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Newspaper
Saline Observer
Location
Saline, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1946
Page
1
Ray Niles spoke before the Saline Rotary Club tracing Saline’s growth from a New England style mill town to a German influenced trading center. He warned that aging buildings and slow growth threaten future prosperity unless new small industrial plants arrive locally.
In a birthday message Ford reflects on war harms and urges clear long term planning. He credits UNRA aid and citizen efforts for relief to displaced Europeans and praising Saline area support. He calls for youth to lead in choosing leaders and hard work to secure peace and prosperity.
The Finkbeiner reunion gathered nearly 100 at Wiedmans Grove last Sunday afternoon. Warren Finkbeiner chaired the event, succeeding his uncle George of Ann Arbor, with plans to meet again on the fourth Sunday in July. Officers elected included President Lyell Boehm, Vice President Leland Lesser, Secretary Mrs. Warren Finkbeiner, and Treasurer Mrs. Roy Fischer of Ann Arbor. The Ladies Aid Society of Trinity Church will picnic at Saline Park on Wednesday August 14 with a potluck dinner.
American Legion Auxiliary members plan another Gift Shop drive at the Veterans Administration Hospital Fort Custer to aid about 1200 hospitalized veterans. Units should adopt two imaginary families and provide gifts from $1 to $5, wrapped and tied, with contact points Mary Lee Claire Harris and Luella Dell for submission.
A Saline Rotary Club display on a wall holds the members and attendance dates on a large blackboard donated by William sth and Clifford Simmons of Universal Die Casting Manufacturing Corp. The piece is praised for its construction and utility.
The Associated Women of Washtenaw County held a luncheon and afternoon meeting at Mrs. L. G. Steiner’s home on Thursday July 25. State chairman Belle Newell and Berrien County chair G Hobbs attended and spoke on farm women’s work. County Road Commission superintendent Hollenbeck discussed county road building and maintenance. The year plan includes quarterly meetings across the four townships with demonstrations rural urban day and a child guidance program. Twenty women attended and gathered information for their communities.
A blacksmith shop owned by George Aprill on Scio Church road was destroyed by fire Friday. The local fire department answered the alarm at 5:85 in the afternoon but arrived too late to save the structure. A grass fire at Platt Village northeast of the airport forced a second run in the afternoon. Don Burkhart, rural mail carrier from Saline on sick leave since the year’s start, is back on the route.
The slogan Marching Forward to a Better World frames a broader Salvation Army effort. Youth character building aims to prevent juvenile delinquency while aiding veterans, servicemen, and vulnerable groups at home and abroad. The plan expands Service Units to smaller towns and includes work in police courts and prisons.
A long-ago county gang of thieves was caught after stealing white turkeys from Martir Fuoss's farm, a lapse that led to their conviction and five year sentences. In a related incident, Robert Morton lost most birds except 29 in a range house near the Herman Rentschler line on Friday night.
The Michigan State College extension service lends George Amundson to explain the Federal Emergency Farm Labor Program. Amundson, engineering-extension specialist and show director, travels the southeast to brief extension officials for two weeks monthly over four months. Work resumes on a Ford salesroom and garage on North Ann Arbor Street with masons laying cement blocks.
Four St James church members sowed wheat last fall with tithing in mind. They will contribute about 1200 bushels to the Lenawee appeal. The wheat will be shipped East for milling and blending with soybean meal as a church donation to aid European sufferers.
Editorial notes farm turnover in Ann Arbor area has roughly doubled in three years with about half of buyers from cities. Two buyer types emerge: factory workers seeking security in the country and wealthier city buyers treating farming as a hobby, aided by wartime income and tax reductions.
National trend shows increasing red fox populations across 18 states surveyed by D F Switzenberg of Michigan conservation. Fifteen states report more foxes than a decade ago, two show declines, five report decreases this year, seven see no further increase, and Vermont notes no bounties with long experience. South Dakota records the highest bounty at seven dollars fifty cents. Continued on Page 8.
A chemical once used as a refrigerant and later as a pesticide has proven highly effective in suppressing gasoline blazes, according to its manufacturer.
V J Day will be celebrated in Ann Arbor on its first anniversary August 14 a county wide affair to welcome home Washterian County servicemen and women Saline joins the effort with more than three hundred local participants. The event aims to lift morale and honor sacrifices made during the war.
The piece notes rising bids for state projects from 1940 levels at Tonia State Hospital Traverse City State Hospital Michigan Reformatory Howell Sanatorium and Lapeer State Home and Training School and Michigan College of Mines. It argues state spending is record high, sales tax revenue grows with prices, and warns against debt from inflated values versus a pay as you go approach.
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