1958-04-24; Saline Observer

              MAYOR'S    PROCLAMATION:
Whereas: The Citizens of Saline are justly proud
of our City and wish to keep it iii its proper position of
importance as a comiminity of fine homes, gardens
lawns, streets, and stores, and: '
Whereas; The cooperation of everyone is needed
to wipe away the, grime of winter'and' brim? forth the
beauty and cleanliness that is inherently ours
Now Therefore: I Henry Leuthauser, Mayor of
Saline, do hereby proclaim the days of April 28 to Mav
3rd to be ^Clean up-^ix-up-Paint-up-Week" and S
all good citizens to cooperate in the program to makp
our city a safer, happier, and1 a more beautiful place in
which to live.
On Thursday, May 1st, all rubbish should be at the
curb in cans or boxes. On this day the city mU have
trucks to pick it up,   •    ' J      " "■ive
HENRY LEUTHAUSER
Mayor of Saline
THESALIN
WEEKLY .NEWSPAPER DEDICATED TO PCBIJC SERVICE, CIVIC   ENDEAV!
Member of the Saline Chamber of Commerce
OK AM) A __3_OTLTDK__L PROGRESS IN THE SAUNE AREA
SALINE, MCfflGAN, THURSDAY, ARPIL 24, 1958.
SEVEN CENTS PER COPY
Clinton State Police Post
Open House For Michigan Week
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Similar Program
In 1957 Brought
Thousands Here
The Michigan State Police will
f^erve Michigan Week May 4 to
|H.y flying the state flag at all
.Jojts and holding open house' on
Hospitality Day Tuesday, May 6,
according to Sergeant Carl Ander-
son, commanding officer of the
Clinton post.
A similar program was held
last year and attracted thousands
of visitors- to the various posts
throughout the state, Sergeant
Carl Anderson said.
Alt-Oirgh visitors are welcome
»t anytime, the special visiting
hours at the Clinton, post Hospitality Day will be from 10
ajn. to 5 p.m.
Officers will be on hand to escort persons through the building,
explain equipment and answer any
questions regarding department
operations.
"We extend a very cordial invitation to be with us," Sgt. Carl
Anderson said. "Hospitality Day
provides a special opportunity lor
the public to learn at first hand
how their department operates and
the services it performs. We hope
that many will call upon us.
Sgt. Carl Anderson
$772.00 Profit
On Elementary
School Carnival
The Carnival sponsored by the
Saline Elementary School Room
Mothers, and held at the school
on April 18th, was attended by
a capacity crowd, and it has been
reported that all the booths were
so well attended that it was impossible to say which one caught
ths crowd's attention the most.
However, after all expenses were
paid- the principal, Mrs. Barclay,
reports that they cleared $772.
The room mothers supplied the
labor for most of the booths, and
with the help of all the students
and their parents each working
with the success of the project in
mind it was great fun. There was
a Talent Show put on by the students of the different rooms, and
was considered one of the highlights of the evening.
Mrs. Barclay would like to publicly thank everyone who helped
in any way to make this particular |
Carnival one that will be long remembered.
Dial Telephones Progressing
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Boy Scouts
Have Camp-out
Over Weekend
Twenty-six members of Troop
46, Boy Scouts of America enjoyed
a camp-out at the Saline Valley
Farms last week-end. The boys,
accompanied by Scoutmaster Mike
Strait and assistant, Bob Merchant arrived at the Valley Farms
about 1 p.m. Saturday and spent
the afternoon getting their tents
up. and camp made for the night.
They were divided' into four pa-
! trols and each patrol judged on
" their efficiency in getting camp
ready, buying and cooking of their
own meals etc.
According to scoutmaster Strait
this was -a little preliminary
campout in preparation for the.
Spring Camporee to be held at
Br*uin Lake on May 16, 17, and 18.
About 1-.3000 scouts "from Lenawee,
Livingston an d ' Washtenaw
counties are expected to be on
hand for this outing.
Council Rejects
All Sewer 1
, Mrs. B. D.. Hammond of 103 E.
McKay Street, Saline, will be hostess to the Friendship Class at 1
p.m. today.
The Saline City Council rejected
all bids on the Sanitary Sewer
project at their regular meeting
last Monday evening.
The specifications have been revamped since April 4th when the
original bids were made and new
bids will be opened this Friday
night, April 25th at'the City Hall.
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Automatic Service For Saline Area
To Cost Gen. Telephone $500,000
. Saline's nearly half-irdllion dollar conversion to dial telephones, scheduled to be completed by August of this year, is
well underway according to a statement from Wm. Beagle,
district manager for the telephone company.
Many of the telephones in the area have already had,
—  .the dials placed and are just wait
ing for the equipment installation
in the central office. Work is also
underway in preparation for the
38 by 39 ft. office building located on Ann Arbor Street one-
block south of Michigan Ave.
Cost estimates range from §30,-
000 to $40,000 on the new building with the automatic dial equipment to cost something like §120,-
000. Total costs in'cluding line replacements,   new telephones,   etc.,
Saline Students
Act As Hosts To
Three Oaks Band
On Friday* sixty-two students
accompanied by six adults, arrived
in Saline from Three Oaks, Michigan on their way to the Band Festivals which were held in Ann Arbor, Saturday.
The distance from Three Oaks lwiU te over -f450-000 according to
Mr. and Mrs. George Desbrough
and sons Arthur and Howard drove
>to Detroit Sunday and then to the
home of their daughter, Mrs .Oral
Mead at Milan.
The   Saline    Observer crew    is Thursday  morning when wr-    all
shown here as they watched    Hie reported for work. "Can -ne do it
first Daily  paper   ever  published _r not?" However, the entire daily
in Saline come off tlie press last operation went without    a   hitch
Thursday. iWid reached  the street right  on
Feeling    was    running     high time.
Daily papers were ipublisiied on
both Thursday and Friday to celebrate the Red Tag Days in Saline
last weekend.
"Chicago Club" Girls Will
Spend Weekend In Windy City
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High School
Essay Contest
Winners Chosen
Seventy-six students from Saline*!
High School turned in essays onj|
"Citizenship, An Honored Privi-***;
lege" in the recent essay contest *>
held for high school students.    *  *
The 9, 10,11, and 12 grades were
assigned these essays as a part of
their school work and they  were   .
judged by  five   members   of  the
American Legion Auxiliary.
According to the judges there
were many fine essays showing a
great deal of thought, making it
very difficult to judge which was
test.
The winners were announced as
follows: Senior Group, 1st, Pat.
Johnson; 2nd, Joyce Clark, and
3rd, Joan Greden. The junior group
winners were 1st, Lyle Wahl; 2nd,
Carol Brown, and 3rd, Janet Hertler.
Lyle Wahl wrote;
Citiieijship, An Honored Privilege
When our teacher told us about
the title above, and told us what
to do, I set to work at once. But
every time I read the title   three
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Pictured above" are the winners den, Xyle Wahl, Joyce Clark. Bot-
in file'recent Essay    contest    at torn Row;    Carol    Brown,    Janet
Saline High School. They .are Top Hertler and Pat Johnson.
I questions came" to my mind. They %«'' J*-5*' to-Eight; Joanne Gra- ^
I are;    DWhat     is     Citizenship? ~ ~~ ~      :                   7 **"         ~~         '       I        ;     '—       •'
a mMi*3.5" be m honore<1 priv"      First place in the senior division sure any really   good   citizen   or
„**.e. 6) now can we get     this .was won by Pat Johnson with the parent does not want his children
following essay:                       - to grow up in,   communism.   Let
Citizenship—an Honored Privilege ujt< ask.oursalves if we are wasting
Is American citizenship really an away our rights and    privileges?
honored   privilege?   Undoubtedly, Perhaps we don't, deserve to have
ponored privilege?
Going back to my original ques-
i'SP'S,1 wM try to answer them.
| « What is Citizenship? . Citizen-
■Jnp to me means democracy. In
roy opinion democracy is a form
« government whereby every cit-
«ai is a part of the government
« a democracy the reigning power instead of being   vested in   a
„S *T- or some- such Wgwig    is
i?stea" m. the public as   a   whole.
ri»? •TvWuals who are the offi-
(i s of the government are
tte masters of the people but the
Swf of the Peoplef
a*!-",- - reason x tnink that Cit*1-
jasmp is an honored privilege js
« thei tirst* ten   Amendments    lo
Srt(S°n^titution'    "The "Bill
™_ilts". Our Ttitl
       of
I M*-"". • 0ur Bm of Rights is the
I • g?nesVvay t0 feel Privileged and
I'-sSi      ,Because  the  way it  is
WW  makes y°u feel free to   do
I ?"« you want
the majority of "people who obtain
citizenship by naturalization think
so. We, who are American citizens
by- right of :birth may have a passive attitude, although if we stop
to "count our blessings", we realize we have what no other country has. '
Many have fought and died to
not- obtain this citizenship, . People
have fled from other countries,
risking their lives in hopes of
gaining American citizenship.
Were these men fighting for enjoyment or were they fighting for
something very valuable? Is it
right for us to appreciate so little
the thing for which they gave
their lives?
Being a good citizen means co-
I■Bete"vnu --?"-_•_Which is a priv~- operation with -our family, neigh-
1      J.   get that >'ou wouldn't in  - - -
"IS'other country.
jWften I   mean freedom I mean
I S_!^KmT,of Reli-ion, Freedom   of
aMoT' Freedom from unreason-
S parches Right to   Assemble,
1^ mi.e,u.ion' Right t0 lrial b>'
KttLi gnt to summon witness,
erh,S? from iHegal loss of Lib-
otfin edom fcom excessive bail
topert*' and 3'USt comPensati°n tor
_I But the big question, is how
e-ffiJ S»5et these honored privil-
4 * t - ways ^ °y naturali-
^on and being born in the Unit-
ay \™?S' But I think you can
I _a*a*t-"?u .-^e a citizen but you
I U*lo -i - at vou are unless you
winitrV■ *.Is,your duty to y°ur
58-w i? love "■* a11*1 defend it
co-**,,*- enemies to support its
»V« obey its laws, and
■ a»S?tw*0ag' Then  y°u' are
h0D^dpr.^geCitiZenShtp ^ an'
them. Do we have to lose our citi-
zenship'hefore we ralize how valuable it is?       - . „
Do we actually know wlia.. our
citizenship means to lis? It means
that we have _ne right to say how
our government is run.. We can;
assemble into groups .and not .have
to do it secretly. We can Worship
whom how and where we .desire.
As long' as we don't interfere with
someone else's' property we can
say and write' what we think is
right. We can have the job of
our choice if we are willing to
work for it, and thus acquire per-,
sonal satisfaction. Do we appreciate the fact that we acquire
American- citizenship by birth?
Just because we axe* born here,
are we going to let .immigrants
know more about the government
and use these rights more than
we do? Each person knows the
answers to these questions. Maybe
they aren't very pleasing to some
of Us. If npt, it's time to do 'Something about them.
Twenty-four members of the Sa**<**>*
line High School Chicago Club wiil
leave on Wednesday morning at
8:15 from the Michigan Central
Depot in Ann Arbor for their annual trip to the windy city. They
will meet at the school at 7:30
a.m.
• -The-'-gro-p plans-to _e-ta*-Ghiea;gai*|
from    Wednesday   until    Sunday.
They will be accompanied by Mrs.
Albert Rogers and Miss Mary Lou
Lernmer, their sponsor.
They will stay at the Conrad
Hilton Hotel and will visit the
Blvd. Room in the Hilton for dinner and to see the Ice Review. Also
they will visit "Bit of Sweden," a
famous smorgasbord restaurantij
the play, "My Fair Lady," the
Merchandise Mart, the Museum of
Science and Industry, Marshall
Field for a" fashion -show, Sears
Roebuck Where they will see the
whole process of mail ordering
from the order room to the final
mailing of the package. They also
will pay a visit to Swift's Packing House where they will be
Swift's guests for lunch.
On Sunday the group will attend church in the windy city,
and leave for home on the afternoon train. They will eat their
lunch on the train so he girls may
have the experience of eating oh
a train.
The cost of the trip to each
girl is about $50.00, half of which
they earn as a group and they
must pay the other half. Each
girl made an outfit for the trip,
either a coat or dress, or dress and
jacket.
Next Week Is
''Clean-Up Week
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bors, community, county, and
state as well as the nation. We
have to do good deeds for other
people even though they may not
do the same for us. We should do
more than we are compelled to
do. Go the second mile. In loving or country we respect the flag
and our government.- To have
good government we have to vote
for dedicated jjien and women,
most of whom are unselfish. Reading the newspapers and being well
informed, are included in being a
good citizen. As good citizens we
should train our ■ children to be
good citizens. These duties should
not -seem unpleasant to the citizen,, but should seem to be privileges.
Is it possible that if we don't
use our rights and privileges as
we should, that they might be
taken not only from us but from
our children as well and eventual- .
ly ba lost to    communism?    Tmer, Mrs. George Austin.
American citizens, make use of
your rights.and privileges. Stand
up for them and show that you
are proud of them. -If necessary
fight hard for them and if you
have to, give.your life for them.
Prove to the world that American
citizenship is priceless!
Miss * Joan, Austin will compete
on the state level, for Michigan
State Dairy I?rincess on Thursday
and Friday of this week, at the
Kellogg Center, East Lansing. She
will be accompanied _y her moth-
Mayor Henry Leutheuser lias
designated' the week of-April 28
to May 3 as Clean-up, Paint-up
and Fix-up-,week "in Saline. All
citizens are urged to cponerate on
this project to make Saline* the
cleanest city in Michigan.   _ *     "**"•.•
The city council asks that all
rubbish be placed in boxes or containers and placed at the curb to-
be picked up by the city trucks
on .Thursday, May 1. This trash
must be placed at the curb either
Wednesday night or very early on
Thursday morning because the
trucks will be out bright and early
on that day.
School Election
to Be Held
|§g£e June^. 9tji. _.
By a resolution adopted by the
I Board of Education of the Saline
Area School District at a regular
meeting held on February 14, 195S,
the date of the annual school district election has been changed
from the second Monday of July
to the second Monday of June, according to the General Schqol
Laws Revision of 1955, Paragraph
340.72, Section 72.
To obtain the printing of the
name of any candidate for member
of the Board of Education of the
Saline Ares School District, said
candidate shall file nomination petitions with the' secretary of the
Board of Education not later than
4 (four) o'clock p.m. on the twentieth day prior to the date of the
election, that is at 4:00 p.m. on
May 20,1958.
Each petition shall be signed by
not less than twenty-five qualified school electors of the -district.
No elector shall sign petitions for
more candidates than are to be
elected. Board members whose
terms expire this year are Dr.
Gordon Prout for a three-year
term and Frank Brittain for a
three-year term.
Nominating petitions can be obtained at the office of the Superintendent in the High School
Building-
Zoning Plan Is
Tabled Again
The Saline City Council again
tabled the question of accepting
the plan as presented by the Planning and Zoning Commission until
May 6th.
The reason for tabling the plan
again at Monday night's * regular
meeting" was "that, some members
of the City Council had not had the
proper ^mdunt of. time to study
the ordinance thoroughly.   *
Accident Sunday
On Milan Road
Saline police officers were called
to the Milan-MoorevUle Road last
Sunday morning at 1:45 to investigate an automobile accident involving only one car.
The car, driven by Ray Tanabe,
ran off the roadway and rolled
oV^r after the driver had applied
his brakes to slow up for the in-
tersectio-u Damage to the vehicle
was estimated^ to be about §900.
Kiwanians Hear
Milan Editor
_ Bill Collins, editor of The Milan
Leader, was principal speaker at
the regular dinner meeting of the
Saline Kiwanis club on Monday,
April 21 at Marty's restaurant.
Subject of his talk was the production of the famous Sears, Roebuck mail order catalog. He worked for Sears in Chicago for twelve
xearft. six of thpse years as catalog copywriter and six "as catalog
editor. His talk was spiced with
tales of catalog misadventures,
but was a fairly clear explanation of tlie printing of the famous
"big book". An interesting sidelight of the talk was the revelation that Sears employs a year-
round staff 'of typographers, men
who are printers but never touch
a line of type. They mark catalog copy for the size and style of
type in which it is to be set, and
the actual typesetting* is done at
the "R. R. Donnelley Co. catalog
printers for Sears.
Bill was introduced by Rick
Hopkins, publisher of the Saline
Observer. Four out-of-town members were present from the East
Ann "Arbor Kiwanis club. President Bob Harrison officiated at
tlie meeting, with some temporary
pinch-hitting „by vice-president
Lauren Wild.
took five hours by bus, and since
coming Saturday would have required that the children get such
an early start; Saline High School
students played host to , the visitors.
After supper and breakfast with
their hosts the young musicians
traveled in to Ann Arbor where
they competed in the District Music Festival.
Three Building
Permits Issued
The Saline City Council issued
the following three building permits at their regular1 meeting last
Monday evening.
- Owen Hoeft, 201 E. Henry - Remodeled Kitchen    51200
Chas- E. Finn, 205 W. McKay -
New 2-car garage    and    breeze-
way  1 ,—  51500
Harold Riplow, 310 Risdon Dr. -
New Concrete Patio §300
•The Fun Club will hold a guest
night dinner meeting at Marty's
Restaurant on- Saturday evening
at-8 p.m. Following the dinner the
members and their guests will sojourn to the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Glen Hamlin" for an. evening.of
social card games.  ".
Annual Meet
Of T-B Assoc.
Held Tuesday
At the 35th annual meeting of
the Washtenaw County Tuberculosis Association on Tuesday evening April 15, Ralph V. Wright of
Ypsilanti was re-elected president.
Jack -Grimston was chosen as
vice president and Mrs. Clarence
E.Crook was re-elected to the post
of treasurer. Both are of Ann
Arbor.
O. Herbert Ellis of Ann Arbor
and Mrs. Albert C. Johnsen of
Willow Run were named members
at large of the executive committee, which includes the above-
named officers.
Elected to three-year terms on
the Board of Directors were Ellis,
Mrs. Eric T. Tebow, Stanley G.
Thayer and Dr. Walter M. White-
house of Ann Arbor; Lawrence
Husse, J. D. Renton and Dr. Olga
Sirola from Ypsilanti; Mrs. Merle
Barr, Jr., and Mrs. Maxwell
Sweet, Chelsea; Mrs. Stanton G.
Roesch, of Manchester; Ernest
Girba-h Of Saline; Mrs. Elmer A.
Wolter, Dexter; and Mrs. Peter E.
Mike from Willow Run.
Following a brief historical
sketch of the Association's work in
til-- comity.during the past 35
years, recognition was given to
those volunteers who have served
as presidents. Representing past
presidents at the meeting were,
Dr. George E. Bowler, Mrs. War-5
ren R- Daniels and Dr. S. W. Don-
aldson-
An address by J. Irvin Nichols,
executive secretary of the Michigan Tuberculosis Association paid
tribute and offered a -new challenge to volunteers in the fight
against tuberculosis.
' Th: e tuberculin - histoplasmin.
testing project in 14 schools iir
Washtenaw county, Beginning.
April 28, was the subject of remarks by Dr. "W.* F. Fidle r,
medical director of Michigan State
Sanatorium at Howell and Dr.
Otto K. Engelke, county health
director.
Saline Sr. High
The Saline Sr. High School
Band under the direction of Arthur Katterjohn, will travel to East
Lansing, next Saturday to participate in the State Contest. The
results of this contest will appear
in the Saline Observer.next week.
Leuthauser Will
Be Mayor For A
Day In Benzonia
A little. more information. filtered through the grapevine this
week on the exchange Mayor who
tyiir be .oming to Saline on May ■
5. According to information received at the Observer this week I
Mayor Henry Leuthauser will be,
enjoying one of the beautiful cities of Michigan on the day of the
exchange.
He will be exchanging cities with
Mayor Robert Bennett of Benzonia, Michigan. Benzonia- is located
in Bennzie County and almost on
the shores of. Crystal Lake. It is a
city with just about everything a
vacationer desires according to a
release from the Bennzie County
"Public ■ Relations Committee."
Well, Henry, we can't all'be lucky
but while you are having such a
good time we will try ta treat
your counterpart as well.
Traffic Violations
April 18—Harold H. Henderson,
Detroit, 40 mph in 25 mile area
and no change of address on lie.
512.00.
April 19—Sam Sebastian Allocco,
Garden City, 45 mph in 25 mile
zone at night. §16.00.
Sidney Koshen, Cleveland, Ohio,
crossed yellow line at "night.
(Bond) $5.00.
April 20—-Kenneth C. Preston,
Homewood, HI., yellow line. (Bond)
$10.00. ,
Susie Mae E. Hopkins, Tecumseh, 40 mph in 25 mile zone. §10.00.
Albert C. Grund, Harper Woods,
double yellow line. $10.00.
Richard Kerr, Ypsilanti, 40 mph
in 25 mile zone. §12.00.
Vincent S. Kuzmenski, Ecorse
Township, 40 mph in 25 milj area.
§10.00.
Dean O. Corey, New Troy, 40
mph in 25 mile zone, and no reg.
on person. §12.00.
April 21—Benjamin F. Portis,
Detroit, no He. plate, night, fog,
driving without glasses. §5.00.
Beagle. The fact that Saline was
to have dial telephones was revealed exclusively in the Saline Observer last July 18.
In the April 3 issue of tho Observer it was revealed that th-"*
exchange has been designated by
General Telephone Co.. and Michigan Bell to be Hazel. That means
that all numbers will be prefixed
with the letters HA 9- and four
other digits.
The new Saline telephone system will require no operators. Two
men are scheduled to be on duty
at all times for the" maintenance
of equipment. The only operator
contact will be with the 'toll center" to be located in Ann Arbor.
Dialing "operator" will put the
customer in touch -with the toll
center in Ann Arbor and the operator there will. handle all toll
calls- or emergency calls. The Ann
Arbor center will route the incoming as well as the outgoing toll
calls.
The new equipment is designed
to make direct diijUng, possible if
at'some time or another it becomes practical in this area. Tele-"
phone bills may still be paid at
either of the two; local banks.
The most apparent change to
most of the customers will be the
appearance of the dial phone in
their home.
The addition of the new system
will permit the company to both
expand and improve its service
in Saline. At the last pfficial
count there \yere 1621 telephones
in- the Saline area. Also there
were '28 people, on the waiting,
list. These applications will all be
taken care of at the time of the
change over. Approximately 1700
telephones are expected to be in
operation in the Saline area after
the change is made.
Mrs. Chester
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Walters Died
Suddenly Monday
-.Irs. Chester Walters, whose
home was in Willow Village, died
suddenly at the Uhiversit*^ Hospital Monday evening. Her husband,
a graduate pharmacist, and a senior in the School of Dentistry, has
been employed part time in; the
Giltrow Pharmacy, Saline. Funeral arrangement- have not yet been
made. -
Mr. and. Mrs* Joe Holzhoffer of
Jackson, Mr. and Mrs. Clifton Bird
of Judd Road and JVIr, Jesse Bird
of Carpenter Road were Sunday
dinner guests-at Hie home pf Mr.
and Mrs. Karl Bird and family.
Mr. Jesse Bird and Vlvi-i. Bird
were celebrating Tbirth-ays.
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