1958-01-02; Reporter

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VOLUME .11, NUMBER 15 — THURSDAY, JANUARY 2, 1958.
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Oh, BY THE WAY!
> Mary Lou Balmes, of 1369
Willis- Rd., visited her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Balmes, of
St. Petersburg, Fla., during the
holidays. Mary is a student
nurse at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital in.Detroit: She makes her
home with her sister and husband, Mr. and Mrs* Raymond
Oglesbee.
mlov&eis-lq^ Hull's grocery
are^still bubblmg-^with pleasure
over the wonderful "tiine they
had at their "store party" at
the Bob Hull home.  -'-.
Working nights now, Ray
Carlton has regretfully resigned
as leader of the Saline chapter
of-the Washtenaw County. Junior 'Shefriff Deputies, Leadership1
will be taken up,by Jim Stierle,
assistant leader since last. May,
a member of the -sherriff's ax-
iliary department for Civilian
Defense,-, and a bonded fee deputy.     "
Edith Stang's friends in Dancer's store worried about her
climbing onto chairs to get
things off high shelves. "Don't
climb up. there," they told her,
"you might fall and hurt yourself." Edith didn't fall off a
chair. She fell off a step onto
the" sidewalk and fractured her
right wrist, which is going to
keep her out of circulation for
several weeks  to  come.
Mr. and Mrs. Al Christopher,
of Maple Street, have returned
from South Bend, Ind., where
they- spent Christmas with their
daughter, .Mrs. Harry Tiedge,
aoid granddaughters, Cathy, 15,
and Mary Margaret, 13. * Mrs.
Christopher also has two sisters
and a brother in South Bend.
Classes at the Saline Tlay
.Center will resume Monday, ahd
ihe spring semester will open
January 13.
Blueprints are eoriiplete a£hd
building   on   a hew -three^bed-
robm brick ranch house foi-the
Andy' Campbells will begin as
soon as their contractor, son-in-
law  Bud  Katz^gets  over  the
. mumps.   The Campbell family
is having quite a go-round: besides the fire that completely
destroyed   their  historic  home"j-
\       about six weeks ago,  and besides    Bud's    mumps,     Andy's
mother, Mrs. Daniel Campbell,
"89, broke her hip in a fall and
is at Beyer hospital at Ypsilanti.''
Incidentally, the Campbells
know ox no particular reason
why men's names in the family
alternate Andrew - Daniel - Andrew-Daniel, each generation. In
fact, before Andy's grandfather,
Andrew, came here from Scotland and built the century old
house, the names used to alternate William, Robert, William
/ Robert. All of them good, solid
Scotch names, reminiscent of
bagpipes and kings.
Briefly visitors at the Art
Katterjohn home last week were
Charles and Mary Jaquith on a
flying visit from Boron, Calif.
He was junior High School
Principal here for three years,
until this year.
Art Katterjohn returned just
before Christmas from a weekend in Chicago at the National
Band Director's Clinic . there.
"Even played in one of the concerts," muses Art, "played
trumpet . . . in front of 4,000
band directors."
Saline's, own radio station,
WOIA, will go on the air at last,
Sunday, with what the staff de-
Scribes as "simple^ informal dedicatory ceremonies." Any ceremony, simple 'or otherwise,
would be bound to be an understatement of the excitement involved in the opening, considering the long years of hard
work "and the long months of
patient (well, sort of) waiting
that have prefaced the opening.
Any, popped shirt-buttons will
be understandable.
4-H TV CLUB
WORK NOW
IS OFFERED
Washtenaw county boys and
girls will have a chance to join
a 4-H Television Electrical Club,
According to Marvin Boss,
Washtenaw county 4-H club
agent, all they've got to do is
regularly view tfie club meeting program over either WJBK-
TV Channel 2, Detroit," starting
Jan. 11 at 9 a. m, or WJIM-TV,
Channel 6," Lansing, starting
Jan. 25 (time to be announced).
By following the series of 13
half-hour TV program, Boss
says members will be' able to
complete the requirements for
the first-year 4-H electrical project-. :*'
* -Members will learn how .to
make a transistor radio, and
electric motor, a flash light and
.^icxhie* games: They'll also learn
moret about how electricity provides* heat, light and power in
their homes.
Another highlight of the.-4-H
TV Electrical Club is the "Theater Feature" that is a part of
each program. New developments in" the use of electricity j
such as sun batteries and nuclear energy will be demonstrat-
"ed in the Theater* .
,- The TV series is presented as
part of the Michigan State University and county 4-H club program. Any boy or girl who is at
least 10 years old, even if he or
she is not now a member of a
4-H club, can join the TV Electrical Club.
Boys and girls can join and
get manuals for the club by
sending • their name, age, address and county on a postcard
to 4-H TVi Box 431, East Lansings Michigan.
EMPLOYEES ATT UNIVERSAL DIE
CASTING enjoyed another of their annual
plant Christmas parties last week. After the
feasting had ended, a group of the office
girls posed at the plant entrance to prove
that they Hadn't added an ounce of weight,
despite all the Christmas treats which they
had just tucked away.
Another employee is shown at the right
above, happily shaking a package ,ia .^hte an
nual gift exchange, to see what
rattle it produces.
Left below appears a happy Universal man
making off with his tasty ham, a gift from
the company ."... and at the right a Universal
lass appears in a typical pose at the annual
Christmas dinner, with plate well-loaded for
enjoyable feasting. More pictures of the annual Christmas celebration will be found on
Page" Two. *
WOIA'S MEREDITHiBIXBS? explains a-few of the complexities of-broadcastingaquipment to Bill Crim, Tom Johnston, Milton* Hartman and Henry Leutheuser during a tour
of the new station's studios oh Brassbw Road last Saturday.
The station is scheduled jto start regular broadcasts, this Sunday. For other pictures V *ne station ani its staff, turn to
Page Four. .
'Reporter' Makes
Predictions For Growth
SALINE. —. 195? wiR be remembered here as the year the
seams began to split. The sleepy
farm market town, that showed
a population of roughly 1300 in
the 1950 .census, was growing
so fast it would probably more
than double that figura before
the census takers counted again,
and changing at an accumulating pace to a prosperous, modern city in its own right.
Five *years . ago, the change
had just*begun; only four new
houses were built inside the
city in all of 1953. Very little
progress there. But the" following year, 11 building- "permits
.were issued for building homes;
then 16 in 1355; then 25 in 1956.
This .year, 57 new homes were
built here (not counting false-
starts). Things were beginning
to move.
Says a prospectus made up
for the Saline Area School District: "For many years the area
was largely dependant on a stable^ agricultural economy with
Saline serving as a trading center.
AREA CHANGING
"The area has been gradually
changing with several" profitable industrial enterprises now
located in and around; the", city
... a detailed study of the area
made in 1956. indicates that
residential projects for approximately 1,000 new homes have.
Bee~n proposed in and adjacent
to the city..."
But besides the 113 new
homes" inside the city limits,
and the many jhomes recently
built around ' tj^if edges, "Saline
has, in the past five years, expanded its business and service
facilities to an almost fantastic
degree. For example:
The city has installed its own
sewer and disposal system and
laid gas lines throughout its
area) paved streets, put in curb
and gutter. ;
Its residents have built one
new school and begun another;
financed and begun a community hospital; built one- new
church and organized another'
church group that does not yet
have its own building.
MANY NEW BUSINESSES
There are a great many -new
businesses since 1952 .
A second newspaper office
(The Reporter); a radio station; a new hotel, a new restaurant, a bakery, and two department   stor.es.,   	
A dry-cleaning establishment,
a gift shop, another grocery
store, another appliance store,
another hardware store. Two
new TV sales and service stores;
two gas stations.
A number, of. businesses have
changed . hands, but none-has
vanished entirely in five years.
Most of the downtown business
section shows its "prosperity
with modern new store fronts;
only a few of the old 1890-fronts
are still with us."
West of Saline a shopping
district has. sprung up with
three brand new buildings, and
space for more.. .Five subdivisions have appeared and two are
finished. -
The "several new industrial
enterprises" referred to in the
school prospectus includes at
least four, and even those'io'ca-
ted here previously have added
both personnel and operating
spafie..; One" has. .doubled the
size of its building. Another had
made several additions-an the
five years period. Many- downtown businesses now hire more
help than they ever did before;
and a brainwave conceived at
Springbrook Minnow Farm -near
Saline (gold fish in a bag) has
put that organization on the
national map.
CLUBS ORGANIZED
While all this was going on,
Saline businessmen ^were organizing an active Chamber, of
Commerce andra Kiwanis^CIub;
Fine Two Men
For Drinking,
Driving Offehses
SALINEjr-Bobbie J. Riley, of
Detroit, was fined $50 and costs
by Justice of the Peace John D-
Buck here last week after he
wa£ found guilty on a charge of
driving under the influence c.f
liquor. Raymond Hunter his
companion, at the time of their
arrest Saturday by police officer Jim Eevleit, was fined $25
and costs on a "drunk and disorderly charge.  x.     ■ "
Both men pleaded-guilty the
same morning to charges of lar-
-jceny under" $100 in Municipal
Court in  Ann  Arbor^ after  a
j complaint that they had -driven
j away   from   a   filling   station
■ without paying for gas for their
[car.   They were fined $25 and
[costs, or 30 days, on the charge,
YOUNG PHEL BONBIEwill always remember that big,
big day when Saline's own Santa presented him with a gift
bike on behalf of the local Chamber, of Commerce. Phil is
shown with a big Bondie grin, between Ken Rogers, president
of the C. of C. and old Santa. The yeung fellow at the right
shows that all the rest of the youngsters who gathered for
^ the bike drawing were not the least bit down-hearted when
" they didn't win.
and business women are plan-,
ning to charter a Business and
Professional   Women's   Club.
An operative Planning and
Zoning Commission w a s recently appointed by the City
Council; and a city Recreation
Commission has operated an
assortment of public recreational facilities for three years.
A new convalescent home is-
in operation just outside Saline;
a cooperative nursery school was
organized .last year.
The same people who have
been nodding over their teacups
five years -ago, now go around
saying "What this town needs
is ...." and\then arranging to
get it. \   '■     -
There are nianjr reasons for
Saline's sudden growth'and continuous property; its location
on a major highway; its availability-from nearby\cities; the,
proxjmity of. the. University of
Michigan and Eastern|Mjchigan_
College, which provide botTvid'eas
and supply of personnel for.
local industry; the prosperity
and solid reliability of surrounding' farms and the people who
grow up_ on them; and a few
negatives..... no labor troubles,
no major crime, no traffic congestion," no slums or "blighted
areas."
What Saline will he like five
years from .now is anybody's-
guess.. Butby the, end of 1958*
The Reporter predicts:
1. Completion of the new High
School and the Saline Community Hospital.
2. Completion of ALL THREE
subdivisions now in process.
3. Acquisition by the city of
more public land, planning
for a new city building and
' maybe a water tower.
4. Sweeping and progressive
changes in some educational
»" departments of the school,
which incidentally is already,
-well ahead of surrounding
communities in its math and
science -departments.
5. At least one brand new .Office building downtown.
Maybe two. Several new
store fronts as well.
6. The acquisition of some new
professional people to the
roster.
7. Annexation by the city of
considerable new area.
8. The beginning of a major
construction project north
of town.
will automatically bring up.-?
the need for another shoppings center.
9. Expansion of the city recreation program for children
to a year-round affair.
10. No matter what happens to
the   rest   of  the   country's
economy, business in Saline  ,
will be better than ever be
fore.
11. A   happy   and   n:
New Year.
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