1958-11-19; Saline Reporter

              The Saline Reporter
VOLUME 12, Number 8, Wednesday, November 19, 1958
First With AlMthe Local News
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POST OFFICE COMPLETES MOVE TO NEW SITE
Chest
Nears
Goal
Community Chest, collections
this week more than doubled,
and the present total is only
about $1400 short of the goal,
drive chairman Wilson Scott announced today.
The new total, $6467.16, was
tallied after collection reports
poured in from all quarters during the week. It is $3542 more
than last week's report of $2925.
"I am now sure that we are
going to make our quota," Scott
said today, "and we may even
go over the top, although we
won't know for quite a while."
Saline's final reports, from Detroit Edison, the Ypsilanti Ford
plant, and the Ypsilanti State
hospital, customarily arrive well
after the first of the year, and
may wait until March.
The 1958 total is higher by
$946 than last year's, the increase representing the addition
of requests for Girl Scouts and
the summer recreation baseball
program. The baseball item, previously raised by independent
solicitation, will obviate the
need for further requests for
funds next summer.
Pledges known to be forthcoming are expected to complete
the quota, Scott said.
"Christmas Plans
Nearly Complete,
C. of C. Announces
Plans are nearly complete for
the five-week Chamber of Commerce Christmas promotion in
Saline, members announced this
week. The program opens Nov.
17 with the placing of "Santa's
Mailbox" on the main corner,
and closes Dec. 20 with a prize
drawing.
In between are all kinds of
activities designed to entertain
children and give their parents
a chance to shop in an atmosphere of cheer and convenience.
Youngsters may mail their
letters to Santa Claus in the
brightly-colored mailbox constructed last year by local merchants, and all letters will be
answered. Local civic organizations cooperate in the letter-
answering.
. Christmas decorations will be
put up in the city Nov. 29 and
will include a new star, purchased this year, as well as the
spectacular four-foot candy
canes decorations built and
painted last year by the organization.
Window Shoppers Day, when
numbers located in newspapers
may be turned in for gifts at
local stores, is scheduled Dec. 6;
and on Dec. 13, Kiwanians will
present a two-hour cartoon
show for children at the High
School while parents shop. The
cartoon show is a separate project from the regular weekly
Kiwanis movies, which will continue without interruption. The
cartoons are shown in the afternoon.
The prize drawing will be held
at 4 p.m. Dec. 20, and prizes
this year will be two $25 savings
bonds, one for a boy and one for
a girl.
Meanwhile, Santa Claus will
visit the downtown Saline area;
including the stores of all
Chamber of Commerce members, every Saturday afternoon
during the promotion period, to
collect the letters from his mailbox" and talk with children.
The Indian corn which Billy
Tefft has displayed in the window of the1 Reporter office is
drawing attention and several
ears were sold shortly after it
was put on display.
Deep in rehearsals, costume preparation, and collection of
props, the cast of the High School play "Clementine" here polishes
up lines for the presentation Thursday and Friday nights at the
High School auditorium. Alice Sheehan plays the title role in the
comedy story of a tomboy who turns into-a lady, under some
pressure.
Left to right, above: Pat Beaverson, Fran Visel, Sandy Bowen,
Gerhardt Borne, Alice Sheehan, Carol Wright, Judie Hunt, (standing behind, John Wilson) Lanny Robbins, Danon Liston, Pat Rid-
well, Gary Peck.
i —Reporter Staff Photo
All Around Saline
- By Nancy Ceronsky
Beginning last Wednesday a
good sized crop of local deer
hunters packed their cars with
assorted items from bacon to
tow ropes and headed in a generally northward direction. For
some of'tlje fellas hunting was
real good and they were back
by Monday morning with their
bucks.
Included in this bunch were
Phil Kellogg and Art Meharg
who each came back with spike-
horns and Joe Meharg who
bagged a nice 10-pointer and
Russell Wright with an 8-point-
er. The men in this party hunted
about halfway between Alpena
and Rogers City, which apparently is a pretty good spot. Two
of the deer were bagged, the
morning of the opening day and
the other two were shot Sunday
morning.
Another satisfied hunter is
Maurice Levleit who was hunting with Roy Lane of Britton
and Henry Mason of Ypsilanti.
Maurice shot his 2-point buck at
2 p.m. On Saturday near Stan-
dish.
The Harrison vicinity seems
to be a favorite spot for some
of the Saline hunters. For Dory
Graf it was a likely spot since
he was back with his buck on
Monday. The other fellows in his
party weren't quite so lucky,
however. Dory's son, Jack, Howard "Red" Feeman and Donnie
Steiner came back home with
their tags still in their pockets.
Erwin Schneider hunted near
Harrison too, but with no luck.
Joe Chantelois and his son,
Joey, hunted over the weekend
near the.Lumberman's Memorial at Glennie. They came back
with only a bushel basket full
of wet hunting togs. This was
young Joey's first try at the
game, but he is far from dis-
Band Group Meets
Band Parents Club meets tonight to discuss projects for the
next year. A brass sextet and
several ensembles will be "featured in the entertainment." Program starts at-8:0Q and business
meeting in the 'band room at
8:30.
couraged. The Chantelois.' and
their hunting partners, Hairy
Shadley and his two sons, Jerry
and Dick, plan to try their luck
again over Thanksgiving weekend.
Last Thursday the "Boise
Blanc Island Hunters" set out
for their hunting grounds on,
naturally, Boise Blanc Island.
Included- in the group are E. J.
Beasley, Ray Hunt, Milt Hartman, Mike Bredernitz, Ted
Ormsby and Bob Merchant.
Bob Tefft and Dr. Otto En-
gelke, county health officer, are
hunting near Crystal Falls in
the upper peninsula.
Doug Hoeft and Jack Bennett
hunted a bit closer to home over
the weekend. They tried their
luck at the Oak Grove game
area and got nothing but wet-
Another bunch of Saline hunters are located at Vanderbilt
where they have hunting territory. Ed Schmid and Ralph Uphaus drove up together last
Wednesday and others at this
location are Ted Braun, Orren
Corl, Harry Cline, Martin Blair
and Milton Finkbeiner, all of
Saline,  and Orville  Finkbeiner
Maybe Deer Are
Fond Of Apple Cores
Dr. John Larder's recurrent
luck at deer-hunting probably
has something to do with the
contents of his pockets, his
friends suggested this .week,
after he nailed a three-point
buck on the second day of hunting season.
Larder, hunting near Indian
River, brought down a three-
point buck Saturday at almost
the same place and the same
time he shot last year's two-
pointer. This repetition, imply
nimrods who have hunted with
him, occurs because the deer
follow a trail of apple cores and
wind up in Dr. Larder's sights.
His menu while hunting in-the
field: apples and popcorn balls,
nutricious enough to last for
days if he should get lost in the
woods.
The Larder party this year included Dell Hoffman and Harold Braun, of -Saline and Dr.
Norm Wilner, Of Dexter.
of Ann Arbor.
Four members of the Robison
family are off to the woods.
Mike Robison, who lives on Macon Rd., and his two sons, Ellsworth of Tecumseh, and Stan of'
Ypsilanti, are hunting this side
of the Straits at Roscommon.
Another son of Mike's, Ted Robison, is with a party hunting
near Waters. Ted's party includes Lewis Crittenden and
Herman Finkbeiner.
And, lo and- behold, some of
Xmas Savings
Total $41,000
Christmas" shopping should
begin on a lavish scale this
week as Christmas Club savings
checks are mailed out by both
banks. The total is more than
$41,000.
Saline Savings Bank, whose
savings program closed Saturday, will mail out checks week
after next, mostly to Saline area
residents, and adding up to
$23,980.70.-
- Christmas savings at the Citizens Bank totalled $17,170.00,
the bank reported. Checks were
the local deerslayers even took t mailed to Christmas Club mem'
their wives along on their hunt-' bers Monday.
ing trip. Norman Raus, sr., took
the Mrs. with him to fill the
occupation   of  chief  cook  and
bottle washer, it's most likely.
Walt Armbruster and "his
wife, and Harold and Bernice
Armbruster and their son,
Butch, and LaVerne Armbruster
are all hunting in the Frederic
area. It'll be most interesting to
see who bags the deer in this
group.
And what are the wives of
all these hunters up to while
their husbands are trying out
their hunting skills? Well, most
of them are busy keeping the
houses running in their normal
manner, nursing youngsters
with runny noses, perhaps having a night out with the girls
while"Pop" is away.
Director Lauds
Cast and Crew
"Both the east and the technical crews have done an extremely fine job dh the Senior
Play this year," Senior play director Mildred Haswell said
Tuesday. "I especially want to
commend the technical crews,
who have mixed enjoyment with
responsibility to -turn out a
much better production than
usual"
Included on the staging and
technical committees for. the
play, "Clementine" are:
Large properties, Virgil May-
ville, Lloyd Guenther, Bill Bracey, Bill Wiedmayer; stage committee, Martin Cantrell, Bill Austin, Jim Reid, Joe Riggs, Jim
Bohnett; small props, Yvonne
Bernard, Joan Wiebusch, Karen
Girbach; sound-effects, Jan Lo-
see, Dieter Kragl, Virgil May-
ville.
Make-up committee, Laura
Settles, Jan Jeppesen; advertising, Karen Leidheiser, Judy
Flickinger, Kay Walters, Dora
Cruse; tickets, Pat Johnson;
programs, Brerida Smith.
The three-act comedy will be
presented Thursday and Friday
evenings at the High Schol auditorium. (For cast, see photo.)
Transfer Made
In One Night-
Locks Bring Woe
by Peggy Flook     4	
The monumental task of moving an entire postoffice — mail
and all — from one location to
another was accomplished overnight, but the 582 new lockboxes threw the whole city into
confusion.
Working until 2 a.m. Saturday
morning, postoffice personnel
transferred everything from
stamp drawers to money order
blanks without mislaying so
much as a postcard. They also
Gets Clean Away—
Jgith Two Bathtubs
A thief who broke into an
unoccupied house on Mark
Hannah Court Thursday night
got clean away with his loot,
police indicated this week. He
departed with two bathtubs and
some lengths of pipe.
The only clue left behind was
some. blood,"" apparently "sheet
when the prowler injured himself while breaking a window
to get in. The break-in is one
of a number of such thefts reported in the area, police said.
CD ALERT
A Civil Dfense alert and siren
test will be held about 2 p.m.
Wednesday, and a similar test
will be conducted on the third
Wednesday of each month, Civil Defense officials have announced/
Jack Bennett has been elected
Zone Director by the Saline
Bowlers. He replaces Silas Nord
who has recently resigned from
the office.
Two Sentenced
For Theft
Two local young men were
sentenced this week in Municipal Court in Ann Arbor after
they pleaded guilty to a theft
charge; and a third will appear
for a hearing Dec. 4.
Donald F. Scott, 19, of 1765
Willow Rd., and William Odum,
18, of 755 Mooreville Rd., were
sentenced to six months probation^ fines of $20 each, and ordered to make full restitution
for the items they admitted taking. Both had their driver's
licenses rescinded and were instructed by the court not to see
each other.
A third young man, arrested
with Scott and Odum for taking
16 sacks of potatoes from Milan
Country Market, was Dale
Schultz, 18, of 1866 Samer^Rd.
He has filed bond for his Dec-
4 appearance.
Sheriff's   deputies   said   the down by Tuesday afternoon to a
three also admitted taking a
number of other items, including about 20 pumpkins from a
Saline area farm, and gasoline
from a number of farms. The
order to make restitution included all the items.
At the same time, two 15-
year-old Saline girls were arrested on charges of shoplifting,
and turned over to juvenile authorities. Police said the girls,
in signed statements, admitted
taking clothing from Saline and
Ann Arbor stores in a series of
thefts that have continued since
last summer.
Union Thanksgiving
Service Planned
The new pastor at St. Paul's
Evangelical and. Reformed
Church, the Rev. Alfred P.
Hardt, will deliver the sermon
at the traditional Union Thanksgiving Service in Saline this
year. Special music will be presented by the Chancel Choir of
the Federated Presbyterian and
Baptist churches under the direction of Harold Brown, with
Mrs. Brown as organist.
The service will begin at 9:30
o'clock on Thanksgiving morning in the Federated Church
Sanctuary, according to the host
pastor, the Rev. Henry McKenzie. Also participating in the
Worship Service will be the Rev.
Robert Richards, pastor of the
Saline Methodist Church. The
public is invited.
moved two sacks of parcel post
material and the contents of 100
boxes.
In the process, they found 45
cents in coins and two ("delayed," said Mrs. O'Neill) Christmas greeting cards, the only
postoffice business that had contrived to get lost behind the
woodwork in the 20 years the
postoffice was located at the old
site on S. Ann Arbor street.        _.
The postoffice closed in the
old site at 5:30 p.m. Friday, although an official postoffice department mover, Leonard Pulaski, of Dearborn, had been
busy for two days in the new location in the Still building, together with two local carpenters, Troy Harris and Erwin
Hieber. Harris and Hieber are
still working on finishing and
panel installation.
Saturday morning at 9 a.m.,
the postoffice opened to bedlam. It was no fault of the postal
department or of the staff- that
—in a pouring rain—every
single one of the 582 box owners had to be given a new combination lock and shown how to
use it. A few of the boxes stubbornly refused to open under
any circumstances. By 5 p.m.
Friday Postmistress Mrs. Arthur O'Neill was both haggard
and hoarse from reciting combination numbers to long lines
of—relatively—^patient people.
- On Monday the confusion was
still enormous, but it had died
Councilman-eleet Jackson T. Bennett was
sworn in Thursday at City Hall by City Clerk
E. J. Muir. Bennett, who will fake office Jan.
1, ran third in a five-way race for the seat in
results so close that !a recount is pending, re
quested by defeated candidate Charles Kern.
Only three votes separated the two candidates. Bennett's nominating petitions were
filed by a friend but circulated by Bennett
himself, lie emphasized this week.
gentle uproar. Meantime, Jerry
McPeake and Sale Rothfuss had
kept the mail on time ... or at
least had kept up with first class
mail and parcel post. Third class
mail, magazines, lagged slightly.
Tt.will help a great deal," Mrs.
O'Neill urged today, "if people
will use their postal box numbers on addresses. It would save
us a lot of time." Since many
families share boxes, mail may
be delayed if box numbers are
not used in addressing.
The postoffice staff expects
to be completely organized in
time for the "rush of Christmas
It has not yet' been decided,
Mrs. O'Neill said, whether it will
be possible to keep the lobby
part of the building open nights
and holidays. The building was
constructed to make it possible
to do so, while the main portion
of the office is locked, but some
postoffices throughout the country have suffered vandalism and
broken mailboxes in such unlocked corridors. Keeping the
lobby, open will. depend upon
Postal Department permission
as well as available police protection, she said.
Postoffice authorities will also ask City Council to install
five-minute parking meters -in
front of the new postoffice.
FARM BUREAI3—
SETS OWN
CITY WEEK
With n a t i o n a 1 Farm-City
Week running from Nov. 21 to
Nov. 27, Washtenaw County
Farm Bureau has decided to
forego the excitement temporarily and declare their own
week later in the winter.
Tentative plans for at least a
Farm-City day, in January or
February, were made before
most of the Farm Bureau membership here and almost the
whole board of directors went
deer-hunting. -
Farm Bureau members will
-invite urban-dwelling guests to
a dinner and program sometime
after Christmas, a representative said, adding, "Deer season
is no time for dinner-parties'*
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