1960-05-18; Saline Reporter

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The Saline Reporter
VOLUME 13, NUMBER 35 - WEDNESDAY, MAY 18, 1960
10c PER COPY — §3 PER YEAR
"First With All the Local News'
School Plans Two
Day 'Open House*
Departments
To Place Year's
Projects on Display
A number of departments at
..the   High   School   will present
displays of students' work, this!so   ^na*-
week-end,   at   an   Open   House; community will be able to at-
Rand Offering
Week-End
Concert Treats
The Saline High school Concert Band will present two concerts   this  week-end   scheduled
every   person   in   the
Friday    evening    and    Sunday
afternoon.
The school will be open Friday from 7 to 10 p.m., and
Sunday from 2 to 6 p.m. when
the public is invited to inspect
the displays and attend concerts presented by the High
School Band.
tend   at   least  one   concert
but one ticket will enable a person to attend both concerts.
Each concert i s different,
planned along a definite theme,
and "designed to attract people
to both concerts," according to
Art Katterjohn, director.
Admission is by ticket, avail
able from the Band members or
Among   the   work   displayed    t the door adults 75c and stu.
dents 50c.   Proceeds from the
concerts will go into the Inter-
will be dresses and other sewing projects in the home-mak
ing department; paintings andlochen Trip ----^j These con-
crafts in the Art department; certs axe ^ major means of
and mechanical drawing and raismg money for this fund by
shop projects in the shop rooms members of the Concert Band,
on the north side of the build- Th& interlochen Trip is held
™g* in August each summer for the
There is no admission charge, members of'the High School
except for the concerts, for j Band, and is designed to fur-
which one ticKet will serve as' ther their musical education as
admission to both. iwell  as  provide  them  with  a
week of recreation in a musical
setting.
♦TOPS" Concert -
Friday Evening
•    Friday evening, May 20, at 8
:p.m., in the High School audi-
jtorium, the High School Band
will present its "Pops Concert" -
designed   especially   for   the
Carol Brown, daughter of Mr.'• "y°ung " at " heart"*   The mu"
,   „,       „,,,_, \   sic will be light and modern,
and  Mrs.   Harold  Brown,   was.
the winner of the annual Teen-
Carol Brown
Winner in
Driving Meet
Salinians chat with visiting Mayor Rex Sirrine, of St.
Johns (second from left) in festivities leading up- to the
Mayor's Day banquet Monday at the Legion hall.* Left to
right: Councilman Orrin Corl, Mayor Sirrine, Chamber of
Commerce prexy Jack Steeb, Mrs. Steeb, and Councilman
Henry Leutheuser.
Part of the Fun of Newspapering—
Reporter Has Periodic
Internal Disorders
By Jackie Tull ilf He happens  to  be a-prac-
In the past, we at the Saline j tical joker,   we  laugh  approv-
L*^with a definite rhythmic beat,
"■"he kind that you will have to
Age Road-E-0 sponsored by rclp your toes to. Included in
Junior Chamber  of Commerce tri^ concert will be a perfor-
memt*ers   here- Saturday, ^.^^¥^ M-. &e,f,Saline J&igh
-   ■ ...     „ '   * .    ,      School  Dance Band.   Also' in-
Miss Brown, who received a   ,  , i    ... ,    -        ,       .
,   . ,     '   c       ■       u   a cludea,.will be some boogie-woo-
plaque and a $25 -savings bond    . -.  . \ . -. u
F  H ■      v 6 gie,  ]aaz,  popular  music,  ana
as a prize, will.compete in the
: state Road-E-0 contest, in Adrian in June.
Second place winner in Saturday's meet, held at the High
School parking lot, was Tom
Jeppesen, who won a $25 bond;
and a certificate for third place
went to Carol Englehart.
The contest, which included
-' a written test and four demonstrations of driving skill, was
judged by local and state police and a deputy from the
county* Sheriff's department.
JC chairman of the event was
Ron   Finkbeiner.
The bonds were donated by
Saline  banks.
other concert band music.
SPRING   FORMAL  CONCERT
Sunday Afternoon
Sunday afternoon, May 22, at
4 piin., the High School Band
will present its Spring Formal
Concert. . This- is the final concert of the year, and will feature concert music as weE as
lighter numbers. Included will
be "Themes from Schehere-
zade" - Rimski-Korsakov; "American Overture" - Jenkins; "On
the Trail" - from the Grand
Canyon Suite - Grofe; "Symphony in Bb" - Fauchet; and
lighter music - "Bobbie Boo-
g i e," "Auditorium sessions,"
and "Canadian Sunset."
Reporter have found ourselves
completely at the mercy of
LINOTYPE OPERATORS. All
weekly newspapers, in fact,
hurt periodically because of the
"here today gone tomorrow"
characteristic of the man who
runs the big machine.
Each new operator is welcomed on arrival almost to the
degree of idiocy by our staff.
Each new man looks like the
one who will solve all of our
shop problems, fall in love with
our town, become one of us and
stay* forever. He moves into
our shop and regadless of race,
^orrot^cfeedV.Be 'is* automatically 'treated  with  the   same
All Around Saline
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By Nancy Ceronsky |    Faye Bergey, president of the
Jack Graf, Ron Finkbeiner,
and Tom Simpson will attend
the state convention of the
Michigan Junior Chamber of
Commerce Friday, Saturday,
and Sunday in Saginaw; and
other Saline JC's, Merritt Martin, Doug. Schuur, Jim Ford,
and Wallie Larson intend to
go up on Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. George Johnson and their son David, 4,
returned this week from a
three-week camping trip in
North and South Carolina along the ocean where "the weather was beautiful, and we hated to come back."
Child sludy^ub"
Installs Officers
Officers for the coming year
were installed Tuesday at a
meeting of the Child Study
Club at the home of Mrs.Lauren
Wild. Hostesses for the evening were Mrs. Paul Woods,
Mrs. Fred Korte and Mrs. Wilbur. Nelson.
- Mrs. Howard Kuhl was installed as president of'. -the
group; Mrs. -Gordon Esch is
vice president'; and Mrs. Robert Smith: is secretary-treasurer.
The three reported at the meeting on their attendance at a
recent Spring Planning meeting
in Chelsea.
Saline BPW, and Gertrude
Fielder, president of the -Manchester club, will be attending
the Business and Professional
Women's annual state convention, at Grand Rapids, May 19
through 21. Jean Taylor, president-elect of the Saline club,
and Lucille Henderson will fly
up on Saturday to take in that
day's activities.
# *   *
Mrs. Minnie Brassow returned home Saturday from
Ridgewood hospital in Ypsilanti where she recently underwent surgery.
* *   *
James Knight, jr., has been
selected by the international
C.P.A. firm of Price-Water-
house for a summer internship
in their Detroit offices. Knight,
a junior in the University of
Michigan School of Business
Administration, is president of
the honorary fraternity Beta
Alpha Psi. He was recently
awarded junior honors in the
SchooL of Business Administra-j
tion at the 37th annual Honors
Convocation held in Hill auditorium.
■'.--■.'*   •»   «
Talk about- crazy Mays! Erwin Henes'Awas- doing some
bulldozing out on the Fred
Phelps farm last Monday, May
16, 'and hit the frost line 18
inches down! :.
respect that most folks store
up for Miss Universe, Miss
America, Miss Michigan, or
Betsy Wright. He is never
criticized for the way he conducts himself or for the type
of' shop talk that flows from
his mouth. There is never a
harsh word about minor repair bills, (minor being anything from 5 to 100 bucks)
that seem to crop up during
the first few weeks while He
becomes acquainted with our
machine. If He happens to be
talkative, we listen. If He
doesn't utter a sound all day
long,   we  respect  His   silence.
ingly at anything short of being cast bodily into' the remelt
pot.
Outsiders cannot possibly
understand the relationship between newspaper men and linotype operators. The parent-
child relationship might in
some small degree approximate it. . .assuming that the
parent' is over-protective, in- i
dulgent,   and   has   conditioned
Kessel Named
'aai_>_^* -■»
Director or
Recreation
Robert Kessel, 29, a graduate of Eastern Michigan university and a sixth grade teacher at the Saline Elementary
School, has been appointed
Director of the city Recreation
program, Gerald CoeJ chairman
of the Recreation Commission,
announced today.
Kessel, who lives at 123
North Ann Arbor Street, came
to Saline last year. He is
working on his master's degree
at EMU, in the field of school
administration at the elementary  level.
He was a councilor at a
YMCA camp at Saginaw in
1949, and in 1950 and 1951 he
was assistant waterfront director at the camp. In 1952,
while serving as a petty officer
in the U.S. Navy, he taught
swimming to Navy men at
Great Lakes, HI., and later,
while stationed in Norman,
Okla., he served on. the recreation committee for the Navy
and the city of Norman.
He has also acted as lifeguard and instructor at the
Saginaw YMCA, and, while at
EMU, he taught recreation,
swimming-, and group games
at the School for the Handicapped in the Horace Rackham
building.
During his earlier college
years, he himself swam for Bay
City Junior college, one semester for Michigan State univer-
~ j, sity, and later on various Navy
teams. While at Bay City he
was selected as a member of
Speaker Selected
For Commencement
himself   to   "peaceful   co-exis , ,     _.  ,
tence"   as  a  standard  method ,„the  ^ttle  ^ American   Col-
of  dealing  with  whatever  be
havior his offspring might find
pleasurable.
§ b ini e ''.■" linotype^^perators-]
come to us single. Some bring
wives. . . either their own or
somebody else's ownf. Some
operators are virtuous, fine, upright citizens. Some aire
scoundrels — scheming, conniving low-lives. But regardless
of personal qualifications, let
one walk into our shop and the
cycle starts. It differs from
the ones that came before only
in minor detail. . . that is, some
will give a week's notice before
they go.- Others will give only
a couple days. Or some need
time off-with pay to look for
another suitable job, while
others are perfectly willing to
quit first and then look. But
the point is — they COME and
they GO.
Next we will endeavor to take
our readers through one of the
routine cycles. The King of
the   Big   Machine  reports   for
lege Swimming team.
His wife, Frances, is also a
teacher, of science in the 7th
grade .here;,   . ... .
The starting date for the
summer program has not been
determined as yet, Coe said,
but it will be in June.
Meeting Dates
Announced By
Little League
The Little League will hold
its annual meeting on Friday?
May 20, at 7:30 p.m. at the
Elementary School, officials
announced this week.
All interested parents and
last year's managers and coaches are urged to attend and take
part in making plans for the
coming  season.
Registration q f boys 8
through 12 years of age who
wish to play baseball in the
Little League this year will be
held on May 21 and 28 at the
Little League Diamond ~Cn E.
Bennett St. from 1 to 3 p.m.
The Babe Ruth League will
hold its registration on Saturday, May 21, at 2 p.m. at the
Intermediate School. This
league inchjides boys 13, 14 and
15 years, of age.
University of Michigan students range in age from 16 to
79. :
work. He is a little bit lost
in this new situation during
those first few days. . . not that
all shops do not have basically
the same equipment, but each
shop IS arranged a little different from the others. For
instance, our linotype is situated in about the middle of the
building against the East wall.
It is some eight steps from
the ladies' room. It is a half
dozen steps to the entrance of
the front office or about the
same number of steps to the
back shop, The thermostat
(for controlling the heat. . .
most operators prefer to work
at temperatures in the high
eighties or nineties) is located
directly behind the linotype.
Other shops are laid out with
the linotype situated on the
West wall and the ladies' room
at the far end of the building.
Actually, there are so many
possibilities for shop lay-outs
that   the   reader   can- quickly
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Hearing Set
On NYC
Depot Plan
A hearing on the proposed
closing of the New York Central depot here has been scheduled by the Michigan Public
Service Commission next week.
The hearing, on the company's plan to provide "centralized railroad freight service from its freight Service
Center at* Jackson. . . to rail
patrons served by its agencies
at Dexter, Saline, and Brooklyn" will be held at 9:30 a.m.
Wednesday, May 25, in room
117A in the County Building
in Ann Arbor.
The plan to close the depot,
listed bythe NYC as "an economy measure" has been opposed by Saline area and
Bridgewater business and industry, and .a" petition contain*
ing signatures of nearly all
businessmen in the "area was
forwarded to the MPSC on the
matter.
The railroad company's plan
would provide a "travelling
agent" working from the Jackson office, to visit Saline "as
often as necessary," a NYC
representative   has   said.   De-
18 Seniors
To Graduate
With Honors
Eighteen seniors will graduate with honors at Saline
High School Commencement
exercises June 9.
Graduating  members  of  the
class of 1960 include:
Richard Arthur Alber
Wilma Armbruster
'Kenneth E. Atwood
Patricia Lou Badour
Karen Marietta Bauer
Donna Edna Beckington
Joseph Hiram Bird
Carol Sevey Brinkley
*Carol Lane Brown
Lawrence Edward Bush
James F. Camburn
*Kaye Lorraine Camburn
*Larry Alan Carr
Joseph  O. Chantelois
*Susan Elizabeth Coates
*Beverly Jean Condit~
David L. Coury
Patricia Ann Cruse
Richard  Dell
Margaret   Sullivan Demaline
Ralph Herbert Duible
Carol Mae Englehart
Bette Jane Feldkamp
■•Diane Margaret Feldkamp
Robert E. Feldkamp
Bonnie Jo Fritz
Jim D. Fuhrman
*Robert P. Gable ,
Lynn Thomas Gates
Kirk David Gordon
Aldean L. Guenther
F. James Guenther
Neil Haarer
* Janice. Prienne Harwood..
Daniel L. Hefir '
Eloise C. Hermann
Janet Ann Hertler
James Hinderer
Doug D. Hoeft - ..t
Reita Kay Irwin
Jim W.  Jedele^—-
James Leslie Jordan
Calvin E. Karr
*Sara Jane Kellogg
Stanley Philip Kind
Linda Fraricile Lange
-^John Nelson LaRue
Jeanne M. Levleit
Richard J. Malinczak
*A. Douglas MeKenzie
Angie   Elisabeth Menge
^John. Thomas Parsons
Geraldine Helen Peck
Leo A.  Pederson
Stanley D. Poet
*Ann Jane Prout
*Linda Carol Reed
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DR. GORDON THOMAS
Mayor Gets
Gavel and
Payola--19c
"They treated us royally,"
said Mayor Frank- Deede of his
visit to St. John's, Mich., on
Mayor's Exchange Monday.
Mementos of his journey included a new gavel, engraved
with his name and the date of
the occasion . . . and an official-looking check for 19
cents.
The 19 cents was his pay,
Mayor Deede explained, for
conducting a commission meeting while in St. John's. It was
pro-rated at the regular pay of
St. Johns Mayors . . . $72 a
year." ..-.
Mayor Deede was accompanied on his trip by Mrs.
Deede, City Clerk E. J. Muir
and Mrs. Muir.   s
Council action Tuesday night
here included reception of bids
for rubbish pick-up (tabled until the next regular meeting)
and approval, as. ordinance No,
150, of a set of minimum specifications for utility construction
recommended by DPW head
Mike Strait.
Council also approved the
trade-in of three old mowers
on a new one; approved a special assessment district for curb
and gutter on Spring street;
and pegged the city's budget
millage at 20 mills for 1960, the
same rate as last year. Council-
men will meet later this week
to complete setting up the
budget for the coming year.
Dr. Thomas
To Highlight
June 9 Event
Dr. Gordon L. Thomas, asso-
,ciate professor of speech at
Michigan State university, will
!be the featured speaker at Saline area High School Commencement ceremonies June 9,
Mrs. Max Haswell, director of
Commencement activities, announced today.
The Commencement exercises
will be held in the gymnasium
at the new High School for the
first time, and "because we feel
that facilities are adequate to
seat any number who come, admission is not by ticket as it
has been in the past." Mrs.
Haswell   said.
The Baccalaureate program
will be held on Sunday, June 5,
at the High School gym.
Dr. Thomas's Commencement
address will be on the subject
"Taller Than a Mushroom".
Dr. Thomas joined the M.S.U.
staff in September 1939.
Born at Orpington, Kent,
England, Dec. 4, 1914, Dr.
Thomas received the B. A. degree in 1936 at Albion college,
Albion, Mich., the M. A. degree
in 1941 at M.S.U., and the Ph.D.
degree in 1952 at Northwestern
university.
In 1950-51 -he served as an
instructor in speech at John
Marshall .Law School in Chicago. Before coming to Michigan
State, he was a teacher of
speech and English at Fenton
(Mich,)"high school, 1936-39.
From 19# ta3:953;Dr. Thorn- -
as was director'-of the Student
Speakers Bureau at M.S.U., and
was director of debate from
1946'to 1949. From 1951 to
195S? he "was director of Michigan State's International Festival and he is currently advisor
for the international club on
campus. He was director of
the Centennial Program service
in 1955.
He is parliamentarian for the
Michigan Congress of Parents
and Teachers, past president of
the Ingham Area Council of
Parent Teacher associations, is
chairman of the Citizens Committee on Special Education in
Ingham" coun^^and^aopuncil-
man in the city ^T*"-B"st,,
Lansing.
Dr. Thomas is a past presi-
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Hornets Have Tough Tuesday
Diamond Squad
Topples to Second
Conference Standings
-      W L
Roosevelt ........ 7 2
SALINE  :  5 .     2|
Manchester  4 4
Chelsea" ..:  3 5
Dexter  3 6
Pinckney     3 6
The  Hornets  Tuesday  night
toppled   out of  first   place   in
livery of carload lots would be|*e kague. ™^ * 3;2 lo5s to
made on the spur track as be- Roosevelt at Ypsilanti.
fore, and delivery of less-than-
carload lots would come by
truck.
But Saline and Bridgewater
merchants, who depend heavily on the railroad for coal
and grain shipments, fear that
service would fall off sharply
without a full-time * agent in
Saline.
PACK MEETING
DATE CHANGED*
The Cub Scout Pack Meeting,
for May has been advanced one
day, to Tuesday, - May 24, at
7:30 p.m. at the Intermediate
School.
Saline's lone hit came from
Bob Gable, an infield single that
brought two men home. Beyond
that, said Coach** Don .Jaeger:
"We didn't hit and we made
some very costly errors, especially ~on both of Roosevelt's
last two runs. That sewed up
the ball game for them."
Duane Berts; who relieved
Ypsi's Dave Rockwell in • the
fifth, was the winnihg pitcher.
John Thoss started for the Hornets and was relieved by; Doug
Hoeft in the top of_the fifth.
The line score:
,-_-RHE
SALINE    .000 002 0—2 1 4
R'VELT   100 001 1—3 8 '3
Track Team Drops
Lead by Whisker
By Lanny Bobbins ...■
i Tuesday night Saline High
thinclads trailed by a narrow
margin on the harshly lighted,
soggy Eastern Michigan- University track—to Ann Arbor
University High. Until the last
moment, they were hopeful of
a victory and the championship
of the Washtenaw Conference
in. the first annual meet.
In the 220-yard dash, Saline
hoped Jor a first,, but in the
mile they had little optimism,
Everything depended on the
last three events. If they won-)
the 220-yard dash and U-High
placed low enough in the mile
they might win the meet with
a tremendous effort in the 880-
yard relayf providing the Cubs
didn't do too well.
Senior Richard Alber preserved the Hornets' hopes by
starting slow and constantly
speeding up tor take the 220
dash, -with a 23.3 clocking. Im
the mile after trailing for 3**/_
laps, Hoyt -from Pinckney
caught pp and passed both of i
U-High   top   mflers   to   win. I
Walsh from Manchester, gasping and straining for breath,
edged in front of Cleveland a
few yards .from the finish to
place second. ■-
"The stage was set.
-The-Half *Mile [Relay—which
the Hornets had hot lost to
another conference team during the season-^-was next.
Trailing by two points, Saline
not only had to win the event,
but also have U-High finish
below second. The local young
men with a great show of determination .and spirit won the
event with a record breaking
1:38,3. U-High was* a short distance behind with a fair time.
-JBut the victpi*yfwas in the bag,
for- in the iirst heat of the
event Dexter*- had^jturneil*-in- -a,
time slightly superior to U-
High's,' to place second. The
Hornets had scored 6-3 points
in the last relay to beat U-High
by half a point.
However, the announcement
of the victory was delayed in
coming. -***
It seems that the referee of
the meet had remembered that
one of "the earliest times in the
meet, that of the medley relay
team  from -Dexter, had been
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