1960-11-16; Saline Reporter

              The Saline Reporter
VOLUME 14, NUMBER 9 - WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1960
'First With All the Local News"
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Mayor-elect- Jack Bennett will
ask for "at least one" meeting
with the present Council to discuss issues expected to require
attention next year, and will
also seek "one or two" meetings
of the future Council, in December.
All of the meetings will be
open to the press, he said.
The conclaves with the future Council will be mainly to
determine which aspects of the
city organization each Councilman-elect is most interested in,
Bennett said. "In the past, the
GOING UP! And going up fast, is the Saline area Community Chest thermometer, now nearly out of Hugh Keveling's reach as he pushes up the mercury from 83 to 90
per cent. Campaigners are sure it will go "over the top"
next week.
Community Chest
Soars Past 90%
Saline area Community Chest
drive, although it got off to aj
creeping start last month, had |
soared to 90 per cent of goal
by Wednesday, and board mem-
bers were "confident" it would-
go over the top -by next week, j
^jj-**A   total   of   $8563.71   had(
Reached Treasurer .Lueila Lam- (
barth this week, leaving a lit-
.   tie  more  than $1200   still  to j
come   before   the . $9,775   goal
would be reached. But still not
reported   were   some   business
•   contributions ... and businessmen were scarce in Saline dur-
ART  HEININGER JOINS
SAVINGS BANK STAFF
Arthur   Heininger,   who   recently retired  as  president  of I
the board of Saline Mercantile
Co., today joined the staff of
Saline  Savings  Bank.  He  will'
be in charge of new business'
promotion and development, according to William Crim, Savings  Bank president.
Heininger will handle an additional service instituted by
the bank, that of maintaining
contact with customers, Crim
said.
ing the opening week of deer
season.
Nearly all individual campaign workers had reported,
Miss Lambarth said; but some
industrial reports were still
lacking.
"We expect to wind this up
next week,"_ , said ^Campaign
Chairman. Donald Rapp, "and
I still think we're going to hit
it. We're, all quite confident that
the job will be completed very
soon"    .'
The $9,775 goal, 11 per cent
"aboye last year's, was the highest ever soughtin a Saline drive
but was not out of proportion
with population increases, the
budget committee had felt.
Saline area residents employed in other communities were
reminded again that if they
contributed at work they could
mark their contributions for
Saline; and persons who have
not been contacted are asked
to call Miss Lambarth or Rapp.
Bennett to
With Both
Confer
Councils
Saline Teachers
To Tour Russia
With U-M Band
Richard Longfield, assistant
band director in Saline, and
Kenneth Oyer, a practice teacher here, will be among members of the University of Michigan Symphony Band who will
make a three-months' tour of
Russia and the satellite countries and the Mediterranean area next spring.
The Band will leave February
20 or 21 on a State Department
tour, in the Cultural Exchange
program with Russia. After
about two months in the USSR
and satellite countries, they will
travel in the Mediterranean area, and return to this country
the last week of May.
Longfield, a graduate student
in the U—M school of music,
will give his degree recital six
days before the Band leaves on
its trip. He plays cornet and
trumpet. He came to the Saline
school system as a part-time
teacher  in  September.
city has operated with four
Commissioners, (Fire and Police, Publics Works, Building
and- Planning, Parks and Recreation)" he explained. "Since
these are not set by the Charter, and since we now have six
Councilmen besides myself, we
may want to divide these differently and add one or two. It
would be foolish to waste any
of the abilities the city has
given us by electing seven men
instead of five."
Bennett added: "I want to
make it plain that I, personally,
do not intend to turn everything upside down. This is a
good city and the men who have
been in office have helped to
make it. that way. It certainly
won't be the intention of this
Council to undo all the good
things that Mr. Leutheuser and
Mr. Deede, and others, have
done over the years.
"I think our main job wiU be
to work toward the future
growth of Saline and make certain it will be as well looked
after in the future as it has
been in the past. I have no
doubt in my mind that the next
two years will be good years,
and I think we will accomplish
something."
Brittains Return
After Wedding
Trip in Europe
PARENTS INVITED  TO
INFORMATION NIGHT
Parents of High School students, especially seniors, are invited to attend a "College Information Night" to be conducted at the High School Monday,
November 28.
High School teacher Dominick Pellegreno will conduct the
meeting, beginning at 7:30 p.m.
to answer all questions parents
may have on college requirements, application procedures,
and courses.
JC's Name
Committees,
Add Members
C. OF C. TO MEET
A Chamber of Commerce
meeting at Marty's Restaurant
Tuesday will begin promptly at
12:30 p.m., following lunch at
noon.
Kiwanians List Films
For Winter Season
Music Prof Speaks
At Meeting of
Child Study Club
The SaUne Child Study Club
met Tuesday evening at the
home of Mrs. Edward Fischer
on Russell St. Hostesses were
Mrs. Robert Heiserman and
Mrs. Willard Hertler.
Speaker for the evening was
Jloger Jacobir of -Ann-"Arbors
His topic was "Developing Ap
preciation of Music in the
Home". Jacobi is. assistant professor of music education at
the University of Michigan and
chairman of the Ann Arbor
public schools music department.
The club will meet next on
January 17 at the home of Mrs.
Lauren Wild: There will be no
December meeting. The Rev.
Robert Richards, pastor of the
Saline Methodist Church, will
speak at the January meeting.
His topic will
Citizenship and
our Children".
Saline Junior Chamber of
Cohimerce members this week
named committees for the coming year, and at the same time
launched a membership drive
designed to nearly double their
already rapidly rising membership.
Jaycees, who have jumped
their membership from 14 to 25
in. the past two months, have
set a target of 40 for this year,
having already reached the
state-assigned target. Membership committee chairman is
Ron Finkbeiner, of Bridgewater
Lumber Co., with George Anderson, of Ypsilanti Glass Co.,
and Taylor Jacobsen, a member of the SaUne High School
faculty.
The Jaycees netted $130 on a
recent chicken dinner, according to Ed DoU, chairman of
the event; and have taken In
about $500 on the Popcorn Wagon since it was purchased in
June. Jim Ford is chairman of
the project.
Committees for the year include:
Fruit cake sale: Dave Cobb,
general chairman; area chair-
ijien George Newton, John
Dwyer, Paul "Stoops, and Bud
Vanderlugt.
Christmas home - decoration
contest, chairman, .John Dwyer.
Outstanding young fanner
contest, chairman Gerald Haarer.
Christmas tree removal,
chairman Ed DoU.
The group will also undertake
a community development survey and poU leaSRg citizens to
determine what' projects are
most needed. Mike Rotunno wiU
serve as chairman.
Taylor  Jacobsen wiU  be  in
be   "InstUUhg I charge of a monthly JC news-
Patriotism   in paper to begin pubUcation some
'time this month.
Charter Commission
To Meet Tuesday
Stop for
School Bus,
Police Warn
PoUce officer Helen Starling
this week issued another urgent
warning to drivers to stop when
the school busses stop.
"Apparently people need to
be reminded," aid Mrs. Starling,
"that when a school bus stops,
ALL oncoming cars from both
directions, must also stop."
"I've had incident after incident reported to me, of even
mothers with a carload fuU of
kids, saUing right on by," Mrs.
Starling said.
She reminded the public that
she is not a school guard but
a fully qualified Saline police
officer and a sworn deputy of
Washtenaw county Sheriff's department. She has authority to
make arrests on traffic offenses or any others.
Mrs. StarUng also reminded
drivers to observe aU the stop
signs in the vicinity of the
schools, so that waiting chU-
dren would have a chance to
cross, and to drive more slowly
through the intersections.
FinaUy, she asked drivers to
indicate their intentions by use
of turning Ughts or hand signals at the school intersections
and the corner of Michigan and
Harris so safety patrolmen wiU
know where the driver intends
to go.
REPORTER TO
PUBLISH  TUESDAY   """■•"**
The Saline Reporter will
be published on Tuesday,
November 22, next week so
that it can be put in the niail
on Wednesday, the day before Thanksgiving. Since pubUcation will be a day early,
all advertisements and news
items must also reach us a
day early. Deadline for classified"" ads wiU be Monday
noon.
The Reporter will return
to its regular Wednesday
pubUcation date on the following week.
Christmas Clubs
Total $43,000
More than $43^000 in Christmas funds wiU flow into the
community this week at Christ-
community this week as Christmas Club checks are maUed by
both local banks.
Citizens Bank maUed checks
Tuesday to about 163 people,
amounting to a total of $18,200.
Next week, Saline Savings
Bank wiU mail Christmas savings amounting to just under
$25,000.
Christmas
Festivities to
Begin Nov. 26
SaUne Chamber of Commerce
members wiU launch the Christmas season next week, the day
after Thanksgiving.
As a matter of fact, "Santa's
MaUbox" wiU go up Monday,
November 21, at Keveling's corner, in case any local chUd
should want to maU an extra-
early letter to Santa.
But the main events wiU begin Friday, when decorations
go up, and Saturday, with Santa's first visit to downtown
stores. "A sort of dedication
visit", said Marty Hemenway,
Chamber of Commerce "coordinator" for the season's festivities. Hemenway wiU work with
the Chamber, and Rotary and
Kiwanis clubs, which annuaUy
have provided'part of ""the "excitement for local area children.
Santa wUl also visit SaUne
on Saturday afternoons December 3, 10, and 17, ahd wiU make
a final visit on December 21 to
coUect letters mailed to him.
Prizes for the best letters will
be awarded at an 8 p.m. ceremony on the 21st.
Movies to be shown this winter by the Kiwanis club of Saline are scheduled through the
month of April.
The first-run films, most of
them in color and many in cinemascope, are shown every Saturday evening at the Intermediate School -gym; A special
wide screen was purchased by
the club when the non-profit
project was launched two years
ago.
The movies are open to anyone, any age, Kiwanians emphasized this week, and tickets are
30 cents per person for, any age.
The show begins at 7:30 p.m.
each Saturday and • is usuaUy
-* over no later than 9:30 p.m. At
least .four Kiwanis members are
present at each showing; and
, refreshments are sold on the
^.premises.
An advertisement on" The Reporter's "movie page" wiU list
. the film to be shown each week
throughout the -season. The
showings are discontinued during summer months.
Beginning Saturday evening,
this year's  scheduled pictures
include:
11-19-60 ~ THE BIG LAND;
Alan Ladd, Virginia Mayo and
Edmond O'Brian. Fast and Fur->
ryous   (Cartoon). j
11-26-60 ~ BENEATH THE I
12 MILE REEF; Robert Wag-r
ner, Terry Moore and GUbert'
Roland: Cracked Quack (Car-;
toon). I
12-3-60 ~ CAPTAIN HORATIO i
HORNBLOWER; Gregory Peck
and Virginia Mayo. Cheese It,
The Cat  (Cartoon).
12-10-60 - BRAVADOS; Gregory Peck and Joan Collins.
Fox Terror   (Cartoon).
12-17-60 - COURT MARTIAL OF BELLY MITCHELL;
Gary Cooper, Charles Bickford
and Ralph BeUamy. Ducking
the Devil (Cartoon).
1-7-61 ~ ENEMY* BELOW;
Robert Mitchum an<L~Gurt Jur-
gens. Don't Ax Me (Cartoon).
1-14-61 - DIAL" M FOR
MURDER; Grace KeUy, Robert
Cummings and . Ray Mpland.
Dog Tales  (Cartoon).
1-21-61 - FROM HELL TO
TEXAS;   Don  Murray,   Diane
(Continued oh Page 5)
Mr. and Mrs. WiUiam Brittain
. Mr. and Mrs. WiUiam L. Brittain, of Ann Arbor, have returned to this country after a
six-weeks' wedding journey in
Europe, and witt make their
home after December 15 at
Mahogany Farms, near Wil-
liamston.
The couple saUed on the
Queen Elizabeth after their
September 20 wedding, visited
England, France, Luxembourg,
Germany, Austria, Lichten-
stein, Switzerland, and Italy,
and returned by plane from.
Rome.
They were married at the
Good Shepherd Lutheran
Church, in Williamsburg, Va.,
the Rev. Carl D. Beyer presiding. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Brittain, of Saline, served as at-*
tendants.
The bride,' the former Miss
Shirley Dovre, daughter of Mrs.
Helen Anderson Dovre, of Pontiac, was employed for two
years as administrator of Saline Community hospital. She
is a graduate of Augustana College and had spent several
years hi the hospital administrative field in Pontiac.       "'**-
The groom is vice chairman
of the board of directors of
Hoover "BaU and Bearing.
Local Educators Ponder
Advanced Techniques Show
,    SaUne area parents and ed- Francis Lockwood hadn't seen "very costly to participate in."
'ucators were interested — but it. But Leo had already heard j    SaUne should accept its "fair
not unanimously~sold — by a
General Electric program on
"Advanced Techniques in Education" televised Sunday night.
Among the new techniques
[shown on the program -were a
"School of the Sky" - classroom instruction televised, from
a plane over Indiana; "language
IT.
of the techniques described.
"They're carried out with a selected group of children and a
selected," highly trained group
of teachers'," he pointed out.
The "language lab" has pos-
sibiUties and was already *under
consideration  here,  he pointed
 ,—,   —a—D_ out. The "large-group" teaching
labs" — similar to the one in-'system "might be useful if the
spected  by SaUne area Board teachers were very skillful."
of Education at a recent meet-1    Of the "School of the Sky",
ing;  and large-group teaching Jensen said, he would "rather
at the Elementary level. see someone else do the experi-
Elementary school. Room Mo-' menting" . . . after it works for
thers who saw the program al- a year or two, we'Utake it up."
so discussed it at their meeting The system was at one time in
Monday, concluding that they'use in Plymouth, he said, and
were "interested" but leery; Petersburg, Mich., has it now.
"We want to see how successful "It cost them $5000 this year
these innovations are elsewhere . . . they're a class D school."
first," observed Marian Mitten- Board members Dean Burk-
dorf. hardt, Gerry Goe, Oliver Steiner
Room Mothers at the meet and Lauren WUd aU saw the
were more immediately inter-' Sunday program,
ested in "new* arrangements j "It was extremely interest-
which may be made next year ing," said WUd, "and informa-
in SaUne schools . . . ajordinat- tional booklets offered on the
ors throughout the school sys- program have already been sent
tern; foreign languages started ffor. The School Board wUl cer-
in the seventh grade; a possible tainly study the books to learn
art teacher at the Elementary Jwhat areas of the program, are
level; a possibly improved shop appUcable .to SaUne . . . some
program. [may be, some not." *
As for the "Advanced Tech- The "School of the Sky" is
niques" TV program, educators sponsored by the* Ford Founda-
share" of trial techniques, Gerry Coe felt, but "let other
schools do some of the testing
also. Then, as the methods
prove successful, we can adopt
them."
Steiner pointed out that the
main design of the techniques
shown was "to stretch the teacher supply". JBut^he was opposed to "the mass education at
the Elementary- level. * There
will NEVER be a substitute for
a good teacher, experience, and
Uidividual attention." He felt
,'the "language lab" would be a
useful tool.
Burkhardt, too, doubted the
value of group-teaching in Elementary school and "didn't see
much that would be adaptable
here". Saline's own new approaches to arithmetic and science are as advanced as anything seen on the show, Burkhardt pointed out.   .
MLCC   SETS  HEARING
A local tavern owner, George
E. Burg, 107 W. Michigan: avenue, has been summoned to
appear for a hearing "at the
Michigan liquor Control Commission office in Lincoln Park
Tuesday, on a charge of selling
after the legal hour. The hear-
Leo   Jensen,  Bess Tefft,   and. tion, "Wild pointed out, and is ing is set for 11 aum..
Local Representative
To Attend Institute
Sessions Open
To Public
Michigan state laws lay out
a procedure that wiU get Sa-
Une's newly - elceted nine-man
Charter Commission under way
almost immediately on the construction of a new Charter.
They provide that City Council shaU fix the place of the
Commission's meetings, fix
compensation (if any) for
members of the group, and fix
money to be used for expenses,
if  any.
The Charter Commission is
to meet on the second Tuesday
after election (November 22 in
this case), and the City Clerk
wiU swear in the members, preside at the first conclave, and
act as clerk thereafter.
AU sessions of the Commission shall be public, the law
states.
Saline's Commission came into being with the approval given by voters at the November 8
election to a proposal to revise
the City Charter of Saline.
Commission members, elected
on the same baUot, include
Francis Lockwood, Bob Estes,
Bessie CoUins, Don Ford, Al-_
win Gross, Elmer Houghton,"
Esther Landwehr, Walter Mac-
Arthur, and Erwin Schmid.
Other state laws regulating
the actions of the Charter Commission include the provision
that it shaU be the sole judge
of qualifications, elections, and
returns of its own \members;
shaU choose its own officers,
except clerk; shaU determine
rules. tof^its,-proceedings; and
have the power to fUl its own
vacancies.
The Commission wiU keep a
journal and record in it a roU
caU vote on any question if
demanded by a one-fifth vote
'of the members ''or less if desired". A majority wiU constitute a quorum.
One of the Commission's first
duties wfll be to decide on a
time "for submission of a charter to. the electors".
Mrs. Jerrold Sandler of Ann
Arbor, vice - chairman of the
Huron VaUey CouncU of Cooperative Nurseries, wiU be a
speaker November 15 at the
Third Annual Area Board Institute held by the Michigan
CouncU of Cooperative Nurseries at Camp Tamarack; HoUy
(near Flint). There are six area
councils in the Michigan CouncU: Great Detroit, Huron Valley, Central Michigan, Saginaw
VaUey, Greater Flint, and Western  Michigan.
Attending from Saline Play
Center wfll be Mrs. Ian Mc-
Pherson.
Intermediate School
Plans Open House
Parents of chUdren in the Intermediate School are invited,
to visit their youngsters* classes at an Open House sponsored,
by the Room Mothers at the
school, Tuesday, December 6. ;
, The event, at 8 p.m., will open:
with a brief address from Principal Dwight Reynolds. Parents-'
wiU then foUow the class schedules of their own children; and
a coffee hour will end the evening. At last year's Open House
60 -per cent of Intermediate
School children were represented by attending parents.
CURTAIN GOING UP . . . tonight on the annual High
School Senior play, a three-act comedy entitled, appropriately, "Curtain Going Up". It will be presented Thursday
and Friday nights as well, at the High School theater. Above,
the cast gathers 'round for last minute discussion of their
parts, as Director Marilyn VanderLugt (center, facing camera) gives corrections and instructions on the scene just rehearsed.