1951-04-19; Saline Observer

              aUnt O&dewen,
SIXTY-EIGHTH YEAR
NUMBER 29
SALINE, WASHTENAW COUNTY, MICHIGAN
THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 1951    FIVE CENTS PER COPY      $2.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE
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% Supt. of Schools Jensen has
been running a series of articles
on the local school situation,
what the present demands are
and what future demands may
be made upon the limited facilities of the present school structure. In the yery near future
the problem is going to be tossed
in our laps, and a decision will
have "to be made one way or another . . . for or against reorganization and consolidation of this
and other districts. It may be
of interest to note the results
of a meeting in Blissfield recently, when nearly 80 directors
of rural school districts gathered and discussed the problem
of consolidation. They voted
unanimously to hold another
meeting with a spokesman for
the Michigan Department of
Public Instruction present to explain the full scope of reorganization into a consolidated school.
The report of the Blissfield
meeting as published in The
Blissfield Advance, will, we believe, be interesting to the people of this area.   It follows:
Meeting in the high school
gym the Board of Education and
partial membership of the Citizens Committee named to investigate the feasibility of an expanded school program, the
rural groups were most cooperative in offers of help to the
Blissfield school system. But
none of the suggestions seemed
to fit a pattern acceptable under state law.
School Overcrowded
H. P. Tagsold, president of
the Blissfield Board of Education, outlined the purpose of the
meeting, then introduced Floyd
Strayer, superintendent of
schools, who made a careful analysis of Blissfield's overcrowded school situation.
Supt. Strayer pointed out
that rural directors had been invited from 36 of the 38 districts
which send tuition students to
Blissfield. These comprise 62.5
percent of the local school's total enrollment, he added.
"Out of a high school enrollment of 285, there are 180 students coming here from outside
the Blissfield school district. We
are glad to have them; we could
hardly run a good high school
here with "only the 105 students'
who live in our own district.
May Limit Enrollment
"On the other hand, Blissfield
is fast approaching a time when
it must build additional high
school facilities to accomodate
a growing enrollment or, regretfully, to limit the number it
can accept from outside the district. It is for you and us,
jointly, to find a solution to
this problem that we have invited you here to this meeting." i
An increase in the birthrate,'
he    said,    beginning   in   1945,
shows no sign of a decrease yet.
The birthrate here fits into the
Thyra Bixby
Elected President
Women's Clubs
The thirty-fifth annual convention of the Washtenaw County Federation of Women's Clubs
met Monday at St. Mary's
school in Chelsea, and elected
Mrs. Meredith Bixby of Saline
president.
Mrs. Meredith Bixby
Saline Hatchery, received their
last big shipment of breeding
stock chicks from Christie Poultry Farms, Kingston, New Hampshire last Friday morning at Willow Run Air Port. This shipment
consisted of 3,600 (New Hampshire
breed chicks and together with
shipments that had preceeded this
one, totals 7,100. Most of these
were pullet chicks but just
enough breeding cockerels to
mate with all the pullets for the
1932 crop of New Hapshire
chicks at Saline Hatchery.
Christie Poultry Farms is  one
of   the  oldest,   largest  and  most
prominent      breeders      of     New
.. _ .       ,       .   i Hampshire chickens. In fact, they
national average.    Prior to six Lave   bred   them   for   aboiJt   25
years ago   the average number both fo production and
entering kindergarten here each meat t        A11 ^^ New Hamp-
Mrs. Munnis Kenny of Dexter was named first vice-president; Mrs. James R. Breakey,
Jr., of Ypsilanti, second vice-
president; Mrs. C. H. GriffStts,
Ann Arbor, recording secretary;
and Mrs. Albert E. Sutton of
Manchester, treasurer.
Mrs. Lawrp-tce Steger, president of the Chelsea Child Study
Club gave the address of welcome to the delegates and members of the 34 clubs of the county which comprise the federa-
ation.   Mrs. Cliarles Kern, presi
dent of the Saline Woman's
Club, responded. Mrs. Edwin
Staeb, the retiring president,
also greeted the assembly and
following the luncheon*at 12:15,
served by the ladies of St.
Mary's Altar Society, a tribute
was paid the past presidents
and a yellow rosebud was placed
in a vase at the naming of each,
which included Mrs- Thomas
Shurtz of Saline. Tribute was
also paid to the late Mrs. J.
N. Lewis of Saline and the late
Mrs. Lou Seamans of Ypsilanti,
former presidents of the Federation.
Mrs.Stellanova Osborn, widow
of the late Ex-Govemor Chase
S. Osborn, an enthusiastic supporter of the Atlantic Union,
delivered a very interesting address.
From the Sa.Une Woman's
Club were Mrs. Myron Gallagher, delegate, Mrs. Charles
Kern, president, and Mrs. Arthur Heininger. The Willing
Workers was represented by
Mrs. Everett Gilbert, Mrs. Robert Hammond, Mrs. Wade
Scudder, Mrs. George. 0. Leonard, Mrs. Elton Osborn and
Mrs. Otto Hagans, The Child
Study Club by Mrs. Henry Karner, on_the nominating committee, Mrs. John Schild and Mrs.
Meredith Bixby.
Mrs. Doris Everett
Died Saturday After
Extended Illness
Woman Injured
When Gun„,Fires
Aecidently
Ann
shot
Verla  Mae Beach, 37,
Arbor-Saline   road,   was
through both legs Sunday morn
ing,  when  a    German     Luger
Mrs. Doris P. Everett, 54,
wife of C. Graydon Everett of
Saline, died Saturday morning
at her home, 313 N. Ann Arbor
street. She ha,d been ill for
several months.
Mrs. Everett, a telephone operator here 'for 20 years, was
born August 31,1897, in Breck-
enridge, Mich., a daughter of
John C. and Flora J. Watts King.
She first was married to Dr.
Charles .W. Ward on Oct. 9,
1915. They .lived in Mason,
Hemlock and Leslie before
coming to Saline in 1928.
She was married to Mr. Everett on August 6, 1938, in Saline.
Mrs. Everett was a member
of the Saline Chapter O. E. S.
She is survived by her husband; her mother, Mrs. King of
Breckenridge; a stepdaughter,
Ellen May Everett of Chicago;
and four stepsons, Phillip S. of
Napa, California, Paul H. of
Walled Lake, Frank A. of Lowell, and George F. Everett of
Vallejo, California.-
. A son by her first marriage,
Richard Ward, died in September, 1940.
Surviving "also are a sister,
Mrs. Andrew Stewart of Detroit; and three brothers, Ray
J. King of St.. Louis, Michigan,
Watts B. King of Los Angeles,
California, and Clare J. King of
Chicago, and a niece, Kathleen
King, also of St. Louis.
Funeral services for Mrs. Everett were held at 2 o'clock
Tuesday afternoon in the Federated church, conducted by Rev.
Henry W. McKenzie and burial
was in Oakwood Cemetery.
♦-
A Note Of
Appreciation
We wish to thank all who
participated in the Ked Cross
membership drive, especially
the members of the American
Legion Auxiliary and Miss
Luella Lambarth.
Our quota was $950; final
tabulation was $1020.41, exceeding the quota by $70.41.
Mrs. Carl Moehn,
1951 Fund Chm.
Mrs. Merritt W. Martin,
Chapter Chairman.
March of Dimes
Campaign County-
Wide Success
Mrs. Hartman
Named "Mother
Of The Year"
bor,  Chapter  Chairman,   reported
today.
Mrs. Langford said the generous support given the March of
Dimes this year resulted in the
collection of $25,009.12 to date.
Last year the chapter raised $19,-
802.92 in this county.
"I would like to publicly thank
everyone who contributed to the
fight against polio by giving to
the March of Dimes," Mrs. Lang-
ford said. Every dime and every
dollar received is needed to pay
hospital and medical bills of those
stricken by this crippling disease
during the past three epidemic
years."
Robert E. Reese, Eastern
ing and which he thought was Michigan Representative of the
unloaded, farad.- unexpectedly, National Foundation, said income
the bullet piercing both of her j plete returns from the state's S3
legs and lodging in the wall of J county chapters  indicate  a  total
Washtenaw county's 1951 March
of Dimes which is held each year
to raise funds for the National
Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, was an outstanding success,
Mrs. Robert Langford of Ann Ar- th;~ X^erie^ Legion Auadliary
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and is a past president and past
secretary of that organization.
At a presentation party at the
Frank Brittain residence Saturday evening, April 14, Mrs. Milton Hartman was designated
"Mother of the Year" for 1951
in Saline. She was honored with
a lovely compact and a corsage
of pink carnations. The J. C. C.
Auxiliary, who sponsored the
contest, takes pride in listing
the qualities which make Mrs.
Hartman such a fine candidate
for the state contest.
1. She is under 36 years of
age.
2. She has two sons, ages two
and three.
3. She is actively interested
in all civic affairs.
4. She is an active member of
which her husband was  clean-1 cal.
the trailer in which they have
been making their home. Mrs.
Beach was taken to St. Joseph's
Mercy Hospital where her condition was pronounced not eriti-
Saline Hatchery Brings In It's Valuable
Breeding Stock Over the Eastern Airways
year was 33. For the past six
years it has averaged 47,
"The 1950 census of ourtown
showed a 10-year gain of 200
local residents. But the school
census shows our enrollment going up faster than that. We've
had a 23 percent increase in
grades 1 to 6; and a 20 percent
increase in grades 7 to 12 since
1943.
Strayer emphasized to the visitors that the Board of Education has discussed long-range
plans in order to be ready for
the emergency. "In short," he
said, -"we feel that we won't
have room for all these students
in our present classrooms."
He pointed out that taxpayers
Blue Blooded Babies Find Home In Saline
—Gray's Photo Service.
shire chicks at" Saline Hatchery
will be pure Christie breeding in
the future.
200 of the above 7,100 are barred rock breeding cockerels. They | from  Gasson  Poultry Farms    in blood tested for pullorum disease,
will be mated  to some    of    the Ohio with 300 egg per year dams. |    The farmers who received their
Christie New Hampshires to make ""*~   --""-"      "--        '--  -*      "
Barred Rock X New Hampshire
cross breeds.   This strain of bar
red rocks has been developed by
Christie to click with their strain
of New Hampshires to make an
outstanding barred cross-bred
that is especially good for both
meat and eggs and at the same
time carry the cross-bred vigor
and vitality.
In   addition the  males  for  these
same   flocks   have   already   been
New Hampshire chicks from the
imported from Gasson as wing Christie stock last Friday are:
banded* R.O.P. chicks whose dams Jolm Sergey, Saline; Ed J. John-
laid 290 and up eggs per year. json> Saline; Reuben Herter, Ann
Saline Hatchery has paid $1.75;Arbor: L *■ Maystead, Hillsdale,
per day old chick for these cock- Others who received the same
erei chicks. stock earlier are:  Clayton Ernst,
All of Saline Hatchery's white' Ann Arbor; Bruno Papsdorf, Clin-
rocks will be sired by males that ton; Floyd Proctor and G.P. Dorr,
have been imported from Holtz- \ Grass Lake; Mahlon Smith, Man-
of §834,000 has been raised. Of
this, $503,000 was raised in the
Eastern  Michigan  area.
Fifty percent of March of Dimes
funds are retained by local chapters for paying medical and hospital costs of polio patients. The
balance is sent to the National
Foundation and used for research
education, training of personnel
and for furnishing epidemic aid to
chapters whose local treasuries
become  exhausted.
5. She is a member of the
St. Paul's Evangelical and Reformed church of Saline and regularly attends services.
6. She is a choir member of
her church.
7. She is a Sunday school
teacher:
8. She is a. member of St.
Paul's Ladies' Guild and is
chairman of their educational
committee.
9. She and Milton are members of the Young Married Couples group of St. Paul's.
10. She is an immaculate
housekeeper and a wonderful
mother.
„■ »P_te panty;^AfaB-^^Stti'ad.ed
with 32 Jaycees and wives enjoying dancing and a buffet
supper. Other events of the
evening were two: surprises.
Max Collins, as president of the
J. C. C, presented to the auxiliary a beautiful walnut gavel
bearing the J. C. C. seal and the
inscription, "Presented to the
Women's Auxiliary of the Saline J. C. C." Mrs. Julia Rapp
accepted the gift in behalf of
the auxiliary with grateful
thanks.
As the final surprise of the
evening, Mr. and    Mrs.  Frank
Mr. and Mrs. Gross
Celebrate Anniversary
Brittain- were given a beautiful
silver ice bucket as a house-
warming gift by the auxiliary
members and their husbands.
The next event to be sponsored by the J. C. C. Auxiliary
will be an old-fashioned box social and square dance sometime
in the near future. It will be
open to the public and the date
will be announced later.
Mrs. Max Collins, Pub. Chm.
Cancer, The No. 1
Public Enemy
Nancy Ross On
Spelling Bee
Mr. and Mrs. Herman Gross
celebrated their fiftieth wedding
anniversary   yesterday.    A re-   f«     ■"""""*•__    t
eeption was held at the Trinity   J- O X1 inaiS in
Lutheran church with the fam-
ily and relatives attending.
They were married April 18,
1901, in Saline township by Rev.
F. C. Gruter. Both were born
and raised in Saline township.
Mrs. Gross was born April 28,
1882, and her husband May 30,
1874.
Five girls and a boy will compete  this  year   in   the  Detroit
News spelling bee for Washte-
| naw and    Livingston    counties
During their married life they. which never have won a champ-
New stories recounting the
number of wounded Americans
being .returned for treatment at
Percy Jones Hospital in Battle
Creek and other .hospitals point
up a situation that threatens to
grow .into appaling. size, James
L'Angelle, Ypsilanti, Washtenaw
County Campaign "Chairman of
the American Cancer Society, asserted today.
Chairman L'Angelle has in
mind the number of cancer cases
among war veterans alone unless
science finds more effective methods for controlling and curing
this disease.
In 1947, Chairman L'Angelle
points out, there was a total of
18,271,000 living veterans of all
wars in this country, including
<A,36if3S*0 v-terans-cZ "World War
n. On the basis vof present data
that cancer will develop in one
out of five Americans now living:
unless new preventative measures:
are found, it is estimated that
more than three and one-half million veterans eventually will-> be
hospitalized^ or will be entitled to-
hospitalization,  for  cancer  alone.
"They will be in the hospital?
for an average of one year apiece
and each case will cost the taxpayer $3,00CV or total of more
than ten billion dollars," Mr.
"L'Angelle, a former member of
the Marine Corp. during World
War H. declared.
The Chairman asserted that the
reception accorded Washtenaw
County's army "of volunteers in
the combined education and fund-
raising campaign to date indicates
that the public is becoming more
aware of the fact that cancer is
the No. 1 killer. More than ever,
people are conscious that science
must be given all possible financial aid in its search for the cause
of cancer and its positive cure.
"None of us can be sure that
cancer control crusade is everybody's crusade. When we contribute dollar ammunition to the
scientists we are purchasing protection for ourselves and for those
wo love," Chairman L'Angelle
concluded.
In Saline the film, "Breasts—
Self Examination" .wiE be shown
to all womens groups on April 24,
worked  his   father's  farm   on.; u-    _    •      m     on _-  -- —  °—*- *- >
M-ll and in 1925 sold the farm I lonshlP iurmS the 28 years of 8:oo, at Saline High School*. This
and moved into the home they ^e   Metropolitan   Spelling  Bee film was made by the American
presently occupy on E. Michigan i finals.
Probably not as spectacular as appel Poultry Farm, Alida,  Ohio,  Chester;   Mills   Swick   and     Will
a large shipment of this kind by | one of the most prominent white | Swick of Macon; Ed Burmeister,
— '        "     " ~   Eschelbach,
Finkbeiner,
^
of Blissfield school district had ah" but of equal importance to j rock breeders. These R.O.P. cock- Bridgewater; Harold
approved a 5-mill levy for a
sinking fund for building purposes last year. It was collected for the first time this year,
and wul net about $90,000 in
five years.
"How are- you folks concerned
with this?" he asked.
"The Board has felt, since it
is from your districts we are attempting to accomodate, that
there is one of three possible
solutions:
Three Alternatives
"1—Blissfield may have to
cut down on admissions from
outside its own district (which
the board doesn't want to do),
or
"2—May   ask the people of
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the poultrymen of this area are
the other importations of breeding
stock for thier other breeds by
Saline Hatchery this spring.
They have received most of the
barred rock breeders that they
have ordered, from Tice Poultry
Farm at Barryton, Mich. The female from these birds will be used
for the 1952 barred rock chicks.
They will be mated to wingbanded
pedigreed males that will, be purchased from Tice as mature
males this summer.
All of the white leghorn breeding flocks for Saline Hatchery
has been stocked for next year
with some special breeders from
a Michigan breeder who has pure
Gasson  bred  leghorns   mated   to
erel  chicks cost  Saline Hatchery Chelsea;      Clarence
$2.10 per day old chick and their Ann Arbor.
dams records are 250 eggs andl Those who have received the
up. . special   barred  rock   stock     are:
Art Hagen, owner of Saline'Elton Osborn, Saline; Clark Gor-
Hatchery says that there is no o*on, Saline; Robert Girbaeh, Clin-
reason for anyone in this county ton; Laurel Breitenwjgher, Man-
to go outside for their baby Chester; and Stollsteimer Bros.,
chicks.  They as well as the other j Ann Arbor.
hatcheries can supply anyone with ) The white leghorn special breed-
some of the best breeding in the ing flocks are: R. H Schmidt,
country. j Milan;   Carl  Burmeister,   Bridge-
All of our chicks are placed out. water; Herman Schultz, Manches-
on farms that are under the su-jter;   Mahlon   Smith,   Manchester;
pervision of Saline Hatchery and Leon Raymond, Manchester; Law- i both coasts of Korea,
from whom Saline Hatchery get rence   Wahr,   Manchester,   Albert'    The  crew of the Zellars    was
their   hatching   eggs.    Every   in-1 Faust,   Saline;   and    two    large commended by Rear Admiral Al-
dividual bird m these flocks will flocks at Athens, Mich.   And the | len E. Smith, Task Force Com-
flocks
Cancer Society in conjunction
avenue. Mr. Gross formed aj The six will compete May 4 with the National Cancer Insti-
partnership with his son, Alwin,. with the six best spellers from  tute of the TJ.  S. Public Health
Service. Every woman in Saline
and vicinity is urged to attend
the showing of this film.
George L. Ennen is president of
the Washtenaw County Unit and
Mrs. William Hester of Ypsilanti
is co-commander and publicity
chairman for the Cancer Crusade
the business known as Gross
and Son Hardware. Mr. Gross
also served as township supervisor and director on the school
board.
They have five sons, Alwin,
Rudolph, Waldo and Warren, all
of Saline, and Milton of DeTour;
two daughters, Mrs. James Shaw
of Detroit, and Mrs. Lyle Graham of Ann Arbor and ten
grandchildren.
David Martin in
On Bombardment
Of Wonsan
A "Well Done" was in order for
David L. Martin, fireman, TJSN,
husband of Mrs. Jane Martin of
227 South Ann Arbor st., Saline,
serving aboard the destroyer TJSS
Zellars, for his part in the bombardment of the enemy port of
Wonsan, Korea.
His ship has been acting as a
gunfire  and support ship    along
Wayne county, four from Macomb county,, five from Oakland county and ten from Detroit. All 31 are district winners, survivprs of 110,000 spellers from five counties.
,The Washtenaw county eon-
tenders are Lorna Knisley, 13,  .      „..   „..,    ,_   ,
of Gregory,* eighth grade, North ?0* lS6f• ?take hack at cancer-
_— - . . ■__•* . HlVKAHn     i+■      _T+ W.T.  nn     -r*_r__- /"I-Swa.     __vn«_ __.
Lake school; Nancy Ross, 14,
of Saline, eighth grade, Union
Third Fractional school; and Jo
Faye Huntington, 13, of Ypsilanti, eighth grade, Central High
school.
Nancy Ruth Ross, her sisters,
Sandra, 12, and Mary, 7, go to
school in the same room. She
has two older sisters, Francis,
19, and Ann, 17, and a brother,
Eddie, 5.
Nancy helps her parents, Mr.
before it strikes you. Give generously to the American Cancer Society and support its 1951 campaign'.
Mrs. William Hester.
Mrs. Towler Receives
Courtesy Award
be personally inspected in the fall, whi^e rock special
«._ •_.—_. ,._--.,_ __  , -^  jjfre^ Heniirij
. Girbaeh and Albert Faust, Saline. I gun emplacements at Wonsan.
,               ..                           are:|mander, for destruction of troop
the best breeding males selected Mrs. Albert Heininger,  Raymond. village,   fuel storage  tanks   and
wing banded pedigree sires direct and each individual bird will be   "*■*—-' =■ **"—* «—-*•  *.-«-- I ^ *- -*- -r~— -'"-
Mrs. Ethel Towler, in charge of
insurance cases at St. Joseph's
Mercy Hospital office was honor-
and Mrs. Max Ross, with farm ed by having been named this
chores. She drives a tractor, month's courtesy award winner,
assembles milking machines, The Sisters of Mercy presented
and feeds chickens. She has her with the red "rose corsage of
won her school spelling bee the courtesy.
last four years. An eighth I Mrs. Towler won the award for
grader this year, she made good her kindness and understanding
on her last try and won the dis- of employees and associates. She
trict contest and the opportun- has been employed at the hospital
ity to compete in the Metropoli-1 for 22 years, having first served
tan finals. ' as switchboard operator and sub-
—— ' sequently in other departments of
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