1958-08-27; Saline Reporter

              The Saline Reporter
VOLUME 11, NUMBER 49 — WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 27, 1958.
'First With All the Local News'
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SCHOOL'S OPENING NEAR-21 NEW TEACHERS
Mrs. Hugh Keveling And
Mrs. H. W. Kuebler Are
Improving After Crackup
Mrs. Hugh Keveling, of 205
Mills Rd., was reported still in
"very serious condition" today,
and Mrs. H. W. Kuebler, of 3871
Waterworks Rd., was reported
"fair" after a two-car crash
near Bay City Thursday afternoon.
Both women suffered multiple
injuries when the car in which
they were riding collided with
another car which had careened
out of control on the divided
highway section of US-23 north
of Bay City. Mrs. Keveling was
driving.
Four   persons   in   the   other
car were seriously injured and
both cars were demolished. All
, six  were . taken   to  Bay   City
Mercy hospital.'
Mrs. Kuebler was moved Tuesday to St. Joseph Mercy hospital in Ann Arbor, where she
is receiving treatment for a
broken kneecap and a cracked
kneecap, five broken ribs, several teeth knocked out, and multiple bruises.
Mrs. Keveling, who was driving the Keveling family car
when the accident occured, is
reported "improving slowly" at
Bay City Mercy hospital. It is
expected she will be moved to
a local hospital next week. She
suffered a broken ankle, multiple face gashes, and chest injuries.
The two women were driving
to Petoskey to pick up Mrs.
Keveling's daughter, Nancy, at
school there, when a car driven
by Mrs. Ruth Spens, 47, of
Alpena, went out of control,
jumped the three-foot' wide dividing strip between the lanes,
and crossed into the path of the
Keveling  car.
Mrs. Spens and her daughter,
Mrs. Patricia Jasinski. 22, of
Alpena, were still listed in critical condition today. Another
daughter, Mary Spens, 13, and
a passenger in the Spens car,
Susan   Bailey,   13,   of   Alpena,
have  been  released  from  the
hospital.
Mrs. Keveling is the wife of
Hugh Keveling, owner of Keveling's Drug store. Mrs. Kuebler,
wife of H. W. Kuebler who is
employed at the Citizens Bank
here, is a teacher at Saline High
School.
Police Are Holding
Local Juvenile For
Recent Robberies
Police Arrest
Parole Violator
A man wanted by police for
parole violation, arrested here
late Monday night, "became violent on the way to Ann Arbor"
and had to be restrained with
handcuffs, police officers Jim
Levleit and Hugh Prince said.
The wanted man, Elbert Potter (no address given) was arrested by Prince and Levleit
fast before midnight Monday
on Michigan avenue, after the
officers had noticed him entering and leaving a local bar.
A Sheriff department bulletin,
■describing him as "should be
considered extremely dangerous" had listed him as driving
a yellow 1958 car, which the
officers found parked on E.
Michigan.
Potter was taken to the County Jail. >The car was impounded.
"Yea"s Still Ahead
In Extended-Service
Telephone Co. Poll
Votes are still dribbling In,
on the telephone company's all-
customer poll on the extended
service issue, with the "yea"s
in the lead, according -to William Beagle, district manager of
General Telephone Co.
Postcards went out to all
subscribers more than a month
ago in an effort to learn if
Saline area telephone users
wanted extended area service to
and from Ann Arbor. Equipment could be installed and in
operation by about 1960 if the
vote is positive, Beagle has said.
Members of the Saline Cham-
her of Commerce have urged
area residents to vote "yes" on
the poll, pointing out that extended service would increase
the influx of business and in-
I -!^w dustry to the area.
ft   w>    The poll wfll not be dosed
until votes stop coming in, the
telephone   company   indicated.
'More  than  half of the cards
have already been returned.
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Police are holding a 14-year-
old local boy at the County
Juvenile Home with regard to
two Saline area breaking and
entering cases, and have recovered two of the items taken
in the robberies, it was reported
today.
The boy is being held in connection with robberies several
weeks ago at Lambarth Hardware store'and Wiedman Tractor Sales here, and is being
questioned concerning other,
earlier items that were taken
from other stores' entered this
year,  police  said.
The recovered items were a]
pellet gun taken from Lambarth
Hardware store a month ago
when someone gained entry by
cutting a hole in a back door,
and a small gasoline engine taken about the same time from
Wiedman Tractor Sales.
The engine and gun had been
buried in a swamp in Midland
county and were "pretty much
ruined," police said. They were
found when the youngster led
police officers Earl Kirby and
Jim Levleit to the swamp and
pointed out the location of the
buried items.
The boy was arrested last
Thursday night at the home of
a friend in Midland county,
where he was visiting with his
father. Kirby and Levleit made
the trip to Midland to make the
arrest.
A hearing in Juvenile Court is
scheduled September 18.
Retiring Nurse
Honored for 49
Years' Service
Mrs. Effie Webber, retiring
nurse supervisor at Ypsilanti
State Hospital, was honored at
a dinner party recently at Saline Hotel, for her 49 years of
service as a psychiatric attendant nurse. Fifteen of the years
were spent at Ypsi State Hospital.
Mrs." Webber began her nursing career at the age of 21 at
the Kankakee State Hospital
in Illinois. She went from the£e
to Evansville, Ind., and then to
Iowa, where she took three
years of training as a psychiatric attendant, at Independence
State Hospital. She remained
there for 24 years.
In March, 1943, she joined
the staff of Ypsilanti State Hospital and has remained there
ever since. For the past several
years she has been a supervisor
on the afternoon shift.
Mrs. Webber was presented
with a corsage of white, baby
mums and pink roses at the
dinner, attended by 22 friends
and co-workers. Mrs. Edith
Jenkins, Miss Mary Martin, and
Mrs. Alice Killett were in
charge of arrangeemnts. ■
Mrs. Ann Lenheiser spoke for
the group, .paying tribute to
Mrs. Webber as a friend and
co-worker, and giving her the
best wishes of the group. Mrs.
Webber will move to a new
home at Cave-in Rock, HI.
Youngsters Operate
Own Nursery School
You have to be licensed by
the state to operate a nursery
school ... or so, the book says.
Trouble is, nobody is quite certain what state officials might
do if they were asked to license two 11-year-old young
misses whose lack of stature
is more than compensated by
their business acumen and or-
jgmality. .
^Katie Esch and Linda Heiser-
man, both 11 years old, have
been in the nursery school business all summer, a boon to
mothers in their neighborhood
and  a  delight to  smaller fry.
The Misses Esch and Heiser-
man have enrolled about six
neighborhood children, ranging
in age three to five years old,
for morning schedules that include games, contests, a morning snack, and a rest period . . .
all according to Hoyle. The
children gather leaves, make
handprints in plaster, make
paper hats, work with clay, and
carry out a complete program
of^supervised play.
Miss Esch and Miss Heiser-
man devote a good many evening hours to the serious business of preparing the next day's
schedule. Their fees: whatever
their charges' grateful parents
want to pay.
The nursery school, operating
in the playhouse at the Everett
Esch home on Pond View, has
closed now for the fall and
winter season. Its supervisors
expect to' continue their education (like any other teacher)
during the interim period, but
may open up again next year.
Much Milk Spilled
In Truck Accident
"A lot of milk was spilled,"
police said, when a Ford semi
towing a milk truck skidded on
wet roads Sunday morning at
Saline-Milan Rd. near Stoney
Creek Rd.
The truck, driven by Donald
F. Scott and owned by Marion
and Niethammer, of Saline, skidded in the rain and went into
a ditch, toppling over a number
of milk cans and shaking the
lids off. There was no other
darnage.
SWEET CORN .
'■ Pick all you want, at 10 cents
a dozen, is the standing offer
of Junior Chamber of Commerce
members in their novel "Sweet
Corn Open House" Wednesday,
Thursday, and Friday nights
this week.
The public is invited to come
and do their own corn-picking
in the JC patch on S. Davenport at the end of the street.
The Past Matrons Club of the
Saline O. E. S. will get together on Monday, Sept. 8, at
the home of Mrs. Max Fosdick.
The Hospital We Want-
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The Hospital So Far-
A great many people have contributed
their time toward fund-raising for the community hospital shown in the architect's
drawing at top above. Many more have completed payment of their pledges. All of these
folks are depending for their hospital on the
fact that ALL pledges will be paid, including
those now far delinquent. To date, there are
213 persons delinquent in their pledges. The
total amount delinquent is $39,082.64. Will
those persons who are delinquent in their
pledges finish our hospital?
Hospital Hires Administrator
Miss Shirley Dovre, a graduate of Augustana College in
Rock Island, HI., and veteran
of seven years hospital experience in Pontiac, has accepted
the position of Administrator
for Saline Community Hospital,
a representative of the hospital
board announced today. She is
now assistant to the director
of Pontiac General hospital.
Miss Dovre will begin work
Monday, her first duties to include deciding on .the. location
of shelves, closets, and other
details" of'the partially finished
hospital.
Miss Dovre, who was chosen
from a number of applicants interviewed for the position, was
hired with the approval of the
hospital board of directors at
recommendation of the administrative committee made at last
Tuesday's meeting of the board.
JC'S SEEK
NEW MEMBERS
The   Junior   Chamber   of
Commerce is looking for new!;
$ members,   James   Rogers, £
president*   announced  today.
!; Membership is open to young
men of the Saline area, 21 to
35 years of age. Those interested may obtain farther information    by    telephoning $•
| Rogers at HA 9-7189,
Rotarians Plan
Family Feed
Rotary's Board of Directors
will don chefs caps and aprons
(figuratively anyway) to prepare a chicken feed Thursday
at Saline Valley Farms for
members and their families.
About 90. to 100 members
and guests are expected to attend the • barbecue,- president
Milt Hartman estimated. All
preparations are being handled
by board members: Pat Roeseh
will supervise barbecuing operations.
Richard  Malinczak  returned
home Monday night after a ten
j> '   day vacation in Sarasota, Fla.
Teachers Meet
Tuesday, Next
Day It Begins!
Teachers were pouring into
town, school administrators
were back from vacations, both
school, offices were open all
week, and phones were buzzing.
School opening was only a weels:
away and desks were' already
piled high with papers.
Twenty-one. new teachers were
scheduled in this year, 11 of
them at the High School, ten
at the Elementary school.
The High School will open on
time, principal Elmer Houghton said, but it was likely that
remodeling done this summer
would not be entirely finished
for the Wednesday opening day
(teachers report in on Tuesday).
The big classroom taken from
the study hall is finished,
Houghton said, but lockers have
not been installed in the hall,
and there is considerable painting yet to be done. Some plastering has not been finished,
and book shelves still have to be
built.
School superintendent Leo
Jensen has returned from vacation and will be in his office
daily; and Elementary principal
Marian Barclay has been in
her office each day since late
last week.
Listed on the school faculties
this year- are: ■.■   ■
.^ ELEMENTARY. SCHOOL
FACULTY
Mrs. Marian Barclay — Principal.
To Seek Locations
For New Industries
An industrial development
committee of the Chamber of
Commerce will be set up at a
special meeting of the executive
committee in the near future.
Purpose of the committee will
be to study possible sites in
Saline on which new industry
could locate.
The move was taken at the
Chamber of Commerce meeting
Monday night after city attorney
Stanton Roeseh told members
that industrial representatives
have been turned away from Saline in the past because no
suitable factory sites were available.
"Saline must do something
to make these sites available,
in order to attract the industry
we need," Roeseh said. "Cost
pressures are increasing because
of the continuing development
of residential areas in the city;
and none of them can carry the
tax load they create."
The new sewer now under
construction will open up a number of new tracts northwest of
the  city,  Roeseh  pointed  out.
Expect to Complete
18 Homes This Fall
At Rolling Acres
Eighteen families will be in
residence in new homes in Boiling Acres subdivision before
Christmas if plans of Jerome
Building Co., a Detroit firm,
work out.
Work on the one-story frame
homes in the $13,500 to $14,000
price range has already begun;
basements have been excavated
and walls poured on five or six
of the dewellings. Sewer lines
and water mains are nearly finished, and grading and graveling of streets is under way.
Some of the houses may have
brick fronts, or the firm may
construct a number entirely of
hrick. Thomas Beauchamp, local
representative indicated.
O. E. S. to Meet
Saline Chapter 311 of the
O. E. S. will meet next Wednesday evening, Sept. 3, at 8
p.m. for its regular September
meeting. Officers and members
please note change of date.
Mrs. Elinor Heingartener —
Assistant to the Principal.
Kindergarten: Mrs. Edith
Weisman; Mrs. Mary Crockett
(new).
First Grade: Mrs. Tom Haab;
Mrs. Barbara Potter; Miss
Nancy Seydler (new)*; Mrs.
Judith Garchow (new).
Second grade: Mrs. Mary Myers; Mrs. Blanche Shankland;
Mrs. Louisa -Hart (new); Miss
Patricia  Heckman   (new)*.
Third grade: Mrs. Norma Kelly; Mrs. Dorothy Stimpson;
Miss Phebe Summerland; Mrs.
Lillian Kuiper — 3rd and 4th
(new).
Fourth grade: Mrs. Ann Pel-
Iegreno (new); Mrs. Dorothy
Zografi; Miss Elieen Bradley
(new)*.
Fifth grade: Mrs. Helene Mon-
aghan; Miss JJa Pfeifle; Mrs.
Maxine Ross.
Sixth grade: Mrs. Una Dicks
— 5th and 6th; Mrs. Barbara
Pincoe (new); Mrs. Ramona
Bergeon (new); Donald Ross.
Speech correction — Mrs.
Joan Kissel.
Elementary music — vocal —
Mrs". Marilyn Turner.
Instrumental — Robert Wo-
jciak (new).
Physical education — Donald
Jaeger.
HIGH SCHOOL  FACULTY
Elmer Houghton: Principal,
and business law. -
Howard Hill: Assistant princi-
paland commercial.
William Bailey: Boy's physical education and coach.
George Bonich: Science.
Carmelo Crespo: Spanish.
Mrs. Dorothy Davenport:
Commercial.
Mark DeLay: Jr. Hi. Science.
Altoh Ealy: Vocational Agriculture.
Mrs. Mildred Haswell: English and Latin.
Donald Jaeger: Elem. phys.
ed. and H. S. Gym. 7th grade
math.
Arthur Katterjohn: Instrumental music and Band director.
Mrs. Elizabeth Kuebler: Mathematics.
(Since Mrs. Kuebler's recent
accident will prevent her from
teaching her class for some
weeks, Miss Hallie Mehler,
science-math teacher here for
three years and holder of a math
scholarship to the University
of Michigan this year, will take
the class until the University
opens classes in late September.)
Mrs. Bernice McCoy: Opportunity room.
Mrs. Kathleen Nass: Art.
Mrs. Margery Schnell: History.
Clyde Niedfeldt (new): Industrial arts and math. "
Mrs. Elizabeth Washburn
(new): Home economics.
Mrs. Washburn was a former
teacher in Saline, as was Mrs.
Marie Geddes, who transferred
to the High School faculty from
the Elementary school but has
taught here previously. She will
teach English this year.
Jay Starkey (new) Science.
Miss Sherrfll Ison *(new):
Math.
Donald Hadley (new): Counselor, and psychology,
Mrs. Irene . Pedrick (new):
English.
Miss Ann Preston *(new)
English and speech.
Miss Jacquelyn Johnson
*(new): Girl's physical education. .
Miss Virginia Terzian *(new)
History and geography.
Dwight Reynolds: Industrial
arts, and transportation mng.
(School authorities can't be
positive the "Miss" on the list
will be "Miss" when the teacher
arrives, Houghton points jdut.
"They may have changed
names since we hired ths