1958-09-03; Saline Reporter

              The Saline Reporter
VOLUME 11, NUMBER 50 — WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1958
'First With All the Local News"
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SCHOOL'S OPEN-ENROLLMENT IS UP TO 1,300
Plans Completed For 1958
Miss Saline Contest As
Prize List Grows Longer
By Peggy Flook
Plans were nearly complete
this week and the prize-list long,
v for the next "Miss Saline" of
1958-59, to be crowned Thursday
night, Sept. 11, the second night
of the Saline Community Fair.
Meanwhile, Salinians today
waited anxiously for results of
the State Fair "Miss Michigan"
contest tonight ... a favored
contestant was last year's "Miss
Saline," of 1957-58, Patricia
Teachout. Odds were heavy in
favor of Pat's good fortune, at
least as a member of "Miss
Michigan's'' court, if "not the
crown-winner herself.
While some Junior Chamber
of Commerce officers escorted
Miss Teachout through Fair festivities in Detroit, others prepared the JC sponsored contest
at Saline Community Fair.
Don Bailey, Ann Arbor entertainer, will act as Master of
Ceremonies again this year at
the Saline crowning, JC president James Rogers announced.
G. Merritt Martin is JC chairman in charge of the event.
JC's were still seeking new-
convertible owners to drive con-
' testants to the bandstand at
the Thursday night affair and
during the Saturday parade.
Anyone with such a convertible
available, and interested .in driving, is asked to contact Wal-
fred Larson, at HAzel 9-9622.
The contest is open to single
girls between 16 and 24 years
' old, inclusive. Contestants must
live in the Saline Area School
District or attend Saline High
School.
The entry blank (a copy appears in this paper) must be
completed and forwarded with
one, preferably two, recent snapshots, to G. Merritt Martin, Box
564, Saline. Entries close at
Midnight Saturday, Sept. 6. Photos cannot be returned.
The list  of prizes  includes:
Miss America Watch—Rieekhoff Jewelers.
Buxton Billfold — Giltrow's
Pharmacy.
Bowling Ball — Bailey Recreation.
Bowling Ball Bag — Schmid's
Food Market.
Bowling Shoes — Hoeft's
Gulf Service.
Travel iron — Deede Radio.
Travel Alarm Clock — Gambles Store.
Jewelry Case — Walker's 5c
&$1.
Lipstick and Compact — Cut
& Curl Shop.
Electric Hair Dryer •— West-
side Hardware.
Gift Certificate—MacFarlane
Shoes.
10 Gallons Gas — Ray's Service.
Nylon Hose — Dancer's.
Ladies Umbrella—Anderson's
Badminton set — Lambarth
Hardware.
$25 Savings Bond — Citizens'
Bank.
$25 Savings Bond — Saline
Savings Bank.
Hi-Fi Record — Harrison's
TV.
2nd prize, portable radio —
Unit Products.
Gifts for all contestants donated by Universal Die.
Cash donated by Marty's Restaurant, Carl's Place, Bob's Service, Wight Cleaners, Saline
Food Center, Saline Hotel, Sa
line Mercantile, Hull's Grocery,
Graf's Service, Freeman's Service, Saline Dairy Bar, Frank's
Texaco. Walker's Backery.
All contestants will be treated
at the Saline Hotel after the
crowning, guests of A & M Chevrolet and Steeb Dodge & Plymouth. The queen's roses will
be donated by Lodi Greenhouse.
City to Annex
211-Acre Tract
North of Saline
Another step in the development of a 211-acre tract north
of town was taken last week
when a petition for annexation
signed by Charles and Mettie
Schultz and the Saline Area
School district, was accepted by
City Council.
A similar petition to Pittsfield township has been passed
by the township. Lodi township
is expected to meet this week
on the annexation.
The land involved comprises
114 acres of the Schultz prop
erty east of Saline-Ann Arbor
Rd. and 97 acres of adjacent
School District land. The' annexation is exjected to clear the
way to building 385 homes on
the land. '   -.
The annexation move follow-'
ed the letting of contracts for
sewer and water line construction to the area. The Roeseh
sewer will also open up large
tracts of land to the west and
north of the city for residential
and industrial development.
Both sewer and water lines are
under construction.
The contract, signed six
weeks ago by the Schultzes, the
city of Saline, and the School
District, specified that its terms
would also apply to any person
or firm to whom the Schultzes
might later sell the property. It
contained a proviso allowing
such persons to hook as many
as 385 new homes to the sewer
and water lines.
The annexation is expected Jo
be completed in about a week.
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Busy Belles Winners
At State 4-H Show
Members of the Busy Belle
4-H Club rang'all sorts of bells
last week at the State 4-H
Show   in Lansing: —
Rosemary Payeur and Janice
Harwood gave food demonstrations and earned blue ribbons.'
Sherry McPeake won a red
ribbon in first-year freezing;
Janice Harwood took a blue
ribbon on her party cupcakes;
and a white ribbon in fifth-year
home improvement; Mary Lou
Payeur placed, in the clothing
judging contest.     -
Mrs. -Webb Harwood is leader
of the group.
Miss Carol Sevey enjoyed a
week at Wampler's Lake with
ten of her girl friends and sponsors.
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Miss Saline Entry
I wish to enter as a contestant in the "Miss Saline"
contest, to be held Thursday night, Sept. 11, in conjunction
with the Saline Community Fair, and sponsored by the
Junior Chamber of Commerce.
Name	
Address	
Phone  ., Occupation	
Age   Ht.      Wt
Just in case there's anyone around (visitor from Sa-
skachewan or Rangoon, perhaps) who doesn't know it
already, next Wednesday begins the four-day celebration
that is formally referred to
as Saline Community Fair
. . . but which bulks large
in the minds of young and
old alike in this neighborhood as just: THE FAIR.
Next week's issue and the
issue after that will be pretty
much made up of the excitement, confusion, and all-round
/. .^ood-fun^ that makes THE
FAIR . . . covered here in
words and pictures. Watch
also for another big UDC
feature-salute page, this one
on (what else?) THE FAIR.
FIREMEN SAVE
HOUSE AFTER
3-HOUR FIGHT
Members of Saline Volunteer
Fire department, together with
a crew from Pittsfield township, fought a blaze at the
George Klager home, on Saline-
Ann Arbor road at Pleasant
Lake Rd., for three hours Monday evening.
The fire, which started in a
utility room upstairs in the
brick house, was brought under
control early and loss was limited to contents of an upstairs
apartment on the north side of
the house. Furniture and clothing in a downstairs apartment
were water damaged, and the
roof was badly burned; but
there was no damage to the
one-story south side of the
house.
Three Saline fire trucks and
two trucks from Pittsfield township were at the scene, slowing
heavy Labor Day traffic on
Saline-Ann Arbor road from
6 to 9 p. m.    *
The one-story portion of the
house is occupied by Klager.
The two apartments in the two-
story side are rented.
No cause for the fire could
be determined, firemen said.
Building Permits
Total $10,500
Building permits totaling $10,-
500 were issued by City Council
Tuesday night. They included
$10,000 permit to L. Z. Still,
to complete the building between
the postoffice and the Still's
Hotel; $250 to Harold Brown,
of 257 S. Ann Arbor, for remodeling; and $250 to Dean
Scott, 302 N. Ann Arbor, for
remodeling.
In other action, Council determined that the present Universal Die plant and the addition
under construction are not in
violation of the new zoning ordinance No. 146, and that parking facilities across <the road
from the plant are in accordance "with the ordinance.
New school clothes for the school buses
too ... or at least a new paint job, administered here by Tony Sehild, with Bill Guthrie on the spray gun, and school transportation manager Dwight Reynolds; supervising.
The paint-job was a change, in'wording on
the back door of each bus;;the sign now
reads, "Stop on Signal when bus stops."
Flashers on the buses are now red, front
and back, the whole alteration to comply
with the state law, in effect Sept. 13, that
requires all cars to stop when the school bus
stops, no matter which direction the cars
approach from.
YACKITY-YAK
Teachers Meet To
Map Tactics As
Mothers Just Relax
Saline Area Schools opened
Wednesday with enrollment up
to more than 1,300, roughly
the increase expected and accounted for in statistics on
which the building program is
based.
Total student load at the Elementary School had climbed to
801 (with about 25 absent) as
compared with 783 last year.
The figure included 117 kindergarteners. Statistics were still
fluid, principal Marian Barclay
said, as some of the absentees
may have moved away.
High School enrollment had
jumped to about 500, as against
452 last year, but some students
had not yet reported in due to
illness, attendance at the State
Fa}r, or "long" vacations.
"""Teachers met at both High
Grandma and Grandpa E. J.
Muir will leave Thursday for
Ames, Iowa, to visit the new
(and first) grandchild, Kevin
James Brinks, born Sunday
morning early. "He looks like
me." says Bill. The infant is
the son of Mr. and Mrs. James
Brinks (she's the Muir's daughter).
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Rotary Thursday will see a
sound and color film on the
story of the American Cup yach
ting races (try-outs are currently being held off Long Island). Basil Badour is program
chairman. Next week, Fair
week, Art Heininger is program"
chairman and Rotary will be
host to all the judges of the
Saline Fair.
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Nina Arend's son and family,
from Lansing, stopped here for
a visit last week-end on their
return from the Luther League
International Convention at Cor
nell. The visitors were Mr. and
Mrs. Jack Arend, whose children, Anne and Lewis, were
delegates at the convention.
They reported that Michigan
ranked third among the states
in the number of delegates
present.
Mr. Clarence Sevey was surprised by a fine birthday dinner ,on Aug. 20. Also attending were his daughter and
family, Mr. and Mrs. Donald
Younce of Ypsilanti.
Lef s face it, Saline has bees in its bonnet. The swarm congregated on the City
Hall window ledge may or may not be the
same swarm that caused consternation the
week before by swarming atop the Saline
Savings Bank. So far nobody has figured
out how yon get rid of them except, as one
city official' suggested, "Wait for them to
go away." Said a passer-by: "I figure the
taxes., are coming in good and the bees are
.after the sugar." Above, beekeeper Elmer
Glatx, of Braun Rd., points out the buzzy.
problem to police officer Kirby. They were
his bees, Glatz said . . .'must have followed
him when he came in to City Hall on business.
-    OUR READERS WON'T
WAIT	
When they want to read
ads, they want to read ads,
and they want to read them
NOW! Proof of this particular pudding occurred just
today when a customer
marched into the Reporter
office and insisted on paying
as full price for one-half of
a paper.
We only had Y2 a j>aper at
that point'because only the
"first run" had been printed;
the other four pages were
still as bare as a brand new
iaby. We pointed out this defect to our anxious reader
but he was not concerned.
The classified page was there;
that was what he had come
for; that was what he bought.
He refused to take his seven
cents back, and departed,
happily perusing classified
ads.
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Record Player,
Parking Meter
Recovered Here
A record player, missing since
June, from a residence on W.
Michigan avenue, and a meter
taken in June from the city
parking lot, have been recovered
by police here after talking with
a 14-year-old Saline boy who
was arrested last week in connection with a series of larcenies
throughout the city.
The boy was held overnight
at the County Juvenile Home
and then released in the custody of his mother.
The record player was recovered  in  "usable"   condition,
School and the .Elementary
school in orientation programs
Tuesday. Many of the teachers
at both school had reported in
and started work several days
previous.
Program at the Elementary
School Tuesday included a classroom tour for teachers, assorted
meetings, and lunch. On Wednesday afternoon, an audiovisual workshop was conducted
for teachers by Dan Moore, of
the University of Michigan audio-visual department.
Classes in the Elementary
School are running about 30 or
35 students to a teacher, Mrs.
Barclay said. , "We don't like
it, "but we can't avoid it, with
the increased student load."
School hours are the same as
last year with the exception of
the Elementary School lunch
period, which has been staggered into three sections running
from 11:30 a.m]  to 1:30 p.m.
Safety Director Helen Starling, who directs traffic at the
corner of Harris street and E.
Michigan avenue today urged
drivers to be especially alert
during the noon period. Mrs.
Starling walks with kindergarten children from the school to
the E. Michigan avenue corner;
but .older .Elementary .School
children will also be crossing,
he pointed out.
'laytimes at the Elementary
School have been rearranged
so that only one grade group
will be on the playground at any
one time, Mrs. Barclay said.
Kindergarten children will report to school at 8:50 a,m. Monday morning. Because of the
Fair, no afternoon sessions of
Kindergarten will be held Wednesday, Thursday,, or Friday of
next week; school busses must
take the High School students
home on those days and would
not be able to pick up kindergarteners in time for class, Mrs.
Barclay said.
police   said,   but   the   parking^gr^es.
Mrs. Tom Bennett
Takes 14 Prizes
At State Fair
^L celebrity in our midst is
Mrs. Tom Bennett, of 1339 Willis Rd., who this year just
missed by two points being top
winner at the State Fair in
Detroit with her recipes.
Mrs. Bennett had fourteen
winners out of twenty entries
for a total of 44 points. A Jackson woman ended up with 46
points taking the honors for
top winner. Our own Mrs. Tom
Bennett walked off with six
blue ribbons and eight second
meter had been taken apart,
and a number of pieces were
missing.
Other items, recovered at the
time of the boy's arrest last
week in Midland county, included a pellet gun taken from Lambarth Hardware store, and a
gasoline motor from Wiedman
Tractor Sales. They were found
buried in a swamp near Midland, after the youngster showed police officers Earl Kirby
and Jim Levleit where to dig.
The boy is still being questioned, police said today, with
regard" ta a number of other
stolen items that have not yet
been located.
HIT PARKING METER
A parking meter and a nearby
sign were damaged Sunday afternoon on E. Michigan avenue,
when a 1955 Dodge owned by
Edith Collet, of Detroit, slipped
its brakes and ran into the
meter and sign. The owner was
ticketed for failing to turn
wheels to the curb when parking.
The first prize winning recipes
were as follows; Light Fruit
Cake, Crabapple Jelly, Corn Relish, Pickled Crabapples, Apple-
Quince Jelly and Red Currant
Jelly. The second prize winners
were Red Raspberry Jelly, Canned Red Raspberries, India Relish, Sausage, ^ Chicken, Pickled
Pears, Cherry Jelly and Fruit
Cake.
Here is one of the recipes
which won first prize:
CRABAPPLE JELLY
1 peck crabapples, cut and
stemmed. Add enough water to
make pot % full. After cooked,
strain through jelly bag and
then filter juice through a piece
of new outing flannel. Add 1 cup
of sugar ior each cup of juice.
Boil to jelly stage.
Mrs. Bennett-received the tip
on using the flannel filter to
make jelly crystal clear from
a winner in the Indiana State
Fair.
Watch our recipe column for
more of Mrs. Bennett's prize
winning recipes in the weeks to
come.