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SALINE MICH-GAN, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1958
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Alice SKeehan and her grand champion steer
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Alice Sheehan, Neil Haarer
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Thursday afternoon at the Saline Community Fair was a busy,
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There -wj_s beef 'on She side of
Henne Field; there was beef ON
the field (in persons of the Saline •
High School football team), and
there were horses in the open
area to the north.
The annual steer Fair jiidging
contest was being held at the
side of the field. Fifty-one prime
examples of steerhood were*
carefully studied by Judge Victor
Cronk of Adrian, and the 'two
best were:
ALICE SHEEHAN'S     1,0-0-
pound Hereford named Georgie
was judged   Grand   Champion
steer of the 1958 Saline Fair.
"Smooth,   high    quality,    was
evenly fleshed,    with lots    of
balance and thickness."
_, NEIL HAARER'S  1,050-pound
^   .  Hereford named Peanuts. This
husky steer had all the   makings of a champion but in the
judge's opinion    was a "little
overdone—should    have    been
shown three   weeks   earlier—
lacks the quality and smoothness of the Grand Champion."
Congratulations to Alice,   who
appeared at the fair later on in
the day as one of the contestants
if the title of "Miss Saline   of
1959"!
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It will be    remembered    that
Neil was a double winner in 1956,
showing- both Grand SAd)Reserve
Champions.'
Other young people showing
and the number of steers for
each are listed:
Bill Austin - 2
Ronnie Rogers - 2
-  Bill Rogers - 2
Bob Austin - 1
Manley'Robison ? 1
:  Bonnie Robison - 1
Bernice Robison - 3,
Louis O'Mara - 2
David Krause - 2
Richard Zahn - 1
David Labuda - 2
Freddie Gall - 1
Katrina Gall - 2
Beverly Gall - 2
lone Carr - 2
Gene Girbach - 2
Gary Girbach - 1
'Shirley Sheehan - 2
Neil Harrer - 2
Janet Weber - 2
Lloyd Gunther - 2
Ronald Paul - 2
Ralph Diuble - 2
Donald Diuble - 2
Donna Diuble - 1
Wayne McCalla - 1
Ed Raus - 1
Nancy Girbach - 2
Lorraine Jedele - 1
Kay Jedele - 1
John Jedele - 1
Sharon Burleson - 1
-Roy-Burleson - 1
Gale Riggs - 2
And of course, not listed above
is Alice's one  steer,  the  Grand
Champion.
A word or two about the Steer
Club should be said here. According to Gerald Haarer, the Club
buys a carload of steers and
members make their selections
by; drawing numbers from a hat.
The steers axe raised, fed and
groomed by the young club mem-
: bers. Thus the matter of bringing up a Grand Champion or not
depends upon the ability of each
young person in the group.
Anyone wishing to join the
Steer Club for 1959 should contact Gerald Haarer or Alton
Ealy, advisors, by Oct. 15. Applicants must be 10 to 21 years, of
age, and residents of the Saline
area.**.
.Names of other ribbon winners
picked up during the afternoon,
and who were interviewed by
Howard Heath of WPAG, Ann
Arbor on his broadcast, are:
Margaret Frey, blue ribbons for
senior yearling Holstein and
senior calf Holstein and'Marilyn
Frey blue ribbon for 3-year-old
Holstein.
Universal Die & Mfg. Co.
purchase both reserve
champions at auction
The Steer Show is always of
Peat interest to the public, as
ffeu and the 56 steers in prime
«»i-tion for the event The first
Pnze for Grand Champion was
*?"> by Alice Sheehan and the
Pnze for Reserve Champion was
won by Neil Haarar, who also re-
™ved the prize for   showman-
•5BAND CHAMPION «______,
At the auction held Friday eve-
"°Si the Grand Champion steer
«** Purchased by the Daisy Mai>
,«tof Ann Arbor for 77 cents per
™uL The  Reserve   Champion
J*8 sold to the Universal Die &
**-• Co. for 51 cents a pound.
^AND CHAMPION IAMB
At the Lamb Cub show Friday
*««raoon, Kirk Gordon_   lamb
*js *osen    Grand   Champion,
J™*-. Bill Tefft had the Reserve
r^-Pion. The   prize    winning
£>ojE two was-owned by Mary
^Boettner.
jjhe lamb auction, alssq held
*n% evening, resulted in the
f«rch_se of the Grand Champion
Jf we Gerhardt Market, of De*
2°* for $2.10 per pound, and
"6 Reserve Champion was pur-
Sf£ by the Universal Die &
£* Co*. for $1.50 a pound. Four
"' Were resold twelve times,.
and the increased earnings,
amounting to about $325. were"
donated to the Community Hospital Fund. The auctioneer . for
both events was Joseph Day * of
Charlotte, who is a familiar figure at all Fair auctions.
Building Permits
During the regular Council
meeting Monday evening, Sept.
15th, the following building permits were granted: Harold Armbruster, 253 W. Bennett - Frame
garage $900
Jerome Bldrs., 260 Mark Hannah Ct., Frame res. - basement     $13500.
Mary Seeger, 200 S. Harris -
enclose back porch * $300.
Giltrow Pharmacy, 108 E.
Mich, remodel Store front "$3500.
Amos Houck, 347 Highland (G.
Acres)   frame garage $1230.
Three dogs kill
ten chickens on
the Lambarth Farm
A pack of three dogs killed 10
young chickens valued at $2 each
on a Lodi township farm Saturday, sheriffs -"deputies reported.
Officers said tli_ chickens were
owned by Robert "Lambarth of
7069 Saline Waterworks Kd. The
dogs were' seen attacking the
chickens but escaped before they
could be caught, deputies reported. An investigation to find* the
owner bf the animals ls'cohtinu--.
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Mrs. R. T. Bridgewater Is
spending some time with, her' sister Mrs.' William Martin.
Mrs. O'Neil veiws
nephew on TV
Mrs. Arthur O "Neil had quite
a shock Sunday evening when,
the Air Force-program came on
her TV. screen at 6:30.. She was
interested, in the program having
a nephew who had; served in this
particular branch of the service.
The picture being shown was
the raids on the Potest, oil fields
during the 2nd world war. The
first mission   was   flown- from
Africa and Mrs.   Clfea   knew"
that a local boy, Ray   Gleason'
was lost in that mission over the.
refineries. She was not expecting
to see her own nephew Frank
Spindler appear' on* the screen,
'but there he. ,was being briefed
prior to the second" mission over
the target.
Mrs. Spindler make, her home
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CHOSEN MISS
PAT BEAVERSON 1st RUNNER UP
MICHELLE WALSH 2nd RUNNER UP
Pat Beaverson*
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Michelle Walsh
Saline High Band
to participate in
annual program
Tenth Annual Band Day at The
University of Michigan Saturday,
Sept. 27, will be another record-
breaker. The Saline High School
band under the direction- of Arthur "Katterjohn, will be one of
the 195 bands and 12,500 participants on hand to provide an
added attraction for the football
opener with Southern California.
But the record-breaking number of participants, will not be
the only highlight of .the day
since Michigan Band Director W.
D. Revelli has come up with a
real headliner—Meredith Willson,
noted band- conductor and composer who wrote the book, music
and lyrics for the current Broadway hit, "The Music Man."
"Seventy Six Trombones" is
one of the hits from that show
and Meredith will be directing not
' just 76 trombones, but 1,076
trombones when the massed bands
perform this selection, under his
direction at half-time.
- Also on hand for the..big day
will be Forrest McAllister, editor and publisher of the School
Musician Magazine as well as a
composer,, conductor and adjudicator., ....-_
The high school "bands are due
in Ann Arbor at 8:15 am. Sept.
27 to. rehearse Jor the big after;
noon spectacle. Lights will be
burning early in homes all over
thei state .as the lMf bands begin
assembling for the ride to Ann
Arbor. Two" Upper Peninsula
-bands, Biimley and St' Ignace,
will take the honors for longdistance travel." *., ■"'*'*"
' Besides the hit tune from "The
Music Man,'? tlie massed bands
Will play "Autumn Leaves,"
'■March—Band Boosters;" . "The
Best Things in Life Are Free,"
"Ol' Man River," "You'll Never
Walk Alone," and "The Stars and
Stripes Forever." As was done
last year, the twirlers will be
featured, along with the 1958 edition of the Michigan Marching?
Band, during pre-game.
Band Day was started in 1949
with 29 bands and 1,850 participants. By 1957, the figures had
jumped to 188 bands and 12,000
participants.
Tractor contest
largest ever held
at Saline Fair
The tractor pulling ' contest,,
with 41 tractors entered, was the
largest ever held .-in the history
of the Saline Fair, the contests
lasting all the afternoon from
1:30. Alwin Gross, * assisted by
George Bonich, were on hand as
usual to manage the contest.
There were _our prizes .respectively awarded , in each class:
lightweight, under 3500 lbs., Tom
Love, Allan Phelps, " Robert
Bross and Richard. Weisenreder;
medium, under 4500 lbs., George
Brassow, John- Engelbert, Donald
Diuble and James-Jedele
Middle, under 6000 lbs., Dale
Sweetland- James Haab; Don
Bassett and Richard -Weisenreder;" heavy,. 6,000 and over,
khard Wenk, Richard Nletham-;
mer, John Marion and Ted
Lange.
The tractor backing contest
usually held .by F_F___ was cancelled. .   *   _    ; .. ; -
Every year now a thunderbolt can be expected to hit
in Saline;—the thunderbolt of the selection -of Miss Saline.
Bob Chez, as master of ceremonies, attempted to 'put off
the strike as long as he could by pretending that the ceremony was over just before he announced the name of the
winner. Then, as might be expected when the lightning
strikes, a kind of pandemonium broke loose. There were
tears, there were gasps, there were squeals, there was
.heeling, clapping, a craning of necks and the quick daylight of dozens of flashbulbs.
Found dead in car
The body of a man, apparently
dead about three months, was
discovered by two hunters early
Saturday morning in a car located in a field about a half mile
off Pleasant Lake Road, in Sharon township, sheriff's officers reported.
The man was identified as Oscar Radke, 56, of 1306 Belmar
Place, Ann Arbor. The death Was
ruled a suicide by Dr. Rundenz
Douthat of Saline, deputy medical
examiner, officers reported.
FAIREST OF THE FAIR — QUEEN OF SALINE is:
FRANCES VISEL
One-time employee of the Saline Observer and senior
at Saline High School.
Unexpected interview
with Miss Saline
Even in slacks and jacket and
blouse, Frances Visel, new "Miss
Saline" looks lovely. And this was
how she was when a reporter
chanced to meet her on Michigan
Ave., the other evening,
W&at would you say if you
were selected Miss Saline? (Of
course this question eliminates
such persons as Len Wight, Marty
Hemenway, L. Z. Still, Eugene
Leutheuser and a good many
others.)
You would probably say, as
Miss Saline of 1959 said: "It's
WONDERFUL!" '
Then you might go on and confide to the reporter that you had
a "feeling" for numbers You
would , say that you received 13
long-stemmed "red roses for winning, and that you were number
13 to mount the platform the
evening of the announcement of
winners.
And you might tell the reporter
that years ago a fortune teller
had said that seven would be
your lucky number.
Mrs. Bea Cotton accompanied
Mrs. Clarence Shaw to Wauseon,
Ohio last Thursday to visit Mrs.
Shaw's mother-in-law," who is
confined to Detwiler Hospital.
MOTORISTS!
The junction of Saline-Milan
and Stony Creek roads, long
a traffic danger point in this
area, has been made a 4-
WAY STOP where signs were
erected on the Saline-Milan
road at the intersection. Stony
Creek road has had stop signs
for some time, and the new
signs mean that traffic in
four directions is obliged to
come, to a halt before proceeding.
Installation of the signs was
decided on at a meeting of
the Washtenaw County Road
Commission on August 28, at
which time the Road and
Bridge Committee recommended that the signs be
placed. At the same time it
was decided that brush which
obscures vision of drivers on
the S-line-MJIan *" road be
cleared- ont.      ■ ' **
These' precautions should
make the corner less hazardous. During the past few years
a record of - accidents has
been built up which culminated in-the death -as.** June of
Mrs. Linda Shackdfurd
c__sh
hap-
pened had there .Men a four*
way stop;* 4
.Motorists -sing the Saline?
Milan road are^-sked to bp
aware that the signs an
there; and be prepared (o
bring their cars to a halt.
Norris of Milan in. a
that never would _tkve
Frances, a sparkling-eyed brunette, was selected as Miss Saline
of 1959 by a panel consisting of
Carol Otto, women's editor of the
Ann Arbor News, Roy Dine, manager of the Arthur Murray Studios of Ann Arbor, and Robert W.
Ebey, advertising manager of the
Hoover Ball and Bearing Co. She
is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Reuben Visel of 204 M. Michigan
Ave. As her "court" the following were chosen: Patricia Ann
Beaverson and Michelle Walsh.
They were selected from a group
of beauties which included: Donna Beckington, Yvonne Bernard,
Sandiland Bowen, Nancy Finkbeiner, Karen Girbach, Jan Jeppesen, Pat Johnson, Karen leidheiser, Carol Sevey, Alice Sheehan, Margaret Sullivan, Betty
Wackenhut, Joan Wiebusch, and
Carol Wright Frances was
crowned by the 195S Miss Saline,.
Patricia Teachout, who was
wearing a tooth-chattering, crimson formal in the rather austere
night air.
Seventeen cool and poised (especially    COOLL_ young    ladies
were driven up the bandstand on
the Saline Community fairground
Thursday    evening.    They were
then escorted, one by   one, by a
United  States  Marine    in     full
dress,  to a    microphone, where
they were asked questions about
themselves,    their   families,  and
their favorites in sports, movies,
television,  etc.  and were seated
to await the judging.
"What must    beauty suffer?"
they must have thought, as in
baresho-ldered formal  dresses,
they surveyed the   winter-clad
crowd. No doubt about it,    it
was a   chilly evening, just iiie
thing for    a    bumper crop of
goose pimples.
The new Miss Saline enters upon a year of representing the
community at many and various
events. Her charming smile will
be a token of welcome at dinners
and other affairs, and will typify the gracious living of Saline
at its best.
The contestants were given
merchandise and cash awards' by
these Saline firms: Rieckoff Jewelers, Giltrow's Pharmacy, Bailey Bowling Alley, Schmid's Food
Market, Hoeft's Service, Deede
Radio, Gamble's Store, Walker's
Variety Store, the Cut and Curl
Shop, Westside Hardware, Mac-
Farlane Shoes, Ray's Service,
Dancer's, Anderson's Lambarth's
Hardware, Citizens' Bank, Saline Savings Bank, Harrison's
TV, Rev-ling's Drug Store, R and
B Tool Works, Unit Products,
Universal Die Casting.
Bob's Marathon Service,    Carl
and Sons, Frank's Texaco Service, Feeman's Shell   Service, Don
Ford,    George's    Tavern,  Grafs
Gulf  Service, Hartman's   Insurance, ' Hull's    Grocery,    Marty's
Restaurant, Saline Dairy Bar, Saline Food Center,.Saline   Hotel,
Saline Mercantile, Walker's Bakery and Wight's Cleaners.
After the selection of the'new
Wm -Saline and her court the
young ladle* were convertibled,
to -he" Saline Hotel, where they
warmed up on hamburger sandwiches, F*ren-h fries, coffee and
mUk. For this they were g-esta
at A AM Chevrolet and Elmer
J. Steeb Bodge and   Plymouth
Sales. 	
The Miss Saline contest was
' sponsored this year, as previously, "by the Junior Chamb-r of
Commerce, of which James Rog-
■ers is president
-Little Sylvia Alston has re-
tMgrf. to her home, in Kansas
P«y Ift-r.ipen-iSg^two weeks
with her aunt Mrs. Wm. .Mar___
SyW^iSchpol .opened Sept 2nd.
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