1960-02-24; Saline Reporter

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VOLUME 13, NUMBER 23 — WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1960
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Hornets to Battle for League Title
Fighting for a title Friday will be senior Calvin Karr
and senior John LaRue
And senior Jim Jordan
Sal
, Chelsea:
Take All'
By Lanny Robbins
"Come early" is good advice j
for Salinians who want to see
their home town quintet in the
final game of the season. Friday
-•evening the Hornets host the
Chelsea Bulldogs  in the game (
to decide the Championship of j
the   first  year   of  Washtenaw,
Conference basketball. |
Already 600 seats of the 1500
capacity have been reserved for
Chelsea fans. The 900 remaining seats will fill fast during
the first few minutes of the
Junior Varsity contest which
starts at 6:45. So, if you want
to get in, you'll have to arrive
a long time before the Varsity
title battle which is scheduled
for 8:15 p.m.
Both teams carry into this
contest a 9-2 record in conference competition. The winner
will claim the title outright,
with a 10-2 record while the
loser will drop to second with
a 9-3 mark.
Tuesday night the Hornets
claimed a right to the showdown with a narrow victory over Roosevelt, at Bowen Field in
Ypsilanti,  49-42.
After hitting a moderate
peak in play against Manchester last week the Hornets in
this contest skidded near the
chasm of an upset in a definitely "off" night against the
Roughriders. Taking an early
lead on Volz's bucket and free-
throw they were soon tied up
3-3. LaRue meshed a charity
toss to regain the edge, Roosevelt came galloping back on a
two-pointer by Doug Houck. Saline could manage only a couple
of free throws during the last
half of the first period. In the
same time the Roughriders
banged in four baskets for a
13-6 advantage.
Helped along by some fancy
under-basket shooting from
John LaRue in'the second quarter, the Salinians rallied back
and took the lead, 16-15, on La-
Rue's lay up at 2:55 remaining.
That margin lasted only 24 seconds, until tall Calvin Scott hit
on a short shot for Ypsilanti.
With eight seconds until inter-
■j-inission, Karr returned the Sa-
' line five back to within striking
range on a turn'ng shot for a
20-21 deficit.
Fresh from-the between-halfs
rest, Saline sailed into the melee full tilt on swishers at short
distance from LeRue and Bixby.
Fuhrman, fouled while rebounding, drilled his freethrow for a
25-23 lead. Fuhrman hurried
along* his  team's  efforts  with
three baskets during the eight
minutes also. Meanwhile, Roosevelt too had been scoring, and
Scott pushed them in front 35-
33 by nailing on one of his two-
pointers.
Saline fairly well redeemed
themselves for the three earlier
poor frames in the final stanza.
Fuhrman started things off with
two free throws in the" first
minute. Karr added another one
shortly after that to offset
Scotf s first bucket of the quarter. Fired up, Saline at last
broke loose to a small extent
and on shots by Malinczak, LaRue, and Fuhrman claimed
three baskets for a narrow 42-
37 gap. Bixby drove in for a
dog shot making it 44-37.
Houck scored for the hosts, but
LaRue got that one back on a
Iayup. With one minute remaining Jim Masters rebounded in
Roosevelt's final score of the
evening.
The Hornets, with a victory
almost in the bag began to stall.
They did it masterfully, with
special credit going to the flashy
dribbling of Jim Jordan and
Mike Bixby. In desperation
Doug Houck fouled Jordan three
times during the last 30 seconds,
once as the game ended. Jordan
collected three points from the
situation, two coming on charity tosses as the teams began
to leave the floor.
Credit for the most outstanding play of the evening is definitely due to Ypsilanti's Calvin
Scott for not only scoring the
high of "the game, 15 points, but
also for great defensive play,
good rebounding, and good all-
around ball handling. High
scoring for Saline was shared
by Fuhrman and LaRue with
14 each.
Next were Volz with seven,
Karr with fiver Bixby with four,
Jordan with three, and Malinczak with two.
Mercantile Co.
Re-elects Board
All members of the board of
directors were re-elected Friday
at the annual meeting of the
Saline Mercantile Co., at a noon
dinner at the Masonic Hall. Officers will be elected by the
board in March.
Board members re-elected include Ferman Clements, Arthur
Heininger, Ernest Girbach,
Webb Harwood, Arthur Lutz,
Mark Sweetland, and Norman
Wfedmayer.
JV's Push Win
Total to Twelve
Tuesday night the Saline Junior Varsity claimed its 12th
victory of the season, against
only one loss, by a 43-30 score
over the Roosevelt Little Rough-
riders.
Radlying from a 7.4 grst period disadvantage," the'Ypsilanti five managed to outscore the
Little Hornets in the second
period, 7-6. But from there Saline took over and outdid Roosevelt 9-6 in the third and 21-13
in the final period.
High point for the evening
was Ed Strait for Saline with
13 points. Brian LaRue, Jerry
McDonald. and Gary Neitham-
mer each had eight and Tom
Jeppesen had six.
Driver Suffers
Fatal Heart
Attack Here
Allan Hinsdale, 39, of Utica,
was pronounced dead on arrival
at Saline Community hospital
Sunday evening, after he suffered a heart attack in his car
while driving on US 112.
Hinsdale, who had been under treatment previously for a
heart condition, asked his wife
to take the wheel and "then
slumped back," she told police.
Local police were called to the
scene when a passerby reported
a car in the ditch west of the
city and "a man lying under it."
Efforts by police officer Jim
Levleit, by means • of artificial
respiration, failed.
Council Offers
Strait a Hearing
In a special meeting Tuesday
night, City Council offered to
rescind the resignation of DPW
head Mike Strait "if requested,"
and invited Strait to anotheg
special meeting^ Monday to discuss the issue.
The Council action came before citizens' petitions, seeking
a hearing for Strait, could be
collected and signatures counted. "Eight or nine" of the petitions had been in circulation in
Saline since Saturday evening.
Strait, who resigned last week
in protest over an attempt to
oust him from his position of
superintendent of the Public
Works department, said today
he had not definitely decided
whether he would withdraw his
resignation but that "under the
circumstances" he probably
would do so", "at least temporarily."
"I have enjoyed working for
Salinians to
Observe World
Day of Prayer
On a first Friday of Lent,
March 4, residents of Saline and
surrounding communities will
observe the annual World Day
of Prayer, at the host church,
St. Paul's Evangelical and Reformed church. Women of the
Federated and Methodist churches will join in presenting the
program, using the theme "Labourers together with God."
The annual event, ^ the 24th
such service, will take place in
145 countries on six continents
during the 24-houf period. No
hour of the day. will he without
a service somewhere on the face
of this globe, and worshippers
will speak more than 1,000 dialects.
PARENTS' NIGHT
WELL ATTENDED
Some 70 parents of seventh
grade students at the intermediate school attended a meeting
Monday night at the school for
the purpose of discussing aca~
demic and social problems of
young people in that age group.
Special guests were Dr. Adolf
Haas, chief of geriatrics service
at Ypsilanti State Hospital, who
spoke on the relationship of
teacher, parent and pupil, and
Mr. William Cook, director of
community relations at the hospital.
Dr. Haas lias been invited to
return as speaker at another
such meeting being planned for
the near future.
Hope to Complete
Work by November
the city during my eight years
here," Strait said, " and I also
feel I owe a great deal to the
citizens of Saline. Certainly I
owe it to them to talk this over
if they want to." '    "  * " •
A resolution passed by Council at Tuesday's meeting read:
"WHEREAS: the intent of the
Resolution to table the motion
to remove Mike Strait as City
Superintendent was to provide
an opportunity for Mike Strait
to present his position to the
Council, and
"WHEREAS: the resignation
of Mike Strait prevents this possibility, now THEREFORE BE
IT RESOLVED that a withdrawal of said resignation be
accepted, if requested and Mike
Strait be invited to attend a
special meeting of the council
to be held on Feb. 29th at 8.
p.m."
It was unanimously approved.
Petitions,  written by Nelson!
Watling     and     circulated     in'
Strait's behalf, read: "We, the
undersigned taxpayers  petition
the   City   to   re-instate   Elwin
"Mike" Strait to his position as 1
city superintendent and that an*-
impartial and open meeting bej
held with the City Council be-(
fore further action is taken . . .
We   also   feel   his   ability   and
knowledge are too outstanding
for his removal from our city's
service . . . His unblemished record    as    city    superintendent
speaks for itself."
Watling,   who   said   he  had
known Strait  since-1939,  said
that he was "not trying to cause
trouble" in circulating the' pe- j
tions,    but    was    "trying    toj
straighten this thing out."
Editor's Mailbag
To the Citizens of Saline, ~~"*-c-
In light of some events that have occurred since my resignation, I feel that I should speak to the Citizens of Saline.
First, let me say that I have enjoyed working for and with
the Citizens of Saline in these past few years of the city's growth
and transition. Since my family and I moved to Saline 13 years
ago we have come to know and love this city and intend to
remain. ^
■ Myresignation is not a protest of my ouster but rather a
protest of the manner in which it was done. The Council, as any
'employer,.has the right and duty to remove .anyone that they
deem unsuitable for the job they hold; however, this should be
done in such a manner that a man has an opportunity to defend i
himself and keep his dignity as a human being. If this right is
not extended to an employee the morale_and efficiency of the
City will suffer and hiring of quality employees will be difficult
or impossible.
' %     Again, let me say that I am grateful for the cooperation and
' friendship of the people of Saline and hope I may work with them
J in the future to keep Saline a good place to live and grow in.
! "-■'., -Elwin (Mike) Strait 1
Saline residents will be offered an entirely new city charter
for their acceptance — or rejection — in the -November
election.
The decision to start all over
again, practically from scratch,
to write a complete new charter
rather than attempt to revise
the old one, was taken Monday
night by members of the Charter Revision Study committee,
in their first meeting at City
Hall.
First brought up by Alwin
Gross and formally placed, as a
Two Injured on
Snowy Roads
Two persons were slightly injured in accidents ascribed to
snow and ice on the roads Sunday and Monday.
Mrs. James Leo Gagon, 72, of
Adrian, was treated at Saline
Community hospital for bruises
and abraisions she received
when the car driven by her husband went out of control on US
112 near-Dell road Sunday ever
ning and struck a tree. Mrs. Gagon was thrown out of the car
by the impact.
Mary Lou Moore, 24, of Tecumseh, told police she would
consult her own physician on
minor injuries received when
her car collided with a vehicle
driven by Henry H. Hammond,
of 4375 Arkona road, early
Monday on Monroe street just
inside the city limits. Police
said the Moore car skidded
when the driver attempted to
come to a stop.
Saline Group
Marks FFA
Week Here
Members of the Saline chapter of Future Farmers of America will join this week with the
380,000 members of the national FFA organization, in observation of National FFA Week,
Feb. 22 to 27.
The national organization,
which boasts 9000 local chapters
in the 50 United States and
Puerto Rico," traditionally selects the week of George Washington's birthday for its observance. In Saline displays in
downtown - windows, and radio
programs on the work of FFA
have been planned.
- The 39-member Saline chapter is headed by Bill Schetten-
helm, president; Stanley Poet,
vice president; Neil Bohnett,
secretary; Jim Fuhrman, treasurer; Jim Jedele, reporter; and
Jim Guenther, sentinel. Alton
Ealy, agriculture instructor at
SHS serves the chapter as advisor.
Local FFA activities in the
1959-60 year have included rais- {
FORENSIC COMPETITION
TO BEGIN MARCH 1
Saline high school is one of a
record total of 323 high schools
enrolled in the spring program
of the Michigan High School
Forensic association. Headquartered at the University of Mich- j
igan bureau of School Services, _
the Michigan group is among
the largest in the nation. j
Spring forensic activities will
begin with local contests in 10
speech  categories  from  March,
1-12.   First   and   second   place
winners in each event will pro-,
ceed.   to    district    competition,.
March 21-April 9; and regional
competition will take place April 18 to May 7.
ing eight acres of corn and 15
acres of wheat, under controlled
conditions, on the "Ag farm"
on the high school property.
Four experimental methods
were used in raising the corn,
as well as two separate types of
seed. Two different plots of
wheat were planted and fertilizer amounts were varied for
comparative purposes.
Saline chapter will also sponsor another annual Donkey Basketball Game this spring, scheduled at 8 p.m. March 15. Two
games will be played: Alumni
vs. FFA, and Faculty vs. FFA,
with all players mounted on the
fractious trained donkeys provided by the Buckeye Donkey
Ball Co.     -
motion by Jack Bennett, the
suggestion of a new charter was
unanimously approved by committee members present: Gross,
Bennett, Erwin Schmid, Francis Lockwood, Alwin . Burkhardt, George Johnson, Glenn
Clark, J. C. Little, Orren Corl,
Allan Grossman and Mayor
Frank Deede.
Deede was named chairman
of the group; and E. J. Muir
was elected secretary, to keep
minutes of all meetings.
The question, whether to
write a new charter or revise
the old one, wound in and out
of earlier discussion like a shoelace before it was finally settled
only to leave the committee
faced with the problem of selecting a model from the half-
dozen city charters sent here
on request by the Michigan Municipal League.
Among those considered were
charters from Hudsonville, population 1,101, rejected because
it has a city manager system;
Northville, population about"
5,000 with some similarities to
Saline in justice and fire departments; Southfield, population 28,000, with a charter elaborate enough to cover almost
any contingency.
. Other questions were answered as they arose:
Question: "No matter what
charter we take, we're still going to have to adapt it ... . why-
not adapt our own?"
Answer*. .''Because it's easier
to cut down one that's -too elaborate than to build up one that
is incomplete and take a chance
on leaving something out."
Question: "When we present
this to the voters as the 'proposed new charter' . . . how do
we dispose of the old one?"
Answer: "In effect it's done
by the same election, since if
the new one is rejected, the old
one remains in force. If the new
one is accepted, it supersedes
the old one."
Committee -members finally
settled on model charters from
Northville and Southfield to be
used in conjunction with Saline's present charter in constructing the "proposed new
charter." Fifteen copies of each
will be sent for so that all committee members may study them
before the next meeting of the
group.
Other possibilities mentioned
in passing: that Saline may
want to establish a Municipal
Court as soon as the population
reaches 3000 . . . that Salinians
may at the 3000-population
mark consider whether they
want to continue under the
Home Rule Act or alter their
status to that of Fourth Class
city.
Champs in Saline's March of Dimes bowling tourney — and one of them still going
strong in the district event -— were (above,
left to right) Jim Manor of Saline; Grace
Garter,  Saline;  Mildred Marken, Ypsilanti;
and Dale" Porterfield, Clinton. The group, tops
among about 70 entries here, went on to district competition in Ann Arbor', where -Jim
rolled a neat 610 series to qualify for the
state tournament in Saginaw Saturday.