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Newspaper
Saline Observer
Location
Saline, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1956
Page
1
The column praises a donated Ford for Saline High School driver training and defends Christmas celebrations. It questions holiday excess while urging community groups to share schedules of Christmastime programs, operettas, parties, and benefits from church, school, and civic groups.
Humorous Christmas verse lists the countdown to the holiday. It weighs the busy tasks from shopping to decorating and cooking, ending with a playful reminder to relax and enjoy the season.
Rescue teams found two men dead after a cave in at a 20 foot sewer trench in a new subdivision. Foreman Robert Meyers, 53, and Louis Hanselman, 46, both of Dexter, were buried alive as dirt collapsed while workers dug below.
Saline Lodge 133 F A M announces a public installation Tuesday December 18 at 8 p.m. at Masonic Hall Saline. Officers to be installed include Kenneth Jeppesen worshipful master Howard Destrough senior warden Willis Struble junior warden Harry Holmes treasurer George Martin secretary Nelson Watling senior deacon Jeddie Staley junior deacon David Irwin senior steward Merritt Martin junior steward and George Seeger tyler. Installing officer will be Past Master Byron Wilson of Ann Arbor with assistants Past Master Louis Bowen secretary Herbert Teachout marshal and Clarence Fritz chaplain. Refreshments will follow.
Members of the Saline Community Hospital Committee and architect Gordon Prout held a meeting Sunday December 9 at Frank Carson’s home to discuss and revise plans for the new hospital. The group will meet weekly with the architect until final plans are complete and a published sketch will be shown for public inspection.
December Cub Scouts meeting at the elementary school produced favors and decorations to be sent to Ypsilanti State Hospital for Christmas. The annual project is highly valued by patients and staff. Four hundred insect species affect U.S. livestock, costing growers about 500 million dollars annually.
The Saline elementary school presents the Christmas operetta Little Blue Angel on December 19 and 20 at 8:00 PM in the school auditorium. Kathie Reed plays Princess Maria and Steve Miller portrays the Christ Child in disguise. The show features bells, choir, ballet dancers, bakers, jesters, and other festive acts with free admission and two rooms for each performance.
Forty young residents under ten years old will be winners in a Christmas bonus contest sponsored by Saline Chamber of Commerce during the holiday shopping season. The drawing runs December 7 to December 22 with ballots awarded per ten cents of purchases and prizes announced next week.
A Christmas party for the children of the Primary Department at the Methodist Church School is set for Saturday December 15 from 2:00 to 3:30 p.m. Mrs Joseph Bondie and department teachers will lead the program and arrangements with parents also invited.
The annual bake sale by the Altar Society of St. Andrew Church takes place at Up Haus Electric Shop on Saturday starting at 10 a.m. Residents can stock up on homemade cakes cookies and treats to ease the holiday rush.
Mr and Mrs Jennings Campbell visited with her daughter and husband Mr and Mrs Donald Knight in Detroit.
Saline High School and Saline Junior High announce second marking period honor rolls with 114 students named across grades eight through twelve. Notables include Jim Knight Janet Marion Sandra Ross Marian Johnson and many others across all grades. also notes the annual wheat crop movement as a vast transport task totaling 1.65 million carloads.
The Washtenaw County NFIP board approves a 1957 March of Dimes goal of 46 900 with local chairmen named for publicity cannisters hospitals clubs schools and public groups. County totals show past year overage and projected 20 000 new polio cases nationwide in 1957. Local and rural township leaders are appointed to finance hospitals publicity and speaker duties as the drive plans for substantial over subscription to meet county needs.
The JC's sponsor a Saline holiday home decorating contest with first prize $15.20 second prize $10 and third prize $5. The JC's will tour the streets on Saturday December 22 to judge originality and beauty of outdoor decorations aligned with the Christmas theme.
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