1957-08-21; Reporter

              PHONE NEWS, ADS
NO 3-4066
THE IMPORTER
VOLUME 10, NUMBER 48—WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 21, 1957.
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Big Roster Of Prizes
Grows Even Bigger
For '57 Miss Saline
SALINE — Merritt Martin,
Jr., chairman of the Jaycee
committee in charge of the 1957
Miss Saline Contest, announced
this week that Don Bailey, popular Ann Arbor entertainer, has
been named master of ceremonies for the crowning of the
queen. The big event is scheduled for September 13, at the Saline Community Fair.
Martin also announced that
additional prizes have been
-garnered for the queen . . over
and above the list published last
week. In addition to their original prizes, Walker's 5c-$l Store
has offered a pair of nylon hose
. . Giltrow's Pharmacy has volunteered a bottle of perfume . .
and Hoeft's Gulf Station, Ted's
Service, and Graf Gulf Service
have all contributed cash prizes.
All prizes turned in so far
have been placed on display at
Giltrow's Pharmacy. Also included in the display are pictures of all Saline queens in
years past.
Judging in the contest has
been scheduled tentatively for
Thursday afternoon, September
12, at the Legion Home in
Saline.
Martin, along with Jim Beal
and Bob Katz, members of the
contest committee, emphasize
that the deadline for submitting entries is fast approaching.
The contest is open to young
women 16 to 24 years-of-age,
who are unmarried, and who are
residents of the Saline Area
School District or students of
the Saline   High   School.   The
entry blank should be mailed to
G. Merritt Martin, Box 564, not
later than midnight of September 5. The blank should be accompanied by one, or preferably
two, recent photos of the entry.
Photos become the property of
the Beauty Queen Committee
and cannot be returned.
The contest is being sponsored by the-Saline Junior Chamber of Commerce.
Sheep Breeders
Hold Meet At
Haists' Farm
CHELSEA — Sunday, August 18, the Black Top Delaino
Sheep Breeders' Association held
their 69th annual family pot
luck and business meeting, at
the home of Mr. and Mrs. Erwin
Haist, Jerusalem Road, with
41 in attendance.
After a delicious noon meal,
in the afternoon the business
meeting was conducted by the
president, L. H. Fields. Election of officers was on the
agenda with the following results: President, Erwin Haist;
Vice-president, Lawrence Sob^
er; Secretary and Treasurer,
Emerson Richards.
George Haist and son.Erwin,
and also grandson Kenneth
Haist, are all members of this
organization.
The gathering concluded in
the late* afternoon, everyone
happy and reacty for another
'year's work.
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RUTH QUEEN CONTEST NARROWS
TO SIX; FINALS SET FOR FRIDAY
ANN ARBOR — Poise,- personality and beauty, in that
order, will be the requirements
of six teen age girls competing
for the Miss Babe Ruth title
during the Babe Ruth World
Series being held in Ann Arbor
this week.
The entries will be interviewed by the judges at noon Friday with the final judging and
crowning taking place between
games in the afternoon.
The entries are: Miss Pat
Squires, 15, representing - the
Huron Valley League; Miss Pat
Ransdell, 15, of Berkeley; Miss
Lynn Corvette, 13, of Lincoln
Park; Miss Beverly Murrell and
Miss Kerill Kaiser, both 15, and
both of Ypsilanti, and Miss
Linda Doyle, of Walled Lake.
The winning contestant will
be presented a loving cup by the
judges and all six entries will
receive prizes. .The girls will be
dressed in formals and the five
runners-up to the queen will
makeup her court.
The judge's are: Bob Feller, of
professional baseball fame; Pete
Mosher, national president of
the Babe Ruth League, and Mrs.
Irene Connors, of Ann   Arbor,
who was chosen Miss South Dakota in 1950 and was runner-up
to Miss America in the same
year.
There will be no Miss Babe
Ruth entries from states other
than Michigan.
WASHTENAW'S 4-H SHOW last   week   involved   all «•
kinds of strenuous activity on .the part of our young -folks-. >'Mk
and John Kingsley, of Dexter, was just one of many who were
glad to take advantage of a short lull in the program for a
"calf-nap". The -handy eye-shapes, distributed   by   WPAG's
Howard Heath, were tailor-made for the job.
On Page 5 of this issue, a partial list of winning entries
at the show is featured. Ordinarily the list would   be   com
plete . . but this is no ordinary week. After all the work of
_ygaiii2iing.,the 4-H event last week, the staff at the County
Extension Office yesterday" Had ihe jol. of flaying, host* to
several thousand farmers from throughout Michigan and
neighboring states in the annual slate Farm Management
Tour. There has been no time, as a result, to compile the
complete list of 4-H winners.
We'll have the complete listing in next week's Reporter.
alarms, false |Cit   Council Denies
ALARMS ALERT J
Rezoning Bid; Hikes
Full-Time Pay Rates
FIRE FIGHTERS
DEXTER    --    A    rash     of
alarms and false alarms alerted
the Dexter Volunteer Fire Department Monday and Tuesday.
-Definitely not false was a call
to the Hoey Lumber Company,
in Dexter, at 11:30 a.m. Monday
morning - where 9an electric
motor in the feed mill overheated. The motor was flaming when
firemen reached the scene but
no damage was done other than
to the motor itself. There was
a brief but real fear that the
fire might ignite the chaff and
dust and spread over the entire
mill.
The Dexter Volunteers responded to a call about a grass
fire near the Industrial Tectonics on Jackson Road yesterday
afternoon. The blaze proved to
be a small pne, life and property were not endangered, and no
damage was reported.
"ANY DEER" SEASON PROVISIONS
DETAILED BY CONSERVATION
LANSING — Michigan's 1957
deer hunting regulations, as
approved recently by the state
Conservation Commission, provide for special seasons in 32
designated food shortage and
crop damage areas.
The Commission action is
subject to review by the legislative joint "interim committee
on administrative rules.
At its August 8-9 meeting at
Higgins Lake, tlie Commission
approved a plan for harvesting
18,450 deer of any age, either
sex during the special seasons.
As in 1956, the special seasons would operate on an area
and quota basis, with a total of
60,340 permits issued to hunters-
for the "any deer" seasons. Last
year, 12,729 deer were taken by
special season hunters.
The 1957 regulations include
"any deer" seasons in five ayeas
of the upper peninsula, 26 areas
in the northern lower peninsula
and one area in the southern
lower peninsula.
Special seasons in all of the
U. P. areas and in 13 of the
northern lower peninsula areas
would J_e concurrent with the
regular November 15-30 "bucks
only" >season. A December 1-2
season would be held in the other 13 northern lower peninsula
areas and a December 1-8 season would he allowed for permit holders in the Allegan
county crop damage section.
The number of special areas
is increased from 22 last year to
32 this year
SALINE — The Saline City
Council turned down -by a 3-1
vote a request by Jim Gross for
a rezoning from multiple dwelling to commercial of the Herman Gross property on E. Michigan Avenue and Davenport
Street.
Gross said that he thought
the Council's decision was a
mistake and that he was puzzled over the outcome of the request because no reasons were
given by the dissenting council-
men for their rejection of the
request. He said that he has
made no plans to appeal the decision, that he would possibly
leave the situation right where
it now is for the time being.
Gross commented that he
thought the councilmen were
willing^to consider the proposal
but.he thought that they needed more time before approving
the rezoning move:
The Michigan Avenue area
was supposedly zoned commercial but; since no records could
be found confirming this, Gross
had planned to have a rezoning
measure approved, which would
allow him to lease the property
to Standard Oil Company for a
gas station. A Multiple dwelling
building still stands on the lot,,
but its use as a dwelling was
destroyed .when it was gutted by
fire recently. .
Gross 'said that he wanted to
talk to the dissenting council-
men to get their reasons for denying the request before he
made plans- for- any "further
moves. He explained that he had
not talked with his father,
Herman Gross, about the matter and that the two may possibly decide to drop the   whole
affair in the face of   the- City
Council's action.
In other action -at Monday
night's meeting, the City Council voted a 10 cents per hour
wage increase for all full-time
city employees, City Clerk E. J.
Muir reported.
CONSERVATION
OFFICERS NAB
338 OFFENDERS
* LANSING — State conservation officers made 338 arrests
during the month of June "and
more than 99 per cent of the
completed cases resulted in convictions.
Of the 338 cases, 327 ended in
convictions, one was dismissed
and 10 are incomplete 'to date.
The conservation law violators paid a total of $2922 in
fines, plus $2513 in court costs
in justice courts throughout
the state. Money from fines
goes to the library funds in the
county where the fine is assessed.
Approximately 87 per cent of
the arrests were the result of
violation of state fishing laws.
LANSING — Michigan forest
fire damage for the year reached a total of 5487 acres as 38
fires burned 52 acres during the
last week.
Largest losses during the
week were recorded in the
northern lower peninsula where
24 fires burned some 44 acres.
In the upper peninsula, 11 fires
damaged six acres. The southern lower peninsula reported!
three fifes with damage to
slightly less than two acres.
BROADCASTING TOWERS for Radio Station WOIA
were erected last week just
south of the station's studio
on Textile Road in Lodi
Township. Broadcasts from
the new station are scheduled
to start soon.
Bargain Days Set
Friday, Saturday
- - Rain Or Shine
Sponsors Foreign
Exchange Student
MANCHESTER — The
Emanuel EvangeUcal and Reformed Church in Manchester
will sponsor another foreign
exchange student during the
coming school year. Miss Elema
Romeno, of San Pedro Sula,
Honduras, Central America, will
be the guest of Mr. and Mrs.
Alfred Kuhl during her year's
stay in Manchester. The Kuhls
have a daughter, Katherine, and
both girls will be seniors at
Chelsea High School. The Kuhls
are active members of the
Emanuel Evangelical and Reformed Church in Manchester
and Miss Romeno also will be
an active member of that
church. i
Miss Romeno received her
first experience with young people in the United States last
Sunday. The Young Peoples
League of the- Bethel Church,
Freedom Township, invited the
same organization of the Evangelical and Reformed Church to
an outdoor picnic, 'entertainment, and vejsper services. -
Last year, the Evangelical5
and Reformed Church sponsored an exchange student from
Germany.
Bounties Total
$16,780 In June
LANSING — Hunters and
trappers collected $16,780 from
the State of Michigan during
June for foxes, coyotes and bobcats bountied.
The list of animals presented
for bounty included 3148 red
foxes, 49 coyotes and 38 bobcats.
All but six of the coyotes
were taken in the upper peninsula while foxes were bountied
generally throughout the state.
Bobcats are bountied only in the
U. P.
SALINE — Final preparations for a big Saline Sidewalk
Sale, planned for Friday and
Saturday of next week, are already under way. A meeting of
the-Chamber of Commerce committee in charge of the event
was held last Monday evening,
under the chairmanship j_f Howard Johnson .. . and a special
session of the Chamber's executive board that same evening
confirmed the recommendations of the committee.
As the name indicates, the
community-wide event will feature special displays of sale
merchandise set up on the sidewalks in the main business district of Saline. Many particjpat*
ing merchants have already in-/
dicated that they'-plan to pu*
real sigpifcarice into the event -
by emphasizing first-line goods
. . rather than "white elephants" . . in their sidewalk displays of marked-down items.
A holiday atmosphere for the
two-day event will be developed with banner posters which
will be displayed at participating stores . . and by counters
such as the one planned by
-Walker's Bakery..-,G_Qttlob Walker, the bakery proprietor, plans
to install a picnic table in front
of his store . . with coffee and
doughnuts for the refreshment
of the shoppers.
The banks in SaUne, • at the
center of town, have offered the
use of display space outside
their buildings, to merchants
whose stores lie out beyond the
sidewalks. The same is true of
L. Z. Still and his hotel on East
Michigan. At least a portion of
the hotel frontage will be available for display.
The Sidewalk Sale is an
"opening shot" in a continuing."
-series of year-round promotions which the Saline Chamber
of Comme_ce is mapping. The
event will be held, rain - or
shine.
Manchester Fair
Due Next Week
Farm Workday
Is Shorter
By cutting the time it takes to
do the chores, farmers are
shortening their working day.
According to a study made by
the U. S. Department of Agriculture, farmers averaged 10.7
hours work per day around
June 1 of this year. At the same
time in 1956 the average was
10.9 hours per day; and-in 1955
it was 11.2.
Increased sizes of herds and
flocks, improved building arrangement and use of more modern equipment have also helped
reduce the workday, the study
indicated. .
MANCHESTER — A greater
than ever effort and new attractions wiU be offered at this
year's Manchester Community
Fair- to be held from August 28-
31, inclusive.
The four-day event includes
plans for a parade on Thursday;
on Friday, a high-class Cooking
School will be held and will
j feature an atomic, range and
other new cooking equipment
| and methods. A steer judging
I event is also scheduled, followed by a"" Junior Tractor Backing
Contest. In the evening, visitors
to the annual, fair will be treated to a display of fireworks.
. A steer auction will be held
nn Saturday foUowed by a
horse show. This show merits
the attention of every horse
lover in Michigan because the
combined offerings of the two
local stables,. Oklahoma and
Hoot 'n' Holler, wiU highUght
the show. These horses-will also lead the Thursday parade.
During the entire fair, /concessions of the Downriver   Carnival win be on hand to delight
young and old alike.
In addition, the senior class of
Manchester   High School /will
operate a restaurant stand, as
in previous years, which will be
managed and supervised by the
parents of the class members.
An event which is new to
the Manchester Fair, but which
has proved interesting at similar events throughout the area,
is a sheep shearing demonstration. The event wiU be sponsored and under the supervision of
Al Saulhaber. Because the attraction has drawn such interest
at previous shows, fair officials
are -expecting a big turnout for
their event.
Saline Plans Sewage
Plant "Open House"
SALINE — The Saline City
Council has announced that the
city will hold "open house" at
the new Saline Disposal Plant
on Monroe Street on August 22
from 1:00-p.m.' to 7:00 p.m.
City Clerk E. J. Muir said that
two attendants wiU be on hand
to escort interested visitors
through the1 plant and explain
the operation of the. equipment
and the procedure involved in
the system. The event is open,
to the pubUc.