1952-08-07; Saline Observer

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SIXTY-NINTH YEAR
NUMBER 45
SALINE, WASHTENAW COUNTY, MICHIGAN
THURSDAY, AUGUST 7, 1952   ETVE CENTS PER COPY      $2.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE
Clothes Coming In
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Election
Results
Tuesday's Primary election drew
a record vote throughout the 'state.
Statewide returns were not complete at this writing but there's little doubt that Fred M. Alger, jr.
will be the Republican nominee for
governor, opposed by the Democratic nominee, G. Mennen Williams. Lt. Governor William C.
Vandenberg ran second, while Donald S. Leonard, former commissioner of the State Police, was in
third place on the Republican ticket.
For Lieutenant Governor the
lead went to State Senator Clarence A. Reid of Detroit by a skimpy margin over former Mayor
George W. Welsh of Grand Rapids.
For U. S. Senator Rep. Charles
E. Potter won both on the unfilled
vacancy and full term on the Republican ticket. Blair Moody, appointed by Governor Williams,
was unopposed for the short term
and was unsuccessfully opposed by
Louis C. Schwinger for the full
term.
In the City of Saline 365 votes
were cast for the Republicans and
62 for the Democrats. Nine ballots were voided.
The voting in Saline broke down
as follows: Governor, Republican
Alger, 1-52; Leonard, 106; Vandenberg, 104. Democratic: Williams,
62.
Lt. Governor, Republicans, Henderson, 83; Reid, 84; Welsh, 84;
Young, 87. Democrats, Connolly,
58.
p. S. Senate, Full Term, Republican, Eugene C. Keyes, 77;
Martin, 86; Potter, 192; Prevost,
5. Democratic, Blair Moody, 53;
Schwinger, 4.
U. S. Senate to Pill Vacancy,
Republican, Martin, 123; Potter,
220. Democratic, Blair Moody, 55
Representative in Congress, 2nd
District, Republican, Lopshire, 28;
Meader, 306; Sulier, 22. Democratic, Dawson, 53.
State Senator, 12th District, Republican, Higgins, 230; Kuhn, 100.
Democratic, Bennett, 54.
Representative in State Legislature, Republican, Warner, 321;
Carl A. Curtis, 1 (write in). Democratic, Viola Blackenburg, 51.
County Offices: Prosecuting Attorney, Republican, Ager, 60; De-
Vine, 150; Rae, 93; Young, 49. De~-
mocratic, Andrews, 42; Priebe, 10.
Sheriff, Republican, Osborne,
231; Winnick, 120. Democratic,
Oltersdorf, 50.
County Clerk, Republican only,
Luella Smith, 331.
County Treasurer, Republican,
Verner, 329; Democratic, Weber,
53.
Register of Deeds, Republican,
Fitzgerald, 327; E. J. Muir, 1
(write in). Democratic, Mary
Kirk, 53.
Drain Commissioner, Republican,
Knowles, 330; Democratic, Merrill,
52.
Coroners, Republican, Ganzhorn,
330; and two write ins, Lockwood,
3, and Trout, 1. Democratic, Dickson, 48.
Surveyor, Republican only, both,
write ins, H. Anderson, 7; H. At-
well, 1.
August 11 will be the last
day clothes can be accepted for
the half-starved Korean war
orphans found by Captain Lawrence Deede, living in a 4 by 7
cardboard shack near his Air
Base.
Mrs. Lawrence Deede plans to
ship the clothing to the chaplain on the Air Base for distribution on August 12. People
in the Saline area have been
very generous in their contributions. However, more clothes
are still needed if all ten of the
orphans are to be adequately
clothed this winter.
Any clothing for boys from
the ages of four to seven will
be welcome, but shoes, overshoes, socks and coats are particularly needed.
If you have clothes you can
spare please leave them at the
Observer office or at Deede
Radio & Electric, between now
and August 12.
Remember, children don't
start wars, but they suffer from
them. The people in this area
may be instrumental in keeping ten war orphans alive
through the coming winter.
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Wins Talent Prize
Mrs. Lawrence Deede and Al Coley, Editor of the Saline
Observer, display some cf the clothes donated for ten Korean
War Orphans by people in the Saline Area. —Photo By Gray
Walfred Larson
Places Fourth
In Road-E-0
Walfred Larson of Saline came
in fourth at the State Finals of
the JCC sponsored Teen-Age Road-
E-O, held in East Lansing Saturday. Walfred j'ist missed third
place by a few points so he did
not finish in the money. However,
he did enjoy a banquet at the new
Kellogg Center on the MSC campus.
The plaques and trophies were
awarded by the Michigan Trucking
Association and the judges were
Jv' Cross, safety superintendent
of the association, Mr. Patterson
and Les Silvemail of MSC, Cpls.
Chaput and Otis of the Michigan
State Police, and Leslie Robinson
of Lansing in charge of High
School Driver Training programs.
First place was won by Milton
J. Vaverek, 18, of Pontiac; second
by Arthur Probst, 16, of Grand
Rapids, and third by Dave Eady,
18, of Belding. The winner will
have an all expense paid trip to
Washington, D. C.
There was a written examination, a skill test and a road" test.
This is the first year of the project
and it is hoped, that there will be
a bigger and better Road-E-0 next
year.
Christina Schneirle, 16, of Saline
won second prize in the talent contest at the 4-H Share the Fun
Festival held at Westside Park in
Ann Arbor Friday, August 1. She
won the prize with a flute solo.
The prize was S10 and she was al-
j so awarded a trophy.
Betty. Brown of Ypsilanti won
first prize, a $25 Savings Bond
and ai trophy, with a ballet dance.
Both Miss Brown and Miss
Schneirle are eligible to compete in
the district contest to be held in
East Lansing today. xThe winner
of this contest will take part in
the state contest. '
The 12 top acts from the county
elimination contest held July 12,
competed at Ann Arbor. There
were four winners altogether. The
other two winning acts were Dorothy and Ronald Kapt of Dixboro
who won third with a piano duet
and Ellen Bird of Dexter with a*
piano selection.
Around 2,000 people attended
the 4-H Fun Festival. Pieplant
Pete and Bashful Joe of WJR entertained and acted as master of
ceremonies.
Pur-pose of the Festival was to
raise funds for a 4-H building to
be built in Washtenaw county.
City Council To Start
Condemnation Suit In
Water Rights Fight
Kenneth., Schultz, 1403 Charlton
Ave:, Saline, hopes to organize a
chapter of the Kiwanis Club in
Saline. The local club will be
sponsored by the Ann Arbor Kiwanis, of which Schultz is a member, if the necessary 25 members
can be raised.
According to Schultz, eight or
nine fellows have already expressed interest in joining. Meetings are planned to acqaint potential members with what the
Kiwanis stand for.
The objectives of the Kiwanis
are sixfold:
To give primacy to the human
and spiritual, rather than the material values of life.
To encourage the daily living of
the Gblden Rule in all human relationships.
To promote the adoption and the
application of higher social, business and professional standards.
To develop, by precept and example, a more intelligent, aggressive and serviceable citizenship.
To provide, through . the club,
a practical means to form enduring, friendship, to render altruistic
service, arid to build a better community.
To cooperate in creating
maintaining that sound public
opinion and high idealism which
make possible the increase of
righteousness, justice, patriotism!,
and good will.
Saline Fair To Hold
Chiffon Cafee. Contest
The Saline Fair armiounced a
special feature event for their 1952
cake baking- competitions. This
will b& a Betty Crocker Chiffon
Cake contest, sponsored by Softas-
ilk and Wesson Oil. Three special
prizes will be awarded: First
prize, a lovely silver-plated cake
plate; second prize, Betty Crocker's famous new Picture Cook
Book; third prize, Queen Bess pattern silver-plated cake server.
The history of the Chiffon Cake
is short and startling. It was introduced in 194§ as the first new
baking method In over a hundred
years. ..-J?-ha -secret was 'simple: It
called for the use of salad oil instead of a conventional solid shortening and used a simplified mixing technique. In its short four
year history, it has grown to be
a most popular cake and has won
truly amazing consumer acceptance.
This will be the fiftji conscutive
year that special    Betty    Crocker
Chiffon  Cake contests have been
setup at hundreds "of fairs across
and the country.
Community Events
Jaycees Say:
By President Bob
Several isues came up at Monday
j nights meeting of Saline City
j Council:
Herman Bredernitz of 419 N.
Ann Arbor presented the Council
with a letter that read: To the Saline City Council:
"We, the undersigned -ask that
the fence be built on southwest and
north side of the land owned by
the City of Saline where the wells
are located; north fence and gate
The Saline Jaycees would like
to take this opportunity to congratulate Walfred Larson on his
Sportsmanship and driving ability so.ably displayed at the first toiLe *ut,'°" posts already there
J       , •_-- ..     _. _ 'Do not disturb the fence that
annual State-wide, Jaycee Teen- |is on 0U1. ]and_   jf the fence is not
Age Driving Road-E-O. This!built within one week from this
contest was held at the Miehi- j reading, the City to forfeit right
gan State Police Post in East °f way .across our land."
Lansing last Saturday. The Sa- The letter was signed Elton,
line Jaycees are proud to state, Shirley, Herman and Martha Bre-
that  Walfred'placed fourth  in,dermt'z-   After the letter was ac-
this event. 'Walfred won the
local contest the proceeding
Saturday making him eligible
for State competition.
Next year this driving Road-
E-0 will be an event you Teen-
August 7, Thursday night,  Of- J Agers won't want to miss. You
ficial Board meeting at the Methodist church at 8:00.
will   be  hearing  about it from
your Driver-Training instructor
in  School  and by  the advance
August 9, Saturday, Bake Sale' publicity  released  by the  Jay-
at Uphaus store by the Federated  cees.
young people.
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August  13,     Wednesday   night,
bowlings teams will meet at Dor-
Projects   of   this nature   are
-cepted and read by the Council, a
motion was made by Jewell, seconded by Leutheuser, and carried
unanimously that condemnation
proceedings be started immediately
to gain full rights to the drive and
also additional land around the
city wells, in order to acquire1 water rights to provide for future
needs for the community.
Other items of interest:
A representative of the Detroit
Edison company asked the Council for permission to build a 6 by
local  Jaycee   organization.  The
, next project that will affect the
othy Jeppensen's  home.    Anyone' younger set will be the annual
interested in bowling get in touch
with Gwennie Armbruster or Dorothy Jeppesen.
upper most  on  the  list of the   6  eiectlic  distribution station   on
Miss   Saline  beauty contest  at
the last lot on Bennett street in
the Hickory Grove sub-division.
Council had no objection to the
building  providing  the  owner  of
the Saline fair. Such projects the property concurs,
could not be carried on if it were Council vited to give a 10 per
not for the interest shown by' cent retention of $2,391.74 to the
the people directly concerned Sehaffer Lumber Company, who
and the merchants and for that contracted to build the Harris St.
matter, all the towns people, sewer. Work on the sewer is to
Perhaps now is the time to say begin next week,
that as soon as we get our| Ed Hering of Saline Heihts
] committees set up for the years was granted permission to extend
Local Men Meet
Famous Explorer
While on a fishing trip at Tah-
quamenon Falls,    near    Paradise,
Michigan, Earl Moehn, Frank Ran-   	
dall, Merle Hoag met and talked' activities the Jaj^cees will spoil- a water line from the  comer of
to the  famous Alaskan explorer,' sor a membership drive. There Russell and Mills road to the end
Fr. McKenny.    Fr. McKenny uses < aj.e vourl_- men in town that we of Mills road.   Approximately 210
dog   sleds   for   transportation  in  nee(j  jn °th_s  club   to   help   us' feet.    Cost of the water main ex-
his exploring trips.   He makes lee-   carrv   on' the   ever   increasing tension borne by Ed Hering and
ture tours throughout the country, i num_er 0f projects. If you are Associates with the exception of
Fr.   McKenny  showed  the   group | Qne of   these  men  between  21 the City's obligations for Fire Hy-
some   of   his motion  pictures,  in j an(j gg ^-g ^ serious thought, drants and valves.
Mrs. Lester Parish and
daughter Esther with Nancy
Homiester of Wyandotte called
on Reverend and Mrs. Feuell
Saturday on their way back
from camp at Judson Collins
Camp, Wamplers Lake.
Attending ROTC
Summer Camp
Cadet Robert W. Cook, Jr.,
an ROTC student at Michigan
State College, East Lansing,
Michigan, is now attending the
1952 Infantry ROTC Summer
Camp at Fort Benning, Georgia,
the home of the United States
Army Infantry Center.
Cadet Cook is the. son of Mrs.
Hazel Cook of Saline, Michigan.
The ROTC Camp will consist
of six weeks of intensive training in courses ranging from
bayonet training to radiological
defense; however, most of the
training will be concerned with
learning the basic infantry techniques to include the firing of
individual and e r e w - s 3 r v e d
weapons and tactics. 34 hours
of instruction will be presented
! to the ROTC cadets by instructors from the famed Infantry
'School at Fort Benning.
James Austin Is
Member Of The
All-State Band
which he was shown capturing 11
live wolves.    ■
None of the group caught any
fish, but they did get wet, since
the water was rough and their
boat was swamped.
James Austin of 9365 Milan Rd.,
Saline, is a member of the University of Michigan All-State High
School Band now in session at the
National Music Camp, Interlochen.
He plays the' comet.
The High School Band has a
membership of 168 beys and girls
from many towns and cities in Michigan. The students are in camp
I from July '28 to August 10.
The All-State School Band, conducted by Arthur C. Hills of Holland, "Michigan, may be heard on
the air Friday evening, August 8,
between 6:00 p. m. and 7;00 p. m.
ever radio station WKAR, 870 kilocycles, and WUOM-FM, 91.7 MC.
$52,000 COMBINE
Football Just Around
The Corner
William Wiedman on the truck, Donald Wiedman on _n.
Combine, and their Father, George Wiedman, standing, shown
operating theii^new $52,000 Combine. This is the first year
the machine has been in operation and it is good for 25 to .30
acres a day. The combine runs a day ahead of the Pick-Up
baler which is driven by Mrs; Donald Wiedman, and loaded
by Fl-mk PeTCh, helper. —Photo By Gray
Coach Padjen announces that invitations are being sent out this
week to propective Saline High
football players.
'Coach expects to have a strong
team this year." He has eleven lettermen returning. They are: Joe
Graf, Co-Capt Dick Miller, Co^
Capt. Ron Finkbeiner, Larry Wiedmayer, Dick Wiedmayer, Dick
Gonser, Jerry Miller, Jim Gleason,
Ken Burmeister, Vern Drake and
Jim -Cook.
Six newcomers .are expected to
report.   They are: Earl Feldkamp,
Jack Steiner, Dave Bredernitz, Eu-
i gene Hunt,    Jerry Johnson    and
Stan Cook.
Members, of lost years Junior
Varsity who are coming up include: Melvin Roehm, Jerry Miller, Glen Hagen, JKen Rogers, Tom
Richards, Charles Steiner, Wayne
Luckhardt, Ron Finch, -Jack Losee,
Rick Hoeft, Arnold Girbach and
Alfred Gross.
Kit YoungjJRon Desbrough, Silts Woodsi, Jim Rhoades, Al.Rentschler, Earl Culliton, Herb Williams,, Jim England, Al Harwood,
Bill Meister, Jerry Losee and Bill
Love are coming up from the Junior High team.
event we   do not |
After the Fire was over. Ruins of the two hams destroyed
by fire on the McGriff Bros, farm, 7244 Crane Ed., last Wednesday afternoon. __   —Photo' By Gray
ire 1/estroTS.iwo Jsarns
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reach you,"reach us. We really Attend Social
need more heads to help us in
the undertaking of the task at
hand. I am sure that you will
find our meetings interesting.
For strong support of that
statement ask Frank Brittain.
Or any of the twenty-odd members _we now have.
I hope that you found time
to vote in the primaries. Voting
is the most important phase of
Americanism. We have now
chosen the men who will be
running for offices in the fall.
When the campaign banners are
flying and the Radio and T.V. is
again filled with politics, listen
and select those men you think
best fitted and VOTE for them.
VOTE AS YOU PLEASE—BUT
PLEASE VOTE. Bob.
About seventy relatives from
Ypsilanti, Ann Arbor, Dexter,
Pleasant Lake and Scio and Saline gathered at the home of
Mrs. A. -R. Lee for the Burkhart
and Renz reunion on Sunday
afternoon.
Mrs. E. F. Lawrenz and Marguerite came all of the long 62
mile's from their home in Grosse
Pointe Farms to attend the annual ice cream social at St. James
on US-112 and help make it a
success.
Even the weather smiled on the
fine people of St. James. It was
a little bit on the chilly side, but
the good hot coffee took care of
that chill, and the event was a
grand success. They took back
with them one of Mrs. Chris Fink-
beiner's famous hickory nut cakes,
which Mrs. Lawrenz says they %vill
enjoy during the next few days,
and with every bite of it will be
thinking of the little white church
by the side of the road and the
friends on the highways and byways, all of whom t_ey lovt so
dearly.
Mr. and Mrs. Sam Lambarth
were visitors on Sunday at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Chet
Warren, in Toledo.
NEAR-RECORD BASS CAUGHT BY
JIMMIE FORD AT WAMPLERS LAKE
Al Hoeft Hits
3 Homers For
Saline Dairy
The Salin*. Dairy team trounced
Milan Grange by a score of 9-2 in
a game played Friday night at Milan.
Al Hoeft, Saline's catcher,
knocked in all nine Saline runs.
He collected three home runs. Two
were grand slam homers and the
other came with the bases empty.
Dechert pitched the first four
innings for Saline, and Teachout
finished. The Saline pitchers limited' the Milan team to two hits.
Saline 9 runs, 8.hits, 2 errors.
Milan 2 runs, 2 hits, 4 errors.
' Tonight at nine o'clock, the Sar-
line team meets the Foundry at
Milan, and Monday at nine o'clock
they play the Prison team, also at
Milan. The latter is an important
game since the t\ro teams are tied
for the league lead and will b$
battling for the championship. All
Saline fans are. urged to come out
for* the games, as the Dairy, team
needs some home town support.
Two large barns on the McGriff Bros, farm at 7244 Crane
T?oad Pittsfield' township were
destroyed by fire Wednesday
afternoon, July 2, causing damage estimated at more than
§40,000.
The Saline Fire Department
^as one of four departments
called. The others were the departments from Pittsfield Township, YpsilantiTownship, and the
Ypsilanti State Hospital. The
four .departments saved a nearby barn housing horses after
heat scorched shingles and
walls.
Cause of the fire is unknown.
The blaze broke out shortly
-ifter 4 p.m., in a barn housing
farm equipment and feed. Within seconds, the entire building
was on fire, and flames were
-hooting more than 100 feet in
the air.
The flames were* fanned by a
gusty wind, and jumped a.75
foot open space, setting fire "to
the second barn which also held
farm equipment.
Both barns were engulfed in
flames by the time the first firemen arrived. The buildings and
equipment- were only partially
covered by insurance.
While on vacation at Wamplers Lake the latter part of
July, Jimmie Ford, 15, of Saline,
caught a 21% inch 5 .pound -3
oz. Big Mouth Bass. He caught
the fish early in the morning on
the North shore off the dock.
Jimmie was using a fly rod with
a night crawler for bait.
When Jimmie hooted the fish,
he thought he had hbofced .onto
a whale,  and he hollered for
Doctor Gordon Prout, "who has
a cottage next door to the
Fords. Doctor Prout - answered
the call with a fish* net, and
helped Jimmie land the fislt,
Jimmie entered Hie fish in
the Washtenaw fish derby, and,
up until this week, it was the
largest hass entered. However,
a 22 inch Bass was caught and
entered a few days ago.