1956-08-09; Reporter

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VOL. 9, NO. 47 — THURSDAY, AUGUST 9,1956
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From All Around Washtenaw
If you want "to take one last
fond, reminiscent look at our
old county fairgrounds, this'
week is the perfect time to do
it. The annual County 4-H
Show is in full swing at the
grounds today and tomorrow,
and we'll guarantee that you'll
be amazed at tlie liveliness and
color of the affair, even in those
dismal, ramshackle buildings,
soon to be torn down.   .
Our Washtenaw 4 - H* young
folks have a way of transforming the place during their big
showing.
And that's not all they're
doing these days. They're showing lots of spunk and spirit with
their money - raising projects
to help pay for the new rural
activities building which someday soon will take ,the place of
the old fairground structures.
Putting on everything from
bake sales to ice cream socials
the young 4 - Her's and their
leaders are showing that they
want that building enough to
work for it.
We can be proud of those
young ones!
Arid here's another couple of
"young folks'" in whom we can
all take pride:
It's a long, long flight of
stairs that leads up to the polling place for Precinct No. 1 in
Saline. Climbing those stairs
is enough to "make even an
athlete puff a little bit. But
among the first to show up on
election morning last Tuesday
were Mrs. Fredericka Josenhans
McBride and William Balr, both
of whom are 95 years of age.
They both cast their ballots, and
Mrs. McBride reminisced a bit
about the year Grafit was elected. And you can wager that
both will take part in the election of November.
But someday . . . for the
sake of all of .us . . . we hope
the city offices and the polling
place can be moved to a downstairs location.
We're still getting interested
comment from readers on the
planting bee held earlier in the
summer at the Ellsworth Lindsley farm. Along with all the
plaudits handed out to those
who helped at the bee, one
reader thinks we ought,to pass
PREVIEWS OF THE 1856 WASHTENAW COUNT¥ 4-H
SHOW! The show was just getting under way at the county fairgrounds in Ann Arbor Wednesday, as The Reporter was going to
press*. . but here are just two preview shots of the fun and
excitement to bf found during the four - day exhibition. Our advice is to attend the show. . then to check next week's Reporter
for complete pictorial coverage.
one out to .Albert Hess, jr., of
Saline. It was Hess who discovered Lindsley pinned under
his overturned tractor and-made
possible his rescue.
Johnny Walz, of Manchester,
passed quite a sizeable milestone in his life last Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. Walz have four
daughters . . . and it was
last Saturday that beautiful
Carol, daughter No. 4, got married. The old Reporter, staggering under the strain of helping to raise just two girls', wonders just what Johnny's feelings
were. Certainly, along with all
our sympathy for having lost all
those handsome daughters, he
also rates a hearty round of congratulations from us menfolks.
Civic progress in Saline, Dexter and Manchester is making
drivers follow little - traveled
side streets these days. In Saline, new water mains are being
laid, and the resulting detours
are many and interesting . .
and at times it looks like the
downtown' section is being attacked by enemy tanks, with all
the heavy rolling equipment on
hand to do the job.
Over Manchester way, the
lines are going in for the new
sewage system . . also calling
for some ingenuity^ on the part
of drivers through town. And.
Bill Merriman, -with his gas
station located pretty much in
the midst of it all, says, "I'll
soon know just who all my really customers are . . when
they have to back into my
station to get their gas."
And Dexter folks are bearing
a few scars, as ^...result qtjh.eii:,
progress too. Or maybe .those
aren't scars . . but merely the
marks of having gone bathless
during yesterday's water cutoff. Crews digging deep on "C"
Street, to lay the foundation for
a new paving job, cut the water
line and denied folks in that
neighborhood the blessings of
city water for a spell. Hope
when they repair the break,
they can hook the line up to
something that tastes better
than the- imfamous Dexter wa
ter.
COMBINING BEE
HELD FRIDAY AT
SIMON BRAUNS'
SALINE — Simon Braun,
*Willow Road farmer, died last
week and was buried on Friday.
Funeral rites featured an ele-
quent tribute to the man and
his life. . .. but every bit as
elequent was something that
happened that morning at the
Braun farm.
While funeral preparations
were under way, four of the
Brauns' neighbors . . . Don
Bassett, Norman Behnett, Dave
Hoeft and ClauSe Gilbert.. . .
gathered at the Braun farm
with their tractors and combines And in two hours of intensive work, the crew had combined 20 acres of oats . . .
for the widow and family of
Simon Braun.
Dexter Lutherans i
Worship Sunday
In New Church
DlSXTER — Services will be
conducted Sunday for the first
time iiji"the new Faith Lutheran
Chapel on Baker "Road. They
wjll begin at 11:00 fc.m. and
Rev. Nelson Spaude will occupy
-tlierpulpit.
- The parsonage and chapel
building, are not yet competed.
Most of the work on the chapel
part of "the structure is finished
but 'it will be fall before the
parsonage is ready for occupancy. At that line the congregation expects to have a new
minister for the parish.
Rev. Spaude of the Darlington Lutheran Church, East Ann
Arbor, has been serving the
parish since Rev. Demcak was
assigned to a Wisconsin church
in June 1955.
Voting Supports
IJSON1VEDDER, TAXPAYER, gets ready,
to vote last Tuesday's primary election. Ved-!
der, a voter in Saline's first precinct, was one of
the thousands of Washtenaw County residents
to take part in the comparatively unexciting, but
non.lheless necessary, primary balloting.
Jaycees Invitin
Queen Aspirants
SALENE—The Junior Chamber of Commerce here hgs announced that the organization
will sponsor another beauty contest this fall, to select a queen
to reign over the Saline Fair
and to represent the community
at the Michigan State Fair
queen contest in 1957.  :
The contest is open to single
girls between the ages of 16-
24 inclusive. They must live in
the Saline Area School District.
Contestants are asked to fill out
the entry blank below, and mail
it with one recent photograph
to James Beal, Box 222, Saline.
Entries must be made ho later
than September 7.
The Jaycees have sponsored
beauty contests and queens at
the fair for the past seven years
As in the past, the sponsors and
local merchants will offer prizes
to the winner. -•
Mary Meister was queen in
1955, and Nancy Ross got the
crown in 1954. Others have included Ann Taylor and Jackie
Mitchell. None has ever received the state crown . . .
but Saline folks are sure that
several of teem should have
and will!
Altar Society Of
Dexter Plans
Hospital Party
DEXTER — The Altar Society of St Joseph's Catholic
Church will give the birthday
party at the Washtenaw County
Hospital, August 14.
The parties are given for the-
patients.at the hospital to honor those having a-birthday during the month.
Mrs. Ed "Lucy and Mrs. Roy
Lindsay are- in charge of the
program, and Mrs. A. G. Wall
is chairman of the refreshment
committee.
Queen Contest
Entry Blank
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At State Holstein Show—
Dairymen Score High
Y/ashtenaw County entries
compiled outstanding performances in the state - wide Black
and White Show last week in
East Lansing. Paced by Howard Wilkie, of Milan, the Washtenaw Holstein dairy farmers
took numerous honors in competition with the "cream" of
Michigan's Holstein herds.
Wilkie came home with a
first - place ranking in the
junior calf class, and a nice
fist - full of lower ranking
In fitting and showing, Washtenaw's juniors placed well in a
large class. Peter Spike, Milan,
took a fourth ranking . . .
Harry Macomber, .Ann Arbor,
took sixth . . . and Karen
Girbach placed 13th.
The state - wide contest followed closely after the Wayne-
Washtenaw competition held
this year at the Dr. L. G. Steiner farm, Saline. Results of that
show are"1 listed on-Page 6 of
this issue.
-   HALING IS A MIGHTY HOT JOB, so when
ih.te's need for a bit of reepair work, Armin
Kuhl, ot Chelsea,   is   very happy to
•breather in a shady, corner of the field.
Balloting in Washtenaw
County last Tuesday ... in
a primary election which saw
voters heavily outnumbered by
election officials in most precincts throughout the day . .
produced results pretty much in
line with pre - vote forecasts.
Reflecting a state - wide trend
Detroit's Mayor Albert Cobo
came within a few hundred
votes of a two - to - one margin
over his Republican rival Donald Leonard. .The vote in Washtenaw County was tabulated
unofficially at 7,422 to 4,016 in
favor of Cobo . . and the state
vote, followed about this same
proportion. Thus Gobo has the
-challenging ta'sk of heading off
Governor G. Mennen A¥illiams,
the state Democratic standard-
bearer, in his November quest
of an unprecedented fifth term
in office. -
In an equally challenging
task . . that of dislodging Republican Congressman George
Meader from his 2nd Congressional District seat . . Alice
Filey, Democratic aspirant,
made a suprisingly strong showing. In Washtenaw County she
outran her favored rival, Shepherd, 1,903 to 1,639 . . but the
district- -_ wide vote, covering
areas in which she was relatively unknown, gave. Shepherd
the victory at 4,086 to 3,653. "
' "-'T&e* race-.for- state senator
gave"-' 'theA.iii*«i"?"t6 incumbent
Lewis Chrisman over rival John
Campbell, 5,583 to 4,043.
First District state representative George Sallade gained
a healthy margin over rival
Scheel, 3, 956 to 1,688 . . but
in the wide - open Second District race the voting was a bit
closer. James Warner got the
decision over his four Republican rivals, and A. P. Minnick
got the nod in the Democratic
race. Warner's tally was 2,118.
Nearest rival was Mrs. Beth
Milford with 1,432. Close behind her was Donald Ehle with
1,253. . William Bowling garnered ,172 votes, and Harry
Brothers got 364.
Incumbent John Conlin, and
Loren Campbell, were front-
runners in the battle for places
on the November ballot for
probate, judge. In the nonpartisan race Judge Conlin
gained 6,660 votes for the short
term and 5,664 votes for the
long term. Campbell took 3,815
votes for the short term and
3,266 for the long.
Also - rans were led by Rodney H u t c h i n s o n, with 2,137
votes for the short term and
l,j331 for the long. Ralph Keyes
earned 2,088 votes for the long
term, and George Scheman took
374.
In the Republican * race for
nomination, for comity, sheriff,
incumbent Erwin Klager took a
heavy margin over Harry Gen-
sler„ 8,394 to 2,476 . . thus
giving him the expected place
on the November ballot, plus
the distinction, of leading the
entire rG. O. P. ticket in popular
voting in the county.
All figures are unofficial returns as tallied at the county
clerk's office Wednesday morn-
Dog Wanders 80 Mies
A 3 - year - old £ollie named
Prince" got a touch of wanderlust- and took an eighty mile
trip.. ~   ... yJc-. i
Prince was gone_.eight days
when his owner got a call from
a.ygaan.Jn„^tejn^^>,R._L —
eighty miles away—that Prince
was there. The dog's address
was on his tag. The dog was
brought home and seemed con-
take a tent to stay around — for a
while, anyway.
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