1960-11-09; Saline Reporter

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Ta/LUME 14, NUMBER 8 - WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, i960
"First With All ihe Local News'
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Chest dKyrocB-sus
To 73% of Goal
collections soared upward this
week to 73 per cent of the
$9775  goal.
The drive, which last week
had brought in only 30 per cent
of the 1960 quota, had turned
up $7133.93 by Tuesday, and
some business and industrial
contributions were not yet reported.
Co:
were
Price Injured
In Head-on
Auto Crash
S a 1 i n e' s Community Chest. the top" they said, and expect
to reach the quota "very soon".
The drive was originally scheduled to close November 1.
Said campaign chairman Donald D. Rapp, "With some industry and the majority of the
Individual workers reported in,
I'm convinced we'll go over the
top in-short order."
Any persons in the area who
^ -4_    <-.x.      ^   t   j™„ have  not  been   contacted   are
Community   Chest   ^ers tQ cgR ^ ^^
--re confident of going    werl^^  ^^  „If ^
one has not been contacted, I
will send someone to them or
go myself," Rapp said. "We
need everyone's help to get the
job done."
Approximately 84 per cent of
the campaigners in the drive
have turned all funds and materials over to her, Miss Lambarth said. The $7133.93 is just
!uck/ CSark, J-ofunscm,
r,
Clarence Price, president of
Plas-tainer, Inc., was seriously
injured Saturday evening when
the car in which he was a passenger was struck head-on by
another vehicle on Joy road in
Plymouth township.
The accident occurred at
about 7 p.m. Saturday. Also injured were Mrs. Price, Margaret; the driver of the car in
which they were riding, Thomas
O. Render, of Waterford, and
his wife, Doris. All four were
taken to Wayne General hospi-
t; where Mrs. Price was treat-
JQfc-.-'id released, and the Renders were released on Monday.
Price, who suffered severe
head   injuries,   was   reported
a fraction under 73  per cent
of the amount needed.
New Neighbors:
Dr. Shaffer
Opens Dental
Practice Here
Saline voters, following the The same Charter amendment
national trend for a tight elec- that provided for an elective
tion, Tuesday elected Jackson Mayor also provided for a sev-
T. Bennett as Mayor, with a en-man Council and specified
bare seven-vote edge. .that, of four seats to be filled,
The city's four Council seats the Councilman with the least
went to Dr. John Buck, Glenn number of votes should serve
Clark, George Johnson, and for only one year* The toP three
Douglas Milhan.
In the city's first contest for
Mayor, Bennett defeated veter-
DR. JOHN BUCK
GLENN CLARK
winners   will    serve    two-year
terms.
Both Deede and Leutheuser
an Councilman and incumbent represent Saline on the Washtenaw county Board of Supervisors.
GEORGE JOHNSON
DOUGLAS MILHAN
Mayor Frank Deede by 501 to
494. An amendment to the
Charter, passed last year, made
the office elective for the first
A- former Army dentist, Ronald Shaffer, DDS, this week announced his purchase of the
practice of Dr. Chester Walters,
of Saline. —-■--    -
Dr. Walters, who has been in
"making"an exceUent recovery" [practice here for about two
today, and expects to be releas-l years at the office at 109 south
ed by Thursday. I Ann Arbor street, said he would
remain for "a couple of weeks"
to complete work already begun, and then would return to
The driver of the second car,
who was not seriously injured,
was Ellis Clayborn of Ypsilanti. Witnesses said the Clayborn
car crossed the centerline of the
highway and smashed head-on
into the Render vehicle. Clayborn was ticketed for reckless
driving.
SALINE   THANKS    SENIORS
"Operation Citizenship" and
Saline residents today express-
•ed thanks to High School seniors who provided transportation and baby-sitting services,
free of charge, to voters. No
complete list of participating
seniors is available, this week. here.
a former location, Wayne County General hospital. He will
continue to live in Saline temporarily, he said.
Dr. Shaffer, whose former
home was Wyandotte, took his
dental internship with the U.S.
Army at Tripler hospital on
Oahu, Hawaii. After two more
years in the Army as a captain
in the dental corps, he was discharged last'month.
He is 28 years old, married,
and has  a year-old  daughter;.
Lodi Rejects Liquor:
Saline Area
Turns Out
Record Vote
Saline city and all the surrounding townships Tuesday
turned out record votes, and
gave Republican candidates a
heavy edge that ranged from
2-1 in Pittsfield and York town-^
ships to 4-1 in Lodi and Saline
townships.
In the city of Saline, with
85 per cent of registered voters
turning out, Republican county,
state, and national candidates
had an edge of about 3% to 1.
The townships balloted on local proposals: Lodi township
residents turned down liquor-
by-the-glass with 375 "no"
votes to 245 "yes"'.. But sentiment against it was apparently
growing . . . in an. earlier election, several years ago, a similar proposal lost by only four
votes.
In Lodi, about 82 per cent of
registrants voted, and a long
waiting line kept township officials busy throughout election
day.
York township switched from
the caucus system of selecting
nominees to the party primary
system, a proposal that was
carried 2 to 1. 84 per cent of
registered voters went to the
polls, a turn-out of 2139.
In Saline township, the total
vote, 389, represented a whopping 95 per cent and included
SCHOOL PICTURES
TO BE RE-TAKEN
Pictures taken of the children
at Saline Intermediate School
and Elementary School turned
out badly, according to word received this week from the photographers. Another set will be
taken.
Gunfire Ends
Police Chase
At Road bloc
The search for a 19-year-old
Milan Prison escapee ended
near here Tuesday afternoon
when Police Chief Earl Kirby,
driving his own car, chased the
fugitive right through a State
Police roadblock in a hail o£
'gunfire.   "        **     * .-**
The wanted man, who had escaped from a prison work gang
earlier Tuesday, was spotted by
Kirby when he turned off Bemis road here, in a stolen car,
and headed east on US 112.
The escapee was Patrick Lau-
dero, serving a sentence in the
Federal penitentiary as a car
thief. After fleeing from the
work gang, he had broken into
the farm- home of Bernard E.
Saline Voters Okay
Charter Revision
City residents Tuesday sur- posal, however, apparently did
prised election forecasters by.vote for Charter Commission
approving Charter Revision by members . . . Francis Lockwood
a margin of nearly two to one received more votes for Com-
— and simultaneously elected' mission member than did the
members   of   a   Charter, proposal itself, and Robert Es-
mne
Commission to do the job.
The Charter Revision propo
sal,   placed  on  the  ballot  by
tes received almost as many.
The election of Charter Commissioners would not have been
Youngsters Elect
Republicans After
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•LOrUnna DrOpS UUt; Schmid, 628. Unsuccessful
Council action, passed by 416, valid unless the proposal had
to 244 .. . although 368 of the passed.
1128 voters who went to the | Elected members of the
polls did not vote on it. Some' Charter Commission include
who did not vote on the pro- ]I Lockwood, with 798 votes; Estes, 754; Bessie Collins, 579;
Don Ford, 715; Alwin Gross,
742; Elmer Houghton, 728; Esther Landwehr, 649; Walter
MacArthuri '574;  cand,. Ervrin.
can-
Intermediate School young- | didates for Commission seats
sters balloted right along with'.were Everett Wolfin and'Tfich-
their parents Tuesday ~ but in ard Michalke, Sr. "
the hall outside the gymnasium j The necessity for some Char-
where the official voting was ter revision was brought about
conducted. by the passage last year of an
The students, who had con- amendment to give Saline a se-
ducted their own campaign.ven-man Council. The amend-
complete with buttons, posters, ment left several inconsisten-
and speeches, gave the Nixon- cies in the Charter,  wherever
Well   out   in   front   on   the
Council   ticket   was   George
time ~ hitherto the Mayor has Johnson with 638 votes, follow-
been chosen by members of the|ed by Glenn Clark, 597; Doug-
City Council. jlas Milhan, 559; and Buck, 513.
Defeated in the Council race Michael Rotunno trailed Leut-
was former Mayor and incumbent Councilman Henry Leutheuser, edged out for the one-
heuser with 484; and Edwin H.
Warner, who several weeks ago
asked  voters  not   to   consider
year term by Buck,  who  had him a candidate, received 234.
513 votes to Leutheuser's 502.
The family will live in Saline as
soon as they find a residence i one   91-year-old   voter,   James1
.   -        Young, of 4340 Hack rba&.
Expansion Predicted:
Hospital on the 'Threshold
Of Success' Says Girbach
After a year and a half of Ithinistrator, and "this has cre-
operatlon, Saline Community
hospital is "on the threshold
Of success", Ernest. Girbach,
president of the hospital board
of directors fold an audience
thl's week, but "the next few
"months should tell the tale".
Girbach, speaking at a meeting of the Saline area Civic association last Wednesday, pointed out that the hospital was originally planned for possible expansion to a 50-bedJacility, and
that much of the physical plant
and equipment would be "able
to take care of the added facilities".
"This will be important in re-
jrwWing the cost of an addition"
Ivwhen it is needed, he added.
Girbach said: "If the hospital is  successful in the community,   the  Ford  Foundation
and other foundations may be
willing to aid the community in
developing larger facilities with
a   greater   scope   of   services,
skills, and technical equipment."
Until the past few months,
Saline hospital has not been operating at capacity,  according
to Robert Maurer, hospital -ad-
ated considerable financial dif
fieylty for the hospital". Ma-or
er was also one of the speakers
at the SACA meeting. Others
included Dr. Rudenz Douthat,
Chief of Staff; Dr. John DeTar,
of Milan, a staff 'member here
has been on the increase "in recent months", Maurer said, "and
it is hoped that after the first
of the year the hospital will operate in the black". He added:
"As a matter of fact, if the
increasing bccupancy continues,
we c&h look forward to an ex-
and representative to state "and pansion to double the hospital's
national American Medical As-j patient facilities within two
sociations; and Mrs. Edwin Her- years, probably less."
ing, for the Saline Community "Such expanded facilities will
hospital Auxiliary. do much more for the communi-
Ref erring to the low patient ty at less cost per patient day
census during the first year of than it can now," Maurer said,
the hospital's operation, Maurer
said:
If it were not for some exceptionally philanthropic - minded individuals, the hospital,
may not have been able to con
tinue operation. It is time for
the community to show the
stuff it is made of, and take an
active part in the hospital, bo-Jph
financially and spiritedly."
The 28-bed hospital,  op
last spring and officially
cated in-late summer, wai
and equipped with funds^
through sale of non-proj
certificates ..at $100 a
The occupancy o.
for Swainson, for governor. For ballot  as   a  result,
lieutenant-governor, the youngsters selected Reid over Lezin-
sM by 194 to 124, an even closer race.
COLLISION DAMAGES
POLICE CAR
An estimated $500 worth of
Also running for President on damage was done to the Saline' part played by the board in de-1 chanically, by the macMne- it-
tlie Intermediate School ticket)police   car   Thursday   evening jtermining   curricula;   academic sell.                             ^
 «i *,„ „ „~q o,mnftr(-0r.c..,n,*1Pn  it was  stmck from  be-'courses,   vocational  skills,   cul-  —     -"
Lodge ticket a four-to-one edge the number of Councilmen was
Seleska, 42, near Milan, where over Kennedy-Johnson with a mentioned.   A   Charter   study
he tore  out  the  home's  tele- vote 0f 248 to 63.
phone wires and stole clothing,
$56, the car, and the fanner's
rifle.
Apparently Laudero did not
recognize the pink car that followed him from Saline as a police car ... it is Kirby's own
car, in use this week while the
city vehicle is Undergoing repairs. But it is equipped with
police radio, with which Kirby
advised officers at the roadblock of the fugitive's approach.
State police and Washtenaw
county Sheriff deputies at the
roadblock, at US 112 and US 23,
opened fire when the Laudero
car sped through the intersection. Its tires punctured by bullets, the car then zig-zagged
wildly back and forth across
US112 and crashed into a tree.
Still carrying the rifle, Laudero was captured by Kirby
who had pulled up just behind
the wrecked car,        ...  •
; MAYOR-ELECT  BENNETT
Jensen, Tefft
To Speak at
Monday Meet
Running unopposed, attorney
Jerome  Lamb  won   666  votes
'for Justice of the Peace, the
post vacated by Buck in order
to run for" Council.
Saline's total vote, 1128, was
the highest ever cast here, but
i the total was cast for national,
'State, and county tickets and
dropped to 995 in city races. On
' the Charter Revision proposal,
the total vote dropped still lower, to 760. The 1128 represented about 85 per cent of the 1336
persons registered.
1 Buck is "not a newcomer to
City Council - he served on the
Council for 18 months before
resigning to- become Justice of
rthe 'PSace'' seven years ago.
Clark, Johnson, and Milhan are
newcomers to city office. Bennett was elected to his first
Council term two years ago.
Bennett said today: "I wish
to thank all those who supported my candidacy; I am.very
happy and much honored.
Working' with the Council, I
will do my best to keep Saline
Superintendent of Schools Leo the fine community it has been
Jensen, and Bess Tefft, Board j and should continue to be, and
committee, appointed by Mayor,of Education president, will betthose issues I mentioned in my
BuiTon the' state ticket, the'Frank Deede last January, rec-jthe speakers Monday at a meet- jcampaign will be submitted to
Republican   margin   dropped' ommended Charter revision, ing of the Elementary School j the Council at a very early date,
sharply to 198 for Bagwell, 112' and the issue was placed on the Room Mothers, at 8 p.m. at the you may be certain."
school
Subject for the evening is the
Despite the close mayorality
vote,   city   officials   said  they
Educational Program in Saline, considered a recount unlikely,
area-Schools", with special ref- since Saline is a machine pre-
erence to such questions as the'.cinct and counting is done me-
until he annoyed supporters when it was  struck from be- [ courses,  vocational  skills,
hind while parked on north Ann (tural   values;   organization   of
Arbor street near Russell. Po- classes and subject matter.
by withdrawing from the race
was local teacher Clem Corun-
na. He was nominated by cheering students with the slogan:
"Out of the Classroom, Into the
lice said the driver of the other
vehicle, Walter R. Keck, of 571
Canterbury,   apparently—-didn't
'"Today, because of the cost of
highly technical equipment and
Valley Farms Has
Biggest Year Yet
The biggest hosteling year
ever was recorded at Saline Valley Farms between October 1,
1959, and November 1, I960,
John Rule, manager, reported
this week.
During  the  year,   the   local
White House." School officials j see the police car in time to
suspected an ulterior motive.      stop.
Hornets Take 39 -0
Chelsea Walloping
by  Lanny Robbins jits second TD in two tries as
Friday evening was far from (Ed Lahoun fired to Daryl Kee-
a pleasant one for the Saline zer on a 20 yard pass play with
Also to come under discussion
are the amount.of local tax dollars spent, on the educational
program, whether facilities and
BPW TAKING ORDERS
FOR  CHRISTMAS TREES
The Saline Business and Professional Women's club will be
selling Christmas" trees this
year^at the corner of E. Michi-
educational   opportunities   here \ gan Ave. and* S. Davenport St.
are   "adequate",   and   whether Although the actual date of the
sale will not be announced "un-
new miracles of science, it is Youth Hostel entertained 1,842
extremely difficult for a hospital of under 50 beds to be financially   self-supporting  without   dangerously   reducing   its
services  to patients.  This the
Saline Community hospital cannot afford to do."
4    A Joint Advisory committee
has recently been formed at the
hospital, Dr. Douthat said,.: to
'coordinate activities of the medical  staff,  the administrative
aff, and, the board of direc-
prs.  Representatives  of  each
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young people over night. They
represented 19 states and four
foreign countries, and iS of the
overnights" were from other
nations. Included in the number
were four transcontinental
groups, one of them Canadian,
three from the United States
... as well as the manager of
a Chicago area hostel, and a
bearded San Diego youth who
had spent a year teaching Spanish "in Italy and then traveled
Hornets as they received a 39-0
defeat at the hands of the
Washtenaw Conference champs,
Chelsea.
It was the Bulldogs' powerhouse play which has. been roiling, over opponents all season,
plus the weakness in the Hornets' team caused by'earlier injuries that best explains" the
overwhelming score. At their
lowest ebb manpowerwise, the
local squad found it impossible
to stop the Chelsea eleven.
The visiting champs received
the* opening kickoff- and**drove
53 yards in nine plays, with
onetime Saline player JEd Lahoun  going  around right end
additional teachers are needed
in such specialized areas as art,
foreign languages, teacher-psychologists, or counsellors at the
Elementary level.
til after the club's next meeting,- orders may be made in
advance by calling Mrs. Fred
Arend   at  HA  9-9765.
4:09 still showing in the first
period.
Saline's biggest play of the
evening came moments later.
Following the boot, Rick Johnson had been thrown for a two-
yard loss to the 35. Then Jerry
McDonald took the ball on the
next play and hurled a long
pass to end Ed Strait for a 43
yard gainto- Chelsea's ^3. But
Hornet hopes fizzled as threfe
of McDonald's passes went in- s
complete and halfback Rick
Johnson was held to a three-
yard, gain on a sweep around
left end.
Chelsea then started , their
third TD drive from the 20, and
made it 19-0 in thirteen plays
for eleven yards and the TD
with 7:10 to go in .the opening 'with 8:18 to "go in the second
 ^  . quarter.  Saline was forced to-,period   as   Dave   Mclaughlin
8000 miles'on an Italian Youth .punt on fourth down after the.(went around left end "rrorii the
iHostel pass. |kickoff. The Chelsea team had\       (Continued on Page 8)
A list to remember on Veterans' Day Friday is the Honor
Roll above, which used to be posted on -Hie grounds at what
is now the Intermediate School. Today Saline has many more
veterans than those written, on the sign . » . all of them deserve the tribute.