1961-08-02; Saline Reporter

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VOLUME 14, NUMBER 46 - WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 2, 1961
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Call-back, Draft
Speculations Rise
In the wake of the President's
decision to beef up the armed
services, local employers this
week were haunted by an old
ghost, whose name was "draft
eligible".
To the younger men, the
ghost was new (it always is);
but most approached it with
more interest than alarm. Concern ran deepest in the subdivisions, where mortgages and
families were scarcely begun.
Rumor flourished, of men
called up and men called back.
Most of them, it turned out,
had not been . . . but Dan Levleit was one who had. An Army
reservist who has been operating a business of his own for
two years in California, Dan
received a notice July 27 to report August 5. He was expected home in Saline this week;
One young father was thinking of ending the suspense with
a re-enlistment. He is Charles
Ehmke, of Canterbury drive,
who has been an Army interpreter. He is the father of two
children.
Said one reservist,  who ex-
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Blood Bank To
Be Here Aug. 23
The Red Cross Blood Bank
will visit Saline August 23,
to replenish Saline blood supplies that have been "heavily
drained this year and are
mighty close to the bottom,"
local representative Marian
Hering said. ■-■':■
The local Blood Bank,
''■which collects blood for distribution, without charge,-to
Saline area persons who need
it,' has been called on for
"one or two pints every week
and sometimes as' much* as
13," Mrs. Hering explained,
and the supply is now "perilously low".
Donors may give blood at
the Intermediate School both
afternoon and evening on the
23rd.
pects to be a father two months
hence: "I don't want to go back
in . . . BUT if they need me, I
reckon I'll be available."
A number of young men had
received draft board queries for
further information, among
them Dick Lutz, 22, father of
two children ("We'll just have
to wait and see; if they call,
you gotta go") and Bob Beaudry, 21, father of one ("Well, I
figured this would happen.")
Young single men fully expected to board the train practically any minute now, among
them Mike and David Anderson.
And clearance for half a dozen
were in the hands of Police
Chief Earl Kirby (a standard
pre-draft procedure).
It is probably no coincidence,
some of them felt, that today's
draftees are the first crop of
"war babies" to emerge from
Saline High School. Said Earl
McTaggart: "I guess this sort
of thing just has to come around again about every 20
years."
Meanwhile, the Selective Service board at Ypsilanti (which
handles Saline area) has been
"just swamped" with queries
and current address notices
since the President's address,
according to Mrs. Helen Grey,
chief clerk of the board.
The Board is mailing questionnaires as fast as possible
to boys born in 1939, she said,
and will then start those born
in 1940. She issued an urgent
notice to those already registered to be^cerj'f^^.j^^eejp their
files up to date, with special
reference to marital status, dependency (births and expected
births), occupation,"college admission, and disabilities, as well
as current address.
The call for physical exams
for August was high (16), she
said, and that for September
was "extremely high" at 38.
The August induction call, for
two, was canceled — later the
board received orders to send
ALL volunteers . . . there were
eight.
Red Cross to Show
Plans for New HQ
Robert Foiles, assistant executive director of the Washtenaw county Red Cross, will
show slides of the organization's present county headquarters — and architect's plans for
a prospective new building, at
a meeting at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday in the board of directors
room at Saline Savings Bank.
Foiles will also answer questions on the reasons and need
for the new headquarters the
organization hopes to build. The
public is invited to the meeting;
there will be no solicitation.
Merchants Ponder
own Eiiues
Who Shops
Where and
How G
ome?
After a 20-hour flight over the Andes Mountains from
Colombia, the Lester McCoys and the Michigan Chorale were*
greeted in Brazil by officials of the Braniff Airways. Above,
left to right, James Phillips, manager of the Airways, a Brazilian assistant, Mr. and Mrs. McCoy.
Editor's Mailb:
Chorale Gets Warm
Reception in Brazil
Campinas, Sao Paulo, Brazil
— Lester tells me that he promised to send you some word of
our trip and a picture or two.
We leave Brazil early Tuesday
morning for Montevideo. This
is about the mid-point of our
trip so we were making some
summaries last night.
In 24 days, we have given 25
concerts (two yesterday) to over 40,000 people; we have made
seven TV appearances, with
numerous interviews and radio
presentations. The Chorale has
appeared in almost every possible kind of place, from beautiful   concert   halls    to   public
Last Monday our concert was
the final program to celebrate
the 250th anniversary of the
city of Sabara, near Belo Hori-
zonte. The Chorale sang on the
tiered steps of an unfinished
church there, which had been
begun by native slaves. When
slavery was abolished in Brazil, work stopped on the building. The Chorale sang a Negro
spiritual, "O Freedom", which
took on new meaning for all of
us after this experience.
This year's Chorale is seeing
ALL AROUND SALINE
Robert Leutheuser, who received his LID degree from the
University of Michigan in June,
will move to Wilmington, O., in
mid-September, after taking the
Michigan bar examination. He
will be employed by an attorney
there, Frederick Buckley, and
expects to take the Ohio bar
examination next March. He is
the son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry
Leutheuser.
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Roy Wiebusch, son of Mr.
and Mrs." C. E. Wiebusch of S.
Maple Rd7, is spending two
weeks' leave with his parents.
He is scheduled to return to
duty with the Navy this weekend.
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The Robert Greenfields of
Lawson St. hardly know they
have a daughter this summer;
she's been on the go for weeks!
Soon after school let out, Sandy
spent two weeks with the Art
Moehns at their cottage at
Wamplers Lake. Two days after returning home she went
on & two-week trip to South
Dakota with her family^; then
she went to "-t-wirling camp"'at
Syracuse, Ind., and from there
to W^est Unity, O., where she
is now visiting her aunt, Mrsi
DeaijaWorthman. She'll be home
^Friday, but not for long. San-
ij^jwill wind .lip vher summer
.vacation by spending tfce last
week in* August at Interlochen.
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Cynthia and Maria Trombley,
daughters of Mr. and Mrs.
Clark Trombley, underwent ton-
silectomies Wednesday, at Saline  Community Hospital. '
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Five girls from St. Paul's
Church are spending this week
at Camp Talahi. They are Ellen
Rae Carlton, Barbara Fritz, Carol Michalke, Arlene Girbach,
and Ruth Alber. Going to the
camp next week will be Lois
Alber, Betty Cammet and Cindy Hartman.
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Mrs. Waynard Carr and Mrs.
Charles Kern attended the Michigan-Indiana Synod Sunday
School Teachers' Conference at
Olivette College last week Sunday through Thursday. Mrs.
Carr and Mrs. Kern represented
St. Paul's Evangelical and Reformed Church of Saline.
* *      *
Mrs. Arthur O'Neill returned
home from Saline Community
Hospital Saturday. She had
been a medical patient there
for four days. She's recuperating at home this week.
* *      *
Lt. and Mrs. James England
and their twin daughters, Julie
Ann and Lori Lynn, have moved into their new home in San
Antonio, Texas, where Lt. England will serve in the medical
branch of the United States
Army. Miss Sharon Von Sos-
san accompanied them to Texas. She will return to Saline
later this month..
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The Harold Wackenhuts re-
cently "spent5'*ja" week at Bear
Lake in Kalkaska county.
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A family picnic.** was held
Sunday at the Thaddeus Kuy-
da home .on Pleasant Lake Rd.
in honor of the 75th birthday
of Mrs. Kuyda's father,* Tracey
McMurtry of Wayne, Mjcli-
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The birthdays of Ronald Hilla and his little daughter, Jennifer, were celebrated at a family   birthday   dinner   Friday
evening at the Hilla home on
Rosemont St. Ron's birthday
was July 28 and Jennifer turned three on July' 25.
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Michael Armbruster is spending a few weeks with his grandmother in South Haven.
* *      *
Mrs. Alma Wahl returned
this week from a short visit
with her daughter and family,
the Bernard Stremlers, at their
home in Pontiac.
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Terry Jane Hunt, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Hunt, is a
medical patient at St. Joseph
Hospital in Ann Arbor. She
went into the hospital July 18
and expects to be there for
about a month yet. Her room
number is 3017; visitors are
welcome.
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Sam Gall, who recently spent
four weeks in St. Joe hospital
recovering from surgery, is now
recuperating at home. He was
released from the hospital last
Wednesday.
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Paul Toth, of 522 Canterbury
Dr., flew to Cincinnati Sunday
morning to attend the International Molders and Foundry
Workers Union convention.
1?oth went as a delegate representing Local 70 of Milan, Mich.
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*"- Five-ye"ar-old Dale Schulfe,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Donald
Schuitz of Canterbury Dr., underwent surgery Tuesday at Sa"-
lnie Community Hospital.
* *      *
Mrs. Dominick Tropea, Mrs:
I Julia England and Mrs. Alma
Wahl recently spent five days
at Gary, Ind., visiting relatives
'of Mrs. England.
much more of the real life of
these countries. Last year we
spent almost all our time in
capital cities. This year we are
really going into the interior.
We traveled by bus from Belo
Horizonte to Sao Paulo (18
hours) and took a side trip to
the town of Varginha, which
meant 19 kilometers on un-
paved, narrow road. Here the
local Lions Club gave us a
Brazilian dinner and the whole
town closed business places for
our concert in the theater.
There had never been any group
from the U.S. who had included
Varginsa in their tour and between almost every number
they stopped the show to. give
us something. £
The Chorale was/so thrilled
and impressed by our reception there that I didn't hear a
single complaint from anyone
because of the long, late trip.
When we arrived here, just
after midnight, the local families were waiting to take the
Chorale members to their
homes. Often Lester and I ask
ourselves whether Michigan families would prove as hospitable, though I am sure we could
count on Saline!
The group is singing well,
and keeping remarkably healthy, in spite of changes in altitude, weather, and foods. We'll
all get out our extra sweaters
before starting around Uruguay, which will be about like
our November. As for Mac and
me, we ask for this kind of "vacation", and seem to thrive on
it.
We hope all our Saline
friends will mark their calendars for Sunday, September 10,
when the 1961 Mich'.gan Chorale will sing their home concert in Hill  Auditorium.
Greetings to everyone at
home.
Sincerely,
Bernice   McCoy
Connie Macks
To Play Dads
Saline's redhot Connie Mack
ball team will clash with its
assorted fathers, in a game
scheduled at 5 p.m. Saturday
at the City Park.
Opposing the Connie Macks
will be the fathers of Milt Stemen, John Thoss, Jimmie Walters, Ed Strait, Butch Malinczak, Gary Niethammer, Mike
Frey, Hubert Roberts, Mike
Johnson, Jack Kuebler, Jerry
McDonald, Kyle Cruse, Jim De*
merest, and Don and Dick Leidheiser . . . whicli* leaves the
Dads team one man shorter un?
Doc Leidheiser plays two pr>
sitions. He'll back; up "•both the.
center fielder and-the: catcher^
he said.
Wanted Man
Arrested on
Local Charge
A man with a long prison
record, now wanted on two felony counts in Ohio, was arrested here Monday night on a
charge of furnishing intoxicants to a minor.
Ernest Randall, 37, who gave
his address as Tecumseh, was
sentenced to five days in jail
on the local charge, by Justice
of the Peace Jerome Lamb
Tuesday. He will then be released to Lenawee county where
he will be held on the Ohio
warrants. But police said he
told them he would fight extradition.
Randall had been in Saline
for two days before his arrest.
He came to the attention of
police here when a local bar-
owner said he had entered the
bar with another man, a woman, and a 14-year-old Saline-
boy. The bar owner refused to
serve the group. The teen-ager's
mother also complained to police that Randall had furnished
intoxicants to the boy.
Chief of Pohce Earl Kirby
then checked Randall's identification and ordered the group to
leave still another bar. When
Randall's record was learned,
police waited for him at the
hotel. There were no warrants
out for his companions.
Randall has a prison record
of 16 years, including one term
in Joliet, 111., and eight years
in Jackson Prison on a manslaughter count.
Is Saline big enough to have
"Main Street-itis" ? Or, conversely, is it because the town
is still too small, that five or
six business locations in the
downtown area are standing
idle, or in use for purposes oth-
ther than business?
Local merchants this week
were divided on the reasons for
the situation, and even divided
as to whether it was coincidence
that all but one of the "empties" were in the same block
. . . and whether it was serious
enough to worry about.
One Chamber of Commerce
member .thought the number of
closed-down businesses "doesn't
indicate a trend". But all the
others thought it did. One felt
"the trend will right itself,
when the town gets bigger".
Another believed "it's a trend
that will get worse before it
gets better, and from which every small town in the country
is  suffering".
One reported that ~ although
Saline's population has risen 50
per cent in ten years — he has
relatively few new customers,
and he has no idea why. Another thought Saline is not only
big enough to suffer v. from
"downtown problems" but is de-
FIRE DEPARTMENT -
QUENCHES SUMP PUMP  -
Saline Fire department^ was
called to the Charles Caswell
residence, 10143 "Maple Road,
Wednesday morning when a
sump pump smoked. The truck
returned in half an hour. No
damage .occurred from the fire.
ANYBODY HERE
LOSE A DACHSHUND?
A little black dachshund puppy wandered up to the Weldon
Emerson home at 244 Willis
road this week. The family has
taken in the little "orphan" until its owner turns up. Anyone
having recently lost a pet of
this description may contact
the Emersons by calling HAzel
9-9545.
Police, Juvenile
Court Schedule
Monthly Meets
Chief of Police Earl Kirby-today attended the first of a series of monthly meetings scheduled by Juvenile Court and all
the law enforcement agencies
in the county.
The regular meetings, planned to "improve communications and work on common pro-;
blems", are expected to bring
to law enforcement agencies "a
clearer understanding of what
plans the Juvenile Court is making with children and families
they know". Mr. Rome, of the
Juvenile Court staff, is also
compiling statistics to obtain
a clearer picture and comparison of the source, locale, and
nature of referrals to the Court
from 1957 through I960, he
said.
Pohce officials of city, village, county, and state branches are included in the meetings.
finitely afflicted with them. Bu-'
siness  is  good  —  but it isn't
growing.
Saline's geographical situation, in a triangle with Ypsilanti and Ann Arbor, is unlike
that of any other community
in the area and makes comparisons difficult. Nevertheless:
Tecumseh, with a population
of 7008, has only three vacant
store fronts.
Milan, with a population of
about 3200, has two empty
fronts and two empty gas stations (possibly left over from
the relocation of US-23).
Manchester, with a population of about 1600, never had an
empty until last year, when a
hardware and a wool producer
vacated and have not been replaced.
Dexter, which is as near to
Ann Arbor as we are, has a
population just over 1700 and
NO empty store fronts, although, said a Dexter businessman, "We used to have a lot
of vacancies." Businesses don't
change hands very fast in Dexter; the same people who were
in business there 30 years ago
are  still going strong.
Chelsea is growing much
more slowly than Saline (although it has 21 small factories in the area) in population
. . . 3000. Yet business is described as excellent and there
are no empty locations downtown. Moreover, in the past
five years,., only; one .^business
has come and gone.
By contrast, in Saline > businesses change hands so fast
it's hard to keep up with them.
They fail, often, but they are
instantly replaced. In the past
few years, Saline has gained
two new laundromats, two
wheel alignment services, a furniture store (an expansion of
an existing store), an auto supply store, and a number of professional people. Several filling
stations have closed and reopened.
In contrast with Dexter,
where most of the businesses
are owned by old-timers, all
but three of those in downtown
Saline have changed hands in
the last 15 years. Said one owner rather bitterly: "It's the outsiders who have faith in the
town, to come here and start
a "business."
Concerning the ins and outs
of small businesses here . . .
said a banker: "Bitter experience has shown that 80 or 90
per-cent of new businesses in
the .United States go bust."
As for the fact that most of
Local Man Promoted to Commander Rank
Announcement   has    beenlformer Saline man, Max C. Col-
made  of  the  promotion  of  ajlins, to the rank of Commander
Commander Max Collins
in the U.S. Naval Air Reserve.
Commander Collins, son of
Mrs. Everett Collins of Saline,
is a graduate of Saline High
School and the University of
Michigan school of business ad-
miinstratiqn. He has also done
graduate work at the U. of M.
While a resident of Saline, Col-
line was active in church work,
Boy Scout: and civic affairs. He
is a past president of the Junior
Chamber of* Commerce and he
served two years as a member
of the Salh\g City Council.
• Commanded Collins, a veteran of 18 yeaM in the. Naval Reserve, served ^*s an aerial navigator in the^Javal Mr Corps
during World liVar ii. _|ince the
end of the warffhe Has *heen an
Aviation Technical Training Officer for several Naval Air'^Re-
serve squadrons^and air grpups
attached to the^Naval -Air Station, Grosse HeJ"
For-the pasttsix years, he
has-; lived vrithflus wife,* 'the*
former Jeannet% Clay, iand
their three ChUdren. in ."ifeen-"
ton, Michigan. Hie,.is manager
of special contracts for the Bendix; Corporation, Systems Division, in Ann. Arbor.
the unused locations were in
one block ... it could be co-
ncidence, merchants felt. Three
are owned by out-of-town residents; one is under lease to an
out-of-towner. One is in use as
a church. Nevertheless, other
merchants in that block felt the
situation hurt their own businesses in that it cut into foot-
traffic. Said one: "Every empty store means less people walking by my store; and the less
who walk by, the less who come
in."
Several thoughF the location
of the city parking lot was a
definite advantage to nearby
merchants. "People would rather drive 10 miles than walk
10 feet," they said. "If the customer can't park right beside
the store, he'll drive on past
. . . maybe all the way to Ann
Arbor."
Ann Arbor is the bugaboo of
SaUne merchants who, even
though their own stores are on
solid footing, dread the advent
of still more shopping centers
and firmly believe that most
Salinians would rather shop in
Ann Arbor than in Saline no
matter what. Said one: "What
this town needs more than anything else is a 10-foot solid
brick wall between Saline and
Ann Arbor."
Said another: "The cost of
a commercial building in Saline is nearly as much as that
in Ann Arbor; yet the Saline
mercljant __ hasn't the traffic
th%yv have "in fewntowii Ann
Arbor. The first thing you need
to have is traffic past your
store."
He added: "The key to the
whole situation is that when
we get another 1000 people
(that should be in about three
years or thereabouts) the population will be large enough to
support the types of stores we
haven't got now to sell the
things people-now buy in Ann
Arbor."
Yet one Saline businesswoman, in direct competition with
literally dozens of Ann Arbor
establishments, has reversed
the procedure. Vivian Kluwe estimates that nearly half of her
Cut 'n Curl beauty shop customers come from Ann Arbor
. . . and while they're here they
gas their,cars, buy hardware,
visit the bakery, and drop their
clothes at the cleaners. A local
supermarket also draws heavily
from Ann Arbor.  Why?
Both give the same answer:
easy parking and modern, roo- -
my, air-conditioned stores. Said
one: "Any downtown store that
built a modern interior and provided bright, comfortable surroundings, quality, and good
service would do 10 times the
business."
. __ Nevertheless, Salinians undeniably do" shop in Ann Arbor.
In an effort to learn why, The
Reporter this week polled 17
local families, asking them also
what they think Saline needs.
This is what we found:
1. Here two years; employed
in Ann Arbor* family of six. Do
much shopping out-of-town . . .
mostly in Ann Arbor because
of the variety there. Like the
produce at chain grocery
stores; buy most of groceries
and meats in Ann Arbor. -.-Buys
clothes for herself arid children
here-; buys his clothes abut of
town.* "Thinks Saline needs -good
shoes for young and old. Family
barbers here; drugs and doctors
heret' buys hardware here; and
services car "here. Shops for
groceries, toothing and furni-
turie .put aPtovm. (A shoe-store
was located here liritii about a
year ago. It succeeded here,
merchants say, but closed because another^ store in the chain
iaflea.) ■•,.-;•'  ,a
2a Liyecf liere four years; .employed m-ypsilanti; family of
five. Shop mostly in Saline, Go
to  Ann Arbor for furniture;
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