1955-03-23; Reporter

              Former Saline Yduth Has "Hear One" With Shark
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Reporter
VOL. 8, NO. 26
5e COPY
PHONE,NO. 3-4066
.WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23, 1955
The skin of his diving suit
(note shredded leg and torn
sock) is;the margin by which
19-year old .James Jacobs, formerly of Saline, escaped death
days ago in a brief battle
with a 15-20 foot man-eating
white shark off Lover's Point,
\ Monterey.    "Skin    diving"    for
fish, Jacobs the hunter became
Jacobs the hunted when the
shark turned the tables with a
sneak rush, grabbed both the)
youth's legs firmly between his
teeth and headed out to sea. All
the shark got was a rubber
swimming    fin    when    Jacobs
kicked and shoved his way free.
The hair-raising incident took
place in full view of beach
spectators and other skin divers. Jacobs brought ashore by
boat, was scared but not discouraged .by . his • .experience.
"Skin diving's too great 3. sport
to give up that easily,"- he said.
(Mr. and Mrs. James Jacobs,
wno le'ft" Washtenaw County
for a new home in California
shortly after. their wedding
aast. year, have found adventure aplenty out there. The
following excerpt from a recent issue of their home town
gaper, in Santa Cruz, furnished
by Mrs. Jacobs' parents. Mr.
and Mrs^-A. C. Alber, of Pleasant fcfyfe^tells,the story.)^
Cuts, and bruises and some
torn-up frogman gear were all
a lucky Santa Cruz youth had
to show today for the harrow- i
ing seconds he spent yesterday
in the toothy maw of a man-
eating white shark off Lover's
point, hear Monterey.
Skin-diver James Jacobs, 19,
L,of 144 Delacosta. avenue used
his head and his strength to
fight his way free from the
vise-like grip of the man-eater's
at a spot just 100 yards from
where a 17-year old pacific
Grove boy was torn to pieces by
a shark two years ago.
<« It was around hoon yesterday
that Jacobs' cry of "Shark!"
warned other skin-divers and
beach spectators of the attack
Quick help "came from fellow-
swimmers and nearby boats,
but by that tame the danger
"was past and the shark had
disappeared— chewing ' on the
only tid-bit he was able»to gain
a rubber ■ swimming, fin.
Jacobs exhibited his torn, and
tboth-punctu.red rubber diving
suit today and told of his weird
encounter.
Together with other members
of .the Santa Cruz Devil Divers,
a skin diving club, he.was fishing off the -point, Jacobs said,
,nd had just speared a small
abezon, an edible fish. Drop
ping his catch at an innertube
float, the youth had proceeded
100 years from the float, alternately diving and coming up
for air, when it happened.
"I was on the surface, facing
toward the ocean and looking
down for more fish. The shark
came up behind me and I
didn't see it coming," he related.
- 'Tt graiabed^both^my^Jegs .=up
past the" ankles'.Xnd^ajyfirst:J;
thought it" was Another skim
diver playing around. Then I
realized that no man was
strong enough to put on a
grip like that. It was like a
vise.
"I whipped around and the
shark took off, throwing me
back against its body. Its body
was right there in front of my
face. I looked back as it carried
me along and I saw both my
legs halfway up to the knees
were in its jaws.
"I kicked as hard aS I could
and shoved away from the body
with both hands and managed
to get free. I think he bit slow
because of the big rubber fins
on my feetfWhen I jolted it
surprised him and he took ne
fin away—bit clean through it.
I still have the other but it's
all torn up.
"I had my spear gun in one
hand all the time. I thought of
shooting it but then I changed
my mind. I thought^there was
no  sense in  angering it.
'The legs of my suit were torn
and the water came in and got
all through the suit, so I was
having a hard time keeping a-
float by that time.. A boat full
of soldiers came over and they
.gave me a lift to the beach.
Jacobs said "a countless num
ber of things passed through
my mind while the shark had
me. But I thought about so
many things in such a short
time'that I can't remember
most of them."
When he pulled .free from the
crushing grip,of -the man-eater's '" jaws, he. had - another
fright. .-■ -y.V j--'-'
"My tight leg:pained, ahd- it
turned out later'that 4fc jwasBut!
up^Buf air the. itime- T.-" pulled"
loose the shark took the: fin, and
When I kicked my leg I couldn|t
feel any resistance. I" thought
he had my right leg.
While the shark swam off
with one of Jacob's fins—flipper-like devices worn on the
foot to ' aid propulsion through
water—he retained the othen
and turned "it over to the Hopkins Marine station,' where the
teeth marks will be analyzed
to determine the shark's precise size.
Jacobs estimated its length at
15-20 feet and said it was iy2
feet thick behind the head at*
the point he used both hands
to push himself away..
j    He described his leg wounds
! as "scratched skin and bruises
right down to the bone. I understand this sort of thing does
I not happen very often, so it's
■ not going to stop me from go-
! ing back."
j'* A similar incident that took
. place   in  the   same  stretch, of
[water December 7, 1952, turned
into  a    scene of    horror    for
hundreds  of helpless specators
on the beach.
I " Barry Wilson, 17,* of Pacific
Grove, was killed by a shark
and his body torn .to pieces as
companions tried to pull him to
safety.
Dexter Man Named
Outstanding Young
Farmer Of Area
Albert -Ruhlig, 34, of Dexter,
last Monday evening was announced as this area's Outstanding Young Farmer, in a
Junior Chamber- of Commerce
nation-wide _search" for the
country's Four Outstanding
Young Farmers.
Ruhlig, married and the
father of two children, operates his 120-acre farm at
11590 Colby Roa"d; He special^
izes in dairy and-hogst,and-hSs
done- an' outstanding job of
building up his farm in a long-
term " year-around program
that" already has included extensive tiling of his fields, remodeling the farmhouse, and
building his herds of dairy and
swine.
He is an active member fof
St. Paul's Lutheran • Church,
Ann Arbor, past-president; of
his local Farm Bureau group,
and was first president of lihe
Washtenaw 4-H' Service  Club.
His selection, made from a
group of candidates by" a "committee of Washtenaw farm
leaders, now makes him a
candidate for a -state-wide
contest slated for late April.
Heading the local elimination
to select this  area's  candidate.'
wa Jaycee Harold A. Prochnow,
agriculture     and   ^conservation,
chairman of    the   Ann   Arbor
Junior  Chamber- of  Commerce.
4-H Modeling.
Previews County -Dress Bevi
:n<
Over 100 Washtenaw County
girls attended' the 4-H Modeling
and Clothing judging School
held at the Court House, last
Saturday.        . '
The girls received special
training in modeling and judging work. Mrs. Anna B. Brown,
Some Demonstration Agent, and
Miss Suzanne Nixon, Dexter,
last year's winner with the
State Dress Revue, assisted the
girls in modeling classes. Mrs.
Frank   McCalla, Mrs.   Clarence
Have Farmers As
Guests Tomorrow
Saline — : Tomorrow will be
Farmer's Day at the Rotary
Club meeting, at noon, at. the
Saline Hotel.
^Each member of the club will
Wing a farmer as a -guest. Dr.
Otto K. Engelke, Washtenaw
County Health Commission will
be the speaker.
Chairman of the program for
.the day is Dr. Gordon Prout.
Reddeman, Mrs. Simon- Girbach,
and Mrs. Neil Nixon, worked
with the girls in judging of
commercial cotton blouses,, wool
skirts, and cotton dresses. The
4-H club agent, Frank Gendron,
spoke to the girls on participating in clothing judging contests,
and on giving reasons for their
different classes.
The special training school
was a preview to the county-
wide Dress» Revue program
which will be held in conjunction with the 4-H- Spring Achievement Program, -April 5 and
6. The dress revue will be held
the evening of .April 6.
We're Sorry
The old .Reporter had a riios
batch of local" newsphotos
snapped during the past week
for publication in this issue...
but an unfortunate accident, at
the photo shop which processes
the film, ruined all but-one of
the pictures. . ■"    ;   •
Too bad for everyone concerned . . but- we'll be back
with a full dose of* pictures in
next issue, if all goes well.
mm Building Of
tarter Fire Hall
0 Start In April
Dexter — Contracts for the
new fire hall here8 are expected to be let on March 28. Build
ing should begin, in that case,
the latter part of April, according to Harry Peters, village
clerk. Between three and four
months will be needed to'
complete the construction, so
firemen hope to move into the
new quarters in the, early fall.
The building will have four
fire truck stalls," a meeting
room and a storage room.
Scio, Dexter Seek
New Agreement On
Fire Protection
Scio Township—A " change in
the present arrangement between Scio Township and Dexter for fire protection is being
considered by the Scio Town
Board, and a new plan will be
voted on at the town .meeting
•April '4. Another meeting of the
"time- beforeHhis%at€:""""*' -"""--*
j.
The township, at present,
pays a yearly rate to Dexter,
with an additional amount" for
each fire in the township area,
to which the Dexter trucks are
called. The new plan is being
considered at the request of
Dexter Village officials to see
if some legal method may be
worked out whereby Scio Town
ship can have a stake- in the
new fire' hall and help "pay for
it. In" this case, there is. the
possibility of another room being added to the Dexter Fire
Hall, which could be used for a
meeting place by - both village
and. township.
Illness forces Warnhoff
-■ But Not Santa -
Into Retirement
Ann Arbor — ' Al Warnhoff,
Santa to thousands of Michigan youngsters, " has been
forced by continuing illness to
take a leave of abence from
his Fingerle Lumber Co. job . .
but he will continue with his
lifetime work of making toys
for underprivileged and hospitalized children.
Only last week, Al had been
tendere'd the key to the City
of Ann Arbor . . thus becoming the first Ann Arbor resident to be so honored.
griculf uras xm
free Lime Testing Service
Saline Band Presents Concert Friday,
ffcceeds To Relpf ay Festival Fare
-l&line — The Saline High
School .Concert Band, will present its annual Fund Raising
Concert this Friday evening,
March 25, at»7:45 in the High
School, Auditorium. Proceeds
will" go toward a trip to the
State Band Festival in East
Lansing in April.
"Featured on the program
will, be the contest pieces —
Marcho Poco, by Moore; and
the Finale from . the New
WOrld Symphony by Dvorak.
Miss Karen Taylor will be solo-
isfjyfor the evening, playing
the1 .Piano: Concerta in A. minor
by Grieg with band accompaniment. Other numbers will include favorites such as Fiddle
Faddle — Anderson, Promenade; Jazz .Pizzicato, . a modern
ftaul Mann,
falter Kuebler
Hurt En Crash
Paul Mann of Chelsea, was
admitted _to University Hospital,
Ann Arbor, Sunday night, following an automobile' accident
which occured oh" Steinbach
Road, at approximately 5 "p.m.
Mann's car collided with a
car driven by Walter Kuebler,
St'einbach Road (near 'Bridge-
water), at the cres't of a hill.
Both cars were demolished, according to Mann's brother, Wil-
laM" Mann, Manchester,' who
was called to the -accident scene.
.v^SksbTer'-was- released/af ter.-be-
:In*';treat'eid! "by ai physician "for
cuts on his face. Mann received
lacerations on his hands and
face, and a badly bruised leg. He
suffered no broken bones, accord^
ing to his brother. He is expected
to remain in the hospital for
a week or ten days.
Woman's Death
At County Jail
Called Suicide
Ann Arbor —, Despite the
best precautionary efforts, of
County Jail personnel, a mentally ill female inmate last Sunday night died -in her cell,'- victim of what Coroner Frank
Staffan termed . apparent suicide by suffocation.   .
Although the woman had
been searched when admitted
Sunday morning, and both she
and her cell had supposedly
been relieved of all objects
with which she could do vio-
!ence, she apparently had
managed to keep some matches.
With them she set fire to her
bedding, and smoke from the
blaze suffocated her.
"Her body was discovered in
the cell Monday morning when
the turnkey entered her cell
block with her breakfast.
The woman was identified
as Gladys Davis, of 605 North
Fifth Avenue, Ann Arbor.
Mr. And Mrs. Herman Heininger, Saline,
Will Mark 55th Wedding Anniversary
Plan Pack Meet
-Dexter—Cub Pack No: 128,
will hold a meeting at'7:30 p.
m., at the Elementary School,
March 28. Between 35 and 40
members of the six dens in
the pack .will participate.
Cub Scout projects "will be
shown and several dens will
put on skits/ A • general business meeting will be' held and
.awards given. .
The meeting is open' to anyone interested.
Saline— Mr. and Mrs. Herman Heininger will observe'
their 55th wedding anniversary
this Sunday with open house
from 2-1 p.m. at their home on
South Lewis Street.
The Heiningers were married, at the turn of the century
in York Township. Both of
them were born and raised in
Washtenaw County. Mrs. Hein
inger was Pauline Gall, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gottlob
Gall. Heininger for years was
ra. farm implement dealer In
Saline. He is now retired.
Two daughters and their husbands .. . Mr. and Mrs. Everett
Wolfin and Mr. and Mrs. Lee
Robinson . . will assist in the
anniversary celebration
arrangement of Joshua' — Yod-
er, .and a tronibone ,trio with
trombonists Jim Rhoades, ' Bill
Austin, and Dan Gable.
The Cadet Band "will .begin
tlfe concert at 7:45, playing
their contest piece, Appalachian Su!te — Kinyon, 'Three
Blind Mice-— a flute trio with
Land- accompaniment, Military
Escort —.3ennett, and Three
Sketches for Band — Morris-
sey.
Tickets are available at the
door, or from band members.
Washtenaw $M.
irst to Add Labor
Sub-Committee
The "Washtenaw County Republican Committee in an unprecedented move last week, reworked its by-laws to set up
three new sub-committees on-
labor, farming, and small business. The labor committee is
manned and chairnianned by
union members and laboring
men".
Chairman of all three subcommittees will be members of
the GOP county executive
board, their purpose being to
advise and direct the Republican party on " policy, • with a
View to improving legislation in
each field.
The committee* on labor,
headed by Harry Brothers, Ypsilanti,- UAW-CIO, is the only
one of, its kind in t!ie""state' of
Michigan,'. According/ to Brothers t£e"y.graup plans to. organ-
^e-Regubp&n^ubs'- fa. every:
industrial ""plant' in the county". " '   ■ •
"When. any man's wages become tribute to" a political
machine," Brothers said, "he
needs help."
Other members of the labor
committee include, Ted Rice,
Salem township, who has been
a member of the AFL, UAW-
CIO, and the United Mine
Workers; Herb -Nugent, East
Ann Arbor, UAW-CIO; J. H.
Reeves, Ypsilanti, AFL Bricklayers and Plasters International union; Ben Cartwright,
Ypsilanti, - UAW-CIO; and Ruben Egeler, Ann Arbor, employed' at Argus Corp.,. where a profit-sharing plan is. in effect.
- Tne farming committee mem
be'fs all farmers, are: Bill Hay-
.es, York township; Walter
Wolfgang, Lima township, Sylvester Leonard, supervisor
from Augusta township; Ernie
Girbach, director of the Mich-i
igan Milk Producers Association, Saline township; Clayton.
Parr, supervisor from Manchester township; Bob Mast, Webster township; Leon Van Bonn
and Sam Balio,. Salem township..
Chairman of the farming
committee will be elected by the
group at a later meeting. Membership of the small business
committee has not yet been announced.
Believing that the most important single contribution that
3an be made to farming in this
3ounty is wiser use of lime, the
Washtenaw Agricultural Cou-
cjl plans to "make a major effort to encourage it.
Crop removal and leaching-
^ause tremendous loss of calcium compounds from the farm
soils of .Washtenaw County
each year. Too little of this is
replaced by the application of
limestone. In many "cases, land
owners who have seen the-
benefits of liming are apt to
apply lime on their farms with
out determining first if it is
needed, or how much/is needed. Many farmers periodically
apply two tons of lime per acre
of land without realizing that
in some areas absolutely none
is needed and over-use may.
well be.harmful. On the other
hand two tons of lime per acre
may be only half enough and
like too' little water at a.fire
it may do the trick.
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Dexter K. Of C.
Receive Charter
Dexter — The Knights of
Columbus received their charter
from the national organization
at their regular meeting last-
Thursday night, at the K. of C.
Hall. Presentation of the charter
was made by Eugene Shehan,
district deputy of the K. of C,
Ann Arbor:
The "local K. of G. was founded
in 1946 with 60 charter members.
Gerald Gainsley is" £he present
Grand Knight.
Joyce Schaible, James Gleason- Kay Lansky In "Top Ten,'
With High Scholastic Records, At Michigan State College
ThTee Michigan State College
students from Washtenaw
County-. . Joyce- Schaible of
Manchester, James Gleason of
Whitmore Lake, and Kay Lansky of Ann Arbor ... are among
the select group of students
placing in the "top ten" of
their class in their respective
schools of study.
The three were named in an
announcement from the M.S.C.
registrar's office «which cited
the top-ranking students. The
"top ten" savings are based on
cumulative academic averages
through the fall term of 1954,
for students enrolled in the"
winter term of 1955.
Joyce, a junior in Home Ec-
onomicsi is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Walter Schaible, Man
Chester; James, freshman in
General Agriculture, is the son
■of Mr. and Mrs. Rex Gleason
Whitmore Lake; and Kay, a
sophomore in Medical Technology, is the daughter of Mrs.
S. Lansky, Ann Arbor.
Named Head Of
Woman's Club
Saline — Officers elected at
the annual meeting of the Woman's Club, March 15, at the
home of Mrs. Alvin Siemsen,
Include: Mrs. Cecil Davenport,
president; Mrs. Alvin Siemsen,
first vice-president; and Mrs.
Carl Curtiss, second vice-
president.
Other officers elected are:.
Mrs. Max Fosdick, recording
secretary; Mrs. Rueben Finkbeiner, . corresponding secretary; Mrs. Carl Carr, treasurer; and Mrs. Arthur Jacobsen,
'custodian,. --Mrs,- "Bessie Sollinsi,
Mrs. Harold Gray "and Mrs. Leo
Jensen were named directors]
The next meeting of the organization will be held in April
at the home of "Mrs. Harold
Gray, when past presidents of
the club will -be honored.-
In^May the final meeting of
the'year will be held, and new.
officers will  be  installed.
When needed, proper use of
"Ime usually spells the difference between success and failure of most important hay and
pasture crops. ;Legumes, especially, must have sufficient lime.
In many cases,- expensive
?lover or alfalfa-seed Is wasted*
if needed lime is. "ifgt:iapplifdy
Lo the ■ soil. .Overrhmhig yp
limilafly wasteful, riot*'of jus£
che unneeded lime^ but-in ie5
ducing available phosphorus
and potash in the soil.
There is only, one way for a
farmer to know whether his
land needs lime and if so how
much-^-an$ that is-,by testing
the soil for its acidity. To encourage more widespread soil-
iesting, the Washtenaw County
Agricultural Council is planning to provide free soil-testing (for acidity only) with a
mobile, testing 'lab' in a truck
or using the Vocational Agricul
ture facilities at various points
in the county—next week,"
March 28 thru April' 4.
Members of the Council will
do the actual testing and will
give recommendations then and
there on the need of lime.
Farmers are asked to bring
soil samples—as dry as possible
but not over dried. No fee will
be charged.    «
Those, farmers who want
complete soil analysis done in
the County soil-testing laboratory in Ann Arbor may take
samples to the mobile laboratory, and for a fee of 50c per
sample, complete fertilizer recommendation can be secured.
Such analysis takes from several days to two weeks.
•The Agricultural Council announces that the free testing
for lime only will be done at:
Manchester High School-
Monday, March 28 10:00 a.m.to
3:00  p.m.
.Chelsea High School Tuesday,
;March-. 29,:;.M;00i,a3&-'-liQ!3:Sa
p.m. -, - - ..- ^
Dexter High School—Wednesday, March 30—10:00 a.m.
to 3:00 p.m.
Saline High School—Thursday, March 31—10:00 a.m to
3:00 p.m.
Salem Fire Hall—Friday April
1, 10:00 a.m. to. 3:00 p.m.
Milan. High  School—Monday .
April 4—10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Wed Saturday
Manchester — Lois Rose and
Robert Kothe were married in
a- candlelight ceremony at 7
o'clock, Saturday night, at
Sharon    : Evangelical     United girl
Mrs.    Roland    McKeever -and.
Mrs.    Lawrence     Bower,- bo'th-
sisters    of-  the    groom.    The
bride's sister   served,   a flower-
Brethren Church, with Rev. J.
A. Beardsley officiating.
The bride is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. W. Russell Rose,
Hillsdale, and the groom, the
son of Mr. and Mrs. Roland
Kothe, Manchester.
* A blue ballerina length gown "Co.
was chosen by the bride for the i   After
wedding, and her attendants
wore identical dresses of pink.
The    two      bridesmaids    were
Uhers included Kenneth
Kothe, Leroy Buss, Lynn Voegeding and Ronald McKeever.
The bride is employed as a
telephone operator in Ann Arbor, and the groom is .employed at the    Chelsea Spring
a wedding trip to
Washington, D. • C,. they will
make their home in Manchester. ..,.,. .•.'.:■ • ,-
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