1961-05-03; Saline Reporter

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The Saline Reporter
VOLUME 14, NUMBER 33 ~ WEDNESDAY, MAY 3, 1961
'First With All the Local News'
10c PER COPY — $3 PER YEAR
Harrison to Head
Community Chest
Robert Harrison was elected James Carman, E. R. Richards,
president of the board of the Daniel Lirones, Bliss Charles,
Saline area Community Chest Mrs. Edwin Frazee, and Mrs.
(United Fund) at a meeting of John Flook. *
the board Monday evening, ahd ."*' As budget committee chair-
Dean Burkhardt was named as|man, Burkhardt will also serve
vice president for the 1961 as delegate to the Washtenaw
drive. I county United Fund, an organi-
Burkhardt will also serve as; zation still in the formative
chairman of the budget com-' stage which he helped to launch,
mittee, and other members of Its purpose is the coordination
the committee — and a cam-) of fund drive materials, bud-
paign chairman — will be ap-1 gets, and clerical staffs, he said,
pointed   at   the   next  meeting,' and the group expects to oper-
Harrison said.
'.ate as a joint venture, with a
Cecelia Ference was named' Joint budget where possible, this
as secretary; and Erwin Sclimid i year* A Wayne county United
win serve as treasurer, replac- \ Fund has been in operation for
ing Miss Luella Lambarth, who some time,
has retired after serving as
treasurer for six years. Eugene
Carpentier is the out-going president of the organization.
Four new members of the
board were elected: Mrs. Howard Feeman, Douglas Schuur,
Robert Estes, and David Gordon; and one vacancy remains
to be filled. Completed terms
were those of Miss Lambarth,
Mrs. Everett Wolfin, Hugh Keveling, Donald Rapp, and Carpentier.
Other board members include
Womans Club
Plans Dessert,
Style Show
Members of the Saline Woman's club this week were deep
in plans for the annual spring
luncheon and Senior Girls' Dessert, and for the Style Show
and card party which this year
will benefit Benna Jean Sawyers, exchange student.
The spring luncheon will be
held at 12:30 p.m. Tuesday, May
9, at St. Paul's E. and R. church
and Saline High School senior
girls are invited to the dessert
,at 2 p.m. Mrs. William Meister
'is chairman of the event, and
Arthur Morse Eastman, asso- the program is in charge of the
ciate professor of English at the Woman's club president, Mrs.
University of Michigan, will be Arthur Heininger.
the speaker at Commencement The annual Style Show, fea-
exercises at Saline High School, turing fashions from Ander-
Mildred Haswell,  SHS director son's store, will be presented at
Three Candidates to File
etifions
School
Dr. Eastman
To Speak at
Graduation
City, Township Officials
See School Trends Study
Officials of Saline, and of all
the townships in Saline area
School District, were guests of
CITY BONDS  APPROVED
An order from the Michigan
Municipal Finance Commission
was received by the city today,
approving   a   proposed   §17,000
| special  assessment  bond  issue
ito cover the cost of work done
in assessment districts 24, 29,
,31, and 32. The improvements,
! on    Spring   street,    the   High the Board of Education tonight
'School sidewalk,   and Hillcrest at an informal conclave desigh-
, drive,    have    been    completed, ed to bring the officials abreast
iWork  on  Owen  Place  is  still of   educational    and    financial
1 trends   in   the   district    and
J throughout the county.
The informational meeting
was scheduled, according to
School Board president Bess
Tefft, "since these people share
the same problems that we do
in a way. Folks will come to
them on taxes, and they should
be as informed as we are. We
also want to meet them, since
we have not had an opportunity
on   the  schedule.
Senior pole vaulter Lyle Wahl gained the only first
place score for Saline in the Tecumseh Relays Saturday. He
also holds the SHS record, at 10 ft. 6 in. Above, he snaps
over the high hurdles.
- Photo by Lanny Robbins
Hornets Initiate New
Track with Big Win
The Saline High trackmen are Johnson   (S),  Leonard   (R)   -
celebrating the first home track :11
meet victory in the history of 440   YD.   DASH:   Scott   (R),
of Commencement Week activi- 8 p.m. Wednesday, May. 17, at1 the school, after the opening of Strait (S), Giles (R) - "i56.8
ties, announced this week, |the Elementary School. Chair-
Commencement exercises are man of the event is Mrs. Rob-
scheduled at 8:15 p.m., Thursday, June 8, at the High School
gymnasium. Diplomas will be
presented by Mrs. Robert Tefft,
president of the Board of Education.
For the first time in Saline,
no valedictorian or salutatorian
will speak; but programs will
list students graduating "with
highest honors" as well as "with
honors". The decision to eliminate the valedictorian arid salutatorian was made by a faculty
ert Starling; and Mrs. Lee "Robison will act as commentator.
Tables will be provided for
guests who wish to play cards
while viewing the fashions on
display. Admission is a $1 donation.
Miss Sawyers, daughter of
Mrs. Emanuel Hertler, has been
chosen by the Ann Arbor Council of Churches as an exchange
student to Europe in the program sponsored by the Council. She will leave in June to
committee after months of stu- stay with a family in Holland
dy and discussion;  the senior
class approved it.
As president of the senior
class, Randall Karr will present the class gift at Commencement, and the Rev. Armin
Bizer will give the invocation
and benediction.
The Rev. Robert Richards
will speak at Baccalaureate services at 8:15 p.m. Sunday, June
4; and the Rev. William Mosher
will give the invocation and benediction and read the scripture.
The annual Awards Night
will be held at 8:15 p.m. Wednesday, June 7, with Mike
Washburn, the retiring Student
Council president, presiding. Although the event is designed
principally to honor seniors, all
scholarships, class awards, and
cups are presented at that time.
The Commencement speaker,
Professor Eastman received the
degree of Bachelor of Arts in
1940 from Oberlin College, Master of Arts in 1942 from Yale
University, and Doctor of Philosophy in 1947, also from Yale.
He taught at the University of
New Hampshire in 1946-47.
Eastman is a member of the
American Association of University Professors, the Modern
Language Association, the Michigan Academy, and the American Veterans Committee. He
has been on various University
committees including: Senate
Advisory Committee, the Public
Relations Committee of the University Senate and. the Scholarship Committee of the College
of Literature, Science and the
Arts. He was a Guggenheim
FeUow,  1957-58.
. (Note: All three Commencement Week events are scheduled
at 8:15 p.m.) ■■£
whose own daughter will come
to Michigan in August.
their new track and the start of 100 YD. LOWS:  Tinslay - (R),
the triple dual meet series. | Davis (S), Carr (S) — :23.6
Tuesday evening the Hornets 220 YD. DASH: Leonard (R),
defeated Ypsilanti Roosevelt 73- Schrader (S), McCIure (R) -
36, in part of the series being  :25.5
held by Washtenaw Conference HALF MILE: Vol* (S), Kenne-
schools at Saline High. In the ay (R), Riley (S) — 2W1*
other two meets, Pinckney de-
MILE: Yuhasz (S). Marion (S),
feated  Manchester   77-32,   and Stewart (R) - 5:16
Chelsea topped Dexter 61-48.      880 m KELAY: g^e (John.
In gaining their triumph the I
Saline thinclads claimed all the     Saline m h thinclads Satur.
points from three events as well d      marked up a third place
as winning elght of the 13 first fMsh in the } Tecumseh
Places* 'Relays. j
The  class  C   section  of  thej
son, Hoeft, Strait, Schrader)
Local MD
Honored at
Wayne State
The   board   hopes   to   make
A Golden Anniversary diploma from the Wayne State university CoUege of Medicine wUl ,to ^f^ §et t0 know one an0
be presented to Dr. John D. ther."
Buck, of SaUne, Wednesday evening at the 93rd annual CUnic
Day and Alumni Reunion banquet, in Detroit.
Dr. Buck, a graduate of the
class of 1911, is one of 14 members of the class to be so honored, at the banquet at the Hotel Fort Shelby. Mrs. Buck wiU
also attend the event. The 1911
graduating class originaUy had
42 members.
Dr. Edwin F. Dittmer will be
toastmaster for the occasion,
and sophomore and senior scholarship awards and distinguished service citation wiU be given,
in addition to honoring the 50- \ run-off stemming from addi-
year graduates. The Golden An-1 tions and improvements to the
niversary diplomas were first Intermediate School and its
given by the university in 1945. Sparking lot. Nine residents of
Dr. Buck, a Saline City Coun- -the area had signed a petition
cilman and former Justice of' asking for solution of the prob-
the Peace here, practiced med-|lem, and a spokesman, Mark
icine in Detroit, except during, WUson, said a dupUcate peti-
World Wars I and n, until he tion had been addressed to the
Council Deals
With Wet
Situations
City Council Monday was up
to its boot tops in water problems:
Residents of Owens Place and
east McKay street appeared to
seek relief from flooding they
said was  caused  by excessive
such an informative session an
annual event,  she said.
The visiting officials saw
slides of graphs prepared by
School Board member Dean
Burkhardt and School Superintendent Leo Jensen, from records covering the past four or
live years, and indicating trends
of expenditures, receipts, student population, teacher population ~ and comparisons with
other school districts. Among
the trends shown by the material :
WhUe student population has
risen steadUy during the period,
and teacher population has also
increased, the relative number
of pupils per teacher has remained about the same, or even
decUned slightly (about % student per teacher).
WhUe annual budgets have
increased consistently, the greatest area of increase has been
in the cost of instruction rather
than in maintenance or facUities.
.WhUe budgets have increased,
the actual number of doUars returned to the district in state
aid remains about the same as
it was five years ago . . . hence,
the difference in tax bills.
The miUage levied by Saline
area School District, over the
past four years, was the lowest
of any district in Washtenaw
county for three of those four
years; and in the remaining
year -(when the district had
debt
Incumbents
Will Run for
New Terms
Mrs. Robert Tefft, president
of SaUne area Board of Education, and board member Dean
Burkhardt, wUl both be candidates for new terms on the
board, they announced today.
Petitions were also out for a
third candidate, Vefik (Vic)
Basman, of 7290 Fosdick Rd.
Basman, 44, is an electrical engineer employed as program
manager in space research for
Bendix Aviation Corp. His wife
is employed in the business department of the Ann Arbor
Board of Education. The couple
have no children.
Three seats are to be fiUed
at the June 12 election, two
four-year terms, and the remaining three years of the term
vacated by the resignation of
Francis . Lockwood, announced
last week. Both the Basman and
Burkhardt petitions were for
four-year terms. Mrs. Tefft has
not yet taken, out petitions.
Mrs. Tefft, who was elected
president of the board last year,
is completing a three-year term,
undertaken before the increase
in-size of the board provided
four-year terms for some.
Burkhardt was appointed last
year to fiU a vacancy created
by the resignation of Dr. Gordon Prout. He said he wUl run
again because "there is stiU a
big job to do, a lot to be done
trying to work out the financial
problems of the school: district.
retirement   on   all   three -j^^ year has been very inter.
moved to SaUne in 1950.
home is at 305 Mffls Rd.
Howard Schrader was the individual standout for the Hornets in the meet, grabbing first
places in the shot put and 100
meet was won by Jackson St. |
Mary with 50y2 points. Chelsea |
yard dash as well as placing se- :^ffd  j"*° J-fon<*  f™e J*?th
cond in the 220 yard dash and %\whlle Sahne had 38. Other
Washtenaw   Conference   teams
running in the half mUe relay
team. Ed Strait showed up weU
by winning the broad jump and
taking second in the quarter
mile.
The results:
SHOT   PUT:     Schrader    (S),
Scott    (R),    Dettling    (S)    -
38'8V_"
POLE VAULT: Wahl  (S), tie
(for entering) Niethammer (S) iP°ints by PlacmS s*30011*1 ** the
Wagener  (S)  and Max  (R)  .-ibr°ad J«n»P-
;g>g» )    Rick  Johnson  placed  second
HIGH .IUMP: Scott (R), Hoeft'111 the 10° yd* dash and was
(S) tie; Giles (R) Stewart (R) .fourth in the broad jump. Bob
and Johnson  (S)  - 5'6" ! Yuhasz was third in the mile.
BROAD  JUMP:   Strait, Hoeft,!
School Fete
To Feature
"un, Food
A white elephant cake-walking on a race track around a
fish pond? WeU, not quite . . .
but aU the ingredients wUl be
there, at the annual Elementary School Carnival, starting
at 7 p.m. Friday.
With parents and youngsters
from 20 school rooms to gather
the materials and operate the
concessions, the school wiU be
humming long before the usual
crowd of thousands begins to
miU  through  the  corridors.
ChUdren from all 20 rooms
wUl take part in the .Talent
Show at 7:30 p.m.
Events planned for the Carnival include a Side Show and a
Puppet Show by the Kindergarten; cake, .pie, and coffee to be
served from the kitchen; sales
of candy, silhouettes, baked
goods, popcorn, jewelry, white
elephants (not the Uve type),
and cotton candy; and games
that include the race track and
fish i>bnd, nine pins, bean ;bag,
"guess the macaroni", and the
messy but everfpopular make-
un room. -
^   „     ■    . •*  " ;,     HOSPITAL ADXHJARY
TJie Carnival is sponsored by, -^^^ ,
the room mothers, and proceeds
will  be  used   in  purchase  of The  annual meeting  of the
books  for  the  school library. Saline Community Hospital Au-
Tickets^for the events and sales xiUary wiU be held at 8 p.m. on
are 10 cents each — 10,000 have May 16. The place wUl be an-
been o*cdered..■ ;   "* ,        .. ,    , nounced next week.
in the meet were Pinckney (se-
venth-21),    Dexter    (eighth
20%), and YpsUanti Roosevelt1
(ninth-14).     .   *
Senior pole vaulter Lyle Wahl
gained the only first place finish for the Hornets during the
event, by clearing the bar at
10'6".  Ed  Strait  gained  more
Howard Schrader was fifth in
Johnson (aU Saline) - 18'3y2"ithe  1°°>  while  Tom Wagener
A   Tag   Day   conducted   by
three Saline Girl Scout troops
here Saturday brought in $95
'claimed second"in the half mile!for the Cancer fund - in spite
relay, third in the two-mile re-
(gj'lay,  and fourth in the  sprint
120 YD. HIGH: Wagener, Wahl, was  in ^e same sPot m  the
Davis (all Saline) - :18.5 lhlgh hurdles.
MILE RELAY: Roosevelt (Ho-!    ^   tne   re,ay   events   Saline
ver, Davis, Stewart, Milfere) —
4:06.1
100 YD. DASH:  Schrader
medley relay.
RURAL LIFE  SUNDAY !    While they won third place in
TO BE  OBSERVED the meet> and were Dehlnd OIUy
one Washtenaw Conference
On Sunday St. James Evan- team . (Chelsea),   the   Hornets
gelical  and   Reformed  Church, now had a few worries on their
located in SaUne township, will hands as a result of the perfor-
His, Board of Education.
CouncU pondered possible solutions of the drainage slowdown in the Canterbury-Rose-
mont area; Mayor Jack Bennett
appointed CouncUmen John
Buck and Orren Corl, and DPW
head Mike Strait to study the
situation.
Council agreed that the drainage tUe crossing Detroit street
is "inadequate" under heavy
rainfall conditions. Flooding in
all of the area was aggravated
by last week's two-day storm.
FinaUy, CouncU accepted a
bid of $40 from Lance Rogers
for the annual cleaning of the
the city water tower.
DR. JOHN BUCK
Scouts Tag
$95 for
Cancer Fund
observe Rural life Sunday.
The Rev. Leonard Weigel of
Taylor, Mich., wiU be the guest
preacher and the Rev. Armin
Bizer, pastor of St. James
Church, wUl preach in Taylor
in exchange.
of cold and windy weather —
Mrs. Meredith Bixby, cancer
publicity chairman, announced
today.
Chairman of the local Crusade for Cancer this year is
Mrs. Leo Jensen.
The $95 brought in by the
Scouts' Tag Day edged conrti-
butions close to $160, with the
funds donated at two Coffee
Hours for the drive. Although
approximately $54 was .given at
the Coffee Hours, donations are
still coming in from persons
who were unable to attend; the
amount now reaches nearly $60,
Mrs. Bixby said.
Canisters have been collected
ord in the mUe, Tom Ritter won [by the committee, but have not
it forChesea with ajarisk 4:55.5 j yet been counted, she said,
clocking for this time in the sea- The Scout troops, 277, 280,
son. McLaughlin of Chelsea con.- [and 282, are led by Mrs. Gerald
tiniied to win in the hurdles Coe, Mrs. Hubert Beach, iand
with a 15.5 time in»the highs.    .Mrs. John SchrielL *    -■■
mances of the other schools'
athletes. Dave McLaughlin set a
new meet record in the shot
put with a 46 foot 7 inch heave
for Chelsea. Calvin Scott from
Roosevelt shared the high jump
record of 5 feet 10% inches.
Dexter's Jerry Socks chopped
off a :10.4 mark in the 100 yard;
dash. WhUe not setting a reo
schools) it was stiU weU below
the average.   .
Cost per student in the Saline
district is weU below the county
average for every year.
Officials learned that the upward trend in school populations and school budgets is a
universal problem, plainly indicated in every other district
studied. Said Burkhardt: "Fortunately, we have been able to
maintain ours at or below the
average of cost."
SaUne area schools, at the
same time, are among the highest in the state in educational
standards and ratings. Said
Mrs. Tefft: "We are proud of
our record."
Refreshments were served at
the meeting, held in the home-
making room at the High
School.
esting; I have enjoyed it."
Owner to.Petition
For Liquor-by-glass
Art Michalke, owner of Five
Points restaurant here, wUl circulate petitions to place Uquor-
by-the-glass on the city baUot
at a general election in the near
future, he said today. If the issue passes, he wiU apply to the
Liquor Control Commission for
a license for the restaurant, he
said.
Mchalke sought information
Monday from City CouncU, as
to how many petition signatures
are required to bring the matter
to a vote and how many days
before an election the petitions
must b.e fUed.
SHS Honor Rolls Announced
Saline High School Honor
RoUs for the fifth marking period were released this week. The
listings, in order of class standing, are for the six-weeks period
only; they do not represent the
averages for the entire year.
The Academic honor roU includes students carrying at
least four academic subjects
and maintaining at least a B
average (5.0). The General honor roU includes students maintaining at least a B average in
aU subjects at any level.
A grade of D in any subject
keeps a student off either honor
roU. To be listed, the student
must have returned his card by
Friday,  AprU 28.
8TH GRADE
Academic
Linda Heiserman 7.8
Sue. Washburn 7.5
John Scherdt 7.0
Katy Esch 7.0
Kristine Kuebler " - 6.8
Sandra Greenfield          ,     .6.8
Kay  Gordon 6.8
Steve MiUer 6.5
Janis Coe * 6.3
PhU Bondie ."- JB;3
Marilyn Struble 6.3
Bob Tefft ;- ■- 6.3
Sue.Robison ~" -, " Ml$&
Karen -Weber    ,           .    '■:' 6.3
Dan Morton
Gail Mittendorf
Bob Austin
Patricia Katz
David King
Dean Losee
Alan  Hartman
Hal  Ceronsky
Kathy Chambers
Cheryl Henes
Barbara Houghton
Bruce Niethammer
John Harvey
Bruce Uphaus
Kurt Fischer
General
Margaret Chantelois
Tom Zahn
Diane Diuble
Trudy Craigmile
Jennifer Camburn
Harold Satterla
Leslie Carman
Linda *Labay
9TH GRADE
Academic
Dale Flook
Rob Merchant
Sharon Feldkamp
Jim  Feldkamp
Elsie Klager
Joan Tinker
Dolores jFaust
Marcia Feldkamp
GaU Aimbrt^fer
Sue r&md^*
Dennis Ypung -
6.0
6.0
6.0
5.8
5.8
5.5
5.5
5.5
5.5
5.5
5.5
5.3
5.3
5.0
5.0
5.8
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5.3
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5.2
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5.0
5.0
6.8
6.5
6.5
6.0
6.0
6.0
-5.8
..5.8
5:5
5.3
5.3
General
Karen Riggs
Elaine Dieterle
Jane Ross
10TH GRADE
Academic
Vicky HiU
Jerri Olson
Kathie Reed
Jean Schaible
Bruce Carr
Lois Sutton
Shirley Sheehan    .
|Earl Klager
Gayle Finkbeiner
Steve Milkey
Karen Hinderer
Martha Esch
Norah Bixby
Georgia Burg
Florence Emerson
Keith Armbruster
Sandra Prather
David Seeger
General
Wendy WUd
Ken Gable
UTBE GRADE
Academic
Gary Niethammer
Ed Strait
Larry Klumpp
Doris Herter
Mary Sue Gordon
O-inst-me McDonald
Sandra^rown:
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5.8
5.4
5.0
7.5
7.4
7.3
7.0
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6.6
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6.5
6.0
6.0
6.0
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5.8
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5.4
5.2
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5.3
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