1957-04-03; Reporter

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PHONE NEWS, ADS
NO 3-4066
THE REPORTER
THE  REPORTER
VOL. 10, NO. 29 — WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3, 1957
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Fastest Growing Weehly In Washtenaw County"
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Township Races Result In Wins
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TO SEEK BIDS ON PURCHASE
OF ROAD COMMISSION YARD
ANN ARBOR — Initial step
in the long-range program to
move the Washtenaw County
Road Commission headquarters
from Ann Arbor to its planned
new site on Zeeb Road will be
taken April 19 when the Road
Commission will accept bids on
the North Main St. property
owned by the Washtenaw County Road Commission.
The north Main Street property of approximately five acres,
is just outside the Ann Arbor
city limits near the new bridge.
The Ann Arbor Construction Co.
rents about half of the land, and
part is rented to King Seeley
and the Michigan Highway Departments District Sign Shop
occupies some of it. The Road
Commission uses some of the
property for storage.
The Zeeb Rd. property is one-
half mile north of US-12. The
county has paid $10,0.00 down
on it and owes $29,000.
Plans at the present time call
for selling the property occupied
and owned by the Road Commission at 415 West Washington St. eventually, and moving
all offices and garages to Zeeb
Road. It is expected that this
can be done with little or no outlay of money except what is received from the sale of property
now owned by the County Road
Commission.
Saline Teachers
Inspect School
In Battle Creek
SALINE — Members of the
High School faculty drove to
Battle Creek Friday to see the
new school designed there by
Guida Binda. Mr. Binda is the
architect for the proposed new
high school here.
A decision on the location of
the .proposed school is expected
to be reached April 11, according to Leo Jensen, superintendent of schools.
NO SUCCESSOR
NAMED YET
FOR DAN VASS
DEXTER — There has been
no replacement selected for Dan
Vass, executive vice-president of
Michigan Panelyte Molded Plastics, who will leave the firm
May 1, according to John Rossiter, president.
Vass, who has been with the
company since 1940, will become
president and general manager
of the Wolverine Plastics Co. in
Milan. He has served as Dexter
village president this past year,
but withdrew from the recent
race in which Floyd Layton was
elected as his replacement.
In case anyone is wondering
what the Vass family is going to
do with their beautiful home at
7612 F St., Mrs. Vass supplies
the answer: "We are going to
keep right on living in it! It's
only 20 miles from here to Milan and we have ho plans for
moving."
Grass Fires Still
Plague Manchester
MANCHESTER — Firemen
answered two calls last weekend, *oth of them to extinguish
grass fires. On Saturday afternoon there was one at the residence of Mrs. Burkhardt, 792
Kothe Rd., and on Sunday afternoon a grass fire was put out on
Austin Rd. No damage was done
in either of the fires.
DONNA KUHL
ELECTED GROUP
TREASURER
MANCHESTER — Donna
Kuhl, of the Manchester High
School, was elected treasurer of
the Student Library Assistants
Association of Michigan at their
annual spring meeting March
29.
Mrs. Hulda Martin, school librarian, and the 10 student
members of her staff, attended
the meeting, which was held at
Eastern Michigan College.
The High School students in
the group work in the library
under supervision and receive
high school credit for their
work.
RGtary Banquet
Honors Hornet
Sports Leaders
SALINE — About 125 people
attended the Rotary Club Ladies'
Night and Athletic banquet last
Thursday. Honored were Saline
High Sehool letter winners,
coaches and cheerleaders. A
movie of the 1952 Olympic
Games at Helsinki was shown
and the award winners were introduced by PaulT.fm.bert, president of the club.
Red Cross Fund
Drive Reaches
$831 Mark
DEXTER — The American
Red Cross drive has now closed,
with Dexter collecting $831.15
of its quota of $1,200.
Dexter township, Lima township and the Dexter High School
had no report last week. Their
contributions have now been received. Following are the new
totals: Industries—$100.55, residential, $218.00 (inc.), business, $266, organizations, $50.00
(inc.), teachers, $24.00, Lima
township, $41.00, Dexter township, $65.00 (inc.) and Dexter
Savings Bank, $66.60.
Mrs. Virgil Walling, Dexter,
general chairman of the drive, is
most appreciative of the efforts
put forth by those who worked
to help the Dexter area try to
reach its goal.
, Contributions will still be accepted. Send them now to Mrs.
Walling.
To have shared in giving is to
have shared in helping. For
where the need is—there is your
Red Cross.
Planning
Wedding
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FARM COUNCIL
BUYS LODI
BUILDING SITE
WINS DUAL
HONORS
MARJORIE TOWER
SALINE — Mr., and Mrs.
Ronald Tower, of South Ann
Arbor Street, last week announced the forthcoming marriage of their daughter, Marjorie, to Jack Rowe, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Frank Lawson, of
Bridgewater.
The couple will speak their
wedding vows on April 26, at
the Baptist Church in Milan.
Rowe, who attended Manchester High ScRool, is now an
assistant foreman at the Double
A Products plant there. Miss
Tower, a graduate of Saline
High School, is employed in the
accounting office at the Universal Die Casting Division of
Hoover Ball and Bearing Corp.,
in Saline.
The couple plans to make their
home in Manchester.
Members of the executive
committee of the Washtenaw
Farm Council met yesterday afternoon with Henry Leutheuser,
_ of Saline, to close the deal!
bringing the council 20 acres of
Leutheuser land for the proposed rural activities building.
The plot of ground is located
on the Saline-Ann Arbor Road
at the end of Pleasant Lake
Road, in Lodi Township. It will
cost aproximately $20,000.
An engineer's report states
that the area is well* drained,
and various farm groups have
favored the location, largely because it is easily accessible from
all parts of the county.
The Farm Council will meet
Friday with representatives of
Ingham, Livingstone, Monroe,
Lenawee and Wayne Counties to
discuss the kind of buildings to
be located at the center/
"We hope," says Frank McCalla, leading figure in the drive
for a rural center, "that the annual 4-H Show next fall will be
held at the new site. But this depends, of course, on progress of
the construction program."
No definite plans have been
formulated for building construction.
Correction
The Reporter owes an apology
to Kenneth Snyder of 4830
Fletcher, Manchester, for •mistakenly naming him as the victim of a train-car crash last
week. The injured Mr. Snyder
lives on Austin Road.
Saline Cubs Set
For Carnival
SAUNE — Cub Scouts here
will hold their annual Kiddie
Carnival next Wednesday, April
10» starting at 7:30 p.m., at the
Saline Elementary School. The
evening of fun will be open to
the public, and proceeds from
the event will help to underwrite
Cub Scout activities'here.
Mrs. Carl Curtiss
Succumbs Friday _
SALINE — Mrs. Vera Decker
Curtiss, 74, a resident of this
city since 1909, died Friday
moming- at St. Joseph's Mercy
Hospital in Ann Arbor.
Mrs. Curtiss was the wife of
Carl A. Curtiss, president of The
Citizens Bank of Saline. She
was born on July 8, 1882, at
Ontario, Ind., a daughter of Andrew and Lydia Duff Decker. On
May 10, 1905, she married Mr.
Curtiss at LaGrange, Ind. The
couple lived at-,300 E. Michigan
Ave. in a home that reflected
her love of beauty and tradition.
Mrs. Curtiss was trustee and
treasurer of the Saline Library
Association for many years and
was a life member of the Washtenaw Historical Society. She-
was a member of the Saline
Methodist Church, the Women's
Society for Christian Service of
the church, the Willing Workers
group,.and the Saline Woman's
Club.
Survivors include her husband, a son, Bliss Curtiss; a sister, Miss Josephine Decker, both
of Saline, and two grandchildren.
Karen Taylor
SALINE — Karen Taylor,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J.
Kenneth Taylor, Monroe Street,
has been awarded honors on two
recent occasions, for her scholarship and her musicianship.-
The University of Michigan
this week announced that Karen
is one of about 300 U-M students
Jail Addition Millage Hike
Defeated By Wide Margin
Turnout at township polls for stables.   Clarence   Browns was elected included: Paul Eisele, in-
Monday's election   was    small, j named for the board of review cumbent; Allen B. Benedict and
partly because of the rainyjand Charles Alber for highway
weather ■ and partly because of J commissioner.
the lack of local issues. In many
of the townships, only one party
offered a slate, and the- only
county question on the ballot involved raising the millage limitation to pay for an addition
to the county jail. This was defeated by 1,050 votes, in spite
of the fact that the addition had
been authorized in-the fall election. Through an error, the ad
John Norcross, who resigned
from the Board of Supervisors
recently, to seek election as justice of the peace, was voted in
without opposition, on the Democratic ticket.
Webster Township
Traditionally Republican Webster Township automatically
elected Republicans to office,
with no Democratic slate oppos-
ditional millage was not voted ing them. Members of the town-
on at that time, and many offici-j snip board are aU incumbents,
als believe that it would have Carl Mast returns as supervisor;
passed had it been on the ballot Mrs Donna Baldus, cleric; Mrs.
in the fall with the authoriza- j Margaret    Myning,    treasurer;
tion to remodel the jail.
Bridgewater Township
In Bridgewater Township,  a
and John Wheeler, jr., and Walter Slast, trustees. Francis Farrell was elected highway com-
GAS CO. HOST
AT WOMAN'S
CLUB MEET
SALINE—This month's program for the Saline Woman's
Club is under the direction of
the American Home Department
of the club. Chairman is Mrs.
Rudolph Hertler.
The date set for the session is
April 16, at 1 p. m.
The meeting will be held at
the Michigan Consolidated Gas
Co., in Ann Arbor, and members will see a cooking demonstration.
In May, the group will again
go out oi the city, and will have
luncheon in Toledo and tour the
Toledo Art Museum.
total of 192 votes were cast out missioner, Wesley Amsdill, con-
of a possible 430 registered vot- j stable, and Richard Berner won
ers. Russell Hughes on the. the four-year term for justice of
G.O.P. ticket was elected super- J the peace. Vote was smaller
visor; and Republicans were than last year, with only 127 of
wh7Va;rw7n"oreor£Tcott elected to other township off-1 the 435 registered voters taking
Freshman prizes The" awards ices. Charles Spence, was named *part in the election,
are presented each year to fresh-1 clerk;  HaroW Bersuder,  treas-j Sylvan Township
men who ranked in the top 10 _?"> *fdfr-Randall and Theo-| Democrats won five of th*e
per cent of their class during ddre Parker, trustees; Burton Seven posts in the Sylvan Town-
their first semester on campus S,;adler and *°™an lan+daJ' *hip elec?on* Maunce Hoffman,
Announcement of the award the two Repubhcans on the tick- Democrat was elected supenns-
was *made last Sunday by the et J*? constable were elected, or; Mrs. Letha Beach, Demo-
committee on university scholar- and the two Democrats for con- crat was chosen treasurer; and
ships, which has prepared a list stable, Hiriam Martin and Law- Richard Kern Republican won
of 20 books from which award re"f T+irb' ^ere .als° elected' aSainstx Do1al1d *?oule, mcum-
winners may choose one to be with voters choosing four con- bent,  for clerk.  George Brett-
 . schmder, a Democrat, was elected justice of the peace. The two
trustees  elected were:  Reuben
SALINE HIGH TEACHING TO BE
GEARED TO STUDENT ABILITY
Vacation Date Set
- DEXTER — Spring vacation
will be held in the Dexter Area
Schools April 19-23.
To Introduce
New Teacher
SAUNE"— All parents interested in the planned Cooperative
Nursery School, which shortly
will commence operations here,
are invited to a meeting to be
held next Tuesday at 8 p.m. at
the Saline Elementary School.
The teacher who has been engaged for the nursery school
will be introduced at the meet.
SALINE — Students starting
junior and senior high school in
this area next year will find
themselves faced with longer
class hours, more science and
math courses, and classes divided into ability levels designed to help individuals work at
the pace that's right for them.
Approved last week by the
School Board, the change in curriculum will boost graduation
requirements from 16 to 20
points including a heavier schedule of math and science courses,
with all pupils required to take
science. It will mean each student takes one more course a
year.
Each class will be partitioned
into three .ability levels, aiding
both the slow learners and the
gifted students to take advantage of the subject offered.
"Slower learners will be* given a
broader experience in subject
matter and will.be better.prepared for specialties," reports
Leo Jensen, superintendent of
schools.
On the other hand, superior
PTA Meet
DEXTER—The P. T. A. will
meet at the Bates Elementary
School at 8 p. m.,- April 8.
inscribed-with their name, and
to be stamped with the gold seal ANNUAL MEET
of the U-M '
Karen is'a freshman in the OF POLIO GROUP ,^SSer ReP"blican> and Norman
School of Music, continuing herf AXTAT X,,™ ,, t> k ^+'Else'nann' D_emoc/at- J*e™™
study of piano ANN AR^R ~ Mrs- Robert Bertke was elected to the Board
And it was on the basis of S Langord executive secretary of Review,
her piano accomplishment that f th% Washtenaw County Chap- Dems Take Dexter Twp.
ter of the National Foundation, ^ Dexter Township, Norman
for Infantile Paralysis, reported mELve was the only Republican
at the annual meeting held in victorious, He was elected to the
.._  _,„ „. „_    Ann Arbor> March 26, that the Board of T^tees. John Sterl-
dents' Audition put on by the local chapter spent $45.924 lasting was reeiected supervisor;
Michigan Federation of Music year for Patient care. She ex- j William Clark was chosen town-
Clubs. Karen won the honor in* V^f that ^ chapter has ship clerk. Elsa Bock) treasur-
an exacting recital contest held P^d for a larfe n™abfr ?f s"r- er; Robert Wheeler, board of re-
gery cases of patients in the vievf.> and elected as-trustee on
county who had had polio sev- the Democratic ticket was Alton
eral years ago. '    „■• , Bejj
.   In this group of surgery cases j       ' Manchester Township
were 17 patients from the polio s    Republicans    won the entire
epidemic of 1940. Mrs. Langford ticket in Manchester Township,
stated that the cost of patient* clayto-n Parr was reelected sup-
care would continue to be high
Karen took*"another recent honor.
She has been named a state'
wide winner in the annual Stu-
at Lansing.
ed study.
The new 20-point curriculum ^Qr several years.-
won't go into full effect until. Mrs_ Clarence Markeson,
1960 because it will be imple- Washtenaw County March of
mented gradually. The only stu- Dimes chairman, reported that
ervisor; Waldo Marx, reelected
clerk, and M. H. Wolfe reelected treasurer. Incumbent William
Kulenkamp was reelected-trustee. Other incumbents reelected
dents in the senior high school S63 615 was contributed to the       . ^ T   ^T^i     St£
who will immediatelv be affect-'        y5 ^    contriDutea to me,Incluaed:    Frederick    Schiller,
who will immediately be affect , county-wide drive  m  January, highway  commissioner;   Albert
-ed by it are this year's fresh- Total expenses, including post-
men- age for the dime cards mailed
Jensen points out that instruc-joutj posters, and material from _
tional costs     will remain the the national organization, were tprm   ^A'^'rPA''A~j^Y:"~an'7'
same under the new plan, which [ §2,059. Lehman to
is being "pioneered in Washte-j     '      ',
naw County by the Saline Area
Schools. It is currently in use
elsewhere in -Jtiehigan, including
the East Lansing Public Schools.
R. G. Layher Dies
—Funeral Today
SALINE — Funeral services
will be held at 2 p.m. today at
To Attend State    '     \h eT?L?e^°°d ^T% H°T
__  a   si j.' £or Rudolph G. Layher.Sr. who
frA Convention died last Sunday at the age of
MANCHESTER —Six F.H.A. 66, following a long illness. The
Manchester girls will attend the well-known and widely respected
Annual State Meeting of the Fu- Maple Road resident will be bur-
ture Homemakers of America, ied at Lodi Cemetery.
April 4 and 5 to belield at Pant- The Rev. Alvin Siemsen will
lind Hotel in Grand Rapids. officiate.
The delegates are, Sally Scully, Joan Koebbe, Pat Wheeler,
Barbara Cox,  Sarah Reck and
Thelma Strahle, the voting dele
students will receive better prep- gates-for. the group are Barbara
aration for college and can be
given challengihg subject matter which will keep their inffer-
est high, he adds.
Each, class of slow, average
and gifted students wil spend 37
minutes on instruction with an
additional half hour in supervis- mother.
Cox and Sarah Reck. Also attending the meeting with the
group are, Mrs. Dale Rhoades,
homemaking teacher of Manchester High School and advisor of the F. H. A. chapter, and
Mrs.    Earl    Koebbe,     chapter
Touring With Choir
Singing with the Chapel Choir
of Elmhurst College, Elmhurst,
Illinois, on its annual spring
concert tour is Miss Rhea Menzel, 10425 Bethel Church Road,
Manchester, a* senior majoring
in education. The Chapel Choir
will tour Indiana, Northern Virginia, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Washington, D. C.
from March 29 to April 11.
Sutton, justice of the peace. LoRen Trolz was elected to the
Board of Review for the. full
fill the vacancy.on the board of
review.    Republican constables
Jr. 4-H Leader
Group Chooses
Two Advisers
ANN JlRBOR—Mrs. Simon
Girbach, of Pleasant Lake Road,
and Roland Stein, of Whitmore
Lake, were-chosen adult advisers of the 4-H Junior Leaders'
Club of .Washtenaw County, at
the group's meeting held recently at the County Building.
The meeting also featured a
discussion of the group's program for the coming year . . .
and a demonstration, headed by
Bill Pohnert, on junior leadership interviews. *
. Games were played, and refreshments, served by Jane
Hunt, of Ann Arbor, wound up
William Kramer. Only 331 voters from approximately 1300
registered electors went to the
polls.
At the Manchester Town
Meeting on Saturday, two incumbents were reelected to the
Manchester Township Library
Board. They are Sirs. Raymond
Kerr and Frederick Schiller.
Lima Township
In Lima Township, only two
Republicans won offices, one
without opposition. Democrat
Leigh Beach was reelected supervisor over Waiter Wolfgang,
.Republican, with 189 votes.
Others elected were: Ralph Sto-
fer, Democrat, for clerk, with
172 votes; Hilda Pierce, Republican, treasurer, with no Democratic opponent; Arthur Barth,
Democrat, was.elected justice of
the peace, with 166 votes; elected as trustees were Adolph
Gross, Democrat, with 15.8 votes;
and Fred Barth, Democrat, with
150 votes. Clifford Bradbury,
Democrat, with 144 votes, and
Eugene Frey, Republican, with
144 votes, were elected to the
board of review.
Ann Arbor Township
Both Democrats running for
trustees on the Ann Arbor
Township Board were defeated.
Mrs. Jane Forshee, the only
Democrat elected, was" named
treasurer, and was unopposed
by a Republican.
Elected were: Edward Frederick, incumbent, supervisor;
Ray Wurster, incumbent, clerk;
Mrs. Forshee, incumbent, treasurer; Carl Bolgos and Bradley
Case, board of review; and Stanley Thayer, justice of the peace..
The two Republican trustees;
elected were Frederick P. Iirette;
and M. Widner Lacy.
-   Saline Township
In Saline Township, Republicans won all posts, with the-
Democrats putting up no opposing slate. Ellsworth Lindsley"
headed the Republican ticket as-
supervisor; others are Raymond-
Strieter, incumbent, clerk; Al--
bert Bredernitz, treasurer; Bruno Papsdorf, justice of the
peace; Norman Bohnett and Mi-
cah Robison, trustee; - Albert
Gall, Elmer Glatz and Walter
Graf, constables; and Arthur
Wiedmayer board of review. A
total of 112^ votes were cast out
of a possible 450.
Lodi and Scio
Republican candidates for
township offices in Lodi and
Scio Townships were elected
without opposition from Democratic candidates, since none
filed for any of the township
offices in these areas.
Lodi candidates in the Republican Party included: Erwin
Frederick, incumbent supervisor; Rudolph Gross, clerk; Otto
Bredernitz, treasurer, Emerson Haeusseler, justice, Elmer
Diuble, and Merle Simonton,
trustees; Theron Schnierle,
board of review, and Fred Stollsteimer, highway commissioner.
In Scio Township, Elmer A.
Wolter ran_for supervisor; Mildred Alley, for clerk; Evelyn
Breuninger,' for treasurer; G.
David Sellards, justice; H. Stanley Vaughn and Carl Helber,
trustees; and Arthur G. Schair-
er, board of review. "All except
Sellards .were incumbents. He
ran in place of Millard Harvey^
who did not want to become a
candidate again. The township
has two precincts, with approxi-
dent of the group.
the  evening. The  session  was
headed by Lloyd Braun, presi-jjnately 1,200 voters in each pre
cinct.
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