1957-05-01; Reporter

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VOL. 10, NO. 33—WEDNESDAY, MAY 1,1957 .
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Saline District
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Doings in Dexter
BY CHUCK HACKNEY.
With only six weeks left to
go, Dexter's School-calendar is
full of activity. The Dreadnaughts will meet Pinckney on
their diamond on Friday,- May
10, to play the match postponed
from the scheduled April 26 date
because of a wet field. Dexter
vs. Boysville .ended 00-00 at
Dexter on Monday. The previous encounter at Boysville
ended 0-0 when the -game was
called at the "end of seven innings because of darkness.
The Manchester High School
choir entertained the Dexter
student body with a half-hour
concert on April 16. Theis program included "Vive Le Com-
panie;" "Get On Board," and
"Ringo, Rango."  Several mem
bers of the junior chorus accompanied the group. They
formed a instrumentation consisting of twp recorders (small
instruments that resemble a
flute) and jugs filled with varying amounts of water to produce tones of different pitch.
This amazing 'band' played
"She'll Be Comin' 'Round the
Moutain" and "The Old Grey
Mare."
Karen Dietz, seventh grade,
will represent Dexter in the Detroit News District Spelling Bee
to be held at Bates Elementary' of the board of the Farm Bu
FARM BUREAU
PLANS START
ON BUILDING
ANN ARBOR — Members of
the Washtenaw County Farm
Bureau board met Monday "night
and decided to go ahead with
plans, to erect-their own office
building on land purchased from
the Washtenaw Farm Council.
However, the two groups will cooperate in planning a rear section of the building to be used
as a meeting room for rural, activities. .**
According to Ellis Pratt
o f    Manchester,    chairman
SALINE AREA COUPLE MARRIED
SATURDAY AT BRIDGEWATER
School on Friday, May 3.
The finalist won the field
from other Dexter aspirants, including runner-up Don Ziegler,
with her correct spelling of
"prejudice."
BOTH BILLS TAKE TOP HONORS
IN MANCHESTER GRADUATION
William Lee Brown, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Brown, 13,-
500 Pleasant Lake Rd., has been
announced Valedictorian of the"
1957 senior class of Manchester High School. He compiled a
3.9 scholastic average during his
four years.
Brown has participated in a
number of class activities, serving as class treasurer in his junior and senior years, and playing basketball, baseball and
football during * his freshman
and sophomore years. He received a citizenship award in
1955, and has been consistently
on the honor roll. He was a
member of the chorus during
his senior year and took part in
both junior and senior plays.
Next year Brown plans to attend the College of Engineering
at the University of Michigan.
William Davis Bunney, son
of Mr. and Mrs. William Tervo,
512 Duncan St.. has won Salutatorian honors at Manchester
High J_fehool, with an average.of
3.56. "
He has been active in athletics during hi& four years in
high school, winning letters, in
football, basketball, baseball and
track. Bunney took partin both
junior and senior plays,. and
participated in chorus in' his
senior year.    .
FIRE STRIKES
GROSSES' HOME
IN SALINE
SALINE — An early morning blaze' yesterday gutted the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Herman
Gross at 215 E. Michigan Avenue. All occupants of .the building escaped unharmed.
The fire, which was discovered
at 4 a.m. by Mr. and Mrs. Robert
Tower, who rented an. apartment in the house, is believed
to have started in the basement,
where defective wiring might
have set it off.
In addition to Mr. and Mrs..
Tower, other tenant^ included
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Miller and
their three-month-old child; and
Miss Lillian Jedele and her brother Eldean.
The building was reported to
to be well covered by insurance,
but some of the tenants did not
have their belongings insured.
Mr. and Mrs. Gross are staying
at the home of their son and
daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs.
Waldo Gross. The other tenants
all have relatives in the area
with whom they can put up temporarily.
No decision has been made
about possibly rebuilding the
home, according to Mrs. Waldo
Gross.
• The Grosses commended the
work of the Saline Fire Department, assisted by a crew called
from Milan which kept the
house from being completely destroyed and also protected other
homes nearby.
Bunney plans to attend Albion College next fall.
MAX & DUTCH
PRAISED IN
DETROIT NEWS
MANCHESTER — The phenomenal coaching record of the
Dutchmen's Max" Lee was outlined in pictures. and story in
last Saturday's Detroit News.
In the three years that Max
has directed athletics at the
high school his teams have won
68 athletic contests while losing only eight!
■ In addition to this top-notch
over-all performance, his boys
boasted undefeated records in'
football *(8-0) and basketball
(16-0) this year, something
which no^other team in this
class in the*"state could duplicate.
Two Dutchmen were All-
State: Tom Adams made the
first team, class C, as a football guard, and Bill Bunney
made the class C second basketball team.
Max earned his college degree
at Western   Michigan    College
reau, there are possible legal
complications which still have
to be worked out. He points out
that the Farm Bureau is anxious to have the office section
of the building put up as rapidly
as possible since the organization offices must be moved from
their present location shortly.
Frank McCalla of the Farm
Council attended Monday night's
Bureau meeting.     .
Seniors Give
Swan Song At
Dutch Concert
MANCHESTER — The high
school band concert on May .3
will mark the last appearance of
several seniors in the band.
Band members graduating in
June include: David . Boutell,
Mary Leeman, Joyce Dresselhouse, Grover Hainstock and
David Fuller.
Boutell and Fuller will play'
a flute and French horn duet in
the program, which will begin
at 8 p.m., in the Civic Auditorium.
SALINE — Miss Glennda Ju-
vonne Scott, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Wilson Scott, of Saline, and Alwin Wahl, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Jacob Wahl, of Saline,
were married at a candlelight
service at St. John's Lutheran
Church in Bridgewater Saturday night. The Rev. Harry Ray
officiated at the double ring
ceremony.
Miss Janet Reed, of Saline,
was the maid of honor, and the
groom's brother, Duane Wahl,
of Saline, was the best man.
The bride wore a ballerina
length teale-blue .faille gown
with matching satin slippers.
She carried pink and white carnations with white streamers on
her white Bible. Her tiny veil
was held with a small white lace
cap.
Miss Reed's gown was of light
blue shantung, and she carried
a cascade bouquet of pink and
white carnations.
A reception at- the home of
the bride's parents followed the
ceremony. Miss Evelyn Korte, of
Saline, served the punch, an^.
Miss Shirley Chantelois cut the
cake. Mr. and Mrs. Loren Bauer,
of Willow Rd., assisted.
The bride is a graduate of
Big Rapids High School and at-
The couple will make their
home on the Edward Heininger
farm, Lima Center and Willow
Rds.
SPELLING BEE
SET FRIDAY
AT DEXTER
DEXTER — The District
Spelling Bee will be held at
Bates Elementary School, at 1
p.m.. May 3, with Robert Raymor", principle of the Elementary School, serving as chairman.
Chaimpion spellers from
Bates Elementary, Dexter Junior High School, Chelsea Junior
High School, Dexter Road
School, Knight School, Sullivan
School and Wagner School will
participate.
DEXTER P.T.A.
HOST TO
COUNTY GROUP
•DEXTER—The Dexter P. T.
A. will" play host to the Washte-
ijaw Area Council of the P. T. A.
_3xg -x_.pi.__ .rugii OCU.UX anu <..-   Dn Thursday> May 2, 1957 at 8
tended Ferns Institute. She has 0>clock fa the Bates Eiementary
been  employed at the General
Telephone Co., in Saline.
Mr. Wahl is a graduate of Saline High School and is engaged
in farming.
School.
Bess Gives Tax Background
For Planned New Hi School
NO NEW LEAD
IN MERCANTILE
BOBBERY CASE
SALINE — Therg have been
no further developments in the
recent Saline Mercantile Co. robbery case, according to Art
Heininger, manager of the com*
pany. Police are still at work
but haven't turned up any leads
yet, he reports.
The theives netted $1,500 in
where  he  played football  and the robbery last week. This has
baseball, and he spent a year
coaching at Oakwood Junior
High School in -Kalamazoo before coming to Manchester.
Max will • relinquish some of
his coaching duties next year
when he turns the football team
over to track coach, Bill Baker.
Why? "To spend some time with
my family!" he repots.
BUSY SUNDAY
_
FOR FIREMEN
OF DEXTER
DEXTER — A fire in a cottage owned by Charles C. Downing, on Britton. on." April 28,
caused damage estimated at
$400., J. Art Lovell, Dexter Fire
Chief, stated that the blaze was
■caused by sparks from the fireplace and a flue in the attic
Also on April 28. the Dexter
Fire Department * answered a
call from the Klingler-Pontjac
garage on Jackson. Smoke damage was estimated by Lovell at
$500. Firemen were hampered
in their efforts to put out the
fire because of heavy smoke. A
pick-up truck loaded with rubbish and stored in the garage
caused the smoke and small fire.-
On April 25, firemen stood by
as a precautionary measure
when an Associated truck went
off "the road on Defter Rd., near
Honey Creek, and knocked over
an Edison pole. Wires were down
and firemen were on hand in
case they set the truck on fire.
been the fourth robbery at the
company in the past 10 years.
Several years ago a plate glass
picture window was put in opposite the safe and a nightlight
is kept burning to discourage
thieves, but evidently this hasn't
done the trick.
EXPECT 150
AT AREA
DINNER MEET
DEXTER — Teacher! and administrators from Dexter, Saline, Pleasant Lake, Manchester, j
Chelsea, -Milan and Whitmore
Lake will attend the annual-dinner meeting of the Washtenaw
County District of the Michigan
Education Association, at 6:15
p.m., May 8, at the Bates Ele-.
mentary School. ~
Featured speaker at the dinner will be Deward Clark, Director of Tour Service in Michigan,
who will show slides of various
Michigan tours. Election of officers wil be held.
Each member will bring two
articles to be sold at -a silent
auction. Proceeds will be sent to
the National Education Association Centennial Fund.
Approximately 150 members
are expected to attend the dinner.
Marjorie Tower, Jack Rowe Married
In Double-Ring Rites At Milan Church
Officers and
Pleasant .Lake, Chelsea, Manchester and Dexter will hear
speakers from the state P. T. A.
conduct a workshop on how to
be an informed officer in a parent-teacher organization.
Mr. Carl Anderson of Ypsilanti will preside oyer the budget,
safety and health representat-
tives. Mrs. Kenneth Otto of
Jackson will meet with presidents, superintendents and principals. Mrs. Edwin Hannula of
Adrian will talk to members of
the membership and hospitality
committees. Mrs. John B. Martin of Grand Rapids will convene with members of the program, library, magazine and
mother singer groups.
Decorations and refreshments
are being planned by the officers of the Dexter Parent-Teacher Association.
The Washtenaw Area Council
held an election of officers on
March 7, 1957 in Manchester.
The following officers were installed by the past president,
Mrs. Virginia Cornell: President, Mrs. Louis Vogel; Vice-
President,   Mr.   Robert  McFar-
By Bess H. Tefft
For the Saline Area
Advisory Council
Thrift is a forgotten word today. It isn't being used to describe anyone, least of all School
Boards. Yet the word "thrifty"
seemed a fitting one for the
Saline Area Board when I looked into the financial position of
our school districts, compared
it with neighboring ones, and
took a calculating view at what
we have in value.
In 1954 we voters elected to
bond 7.5 mills and build a.20
room elementary school for our
newly organized district. Actually our bonded millage has never reached that point, but has
been kept at 4.5 mills on equalized valuation. Our board built
—not a 20 room school—but a
22 room school for the money
because they see the handwriting on dozens of kindergarten
entry blanks.
Since then, from the general
fund, we have added still another two emergency rooms to meet
the growing elementary student
load.
While some may feel that we
bonded and built too skimpily
in 1954 in view of our probable
needs, still we must 'admit that
members from \ with the amount allocated to
them, and the purposes spelled;
out in the bond issue, our school
authorities made efficient use
of the money.
I ing standards can only be a rela- off at the rate of $8,000 a year,
(tive, not a-static, quality. So
"next I looked at a comparative
record of our neighboring communities to see how Saline area
stan8s in relation to them. I
discovered that we operate on
8.84 mills, next only to Milan
(8.75) from the lowest, and as
for our total millage (operating
plus bond issue) Saline rests
squarely on the bottom rung.
Compare for yourself—
Chelsea 21.56 mills on State
equalized.
Willow Run 19
Dexter 19
Ypsilanti 18.95
Ann Arbor 18.11
Manchester 16.10
Milan 15
Saline 13.34
Some of these communities
have as high as 15.09 operating
millage, (Ypsilanti) or 11.15
(Manchester) as compared with
Saline's 8.84.
And Chelsea, for example, has
three separate debt figures,
making a total of 12.41 .debt
millage on equalized valuation.
Our board has purposely kept
the bonded millage lower than
voted because it feels that by
levying only 4.5 mills, one group
of citizens will not bear all the
brunt of payment, but the burden will be spread over several
years and the passing parade of
families using the facilities.
A debt incurred on the pres
Thrift in these days of chang- ent High School is being paid
KINDERGARTEN
CALL ISSUED
IN MANCHESTER
MANCHESTER — Registration for kindergarten in the
Manchester Schools for the fall
of 1957 will be held on May 8.
All children in the school district who will be five years old
by Sept. 1, 1957, are eligible to
begin kindergarten in-the fall.
Children who live west of M-
92, and on or east of Jacob Rd,
and on or north of Pleasant
Lake Rd., will register at 10
a. m., at the Pleasant Lake
School.
All children who live east of
M-92 ajid on or north of Bemis
Rd., will enroll at 10 a.m., at
the Pleasant Lake School.
Registration _ for all other
rural children'will be held at
the Nellie Ackerson Elementary
land;  Secretary, Mrs. Kathleen .'School in Manchester.
Bernath;   and
Nelson Short.
Treasurer,   Mr.
SALINE — Married last Friday night at 8 p.m.,-at the Milan Baptist Church, were Marjorie Tower, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Ronald Tower, Saline,
and Jack Rowe, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Frank Lawson, Manchester.
The Rev. Blake Hunt, pastor
of -Jhe church,- presided at the
double ring  ceremony.
The bride's matron of honor
at the wedding was Mrs. Fritz
Schiller, of Manchester, sister
of the groom. Her husband
served as best man.
I Robert Tower, the bride's
brother, was ushere at the rit^s.
The 60 guests at the wedding
were entertained at a reception
at'the Tower's home on South
Ann Arbor Street, following the
ceremony. Joyce^ Graf, of Saline,
kept the guest book and Beverly
and Janet Tower, the .bride's
sisters, were in charge of the
gifts.
Mrs. Edward Visel, pf Chelsea,
a cousin of the bride, cut the
cake.
Following a week-end honeymoon near Holand, Michigan,
the couple is now making their
home on North Ann Arbor St.
in Manchester. x
Mrs. Letsinger To
The groom is forman at the) WeaA Woman'* Chlh
Double A Products plant in Man- *" eW"   rr oman S CIUO
Chester, and Mrs. Rowe is em
ployed in the Accounting Department of the Universal Die
Casting plant in Saline.
ROAD-E-0 SET
MAY 17 BY
SALINE JCC.
SALINE — Entry blanks for
the Jaycee's Teen-age Road-E-O
will .be handed out at a high
school assembly on- May 10.
Movies of past Road-E-0 events
will be shown at this time.
The contest itself will be held
May 17, according to co-chairmen Howard Scruggs and John
Steeb.
Members of the Saline Jaycees will meet tomorrow at 8
p.m. at the Steeb residence to
discuss next year's activities, including a membership drive and
money-rasing project.
' Delegates to the May 17-19
State Jaycee convention in Lansing will be selected at the meet=
ing.
DEXTER — Mrs. Kenneth
Letsinger was elected president
of the Woman's Club at their
annual luncheon meeting, held
at the Brighton Hotel, Friday.
Other officers elected for next
year include: Mrs. Virgil Walling, vice-president; Mrs. Luther
Kunkle, treasurer; Mrs. Roy
Stein heimer, recording secretary;. Mrs. Eulah McCollum,
corresponding secretary; and
Mrs. Munnis Kenny, custodian.
Band Concert Set
Friday In Dexter
DEXTER — On May 3, the
four bands of the Dexter schools
will participate in a band concert, at 8 p.m., ih Copeland Auditorium. The musicians are
from the grade school and the
high school.
W. J. Schneider of "Schneider
Farm Supply, Ann Arbor, and
Kenneth Kouba, of K & W Farm
Supply, Manchester, attended
the J. I. Case "Hay Days" Clinic
in, Lansing recently.
•Children who live in Manches
ter will register at the Nellie
Ackerson Elementary School at
2 p. m., May 8.
A parent or guardian should
accompany the child for registration. If impossible-for a child
to come to register May 8, the
parent or guardian is asked to
call the child's place of registration during the registration
hours and give the name, address and age of the child.
To Honor Patrol
MANCHESTER—A group of
23 safety patrol members of the
Intermediate. School will have
dinner at the Michigan League
in Ann Arbor and go to a movie
on May 7. The party is sponsored by the P. T. A. in recognition
of the work in safety patrol the
boys have done during the year.
T. Hawley Tapping and Willard
Baker will accompany the group.
Junior High Chorus Sings
MANCHESTER — The newly
formed junior high school chorus will participate in a music
festival in 'Livonia on May 8.
This is the first year that the
Manchester Schools have had
such a chorus. Judges from state
universities will rate the various groups in the festival.
SUMMER REC
PROGRAM IS
PROGRESSING
SALINE — The summer recreation program for this community is rapidly shaping up
under the direction of Tom
Johnston. Last Saturday 145
"hopefuls turned out for the organization session for the summer sandlot circuit. . . and'next
Saturday, baseball tryouts will
be held for 15-year-olds and
younger.
The Saline program will include participation in the Huron
Valley Baseball League, which
already has Manchester, Ian-
coin. Consolidated and Dexter on
its membership roster . . . with
Stockbridge. and Milan likely additions. The Huron Valley organization is affiliated with the
national Babe Rjith League, and
features two games weekly for
participants.
Other Washtenaw communities interested in entering the
Huron Valley Baseball League
are invited to get details from
Johnston, president of the organization, at NO 8-7420. Robert Raymor, Dexter, is . vice-
president -of the league, and.
Jack Redd, of Lincoln Consolidated, is secretary-treasurer.
To clear up a misconception in
last week's Reporter, Johnston
will, direct^ the summer recreation program at Manchester, but
will have an assistant and five
local volunteer helpers who will
carry out the program. Johnston himself will be working during much of-the recreation period, as director of the program
in Saline.    -
Attends Conference
MANCHESTER Mrs. Franklin M. Reck is attending the annual meeting of the District Library Association today, at the
new tri-level Chandler Park library in Detroit. Trustees and
librarians from Washtenaw,
Wayne, Oakland, Monroe, St.
Clair and McGomb Counties are
members of the district. Frank
G. Jennings, Executive Director
of Library Clubs of America,
will be the speaker. _
No taxes have been levied
against this debt since 1953.
Funds ear-marked for it are invested and cannot be used for
any other purpose. The bonds
are non-callable and can't be
paid, in full until the date of
their maturity, which is March
1, 1960.
From the bond issue our diss
trict has a reserve fund of some
$95,000. Of this $85,000 is invested In the Michigan National
Bank of Flint and is drawing
3 per cent interest. These figures, based on April 1, '57( accounting, also reveal a special
account in the Citizens' Bank of
Saline of $10,377.88. We are
paying an interest rate on our
boncf in the range between 1%
and 2y2%.
To me the detailed account of
our financial condition is enlightening. Untrue generalizatins
are easy these days when the
news is full of stories regarding
school deficits. Wise area resi-
denst will seek local facts and
accurate knowledge instead of
hazy misconceptions arising
from this barage of nation-wide
publicity, not applicable to our
own situation.
At the time we bonded for the
elementary school, our Saline
area had a valuation of $11,000.-
000. Today the figure stands at
$15,000,000. Past experience has
shown the figure increases with
each year's normal expansion.
Experience also is showing us
another kind of inevitable increase the number of youngsters
attending our schools.
At present we have 798 children from Kindergarten through
the 6th grade. By next year it
will jump to 876. 1960 will see
974 enrolled. This is actual census and does not include any
estimate of area growth. By
1964 the figure will top th^.
thousand mark by 51—with the-
probability, of course, extending even beyond.-
Ten years ago only 143 young-
people filled grades 9 to 12, but
today 264 (plus the 7th and 8th.
graders) jam the corridors, fill
the classrooms to their maximum, and make it possible for
us to barely edge through as an
U. of M. accredited school.
If the next year's increase of
some 50 were added to all high
grades, they might be assimilated, but when they "are added—
as they will be from now—to a
single entering grade, real problems in classroom space and
teacher loads will result.
And when the numbers which
are now in elementary school
move upward the situation will
become critical ior Saline. 1966
will bring the total to 749 in the
9 to 12 range.
These are things I found out
and wish to pass along to the-
people of the Saline area. I hope
the mass of figures hasn't made
you-feel—as Rastus Mt about
his wife when he said, "She talk
and talk and talk, and drive me
crazy."
"Too bad," said bis friend.
"Whaf she talk about?"
"Well," Rastus puzzled. "She
just don't say!"
I Jiope I've said that our financial position is sound, and in
comparative terms, conservative and thrifty. I also hope I've
pointed out that the expansion
problems facing us are growing,
out of the numbers of young
people who are enrolled, or are
on the pre-school census, of our
Area school.
The Advisory-Council, under
Chairman Ira Pfeifle, "and composed of representative from
the "original school districts
which combined to .form, the Saline-Area, is planning some public meetings fro the future at
which these facts and many
others will be discussed.