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Newspaper
Saline Observer
Location
Saline, Michigan, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1942
Page
2
Pvt. Robert Royal returns from Langley Field on a 14 day furlough. Memorial Day library hours noted. Community events include Legion post meeting June 4 and 50th Saline Alumni anniversary June 5. Family visits, anniversaries, operations, and local club gatherings reported along with plant and farm developments and war service updates.
Saline General Hospital reports Tony Morlock and his wife of Milan welcomed a son born Monday the 25th. Delores Skiff of Milan underwent a tonsillectomy Monday. Mrs. Julia Carven remains about the same. Mrs. Leo Luckhardt of Ann Arbor returned home with her infant daughter. Mrs. Sam Desbrough and infant son also returned to their home in Ypsilanti. Mrs. Sadie Hasely of Milan improved enough to go home. Mrs. Clarke Gordon and son expect to return home Wednesday. Daniel Nissly was admitted Monday to the Observer notes with an infection in his right foot.
Junior and senior girls assisted in bond questionnaire and sugar rationing, led by Nellie Irwin and Elowene Rentschler. Seniors prepared for a four day boat trip with Elmer Bickel and Iris Bright. Memorial Day program set with Adjutant Walter MacArthur and Chaplain Dan Halli. Latin II studies Caesar and Gauls highlight religious ideas and Druids in old France.
The shop acquired a new band saw this week to aid sawing for airplanes. The Airplane Club completed 25 units and will soon be shipped to the Navy to aid national defense. Willow Run workers Willard Hartman Ralph Sally and Reginald Fischer visited the shop. Jim Carson returned after illness. Latin I class notes progress with infinitives and indirect discourse as students near year end.
Four fifth grade patrol members and two sixth graders went to a Briggs Stadium game Wednesday afternoon. Tickets came from the Automobile Club of Detroit. Selected for courtesy and reliability, the fifth graders were Bobby Cook George Underhill Robert Bredernitz and David Levleit. Mr. Lemke accompanied the group.
A Courtesy Club exists in our room with Barbara Sinkule as president and Arletta Shurtz as secretary. The group aims to improve manners and meet weekly to review actions from the prior week. Connie Gross has a perfect spelling score for the second semester. Doris Alber and Jane Hart each miss only one word this semester. George Haberer and Jerry Jordan have been neither absent nor tardy this year. Arthur Palmer of Marble North Carolina owns a cannon said to be used by De Soto in his trek through North Carolina 400 years ago.
The annual Honors Assembly was held in the hall at one o clock on Thursday. Awards were given for Achievement across multiple departments including Valedictorian Alice Gable and Salutatorian Ruth Baumann with many others earning medals in subjects such as Social Science Art and Science. A note mentions that about three fourths of Venezuelas crude oil is refined on the Netherlands West Indian islands Curacao and Aruba.
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