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VOLUME 13, NUMBER 31 — WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20, 1960
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Four School Board
Seats to be Filled
JC's tackled a big order in the nearly 1000
Easter eggs that had to be colored in preparation for the annual egg hunt for youngsters, Saturday. But... to make the children
happy . . . the clan gathered Friday evening
at Jim Ford's home, boiled the eggs in a huge
cauldron, and put the dye job on an assembly
line. Above JC's and wives: Jean Haarer,
Merritt Martin, Gerald Haarer, Ford, Bill
Stoll, Don Rapp, Julie Rapp. Others, not
shown but present, were Mr. and Mrs. Dave
Cobb, Mr. and Mrs. Mike Rotunno, Mrs.
Stoll, Mrs. Ford, and Warren Hanson.
State Pelfce Issue
Warning on Molesters
Now is the time to warn your
children about talking with
strangers advises Sgt. Carl Anderson commanding officer of
the Clinton post of the Michigan State Police, who reminds
that the season of warmer
weather always brings an increase in child molestation
cases.
Sex offenses against children
reach their peak during the
summer vacation period. A
word of caution now could help
your child from becoming involved in a degrading experience that could mar his life or
even  bring physical  harm.
"The safest rule for children
to follow," Sgt. Anderson said,
"is to have nothing to do with
strangers and to tell their parents immediately if any strangers approach them and offer
them candy or other tilings if
they will go with them."
Child molestation cases investigated by the State Police
increased-3.2 per cent last year,
18 more than the 538 reported
the previous year. The highest
incidence was in August with
76 as compared to 71 in July,
the high month the year before.
June last year was second with
73 cases and July next with 61.
April, as the previous year,
showed a marked jump from 29
cases in March to 52. With the
sart   of   school  in   September,
North Central
Accreditation
Now Official
The official certification of
Saline High School as a member of the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools lias been received here by High School
Principal Elmer Houghton, together with a letter from the
association asking that Houghton congratulate school administrators and staff on their
work toward accreditation.
The certification of Saline as
an accredited school is the result of a 2y2 year work program
here which included study of facilities required and their incorporation in the new school,
many complex reports oh Saline's equipment and staff, and
the reception of several study
committees representing the association.
incidents dropped off, which is
characteristic of the pattern
each year according to State
Police records.
One of the difficulties in coping with the child molestation
problem, according to Sgt. Anderson, is the reluctance of parents to report incidents to the
police for fear of embarrassing
publicity. For this reason, the
problem is a larger menace
than figures indicate.
•The press, radio and television never use the names of children except in cases of murder,
and if all incidents were reported police would have a much
greater chance of apprehending
offenders and offenses could be
reduced considerably.
Another important factor
which could lessen the problem,
Sgt. Anderson said, is to impress children that policemen
are friends who want to help
and protect them. They should
be encouraged not to be afraid
to notify police of any strangers seen loitering around playgrounds, neighborhoods, schools
or at public comfort stations.
Because depraved men and
women are often successful in
enticing children to become victims of their immoral and criminal sex behavior, Sgt. Anderson
suggests several "don'ts" and
"do's" for parents to tell their
children to protect them:
1. When you meet strangers
walking or in cars, do not stop
to talk with them.
2. Always know the person
you are with. If you don't do not
accept rides or go for walks
with them.
3. Don't let strangers join you
during play hours at school or
around home.
4. If it is necessary for you
to use public toilets, leave immediately after you are finished. These are danger spots.
5. Don't play or walk alone
in alleys, deserted buildings and
other secluded places. Always
arrange to be with one or more
playmates. -
6. If strangers offer you money, a gift, candy or ice cream,
do not accept them.
7. If a stranger offers to give
you a job to earn some spending money, do not accept or go
with him until you have talked
with your parents and they have
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Spring Dance
Recital to Benefit
Interlochen Fund
Students of Mary Lou Gall
will present their annual spring
dance recital on April 29 and
30 at the Little Theatre, Saline High School. Curtain time
is 8 p.m.
The recital is being sponsored by the Saline High School
Band. Proceeds will go to the
group's Interlochen fund.
Tickets are available from
band members, dance students,
and at the door.
Cancer Drive
To Open Here
Next Week
The annual fund drive of the
Washtenaw county chapter of
the American Cancer Society
will go into full swing in Saline next week, local drive
chairman Paul Tull announced
today. But canisters and informational material have already been placed in both Saline banks.
The county drive, conducted
throughout the month of April,
is under the chairmanship of
Thomas Dickinson, of Ann Arbor, with a quota of $30,500. No
quota has been set in Saline.
Activities of the Washtenaw
unit of the American Cancer
society have included:
1. Maintenance of a local Cancer Information Center (343
Municipal Court Building)
staffed by volunteers, trained to
furnish information and literature and, upon request to make
appointments with doctors.
2. An active dressings program : Some 400 volunteers from
20 service groups made approximately 25,000 dressings in 1959,
all supplied to cancer victims at
no charge.
3. Maintenance of "Loan
Chests" of articles needed by
cancer patients.
4. NURSING SERVICE: The
Visiting Nurse Association made
473 visits to cancer patients in
1959. The Washtenaw unit of
ACS paid in full or in part for
these visits—costing  $1,710.00.
5. Operation of a revolving
Loan Fund, without interest, for
needy cancer victims who are
citizens of Washtenaw County.
6. EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS   ....    films    and
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-Saline area residents will
elect four members to Board
of Education posts in the
June 13 balloting, Superintendent Leo Jensen announced
today.
A bill in the legislative hopper that might have made the
seven-member board "permissive" in this area, died in committee when the legislature recessed, Jensen explained.
Thus, under the present statute, electors of the Saline area
School system will fill two expiring   three-year   terms,   plus
Kiwanian's
*Key' Group
Started Here
With 36 members, Saline's
new Kiwanis Key club received
its charter Monday evening in
ceremonies at the High School.
Officers in the new organization include Bob Todd, president; Larry Carr, vice president; Wally Keck, secretary;
and Neil Haarer, treasurer.
The Key Club, which" in Saline has been in development for
a year and a half, is sponsored
by Kiwanians through their
boys' and girls' work, a young
men's organization which duplicates Kiwanis work on a junior scale.
Among state Key club officials present at the Monday
dinner and program were
Charles ,C. Saur, governor of
the Michigan District of Kiwanis r International, who presented the charter; District
1 Key club chairman David;
Leeke, who presented the official patch; David Rowland, past
governor of the Michigan "District of Key clubs, who gave
the major address; and Gary
Wild of Saline, lieutenant "governor of Division 6 Key clubs,
who presented the membership
cards.
Other guests were Kiwanians
and wives, and parents of the
Key club members.
two additional four-year terms,
I bringing the Board of Education membership to seven. The
expiring terms are those of Al-
Iwin Burkhardt,   a  member  of
■the board for 11 years who announced that he will not run
, again;   and  Raymond  Girbach,
who has said he will be a candidate for another term but will
declare for one of the four-year
vacancies.
Nominating petitions for the
school board posts are available now at the High School office, Jensen said, and they must
be returned to Oliver Steiner,
secretary of the board, not later than 4 p.m. May 24. The petitions must carry not less than
25 signatures.
No petitions have been taken
out as yet, Jensen said.
Meanwhile, Saline area Civic
association, which had announced plans to invite all school
board candidates to a May "4
meeting, this week postponed
"candidates night" until Wednesday, June 1, in order that all
candidates for the posts would
be filed prior to the meeting.
The session will be held at Saline Elementary School and will
be open to the public.
ROTARIANS TO
SEE MOVEE
A film on "Oil and Men" will
be shown at the Thursday noon
meeting of Rotary club at the
Saline Hotel. George Mains'" is
program chairman.
JURORS PICKED
FOR MAY TERM
Four York township residents
were among 60 persons named
this week to serve as jurors during the May term of Circuit
Court. They are George Burg,
Gus Grams, Mildred Kloepper,
and Iva Sanford.
Plans Announced
For Cub Carnival
Ten dens of Cub Scouts will
cooperate this week in setting
up the biggest event of the Cub
Scout spring season . . . the annual Cub Scout Carnival to be
held from 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday, April 27, at Saline Elementary School.
Booths, one featured by each
den, will include a. fun house,
a fish pond, dart games, bowling games, bean bag toss, and a
"mirror game" put on by the
entire pack, with home-made
cakes as prizes.
Tickets for the events are
five cents each, and the public
is invited. All proceeds remain
with the local Cub Scouts, for
materials and equipment . . .
among equipment purchased
with funds from earlier Cub
events are two jigsaws for the
boys' use.
Chairman for the Carnival is
Henry Belote; other members
of the committee include Scoutmaster Jim Beal, assistant
Scoutmaster E. Barrett, and
i Warren Hanson.
JC's Launch
.Convention
, Petitions
I Junior Chamber of Commerce
President   Jack   Graf   obtained
1 signatures  from   City  Council-
imen Monday evening on one of
the petitions JC's will circulate
to put a Constitutional Convention on the ballot.
| The organization also received
city permission to conduct a
door-to-door drive for signatures here on Thursday evening, April 28, and Thursday
.evening, May 5.
I Graf also agreed with a suggestion from Councilman Henry Leutheuser that the JC's
might hold a public meeting to
acquaint voters with the purpose of the petitions and the
reasons why a Constitutional
Convention is desired.
j The Con Con move, launched
on a  statewide  scale  by  the
•League of Women Voters and
1 the Michigan Junior Chamber
of Commerce, will need 300,000
signatures on petitions by June
1, in order to place a Convention call on the ballot for the
spring of 1961. The petitions
would send to a Convention one
delegate from each legislative
and senatorial district in Michigan, and alter the percentage
of votes required to approve a
Convention so that a majority
of those voting in the election
would be sufficient.
Editor's Mailbag
It is often true that the purpose and nature of any newly
formed organization is not clear
until that organization has been
in existence for some time. During this period of establishment, it is only natural that
many questions will arise and
it is the responsibility of t h e
organization in question to answer them fairly and completely-
The Saline area is feeling the
"growing pains" consistent with
a rapidly increasing population.
Many of the people in this area
have begun to realize that many
new and complex problems will
be facing us in the next few
years. With this realization has
come the feeling that it is the
responsibility of every citizen to
•contribute something to the
community in the way of interest and time.
The present and past officials
in our city government and our
school district have made the
Saline area a place of which we
can be proud. Because of their
work, Saline has become a desirable place to live and more
and more people are eager to
move here and raise their families in this area.
In effect, this influx of new
people is a vote of confidence
in the Saline area and in the
ability of its governing bodies to cope with all" the new
problems every community
faces as it grows.
There has been an increasing
awareness that there is much
the people of the Saline area
can and should do to help their
elected officials at present and
in the future. To be well-informed about the problems we face
as a community is certainly one
of the most important responsibilities of any citizen.
To make recommendations to
our elected officials, on the basis of a thorough and judicious
study of community problems,
is also our responsibility.
We cannot expect the men
and women  in public  office
to read our minds. Neither is
it fair or just to criticize their
decisions   without  being   informed of the broader aspects
of   any   particular   situation
which have led them to make
such a decision.
The experience and ability of
our "area officials is an invaluable asset. If we add to this
an    interested,     well-informed
public  to  cooperate  with  the
men and women they elect, the
Saline area can deal with the
future more smoothly.
The Saline Area Civic Association was formed by interested
people who felt they could be of
use to the community and the
surrounding area.
The   association  is  open   to
residents of Saline proper and
to all others who reside in the
Saline area (generally consider-
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Fair to Be Held
At New School — If!
The 1960 Saline Community
Fair may be held at the grounds
of the new High School providing all the necessary facilities
are completed in time, Board of
Education members decided last
Wednesday after lengthy deliberation.
Among the facilities still to be
installed:   lighting  and  stands
at   the  athletic   grounds,   and
sanitary   arrangements   in   the
stands.  The Fair is  scheduled
September  14,  15, 16  and 17.
j    If it is held at the new school,
'Fair funds will be used to purchase a canvas to cover the gymnasium floor, according to Fair
j Board chairman, Raymond Gir-
Ibach. Home economics and agricultural exhibits will be placed
in the gym. The Fair Board has
not decided whether it would be
possible   to   have  horse-pulling
this  year,   Girbach   said,   since
there is not a suitable place for
the event at the school.
BUILDING PERMITS
TOTAL $1650
Building permits were issued
Monday by City Council to Harry Cogar, 217 S. Ann Arbor
street, for the addition of a
family room, $1500; and to
Estes Pharmacy, to insulate a
rear porch, $150.
City Census Total
Expected Today
Saline First Area
To be Completed
A preliminary population figure, from the Bureau of the
Census, was expected momentarily today by Saline city officials, who learned from the
Jackson office that the city's
count was complete for Stage I
of the census and would be released as soon as it had been
checked. No other area in
Washtenaw county has been finished as yet.
City Council two weeks ago
had requested that a preliminary report be given which is not
done without official request in
communities of less than 10,000.
Preliminary reports on Washtenaw county, Ann Arbor, and
Ypsilanti will be released by the
district office as soon as they
are available.
Saline's census crew leader,
Mrs. Donald D. Rapp, was the
only one of nine Washtenaw
county crew leaders whose area
was completed by the April 16
deadline, Jack Thompson, district census supervisor said.
Other leaders in the county still
had two or more enumerators
working this week.
Mrs. Rapp, whose 16 enumerators counted the city of Saline, York and Augusta townships (including the Federal
Penitentiary near Milan and
Ypsilanti State hospital) and
part of Milan, will continue into Stage n of the census program, in which she will handle
her own district as well as Ypsilanti township and the city of
Ypsilanti.
The two other Washtenaw
county crew leaders retained for
Stage H count are Harold
Schneider of Ann Arbor; and
Mrs. Martha Reed, of Chelsea.
Stage H includes completion of
work not finalized in Stage I,
plus tabulation of the more
elaborate questionnaires filled
out by every fourth household.
Even though it is not completed, Washtenaw county and
the second census district
(Washtenaw, Lenawee, Jackson,
and Monroe counties) are still
well ahead of other areas in the
state, Thompson said. A recent
report from Washington, D.C.,
showed the district -96 per cent
complete before Easter.
All of Mrs. Rapp's enumerators had finished their work last
Thursday night, she said. She
expressed thanks to residents
for their cooperation with census-takers, to the Saline City
Hall and Milan village office,
and to the Saline schools for
the use of space for training.
Mrs. Rapp also reminded
householders who received blue
forms to fill out and mail them
immediately. "Otherwise, they
may get another call from an
enumerator,", she said.
"RESn>ENTS WONDERFUL"
SAYS ENUMERATOR
"Saline township residents
are wonderful," said Mrs. Mel-
vin Armbruster this week. She
has recently completed* work as
a census enumerator in the
township.
"I covered the township without getting one sarcastic answer," she added. "I got offers
of coffee, lunch, and road directions, day after day. I don't
live in Saline township myself,
but I think something should
be said about those people. They
are wonderful."
Hire Teacher
For Special
Education
Alberta Hacskaylo, of Ann
Arbor, has been employed to
teach the Special Education
room in the Elementary School,
for grades one through three
next year, School Superintendent Leo Jensen announced today.
Mrs. Hacskaylo, who holds a
bachelor's degree in special education from Eastern Michigan
university, and a master's degree in special education from
the University of Michigan, has
been employed as a teacher for
a number of years at the state
hospital in Northville. She will
begin teaching in Saline in September.
Under the joint Saline-Milan
plan set up for Special Education, Elementary school children
will be taught here, and children
placed in. grades four through
seven will be transported to Milan; grades eight through 12
will be taught in Saline by a
local teacher, Bernice McCoy,
who has been in charge of such
a room here for a number of
years.
A complete list of teachers
employed by the Board of Education for the coming year will
be released in the near future,
Jensen said.
C. of C. Backs
Proposed Bus
Service Here
A resolution giving full
Chamber of Commerce support
to a proposal for an Ann Arbor-
Saline bus run was approved
Tuesday at the annual dinner
meet, and will be presented at
a Public Service Commission
hearing on the matter April 29.
The hearing in Lansing will
determine whether or not the
City Bus Co. of Ann Arbor
shall set up a bus route making five runs a day between Saline and downtown Ann Arbor.
A number of Saline residents
,will also attend the hearing to
I testify as to the need for such
a bus route here.
Above is a view, from the east, of the main
entrance of St. Paul's E.&R. Church, as it
will appear if the proposed $120,000 building
program is completed. The presenflDhurch
school building will be torn down to make
room for the new wing; and other nearby
buildings on* the street are not shown in the
drawing.