until 8 P.M.
Let's make Saline 100% at
the polls. Let's show Stalin that
our government is still by the
people.
JCC OPERATION Survival
Lee Robison, Chairman
American Legion
District Meeting
Friendship Class
Luncheon
On Thursday night, June 12, the
Class of 1952 made its last ap-'t
pearance    at    the'   Saline    High
School.    Preceded by the Junior! j
Class Guard of Honor, the Senior'
Class entered the auditorium to the
-traditional march, "Pomp and Circumstance."
The Rev. R. R. Feuell pronounced the invocation. Ann Taylor, the valedictorian, and Sue
Thomas, the salutatorian,. both
gave touching speeches. Miss Taylor and Miss Thomas both stressed
the "fact that they had gained in
understanding other people thru
their association with the four German exchange students.
Superintendent Jensen i n t r o-
duced the-~Commencement speaker,
Mrs. Ha Huff. Mrs. ' Huff has.
worked: with youth for 35 years.
She was the first woman to serve
in the Oklahoma State Legislature
and was instrumental in passing
bills to forward education in that
„ state.
She is now the director of the
Girls' Club in Memphis, Tennessee,
and was named woman of the year
in Tennessee.
The. subject of Mrs. Huffs
speech was ''Effective Citizenship".
- Mrs.  Huff  advised  the   class  to
.start making good now, with what
they have, and to show appreciation for the things right around
them.
Mrs. Huff stressed the importance of personal friendships. She
advised the members of the class
to establish themselves with the
church, for friendship, security and
taking a stand on the side of Christianity.
She told the class not to beat
other people down, but to make
them feel important, and to build
into them a sense of appreciation
of what they are.
Mrs. Huff told the class to take
the side they thought was right,
whether it was the popular side or
not. She said to stand for gome-
thing even if you -make enemies,
and that the reason we lack leadership today is the tendency of
people to try and always choose
the popular side.
T>r. Gordon Prout, president of
the Board of Education, presented
the diplomas.v Rev/ Feuell gave
the Benediction, and the. graduates
filed down the aisle for the last
time while the audience stood and
the Saline High School band played "Huldigung's March".
Members of the Friendship
Class of Federated Church
School will hold their June pot-
luck Luncheon Meeting at the
home of Mrs. Henry McKenzie,
on Wednesday, June 25, at
12:30" o'clock. Mrs. Alger Allison, president of the class, is in
charge of program plans. There
will also be Missionary Sewing.
New Books At
Your Library
Wild Wheel, Garet Garrett.
Hidden .Flowers, Pearl Buck.
Houses in Between, Howard
Spring.
Gown of Glory, Agnes Twin-
bull.
Man Called Peter, Catherine
Marshall.
Therefore Stand, Wilbur N.
Smith.
Witness, Whittaker Chambers.
The 'two outstanding books in
this list are—Therefore Stand
by Smith, and Witness by
Chambers.
These are books every American should read—not only to
be informed- himself, but to
help solve the problems of the
age in which we live—a responsibility that rests upon every
patriotic citizen of our country.
Signed
Book CJommittee
Saline Library.
The Boy Scouts of the Portage
Trails Council are looking forward
to fun-filled days of outdoor adventure at Camp Bruin Lake this
summer. The staff and several
Explorers camped on June 15 for
a week of training work in preparation for the first period which
begins June 22.
The camp program will feature
swimming, boating, canoeing, hiking, handicraft, riflery, archery,
outdoor cooking, camping and many other Scouting skills.
A competent staff of adults and
older Scouts will be on hand at all
times to make the camping experience both enjoyable and worthwhile.
Charles Barclay, administrative
assistant at Ann Arbor High
School, will serve as program director and markmanship instructor. James Gilster, who has had
several years of experience as a
swimming coach, will serve as waterfront director. The camp cook
will again be Mrs. Ozella Bolden,
who has prepared such wholesome
and appetizing meals at camp for
the past several seasons. Ronald
Fukushima, a student at the University of "Michigan, will serve as
provisional Scoutmaster; and Paul
A. Yambert, Field.Executive of the
Portage Trails Council, will serve
as Camp Director.
prepared to make wise selections.
For U. S. Senator: John T.
Martin, jr., Grand Rapids, now
Auditor General; Charles E. Potter, Cheboygan, now 11th District
Congressman; Dr. Eugene Keyes,
Dearborn, former Lt. Governor;
Clifford A. Prevost, Detroit, secretary to Mayor Cobo, all Republicans. Blair Moody, Detroit, Incumbent Senator and Louis C.
Schwinger, Saginaw, former State
Representative, Democrats.
For Governor: Fred M. Alger,
Jr., Grosse Pointe, now Secretary
of State; William C. Vandenberg,
Holland, now Lt. Governor; Donald S. Leonard, Detroit, former
State Police Commissioner, for Republican nomination.    G. Mennen
The    American    Legion   and ] ^Uliams'  Grofe. Pomte'    i'lcunl"
The American Legion Auxiliary I ***, Democrat, is unopposed^
will   hold   their  second district L Fo1, "■ Governor: George Welsh,
meeting at Morenci, June 29, at, ££**££ f£™™; <£-
SS_   is the last  meeting .of'S^^^S
the  year.  All  posts  and units _.,•__,'____.   „■!,-£_--.   Thn^as
should be represented and pre>   ^
pared to  vote  for  the elective'^
officers.
The American Legion Auxiliary will meet at 3 P.M. at Odd
Fellows Hall, 132 North Street.
The __ American Legion will
meet at Russell Green Post 219,
2nd floor above Renner's Barber Shop on Main St.
Dinner will be served at 6:30
P.M. at stair gym on Congress1
St. Tickets are $2.00 each.
Sam Tropea Displays
Bluegill Catch
George Cook
Promoted
One of our Saline boys, George
Cook, son of Mrs. Hazel Cook, received a high honor recently when
he was promoted to 1st lieutenant.
Col. Perkins of the Far Eastern
Command pinned the bars on
George at a ceremony at the Wing
Headquarters at Pusan. There
were five other men who received
promotions at the same tittle.
Three of them were from George's
base.
missioner, chairman; Thomas
Leith, Brighton, mayor; David
| Young, Saginaw, former State Republicans. On the Democratic ticket, John Connelly, Detroit, former Lt. Governor.
For Congress, Second District,
including Jackson, Lenawee, Monroe and Washtenaw counties:
George Meader, Ann Arbor, incumbent; Arthur P. Lopshire, Clinton; Norman E. Suiller, Erie, Republicans. John P. Dawson, Ann
Arbor, U. of M. professor, will run
on the Democratic ticket.
For State Senator from the 19th
district, Elmer R. Porter, Bliss-
field, incumbent.
In Washtenaw county there is
but one contest in the Democratic
party. That is for the offcie of
prosecutor. Both Aaron Priebe of
Ypsilanti and Louis C. Andrews,
jr., filed petitions for that office.
Lawrence Olterdorf, 35, of Ypsilanti, filed as the candidate for
sheriff. Viola B .Blackenburg filed
for the, office of state representative, Mrs. Mary Ellen Kirk for register of deeds, Richard Weber of
Ypsilanti will run for treasurer.
Roy Merrill, Webster township farmer, will try again for the post of
county drain commissioner.
On the Republican side, several
primary fights have developed. At-
toreny John W. Rae and Chief
Assistant Prosecutor Edmond F.
DeVine have both filed for nomination as prosecutor. Incumbent
i Douglas K. Reading is not seeking;
reelection.
John L. Osborn will seek reelection as sheriff, while Robert Win-
caught 11 bluegills within an ho_r j™* °* Y*siIanti ^ 0K>0Se him-
last Wednesdav usine- a cane oole W" F* Verner>   county   treasurer:
last  weanesaay using a cane poie i.T^__;e r  rfc-;.*™,,-  w-.f re^,^
and worms.
-Photo by Gray
Sam  Tropea  and Fred   Phelps
The largest bluegill was 10%
inches long and weighed about 1
pound. - The others were around)
9% inches in length. The fish
were caught on a local lake.
Japanese Students Address Rotary Club
The Saline Rotary Club heard
a clear and unbiased report on
the Japanese thinking during
the war and of the post war
age.
Chiggio Immamura, a Japanese student studying at the U.
of M., majoring in English
and who will return to Japan in
about a year to teach English,
spoke with considerable frankness about his experience in the
Navy Air Force of Japan during
the second World War. He also
answered questions frankly
about the Japanese state of
mind in post war Japan.
Mr. Immamura, was born and
lived in California until the age
of ten when his parents returned to Japan. He of course finished high school and three
years of college in Japan.
In 1943, Mr. Immamura vol
unteered for the Naval Airj
Force and after training became
an instructor to air cadets. The
talk was centered mainly about
an explanation of the "Kamikase" or suicide pilot as we call
it. Mr. Immamura volunteered
for that service. He explained
that there was no coercion used
in obtaining pilots for this mission' men were not strapped in
planes. They all had parachutes,
because they were used as sea-
cushions so that the small Japanese would be raised high
enough to see out of their cockpits. The war ended before Mr.
Immamura actually went on a
Kamikase mission, obviously. It
was explained that "Kamikase',
did not mean suicide, nor was
it ever considered suicidal by
the Japanese. In Japanese,
"Kamikase" means "Divine
Wind." In ancient Japanese
history   the   Mongolian   forces
built a huge fleet of ships and
sailed to Japan to conquer her.
A typhoon struck the force and
completely destroyed it; consequently the Japanese called this
a "Divine Wind" and through
the ages "Divine Wind" has become synonomous, with the Japanese, as a symbol of freedom;
so was the thinking behind the
formation of the Kamikase
Corps.
Mr. Immamura, although
with ten years of life in the
U.S. considered his actions in
Japan quite typical of the Japanese for he had gained the
major part of his education under the Japanese state of mind.
However, he, more than others,
has a chance at comparison and
in tfiis way gave" the Rotary a
clearer insight in'to^understand-
ing between nations. Certainly
Mr. Immamura* embraces the
major tenets of Western Demo
cratic principles and will make
a good "Salesman" when he returns to Japan to teach.
Mr. Immamura closed with
an explanation that he feels
that there may be a hostility to
Western Democracy building up
in Japan but he does not feel
that it would be of any duration. This, he says, is due in
large part to the influence and
pressure of Conimunism in Japan today. In the closing remark
Mr. Immamura stated that he
hoped America would try to
understand the Japanese and
that if a hostility did build up
it would be only as a matter of
survival for the Japanese,
meaning if Communism became
the dominant rule in Japan.
Naturally, he says, the Japanese would have to obey their
new rulers even though they
would not agree with the principles.
Lewis C. Christman, First District
Representative; Joseph Warner,
Second District Representative
and Thomas S. Fitzgerald, regis^
ter of deeds, are seeking reelection.
Luella * M. Smith, incumbent
county clerk, is unopposed.   -
These are the candidates and it
is up to each individual voter to
inform himself concerning' their
qualifications and make a wise selection. Election, especially the
Primary, means Selection^
South Saline
Extension Group
The South Saline Extension
Group annual pot-luck picnic
was held at the Island Park in
Ann Arbor on June 12th at
12:00, with ten members present.
The meeting was conducted
by Vice Chairman Mrs. Wilma
Briggs. The "Womans Creed was
read by Mrs. Everett Gilbert.
After the group discussed leaving a display-at the Saline Fair,
the group toured the Arboretum and alsa to Wineburgs Gardens.
The next meeting will be a
reorganization meeting and will
be at the home of Mrs. Lawrence Tucker on September 11th
in the afternoon. *
Mrs; H. H. Hammond