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Newspaper
Saline Observer
Location
Saline, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Apr 12, 1956
Page
2
A Saline reader prompts community input by reprinting a Town Journal questionnaire on town qualities. It asks 40 statements with yes or no choices to gauge pride and invites readers to submit their own items to The Observer.
Michigan Bell reports 156 000 more telephones in service and over 11 900 000 calls daily in 1955. Earnings rose to 6.4 percent, aided by rate increases and higher payroll, with significant expansion in colored telephone installations and direct distance dialing.
750000 4 H Club members participate in the National 4 H Health Program to improve individual family and community health. Eli Lilly and Company awards include gold filled medals for four county winners an all expense trip to the National 4 H Club Congress in Chicago a $300 college scholarship for six national winners and blue certificates for top county and state health programs.
April is ideal to start a farm fire safety program with A. Zood cleanup efforts. Trim fire risks by removing rubbish and dead vegetation around the farmstead and clearing farm shop areas to reduce major causes of farm fires.
The State Highway Department will set low bidders next Wednesday in Lansing for seven trunkline projects and 16 others. Included is Washtenaw County’s US-12 relocation fencing from Pontiac Trail, totaling 441 rods of woven wire and matching steel posts with a June 30 completion date.
Saline Rotary Club entertained Rotary Ann at Saline Elementary School last Thursday. The event featured organ demonstrations, dinner music by Arthur Katterjohn and students, declamations by Jane Campbell and Sallee Jo Wood, metal spinning, solos by Joar Austin, and brass selections by a sextet. Corsages were given to thirty nine women.
Saline council hears a request by Assembly of God to build a church at Maple and Bemis, with 19 property owners opposing. The meeting also approves a one year sexton contract for Oakwood Cemetery and names Mrs Bessie Collins city historian.
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