1960-07-27; Saline Reporter

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VOTE!
Tuesday,  August  2
7 a.m. to 8 p.m.
The Saline Reporter
VOLUME 13, NUMBER 45 — WEDNESDAY, JULY 27,  1960
'First With All the Local News'
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2 YEAR OLD STATUTE UPENDS CITY ELECTION
Charter Proposal
Misses Boat
Eleven Candidates
To Wait 3 Months
Eleven Charter Commission
candidates here will have to
wait until November 8 to appear on the ballot — but at
least they won't have to circulate petitions over again.
The crowded November bal-
1 o t will also include Saline's
Charter Revision proposal,
which missed the boat for the
Tuesday primary election when
city officials failed to have it
certified in time by the County
Clerk.
Both the revision proposal
and the "commission candidates
were victims of the same 1958
statute that sent city candidates
out this week in a frantic effort to fill nominating petitions
before a deadline they didn't
know about.. . until the printed
ballots arrived without the local question. Then a query to
county and state election officials turned up Act 86 of the
Public Acts of Michigan, 1958,
with its clause: "Local questions must be certified to the
County Clerk 47 days prior to
the election".
In'an urgently convened
meeting Friday, members of the
County Board of Election Commissioners — Probate Judge
John W. Conlin, County Clerk.
Luella Smith, and County Treasurer William Verner ~ were
unable to find any way to get
around Saline's oversight.
Said Mrs. Smith this week:
"We con$ulted with the state
.Director of Elections, and the
County Prosecutor's office was
represented at the meeting. We
tried very hard to find a way
to help, but it couldn't be done."
In any case, Mrs. Smith pointed out, absentee ballots were
printed and had to be available
to the public by July 13, only
one day after the filing date
Saline officials had erroneously
set for Charter candidates' petitions.
Act 864 which applies to local elections only in years when
there is a general election in
November, was passed by the
legislature for just that purpose ... to allow plenty of
time for printing of ballots, a
local attorney said.
After some discussion, City
Council Monday night took
steps to rectify the matter, with
a resolution to place the Charter Revision proposal on the
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NOTD7Y POST OFFICE WHEN
MAEL, BOXES ARE PLACED
Mrs. Arthur O'Neill, Saline
postmistress, this week reminded local residents to notify her
as soon as they have their new
mail boxes installed and are
ready to have their mail delivered at their door. The first
door-to-door delivery is scheduled for next Monday, Aug. 1.
Post Office
Eases Up on
Mailbox Sites
Postal authorities this week
eased the restriction against
mail carriers climbing steps to
make deliveries. The carrier
may now climb two steps to
reach the mailbox, a postal inspector told Postmistress Mrs.
Arthur O'Neill Monday.
Still busy planning routes,
Mrs. O'Neill had solved some of
the problems attendant on the
imminent shift to door-to-door
delivery here:
Householders may put down
one or two sandstone slabs between the driveway and the
house if that location would be
more convenient than a mailbox at the front.
"Persons in a two-family residence can get delivery at the
rear of the building if a side-
iwalk leads there.
A curb-service drop-box has
ben ordered for the city, Mrs.
QJNeill said.       „***..«,--**»«.._.
THERE SHE GOES! With a crash and a shower of embers,
the last timbers of the Lloyd Feldkamp barn collapse Sunday
afternoon, leaving firemen still with the difficult job of saving the nearby shed (foreground). The smaller building was
charred, but not destroyed.
Degree Candidates
Honored at EMU
The ninth annual Summer
Convocation was held at Eastern Michigan university' Monday with Robert G. Hoopes,
Dean of the Faculty and Professor of English at Michigan State
University Oakland, as the
speaker. President Eugene B.
Elliott presided at the ceremonies honoring nearly 500 candidates for degrees as of July 29
and October 7. The ceremonies
were held at 10:30 a.m. in Pease
Auditorium on the campus.
Degree candidates from Saline include Donald Jaeger, for
Master of Arts in education;
Kenneth Limber, for BS degree;
Ila Pfeifle, for BS degree and
Elementary teacher's certificate; and Audrey Spindler, for
bachelor of „ musical education
and teacher's certificate.
J camping trip to  Yellowstone
,Park. However, they only spent
one night in the park proper,
and that was spent sleeping in
their   car.   Just   before  the
Scruggs  were ready  to  retire
for the night, Earl spotted a
big,  gray,  ominous looking
beast lurking within 10 or 15
| feet of their tent. He quickly
I herded everyone into the family
jcar to  spend the rest of the
I night. As dawn was approach-
i ing, the animal was still nearby
and they could plainly see that
.it was a huge coyote! The next
night they moved their campling site elsewhere! Altogether,
i the family covered some 4000
, miles, stopping in Park Forest,
111., for a visit with Mrs. Ronald Taylor and family and in
Storm Knocks Out
Lights, Man, Tree
A brief but violent windstorm and torrential rain Friday night knocked out power
in Saline, injured a Milan man
who tangled with a fallen wire,
and destroyed one of the finest
old trees in the city.
The blinding downpour also
caused a minor collision between two cars on north Ann
Arbor street. No one was hurt
in the accident.
The downed power line, at
Henry and S. Ann Arbor
streets, created a short circuit
which set off the city fire siren,
drawing the fire department to
the scene. The injured man was
John Aguirra, 3 4, of 13018
Piatt road, who apparently did
not hear firemen's warnings not
to get out of his car, across
which the power line lay.
When he stepped from his
car he was knocked out by the
charge from the wire carrying
22,000 volts. He was taken to
Saline  Community hospital in
the Fire department emergency
truck, where he was treated for
shock and^discharged the following day.
The 30-minute storm, which
left much of Saline without
power for three hours, also destroyed a huge elm tree, believed to be at least 75 years
old, on the Carl Curtiss property on E. Michigan avenue. The
tree, split down the middle by
wind action, crashed into the
Curtiss  yard. ^
Curtiss said the tree was big
^when he came to Saline 50 years
ago, and he believed it had been
planted when the property was
landscaped in 1885 by William
H. Davenport, It had been
sprayed, for protection against
Dutch elm disease, the day before it blew down.
VOTE!
7 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Tuesday, August 2
Babe Ruths
Add Two
Wins Each
Saline's two Babe Ruth teams
continued improving their already good record when each
won two games played last
Wednesday and Monday evenings. The SaUne Americans thus
protected their record of only
two losses... The Saline Nationals now have an overall record
of eight wins and three defeats.
Here's how the contests went:
SALINE AMERICANS CRUSH
PINCKNEY 9-2
With Doyle starting on the
mound for the local Americans,
and Robinette relieving, Pinckney was able to claim only four
hits and a pair of runs. The
American nine managed nine
runs off eight hits. The Sa-
lina team made its first tallies
in the second inning when Leidheiser tripled, then scored on a
series of walks. Burkhardt and
Wesley Armbruster also scored
after drawing walks. In the
third Kuebler and Leidheiser
added runs. In the hard hitting
fifth inning, the local squad
collected four hits and two runs
from singles by Doyle and
Burkhardt, and doubles by Wesley Armbruster and Finkbeiner.
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are   sisters   of  Mrs.
All Around Saline
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By Nancy Ceronsky Kalamazoo   to   visit  with  Mrs.
The Regis  Wolfinger family, Eugene Braun and family, both
were guests Sunday evening of pf  whom
the Thaddeus R. Kuyda family Scruggs.
at their home on Pleasant Lake
Rd.   for  a  backyard   cook-out.
The Wolfingers left Monday for
two weeks in Richmond, Va.
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Mr. Leslie Bailey is a patient
at Saline Community Hospital
and would be glad to hear from
his old friends.
The Earl Scruggs family have
just returned from a two-weeks
Miss Callie Smith, of Macon
road, is recovering at St. Joseph Mercy hospital in Ann Arbor this week after surgery performed Monday to remove a
cataract from one of her eyes.
A second operation, to remove
a cataract from the other eye,
is scheduled next Monday. She
is reported "feeling good". Miss
Smith, the sister of Walter
Smith with whom she makes
her home, is in room 4048 at
the hospital. During her illness,
a niece, Margaret Bayah, of
California,   is   visiting   at   the
Smith home.
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Mr. and Mrs. Harold Wackenhut and their three daughters
are vacationing this week at her
parents' cottage at Bear Lake
between Grayling and Kalkaska. They plan to return home
Friday.
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About one hundred members
of the Finkbeiner family attended its annual reunion Sunday at the Warren Finkbeiner
home at 7725 WUlow Rd. The
eldest female member of the
famUy present was Mrs. C. D.
Finkbeiner of CUnton, whUe the
eldest male member was Sebastian Finkbeiner of Saline.
The youngest little girl present
was Cathy Allmand, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Charles All-
mand of Ann Arbor, and the
youngest boy was Jeffrey
Scherdt of YpsUanti. Next year
the reunion -will'be'held at the
same location on the fourth
Sunday in July.
Fire Destroys
Barn, Heavy
Equipment
Saline firemen Sunday afternoon poured 7000 gallonc of water into the flames that, after
four hours, destroyed a 30 by
74-foot barn and a $50 JO buU-
dozer at the Lloyd Feldkamp
residence at 9317 W. '.Michigan
avenue.
Twelve men, with three fire-
trucks, were unable to save the
barn or the adjacent mUkhouse,
but a tool shed and chicken
coop were left standing.
The fire, which broke out
about 3 p.m. Sunday from an
unknown cause, also destroyed
a grain drUl, mowing machine
a cement mixer, and a number
of saddles stored in the milk-
house. Several ponies owned by
the Feldkamps were grazing in
a nearby field when the fire
occurred.
The Feldkamps were notified
that the barn was afire by
neighbors, who said the fire
seemed to break out "aU over
the whole thing at once".
Scorching July heat complicated the work of firemen, who
made six runs back to the city
to refiU the tank truck.
The barn, valued at about
$1200, was partially insured.
The blaze was the first fire
of major proportions which has
occurred this year in the Saline area.
"FUN  & FUMBLE"
LEAGUE   RAINED   OUT   .
The Tuesday double-header
scheduled by the local "Fun and
Fumble" softbaU league, rained
out, was postponed to Friday, j
when the Firemen-Faculty con-1
test wiU begin at 7 p.m. The
second game, Jaycees vs. Alumni, is scheduled at 8 p.m.
Two Enter Race
For Mayor Post
Building Permit Issued
City CouncU Monday night
issued a building permit to Joseph Swanson, of Mark Hannah
Court, for a residence for
$18,500.
The Gordon Esches are
spending the week at the Roark
cottage at Heart Lake.
TV Program
To Feature
'Marionettes'
A University of Michigan
sponsored television program,
"Understanding Our World",
Sunday morning will feature
Meredith's Marionettes, of Saline, in recognition of the Meredith Bixbys' 25th year of pup-
peteering, just completed.
The program, to be seen on
Channel 7, WXYZ-TV at 9 a.m.
Sunday, wUl also launch the
National Puppet Convention, to
he held at the Detroit Art Institute July 31 through August
6. Both Meredith and Thyra
Bixby, producers of the nationally-known Meredith's Marionettes, wiU take active parts in
Convention activities and programming.
The U—M program is part of
a weekly series. It opened last
week in Omaha, Neb., and will
be shown throughout the world;
Appearing with the Bixbys on
the show is Professor Edward
Stashess, of the U—M speech
department.
The Sunday program features
several scenes from "The Little Humpbacked Horse", a Russian fairy tale selected by Bixby and adapted to the puppet
stage especiaUy for the Marionettes'  25th year.
The Marionettes annually appear at 350 elementary schools
in the middle west, between
September and the first of June.
Saline Candidates
Must File Monday
The sudden discovery this
week that city candidates must
file nominating petitions by
next Monday sent Salinians into
a desperate scramble to obtain
the necessary signatures in
time.
Potential candidates for the
four CouncU posts and the 'Mayor's position to be fiUed at the
Nov. 8 election were caught off-
guard by the news. Some were
still undecided as to whether
they would run for office . . .
and, if so, which office. Some
were out of the city on vacation, with no way of knowing
that fiUng date had nearly arrived.
A contest for the Mayor's
job developed Wednesday morn-
L. Z. StUl's favorite raincoat,
the one he always wore on his
trips down into the city's manholes, recently disappeared
from the Still Automatic Laundry and L. Z. would very much
appreciate  having   it   returned
to him.
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Mrs. Leonard Hutzel, of N.
Harris street, returned Tuesday
after a week's visit with her
sister, Mrs. Raymond Morin, of
near Toledo. Mrs. Hutzel's son,
Richard, is visiting at the fruit
farm owned by another sister,
Mrs. T. H. Fragel, of near Traverse City, and does not expect
to return until about August 1.
TWO PLAY IN
GOLF TOURNEY
Mike Bixby and Gary WUd
played Monday and Tuesday in
the Heart National Junior Golf
Tournament in the Michigan division. The boys spent both
days at North Hills Country
Club in Birmingham. Mike and
Gary will be seniors at Saline
High School this fall.
OFF TO THE JAMBOREE in Colorado Springs this
week were Saline Boy Scouts (left to right, back row) Jim
Strait, Brace McCormick, Bruce Carr and (front row) Alan
Hartman, Chuck Burg and Rob Merchant. The travellers are
due home Sunday.
Four Killed
In Car Crash
l Near Clinton
j Four persons were kiUed Saturday afternoon in a head-on,
two-car coUision on US-112 at
! A r k o n a Rd. in Bridgewater
township. The accident was
I termed the worst Washtenaw
county highway accident since
1956.
The dead include:
Raymond Fustes, 52, of Indianapolis, Ind., Frank Doran,
71, his wife Bertha, 64, and
Mrs. Ida Propst, 75, aU of Detroit
According to Clinton St-tte
Police, the accident occurred
when an eastbound car driven
by Mr. Fustes swerved into the
path of a car driven by Mr. Doran on US-112. Police said they
could determine no reason for
the coUision and no skidmarks
were found on the scene. A witness told ponce that the car
driven by Fustes was traveling
about 40 mUes an hour at the
time of the coUision. There were
no reports on the speed of the
Doran vehicle. The accident
took place on a wide sweeping
curve and visibUity was good.
PoUce had no opportunity to
interview the drivers or occupants of either vehicle.
Mrs. Doran and Mrs. Propst
were passengers in the Doran
car. Fustes and Mr. and Mrs.
Doran were pronounced dead on
arrival at Herrick Memorial
Hospital in Tecumseh. Mrs.
Propst was first taken to Herrick Hospital, then transferred
to University Hospital where
she died at 4:10 p.m. whUe undergoing treatment.
ing when Jack Bennett announced that he would be a
candidate for the post, "to make
a  contest".
Petitions had been nearly
fiUed for Incumbent Mayor
Frank Deede, before Bennett
returned from vacation Tuesday
night. Deede, who was elected
as mayor by the Council in
January this year, had announced Monday that he was a
candidate for the two-year elective term to succeed himself.
Benett's present Council term
expires this year.
Petitions were also hastened
into circulation for six CouncU
candidates and a Justice of the
Peace.
The anxious scurry to fUe
nominating petitions before the
August 1 deadline was launched
when city officials discovered
a Michigan statute, passed by
the legislature in 1958, that requires such petitions to be filed,
"in no case later than the date
of the faU primary".
The statute, the same one
that kept the Charter proposal
and Charter Commission off
Tuesday's ballot, became effective on September 13, 1958, but
it was not applicable in Saline's
elections last year because there
is no primary in odd-numbered
years.
Act 86 of the Public Acts of
Michigan, 1958, refers to candidates to be elected "at any general November election" . . .
'thus leaving Saline free to return, in odd-numbered years, to
the system of filing 20 days
before election as specified in
the city's charter.
CouncU petitions were in circulation for John D. Buck,
whose present term as Justice
of the Peace expires this year;
Glenn Clark, Douglas Milhan,
Michael Rotunno, George John-
! son, and incumbent Henry Leutheuser*
Petitions were also out for
Attorney Jerome Lamb, for the
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Palm Trees Are
Prettier Than Meters
City CouncU Monday night
granted to the Chamber of
Commerce permission to pass
whatever miracles are necessary to convert downtown parking meters — temporarily — into palm trees.
The change wUl be accom-
phshed in time for the Chamber's "Sidewalk Days" promo-
j tion, August 19 and 20, with
-Jtoe palm trees, pineapples and
grass-skirted hula girls to carry
out the Hawaiian motif.
Nobody will be expected to
put nickles into the palm trees.
LAST WEDNESDAY was a big day for the Saline Little
Leaguers—about 150 of them attended the Detroit Tiger-
Washington Senator baseball game in Detroit! All that was
required of the boys for admittance to the stadium was that
they be wearing their Little League shirts. The youngsters,
well fortified with sack lunches and spending money, are
shown above getting ready to board the three school bases
which transported them to and from the game. They were accompanied by 30 adults who saw to it that all of the boys
arrived home intact. The fact that the Senators won the
game only slightly dampened the boys' spirits.