1958-06-19; Saline Observer

              arrive In Saline
ednesday, June 25
When the Red Cross Blood Mo- the Detroit Red Cross workers
lile unit arrives in Saline next Wed- who coirfe' with the unit.
hesday, June 25, and is ready for The local Red Cross canteen,
Honors at the high -school, there directed by Mrs. Chris Volz will
linll be many in the community serve refreshments to donors from
Lho understand first hand the funds provided by the local Ro-
l-alue   oi  the   Area Blood   bank, .tary club.
Other organizations are urging
that their members donate and
are helping with the telephone
canvass and the signing bf blood
There is no substitute for whole
Hood. Bed Cross never sells blood.
Et does not buy blood. But it does
t0Hect, store and distribute blood
for many community .and  organi-  donor pledges.
ation blood banks.
At least 65 pints of blood have
teen dispensed free to Saline area
[people since the last drive. But
Sow the bank is empty. And now
Of the amount collected locally
25 per cent j|oes into a national
stock pile to "aid disaster victims
of all kinds. Tornadoes, floods and
fires bring their yearly toll and
[is the time for community effort some of our donation helps in these
,o fill it again. areas, just as we would be helped
Mrs. Ed Hering, capable chair- far beyond our bank^ level if need
[man of the local drive, will be as- arose. Still a substantial 75 per
Listed by her usual corps of com- cent of the blood collected stays
'munity volunteers who will tele- right here. Individuals have only
phone prospective donors, publi- to ask—as this writer can grate-
cize the drive, register, give aid, fully attest—for the needed amount
and serve refreshments to all who ; and it is released immediately.
donate during the regular drive Dwight Reynolds speaks just as
hours, 2-5 p.m. and 6-8 p.m. feelingly, having been a recipient
Everyone who can should plan of blood during surgery also. Many
to give in this vital way. Donors others-—our neighbors and friends
should be between the ages of 18 —are deeply appreciative,
and 60, should have had no blood You never know when a mem-
transfusions within the last six ber of" your family may require
months, and no pregnancy or ma- blood or a blood derivative. Since
jor surgery within the last year, you belong to the area blood bank
Persons who have had jaundice if you live within the Saline Area,
may give providing they have been all you need do is make one call,
free of treatment and. symptoms to either Mrs. Ed Hering or Mrs.
for the past two years. Any who Merritt Martin, Sr., to be assured
have recovered from malaria and of the necessary supply.
been free for six months may A successful blood drive ^must
also give. Persons from 18 to 21 have organization, to get the job
may donate if they have written 0f collecting done; education, to
permission   from   parents,   or—if make us aware of the service and
need; cash, to finance it—and this
we furnished 100 per cent during
our Community Chest drive; and
blood—the life stream of the entire program. A gift of blood is a
profound good neighbor policy—
a humanitarian way of giving oneself. The last drive brought 64
first donors: Our area ought to
be able to top that score this year
—Wednesday, June 25th in the
Saline High School.
or—if
I married—from husband   or  wife.
No blood is drawn without a
I doctor present, and Dr. John D.
I Buck has volunteered his serv-
jices. Besides the nurses and tech-
jnical advisors who accompany the
I unit, local nurses Mrs. Wm. Klein,
IMrs. Mike Strait, Mrs. Clarence
■Johnson and Mrs. Ed Hering will
lalso be in attendance.
Community organizations are
I assisting. Jaycee wives will pre-
Ipare and serve the* noon meal to
Boat Victim's
Found In Samplers
The body of Richard Beemer,
32, of Tecumseh, manager of the
Tecumseh Consumers Power Company branch office was recovered
in Wamplers Lake Sunday by skin
divers.
Mr. Beemer, a former resident
of Jackson, drowned Saturday
night when he was thrown from a
power boat owned by Kenneth
Herrick, 37, of 1230 Wamplers
Lake.
The body was found in about
eight feet of water nearly midway
between the east and west shores
at 9:18 a.m. Sunday.
The search for the victim began about 9:45 p.m. Saturday
when Mr. Herrick came to shore
to report the accident. He told
Sheriff Fred Hammer Mr. Beemer
was operating the boat and he
(Herrick) was ridnig in the back
seat.
BOAT RUNS WILD
He said he didn't know exactly
what happened but that he suddenly .found himself in the water.
west.
Eleven boats aided by dragging
the lake and were aided by police
from the surrounding area.
Sheriff Hammer said no marks
were found on the body. Coroner
Loren Bates authorized Mr. Beemer _ removal to the Green Funeral Home in Tecumseh. He s_id
there would be no inquest. ,
He Js survived by his wife;
Shelia, three sons, Dennis, David,
and Ricky; three daughters, Sharon, Cynthia and Susan; two
brothers, Everett "and Robert of
Grass Lake and his parents,. Mr.
and Mrs. Gilbert Beemer of
Grass Lake.
He was a native of Grass Lake
and was graduated from Grass
Lake High School. He had been
manager of the Tecumseh office
of Consumers -Power Co., since
1956' after being employed at the
Jackson office since 1946. He had
served 1% years in the Navy.
The; funeral was held Wednesday at the Green Funeral Home,
w_ ; •_"_ .;""_  _■; —-.    at 2 p.m. with the   Rev.   James
He said he grabbed Mr. Beemer Nixon/ of tne Methodist Church of
twice but was unable to hold him. wMch he was a member, officiat-
He then swam to shore and called   -ng. Burial was at Grass j^ake;
for help.
Mr. Herrick told officers the
boat was running wild in circles
when he came to the surface after being thrown into the lake.
The boat was later found aground
near the Hayes state park on the
southeast corner of the lake.
. After searching without success
"«, the darkness, Sheriff Hammer
said skin divers were summoned
to aid the search. About 6 a.m.
i« divers of the Inland Aqua
"'vers club and four state police
oivers started at the east end of
we lake and worked   their   way
Janice and Jerry Austin partis
cipated in the piano recital of the
pupils of Mrs. Frank Scott at the
Baptist Church' in Wayne, Mich,
on Saturday^ June 14. Mrs. Hugh
Austin, Mr. and Mrs. William Austin and Mrs. Qeprge Austin attended the recital.      "
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Martin and
family of Muskegon spent the
week end with her parents Mr*,
and Mrs. Lewis Ernst and sister,
Mrs. Hazen Jewell and Mr. Jewell.
THE SALINE OBSERVER
A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEDICATED TO PUBLIC SEBVICE, CIVIC ENDEAVOR AND AGRICULTURAL PROGRESS Df THE S____NE AREA
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Member of the Saline Chamber of Commerce
SALINE, MICHIGAN, THURSDAY, JUNE 19,1958
SEVEN CENTS PER COPY
Saline Summer Recreation Underway
Old Fashioned! Bargain
In Saline June 19-20-21
Old *Fashlohed*-Day_, will" cWhe to Saline this week Ttiiirs-
day, Friday and Saturday, June 19, 20 and 21.
The Chamber of Commerce will he sponsoring this event,
with merchants placing real old fashioned bargains on display
-for the buying public. So- don't forget, Shop in Saline during
Old Fashioned Days and receive substantial savings on whatever you buy.
Saline Students
Graduate With
grees, comprised the class.
Adlai E. Stevenson, twice democratic presidential candidate and
former governor of Illinois,    was
■air n tt    t _.  /**». tne commencement   speaker. The
M.O.IJ-  l_argeST  -LlaSS   degrees were conferred by Michigan State President John A. HanV
Among the graduates, receiving
their degrees last week were the
following; students from Saline:
Sarah Ellen Hanifi, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. William Campbell,
of 206 S. Davenport, receiving her
B.A. in Spanish; Lloyde E. Nissley,,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Nissley,
R._VD. No. 1, his B. A. in Electrical Engineering; ahd Lenora V.
Rathbun daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Truman Jordan of 7900 Hack received second
road, receiving, her B.A. in Restaurant Management.
The second largest    graduating
class in the history of Michigan
nah -with the   assistance of    the
deans of the various colleges.
The largest graduating class in
the 98 commencements at Michigan State was in -.950 when 2,432
received degrees.
Included in the spring term
graduating class of 1958 were 120
Army and Air Force cadets who
lieutenant commissions in addition to their degrees.
-.   A   commissoining    parade    in
state    University held   its    com-   eluding the entire cadet Corps   of
mericement exercises'Sunday aft— the two detachments was held Sat-
ernoon (June 8) in Spartan   Stadium'pn the M.S.U. campus.
A total-of 2,309 graduates, including 1,997 with bachelor degrees and 312 with advanced de-
urday (June 7) with Lt Gen.
William H. Arnold, commanding
general of the U. S. Fifth Army,
reviewing the corps.
Milan Woman Dies
Following Stony Creek
Milan Road Collision
The Saline Police Department
answered a call to the Saline-
Milan and Stony Creek roads, last
Wednesday, June Uth. where a
fatal .accident had happened at
3:05 p.m. . ■ -.
Mrs. Linda Shackelford Norris, ,
of 31 East Main Street, Milan,
driving a 1954 Ford car owned by
her father, and traveling north on
the highway * was struck and
fatally injured by a large empty
cattle truck driven by John R.
Coleman of Rt. No. 3, Blissfield.
Coleman stated that he had dozed'
as he. .approached the intersection,
and due to.fatigue he failed to
see the ~ Stop sign .at .the- junction-
He was held on a charge of negligent homicide.
Mrs. Norris was survived by her
parents, James and' Lucy Shackelford, her husband, David, a daugh-
ter, Kathryn Diane, eighteen
.months old, a brother James of
Hulem, Kentucky and five sisters,
Mrs. Novella Daniels of Garden
City, Mrs. Corinne Reed of Detroit; Mrs. Kathleen Engle, Mrs.
Cora Lee Norris and Mrs. Mertie
Norris of Milan.
Funeral services were held Saturday, June 14 from the Stevens
and Bush Funeral Home in Milan. The Rev. Kitt Brock pf Kentucky officiating. Burial was in
Marble Park-Cemetery.
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The 1958 version of the Saline who have completed the first
Summer Recreation program will grade, and not over fifteen years
get underway this next   Monday,  of age.
June 23rd. The program will run
for eight weeks and will include
a larger number of activities for
Saline area children than ever before. The program this summer is
under the new Saline Recreation
Commission, which was formed
earlier in the year to assist the
recreation director in developing
a bigger and better program for
Saline each year.  - *
Members of the recreation staff
this year will include Tom N.
Johnston, who will again serve as
the overall director, Mark De Lay
who will be in charge of the boys
activities, Mrs. Sue Bottoms, who
will be in charge of Arts and
Crafts and girls activities, Calvin
Carr who will be all around assistant, and one other staff member as yet to be named who will
handle various aspects of the program.
The program this summer will
offer the children of the area a
wide range of activities including
Mothers, interested in aiding in
the program are requested to be
at the front of the high school
Monday at 12 noon for discussion
and planning.
1. Children will be supervised at
all times.
' 2. For Y.M.C.A. swimming at
10 cents charge per time will be
requested to cover the Y.M.C.A.
costs.
3. Girls will wear a bathing cap
at the Y.M.C.A. furnish your own
towel.
4. Parents will pick up childrei.
at the   front of the Saline   High
School each day at 5 p.m.
MONDAY—
-12.00 meet at school
12:30 to*2 swimming at Y.M.C.A.
2:30 to 5 Games Instruction at
playground.
TUESDAY and THURSDAY—
12:30 Meet at school
1 to 2 Swimming at Y.M.C.A.
2:30 to 5 Arts and Crafts, Games
instruction for all ages.
Swimming, swim instruction, Arts WEDNESDAY and FRIDAY-
and Crafts, baseball instruction,
games of all types and a period
called individual arts, which will
be offered any activity in demand
by a large enough   group.
The program is planned not to
conflict in any way with the band
program. The summer recreation
program will be open to children
and
at
1 to 2:30 Arts and Crafts
Games.
2:30 to 4:30   S w i m m i n g
Wamplers Lake.
Each morning from 9:30 to 11
Monday through Saturday, Calvin
Carr will be at the High School
athletic field to hand out game
equipment and supervise  games.
EDITORIAL
If You Want Or Need It
Ralph Keys
Outlines Work
Done By Kiwanis
The Kiwanis Club of Saline held
their "regular " meeting Monday
evening at MarrA Restaurant
with President Bob Harrison in
charge.
Ralph Keys, chairman of Forney W. Clement Memorial Foundation showed pictures and spoke
on the work done by the Kiwanis
Clubs for the children on the 9th
floor of the University hospital.
This floor consists of under-privil-
edged children from every county
in the state.
On August 4, 1953 the project
was incorporated as a non-profit
corporation under the name of
The Forney W. Clement Memorial Foundation, Inc., and became
a Michigan District of Kiwanis
International project
Beginning as a small project to
furnish play equipment for hospitalized children, the project has
expanded and grown so that it
now provides hot only educational
and recreational equipment but
also teaching and recreational personnel.
During the years the project
has been in operation, it is estimated that over 120,000 patients
have derived benefits from the
project and have been made
happier as a result of the programs.
Division 6 of the Michigan District'donated $19,000 last year.
Their goal for this year is $21,000.
The Saline Kiwanis Club contributes all the money from fines received from their members.
Thirty attended including 5
guests from the Ann Arbor Club.
The program for next, week will
be given by the Goble Brewery
Co., on the highlights of the Detroit Lions football games last
season.
$ Living in a community the size
qf Saline has numerous advantages, one of these is the close
community pride in doing a job to
better your town. We think that
the service clubs of Saline have
a right to be proud in their chosen role as the community "starters" for such projects. Too often,
we are tempted to let things remain just as; they, are; to say "its
been that way for 10 years, why
change it now?"."" A community
can well'be proud when the voice
that crys for a job to be done
outweighs that mumbling-moan of
"let it be." However, a service
club project, or any project is
only as good as the people who
support it, and often it may seem
to us that there is always something else to do- to improve the
community. The temptation is
sometimes overpowering to "let
George do it," and let it go at
that. It's then that the first break
in the dike of community spirit
may be broken.
It 'has come to our attention
that this past Sunday, the Kiwanis Club of Saline planned a
"Fix up the park" day, and that
only IS people came to aid in.
the needed project. Of course
it was Father's Day, but maybe
Dad would have gone along with
the idea. A few hands, a few
hoars work, a worthy community project; Some one hundred
sandwich--, provided for the
planned project workers had to -
be thrown away last Sunday, because someone just didn't care
enough to spend a few hours
with their -neighbor in improving Saline.
As we have noted, the idea 'is
only as good as the people who
bade it up. . And far too often of
late, the same people have been
doing all of the backing. The
fellow you'll find at the PTA
meeting -because he cares, the
father who helped to build the
Little League diamond, because
he cares, the parent who serves
as an example to his children and
those about him because he cares.
Another day is planned to improve your park in the coming
years, do you care? Do you care
enough to be there?
Traffic Violations
JUNE 10—Ernest A. Stemen,
Saline: expired operators lie Nite
Judge.
JUNE U — James Edward
Moore, Detroit: 55 mph in 35 mile
zone. $15.00
JUNE 12 — Chas. L. Becking-
ton. Saline; Excessive noise. Judge
JUNE 13 — Beverly Williams;
Detroit; 50 mph in 35 mile zone.
Nite. $11.00.
JUNE 13 — Gerald D. Sweet,
Milan; 40 mph in 25 mile zone.
510.00.
JUNE 13 — John • W. Fuchs,
Kentucky: improper passing. $5.00
(Bond)
JUNE 13 — Philip R. Verdonek,
Chicago; improper pasting. $5.00.
(Bond) -j
JUNE 14 — James Jones, Jr.,
Inkster; 60 mph in 45 mile zone.
Nite. $11.00.
JUNE 14 — James O. Taylor,
Detroit; no operators lie. ■_>, lie.:
lite. Judge.   -"'*-. 1.
JUNE 14. — SamuelsBradford,
Detroit; allowed unllc driver .to
drive. Judge.
JUNE 14 — Richard Weise, Wyandotte; -45 mph leu 25- mile zone.
Nite. $-6.00.
-TINE 14 ■— Johar TtMs. Wei",
stein, Maybee; D.UU- - NJte.
Judge.
With Construction
Underway, Pledge
Payments Urged   ;
The Saline Community Hospital '
Board of Directors, met at the" Sa- |
line high school on June 10th. The :
architect and contractor .made i
their report to the board on the '
progress of the .new hospital.
The rough grading has been fin- j
ished and the south and west walls '
are almost completed . The hospi- j
tal is being constructed of cinder i
blocks with brick  exterior walls. |
Now that construction has beea !
started, the board hopes that i
those persons who are delinquent i
la, their pledge will make an ef- '■
fort, to complete their payments j
soon.
and i
Mr. Arthur 'Katt-rjohn
James 'Austin drove "to "the National M-_ic"'Camp at/Interlochea
onSatarday, June 14th**to return
lnstrjunent- --used by the Saline
Area Schools that has been rented.
ftom'tfie camp? for the winter sea-
«oo. M;_, Katterjohn and children
vfclted her P«ent_,i:^ind Mrs.
Green at. Grand Bta*a£|w>i__ ___-
voadja the tgp nortb. ,'"•-
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