1961-01-11; Saline Reporter

              Go,Go, GO!
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Most Hornet fans have observed that High School Principal Elmer Houghton worksi
about as hard as the team . . .
in fact, the ups and downs of
any game are reflected on Ms
face almost as accurately as on
the scoreboard. At right, Elmer
battles through to a triumphant
finish.
(photos by Lanny Robbins)
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CONSULTATION
IMPRECATION
ILLUMINATION
EXHILEEATION
CELEBRATION
VOLUME 14, NUMBER 17 - WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11, 1961
'First With All the Local News'
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Active Sch
New March
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Events to Include
Card Party, Coffee
Hours, Record Hop
A busy schedule of events —.
with others possibly still" to
come — was announced this
week by Mrs. Charles Kern,
chairman, for the 19*31 New
March of Dimes drive in S.aline.
The campaign will begin this
Week, with speakers and films
to be shown Thursday at meetings of Rotary club and the Methodist Church Women's Society of Christian Service. Programs will also be presented on
the subject at the Elementary
and Intermediate schools on.
Friday, January 20.
Other major events include
- peanut sale by Saline area
boy Scouts, for which the date
has not been set, and a Record
Hop at the High School, from
8 to. 11 p.m, Saturday, January 211 :
Also scheduled for Saturday,
January* 21 is a card party
sponsored by OES chapter'No.
311 at. & pj*; at the Masonic
Hall. The party is" open to the
_public, with admission set. at
50 cents per person, and home
made baked goods will be given
as prizes. Proceeds will go to
the New March of Dimes:
Two coffee hours are planned, one at the home of'Mrs.
Everett Wolfin on January 27,
and another at the home of
Mrs.- Everett Esch. No date has
been set for the latter, but Mrs.
.Hugh Keveling and Mrs. Lauren Wild will assist Mrs. Esch
as  co-hostesses.
The ninth annual March of
Dimes benefit dinner will be
given by the Junior Chamber
of Commerce at Marty's Restaurant, all day Sunday, January 29.
The annual Mothers' March is
scheduled Tuesday, January 31,
under the chairmanship of Mrs.
Howard Hill.
Posters -and canisters have already heen placed in Saline
stores.
arkabg Meter Rentov
estrktion to
al, mriafts
@ay on Bai!©4
Committee heads for the New March of Dimes campaign
meet with Mrs. Charles Kern, general chairman for Saline,
to plan events during the drive, Seated, left to right: Mrs.
Kern, Mrs. Ed Warner, Mrs. Norman Scherdt, Mrs. Henry
Erskine. Standing, left to right:" Mrs. -Hbwarif HiU, Mrs. Leo?
nard Niethammer, Mrs. Arthur Heininger. Chairmen of two
other committees, Mrs. Ormond Bredernitz and Mrs. Charles
Burkhart, were not present when the picture was taken.
JCs Plan Benefit Dinner,
Seek 'Most Distinguished1
The annual Jaycee March of win Schmidt, William Brittain,
Dimes   benefit    dinner,   which Gerald Coe,  Russ Hughes, El-
MMPA Plans
Annual Meet
Saline local chapter of tlie
Michigan Milk Producers association will hold their annual
dinner meeting and election of
officers here Thursday, January
19, at the High School."
Dinner, to be served by the
sophomore class, will be served
at 7:30 p.m., and entertainment
will be provided by the High
School Mixed Chorus under the
direction of Arthur Katterjohn.
"Speaker will be Glen Lake,
SSTate president of the Michigan
Milk Producers association, and
president of the national Milk
Producers' Federation. President of the local chapter is
Ernest Girbach.
The group will also elect delegates to the state organization
at the meeting. '
each   year   brings   in   approxi-!
•mately $1000 for the March of
Dimes drive, will be held this
year  on  Sunday,   January  29,
j at Marty's Restaurant.
'    General chairman of the event is Mike Rotunno. Jack Graf
;is in charge of menu arrange-
r ments, Phil Badour is chairman
'of   work   details;   and   Chuck
iLamberson heads advance pub-
' licity.
I The restaurant will be open
all day for service of meals in
return for contributions to the
"New March of Dimes" drive.
All facilities — and aid -- are donated by the owner, Marty Hemenway; and ingredients for
the meals are traditionally contributed by local organizations,
business^ and industry. AU proceeds are turned over to the
drive.
The event has been held here
annually at the same location,
since its inception nine years
ago. Nearly all preparation and
all serving are done by Jaycees
and their wives.
Nominations are " still open
until Saturday for the title of
"Distinguished Young Man of
the Year", and judges will meet
Monday evening to select the
recipient of the award, accord-
in g to Charles Lambersoni,
chairman of the event.
win Strait, Robert Harrison,
Arthur Katterjohn and Robert
Klueter.
The winner need not be a
member of the JCC, and judging is on the basis of personal
and business progress, and service to the community in any
field. The public may turn in
nomination to Lamberson, at
552 Canterbury Dr., until Saturday; nomination blanks are
available from JCC members or
at Wight's Cleaners in Saline..
Fill 'er up!
Hornets9 Lead Intact
After Manchester Win
In stopping Manchester 34-29 Manchester, Saline had a solid
Friday evening, the Saline Hor- 12-4 lead by the time the con-
nets demonstrated they could test was only five minutes old.
win a ball control game as well But then the local varsity be-
as one featuring their own spe- gan to cool off in the shooting
cialty, the running contest.! department, and managed only
Manchester, wary of Saline's a single point for the rest of
speedy team, tried a slow-down, the period, from Bixby's free
deliberate type of play and con- throw. In the same three min-
centrated on making the easy utes, Manchester chalked up
shots while holding down the three on a basket and a foul
Hornets' scoring with an ag- shot by PniewsM to trail 13-7
gressive defense. jat the quarter's close.
But, as the Dutchmen dis-j The Hornets meshed only
covered, it didn't work. While three buckets' in the next quar-
taking only 41 shots to their ter, all of them lay-ups, two by
opponents' 62, the Salinians Ed Strait and one by Mike Bix-
made an equal number, 11, to by. Fortunately the Dutchmen
boast -a. far better accuracy, were having their difficulties
mark. ' i finding the range and were able
Despite the fact that Man-'to edge only three points clos-
chester's Gary Pniewski tower- er> 19-16.
ed over every one else on the j What had looked like a poor
floor, the Dutchmen were able game, for the local quintet, got
to outdo the Hornets by only a worse after the halftime break
single . rebound in the back- when they dropped only a single
board battle, 25 to 24. Pniew- field goal and three of four
ski had nine of the carooms to . charity tosses through the hoop
lead his team. Thoss had 11 in the third period. For the last
for Saline and Strait added 3:54 of the period the. Hornets
eight more. J couldn't budge the tally upward
Starting off in a rush against vvMe some cool shooting gave
Manchester a tie score, 24-24,
when the stanza ended.
Under heavy pressure, the
Hornets wasted little time reestablishing their lead in the
final frame. Thoss swished a
two-pointer with less than a
minute gone, and, with 5:22 to
play in the contest, hit again
for a 28-24 margin. The Salinians started their stall with almost half the period left, trying to playout the clock. After
the Dutchmen had taken the
ther answering service will baI1 away» 3ohn Thoss *o*ale<l
make available a full minute of-**-*11 0usley "* blocking a shot.
HOSPITAL AUXILIARY
TO MEET TUESDAY
The next meeting of the Saline Community Hospital Auxiliary will be on January. 17 at
8 p.m. at the home of Mrs. Ernest Mann, 509 Mills Rd.
Speakers will be teachers
from four foreign countries who
are currently attending the English Language Institute at the
University of Michigan.
Thieves Enler
High School,
Take
Area Blood Bank..
Needs Replenishing
Saline area's Blood Bank is
in urgent need of a refill.
Remaining supplies total not
more than 20 pints, local Red
Cross representative said today,
and the bank each year pro-,
vides local persons with between 80 and 120 pints.
A goal of 150 pints has been
set for the next visit of the
Red Cross bloodmobile here,
scheduled Friday, January 27,
at the Intermediate School, and
an all-out effort to bring in
donors has been launched by
co-chairmen of the project, Mrs.
Hering and Mrs. George Austin,
On Monday, Jan. 16, the of-
rficers  of Saline  Chapter  311,
OES, wiU hold practice at 7:30
p.m.  at the :;Masonie Hall;
The Blood Bank will be open
The award will be made at here from 2 to 5 p.m. and from
the annual "Bosses' Night Ban-16 to 8 p.m. on the 27th.
quet", held each year during j The local Blood Bank sup-
national Junior Chamber oftpiies blood free of charge to
Commerce Week, scheduled this I any Saline area persons need-
year on Wednesday, January j ing it; but the supply must be
18, at the Saline Hotel. _ replenished by local donors.
Winner this year will be the
first "Distinguished Young
Man" acclaimed here since 1956,"
when Charles Jacquith received
the award. Earlier recipients of
the D.S.A.  have included Er- [ Crittenden and Duarie Robison
A birthday party was held
last Saturday night at the home
of Wilma and Eddie JezorsM,
honor of Mary and Glenn
in
Weather Dial
Service to be
Given Here
When SaUne telephone subscribers get extended service to
Ann Arbor Sunday, they will
also get "Weather Dial".
The telephone automatic wea-
up-to-the-instant weather information and forecasts, 24 hours
daUy. The series is sponsored
by seven Saline businesses, including The Reporter.
It is available simply by dialing NOrmandy 5-8622 for the
SALINE WEATHER DIAL.
Weather forecasts by telephone are not new in the area.
The Weather Dial was estab-
Ushed in Ann Arbor almost a
year and a half ago and has
since been expanded to serve
Chelsea, Dexter, South Lyon,
Whitmore-Lake and MUan. Ultimate expansion plans for
Weather Dial include serving all
communities within a 26-mile
radius of Ann Arbor.
The automatic weather service has enjoyed a continued
public acceptance, according to
Stuart Abbey, sales manager of
Great Lakes Weather, Inc. During the last 17 months, over
one million weather forecasts
have been delivered. During a
tornado alert last July a total
of .12,000 caUs were answered
in one 24-hour period.
Comments .regarding the service are invited by writing the
Weather Dial office, 2285 W.
Stadium Blvd., _ Ann,»Arborr- „
Police this week had tracked
down a dozen leads (all dead*
ends) in the search for thieves
who broke into Saline High
School early Friday morning
and escaped with approximately $450. I
FoUowing the same method
that thas been used in recent
robberies in Chelsea, Belleville,
and WUlow Run schools', the
unknown men broke into the
school through a-sky-Ught, letting themselves down by a rope,
poUce. said.
They broke open the door to
a .walk-in vault in the school
office to obtain the' cash. They
also entered the cafeteria, helped themselves to cheese and
chocolate milk, and took away
a number of lunch tickets.
Damage to school property
was ""estimated at about §600,
including the vault door which
will have to be replaced.
The robbery apparently occurred between 1 and 4 a.m.
Friday, police said, but it was
not discovered untU school opened.
Petitions Valid,
Attorney Says.
Saline residents wiU have a
chance to vote — probably at
the April election -- on the removal of parking meters and
on a hiring restriction that
would make only residents eU-
gible for fuU-time employment
by the city.
The questions wUl appear on
the baUot as a result of two
petitions, both circulated by
John Predmore, of 273 Mark
Hannah Ct., but under the
names of two separate committees.
Both were rejected last week
by City CouncU on the premise
-that -they were insufficient as
initiatory petitions. But CouncU "reversed its .action in a special meeting Saturday after a
written legai opinion from City
Attorney Allan • Grossman indicated that they were valid.
One of the petitions, under
the name of the "Committee of
Citizens Dedicated to the Bet-r
ferment of Saline, as a'City in
which to live and shop", seeks
the removal of "the most easterly eight meters on the south
side of E. Michigan Ave.] the
most easterly, .nine meters on
the north* side of E. -Michigan
Ave.; the most westerly 10 meters . on the north side of W.
Michigan Ave.; the most westerly 7 meters on the. south side
of W. Michigan Ave., and aU
1 parking meters in the City Parking lot".
The second petition was Ust-
ed under the
would be needed if they were ,
to  initiate or amend an ordinance. -
One petition carried "81 signatures; the other had 84.
There are approximately '10*35
registered voters  in  SaUne.
Whether the questions wiU
appear on the April baUot wUl
depend on whether there is stiU
time to certify them- with the
County Clerk the required number" of days before election,
Grossman said.
Although the petitions only
bring a "question" to the voters, if they should be approved
"CouncU would then be obligated to- take such action as
would effect the wUl of the
people," he added. J
Predmore said he believed the
specifies meters should be-.removed "in order to get rid of
them in residential areas. WhUe
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GET. READY, GET SET.:
Direct Dial to
Ann Ar-kor to
Begin Sunday
Work- was completed this
week-for the $38,000 General
Telephone. Go., transformation
to extended service and direct
dialing from'the Saline area to
the NOrmandy exchange in Ann
Arbor.
Exactly on the schedule announced months" ago, the
change witt go into effect at
Citizens Commit- 2:01 a.m. Sunday; and approxi-
Ousley's free throw sailed right
through the netting, as did Jerry Creech's -basket a minute
later, making it a single point
(Cont'd,  on Page  8)
. Fred Rowe returned home
Tuesday from his second trip
within a month to St. Joseph
hospital in Ann Arbor for surgery. He's now recuperating at
his home at 55 W. Morgan Rd.
Full of excited interest and bubbling good will, 35 teachers from foreign lands poured into ThefReporter office
Monday to inspect the linotype and ask — and answer —
dozens of questions, during their aU-day lour of Saline. In
the small -*middle. office" (above) they seemed more like
3500; after their departure, the silence was deafening. All
are attending the English Language Institute at University
of. Micj*ugam Bess Tefft wa^theij guide.
tee for Greater Efficiency in
Saline City Government". It
proposed:
"That aU employees of the
Saline PoUce Department and
Saline Department of PubUc
Works must be residents of the
City of SaUne; part-time and
temporary employees excluded."
mately 2100 additions to the
local phone hook, containing all
NOrmandy numbers, were already in the hands of Saline
area subscribers.
The. new service Sunday wUl
mark the. end of" years of discussion and two years of construction   nelcessary   for   the
^alaPpk-up:
Two  of  Saline's  three  Mfc ^ ^E-**fe»**tiy^ ^ the
time poUce officers now Uve
outside the city Umits — Chief
of PoUce Earl Kirby on WiUis
road, and PoUce Officer Hugh.
Prince in Ann Arbor. No DPW
employees Uve outside of the
city. But Predmore said that
one of them, Walt Moore, "was
asked to move into town a couple of years ago". Moore now
lives on north Ann Arbor street.
CouncU instructed City Clerk
BiU Muir to begin certification
of the petitions after Grossman
advised them that "these petitions cannot be construed to
be for the initiation, of ordinances or amendments	
since they request only the submission of a 'question' to the
electors."
The submission of "ques-
tions""by petition comes under
the Home Rule Act and "must
be accomplished in a manner
similar to that provided for
charter amendments", Grossman said. Thus the petitions,
in this case, would require sig
natures of only 5 per cent of
the registered electors of the here  will:• bemailed
city, not the 25 per cent that Conway said.
f^BV&saa&s is made, local subscribers may also dial NO 113
for information, and NO 114
for service. But service wiU continue to be made by the Saline
crew. "~*
MeanwhUe^ General Telephone
Co: jalsa announced, a change in
personnel, with the. resignation
of Dale Clarke as manager of
the Tecumseh district. He will
be replaced by Kenneth Conway, who wiU come to Tecumseh from Saugatuck.
Conway, a graduate of Trinity Lutheran school in Manis-
tique and Manistique High
School, took his bachelor of science degree at Alma coUege
and extension courses at Wayne
and Michigan State universities.
He has been employed as a
coach ahd teacher at Hart, Kalkaska, Clawson, and Alma before he. joined General Telephone Co; in sales, in the South
Haven district.
A letter advising subscribers
of rate changes concerned in
the change ta extended service
shortly,
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