1957-02-21; Saline Observer

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VOL. "LXXIV No. 46 (Member of Saline Chamber of Commerce)"
SALINE, MICHIGAN, THURSDAY FEBRUARY 21, 1957
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'Good Neighbor' Letter
from Nigeria, West Africa,
Seeks American 'Pen Pals'
The following1 letter, received by the Saline Observer this
week, could be the beginning of a local practice of the "Good
neighbor" policy in establishing understanding with people
Neighbor" policy in establishing understanding with people
in far distant countries by local individuals or groups. The
writer, a 22-year-old African youth, is so eager for pen
pals' that he promises to    answer
all letters by air mail.
Dear Venerable Editor:
Having been seeking for American pen pals of both sexes to correspond with, I 'found your name
asfi addr2ss in our library as one
nf Ihe faithful and reliable publishers, and I seize- this opportunity in begging for space in your
fam-ius times to publish my name
and address.
I am 22 years old, five-feet seven inches tall and cm very much
int?re;Ved in s-'gorts, music, box-
in,"- and writing. I am also iater-
esi?d in exchanging African goods
far Amci-.can ones.
African goads are snake-skin
linivibras, ebony carved linings,
0 „';.»f-r knivc-,', leopard skin bags,
slippers, necklaces, earrings,
gr.tind nuts, native ccmbs, croeo-
due skin bags, ivory, thorn and
horn carvings to 'exchange 'for
American cnai." such as jackets,
slack*, sweaters, watches, court-
shoes, pants, T-shirt!;, .ankle colored i'^cks, ties, shirts, leather
bells, i'-iits, books, shaving materials,  etc.
I promise to reply ito all letters
written to me by air-mail. Thanking the editor for the space allowed me and may God bless you
and all your efforts with "brilliant
s'uecess. Amen.
Yours faithfully,
A.  U.  Ocoh,   Jr.
68 Arolya St., Lagos
Nigeria, West Africa:
Friendship Class
To Hold Monthly
Meeting Wednesday
The Friendship Class of Federated Church School will hold' its February meeting at the home of Mrs.
Fredricka McBride, 100 Bast Henry Street, on Wednesday, February 27th, at 1:30 o'clock. -Mrs. Alger Allison, president of the group.
is in charge of program plans.
Three Bands
Will Perform
At Festival
Saline will be the only community which will be represented
by three bands at the District
Band1 and Orchestra Festival in
Plymouth on Saturday, February
23. The participating Saline bands
are the Saline High School band
and two Saline Junior High School
bands.
Bands and orcheL'.ras from all
Class C schools in the district wil
be participant in this annual festival.
The Junior band.." will leave Saline at 6 a.m. Saturday, and wil"
take part in the festival during
the forenoon demonstrations. Tht
Senior band will leave -at 6 p.im.
and will .participate in -the evening's program.
The band5 director for the Saline Area High School is Arthur
Katterjohn.
Episcopal
Services
Sunday at 11
-rhe\3i a w Episcopal Mission,
formed* to, serve the Saline-Milan
areai is currently holding services.'
of worship in the board room of
the Saline Savings Bank. Beginning Sunday, February 24, the
service will foe held at 11 .a.m.
The Sunday service will be
"Morning Prayer," A church, school
for children will be held1 at the
same hour as the worship service.
We Asked for It!
i,  Neighbor!
By Ella V. MacQueen
Okev Old Man Winter! We've had enough. Wrap your
long ^r?te beard around your neckhudde.your rtarkdd
bones into your snowy garrnents, grab an icicle f 01 ai walk
ing stick and blow back to the polar- regions from whenw
you came! We give up. We're tired of you. S^f. we_re-
member back in December when we -*?0^f^_^l^fS
mas, with lots of snow for the kids new sleds and ice lor
their skates, but enough is enough!
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We all took January in our stride, and weren't even
-i bit envious of those who took off for the South to
bask in the sun. Then came February and we looked
around and then blamed the groundhog for seeing, or
making believe he saw his shadow, so he could retire
for an additional six-weeks' snooze. So we used him
for our whipping boy as we slid and skid, slushed and
mushed, slipped and flipped, sneezed and wheezed our
way through the past three weeks of February. We ve
all coughed and sniffled, dripped and drizzled our way
through several common colds by now. Weve fallen on
icy walks, been showered with slush from passing cars,
shoveled snow, scraped sleet-covered windshields and
been bogged down several times in snow drifts. Have a
heart, Old Man! We're pooped.
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But there is a ray of hope in the offing-Yesterday we
say two small boys buying kites, real honest-to-goodness,
sure-sign-of-Spring, kites at the corner drugstore.
So? as March approaches we look again to animals to
act as weather prophets. Will March come m like a lamb
and go. out like a lion, or vice versa? Cheer up! No matter
what the weather does between now and then, it s only one
month from today that the eternally-young debutante,
Spring, will make her annual debut!
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We can't let George Washington's   birthday   week
so past without telling  our favorite  story   about a
"hangover" from the cherry tree story.
Seems as tho' a group of farm boys, as a boyish
prank one evening, pushed over the old family pnvy,
and tumbled it down the bank into a river. Later, the
boys were confronted by an irate fatherwho demanded
to know the name of the culprit who master-minded
the dastardly prank. Junior stepped forward and, like
George in the famous story, said, "I cannot tell a lie,
Father. I did it!" "Into the woodshed with you, yelled
Father. "But, Father," protested Junior, "when George
Washington told the truth about the cherry tree his
father didn't punish him." "Maybe not," thundered
Father, "but George's Pa wasn't sittin' in the cherry
tree!" .        _.   ' ■■—-■—*-^--
Michigan's All-Stars Oppose Saline
Merchants In Benefit Court Contest
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Hoover Company Plans $1,500,000 Plant
Saline Township Republicans Nominate Their Candidates
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Twenty-two Republican voters visited the Saline Township Hall at 5731 Braun Road at two o'clock Monday
afternoon for the purpose of nominating candidates for
township offices. At upper left, the caucus is getting
under way with voters making nominations for township supervisor., A complete slate of candidates was selected, with E. Ellsworth Lindsley, lower right, being
renominated to head the township's government for the
thirteenth year. At upper right, Ernest Girbach of 2693
Arkona Road, caucus chairman, stresses the importance-
of more citizens participating in leal government. Other
candidates nominated by Saline Township ReDublicans
were Raymond Streiter, clerk: Albert Bredernitz, treasurer; Bruno Papsdorf. justice of the peace; Robert
Bohnett and Micah Robison. trustees: John Eohler and-
Diincan Robison, hoard of review; and Walter G*t*af, Arr
thur Wiedameyer, Elmer Glatz and Albert Gall, constables. The Democratic caucus, scheduled to have been
held at 2:30 p.m., Monday, attracted no one and the Republican candidates will not be opposed at the April 1
election.    .
Basketball Game
Slated At Saline
High Next Sunday
A dozen University of Michigan athletes, including some
who are now members of top professional baseball, football
and basketball teams, will clash with the Saline Merchants
cage squad in a special benefit basketball game tc be played1
next Sunday afternoon at two o'clock at  the Saline  High
 ■ ; : School gymnasium.
Chase Heads
Red Cross
Campaign
Leonard J. Chase of Ann Arbor
has accepted the Chairmanship of
the 1957 Red Cross Campaign for
Members and Funds, Lawrence
Ouimet announced today. Mr. Oui-
me* pointed out-that the chapter
has joined Community Drives .in
Ann Arbor, Chelsea, Manchester,
Saline   and  Ypsiianti  and  carries
on  no  solicitation  in  these:: cpm-j-jw 4j*W1di"^<:-iM-hisstov .^vill-be-■tif-
jifiunities. The regiuSr annual' eanii?1-^ ,,„„+,, ?„,..     orinitc. Q„,r ri,i,-^_
Rezoning is Approved By Board
The Pittsfield Township Board1
at a meeting held last Friday voted unanimously to rezone an 87
acre site from an agricultural to
an i'ndustri>?,l status, and! ;by this
action has made it possible for
the Hoover Ball & Bearing Company to prcceed with plans for
the immediate start of construction" of their new plant in Pittsfield Township.
The site is located on the wes'l
side of South State Road near
Payeur Road, three miles north
of Saline.
The action of the board, taken
after a 20-minute discussion period,
upheld the recommendations made
last Monday by the .Pittsfield Zoning Board following a hearing at
the township hall.
William L. Brittain, executive
vice-president of the Hoover Company, said Friday that construction of the 200,000-square-foot factory will start as soon as possible.
The present factory site of the
Hoover Company iat 326 E. Hoover,
Ann Arbor, has been sold to the
University of Michigan, and1 the
University plans' to take over the
location in March of 1958, therefore construction must begin at
once to meet the vacating deadline.
The factory building, designed
by Swart 'and Morhous of Ypsiianti, is a one-story building which
will face State Street, and -will cost
an estimated $1,500,000, jHoover
officials said.
Another industrial question is
now under consideration by the
township officials.
William Horvath, owner of the
H & H Construction "Company of
Dearborn, a "road! building firm,
wants' to build a light aggregate
precast-concrete plant on a 28-
acre site in Pittsfield "Township.
This fite is presently zoned for
agricultural purposes.
The wanted site is on the west
side of US-23, Carpenter .Road, and
just north of the New York Central Railroad tracks. The plant
propos/ad by Horvath is the Rock-
crete Products, Inc., and ithe buildings alone would tost an estimated
■"150,000, Horvath said. Pre-cast
forms for bridges and buildings
constitutes the major product of
this business, and space would be
required for the pouring of concrete for drying.
Brittain, of the * Hoover Company, told the Township hoard that
if the .rezoning is approved so that
the Rockcrete Company can locate here, 'he plans to buy a s'trip
of the site "acreage and build an
animal clinic 'adjacent to the proposed building.
The board members took no action >at the Friday meeting on the
last   two   proposals,  tout   set  up
plans for a meeting with the members of the Pittsfield Zoning
Board, Horvath -and Joseph C.
Hooper, attorney who represents
Hoover. '
This (meeting will be held ton
Thursday; February 28 at 7 p.m.
in the Pittsfield Township Hall.
Final Report Shows
$2,852 Given in Saline
for March of Dimes
Final returns from all phases of fund-raising activities
for the March of Dimes, showed that contributions from
Saline totalled $2,852.00, and the. total collected in Washtenaw County more than $14,000 over the campaign goal
which was   set at  $46,900   at the
start of the campaign on January
1.
Saline's report showed that
clubs and organizations had contributed $1,3.76; school collections, $309; Mothers' (March, "1545.;
dime boards and cannisters,-*fl50;-
Special (events, $175; individual
gifts, $155 and business and labor,
$112.
County campaign chairman, Mrs.
Clarence Markeson said a total of
$61,042 had been collected to date.
This figure exceeds the goal by
more than 30 "per cent. A few scattered returns from March of
Dimes mailers and special events
remain to be reported, she added.
Ann Arbor residents' contributed
$28,552, rural townships $9;499,
and Ypsiianti 87,912. Other contributions, by community, were as
follows: Milan $3,100; Saline $2,-
853'; Dexter $2,188; East Ann Arbor and Pittsfield Village $1,778;
Chelsea $1,603; Manchester $1,167;
Willow Village $997; Whitmore
Lake $S54; ^County hospitals and
institutions $300; and Dixboro
$235.
Township totals were as follows:
Ann Arbor $595; Augusta $446;
Bridge-water $185; Dexter $252;
Freedom $282.; Lima $213; Lodi
$82,; Lyndon $85; Manchetser $168;
Northfield $381 Pittsfield ?893.
Also: Salem $288; Saline ?203;
Scio $580; Superior $327'; Sylvan
$21; Sharon $118; Webster $247;
>York $351; Ypsiianti $2,913: and
rural schools $769.
Ann     Arbor's   total    includes
$9,158 irom Mothers March, $5,420
in individual gifts, $4,953 from
mailers and dime boards, $2,4g6
from small businesses and can-
nisters', $1,989 from special events,
$1,226 from employee contributions, $1,100 from large corporations, $1,005 from schools, $637,
from clubs and organizations, and
$220 from small  corporations.
In Ypsiianti, Mothers' March
accounted for $2,477, mailers $1,-
353, schools $1,138, special events
$890, business $790, peanuts $352,
dime boards $347, cannisters 3303,
and clubs and organizations $167.
Grace E. Wilson
Died Thursday
In Washington
Mrs. Grace Ellen Wilson, 84.
widow of Sim R. Wilson, pioneer
Michigan newspaperman who published the Saline Observer from
1912 through 1944, died Thursday,
February 14 in Bethany Home, Everett, Washington.
Following the sale of The Observer, the Wilsons' moved to
Marysville, Washington, where
they made their home until Mr.
Wilson's death.
Born on July 1, 1873 in ' Janes-
ville, Wisconsin, she moved with
her family to Michigan when she
was a young girl. She was a forerunner of today's business woman,
as* she became personal secretary
and general factotum of W. H.
White of the "White Lumber Company of Boyne City, Michigan,
when most people considered teaching the only suitable woman's occupation. It was while living in the
northern Michigan lumber city that
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The Ann Arbor all-star aggregation will include Terry Barr,
Wolverine grid star who is now
a member of the Detroit Lions;
Tom Maentz, now witli the Chicago Cards; Jay Vawter, .popular
ter; Harvey Williams, who also
stands six feet eight inches; Moby Benedict, now the property of
the Detroit Tigers; Jim Cocallas-
of tlie University of Illinois; Jim,
Haddock, Bob Sharland, J. R.
Stielstra, Ed. Shannon and others.
The contest, sponsored by .the
Saline Chamber ,of Commerce, is
being staged to raise funds for Saline's summer recreation program
ty;cents for     adults- and thirty*-
five. cents-- for children.
The   summer  program   includes
palgn, however, to provide the
funds for services to our armed
forces, disaster, nlood, 'first aid,
water safety, and other community • playground activities and swim-
services "will be undertaken in " - ~ "' * '
March in Milan, Dexter, whitmore
Lake, Dixboro and several townships including Scio and York.
Chase has been a leader in Ann
Arbor Community Chest Drives,
County Chairman of the Polio campaign, as well as in previous Red
Cross drives. Active in civic affairs, he is a board member of
Ann Arbor Round Table of the
National Conference of Christians
and Jews, a director of the Ann
Arbor Exchange Club, and a National Director of the Izaak Walton
League of America. He is associated with the Industrial Tectonics,
Inc. in Ann Arbor. Chase lives at
169  Barton Drive  in  Ann Arbor.
Chairman Ouimet stated, "We
consider ourselves fortunate to
have a" man with the experience
and civic interest of Mr. Chase to
co-ordinate the efforts to raise
needed funds including current
needs of the victims of the dev-
asting floods which created so
much havoc in Kentucky, Virginia
and West Virginia."
Ladies Aid
Executive Board
Meeting Friday
The Executive Board of the Ladies' Aid Society of Federated
Church will hold its monthly meeting on Friday afternoon, February
22, at 1:00 o'clock, at the home
of the president, Mrs. Clarence
Johnson.
niing for Saline children during
summer months under the supervision of a director.
The Saline Merchants team, a
member o fthe Ann Arbor Recreation League and currently one of
the league's leading squads, is
composed of Saline players. They
include Vera. Drake, Tom Simpson, Wally Larsen, Bob Sudman,
Tom Mitchell, Jim England, Jim.
Rhoades, Rich Miller and Doug
Elfring.
The All-Stars are managed by
Tom Johnson and the Saline quintet is led by Manager Vera. Drake.
Tickets -will be available at the
door, according to members of the
Chamber of Commerce, who are
urging all residents of Saline to
attend a well-arranged basketball
game for a worthy local project.
Saline's summer program, it is
planned, -will be an eight-week
event and will be conducted by a
full-time director. Baseball games
are arranged for boys aud arts
and crafst classes are to be formed for girls. Boys and girls will be
included in the program's swimming groups.
Car Crash Injures Saline Man
FFA Group
Wins Awards
Last Wednesday evening, Robert Rirkpatrick and a group of
F.F.A. boys attended and )partici:
pated in a parliamentary procedure contest held in Dexter. The Milan group "placed 3rd to win a silver award.
Of the seven schools present
Manchester placed first, Chelsea
second1, and Milan won third place
honors. Mel Shepphard. principal
of the elementary schools in-Milan,
and former agriculture teacher in
Milan, was one of the judges .
Local "P. F. A. members who
•participated. in the contest were:
Larry Thompson, Peter Spike,
Richard Schmenk' ,Steve Gruden,
-Tom Simpkins, Jo& Latoski, and
Armondo Galanti.
Hershel Dittle. 13, of Wcodside Trailer Park, 6564 East
Michigan Avenue, suffered severe head injuries, multiple abrasions and bruises when his car was in a collision
with a truck on Michigan Avenue four miles east of Saline Tuesday. Dittle, taken to St. Joseph Hospital, is reported in good condition by hospital officials. Driver of
the truck, Warren W. Gage, Beecher Road, Clayton,
Michigan, escaped injury.
Mian Five
Visits Saline
On Friday
Two keen rivals—the basketball
teams of Saline and Milan Hagh
Schools—Will clafa la one of the
Huron League's feature games Friday night. The eontest will >be
staged at-the Saline gymnasium.
Though neither team has a
chance for the Huron League
championship this' season, both
clubs, it is expected, will battle
for the upper hand in this year's
series. Saline won the first contest
this season and Milan, while wanning only three of its ten league
contests' thus far, is determined
to even the'set at one game apiece.
Saline is tied for fourth place
ji the eight-team league with a
record of five victories and five
defeats. * *fc
In ether league contests Friday,
Ypsi Roosevelt and Dundee, the
•oop's leading teams, will battle
in what will probably be -the championship game at Dundee. Roosevelt has won ten straight league
games while Dundee ha,&' a record
of nine wins and only one loss.
;- "Dundee, wirich gained wide margins in defeating; both Milan and
Saline earlier this season, was
nearly -stopped by Flat Rock last
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