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Newspaper
Saline Observer
Location
Saline, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Apr 12, 1956
Page
3
Published each Thursday at Same Michigan the Saline Post Office issues subscription terms. Rates list $3.00 yearly in Michigan and $3.50 elsewhere with postage paid in the United States and Canada. Advance payment required. three year mail subscriptions are $7.50 within Michigan and $9.00 outside.
An analysis cites state price controls and regulatory barriers as drivers of costly milk. It discusses compensatory payments, sanitary rules used as barriers, and unions protecting high store prices. The piece urges consumer action and continued government support to shift demand and increase competition.
Echoes from the past recount the death of Lewe G. Rogers aged 78 at his son Roy’s home after a brief illness. Other items note radio industry growth in Michigan, local theater plans, Edison toll-line work, market quotes, a Saline heartening 1926 event, and fifty years of community notes.
The Washtenaw County Road Commission awarded bids for five pickup trucks one station wagon and two dump trucks to Cooley Auto Sales Milan and University Motor Sales Ann Arbor. Bids for 100 miles of blacktop seal coating were opened with awards to come at the next meeting. Milner says the wagon replaces a sedan and the dump trucks will serve as salt trucks in winter.
Grant M. Jones of the Secretary of State office reports the license plate rush is over as Milan’s new branch office reduced trips to Ann Arbor or Monroe. In recent weeks the Milan office issued 1700 full year licenses 400 commercial licenses and 500 half year licenses.
Miss Susan Dayton Copland of Grosse Pointe Farms and William Doolittle Crim, president of Saline Savings Bank, were married Saturday afternoon at Christ Church at Cranbrook. The ceremony was performed by Reverends DeWitt and Maynard with no attendants. A small reception followed at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Neil C. McMath. The couple will reside at 2110 Hill Street Ann Arbor after June 1.
John Layher, Saline area farmer, joins the United States Soil Conservation Service with offices in Ann Arbor to aid cooperators in applying soil and water conservation practices. He began duties on March 26, 1956, after serving in the Coast Guard and operating the family 200 acre Maple Road farm.
Frank Eatough aged about 65 from Yoder Indiana was found unconscious in a car that struck a tree two miles west of Saline on U S 112 Saturday afternoon. Believed to have suffered a heart attack or stroke, he was taken to the University Hospital in Ann Arbor in serious condition.
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