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Newspaper
Saline Observer
Location
Saline, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1957
Page
4
Michigan pheasant hunters expect a repeat of last year’s high yield with prediction of over one million birds to be bagged this fall. Experts note cyclic trends may affect future totals, but current outlook remains robust as 1940s numbers show volatility yet growth.
The Boston Commodity Office of the Agriculture Department said the government wool stockpile was reduced by two million pounds in the latest sale. The total wool reserve now stands around 17 million pounds. Archbold Stadium has housed the Syracuse football team for 50 years.
Michigan duck hunters are reminded to avoid shooting wood ducks when the waterfowl season opens October 1. Regulations prohibit taking wood ducks this year and cooperation is needed to enforce the rule.
Washtenaw County wool producers received 123 899.14 dollars for 738 259 pounds of shorn wool in the 1956 marketing year ending March 31 1957. They also gained 7 604.70 dollars for 1 274 589 pounds of unshorn lambs. The 1956 rates were 40 percent of returns for wool and 71 cents per hundredweight for lambs. The 1957 program keeps wool at 62 cents per pound grease, with payments determined in mid 1958. The period for marketing ends March 31 1958 and payment applications are due by April 30 1958.
Miss Ella Mae Everett former Saline resident visited friends after arriving May 31 from five years of missionary work in the Belgian Congo Africa. She taught in Ruanguba Rutshuru and supervised nurses at a sixty bed hospital with daily 150 outpatients. She is a nursing graduate from St Joseph Hospital School of Nursing Ann Arbor Unit and trained at Northern Baptist Seminary Chicago. She plans further study at Johns Hopkins and a New York hospital before resuming Congo service in September 1958.
Washington Herschel D Newsom head of the National Grange calls for federal action to help farmers cope with rising costs as inflation looms. He says labor and industry blame each other for the wage price spiral while industrial wages rise from 1 59 to 2.00 an hour over six years and farmers' net income falls from 16.1 billion to 11.6 billion dollars since 1951.
The highest price at Keeneland Sales reached $65,000 paid by Robert J. Kleberg’s King Ranch for a day-old colt by Nasrullah out of In Bloom by Blue Larkspur reflecting strong demand for pedigreed runners.
A film crew visited Art Moehm's and Al Armbruster's A and M Chevrolet Co. in Saline on Tuesday to shoot a movie about a Chevrolet dealer, depicting small town dealers nationwide. Walter Koste directed with R W Fenimore as cameraman and William Brath as assistant. models were Bob Fritze and Lil Nielson.
Miss Patricia Teachout daughter of Mr and Mrs Herbert Teachout of 11975 Moon Road York Township was crowned Miss Saline of 1957 at the Saline Community Fair. A Saline High School senior she was selected from 21 contestants and received gifts and a purse of prize money.
The Stony Creek Methodist Church establishes a Camp Scholarship Fund to finance 15 ten dollar scholarships for the 1958 season. A roadside market on Saturday September 21 at the home of Mr and Mrs Charles Hayes supports the fund. Committee members include Mrs Jane Hayes, Mrs Elizabeth Johnson, Mrs Leola Wasem, Mrs Florence Barber, Mrs Mildred Exelby, Mrs Rayline Weiss, and Mrs Thelma Whitt.
A slide-illustrated travel talk given last month in St Paul Church will be repeated tonight in the church dining room at 8 oclock. Rev and Mrs Al Siemsen and their daughters spent July camping with many stops in national parks and a visit to points of interest around the Los Angeles area. At friends request the program will be repeated for all who wish to attend.
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