1956-03-22; Reporter

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VOL. 9, NO. 27 — THURSDAY, MARCH 22, 1956
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DON SAW ALL, almost hidden hy that heap of dishes, looks a hit bemused as Marian Johnson gives
his aish-dryng handiwork a fingertip inspecton. Don and Marian, -along with their Saline High junior
classmates and mothers, handled a record crowd of 4S2 hungry customers at the dairy banquet last
Saturday night at the school. And the dish-washing job was rough! Money made hy the hanquet project will help finance senior activities for the class when they become seniors next Septemher.
SPRINGTIME IS MORE A MOOD THAN A SEASON, according to-all the indications from 11-
months-old Diana Santure, Saline. It was snowing outdoors, ana the weather looked anything but
spring-like when Diana went Easter-hat to shoppin g lastJSaturaay. Her daa, Dick Santure, has her well
bundled up against the weather . . but there's springtime in her smile and in her laay-like interest in
that new Easter bonnet.
Fire Guts Ann Arbor Twp. Home
ANN ARBOR TOWNSHIP —
Fire completely destroyed" the interior of the Ralph Belknap residence at 4146 Plymouth Rd., last
Thursday aftrnoon. Neighbors and
motorists passing.by carried most
of the contents of the house to
safety. "
Belknap, a former Uriiversty
Geology Professor, is totally paralyzed as the result of a fall suffered 10 years ago during a field
trip. He was carried to the home
of a neighbor when the University
student caring for him durng the
afternoon ^descovered the kitchen in
flames. He was later taken by ambulance to University hospital suffering from shock.
- Mrs. Belknap was on an errand
in Ann Arbor when the fire- occured, and her two sons were in
school.
The blaze was believed to have
started from the chimney. The
house was a ranch-style brick, with
six rooms. ,_
"WEBSTER TOWNSHIP—Smorgasbord will be served at 5:30 p.m.
March" 24 at Webster Community
Hall. The supper is open to the
public, and is sponsored by the
Webster Congregational C h u r_c h
Building Fund Committee.
'Organize,
Stop Flood',
Say Owners
Nearly a hundred determined
Portage Lake property owners, in
a Saturday meeting in an unheated
beachouse at the lake, organized
to push the lake level project foil.
ward, and asked Drain Commission John H. Flook to spearheafi
the effort.
"The first thing to do is get this
ship one rudder," said L. F. Davis,
of near Pinckney, a spokesman for
the group. "There have been too
many agencies crossing each other's
course. All they ever do is have
meetings. If action bogs down
again, we intend to find out why
and where."
Agencies involved in the project
include Washtenaw and Livingston
county Boards of Supervisors, the
State Department of Conservation,
and the Huron Clinton Metropolitan Authority, which holds flowage
rights along the river. To the demand that he head \ip a united, attack on the problem, Flook replied
that the authority to do so would,
have to come from both county
Boards of Supervisors.
A petition asking that "immediate appropriate action*' be taken,
and bearing 47 signatures, will be"
presented to Boards of supervisors-
in both counties at their next meetings.
' -"bought this lake prcger^jyiry^-
the. understanding that a lake Ife^i3*!
was established and maintained by
court order," Davis said. "I'm
shocked to learn that 'maintained'
doesn't mean anything around
here."
Several residents declared themselves "in constant fear" of the
public health menace arising from
the fact that many septic tanks are
under water. The lake is now two
to three feet above established
level, and there is same danger
from encroaching pack ice.
"I haven't taken my eye off the
weather map- for days," added
Davis, a pilot for Capitol airlines.
'A low pressure area now would
be the end of us. The-house across
the road from mine got pushed off
its foundations by ice a few years
ago, in weather just like this.
Said Don Roers, another resident, "Yes, I remember watching
the roof fall-in. It just went poof!"
Three supervisors attended the
meeting, including one from Livingston   county.
Manchester
Sewer Plant
In 'Works'
MANCHESTER — It will probably be another month before
the village can advertise for bids
on the new sewers and disposal
plant, according to James Hendley,'
village attorney.
Plans and specifications for the
work were completed a year ago,
except for the boring for types of
soil where _ewers will be laid.
This work was begun more than a
.week ago.
Work on the schedule for the
bond issue has also been progressing, and is being completed by
bonding"*attorneys in Detroit. The
bond issue sale will also be advertised.
The new disposal plant will be
put on land owned by the village on
the north side of the Ford Plant.
A very substantial, increase in
property taxes is anticipated in
order to pay for the sewers and
plant. Hendley estimated roughly
that an increase of $25 on an assessed evaluation of each SI,000
would be made.. Thus, property
-with -an assessed valuation of $3,-
000 would be taxed $75 additional
yearly to pay for the debt incurred by' the'village.
The village at present has an as-
sesed valuation of about $1,500,00.
OIL DRILLERS TED NORTON AND EARL PATTERSON survey derrick which they hope will
soon bring in another proaucing well on the Curtis farm near Clinton. Nearby, tlie first well drilled by
tlie outfit is daily pumping 10 barrels of oil witli higher production  expected.
Well Gives
Good Yield,
Spurs 'Cats'
Oil once again has been'"struck
in the southwest Washtenaw area.
With none of the fanfare which accompanied earlier finds in the
area, a successful well 'was sunk
days ago on the famed Curtis farm
north of Clinton . . and drillers
are already at work on another
nearby.
The producing well is located only a few hundred yards from the
site of the wildcat strike which
touched off Washtenaw's -"oil
boom" more than two years ago.
That original well, also on the
. Curtis farm, is no longer producing. But crews of the Michigan
Oil and Gas Drilling Co., who located the currently productive
well, hope that they have found
the underground oil-bearng formation which other drillers searched for and failed to find.
Fii-st well drilled by Michigan
Oil and Gas came in at a 997
foot depth. The second- well is
down to 700 feet, and crews report favorable signs of another
producer.
Already planned is a third well
which will be put dowivin the area,
but across the Manchester-Clinton
Road from the present activity.
The drilling will aim for the
Traverse formation, the stratum in
which oil was located at the first
well.
That well is now producing" 10
barrels of good oil daily", accord-
in to member of the crew operating it. And it's expected that pro-
eduction shortly will be increased
when the well.is treated with acid.
The new strike has created little
of the excitement of former "boom
days' among- residents in the area.
But they're watching progress of
the drilling with good healthy interest.
Meet The
Princess
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Feeding hogs to lighter weights
now is especially important if you
want to make a profit, says Don
Stark, M.S.U. farm economist.
JANET WHEELER, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Francis
Wheeler, Jennings Road, was
named Dairy Princess of Washtenaw County at the dairy
banquet in Saline. Placing se--
cona in the competition was
Nancy Cort, of Northville, and
third was Marilyn Breitenwis-
cher, Manchester. Jane thus
becomes Washtenaw's candidate for the Michigan Dairy
Queen contest to be .held this
summer. «..
Other pictures ana further
details of the dairy banquet
"will he found on the center
spread of this issue.
Basketball Season Wind-up Features
Statistics, Banquet, New Girls' League
Study credit needs and what income yon- can expect from your
farm, and list your family living
expenses before asking a lender
for a loan, advise M.S.U. farni ec-
onojtaists
The Dexter seventh and eighth
grade basketball teams have finished their most successful season
in three years with a combine record of eleven wins and nine losses.
, The seventh grade represented
by thirty-two boys had the better
record, finishing the year with seven
wins and three losses. One of the
three losses was a thrilling 40-41
double overtime defeat in the season final to South Lyon, and the
sesasou opener was a 24-23 loss
to Manchester. They scored a total
of 241 points ' against their opponents 203. Jeff Fisher was
high scorer with 71 points in nine
games, followed by Fred White
with 58 and Cliff Blossom with 56.
Other scorers were as follows:
Mike Reames  25
Norman Bell  6
John Weber     5
Charles Shelhart     4
Jerry Brown  4
Salton Savery  3
Hugh Mosher ?. 3
Wilbur Hanselman  2
Norwin  E'xasser   . ..  2
Jerry Lahyer  1
There wer» al.^o twenty-two
other boys who played in the
games but did not break into the
scoring. They should prove to be
valuable aid to the next years team.
The eighth grade team handicapped by A lack of height all year
won four and lost six. They were
outscored by only eleven points
during the season-246 to 235. High
scorer for the eighth grade was
Bob Schneider with 94 points in
nine games followed "by Moritz
Ziegler with 51- Other scorer were:
Dennis Mull    21
John Conley X^    17
1 Claude  Smedley   ............   1,0
Harold  Armbrewster     9
Chuck Hackney  -9
Hugh Aller ,.   6
Jerry Summers ..  S
Jim   Edwards     '  4
Lary Hardin     4
Cary. Carlington     2
Richard Wheeler and John Dun-
To Name
Girls State
SALTNE — The M-arch meeting
of the Wm. B. Lutz Unit 322 of the
American Legion Auxiliary will be
held March 27 at 8 p.m. Most
important business to come up at
the meeting will be the selection Of
a'girl which the unit will sponsor
at the forthcoming Girls State session.
For members' consideration before the meeting, a lisfof eligible
Saline area girls is given here:
Susan Adair, Mary Lou, Balmes,
Diuble, Marlene Eiseman, Mary
Graden, Eileen Grosshans.
Also Louise Guenther, Phyllis
Hartman, Marion Johnson, Judy.
Jordan, Nancy Keveling, Shirley
TCind, Carol Lambarth, Mary Lou
Lee, Pat Lenning, Janet Luckhardt,
Janet Marion 'Marilyn Martin,
Magdalene Raus.
The listvOf girls continues:,. Wanda Roehm, Sandra Ross, Ruth
Sanderson, Sally Stimpson, Nprma
Taylor, Nancy Thompson, Jeanette
Wiedmayer, Sallee Wood, and sally
Toungs.
avin  were the   others who   didn't
break into the scoring.
A new girls basketball league was
formed at the first annual Girls
Basketball Banquet, March 15, at
the Bates Elementary School all
purpose room in Dexter.
A four team league was set up
with home and home games to be
played between ,the following
schools, Dexter, Manchester, Chelsea, and Pinckney. A trophey will
be presented to the team winning
the most games at the end of the
season. —_»
Mrs. Robert'Raymor. Pinckney
coach, explained the fundamentals
rules of a league, and led an open
discission. Mrs. Jump, Manchester
coach, was asked to act as temporary president until the first business meeting next fall when per-
manant officers will be elected.
The Manohester girls invited all
four schools to an all sports play
day the last week in April. They
will also" sponsor the Basketball
Banquet next spring.
Each team seated at individual
tables, decorated in their ^ school
colors on huge shamrocks,' enjoyed
a-delecious dinner of City Chicken,
whipped potatoes, creamed beans.
sala_, ice cream- cookies and milk.
The program was _as follows:
Invocation, Sharleen Meyers, Dexter; Welcome, Mrs. Judy Duane,
Dexter; Toastmistress, Bev Ellsworth, Dexter; Speaker, Mrs. Bette
Prater, Womens Physical "Educa-
tion Dept. University of Michigan.
Entertainment, Manchester basketball team; How to start a basketball league. Mrs. Robert Raymor.