1955-02-16; Reporter

              Red Cross Drive In Manchester
To Be Headed By Mrs. Karl Re
Manchester —(Announcement
has been made by Frank Reek,
village  member    of ■ the Board
of Directors of   the Washtenaw
County Chapter   of the American Red Cross, of the appointor —-ment    of Mrs. Karl    Rest ' as
chairman   of  the   forthcoming
■Red Cross drive-for- funds.
The Red Cross  drive is held
^.annually, throughout the nation
Kiwanians Lace
Firemen Again
in Hockey Tilt
Dexter — The Kiwanis Club
defeated the Firemen, 10 to 8, in
a hard-fought hockey game, at
Vokar Pond, Sunday afternoon.
This is the second defeat the
Firemen have suffered from the
Kiwanis Club.
• Approximately $15.00 way
Wnade at the game, which was
flayed to earn funds for the
purchase of equipment for the
fire department. A number oJ
fund-raising events are held
by the volunteer firemen during
the year to raise funds for
equipment.
during the month of March. In
! the village, the Red Cross will
'receive 15 percent of contributions made to the Commun-.
ity Chest drive by the business
and industrial sections of that
drive last fall. This amounts to
$408.52.
The drive here will be concentrated in the last two weeks
in • March, and will be a house
to house solicitation only. A
goal of approximately $800 has
been set for the residential
area.
Mrs. Rest's committee appointments will be announced
in the near future.
Rev. H. L Enctei
Saline — Rev. H. L. Engel, of
Trinity Lutheran Church, .who
suffered injuries "in  an  auto-
obile accident, Feb. 3, reports
hat he is improving slowly. The
injuries to his'knees are still
painful, and he walks with drf'
jiculty, but when resting his
limbs in a reclining position he
is comfortable.
St. Andrews Church Plans
Family Nile, Lenten Rites
Dexter—Family night wil' be
held at 8 p.m., Feb. 20, at St.
Andrew's Evangelical and Reformed Church. The program
will present an "animated news
paper", with various parts of
the newspaper, editorial page,
church page, comics, cartoons,
and news from the front page,
presented by the "actors" in the
sketch.
The  first Len.ten service  will
be held at St. Andrew's Evangel
ical   and   Reformed Church' onl
Feb. 23,   Ash   Wednesday, at 8
p.m.
AWWMMW^fW^MW^AA^MMAAAMA^A
HATS
OFF!
A tip of the hat this week to
Robert Klueter, Saline, who
last week was given the Saline Jaycees' distinguished service - award for his work and
achievements, during 1954.
Part of that year Bob spent
working hard for The Reporter
. . . and. part he spent editing
The Saline Observer . . but it
Was his own personal achievement for the community
which earned him the Jaycees'
recognition.
* Bob's work with the youth
of the community, and his
drive to make the proposed
new Saline Community Hospital
a reality, will be of lasting
■benefit to everyone in this
area. '   ■  •    ■•
$138,010 Split
n Washtenaw
Family Night Conies
Sunday At Zion Church
Rogers Corners—On Feb. 20,
Family night will be held at the
parish hall of Zion Lutheran
Church. The program will begin with a potluck supper" at 6
p.m.
"Al.
Oh It's Always Fair Weather—"
I
Dexter—Good weather or bad,
those Boy Scouts keep right on
with their scouting! When the
picture above was snapped,
early last week, the weather
fairly    presentable,    and    the
display in the park at Dexter
was a fairly pleasant spot for
Dave Kolander's, Charles Hackney's, Mike Visel's, Ken Henes'
and Norman Jeffrey's play-
camping.
Washtenaw County's share of
the gas and weight tax refund
for the fourth quarter of 1954
will be $188,010.
Cities and villages sharing
the fund are Ann Arbor, $73,-
490; Ypsilanti, $24,096; Chelsea,
$3,558; Dexter, $1,802; East
Ann Arbor, $2,447; Manchester,
$2,679; Milan $4,445; and Saline, $2,087.
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4 " WEDNESDAY, FEBRUAEY 16, 1955
ley Curve Causes
Gross-Presswood
Auto Smash-up
Saline—Slick-as -grease road
conditions last Thursday evening resulted-'in an auto smash
between Mrs. Rudolph Gross, of
Lodi Township, and Robert
Presswood of Ann Arbor . . at
almost the exact spot on the
Saline-Ann Arbor Road where
the cars of Rev. H. L. Engel and
Mrs. Delores Kom met head-
on the Thursday previous.
Once again it evidently was
the curve in the blacktop just
north of Weber Road which was
the partial cause of the accident. Presswood, heading north
went into a spin when he tried
to round the icy curve, and the
car, out of control, careened
oyer into the south-hound lane
directly in the path of Mrs.
Gross.
Both cars were badly damaged.
Bruises kept Mrs. Gross from
teaching at the Pleasant Lake
School next day, but Presswood
escaped .the accident without
an injury. Damage to both cars
was covered by insurance.
Two Chelsea Youths Place Bids For
ervice Schools—One Successful S© Far
mission   to the   new Air Force
Academy  at Colorado Springs.
Beach, recently stationed in
Texas on Army duty, secured
his appointment from the
ranks. He is the son of 'Mrs. D.
E. Beach, of Chelsea.
Bauer is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Earl Bauer, of Jerusalem
Road. He is a freshman engineering student at the U-M. His
appointment to take the competitive exam for the new Air
Force school was secured
through Rep. George Meader.
Bauer will receive word of the
results of the "examination at
an early date. Victory in the
competitive tests . ..would place
him ""in the: Hirst class to enter
the new academy still under
construction in Colorado.
Chelsea—One Chelsea youth,
Dwight E. Beach, Jr., has been
appointed to the U.S. Military
Academy at West Point . . and
James Bauer, another young
man from Chelsea, last week
took competitive exams for ad-
441 Leaders From
10 Counties To
Meet Here Friday
.;=-Ann Arbor—.A. district 4-H
leaders* "traming" "rheet" will he"
held this Friday, Feb. 18, at the
West Side Methodist Church,
according, to an announcement
from Frank Gendrori, county 4-
H agent. The meeting is expected to attract key project
leaders from 10 neighboring
counties for the 10 a.m. to 4 p.
m. sessions.' Attending from
Washtenaw County will be Mrs.
Leo Hayes, Mrs. Frank Geiger,
Mrs. Lawrence Coy, Mrs. Walter Wolfgang, Mrs. Lawrence
Boettner, Mrs". Dewey. Barich,
James Bradbury and Wendell
Reinhardt.
Jr. Farm Bureau
Feeds, Entertains
Crowd At Saline
Saline — Close to 100 attendance was posted at the banquet
put on last Saturday night by
the Junior Farm Bureau of
Washtenaw County. Held at the
Saline High School auditorium,
the evening featured good eats,
euchre, and good music by 'the
"Three Sharps and a Flat", a
girl's quartet.
-Or Is I*?
. But last Friday after^
noon the thermometer took one
of. those fast dives for which
■ if/s been famous this winter,
and it really took fortitude a-
plenty to   keep manning^ that
iisplay. Shown thawing their
hands over the campfire are
Paul Gainsley," Jim Devine, and
Dick Coy. At the right is Dick
3ell, who looks as if the dis
play might be tempting him to
Jgn up as a Scout.
The    display   was in  observance of Boy Scout Week.
x. —Photo by Stevens
Wolter States
Candidacy For
Supervisor Post
Dexter — Elmer A. Wolter, of
the Ann Arbor-Dexter Road,
has declared himself a candidate for Scio Township Supervisor, in the primary election
next Monday. Wolter was unanimously appointed to be Scio
Township Supervisor by the
township board in February of
last year, to fill out the term
of Albert Trinkle after Trinkle's
death.
During his period on the
board, Wolter has been appointed to various committees,
among which are the controller
committee, the Wiliow Run
airport zoning committee, and
the tax equalization committee.
Wolter is a veteran of World
War I, and a college graduate,
with a B. S. degree from Stout
Institute, Menominie, Wise, and
an M. A. degree in vocational
education from the U-M. He
has had 10 years' experience
teaching on the high school
level. After working as an
engineer at Physicists Research
Co., and at the Vokar Corporation during World -War II,
Wolter opened a printing establishment which he now operates with the help of his wife.
He owns a 100-acre farm, on
which he does part of the work.
Shades
of
Andy
Jackson!
Ann Arbor — A fascinating
job for Russell Smith and Mrs.
Helen Rice, of the county micro-filming department. That's
been the business of photographing 150 old land patents,
some dated hack as far as 1827,
with which Presidents John
Quincy Adams, Andrew Jack"-
son, and Martin Van Buren as
signed plots of land to would-
be settlers here.
Some of the old documents
are believed to have actually
been signed by the presidents
themselves . . and all of them,
being the first written record
of land ownership in what is
now Washtenaw.County, are of
great historic interest.
Micro-filming the 150 sheepskins nicely climaxes a job
which the department has been
working on since 1950. Starting
with current records, the micro-filming folks have been
working backwards in time,
photographing land records as
they went, until they reached
those earliest records, marking
the  end of  that phase of their
job.
Even with the documents
safely recorded on film in a
vault the original documents of
course will not be destroyed.
Such papers are heing. offered
to historical groups for their
collections ... and chances are
more than excellent that they'll
be accepted with much delightij
More Than $6fff000 Contributions lnr
More Coming, In Polio. Drive
Contributions in the March
of Dimes drive now total $69,171
in the county, with, some special
eve'hts vstill scheduled/ and^alr
reports not yet in.
The report yesterday, made
by Mrs. Carl Rehberg, County
chairman of the drive, credits
Ann Arbor with $33,264; Chelsea, $2,196; Dexter, $3,745; Dix-
boro, $252; East Ann Arbor and
Pittsfield ViUage, $1,962; Manchester $971; Milan, $3,097; Saline, $3,219; Whitmore Lake,
$524; Willow Village; $892; Ypsilanti, $8,746; rural, $9,183; and
hospitals and institutions, $1,-
114.
Half of the money contributed
will remain in the county to
care for polio patients, and
half will' go to the National
Foundation to support the respirator centers, such as the one
at University hospital, purchase
iron lungs, train doctors and
nurses and carry on other activities, such as the purchase of
vaccine for use next summer.
Last year a total of $50,000
was spent by the local chapter
on direct patient care. The goal
of $65,000 for the drive in January was set with the hope that
there would be a ■ decrease in
the number of patients next
summer,    since    the    chapter's
Casey Clark
Show - Dance
Comes Tonight
Saline—Casey Clark and his
Lazy Ranch Boys are due in
Saline tonight . . and that
means music, entertainment
and dancing for everyone. The
one-night stand of the well-
known WJR performers is being sponsored by the Saline
Junior Chamber of Commerce to
Taise funds for the proposed
new Saline Community Hospital.
The program tonight will com
bine, a period of entertainment,
during which the audience will
face the music sitting down,
and a spell of dancing to wind'
up the evening. -
•   Curtain time* is  8  pan. Tickets will be sold at the door.
merson Hutiel issues
Book On 1954 Travels
Emerson Hutzel, portions of
whose tour of Europe and the
Near East "were described ;in his
column in The Reporter last
year, has published the complete account of his 1954 travels, in book form. The ' 114-
page volume, "Seven Months in
Europe and the Near East",
was issued early this month.
Orders for the book may be
sent to Hutzel at 3767 Potomac
Street, St. Louis 16, Mo. The
price will be $2, post paid.
share of $65,000 would- be less
than last year's bills, according
to Mrs. Rehberg. For the pas^
had to ask the National Foundation for grants to pay for patient care, and this procedure
will be followed next summer, ii
necessary.
Mrs. Rehberg expressed her
deep appreciation for the work
done by the volunteers in the
county, and the generosity of
the contributors to the drive.
hieves Hit Again
i Saline
At last report. from, law enforcement officials, no* definite
leads have been established
identifying the . safecrackers
who last week struck the Dexter Eowling Alley, Baker Road
and the Bennett Street office
of Saline Mercantile in Saline.
The howling alley safe had
been moved- to a deserted farm,
house at .Fletcher and Scio
Church Rds., and there had been
smashed. Frank Gucker, owner
of the safe, estimated the loss
in cash and--checks at $425. The
thieves entered the Baker
Road building through ah office window.
The Saline Merchantile shop
loss, according to Walter Hirth
came to $100 cash, plus numerous tools. In addition, Arthur
Heininger reported" indications
that -a quantity of gasoline had
been drawn from the firm's
tank. "Entry to the Mercantile
store was forced by breaking
the door window and unlock-1
ing the door from the inside.
The $100, locked up in the
firm's safe, was reached by.
taking the safe 'to a back room
and  smashing  it  open.
aline Youngsters To Be Offered
wide Proqram For Dental Kealt
Saline — Plans were formulated last Friday night for a
flouride* program for Saline
Area Schools, starting in mid-
June this year. The program,
which will involve topical application of the flouride solution to thoroughly-cleaned teeth
of youngsters, will be offered
under the joint auspices of the
state and county .health departments and the local Room
Mothers group.
The fluoride applications,
which have been demonstrated
to reduce the incidence of dental caries, will be offered strictly
on a voluntary   basis.   Parents*
consent, as well as a nominal
fee, .will ,be required before a
child will be "treated. The first
course of treatments will be
offered children who finish the
2nd, the 5th, and the 8th
grades this June. -
The Room Mothers committee
working on plans for the project: ,..- "'
Mrs. Clarence Johnson, chairman, Mrs. Walter Gula, Mrs. Joe
Bondie, Mrs. Charles • Uphaus,
Mrs. Willard Kohler, Mrs..Wil-
liam Guenther, Mrs. Ernest Ste^
men, Mrs. Albert Bredernitz,
and Mrs. Ted Kuyda.
25-Year House Goes Electric
Saline — This 125-year-old
house on Schill Road, west of
Saline, was a mite behind the
times for a number of years but
she's catching up now. Mr. and
iMrs. Jack Emery bought the
place last September. They got
it for a bargain price, but
there was no electricity included. The house had never been
wired .never serviced by • an
utility.
Cheerfully the Emerys _ planned light the house '. with
gas lamps, to carry water, and
generally to live in pioneer
style during the-few days they
thought would be necessary to
bring -in electricity. They wired
the house and made applicat-
,ion for juice, and the utility
company went into action!
But the matter of xight-of-
way cropped up to block- them,
lit order to get electricity to the
house, the comnahy had to run-
noles and ;.line "across other
folk's' property,, and .the legal,
hassle which resulted kept the
"Smerys without electricity- until
Dee. 9,-. when the line-finally
lame  through.
"Then the Emerys, pioneers of
19,54, had themselves quite a
Christmas, with every light in
'.he house ablaze, and dozens
nore glowing on the Christmas
tree ... all to make up for the
nonths when they'd gone without.
The house was one "of the last
n- the county to catch up with
;he age of -electrification.
That's^ Mrs. Emery posing in
ibnt of the place.
Dexter Again Hears "Top Spot In U.S.
in Per Capita Contributions To Polio
' Dexter — Indications are that
the people of Dexter will again
lead the nation in per capita
contributions to the March of
Dimes. Last year the per capita
contributions here were $3.10.
With $3,745 as an incomplete
report, Al -Layalli, local March
of Dimes chairman, * expects
that when all- returns are- in,
last year's record may he more
than equalled. This year"-the.
boundaries for the drive" in the
village were set at the village
limits, and did not inchidfe any
contributions made in the
townships. ■