1958-04-10; Saline Observer

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i Ann Arbor Builders Show Set
To Run April 9, through 13
f-
The Ann Arbor Junior Chamber
0f Commerce have announced'that
rte Builder's, Merchant's and Automotive Show will be held this
vear during the week pf:vAjpril
0.13 As in 1957 the show will be
held in Yost Field House. The
date ana place has been set in cooperation with the,'University
Board in Control of Intercollegiate Athletics.
Commenting on the -April- .vent,
-jjjvvard Oshaben, the 1958 General "Committee Chairman-, stated
that the early date has been selected to benefit local builders
and other area business people
associated with the building trades
ffho will be able to devote added
attention to show displays before
late spring and summer building
activity reaches a peak. Last
year the show was held May 15-
19.
Oshaben said that this year there
will' be no carnival or children's
amusement rides associated with
the show. Last year the W. G.
ffade Shows, Inc. provided a number of children's amusement rides
at the north end of the' Field
House. This, he advised, conforms
to the 1958 Committee's decision
streamline the Show, to make
more appealing to participat-
merchants and members of
ding trades, and to make
tent and facilities of the
Show as valuable and as informative as possible to viewers. The
number of available booths have
been increased from 149 to 167.
15th Annual Show
This year marks the 15th Annual Builder's, Merchant's and Automotive Show, and its 2nd year
at -ost Field House. This event
is the largest Jaycee-sponsored
show of this, type in the nation.
For ten years prior to 1957 the
show was staged at the old Fairgrounds, now known as Veterans
Memorial Park. During the early
years the displays and facilities
of the show were housed in a
tent off Stadium Blvd.
Prizes to be Given
An innovation to. the Show this
year will be an elaborate program
of prize giving designed to stimulate interest in the event. The
prizes to be given and the method
of their distribution will be announced later by Prize Chairman
Jack Grimston.
Aiding Oshaben will be the following JCC Builder's Show Sub-
Chairmen: ■ ■■''.-'■
E. G. "Bud? JJoberts HI, treasurer,    .       ■: "--.  ,,- .';,„.
Larry Arnet, secretary. *"      *.'"'
Robert "Scope" DayJs and John
Monson, jr., bootih?-_les. ■■■*-■
Gene Haner- and- Myron ''-"Nip"-
Knight, auto Sales.
Gerald V. Alcoclc, publicity.
Joe Hooper, jr., legal.
Bill Romelhardt and Keith Heiss,
booth repair and maintenance. .
Dick Butcher and Bill Willits,
clean up. ..
Marvin Dann and Robert Kuhn,
parking.
Irv Halman and Donald Koch,
information booth.
John. Goetz, program,
Neil Aiken and Douglas
lette, grounds and aisles.
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Nobi-
Jack M.Myers
Promoted To
Private 1st Class
ANN ARBOR — Promotion of
Jack m. Myers from private to
private first class was announced
t>y Major Thomas D. Krenitsky,
Area Army Reserve adviser. Myers, of 1625 Hatcher in- Saline, is a
member  of  the   406th   Ordnance
jttalion now training at the Ar-
"•ieserve Center in Ann Arborv
Goodwill Truck
To Be Here On
Tues. April 15
I The next visit of Goodwill In-
l<uistries pick-up trucks to Saline
lis scheduled for Tuesday- April 15.
I Goodwill trucks collect household
I-scards of clothing, shoes, hats,
I toys, most types of furniture and
| ether household discards.
I To arrange for a Goodwill In-
jtiustries truck pick-up, call'the lo-
Ical Goodwill representative, Mrs.
Ivera Burkhart^. telephone number
I Saline 121-J.
Alice Sheehan i
Injured In Auto
Accident Saturday
A Saline teenager, her mother
and her sister escaped serious injury Saturday afternoon when'
their car was hit and overturned:
by another vehicle whose driver
was arrested on a drunk driving
charge.
- Miss Alice Sheehan, 16, of Saline, her mother, Mrs. Florence.
Sheehan, 47, and her sister, Shirley, 12/ were all taken to St. Joseph Mercy Hospital following" the
accident. Ann Arbor police said'
Miss Sheehan was driving west in
the 3000 -lock of Washtenaw Ave.,
in Ann Arbor at 1:50 p.m. Saturday.    Mrs.   Sheehan and  Shirley
.   Alice Sheehan
were passengers in the car.
A car driven by William L. Man-
ier, 27, of Belleville, traveling east
on Washtenaw A v e., suddenly"
went out of control. The Manier
car bumped a road curbing, skidded 174 feet down the highway,,
crossed three lanes of traffic and
crashed into the Sheehan car, police reported.    ...
The impact hurled the JSheehan
car to one side, and turned it over,
police said. , However the car's
three occuparits escaped. With cuts
and bruises, patrolmen reported.
The car was demolished.
Mariief was arrested oh a charge
of drunk driving and for investigation.,of leaving the sc.ene .m%a
perspha.: Injury.accident,
i. Mriss. Sheehan „;was. ,recentiy.<- se-
.Jected- _iSv-ilteiEnate;^_legat_' to-at-"
tend the-Wolverine Girls State by
.members of■_-_•*American Legion.
Kiwanians See
Weather Film
Thirty-three members and
guests 'Of the Kiwanis "Ciub *of Saline . met last Monday evening at
Marty's Restaurant for their regular-weekly meeting..
After the dinner and business
meeting the group watched a film
presented by Bell Telephone Company on the weather. This very
interesting picture depicted the
methods used by weather men in
predicting what is to come weather-wise.
THE
E OBSERVE
A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEDICATED TO PUBLIC SERVICE, CIVIC ENDEAVOR AND AGMOTLTURAL PROGRESS IN ___-. S-U-GSE AREA
Member of the Saline Chamber of Commerce.
SALINE, MICHIGAN, THUKSDAY, APRIL 10, 1958
SEVEN* GENTS PER COPY
FARM HOUSING SET-UP EXPANDE
Mother-Daughter
Banquet Planned
The Annual Banquet of Mothers and Daughters of Federated
Church congregations will be held
on Thursday, May 1. Final plans
are to be drafted at today's meeting of the Ladies Aid Society,
sponsoring organization. Mrs.
Paul Klueter. president of the
group, will announce the participating women's committees in the
near future.
The meal, to be prepared by the
women, will be served by a group
of men from the congregation,
under the direction of Gene Austin and Kenneth, Guenther.
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Young Musicians At Rehearsal
Council Tables
Zoning Plan
In a rather heated council meeting last Monday
night, the main item of
interest was tabled when
the City Peers decided
that • in the absence of
councilman Deede they
would table the adoption
of the zoning plan as presented by the Planning
and Zoning Commission.
Councilman Deede entered St. Joseph hospital
in Ann Arbor on Sunday
for surgery which was delayed because of compli-
!' cations, and was not pres-
I     ent for Monday evenings
i session. Councilman Deede
is in room 400- at St, Joseph's.
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Saline Has•*-■-"■ •** •"•■- •■■-
Accident Free
7 Day Period
Residents of Saline and surrounding area are* to be complimented this week on their contribution to the highway safety program. In the past seven days no
accident^ were reported to the
local police and no investigations
■were made in this entire area.
Washtenaw has been classified
as a "high accident county" since
the accident rate has already
reached, the point where it was ins
November of 1957. However, a
few more accident free weeks and
that title will have to be shifted
to another county.    '
"It Costs Nothing To Look "
Saline Play Center
[Elects New Officers
Tlie Saline Play Center held
I their election of officers on Mon-
1% evening. The meeting was
IJ'-la at the home of Mrs. Robert
I Merchant, 7181 Maple road. "New
j officers elected for the new season were: President, Mrs. Robert
IMerchant; Vice President; Mrs.
lilies Little; Secretary, Mrs.
I lv el Moore." Treasurer, Mrs.
I Donald Geering; Membership
l^hairrnan, Mrs. Robert Merchant;
IfMpnjent Chairman, Mrs- James
|BeaL
The next meeting o. the Play,
I Renter Members will be held at
l«e home of Mrs; James Little, on
Ifta 5th of May.
Ted's Service was* the scene of considerable farmer activity last week when they held their open house^d^new 19.8
Oliver machinery showing. After fiLUng up oh the fr**** «*£«?
and doughnuts the farmers seemed to show.aIotȣ interest
in the "brute" pictured above. This trador/accprding to the
Oliver representative who was talking abput it, ^s reported to
weigh some 15,000 lbs. when it is ready for work. _______—
Youngest members of the Michigan You th Symphony are coached by their director,
Orien Dally, as they prepare for the Symphony's Concert in Detroit on April 12. They are
left to right: Director Dally, Ken Riley, 12 years, of Ypsilanti; Dennis Edward-, 14 years
of Milan; Joan Austin, 17 yeaifs, of Saline and Brice Farrar, 12 years, of Ann Arbor.
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Program Designed For Speed
Up In Building Construction
Farm Housing
Tuberculosis Association Will
Hold Annual Meeting April 15
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To observe 35 years of service in^.-
Washtenaw Co.; the Tuberculosis Association will hold its annual
meeting at Ann Arbor High School
.onH-T-uesday-.; April l-Aat l&fe&ni-z
according to Ralph Wright, President.
Special recognition will be given to our founders and past
presidents," Wright said.
To open this spring's activities,
the Association will cooperate with
the health departments in a skin-
testing program to find TB and
histoplasmosis in fifteen schools in
Washtenaw county.
Wright indicated that parent-
teacher representatives of those
schools have been invited to the
meeting to help with educational
and promotional plans i n their
communities.
Past presidents will be introduced by J. Irvin Nichols, excutive*
secretary of the Michigan Tuber-
culsosis Association.
"We invite everyone interested
in eradicating tuberculsosis and iri»
promoting better health to join us
at our annual meeting," Wright
concluded.
er-rCounty
Baseball-Group
Meets April 13
A meeting of- the Inter-County
Baseball League will be held at
the* city hall, Plymouth, Sunday,
April 13th at 3:00 p.m. to receive
applications from manager's or
sponsor's and arrange a starting
date for the schedule.
Earl Gray,  1210 South Harney,
Plymouth 2018 has been elected
sec.,-treas., to fill the vacancy
retary-treasury to fill the vacancy
caused by the resignation of Mc-
Levardowski, who had served the
league for twenty-two years.
Northville will be defending the
championship this year, which
they won last year by defeating
ItomjriusJn^he-fi-udsg-irie bf^jthe-fci
season.    •
New "Shopper"
To Appear
Next Week
In an effort to give the advertisers the maximum coverage possible in the South Washtenaw
County area, the publisher of the
Saline Observer, The Milan Leader and The Manchester Enterprise
announced the inauguration ' of
"The South Washtenaw Shopper."
This publication will be distributed absolutely free o£ charge to
over 8,000 readers in South Washtenaw County and will be in regular newspaper form sans news. In
other words every adv. appearing
in either of the three above named
newspapers will appear in the
Shopper automatically. The only
way an advertisement will be allowed in the Shopper is for it to
appear in one of the' three newspapers.
The circulation of the Shopper
will include all three towns,
Bridgewater, routes this way from
Ann Arbor, Clinton routes, Brooklyn routes, Dundee routes, etc.
This circulation will offer tlie advertiser blanket coverage in the
South Washtenaw County area and
at a very minimum charge.
Classified advertising now appearing in all three papers will
also be printed in the Shopper
making it the second largest distribution in Washtenaw County.
Second only ' to the Ann Arbor
News. , .    .,-.-__.».
Mr. and Mrs. Clinton Bordine
were recent dinner guests at the
home of Mi*, and Mrs. Don Beck
in Saline.
Mrs. Frank Deede spent last
week in Indianapolis, Ind., to be
with her daughter, who underwent surgery. Mrs. Deede reported that she was recovering satisfactorily.
Congressman Stops Here
Red Tag Days
In Saline
April 18 -19
Under the sponsorship of . the
Saline Chamber of Commerce,
the •merchants of Saline are .pre*
paring this week for one of the
largest sales in history with record breaking bargains for everyone. This event will be "Red Tag
Days" to be'held in Saline on Friday and ""Saturday, April 18 and
19.
During this special selling event
any item of merchandise marked
with a Red Tag will be marked
down substantially and every
store participating promises- to
give their customers some real
bargains.
This is another event promoted
by the Saline Chamber of Commerce in their never ending struggle" to further Saline and make it
"your shopping center."
Art Moehn Is
Michigan Week
Chairman Here
Herb Estes, Washtenaw County
Chairman of Michigan Week, announced this week that Art Moehn
Saline Chevrolet dealer, will be
the local chairman.
Michigan Week will be celebrated May 4-10 inclusive all over the
State. Mr. Moehn will have an announcement next week in regard
to the local participation.
Pictured here is Hon. August E. Johansen, United." States Congressional Representative from Michigan's third district and Saline's
Mayor, Henry Leutheuser as they look over the fresh copy of the
dbserver hi the Saline Hotel dining room last Tuesday night. Sir.
Leutheuser was plesantly surprised to find that the congressman was
well aauainted with his brother, Andrew, who is postmaster in'
Somerset, Michigan.
DR. IffiLLER RETURNS
TO  HIS  OFFICE
Dr. Harold Miller, has returned
from the meeting of more than
5,000 family 'doctors, which was
held at the Memorial Auditorium
in Dallas, Texas.
Dr. Miller having just recovered
from a bout with pneumonia at
the time he had to leave Saline
for the. medical meeting will
be in his office by appointment
only.    . .__ *L	
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Congressman
Stops In Saline
April 2
An unexpected visitor in Saline
the night of^April 2 was the Hon.
August E. Johansen", United States
Congressional Representative from
Michigan's Third District, comprising Branch, Hillsdale, Kalamazoo,
Calhoun and Eaton counties.
Rep. Johnsen stopped at the Saline Hotel after making a talk at
the annual Pomona Grange meeting in Hillsdale, and was on his
way to Willow Run Airport to
take a plane to Washington.
It was a pleasant surprise all
around when the representative
discovered that he knew Henry
Leutheuser"s brother, Andrew, who
was postmaster in. Somerset, Mich,
for many years. Henry Leutheuser is mayor of Saline and owner
of  the Saline Hotel.
And it was a pleasant surprise
to the Saline Observer reporter
who interviewed Rep. Johansen to
discover that he is also-a former
newspaperman, having worked on
the old Battle Creek Moon- Journal and on a weekly newspaper in
Lakeview, a suburb of Battle
Creek. A newspaperman whb^suc-
ceeded! /
Rep. Johansen is a meriiber of
the  House   committee oil Postof-
fices and Civil Service..'
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All Builders Must
Now Be Licensed
Approximately 200 builders, including those who do alteration
and repair -work, have applied for
licenses in Washtenaw county in
compliance with the Contractor's
License Law.
The Board of Supervisors voted
Feb. 11 to put the county under
this law, known as Act 208 of the*
Public Acts ot 1953, which is" administered by the Michigan Corporation and Securities Commission and provides that for any
person to engage in the business
of residential building or residential maintenance and alteration
contracting in the county without
a license is unlawful and subject
to-a penalty.
March 31 was the final date for
contractors already in business to
send in the applications which
were obtained from the county
building inspector's office. The applications were returnable through
the county building inspector's office or directly to the Michigan
Corporation and Securities Commission-
Contractors in business less than
five years are required to take an
examination before a license may
be issued.
The examination was given at
the Washtenaw County Building
on Wednesday, March 26, from 10-
a.m. until 2 pjn., and usually will
be given weekly thereafter -until.
April 23. After that contractors
will have to go to Detroit to take
the examinations, according to
County Building Inspector "C. Julius Nunke.
Without a license, contractors;
cannot practice in Washtenaw5]
county. They were given, a period
of grace between March 14, when"
the law went_ into . effect, and
March 31, which wasr. the last deadline.
Builders who do not have their
licenses- will be refused building
permits or be faced with an order
stopping their  *worl. on projects
Loan Program
Is Expanded
An expanded farm housing loan
program dssigned to speed i'p farm
building construction and improvement as well as act as an additional anti-recession measure wa~ announced today by Carl L. Robsin-
son,   Farmers   Home   Administra-
tiofi county supervisor for Monroe,
Washtenaw and Wayne counties
Now an owner of a    farm in
--Sricult-ural    production,    and
on  which, the  operator  plat J*
to produce at least $400 worth
of farm   conunoclities for   salp
or home, use mny qualify Tor
the - percent long-term housing   loen  provided   that   h  0
meet, other standard  eligibility requirements.
- Formerly,  an  eligible applicant
had to own a farm that produced
a more substantial part of tlie operator's annual cash income.
Borrowers may use loan funds
to build, improve, or repair farm
houses or other essential farm
buildings, and to provide water
for farmstead and household use.a
Mr. Robinson said that in addition
to financing major construction,
many other needs for farm and
the loan funds can help meet
farm home modernization such as
_aain^-SQiro-ms, utility rooms,
better kitchens, and many other
improvements to the home as well
as to farm service buildings. While
tenants and farm laborers are not
eligible, the owner may borr,ow to
do construction work or make improvements for them.
The loans are m a d e to farm
owners who need credit to finance
building improvements or repairs,
but find that adequate credit is
not available through banks Q r
other regular credit channels. The
interest rate is 4 percent and loans
may be amortized over periods up
to 33 years.
The office serving Monroe, Wayne and Washtenaw counties is located in Room 17, in the Washtenaw County Building, Ann. Arbor,
Michigan—Office hours are from
8:00 A.m. to 5:00 p.m. Monday thru
Friday.
More Rain
Sunday Than
Feb. and March
.Lqng awaited April showers belted this area Sunday putting an'
end at least temporarily to the
grass fire threat. Rain registering
.67 of an inch sprinkled tlie area
Sunday and early Monday as they
diminished temperatures to a low
33 degrees Monday morning.
The week end's total raiiifali.
although much top little to satisfy the needs of the farmers in the
area, was more than was recorded
here for tlie entire months of February and March.
Easter worshipers in all their
finery went to church Sunday under partly cloudy but warm skies,
when the temperatures were i n
the 60's.
Officials .had been worried that
the Huron River would dry up this
summer and many wells in this
area would dry up if more rain
didn't fall. The Sunday shower*
didn't help this situation appreciably but indications are that it-
can rain now and perhaps we will
get the amounts needed in the
near future.
'' Miss Sally Young< spent Ea"!t»-
with her parents" Mr. and Mr?.
Kenneth Vounes? Sally is a student at MSU East Latising.
for    which   they   have    permits,
Nimke said.
A booklet explaining the License Law, is available in the
building inspector's office for 2
5p cent charge.