1956-07-19; Reporter

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SHARE - ALIKE WAS THE RULE OF
THE DAY at the Gilbert family reunion last
Sunday at the Gilbert homestead south of Saline. Here one of the grandchildren, a Bebee
b. y from Milan, offers a share of his ice cream
at the picnic to  one of the .dogs in  attendance.
'Giving away all that cone may have been a sign
that the youngster is extremely generous .    ,
or it may more likely have been a sigh he had
already eaten his capacity.
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THE GILBERT REUNION HONORED Mr. Itfl9.   More   than 60   children, grandchildren,
and Mrs. E. M. Gilbert,, shown, here surrounded and great - grahchildren attended the Sunday
by five of their seven children.     The Gijberts reunion.'
have farmed their place on Britten Road since
Junior Judgments
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WHICH WOULD MAKE A BET-
•TER HUSBAND — ONE THAT
WOULD BE A GOOD PROVIDER OR A GAY, CHARMING,
HANDSOME MAN?
, Polly McKiUan -r- -The. fellow
. who brings home the paycheck
each week won't fail.
■Sandra Layton — The good
provider.
MaryLickly— I'd like the fellow who combines both - but if
I must make a choice, 1*11 take
the«good provider.
Patty Layton — Both. There
are a few men who combine both
qualities. They would be pref enable.
- Mary Jo Coy — The one who*s
bringing the paycheck.
Bonnie Stevens — No comment-
Martha Lee Hoey — It won't
make any difference when the
right man comes along.
Betty Kay Fleming — I want
both. There aren't very many
of that type around, but I'm
hoping.
Larry Hale-^-There's a place
in the World for both types. It
all depends on the woman. If
she happens to be devil-may-
care, then that's the type of man
she'll probably want.
Fred Schmid—I think that we
fellows who combine both qualities are the best' bet. But of
course there aren't many of us
around any more . . .. and there
aren't ANY of us under age 60
... . so I just don't know what
the girls can do about it.
Jane Hardy—Neithra.
Raleigh Greenfield—The type
who is always reliable . . . if a
girl can find such a fellow.
6. Clarence Nichols
.. *" SALINE — The Rotary Club
here will be host today to G.
Lawrence Nichols, governor of
District 222, Rotary International, who is making his annual
visit to the 44 Rotary Clubs in
this part of Ontario and Michigan.  • ./
Mariehester Barbecue Set
For Thursday, July 26th
Manchester, Pleasant Lake Vote
July 25 <m District Merger
Voters in the Manchester,
School District and the Pleasant
Lake School District, will decide on July 25 whether or riot
the Pleasant Lake District will
join that of Manchester. Pdlls
in both districts will be open
from 1:00 p.m. to "8:00 p.m.
In Manchester the voting will
be done at the high school, and
in Pleasant Lake at the Freedom Township Hall.
In Pleasant Lake there will
be three propositions, an increase of 6 mills taxation,
whether to join the Manchester
District, and whether to assume the bonded indebtedness
of the Manchester District.
Manchester voters will decide
on assuming the present Pleasant Lake indebtedness and the
increask of 6 mills taxation.
The Manchester School District now levies 12 mills maxi-
•mum for sehool buildings. The
voted taxes stay in existence
but the taxes collected will be
in an amount less than the additional six mills voted, according to Robert Masten, superintendent of schools in Manchester. This year Manchester
collected 3.2 mills to pay for
new buildings, he said.
Taxes for the combined districts to pay for the bonds on
both Pleasant Lake Elementary
School and the new Manchester
High School will be approximately 5 mills, according to
Masten. This is considerably
more reasonable than either
district could expect to collect
if the districts both tried to
build   their   own  high   school,
Masten added.
Mastep stated that he believed the larger school district
would increase the effectiveness
of the local high school program, and allow a more flexible
curriculum; supplies could-be
purchased more reasonably and
equipment used more economically.
"This vote should entaila lot
of thought by every voter in
each district," Masten said.
"The educational program of
both districts is at stake," he
added, "And there is much that
can be done to improve education. The tax situation should
be secondary because there is
no cheap way to purchase a
good education program," the
superintendent concluded.
CIVIC CLUBBERS, JAYCEES
TEAM UP FOR ANNUAL EVENT
'Conelrad' Try-out
Coming Tomorrow
Thomas A. FitzGerald, Couk-.jj-inrtiated    at    3:10„jp.m.   EST,
ty director of Civil Defense, announced this week that the
Federal Civil Defense Adminis-
traticm through contract with a
private research organization is
undertaking a survey of Broadcast Conelrad coverage. The
fundamental purpose of Conelrad is, of course, to deny a potential enemy the use of broadcast stations for navigational
aid, while still permitting the
dissemination of necessary information.
Mr. FitzGerald stated that:.
The FCDA "Operation Alert
1956", July 20 - 26, 1956 will
provide an excellent opportunity to evaluate the coverage obtained under present operation
in the standard broadcast band.
A Conelrad- drill will be conducted on July 20, 1956 for a
15 minute period beginning at
3:10 p.m. EST and will be nationwide in scope."
The drill is mandatory for all
standard AM, FM and TV
broadcast stations. Other classes of radio stations will not be
required to take part.
The operation requires that
all FM and TV broadcast stations must leave the air and remain silent during the 15 minute period scheduled for the
drill.
Standard (AM) broadcast
for operation on 640 or 1240,
stations having National Defense Emergency Authorization
kc, will arrange to have their
transmitters in full cluster or
on off operation AT THE
START OF THE DRILL PERIOD (i.e„ 3:10 p.m. EST).
In order to obtain a broad
base of information concerning
the effectiveness of this drill,
FCDA is requesting YOU or a
member of your family to cooperate by monitoring the standard broadcast band shortly prior
to and during the period 3:10
p.m.' to 3:25 p.m. EST, July 20,
1956.
^ The following procedure is
suggested: Shortly before 3:00
p.m. EST;, tune to a local broadcast station operating on a frequency near either bf the Conelrad frequencies (640 or 1240
kc.). Adjust the volume for
comfortable listening.     -
"When Conelrad. operation' is
tune to the frequency of this
local cluster (640 or 1240 kc).
Listen for 5 minutes on 640
then 5 minutes on 1240. Check
the quality of reception prior to
prior to Conelrad broadcast. Also note the intelligibility of your
Conelrad Broadcast and phone
the results to Melanie R. Schuck
in the Office of Civil Defense
NO 8 "- 6819..
FitzGerald stresses that he
would like to have a report
from every township in Washtenaw County. The reports will
be forwarded to the Federal
Office of Civil Defense for
evaluation.
U-M Promotes
Community
'Self - Help'
ANN ARBOR — During
eighteen years of active leadership in the field of community
education, The University of
MchigEtnTiS^cffiSfis.P—""Midi'
.still promotes — a variety of
approaches to community self-
help, says Howard Y. McClusky,
professor of educational psychology. The work is directed
by Community Adult Education
a joint function of the extension
service and the Sbhool of Education.
Among these approaches is
the community survey in which
local laymen decide on- the topic
to be covered and actually go
out and ask questions. It might
concern recreatidh needs and
facilities, adult education needs,
interests and preferences, housing or other areas of concern.
MANCHESTER — Chicken
will reign supreme here a week
from tonight, July 26, as bar-,
becue-fanciers from throughout
this area are expected to converge on Manchester for the
community's third annual chicken feast.
Originally a project to liquidate a debt incurred when Civic
Club Members underwrote the
building of a fence around the
high school athletic field, the
barbecue has been a smash success each of the two years past.
Iri 19 54, approximately 2,000
turned out for the feast ^ . . and
last year the crowd swelled to
near 3,000.
It's hoped that this year's
barbecue will be equally successful, and then some. If the crowd
turns out as expected, this year
should see the fence debt wiped
out . . . and a net surplus to
boot, for future projects.
The feasting will start at 4:3Q
p.m., at the Manchester High.
School athletic field . . . and it
will continue until the full crowd
has been fed. As an added attraction, there will be championship softball played on the
nearby high school diamond
starting at 7 p.m.
As before, the chicken will be
prepared Michigan State University style, over open pits of
glowing charcoal. This year the
original Civic Club chefs willbe
assisted by members of the
Manchester Junior Chamber of
Commerce.
Tickets to the barbecue may
be purchased at the barbecue
entrance . .4 . and earlier they
may be purchased from any local Civic Club or Junior Chamber of Commerce member/
General chairmen of this
year's barbecue are Lutey Klager andJBLollie Grossman.
No Fall Decision Expected
On Second Probate Judge
The question of a second probate judgeship for JWashtenaw
Cotxnty pifoBlBly will not appear on the ballot in November
unless the job survey of county employees just begun by a
Chicago firm takes less than
the time anticipated to complete
it.
The Board of Supervisors at
their meeting July 10 unan-
amously approved the report of
the Probate Court Committee of
the Board to defer the matter
until sufficient information is
available on the work load and
the procedure in the Probate
Court to definitely determine
whether or not such a need
[exists. The job survey in the
county will include the Probate
Court, and questionaires have
been sent out this week to all
county employees. -The report
cf the Chicago firm making the
survey will go to the Board of
Supervisors, and is expected to
take three months to complete.
A request from the Erwin
Prieskorn Post of the American
Legion and the Washtenaw
County Council of Veterans was
made ■ recently to the Supervisors to put the matter before
the voters in November. •
- A second judge of the Probate Court is mandatory when
the population in a county
reaches 200,000. The la§t census taken in Washtenaw County
was in 1950 and the amount "was
134,000.
HAVING-CONQUERED THE MANCHESTER GIRLS, these In last Week's triumph, Martha Lee Hoey; at the right in the
Dexter sandlot lassies gathered in triumph last-week for a victory baek „&, belted out a total of four home runs in five times at
photo.   Coiaehed by I>anny NutOe, at the left, the  summer reo- ^.a. „njtt,„x._ »_ __-       jl«. *.»    *__    _. __._      _■_.
* - ..     . ' ..       ,   -,   "^^        Vo_» _.  i_     i_ -_j. _*  b ■"a*» an" Mary *o Coy, standing at,the coach's side, toted up three
reation team racked up a score of 30 runs to Manchester.s 8 .    . ~   - ■   -      .,       '        ■' & ""^r*** aM"7». •y^ "*• ""**«?
for what seemed to be a clear margin of superiority.   But the J"**58 «"d * hoWer ™ &ve ^P8 to *&« P1**®-
issue is now a bit clouded .    .    for Manchester came back Tues- Bown front arc 3ixa DeVine and Tom Hoy, who coached at
day and beat the Dreadnaught girls 25 -17.     " the bases.