1957-04-11; Saline Observer

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Income Tax Due
Hi, Neighbor!
.   By Ella V. MacQiieen.
Income Tax Blues
or
Uncle Sam Wants It On Monday!
There's a breathless hush in the house tonight,
The dog daren't bark, Mom gnaws ather nails
Pop tears at his hair (there's not much of it there)
Then he mutters and mumbles, groans and rales
The TV is silent, the radio's still v   '-
The kids creep about, unkidishly quiet,
Sis wisely has hidden her new Easter bonnet
'Cause the sight of it now would produce a riot
Her birthday date just created-a ruction,
Sis is no longer a. "tax deduction."
There's a deadline to beat, Dad fumes and burns
As in every year past, (he swears this is the last)
He has put off completing his tax returns.
Mom stokes him with coffee, Dad's cross as a bear
If he blows his top once more, he'll lose all his hair
But the family is patient, they knew if all goes right
Dad will mail in his tax forms, one-half minute to mid-
• night. -
With the reminder that the United States entered World
War I forty years ago this month,'we are also reminded that
we can't ask "Do you remember when—1" without classifying: ourselves as old-timers. So, Fellow-Old-Timer, do you
remember back there when all. women's clubs joined in "the
national knitting bee to provide sleeveless sweaters and
"wristlets" for "Our Boys Over There?" who lived in "dugouts" and "trenches," and were fighting to "Make the World
Safe for Democracy?" Remember kids at school making
"trench candles" and buying War paving Stamps?
Do you remember the slogan "Hooverizing," which
meant that we were following the conservation rules
set up by Herbert Hoover, .whereby certain days were
named as conservation days for war* shortage food and
material? Remember the rhyme printed in the Detroit
News that described the woes of civilians, who were
asked to conserve sugar, wheat, cotton material and
meat?
War Time Woes
My Mondaj-s are sweetless, .   "
My Tuesdays are meatless.
My Wednesdays are wheatless,
My beds are, sheetless,
My Thursdays are heatless,
/      My pants are seatless— <
i Now, please, Mr. Hoover*..
Don't make my week-ends eatless!
Songs typical of the spirit of the times have resulted
from all of this country's wars'—(No, Junior! I do not remember when they first.-started- to sing "Yankee Doodle
Dandy")—some become classics of their era, some are quickly, forgotten. Memorable First World War songs include
"Over There," "There's . a"* Long, Long Trail,'' and "Keep
the Home Fires Burning." Some, best-forgotten, include the
old tear-jerker, "Just a Baby's Prayer at Twilight for Her
Daddy Over There," "I- Didn't Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier, to Shoot Some Other Mother's Darling-.Bov,'' arid "The
Rose of No* Man's Land."   *     .." *-    ■   - '"    ■.■-/-*.■
The song sung and whistled by troops all over the
i country, "They Go Wild, Simply Wild Over Me," was the
nearest thing First World War theops had to the silly-
symphony so popular with World War n troops, "I Don't
Wanna Be a Colonel With an Eagle on Mv Shoulder, It's
More Fun tb be a Private With a Chicken on My Knee."
Forty years'and three wars ago! From hand grenades to the-atom bomb. -s
In checking through old records at the Observer office
this, week we found a collection of old pictures for which we
have little or no identification, but which, we believe, would
be of interest to our readers. We decided that a "Do You
Remember" contest would aid us in identifying the carefully
{reserved pictures, and would prove interesting to our readers. The contest announcement and the first group of pictures appears on Page 6.
Can you identify the places and people in these old pictures? - '
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A WEEKLY  NEWSPAPER   DEDICATED TO f>'JB*LIC SERVICE, CIVIC   ENDEAVOR AND AGRICULTURAL PROGRESS IN THE SALINE AREA'
VOL. LXXIV (Member of Saline Chamber of Commerce),, x
SALINE, MICHIGAN, THURSDAY, APRIL 11, Vio%
5c PER COPY, ;
n and Saline Area Is In
In Proposed Industrial
Annual Easter Concert
And Reception Sunday
At Federated Church
The Annual Easter concert at Federated Church will
be held Sunday evening, April 14, at 8:00 p.m., and will be
open to the public. It will be followed by a reception honoring all the musicians, to which the entire congregation is
invited.
Mrs. Hugh O. Keveling is in
charge of arrangements for the social portion ol' the evening, and
her assistants will be Mrs. Lauren
"Wild, Mrs. Paul Reed, Mrs.' Edward Fischer, Mrs. Edward Scully and Mrs. John  Girbac'h.
Harold Brown, director of music,
announces that the Junior Choir
under the leadership of (Mrs. Carl
Geddes will assist in the concert,
singing three numbers which are:
"O Galilee, So Holy," "Ride On,
O Christ," by Walter, and "Slowly
the Light of Easter Day." Miss
Patsy Johnson is accompanist for
(.he Junior Choir.
Mrs. Harold Brown, organist,
and Mrs.-Everett".Collins, pianist,
will play a duet, '"Jesti,. Joy of
Mans Desiring," by Bach, as the
offertory, and *Mrs. Brown-will play
Organ Prelude and Postlude numbers. , '
The Adult Choir will sing-three
groups of. anthems. They" are "Sing
and -Rejoice!", traditional English
carol, and "Who is He That Cometh."- by Van Woert, • arranged-, by
Wilson.. '
The second group, includes "'The*
Wondrous Cross'", by Lp'ucks - '.'The
""Green -Hill'■" *Pa'r "Away" by-' "jteto-
bins-Hadler and "Must Jesus Bear
the Cross Alone?"- by Laridon.
In - the final group is "Easter
Song", by Miller and "The Mighty
Triumph"  by Lorenz.
Community Service
On Good Friday At
Methodist Church
The Community Good Friday
service wil} be held at the local
Methodist Church at 1:30 p.m.
The pastors of the co-operating
churches will have part in the
service and Rev. Alvin Siemsen
of the- St. .Paul's -Evangelical and
reform Church will' preach the
sermon. The Methodist Choir will
bring special music.    ■
Leon Schlosser,
Former Salineite,
Dies in 'the East
Leon Schlosser, 94, father of
Mrs. Margaret Jordan of 11-1 West
Michigan Avenue, died Tuesday,
April 2 in a hospital at Beaver,
Pa., following sudden illness while
visiting his son. and daughters in
that city.
For the past several years he
had lived • alternately with his
daughter here and with his" other
children in Pennsylvania. He -was
born in Alsace-Lorraine on February 17, 1S63.
Surviving besides Mrs. Jordan
are three sons, Paul,-Carl and Lee:
two daughters, Mrs. Harry Waterman and Mrs. Perce Cain, all of
Beaver: 12 grandchildren and 11
great-grandchildren.
Funeral services, and burial were
held Friday in. Beaver..
O. E. S. to Hold
White Breakfast
at Masonic Hall i
Saline Chapter 311, O.E.S., will
hold a White Breakfast on Thursday, April 18 at 9:30 a.m. at the
Masonic Hall, to. which the public
is invited.
A special Easter service will be
held following the breakfast.
Reservations for tlie breakfast
and service must be made by
Monday. A.pril 15. For information and  reservations,  call Saline
S14.
Hey, Dad!
We kids all want to
play ball. Will
you help?
Dad, we need some help. Can
you spare an hour or two a week
"during the baseball season and
.give all us kids a chance to play
.on a regular "baseball team this
Summer? There are more than
"130 of us who want to play, and
we're going to need you to get us
in shape, coach ns, and show us
.how to play all the different positions on our teams.
j Tom Johnston, our Summer recreation director, and "his assistant
•will be there to give us all a hand,
but they can't do it all. We've got
to have a lot of fathers or big
brothers to give us expert advice,
and I told Mr. Johnston that my
Dad was a real, swell baseball
■player, arid that he knew how to
be a coach or an umpire and could
give us kids a lot of good advice.
I told him you knew how to
keep score, too. You do, don't
you. Dad,L or if you don't^you could
learn, - couldn't" you, if-.we needed
■you:for. a score-keeper? -
v You know,' Dad, what -the Detroit
..Tigers need. is. a bunch of good,
^ouhg,. experienced * players • if
they want to'win. pennants, and
you'd'like me to be a real Tiger,
"jyouldn'tr you?
"t. There's going.- to .be a meeting
for the Dads of ail the boys' af-
the All Purpose room of the'Saline
Elementary,School.tonight at 7:30,
and you'll ,be- -.there,,, won't, you,-
'Dai;'-to <tell Mr. Johnston"""-"that
you'll help :with- my team? You
can help"-.-plan "the-.program, . arid'
then-we can;-have lots of fun together this -Summer.
• You'll help* iis, won't you, Dad?
Please?
Special Program
At Methodist Church
On Palm Sunday
Palm Sunday will be observed
at the local Methodist Church with
special music by the Junior Choir,
directed by (Mrs. Robert Merchant
arid a message on the "Triumphal
Entrance into Jerusalem". The
rite of baptism will also be administered to infants .and . children.
Six Injured
in Eight-Car
Accidents
Six men, including two Washtenaw County sheriff's deputies,
were injured in two accidents involving eight cars on the Saline-
Ann Arbor Road- at Waters Road
early Friday morning. Dense early-
morning- log whicli shrouded tlie
highway was blamed for the accidents .which tied up early iwork-
bound traffic for more than an
hour.
Deputy Eugene W. Kahl"* 27, of
Manchester, and Deputy John
Spalding, 2S, of 'Ann Arbor, ."were
answering a report on an. accident
at Saline- Ann Arbor Road and
Biassow Roads at 7:10 a.m. when
their car struck one of three cars
which had collided a few minutes earlier.
Kahl, driver of the squad car,
was treated at University "Hospital ofr leg and wrist injuries, and
his partner, Spalding, was treated
for an injured hand.
Spalding said the dense fog reduced visibility to about 15 feet,
and that* the patrol car was being
driven at 30 miles an- hour, with
flasher turning* and" siren blaring,
when the cars involved in' the accident were sighted. About, 5300
damage was caused to the squad
car.
The initial Accident was caused
when Harold W*. Brayle' of 1421
Kirtland Drive, Ann,Arbor, slowed
to make a left turn ' nil Waiters
Roa(L,.,.A., .car. .driven v'bV.'V-James
Gibson,- 1C, of W.-Ellsworth Road
-slammed into Brayies- • car, and
moments later another car, driven
by Jerry W. Aiken, -19, of Manchester, struck the Brayle car.
The three drivers of the first
cars involved in the pile-up' iwere
treated at St..Joseph Mercy Hospital for minor .injuries "and released.     """'■-
In a second accident, at approximately '8:15 a.m. as wreckers
were removing the cars involved
in the first, occurred just 10 feet
from the ^original pile-up, when
cars- driven by' Mario. P. Scodeller,
59, of.745 Miner Street, Ann Arbor,
and Duane L. Steiner, 24, of -Saline .collided headron. Scodeller
was treated- for lascerations and
bruises at the University Hospital.
Is Natural Locale
for Future Center
r
of State's Industry
One of Michigan's greatest natural industrial,areas_ of
the immediate future lies-in the mile-wide areas extending
from the Detroit River westward to Saline, according to a
development program proposed by the firm of R. C. Belgau
and Associates, 3127 David "Stott Building, Detroit. "    .
One of Michigan's greatest nat-
Easter Sunrise
eant Planned
Church Youth
Pag<
By
■ All 'Teen Agers- of Federated
Church congregation are urged to
be present at the church this Sunday evening at 6:00 p.m. for complete rehearsal for "the pageant
which will he presented at the annual Union Young "People's Sunrise Service on (Easter morning
af. 6:30 a.m. in Federated Church.
Young people of Federated
Church are in charge of the major .portion of tlie- Easter program,
with representatives from St.
Paul's. Church and from the Methodist Church assisting in the worship period. ,
Mrs.. George Austin and Mrs.
Hemy "McKenzie are directing rehearsals for the musical pageant.'
E. G.'-'NiuUing, sponsor of the host
CtiuvchV- "Westminister Fellowship
'u.",s'.*uii.iii6n .■wil"! preijide.,      -'
Pvt. Carl Cbbb
Is With Ordnance
Group At Okinawa
Mr.
re-
Pvt. Carl G. Cobb, son of
and "Mrs. Robert Cummins,
cently arrived on Okinawa and is
now a'member of the U. S. Army
Ordnance Group. *~
Cobb is a mechanic in the
group. He entered "> the Army in
September 1956.
Cohb is a 1953 graduate of Ros-
iclare Community High School,-
Rosi clare, Illinois.
ural industrial areas of the immediate future lies in the mile-wide
area extending from -the' Detroit
River westward to Saline, according to' a development program
proposed by the firm, of R. C. Belgau and Associates, 3127 David
Stott Building, Detroit.
The area, referred to by the
firm as the "'industrial eorridor,"
is, according to the firm, "the only -
remaining locale of adequate siie
and natural advantages left for de-
velopnfent in-tlie Detroit Metro-:
politan area."
' The area will become; according
to tlie engineers, the ' gateway to
tlie nation's industrial empire and*
will be" comprised of .i legional
marine' terminal drydock and industrial park. ' -" -
Raw Materials Available
"As" an improved transportation
artery, the St. Lawrence 'Seaway
will enable Detroit -manufacturers
first-time low cost access to competitive raw materials beyond the
.confines of.the Great Lakes, basin.
%' .?5£a'-vVi"*- '"-'-'"'ks""1' it -"will make
p*ossiDreS'h*ire'stabi'i"shment oil factories using raw * materials not to
be f o*und in . the Great Lakes
area,"' the Detroit firm states'.
" Tfte new port district to be. created by the -St/Lawrence Seaway,
according to the Belgau engineers,
includes ten 'townships" in three
counties—W a y n e, Monroe, and-
Washtenaw. They are Browns-
town, ' Sumpter and Huron in
"Wayne: Berlin,. Ash, Exeter, London" and 'Milan, in Monroe, and
Augusta and York Townships in
"Washtenaw.
The area, the firm reports, has
been studied and endorsed by professional engineering consultants,
by "planning'commissions and by
all who have surveyed the area,
known as the Detroit-Huron River
Area. It is, the- Detroit firm ' re-
(Contiriued- on page 4)
Saline, Milan, Seaway Development to Include Regional Terminal    Drydock and An Industrial Park
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""'•*- " - *  ' ^  ^      i . Ar.. :_,i.,<-.+i.i-  "o -m  -iro'i   r-nmnricsprl of ien  Southeastern
Michigan's first pre-planned and »»n^a^'^™e"w'1gL^tr^5i Monr^fiwnsWp^in" Monroe County." With the
ships-including York and ^^^^^^im^Zime^eT^m be open to and from world ports, with
completion of the St. Lawrence^Seaway Project^1^^J™tjJ,J^vide for the needs of many generations to come
railread and truck transportation on * ^« g™_ ^nd the St.Lawrence Seaway. The^aboye map, prepared by R. C.
m pace with the expanding economy' ^™^g "^^^^SwriHirate the facilities of a complete port with
Belgau and Associates of Detioit, shows now tne xeimin ^    shipbuilding facilities, winter mooring
bulk and general cargo ^Iv**^"!^ and to the nation. The "Indus-
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