1961-08-16; Saline Reporter

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VOLUME 14, NUMBER 48 - WEDNESDAY, a**lUGUST 16, 1961
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Local 4-H'ers Capture
Honors at County Fair
"First With AU the Local News'
10c PER COPY — $3 PER YEAR
"Our 4-H leaders in Washtenaw County can feel justly
proud of the excellent results
their club members earned at
the County Show," according
to Robert McCrory and Sharon
HaU, Washtenaw 4-H agents.
SaUne 4-H'ers can feel special pride. Their Betty Lou
Roehm won grand champion
honors with her Angus steer
. . . Gene Girbach took reserve
champion with an Angus . . .
Betty Lou had champion Shorthorn . . . and Janet Weber, Donna Diuble, Donald Diuble, Freddie and Katrene GaU all placed
Blood Bank
Visit Planned
Next Week
Just who wUl need to draw
upon the Saline Area Blood
Bank or when that urgent need
may arise is something none of
us know, but it is comforting
and reassuring to Saline area
residents to know that the
^e-od Bank is avaUable to each
arid every one of us free of
charge whenever we need it.
Now the time has come to
^ replenish supplies that are
9/ "mighty close to the bottom",
according to local Red Cross
representative Marian Hering.
And it is up tp each and every
one of us who is able to take
part in this community project
and donate blood to the bank.
The Blood Bank will visit
SaUne on the afternoon and
evening of Wednesday, August
23. It will be located at the
Intermediate School. Mrs. Hering and Mrs. George Austin will
be in charge.
Four doctors will be donating
their services to the bank: Dr.
R. T. Douthat, Dr. J. H. Davis,
Dr. Paul Gerigk and Dr. Thomas Busard.
Among the nurses present
-^9 will be Mrs* Garner FarreU and
Miss Grace Bennett. Staff aides
wiU include Mrs. Charles Finn,
Mrs. Dwight Reynolds, Mrs. Edward Fischer, Mrs. Harry Friis,
Mrs. Robert Smith, Mrs. Arthur
Heininger, Mrs. David Wahl.
Mrs. Max Fosdick, Mrs. Hugh
Austin, Mrs. Ernest Mann and
Mrs.  Robert Heiserman.
The SaUne Rotary will furnish refreshments to donors as
always. Canteen workers wUl
include Mrs. Chris Volz, Mrs.
Reuben Visel, Mrs. Glenn Gordon, Mrs. Sam Lambarth, Mrs.
Clara Bredernitz, Mrs. Amanda
Hartman and Mrs. Regis Wolfinger.
Junior Red Cross members
wUl be busy telephoning local
residents to remind them of
the coming, of -"the Blood Bank
^ and to soUcit pledges. They are
Beverly Brown, Donna Rich-
*■'" ards, NeUie Zurlinden, Chris-
--_ tine MacDonald^^parol Guen-
klr ther, Sandra Brown, Sandra
Merritt andaCathy. Monroe. The
girls wiUf^aiso* 'be. manning" a
sidewalk booth outside Saline
Savings Bank during Frontier
-Ji*j.Days this Friday and Saturday.
•-^V-"Salinians wishing to pledge a
-piiitspf blood may do so at the
'  booth.
Ladies of Trinity Lutheran
C3iurch-wUl serve a- meal to aU
the members of the Bloodmo-
bUe staff.
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steers in the champion market
Kvestock  group.
Doris Herter took championship Corriedale ewe in the sheep
show. Kirk Gordon won champion yearling ewe in the fine
wool class, as weU as champion
pen of market lambs. BiU Tefft
took champion Shropshire ram.
Another Saline championship: David Schaible's ribbon-
winning hog and champion pen.
Gene Girbach had reserve
champion individual swine, and
Gary Girbach had reserve
champion pen. Ronald Diuble
and Fred GaU were also ribbon
winners in the swine classes.
Many Saline-area 4-H members were selected at the County 4-H Show last week to exhibit their projects at the State
4-H Club Show. This cUmactic
event in the 4-H year will be
held on the Michigan State University campus, East Lansing,
August 28-31.
Among those tapped for the
state  exhibit:
Carolyn Girbach -and- Eddie
GaU, junior Holstein heifer
calfs; Phil Gordon, senior Holstein heifer calf and two-year-
old heifer; Ralph Diuble, junior
yearUng Angus and senior yearling Angus; Gary Girbach, senior yearling Angus; Janet Weber, junior yearling Holstein
heifer; Kay Gordon, senior Holstein heifer calf; Janet Weber,
three-year-old  Holstein.
Exhibiting Hereford steers
wiU be Fred and Ed Gall. Fred
also wUl show a Hereford cow.
The Washtenaw contingent at
the swine barn at East Lansing#
wiU come almost entirely from
Saline. It wUl include exhibits
by Donald Finkbeiner, Albert
Feldkamp, and Gene, Gary and
Nancy Girbach.
Bill Tefft will show in the
Shropshire yearling or aged
ram, and Shropshire two-year-
old classes. Doris Herter wiU
compete in the Corriedale yearling ewe, yearling or aged ram,
ewe lamb, and two-year-old ewe
sections.
The medium wool exhibits
wUl feature BiU Tefft's Cheviot
entries in ewe lamb, yearling or
aged ram, and yearling ewe
classes . . . and Bob Tefft wUl
show his Cheviot two-year-old
ewe.
Shirley Morton and Cheryl
Henes will take their poultry
exhibits to the big show. Mary
Jane Schumacher wiU enter her
home improvement and food
preparation projects. Elaine
Dieterle wiU also compete in
food   preparation.
Katrene GaU and Sara Schaible will enter canning projects.
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Saline area youths established quite a record at the
County 4-H Show last week. Among the winners in Wash-
tenaw-wide competition: Betty Roehm, who had grand
champion steer, and Gene Girbach, reserve champion. Standing in for Betty in the photo above is Ron Haarer, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Haarer, all of whom take family
pride in Betty's achievement.
Another grand champion for the Saline area appears below. David Schaible, son of Mr. and Mrs. Gerhardt Schaible,
took top honors with his hog.
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Post Office
Hours Changed
Saline Postmistress, Mrs. Arthur O'NeUl, announced this
week that the Post Office wiU
be open for Window service
from 8:30 a.m. until 5 p.m.
Monday through Friday and
from 8:30 \a.m..*untU 12 noon
on Saturday,, beginning Monday, August 21.>.. ...
The change in hours is due
to the new receiving and dispatch scheciule-which went into
effect recently.   >     ....-_
The-windows have in 'the
past beenuopeii iotsery^e from
9 a.m. tintU 5:30 p.m. weekdays
and from 9 a.m, until .noon on
Saturdays.
Social Service
Coffee Hour
Approximately 30 representatives of local service clubs and
organizations Thursday attended a Coffee Hour sponsored by
Saline Area Social Service, to
acquaint the groups with the
purposes of the new welfare
incorporation.
Mrs. Edwin Hering, president
of the board of the Social Service group, was the speaker and
informal discussion foUowed.
The meeting also marked the
beginning of a membership
drive, in which family memberships, at $2 per family, wiU
entitle each membership to one
vote at the annual meeting.
Persons interested in membership or in obtaining more
information on the organization
may call Mrs. Hering, Mrs. Allan Grossman, Mrs. James Davis, or Mrs. Ralph Uphaus. So-
Service, Inc., was formed to
serve the entire community, by
providing immediate, ~mterim
aid to needy persons here until
county- and state organizations
can take over.
FOOTBALL  MEET
SCHEDULED
AU High Schpol boys interested in.* footbaU are-asked to
' report Friday, August 25, at
6:30 p.m.. at "the High School
locker  room  for  physical  ex-
, ami-nations and distribution of
equipment.     _.' .,
Saline High
May Change
To Class B
Saline High School may become a "Class B" school this
faU.
The designation, purely extra-curricular, has nothing
whatever to do with academic
standards: Instead, it's an indication of size of enrollment,
to determine which schools Saline wiU meet in tournament
play.
Saline has previously been
listed as "Class C" - up to, but
not including, "400 students (in
grades 8 through^jL^). Schools
•v'a'Hh'-r'eriroUments "of between
400 and about 800 are Usted
"Class B".
School officials won't know
untU early October, when the
official Athletic Association
count is made, whether SHS
has grown a notch. High School
Principal Elmer Houghton's
most recent count showed 398
students . . . but there; may be
some who wiU move away, or
others moving in, from whom
he hasn't heard.
Class B status, if it occurs
this year, wUl not affect the
school's regular sport calendar;
nor wiU. it affect SHS membership in the Washtenaw conference. But it wiU throw the
Hornets into a much tougher
league in tournament play.
The new status might also
make a change in forensic competition, Houghton said; but it
will not alter the level of Band
competition. The High School
Band, whose status is set under
a different system, is already
listed with Class B schools.
NO SCHEDULE?
CALL HIGH SCHOOL
High School students who
have not yet received their
schedules with a letter announcing their registration days, may
caU the High School (HAzel 9-7330) after Friday, August 18.
Gold Rush
Indians, Prospector, Stage
Coach to Arrive Friday
And along with all their honors, Saline 4-H'ers also got a
few hard knocks at the big
county show. Katrene Gall had
to make the rounds of the fairgrounds on crutches after her
well-fattened Angus steer stepped on her, foot.
HERE ^TIS!
SHS 1961
Football Schedule
Streets Get
$3,657 Back
From State
Saline has received its regular quarterly check from the
State Highway Department . . .
this time amounting to $3,627.
Monies received from the state
Motor Vehicle Highway Fund
are used here to pay for major
street construction and maintenance.
AU state gasoline and diesel
fuel taxes, license plate fees
and a smaU amount of misceUaneous fees are deposited in the
Motor Vehicle Highway Fund.
After deductions, the money
is distributed under provisions
of state law which provides that
47 per cent goes to the State
Highway Department for use
on state highways, 35 per cent
to the state's 83 counties for
use on county roads, and 18 per
cent to 510 incorporated cities
and viUages for their roads and
streets.
Under this formula, the State
Highway Department wiU receive $20,583,234 as its share
of the second quarter coUections, whUe the counties wUl
receive $15,327,940 and the incorporated cities and viUages
wUl get $7,882,941.
Wheat Crop Badly
Damaged by Moisture
j Mr: and Mrs. E. A. SawaU
spent Saturday in Lansing visiting relatives.
Sept.  15
Onsted
"Away
Sept. 22
Dexter
Hese
Sept. 29
South Lyon
Here
Oct. 6
•Manchester
Here
Oct. 13
U-High
Away
Oct. ,20
Ypsi-Roosevelt
Away
Oct.  27
Pinckney
Here
Nov. 3
Chelsea -
Away
As the combining season ended this week, local wheat farmers were hurting . . . but not
nearly as much as those in other areas.
In other years, with a reasonably early planting season,
wheat would have been ripe and
harvested two weeks ago . . .
before the consistent and damaging rains. In fact, the earliest wheat harvested here was
fine, and drew top prices. Then,
although the price for good
wheat rose, the farmer's -take
began to drop sharply. The
wheat was sprouting.
SaUne MercantUe Co. Tuesday quoted a top price of $1.85
on white, wheat, exceptionally
good for harvesting time. But
there were few. takers.
The earUest wheat brought
in was good, manager Lyle
PhiUips said. But, with, only
about half of the crop in, sprout
began to appear. It showed up
first in Bridgewater. Then Saline farmers found it too. Loads
coming in this week were nearly a quarter sprouted.
Red wheat, with a harder
kernel, hasn't suffered sprout
this year . . . but most local
farmers plant white. "I hope
they won't give up the white,"
said PhiUips. "I've been in this
business 30 years and this is
only the second time I've seen
this happen." But he is concerned about;. the U.S. Department of Agriculture grading
he'U have to. deal.with: "They.
grade even steeper.than we do."
Badly sprouted -wheat dropped local farmers' prices as low
as $1.53 a bushel . . . but in
Indiana, farmers were staggered to receive as Uttle as 40
cents a bushel. And a Maumee
miU had a load come in that
was 80 per cent sprout. North,
south,, east and west, the sprout
was considerably worse than in
SaUne . . .which had, after all,
a dryer season than most areas- ;.
Corn-.farmers were happier.
Corn thrives in moist weather.
Saline's big Frontier Days
celebration, Friday and Saturday, is turning into the greatest thing since the Gold Rush,
with more rides, shows, and excitement than a fair.
Anyway, bargain-hunting is a
good deal easier and more profitable than panning for gold,
and there'll be a lot more bargains to be found as local merchants move their best wares
onto the sidewalk in the midst
of the fun.
The Ust of goings-on is to be
nearly endless. In the first
place, everybody — including
the'local marshal-and~his».dep-.
uties — wiU go into western
garb. The law wUl.be far too
busy to tend to parking meters
since at least one gun-slinger
(Cal Hieber). was last seen
practising   for  a  High  Noon.
They'U also have to keep a
keen eye on the horse drawn
stage coach from Frontier City,
which wiU be downtown here
from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Friday
to give rides to all comers. Tickets wiU be given away with
each $2 purchase (with a limit
of five tickets to a purchase) by
Chamber of Commerce merchants: Dancer's, Schmid's, Anderson's, Gambles, Walker's
DoUar Store, Corner Drug, Estes Pharmacy,- Walker's Bakery, Hull's, Harry's Standard
Service, Mart y's Restaurant,
and Steeb Dodge and Plymouth.
Get your stage coach riding
done early, since the famed
Washtenong Indian dancers wUl
give a performance on North
Ann Arbor street, just off Michigan avenue, at 7:30 _p.m.,
Friday. They'U also dance on
Saturday at 2:30 p.m.
Pony rides will be avaUable
aU day Friday downtown. -
When you get hungry, stop
in at Marty's Restaurant for
Western Stew or hearty steak
and eggs. Or pause at the Corner Drug Store either Friday or
Saturday for a free Snow-Cone.
A coke-machine wiU be found
outside Estes Pharmacy. The
Jaycee popcorn wagon wiU be
in operation, too.
Or cool off -from the desert
sun with ice cream from Jim
Wolfinger and Bob Merchant,
who wUl have mounted their
ice cream cart on a horse and
buckboard for the occasion.
• An electric organ demonstration- by Keyboard Piano of Ann
Arbor wtil fee in Gambles window both days; and radio station WOIA's mobile studio will
be operating here both Friday
and Saturday.
him by the fuU beard (it's real),
the scrunch hat, the pack on the
back, and old pistol at the hip.
Mr. Karmann's varied history
also includes two terms as the
first mayor of the city of Dearborn, and many years of travel
throughout the United States.
At the moment, he sponsors
the preservation and conservation of natural resources and,
to that end, recently turned
over his Ford road property to
Ann Arbor elementary schools
for study of nature and wUd-
Ufe. It is knownVas the Kar-
mann Nature Center.
Saturday's events will be
launched by the reverberating
tones of a real calUope, loaned
for the event by Detroit Edison
Co., and it wUl be here aU morning.
Also in the morning comes
the big parade of little cow-
pokes, and a contest to select
the best cowboy and cowgirl
costumes worn by children under 12. Each wiU win a $25
savings bond for the wearer.
Art Katterjohn wiU lead the
sidewalk parade, starting from
the city parking lot at 10 a.m.
Saturday. Three SaUne Steer
Club members wiU serve as the
contest judges.
Saturday's events also include exhibits on safety and law
enforcement by Trooper Johnson of the YpsUanti State Police post, a repeat by the Washtenong dancers, and — naturally — more gold on them thar'
bargain counters.
Dodge City was never like
this! "    ~^aSj__§f1
FRONTIER GAZETTE
PUBLICATION  CANCELED
This year's issue of the
Frontier Gazette . . . which
would have contained such
juicy headlines as "CouncU
Okays Board Walk", '•lawyers Shoot It Out", and "Cattleman Blocks Off * Water
Supply", has been canceled,
since neither the editor nor
the publisher had their horses saddled up in time to escape the inevitable lynching
party.
The Frontier Gazette wiU
put out an issue next year
for Frontier Days, bat only
if the staff all take vacations
immediately after press time
anil have laid in" grubstakes
*f or the tnp to Mexico^,
POLICE CHIEF ATTENDS
GOVERNOR'S CONFERENCE
•Chief  of  PoUce "Earl Kirby
Wednesday  attended the 1961
For the inside dope on pro-M Governor's,Regional Traffic
._._- -r-- x7-______■_ .—t__ sjjjgty Conference "at Birming
ham, one of .six scheduled
throughout the state this
month. 7
spectihg, see Joe Karmarin, who
wiU be in; Saline in full regalia
Friday, and possibly Saturday
. . . though he may not-bring
his mule. Joe is the real article
. . . he has been a prospector,
for gold in Colorado and in
Alaska, 'and he'll show .you
some gold nuggets. You'H know
Visiting at" the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Joe Rentfro this week
are Mf.^and Mrs. Jack Vincent
and children of Vienna, IUinois.