1960-05-04; Saline Reporter

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The Saline Reporter
VOLUME 13, NUMBER 33 — WEDNESDAY, MAY 4, 1960
"First With All the Local News'
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Census Bureau Tallies Saline City at 2332
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Total is 168
Short for
Mail Delivery
The population of the city of
Saline is 2332.
The figure was announced today by John R. Thompson, Jr.,
of the district office of the census in Jackson, in a letter in
which he pointed out that the
population count is a preliminary one, subject to minor revision, but any significant
change is "unlikely."
But the total is 168 short
of the 2500 required by Postal
regulations for door-to-door
mail delivery. Local attorneys
and Chamber of Commerce officials weren't sure what procedure would be required to institute a special census for
postal reasons . . . when the
other 168 people have moved in
. . . but were "almost positive"
that such a special census
would be possible.
Saline's census, the first completed in Washtenaw county,
was taken by Mrs. Donald D.
Rapp, working as crew leader
with 16 enumerators for her
entire crew (two in the city).
She is now one of three crew
leaders working on Stage II of
the census in the county, and
is handling Ypsilanti, Ypsilanti
township, and her former area
of Saline, part of Milan, and
York and Augusta townships.
Thorn pson's announcement,
received by the city today, said:
"I take pleasure in making a
preliminary announcement of
the population of Saline. The
census count today, Saline city
"otal, is 2332. This figure is
Sieved to be substantially correct, but is subject to revision
after the returns for non-residents are credited to their proper locality, and other routine
checks have been made."
"Although a significant revision is unlikely, minor revisions may possibly occur..."
Thompson, earlier, had said
that such minor revisions would
probably amount to more than
*!4 of one per cent.
Final census figures will be
announced from Washington,
about Dec. 1.
Brown Enters Race
For School Board
Everybody had fun at the Cub Scout Carnival. Above, spectators and families cluster around one of the exhibits that
included everything from 10-pins to a mirror game.
But some couldn't take the pace. Above, an exhausted infant, Boy, son of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Mallory, slept
through the last half of the evening. His sister, Mary, held
out pretty well. <
Week Nets
$79,620 for
New Wing
In only one week's time, canvassers for the building fund
of St. Paul's E.&R. Church collected pledges in the amount of
$79,620 for the proposed 122x
41-foot addition to the church.
The new wing and main entrance, planned to provide additional space for-Sunday
School  rooms,   meeting rooms,
and dining space to seat 350 to
400 persons, would be erected
at estimated cost of $120,000.
The amount of pledges turned
in after the week-long funds
drive constituted "a-very good
response", the Rev. Alfred
Hardt said, and the Church
Council will meet Monday "to
decide on the next step". The
$79,620 represented "almost
complete" reports from the canvassing group, the Rev. Mr.
Hardt said.
SALINIANS  ATTEND
ROTARY  CONVENTION
A number of Saline Rotarians
and their wives attended the
two-day convention of District
638 of Rotary International, in
Chatham, Ontario, Sunday and
Monday.
Besides the Rev. Robert- Rich?
ards, who was one of the speakers, Salinians present included
Leo Jensen, Mr. and Mrs. Harold Gray, Mr. and Mrs. Dwight
Reynolds, Mr. and Mrs. Leon
Vedder, and Mr. and Mrs.
Gerry Coe. Mrs. Gray gave the
toast to the Queen, at the
highlighting banquet Monday
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Tempest Brewing Over
Rescinded Assessment
A    full-sized    tempest    was April,  1955. In 1956,  the city
FIRE DESTROYS
SMOKEHOUSE,  BARN
The Saline Fire Department i
was called to the Wilbert Schai-'
ble farm, 8005 Pleasant Lake
Road, Freedom township, early
Saturday morning, when a
smokehouse and small barn
were destroyed by fire.
Saline firemen  succeeded in
stopping   the   flames   from
spreading to a garage and other;
nearby buildings.
brewing this week over a rescinded assessment district on
Mills road.
The $1781.93 assessment district, spread in November, 1959,
was rescinded by a 3-2 vote of
City Council in an April meeting, after Councilman Jack
Bennett said he believed it had
been  "improperly spread".
The battle that ensued was
renewed this week; when Mayor
Frank Deede and Councilman
Henry Leutheuser refused to
accept the minutes of the earlier decision.
Issues in the matter go all
the way back to 1955.
The portion of Mills road under discussion runs from the
south line of Green Acres subdivision to W. Bennett street.
It was dedicated to the city in
Hornets Lead Conference on
Diamond, Shine on Cinders
By Lanny Robbins
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Normally a dismal occupation for local spectators, this
year suddenly it's the Spring
sports that are stealing the pic-
*■*• ture from -all the seasons before. Last year's baseball team,
which led the old Huron League
for a few weeks, is being rapidly forgotten in the face of
the brilliant record piled up by
Don Jaeger's squad in the past
few weeks. Track teams at Saline often have produced many
great athletes, but never in such
quantity before now.
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BASEBALL
In baseball it's now just one
team that reigns at the top of
the Washtenaw Conference
race, Saline. Tuesday afternoon they invaded Pinckney Pirate territory and polished off
the nearest team to them in
the standings.
Senior Doug Hoeft, who
hurled the entire contest, had
^a shaky start in the first two
frames, giving the Pirates two
^iJiits and a run in each inning.
But after that he settled down
and totaled three strikeouts, no
walks, and six hits. Barker was
losing pitcher.
The local  nine counted  five
4 runs, six hits, and two errors
for themselves.
The line score:  :	
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Pinckney   	
SALINE TOPS local nine guilty of only two er-
ROOSEVELT 9-2 rors.
Thursday   the   Hornets   had     In the third inning the Sal-
moved into the tie for top spot J inians   opened    their     scoring
the diamond with an over-, binge. Kuebler walked and Wie-
on
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whelming triumph over the vis-! busch singled. Both then came
i ti n g Roosevelt Roughriders in on errors. The fourth was the
9-2. (only other frame that Jaeger's
Junior hurler John Thoss team scored in, but they got
went the distance for the Hor-, seven runs to sew up the game,
nets, allowing five hits, walking, John Thoss, first at bat in the
five, and fanning eight. Losing inning, slammed the Hornets'
pitcher was Rockwell whom the \ first homer of the season. Next
Hornets slugged for eight hits, up, Bob Starling clicked off a
while striking out six times and single, as did Earl Roehm who
pulling the four-ball count on!followed him. Kuebler sacrific-
three occasions. ed to move them both around.
By far Saline's best slugging Wiebusch banged a fly that the
game of the season, it was also Roughrider center-fielder bobb-
a good day in the field, with the; led to bring in both Roehm and
Kuebler. Bixby went to first on
a walk, Gable flied out. -McDon-
-faM brought in three runs with
a single. Chantelois tripled for
McDonald's score and came on
home himself on a left-fielder's
error. Thoss flied to first base
for the final out of the inning.
The Hornets had no more runs
or hits after that.
Roosevelt came up with a two
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S. Ann Arbor St.
To Be Blacktopped
City DPW head Mike Strait
was instructed by Council Monday to prepare a cost estimate
for blacktopping, curb and gutter on South Ann Arbor street,
work which the city plans to do
this summer on a "public necessity" basis.   ,
Council also instructed City
Attorney Allan Grossman to
draw up an assessment district
for the work, and announced
that a hearing on the public
necessity will be held in the
near future.
Also on the summer street
improvement schedule is Spring
NEARLY HALF
PLAN COLLEGE
A poll of Saline High School
seniors, the class of I960* revealed that 47.5 per cent intend
to continue their schooling at
colleges or universities, teacher
street, where work has been pe- Dominick Pellegreno revealed
titioned by property owners.      this week.
passed a resolution stating that
henceforth the developers of all
subdivisions would be required
to deposit sufficient funds with
the city to cover the cost of
blacktopping.
In 1958, Crawford Homes,
Inc., developed Green Acres, but
sold the property before the
development had reached the
blacktopping stage. In the fall
of 1959, the city blacktopped
that section of Mills road. On
October 5, 1959, a hearing was
held oh the matter, and the assessment was made.
The move to rescind the assessment was made by Bennett,
seconded by J. C. Little, and
approved by Orren Corl. Deede
City Charter
Revision to
Go on Ballot
City Council Monday night
acted to place the issue of a
city Charter Revision on the
August 2 primary ballot, together with candidates to serve
as members of a Charter Revision Commission.
The election of Commission
members will be valid only if
voters approve a charter revision, on the same ballot.
The action to place the issue
before the voters in August followed a decision by an earlier,
appointed charter study committee, that a new city charter was needed here.
If voters approve the proposition, they will simultaneously elect a nine-man Charter
Commission to work out a charter for later voter approval.
Under the Michigan Home
Rule Act (applicable here since
Saline's Charter contains no
provision for its own revision)
the nine-member Commission
must consist of persons who
have lived in the city for three
years or more, and who hold no
elective or appointive city office.
TEEN AGE ROAD-E-0
SET MAY 14
The annual Junior Chamber
of Commerce sponsored Teen
Age Road-E-O will be held at
noon, Saturday, May 14, at the
Intermediate School, the JC's
announced this week.
Contestants (who must hold
drivers' licenses) may contact
JC member Ron Finkbeiner for
details.
Woman's Club To
Entertain Seniors
The last meeting of the Saline
Woman's Club before the summer recess will be held at the
Methodist Church on May 10.
A luncheon will be served at
12:30 by ladies of the Dorcas
circle, followed by a business
session, conducted by the president, Mrs. Lynford Bracey. The
new officers will be inducted into their offices.
At 2:30 the senior girls of the
UDC Plans
11,000 Foot
Addition
Construction will begin immediately on an 11,000 square
foot addition to the west wing
of the Universal Die plant here,
planned to allow expansion of
the plant's paint and assembly
departments, A. F. Duttweiler,
general manager, announced today.
The $66,000 building, to be
completed about August 1, will
provide room for "an increase
in over-all capacity, and very
likely some increase in employment," Duttweiler said. It is
planned in conjunction with
"some major plant rearrangement" in which other departments will be moved to allow a
better flow of materials
through the plant.
Contractor for the addition
is the Cunningham Limp firm
of Detroit, who constructed
UDCs previous addition, last
year. The new facilities will be
occupied even before the building is completed.     '
Possible 7th
Candidate
'Undecided1
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and  Leutheuser voted against g^ ^ gchool ^ be the
it.
"You    mark    my    words,"
said Leutheuser this week. "If
guests of the club for dessert,
and there will be a program
which will include readings by
we rescind this, then half the Mrs. William Austin and music
town will want their money
back. All the streets in the new
subdivisions were assessed, and
if everybody wants their money,
it could cost the city $100,000.
This is the dirtiest piece of
business I've ever seen."
"If they set up a special;
meeting, I don't know if I'll
go," Leutheuser added. "I want
a public hearing at a regular
meeting on this thing. The peo-
l pie who live in other subdivisions are paying for their curb
and gutter in the price of their
homes, and the people on Mills
road should- pay, too."
Mayor Deede agreed: "If we
go through this, almost everybody  in- town  that  has  been
Brigadier General Ronald D. charged could ask to have their
Salmon,   Commanding   General assessment rescinded. The cost
by pupils of the school music
department.    .
Arrangements are being
planned by the officers and the
Public Welfare Department.
Reservations should be made
j by the night of May 6 with Mrs.
Edwin Hering, department
chairman.
Mrs. Minnie Brassow under-
•w e n t surgery Wednesday at
Ridgewood Osteopathic hospital.
Clean-Up Week
The week of May 9th is
proclaimed by the City of
Saline as Clean-Up Week.
On Thursday, May 13th,
rubbish will be picked up at
the curb if placed in suitable
containers.
Frank Deede, Mayor
ROOM MOTHERS
PLAN RECEPTION
A reception and coffee hour
for new room mothers is scheduled by the High School Room
Mothers at 8 a.m. Tuesday in
the all-purpose room at the
school. The program will be a
panel discussion on "The Room the
Mothers' Part in Schooling."    [June 1.
Harold Brown, of 257 South
Ann Arbor street, a research
technician and former teacher,
this week announced his candidacy for one of the school
board posts to be filled at the
June 13 election.
Brown's announcement
brought the roster of candidates for the four posts to six
—and a seventh petition was
taken out in behalf of Everett
Esch, of Pond View. Esch, however said he had not yet decided whether he would be a
candidate.
Saline area voters will go to
the polls June 13 to fill four
Board of Education seats, two
three-year terms and two four-
year terms, to bring the total
number of School Board members to seven this year for the
first time. The two expiring
terms are those of Raymond
Girbach and Alwin Burkhardt,
and Burkhardt has declined to
run for another term.
Other candidates who have
announced their intention to
run for the posts Included Francis Lockwood, Lauren Wild, Or-
mond Jedele, Donald Wiedman,
and Girbach.
Brown, who is 47, has been
employed for eight years at the
University of Michigan's Willow Run research center. He
holds a bachelor of science and
education degree from Bowling
Green State university in Ohio.
He has taught' maj-h and science
and acted as coach at Green
Springs, O., and taught at
Thompson Township Consolidated school near Belleview, O.,
for three years before coming
to Saline in 1942.
He is the father of three
children, two now in school
here and -the third, a Saline
graduate, attending Michigan
State university.
He is an elder of the Federated Church, where he has been
music director for a number of
years.
Esch said he expected to
make a decision as to his possible candidacy in about a
week.
' All of the candidates have
been invited to state their views
at a public meeting of the Saline Area Civic association at
Elementary    School    on
of El Toro, Calif., and Commander of Marine Corps Air
Bases, Western Area, retired
this week -with full honors, including a parade of personnel
of the El Toro Air Station on-
Friday.
should; absolutely be assessed
to  the  property owner."
Bennett contended that the
cost of the paving should be
borne by the city on any one
of a number of grounds:
"If it's part of Green Acres,
then why didn't the developer
put up the money as called for
The general, who had served fa fbe resolution? ware's the
as Commander of the Western j money?»
Area since 1958, is the brother! ..^ jt>s nQt part of Green
of Mrs. D. C. McCormick, of1' Acres> ^ shouM fee put m-at
8858 Saline-Milan road. Her son, dty 0-pensej ^ same as South
the general's nephew, Cpl. Roy Ann Arbor gtreetj Sout^ Har.
McCormick, is a member of his ris (Leutheuser said South Har.
uncle's command and partic- ris was paM fot by a .develop.
ipated in the retirement cere- er)j North Harris, Detroit
monies. street,   Wheeler  court,   Russell
street, Monroe street, and
others. It's as much an existing street as they were."
"If it was put in at property
owners' expense as a matter of
public necessity, then a public
hearing was legally required
before it was paved. The hearing was held afterwards."
A special meeting^n the subject has been callea for Wednesday nignt, May 11, at 8 p".m.
REGISTRATION OPEN
FOR KINDERGARTEN
Registrations for the fall
1960 Kindergarten session will
be taken at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday,
May 24, Elementary School
Principal Marian Barclay has
announced. Parents are asked
to bring their children's birth
certificates.
ATOM CONFERENCE DELEGATE!
Richard Johnson, 16-year-old son of Mr.
and Mrs. Clarence Johnson of 319 N. Ann
Arbor street, Saline, will be one of six Detroit Edison-sponsored delegates attending
the 1960 National Youth Conference on the
Atom. The confeernce will he held at the
Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago
and is scheduled for October 20-22. In the
phpto, he  is  shown wittr Avery  Downer,
cusomer business representative for Detroit
Edison.
Richard, a "junior at Saline Area High
School, was named a delegate because of
his interest and aptitude in physics, as evidenced by Ms exhibit which won a third-
place award in the physics division of this
year's Southeastern Michigan Science Fair
in Ann Arbor.
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