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Newspaper
Saline Reporter
Location
Saline, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1960
Page
1
Alumni and Jaycee teams won double header games in the Fun and Fumble men's softball league Tuesday night. A SHS diamond team edged out teachers 4 to 3 in extra innings, then JC members defeated Saine Volunteer Firemen 10 to 5 under the lights. They schedule a rematch next Tuesday with a Teachers Firemen clash at 8:30 after a 7 pm opener.
Bill Muir reports his yellow and white parakeet Zrosty flew out the door Tuesday evening and has not returned. The bird uttered Bye bye as it left and remains missing.
Mrs. Robert Tefft of 1880 Textile Road was elected president of the Hillsdale College Alumni Association at a Saturday meeting on campus. Tefft, known as Bess Hagaman Tefft, class of 1937, composer of the college song Hillsdale Tribute, has served as secretary and vice president. The association funds Homecoming, coordinates alumni clubs nationwide, and participates in Commencement Week.
In a Tuesday session in Justice of the Peace Court Hubert Beach faced a charge under City Ordinance No 116 for having a rabbit running at large. Beach claimed the rabbit was not large and sought a jury trial with venue moved to Martys Restaurant.
Saline Hospital Auxiliary outlines a three event August membership drive with two teas a coffee hour and an evening dessert hour. Members will bring at least two prospects to each event and sell candy at the Saline Community Fair in September. Future meetings shift to the second Tuesday each month from the third.
George Judy, sent by the American Legion Post, served as a Boys State delegate and was appointed by the mayor of Jefferson City as a city councilman. He belonged to the Nationalist party, and Saline delegates called the trip educational.
Jeanette Wiedmayer of Michigan avenue Saline township and David T. Ehnis of Joy road Dexter announce their engagement. Jeanette, a Eastern Michigan University senior, is a Saline area High School graduate. David, a Dexter Community High School graduate, works for J L Warden contractor. An early August wedding is planned. Ruth Lutz departed for several weeks of travel across Europe last week.
Pfc. Harry Feeman, son of Mrs. Gilbert Dicks of 1183 Willis Road, leaves for Hawaii where he will join a Marine Corps tractor battalion. He entered service last September after boot camp at San Diego and further training at Camp Pendleton. He expects to remain in Hawaii for two years.
Funeral services for Louise S. Korte 87 were held at Lockwood Funeral Home. Born Sept 20 1872 in Blasheim Westphalia Germany she immigrated in 1852 and married Henry Korte in 1895 in Jansen Nebraska. She moved to Saline in 1941 and left seven sons two daughters two brothers and a sister plus many grandchildren. Burial was at Oakwood Cemetery with Rev H L Engel officiating.
David Gordon presided at a Thursday County Building meeting naming committees for the coming year. Key panels include County Directory chaired by Herman Koenn with four members, and Dairy Banquet Awards led by Tom Carlton alongside five colleagues. The Dairy Banquet Dinner committee is led by Mrs. Simon Girbach. Additional panels cover Banquet Finance with Stan Gill as chair and four others, Daily Princess Contest with Ernst Girbach and two participants, and Banquet Program chaired by Don Johnson with four more.
The first July meeting of City Council will be held Tuesday July 5 because the regular meeting date falls on a holiday.
Marcie Bradley returns to St. Joseph Mercy in Ann Arbor for further surgery on her left foot after weeks of crutch use earlier this year. A Saline area tour group including Mrs. Wahl and the Stremlers recounts an eight day trip through Mackinac region, Wisconsin, Lake Michigan crossings, and visits with relatives in Holland and Fennville. Douglas Esch undergoes tonsil removal with a German counting reveal to his doctor. A large Schneider-Guenther reunion occurs at Norman Guenther’s home on Maple Road. John Wiedmayer recovers at home from an emergency appendix surgery at Saline Community Hospital. Bob Rogers moves to a textile road home near Ypsilanti while continuing work at a Gamble store. Mrs. George Austin returns from Houston with Jim Austin set to tour Interlochen and later Houston Symphony duties.
A Lodi township woman Mrs Raymond Lambarth 43 of 6120 Pleasant Lake Rd was seriously injured Saturday afternoon when she was run over by a farm tractor. The accident occurred when she was climbing down from the tractor to open a gate and slipped under the wheels. The tractor ran over her chest and lower abdomen and she was treated at St Joseph Hospital for a broken pelvis. Her condition was reported as fair. Doug Schuur Heads Boy Scout Board. Members of the Troop 46 Boy Scout adult committee elected Doug Schuur as chairman with Hollis Carr secretary and Johnson Quick treasurer with other members to be appointed later.
Mrs. Jerome L. Tull 72 widow of Tarpon Springs Florida publisher Jerome L. Tull died after a heart ailment. Funeral was at Lockwood Funeral Home with burial at Oakwood Cemetery. She was born November 10 1888 in Washington Indiana and lived in Detroit prior to moving to Florida. Survived by husband Paul Tull two daughters Kingston Ellis Detroit and Mary Tull Tarpon Springs and eight grandchildren. son Arthur preceded her in death.
Hoover Ball and Bearing Co. to acquire Bradson Manufacturing Co. in Saline and Cuyahoga Steel and Wire Co. in Maple Heights as divisions of Hoover after stockholder ratification. Bradson will produce Plastainer plastic containers on an automated line by August in a new addition. Cuyahoga Steel and Wire, with 75 employees and $4.5 million annual sales, will expand capacity by about 65 percent without management changes. Special stockholders’ meetings set for Bradson and Cuyahoga on dates pending ratification.
Saline area Board of Education will meet at 8 p m Friday July 1 in the conference room at Saline High School. The organizational meeting will discuss where to locate the 1960 Community Fair.
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