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Newspaper
Saline Observer
Location
Saline, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1959
Page
1
Kiwanis club adopts gazette rules for Saturday screenings. Kids must sit in chairs not balcony seats and candy will be sold only during intermissions. Reentry not allowed after leaving. The club notes a few spoil the show and asks for parent presence. Pat Boone in Bernadine is this Saturday's feature.
The Saline board faces postponed contracts and tight budgeting as Michigan aid remains overdue for 1959 and unclear for 1960. They guarantee no less salary for reemployed teachers and plan proportional increases if funds allow while proceeding with high school improvements and auditorium bids. Road work at the school site is set to start when weather allows.
Saline residents invited to coffee on April 4 at the Saline Hotel dining room to raise 300 to 400 dollars for a hospital incubator. Donations accepted for coffee doughnuts and sweet rolls. A display incubator will be shown at Wight's Cleaners. Vera Schmid named chair. Also notes Jr. American Legion Auxiliary skating party at Imperial Rink near Ypsilanti.
The Saline council and school board clash over sidewalk construction and road leveling for the new high school site on North Ann Arbor Road. The board wins a contract to study plans for a sidewalk before Sept 1, while the council tables the road leveling issue citing city indebtedness and costs.
Saline volunteers attend the annual Fire Me s Ball at the Legion home to raise funds for the Firemen's Fund. If alarms ring Saturday night, they will be alerted immediately by Lockwood Funeral Home. The event supports local firefighting charities.
Members of the OES will serve grape juice ham and eggs hot cross buns doughnuts and coffee at the Masonic Hall next Thursday starting at 9 a.m. Easter music and a program follow. Mrs Erma Betz chairs the kitchen with Mrs Lois Bowen overseeing decorations.
Jim Gross new Saline Civil Defense Director urges volunteers 21+ not in police or fire to join. Work entails readiness to help others during national emergencies and build a core of trained citizens to bridge disaster and recovery.
Construction by Standard Oil Co. will begin within two weeks at 215 E Michigan Ave after a prior zoning dispute was dismissed. The project uses the former Herman Gross home site, destroyed by fire about two years ago, with a building permit issued last August.
Members of Saline Lodge 133 F and AM will hold the annual Past Masters Night on March 24 with dinner at 7 p.m. Worshipful Master W. R. Struble will read the roll call of about 25 past masters and James Lunsford of Detroit will deliver the address.
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