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Newspaper
Saline Observer
Location
Saline, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1956
Page
3
Published weekly in Saline Michigan this notice lists subscription terms. Rates are 3.00 per year in Michigan and 3.50 outside. Postage paid in the United States and Canada. Mail subscriptions payable in advance. Three year in Michigan 7.50 outside Michigan 9.00.
ABC Soybrands takes over the Ford plant with Dan Levlich as president. News mentions births, readings on WPAG, a new Ash bakery takeover, teachers in Detroit institute, a Saline hatchery, and local construction like a 42 by 20 shop addition. ҳам
Emanuel Rentschler reports his new house east of town is nearing occupancy. The Davenport building on the corner is being refitted with new windows on the second and third stories. The Masonic lodge room will also receive improvements in coming days.
Washtenaw County 4-H and community leaders announced four scholarship recipients in the General Agriculture Short Course at Michigan State University. Recipients: Roger Brooks Manchester William Fishbeck Ann Arbor Orrin Inbody Jr Ann Arbor Edwin Coy Dexter. Others attending first or second year include Joseph Heaven Ypsilanti Paul Geiger South Lyon William Cramer Dexter Keith Dunlap Ann Arbor Wm Nixon Dexter Charles Torrey Milan. Wr Manby state 4-H Club Leader to speak at Washtenaw 4-H Fall Achievement at Michigan Union Ballroom Ann Arbor. The program honors 4-H members and leaders with awards, Clover, Honor Roll, and Service Club nominees. All and All Up 4-H Club, Whitmore Lake, cited for outstanding recreation. will receive $20 for club equipment. Feeder sales for 4-H F F A on Oct 20 at Adrian Grand Rapids St Louis with Hereford and Angus calves. proceeds prorated beyond animal cost.
State 4 H Club Office awards Mary Ann Boettner of Bridgewater a trip to the National 4 H Club Congress in Chicago November 24 30 for outstanding 4 H Conservation work. She has completed sixteen projects in seven years and also receives a 100 scholarship.
A Chicago convention of the American Society of Questioned Document Examiners finds handwriting quality fallen, with blame on pen tip styles and weak teaching. Experts note bankers and doctors still write illegibly, while individual signatures fade as forgery risk rises with easier to copy scribbles.
Chet Huntley critiques modern broadcast rhetoric saying florid speech lacks substance while Everett Dirksen stands out as the sole politician who could win a convention. Rod Redwing and John Wesley Hardin are noted for rapid-draw feats on a Wyatt Earp episode. Detroit Youth Bureau curbs delinquency via local TV shows and public missing-kid alerts.
Temperatures will run 4 to 5 degrees below normal across regions with normal highs around 64 and lows near 45. Warmer Thursday and Friday, cooler Saturday and Sunday. Precipitation totals about .20 to .30 inch with showers mainly Thursday night and Friday. Lakes Erie and Ontario stay 4 to 6 degrees below normal with warming from Thursday onward and near one third inch of rain Friday. Lakes Michigan Huron and Superior show 3 to 5 degrees below normal with warm Thursday and Friday and cooler Thursday night through Sunday. Precipitation near a quarter to one third inch, mainly Friday or late Thursday night in the west.
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