Primary election notices and town news from Saline
Notices announce registration requirements for the September 14 primary election. Local updates cover Michigan Avenue resurfacing plans, traffic cooperation, bowling league plans, a recreation meeting, North Lake fishing, Saline Hotel hours, a 1948 49 bowling season prep, school bus purchases, a dairy delivery overhaul, and Rotary support for FA athletics. Also reported are a tax service, church remodeling, and a call for reader news during a staff vacation.
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LaAline
Micah Robison
Samuel J. Levine
Traffc
State Highways Department
Levine
Michigan Avenue
Saline Hotel
Fritz Schumm
Hazel Easton
Hazel
Detroit
Bob- Lo
Tigers
Saline Dairy
FA Boys
Telegraph Service
The
Western Union
William Gray
William B. Lutz
American Legion
Larry Deede
Dean Burkhardt
County groups discuss rural industrial expansion and planning
Wash Tenaw County health and planning officials met with the County Planning Commission to review the shift of industry into rural areas. They highlighted pollution, road costs, school funding inequities, and the need for a county planning body to guide orderly development.
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Washtenaw County
Health Department
Board of Education
Scio
Huron-Clinton
Parkaway
Planning Commission
Otto Engelke
Kenneth Hahlenbeck
County Board of Education
Neil Gustin
Gustine
Albert ‘Trinkle
Stic
Board For ‘Supervisors
Saline Steer Club Tour Planned For Members
The Saline Steer Feeding Club parents and sponsors will conduct an all day farm tour next Wednesday starting at 10 am from Saline High School. The trip covers the western section and ends at city park with a pot luck dinner. Weights will be estimated by tape and gains announced later.
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Saliné Community Steer Feeding Club
Steer Club
Saline High School
Mmncon
Charley Osgood
Focal
Osgood
Detroit Edison Hikes Wages for Trades and Salaried Staff
The Detroit Edison Company raises wages effective July 26 for all employees. Trades and operating staff receive 11 percent hourly increases, while weekly salaried workers gain 9 percent. The raise covers represented and nonrepresented employees, negotiated with three local unions B-17 B-1325 and others representing about half the workforce.
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Detroit Edison Company
Wunion
Saline boosts youth welfare amid county planning drive
Editorial urges rural communities to mirror Saline's social cohesion as Washtenaw County advances the first in Michigan County Planning Commission surveys. It lauds Saline’s Community Athletic Field as a buffer against urban youth turmoil while warning five to ten years remain to avert war through a stronger United Nations and world government.
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Redmond M. Burr
Congress
H. Wirt Newkirk
Follaws
R.M. Burr
Tburr
Krutsch
Caswell
GO. P. A
S. &. Michigan
U. S. O. Council
Red Cross
Community Ford
Detroit
Washtenaw County
County Planning Commission
Michigan
Saline
Saline Community
Cord Meyer, Jr
United World Federalists
United Nations
Russia
United States
West Coast Cateys Tour Oregon Washington Mining and Flood Impacts
The travelogue describes a ten day visit from Medford through Gold Hill and Grants Pass to Seattle, noting mining wealth, logging, and a flood damaged Portland and riverfront towns. It mentions salmon fishing, waterborne ships, and visits to Lulu Fairbanks and former Saline residents Sim R. Wilson in Marysville.
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Medford
Rogue River Valley
Oregon
Gold Hill
Granta Pass
Mone
Washington
Jack Miner
Salem
State Capitol
Michigan
Grand Rapids
Portland
Columbia River
Seattle
Marysville
Everett
Mt. Rainier
Vancouver
B. C
Canada
Padget
Lulu Fairbanks
Alaska Weekly
She
Saline
Sim R. Wilson
Wilson
First G I Pilot Licensed At Saline Port
World War II veteran Doug Hall of Britton earned a private pilot license under the G I Bill at Saline Airport. He completed twenty hours of dual instruction and thirty hours solo flight, receiving the certificate from the Civil Aeronautics Administration. Hall now trains for commercial and flight instructor ratings alongside Don Clarke Jim Keehl Mervin Pilbeam and Wesley Jones.
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Saline
Doug Hall
Gordon Family Reunion at Milan Park Sees Forty-One Attendees
Forty-one Gordon relatives gathered at Milan Park on Sunday August 1 for the fourth annual reunion. A banquet featured fried chicken, psychic fare, and five gallons of ice cream. Officers elected: Mrs. Everett Munroe president, John Stimpsés vice president, Betty Burkson secretary treasurer. After business, children enjoyed games and prizes. Also noted: Walford Larson family return from a ten day trip to Big Bay with fishing and berries. Palmer Suddaby of Columbus Ohio visited Fosdick and Fosdick families.
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Gordon
Milan Park
Everett Munroe
Ypsilanti
John Stimpsés
Royal Oak
Betty Burkson
Macon
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O'Neil
Robert Beach
Redmond Burr
Michener
Detroit Edison
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
AFL
Utility Workers Union of America
CIO
Walker L. Cisler
Genevieve Cuerier
Henry E. Schuster
Henry McKenzie
Schuster
New York Central Railroad
Future
Junior Chamber of Commerce
Cateys
G. I
Saline Port
Reunon
Palmer Suddaby
Columbus
Ohio
Emily Fosdick
Max Fosdick
Mr. Palmer
Doeschler and Wallick Hotel
Columpus
Lebanon
Holy Land
Leon Goldstein
N. J
Martin Gross
Brooklyn
Eli Kalm
Bronx
Bernard Goebich
Daniel Crohn
Ature
A. Michigan Department OF Conservation
EE Auton
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