1959-04-08; Saline Reporter

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The Saline
iUME 13, NUMBER 29 — April 8, 1959.
'First With All the Local News"
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SALINE AREA VOTING LIGHT; MOSTLY G.O.P.
FOR A GOOD MANY YEARS, "Scouting"
and "Straits" have meant practically the
same thing in Saline.   Above, Scout Jimmy,
Scoutmaster Mike, Scout Ed, "almost Brownie" Bonnie, Denmother Jeannette, and Scout
David.   See story on page 9.
All Around Saline
Mr. and Mrs. Howard John-      M. J. "Andy" Anderson was , school after which they will re-
son, 494 So. Ann Arbor St., will' released from St. Joseph Hospi-  turn to the Reynolds home for
be hosts to members of the
Chancel Choir of Federated
Church tomorrow evening at 8
p.m. The recorded Easter concert of the group will be heard
during the evening in addition
to the regular choir rehearsal
under the direction of Harold
Brown.
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Mr. and Mrs. Henry Erskine
had two unexpected house
guests last week from near Traverse City. Mr. and Mrs. Carlton Stevens, of Duck Lake,
spent several days with the
Erskines, who also recently
played host to 28 family guests
from the Ann Arbor and Saline
areas. The party was in honor
of their daughter, Janice's 7th
birthday.
Road Commission
Lifts Local Weight
Restrictions Early
Spring truck weight restrictions on all Washtenaw county
roads were lifted as of 6 a.m.
Monday, well ahead of the May
deadline required by state law.
State laws set the end of May
for the lifting of spring restrictions but leave the date to the
discretion of county authorities
to fit local conditions.
The action was taken at this
time, according to the Road
Commision's Howard Minier,
"because we felt that the benefits to farmers, who want to
move stock and supplies, would
far outweigh possible road damage that might occur."
While there is still some danger of flooding, and some soft
shoulders and soggy places
where the frost is not out, the
major hazards are ended, Minier said. But he warned drivers to use caution and bear in
mind that "there are still some
booby traps in county roads. In
25 years of experience, I have
never seen ice take the tops off
the roads as it did this yar."
tal last Saturday. He had been
in the hospital for a week under observation. "Andy", who
was sent home to rest up a bit,
hasn't had much jest yet, tho ..
he's buying and selling and laying out ads as usual!
Mrs. J. C. Little, Mrs. Richard
Cole and Mrs. E. J. Muir were
co-hostesses last week at a personal shower honoring Miss
Sharon Larson. Fifteen guests
attended the party which was
given at the Little home. Miss
Larson and Fred Anderson will
be married on May 2 at the
Methodist Church in Saline.
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Next Sunday afternoon Mr.
and Mrs. Dwight Reynolds will
entertain the school bus drivers
and .their spouses. The group
will make a tour of the new high
YOUTH BAND
CONCERT SET
FOR MAY 19
supper.
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"Butch" Armbruster, who's
been laid up with pneumonia,
came home from the hospital
Monday. He's feeling pretty
good and expects to be back in
school next week..
I Moon Resigns
Planning Post
Building Permits
Total $21,750
City Council Tuesday night issued " building permits in the
amount of $22,250 to:
George Mains, 105 N. Maple,
to add a screened •porch, $300;
Theo Graben, 217 Russell, for
dining room and carport, $3000;
Arthur Reed, 214 N. Ann Arbor,
to replace wood porch with concrete, $600"; Emanuel Hertler,
314 N. Harris, for garage, $850;
to Otto Alber, for residence on
W. McKay street, $17,000.
■ " Council also issued a razing
permit to R. & B. Tool Co. to
tear, down jthe    "old    Cotton
SHS Band
To Play In
State Meet
Member's of the Saline High
School Concert Band will compete Saturday, April 18, in the
State Band and Orchestra Festival, with other schools which
received First Division Ratings
in their District Festival.
Saline's Band was one of three
to receive the rating, among ten
bands competing in the recent
District Festival. It is Saline's
eighth annual trip to the State
Festival, where they received
a Second Division rating last
year.
The Band will play "Coat of
Arms March" at the Festival in
Jackson, as well as a required
piece "Folk Song Suite", by Williams; and a selected number,
"Finale from the New World
Symphony," by Dvorak.
The 65-piece Concert Band
will travel to Jackson by school
bus, and a special bus will be.
available for parents and friends
who wish to make the trip also.
The charge for the special bus
trip is 50 cents per round trip,
and reservations for a seat on
the bus must be made with band
director Arthur Katterjohn by
Friday.
The Saline Band in previous
State Contests has received^ five
First Division ratings and two
Second Division marks. This
year's band is "in a fine position to keep up the standards
set by the Saline Bands of previous years," Katterjohn said.
The University of Michigan
Youth Band, under the direction of Arthur Katterjohn, will
present the final concert of its
season at the Saline High School
auditorum on Sunday, May 19th,
at 7 p.m.
The concert is open to the
public without charge, and every person interested in fine
music is urged to attend.
The Youth Band is an organization of young High School
students from this general area
who are outstanding in their
own High School Bands, and
who are interested in rehearsing
and performing difficult band
music with other students of
like talents. The Band numbers!
about 75 students, from 18 different schools, and some of its
students travel 65 miles to attend rehearsals. ■ Students come
from Adrian, Flint, Highland
Park, Wayne, Milford, Chelsea,
Ann Arbor, Saline, and many
other communities.
The Saline students who will
play in the concert include Pat
Johnson, Alice Sheehan, Lanny
Robbins, Karen Leidheiser,
John Parsons, Jim Bernard,
Leonard Roard, Christine Mac-
Donald, and Katrene Gall
The University of Michigan
Extension Service has undertaken the sponsorship of this group
this year for the first time, and
are planning to continue next
fall with the organization. Dr.
Wm. D. Reveffi of the U. of M.
Symphony Band, and Dr. Everett J. Soop, Director of thei
Extension  Service,  have, both
City Planning Director Robert Moon has tendered his resignation from the post, effective
April 1. No replacement has
been named.
Moon, appointed a year and a
half ago, headed the planning
arid zoning commission during
preparation of the present city
zoning map, upon which zoning
ordinance No. 146 is based.
Moon resigned, he said, "because I find that my ideas of
what constitute adequate and
effective planning are incompatible with those of the present Council."
Council tabled the resignation at Tuesday night's meeting.
Hospital Notes
Mrs. Harold Wackenhut this
week had a phone call from her
brother, Kenneth Guenther, who
has been laid up in the hospital
in Inverness, Fla., recuperating
from a seige of pneumonia. She
reports that he is recovering
nicely and sounded much" better than he did the last time
she spoke to him over the telephone. He expects to be released from the hospital sometime this week.
Paul Lee, of 108 W. Henry St.,
is a medical patient at St. Joe's
this week.
KIDS INJURED
IN WRECK OF
STOLEN CAR
Three Detroit teen-agers were
injured, one seriously, when the
stolen car they were driving
skidded on a turn on Saline-
Ann Arbor Road Tuesday afternoon and was totally wrecked.
The injured youngsters, all
under treatment at University
Hospital in Ann Arbor, were two
boys, 15 and 16 years old, and a
14-year-old girl. Another girl,
14, who was a pasenger in the
car, was not hurt.
The accident occurred at the
sharp turn at Saline-Ann Arbor
Rd., and Wagner Rd., about 1:30
p.m. Tuesday, when the 15-year-
old driver of the car was unable to make the turn. The car
struck a telephone pole, a fence,
a guard rail, and a culvert . . .
and then rolled over.
Most seriously injured of the
three was the girl, who is believed to have suffered chest injuries. Charges will be brought
against the group in the matter
of the theft of the car, a sheriffs deputy said.
DEEDE IN CHARGE
OF MAYOR'S DAY
Mayor Henry Leutheuser
Tuesday evening appointed Mayor pro tern Frank Deede to take
charge of Mayor's Exchange
Day festivities here May 18,
while Leutheuser travels to Ed-
more, Mich. The Mayor's Day
is held in conjunction with
Michigan Week.
But Democrats Lead
For Supreme Court
Play Center
Names Officers
Nursery School parents, at a
Monday evening meeting at the
home of teacher Mrs. Virginia
Barrett, revised the by-laws of
the organization and elected officers for the coming year. Mrs.
Robert Merchant was named
chairman.
Other officers elected include
Mrs. Ray Goodrich, vice-chairman; Mrs. Arthur Moehn, membership chairman; Mrs. Herman
Merte, secretary; Mrs. Don
Geering, treasurer; Mrs. Spencer Charles, equipment chairman; and Mrs. John Breuger,
of Ann Arbor, area representative.
The final meeting of the year,
at 8 p.m. Monday, May 4, at the
home of Mrs. Merchant, is open
to parents interested in the Play
Center. Mothers who would
like to attend are asked to call
Mrs. Merchant at HA 9-9641.
Boys Bitten;
City Warns of
Unleashed Dogs
City officials today threatened to invoke penalties of up to
$50 in fines or 60 days in jail
for owners of unleashed dogs,
after three local children were
bitten within a week.
One of the youngsters, six-
year-old George Cogar, was bitten last week by a dog that later died of hepatitis, police said.
The dog's head was sent to Lansing for a Pasteur test, but no
report has been received as yet.
The boy is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Harry Cogar, of 217 S.
Ann Arbor.
Two boys were bitten by dogs
Monday, in separate incidents.
One of the children is Michael
Armbruster, 8, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Harold Armbruster. He
was bitten through the lip, but
was not seriously hurt. The
other child is Michael Rogers,
8, son of Mrs. Virginia Rogers
of 225 Monroe.
A city ordinance provides for
a fine of not more than $50 for
owners of straying dogs, city
clerk E. J. Muir said in a
strong warning to all residents
to tie their dogs. The ordinance also provides for a jail
sentence in lieu of the fine.
Mamarow Farm
Puzzles 'em All
Every now and then, it has
seemed we ought to go 'round
again with some of the Mystery
Farm pictures, especially those
not readily identified.
The one above, for example,
was variously identified as the
Willard Kohler farm (until Mrs.
Willard Kohler called to deny
it) the old Lowry farm on Bras-
sow Rd., and finally . . . and
correctly ... the Herman Mamarow farm at 4021 Textile Rd.
j Saline area electors, in an
| unusually light voter turnout,
j Monday, voted more than two-
J to-one Republican, and elected
GOP township boards.
But Democratic candidates
for Supreme Court Justice, running on the non-partisan state
ballot, carried the city of Saline
as well as Lodi, SaUne, Pittsfield, and York Townships.
Supreme Court Justices
George Edwards and John D.
Voelker, who triumphed easily
in the state-wide voting in a
field of five candidates, held
wide margins in every precinct
in the Saline area.
Three proposals for Constitutional amendment, on the state
ballot, also carried in the area,
and in Pittsfield township, a
proposal for a one-mill increase
for the fire department carried
by 375 to 219.
With no local issues, on the
ballot, the turnout in Saline totaled only about 25 per cent of
the registered voters. Only 85
persons voted in Ward I; in
Ward U, 174 got to the potts.
A change in election board
personnel this year placed Mrs.
Robert Heiserman in charge of
Ward I, replacing A. C. Lange;
and Mrs. Herb Lange served as
chairman of Ward H, replacing
Mrs. Bessie Collins.
In the townships,, four incun*-
bent supervisors, all Republican, were returned to office.
Only one of them was opposed.
He was Thurlow Sanford, of
York township, who defeated his
Democrat opponent Melvin
Staff members at Ypsilanti' Hawker by 551 to 235.
State Hospital will be "prepared other township officers elect-
to accommodate" 10,000 visitors ^ ^ iignt balloting in York
.with refreshments and a tour township included Maud Steidle,
of the establishment, at an Open clerk; Neva Oelke, treasurer;
House Sunday April 26. .. William Hayes, trustee; Duane
The Open House, scheduled Rogers, Justice of the Peace;
from 1 to 5 p.m., will launch George Day, Board of Review;
the 11th national observation of an(j Charles Blackmer, Duane
Mental Health Week, April 26 Bock,    Merlin  Goodrich,    and
„* +i.„ Harold Allison, constables.
POLICE NAB
JUVENILES IN
STOLEN AUTO
A confused mixture of runaway boys, stolen cars, and a
break-in by one group of the
runaways,   this  week-end  kept
Saline police busy for 12 hours.
Three of the boys, two of the
cars, and the theft from a local
implement dealer were discovered at 4:30 a.m. Monday, after
police officers Hugh Prince and
I Luther Dicks stopped the boys
!for a curfew check just after
,they had driven a 1959 white
Ford out of a private drive on
Lewis street.
The youngsters, two of "them
16 years of age and the thircT15,
had no registration for the car.
They admitted entering the
H. I. Johnson Co. office, on W.
Michigan avenue here, and taking about $3.50 in small change
from the cash register. Entry
was gained by breaking the
lock on the front door.
The boys also admitted taking
the  car,     owned    by    Melvin
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YSH Wants
10,000 Guests
At Open House
to May 2, and the aim of the
week is to receive "the same
number of visitors as there are
patients," according to Mrs.
LaDonna Kennedy, chairman of
the project here.
Ypsi State hospital has 4100
"in-patients" and 1000 "out-patients," a total of 5100. But
"10,000 visitors would be wonderful," Mrs. Kennedy said.
Mental health, named "the nation's number 1 public health
problem" has placed 34,000 patients in Michigan mental hospitals.
Theme of the April 26 Open
House is "Operation Friendship," and projects during the
week include displays made by
the patients at Ypsi State, as
well as by community service
organizations throughout the
six counties the hospital serves.
Other committee members for
the event, all staff at the hospital, include: Dr. Victor Ker-
shul, publicity; Miss Louise
Marshall, tours; Mrs. Eleanor
Allen, refreshments; Mrs. Dorothy Phillips, registration; Mrs.
John Nelson, displays; Jack
Spence, parking.
In Pittsfield township Republican supervisor Samuel Morgan
was unopposed, and other township    officials    were    elected
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MEMBERS OF SALINE HIGH SCHOOL BAND, conducted
by Pied Piper Katterjohn,. last spring presented a Spring
Concert for patients and staff at Ypsilanti State Hospital;.
xnis wees, ipsi State is busy with'plans for a ^gigantic
Open House; and the Band is preparing for the State Band
Contest, Saturday in Jackson,    (See stories on this page.)
CfflLDREN ARRIVING AT
SCHOOL TOO EARLY
School authorities this week
warned that_ youngsters, arriving earlier than necessary at the
Elementary School, have been
I crossing Michigan avenue at the
corner of Harris street without
police protection.
They are also arriving at the
schoolgrpunds before the building is unlocked, and may have
to wait outside in case of rain,
principal Marian Barclay said.
Mrs. Robert Starling, safety officer, also urged that youngsters
not "cross Michigan at the school
corner until at least 8:30 am.*
when police protection Is available.
School Committee
Plans For Carnival
Full-sized plans were under
way this week for an even bigger Elementary School Carnival than the event which last
year drew hundreds of Saline
area residents and cleared more
than $700.
The event is sponsored annually by the Elementary School
Room Mothers, and proceeds
will be used to huy needed athletic equipment.
Scheduled from 7 to 9:30 p.m.
at the school, the Carnival will
include two talent shows, games
of skill, bake sales, candy sales,
assorted movies and slides, and
a white elephant sale.
Two talent shows, starring local youngsters, will be presented
during the evening, arid homemade pie and coffee will be sold
at the cafeteria. Some of the
rooms will also sell hotdogs.
Each room prepares its own
booth.
One popular booth to be repeated this year is the sale of
new books, sent on consignment
from an Ann Arbor book store.
The Saline group receives a percentage of the proceeds of the
book sale, acording to Mrs.
Francis Lockwood, who is in
charge of the booth.
Mrs. Richard Martin is Room
Mother chairman of the event,
and tickets will be sold by Mr.
and Mrs. Martin, Mr. and Mrs.
Loren Bersuder, Mr. and Mrs.
Rblland GpltZj Mr. and Mrs. Ray
Hunt, Mr. and Mrs. Dale Brown,
Mr. and Mrs. Louis. Belleau.