1959-02-18; Saline Reporter

              The Saline Reporter
VOLUME 12, NUMBER 22 — Wednesday, February 18, 1959
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Polio Fund
Peaks At
$3083.58
Final total in the March of
Dimes drive, closed this week,
was $3083.58, Mrs. Lauren Wild,
chairman of the Saline area
drive, announced.
The amount is approximately $200 less than was turned in
last year.
Although the sum was lower,
the drive this year was considered "quite successful", Mrs.
Wild said, " in view of the weather and the times." Collections
throughout^Washtenaw county
were noticeably lower than last
year's, and special fund raising
events were snowed out, rained
out, or iced out.
Michigan's general economic
picture was also blamed for the
lessened response: "The quota
set for us was not realistic,"
Mrs. William Woods, county
chairman, said, "considering the
weather and the way things are
in the Detroit area."
Included in the total was
$16.25 from the American Legion Auxiliary dance here, held
on one of the season's more impossible evenings. Attendance
had also been low at a Tri-
County Sportsman's Club dance,
an OES card party, and a High
School record hop which netted
more than $92 -in spite of being
postponed at least once.
Mrs. Wild this week expressed her thanks to Saline residents
who had worked on the drive
and who "so generously contributed in various ways."
The sum included: $1577.13
from special events; $150 from
businesses; $165 from organizations; $317 from schools; $105
from bowling; a whopping
$648.09 from the Mothers'
March; and $121.36 from canisters.
Room Mothers
Hear Problems
Of Teachers
A paper on "A Teachers Day"
Monday evening touched off a
spirited discussion among nearly 50 room mothers and teachers at Saline Elementary School.
Presented by Marian Barclay,
principal, the paper outlined the
dawn-to-dark activities of the
teachers and an almost interminable list of duties.
"I don't think we solved anything," said Mrs. Rolland Sutton, chairman .of Elementary
School Room Mothers, "but we
got it all out in the open."
Among the problems ponder
ed: the amount of bookkeeping
incumbent on teachers and the
number of collections taken up
through the school; the amount
of food served to children at seasonal parties; the half-days out
of school required by the conference system; what to do for
safety patrols when the fifth and
sixth grades are moved to the
old high school next year.
In other action, the Room
Mothers decided to-buy the safety patrol pins for this year's patrol, and appointed Mrs. Everett Esch to compile a booklet
of suggestions to future room
mothers.
OS**'HUSSIIts"
Adult members of the Girl
Scout Neighborhood Group, including Saline and Milan,. will
meet at 7:30 p.m: Tuesday at
: Milan Methodist Church, according to Mrs. George Wood,- of
Saline, neighborhood chairman.
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Nineteen Boy Scouts of Troop No. 46, and
Scoutmaster Mike Strait, were dinner guests
at Thursday's meeting of Rotary Club at the
Saline Hotel.    Above,  on  one  of  the few
sunny moments of the season, the crowd col-
- lects with Rotarians for chit-chat and pictures.
—Reporter Staff Photo
OPEN HOUSE
PLANNED AT
ESTES DRUG
An Open House, complete with
refreshments, gifts, and balloons
for children, is scheduled Friday and Saturday, Feb. 27 and
28 to introduce Estes Rexall
Pharmacy under the new management.
The drug store, previously
known as Giltrow's Pharmacy,
was purchased by Bob Estes, of
215 Wheeler Ct., as of Jan. 1.
Estes had been employed at the
drugstore for about four years.
He is a registered pharmacist, a
graduate of Ferris Institute at
Big Rapids.
Open House will be held from
9 a.m. to 9 p.m. at trie store. The
public is cordially invited.
Danger of
Flood Is
Reduced
The danger of floods is reduced, but not gone, officials
warned this week.
While recurrent freezing and
thawing have allowed much of
the ice pack to melt, there is still
enough left to create some hazard, they agreed.
But the dam at the millpond
was considered out of danger,
and its sluice gates were partly closed again. They could be
closed all the way with safety,
according to John Parsons, son
of the dam's caretaker, Bruce
Parsons, but apparently an ice
chip has blocked them part way
open.
Saline River, out of its banks
in some spots where ice jams
had prevented normal run off,
had subsided about two feet, and
most of the smaller tributary
creeks were back inside their
banks.
But county health officials
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DOLLAR DAYS
SALE COMING
THIS WEEK
Another big "Dollar Days"
week-end sale is scheduled Friday-and Saturday in Saline.
Promising an all-time low on
prices, merchants this week
sorted through their newest
stocks to find items to offer at
the sale. "No outmoded, un-
seasonal stock," they promised.
"Only the newest and best."
Prices scheduled ranged from
20% to 50% off. Sale goods,
including many specialty items,
wil be plainly marked and easy
to find. For details, see advertisements in this issue of the
Reporter.
Flu Hits
Trainmen Plagued
By Weather Too
By Peggy Flook
The night was blacker than
the inside of a cat, and rain was
sloshing down across the icy
fields Thursday midnight when
two flashlights bobbed along a
lonely country lane, across a
pasture, and over a fence.
The lights were carried by two
New York Central brakemen,
seeking a telephone to report
that their train was off the
track . . . again.
It was the second time the
train had been de-railed that
day and the fifth time in a
week,  all  because  of  the   ice
pack.
"I've never seen the like of
this winter," one of the drenched, slicker-clad men remarked.
"I never saw the like before . . .
and I don't care if I never do
| again, either."
I    The men were Don Gregory,
1 of Jonesville, and Chalmer
Draggoo, of Ossio, temporarily
assigned as conductor and flagmen on the little train that runs
j once a week, down and back, on
the spur through Saline.   Their
250 ton engine ("what isn't cast
iron is made of concrete") had
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AH Around Saline
The Clyde Griffins had a
chance to se what real snow is
like last weekend when the
death of Clyde's aunt took them
to Traverse City. Russell Mi-
chalke, a houseguest of their
son Jimmy's accompanied them
on the trip. While there they
stayed with Clyde's brother-in-
law and sister, Mr. and Mrs.
Robert Nash, and their family.
As for the snow in that area,
there is 40 inches or better on
level ground and in places,
where it had been shoveled and
plowed,  the snow was  3  feet
HORNETS UPSET
UNIVERSITY HIGH
Saline's Hornets swept out
of the cellar Tuesday night
to upset University High Ca-
gers. 57-51. —
Scoring was close throughout the game, but Saline trailed only once. Top seorerfor
the Hornet upset was Jim"
Fuhrman with 16 points. For,
U Hi, top tally man was
Fischer with 18 points.
above the car.
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Just about a year ago Mrs.
Carl (Abbie) Carr underwent a
very serious and, at that time,
unusual operation. In fact, the
operation was the first of its
kind to be performed at St. Joe
hospital in Ann Arbor. The
technical term for this type of
surgery is "aneurysm of the
aorta." In plainer terms the
main blood vessel in the abdomen was removed and in its place
dacron arteries were grafted
from the heart down to both
legs. At the time of the operation Mrs. Carr, who was a victim of hardening of the arteries, was laid up for some 42
WOMAN'S CLUB TO VISIT
DETROIT FLOWER SHOW
Members of Saline Woman's
Club will meet at 11 a.m. Tuesday at Trinity Lutheran Church
for a bus trip to the Michigan
Flower and Home Show in Detroit. Reservations and tickets
may be obtained from-Mrs. Arthur Heininger. Members are
asked to bring a packed lunch.
They will return at 4 p jn.
days. Now at the end of a year
and upon thorough examination
by her physician, Dr. Wml J.
Regan of Ann Arbor, she is reported to be doing just fine and
leading a very normal life.
Although, acording to Dr. Regan, they are now doing a fair
number of these operations at
the U. of M., they are still rather rare in non-teaching hospitals.
Jury Finds Driver
Guilty of Speeding
A six-man jury Thursday evening found Richard Kerr, of
Ypsilanti,. guilty on a speeding
charge in Justice of the tPeace
Court here. Kerr, who was represented by an Ypsilanti township Justice of the Peace, Geo.
Stripp, called Ypsilanti Municipal Judge Ed Deake as a character witness.
Arrested by police officer Earl
Kirby last April, for traveling
40 miles an. hour in a-25-mile
zone, Kerr was fined $40 and
$4.30 costs by Saline JP John
Buck. "'■"".■".
WINTER WHEAT
MAY SUFFER
ICE DAMAGE
Farmers were divided this
week as to whether or not winter wheat crops had been damaged by the prolonged ice cover, and some of them were
frankly worried.
At the moment, no amount of
inspection can tell anyone much
about the wheat, which is green
in the fall, browns and goes dormant in the winter, and then
turns green again with the first
spring rains.
"I've heard a lot of my customers worrying about if," said
Art Heininger, at the Saline
Mercantile feed mill. "They feel
the wheat has probably been
hurt by the weather."
"I hope not," said Bob Tefft,
on Textile Rd., "but we won't
really know till the April showers bring it out again."
"I don't know," said Ernie
Girbach, who has 30 acres in
winter wheat. "It certainly
might be damaged, and most of
the farmers are worried."
"Oh, I think it will ' come
through all right," said Ferman
Clements, who plants 28 acres
in wheat. "It had a good top
last fall, and when you come
down to it, alternate freezing
and thawing is harder on it than
this continuous ice."
So the situation Vested . . .
cause for concern, but nothing
to be done in the wheat fields
unless you felt like ice-skating.
A widespread    incidence    of
winter flu this   week   dropped
school    attendance   sharply —
; even after buses were running
again on slightly-cleared coun-
J try roads.
Saline Elementary School Friday reported almost 25 per cent
absenteeism . . . 197 out of 806.
On Monday the total's had dropped slightly, to 102, as compared
with 160 the previous Monday.
Most of the absences were
ascribed to flu, two varieties of
which were so widely circulated
that nearly every family had at
least one patient.
At the High School, absences
were somewhat less ... 70 of
498 on Friday. By Monday, only
48 were still missing, but 115
had missed school the previous
Monday. School authorities described all of the absence figures (even Monday's 48) as "exceptionally high".
But the epidemic appear to be
stable in number, if not on the
wane, and practically no absences due to flu were reported by
local industries.
Very few reports on flu had
been made to the County Health
department, and relatively few
to local doctors. "Some of this
stuff appears to be the true flu,"
Dr. Gordon Prout observed, "but
there's not as much pneumonia
with it as you sometimes get.
Flu, of course, comes in assorted strains, and it appears to
range from three to ten days in
duration."
February and March are always bad months for respiratory diseases, he added.
Township Voters
Nominate Four
For Supervisors
Incumbent supervisors were
renominated this week in all
four of the townships surrounding Saline — Lodi, Pittsfield,
York, and Saline township.
Only one of them is opposed
on the April ballot; Democrat
Melvin Hawker, of York town-
Bess Tef f t's Book
To Be Translated
Into Italian Tongue
Word has just been received
by Bess Tefft from her publisher, E. P. Dutton. and Company,
New York, that her book-rights
for MERR3E MAPLE have been
sold to an Italian firm and the
book will be published in the
Italian language for distribution
throughout the world.
"Very few of our books are
published in foreign languages,"
the letter said, "that is books for
young people, and you can consider this a personal triumph.
I hope there will be others."
Copies of the Italian translation will be sent to the author as
soon as they are published.
OSCAR WEBER
PASSES AWAY
WEDNESDAY
Funeral services will be held
this Saturday at 2 p.m. for Oscar
Weber, lifelong Saline-area resident who passed away Wednesday afternoon at St. Joseph's
Mercy Hospital, Ann Arbor.
Early in the year, Weber had
suffered a heart attack and had
been hospitalized. Last week he
returned home from the ^hospital, "and" his many friends and
relatives were hoping for a complete recovery. But on Monday
he re-entered the hospital for
further treatment, and he succumbed two days later.
The funeral rites will be held
at St. Paul's Evangelical and Reformed Church, with the Rev. A.
P. Hardt officiating. Previous
to noon, friends and relatives'
may call at the Loekwood Funeral home.
ship, will run against incumbent
Republican Thurlow Sanford for
the post. Democrats in Pittsfield township put up a slate in
their Monday primary election,
but the slot of supervisor was
not filled.
No Democratic caucus was
held in either Lodi or Saline
townships.
Republican caucus meetings in
both townships were "exceptionally well attended", the
township clerks reported. 42
persons attended in each case,
as compared with the usual 12
or 13.
But the number of votes cast
in Pittsfield's primary election—
128 — was described as "very,
very low."
Republicans nominated in the
primary include incumbent Samuel Morgan for supervisor; T.
Brace Rider, township ■ clerk;
Edward H. Lavender, treasurer;
i Andrew J. Ernst and Edward C.
Hutzel, .trustees; Robert L.
Shankland, Justice of the Peace;
Charles W. Geddes, Board of
Review; and four constables,
James B. Harrison, Carl A.
Thayer, Ralph A. Gesler, and
William H. Rogers. "A fifth candidate for constable was defeated, William Gordy.
Democrats nominated in Pitts-
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LOCAL FFA
SPEAKER WINS
IN DISTRICT
Bill Wiedmayer, president of
Saline Chapter of Future Farmers of America, will represent
his group in a regional FFA
public speaking contest at Saline High School Wednesday,
Feb. 25.
The regional contests, expected to draw contestants to Saline
from all over southeast Michigan, are a highlight of national
FFA week, Feb. 21 to 28.
Wiedmayer, a senior and son
of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Wiedmayer, of 11080 W. Michigan
avenue, won first place in the
FFA district contest last week
in Manchester. A Clinton member placed second in the district
event, which included chapters
from Washtenaw county, Clinton, and Tecumseh.
Demonstration and Parliamentary procedure teams from
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Theft Is
Solved
A 19-year-old high school senior yesterday admitted the theft
of $65-$70 from a school office
Tuesday>nlght: The youth, whose
name is being withheld, told of
gaining entry to the locked office by forcing a window. The
money taken was part of the senior <;lass funds, proceeds of candy sales at the basketball game
earlier in the evening. ■
The youth, being detained at
county sheriffs headquarters,
is also being questioned regarding other unsolved thefts at the
high school.
THE HARDEST )VINTER in memory has been rough on the
city streets and comity roads, as recurrent freezing and thawing heaved surfacing and reduced some areas almost to rubble: Above, part of the back-breaking and budget-busting
task facing the city of Saline when the weather improves.
That's Monroe street, only slightly worse than all the others.
BPW Initiates
20 Members
By Candlelight
Saline chapter of the Business
and Prof esional Women's Club
Monday evening initiated 20 new
members in a candlelight ceremony following a first anniversary dinner, at Saline Hotel.
The group also appointed a
nominating committee — Jean
Taylor, Mrs. William A. Rappen-
hagen, Mrs. Theo Graban, and
Mrs. Leonard Wight — to select
a slate of officers for the coming year. Election will be held
at the March meeting.
Among the initiates were: Mrs.
J. Kenneth Taylor, Mrs. Kathryn
Twitchell, Mrs. Jean Taylor,
Mrs. Maud Wheelock, Mrs. Ross
Adair, Mrs. Halie Ayres, Mrs.
Francis Baker, Mrs. Robert
Bredernitz, Mrs. Lewis Cammet,
Mrs.'George Campbell, Mrs. Garner D. Farrell, Mrs. Fred Fielder, Mrs. Theo Graban, Mrs.
Clyde Hamlin, Miss Cora Hull,
Mrs. Lucille Henderson, Mrs.
Harvey Kluwe, Mrs. D. C. Mc-
Cormick, Mrs. William Reppen-
hagen, Mrs. Edwin Schmid.