1957-10-17; Reporter

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NO 3-4068
THE REPORTER
VOLUME- 11, NUMBER 4 — TKUI.SB AY, OCTOBI
1957.
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Golden Acres
Kick-Off Dinner Tonight
Will Mark Beginning Of
Community Chest Drive
Saline Area's Community
Chest Campaign begins tonight
with a Kick-off Dinner for the
committee and workers in the
Saline Hotel. Door-to-door canvassing of the area will start tomorrow morning and continue
until the entire community as
defined by the school district
has been covered.
The dinner, given through the
courtesy of Universal Die Cast
Co., will be followed by instructions and pep talks from campaign chairman Wilson Scott,
and his committee: Mrs. Frank
Deede, Mrs. Robert Tefft, William Meister, Gerald Coe, Francis Lockwood, and Gordon Esch
who are urging a quick hit at
the community target of $6,987.
The   goal   includes   budgeted
amounts for the local Boy
Scouts, Girl Scouts, Child Study
Club, Teen Canteen, Cub Scout,
Summer Recreation program
and Library. The Red Cross,
Crippled Children, Salvation
Army and United Fund share in
the rest.
The once-for-all drive will be
conducted by a corps of volunteer workers from the entire
area whose responsibility will be
divided according to former
school district lines in the rural
area, and by streets within Saline.
These workers are: Mrs. Pearl
Wild, Bridgewater; Mrs. Edwin
Wild, Rentchler; Mrs. Ray Carl-
eton, Lodi Center; Mrs. Pauline
Walker, Blaess; Mrs. Robert
Hall, Schumacher; Mrs. Simon
Girbach, Girbach; Mrs. Arnold
Wild, Union; Mrs. John Kohler,
Lodi Plains, Dell and Wood;
Mrs. Robert Merchant, Sutherland and Valentine; Mrs. Stea-
man, Fosdick and Oak Grove;
Mrs. Karl Theurer, Judd; John
Reule, Saline Valley Farms;
Mrs. Robert Hammond, Shaw,
Hammond, Gleason, Hbyt and
Forbes; Mrs. Loren Bauer, Benton; Gordon Esch, Northwest
Saline; Donald Rapp, Northeast
Saline; Francis Lockwood,
Southeast Saline; Mrs. Frank
Deede, Southwest Saline; Business north of Michigan, Leon
Vedder; Business south of Michigan Ave., Gerald Coe; Industries and utilities, William Meister.
ion Work
Paint Crew Does
Touch-Up Work
As Buyers Wait
By Peggy Flook
SALINE — This week Golden
Acres subdivision looked about
the same way it had looked for
weeks... partly-finished, empty
houses; lumpy, ungraded clay
where streets should be; still
no sidewalks, no curbing, no
crews of workmen. In short,
little progress.
little time; I'm doing everything
I can."
"We're waiting for the second
'test on our water supply," he
added. Water for the homes is
being chlorinated, which requires bacteria-free pipes. First
test showed a small residue of
impurities still in the pipes, Vil-
ardi  explained;  and  a "flush-
out"  and second test was  re-
Only the rumors around town  quired.
had   changed.   They   sounded J    Both FHA commitments and
-Crew of painters worked briefly in Golden Acres last week,
It Pays To Give
Where You Live!
Saline area residents who
work in other places may request that their Community
Chest donation be returned
to the Saline area. Industries
provide for this allocation of
funds.
Let your dollars help your
children, your neighbors,
your community. Give where
you live.
Crew chief points to few of unfinished homes.
Hornets Get Big Boosts, As
Si, Daugherty, Crisler Send
Best Wishes, Good Advice
EXTENSIVE DAMAGE TO A HOME AND GARAGE
occurred in a fire here Saturday at the home of Fred Eichel,
320 N. Ann Arbor Street. Firemen were on the scene foe
three and a half hours.
The fire, which occurred about 5 p.m. Saturday, was already "well under way" before firemen arrived, according to_
Fire Chief Harold Armbruster. The fire was first reported to
local police, who radioed the Washtenaw County Sheriff's De-
" partment to call the fire department here.Cau se of the blaze
was unknown.
Starting in a garage on the property, the fire burned
through into the kitchen of the home and another room. Both
the garage and the rear of the house were extensively charred,
together with smoke and heat damage in other rooms. Fourteen firemen brought the fire under control in half an hour,
but remained on the premises until 8:30 p.m.
In lower picture, fire crewmen are shown inhaling a
more palatable dose of smoke than that produced by the
blaze. * , '■■'>.
,.   ■ —Photos by Dave Giltrow
TO HELP IN
VISUAL TEST
SALINE — Elementary
School Room Mothers will assist in visual sceening (eye
tests) of elementary students
Monday, it was announced today.
The Room Mothers at their
Tuesday meeting heard Helen
Martin, research geologist with
the State Conservation Department, describe "How Michigan
Got That Way," with colored
slides on geology. Next meeting,
open to the public, is scheduled
for Nov.* 11 and will include a
"toy party". Proceeds of the
party will go to the school
equipment fund.
Scrap Drive Set
For October 26
SALINE — "Start saving
your paper and scrap metal now
for our scrap drive" is the plea
of members of St. Paul's Youth
Fellowship. The scrap drive,, a
Christ Workday Project, is
scheduled Saturday, Oct. 26;
contributors are asked to tie old
papers and scrap metal into bundles and call Bonnie Fritz, phone
173, for a pick-up.
SALINE—Ladies of the Federated Church here \yill sponsor
a rummage sale of useful articles of furniture and clothing at
the. Still Building, from 10 a.m.
to 9 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 26.
SALINE — The Hornets will
go into their game against Flat-
rock Friday backed by the
heart-felt good wishes of a
trusted old friend and three
prominent new ones they didn't
even know they had.
The old friend is Si    Woods,
Saline's star    back during his
four high school years here, now
playing    tackle   for Marquette J
University in Milwaukee, Wis.     I
The new "rooters" are "Duffy" Daugherty, Coach of Michigan State University's Rosebowl
champs? H. O. "Fritz" Crisler,
athletic director for University
of Michigan; and Jim Pace, U.
of M.'s fleet left half who set
up the Wolverine's only touchdown Saturday.
All four sent messages of encouragement this week to Saline's beleaguered Hornets.
Si, who helped put SaUne on
top of the-heap in 1955 with his
outstanding running and passing ability, sent his "home
team" a telegram- from Marquette:
"Dear Football Squad,
Having heard of your last
defeat, I would like to pass
along a word of advice. I
know how your spirits get
low for I have the same situation. It is hard to be a loser
but the ouly way to have a
winning team is through constant work as a unit. You
havea swell coach and if yon
will give him 100% effort,
your day will soon come.
Best of luck in the coming
game.
Your pal,
Silas"
Si was selected by the Toledo
Blade in 1955 as an'All-Huron
League defense and offense
player, graduated from SHS in
1956.  He has  occasionally re
turned    to work out with the
Hornets.
"I'm very much interested in
the Saline team," said U. of M.
Jim Pace. "Sometimes the
breaks may-go against them,'but
I know for sure they'll pull up
again. You tell them Number 43,
Jim Pace, is behind them ALL
the way!"
MSU's Coach Duffy Daugherty, recalling the "years and
years" it took MSU to-earn its
way into collegiate football's Big
Ten, sent the team a poem, the
same one he sent to members of
his own team before school
opened this fall:
"If you can't be the highway,
then just be the trail;
If you can't be the sun,
.  be a star;
For it isn't by size
that you win or you fail;
Be the best of whatever
yon are!"
Said Daugherty, "The kids
aren't deriving maximum value
from football unless they contribute 10"0 per cent effort.
There is no easy way. They must
learn the value of hard work,
sacrifice, and trying to win; but
if you've done your best you can
examine your heart and know
you've done well."
He added: "I wish them a lot
ofluck."
Said Fritz Crisler: "Disappointments happen to everybody,
in football and in life; but if
we'll stick our chins out with
resolve and determination, the
disappointments become fewer.
Life is like that. We grit om*
teeth and say, "I'm going to be
bigger than that; I'm going to
rise above it."
Of the Hornets loss last week,
Crisler remarked, "That happened to us, too." (MSU derailed the
Wolverines 35-6).
(Editor's Note:: Illinois also,
lost, as did Army, Purdue,
Northwestern, and half the
teams in the Big Ten. The Hornets were in splendid company.)
. .Crisler added,. "Wish, them
luck for me. Give them my personal good wishes!"
In last Friday's game against
Chelsea the Hornets "won the
statistics but not the game"
according to Coach Bill Bailey.
"They were defeated mainly by
lack of speed and a series of
'ifs'. If 'we could have scored
when we threatened ... if we
could have ' stopped Chelsea's
two run backs ... we do fine in
scrimmage but get hurt in the
open field."
1Q 2Q 3Q 4Q Total
Chelsea  . .13    0    6    6    25
Saline,...  0    0   7    0      7
In the first quarter, Chelsea
Halfback Willie Hielegh blocked
Dick Lehtonen's punt on Saline's
24-yard line; after four plays
Odis Richardson went two yards,
to a Chelsea touchdown. There
was no conversion point.
Just as the first quarter ended, Richardson went 55 yards
with a Lehtonen punt for a
touchdown; and the point was
made on a quarterback plunge
by Denny Schumm.
On the next kickoff, Donnie
Wild took the ball on Saline's
15-yard line and ran a spectacular 70 yards before he was tackled from behind on Chelsea's 15.
On the next play, Saline, fumbled and Chelsea recovered.
Just as the half ended, Saline
missed a scoring chance with
fourth down and two yards to
go — and* made only one yard,
half-time score: 13-0.
At the beginning of. fhe^sec-
ond  half,      Saline's  kick  was
scooped up by Willie Hieliegh on
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slightly more promising, as if
some kind of action might be
imminent.
Builder Frank Vilardi, president of Dunrose Homes, Inc. did
come into Saline last week long
enough to supervise a crew of
workmen for a day or so, confer
with city officials and contractors, and obtain building permits
on five lots. City Council, at a
recent meeting, had instructed
City Attorney Stanton Roesch
to commence action against the
corporation for building on the
lots without tfie required permits.
But buyers of the Golden
Acres homes were still living
with relatives this week, still
commuting from Ann Arbor,
still paying rent on motels and
apartments while they waited
for the homes they had purchased more than a year ago.
And Michigan's inclement November—when outside work on
the lots would be well-nigh im-
possibler—had moved one week
closer.
Why the delay? Said Vilardi
more than a week ago: "There
have been unforseen expenses <
... costs we didn't figure on...
that are holding us up. It's got
me really tightened up."
When did he think the homes
would be ready to live in? "This
year, yet, as 'far as I know. If
'we can get rolling. But they're
going  to  have to .give me  a
sales' contracts with the buyers
require provision of sidewalks, -
curb and gutter, and blacktop-,
ped streets, Vilardi said. He expects  to   begin   grading  for
streets ''pretty soon now."
City officials here have not
yet -determined at what point
in the proceedings they will be
able to grant occupancy permits.
"We will do most anything
to get the people in their homes,"
-said Mayor Henry Leutheuser.
"But we still have to protect
them. They have paid for these
things, (curb, - gutter, sidewalk,
blacktopping), and they have
to get them."
"If the work wasn't completed
and couldn't be completed this
year, we will demand money for
the work in escrow," the Mayor
said. The builder is bonded with
the city at $2500, plus a contract which provides that occupancy permits cannot be granted
until improvements are completed, or until money for the
installation of improvements is
in  escrow.    >
Said Leutheuser: "As soon as
all the obligations are met, the
city will bend backwards to let
people move in. We don't want
to hold anybody up; but we want
to protect these people."
Among obligations still out- .
standing is a bill owed to the
city for sewer and water connections to the homes. Installation of sewer and water mains
was made by the city. "Several
thousand dollars" are still owed
for the service, according to
E. J. Muir, city clerk.
When curb, gutter, sidewalks,
and streets are put in, Muir
said, they must meet city speci-
SALINE — The Saline Com- Jfic?tions 'and wiU Probably be
munity Hospital buUding com- installed under city supervision,
mittee   last   week  rejected   all |
HOSPITAL BIDS
REJECTED BY
BUILDING GP.
[ The city generally requires that
contractors' bids as "too high". ■ gradinS  and gravel on streets
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"Hospital   bids  were  viewed!
must "settle" for several months
and were so far above the a-|beforf blacktopping is finished
mount budgetted that they were "tle sald*
all rejected," according to the
president of the Hospital Association.
The building committee has
met with the architect to make
revisions in design. The architect, Frank Carson, of Ann Arbor, pointed out that since the
original hospital plans were
made, the size has been increased from 6200 square feet
to 9500-square feet, and building
costs "have increased approximately 15 per cent in that time.
A n association spokesman
said: "The building committee
feels after consulting with the
architect and low bidders that
sufficient design changes can be
made to conform with the proposed budget, and the building
can be started yet this fall."
The contemplated design changes will not reduce either the
number of rooms or the number
of beds in the hospital.
SUFFERS SPRAIN
s.
SALINE — Mrs. Bobby Leonard last week sprained an ankle
in a hole in. the sidewalk at the
center of town.
One buyer has an additional
problem: His house was built
athwart a county right-of-way,
only a few feet from a county
drain. A right-of-way is a public easement, like a road-, that
could raise future legal tangles.
Other subdivisions in Saline,
commenced later than Golden
Acres, are already moving families into their new homes at the
rate of several a week.
Actually, the whole Golden
Acres project has stalled not
too far from the finish line. Presumably, if a hoard of workmen with the proper equipment
desended on Golden Acres next
Monday, they could finish the
houses, lay the sidewalks, put
in curb and gutter, and grade-
and gravel the streets, all in
a period of two weeks or less.
Then the moving vans would
roll before Thanksgiving.
This week, though, buyers and
city officials together could do
little more than hope.
(Editor's note: This is the
second of two articles on Golden
Acres subdivision. More will appear if and when the situation
there  changes.)