1960-12-14; Saline Reporter

              The Saline
.VOLUME 14, NUMBER 13 --WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER %i, 1960
''First With All the Local News"
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GRANGE EUCHRE TO
START JANUARY 9
The annual Grange euchre
tournament will open on January 9, the second Monday in
the month, chairman Erwin
Frederick has announced. The
opening was set a week later
than usual since the first Monday of January falls immediately after New Year's Day.
Hornets Roll Over Pinckney
Fair Board
Picks Officers
New Members
438
Mi
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Mary Sus Gordon, of Saline, showed the
top pen of 3 market hogs at the Detroit
Junior Livestock Show. The 620-pound pen
of Poland Chinas was purchased by the
Farnsworth Packing Company of Detroit
for 25 cents per pound.
* Reserve champion in the Livestock Show: Neil Haarer
of Saline, had the runner-up to another Angus steer out of
259 entries at the annual 4-H club show. Haarer's 915-pound
steer was purchased by Food Fair Markets om Detroit, whose
buyer, E. C. Netherton, is shown with the reserve champion.
The local 4-H'er was a double winner at the 1960 show being
named the top showman in the steer show.
All Around Saline
The Junior Past Matrons of
Washtenaw county held a
Christmas party last Saturday
afternoon at the home of Mrs.
Wayne Predmore, 273 Mark
Hannah Ct. Guests included
Mrs. Rheata Wilkinson of Ann
Arbor, Ann Nuttle of Dexter,
Marilyn Samoneck of Manchester, Helen Crane of Ypsilanti,
and Ruth Smith of Milan.-Gifts
were exchanged.
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About ten members of the
» Women's Guild of St. James Evangelical and Reformed Church
entertained one of the wards
-at the Ypsilanti State Hospital
at a Christmas party Monday
evening. Games were played
and refreshments served.
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The Eathern Roarks played
host to the employees of the
local Dancer's store and their
families Sunday evening at the
- annual store party. The party-
goers   enjoyed   dinner   at   the
- Roark home and an exchange of
gifts.
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The annual Wahl .family reunion and Christmas party Was
held Sunday at Saline town hall.
Some 56 members of the family
|ere present for turkey dinner.
•*our   members   were   absent.
uane Wahl, who has recently
spent several months in Korea
with the Army, was also present. He will be home on leave
until January 11. During the
course of the day, Santa Claus
joined the festivities with gifts
for all the children.
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Mr. and Mrs. Donald D. Rapp,
Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Schuur,
Mr. and Mrs. Harold West, Mr.
and Mrs. Johnson Quick and Alwin Gross attended the Scout-
ers' Recognition Dinner last
Thursday evening at the First
Methodist Church in Ypsilanti.
Rapp is scoutmaster of Saline
Boy Scout Troop 46.
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Pfc. Harry Feeman, who has
been stationed with the Marine
Corps- in Hawaii, is home on
leave and hopes to be here until after the holidays. He's'staying with, his mother, Mrs. Gilbert Dicks, of 1183 Willis Rd.
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Jim Jordan has been spending several days leave with his
mother, Mrs. Margaret Jordan
of W. Michigan Ave. He'll leave
Thursday for Ft: Dix, N. J., to
await overseas orders. Jim had
previously been stationed at Ft.
Knox, Ky. ^
On Sunday, Mrs. Jordan and
all her children and grandchildren gathered at the liome of
Mr. and Mrs-. Earl Scruggs for
a pre-Christmas dinner. Present
in addition to the Scruggs family, Mrs. Jordan, Jim and Jody
Jordan",,, were Mr. and Mrs. Ronalds-Taylor and son Douglas, of
Park Forest, HI.; Mr. and Mrs.
Eugene- .Braun and son Mark,
of Kalamazoo.^ and Mr. and
Mrs. Edward !&aus of Saline.
George Schallenmiller is 81
years old -today, the 14th of
December. He was happily surprised when two of the girls at
Walker's Bakery- Doris Allen
and Gerti James, presented him
with a prettily decorated cake
in honor of the "occasion. We
want to add our best wishes,
too. Happy Birthday, George!
Exhibitors
From County
Win Honors
Washtenaw county 4-H Livestock members made a fine
showing at the 31st annual Detroit Junior Livestock Show on
December 6, 7, and 8. Thirty
Washtenaw county 4-H members exhibited 21 lambs, 16
steers, and 27 hogs at the show, i
In all, 31 counties were represented, exhibiting 284 beef
animals, 144 swine, and 380
lambs.
Neil Haarer, 19, of .Saline,
showed a 950 lb. "Angus steer,
Reserve Grand Champion of the
show; Food Fair- Markets purchased the steer for $.50 a
pound at the auction Thursday.
Neil was also selected as top
steer showman of all those entering the event.
Judy McCalla, 11, who lives
on Stone School Rd., Ann Ar-
bor, exhibited the Reserve
Grand Champion Barrow, a
Chester White.
Mary Sue-Gordon, 4715 Willow Rd., Saline, exhibited the
j Grand Champion pen of three
J hogs at the show. Gene Gir-
•bach, 2693 Arkona Rd., showed
I the first place pen of medium
weight hogs.
I Special awards were presented to Kirk Gordon, Saline, who
won the Swine Showmanship
contest, and Bill Lutz, Saline,
who received the Michigan
Swine Breeders award, a gold
watch. The Food Service Executives Association of Detroit presented the showmanship trophy
to Kirk Gordon, and William
McCalla, president of the Michigan Swine Breeders Association, presented* the award to
Bill Lutz.
Averages pricj3S paid at the
Junior Livestock sale on Thurs-
jday  afternoon  were  31  cents
per pound for steers, 22 cents
for hogs and 21 cents for market lambs.
Saline Community Fair board
Monday evening re-elected all
officers, and added seven new
members, representing local organizations, to their roster.
The 1960 Fair brought a net
profit of §585.70, the treasurer
reported.
The new members include
Rose Farrell and Jean Taylor,
for the BPW; Merritt Martin
and Ron Finkbeiner, Jaycees;
Nelson Watling, SACA; Norm
Hedger, American Legion; Hubert Beach, Kiwanian; and Er-
ma Wolfin, Saline Woman's
club.
Officers re-elected for 1961,
by unanimous vote, included
Donald Wiedman, president;
Albert Gall, vice president; Robert Tefft, business secretary;
Mildred Guenther, recording secretary; and Webb Harwood,
treasurer.
Officers of the Saline High
School chapter of Future Farmers of America will also serve
as board members, as they did A "musical "Scrooge" will
this year, and FFA members lFSke the stage f^ when stu.
and members of the Futuretdents at the intermediate
Homemakers of America were.School present «A christelas
commended for their work in Carol>1)   an  operetta  based  on
An off-the-floor moment in the Pinckney joust here Friday kept Hornets Tom
Jeppesen, John Thoss, Ed Strait, and Jerry
McDonald on their toes. But Pinckney never
got ahead; Saline closed the contest with an
able 61-24 triumph. A crucial conference
game will be next Friday's battle against
U-High, on their floor.
School to Present
* Musical Scrooge'
Saline to Host
ChUd Study Clubs
The Saline Child Study Club
will be host to approximately
250 delegates from the Southeastern Michigan Child Study
Club, at a spring planning session to be held April 8 at Sa-
I line High School. ,
j . The session, which will include discussion, luncheon, and
a speaker* will be the first time
the Saline club has acted as
host for the district.
"Plans for the spring meeting
were discussed.,at a meeting
Thursday at the home of Mrs.
Howard Kuhl, attended by com-
' mittee chairmen of the local
group, and Mrs. Paul Woods,
general chairman. Guest speaker was Mrs. H. E. -Bliss, of
Dearborn, first vice president
of the Michigan Child Study
Association.
the Fair this fall.
Paid admissions to the 1960
Fair  amounted  to  $3573.55,
Dickens' "Christmas Carol".
The performance features  a
cast of 17,;plus a girls' chorus
Harwood   reported    TotaU^gg^^^^^. ,eh of 40
penses were $8,31262L To|al d &n .<An el cholus" of 21.
1960 receipts were $10,188.29, t^ other youngsters worked
but these included some state
payments for 1959 premiums.
Board members re-elected fOr
another term include Alton Ea-
ly, Raymond Wells, Ray Girbach, Leo Jensen (also representing the Board of Education), Oral Bassett, Robert
Hammond, Frank Deede, Karl
Weavie, Alwin Gross, Lewis
O'Mara, William Wehihar^t, M.
Alexander, Bruce Alber, .Howard Johnson, Allan Grossman,
and Milton Hartman.
A committee appointed to
work out a set of by-laws for
the  organization  included Gir-
on* sets, , costumes, properties,
lights, staging, and make-up.
The program, directed by music teacher Miss Kit Johnson,
will be presented twice ... at
1:45 p.m. for the school, and at
8 p.m. in the auditorium for
parents.
The cast includes two "Scrooges", Kalian Liston in the first
act, Rodney Prater in the second. Other speaking parts are
played by:
Jerry Smith and Matthew
Seeger, "two gentlemen"; Gary Acree, "Fred", Richard Eb-
bach as chairman, with Deede,! erle, "boy singer"; Jim Carman,
Jensen,   Hammond,   and   Tefft. "boy offstage".
Christmas Shoppers
Active Early, Here
Salinians must be doing their
Christmas shopping early, local
merchants announced this week
when nearly all of them reported business good, in many
cases well ahead of sales last {business
year.
The surprise came in the
drug stores, who generally feel
the Christmas rush only in the
last few days of the season.
This year they're already busy.
Friday and Saturday were especially good days, merchants
agreed, but Monday slowed
down. Surprisingly, most of the
Window Shoppers' gifts went
begging . . . only one or two
had been claimed by shoppers
with the lucky numbers.
Merchants expected an even
bigger rush during the coming
week-end, when all Chamber of
Commerce member stores will
be open till 9 p.m. Friday and
Saturday.
A Kiwanis-sponsored 2-hour
showing of cartoons is ^chedr
uled 2-4 p.m. Saturday at the
Intermediate School, free to all
the youngsters so that- their
parents may shop unencumbered. Santa will be present at the
program with surprises for the
small fry.
Even with Christmas shop-
^idering  the weather".
Gambles found sales running !ferjjTits story Hour from 10 to
ahead of last year's, and werem a#m. each Saturday at the
moving "quite a few" large ap-1 g^e p^Uc Library,, but no
pliances. Toys were also going ■ session ^ be held on Decem-
fast . . . said Bob LaRose: "We jjgj. 24.
sell more toys to Ann Arbor j  •
people than we do to local res- \ ^ #
idents. They call up to see if Post OfflCeLlStS
we  have  something and  then jr/n„r«, fnr   Cpflofln
come out and get it." MOUrS TOr beOSOU
chants felt (as Eathern Roark
expressed it, at Dancer's) "a
little snow would improve the
scene. It would be more like
Christmas". Dancer's reported
pretty good --  con-
Ann Heininger plays "Jacob
Marley". Arda Hoffman, Pamela Staley, and Terri Fotjik
play the ghosts of "Christmas
Past*', "Christmas Present" and
"C^*ris1aiias Future".
The part of "Bob Cratchit"
is taken by Ronny VanMatre;
"Mrs. Cratchit" is Carol Engel;
/^eiinaa'',' Aflita Trelah; "''Maif-'
If^^^-'^niee. "i&ustin*, "Tjny
Tim", Bobby Tinker. ,Laurie
Webster and Dwight Irwin, play
"small girl" and "small boy",
and "Peter" is Willard Butler.
Stage manager for the production is Sheila Eberle; Anita
Larson is assistant stage manager; and Fred Gall is electrician.
Girl Scouts Offer
To Baby Sit for
Christmas Shoppers
A baby-sitting service for
Christmas shoppers has been
arranged by members of Saline's Senior High Girl Scout
troop.
The Scouts will conduct their
service in the nursery room of
the Methodist Church (at south
Ann Arbor street and Henry
street) from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on
December 17 and 24.
Participating in the project
are Scouts Lois Sutton, Jo Jordan, Nancy Schild, Kathie Reed,
Joan LaRue, Wendy Wild, and
Martha Esch. Rates are 25
cents per child per hour, or 40
cents, per hour for two or more
children of the same family.
The Spout troop also still of
Walker's Bakery had been in
a perpetual rush of customers
since the first Christinas cookies appeared in the showcases.
Anderson's were "very busy"
and customers were buying
"good items" . . . coats, dresses,  ancl robes.
61-24 Win
Gives Saline
League Edge
by Lanny  Robbins
After racing to a quick 8-1
lead in the first two minutes
of the game, the Saline first
string got careless and allowed
I Pinckney to come within three
points of them, 10-7, in the
final two minutes of the first
period of a home game Friday
night.
But after that, with the second unit taking over, Saline
pulled steadily away from the
Pirates and wound up with a
61-24 triumph.
When the second team took
over in the second period they
had a 12-7 lead that dropped to
J12-9  as Tom  Ritter hit  on a
close jump shot with 6:16 left
';in the first half. Then the sec-
jond unit began to roll as Coe
[hit   on   two   straight   baskets
[while Pinckney was getting a
; single   freethrow.   Niethammer
and LaRue both chipped in with
lay-ups   as   Saline   went   out
ahead 20-9. LaRue added another pair of baskets as Saline
rolled to a 24-13 half-time lead.
In the third period, the sec-
FREE-LO  TO  MEET
Free-Lo Extension will meet
at 8:15 p.m. Friday at the home       , ^ .     ,.        ,  .     ..
of Mrs. Elden Condit. The roll ond team agam figured in the
call topic wm be a gift exchange ^^ Mt*r £*° b^kets by
and the project will be a Christ- :?**> 0ne^ U^ft fd *
mac nartv .freethrow from Strait had put
mas party. [Saline ahead 31-15, the substi-
jtutes kept the ball rolling with
'a basket by Jeppesen with 2:26
left in the period. LaRue hit
from in close with 1:26 left
and Coe fired one = in at the
buzzer for a 37-18 lead.
Well-rested, not having played much more than their substitutes, the starters came back
wiiffi a'Hashy display of basketball fireworks in " the first
few minutes^ of the final stanza. Applying a full-court press
Saline completely confused, the
Pinckney team, and -took the
ball away numerous times.
Thoss made the first basket
with only a half minute gone
and Bixby got a lay-up just
seconds later.
At 6:56 Thoss was fouled and
sank one of the charity tosses.
6:14 showed when Vol/, stole
the ball for a lay-up. 5:30 was
left when McDonald used the
dog shot to make a 46-21 edge
for the Hornets. In the next minute six more pointe were added on buckets from Strait, Bixby, and Thoss.
In the last three and a half
minutes of the contest, Alan
Coe swished three field goals
and Jeppesen and LaRue each
made two freethrows.   .
The box score:
Saline 12 12 13 24 -61
Pinckney 7   6  -5   6 -24
High scorer for Saline was
Mike Bixby with twelve points:
He was followed by Alan Coe
with 11 and Brian LaRue with
10. Among the other Saline
scorers were Thoss and Strait
with seven each, McDonald with
six, Jeppesen with four, and
Volz and Niethammer with two.
Second Phone
Book Section
Coming Soon
f*ApplroHmaf ely 21'00h&e\v""tele?
phone books were sent out this
Week tijr General Telephone Co.,
and a second section, containing Ann Arbor "NOrmandy"
numbers will be mailed about
the first of the year.
The Ann Arbor section, under
a General Telephone Co. cover,
will be out in plenty of time
for the January 15 conversion
to extended service, according
to Dale Clark, district manager.
Local subscribers will be able
to dial direct to Ann Arbor,
without toll charges, but not
to any other area outside the
HAzel exchange.
Target date for the conversion is still January 15, Clark
said, and workmen are busy
now splicing the cables and installing necessary office equipment for the $38,000 conversion.
The telephone books to be
"sent in January to local subscribers will contain only the
directory section of the book
... no yellow pages.
Neil Horning
Injured in Crash
Neil Horning, 17, of 11834
Pleasant Lake Rd., suffered a
broken leg, dislocated shoulder,
and face lacerations Sunday evening when the car in which
he was riding went out of control and turned over in a ditch.
Horning was a passenger in
a car 'driven by David C. Tim-
merman, 16, of near Manchester, traveling west on Pleasant
Lake Rd. near Steinbach Rd.
when the. accident occurred.
Tnnmerman told police the car
Window service hours for the
Christmas   season  were  Hstedlwent out  of control when he
this week by Postmistress Mrs. .took his eyes off the road; it
Arthur O'Neill: . (swerved into a ditch, hit a tree,
The   window   will   be   open .and turned over,
from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m Monday j    Homing was taken to St. Jo-,
through Friday,  December  12, sePh hospital, where he was re-
through December 16, and from ported in good condition, today.
Westside Hardware reported 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. on Saturday,
business good so far, with gift j December 17.
items moving well but toys | On Monday through Thurday,
slow.. Smiley's.Appliance store December; 19 through 22, the
found phonographs "to be ...their • window will be open from 9
best seller, but almost no ac-' *a"*m.--to_j> pjn. Hours for Fri-1
tion iii appliances. Walker's
Dollar Store was rushed. Rieckhoff s "Jewelers found business
"very good the first week, then
slower. About the same as last
pers out in force, most mer- year."
day, Decemb"er~23will,-beJL.a.m.
to 5:30- p.m. ~~""~
On Christmas Eve, Saturday,
December ' 24,* the office will
open at 9 a.m. and close at 12
noon.
JC's to Conduct
Lighting Contest
Junior Chamber of Commerce
members will be out Wednesday
evening, December 21, to select
the winner of their third annual "Home Lighting Contest"
in Saline.
Judging is based on artistry,
merit, originality, lighting techniques, and ingenuity. A plaque
will be awarded for the best
display.
John Dwyer is chairman of
the- contest,   assisted  by  Phil
^^c „.^a.a„, ,r,.„™,~„ Badour. The contest is--linuted
-2^-^^Lrff1^^      ^ homes taside A» «tyUmits;
PLAN CimiSTMAS PARTY      ^  judges   ^.^   able  to
Members of-the Saline OES tour areas farther out, JCs
and  Masonic lodges  will  join!said.
together for a family Christmas |  —       -.
party tp be held at the Masonic 1 SCHOOL OF INSTRUCTION
hall, on  December  19. jPJLANNED BY OES
Pothickr dinne-**- will_be. served - OES chapter 311 will hold a
at 6:30 p.m. to be followed by .School of Instruction Thursday,
a children's program and gift December 15, starting promptly
exchange. at 7:30 pjn.