1958-10-02; Saline Reporter

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VOLUME 11, NUMBER 54 — THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1958
'First With All the Local News'
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TWO MORE CANDIDATES ENTER COUNCIL RACE
Boys Get
Yen for
Weapons
Police Confiscate
Chains at School
A sudden wave of tension rolled through the HighSchool this
week with the confiscation by
police of seven heavy-duty dog
9^ chains and the continuing search
for more.
The room-to-room and locker-
to-locker search was launched
by police officer Jim Levleit and
school authorities after local
merchants reported that teenage boys were making a run on
the heavy "choker" chains, allegedly for use as weapons.
The boys told merchants they
wanted the chains for use in an
expected "rumble" with teen-'
agers from a neighboring community, and one youngster was
quoted as saying the chain was
"to take care of the teachers if
they get out of line."
School authorities, indignant
but not alarmed, blamed. the
chain-carrying idea on a recent
TV show that depicted use of
• such a chain in a boys' gang-
fight. They discounted the
threat to teachers as "just big
$? talk" and" the -rumored "rumble"
was> unlikelyP^No - gangs are
Joio\yn to exist here, they said.
At" the same time, High School
principal Elmer Houghton expressed concern over a growing
rowdiness among students. "This
is part of a pattern that started with widespread mischief and
minor destruction at the Fair,"
he said. "There is always some
difficulty of this kind. at the
beginning of the school year,
but this year it's worse. We
have never found a weapon be-
• fore in this school."
Police sought an opinion
from the county Prosecuting Attorney as to whether the chains
could be considered "dangerous
** weapons" in the event of an arrest. The opinion was that they
" can be, Levleit said, providing
they were purchased for that
use.
Thougntless rough - housing
was also greater than usual at
the Onsted football game, he
said, but had lessened to a controllable point by the time of
the Lincoln game.
There was some difference of
opinion as to how many chains
were in circulation. Police, judging by merchants' reports, estimated 20 to 30; while Houghton
felt that the confiscated
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'A Heck of a Thing"
With considerable distaste, police officer
Earl  Kirby   (above)   demonstrated how  a ,- ■
common dog chain could be used as. a, dahV, * -
gerous weapon'3' "It might not be fataV*Mie
observed, "iut it could sure fix you up so
you wouldn't be pretty for a long time. It's a
heck of a note when you have-to take a thing
like this out of the hands of children." Four
of jthe chains were confiscaiediat ihe High -
School and "half a dozen" were seen in the'
hands of local youngsters before townspeople
realized the use for which they were intended.
Ann Arbor
Man Held
As Prowler
A parolee arrested here Mon-
.day night on suspicion of illegal entry is being questioned
concerning a series of assaluts
and illegal entries in Ann Arbor
and Ypsilanti police said today.
The suspect, W. B. Carlson,
37, whose last address was in
Ann Arbor, operated a booth
selling women's garments in the
Merchants' Tent'at the Saline
Community Fair. He was arrested at a local restaurant
about 9:30 p.m. Monday after
a witness described "him as the
man. she had seen entering a
Saline home.
The witness identified Carlson
Tuesday afternoon at the County Jail, according to police officer Earl Kirby. He is being
questioned by Ann Arbor police
as to "a year-long series of eri^
tries and attacks on women, and
on a number of "prowler" complaints from Ypsilanti area. He
bears some similarity, Kirby
said, to the sketchy descriptions
Ann Arbor victims were able to
provide.
Carleson is on parole after
serving 11 months of a three-to-
fifteen year sentence for uttering and publishing.
Petitions for Leutheuser,
Kern, Bring Total to Five
A Matter of Decision
All Around Saline
By Nancy Ceronsky
An old neighbor of the Sebastian Finkbeiners paid them
a surprise call one day last
week. Mr. Glen Carter who now
lives in Cygret, Ohio, was in
the vicinity on Business and
stopped in to visit with his
friends, the Finkbeiners, before
returning to Ohio.
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Mr. and Mrs. Herman How-
eisen, of W. Michigan Ave.,
entertained guests Trom Rochester, N. Y. over the week end.
Their guests were Mr. and Mrs.
Leon Weld, friends of long
standing of the Howeisens.
Wendy Wild, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Lauren Wild of Russell St., underwent a tonsilec-
tomy on Monday. Her sister,
Heidi, was briefly hospitalized
last week when it was thought
that she might be a victim of
; rheumatic fever. She is now Detroit. She played an hour's
home and reported to be all program. This is the club that
right. " selected Miss Taylor as winner
*   *   * of the Bendetson Netsory Me-
Karen Taylor was a guest so- j morial Piano Contest,
loist at the first fall meeting!    On   October  12  Miss   Taylor
on Saturday,  Sept. 27,  of the!will be concert soloist with the
Bohemian's   Musician   Club   of Plymouth Symphony Orchestra.
Three Injured In Truck Crash
Editor's Mailbag
To the Editor of the Saline Reporter and readers:
As I am again asking for reelection, I wish
to stand on my own merits as your councilman
for the last two terms. There are things that
[ would like to see changed — this will come in
time. I took a definite stand on Ordnance 146
and I believe what has happened since it was
voted on, should show that I was not altogether
wrong in asking for changes to be made, as
within one month the council adopted two amendments and the third issue is in circuit court.
In acting as your councilman, I have tried
to follow the American Creed as written by William Tyler Page and adopted by the House of
Representatives in behalf of the American people
in 1918, which is "I believe in the United States
of America as a Government of the people, by
the people, for the people; whose just powers
are derived from the consent of the governed;
a democracy in a republic; a sovereign nation of
many sovereign states; a perfect union, one
. and inseperable; established upon those principles
of freedom, equality, justice and humanity for
which 'American patriots sacrificed their lives
and fortunes. I, therefore, believe it is my duty
to my country to love it; to support its Constitution; to obey its laws; to respect its flag and
to defend it against all enemies."
Frank Deede
Three men were injured Monday in a two-truck crash on the
US-12 Expressway in Pittsfield
township.
The accident, which tied up
traffic for more than an hour,
occurred when a tractor trailer
driven by 'Kern A. Krebbs, 48,
of Wayland, Mich., rammed a
bakery truck driven by Raymond Young, 54, of Royal Oak.
The trucks were headed west on
the Expressway near Piatt Rd.
at the time of the crash. Young's
truck was sent careening off the
highway by the impact.
The mishap, Krebbs told deputies, was caused by a third
truck carrying a load of cement
bags. He said a bag of cement
fell from the truck as it passed
him causing cement dust to
shoot up in front of his truck
and blinding him temporarily.
This made him unable to avoid
smashing into the rear of the
bakery truck, he said.
PIrebbs, Young and Clarence
Fournier, .50, of Detroit, a passenger in Young's truck, were
treated at St. Joseph Mercy
Hospital.
FARM BUREAU
SETS COUNTY
MEET HERE
Approximately 300 Farm Bureau members will convene here
Wednesday, Oct. 8, for the annual meeting of Washtenaw
county Farm Bureau. Dinner
is scheduled at 7:30 p.m. at
Saline Elementary School, the
meeting at 8:30 p.m.
~ Purpose of the annual meeting is consideration by the county organization of resolutions
that have come from community
Farm Bureau groups thoughout
the year, the approved resolutions to be passed on to the
state organization; the approval
of delegates to. the annual Michigan Farm Bureau convention,
Nov. 11 and 12; the approval
of four new members of the
Board of Directors who have
been elected by the townships;
and the election of one director
at. large.
The meeting will be conducted
by Farm Bureau Board chairman Emerson Haeussler, whose
term expires this year. A successor will be elected at an organization meeting of the new
Board shortly after Wednesday's county-wide meeting.
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Incumbent Councilmen Charles Kern and Henry Leutheuser became candidates for Te-election — on the Nov. 4
ballot — this week only hours after Kern remarked in
print that he would "let the people decide" whether he would
run again. People who decided he.would, and that Mayor
Leutheuser would run with him, had petitions on the street
within a day. '
Girl Watches Prowler
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A Disappointing Evening
"Well ... I was disappointed, I admit,"
said Coach Bill Bailey after the Lincoln Rail-
splitters clobbered Saline by 41-7 in Friday
night's game (above). "But the first three-
quarters were not too bad; and in the fourth
we put in a lot of subs. Fumbles hurt an
awful lot. But we could come back and upset
Milan this "week."
Only 17-year-old Judith was
awake when a prowler invaded
the Gordon Flickinger home, at
408 Bridgewater Rd., around
midnight Friday. Breathless,
she stood in her little brother's
darkened bedroom and watched
the intruder come and go.
Police believe the prowler
may be connected with a series
of robberies and entries in Ann
Arbor and Ypsilanti, officer Earl'
Kirby safd today, and he may
be the man sought by Ann Arbor
police for half a dozen assaults
on women, the latest only a
few nights ago.
Except for Judy, other members of the Flickinger family
were either asleep or out, when
the unknown man entered
through the kitchen door and
walked into the living room and
looked around. "I had been
watching the late movie," Judy
said, "and. I heard the door
open. I thought it was Daddy.
But he didn't say anything, and
I saw it was a stranger. He
didn't see me."
The girl retreated to the room
where her brother, Robin, 7,
was sleeping, and watched
through a crack in the door as
the stranger walked through the
well-lighted Flickinger living
room, looked all around, and
went out through the kitchen
door again. He came and went
in a car, she said.
When the man was gone, the
girl woke her mother, and the
two called police officers Prince
and Klumpp to the scene. She
was able to supply a full description of the intruder.
There is no way to tell from
the description whether the man
is the one sought for the Ann
Arbor attacks, Kirby pointed
out, since the latter has never
has been seen by his victims.
He customarily covers their
heads with a pillowcase or rag.
"I wasn't scared very much
right then," Judy mused today,
"but the next night I got to
thinking it over and ..."
The porch lights were on at
the time of the entry, as well
as kitchen and other' lights,
Judy said. Her father was out
bowling; Kathy, a young sister,
was out baby-sitting.
The man touched nothing,
and did not appear to be looking for anything, she added.
Officer Kirby today warned
Saline residents to lock their
doors and windows at night.
"This man may be operating all
over the area," he pointed out,
"and things aren't as safe as
they used to be. Any women
alone at night should have a
good lock on the door."
Petitions were circulated this
week to nominate two more candidates for election to the City
Council seats on the Nov. 4
ballot. They are incumbent
Charles Kern and Mayor Henry
Leutheuser, veteran of ten years
as a councilman.
The new petitions brought to
five the number of candidates
running for the three two-year
terms beginning Jan. 1, 1959.
Petitions were filed last week
for incumbent Frank Deede,
former councilman James C.
Little, and Jackson Bennett,
"-"fhe petitions for Kern and
Leutheuser were circulated by
Milton Hartman and Kenneth
Rogers. Said Hartman today:
"I feel that Mayor Leutheuser
has done a splendid job for the
city in the man years he has
been chairman. He has been willing to devote much time and
effort, without self interest, to
the best interests of the community; and he always sees
both sides of every issue."
Rogers said: "I feel that
Charles Kern represents what
we want in a councilman here.
He has grown with the city in
many years he has lived here
and has broadened his scope
as the city's horizons broadened. I have worked with him on
the city planning commission;
he has my respect as well as
the respect of anyone who knows
Kniim"
Mayor Leutheuser, a member
of City Council for the past ten
years and a county supervisor
for several years, has favored
the building of a disposal plant,
the addition of more fire equipment and police protection, the
recent annexation north of Saline, and the zoning ordinance.
"This town has made progress
as few towns do," Leutheuser
said. "We are known throughout Michigan as a model town,
and administrators from other
small cities ask us how we do
it. Many a town would like to
accomplish what we have done
here."
"For instance, the recent annexation: we gained there a
clean piece of land, not cluttered up with shanties or unde-
sirable buildings. And the city
will not have a dime invested
in the sewer that services the
area. We will collect enough on
it for tie-ins, etc., to pay for
the work we have done and
quite a bit of extra that can
be used for a new treatment
plant and new water tower."
(The city owns a site in south-
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TO SPEAK at Rotary
meeting Thursday is Miss
Shirley Dovre, administrator for Saline Community
Hospital. Miss Dovre is a
veteran of many years' experience in hospital procedure, at Pontiac General
hospital and elsewhere.
Kiwanians to Mark
First Birthday
Members of the Kiwanis club
of Saline will celebrate the first
birthday of the organization
Monday at a combined birthday
party and "Ladies Night" at
a dinner at 6:30 p.m. at Marty's
Restaurant.
""Guests will include officials
of Kiwanis Division 6, members of the Kiwanis club of Ann
Arbor Eastern, and president of
Rotary, Milt Hartman. A birthday cake has been donated by
Gottlob Walker. The program
will include the induction of
two new members, and an-,
nouneement of eight members
who have earned 100 per cent
attendance pins.
Mrs. Braun Marks
80th Birthday
Three generations of seven
each were at the home of Mrs..
Matilda Braun on Austin Rd.
from four until nine o'clock to
help her celebrate her eightieth
birthday on Sunday. Hostess for
the occasion was Mrs. Harold
Howe. Cake, ice cream and coffee were served to the guests
who dropped in to help Mrs.
Braun celebrate.
Guests from Plymouth were
Mr. and Mrs. Neal Jones and
sons, and Mr. Charles Jones,
Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Paul of
Brooklyn, Mr. and Mrs. Herman
Krause of Grosse Pointe, Mrs.
Emanuel Huss, Miss Ola Gates,
Mrs. Hannah Gates, and Mr.
and Mrs. Calvin Zahn, all of Ann
Arbor, were present.
The color scheme used for the
occasion was'yellow and white.
A huge birthday cake, done in
fall colors, graced the center
of the table. The cake was pre-
Mrs. Braun received many
beautiful gifts, flowers, plants
and many, cards from friends
in the surrounding community,
sented to Mrs. Braun by her son
and cards from friends in the
surrounding community.