1957-05-23; Saline Observer

              Mayor Louis Elias of Hazel Park and His Wife, Saline's Guests For A Day, Enjoy Eventful Visit to City of Saline
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Mayor Louis Elias of Hazel Park and
Chairman Ken Rogers
Mrs. 'Elias acrid Mrs:-Rogers Enjoyed
Events of the Day, Too
"German"- Band Entertained Saline's
Guests at Saline Hotel
Citizens and Officials of Saline
Dined With Honored Guests
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THE SALINE OBSERVER
A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER  DEDICATED TO PUBLIC SERVICE, CIVIC  ENDEAVOR AND AGRICULTURAL PROGRESS IN THE SALINE AREA
VOL. LXXIV (Member Of Saline Chamber of Commerce)
SALINE, MICHIGAN THURSDAY, MAY 23,1957
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5th Grade Club Sends
CARE Packages to
Needy In Hong Kong
Through the efforts of fifth-
grade students of the Saline Elementary School, 220 pounds of
food in CARE packages have been
sent to the needy families "living
in Hong Kong, it -was learned this
week.
A group of 11 students organized a CARE Club, and planned a
benefit dance to raise money to
send food overseas through CARE
organizations. Youngsters contacted Saline township officials
and were given the use of the
township hall for their fund-raising project.
A benefit square dance, for fifth
graders, parents and teachers,
raised $10 after expenses were
paid.
A ?10.00 check was sent to
CARE headquarters on May 10,
and on Monday the group received
notification that 10 packages, each
containing 22 pounds of food, was
being sent in their name to needy
families in Hong Kong.
Members of the sponsoring club;
are President Billy "^tarllig-ftreas-
urer, Janice Weibuscb-, and members, Larry Heiber, Bob Gula, Rob
Merchant, George Reynolds, Joe
Jordan, Robert Fisher, Dennis.
Gransden, Charles McKenzie and
Carol Sisty.
It's Great to Live in
By E. J. MUIR
Saline City^Clefk
A number of national radio and TV programs suck as
Monitor, Groucho Marx, Ed Sullivan, Dave Garroway's Today and others are scheduling special mention of Michigan
during Machigan Week. •
Early Indians called our territory "Michigama" meaning
"great water". In World War II, it
igan
Mrs. Marion Barclay
Attends Convention
of Nursery Schools
Mrs. Marion Barclay, principal
of the Saline School lastweekat-
tended the 6th annual convention
of Co-operative Nursery groups at
Kellogg Center in Lansing.
Mrs. Barclay conducted a -workshop on creating team spirit in
nursery school groups.
Room Mothers
Entertained by
Student Council
The members of the Student
Council of the Saline Area Elementary School entertained the
Room Mothers at a breakfast at
the school on Thursday, May 16.
Forty-live Room Mothers attended the breakfast.
' At the regular business meeting
of the Room Mothers, following
the breakfast, Mrs. Ray Krempel
was elected chairman of the group
for the coming year.
New Room Mothers will be selected by a committee composed
of Mrs. Harold Frey, Mrs. Robert
Guenther, Mrs. Glen Weber, Mrs.
Clarence Fritz, Mrs. Eugene Feuer-
bacher and Mrs. Krempel.
i. Mrs. Alton Wahl was named
chairnian*' for the Kindergarten
."Round-up" on May 28.
Local Dairy Herd
Listed With Nations
Leading Producers
The" purebred Ayrshire dairy
herd of Paul E. Taylor of Saline
has achieved recognition during a
recent month for outstanding production.
The 19 cow producers are credited with averaging 965 pounds of
4.3 per cent milk and 41 pounds
of butterfat, actual, which placed
them among the nation's top Ayrshire herds in the Ayrshire Herd
Test Division of "15 to i25 cows. In
accordance with the riiles of the
Association, all registered cows
in the herd, milking or dry, are in-
SAUNEAREA
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IKUKBRIEFS   *
Twenty-six veteran employees of the Washtenaw County
Road Commission were honored at the commission's annual
service awards dinner held at the American Legion Home,
Saline, Friday night. Receiving awards for years of service
were Willard Bowling, Russell Kwiecinski. Harold Schnierle
and MilasSexton, five years; Donald Bradshaw, Joseph Howard, Ray Kehrl, John Hin^ Lawrence McKune, John Rohr-
off and William Whittaker; ten years; Michael Graser, Fred
. Hauk, Harold Jahnke, Peter Wallace and Harold Wheeler,
fifteen years; Louis'P. Brown, Floyd McFall and Adolph
Trapp, twenty years; Robert Bulman, twenty-five years;
j Robert Barnes, Melvin Dick, Lambert Esch and Charles
Gauss, thirty years, and LeRdy Qsborn, thMy-five years.
In addition to special certificates, Barnes, Dick, Esch and
Gauss received engraved -gold watches. A special award ■in.!
the form of scroll signed by- all employees, was presented to
James Hendley of Manchester, former member of the commission. Ray Koch was master of ceremonies for the event.
Milan High School's tMnclads retained the Huron
League triack championship at Ypsiianti last week, finishing well over Flat Rock, the rur *nerup. by a margin of
68 points to 54. Other Huron teams and their total points
for the meet were University High, 22y2; Lincoln Consolidated, 22; Dundee, 17*^; Ypsiianti Roosevelt, 17;
Chelsea, 6, and Saline, 1.
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Melvin Taylor of Milan was winner of the 100-yard
fash and the Milan half-mile relay team of Norm Kersey,
Melvin Taylor, Earl Thompson and Ken McCleery won the
eague's relay event. Hugh Gooding of Milan tied with Jim
vegerreis of Lincoln for first place in the high jump and
.Job Shelton and Ken McCleery, both of Milan, tied for first
ionors in the pole vault. Saline's lone point of the meet was
|cored by its medley relay team which finished fifth.
Saline Merchants baseball team will play its first
ontest of the season Sunday afternoon at Salme Park,
"•PPttsing the Ford Motor Company squad of Ypsiianti.
»ame time is two o'clock. Manager Perry Kightbnger has
■ourtded up a group of enthusiastic players, nearly all
from Saline, and the club tooks.forward to a very active
[season, having applied for entrance in the Inter-City
League. Other teams of the league are Wayne, the
Wayne CIO, Garden City, Ypsiianti, Inkster. Ford of
Ypsiianti and the Woodmen's team of Ypsiianti.
was known around the world as
"Arsenal of Democracy" - - land
of great waters, great resources,
great production, great people.
Michigan is tops in many fields
of endeavor - - Making cars, mining iron & salt, growing cherries
-and beans, making chemicals and
pharmaceutical supplies and entertaining vacation visitors.
And we're a great state in other
ways, too - - a leader in. education,
a model in conservation, of wildlife and natural resources, a pioneer in transportation progress, a
leading agricultural state and a
land amazingly rich in the lore
of American History.
We have the biggest state*
east of the Mississippi in land and
water area, more than 11,000 - inland lakes for our summer and
winter playgrounds. Our state
ranks ninth in the nation in size.
Note: only lakes of 10 acres or
more are counted, Houghton has
31.3 sguare miles. Currently the
U.S. census bureau ranks Michigan as the 7th most .populous state
■/and as the fastest growing state
in the midwest. Our population,
jumped 21 per cent in the 19.40-*
50 decade.
From the time the first European explorers stepped foot on
Michigan territory (337 yrs., ago)
the flags of France, England and
Spain have also fluttered over our
soil. Far more than most, of us
realize, the history of "Michigan
is the history of the early French
and British struggles for control
of North America and the subsequent rise of a free and powerful
America.
Michigan has a total of 96,720
square miles, 57,022 of land area
and 40,000 square miles of water.
Our area covers 36,787,200 acres -
larger than England or Austria,
twice the size of Ireland and five
times as big as Switzerland. Our
Upper Peninsula, about one third
"the total area of the state, is' as
;big as Connecticut, Delaware,
Massachusetts and Rhode Island
combined, and larger than either
Belgium or  Switzerland.
Looking at it another way: Iron-
wood and Monroe, Michigan are as
far apart as Detroit and Ashville,
N. Carolina - about 500 miles in a
direct line. Also, Detroit is farther from Houghton, Michigan than
it is from Baltimore, Washington,
L\ C, or Louisville, Ky. Moreover,
Ironwood in the -Upper "J?" is
farther west than St. Louis, Mo.,
and Port Huron Huron is as far
east as Greenville, S. Carolina.
Michigan has the longest coastline of any state in the Union. Its
3121 mile shoreline i s equal to
the Atlantic coastline all the way
from Maine to Florida and longer
than the Pacific coastline from
Canada to Mexico. Our Upper
"P" shoreline alone is as long as
that of Eastern Florida, its 1114
miles stretching farther than a
direct route from 'New York to
Kansas City or from New York
to Kansas City or from New jYork
to the southern tip of Florida.
The four Great Lakes which
wash our shores connect us by
inland water routes with "seven
other states - New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin and Minnesota,^ as well as
the Canadian Province of Ontario.
Our Michigan territory includes
many islands in the Great Lakes
and connecting- water, including
the primitive 45 mile long- "Isle
Royale" in Lake Superior, beautiful Belle Isle park' in the Detroit
River, historic Mackinac "Island in
Lake Huron and the rugged Beav
er and Manitou Islands of Lake
Michigan. The average size of
our inland lakes is 67 acres and 411
are over 200 acres. Our streams
- tind, rivers traverse some 36,350
miles, almost one and a half times
around the world. Many of them
are navigable for ships of commercial tonnage.
; In 1837 Michigan was admitted
tb the Union - the '26th state and
represented by the -26 star. 24-
y/ear-old Stevens Thomson Mason
was the first Governor. Our 1837
population was 87,273 - in 1950 it
was 6,372,009.
- Some 19,000,000 acres are for
ested or more than one half of
state area of land. We have 22
state forests covering some 3,727,-
000 acres of state owned land -with
a total area of 6,134,000 acres.
Yes, it's great to live in   Michigan!
Notice
Publication date of next
week's paper has been set
ahead one day because of Memorial Day.
All news stories "and advertising copy must be in the
'office by 4:30 p. m. Monday,
May 27,for the issue of May 29.
SI
Conference
Tonight For
9th Graders
This evening at 8:00 p.m., ninth
grade students in the local Junior
High School will gather with their
parents for a career conference to
be held in the High School auditorium.
- The school counsellor, Mr. Johnson, will speak on "Careers" and
he arid other faculty members
"will review with their parents the
results of recent aptitude tests,
and the cumulative results of aptitude tests given these students
through the past years.
It is hoped that a large attendance of- interested parents will be
'present. Guidance in the selection
of courses of study in High School
is important to pupils at this particular age.
Light refreshments will be served by a committee composed of
the Room- Mothers who have served this past year, and also the
newly selected Room Mothers for
next year. } made the supreme
Poppy Sale
In Saline
Saturday
"Wear a poppy in memory of
America's dead."
This will be the appeal of men
and women of the American Legion and Auxiliary here Saturday,
when they will be stationed at
major street corners throughout
the day, offering the small red
flower of memory and mercy to
passersby, a tribute to those who
died or were maimed in our country's conflicts.
Betty Feinbeiner said, "We
hope the whole ;city .will join us
in a day of patriotic tribute to
those who gave their lives that
we might live in a free country..
"Wearing a poppy is a little
thing, but a thing big in, symbolizing your gratitude and remembrance for those who died in our
nation's defense."
The poppies have been fashioned
of crepe paper and wire by : disabled war veterans in veteran ^hospitals and convalescent workrooms. Each is a handmade replica
of the wild European poppy which
floomed profusely to the desolation of the battlefields and cemeteries in France and Belgium, and
became a symbol of those who
served in France during World
War I.
A-display of poppies and the
products and services which . the
annual sale makes possible is now
exhibited at Keveling's Drug store.
From the sale last year, approximately $60.00 was spent for wheel
which contains cigarettes, toilet,
chair service and service basket
articles and candy; $110.00 for
Christmas gifts sent to veteran
hospital to enable the veterans to
send gifts to family and friends;
$10.00 for canteen books; $27.00
for special parties for disabled veterans and $81.25 for poppies for
this year's sale.
Contributions "will enable the
members of the local Legion Post
and their Auxiliary to continue
their work for disabled veterans
and for children of those .who
sacrifice.
Memorial
ram
{Planned
jThe. members of the Americaa
Legion William B. Luts» Post-No.
322 ojE; Saline have scheduled special observance for Memorial Day,
Thursday," including a parade
through the city, and Memorial
services at the cemetery and a
Hag raising ceremony. -
Thj» parade will assemble at the
High School on McKay Street at
JO p.m. The parade route is from
the school east to Harris Street,
west on Michigan Avenue to the
cemetery.
Commander Milton Finkbeiner
of the local Legion Post has asked
all civic. Scout and individual organizations to participate in the
parade in honor of our heroic dead.
The order of march.is as follows: color guard, firing squad,
Saline High School Drum and Bugle Corps, Older veterans in cars;
the members of the local Legion
Post; The members of the Legion
Auxiliary; Gold Star Mothers;
Saline High 'School Band; Boy
Scouts; .Cub Scouts; Camp 'Fire
Girls and Girl Scouts; Brownies;
Junior Deputy Sheriff Unit;" mounted unit of the Washtenaw County
Sheriff's department and civic.
groups and organizations.
Following the Memorial Service,
the. parade -wilt reform and march
east on Henry Street to Ann Arbor Street, then north to the High
School where flag raising ceremonies will be conducted.
Sale Nets
$220.00 for
Boy Scouts
More than 1220.00 was raised to
further activities of local Boy
Scouts and Explorers through the
rummage sale held Saturday under
the sponsorlship of the 'Saline
Rotary Club.
The support and cooperation of
residents who made donations for
the sale and for the patronage of
buyers was expressed by Rotar-
ians "who aided in the project. Because of the popularity of the sale
and the support of the residents
of the community, the Rotary Club
has decided to make a 'Spring
rummage sale an annual event to
benefit the Boy Scouting activities, '*"A9M'
Part of the proceeds of the sale
will be used to send three local
Scouts to the National Jamboree
which will be held in Valley Forge
July 12 through 19. Boys who will
attend, the f. Jamboree, are Gary
WHld, (Douglas McKenzie and Eddie Strait.
Articles which were: not sold
during the regular h0ur.s4.irif the
sale were given, to; needy families
in the Saline- area,- anil "ail * other
usable clothing will be sent to
the Red Cross to /be used for flood
and disaster victims.
Dads and Volunteers
for Baseball Program
Meet Tonight at School
Tonight is "assignment night" for all volunteers who
have already signed up to give active support to the city's
Summer baseball program for teams in the Little League
and Huron Valley Babe Ruth League, as coaches, trainers
and scorekeepers, as well as for interested persons who desire
to aid in promoting this recreation
Safety Patrol
Boys to See
Tigers Play
The eighty members of the Saline schools Safety Patrol squads
on Thursday, June 6, will be taken
to Detroit by bus where they, will
be* the guests of the Detroit Tiger
Baseball Club at a game -between
the Tigers and the * "Washington
Senators.
Busses will leave the Saline
schools at 11:30 accompanied by
Safety Officers ahd chaperones.
e-o
Contests
On Friday
The Road-e-o contest, to test the
driving skill of Saline teen-age
drivers, originally scheduled for
Friday, May 17; under the sponsorship of the local Junior Chamber
of Commerce, was postponed on
account of rain, and has been rescheduled for tomorrow at. 1 p.m.
at the Saline High School.
The contest consists of a written
quiz to test the contestant's knowledge of safe driving procedures in
addition to four tests of driving
skill on a planned course.
The winner of the local contest
will be entered in the State contest to be held in Detroit on June
15, where an extensive program
of entertainment has been planned
for the winners. The winner of
the State contest will be awarded
a. '""SOO.OO scholarship, and a trip to
-Washington, D. C. for the National contests.
Three winners of the National
.contest will receive scholarships.
First place winner will receive a
$2,000.00 scholarship; second place
.winner will receive a $1,500.00
scholarship and winner of third
place will be awarded a $1,000.00
Scholarship.
Entry "blanks are still available
at the High School and at Steeb's
Dodge-Plymouth   Garage.
Safety Award
Assembly to Be
Seld Wednesday
A special Safety- Award assembly will be held at the Saline "Elementary School on -Wednesday,
May -29, -with -members of the
School Safety Patrol Squads as
honor guests.
Awards to deserving Safety Pa-
trailers will be presented by Robert Lewis of the Automobile Club,
who will also address the assembly on safety'practices on play
"grounds and on streets.
Babe Ruth
Leag
Completed
The Huron Valley Babe Ruth
League organization planning was
completed this week, and Tom
Johnston, recreation director for
Saline, announced that the league
will have two divisions, American
and- National.
In the American division are the
teams of Saline, Milan tYpsi Lin-
and'-Willow Americans.
.j/r.Vras in the.J^tional d*yis5"*n.
fncl'ude " Manchester," ^Stockbridge*,
Dexter and Willow Nationals.
Regular league games will begin
on June 24 and tho season will continue until August 1. Each team
will play thrdugh the league once,
and will meet other teams in their
own division twice. Each division
will send a team to the State
Tournament in early August and
an All-Star game will be scheduled at the end of the season.
Last Monday Director Johnston
was contacted by Al Batts, Director of Babe Ruth World Series
which will be played in Ann Arbor in late August. Batts said
that, since Ann Arbor has no
teams in the Babe Ruth league, a
team from the Huron Valley Babe
Ruth League will be the "home
team for the series."-
Batts also asked Johnston
to take two boys as representatives of the local league, to have
publicity pictures taken with two
members of the Lincoln 'Park
Championship team. John Thoss
and Don Leitheiser represented
the Huron Valley League, and pictures were taken by photographers from the Detroit Free Press,
and will appear in the feature section of the Free Press in a few
weeks.
for youngsters fn the community.
Tom Johnston, recreation director for the Summer program, will,
meet with volunteers at 7:30 p.m.
in the AH-Purpose room of the
Saline Elementary schOo-1, and duty
assignments will *be worked out
to give all teams' and players the
maximum in instruction <and supervision prior to the regular playing
schedule which begins in imid-June.
In -asking support from volunteers and "Dads in aiding the'baseball teams, Johnston Stressed the
fact that -substitute aides are
needed to fill in when regular volunteer? are unable to attend all,
weekl} practices and -games.
Businessmen,  groups   and  individual!" who have pledged funds to
further the baseball program will
be -contacted this-week "for donation, •'c^ftt"ei4i»-^Cii»4--''iH basaball,
-funds wiH be contacted this week .
for   donation collection,   and , all J
baseball   funds will be kept sep- ,
arate from regular Summer recreational allotments, Johnston said.
Equipment for the various teams'
has  already been purchased, and *■
fa addition, softball equipment is -
now on hand for the use of girls
of the community who are interested in playing softbalL
It  is planned  to  expand  adult
recreational activities for the Sum.- ,
mer,   Johnston   staid,   -and, more
games will be available at the City-
Bark.
Award Trip Students
To Hold Bake Sale
Saturday at Wight's
• A bake sale featuring delicious
cakes, pies and pastries, will be
held at Wight's Cleaners, Saturday, May 25, sponsored by the
Michigan Award Trip students.
In case you are interested in
this trip and the students that go
on it, there will be students on
hand to tell you all about it.
Don't forget the    sale-Saturday
at "Wight's Cleaners  from 9:0Q  a.
m. t«> 3:00 n.m.
Susan Coates Wins
Scholastic Writing
Award for Editorial
Susan Coates, 14-year-old editor
of the Saline Junior High School's*
newspaper, The Wasp,' received
an honor award certificate for an
editorial which "appeared in the
November- 2 issue, and which was
entered in the 1957 Scholastic Writing Award Contest sponsored by
the Detroit News. Susan is a member of the 9th grade class.
Susan's editorial was titled "Murder in the Halls,** and read:
"Our Junior High School's colors
are "gold and blue, but they should
really be black and blue for most
of the students are that color because of the 'age-old problem"—
crowded halls. When the ball rings'
for the next class, doors tear open,
students race out of their classrooms.', , lower their- heads, and
charge straight for their lockers
like a mb of girls chasing Elvis
Presley.   -
"The $64,000 quest on is, 'What
can we do about it?' It is true
that our halls are 'as stuffed as a
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VFW Plans
Encampment
June 20-23
Michigan Veterans of Foreign;
Wars, wiU hold their 38th lanhuali
state, encampment .at "Grand Rapids, June 20 through 23, \t was.an-'
nounced today by State Command-i
er Max C. McCarn. of Mason. '   i
McCarn. s'aid an expected 5,000 <
VFW members, auxiliary andj
guests would, be on hand for the 1
four day conclave. !
Principal speaker at the parley;
will be National VFW Commander t
Cooper T. Holt, of Chattanooga, ■
Tennessee": "Holt will address the!
encampment at a business meet-!
ing. . ■ ,
Climax of the convention: will!
be on Sunday, June 23, when 'aj
slate of s'tate officials will be elect-j
ed. Howard Barbitte, of Muskegon,!
is expected to receive unanimous1
delegate approval as state com-1
mander.
The ladies auxiliary will probably'
elect Mrs. Francis (Esther)*Math-i
ews, of Dbnondale, state president:
to succeed Mrs. Melvin (Claris-;
sa'*"Loedlo»S, of MarysviHe. !
, Business of the encampment will,
center about th many rsolutionsj
-"ubnutted "by focal VFW . units;
national organization. i
throughout'Michigan, and from the'
Methodists to Hold
Annual Business        j
Session Tonight    ." ■
The annual Fourth Quarterly
Conference of the local Methodist
Church will be held tonight <at 8:00
P-m. 4
Dr. L. Laverne Finch, District
Superintendent, will preside over
the meeting and'will call "for reports of the year's-work from; the
various leaders of the church.
This Is -also the meeting when
■the new trui-tees and stewards and
other officers of the church are.
elected for the coming year.
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