1958-07-30; Saline Reporter

              Local Fire Crew Does Great Job In Battling Blazes At Karl Bird Farm
A four-hour battle with a blazing strawstack and haystack kept Saline firemen busy Saturday afternoon at the
Karl Bird farm, at 960 Judd Rd. The alarm was sent in by
Mrs. Bird after her eight-year-old son, Dan, and a friend
John Welter, also 8, notified her of the fire.
Handicapped by a lack of water, firemen were able to
control the fire only after a tanker from the Milan Fire Department arrived at the scene; but an adjacent chicken coop
that caught fire from sparks was saved. The straw and hay
nad been stacked there only two days before, Bird said.
In the picture sequence above, left to right: Firemen
on the henhouse roof line up a ladder to push burning hay
away from the building. In second photo, the burning hay
topples as the crew hoses it from the ground. In the back-
I. ground can be seen a second spray being directed over the
barn roof to., the north, to prevent spread of the blaze. In
third photo, the twosome on the roof put the finishing
touches on the fire near the building . . . and in the fourth
picture, the crewmen and the Birds stand on alert to keep the
embers under control.
Lost in the fire were more than 1,000 bales of hay and
straw, and four hens out of the 250 which had resided in
the damaged henhouse.
No cause for the fire has been definitely determined.
A report that an unidentified man had been near the scene
"playing with matches" was investigated without results.
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VOLUME U, NUMBER 45—WEDNESDAY, JULY 30, 1958
(First With All the Local News
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C. OF C. ASKS FOR EXTENDED PHONE HOOK-UP
'.Miss Babe Ruth9
To Be Crowned
At Teen Dance
Entries are still open through
Wednesday for the second annual JC-sponsored Babe Ruth
Queen contest, it was announced
today.
Judges at the local contest,
to be held during Teen Club
festivities Friday at the High
School, include Nancy Ceronsky,
of The Saline Reporter"staff;
Russell Hansen, of the Saline
Observer; and Bob Chez, WOIA
disk jockey who conducts the
Teen Club's weekly Record Hop.
The contest is open to girls
age 13 to 15 years old inclusive,
who may enter the contest by
filling out the coupon (below)
and taking it to Don Rapp, 281
Lawson street, Saline.
Winner of the local contest
will compete for the title of
Miss Babe Ruth in the county-
wide contest August 6. Junior
Chamber of Commerce chairman of the affair is Merrit Martin, Jr. Bob Harrison will act
as master of ceremonies for the
event.
The Teen Club, now operating
under city auspices with its
own teen-age steering committee, has increased membership
to 178 local youngsters.
The Teen Club opens at 7:30
p.m. Friday. Judging will be
held at 9 p.m.
Karen's Concert
Rained Out,
Re-scheduled
A scheduled appearance by
Miss Karen Taylor, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Taylor,
as guest soloist with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra July
22 was postponed because of
rain.
Mr. and Mrs. Ray Niethammer and Mr. and Mrs. Max
Ross are the proud grandparents of Robert Ross Niethammer, son of Mr. and Mrs. Richard, born July 14. Six pounds
4 ounces.
Miss Taylor's appearance has
been rescheduled to August 7,
when her portion of the evening
concert will be broadcast over
radio station WJR between 9
and 10 p.m. She will play the
Beethoven Second Concerto for
piano.
Miss Taylor, a senior at the
University of Michigan School
of Music, was listed for a guest
appearance with the Detroit
Symphony after she was the
winner in a recent audition for
the purpose. The rain-out
concert went off the air soon
after its opening and the remainder of the broacast was
devoted   to   studio   recordings.
Saline's 4w». biggest building projec^K
"t^bb* showing good progress last week. The
Saline Community Hospital, a portion of
which is shown above, was readied for floor-
ponring operations when'building committee
head Bill Britain, architect Frank Carson,
and contractor Rueben Finkbeiner gathered
for one of their frequent consulations last
Saturday.
"""""""And below, the new high school is
shaping up satisfactorily despite delays caused by steel shortages.
Among the converging Le-
gionaires and Auxiliary members at Detroit's Convention this
week-end were Mrs. Ralph Bo-
wen, Mrs. Orville Finkbeiner
(in August to be installed as
Auxilliary president), and Mr.
and Mrs. Ralph Uphaus. Says
Mrs. Bowen of the Thursday-
through-Sunday conclave: "It
was fine!"
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Babe Ruth Queen
The second annual contest to choose a queen for the Saline Babe Ruth team is now in progress. The contest is
sponsored by the Jaycees and is open to girls age 13 to 15
years old inclusive. The local judging will take place on
August 1 at the Saline Teen Club. The winner here will
be entered in the county-wide contest to be held on August
G. Entries should be sent to Donald D. Rapp, P. O. Box 402,
Saline, Michigan.    -
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PAT JOHNSON
ESSAY TAKES
STATE HONOR
In Saline's first entry within
memory in the American Legion Auxiliary statewide citizenship - essay ^contest,, a jSaline
student captured third place in
a field of 4600 essays.
She is Patricia Ann Johnson,
Saline High School graduate
and daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Howard Johnson, of 494 S. Ann
Arbor street. Her essay on "Citizenship — an Honored Privilege" was one of 67 essays written in March by Saline High
School students and was selected by the American Legion Auxiliary here to. enter in the Michigan department contest.
Of the 4600 essays written
by Michigan students throughout the state, 66 were forwarded to be entered in the department. Six prizes were awarded,
three in each of two groups.
"I do not believe that Saline
ever sent entries before," said
Mrs. Ralph Bowen, Auxiliary
president, today. "So naturally
we are all thrilled at such fine
results the first time."
Miss Johnson's essay, placing
third in the "senior group,"
won its author $15.
Claims Lack Has
Sent Business,
By Peggy Flook
Chamber of Commerce merchants Monday night unanimous endorsed the need for extended area telephone service
and urged Saline area residents
to vote "YES" in the current
poll.
"It has been stated and proved that business and industry
have located elsewhere because
of the lack of such service in
the Saline area," a spokesman
for the group said. "We recommend that those who have not
yet voted should do so very
soon, and we urge them to vote
for the service."
"""" rA postcard poll of subscribers
has been under way for several
weeks, launched by the General
Name
Address
Phone , Age	
Boy, 3, Injured
A three-year-old boy, Michael
Roup, of near Belleville, was reported in "fair condition" at
St, Joseph Mercy Hospital in
Ann Arbor this week, after he
fell from his parents' car on
US-112 near Woodside Trailer
Camp Thursday.
The boy was treated at the
scene by a passing physician before he was taken to the hospital with severe lacerations of
the head and face, state police
said. He is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. William Roup, of Willis
Rd.
NEW CURBS, SIDEWALK COMING
IN DOWNTOWN SALINE STRETCH
New sidewalks and curbing are
scheduled in the downtown business district on W. Michigan
avenue, Mayor Henry Leutheuser announced today.
The street in the affected
area will be raised as much as
nine inches on the south side,
three inches in the middle, so
that the present three-step curbing can be made a standard
one-step curb. The improvements will cover about the same
length on the north side:
The work is to go forward
immediately Leutheuser said;
the decision was taken in a special meeting of City Council Tuesday morning. "About time we
fixed up the business district
as well as the streets elsewhere
in town," the mayor said.
All unpavecL streets in town
were coated with chloride Monday to keep down dust. The
job was done by a 5000-gallon
tank truck at a cost of $330.
Convalescent Home
Has New Owners
The Saline Convalescent
Home is under new management
and ownership this week, and
Mrs. C. Donald Miller, who had
operated the home since July 1,
1956, has already left for Bra-
denton, Fla., where she has-purchased *a 40-bed convalescent
home.
New owners of the Saline establishment are Dr. Cecil B.
Jackson, D. O., of Livonia; Graham Bailey, and Mrs. George
Campbell, also of Livonia. Mrs.
Campbell, a practical nurse, intends to reside in Saline, with
her husband and 16-year-old
daughter. She will operate the
home.
Dr. Bailey will not practice
here but will continue practice
at his offices in Garden City
and Northville. He is also the
owner of a 200-acre farm near
Jackson, where he raises -the
only "Dexter" cattle in Michigan. They are small beef cattle.
The management change went
into effect Monday.
Saline Firemen and their
families will have a picnic, literally, Sunday at the City Park
. . . a luscious chicken dinner;
each family cooking and bringing its own chicken.
Building Permits
Issued for $7,500
Building permits totalling
$7,650 have been issued by City
Council:
To Speedway Petroleum
Corp., on West Michigan, to install two new 6,000 gallon gas
tanks, $1,750; to Arthur Miller,
306 N. Ann Arbor, for remodelling and addition'to front porch,
$500; to Walker's 5 cent to $1
store, to remodel front, $2,800;
to Basil Badour, 210 W. McKay,
for aluminum siding on house
and garage, $1,350; to Edward
Fischer, 211 Russell, for remodelling, $750; to Frank's Texaco station, W. Michigan ave.,
addition to northeast corner,
$500.'
In other action, Council last
week approved the issuance of
$20,000 in Revenue Bonds for
the Roeseh sewer; moved that
Kegle Construction Co. be given
the contract for installing sidewalk in Golden Acres and for
curb and gutter around the island in the subdivision; and accepted a $5,000 performance
bond for improvements to be
installed in Rolling Acres subdivision, off Henry street.
The bond covers installation
of storm and sanitary sewers,
water, curb and gutter, sidewalk, and blacktopping streets'
in the development by Jerome
Building Co., of Detroit.
The city also approved installation of a new water line to the
site of the new postoffice on E.
Michigan avenue, at the expense
of the builder, L. Z. StilL     '
Telephone Co., at Chamber of
Commerce urging. About 1300
cards were sent out, and more
than 600 have been returned,
according to O.W. Beagle, general manager of the company.
The postcard replies are still
coming in and the telephone
company has set no closing date
on the issue, Beagle said.
If the area vote is favorable,
equipment for extended area
service could not be put into
operation until 1960, Beagle has
explained. The change - over
would take about two years
from the time the community
requested it.
The postcard poll covers extended area-service to and from
Ann Arbor only. No query has
been made as to extended service to Ypsilanti and other nearby communities.
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In other action, Chamber of
Commerce members voted to
grant permission to Little Leaguers up to 19 years old to
solicit funds from merchants
for future baseball activities;
and agreed to sponsor a "Know
Your Saline" contest again at
the Saline Community Fair.
The Know-Saline quiz contest
last year was an off-the-cuff
time filler invented on the spot
by Ken Rogers. It was one of
the most successful events of
the Fair.
DIAL SYSTEM
AUGUST 17
AS PLANNED
*"The announced August 17
date for conversion of Saline
area phones to the dial system
is still in force, according to
L L. Fry, division manager of
General Telephone Co.
In Saline Friday on an equipment-inspection trip, Fry announced that conversion work is
"right on schedule," with two
additional men now on line testing work in the rural areas, and
each line being checked to be
sure it is up to standard.
Inspection and testing is continuous, Fry said, to produce a
phone system that is "tops in
every way."
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