1961-03-08; Saline Reporter

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The Saline
VOLUME 14, NUMBER 25 - WEDNESDAY, MARCH 8, 1961
'First With All the Local News'
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SACA Plans Panel
On Petition Questions
A public meeting on the two
questions to appear on the April
3 city ballot has been scheduled
by Saline Area Civic Association, at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Mar.
15, at the High School auditorium.
SACA has issued a public invitation to the committees that
sponsored the petitions, to attend the meeting and take part
in a panel discussion on the sub-
Levleit Named
Acting Chief
Of Police
On a motion from Police
Commissioner Glenn Clark, Officer James Levleit was appointed by City Council Monday
night as Temporary Chief of
Police, until the return to duty
of Police Chief Earl Kirby.
Kirby, who has been ill with
an infection following surgery
in January, is not expected to
return to duty "for- a few
weeks", Clark said. He is now
out of town on rest leave, in
northern Michigan.
In asking for Levleit's tem-
porary appointment, Clark
pointed out that the signature
of the Chief of PoUce is required on gun permits and various documents and correspondence.
An amendment to ordinance
148, which would allow parking
on lawn extensions of business
property, if needed for business
or public purposes, was approved to become effective within 10
days. Such parking would require permission of the owner
'and a permit from the city.
ject. The invitation through the
press was necessitated, a member said, "by the fact that the
members of these committees
are unknown to SACA".
Allan Grossman, SACA chairman for the event, will moderate the panel. Mayor Jack Bennett has been invited to speak
against the questions, and any
other persons who would like
to participate are asked to notify Grossman. Invited to speak
in behalf of the petitions ~ besides the unknown committees
~ is their circulator, John Predmore.
One of the petitions, seeking
the removal of about half of the
city's parking meters, is under
the name of the "Committee of
Citizens Dedicated to the Betterment of Saline as a City in
which to live and shop". The
other, which would restrict police and DPW employment to
city residents, is listed under
the "Citizens Committee for
Greater Efficiency in Saline City Government".
Except for Predmore, who
said he was secretary of both
committees, members' names
have not been released. They
are urged to contact Grossman
"so that arrangements may be
made for them to take part in
the planned panel discussion".
The purpose of the SACA
meeting is "to give the public
an opportunity to hear a presentation of the facts and issues involved . . .-SACA feels
that the voters of the City of
SaUne cannot vote on these
questions intelUgently without
being fully informed on the
facts and issues involved on
both sides of the questions, and
urgently invites the citizens of
SaUne to- attencU'. ■-—«.■
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Kids Eat the Darndest Stuff* WO MometS Out
Saline's Unlisted
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Suburb: Barnegat
(Last week we remarked that newcomers to Saline
usually can't find Barnegat. Below, the city's historian, Bessie Carven Collins, locates it for them . . . ahd careful readers will find Schuylerville, too!)
by Bessie Carven Collins      iflve forges and blacksmiths; at
Since many have heard only the foot of the hill by the river
recently of Barnegat, that por-jwas an ashery for making pot-
tion of SaUne across the Saline' ash, with five kettles of 70 gal-
river, a brief story of that "sub- i Ions each, employing several
urb" may be informative. Iwho are still remembered, Dan\victims of poisoning are.young
Orange Risdon had believed Nissly,   John   McKinnon,   Mike
One of the commonest sounds
heard at SaUne Community hospital (often in the middle of
the night) is the gastly sucking
noise of the stomach pump and
the attendant screams of an infant. It isn't a pleasant thing
to listen to . . . but it does mean
that one more tragedy has been
narrowly averted.
Toddlers wiU eat anything . . .
and some of their choices are
deadly dangerous. The husky
child who, at age six, turns up
his nose at good, wholesome vegetable soup, has already passed through the most troublesome years when he would have
eaten soup, kettle, stove and
matches, if he could get them
in his mouth.
In the dangerous ages (one
year to 3% years) the most
careful parent is hard-put to
keep unedibles out of baby's
reach . . . and Saline hospital's
stomach pump, or surgeons,
have saved at least 16 small
lives.
Since November, 1959, Saline
area youngsters have swaUow-
ed the foUowing unsuitable items:
Rat poison. Shampoo. Kerosene. Thumb tack. Toilet water.
Large button. Pennies. Down
other small hatches went baby
aspirin, 'hair tonic, three-way
dust powder, sodium butisol and
phenobarbital prescribed for the
parents, ant poison (which contains arsenic), turpentine, moth
balls, and nail polish.
One child swaUowed Drano, a
violently caustic lye product. He
survived . . . but only prompt
action averted disaster. Drano
requires special treatment . . .
it damages the throat as it goes
down; and if you make the
mistake of inducing vomiting,
it will do an equal amount of
.damage^onJh.e.way up. Instead,
give vinegar in water, raw'eggs,
or olive oil. Anything to dilute
the stuff. And cah the doctor
at once.
Some of the soUd items the
local kids ate emerged by themselves, in tlie course of time,
but the pennies did not. They
stayed put ... in the middle of
2y2-year-old Dale Doan, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Lavere Doan, of
Judd Rd. Five days latei*-, they
were removed by surgery, and
Dale recovered.
The tendency to gobble anything in sight is not confined
to local youngsters ... or even
to youngsters anywhere. But
one-third   to   one-half   of   the
For District Opener
Perky Dale Doan, who will be three years old next July,
didn't feel so perky recently after he got in his two cents
worth and doctors at Saline hospital had to get it out again.
The pennies Dale holds, above, were retrieved by surgery
five days after he ate them . . . now his father is saving
them as a memento. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Lavere
Doan, of 1605 Judd Rd.
in the future of this part of
the new territory of Michigan,
so he surveyed roads converging here from several directions, although the principal
road was the Chicago Turnpike,
now U.S. 112. He purchased
land here in 1824 when he was
chief surveyor of the Turnpike,
but he did not return until five
years later to build his home on
the hill overlooking the river,
and in 1832 he platted the village of Saline on a part of his
'farm.
However, the new settlement
developed slowly; but a settlement west of the river sprang
up quickly after Schuyler Haywood came from his home at
Barnegat, New Jersey, and built
the Schuyler MiU in 1845.
•Neighbors and relatives came
'also, and other pioners began
to settle there, for there was
work. The flour and grist mill,
which was run by a breast
wheel, turned out twenty-five
barrels of flour a day and soon
increased production. There was
a good market for flour at Detroit and Monroe, where the
land offices were located,, and
from which places aU purchased
commodities had to be trans-
■r- ported. There was a plank road
^ from Marion's corner to Detroit,
also one to Monroe.
As barrels were necessary, a
saw miU was started near the
river, operated by water power,
.and a cooper shop;nearby, and
within ten years other industries had sprung up. West of the
mill was a long shed for wagons and horses, and across the
.-"road -' a bla*3""smith shop' with
Klager and helpers. On the
main street there was a general
store, hardware and tin shop
run by Charles Kay, and on a
side street, called Whitlock, a
weaver began to make rag carpets, which were then becoming
fashionable.
Light was still furnished by
candles, and baking was done in
ovens close to the fireplace to
catch the heat from the open
fire. Those industries and the
teamsters meant that homes
were built, and history teUs us
that the street was fiUed with
people, including those from
surrounding farms, for there
was everything necessary available for everyday life.
The mill did a thriving business, and the saw miU also, as
logs were pUed in winter on the
side of the CUnton road for a
mUe, and, for construction, even
the naUs were hand made in
the blacksmith shop. There was
a doctor, Dr. H. Watson, who
lived where Aaron Wiedmayer
now lives, and two lawyers,
RusseU Briggs and his son,
Clinton Briggs.     *
The hill between Saline and
Barnegat was- so steep that it
made a natural barrier, for. history teUs us that it was necessary to chain* rear wheels of
wagons'in-order to make a-safe
descent. The river*was wide, and
the dam .was across the road
from the mill, and the ice and
high water in the spring caused
the dam-to break nearly every
year, and the jam also destroyed the bridge over the river-.
The picture of that part of Sa-
(Cohtui-ued on Pstge 2)
chUdren who never ask before
they gulp. Said an article in the
Michigan Drug  Journal   (Feb.,
1961):
. . by this time tomor
row four persons will have died
from accidental poisoning in the
I United States. Within the next
'24 hours another 2,000 will eat
lor drink something that neither
they nor anyone else intended
for human consumption or over-
j consumption. They wiU turn up
|in  hospital   emergency  rooms,
' sick but surviving, or else spend
' at least a- day in bed at home
under medical care."
Local parents would do weU
to remember that stomach
pump at Saline hospital. . . and
fUe the knowledge against the
day when junior happily swallows a bottle of anti-cold tablets, a mess of steel fUings, or
half the family cat. He may eat
the soap or the living room rug
or a bottle of refrigerator paint.
Whatever it is, it can't be good
for him, and the only thing to
do is caU the doctor.
Boy Hurt When
Scooter Hits. Car
Serge Vaismah, 16, of 402 N.
Harris St., was. treated by. a local doctor for an injured knee
Tuesday evening after the motor scooter he was driving col-
Uded with a car on W". Henry
street.
The scooter struck a car driven by Betty Wolverton, of 1076
Bemis Rd,V as she made a ^ight
turn into a -driveway on Henry
street," police said. Neither she,
nor a passenger on the scooter,
Jack Kuebler, 15, of 111 W. McKay St.,  was injured.
Dairy Banquet Set at SHS
Recognition of "butstahdirig
dairy farmers, the crowning of
a county dairy princess, and a
speaker from Scarsdale, N.Y.,
will be highhghts of the annual
Dairy : Banquet to be held at
Saline High School Saturday,
March 18.
The banquet is jointly sponsored by Washtenaw county
Dairy Council and the Cooperative Extension service.
Production achievement awards wiU be presented to dairy-,
men who qualify for the "400
Pound Club" . . . recognizing a
five-year or more average of
400 pounds of butterfat per
cow,  per year.
The 1961 County Dairy Princess will be chosen and crowned
at the banquet. The contest is
open to aU girls with dairy farm
backgrounds; between the ages
of 16 and 25. All contestants
receive awards.
WiU Foster, of Scarsdale, N.
Y., wiU be the speaker. Foster
has spent his life in the field of
dairy production, primarily in
the processing and seUing phase
of the industry. He was employed by the Borden company for
34 years, and served on the National Dairy CouncU for 15
years. Recently, he has served
as consultant in the field of
public relations for the American Dairy Association.
Tickets for the banquet and
applications for the Princess
contest are available from members of the County Dairy Council, and at the County Extension office in the County Building, Ann Arbor.
Strait, Bixby
To Play 'Only
If Necessary*
With a bitter upset just behind them, Saline's Hornets faced the, tourney opener — against
Ann Arbor St. Thomas — with
two key men benched by illness
Wednesday night.
Out of play "unless absolutely necessary" were Mike Bixby
and Ed Strait, both of whom
missed school early in the week
because of colds. Bixby had also sat out aU but three minutes of the Friday upset by
Chelsea.
Both players would dress for
the first- tourney game, Coach
Don Jaeger said, "But I'm not
going to use either one unless
absolutely necessary. The others can do the job, if they play
a good game." Jaeger, through-
Three Arrested
On Theft Charges
Three young men, one of
them a juvenile, were arrested
for theft this week — two in
connections with a series of robberies since last spring, and one
in connection with check forgeries.
Gerald Anderson, 20, of Willis, pleaded guUty to a larceny
charge and was fined $20 and
costs and sentenced to five days
in the county jaU. He was instructed to pay $45 in restitution for the series of thefts of
tires, generators, guns, and a
power saw that have been taken since last spring.
His companion was • turned
over to juvenile court authorities. Police recovered the saw,
several generators, and two
tires; but other tires and three
guns were not recovered. AU of
the thefts occurred in the Saline
area.
A 17-year-old SaUne boy was
arrested by Levleit Tuesday in
connection with two forged
checks, totaling $25, which were
passed to the Country Market
and Graf's Gulf Service here.
He pleaded guilty to the charge
in Justice of the Peace Court
here Tuesday to a disorderly
person charge (under a city ordinance that includes "pUfer-
ing"). Sentence was postponed
until next week.
out the season, has maintained
a policy of using both strings
interchangeably whenever possible.
A disappointed SaUne crowd
left the Chelsea gym Friday
night after seeing the repeat of
what is almost getting to be a
pattern. The Hornets went down
in a 58-56 decision for their
only conference loss of the year.
Chelsea, who had done poorly
on away games in the league,
showed their almost habitual
home floor strength this year.
Helped along by a large number
of Saline fouls, which slowed
the Hornets down, the Bulldogs
were able to grab a lead that
they never lost throughout the
game.
Last week on the same floor
U-High lost on free throws to
Chelsea after being charged
with 25 fouls to Chelsea's 16.
Friday night, it was much the
same story for Saline as the officials caUed almost twice as
many fouls on the Hornets as
on the Bulldogs, 24 to 14. And
Chelsea showed their practice
at the free throw line in winning the game. Saline meshed
22 field goals to Chelsea's 17,
but missed a large number of
chances at the charity Une.
But it wasn't the fouls alone
that decided the outcome of the
game. Saline didn't perform anywhere near as well as they had
in their home game against the
same team when Saline built a
66-42 lead. There wasn't that
same polished precision that the
Hornets showed earlier in the
season against U-High; and
probably another factor was the
lack of experienced playmaker
Mike Bixby until the last three
minutes of the contest. Bixby,
bothered by throat trouble for
the last part of the season, was
being held out bf the contest to
FAIR BOARD
TO MEET MONDAY
The first monthly meeting
for 1961 of the Saline Community Fair Board will be held at
8:30 p.m. Monday at the ag
room at Saline High School.     '
give** him added rest for the rapidly approaching tournaments.
Saline never got off the
ground scoring wise in the first
period. Chelsea had five points
on the scoreboard in the early
minutes of the game before Ed
Strait marked up the first point
on a charity toss with 5:36 left
in the first period. Alton Nixon
added another free throw before
Jerry McDonald made- Saline's
first basket of the evening on a
driving layout.
Brian LaRue chipped in Sa-
Une's other basket for the quarter, when just under three minutes were left, to puU SaUne to
within a point, 6-5.
Then  Chelsea flurried  away
on two goals and stiU another •
free throw, making it 11-5  at
the end of the first frame.
In the second round John
Thoss began hitting on some of
his amazing outside shots, and,
until the last seconds of the
period, did aU of Salne's scoring.
His first basket and free
throw made it 11-8 and from
then on both sides traded baskets freely until the 2:18 mark.
With just over two minutes left
in the first half Chelsea got
eight straight points before Saline hit again.
Gary Niethammer made Saline's last bucket of the second
period with 11 seconds left; and
just before the buzzer Homer
Nixon meshed a two pointer for
Chelsea. The Bulldogs had a
soUd 31-20 lead on leaving the
floor.
But despite the odds being
against them, the valiant Hornets battled mightily back in
the opening of the second half
~ they burned the hoops for
four baskets in two* minutes.
Both teams each.fired in two
points.
Then what was to become disaster: Chelsea Bit three baskets
to pull away 39-30 before Saline
could   get  going.
By the end of the period Saline had cut Chelsea's lead to
five points, 43-38.
(Continued on Page 10)
Editor's Mailbag
Concert Festival Program Listed
The annual Festival Concert
of the newly combined Senior
High and Junior High Concert
Bands will be presented at 4
p.m. Sunday at the High School
auditorium. Open to the pubUc,
the event is-designed to raise
funds for the band's summer
trip to Interlochen.
Members of the junior group
wiU go door to door in the city
on Saturday, to acquaint residents with band activities and
seU tickets for the concert. Admission is 75 cents for adults
and 25 cents for aU students.
The concert wUl open with
three numbers by the combined
Junior High Band: "Parade
March" - Goldman, "Prelude
and" Fugue in Bb Minor" -
Bach, and "Appalachian Suite"
— Kinyon. This band is made
up of students from grades seven and eight who have been rehearsing together for a month.
Their selections, are the ones
which they will perform at the
District Festival in BeUeviUe on
Saturday, March 18.
The Senior High Concert
Band will also open its part of
the concert with its festival selections: "El Capitan March" —
Sousa, "Manx Overture" -'-
Wood, and "Die Meistersinger"
— Wagner. The senior '.group
will play this Saturday at the
Festival at Southgate High
School near Detroit. Both bands
wiU leave at 6:15 a.m. for their
festivals.
Featured in the last part of
the concert wiU be the Trombone Trio of the High School
Band ~ Don Leidheiser, Gayle
Finkbeiner and Mike Johnson
playing "Trombrero" by Cofielt.
Also, there wiU be a lularious
number caUed "The Peck-Horns
Revenge"  featuring  our guest
narrator ~ Marianne Burr. Other numbers in the lighter vein
wiU include "Flight of the Bumble Bee", "Arrangers HoUday",
"Lassus Trombone", "Beguine
for Band" and "Bolero Espan-
ol". -     -■  .     ■
The concert will be under the
direction of ~ Arthur'Katterjohn,
director of bands at the SaUne
area Schools.
■ Young musicians of the new Junior High. Band get off
to a busy start, with a door-to-door campaign to sell tickets
to the Band Festival, to be held-Sunday, at 4 p'm., at the
High School auditorium. Above, Band members Mary Beach,
Ken Harvey, Donald Drake, and Heidi Wild find a willing
customer in Mrs. Ldeah Bernard. ,
To the Editor:
Would you watch an engineer
sweat over constructing a complicated structure, encouraging
him aU along the way, and then
blow it up? Still many people
who caU themselves "fans" become, by fooUsh, destructive
words and acts, their team's enemy, knocking" down what the
team has built.
A lot of hard work on the
part of Coach Jaeger and every
one of the team members has
brought a certain amount of
credit to not only our high
school, but our community as
weU. Our responsibUity, to be
worthy of this credit, is not
long hours of practice or physical exertion on the floor . . .
just plain, simple common courtesy, and good sportsmansliip.
Is this asking too much?
It looks to me like Mr. Jaeger and his boys have done a
tremendous job on their end of
the line, but . . . where are we
with our end? Rather than buUding credit with them, we are
apt to carelessly, and uninten-
tiqnaUy,  knock it down.
Just as one spoUed potato can
spoU the entire bushel, everyone connecting himself with
any community project can . . .
1) spoil it 2) add to it, or 3) at
least not subtract from it! If
he doesn't fit into category 2)
or 3) he should have enough
sense and consideration for others, to stay away. Sports events
are a community project!!
This team of ours should be
supported All the way . . ..win
or lose, as I am sure we are aU
eager to do. Perhaps in our eagerness to support them we forget that derogatory comments
have "never •suppQrtaf anytWng,
and never "will, regardless of at
whom they are aimed. In fact,
they bring discredit, not to the
recipient, but to the sender; in
this ease . . . the sender's school
and entire community.
It isn't last Friday evening's
fiasco at Chelsea alone which
prompts me to say I beUeve our
sportsmanship leaves much to
be desired . . . this is true of
every game I've seen. As a
cheerleader, I spent three years
trying to keep unauthorized
people and things (debris) off
the playing floor, and watching
for and trying to eUminate the
two most obvious signs of poor
sportsmanship . . . "booing"
anytime and any excessive noise
whUe an opponent is trying to
sink a free shot. I'd hate to
tackle the job how!!
When I reflect back upon my
three years in the blue and gold
uniform, I immediately think of
how proud I was to wear it, and
of the various towns whose
teams we played. Perhaps I am
wrong in doing so, but my impression of these towns was,
and is, formed largely by the
conduct of the entire group at
sports events. Regardless of the
stakes involved, I can't remember a time when the boys on the
team, and the coaches, didn't
sliake hands at the end of the
game,- and with few exceptions,
conduct themselves with good
sportsmanship throughout the
game. Again, they hold up their
end. I hope, as a reward, the
1960-61 team can be proud to
Wear their blue and gold "S",
not only because it stands for
Saline, a champion hasketball
team, but for. Saline, a commu-
"nityU
-- Sally Stimpson