Male Chorus To Present Program At School
The Lyra Male Chorus of Ann Arbor with forty voices will sing religious and negro spirituals at a union service of Federated St Pauls and Methodist churches at 8:00 Sunday night. Professor A W Howard will speak. The event, at the high school auditorium, features songs like Cherubic Hymn Creation and You'll Never Walk Alone with Charles Taylor directing. The Washtenaw County Brotherhood meets at Federated church before the program.
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Lyra
Ann Arbor
Federated
St. Paul’s
Methodist
A. W. Howard
India
Rio
Charles Taylor
Rural town roils as national spillover fuels uneasy mood
In a quiet rural town the nation’s political clashes and public life rot extend locally. A drive in stand near Five Points halted for relocation. Saline high school hosts Lyra Male Chorus Sunday night. Congressman George Meader visited The Observer office en route to Adrian Rotary Club.
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Washington
General MacArthur
Bemis Road
East Michigan Avenue
Five Points
Lyra
United Efforts of
Helen Wallo to Wed Ann Arbor Man
Announce engagement of Helen Wallo daughter of Mrs. Frank Wallo Saline to Cpl Harold Owens son of Kenneth Owens of Calvin Street Ann Arbor and the late Mrs Ivah Jones Owens with 82nd Airborne at Ft Bragg NC attended Saline High School no wedding date set
Rev. G. D. Ehnis Dies at 82 Former Saline Resident
The Rev G D Ehnis 82 longtime Ann Arbor area native died March 3 at his Monroe home after a long illness He was born January 3 1869 in Ann Arbor He moved to Saline as a child and later served as pastor at St Pauls Church near Monroe from 1909 until retirement Funeral services were held at Evangelical Zion Lutheran church in Monroe Survivors include his wife four daughters and 14 grandchildren plus two brothers. a daughter Lois Heck died in 1936.
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G. D. Ehnis
Ann Arbor
Monroe
Rev. Ehnis
John G
Marie Hack Ehnis
Saline
Ehnis
Manchester
Saginaw
Ruth Wagner
Dorothy Stassna
Matthew
Herman Ehnis
Lois Heck
Evangelical Zion Lutheran Church
Fire Burns Across Southern Michigan Describing Fire District Plans
Extensive damage from grass fires in southern Michigan is used to illustrate the need for district level protection plans. The article notes the Saline Fire Department response to a blaze near Lewis Cabins and discusses training, equipment, and cooperative strategies across 12 districts. It cites 4 605 acres burned last year with most losses in the southern third, and lists fire causes including smokers and brush burners among 873 fires.
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Conservation Department
Michigan
Tackle Tinkers Plan Aid To Percy Jones Casualties
Fishermen urged to donate old tackle to the Ann Arbor Tackle Tinkerers Club for repair. Donations go to Percy Jones Army Hospital in Battle Creek for 1100 Korea war casualties. Bruce Parsons of Saline coordinated via The Saline Observer to route items to the workshop.
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Percy Jones
Percy Jones Army Hospital
Battle Creek
Ann Arbor
Bruce Parsons
Saline Observer
Observer
Parsons
Percy Jones Hospital
Olivet College Man To Address Saline High School
Cecil Houghton director of admissions at Olivet College will speak to Saline high school students on April 7 at 1 00 pm. His talk My Two Years with the Eskimos includes Kodachrome slides and souvenirs from Greenland during World War II. Seniors and juniors may discuss college plans after the lecture.
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Cecil Houghton
Olivet College
Olivet
Saline
Houghton
Greenland
United States Air Force
New MEA President Elected for 1951 52
Russell H. Wilson Alpena superintendent of schools was chosen as president of the Michigan Education Association for 1951 52 at the annual Representative Assembly in Lansing on April 6.
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Russell H. Wilson
Alpena
Michigan Education Association
MEA
Lansing
Michigan educator career of MEA vice president Mr Wilson
Mr. Wilson, vice-president of the MEA for two years, has 27 years in Michigan teaching. He taught at Manistique High School 1923-25, led Manistique High as principal 1925-35, led Alpena High 1935-36 as principal, and has been Alpena superintendent since 1936. A Traverse City native, he graduated Alma College in 1923 and earned a U Michigan MA in 1930.
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Wilson
MEA
Michigan
Manistique
Manistique High School
Alpena High School
Alpena
Traverse City
Alma College
University of Michigan
Detroit Lt Colonel Miller Receives War Procurement Post
Lt Colonel Miller appointed Director of War Procurement at the Central Air Procurement District with Detroit HQ. A former Detroit Stock Exchange director, he will oversee procurement administration to ensure proper use of government property and finances. Born in Saline, he studied at the University of Michigan and served from World War I through World War II, later commanding an Air Reserve Training Group in Detroit. He resides at 4185 Buckingham, Detroit.
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Central Air Procurement District
Detroit
Miller
Detroit Stock Exchange
Col. Miller
Saline
University of Michigan
Warner Robbins Air Depot
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
Buckingham
Sportsman's Organization Starts Extensive Landscaping Project
The Tri- County Sportsman's Club grounds near Saline begin a major landscaping effort led by Richard Michalke Sr. A 3,000 evergreen planting is planned for spring, a hedge of multiflora roses along three sides aims to shelter wildlife, and stream improvements may include damming to raise water level and create trout habitat with logs and brush.
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Tri- County Sportsman’s Club
Saline
Richard Michalke
Michalke
Rotary Ladies Night Observed by Saline Club
The Saline Rotary Club will host Ladies Night at Saline High School on Thursday April 19. A junior home economics class will serve dinner. Students from elementary and secondary grades perform instrumental and vocal pieces and declamations from the district contest. The science and vocational agriculture departments will present demonstrations, with several choral numbers by the elementary glee club. Rotary district governor Fletcher Renten and Mrs Renten are expected to attend.
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The
Saline Rotary Club
Saine High School
Science Department
Vocational Agricultural Department
Rotary District
Fletcher Renten
Renten
Past Matrons Club meets at Mrs Gross home for lunch
The Past Matrons Club held its regular business meeting Monday at Mrs Alwin Gross home with twenty three ladies present A lunch was served and the group announced the next meeting will be May 14 at Mrs Mamie Lehman home in Royal Oak.
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Alwin Gross
Twentythree
Mamie Lehman
Royal Oak
Washtenaw County Woman's Clubs Observe 35th Anniversary
Mrs. Chase S. Osborn of Sault Ste. Marie to speak on the North Atlantic Treaty at the 35th anniversary Washtenaw County Federation of Women's Clubs convention in St Marys School Chelsea opening at 10:30 Monday. Registration from 10 to 10:30 with Mrs Edwin G Staeb of Ann Arbor presiding.
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Chase S. Osborn
Sault Ste. Marie
Washtenaw County
Ypsilanti
Fine Arts
Edwin G. Staeb
Ann Arbor
Federation
St. Mary’s Altar Society
H. W. Campbell
David Forbes
Milan
Charlotte Stables
Manchester
Earl Lavery
Dexter
Henry Karner
Saline
Lawton Steger
County Brotherhood Meets Here Sunday
Washtenaw County Men's Brotherhood will meet Sunday April 15 at Federated church at 4 30 p m Special music by the Federated church men's quartet and Rev Harold De Vries of Grace church Ann Arbor will speak Luncheon served in the church basement at six o'clock.
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Washtenaw County Men's Brotherhood
Federated Church
Harold DeVries
Grace Church
Ann Arbor
New Man Named To Police Force
Harry Joseph of Dexter is the new patrolman for Saline to start April 23. He is married with one child and has over a year on the Dexter police force, coming here on the sheriff's department and Dexter village council recommendation. Cecil Albertson is promoted to chief, succeeding Ray Carlton who resigned to join Ford Motor Company plant protection.
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Harry Joseph
Dexter
Saline
Joseph
Sheriff's Department
Cecil Albertson
Ray Carlton
Ford Motor Company
Sportsman's Club to Show Alaskan Wildlife Film
The Sportsman's Club sponsors a program at Pattengill Auditorium on Sunday afternoon and evening, April 22. A color movie on Alaskan wildlife, three years in the making, will be shown. The hour and a half film features big game hunting and fishing on the Kenai Peninsula, dubbed the continent's greatest hunting and fishing country. Tick savings bank ers available at the Saline.
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Washtenaw County Sportsman’s Club
Pattengill Auditorium
Kenai Peninsula
Junior Farm Bureau To Hold Father and Son Banquet
Washtenaw County Junior Farm Bureau sponsors a father and son banquet at Dexter High School on Wednesday April 25 starting at seven. Tickets on sale to bureau members. Reservations may be made by contacting Margaret Meske Saline or Betty Jane Pidd Dexter.
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Washtenaw County Junior Farm Bureau
Dexter High School
Margaret Meske
Saline
Betty Jane Pidd
Dexter
Crazy Daze musical opens Friday at high school auditorium
The Saline Child Study Club sponsors a three act musical comedy at the high school auditorium Friday and Saturday April 13 14 at 8 00 pm Pat Koesch stars as Herbert Williams with a Wi mmin folk family Kenneth Rogers is Toby Jones amateur detective Lawsy Ann Lakes Virginia Gross Edna Wilson headline in a farcical comedy with romance and mischief, continued on page 5
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Saline Child Study Club
Pat Koesch
Herbert Williams
Wimmin
Herbert
Pat
Petrayal
Manchester
Tony Schild Wite
Aza Post
Kenneth Rogers
Toby Jones
Lawsy Ann Lakes
Virginia Gross
Lawsy Me
Lawsy Ann
Edna Wilson
James Cook Takes Fourth in Saline Declamation
In Saline district declamation on Friday James Cook placed fourth in the oratorical division with his piece on Common Sense. Ypsilanti Roosevelt led in three divisions with Elizabeth Elliott first in orations Mary Davey first in oratorical declamation and John Cole first in extemporaneous speech.
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Saline
James Cook
Ypsilanti Roosevelt
Elizabeth Elliott
Mary Davey
John Cole
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Irene A. Boice
Washtenaw County Brotherhood
Helen Wallo
Lewis Cabins
Us- 112
Saline Fire Department
Alaska
Sportsman’s Organization
Rotary Club
Federation of Woman’s Clubs
Chelsea
County Brotherhood
Sportsman’s Club
Junior Farm Bureau
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