1961-06-07; Saline Reporter

              The Saline
VOLUME 14, NUMBER 38 - WEDNESDAY, JUNE 7,1961
'First With All the Local News'
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Awards Night Honors
29 Students, Teacher
Twenty-nine outstanding students "were honored tonight at
the annual Awards Night program, at the High School, and
a special gift was presented to
Mrs. Mildred Haswell, director
of Commencement Week activities. The students awards and
their recipients included:
American Legion Awards,
Marjorie Stevens and Ken Volz;
American Legion Essay Awards (Junior winners), Barbara
Hehr, Carol Bersuder, and Shirley Morton, (Senior winners),
"Babs   Schmid,   Bill  Tefft,   and
Owners Protest
Curb and Gutter
Assessment
ian
Sixteen unhappy property owners" Monday  night  converged
-   on   City  Hall   to   protest   the
. spreading of a special assessment for curb and gutter on S.
Ann Arbor street.
The curb and gutter will be
part of a project to widen the
street between Henry street and
V Pleasant Ridge — which some
residents agreed .would be a
good idea. But they objected to
paying for the curb and gutter
I for various reasons:
Said one: "My curb and gutter is not worn out; it's in good
repair. Why dig it up?"
Others spoke up: "Instead of
widening the street, we should
■have another north-south street
around the Elementary School."
"There'll be a benefit, in safe-
i *
ty and convenience, for the entire town. It should go on the
•eneral tax roll."
• W^' Cost of the street work is to
be born by the city — about
$12,000. Only the curb and gut-
^        ter work, about $4,100, is to be
-  •       paid by property owners in the
area. That brought objections,
too, when residents feared they
would pay an  assessment"* for
r curb and gutter here and then,
in the years to come, pay taxes
' for curb and gutter elsewhere
if   future   Councils   were   to
_ change the. city's policy.
There were other voices raised -
L'The street wouldn't need to
lie widened except to make room
for those folks down at the other end."
"Many of those affected are
elderly, on retirement incomes.
This is taking bread-and butter
'from them."
"Is this going to make qur
driveways inaccessible?"
DPW   superintendent   Mike
Strait  assured them that  nobody would be left with an in-
« accessible   driveway;   some
** / would be improved. The street,
in the widening process, will
also be raised.
Councilmen were puzzled by
the deluge. Said Glenn Clark to
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Kathie Reed, and Honorable
Mention, Bruce Carr. The Ann
Arbor U of M Club Award was
received by Ken Volz. Carol
Coates and Wally Keck were
presented the Danforth Awards
and the National Merit Award
went to Mike Bixby.
'The following, scholarships
were also presented: Michigan
State Honor Scholarship and
Gerber Scholarship to Marjorie
Stevens, the Regents Alumni
Scholarship and the Detroit Edison Freshman Scholarship to
Mike Bixby. Vickie Sheets received the County Medical Secretaries Association Scholarship
and the Saline Business and
Professional Woman's Club
Scholarship. Ken Volz received
$100 of the UnterMrcher Scholarship and Marjorie Stevens and
Vickie Sheets were each awarded $167.50. Four $100 scholarships were presented by the
senior class to Bob Yuhasz, Jean
Reid, Merle Klager, and Donna
Dechert. The Student Council
awarded its scholarship to Wally Keck.
Departmental honors for outstanding work in the ten SHS
departments were given to the
following seniors: Social Studies, Wally Keck; English, Marianne Burr; Science, Ken Volz,
Jim. Struble, Gary Wild, Mike
Washburn, and Rick Johnson;
Music, Dave Myers; Commercial, Barbara Frey; Industrial
Arts, Ron Rogers; Mathematics, Gary Wild; Homemaking,
Marjorie Stevens; Physical Education, Tom Johnson and Jean
Reid; and Agriculture, Neil
Bohnett.
..' It was announced that Jim
Struble is an alternate to the
U. S. Naval Academy.     •
Two classes received recognition for their contribution to
school life. The Scholarship Cup
was presented to the Class of
1961. The Class of 1962 received
the Sportsmanship Cup and the
Citizenship Cup was given to
the Class of 1961.
Merit   Service  Honors   were
given to ten seniors by the Student  Council.   These  went   to
| Carolyn Liston, Ken Volz, Alan
' Coe, Jim Struble, Mike Wash-
j burn, Mike Bixby, Carol Coates,
Donna Dechert, Marianne Burr,
and Gary Wild. In order to re-
'ceive such an award, students
jmust have a minimum of 200
points. These points have accu-
'mulated over the four years of
high  school in  such  activities
jas  organizations,  special committees, class plays, sports, honor roll, etc.
A formica coffee table, presented by -the Student Council,
went to Mrs. Haswell in recognition of 16 years' service as
director of Commencement
weeks, and "her time and effort in making graduation week
ceremonies the success they
have been in past years and
will be in the future."
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17 to Graduate With Honors
Seventeen SaUne High School
seniors will graduate with honors, at Commencement ceremonies Thursday evening, three of
them "with highest honors".
Ken Volz, Mike Bixby, and
Marianne Burr are listed "with
highest honors", a new designation here which replaces the
selection of a class valedictorian and salutatorian. The new
plan was inaugurated this year
by students, parents, and faculty to avoid the arbitrary limit imposed by the selection of
only two students to head the
class.
Students  who  will  graduate
with   honor"   include   Carol
Coates, Alan Coe, Barbara Frey,
Walter  Keck,   Kathy  Kuebler,
Carolyn   Liston,   and   Carolyn
Marion. Others are Jean Reid,
Mary Ross, Marjorie Stevens,
James Struble, Michael Washburn, Gary Wild, and Robert
Yuhasz.
DISLOCATES SHOULDER
IN AUTO CRASH
Walter W. Reimer, 21, of
Clinton, suffered a dislocated
left shoulder Sunday when the
car in which he was a passenger
went out of control on Pleasant
Lake road near Parker road
and careened off the highway.'
He was taken to St. Joseph
Mercy hospital in Ann Arbor.
Also treated at the hospital
for bruises were George R. Reimer, 25, of Clinton, driver of
the car, and Emil Josephson, 27,
of Ann Arbor, a passenger.
Robert W. McCrory
Named 4-H Agent
Washtenaw county Cooperative Extension Service has announced the appointment of
Robert W. McCrory as the new
4-H club -agent succeeding
James Hutchinson who resigned
recently.
He entered Michigan State
university and graduated from
the school of agriculture in
1959, majoring in rural sociology and anthropology. He was a
member of two honorary societies, the Interfraternity council, and an agricultural economics club, and served as president
of Farm House fraternity. He
was a recipient of a Sears Roebuck Foundation scholarship.
Charter Commission Sends
evision to State for
FAIR   BOARD   TO   MEET
Saline Community Fair Board
will meet at 8:30 p.m. Monday
in the ag room at the High
School. Fair Book ads are to be
turned in at that time.
Organizational
Meet Set for
Welfare Agency
An organizational meeting
for the new Saline Social Welfare Agency has been scheduled
for 8 p.m. Tuesday, at the Allan Grossman residence at 464
Rosemont. The organizing
group will welcome any interested persons who wish to attend, Mrs. Ed Hering said.
The agency, modeled after
one -in Chelsea, has not yet
been formally named; but it
was planned to replace a "front
porch" system that has been in
use here, whereby clothing to
be given away was left on the
Ed Herings' front porch, and
needy persons collected it there.
The more formal agency is expected to give emergency assistance to needy families and help
them obtain long-term aid.
The prospective agency, initiated by Mrs. Hering and Mrs.
Mary Dick,, school health nurse,
is backed by the American Legion Auxiliary and the Saline
Area Civic  association.
NEW ARRIVAL AT
THE BASSETT HOME
Mr. and Mrs. Donald Bassett,
of Milan, announce the bir_h.,of
a daughter, Donna Lynne, born
May 2 at Saline Community
Hospital.
[ Members of the City Charter
Commission have completed
their work, at least pending
gubernatorial review of the revised charter, their secretary,
Esther Landwehr, announced
this week. One major addition
was the recommendation that
a Justice Court be established
here.
The Commission debated at
length as to whether to recommend a Justice Court or a Municipal Court, Miss Landwehr
said, and settled on the former
because it does, not legally require an attorney to preside. A
Municipal Court must have an
attorney as judge and would
also require a prosecuting attorney, adding at least two salaries to the city budget, she
said.
It is expected that the revised
i Charter will be placed on either
the September or November ballots, she said. Her report, with
the Commission's additions in
bold type, appears below:
The final meeting of the Saline City Charter Commission
preceeding the presentation of
the charter to the Governor for
review and approval was held at
the Council Chambers on May
31, 1961. A copy of the Revised
Charter was in the hands of
each-member of the Commission
for correction and review and
with minor alterations and corrections was unanimously accepted by the Commission. It
is now being prepared for presentation to the Governor of
Michigan and this will be done,
no doubt, in the course of the
next week or two.
Since the last report of the
Commission was *g!ven in The
Reporter those sections which
had been tabled for further stu
dy and legal advice were cleared
with the following results:
Charter Section 1 - Name
and boundaries - The description of the land incorporated into the City of Saline has been
brought up to date and the annexations duly entered.
Charter Section 15 — Concerning the Justice of the Peace.
The Commission recommended
that a Justice Court be established in the City of Saline.
Hie powers, duties, fees and salary were discussed and recommendations set up. The entire section is too long to incorporate in this report.
Charter Section 32 - Concerning hearing and investigating charges against any officer
— this section was left as presently reading in the charter.
Charter Section 28 - Concerning the circulation of initiative and referendum petitions, to read: To be effective,
initiative and referendum petitions shall be signed only by
qualified and registered electors
of the City to a number equal
to that required for initiatory
petitions to place charter amendments on the ballot, and attached to every signature shall
be added the date of signing
and the place of residence of
the signer, the street and number, or other adequate description. The remainder of the section was left unchanged.
Charter Section 46 — Concerning limitation of bonded indebtedness of the City was again reviewed and the following
addition recommended: The limit of taxation for municipal
purposes shall be one and one-
half percentum- of the-assessed
value of all real and personal
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SACA Meeting for School BoardCandidates Draws Small Audience
'Operation Abolition^
Jo be Shown Here
Six public showings of the
controversial film on Communism, "Operation Abolition" are
scheduled here next week.
The film to be used is the
property of the Detroit Edison
Co., but the showing of the film
is to be sponsored by Washtenaw count Farm Bureau, and
will take place at the Farm Bureau office building* on Saline-
Ann Arbor road. There is no
admission charge.      -
The film is made up of se-
o*.ences taken in San Francisco
} .hen students rioted in protest
against a hearing held there by
the House Unamerican Activities Committee. It has roused a
storm of controversy between
gicrups who.glaim it is "misleading and inaccurate", and others
- inclu&Tfcg FBI head J. Edgar
Hoover — who maintain that, it
is "entirely correct in every detail Known Communist .agitators appear in the film with the
rioting students. ■*
Two showings are scheduled
on Saturday evening, June 17;
two are set during the Washtenaw Farm Council Chicken Barbecue, Sunday, June 18; and
one showing each on the evenings of Monday, June 19, and
Tuesday, June 20. All are open
to the public and exact times
will be announced later.
ALL IN  A  NIGHT'S  WORK!
When Mrs. Elwin Strait, a
nurse on the midnight shift at
Saline Community Hospital, reported for duty Monday night,
she was feeling a little under
the weather herself. But during
the small hours of Tuesday
morning she was preparing the
operating room for emergency
surgery, summoning the doctor
on. call and preparing the patient, who in this case, was Mrs.
Strait herself. She had an emergency appendectomy.
Only a small, audience, not
more than 30 persons, attended
a meeting last Wednesday of
the Saline Area Civic association, at which all six School
Board candidates spoke. SACA
had "presented the candidates
with three questions to answer
in their talks: 1. Why are you
running for the School Board?
2. What do you think you have
For 4-year term
Vefik Basman, 44, is an engineer employed by Bendix Systems Division, Ann Arbor, as
project director in space research. Speaking at the SACA
meet, he said:
"The education of our children today is more important
than any other time in the history of mankind. Today we are
faced with challenges — challenges that are threatening the
world's peace. Survival* of free
America lies directly on the education of our children. Today
every American is challenged,
'old or young, to contribute, in
every possible effort to the education of our children. We
must progress, in order to progress we must know our problem areas.
I feel that my educational
background and teaching experiences in various universities as
well as the experiences in research and development programs in scientific fields, industrial, social and financial areas,
should apply directly to-and be
of value in the current school
curricula problems.       " r
This is why I am -cunning for
the school board to be able to
give our youngsters what they
are looking for and what'they-
should have in order to prepare
themselves for further studies
to be able to meet the challen--
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DEAN BURKHARDT
For 4-year term
Burkhardt, 37, is an accountant employed as controller _ at
Hoover Ball & Bearing Co. He
said:
"My principal reason for seeking re-election to the Board of
Education is a desire to place
into effect the accounting and
financial procedural changes
that have been formulated over
the past year in cooperation
with the administrators of our
school system. Considerable discussion and preliminary planning has already been accomplished along these lines, and if
I were not to continue my service to the Board of Education,
this program would naturally
be delayed while another person was becoming "familiar with
the problems and the work that
has already been done. •
First and foremost our goals
should be to furnish the very
best of educational opportunity
fbr all, at the lowest possible
cost.
To maintain our currently
high educational standards in
the Saline school system in the
future, we must accept and recognize that present revenues
will"'not be adequate. If is "very-
apparent that, the future growO*.
of Saline will be centered ihlthe
-residential area "rather than in
industry. It is also well recognized that the tax revenue from
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to contribute to the School
Board? and 3. What do you
feel our public schools should
accomplish?
The candidates'- answers appear, in "part, on this page. Although several spoke at more
length than is indicated here,
space limitations make it necessary to limit their statements
to some extent.
RAYMOND GIRBACH
For 3-year term
Raymond Girbach, 52, - is a
farmer, a former School Board
member, and past chairman .of
the Saline Fair Board. He said:
"I have lived most of my life
in the Saline area. I am a candidate for the Saline Board of
Education because as a civic-
minded citizen I am interested
in the finest possible educational program in. relation to our
financial ability to provide for
our boys-and girls.
My contribution to the School
Board would be the experience
gained in many civic, community and county organizations of
which I have been a member.    ,
I feel that our public schools
should provide adequate facilities, and the best of teachers, so
that boys and girls who are
both fast and slow in learning"
will be taught to the extent of
their ability, and will be equipped with the tools of Ifoowledgaf
adequate to become good citizens."
RICHARD KNOP
For..4-year term
Richard Knop, 66, local farmer and retired Ann Arbor automobile salesman,  said:
I am a life-long resident of
Washtenaw county and a resident of this area for the past 22
years. My home is at 3520 Waterworks Road. I was engaged
in the automobile business for
over 30 years, and was in farming before retiring.
I am running for the School
Board because I feel it my civic
duty as a tax-payer to represent our rural area.
I feel I. can contribute my
years,of experience ih business
and management. Ihe school
system is big business and it
should be managed as such.
Our public schools should accomplish the best. educational
program over a long term pro-
gram^-and" if I am elected to
your School Board, I will put
forth everyeffort to fulfill my
duty as. your representative.
HERMAN MERTE
For 3-year term
Merte, 32, an assistant professor in mechanical engineering at the University of Michigan, said:
"What should our public
schools accomplish?" This is
part of a broader question:
what should the education of
our young people accomplish?
One might say that the educational institutions are the mech-.
anisms by which our society
prepares future generations for*
carrying on the business of life.
We desire to train our children
to take a useful and worthwhile
place in our society.
Education has two tasks in
this respect: First, it should
provide a well-integrated general knowledge of all the essential fields — history and geography, to guide the footsteps
to the future by taking advantage of the errors of the past —
English, so that we can successfully communicate with one
another and achieve understanding. We could go on ina similar vein about economics, sci-.
ence, and the others.   *
The second task -of education
is to develop the mind, so that
4hese, working" tools can be used
most effectively. ■ *"" ■   .     :*■
- Gixidance or. coimselingJ also
servesah/'Uii^'ai^tajNB^i^'fhe':
education of our &ai^r&i.ylt 1$.
every* citizen's" responsibility to:
participate in some form or oth-
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BESS TEFFT
For 4-year term
Mrs. Tefft, now president of
the School Board and. a former
teacher, said:
"For as long as I can remember, education and children have
been an integral part of my life.
My parents were both teachers.
I received my AB degree and
Life teaching certificate from
Hillsdale College and taught in
high school before my marriage.
Long hours of discussion about
schools and children are common in our home.
Besides the theoretical, I try
to be practical. With my husband, Robert Tefft, I have lived
on our 277 acre farm in Pittsfield Twp. for nearly 15 years
now. We were both active in the
initial reorganization of the
school district and in the various stages of growth which
have resulted in our present
three^building system. I am fully aware of tax problems. I
know the financial dilemma in
Which Boards of Education find
themselves trying to balance effective educational practice on
pne hand with a fair tax burden-.
bh the other. This is not simple
I feel a member of the School
Board.should he concerned with
providing the widest, most effective opportunities possible
for all chilcl^,,"re<»gr_zing that
their .heeds are various and
changing in this present world.
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