1959-05-18; Saline Observer

              Throng Views Cornerstone Rite
About 2,000 students, parents, teachers and builders
attended tht cornerstone laying ceremony 0n May 14 at the
new Saline High School.
Shown above, left to right, are Raymond Girbach,
school board trustee, a glimpse of Mrs. Robert Tefft, another trustee, Supt. Leo Jensen and Mayor Henry Leutheuser.
At the right of the cornerstone, left to right, are school
board president Dr. Gordon Prout: architect Guido A. Bin-
da of Grand Rapids; board secretary Oliver Steiner and
treasurer Alwin Burkhardt.
SALINE, MICHIGAN
Monday, May 18,1959
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*t Our Edmore Visiters
Mayor "Charlie"  Mox
Casper  "Cap"  Goldsmith
o Blaclctoi
erway
Cliff Dobbrastine
Charles J. Mox —, or
Charlie, as they call him in
Edmore— was born in Pittsburgh, Penn., but has lived
in Michigan for 20 years.
For 29 years he has been
an employee of General Electric and at present is a
•s*u$ie_*yis'or in "the jmetaiturs-
gical products department
of the firm's Edmore plant.
He and his wife have three
sons, one who will graduate
this year from Central Michigan, one in junior high and
one in grade school, a married daughter and two
grandchildren.
"Cap" Goldsmith is a native son of Edmore. He attended Lansing Business
University and was employed by Consumers Power for
ten years prior to World
War I, during which he served for two years in India
with the Air Force.
He is also employed by
GE, and owned and operated a soft water service in
Edmore for eight years. He
is married and the father of
a son who will be a senior
next year at the University
of Mississippi.
Serving his first term on
the village council is "Cliff"
Dobbrastine, another Edmore native. In partnership
with his .brother in law, he
has operated a service station in Edmore for the past
six years. He and his wife
are the parents of a son, 7,
and a daughter, 11.
All three of the visiting
council men list hunting,
fishing and golfing as their
hobbies.
Rummage Sale Pick-lips
In preparation for their
rummage sale to be held on
May 22 and 23, at* 112 W-
Michigan, Saline Boy Scouts
will conduct a house-to-
house pick-up of rummage
on Thursday and Friday of
this week.
Rummage donors may
phore HA 9-9256 for pickup.
Edmore
The incorporated village
of Edmore in the northcen-
tral portion of Montcalm
county has a population of
about, 1300.
Like Saline, the community combines agriculture and
industry. Pickles and pota-
to'Ss 'aTe"-'th_-*lBa-ding --crops:
and among the principal,
industries are the Miller
Pickles, Inc., processing
plant and a salting station
operated by the Madison
Pickle Co.
The Metallurgical Products Department of General Electric. Co., General Bag
Co. and List Machine ana
Tool Co. are also located in
Edmore.
The school district has two
"elementary schools, a junior
and senior high school and
a new gym under construction. About 750 pupils are
enrolled. The community is
served by a weekly newspaper, the Edmore Times.
At a special council meeting Friday night, May 15,
the city'council approved a
recent request from George
Burg, owner of Burg's Tavern, to apply to the State
Liquor Control Commission
for a" dance permit and permission to remain open all
night for food service.
In other actions, the council:
—Accepted a bid from
Washtenaw Asphalt Co. to
blacktop Monroe St. and
Linden Court but attached
a penalty clause of $50 per
day for every day past the
July 15 completion date for
Monroe St.
—Renewed fire insurance
on the buildings and equipment at the water depot for
but
from
a three-year    period,
lowered    the    value
$12,000 to $10,000.
—Heard only one objec-
jection from a property
owner on. the special assessment for an 8-inch water
line, on Willis Road and voted to spread the $5250 roll
over a fiveyear period with
the first installment to be
due and payable on July 15,
1959.
—Granted perpetual care
on her cemetery lot to Mrs.
A. K- Clark in exchange for
a complete directory of cemetery lots she had compiled
and presented to the city.
The council's next regular meeting, scheduled for
tonight, Monday, will be
held Tuesday night because
of the Mayor's Exchange.
Saline Doctors Head
New Hospital Staff
Dr. Gordon Prout of Saline
was appointed chief of Staff
of the Saline Community
Hospital at the hospital
board meeting Thursday
evening, May 14. ■. •
Vice-chief is Dr. Harold
Miller of Saline, and Dr. R.
T. Douthat of Saline is staff
secretary.
Specialists on the staff
are: obstetrics and gynecol-
Banquet Climaxes Busy Day
A coffee break at Marty's Restaurant will start a busy
day for Charles Mox, mayor of Edmore, and his fellow
councilmen, Casper Goldsmith and Clifford Dobbrastine,
due to arrive in town about 10:30 a.m. today, Monday, in
the annual Michigan Week Mayor's Exchange.
They will be greeted by Frank Deede, mayor pro tern,
and councilman Ted Hill; Supt. Leo Jensen.; Leon Vedder,
representing the Chamber of
Commerce; -.auren Wilde,
Kiwanis; Milton Hartman,
Rotary; Jim Rogers, Jaycees; Harvey Kluwe, American Legion; and Earl Kirby,
Saline police.
Shortly after 11 a.m., the
visitors will tour Saline in
automobiles furnished by
Saline's three car dealers,
visiting the present schools
and the new high school.
Luncheon will be served
at the Saline Hotel at 12:45
p.ra., then it's off again to
view the Hoover Ball and
Bearing'plant, and other local industries and the residential sections of the city.
At 5 p.m., the visitors will
huve a chance to catch their
breath at the Saline Hotel,
where a room has been engaged for them, and at 6:45
they will be guests of honor
at the American Legion
home, where the Legion
Auxiliary will serve a roast
beef dinner to about 80.
Lauren Wilde will serve as
master of ceremonies at the
banquet. After dinner a film,
will be shown.
Look, Mommy —
Here's Where I Sit!
Open house at the Saline
Elementary School will begin at 9 a.m. on Friday of
this week, this week, May
22, and continue until 3:45
ogy, Dr. Norman Banghard,
Dr. Walter.Belser, Dr. Edmund Botch and Dr. Howard Williams, all of Ann Arbor; internal medicine, Dr.
Arthur Alien and Dr. Alexander Gotz, both of Ann
Arbor; orthopedics, Dr. Gerhard Bauer, Ann Arbor.
Surgery, Dr. William
Brown, III, Dr. Karl Malcolm, Dr. E. Thurston
Thieme, all of Ann Arbor,
and Dr. George Westcott,
Ypsilanti; opthalmology,
Dr. John Henderson, Ann
Arbor; pediatrics, Dr. Mark
Hildebrant, Ann Arbor.
" General practitioners, Dr.
Marvin Hannum and Dr. Robert Venrose, both of Milan,
Dr. Albert Milford of Ypsilanti and Dr. William Pur-
field of Manchester.
Appointment to a hospital
staff gives the doctor permission to bring patients into the hospital. Staff - members are also available for
consultation
p.m., announces Mrs. Marion Barclay, principal.
Anyone interested in early elementary education,
and most especially parents,
are invited to visit the
school during the day. The
children will be in regular
class session, and extra
chairs will be provided in
each room for visitors.
"Gome in and sit down,
listen and learn as much as
you have time to spend",
urges Mrs. Barclay.