1960-03-16; Saline Reporter

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SALINE AREA BLOOD BANK
Thursday, March 17
Saline.Intermediate School
The
Reporter
VOLUME 13, NUMBER 26 — WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16, 1960
Crowd of Volunteers
To Aid Blood Bank
"First With AU$he Local News"
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Dozens of volunteers were Marty's restaurant, Hull's gro-
ready for duty Thursday, and eery, Predmore hardware, West-
dozens more were already hard side hardware, the Country Marat work in preparation for the ket, and Saline Mercantile,
visit of the Red Cross bloodmo- j A "very promising number"
bile at the Intermediate school, of pledge cards have been sign-
The bloodmobile, to be at the ed and returned,  according to
school from 2 to 5 p.m. and 6 Mrs.  Edwin Hering,  local Red
to 8 p.m. Thursday, will bring
its own trained staff of about
12 persons including seven registered nurses, but local personnel will handle all detail work.
Dr.   Gordon   Prout   will   be
Cross representative. But the
Saline area Red Cross Blood
Bank last year supplied 55 pints
of blood to 19 local people, and
"we must more than replace it,
in case we should have a real
present at the Blood Bank dur- emergency," Mrs. Hering said,
ing the afternoon shift; and Dr. I The organization hopes to re-
Rudenz Douthat will work on ceive blood from at least 100
the evening shift. - .donors.
The canteen, under the chair- j — x
manship of Mrs. Chris Volz,'
will be staffed by Mrs. Alwin
Burkhardt, Mrs. Clara Bredernitz, Mrs. Dan Copeland, Mrs.
Glen Garvin, Mrs. Amanda
Hartman, Mrs. Reuben Visel,
Mrs. Sara Lambarth.
Nurses at the Blood Bank
will include Mrs. Elwin Strait, j j^ Howard Kuhl was elect-
Mrs. Daniel Lirones, Mrs. Gar- ed president at the annual
ner Farrell, and Mrs. Lawrence meeting of the Child Study Club
Boettner. j Tuesday, and Mrs. Gordon Esch
Registrations will be taken by was named vice president. Mrs.
Mrs.   Arthur   Heininger,   Mrs. Robert Smith was elected sec-
Harry Friis, Mrs. Charles Finn, • retary-treasurer.
Mrs. Paul Gerigk, Mrs. Robert)    ^ meetiftg was heW ftt the
Mrs. Kuhl
To Head
Study Club
Smith, Mrs.  Robert Tefft, and
Mrs. Everett Wolfin.
Salinians working in the donation room will include Mrs.
Ernest Mann, Mrs. Alwin Gross,
Mrs. Max Fosdick, Mrs. Glenn
Gordon, Mrs. Edwin Henes, Mrs.
George Austin, Mrs. Leo Jensen, Mrs. E. A. Sawall, Mrs. Ce-
home of Mrs. Paul Reed, and
Miss Dorothy Downer, a Detroit Edison Co. representative,
spoke on "Light for Living" and
demonstrated the use of various
types of lighting.
Mrs. Daniel Lirones and Mrs.
Jerry McPeake were hostesses
cil    Davenport,    Mrs.    Charles at,the ^sday meeting. The Ap-
Kern, and Mrs. Robert Starling. ^ meeting has been rescheduled
Meanwhile,   a   large   number ^cause of Lent, to April 19 at
-'   .j.     \       i       -L. the home of Mrs. Robert Smith,
of recruitment workers have so- . -
licited pledgess'of-blopd^^oT^e^y-^^Sfe s^^^^-....
bank, among them", Mrs. Edwin; ' '*
Henes, who brought in 25 pledges.
Others were Mrs. Harold
Armbruster, Mrs. Joe Bondie,
Mrs. Elwin Strait, Mrs. W. W.
Crosbie, Mrs. James Levleit,
Mrs. Glenn Clark, Harold Fee-
man, Glen Feldkamp, Mrs.
James Croy, Mrs. Hollis Carr,
Mrs. Dorothy Hutzel, Mrs. Robert Tefft, Mrs. Andrew Poet,
Mrs. Duane Rogers, Robert Morton, Mrs. Kenneth Gates, Mrs.
Robert Lindemann, Mrs. Warren Finkbeiner, Glenn Weber,
Travis Barnes, Mrs. Elvin Armbruster, Mrs. Elmer Tobias, Mrs.
Howard Handy, and Mrs. Kenneth Rogers.
Heads of all local service
clubs were also contacted for
aid in the campaign.
Pledge cards were available
at both banks, Sehmid's market,
Dancer's, Wight's, Saline Lanes,
State Highway
Commissioner
To Speak Here
State Highway Commissioner
John C. Mackie will be the
speaker Thursday, March 24, at
a meeting of the Saline area
Democrats at Marty's Restaurant.
Mackie will speak at about 9
p.m., following a business meeting dealing with the group's
membership drive, at 8:30. The
highway commissioner will answer any questions concerning
the State Highway department's
plans for roads locally. He will
speak at Whitmore Lake earlier
the same evening.
The public is invited to the
meeting, and refreshments will
be served.
i Livestock and
Barn Saved
From Flames
I An alarm sounded by a passing neighbor, and quick action
by the Max Ross family, of 6435
Manchester road, saved a barn
and the sheep and hogs housed
there, in a blaze early Monday.
The fire, which apparently
started from a heat lamp kicked over by one of the animals,
was spotted about 5:30 a.m. by
Robert Feldkamp as he was
passing the Ross farm on his
way to work.
Members of the Ross family,
notified by Feldkamp, were.able
to bring the fire under control
before the Saline Volunteer firemen and trucks arrived. Damage to the building was slight,
and none of the livestock were
injured, Ross said.
By golly, somebody DID find a use for all that snow!
Above, Doug Niethammer, Ron Jedele, and Mike and Patty
Rapp on the top of the pure Eskimo-type igloo they constructed in the Rapps' back yard on Lawson street . . . and
Diana Rapp peeks out the door, certain the roof won't cave
in on her. Robert Charles also helped construct the igloo,
which had a capacity of 10 kids, two dogs and an unknown
number of cats.
Assorted Cars Stolen
Saline police, Sheriff's depu- where they abandoned the Fal-
ties, and state police from the'con in the parking lot of a
Clinton post Tuesday morning Chevrolet garage, drove a dif-
sorted out a series of stolen ferent car to the Ford-garage
cars in the Saline area and re- in Manchester, and were appre-
turned most of them to their hended after they had broken in
owners. and were attempting to pry op-
The wave of car thefts began en the safe,
here about 2 a.m. Tuesday when     The garage is owned by Carl
officers Jim Levleit and Hugh M. Schaible, of Manchester, who
Prince offered help to the teen- less than a year ago apprehend-.
age driver of a car with — ap
parently— engine trouble. They of,.burglarizing   his   establish^,has long been among their fav-
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discovered "the young driver
had (1) no driver's license, and
(2) no key in the ignition.
Investigation showed that the
car, a 1952 Mercury, was listed
as stolen in Ferndale, and that
both the driver and his 16-year-
old passenger were escapees
from the Boys' Vocational
School in Lansing.
Tuesday was the driver's 17th
birthday.
ed two other thieves in the act?
ment.
Arrested Tuesday at the
Schaible garage were Boyd Sla-
ger, 31, and Eugene O'Connell,
30, both of Kalamazoo.
Police returned the car to the
Chevrolet garage, the Falcon—
missing a spare tire—and the
Mercury to their owners Tues'
day.
But they were still lookirkg,
Home Mail Delivery
Depends on a Half
After a counting job that left ed for door-to-door mail deliv-
her nearly cross-eyed, Saline's
Census crew leader, Julie Rapp,
today announced that there are
759 dwellings in the city of Saline.
"Dwelling" in this context includes houses, apartments, trailers, shanties, motels, tents, or
any other shelter occupied by
human beings.
Of the 759, in case you're statistics-minded, 354 are east of
Ann Arbor street; 405 are west
of Ann Arbor street.
Now this is where the frantic
guesswork comes in—especially
among people who are anxious
to learn whether Saline will
have the 2500 population requir-
NLRB Schedules
Election al
LEGION TO HOLD
BHiTHDAY DINNER
Members of American Legion
Post 322, in Saline, and the
American Legion Auxiliary,
will hold a potluck dinner Saturday evening at the hall, to
celebrate the 41st national birthday of the American Legion.
tl
Humpbacked
Horse'
Shown
to Be
Here
Saline school children next
Wednesday will see the new
Meredith's Marionettes production "The Little Humpbacked
Horse", adapted from a Russian
fairy tale more than 1000 years
old, and selected by the puppeteers this year to celebrate their
25th year in the field.
The annual showing to school
children here, is scheduled at
Saline Elementary and Intermediate schools at 1:15 and 2:30
p.m. respectively.
The producers, Meredith and
Thyra Bixby, selected the tale
for this year's show because it
ery.
The Census Bureau seems to
prefer to calculate three persons
to a dwelling, when they want to
arrive at an estimate.
But many cities and a lot of
insurance companies — even
cereal manufacturers and cigarette companies — use 3%
persons per family as an estimate.
Years ago, it used to be 2y2,
but that was before the post
World War n population explosion.
Let's face it, Saline's door-to-
door mail delivery hangs by a
thread ... or by a half. It stands
or falls by which estimate turns
out to be most nearly exact.
Thus:
759 dwellings times 3 people More than 200 bowlers and
per dwelling comes out to 2268 fans poured into Saline Satur-
people (if our mathematics are day for the first week-end corn-
more reliable than usual) . . . petition in the 21st annual tour-
leaving us 232 people short of ney of the Ann Arbor Bowling
door-to-door delivery . . . unless association, ceremoniously op-
you know where you can import ened by Mayor Frank Deede and
232 people in a hurry. .Milan's village president Oscar
But counting at 3V2 per dwel- Berkley,
ling, we arrive at 2647% per-     All team events in the two-
sons . . . and there's our mail- months    tournament    will    be
man . . . even without the half! rolled at Saline Lanes. Doubles
Of course, if you're, the pa- and singles competition is to
tient type, you can forget" all take place at Park Lanes in Mi-
this figuring and wait for Julie Ian.
to get her eyes straightened out"    The tournament, expected to
and count the people exactly,    [draw about 1450 bowlers to Sa-
Ceremony
Opens Annual
Tournament
UAW-CIO Seeks
Recognition as
Bargaining Agent
An NLRB election among employees of Universal Die Casting division of Hoover Ball &
j Bearing Co. will be held here
Wednesday, March 23, to deter-
jmine   whether   the   employees
[shall   be   represented   by   the
UAW-CIO    as    a    bargaining
agent.
The election, to be supervised
by a representative of the National Labor Relations Board,
is the fourth such vote held at
UDC in the past nine years. Employees have rejected the union
by a majority vote in all past
elections.
The union, which can demand
such an NLRB election with petitions signed by 30 percent of
j t h e hourly-rated employees,
must receive a majority of the
votes cast, in order to be accepted in the plant.
Approximately 250 employees
would be affected if the move
were successful, a plant representative estimated.
Universal Die opened in 1943.
The first NLRB election occurr-
ied in 1951.
orite folklore, tney said. Tt* is
presented in five acts with spectacular scenery, the Bixby's always deft puppeteering, and a
totally new set of puppets.
The puppet shows, produced
and rehearsed in the "Old Opera House" studio in the City
Hall building, annually makes
a tour of schools throughout
the    country,-  playing   before
j line, will continue through Sun-
iday,   April   24.   Seventy-seven
fa|;=|fi    PecAU leagues are entered, from Ann
■   >«y    fcaaay Arbor,      Chelsea,       Ypsilanti,
C# South Lyon, Fowlerville, Howell,
#\r|l>Ae-l-   |f-| Brighton, Milan, Pinckney, Dex-
-wii-b.-^-3W   ill ter; and Saline   Saline ieagUes
j entered  include  Universal Die
Casting, Senior House League,
1 Tuesday Night 7 P.M., and Tues-
Saline area students are Pre-^day.„-night 9. P.Mr league^ and
"the Merchants'" League.    i1k*-*>"'
Only a few Salinians bowled
Essay
ontest in
Full Swing
paring   essays "in * the"
today, for the car in which thelmore tnan haU a mim°n V0^-
Fifteen   minutes    after   the,men arrived in Saline to startjsters
young escapees were taken into (off with. "You can bet your
custody here, another — ap-, boots they didn't walk here,"
parently unconnected — car said police officer Kirby.
theft occurred at Community ( Police believe they may have
Ford Sales, when two men_arrived in a car reported stolen
smashed the glass from a back from Lading, and that it may
door to gain entry. | sti_ be sitting abandoned, some-
The   pair  littered  the   floor where in Saline.
with paper, took $20 in change, 	
and made off in a 1960 Falcon1
owned by an employee of the
organization.
The two men, both parolees
from , Jackson prison, police
said, then drove to Manchester
Landmark 'Beyond Hope1
Soon To be Pulled Down
Local FFA
Delegates
Attend Meet
Another landmark is about trees in the area" once known as
to go. ("Guenther Gardens"  .  .  .  but
The "Old Dutch Mill" that for, actually the "Old Dutch Mill"
years has puzzled motorists on',is neither Dutch nor mill . . .
Saline-Ann   Arbor   road,    has and not even particularly old.
been declared "beyond hope"* by
its owner, Dan Hall,  and will
be torn down this spring.
Many travellers have slowed
to wonder what a Dutch mill I Edmund Guenther as a site for
was doing in the thick stand of
MILAN ROTARY
MARKS 25th
Milan Rotary club will celebrate its 25th anniversary Monday, March 28, with a banquet
at 6:30 p.m. at the Methodist
church in Milan. Roscoe Bonisteel, of Ann Arbor, a past district governor will be the speaker.
Reporter to Publish
Supervisor Minutes
The Saline Reporter has been
awarded a contract to publish
the proceedings of the Washtenaw county Board of Supervisors for the year 1960, J. Martin
Rempp, county auditor, announced today.
The contract will extend the
Reporter's reader-coverage to
some extent, since copies of the
newspaper will, be sent to all
supervisors and county officials.
It is the first time in many
that the  minutes   have
Thurlow   Bodley   is   general
chairman of the event, for which;years
reserved tickets are already on,been published in a Saline pa-
sale. The Milan club was spon- per . *.. . in fact they have not
Two delegates and two alternates have been named by the
Saline chapter of Future Farmers of America, to attend the
32nd annual FFA convention
March 23 to 25 at Michigan
State university in East Lansing. Statewide, delegates will
represent more than 11,000
members of 232 FFA chapters.
Delegates selected by the local chapter are Bob Condit and
, .   , „ ,Neil Bohnett, with Bob Yuhasz
garden club luncheons, after he>and Bob Townsend to serve as
purchased the property in 1927.. altemates.   Vocational   agricul-
It is — or once was — merely
decorative. There's a silo inside.
The mill, modelled from a
magazine picture, was used by
TB X-Ray
Unit to
Visit Here
Tuberculosis X-ray units from
the Michigan Health Department will visit Saline on Thursday and Friday, March 24 and
25.
The units, to be located at
the city parking lot from 1 p.m.
to 8 p.m. on Thursday, and 10
a.m. to 6 p.m. on Friday, are
part of an intensified tuberculosis casefinding to begin Tuesday, March 15, when a two week
chest x-ray survey of all Washtenaw county communities begins.
The x-rays are taken without
charge.
These units have visited the
county regularly since 1955 to
offer x-rays to all individuals
who stop by the registration
booth and complete a registration card.
Each year, more new cases
|of tuberculosis  are  discovered
aiinual"
American Legion Auxiliary contest, this year under the title
"Our Flag, Your Flag and My
Flag."
The contest, open to all Junior and Senior High School students, brings prizes of $4, $2,
and $1.50 for winners in each of
two groups; the winning essays
are then submitted to judging
in district competition.
The contest here is under the
direction of Mrs. Ray Hunt, Legion    Auxiliary    Americanism
in the opening competition,
and most are scheduled to compete in the last few days of the
tourney. Three doubles teams—
Harvey Boudrie-Ernie Christ-
ner, Jotin Nelson-Don Avery,
and Douglas Grady-Dale Port-
erfield, rolled Saturday and Sunday, and the Clinton Jewelry
team competed Sunday.
Uphaus Electric, Marty's Restaurant, and Universal Die No.
1 are on the schedule Sunday,
chairman. Local competition Marcn 20 here
closes April 1, and winners will' Top scores in the first week.
be announced here no later than end went to the Atwell fficks
April 15. teanij of Ann Arborj 2899 han-
Winners in the statewide con-1 dic„pped;   Robert   Dreary>   of
test, which will be judged after Ann Arbor &r a singles score
May 1, will receive prizes of $50,
$25, and $15 in each of the two
groups.
Saline's first-place winners in
the junior and senior divisions
will -also receive American Legion Award pins at the annual
school Awards Night Ceremonies prior to Commencement.
Mrs. David Wahl and Mr. and
Mrs. James England, Dr. and
Mrs. Bernard Stremler and
daughter Kay of Pontiac, were
Sunday dinner guests at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Alton
Wahl and "family.
of 718;,and to Thomas Loy and
Dreary in doubles with 1284.
Jack  Bennett is  tournament
committee chairman.
PLAN POTLUCK
Past Matrons and Past Patrons will meet at 6:30 p.m. on
Monday, March 28, at the OES
Hall for a potluck dinner, at
which children of the Eastern
Star Villa in Adrian will present the program.
Coffee, meat, rolls are furnished. Members are to bring
their own table service.
Annual Dairy
Banquet Set
Washtenaw     county's     out-
'standing dairy farmers will be
'honored   at the   annual   Dairy
Banquet to  be  held Saturday,
['March   1-9    at    Chelsea   high
school.   .     * ;
Certificates of Merit will be
awarded to farmers who qualify for 5-year production averages of over 400 and 500 lbs. of
butterfat Recognition will be
given to those who produce over
400 lbs. of butterfat on a. one
year average, as well as owners
of cows which have a life production of more than 100,000
lbs. of milk.
j    The 1960 Dairy Princess will
' be crowned at the banquet. This
I contest is open to all unmarried girls between the ages of
.16 and 25 with a dairy farm
'background.   Girls  eligible and
wanting to  enter this  contest
may contact Ernest Girbach of
.Saline,   Don   Johnson   at   the
(County Building," of their 4-H
Club Leader.
'"The Sharp Keepers" 1957
Michigan Barber Shop Quartet
champions will be on hand to
entertain:
The event is sponsored by the
Washtenaw county Dairy Council which is made up of the dairy organizations and processors
throughout the county. The ob-
'■ jectives of the council are to coordinate and promote the activities relating to the dairy industry of the county.
ture instructor Alton EalyTOU:through   ^  x.ray   surveys.
accompany them. | Nearly all of these persons are
Highlights
will be
of   the   program j unaware of the fact that they
Guenther, who had ' studied
landscape gardening, also moved an adjacent barn-to another
site and used it for a potting
shed . . . and remodelled a hog will, be announcement  of  the] are infected. Cases found dur-
house into~~an office. j I960   Star   Farmer   award,. to (ing surveys are nearly always
The property returned to the! Michigan's    outstanding    FFA'in the early stages and, there-
Dan   Hall family   in   1932   0riinemDer'   and tne  conf*?rra-- °f'fore,   respond  better  to  treat-
'   the  State   Farmer  Degree   on'ment, it was said.      '
over 200 boys with outstanding!    x.pay ^^ such ag wm fee
1933
In removing a now-decrepit
landmark,- Hall also removes a
rumor current among youngsters of the area, that the site
is   infested   with   rattlesnakes.
records   in  vocational   agriculture activities.
Saline member Stanley Poet,
who  will   also   accompany ;the
Nonsense, says Hall. There "are group, will be recommended by
a few of the harmless creatures! the organization's state execu-
know to farmers as "streaked' tive committee as a candidate
snakes" . . . but the last authen- for the State Farmer degree, to
sored by Saline Rotary club a been since Mr. Rempp joined the tie sight df a rattlesnake there be   conferred  Thursday  night,
quarter of a century ago.
county staff in 1933, he said,    'was along about 1904.
'March 24.
■in the area, can take over 100
j x-ray films per hour, eliminating
waiting periods for the x-ray,
Dr. Engelke reminded residents
also that there is no undressing
required, that reports are mailed directly to the person haying
the x-ray and to the family doc?
tor iiamed by him to receive the
report of the x-ray.
Dozens of delighted Girl Scouts and many
bubbling Brownies converged on the Intermediate School recently for a Girl Scout Birth
day Party (part of national Girl Scout Week
activities) given lor them by their mothers
and Girl Scout leaders.