1960-04-06; Saline Reporter

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The Saline Reporter
_   VOLUME 13, NUMBER 39 — WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 1960
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Council Ponders
Payroll Problem
The problem of whether or
not the city can meet its payrolls next month was discussed
briefly, without too much alarm,
Monday night by City Council
The next payroll, of $2600, is
due April 15, but the one really
in doubt is the $2600 payroll due
May 1. Both must come from
the city's low General Fund.
"I think we can get by April
15," City Treasurer, E. J. Muir
told Councilmen, "but something's got to happen before
May 1. If we had the state
money due us, we'd probably
weather the storm."
But most state monies are
not expected until sometime after May 1: $5400 in motor vehicle funds due in May; $3100
in sales tax returns, also due
in May; $1060 in liquor license
fees due in June, plus another
$1060 by which the state is in
arrears since last year.
The city also received only
half of intangibles tax money
in 1959 . . . $1100 due for last
August is still payable.
Finally, the city has already
advanced about $8500 on special
assessments, Muir said; and an
application is before the Mich-1
igan Finance Commission to al- (
low Saline to borrow against
these future assessment payments.
However:
Said Mayor Frank Deede: "As
the city grows, our credit increases, so we're a long way
from broke."
Said Henry Leutheuser: "We
don't need any money."
Said J. C.Little: "Let's skip
it for now, and have a special
meeting later if necessary."
In other..action, Council discussed the possibility of an ordinance setting up weight restrictions for city streets, decided to advertise for bids on
rubbish    collection,     and    an
nounced it will entertain petitions for street, curb and gutter
work to be done during the summer but wants to hear them before the May 2 meeting in order
to set up a budget.
Council also appointed, on a
temporary basis, John Klein,
of 219 Lawson, as plumbing inspector, and Dick Cole, of 211
S. Davenport, as electrical inspector for the city
DISTRICT SPEECH
CONTEST POSTPONED
The district contest of the
Michigan High School Forensic
association, originally scheduled
here April 8, has been postponed to Monday, April 11, in the
High School speech room and
Little Theater, Miss Ann Preston, chairman of the contest,
announced today.
Eight Saline students, winners of the local meet, are entered in the contest to begin at
1 p.m. Monday.
Conference
On Aging Set
Here in April
Organizations throughout
Washtenaw county have been
invited to send representatives
to a county Conference on Aging, at Saline High School from
9 a.m. to noon, Saturday, April
30.
Community leaders, and all
older persons and their families are also invited to the forum, to discuss such topics as
employment, finances, health,
housing, preparation for retirement and old age, use of leisure
time, and local, state and national resources for meeting the
needs of older people.
Sponsored by the Michigan
Legislative Advisory Council on
Problems of the Aging, and thet
Ann Arbor Senior Citizens Guild,
the meeting was set up to provide a forum for discussion of
problems associated with aging,
and for development of recommendations for dealing with
such problems in this county.
Following the county conference there will be a regional
meeting in May and a state conference in September to pull
together the findings from all of
Michigan's local area meetings.
Conclusions reached at the state
conference will be transmitted
to a national White House Conference on Aging, called by
President Eisenhower for January, 1961.
Already the fun has begun for the Saline Woman's club
Style Show and card party Saturday . . . above, Mrs. Ed
Warner and Mrs. Lee Robison, with Sherry! Badour and
Larry Lee Robison, try on some of the new spring styles
from Anderson's, to be modelled at the show. Tickets for the
event may be obtained from Mrs, William Meister or at the
door.
Style Show Planned
To Finance Scholarship
Plans are completed and models have already selected their
apparel for the* annual spring
.Style:. _Sh,ow.,^and. ^.ar.d,„,Party.
sponsored by the Saline Woman's club to raise funds for
a $100 scholarship.
The Saturday event is scheduled   at   8   p.m.   at   the   High
JAYCEES TO MEET |
Members  of the Ann Arbor j
Junior  Chamber  of  Commerce
will be guests Thursday, April
7, at the regular meeting of the
Saline JCC, at the Saline Hotel.
at 8 p.m. |
OES Plans Annual
White Breakfast
The annual "White Breakfast" of the OES will be held at
9:30 a.m. on Maundy Thursday,
April 14, at the Masonic Hall,
with the Rev. Henry MeKenzie
as speaker, Matron Vivian Predmore announced today.
Tickets for the event, which
is open to the public, are $1, and
reservations may be made with
Mrs. Predmore or Mrs. Hugh
Austin, no later than Tuesday,
April 12.
Saline and Milan to Share
Special Education Classes
Plans for a cooperative Special Education program, linking
Saline and Milan, will provide
education, for the area's mentally handcapped children from
Elementary to High School, according to John Mader, director of the special education services of the county Board of
Education.
The joint system is part of a
county-wide plan to link school
districts in which there are not
sufficient numbers of such children to "allow for a more homogenous grouping as to ability and age", Mader said. Other
cooperating districts include
Chelsea-Manchester; and Dex-
ter-Whitmore Lake.
The system will provide an
Elementary School program in
Saline; upper Elementary ^and
Junior High School level training in Milan; and High School
in Saline. Thus, for the first
time iri either, school district,
'handicapped children will find
facilities keyed to- them at all
ability levels.
The joint program is set up
specifically for the mentally handicapped youngsters. Approximately 25 Saline area children
have been referred to the special education,-department for
diagnostic. ..te||yig to determine
whether they ^can benefit from
the/schooling. "* -   :
Physically handicapped
youngsters (visual, auditory, or
orthopedic) will be taken care of
in a different program altogether—present plans call for the
use of the Ypsilanti public school
system as a center to meet
their needs. Special classrooms
are provided for Elementary
School children within the
framework of the Ypsilanti
school system, which includes
the Rackham School of Special
Education at Eastern Michigan
University. The department will
attempt during the first year of
operation to meet the needs of
secondary school children by
employing teacher counsellors,
principally to work with the
blind and deaf, from grades seven through 12, in their regular
school programs.
The Saline-Milan program for
mentally handicapped youngsters .provides them education
without charge to the parents,
through Special Edcation mill-
age approved by county voters
last year. Transportation will be
provided by either the sending
or the receiving school district,
for children" eligible for the-program and able to profit by it,
Mader said.
The committee to determine
a child's eligibility and ability
to profit from the program is
made Tip of "psychologists, spe
cial classroom teachers, regular
classroom teachers, the public
health nurse, and the classroom
teacher who now has the child
... if he is now in school.  .
"A child would not be put
into such a program unless the
school district felt he would
profit more from such placement
than from regular placement,"
Mader said. "This is in no sense
an attempt to open rooms and
then throw children into them.
We are opening rooms only AFTER we have identified children
who do need such a service."
Applications are being received for teachers for the rooms,
but none has yet been hired
here, Leo Jensen, superintendent of schools said. Teachers
for the program must have special education certification.
The county's special education program also offers:
"Homebound" teachers to
work with children who must
remain at home because of
physical disability,- either temporary or permanent. The home-
bound service applies to all the
county school districts except
Ann Arbor, which maintains its
own homebound service.
"Visiting"teachers, whose primary responsibility is work with
children who have difficulty in
school or at home because^ of
emotional problems.
School, and proceeds will provide a scholarship for a worthy
Saline senior, to be selected later* according to^Mrs? Ed- Wa%
ner, chairman of the event.'
Lunch will be served and
cards will be played, after the
showing of spring styles provided by Anderson's store here.
Tickets will be available at the
door, or from Mrs. William
Meister, ticket chairman, or any
Woman's   club  member.
Moderator for the show will
be Mrs. Kenneth Rogers, and
Mrs. Meredith Bixby is in
charge of music. Mrs. Frank
Harwood will be in charge of
make-up; and Mrs. Robert Starling has selected models.
Other chairman include Mrs.
Leo   Jensen,   co-chairman  with
Mrs. Warner; Mrs. Everett Wol-
|fin, prizes;   and  Mrs.   Rudolph
.Hertler and Mrs. E. B. Schenk,
-. food chairmen.
I Among the models for the
affair are Anita Larson, Sandra
Lange, Rebecca Ealy, and Beth
Ann Volz; Mrs. Clem Corunna,
Mrs. Michael Rotunno, Mrs.
Phil Badour and Serryl, Babs
Schmid, Mrs. Carl Mpehn and
Debby and Jacqueline, Liz and
Mary Merchant, Mrs. George
Winkle, Mrs. Leonard Wight,
Mrs. Lee Robison and Larry
Lee, Mrs. Francis Lockwood,
Mrs. Ed Filsinger.
• Others are Mrs. Robert Hoeft,
'Marje Hieber, Janet Hertler,
Paula Stralnic, Betsy Wright,
Ann Prout, Susan" Coates, Nan-
Icy and Jack Starling, Jane Estes, Nora Bixby, Janice Nielsen;
Dawn, Marti, and Lynlee Smiley; Jack Starling, Bruce Finkbeiner, Roger Lockwood, Mrs.
Milton Finkbeiner, and Mrs.
Wesley  Nielsen.
Clothing for boys, girls, and
women will be modelled.
Five Needed
To Testify
For Bus Line
Five persons are urgently
needed by the City Bus Co. of
Ann Arbor to testify before the
Michigan Public Service Commission on Friday, April 29, if
Saline is to have bus service to
and from Ann Arbor.
The bus company, which contemplates instituting a Saline-
Ann Arbor run, is also seeking
the names of persons who several years ago signed petitions
asking that an earlier bus line
should not be discontinued.
Five Saline area residents are
needed to travel to Lansing to
testify that such bus service is
needed here; and the Ann Arbor company will pay transportation, all expenses, and a day's
wages if the resident must leave
his work to make the trip.
The visit would require leaving Saline at 6 a.m., to appear
before the PSC at 9 a.m. in
Lansing, and return probably by
mid-afternoon, a bus company
representative said. Anyone
willing to make the trip is asked to call Arvin Marshall, 'president of the company, at NO
3-8044.
The prospective bus route —
five trips a day — would originate in downtown Saline and
downtown Ann Arbor, crossing
at the Hoover plant on State
road in time for shift changes;
and transfers to the Ann Arbor
city busses would be available.
The company has already received a great many requests
from Ann Arborites for transportation both to the Hoover
plant and to Saline, Marshall
said. Plans are to operate 21-
passenger Bantam busses, like
those used in Ann Arbor, on
the run.
Petitioners Protest
epot Plan
31 Merchants,
And Industries
Seek Hearing
Local Census Takers
Mired Down in Mud
Census enumerators generally
are making good progress, local
crew leaders reported today...
but muddy driveways and impassable county roads have
stalled them in some areas.
The trouble spots are roads
around Manchester, where one
enumerator got stuck in a
driveway and others were
forced to by-pass a number of
homes, and large sections of
Augusta township where three
enumerators found navigation
impossible, except on main
roads.
But both crew leaders, Mrs.
William Spike in charge of the
Manchester   section,   and  Mrs.
Building Permits
Total $7,080
The City Council Monday
night issued building permits,
adding up to $7,080, to:
Dale R. Valine, 562 Canterbury, for patio cover, $665; Joseph McDowell, 600 Canterbury,
carporte, $665; LaVerne Armbruster, 224 Pleasant Ridge,
carporte and patio roof, $950;
Hull's grocery, 400 N. Ann Arbor, 30 by 32 foot addition,
$3,500; Robert Balkovic, 311
Highland, wood fence, $300;
Waldo Gross, 111 N. Davenport,
garage and breezeway, $1000.
EASTER SUNRISE
SERVICE PLANNED
The annual Union Easter Sunrise service, planned by the
young people of the three participating churches, will be held
this year in Federated Church,
beginning at 6:30 a.m.
Members of the youth groups
of the Methodist church and of
St. Paul's Evangelical and Re-
j formed church will assist in the
worship  service;   the  program
has been planned under the di-
Irection of the host youth group,
■ with Beverly Jo Brown, moderator  and  Mr. James  Bradley,
' advisor. Miss Carol Brown is in
charge of arranging special music for the occasion.
UDC PIN TEAM
MOVES UP TO  4th
A Universal Die team bowled
its way in fourth place in the
Ann Arbor Men's Bowling Association tournament, at Saline
Lanes here, Sunday afternoon.
Captained by William Jenkins, Jr., Universal team No.
4, moved into the top ten with
an actual score of 2505, handicapped score 2955. They trailed
teams from the Kennedy agency, Dexter, in first place, Smith
and Yahr, or Ann Arbor, and
Hi-Point Farms, Brighton.
Federated
Clubs Hold
State Meet
The 65th annual convention
of the Michigan State Federation of Women's clubs is meeting
at the University of Michigan,
at Ann Arbor, this week. This
is the first time that the annual
meeting is combined with the
Adult Education Institute,
which has been .mutually sponsored by the Federation and the
U of 'M for the past 27 years.
1 Of special interest to local
women will be the visit of Mrs.
R. I. C. Prout, immediate past
president of the General Federation of Women's Clubs. Mrs.
Prout is the only Michigan woman to hold this high office to
date and is the aunt of Dr. Gordon Prout of Saline. Mrs. Prout
has been in Europe oh assignment for the U.S. government
and arrived at Willow Run Airport on Tuesday. She will install the new state officers of
the Federation Thursday at 8
p.m., followed by a reception
for officers and guests to be
held at the Michigan Union at 9
p.m. given by the Federated Women's Clubs of Ann Arbor. All
members of the Federated Women's Clubs of Washtenaw
County are invited to attend
this function.
The Federated Clubs in Saline
.include   Saline   Woman's   club,
..Willing Workers, and Saline
Child Study club. Mrs. Meredith
Bixby is serving as chairman of
press-radio for the state meeting, Mrs. Lynford Bracey, Mrs.
'Everett *Collins, Miss Esther
Landwehr, and Mrs. Everett
Wolfin of the Saline Woman's
Club are acting as hostesses.
Donald D. Rapp in charge of
Augusta township, felt that the
census count would be completed on time — barring torrential rains.
Both crew leaders also reported most householders fully
cooperative with their enumerators, and all enumerators had
reported with one exception, in
each crew. Mrs. Rapp, working
with 16 enumerators and a reviewer, is in charge of Saline
City, Augusta and York townships, and part of Milan. Mrs.
Spike, with a reviewer and 16
enumerators, is leading the census count in Manchester village,
Pittsfield, Sharon, Lodi, Saline,
Manchester and Freedom townships, and parts of Ann Arbor
and Ypsilanti townships.
Mrs. Spike's enumerators
have so far counted 1693 persons, with 77 call-backs scheduled.
A few headaches — besides
muddy roads — had developed
in both areas. Many householders had apparently thrown away
their Advanced Census Report
sheets, mailed ahead of time to
be filled out and saved till the
enumerators called; and some
persons said they had never received such a sheet. One "/
flatly refused to answer/the
questions on the sheet; he'would
rather go to jail, he told -fen e
enumerator. (The law provides
a $100 fine or 60 days in -jail
for failure to answer census
questions. But enumerators are
subject to a $1,000 fine for divulging any information they
receive.)
But, by and large, the big job
was getting done; a lot of noses
had already been counted.
TELL FIREMEN
WHICH ROAD!
Rural residents are urgently
advised to inform the fire department as to the best route to
take on the way to answer any
fire call, Fire Commissioner
Jack Bennett emphasized today. "A minute more on the
call might save up to an hour
on the way . . . and might save
valuable property or even lives,"
Bennett pointed out.
Unless they are advised as to
the most passable route, firemen and equipment could bog
down on bad roads, Bennett
warned.
PAST MATRONS
CHANGE TIME
■ The Past Matrons will meet
at 8:30 p.m. Monday, April 11,
at the home of Mrs. Lee Robison. Note change of time.
Carrying the signatures of
nearly every business and industry in the Saline area, a petition to the Michigan Public
Service Commission this week
asked for a hearing in which
to protest the proposed closing
of the New York Central railroad depot here.
The petition was circulated
even though W. H. Shearer, division superintendent for the
NYC system, told Chamber of
Commerce members Thursday
that service here would not be
slackened by. the move, planned
mainly to cut down overhead by
reducing the number of employees.
"The move has been greeted
with skepticism elsewhere,"
Shearer said, "but everyone has
expressed satisfaction with the
service after it was done in other communities."
"Incoming and outgoing carloads on this line have decreased approximately 50 per cent
since 1955," Shearer added, and
the present traffic does not justify maintaining a full-time of-.
fice here. The Railway Express
office, presently operated from
the-NYC depot, would probably
take a location elsewhere in Saline, he believed.
.The company's plan is to con-
,tinue.to«operate train service;
but if the depot here were clos-
edj ah office in Jackson would
take toll-free telephone calls for
pick-ups at business establishments, and less-than-carload
shipments would be made from
Detroit to the door, by truck.
Carload shipments in and out
would continue as - before, he
said, and a travelling agent
would spend "as much time in
Saline as necessary," probably
all day Wednesdays.
But at least one local merchant feared the system would
not be satisfactory in his business. "After the agent at Jasper was discontinued," said Lyle
Phillips, "the service was very
poor. About 10 or 15 days later,
we insisted they put the agent
back." Phillips was in business
in Ogden at that time At present, he is manager of the Saline
Mercantile feed mill, which,
shipped 81 carloads in and 36
carloads out, in 1959.
Signers of the petition included Saline Mercantile Co., Predmore Hardware, Kampman Ford
Tractor Sales, Howard I. Johnson Co., Hoover, Ball and Bearing, Bradson Mfg. Corp., Uniloy,
Inc., Universal Die Casting,
Westside Hardware, Inc., Dancer's Department Store; Saline
Flour Mills. Community Ford
Sales, Citizens Bank, Saline Savings Bank, the Saline Rotary
club, Wiedman Tractor Sales,
Elmer J. Steeb & Sons, H. L.
Brerinan, Distributors, Otto's
Cheese Shoppe, Walker's 5c and
$1 Store, Ted's Service, Ernest
Girbach, Gross Farm Implement, Bridgewater Machine &
Tool Co., Regis Mfg. Co., E. G.
Mann & Son, Klager Hatchery,
Braun Implement and Hardware, Bridgewater Lumber Co.,
Rusty's General Store, and P.
LansM & Sons.
ROOF FIRE EXTINGUISHED
The Saline Fire Department
was called early Tuesday evening to the Deppman farm at
6871 Waterworks Rd. to extinguish a roof blaze caused by
sparks from a chimney. Firemen termed damage to the roof
as slight.
It was a wonderful, even slightly weepy,
occasion, when all the youngsters of Saline
Elementary and Intermediate schools signed
a "thank you" booklet to police officer Earl
Kirby and presented it in a recent Safely Pa-.
trol Assembly. Above, after the presentation,
Sheriff George Petersen, Mrs. Kirby, Earl,
Robert Lewis of the Automobile Club of
Michigan, and Safety Patrol director Helen
Starling.
Fred O. Wiedman, of Saline
j and Ann Arbor, expected to
return" home Tuesday or Wednesday after a few days at St.
Joseph Mercy hospital for observation. -•"■:.