No Spectre Here FARM TOWNS TO DIE
In Saline and Bridgewater a debate on rural decline centers on shopping centers and post office funding. U M professor Ross Wilhelm warns towns may become ghost towns without modernization citing the shop ping center revolution and changing transport. Locals argue Saline adapts, with merchants resisting a crisis while noting postal budget worries and a proposed but unbuilt Bridgewater post office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ross 3
Wilhelm
U-M
Saline
Bridgewater
U.S. Postal Department
Junior Judgments This Week on Time Travel Preferences
Students aged 9 to 16 share dream eras they would visit from prehistoric caves to the 1920s and colonial days. Answers include frontier life excitement and future flying cars, with some pointing to science and invention as motives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jim Killebrew
Gary Kangas
John Burkhart
Bruce Uphaus
Randy Harms
Marilyn Leonard
Saline notes local life and hints of events
Local column recounts Martha Leutheuser and Alice Goltz sampling a homemade cheesecake at the Sauk Trail Inn, plus Wendy Wild’s honors college prospects, a Jackson prison escape roadblock, church praise, and community tidbits from Saline including a robin romance, a barbershop festival in Ann Arbor, and local tales of minor mischief and shoplifted tricks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Martha Leutheuser
Alice Goltz
Martha
Sauk Trail Inn
Saline Couple Announces Engagement
Mr and Mrs Norwin J Raus Sr of N Ann Arbor St announce the engagement of their daughter Magdalene Lillian to Jack Arlen Losee son of Mrs Norman Hedger and the late Ellsworth Losee of Hack Rd The bride to be is a Saline High School graduate employed by A L Battery Electric Service Inc The groom to be is also a Saline High School graduate and is employed by Conduction Corporation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norwin J. Raus, Sr
N. Ann Arbor St
Magdalene Lillian
Jack Arlen Losee
Norman Hedger
Ellsworth Losee
Hack Rd
Saline High School
The
A &L Battery & Electric Service, Inc
Conduction Corpor
Also Mentioned on This Page
Washington
Terry
Christie Townsend
Ric van Doren
Cathy Carpentier
Joe Mallory
Denise Malinczak
Colonial Times
Wendy Wild
Western Michigan University
Western
State Board of Education
Jackson Prison
St. John’s Church
Saline Library Association
Beryl Rolling
Ypsilanti
Jim Gross
Jim
Schwaben Hall
Ann Arbor
Larry Smiths
Lloyd Feldkamps
Vic Guenthers
Erwin Schmids
Walt Lindemanns
Paul Tulls
Edith Cotton Smith
E. McKay Sr
Mike Strait
Connie Hertler
Connie
Ation
Melvin F. Hartman
Textile Rd
Hazel
Ationwide Mutual Insurance Company
Columbus, Ohio
Best
U.S.H
Saline Savings Bank
FDIC
Rexall
Data Nome
Brite
Cologne
Fungi
Rex
Rexall Pharmacy
Michigan
Herman Radloff
Wilson Dairy Man
Bennett
Bech’s
Arkona
Salina
Ford Tractor
W. &. Young, Inc
Ford Industrial Engines
W. Michigan
Ted
Oliver
Gross Farm Equipment
John Deere Tools
W. Bennett
Saline Mercantile Mill
Thaddeus R. Kayda
Pleasant Lake
Miloy Division
Hoover Rail and Bearing
Estes Rexall Pharmacy
E. Michigan
A & M Chevrolet CO
Chevrolet
Oldsmobile
Harry’s
Citizen’s Bank of Saline
F.d.1.c. Federal Reserve
FIA
Saline Chamber OF Commerce
Hoover Containers, Inc
Hoover Ball and Bearing Co
Maple Rd
Duble Laundry
Lanny Lincoln Robbins
Ann Arbor Rd
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