1959-12-23; Saline Reporter

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The Saline Reporter
VOLUME 13, NUMBER 14 — Wednesday, Decamber 23, 1959
'First With All the Local News'
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Four Injured
In Accidents
On Icy Roads
Four persons, one of them a-
Catholic brother and another
a Milan police officer, were injured in three accidents, on
slippery Saline area roads- Monday.
Brother William Leo Smith,
of Boysville, and a 19-year-old
passenger in his car, Arthur
McFarr, were both injured at
11 a.m. Monday when their vehicle skidded out of control
and struck a tree at the corner
of Macon and Jordan roads.
McFarr was treated for lacerations, . and Brother Smith
suffered chest bruises and leg
lacerations. Both were taken to
St. Joseph Mercy hospital in!
Ann Arbor. Damage to the car,
a stationwagon owned by Boysville,   was  estimated  at  $1000.
A brand new Milan police
patrol car was damaged, and
police officer Lerman Venier
was injured in a collision Monday noon on Saline- Ann Arbor
road at Ellsworth road. Venier .
.told sheriffs deputies that he A "shootin' and gallopm is
able to stop on the slip-1 the film scheduled Saturday eve-
pery road when he came over j ning, Dec. 26, at the Interme-
& hJ1',-going south, and found diate school "Kiwanis Theatre,"
another car stopped in the
road, preparing to make a left
turn.
Venier suffered possible internal injuries in'the crash and „ ^ ^
was taken to St. Joseph Mercy Sa*urd^' +Dec" *?' wa? aPpar"
hospital. The police car, a 1960 ently lofA.f *e Christmas
model, was damaged to the a- rush . «*f did not arrive Thoss
'Tis the season to be jolly . . . and among
the jolliest were Methodist Youth Fellowship carollers, who made the rounds Saturday night. Above, front row: Bob Smith,
Susan  Anthony,   Betsy  Smith,   Jo   Jordan,
Trudy Craigmile, Ted Graban. Back row:
Jim Struble, Jim Aurand, Bliss Charles,
Mrs. Aurand. The photo was taken by one
'of the  carollers,  John Parsons.
KIWANIS MOVIES
TO RESUME SATURDAY
the weekly movies will continue
at  the   usual  time   into   1960,
chairman John Thoss said.
The film  scheduled for last
explained. Kiwanians did, however, show a 2%-hour free cartoon movie Saturday afternoon,
as part of the Chamber of Commerce Christmas schedule.
mount of about $400.
The driver of the other car,
Garvin Lewis Smith, of Ann
Arbor, was not injured, and
damage to. his car was estimated at about $200.
A Saline Community hospital registered nurse, Lucinda
M. Drennan, was taken to the
Saline hospital as a patient
Monday afternoon after her car
went out of control on bad
roads at Saline-Milan road and
Jewell road. She was reported
in "fair" condition today, under Junior Chamber of Commerce
treatment for cuts, bruises, and members Thursday night lect-
chest injuries.
Can't Read Yet-But
Draws Right Name
"Go ahead, draw your sister's too small to reach the box with-
name!" Chamber of Commerce'0ut a lift, proceeded to do just
members told four - year - old |that Gary>s hand emerged from-
Gary Braun, in Saturday's'
Christmas drawing for prizes for
youngsters.
But they were slightly stunned
when Gary, too young to read,
JC's Name
New Officers
For Interim
Mrs. Drennan is employed as
a surgical nurse at the hospital
here. Damage to her car was
estimated at $600.
Saline Civic
Group Elects
Geo. Johnson
Members of the Saline Area
Civic association this week
elected George Johnson, pf 150
Pleasant Ridge, as chairman,
and named six members to the
first board of directors.
Glenn Clark, William Brink
and Richard Martin were elected as members of the board for
one-year terms; John LaRue,
Ed Hering, and Mrs. Rudenz
Douthat were named for six-
month terms.
Twenty persons attended the
Kneeting, at the new High
School, to join, the discussion of
"isues which the group intends
to take up: a trash disposal
site, building codes and inspection, and the city charter.
Johnson, Clark and Phillip
Kellogg  were  appointed  to  a
ed an interim slate of officers
to hold office until the regular
election at the annual meeting
in May. The election was necessitated by the death of JC president Bruce Arend, in a tractor accident two weeks ago,
and by the resignation of the
secretary, George White.
JC vice-president Jack Graf
was moved up to hold the president's gavel; and Doug Schuur
will act as vice-president. G.
Merritt Martin will serve as
secretary; and Ron Finkbeiner
will remain as treasurer.
A new member of the board
of directors, Dave Cobb, was
named. Other present board
members are the officers, and
past president Jim Rogers and
Paul Stoops.
the slot in the box (too small to
see through) firmly clutching
the name of 15-month-old Nancy Sue Braun, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Theodore Braun, of N.
Ann Arbor street.
The box he chose from contained 1700 cards:
•Other local youngsters whose
names were drawn for the $5
prizes included three boys: Terry Shippy, of Akrona road; Larry Weed, of Macon road;, and
(Darcy Brink, of Linden court;
and girls: Alberta Goltz, of W.
Michigan  avenue;   and  Sharon
j Sackett, of Milkey road.
I    Meanwhile,    Santa's    helpers
this week were still busy answering some of the 112 letters
mailed in the bright red< Santa's mailbox at the main corner.
I The  entire program was  con-
j ducted by the C. of C. Retail
Merchants committee.
Saline Twp.
Supervisor
Buried Today
Funeral services were held
at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the
Proctor Funeral Home in Clinton for Ellsworth Lindsley, 74,
who died Sunday evening at
Herrick Memorial Hospital. He
had been a patient there for the
past month.
Mr. Lindsley had been a
member of the Washtenaw
County Board of Supervisors
since 1944. He was chairman
of the agriculture committee
and vice-chairman of the register of deeds committee of the
board. He served as Saline
township treasurer from 1938
until becoming supervisor in
1944.
He was a member of the
Washtenaw County Farm Bureau and the Washtenaw Historical Society.
Mr. Lindsley lived his entire
life at 13340 Lindsley road, the
family homestead in Saline
township. He was born there
Jan. 10, 1885, the son of J.
B. and Anna Snauble Lindsley.
Surviving are a sister, Ethel
Lindsey, of Clinton; a sister-
in-law, Mrs. Henrietta Lindsley, of Tecumseh; three nieces;
and several cousins. He was
preceded in death by two brothers, Everett in 1948, and
Earl in 1950.
Burial was in Riverside Cemetery in Clinton.
Council Accepts Bid
On New Police Car
ALTAR SOCIETY
OFFICERS   NAMED
New officers of St. Andrew
Altar Society were chosen this
month and will take over their
duties at the next meeting, to
be held January 4.
The newly elected officers
are: president, Mrs. Regis Wol-
finger; vice-president, Mrs.
Richard Wanty; secretary, Mrs.
Lawrence Slepsky; and treasurer, Mrs. Aldeno Christopher.'
Frank Harms
Home Cited
For Lighting
Christmas decorations featuring Santa, sleigh, and reindeer in a. winter scene, this
year won the Junior Chamber
of Commerce plaque, annually
awarded for the best home
lighting of a Saline residence.
They were put up by the Frank
Harms family, 226 Monroe St.
JC judges, making their
rounds Sunday evening, also
awarded honorable mention to
a number of families for their
imaginative Christmas lightings. Among them:
Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Smith,
of 313 N. Ann Arbor street,
for a Santa Claus on the roof;
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Karpensky, of 211 Henry street, for a
big Christmas card; Mr. and
Mrs. Glenn Clark, of 110 Pleas-
anfUidge, for a Santa on the
garage door and three angels
singing in the front yard; JDr.
and Mrs. Rudenz Douthat, for a
stained glass window; and the
Chris Volz family at 108 Mills
road, for spotlighted carollers
on their picture window.
JC's emphasize that the honorable mentions were not listed in any special order ... all
were officially considered to be
equally good.
HOSPITAL TO APPLY FOR
,BUDLDING   PERMIT—LATER
Saline Community hospital
board is "not ready to request a
building permit at the present
time" for their proposed medical building or addition, board
member Ernest Girbach told
City Council Monday night.
"But we fully intend to do so
as soon as we are ready," Girbach added.
A proposal, from Councilman
Jack Bennett, that all full-
time salaried city employees
should receive $25 Christmas
bonuses, died from lack of support at Monday night's Council
meeting.
ANOTHER
Diogenes!
The Reporter this week received another "letter to the
editor", apparently from our
controversial old gadfly-friend
who first signed himself "Diogenes" and then, in a second
letter, "Still Diogenes". This
week's letter had a lot of good
sense in it, and we were all
ready to .print it, when . . .
Somehow, it didn't sound
quite like the Diogenes of the
earlier letters, so we telephoned
to check.. Our original Diogenes
denies all knowledge of this
letter and flatly denies having
written it. That being the case,
we cannot print it, of course,
since we don't know who wrote
it.
We suggest that this new Diogenes come in and identify
himself . . . and choose another
pseudonym, to avoid confusion/
Otherwise our policy forbids
use of his letter.
A special meeting of the Federated Church Council will be
held Sunday, December 27, immediately after the Morning
Worship Service.
Also Approve
Contract for
City Dump
Saline police will be.driving
a new patrol car as soon as
one can be delivered.
The action to purchase a new
1960 Chevrolet Biscayne two-
door was taken by City Council Monday night, ending a two-
month controversy as to. whether a new car was needed, after the present one was declard
"undriveable'.
The motion to purchase a
new ear came from Police Commissioner Everett Wolfin, seconded by Ted Hill, and passed
without  a   dissenting  vote.
Said Councilman Jack Bennett: "We have a fine police
department, and we operate it
at very low cost to the taxpayer. But we have to give them
something to use."
The bid to furnish the new
car was the lower of two seal-
Monday. Delivery is promised
in "about 21 days".
City Council, on a motion
from Frank Deede, also approved a contract . with Roland
Goltz, of 805 W. Michigan, to
lease a site on the Goltz farm
for use as a city dump. The approval was given subject to
clearances for the project being
received from "necessary government agencies".
The dump will be "more or
less a sanitary fill", Mayor
Henry Leutheuser pointed out.
It will be covered, and tiles will
be laid to facilitate drainage.
"It will not create an unsight-
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Hornets Still Tops in Conference
Linda Reed Named
DAR Delegate
JC'S TO DISPOSE OF
SPENT CHRISTMAS TREES
Members of the Saline Junior-Chamber of Commerce will
Tots Entertain
For Christmas
The children of Saline Play
Center and their teacher, Mrs.
John Cahill, last week presented
a Christmas program for their
mothers.
While the children sang
Christmas carols around a pin-
ata (the Mexican gift contain-
commlttee to study the trash'er), Mrs. Robert Merchant, ac-
disposal problem; and members' companied them on the piano,
of a committe on public rela-. Currently they have been learn-
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tions and programming are Allan Grossman, Lauren Wild,
Clark and Mrs. Douthat.
The next meetnig will be held
on Wednesday, Jan. 6. Membership is still open, and dues
are $1 per year per family.
ing how children in other lands
celebrate Christmas.
Each child presented his
mother with a gift of a jewelry
box, and brought home a pen
holder for his father. The children made the gifts themselves.
Members of the faculty and
the senior class have elected,. ,
Linda Reed, daughter of Mr,ihaul awa^ and burn <** Chnst-
and Mrs. Paul Reed, of 1242 'mBS trees, on Saturday, Jan.
Bemis road, to serve as High 9.
School representative from the
Sara Caswell Angell chapter
of tlie Daughters of the American Revolution, here*/
Miss Reed„ a senior, was selected as DAR representative in
the annual Good Citizenship
project, on^the basis of dependability, which includes ^truthfulness, loyalty and punctuality; service . . . cooperation,
courtesy, and consideration of
others; leadership . . . personality, self .control, ability to
assume responsibility; patriot-1%
ism . . . unselfish loyalty to
American   ideals.
She will attend a DAR meeting in Ann Arbor in the near
future, to honor High School
representatives from surrounding communities.
BUILDING  CODE
AMENDMENT   TABLED
A proposed amendment to the
city building code, pertaining to
the location of footing drains,
was tabled by Council Monday
night after Councilman Jack
Bennett remarked: "I doubt if
anyone Will be building a house
in the next couple of weeks.     Jrdperation.
As a community project, the
group will make the rounds
during the afternoon to collect any trees which householders have placed out in front,
and will burn them behind the
city park, with Fire Department and City Council permission. •
Model Railroad
Enthusiasts Invited
By Lanny Robbins
As the final buzzer rang Friday evening, an overjoyed Saline Varsity hoisted center Calvin Karr to their shoulders and
carried him off the floor. Our
Hornets had posted their third
consecutive triumph in Wash
tenaw Conference play, this
time over the visiting U-High
quintet, by a narrow 43-40
margin.
The hero's exit was well-
earned by Calvin, who had high
scoring honors at seventeen
points. It was his two baskets
and three free throws during
the final five minutes of the
game that gave his team the
winning edge.
Shortly after having to leave
the   game   for   an   equipment
change, he grabbed the rebound
jof one of Fuhrman's shots and
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Larry Dicks, the 14-year-
old son of Mr. and Mrs. Luther
Dicks, has been working overtime to complete the setting-up
of his H.O. model train in time
for the Christmas holidays. He
now has the project completed
and it has turned out to be
quite a sight to see.
The train is set up in the
basement of the Dicks home
at 250 Mark Hannah Ct., and
the family would like it be
known that local youngsters
from six to 60 who are interested in model trains are welcome
to drop  by and  watch  it in
Jubilant team-mates and spectafajrfc Friday evening hoisted Hornet varsity" center
Calvin Karr to their shoulders in celebra
tion of a close victory over University High
which left the Hornets still sitting on top
of the league.     —Photo by Lanny Robbinsi
'pumped it through the hoop
for a 37-31 lead with 5:19 remaining. Volz fouled Pete Andrews in an attempt to stop a
U-High fast break.
The charity toss brought the
visitors to a 37-32 difference,
but two minutes later Karr
swislied a 25 foot jump shot
from near the top of the keyhole. Those two points were extremely valuable for Saline, because less than thirty seconds
later James Beamer scored two
baskets and passed to Stuart
Bradley for the third, bringing
the score to 39-38 when the
Cubs' press robbed. SaUne of
possession.
Coach Don Jaeger hastily signaled the Hornets to call timeout. The short talk restored the
Salinians' poise and, fifteen seconds later at the' 1:13 mark,
enabled Bixby to draw a foul
off Bradley. Mike netted two
points off the resulting free
throws to ease the pressure.
Jeff Fischer fouled out trying
to stop Karr. Again both tosses
went through, giving Saline a
fairly secure lead, 43-38, with
33 seconds left. Even a two-
pointer by Andrews shooting
from the side couldn't close the
gap.
U-High' had taken an early
lead over Saline, as the game
opened, when Beamer plunked
an outside shot at the 7:47
mark. John LaRue got that one
back at the 6:40 point and, six-.
te|j^seconds later, tipped in a