1959-02-25; Saline Reporter

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Saline
VOLUME 12, NUMBER 23 — Wednesday, February 25, 1959
teFirst With All the Local News'
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MORE THAN 40 ACTIVE WOMEN last week attended the
shindig when the city's newest and gayest service group, the
Business and Professional Women's Club, celebrated its first
birthday. Twenty new members were initiated in candlelight
ceremonies.    Above, some of the officers prepare to parcel
out the whopping cake at the club's monthly dinner meeting.
LEFT TO RIGHT: Mrs. Dorothy Dunsmore, president of the
sponsoring Milan club; Miss Agnes Peoples, Mrs. Maurice
Robbins, Mrs. Faye Bergey, Mrs. Theodore Graban, and.
Mrs. George Wood.
All Around Saline
The Charles Schultz's, who are.
vacationing in Florida, report
that it's awfully hot down there.
They recently attended the Tampa Fair and noted that the
building where_ the cattle were I
housed had 'to be sprayed "with*
water for cooling purposes because the cattle were suffering
so much from the heat. The
Schultz' plan to be back home in
March.
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Miss Edna Gross and Mr. and
Mrs. Leo Westphal have returned from a two-week trip to Florida, where they were delighted with "the beautiful flowers
and magnificent orange groves."
It was warm every day, they report,  temperature in the 80's.
"We should haVe spent another
two weeks there, I guess," remarked Mrs. Westphal, contemplating Michigan's February slop.
A victim of the bad.*weather
and the dangerously icy walking
conditions we've been forced to
put up with is Mrs. Ed Gross-
hans. She recently fell on the
ice at.her home and broke her
leg in two places. She didn't
realize the seriousness of the
injury until about a week after
her fall. She is now recovering
at St. Joe's hospital in Ann Ar-
•bor.
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Mrs. Gardner Tackett, who
has been a patient at Ridgewood
Hospital  in  Ypsilanti  for  the
past month, hopes that all will
go well and that she'll be able
to come home this week sometime. Her husband and sons are
anxiously loking forward to her
return tool  _.    ,.
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Guests of the Al Christophers
last Saturday afternoon were
Mr. and Mrs. James W. Cannon,
of Manchester.
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Bab Malocha is being transferred from Lackland Air Force
Base in Texas, where he has
been stationed for the last six
months, to- Portland, Ore. He
has recently completed the ofirst
phase of his medic training and
passed with flying colors.
WOMAN'S CLUB
PREPARES FOR
STYLE SHOW
Members of Saline Woman's
Club this weeK were deep in a
swirl of preparations for a
springtime style show, designed
to raise funds for a hospital
room while having a good time.
With most of their attention
on the newest spring fashions
from Anderson's department
store (which they will model)
the members still found time to
promise cards, refreshments,
and door prizes at their show,
scheduled at 8 p.m. Saturday,
March 7.
All models will be Saline area
women, but the list has not yet
been completed. A similar
spring style show is scheduled
by-Anderson's in Chelsea, next
Tuesday evening.
Tickets for the show are
available at Anderson's, the Cut
and Curl    beauty    shop,    arid
Wights' Cleaners, as well as
from Mrs. William Meister, Mrs.
Rueben Finkbeiner, and other
club members. *
Proceeds of the show will
equip a room in the Saline Community Hospital, in time for the
opening date expected this
spring.
Building Permits
Total $9,700.00
Building permits totaling
$9,700 were issued Monday evening by City Council:
To F. O. Wiedman, for rebuilding body shop at the corner of
Hall and McKay streets, $4,000;
and to the Shell Oil Co., to expand a building at S. Lewis and
W. Michigan, $5700.
In other action, Council decided to purchase a used street
sweeper, at a cost of $2250, for
the city; and appointed Charles
Kem, Everett Wolfin, and city
assessor Carl Moehn to serve "as
Board of Review.
Local Girl To Compete
In Scholarship Finals
High School senior Patricia
Kidwell, of 12009 Maple Road,
has been named as one of 2513
finalists among, candidates for
National Honor Society scholarships.
She was one of 45,548 students, from the United" States
and all its territories and possessions, who competed in the
first test.
Miss Kidwell, the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Kidwell, will
take the second, and final, test
at the High School on March 10.
The first Scholarship Qualifying
test was taken October 21 by
students throughout the country
— 32 of them in Saline. Only
students who had maintained an
academic rank of "B" or higher were eligible.* .
The 1959 National Honor Society scholarships range in value from $5.00 to $2000 ($500 for
each of four years). There are
47 such scholarships available.
WJnning candidates will be announced about May 15.
EASTER SEALS
COMING OUT
NEXT WEEK
Saline residents will be reminded that "crippled children
are yours, too", when they receive their 1959 Easter Seals
next week.
Thousands of the seals, in two
colorful designs, will be sent out
throughout the county, and 1000
envelopes will be sent in Saline
alone, according to Henry Leutheuser, Saline chairman of the
drive.
Easter Seal Chairman for the
drive, conducted annually by the
Washtenaw county Society for
Crippled Children and Adults, is
Mrs. Stanton Roesch, of Manchester.
One of the seals this year features the stylized lily insignia
of the National Society imposed
on a church window to emphasize the religious aspects of the
Easter" season. The other pictures head and shoulders of a
boy on crutches. Contributors
are urged to help the drive by
using seals on letters mailed
during'the Easter season, and on
packages and gifts.
This year's nationwide appeal,
to continue until March 29,
marks 38 years of service to the
crippled by the National Society.
3rd Lenten Service
To Feature Speaker
From India Mission
The guest speaker for the
third in the series of Lenter Evening Services in the Federated
Presbyterian and Baptist
churches will be Dr. J. Morgan
McKelvey, of Gurdaspur, India.
The Rev. Dr. McKelvey is a missionary, now called a "fraternal
worker," in India, and is in
charge of the evangelistic work
among Christians and non-
Christians in Gurdaspur and
Pathankot districts under direc
tion of the' Gurdaspur Church
Council.
Dr. McKelvey was born in
Landour, India, and his early
education was received in that
country. He is a graduate of
Monmouth College, Monmouth,
Illinois, and of Pittsburgh-Xenia
Theological Seminary. Before
going to India under appointment of the Board of Foreign
Missions of the Former United
Presbyterian Church in 1944, l\e
had served for ten years as pas
tor of a church in Morning Sun,
Ohio, and for three years in a
pastorate in Rock Island, Uli
nois.
Since his first term, on the
field, which was spent in various
places where he substituted for
colleagues on furlough, Dr. McKelvey has worked in Gurdaspur,
Dhariwal, or Pathankot, the
three stations of the Sialkot area
left in India after partition in
1947.
Dr. McKelvey wiU speak in
the local church at 7:45 p.m., on
Sunday, March 1. Special music
will include duets by Mrs. Howard Johnson and Mrs. Hazen
Jewell, and organ music by Mrs.
Harold Brown.
PLAY CENTER MEETING
The Saline Play Center mothers will hold their regular monthly meeting next Monday night,
March 2, at 8:30 o'clock at the
home of Mrs. James Carman. '
Pedestrian Hurt
While Jay Walking
William D. Haas, 74, of 8180
Pleasant Lake Rd., suffered a
scalp laceration Saturday afternoon when he was- struck by a
car on E. Michigan avenue here,
just east of the main intersection.
Witnesses said Haas stepped
out from behind a parked truck
and walked into the side of a
moving car driven by Vermont
Gregercon, whose address was
not given. Gregercon was ar
rested for driving without a license.
Haas, who told the police he
had not seen the car as the sun
was in his eyes, was treated by
a local physician.
"OUTSTANDING
AREA FARMER^
David R. Gordon, 34, 4620
Willow Rd., was named "Outstanding Young Farmer of the
Year" at the first annual Ann
Arbor Junior Chamber of Commerce Outstanding Young Farmer Banquet this week.
His entire operation is based
on a new conception in farming.
He is milking 43 cows and feeding 35 additional head of young
stock on 80 acres. His operation is so efficient and well-organized and he has built up the
soil to such a degree that he is
able to raise almost all the
roughage for all of his cattle
and only has to buy a little
grain.
Some of his major improvements have been the installation
of an 8-stall herringbone milking parlor with automatic feed,
pipeline milker and a 500 gallon bulk tank. In addition, he
has built a 30 by 100 foot loafing barn, 16 by 50 foot cement
stave silo with an automatic
silage feeding auger.
Of the 78 animals he now
owns, all are home bred but one.
In his first year of farming,
David had a dairy herd improvement record average on 15 cows
of 9855 lb. of milk and 372 lb.
butterf at. Last year on 39 cows
he had an average of 12011 lbs.
milk and 428 lbs. butterfat.
The Gordon family, wife Doris
and 3 children, are looking forward to moving into a new
ranch home in the near future.
BLUE AND GOLB
BANQUET TONIGHT
liore than 100 Cub Scouts and
the.1- families are expected to attend the annual Elue and Gold
potluck dinner of the Cub Scouts
Wednesday evening at 6:30 p.m.
at Saline Elementary School.
Each den has arranged its own
program and decorated its own
table. Guests include JCC president James Rogers, institution
representative Herb Lange, com-
mitte chairman for the pack,
Donald D. Rapp, and their families.
TOM RICHARDS
JOINS STAFF
OF REPORTER
Tom Richards, Michigan State
University graduate in journalism, this week joined the full-
time staff of the Saline Reporter
as the editor of a number of industrial employee newspapers
printed in the Reporter shop.
Among the newspapers he will
edit are those put out for employees of Universal Die in Saline, and the Utilex plant in
Fowlerville. He expects to add
others to the list in the near future.
Richards, who graduated in
December at MSU, worked' on
the university's newspaper, radio, and television staffs. He is.
a Saline High School graduate
(1954) and the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Russell Richards, of 10205
Saline-Milan Rd.
Gordon is a Cubmaster for
Cub Scout Pack 146, a member
of St. Paul's E. and R. Church,
Saline Community Hospital association, the Washtenaw County Holstein association, the
Farm Bureau and the local
A.B.A. of which he is a director.
He is eligible to compete for
the state award, to be given
March 19, in Owosso, and the
state winner will" compete in a
national contest April 6, 7 and 8,
at Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Auto Bounces
Off Corn Crib
•A car driven by Olive Helene
Demar, of Ann Arbor, Monday
morning went put of control on
icy Saline-Ann Arbor Rd., and
smacked into a corn crib at the
Schultz farm at Waterworks Rd.
Mrs. Demar was traveling
southu-toward Saline, when her-
car went out of control; narrow^
ly missed the truck on which
Dale and Bob Schultz were loading hay, skirted a gasoline
pump, and crashed against the
corn crib. The driver suffered
a bumped head.
Damage to the car was extensive, but there was no damage to thecorn crib, theSchultz-
es said. The accident occurred
at 9:30 a.m.
Half an hour earlier, another
car, driven by Winifred Posey,
of Ypsilanti, went Out of control
because of ice on the road and
struck a tree. Damage to the
Posey car was estimated at $800.
Mrs. Posey was uninjured.
A number of_ other minor ac
cidents occurred on   the   same
road that morning, for the same
reason — ice :— police said.
The Methodist. Church of Saline will conduct three special
Sunday Evening Share-a-dish
meal and Service during Lent.
Sunday Evening, March 1.
Share-a-dish meal at 6:30 p.m.
Lenten Movie at 8 p.m. Hymn
Sing service sponsored by the
Couple's Club."
n District
Telephone Co-
Gets New Name
In Stock Merger
A new corporate name, "General Telephone and Electronics
Corporation," was approved today when stockholders of General Telephone Corporation voted approval of the merger of
Sylvania Electric Products Inc.,
into their company under the
new name.
At the same time, Sylvania
stockholders voted approval of
the merger.
Donald C. Power, president of
General Telephone, will be chairman of the board and chief ex
ecutive officer of the new corporation. Don C. Mitchell,
chairman of the board of Sylvania, will become president of
the new company. Sylvania will
continue to operate as a separate
corporate entity.
C. of C. Names
Nominees For
March Election
Attorney Allan Grossman was
nominated as president of the
Saline Chamber of Commerce, at
a meeting of the group Tuesday
evening.
Other officers presented by
the nominating committee, to
be elected at the March meeting,
include Paul Tull, for vice-president;. Jack Steeb, for secretary;
and Erwin Schmid, for treasur-
.er.,
ii^ NqmineeajfQr executive board
members include Bob LaRbse,
retiring president Dale Goble,
retiring secretary Leon Vedder;
Eathern Roark, and Johnson
Quick. Marty Hemenway was;
chairman of the nominating
committee.
Wives of members will be
guests at the annual meeting of
the organization March 31 at
Marty's Restaurant.
Whether you spell it Morris
or Maurice, it comes from.the
Latin "Mauritius," meaning a
Moor or native of the north
coast of Africa. Some say it may
mean "sea warrior." It has been
a popular name since the 11th
century.
"He's just rubbin' it in," said
Bill Muir gloomily, when a postcard arrived from Everett Wolfin, who is vacationing warmly
and sunnily at Clearwater
Beach, Fla. There ensued a debate as to what kind of package
one could send to the Wolf ins,
that would explode upon opening
and shower them with snow-
flakes.
By Piper Katterjohn
In one of the greatest exhibitions of spirit, comeback,- hard
work, and a sincere desire to do
their best, the Saline High
School band members gained one
•of the highest honors awarded
last Saturday at the District
Band Festival at Willow Run.
Of the nine Class B bands entered, only three received the
coveted "First Division" rating
which, by definition, means:
"The best conceivable performance in its class."
With almost half of the last
month spent with no school
or rehearsals, with the band
meeting during the noon hour
anyway, and having only 40 minutes instead of the usual 60 to
rehearse, with the flu and cold
germs running rampant, and
with many band members missing up to three band rehearsals
per week because of other noon
hour meetings, this rating becomes an even- greater achievement. It is truly a reflection of
the character and the willingness to give of one's own time
to achieve something great for
the band," the school, and the
community, .
The judges' grades totaled 14
"A's", and 5 "B's". Some of
their comments were: "A very
nice band . . . You do a good
job . . . Keep it up . . .Good
tempo, good dynamic contrasts,
well played, good technical proficiency, many nice sounds,
much attention given to the details of musical performance and
artistry ... Your playing is
very good, shows good training
by director, congratulations to
band members and fine director
Specific comments to indivi-
l-dual players- „"Beautifu! - cornet
work on solo-' (Pat Johnson),
"Beautiful flute tone" (Alice
Sheehan), "Beautiful clarinet"
(Marilyn.Vedder), "Nice, flute
melody"   (whole flute section).
But the remarkable fact was
that the WHOLE BAND did so
well in spite of the many, many
problems. Last Tuesday, the
band traveled to Chelsea to practice the festival experience with
the Chelsea, Dexter, Stock-
bridge, and Manchester, and by
all comparison and any standards, the Saline Band was the
poorest of the five, not even being able to play some of the required pieces.
This shock evidently hit home,
and produced a two-hour evening rehearsal Wednesday evening. A petition signed by 90%
of the band members asking for
another evening rehearsal on
Thursday evening, a great deal
of individual practicing on their
own, and a group "esprit de
corps" which gathered momentum and culminated in this remarkable achievement.
These students are to be con-
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Youths End Robbery Spree In County Jail...
MESSIEURS HARTMAN, DELHEY, and
ROESCH. ruefully examine the damaged window through which thieves entered to lift
$65 from'their several offices.   Two office
doors were also splintered. It is no coincidence that Bill Delhey (center) resembles an
assistant prosecuting attorney saying, "And
where were YOU on the night of . . . *
A trail of robberies that started in a Saline office building
ended in the County Jail Saturday for two Wayne county men.
The pair, both armed, started
their morning's work at 3:30
a.m. here by breaking into the
building housing the offices of
the Hartman Insurance Agency
and the law firm of Roesch and
Delhey.    '
Then "they entered and robbed
two Manchester establishments.
The boom was lowered when the
owner of one of the Manchester
firms, Clarence Schaible, 49,.
turned in the alarm and captured one of the men himself.
John B. Roberts, 18, and Jerry
L. Havro, 19, hoth of Wayne,
forced a rear window in the
Saline building on N. Ann Arbor
street, and then, finding themselves in a hallway, apparently
kicked in the doors to the two
offices. They took $25 in change
from the Hartman office, and
$40 from the offices of Roesch
and Delhey, the owners said.
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