1960-03-23; Saline Reporter

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The Saline Reporter
VOLUME 13 — NUMBER 27 — WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23, 1960
'First With All the Local News'
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Y SALARY SC
FIREMEN CONTROL
CHIMNEY FIRE
Saline Volunteer Fire department was called to the Bert
Hammond farm, at the corner
of Jordan and Willow roads,
Monday evening when a chimney in the residence burned out.
The fire was under control in 20
minutes.
Would Meet Shifts
At Hoover Plant
The possibilty of instituting
bus service to and from Saline
—five trips a day'— is under
discussion by the City Bus Company of Ann Arbor.
The route, not yet positively
arranged, would be scheduled
so that busses would arrive at
and leave the Hoover plant in
time for shift changes. The trips
would originate in downtown
Saline and downtown Ann Arbor, but transfers to the Ann
Arbor city bus routes would
carry Saline passengers where-
ever they wanted to go in that
city, a company representative
said.
The first and most immediate
need, if such service is to be
supplied is to find five Saline
area residents willing to testify
before the Michigan Public Service Commission that such a
service is needed, according to
Arvin Marshall, president of
the company.
The company's application
for a franchise to operate a Saline run will be heard in Lansing sometime early in April.
Salinians willing to make the
trip are asked to contact Marshall, ^at NOrmandy 3-8044, or
transportation- manager Eldon
Jones, at NO 5-6323.
The City Bus Co. of Ann Arbor was formed in August,
1959, to contend with the perennial ups and downs of Ann
Arbor's public transportation
problem. It has been "doing
very well indeed" Marshall said;
and the same compact 21-pas-
senger Bantam busses used in
Ann Arbor would be operated
on the projected Saline run.
The company has received a ])raw~   ni„  Cramd
great many requests from Ann L,i ugvt>  -°fcs/  ^'OIVU
Arborites for public transporta-
Dr. S. Finch
To Speak At
Local Event
Dr. Stuart Finch, director of
the Child Psychiatric unit of
University hospital, will speak
here Tuesday, April 5, at a
meeting of Intermediate School
Room Mothers. His topic will be
"Your Children."
The meet, scheduled at 8 p.m.
in the Intermediate school gym,
is open to all parents, since the
Room Mothers organization
here serves the same purpose
that Parent-Teachers' associations serve in other communities, a member pointed out. The
public is urged to attend all
meetings.
Mrs. Regis Wolfinger and Mrs.
Harold Smith will be in charge
of a coffee hour ,to follow Dr.
Finch's address.
A business meeting of the
Room Mothers is scheduled for
Tuesday, March 29, to elect officers and plan participation in
the annual School Carnival, of
which Mrs. Leonard Niethammer is chairman. The date for
the carnival has not yet been
announced.
Lo-Field Benefit
Girbach,  daughter  of Mr.  and,ies
Mrs. Simon Girbach; and third
winner was Karen Spike, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lowell
Spike.
A benefit euchre party spon-
tion to the Hoover Ball and sored by Lo-Field Farm Bureau
Bearing Co. plant on State group Friday evening, for the
road, Marshall said; and has Farm Bureau fund, drew 22 ta-
also received some for trans- bles of players,
portation to Saline. ■    First   prizes  went   to   Marie
Another prospective route, Herter and Minnie Iindemann,
"under consideration," is a run for women, and Ernest Wild, for
from Saline to Ypsilanti State men, Second prizes were won by
hospital and back, in response Mabel Armbruster and William
to requests from the YSH area. Klein;   Millie   ApriJl   won   the
Saline has lacked bus service "galloper" and the door prize
from Ann  Arbor since Short- went to Frank Heusel.
way Lines   discontinued  morn-, * ■ —■	
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SSa„ToIcL*Lr^rr;v-ensus (Questionnaires
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C. of C. to Elect
Officers for 1960
Saline Chamber of Commerce
members will elect officers for
the coming year at the annual
meeting of the" organization
Thursday, March 31, at the Saline Savings Bank meeting
room.
The officers will be installed
at the Chamber's annual dinner
party — which will also serve
as a kick-off for a membership
drive — scheduled for April 6.
iflage Increase
Seeded, Board Feels
The southern section of the county did itself proud Saturday evening, when Saline's
Janice Harwood (center) was named Washtenaw Dairy Princess  of I960;  and Saline's
Karen Girbach (right) and Manchester's Karen Spike were selected as her court, at the
annual Washtenaw county Dairy banquet in
Chelsea.
Name Janice Harwood^i £TS
County Dairy Princess
A   number   of   Saline   area road   will   serve   as   president.
farmers were honored Saturday
at the fifth annual Washtenaw
county Dairy banquet, at Chelsea high school, and a Saline
girl was named Washtenaw Dairy Princess of 1960.
The princess is Janice Harwood, 18, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Webb Harwood of 6356
Michigan avenue.
Vice president is Albert Ruh-
lig; secretary, Mrs. Simon Girbach; treasurer, Stanley Gill;
and publicity chairman, Albert
Gall.
A featured speaker at the
event was Guy Vanderjack, of
station WPAG, Ann Arbor, who
gave a report on Germany. Dr.
Clint Meadows, a dairy special-
Building Permits
Building permits issued by
City Council Monday totalled
$335,315.
The amount included permits
to Wilshire Construction Co., of
Detroit, for dwellings on lots 1
through 35, Saline Acres, at
$9000 each; and on lots 55 and
56 in Golden Acres at $9500.
Excavation for the homes will
begin in the near future, a company representative said.
Other permits were issued to
Robert Starling, of 128 E. Mich-
contest was awarded to Karen 'ty, acted as master of ceremon-[-gani for remodeling, $500; Wal-
Second place m the princess 'ist of Michigan State universi-
SHS to Host
District in
Speech Meet
Saline high school will be host
this year to the district contest
of the Michigan High School
Forensic association, according
to Miss Anne Preston, of the
Saline faculty, district chairman
for the meet.
The district competition, tentatively scheduled for Friday,
April 8, will bring together students from six schools in the
area, for five events: declamation, interpretive reading, humorous reading, original oratory, and extemporaneous
speaking. It is open to students
of grades nine thi*ough 12.
i Students who will represent
Saline in the district meet will
be selected in a local contest to
be held at the high school here
on Friday, March 25. It is expected that. Saline will be represented in all five categories,
Miss Preston said.
The district meet,  in which
some events will run simultan-
leously  in  the  auditorium  and
I the speech room, is open to the
i public. Spectators are invited to
fattend all or part of the event;
exact times will be announced
at a later date.
School teachers here have
cancelled then* March meeting
—traditionally devoted to salary problems — because "there
weren't enough problems left to
have a meeting about."
Without asking for a millage
increase, the Saline area Board
of Education has come up with
a salary schedule that left the
62 teachers in the system almost unanimously "delighted,"
and chopped teacher turnover
by 60 per cent.
Members of the Saline Teachers' Club voted unanimously
to send a letter of appreciation
to the School Board with regard
to the new salary schedule,
which   was   worked   out   after
Among  farmers  honored,  as
members   of   the  county   "400
club"  (for a five year average j carport,  $665,
of 400 pounds or more of but-
| lie Crosbie/407' Spring street,
for siding, $150; and William K.
Carson, 532 Canterbury, for a
David Gordon  of 4620 Willow
plant.
City Council Monday evening     Advance report forms for the; when they   start  their  rounds
approved     the     project.      "It 1960 Census oi population and on April 1.
sounds like the answer to a def- housing will b'e distributed by     The advance report form con-
inite need," said Mayor Frank post office empi0yees this week
Deede.
to all households in this area,
district supervisor John- R.
Thomson, Jr., announced today.
Meanwhile, both local crew
leaders, Mrs. William Spike and
Mrs. Donald D. Rapp, will begin
training   enumerators   Monday.
Linda Heiserman
Winner in Local
Spelling Contest
Seventh-grader Linda Heiser-'Eachswill work with 16 enumer-
man, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. ators and a reviewer.
Robert Heiserman of 215 Rus- j Mrs. Spike will serve as crew
sell, will represent Saline area leader in the area (roughly)
schools early in April at a dis- from Saline township to Man-
trict spelling contest, for the Chester; Mrs. Rapp's area in-
second consecutive year. ' eludes Saline city and townships
Miss Heiserman last year won, south and east of Saline,
the district contest of the De-j    The advance report form is
roit Metropolitan Spelling Bee, * a new census-taking device that
ponsored by the Detroit News, j is   designed   to  speed   up   the
. is open to all schools of Wash- field canvass and provide more
tenaw county. I accurate statistics. Distribution
This year, Miss Heiserman of this form before the start of
captured the Saline title in com- the house-to-house canvass
petition "with winners from the gives the family a chance to as-
fifth grade,. Karen Sharkey; semble information about each
sixth grade, Barbara Finkbeih- member in advance bf the cen-
er; and eighth grade, Ed Ross, sus taker's visit. The district
The contest here was supervis- supervisor urges all residents to
ed by Mrs. Dominick Pellegreno, fill out the form and have it Pr°vided for this purpose.
Intermediate school teacher.       ready   for   the   census   takers I      (Continued on Page 10)
Officers of the Dairy Council j terfat) were George Macomber,
for 1960, elected last week, I Paul Taylor, Glen Feldkamp
were introduced at the banquet: [and others;  associate members
David Gordon, Harold Graden,
and others; and owners of cows
that have produced over 100,000
pounds of milk, Leonard Burmeister, George Macomber,
Lowell Spike, Peter Spike, and
Paul Taylor.
Committee members for the
banquet were Gordon, in' charge
of awards; Ernest Girbach, the
princess contest; Herman
Koenn, dealer solicitation; Mrs.
Walter Wolfgang, dinner; Don
Johnson, program; Albert Gall
publicity; and Paul Wild, finance.
Washtenaw county's new
princess, Miss Harwood is a senior at Saline high school, where
she is an active member of the
Girls' Athletic association, the
FHA, and the yearbook staff.
She has been active in 4-H
work for five years, is a member of the county 4-H Club
Council, and last year won two
Due to increased costs of
production, newstand and
store price of The Saline Reporter has been increased to
10 cents a copy .. . same as a
cup of coffee. Subscription
rates will remain unchanged:
$3 per year; $5.50 for two
years.
Crackdown on
Shoplifters
Nets Five
Five local persons were apprehended over the week-end
when the Saline Country Market instituted a sudden crackdown against shoplifters who
have been costing the Country
Market chain an estimated $10,-
000 to $12,000 a year.
One of the shoplifters, a 70-
year-old woman, was released
because it,was feared court action would .endanger her health,
-police-said..-*^>- .. ,„.%v_ „-„,-,, j^
Two more, Dolores ahd Frank
Neely, of 208 S. Ann Arbor
street, pleaded guilty in Ann
Arbor Municipal Court Monday to charges of simple larceny. They paid fines of $10 and
costs and-$15 and costs respectively.
Others of the group are still
being questioned,  police  said.
A similar crackdown in the
Manchester store netted seven
shoplifters in one day, according to Ray Gretzner, manager
of the store here. None of the
shoplifters involved here were
juveniles.
The store will remain on the
alert against shoplifters, with
the intention of being "a
mighty tough store to steal'
from," Gretzner said.
tains seven questions about every person in the household and
six questions about the household's dwelling. The household
information asked for is name,
address, sex, color or race,
month and year of birth, whether married or single, and relationship to head of household.
The information required about
the dwelling is the number of
rooms, cooking facilities, plumbing, and whether rented or owned.
At   every   fourth   household,!-"""":"' """ ^ J^, "*"1* a"
.. 4. , -ii   i     ,       I awards   for  her  work  at  the
the census taker will leave a;  .  .    , TT _, . ,   ,
state 4-H Fair . . . second place
Census Household questionnaire
which contains additional questions covering population and
housing characteristics which
are being asked of a 25 percent
sample of the Nation's population. Householders are requested to fill out the household questionnaire and mail it within
three days to the local census
district office. A pre-addressed,
postage free envelope is being
in the Rifle division and first
place for clothing demonstration. She has completed a number of livestock projects in the
course of her work, and has
also been a member of the Saline Steer club and the Lamb
club.
Miss Harwood, who expects to
study home-economics at Michigan State university next year,.]
will compete for the title of
Michigan Dairy Princess May
17 and 18.
Merchants' Report:
It's Slightly Spring
Saline merchants found this'l
week that alternating blizzards
and sunshine had SOME effect
on their business — but they
weren't quite sure what.
Anderson's store reported
that just a couple of sunshiny
days had made up all the rush
they lost during -the snowstorms; and Dancer's said business had been fine, even in the
snowstorms — but on sunny
Saturday, a couple of customers had even inquired about
bathing suits! "Nobody bought
one, though," manager Eathern
Roark observed.
Westside Hardware found
business slow, sun or snow:
"People don't know whether to
buy a snow shovel or a rake."
At Gambles, the dubious
shopper appeared to have decided: "The harder it snows,
the more lawn mowers, grass
seed, and flower seed we sell,*'
said Bob LaRose.
Hull's noticed a slight im-
provment in beverage sales
when the sun came out; and
Schmid's were startled by a
youngster who wanted to buy
watermelon seeds.
Walker's Five Cent and Dollar store found business "surprisingly good; people got out
even in the snow", but sunny
Saturday was "BIG!"
Bowlers in the week-end pin
tourney were booming the local restaurant trade, with or
without weather.
months of conferences among
a school board committee —
Bess Hefft, Ray Girbach, and
Superintendent Leo Jensen —
and the teachers' Professional
Problems committee, headed
this year by Dominick Pellegreno.
The salary schedule is a modification of the one in use two
years ago, according to Jensen,
and he feels it will result in
"much more permanency" of
teacher personnel than in the
past.
The schedule is based on anticipated revenues from school
district population, and on valuation increases expected to run
about $4 million in the Saline
district, according to an estimate of the Washtenaw county
Board of Education.
"We do not anticipate asking
for a millage increase," Jensen
said. "We feel there is a 99 per
cent chance we won't need one."
The new schedule brought a
sudden change in teacher turnover rate, as contracts were presented this week. Tn the Elementary School, which last year
lost 20 teachers, only five this
year elected not to remain ■—
and those for other than salary
reasons. "For the first time, an
entire grade group (the 4th) is
returning," said one teacher.
"We can hold up our heads
here; this was a good step."
Only one teacher will be leaving Intermediate School ... to
obtain educational qualification
for teaching secondary school.
Four teachers will be leaving
the high school . . . most of
them for family reasons. "We
know of NONE leaving for salary reasons," said Jensen.
The schedule pays a $4000
minimum to teachers with a
bachelor's degree "and $4200 to"
those with masters' degrees.
The rate is about 5200 lower
than that of surrounding com-
munitiesj
But teachers receive merit
raises of $100 to $400 annually
here until they reach the $4700
mark. After that, they are on
"professional status" and receive increases of $300_a year to
the maximum of $6700 with
bachelor degree or $6900 with
master's degree.
The board also has under consideration a plan to provide
merit raises above the maximum for outstanding teachers,
Jensen said . . . but the present
maximum is already higher
than in most surrounding
schools of comparable or even
larger size.
Said Art Katterjohn, president   of   the   Teachers'   club:
(Continued on Page 10)
Fireman Should
Have Stood in Bed
Volunteer fireman Bob Estes
should have ignored a fire call
at 3:30 a.m. Saturday:
When he got up to answer the
phone, he bumped into a door.
Later, on the way to the fire,
his car collided with a vehicle
driven by Ron Finkbeiner, and
Bob suffered a cut lip that required two stitches.
His car was damaged to an
estimated $150 . . . and after
that, it ran out of gas.
The fire, at the corner of Ellsworth and Tessmer roads, was
a flaming automobile owned by
a Detroit man. The blaze, which
'the firemen said apparently
started in the engine, completely
destroyed the car.
Whether or not his national heritage is Irish, Marvin Walsh,
of Saline-Ann Arbor road, above receives congratulations
from a fellow Hoover plant employee on Walsh's downright
splendid St. Patrick's Day attire ... Mrs. Walsh had worked
• till midnight the night before to have it ready.
M. D. Avery, president of the
Federal Land Bank of St. Paul,
has "announced that the Federal
Land Bank Association of Ann
Arbor has been awarded 1959
"Office of the Year" for the
State of Michigan.