1960-11-02; Saline Reporter

              The
aline Reporter
VOLUME 14, NUMBER 7 ~ WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1960
'First With All the Local News'
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Seniors to Present
Play Within Play
Rehearsals are under way and
committees are at work this
week for the senior class play,
"Curtain Going Up", to be presented at the High School theater November 16, 17 and 18.
The play, by Gregory Johnston, is a three-act comedy in
modern setting with a "play
within a play" on a Civil War
theme, the director, Marilyn
VanderLugt, explained.
By
Stores Hit
Young
Shoplifters
Local merchants, who have
been harassed by a plague of juvenile shoplifters for several
months, can now expect some
relief, Police Chief Earl Kirby
said  today.
Some of the youngsters involved have been rounded up"
and "talked to" but no charges
will be filed unless action at the
local level fails to stop the practise. "Eight or nine" local children have confessed to the petty
thefts, Kirby said. All are Intermediate school students.
The youngsters, who police
said began about six months
ago with theft of candy bars,
have since branched out to taking small items from dime
stores, groceries, drug stores,
and service stations.
Children who have admitted
taking part in the thefts have
been ordered to pay for the items taken and to observe a curfew, Kirby said. Such cases will
be taken to county juvenile authorities if local officers are unable to deal with them, he
warned.
BOOKS ON EXHIBIT
AT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
A publisher's book exhibit has
been set up in the all-purpose
room at the Elementary School.
Parents who are interested in
making Christmas selections are
invited to visit the exhibit, examine the books and order their
selections.
The complete cast will be announced next week, Mrs. Van- j
derLugt said. Staging committees include:
Publicity and programs.
George Judy, chairman; Boo
Condit, Gary Wild, Margaret
Cobb, Shirley Dresselhouse, Carolyn Marion, Wally Keck, Mary Ross.
Ushers, who will also appear
briefly on the stage are headed
by Ken Volz, with Tom Johnsont
David Wenk, Carl Wenk, Carol
Anderson, Kathy Flickinger,
Virginia Mayville, and Eleanor
Sullivan.
Providing refreshments during intermissions is .the job. of
Gerald Marion, Ron Rogers,
Bob Townsend, and Richard
Coury.
Carol Losee is chairman of
the ticket committee, aided by
Charles Robinson, Kathy Kuebler, Dave Hoeft, Mike Washburn, and Ken Volz.
David Myers and Leonard
Roark are in charge of sound
and lighting; Chuck Denton
will pull curtains; and Marilyn
Wiedmayer is in charge of the
make-up committee, with Nancy McKenny, Kathy Kuebler,
Juanita Feldkamp, and Marilyn
Vedder.
Scenery and large props are
not expected to be much of a
problem, but small props for
the "play within a play" are
more complicated. Lyle Wahl is
in charge of large props, with
Fred Raus, Don Townsend, Howard Beck, Virginia Riley, Vicky Sheets, Jo Ann Seitz, and
Carl Curtiss.
Smaller props, including a set
of dueling pistols and a Civil
A new method of teaching, with an old, old instrument,
is demonstrated to Sue Ann Dieterle by Dr. Lawrence Fur-
bush, left above, who instructed Saline Elementary teachers
in "Individualized Arithmetic" this summer in Pontiac. Elementary School Principal Marian Barclay had already observed the system under Dr. Andrew Schott, originator of
the method. Now Saline children in four first grade classes
and one second grade are learning how to use an abacus . . .
next month their parents will get a progress report and general information on how it's done.
Must Be a Habit-
Julie's Still Counting
Counting sheep wouldn't put
Julie Rapp to sleep . . . she'd
have to tabulate them all, inquire how many days they
worked last week if any, and
mail -in the answers to the Detroit office.
Julie, who started counting
as a Bureau of the Census crew
leader last April, hasn't lost the
habit. She is still a census enumerator, still working four or
five days a week, from four to
10 hours a day. The general- impression that the Census Bur-
Chest Benefits from
Halloween Nonsense
Saline area's Community t and convinced by police that it
Chest came out $40 richer this
week after a complicated Halloween prank that involved the
entire Saline Fire department,
the police department, a local
tavern owner, and three small
buildings gracefully described
by Police Chief Earl Kirby as
"shanties".
The nonsense started Saturday night when Bob Russell,
Roily Goltz, and Ralph Bowen
got gay with Russell's tow
truck, using it to place the first
"shanty" on the main downtown
corner.
They   were   seen,   identified,
eau only operates once every
War uniform, are being sought | ten years is way out of order
by Barbara Frey, Sarah Fran- ... its survey has been contin-
cis, Donna Dechert, Randy Karr, uous since 1940.
Mary Ann Socks, Merle Klager, juiie got into the counting
Louis   Belleau,   Jerry   Schmid, business as crew leader in the
and Deanne Malocha.
BROWNIES NEED
CO-LEADERS
Saline Girl Scout officials are
seeking co-leaders for two
Brownie troops. They may be
single or married, young mothers or grandmothers, but they
must be over 21, Mrs. Gordon
third of Washtenaw county that
includes Saline. In the second
stage census in May, she covered this area plus Ypsilanti. . .
and then finished up Ann Arbor.
Now her area covers portions of
Washtenaw and Livingston
counties . . . one of 330 "sample
areas" in 50 states and the District of Columbia.
The purpose of the continuous survey is to get up-to-date
The   exhibit   will   be   open j Esch said. Anyone interested is Q ^
through Monday, November 14. asked to call her at HA 9-9508.facts  "quickly and  cheaply
Trim  Pinckney 6"0
Hornets Claim Last-second Win
by  Lanny  Robbins
It was a foggy night for the
Hornets in more ways than one,
Friday evening in Pinckney. Not
only was the playing field enshrouded by the pea-soup mist
— so was the reason why the
Saline team could have won.
Outplayed for most of the contest by an inspired Pirate eleven, Mike Rotunno's gridders
suddenly came to life in the final minute of play arid*marched
85 yards down the field to score
the winning touchdown with only 23 seconds left in the game.
Every high punt sailed out
of sight into the fog.
After stopping a Pinckney
drive that had gone to the Saline 15, the Hornets took over
possession of the ball with 1:07
left on the timekeeper's clock.
Their first play netted them a
five yard gain. It also got them
the loss of their top fullback,
as Charles RobisOn was injured
after carrying around right end.
After Robison had been helped
from the field, Rick Johnson got
the first down, going twenty
yards around left end to the* 40.
On the next play he was thrown
for a three-yard loss.
Then poor conduct on the part
of one of the Pinckney players
gave Saline their big break. After Johnson had been thrown-Hto the Pinckney 43 before Mc-
back, one of the Pirates began Donald's pass was intercepted
using his fists on the speedy by Jim DeWolf on the 37. And
Saline halfback. The player was that was the last time in the
ejected, and the resulting pen- contest that Saline was in
alty set the Hornets on the Pi- Pinckriey's  territory  until  the
rates' 48.
Jerry McDonald fired a pass
from there to Rick Johnson, who
leaped in the air to grab it for
another first down on the 33.
Immediately, McDonald hit
Johnson with another pass to
the Pinckney 1-yard line, with
only half a minute to go. Seven seconds later Saline had its
victory as Johnson scooted across the white line on a slide
off right tackle.
Even -though the. contest was
nearly finished, the Pinckney
team never let up on the pressure on.Saline. After the kick-,
off .the .*h*ost team managed to
ruri' off five plays, all of them
passes. The third of the passes
went to Tom Kennedy for a gain
to the Saline 31, and the final
pass of the game was intercepted by Jack Kuebler in the end
zone.
Saline had threatened Pinckney early in the contest, after
recovering- a fumble on the Pirates* 30. The closest the Hornets ever got to the goal was
on McDonald's plunge through
center for four yards to the
five, but the next two plays the
Pinckney team held off the Hornets.
Saline took over on their 41
after an ensuing punt and got
whenever they are needed" on
employment, housing trends, population shifts and specific "information on the number of p
lio shots most people have had
the incidence of certain disease:
income (they call it "buying potential") and a hundred others.
Julie's work will be included,
not only in the monthly news
story on "Employment Up" or
"Employment Down". It will also be of value to veterans'
groups, women's groups, tiade
unions, vocational guidance
groups, manufacturers oi**- almost anything, airlines, radio,
TV, life insurance companies,
newspapers, b~anldrig"Iirmfi fooct
distributors .... *
The one thing the information
can NEVER be used for is taxation.
(Continued on Page 5)
Key Club
Loses 'Suit'
For Taxes
Saline High School's Key Club
this week lost a bitterly fought
suit for non-payment of taxes
and was instructed by the court
to ante up the contested money.
The club was the defendant I car and the police car were both
in an action brought by SHS (in use for patrols ... but Earl
Student  Council,   charging  the himself was  sitting in an  old
would be wise to mount the
building on the tow truck again
and return it to its original site.
Discussion of this incident led
up to the main attraction Monday night, Halloween . . . when
tavern owner George Burg bet
the entire Fire department §40
that they wouldn't be able to
place TWO shanties on opposite
downtown corners without getting caught.
Promising the $40 — if won —
for the Community Chest fund,
firemen added Ted Hill's tow
truck to Russell's and set off
in caravan.
But word leaked out: Police
officers Earl Kirby and Jim
Levleit took a coffee break at a
local restaurant.^With them was
Earl's brother, Jesse, a visitor
from Frankfort. Apparently not
realizing who he was, someone
told Jesse: "Stick around and
watch the fun. We're going to
give the police a rough time.'
Upshot of the leak was that
— when the shanty-planters arrived with their trucks, Kirby's
Community Chest
Drive Up t©
Expect Drive to
Go Over Top,
Says Carpentier
With 49 solicitors reporting
to Luella Lambarth, treasurer,
Wednesday's total contributions
had reached $2,815.67 of the
$9,775  goal.
"But we're going to do at
least as well as last year," said
Saline area's Community Don Rappj campaign chairman.
Chest drive was extended this Rapp said he nad checked this
week with president Eugene j year>s contributions, by area,
Carpentier's confident a s s er- jagain3t those of 1959 and found
tion: "I think we're still going them about the same.  "Where
one area was down, another one
was up to balance it," he said.
"Pledges also look very promising," Rapp added. 'We have
pledges from two industries
that add up to $2200, and others
will be coming in." Wednesday
total included no reports from
industry.
Many solicitors were slowed
by the necessity to call back
several times at some residenc-
over the top." The drive had
reached its first announced target date Tuesday with only 30
per cent of the goal turned in.
School Board
Views Mobile
Language Lab
^   t • c -u   i  -o     a ! es> Rapp said.
Saline area  School Board      gaid c ti      in ^^^g
members, at their meeting this ■ <Tm convinced we,re
week, viewed a mobile aemon-
Key Club with failure to pay
3ie ^regulation 5% of proceeds
on**-t*^o dances the club held
last summer.
Before a capacity audience
Friday morning, Key Club at-1
torneys Alan Coe and Wally
Keck maintained that, since the
dances were not held during the
regular school season, they were
not subject to  the levy.
Mike Washburn acted for the
complainant.
The case was heard in a Student Court, attended by students qfjaU four top classes, and
judged by Carol "Liston, Rick
Johnson, Katrene Gall, Bruce
Can-, and Jody Burkhart, who
returned ra verdict for the complainant. '•''.'
The amount at issue: $1.49.
Plymouth at the-main corner,
decked out in a plain coat and
hunting cap.
He drove the old car right up
to the wrecker and was cautioned by anxious firemen: "Get
back, get back, we want to get
this up before the police get
here!"
Too late," said Earl smugly.
"They're here." Then, consider-
Editor9s Mailbag
Sirs:
This is written by friends of
Henry Leutheuser that the voters" of Saline may be familiar
with his record as a councilman
and Mayor of Saline for the past
ten years.
well as the new High School for
which the School Board contributed $6500.00 as its share of
the cost.
Mr. Leutheuser has always
contributed of his time and talents in the interest of Saline.
There are many other items in
Mr.  Leutheuser was  elected addition   to   the   above   which
to the council and first took of- |could be cited, but space does
final minute of the game.
After that the Pirates came
knocking on Saline's goal line
door four times, twice in each
half. Four times the Pinckney
squad had the ball within Saline's 8 and the desperate Saline defense stopped them. And,
on several other times, passes
were stopped that might have
given them the score they needed.
Jack Kuebler broke up four
of the key pass plays, intercepting two, one on the Hornet 9,
the other in the end zone, and
knocking down two others, one
on the goal line, and the other
on the 20. Jerry McDonald stopped the other big pass by intercepting in the.end zone.
The time clock smiled on the
Hornets in several ways, for not
only- did it give them enough
time to win the game^ it ended
the half just after Pinckney had
made a first down on Saline's
one-yard line, after they had
taken .over on the 18 three plays
earlier.
The Box Score:
Saline 0 0 0 6-6
Pinckney 0 0 0 0-0
fice on January . 1, 1951. He
served as mayor continuously
from January 1, 1953 to December, 1959.
During his service as Mayor
the street improvement program was instituted and each
year several streets were paved,
until now there are few streets
in Saline which are not paved
and the money received from
the State adequately covers
maintenance. All of this was
done with no expensive bond issue by judicious use of the general fund.
The sewage disposal plant
was constructed and placed in
operation. Mayor Leutheuser
and the council, realizing that
not permit it. Suffice it to. say
the voters can make no mistake
in voting for him for councilman on November 8.
—     Salinians
strator of a "language lab", a
new electronic teaching device
already in use at a number of
universities and nearby high
schools.
The "lab" consists of desk
booths and ear phones for individual instruction, and a'teacher's control center, and may
be used not only to teach languages but for speech correction, adult education, make-up
tests, - or other purposes. "It's
an adaptable tool," explained
one  school  board  member.
It is possible, with such a
unit, to teach language on four
levels at once in the same class-
going over the top. We still have
a grave obligation"^ meet in
this drive, and I have a great
deal of trust in the people of
the Saline area to. do a fine
job."
9fK
ing what the $40 was slated for, room The device is one of the
he squinted at the shanties on approved items in the National
the tow trucks and added, "Un-^efense Act Title 3 program;
load them." part of the cost is reimbursed
The evening wound up with a to participating schools,
mock arrest of every fireman 'Jn The • Saline board is "much
sight . . . these were driven to interested", one member said;
the home of Gene Feuerbacher but no decision has been formed
and turned loose . . . but police as yet. The cost of a 30-unit
had to go back for Roily Goltz, room, complete with teacher's
who had disappeared in the scu- control center, would be roughly
ffle. .$11,000.
The $40 was collected and de- j  : _^
livered to the Community Chest, j OPERATION CITIZENSHIP
Police were less amused by TO MAN TELEPHONE ' *-
other Halloween events, by oth-, A telephone, manned by "Op-
er pranksters, who later broke eration Citizenship" workers,
up the shanties on the. corner, will be waiting from 8 a.m. to
blew up several local mailboxes 8 p-m on election day, Tuesday,
(including Kirby's) with dyna- November 8, to provide infor-
mite or gas", and broke several mati0n, transportation, and ba-
school bus windows with rocks, by-sitters for any voter need-
Firemen removed the shanties ing them. The number is HA-
from the downtown corners zel 9-9050; any call will get in-
Tuesday noon. •   stant service.
fe;ers
-.. _ —^ *^^?f*=**p*p
Saline area Community Chest
workers who have covered 100
per cent of their assigned area,
and turned in all collections and
materials to the -treasurer of
the Community Chest board,
Luella Lambarth, include:
OLGA LAMBARTH
ALMA WAHL
MRS. HERMAN MARION
CECELIA FERENCE
MRS.  JOHN  KOHLER
Joyce Braun
"   Cora Finkbeiner
Mrs. Waldo Dieterle
Virginia Carr §
Mrs. John Lochey
Elsa Hack
Mrs. Karl  Theurer
Mrs. Duane Rogers
Dorothy Leidheiser
Frances Hunt
Mrs. O. D. Hoffman
John Rule
Mrs. Wilson Scott
KIDS INDULGE IN
AERIAL-SNAPPING SPREE
Saline police are still looking
for the youngsters who went on
a car-aerial snapping spree in
Saturday's heavy fog.
Tree Conservation Pays, Gordon Finds
Mrs. W. Finkbeiner
Heads FB Women
Mrs. Warren Finkbeiner was
elected chairman of the Farm
Bureau W o m e n' s Committee
when the group met in September. She replaced Mrs. Fred
Meyer of Superior township.
In the vice-president position
is Mrs. Lawrence Boettner of
Bridgewater. Mrs. Elmer Diuble
PH SH
Net yards rushing
137
82
Yards passing
47
59
Passes attempted
17
11
Completed by
3
3
"Intercepted by
4
3
First downs
10
7
Yards penalized
35
10
was returned as secretary. Sec-
it was only, a question of time tion chairmen are as follows:
before the plant would be in~|oneMrs. Max RosSj Saline; two,
adequate to service the rapidly Mrs_  Harlow  Ihgall   and  Mrs.
growing community, instructed
the engineer to lay out a plant
in which the capacity could be
doubled when necessary. It is
now necessary to add two beds
and this can be done without
excessive expense.
During Mr. Leutheuser's service as mayor, provision was
also made to expand water service. A site was purchased for*
a storage tank on Henry Street
which when erected will adequately handle the water needs
of the community for some time
to come.
During this same period the
Westside Sanitary Sewer was
constructed furnishing sejirei
service to Barneygatt and considerable acreage in the north.
10and west parts of Saline, .as
Howard Last; three, Mrs. Walter Lindemann; four, Mrs. Herbert Karnatz and Mrs. Harry
Meier; five, Mrs. Lewis Berrier
and Mrs. Fred Wheeler; and
six, Mrs. Ray Weber.
Seven women attended the
district meeting held Oct. 13 in
East" Detroit. Marge Karkar
spoke on the proposals, and Delbert Wells showed a film conf
trasting life in ten countries
with that in the United States.
A major-..project Amdertaken
by the '"women was preparing
dinner, for 150 people interested
in beef raising. Michigan Farm
Bureau Services were hosts.
Nineteen women delegates are
eligible to^attend the annual
meeting in .East Tansing, Npv*..
9.'    "-"'•■ '   V..      >  /-.
Tree farming is the coming est  products  than  non-partici- protection. The owner must har-
thing, Saline township Supervi- pating farmers .vest his trees in a way to in-
s6r  Clarke  Gordon feels;   and priVately-owned, taxpay- sure re-establishment of the for-
GSt
ing forest land voluntarily used,    -^orvath caUed woodlots "one
 ior the growing of trees as a!of Michigan's  ahd Washtenaw
woodlot on his 60-acre farm at: croP mav be eligible for the tree "county's major natural resourc-
4715   Willow   road,     officially ifarm designation, Horvath sa"d, es». He pointed out that botft
sound  conservation practices
pay off in cash.
Gordon, who keeps a 15-acre
joined the ranks of tree-farm-.s0 lonS as the owner -^P1168 federal and state assistance is
ers this week when he was pre-jwith certain minimum forestry available to farmers     "
sented with a certificate and
"Tree Farm" . sign by Washtenaw District Forester Victor
Horvath, in recognition of Gordon's "sound management and
forest conservation practices."
Gordon has, worked closely
with the forestry division of tlie
state Conservation Department
since 1957, when he started his
improvement program by planting 4,000 evergreens purchased
through a state nursery on
three acres of land adjoining an
existing sugar maple plantation.
He subsequently fenced the
forested area, provided for in-.
sect protection and inaugurated
a cutting and trimming program with Horvath's help and; jj
advice. These practices have
made trees one of the present
cash crops  of his farm.
Said Gordon: "I have" benefitted from this a great deal."
Horvath said the official recognition carries no spedfTcTnar-
keting advantage for the tree
farmer, but it does insure that
the designated owner is using
uniformly good practices on his.
wopdlpt to produce better for-
who will
establish sound conservation
management practices to preserve   dwindling   forest   areas
from   destructive   grazing,   di-jand to establish new tree plant-
sease and insect control and fire ings.
recommendations. •. :
.   These include fencing to protect the trees and ground cover
A sign of -a sound investment is the 4*Tree Farm?* insignia
presented to Saline township farmer Clarke Gordon (above,
right) by Washtenaw District Forester Victor G. Horvatba
The official Michigan Tree-Farm designation, is presented in
recognition of sound management and conservation practices.