1961-03-22; Saline Reporter

              The Saline Reporter
VOLUME 14, NUMBER 27 -- WEDNESDAY, MARCH 22, 1961
fFirst With AU the Local News'
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4th Period Honor
Roll Announced
Saline High School Honor
Rolls for the fourth marking
period were announced this
week:
The Academic honor roll includes students carrying at
least four academic subjects
and maintaining at least a B
average (5.0). The General honor roll includes students maintaining at least a B average in
all subjects at any level.
A grade of D in any subject
keeps a student off either honor roll. To be listed the student
must return his card by Friday.
SENIORS
Academic
Marianne Burr 6.5
Kathy Kuebler 5.8
Wally Keck 6.0
Mike Washburn 6.8
Ken Volz 7.8
Jim Struble 7.0
Alan Coe 5.8
30 Students
Earn Honor
Society Pins
General
Cynthia   Klein
Carolyn Marion
Bob   Yuhasz
Carol Coates
Virginia   Riley
Marjorie  Stevens
Carol  Losee
Merle Klager
Jean  Reid
JUNIORS
Academic
Jim Bernard -
Beverly  Brown
Tom   Jeppesen
James Jedele
Brian LaRue
Susan Anthony
MerrUie Harvey
Doris Herter
Mary Sue Gordon
Christine McDonald
Abbie  Young
Sandra Brown
Louise Anderson
Rick  Johnson
Sandra Johnson
Ed  Strait
Carol Thompson
General
Babs Schmid
Sara Schaible    ~
Pat Bird
Joyce  Ehnis
Katrene  Gall
Elaine Ferrence
SOPHOMORES
Academic
Thirty Saline High School
students received National Honor Society pins when the society, first organized here in
1955, was re-activated last'Keith Armbruster
•week. I Earl  Klager
The purpose of the organiza- Martha Esch
tion is to promote scholarship, Kathie  Reed
leadership,   character  and  ser- Steve Milkey
vice, and students are eligible Jerri Olson
for membership in the second Bruce Carr
semester of the sophomore year, Georgia Burg
providing  they  carry  at least Karen Hinderer
four    academic    subjects    and Vicky Hill
maintain at least a "B" average. (Gayle Finkbeiner
(Some carry as many as six ac- Alona Frey
ademic subjects at once.) ITe<-* Graban
Present members include se- Jean- Schaible
niors, Marianne Burr, Michael Shirley Sheehan
Bixby, Wally Keck, Kathy Kue- Seree Vaisman
bier, Ken Volz, Mike Washburn, (Lois   Sutton
Jim Struble, Alan Coe,- and Ga
ry Wild. Juniors are Louise An
derson, Sandra Brown, Beverly,
Brown,  Doris Herter,  Merrilie' Marcia Feldkamp
Harvey,   Sandra   Johnson,   Ed j Sharon Feldkamp
Strait,  Gary Niethammer,  and'Ed ^oss
5.0
6.5
5.0
6.6
5.0
7.2
5.6
5.6
6.3
5.8
6.0
5.8
5.0
6.5
5.0
5.8
7.3
7.0
6.3
5.3
6.5
5.0
6.5
6.4
6.3
6.3
6.5
6.0
6.0
6.3
5.7
7.5
6.0
6.3
6.2
6.8
5.8
7.0
6.6
5.2
5.8
7.0
6.4
5.3
5.2
5.3
7.4
5.8
7.0
Jim
FRESHMEN
Academic
Feldkamp
Dale Flook
Lorraine Myers
Joan LaRue
Carol Thompson.
Sophomores are Keith Armbruster,   Norah   Bixby,   Bruce
Carr, Martha Esch, Vicky Hill, Diane Miller
Karen  Hinderer,   Earl  Klager, Elsie Klager
Jerri Olson, Kathie Reed, Jean Joan  Tinker
Schaible, Shirley Sheehan, Lois Rob Merchant
Sutton, and Wendy Wild. (Continued on Page 4)
6.0
5.8
5.8
5.5
6.8
5.3
EASTER VACATION
TO  START MARCH  30
Saline area schools will be
closed on Thursday and Friday,
March 30 and 31, and on Monday, April 3, for Easter vacation, it was announced this
week.
BPW Plans
Coffee Klatsch
For Studen
A "Coffee Klatsch" to help
defray the. expenses of Exchange Student Benna Jean
Sawyers and to build the BPW
Scholarship Fund will be held
here one Saturday in late April
or early May, BPW president
Jean  Taylor  announced  today.
Miss Sawyers, daughter of
Mrs. Emmanuel Hertler, has
been selected by the Ann Arbor
Council of Churches to spend
two months in Europe this summer under the Council's student exchange program. But the
Council does not pay expenses.
The BPW scholarship fund
was set up last year to provide
$100 each year to a worthy Saline area student. The Coffee
Klatsch, to serve both purposes,
will be repeated annually for
the fund and to aid other local
young people who may travel
under a foreign exchange program in the future, Mrs. Taylor
said.
The Coffee Klatsch will be
held in the immediate downtown
area and will be open to the
public. The time and place will
be announced later. Two similar
events last year brought funds
for an incubator for the hospital.
Child Study
Club Plans
For Conclave
Plans for a Spring Planning
meeting, which will draw 250
Child Study Club delegates to
Saline, were approved at the
meeting Tuesday of the local
club, at the home of Mrs. Regis
Wolfinger of Mills road.
The convention, of Child Stu-1
dy Club members throughout j
5-3 southern Michigan, will be held j
5*° \ at Saline High School on Satur-1
6-3 day, April 8. 1
Princess
600 Attend Banquet
1© Honer Dairf men
Stately   Katrene   Gall   was cows" — that is, cows whose to-
named Washtenaw county Dai-1 tal production record has top-
ry Princess, and approximately |ped 100,000 pounds of milk.
40 dairymen were honored for j    To qualify for the "400 Club"
Junior High Band
Wins 'First* Rating
5.8
5.3
Builder Ups Permit
Price to End Conflict
A change in the basic price
listed on 43 building permits
Monday apparently eased a
neighborhood strain that had
developed over the type of
homes to be constructed in Saline Heights Addition this
spring.
Construction is expected to
begin immediately on a model
for-the homes, which are to be
built on Hollywood Drive, off
Mills Road. Planned by Wilshire
Construction Co., the ranch
homes are to contain 997 square
feet of floor space, including
three bedrooms. They will be
of brick on three sides, with
full basements, and will sell for
.$15,OQ0 and up
space on "RIllls. Rd. houses, and
350 square feet on houses in
the court.
The price listed for all of the
building permits was changed
Monday after Hering and Sparrow pointed out that there is
no standard method of- determining the price on such permits. (Some builders list only
the basic cost of labor and ma-
terias; some list all overhead
and extras, as well.) The standards of the homes to be constructed by Wilshire are of the
quality he had in mind when he
filed the restrictions, Hering
said: "The cost listed on the
building permit is not indicative
of the quality of the house
Speaker at the Tuesday meet-'    The only First Division rat- j net section .
ing was Dr. John McWilliams, ing in its class was awarded to phona solo .
MD  and ophthalmologist,  who the Saline Junior High Band, in solo . . . ."
. Fine alto saxa-
fine French horn
The  model,   the  only   homfe- -if the builde#bnly counts basic"
planned to face on Mills road
will sell for approximately
$18,000, after an attached brick
two-car garage is added, the
i builder's  representative,  David
J.  Sparrow, said.
• A neighborhood uproar over
the homes developed Thursday
when approximately 20 Saline
Heights   residents   attended   a
M^ special Council meeting to pftj^
^y, ■  test that the original price lis£"
ed on the building permits
$10,000 ~ did not meet private
building restrictions filed oh the
property by the original owner,
Ed Hering.
Present private restrictions
place a $12,000 minimum cost
on homes there, plus a minimum, of 950 square feet of floor
cost, thfs'*cah"!give""trtraise^:impression."
The permit for the model was
raised to $12,500, and an additional permit will be taken out
when the. garage is added before the house is sold, Sparrow
said. In issuing the- permit,
Council specified that no occupancy permit will be granted
until the-garage is built.
"g^The earlier, contested buildings permits had been issued over the objections of neighbors,
city officials said, because the
prospective homes met all city
building and zoning requirements, and "The city cannot
use its governmental authority
to enforce private building restrictions.",»
explained   the   difference   be- the, District Band Festival con-
tween his field and those  of test Saturday in Belleville."
opticians and optometrists, and.    The 75-piece Saline band, par-
the advantages  and  disadvan- tieipating in class "C", brought
tages of contact lenses. ' back a rec0rd of 22 "A's"' and
Hostesses  were   Mrs.   Harry two  ..g.s..  for concert-playing,
Miller and Mrs. Howard Kuhl.    |and received a "B" average for
•the sight-reading event.
The 7th and 8th-grade students left Saline at 6:30 a.m.
Saturday, and arrived in Belleville an hour ahead of schedule.
m.
and had completed their- appearance by 9:15 a.m.
The Saline Junior High Band
is the only one in Michigan
whose members attend school
in two different buildings; special permission must be obtained for- them to enter the contest each year, for that reason.
Judges comments at the contest included:
"Good general interpretation
. . . good cornet and saxaphone
sound ... a fine performance of
this composition . . . Band possesses a good sound, plays mu-
Saline C-C Starts
Membership Drive
Saline's Chamber of Com-
merce membership drive, aim-; performed  at  8:25  a
ing to increase the size and ef-i^J-^.j Wo/, +>,01-„ ori„0
fectiveness of the local organization, starts this week, according to Jack Steeb, president.
Present members are serving as
solicitors in the drive, which
will extend to all business and
professional people in the community.
A membership meeting midway, in the drive will be held
next Tuesday noon at Marty's
Restaurant, with election of officers for the coming year on
the agenda.
IJ)^^4rJ*ff^-^iil Tie*- -**"iHsaxed
April 5 with the group's annu^^^^^ gQ0<L balance _ _ _
nner* goods^ie">-.^B'md;prays car^-
FIREMEN EXTINGUISH
GRASS FIRE
Saline Volunteer Firemen
were called to extinguish a
grass fire at 4200 Pleasant Lake
Rd. early last Thursday evening. No serious damage was
caused by the blaze.
fully and with allrarJSlS^t^tude
. . . Excellent work in the cor
Mrs. William James and her.
son and daughter are leaving
this afternoon to spend a few-
weeks in Germany visiting her
family.  They're  going  by  jet
and are scheduled to arrive in | tiohal liberal arts college found
Frankfort Friday morning. It Jed-in 1871. It is located 16 miles
is their intention to be gone for 'west of Chicago 'and has an en-
about a month. irofiment of 878 "-students.
Rev. Bizer Named
To Head Campaign
Rev. A. C Bizer, pastor of
St. James E. & R.-Church, was
recently named local chairman
of the Elmhurst College alumni
fund campaign by T. F. Krohne,
president of the National Alumni Association of the college.
Elmhurst is a 4-year coeduca-
Critical comments concerning
a lack of lower brass instruments and faulty intonation in
the clarinets and flutes were also given by the judges.
Sidelight: the special order of
extra band trousers, scheduled
to arrive on Friday afternoon,
arrived one hour after the
Band returned from the contest.)
"Congratulations are in order to each member of this fine
band. They continue to show an
excellent spirit and attitude in
their musical performances and
training," Arthur Katterjohn,
director of Saline bands, said.
Stand By for
Donkey Basketball
The donkeys are coming to
Saline again, to match wits and
skill with the Saline F.F.A.
boys and the Faculty All-Stars.
Stanley Poet, manager of the
F.F.A. Alumni, is busy recruiting and training his team, and
junior and senior F.F.A. boys
are, plotting^j-aT^"^-^
£gjfegriMt^h.ey have control
of their unpredictable quadrupeds. The Saline Faculty All-
Stars, rigorously trained for the
game, have named their starting line-up: Erve "Bouncing"
Berner, Al "Elusive" Ealy, Taylor "Jig-Jog" Jacobsen, Art
""tapering" Katterjohn, Clyde
"Nimble" Niedfeldt, and Jay
"Sinker" Starkey.
In last year's game, the donkeys won.
Game time is at 8 p.m. Wednesday, March .29, at the Intermediate School gym. Tickets are
75c for adults and 50c for students.
LIQUOR BY  GLASS
ON BRIDGEWATER BALLOT
Bridgewater township residents, at the April 3 election,
will ballot on a liquor-by-the-
glass proposal. Although
Bridgewater is one of a dozen
or so Michigan townships which
retain an open option on the
question, the present proposal
was placed on the ballot by petition.-
The only tavern presently operated in the township is the
Bridgewater tavern, located in
the village. Distance between it
and a nearby church has not
been officially measured but is
estimated at "neary 1000 feet".
The law requires 500 feet separation.
outstanding production records
of their herds, at the annual
Washtenaw county Dairy Banquet at Saline High School Saturday evening.
The banquet, sponsored by
Washtenaw county Dairy Council and Cooperative Extension
services, was attended by more
than 600 dairy farmers and
their wives. Will Foster, of
Scarsdale, N.Y., was the featured speaker.
Miss Gall, the_vdaughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Albert- Gall of
6174 Willow Rd., was crowned
by last year's county Dairy
Princess, Janice Harwood. Run-
ners-up among 13 contestants
were Mary Ross, 17, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Max Ross of
Manchester road; Joyce Moore,
18, a Michigan State university
freshman whose home is in Willis; and, honorable mention,
Marjorie Wheeler, 17, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Wheeler,
of Whitmore Lake.
Katrene, 16, is a junior at
Saline High School and also attends Guy Cari beauty college
in Ann Arbor. Her family lives
on a 380-acre farm and maintains a herd of 55 dairy cattle.
Katrene herself owns three head
of dairy cattle, six beef steers
and a heifer. She raised the
Grand Champion Holstein and
received the Dairy Showmanship award at the county 4-H
Fair in 1960. She has received
numerous 4-H awards.
Sheds-president of the Junior
Livestock club of Saline, and
raised the Grand Champion
Hereford at the 1959 Saline
Community Fair.
In school, she is-on the Honor Roll, has been a cheer leader
and majorette, and plays with
the HS Band and Michigan
Youth Band. She wrote the
script for the 1960 Band Frol-
ics.-
Shs is a member of Future
Homemakers of America (and
an earnest student of home economics) and president of the
Future Nurses club. She is vice
president of the South Central
League of Nursing . . ..though
she plans to continue her education in home economics or
high fashion styling.
In St. Paul's E. & R. Church,
she is a member of the choir
and Youth Fellowship.
Washtenaw county "400 Club
members" were announced at
the banquet. Also cited were
dairymen with "100,000 pound
the member must have a computed five year average of 400
pounds   or   more   of   butterfat
per  cow.   Not more than  one
year may be below 400 opunds
Herd Improvement Registry "
Averages are calculated on a
mature basis which is  six to
six and one half years of age.
HIR is the official Test of the
Breed   Associations.    Members
Howard   WilMe,    George
are:
Macomber, Leonard Burmeister,
Frank Geiger & Sons, Fred
Palma.
DairJ Herd-Improvement Ass'n.
DHIA records are actual, conducted in cooperation with United States Department of Agriculture and State Cooperative
Extension Services: Elton Frey,
Howard WilMe, Tom Carlton,
George Macomber, Paul Taylor,
Wesley Amsdill, Robert Curtis,
Paul Wild, Norman Randall,
(Cont'd,  on Page  8)
Radiological
Counter to be
Installed Here
A three-piece radiological
counting f device (to measure
fall-out) * will be placed with
the Fire Department here in
the near future, Col. Gerald
Miller, county Civil Defense
head, told City Council Monday.
The gadget will measure radiation in any amount — but a
High School math education
plus 10-hours of special training are required* to read it. Simpler units, constructed to measure radiation on a "more limited scale, will be placed in county Sheriff's cars and Road Commission vehicles.
The- device will be placed in
Saline as soon as a team of
three men has completed the
basic Civil Defense course given
by the county, plus the ten-hour
training course. Local CD head
Bob Russell, Harold Armbruster
and Wallie Crosbie have- taken
the basic course and will enter
the special training early in the
summer. Three .more local firemen, Ted Hill, Al Hoeft, and
Rollie Goltz, will take the basic
course in May.
Saline   will   also .participate |
in a county-wide exercise, "Operation Alert - 1961" scheduled
Friday and Saturday, April 28
and 29.
Panel Ponders Petitions
Four panelists, representing
two sides of the controversial
parking and hiring questions to
appear on the April ballot, went
'round and 'round on both subjects at a meeting of Saline Area Civic Association \~st Wednesday.
Tavern owner George Burg,
and Mrs. Walt Moore, wife of a
city DPW employee, spoke in
behalf of the petitions, which
seek to restrict hiring of police
and DPW employees to city residents, and to remove about half
tern.        **-'<""-"~
Mayor Jack Bennett and
Councilman George Johnson
spoke against the petitions. The
discussion was moderated by
Allan Grossman. It went like
this:
Grossman: Mr. Burg, what
reasons do you have for feeling
employees should be residents?
Burg: Such employees as the
police must be "on call all the
time, not just during duty
hours. The delay in answering
an emergency call, caused by:
out of town residence, could
cost the city money.
It improves acquaintance
with a city and its problems to
Uve in it. Confidential information from neighbors or friends
may be forthcoming if an officer lives in town.
The provision to exclude part
time employees was made to
give a wider range.of selection
for these jobs.
Bennett: What would you do
if you needed the police, Mr.
Burg?
.. Burg: I would call the Shj
ttfs&em$&&rCr?"
-.^ Bennett: And nine times out
of "teflr-the. Saline Police would
answer and they would come if
you needed them. Even though
you live outside of the city.
Johnson: Information from
neighborhood informers is not
a vital consideration in the performance of a policeman's duty
as I see it.
Burg: Suppose (and in an extreme case: this could happen)
all our officers lived at Whitmore Lalce. This would certainly not fAow loyalty^ to Satoe.
I don't feel a man should finish his: duty time and go home
and forget it. Living outside of
town would make a man prone I
to this attitude. A man who is j
paid a salary is different from]
an hourly worker.
Grossman: Are the police on|
a salary?
Bennett: No, they are on anl
hourly basis. Is it not possible!
that we might not have enough!
qualified men in the city to fill|
available positions?
Burg: By residence IfffSaxit
we did not mean Bj
out afterwards.
Johnson:. It is not stated, this!
way on-the petition to be plac
on the ballot. As it is started!
you are restricting the qualit
of personnel (by limiting it tq
Saline residents only)  as we
as rights Trf-aapplicants.
Mrs. Moore. Why is,this con!
fined to the Police department
tonight?
Bennett: This is the only dej
partment which has men liv
outside.
Mrs. Moore: A couple ye
ago, we were advised we shoull
move into iSaline.
Bennett:; Not by Councl
members, was it?,
(Continued on Page 4)