1960-05-25; Saline Reporter

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VOLUME 13, NUMBER 36 ~- WEDNESDAY, MAY 25, 1960
"First With All the Local News'
COUNCIL APPROVES $152,532.18 CITY BUDGET
Coe Enters Race
For School Post
Gerald Coe, a former City
Councilman and a businessman
in Saline for 20 years, this
week announced that he will be
a candidate for a three-year
term in the School Board election to be held at the Intermediate School June 13.
Coe's petition was the seventh to be filed with Board of
Education Secretary Oliver
Steiner, for the two three-year
terms and two four-year terms
to be filled at the election. The
addition of two new seats on
the board, plus filling'two ex-
Saline High Musicians Present Spring Concerts
If
All-Sports
Trophy Won
By Hornets
By Lanny Robbins
Both Spring sport squads had
expected championships as their
season drew to an end, and on
that last day, a Tuesday in both
cases, both were disappointed.
Even so, Salinians were still
jubilant today after capturing
the first all-sports trophy in
the new Washtenaw Conference. As well as being the first
conference all-sports trophy it
was another first for the Hornets. For the first time in two
decades local athletes could add
another all-sports trophy to
their case.
Twenty long years ago, when
Don Fuller coached Saline
teams, the other trophy was
added.. -.•i940'',ireads> the date
and since then not another'. has
been added. In 1955-56 local
sportsters had come close, taking titles in both football and
basketball, but were unable to
garner the necessary points
from the poor spring season to
claim the title. Other years
since 1940 Saline came near to
the goal, with titles in some- j
times two sports, but failed in!
the other sports.
Finally this was the year.
Both coaches, Rotunno and
Jaeger, felt that the spring
teams could perform well. Both
hoped \for titles.
Coming out of winter athletics, Chelsea led Saline by two
points with thirteen points from
their football championship and
their second place in basketball.
Saline had a total of eleven
with four from a fourth on the
gridiron and seven from the
hoop win.
The spring season started.
The cinder team barely edged
Chelsea in a triangular meet
with U-High to open their competition. The diamond unit
tripped on their opener with a
9-6 loss to Dexter.
Slowly both teams began to
bounce back. On the track the
thinclads ran up an impressive
string of dual meet wins. The
baseball team reared back and
upset Chelsea and moved quickly into first place.
Things went well until a week
ago Tuesday. On one disastrous afternoon the baseball
squad dropped from lone leadership to second place and the
track team settled for a second.
Even some happiness could
be found from that day. By finishing second the track team
had made up one of the two
points difference. Saline now
trailed Chelsea 18-17.
In the last days of last week
Saline's hopes again grew as
Chelsea lost to Roosevelt while
the Hornets topped Pinckney.
Saturday's victory over Manchester assured the possession
of the trophy for the four
sports, for Saline was sure of
a second place finish, while
Chelsea could not finish within
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piring terms, will give Saline
area a seven-man School Board
for the first time.
Meanwhile, Everett Esch,
who had considered the possibility of becoming a candidate,
announced that he had decided
against it. "I would not be able
to devote the proper amount of
attention to it at this time,"
Esch said.
Candidates who have filed in
the race include, for the four-
year term: Incumbent Raymond
Girbach, Francis Lockwood, and
Harold Brown; for the three-
year term, besides Coe, Lauren
Wild, Ormond Jedele, and Donald Wiedman.
Coe, who lives at 205 E. Michigan, is 46 years old and the
father of two school-age children. Born and raised in Chelsea, he has been a resident of
Saline for 30 years, and has
operated a barber shop here for
20 years.
He served on the City Council in 1951 and 1952, both as
mayor pro tern and as commissioner of public works, at the
time when the sewage disposal
plant was built and the design
and planning of Saline's street
program was done.
He has been chairman of the
city's Recreation Program for
three years. He is chairman of
Troop 46 Boy Scouts of America, has been a member of the
official board of-the Methodist
Church for a number of years,
and has been a member of
Rotary for 15 years and is a
past president.
He was for three years a
member of the Saline Con-imun-
ity Fair Board, and has been
associated with the Steer Club
for 15 years, during which time
he has made a number of films
on the club. Among them was
a 60-minute color film about
the Fair and the Steer Club,
entitled "Saline in Action"
which was widely shown in the
area.
He has been a member of the
Chamber of Commerce, and is
a   member   of   Band
club.
Allots Only $2000
For Street Work
City Council, in a special for such raises. "They can only
meeting Thursday night, ap- be granted if some other item
proved    a    city    budget    of in the budget runs less than ex-
Members of the Saline High School Concert Band get last  at the High School, and followed a less formal 'Tops" Concert
minute instructions and suggestions from Director Art Katter- ^  BUm Frida    evening.  Both events  drew  good
John, just before their Spring Formal Concert Sunday afternoon. The concert was a highlight of the two-day Open House  crowds*
School Candidates
Invited to Speak
Candidates for- seats on the >
Saline Area Board of Education
have been invited to express
their views and meet the public
at a meeting sponsored by the
Saline Area Civic Association,
at 8 p.m. Wednesday, June 1,
at the Elementary School.
Each of the seven candidates
will be asked to answer three
prepared questions at the meet:
1. "Why are you running for
the School Board?"
2. "What do you feel you have
to contribute to the School
Board?"   and
3. "What do you feel our public schools should accomplish?"
Questions from the audience
will also be welcomed, a SACA
member said; and a coffee hour
is planned to allow everyone an
opportunity t o become a c-
quainted with the candidates on
a less formal basis.
Parents' "T h e association feels i t
would be more fair at this time
to limit the scope of the questions to general views," a member said.
Candidates who have filed
petitions for the four School
Board seats to be filled in the
June 13 election include Ray*
mond Girbach, Francis Lock-
wood, Harold Brown, Gfmond
Jedele, Donald Wiedman, Gerald Coe, and Lauren Wild.
SACA Chairman^-George
Johnson-.will act as moderator
at the meeting.
REPORTER TO CLOSE
ON MEMORIAL DAY
The Saline Reporter office
will be closed all day Memorial Day, Monday, May 30, and
advertisers and contributors
are urged to get their material
to us by Saturday, May 28, for
early use.
Classified ads and cancellations for the issue bf Wednesday, Junel, must be in by noon
on Tuesday, May 31.
Measles Close
To Epidemic
Number Here
The number of measles cases,
which almost—but not quite—
Hearing Set
In Broker's
License Case
A "show cause" hearing has
been scheduled : in Washtenaw
county Circuit Court June 7,
in proceedirig& launched by A.
C. Lange to retain his real
estate broker's license.
Mrs. Steeb
Elected By
Auxiliary
Mrs. Jack Steeb was elected
president of the Saline Community Hospital Auxiliary, at
the annual meeting of the
group last Wednesday at the
Saline Hotel; and Mrs. Fred
Rieckhoff was named first vice
president.
Other officers chosen for the
coming year include M r s.
George Wood, second vice president; Mrs. Robert Estes, recording secretary; Mrs. Dale
Brown, corresponding secretary; and Mrs. Ruben. Finkbeiner, treasurer.
A report was - given on the
activities of the toy and book
cart, a free service offered to
hospital patients by the auxiliary; and the date of regular
meetings was changed from the
$152,532.18, up $5,786.51 from
last year.
But the new budget chopped
funds for street work to $2,000
for the year.
In a determination to maintain the tax rate at 20 mills,
Councilmen agreed to raises for
police,  but budgeted no funds
Bus Route
To Start Here
In Mid-June
Bus service between Saline
and Ann Arbor will be launched
"about the middle of June", according to Eldon Jones, traffic
manager of the Bus Company
of Ann Arbor, which is setting
up the route.
Approval for the route has
been issued by the Michigan
Public Service Commission "on
a pending order" which will be
issued after the company has
submitted rates and time schedules for approval, Jones said.
Arrangements have already
been completed for a bus stop
in the Municipal Parking Lot,
at the rear of Still's Hotel, and
a tentative schedule will provide five busses from Saline a
day, beginning at about 6 a.m.
and ending with the last arrival
from Ann Arbor, probably
around 5:45 p.m. They will
cross at the Hoover plant at
shift-change.
The company is still working
put a rate schedule, Jones said,
and it will be announced as soon
as it is approved by MPSC. The
company has also submitted to
MPSC tariff rates and schedules for package express.
The busses to be used in the
run are the Bantam busses in
use by the company in city bus
pected," explained one Councilman.
(Council, in the same meeting, raised police officer Earl
Kirby to the rank of Police
Chief.)
The higher budget, at the
same 20 mill tax rate, was written around an anticipated increase of $1000 in motor vehicle funds, based on a 57 per
cent population increase, and
expected increased sales tax receipts of $3000. With county
and school tax collections and
disbursements, the total budget
stands at $387,386.25.
Anticipated wages for volunteer firemen were raised this
year from $17,000 to $22,000.
Firemen are paid by the hour,
while on duty.
The roller-coaster drop of the
street department's budget
from last -year's $28,000 was
necessary, Councilmen said, because the city is now paying
about $32,000 in debts for street
work done in 1958 and 1959. Of
the $34,975.06 actually budget-
ted for street work this year,
$32,975.06 will pay for earlier
work. -.
The assessed evaluation of
the 1960 tax roll is $4,110,455.
The 1959 roU was $3,964,093.
Lange, in a hearing last week mccmiga wao ..±i<m6v.n _.»._- ..— j
before Circuit Judge James R. i third Wednesday to the third | service in Ann Arbor.
CUB PICNIC
SET JUNE -12
Cub Scouts and their families,
will meet at 2 p.m. Sunday,
June 12, at the City Park, for a
potluck picnic, the final pack
meeting of the year until September.. A total "of 78 boys'are
now enrolled in the Cub Scout
ranks.
when the American Legion's
annual Memorial Day parade
goes by at 11 a.m. just prior to
the commemorative ceremony
at the cemetery.
Music for the parade will be
provided by the Saline Area
High School Band; and marchers- will include Saline area
Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts, Cubs,
and   Brownies,   as   well   as
New Flags to Highlight
Memorial Ceremonies
Thirty-six brand new 50-star mounted members of the Boots
American flags will be flying and Saddle 4-H Club led by
over the main  street  Monday .Herb Abbott.
Theodore Graban, commander of the Legion, will serve as
parade marshall; and the
American Legion Color Guard
will be composed of Ralph. Uphaus, Milton Finkbeiner, Lloyd
Dell, and Ben Uphaus.
At the cemetery, the Rev.
Henry MeKenzie will give the
invocation, and the address will
be made by the Rev. Robert
Richards. An eight-man firing
squad for the salute will be
headed by Frank Carter. Legion
members able to serve on the
firing squad are asked to report
at the Legion hall at 6 p.m.
Thursday.
. The new flags to be flown
here on Memorial Day will
mark the inauguration of a Legion service to merchants here;
the organization provides the
flags, raises them at the places
of business on all appropriate
holidays, and removes and cares
for them between holidays.
American Legion and Auxiliary members will attend
church services at St. Paul's
E. & R. Church in a body on
Memorial Sunday.
After the parade and ceremony on Monday, Legion and
Auxiliary   members   and their
families will hold a potluck din
ner at the Legion Hall.
Breakey, sought an injunction
against the Michigan Corpora-
reached epidemic proportions tion Securities Commission, re-
here, had begun to diminish' straining them from carrying
this week, local doctors report-1 out their order to invalidate
ed. The disease, which during his license,
the past two weeks has nearly Acting for Lange, local attor-
emptied one kindergarten room, ney Stanton Roesch sought the
has struck hard in all the lower injunction on the grounds that
grades. | Lange has  been  a broker for
* But Saline doctors didn't feel 40 years and has been licensed
the onslaught quite deserved since 1925; and that the MCSC
the term, "epidemic." order was based on Rule 5 of
"This is the year for mea- the Michigan Administrative
sles," said Dr. Gordon Prout. J Code set up by the MCSC,
"They come and go in cycles, which is "arbitrary, unconsti-
but I really don't feel they've tutional, unreasonable, broader
been unusually numerous this [than the statutes authorize, and
time. I've had several cases."   I inconsistent" with .the statutes.
Summer Vacation
Begins June 10
The schedule to be followed
by all three Saline area schools
during the last week of school
was announced by School Superintendent Leo Jensen today.
There will be school all day
Monday, June 6, as usual. On
Tuesday and Wednesday, June 7
and 8, school will be dismissed
at 2:30 p.m. There will be no
school* on Thursday and on Friday, June 10, classes will be
dismissed at 10 a.m. for summer
vacation.
Jensen also reminded parents
that there will be no school next
Monday which is Memorial Day.
Tuesday   of   each . month   in'    Jones    expressed    "cordial
which meetings are held, effee-1 thanks" to Saline residents who
tive in September when the or- (travelled to. Lansing to testify
ganization  resumes   its  activi- before MPSC on the need for
ties. Following adjournment of such a bus route, and "special J dergarten   enrollments   totalled
the business   meeting   by   the thanks to Still's Hotel, the city 1140. Children may be enrolled
new president, coffee and cook- council,   and  the  Chamber  of from now until school opens in.
73 ENROLLED
Seventy-three youngsters were
enrolled at the annual Kindergarten Round-up held at the
Elementary School Tuesday
night.
Many more enrollments are
expected by school authorities,
however, since last year's Mn-
ies were served.
■"Commerce".
September.
We have a wonderful school
system in Saline Area. Keep it:
vote June 13 at the Intermediate School.
The number reached "essentially" the epidemic stage, said
Dr. Rudenz Douthat, "but it
apparently has reached its peak
and is going to taper off."
Dr. Paul Gerigk reported he
had treated 15 cases in three
weeks, but felt the word "epidemic" was unjustified and that
the number was now on the
downgrade.
Elementary School, which
suffered heaviest .absences
(nearly all of one kindergarten
room had been out) reported
that some youngsters were now
returning to school. In the Intermediate School absences
were "high but not tremendous."
CARNIVAL NETS $138,
A total profit of $138.52 was
cleared at the annual Cub Scout
Carnival in April, Cub Leader
James Beal reported this week.
The proceeds are used to purchase materials for use in the
Scouting program.
Be sure to vote in the coming
school board election, June 13,
at the Intermediate School.
Lange also charged that the
order is "unsupported by competent material and substantial
evidence contrary to the overwhelming weight of evidence"
and that the order revoking his
license is "arbitrary and capricious". The injunction is sought
on the grounds that Lange, who
is 77, "will suffer irreparable
loss and damage" if the order
is enforced.
The MCSC ruling which revoked Lange's license held that
he was in violation of a Commission rule requiring him to
"account for or remit" all funds
turned over to him as a broker.
Lange's attorney has said that
Lange did account for the funds
in question, and that he remitted them to Dun Rose Homes,
Inc., developers of Golden Acres
subdivision here. The suit that
resulted in revocation of
Lange's license was brought by
purchasers of the Golden Acres
homes.   *
(Meanwhile, a number of Saline, residents were circulating
documents on Lange's behalf
reading: "In 40 years of service to the Saline Area, Albert
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Pictured above are the four members of
Saline High's Sprint Relay Team who recently competed in the state track meet.
-Left to right, they are Larry Tucker, Bill
Taylor, Richard Alber. Kneeling is Ricky
Johnson. Although the -learn failed to place,
Bill Taylor managed a fifth place in Ihe low
hurdles. Also competing at the State meet
was High Hurdler Jim Jordan.