1957-02-27; Reporter

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VOL. 10, NO. 24 — WEDNESDAY, FEB. 27, 1957
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Couple Will Mark
60th Anniversary
SALINE — Mr. and Mrs.
Frank Daniels, of 9085 Macon
Road, will be honored this Sim-
day in anticipation of their 60th
wedding anniversary. Actual
date of the big anniversary is
Feb. 28. The celebration being
held this Sunday will also honor
the couple's grandson, Alfred
Daniels, of Saline. Alfred is
scheduled to enter the army on
March 20.
Friends and relatives of the
couple will gather at the Tri-
County Sportsman's Club at 2
p.m. for the party. It is expected that all living descendants of the couple' will be oh
hand. These include their son,
.Raymond, of Saline, and his
family, and their grandson,
Donald Daniels, also of Saline,
and his family.
In all, nine grandchildren and
five great-grandchildren are expected. Raymond Daniels is the
couple's only' living child. A
daughter, Mrs. Gladys Plont,
passed away seven years ago.-
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Daniels
were married in Ann Arbor in
189T. Presiding at the wedding
was the Rev. Caldwell, the same
minister who had married Mrs.
Daniels'' father and mother
years before.
Mrs. Daniels was the former
Mattie Rogers, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. L. G. Rogers. She was
born in 1875 on the Rogers
farm, on the Ann Arbor-Saline
Road in Lodi Township. She received her schooling at the Lodi
Plains School which still stands-
today. |
Mr. Daniels was Dorn in New
York state in 1869. His parents
came to Michigan 72 years ago
and settled in this area.
Following their wedding before the turn of the century, the
Daniels lived on the farm for a
year, then moved to Saline. For
a time, Daniels worked with a
firm manufacturing cement
blocks . . . then for 18 years he
was employed by the local grain
elevator, first when it was owned by the Kuhl Brothers firm,
and later when it became today's Saline Mercantile.
During one period in their
married life, the Daniels owned
and farmed a 33-acre plot of
land on West Bennett Street.. .
an area which now has been subdivided and is rapidly "growing" houses where the Daniels
crops used to grow.
Later the couple moved to a
farm in the Shaw School District, south of town.     And 22
years ago they moved to their
present home on the Macon
Road.
Mr. Daniels is 87 years of age,
and his wife is 82. Although
they retired from active farming more than two decades ago,
they both keep quite busy even
today. Mrs. Daniels gets great
enjoyment from her crocheting.
"Especially from the things I
crochet for my grandchildren's
hope chests," she says.
Mr. Daniels still maintains
his interest in making things
grow. His garden, and especially
his flowers, are major sources
of pride and enjoyment for him
each year.
And from the- wisdom which
they have accumulated during
60 years of happy married life,
they have this one piece of advice for today's young people:
"Just be sure that you make
the right choice of a person to
marry."
PLAN DANCE
TO BENEFIT
Start Work On
New Dexter
Post Office   -
DEXTER — Footings were
laid last "Monday for the aew
post office here. The planned
new building on Baker Road,
just south of Ann Arbor Street,
has a completion date for August 1, but this week Postmaster
Horace Lickley estimated that
the job might be finished a
month ahead of that date.
Plans for the new building
call for a 30-foot width and a
60-foot depth, which will give
50 per cent more space than is
available in the present "post
office.. The building will feature
a brick" front... with access to
the rear for mail trucks and
rural route carriers.
The Dan Young Construction
Co. is contractor.
MANCHESTER — All proceeds from the benefit dance to
be given in the Civic Auditorium
on March 2 will be contributed
to the March of Dimes to aid
polio patients.
Dick Bogg and his orchestra,
from Ann Arbor, will play for
dancing between 9 p.m. and 12
midnight.
The music for this occasion is
provided by the Cooperation of
Local 625, American Federation
of Musicians through a grant by
the music performance trust
fund of the recording industry.
No price has been set for tickets for the dance, and patrons
will be asked to make a suitable
contribution at the door. This is
the third year that a "dance
for polio" has been held at the
high sehool. Last year, $100 was
contributed to the polio fund
from the dance.
David Boutell is chairman of
the senior class committee in
charge of arrangements. Others
working on the project include:
Bill Wheeler, Becky McAtee,
Joyce Binkowski, Pete Kensler,
Joan Evilsizer and Chris Gal-
inis.
The dance is open to the public.
March 7 Date for
Opening Bids on
New Dexter High
DEXTER — A large number
of bids from contractors in this
area and out of the state are
expected to be submitted for the
new high school building. Bids
will be opened at 8 p. m., at
Bates Elementary School, March
7. Cost for the building, equipment and fees is estimated at
$1,250,000. - Plans for the sen-
idr high school building call for
30 "teacher stations and an all-
purpose room. 	
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THE LORD'S PRAYER, beautifully hand-crocheted by
Mrs. Irene Crittenden, of Saline, will shortly be decorating
the altar of a church in flood-stricken Hazard, Kentucky. It
took Mrs. Crittenden two months to complete the work
of art.
The Saline area resident for years has made a hobby of
her crochet work . . . and the altar piece which she recently'
completed is likely her masterpiece.
Posing with the crocheted prayer is Mrs. Opal Hurt, an
Ypsilanti resident who originally came from the Hazard
community in Kentucky. Mrs. Crittenden has given the
altar piece to Mrs. Hurt to be taken south on her next trip.
Her work makes a handsome "starter" for a congregation which was deeply ravaged by the recent floods. And it's
just one small item in a host of gifts which Washtenaw folks
have donated to the flood-stricken area in recent weeks.
Renz Tractor Fire.
Put Out By Dexter
Fire -Department
DEXTER — The Dexter fire
department was called to the
home of Alfred Renz, Scio
Church Rd., at 10 a.m., Feb. 23.
Renz's tractor had caught fire
perilously near the barn but had
been moved quickly to keep .the
building from catching fire.
Damage to the tractor was estimated by Art Lovell, fire chief,
as approximately $500. Spilled
gasoline on the manifold was
thought to be the cause of the
fire.
The Dexter    crew   answered
the call and put out the blaze ]
despite the fact that it lay just
outside the territory covered by
the department.
Dexter Study Club
Guest Night To
Feature Dr. Law
DEXTER — Dr. .John L. Law,
of Ann Arbor, well-known pediatrician, will be the speaker at a
guest-night program of the
Child Study Club at 8 p. m.,
March 5. The meeting will be
held at the Bates Elementary
School.
Members arfe asked to bring
one guest to the meeting. Reservations for guests should be
made by calling Mrs. Carl Hopper, HA 6-4472.   .
MANCHESTER
BLOODMOBILE
DUE MARCH 15
MANCHESTER — A group
of 16 local women, headed by
Mrs. Alvin Clark, next week will
begin recruiting donors for the
forthcoming blood bank in Manchester.
Working by phone to line up
prospective donors will be. Mrs.
Carl Schaible, Mrs. Ray Neuderfer, Mrs. Marvin Oates, Mrs.
Fred Alber, Mrs. Basil Schwab.
Also Mrs. Robert Ahrens,
Mrs. Don Sutton, Mrs. Robert
Popkey, Mrs. Phillip Kern, Mrs.
Ed Steele, Jr., Mrs. Homer Fish,
Mrs. Charles Steele, Mrs. Walter
Vogt, Mrs. Victor Hannaman
and Mrs. Frank Tirb.
The Red Cross Bloodmobile is
scheduled to be located at the
Emanuel Church hall here on
March 15, and donors will be
processed from 1:30 to 3:30 and
from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m.
Week-End Guests
DEXTER — Mr. and„Mrs. J.
A. Cunningham, of Detroit, parents of Mrs. Martin Lee, were
week-end guests of Mr. and Mrs.
Lee. Mrs. Cunningham has just
returned from Florida, where
she has been vacationing since
Christmas.
Saline C of C
Plans Annual
Dinner-Meet
SALINE — At a meeting of
the Chamber of Commerce last
Monday night at the Legion
Home, preliminary plans were
laid for a dinner meeting to be
held March 25 at Still's Restaurant. Officers fpr the coming
year will be elected and installed
at this session.
The chamber's retail promotion committee headed by Eathern Roark, was instructed to
start work on a "welcome pamphlet" designed to be sent out
to new residents in the Saline
area, telling them of the many
advantages which this community offers.
The organization also appropriated up to $150 of local
Chamber of Commerce funds
for the coming summer recreation program in Saline. According to Larry Deede, C. of C.
president, the basketball game
last Sunday at Saline High . . .
purpose of which was to raise
funds for the summer recreation program . . . netted $12.10.
Manchester Youth
In Serious Shape
After Crash       \
MANCHESTER — Bill Allen,
1_0, a Manchester youth, remained in serious 'condition at University Hospital, Ann Arbor,
last week, as a result of an accident February 15, when the
car in which he was riding, driven by Joseph Hassett, 20, passed a school bus and hit a concrete abuttment near Pinckney.
Bill received a fractured^ skull
and severe cuts on the head and
face when his head was thrown
against the windshield. Hassett
has a fractured jaw. Another
passenger, Gary McMillen, 15
received a cut eye and chipped
wrist bone and bruised foot.
All three youths are from
Manchester and were all taken
to the University Hospit.il.
20th Century Club
Postpones Annual
Dinner Meeting
MANCHESTER — The dinner meetipg of the Twentieth
Century Club, scheduled for
March 5, has been postponed
until the end of the season. This
is the annual party at which
members entertain their husbands.
The next meeting of the group
will be held at the high school
on March 19. The club will entertain the local girl scouts at
this meeting.
LEAVE CITY    .
SALINE —Mr. and Mrs. Donald Perry, and their son William, left the city Monday to
make their home in Tennessee.
They have been Saline residents
for the past five years.
DEXTER UNITED COMMUNITY CHEST SCHEDULES
MEETING FRIDAY NIGHT—EVERYONE INVITED
SCHAIBLE HOME
MANCHESTER-HCarl Schaible returned home" from University Hospital last Saturday. He
expects to have his leg in a cast
for about six months* more.
Schaible has been under treatment since an automobile accident three years ago.
DEXTER — Everyone in the
Dexter Area School District whp
is interested in the formation of
a Dexter United -Community.
Chest is urged to attend a "public meeting to be held this Friday evening, March 1, at the
Bates Elementary School.
Still in the formative stage,
the group planning the Dexter
Chest organization met last
Wednesday, chose a name, and
laid plans for next Friday's session.
Virgil Walling has been
named chairman of the founding group . . . Al Samborn is
vice-chairman, and Mrs. Francis
Wheeler is serving as secretary.
A group of people chosen to
represent various segments of
the population in the district has
been contacted and invited toi
serve as directors of the organization during its policy-making
and planning phase.
These are:
Howard Cribley, George Dietz,
Rob'ert McFarlane, Charles
Steinbach, J. Art Lovell, Robert
Bock, the Rev. M. W. Eaton, the
Rev. A. P. Rickard, Floyd
Boyce, Carl Mast, Wes Amsdill.
Also Ray Williams, James McMahon, Mrs. Paul Nuttle, Mrs..
Malcolm Blakely, Mrs. Yates
Kennedy. Mrs. William Wall,
Vincent LaRosa, Martin Lee,
Mrs,. C. .C. Poppenger, Paul Bos-
el, Mrs. Richard Huston and
John Hoey.
The meeting Friday night is
scheduled to start at 8 p.m.
Big Rural Turnout Is Urged
For This Decisive Session
ANN ARBOR — The site of a
proposed new agricultural build-1
ing for 4-H Club work and other I
rural activities will be decided J
at a public meeting of the Wash-'!
tenaw Farm Council to be held
Thursday night   of   this week,
Feb. 28. The crucial session is
scheduled for the basement of
the County Building in Ann Arbor, starting at 8:30 p.m.
Leroy Heller, chairman of the
sit committee and a director of
the Washtenaw County Farm
Council, said last week that the
Farm Council Board of Direc
tors is recommending as desirable the two sites on Zeeb road
on which the site committee has
options.
The recommended sites are a
20-acre plot south of US-12 and
one from 20 to 57 acres, as desired, to the north of US-12.
Both have been approved by the
Washtenaw County Board of
Health as to sanitary facilities
and both are also considered desirable locations for a future
Farm Bureau office building.
The Farm Bureau has been
working with the site committee
FARMERS' NIGHT IN MANCHESTER
FEATURES TALKS BY M.S.U. MAN
MANCHESTER — Dr.-Paul
Miller, director of the Extension
Department at Michigan State
University, used an old English
quote . . . "No man is an island" ... to bring home to a
Manchester audience of farmers
and businessmen the interdependence of all groups, rural
and urban, making up the population of Michigan. He spoke at
the annual Civic Club Farmers
SHOTS GIVEN
TO 526 IN
DEXTER CLINIC
DEXTER — The annual immunization clinic treated 526
children in the Bates Elementary School on Monday, February 25,1957.
Mrs. Catherine Gaskell of the
Washtenaw County Health Department was assisted by three
nurses: Mrs. John E. Malley,
Mrs. John Ritchie, and Mrs.
Norman Wildner.
Mrs. Munnis J. Kenny acted
as chairman for organizing the
following mothers as helpers
from the Dexter P.T.A.: Mrs.
Arthur Doletzky, Mrs. Virgil L.
Walling, Mrs. Paul E. Nuttle,
Mrs. Mildred Wheeler, Mrs. Robert Rentschler, Mrs. Otto Hilts,
Mrs. Walter Koch, Mrs. D. F.
Belt, Mrs. Harold W. Guenther,
Mrs. Maurice Doll, Mrs. Louis
Devine, Mrs. LeRoy A. Mosher,
Mrs. Edward J. Sullivan, Mrs.
Leo J. Dunlavy, Mrs. Charles T.
Wiedman, Jr., and Mrs. Edwin
Ehnis.
Children from the Sullivan
School district who were includ
ed in the Dexter Clinic were assisted by mothers from that district. Mrs.--John Napier, chairman, was aided by Mrs. Bruce
Clark, Mrs. John Klohs, Mrs.
John Wallace and Mrs. Louis
Boone.
The school served coffee and
rolls to the workers who assisted at the school.
Night session held Monday at
the Emanuel Church hall.
Miller's audience of 80 local
businessmen and-farmers heard
him outline the sweeping
changes which are taking place
today in Michigan agriculture.
He spoke of the trend to larger
and fewer farms, of the increasing take-over of farm lands by
highways and residential areas,
the continuing mechanization of
farm operations . . . also of continuing farm surpluses which
up to the present have been only
partly offset by the country's
growing population.
"The challenges which these
changes present," Dr. Miller emphasized, "can best be met by
putting that old English quotation into action, with community service,  generously given."
The Civic Club event also
featured music presented by the
Manchester High School chorus
under the direction ' of Lester
Watkins.
Duhan, Miller
Attend Meets
In Washington
Robert Duhan, principal of
the Manchester High School, and
Raymond Miller, principal of the
bexter High School, were among
the. group from this area who
attended the National Secondary School Association Meetings
in Washington, D. C, this week.
They plan to return today.
WEIGHT LIMIT
IN FORCE
ON OUR ROADS
Weight restrictions went into
effect on county roads at 6 a.m.,
Feb. 26. The restrictions cut the
loads on country roads about 35
per cent of normal weight.
When the distance between
axles on trucks is nine ft. or
over, the allowed weight is 11,-
700 lbs. per axle, on all county
roads.
When the distance between
axles is more than three and
one-half ft. " but less than nine
ft, the allowed weight is 8,450
lbs. per axle.
Restrictions are placed on the
weight of. loads annually to preserve the roads during the
spring breakup.
in the Farm Bureau's effort to
select a location for its proposed
new office. It is deemed advisable to have the Farm Bureau
office adjacent to the proposed
new agricultural building for
mutual advantages to both
groups interested. The Farm Bureau, according to present plans,
will purchase one acre of ground
from whichever site is decided
upon Thursday night.
If the new agricultural building is erected on a site other
than the former county fairgrounds at Ann Arbor, the Ann
Arbor City Council has agreed,
the rural interests will be reimbursed the $15,000 paid for a
99-year lease on six acres of the
old fairgrounds, originally intended as the site for the new
building.
Rural residents working'
through the Washtenaw County
Farm Council, have stated from
the beginning that the Ann Arbor site was inadequate.
With .the $15,000 reimbursement added to the $73,000 now
in the Farm Council treasury,
the site and new building would
be paid for.
The $73,000 represents $60,-
000 which rural interests received as their share of the proceeds from the sale of the fairgrounds to the City of Ann Arbor, together with proceeds of
chicken barbecues and other
fund-raising projects carried on
by various groups.-
Sewage facilities costs for
either of the Zeeb road sites
have been estimated to be approximately $1,200, complete, as
compared with quotations of $10
per foot for the 585 feet which
would be necessary on the fairgrounds site at Ann Arbor.
Additional expense- on . the
Ann Arbor site would include
sharing costs of sidewalks, curbing and eventual resurfacing tit
Dexter avenue adjacent to the
old fairgrounds.      * /
Everyone interested iir the
proposed 4-H and agrictiltural
building program should |?lan to
attend the meeting next! Thursday, Heller said, since the decision to be made then is of importance not only -to. present
residents of the county but to
future generations as well.
SALINE — The Junior High
School basketball team will play
Chelsea here at 4 p. m„ Feb.
27,- in the high school gymnasium. This is the last game of
the season.   •
DEXTER CO-OP
ANNUAL
DINNER SET
DEXTER — John Ferris, of
Michigan State University, will
be the featured speaker at the
annual dinner of the Dexter Cooperative at 12:30 p.m., Feb. 28,
at the Methodist Church. A
total of 175 reservations have
been made for the dinner.
Election of three trustees will
be" held at the business meeting
following the dinner..Terms of
Robert Gilbert, Arthur Schair-
er and Ezra Lesser have expired. Terms of the president, secretary and treasurer will not expire for two years, since they,
were elected last- year. Carl
Mast is president; Karl Geiger
is secretary and Milton Hoffman, treasurer and manager.
Manchester Couple
Observes 51st
Wedding March 7th
MANCHESTER — Mr. and
Mrs. Ernest Clark, 17970 English Rd., will observe their fifty-
first wedding anniversary quietly on March 7. The couple was
married in Freedom Township,
March 7, 1906.' They have two
sons, Erwin, of Ann Arbor, and
John, of Brooklyn; and one
granddaughter.
Mr. and Mrs. Clark moved into their new home oh English
Rd. last August. Their former
home at the same address was
completely destroyed by fire on
May 7, 1956, and among the
prized possessions which they
lost were the gifts they received
on their fiftieth wedding anniversary.
ENJOY TALK
SA__JNE—The Saline Rotary
Club on Thursday last, enjoyed
a talk by an Ann Arbor'Boy
Scout who traveled to Alaska.
He also showed pictures of his
trip. Tomorrow's Rotary program is under the supervision of
Art Moehn.
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