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VOL. 10, NO. 16—WEDNESDAY, JAN. % 1957
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There's something mighty
striking about the new Milking
Parlor at the farm of Dr. L.
Dell Henry, on Trinkle Road . . .
and those of you who heeded
our last week's invitation to inspect the place may already
have figured out what that
"something" is. .
It's something that's known
commonly as "the woman's
touch."
DeLaval engineers, Bill Dens-
ham, Jr., and LaVerne Coy,
manager of the farm, all had a
hand in the planning of the parlor .. . but the key figure in
the planning was Dr. Henry
herself. The well-known Ann
Arbor doctor takes a lively interest in her farm . . . and that
interest shows up in the form
of many innovations in the new
Milking Parlor.
It's comfortably heated with
a small bottle-gas burner . . .
making it more pleasant for the
cows and the Coys alike.
It's laid out to save steps . . .
with most operations of the
milker confined to just a few
square feetin the center of the
parlor.
It's planned for maximum
cleanliness ... in everything
from the easily-flushed glass
pipelines to the narrow, easily-
washed passageways for the
cows.
And it's even painted in soft
pastel colors for contented cows
and operators.
LaVerne Coy and son Edwin
are shown in the top picture at
the heart of the new installation. Without moving more
than a step or so from where he
stands, Coy can (1)—pull a release rope which opens the door
into the parlor, admitting a cow
to be milked, (2)—swing the
grain feeding bin into position
as" shown above, (3)—pull another j release rope to feed a
.-^.anetered amount of grain into
the bin, (4)—wash the cow's
flanks and udders, (5)—place
the  milking unit  on  the  cow
Saline Girl Will
Attend State
F. H. A. Conference
SALINE—Bea Ann Kellogg,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Phil-
lipp Kellogg, of South Ann Arbor Street, will travel to Lansing next week for a two-day
conference of state officers ofi
the Future Homemakers of
America.
Bea Ann, second vice president of the state organization,
will be in Lansing Thursday and
Friday for the event.
and go through the entire milking operation.
And as the picture indicates,
the parlor is set up to handle
four cows at a time in this same
step-and-labor-saving fashion.
When a cow's milking is finished, the feeding bin is swung
to one side, allowing the cow to
pass on toward the exit door
. . . which also is controlled
from the center of the parlor.   .
Ed Coy, who does most of the
daily chores at the farm, says
he can do a first-rate job of
milking the 24-cow herd and
cleaning up afterward in about
one hour and 20 minutes. He's
done it in a good bit less time
than that . . . but he and LaVern both agree that the big improvement which the parlor offers is in the chance it gives to
devote more attention to each
cow . . . yet at the same time
saving hours and effort.
The picture below shows the
Loose Housing arrangement
which has been installed adjacent to the Milking Parlor. Hay
from the loft of the barn is easily moved via the chute at the
left, down to the feeding troughs
in the yard. Straw for the bedding in the semi-enclosed shed
is handled in the same way.
The only problem which the
Coys still have to solve in the
new set-up is the accumulation
of moisture and muck in the
shed. More bedding ... and a
better drainage set-up throughout the yard will take care of
that though . . . they believe.
Otherwise, they like the new
set-up just fine . . . and so do
the cows.
Commission Lauds
Chairman Hendley
ANN ARBOR — Temporary
employees of the Washtenaw
County Road Commission were
given a five-cent hourly pay
raise, effective Jan. 2, by members of the Commission, at their
meeting last Friday.
Bids were taken for six new
snow plows to be attached to
the new trucks which have been
ordered. First two of the trucks
were delivered to the Road Commission yards on Dec. 31.
The following resolution was
passed by the Board members:
"Whereas Mr. James C. Hendley, after serving as a member
of the Board of Road Commissions since April of 1945 and
as chairman of the Road Commission since 1951, has found
it necessary to resign because
of the pressure of personal business, and whereas today, Dec.
28, 1956 being the last meeting
of this Board for this year, and
whereas we appreciate the excellent manner in which he has
conducted our meetings, being
always fair and impartial in the
right of expression of all who
wished to be heard, and whereas
f¥h*$iii|*nven much to the Road
Commission of his knowledge
of the legal and administrative
requirements i n establishing
policy and solving problems,
now, therefore, be it resolved
that knowing he has enjoyed
his work on the Board, we desire to make a matter of record
of our thanks and appreciation
for his years of service, and
wish him years of success in
all his future undertakings.
"And further be it resolved
that we consider it most appropriate to. recognize our retiring
chairman, Jim, and that this
resolution be placed in the official proceedings of this Board
as an expression of our sincere
appreciation of his intense loyalty and efforts in improving
all Road Commission operations
and further that a copy of this
resolution be presented to him."
The resolution was signed by
Raymond L. Koch, H£ L. Frei-
singer and Clenard McLaughlin,
Road Commissioners; Howard
Minler, Superintendent; and
Erwin Frederick:, Elmer Wolter
and Donald Silkwprth, members
of the Board of Supervisors.
Road Commission Committee.
THIEF HITS
GAS STATION
IN DEXTER
DEXTER—An estimated $124
in cash was stolen last Tuesday night from the Marble Sunoco Station on Ann Arbor Street
here. The safe containing the
money had been opened by
someone who knew the combination of the lock, and access to
the building had evidently been
made by someone having a key
to the door.
Police investigating the theft
plan to question a recent employee of the station as soon as
he can be located. The suspect
worked at the station for only a
week, but during that time he
was given a key to the door and
the combination of the safe.
Frank Marble, proprietor of
the station, had worked at the
station until 2 p. m. on New
Year's Day, then had locked up
for the balance of the holiday.
When he opened up the station yesterday, he found papers
from the safe scattered on the
floor . . . and the cash gone. No
other valuables or equipment
were taken in the theft, Marble
says.
1957
With Big Kick-off Dinner
AiA* Moose Lodge
Is Scene of Event
SALINE BAND FROLICS, JANUARY 15-16, SET
FOR 2ND ANNUAL STAGING AT HIGH SCHOOL
SALINE BAND
PARENTS TO
MEET JAN. 9
SALINE — January will be
a busy month for members of
the Saline High School band,
with two programs scheduled
for all band members, and two
concerts planned for the Youth
Band.
On January 15 and 16, band
members and other students
will participate with faculty
members in the Second Annua]
Band Frolic. This year's musical
variety show will include comedy acts, dancing and music,
complete with a master of ceremonies. It will feature the first
appearance of the new high
school dance band. Proceeds
from the show will be used by
the band for the trips they take
during the year. The event will
be held at 8 p. m., in the high
school gymnasium*
Solo night  will be on Jan. i
23, in the Elementary School,
and will begin at 7>30 p. m. The
program will consist of small
ensembles and solos. There is no
admission charge.
The Youth Band, with 12
members from Saline, is a group
of the outstanding members of
bands from Saline, Ann Arbor,
Ypsilanti, Dexter, Chels,;ea',
Wayne, Milan and Clinton; '■J^p-
thur Katterjohn is the conductor, and practice is held in Saline every other Saturday morning. They will give a concert in
Wayne on Jan. 20, and another
in Saline, at the Elementary
School, at 4 p.m., Jan. 27. The
band of 50 members gives only
two concerts a year, and holds
practices only during the first
semester of the school year. No
admission is charged for their
concerts.
SALINE f- The regular January meeJfegKof the Saline
Area BandI&rents Club will
be held oh Wednesday, January
9, so as to. leave the next week
open for the Band Frolics.
The meeting will be held in
the,high school band room and
will begin with entertainment
at 8. p.m. The program hasn't
been entirely completed, but
part of it will consist of movies.
The band director, Art Katterjohn, will show a sample of
the shirts that will be purchased for the Junior High
School Band.
Refreshments will follow.
Swifties Not
Best Readers
STILLS SELL
RESTAURANT
IN SALINE
SALINE—After 11 years and
16 days of work in their restaurant . . . during which time they
cooked and served untold tons
of potatoes, steaks, pancakes
and other good things to eat.. .
Mr. and Mrs. L. Z. Still last
Monday sold the restaurant.
New owners of the business are
Martin Hemenway and Mrs.
Gertrude Rankin, both of Saline.
Hemenway, an employee of
George's Tavern, will continue
to work at that East Michigan
Avenue spot. Mrs. Rankin, with
years of cooking experience behind her . . . including service
at Ypsilanti State Hospital,
Kresge's in Ann Arbor, and at
Weber's Supper Club . . . will
take over the kitchen at Still's.
L. Z. and his wife plan to keep
active despite the sale of the
business. Supervision of the
building of their expanded hotel
and office structure on East
Michigan will take much of their
time.
SALINE MAN WEDS CAROL WARD
IN STONEY CREEK CHURCH RITE
SALINE—The Stoney Creek.
Methodist church last Saturday!
night was the scene of \vedding
rites uniting Miss Carol Ward;
of Inkster, and Calvin- Kern,- .cjf
Saline?'
The bride is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Vance Ward, Inkster, and the groom's parents
are Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kern,
of Saline Heights. The Rev.
Clive Dickens, pastor of the
church and a brother-in-law of
the bride, officiated at the candlelight double-ring ceremony.
Following the wedding, a re-j
ception was held at the church.
And after a brief honeymoon
at East Tawas, the couple returned this week, to make their
home at 32620 Manistique Avenue, in Wayne.
- The bride is manager of a restaurant in Dearborn. Kern, a
graduate of Saline High School,
and an Air Force veteran at the
Korean war, is enrolled at the
University of Michigan as an
aeronautics engineering student.
He and two of his Korean War
buddies are owners and operators of Wolverine Airways, an
air freight transport service
based.,at Willow Run Airport.
KAREN BECKS
ENGAGEMENT
ANNOUNCED
Edison Taxes Aid
School, Road Fund
EAST LANSING — The fast
' reader is not always the "best"
reader, says  a Michigan  State
University professor of English.
Dr. V. E. Leichty criticizes
the recent stress on speed of
reading, contending that the
emphasis perhaps should be on
slower and more careful reading.
"Many of the greatest minds
of the past were the produits
of a few books wich were iare-
fully read and re-read until the
thoughts of their authors were
thoroughly assimilated," Dr.
Leichty pointed out.
"Because good books not pnly
record thought but also provoke it, justice can seldom be
done theni Jn; a^hurried reading,
or even in a, singlecareM reading."
Sac,
ANN ARBOR — The old
year's passing brings new momentum to community progress
—in the form of millions of
dollars in 1956 local taxes that
will be paid by business organizations everywhere. For exam
pie, a total of $18,900,000 is
being turned over by The Detroit Edison Company to cities,
villages and townships of Southeastern Michigan.
In Washtenaw the company's
1956 taxes, which will go into
funds for new schools, road improvements and other developments vital to the county's
growth and advancement, add
up to $228,100.  \
Throughouk Edison's 7,600-
square-mile service area, local
school districts zdone will receive about $7,000,000. This
area, which includes metropolitan] Detroit and Michigan's
"Thumb," comprises seven entire counties and parts of six
others.
~ Ratio of Edison taxes to the
total taxes collected in any
specific locality varies widely,
of coursfe, with the amount of
property owned locally by thi
coifcpany.; * As to the .over-
ratio, the total of property taxes
to be paid by companies and
individuals, throughout Detroit
Edison's whole service area is
estimated at $333,000,000.
Edison's $18,900,000 tax bill
therefore amounts to about 5.7
percent of all taxes received by
the 350 villages, cities and townships served by the company.
Gage R. Cooper, manager of
Edison's Ann Arbor -District,
points out that the total local
state and federal taxes to be
paid by the company for 1956
amounts to almost as much as
the cost of all the fuel used in
producing the electric power for
the entire system: The figures
for the year: Taxes (including
federal) — $37,500,000' Coal
(5,400,000 tons) — $41,000,000.
"In spite of this increasingly
heavy tax-load and other rising
operational costs," Cooper said,,
"we have managed through
strict economy and improved
productivity to hold and even
reduce the price, of electricity
to the people we serve: Though
itv-js true, that these taxes must
jjbe included as a part of the
^rates we charge, our customer
actually gets more 'electricity
for his dollaf tfialr *e Jul120
years ago?'   '" :'\"-"'
Karen Beck
SALINE—Mr. and Mrs. Donald Beck, Macon Road, announce
the engagement of their daughter, Karen Beck, to Ronald
Hopp, of Ypsilanti, at a Christmas gathering at the Beck
home. Ronald, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Charles Hopp, presented
Miss Beck with an engagement
ring at the Christmas celebration.
Karen is a senior student at
Saline High School, and Hopp
is employed by Eastern Airlines
at the Willow Run Terminal.
The couple plans to be married next fall.
• ANJST ARBOR — More than
100 Washtenaw County March
of Dimes campaigners have
been invited to a kick-off dinner for the January drive at
6:30 p. m. Thursday (Jan. 3) at
the Loyal Order" of - Moose
Lodge, 390 S. Maple, Ann
Arbor.
All mayors in the county
have been invited to attend, together with representatives of
business, labor and the medical
profession. Featured speaker
will be Dr. David Dickinson,
medical director of the gplio
respirator center .at University
Hospital.
Donated by the Lodge, the
dinner will mark the. formal
opening of the, county-wide
campaign to raise $46,900 < for
polio prevention, research and
rehabilitation. The drive runs
through January 31.■"-.'■
Dr.~ Dickinson will use case
histories of respirator center
patients to show how individuals once .wholly dependent on
the iron lung can now be restored in many instances to
happy, productive lives. His
talk will be illustrated with
color slides.
The respirator center was
established at University Hospital in 1951. It is one of 15
MARK 13
PLEASANT LAKE — David
Timmerman, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Otto Timmerman, celebrated his 13th birthday last
Sunday with a party of 13
school friends and his cousins
from Ann Arbor.
Kiwanis Sale Set
For Jan. 24-26—
Rummage Needed
ANN ARBOR—The 1957 Annual Ann Arbor Kiwanis Rummage Sale is to be held Jan. 24-
26, and already local Kiwanians
are combing the county for saleable merchandise for the event.
Clothing, furniture, toys, rugs,
appliances, drapes, books, hardware, shoes .". . all are needed
for another successful sale.
Those in the Ann Arbor area
who wish to donate rummage
for the sale will be able to do
so simply by phoning NO 5-5825
for a pick-up.
The Kiwanis event, a traditional affair for folks in the
Washtenaw area, will be held in
the Armory on Ann Street.
Proceeds of the sale help the
local Kiwanis Club to carry on
its many worthwhile activities
for hospitalized children, 4-H
youth and many others.
SALINE NOTES
Mr. and Mrs. William Bailey
and family returned Friday
from a week's visit with their
parents in Detroit!,'
Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Tetzloff
returned to the cityiin time to
spend Christmas here. They
had a two-weeks' trip tp Florida
before the-holidays.
MOTHERS MMT
SALINE
A. meet
Hot
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the Eleme
Predmore Named
Ann Arbor Head
Of State Office
SALINE — Wayne Predmore,
Sr., of the Saline-Milan Road,
has been named representative
of the Michigan Secretary of
State's office for the Ann Arbor area. Effective with the
first of the year, the auto license office, under Predmore's
direction, has been moved from
Bob Marshall's Book Store on
State Street, to its new location
in the Alf Shanklin building at
307 South Fifth .Avenue, Ann
Arbor.       •->■"'*
Predmojje?s appointment was
announced recently by James
Hare, ^secretary of state.
\ born.on Christ-
Arbor was at
|tal ... a girl,
Bycraft   The
•parents are
"Bycraft of
such centers throughout the nation supported by the March of
Dimes. In five years, the University Hospital unit alone has
enabled nearly 150 polio patients once bedridden in hos-
"pitals to return to their homes
and enjoy a more normal life.
Studies conducted by the
center show that the medical
expenses of persons who have
returned home after treatment
at the center have been reduced
from more than $30 per day to
an average of about $2.50 per
day.
Because of the importance
anil success of this program,
the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis has budgeted
$5 million for rehabilitation and
$4 million for respirator centers
.nationally in 1957.
Those invited to attend include:
Chelsea Village President Anton Nielson; Walter P. Leonard,
publisher of The Chelsea Stand-
arS^Mrs. Norman Ratcliffe and
Mrs. Charles Popovich, March
of Dimes co-chairmen; Mr. and
Mrs. George Winchester, E. M.
Beach, Mrs. Jack Wellnitz, Mrs.
Homer Kuhl, and two teenagers working on the drive who
remain to be selected.
Dexter Village President Dan
Vass; Frank Ames, publisher of
The Dexter Leader; Mrs. Burton Bucy, March of Dimes chairman; and Mrs. Cecil Lewis, Mrs.
Yates Kennedy, Mrs. 'John E.
Wagner, and Mrs. Arthur Do-
letzky.
Dixboro .March of Dimes
chairman Mrs. Marvin Zeeb,
Mr. and Mrs. Lee Begole, and
Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Avis.
Manchester Village President
Richard Way; March of Dimes
chairman Mrs. Ray Kerr; Mrs.
Clarence Schaible, Mrs. Lee Al-
, len, Mrs. Tom Lock ridge, Mrs.
j Robert Lowry, and Miss Marion
I Farrell; and Miss Marie Schneider, of The Manchester Enterprise.
Milan Village President Grant
Jones; March of Dimes chairmen Mr. and Mrs. William
Goodwin; Mr. and Mrs. William
Squires, Mrs. Frank Stanton,
Mel Sheppard, and Mrs. Stanton
Bordine; and Mrs. E. De Ryke,
of The Milan Leader.
Saline Mayor Henry Leutheu-
ser; Mr. and Mrs. Theus Mac-
Queen of The Saline Observer;
March of Dimes co-chairmen
Mrs. William Meister and Mrs.
Wallace Crosbie; Mrs. Harold
Frey, Mrs. Henry Karner, Mrs.
James Beal, Mrs. Howard Burr,
Mrs. George Winkle, Mrs. Reuben Finkbeiner, and Mrs. Elton
Bredernitz.
Rural Townships March of
Dimes chairman Mrs. John Gos-
lee and her assistant, Mrs. Lev-
ert Yohn; Paul Tull, publisher
of The Reporter; Mrs. Robert
Zwinck, rural schools; Mrs. C.
A. Sievert, Ann Arbor; Mrs.
Jack Towler, Augusta; Mrs.
Lewis Blaisdell, Bridgewater;
Mrs. Sam Andres, Dexter; Mrs.
James Cathy and Mrs. Paul
Boehler," Freedom; Mrs. C. C.
Ordway, Lima; Mrs. Mary
Clark, Lyndon; Mrs. Russell
"Smith," Manchester; Mrs.! William Heeres, Northfield;^ Mrs.
Adrian Onderdonk, 'Pitt^Seld;
Mrs. IJerbert Pamuliner,-$alem;
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Areiid, Saline; Mrs. Donald Cary,' Scio;
Mrs. Kenneth Conkiih,f Superior; Mrs. Lawrence VPieeler,
Webster; Mrs. Duane Rogers, i
York; Mrs. HarolJ^^^n, ~
ider^Salem.
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