1961-10-25; Saline Reporter

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The Saline Reporter
VOLUME 15, NUMBER 6 - WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1961
'First With Allthe Local News'
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HOSPITAL EXPANSION TO 50 BEDS APPRO
United Fund Campaign Opens
Organization
Completed at
Kick-off Meet
With a goal of $10,750, Saline area United Fund campaign for 1961-62 got off to
a flying start today after a
UDC-sponsored kick-off dinner
at the American Legion hall
Tuesday night.
Workers set off on their
rounds with some statistics provided by UF board president
Bob Harrison:
There are 1,955 families in
the Saline area. If the quota
is divided by the number of
families, the average needed
from each family is $3.45.
Said Harrison, "If each family gives the average, we'll
make it . . . but $1 is not sufficient to do the job. It will take
$3.45."
More statistics: In the past,
62 per cent of the quota has
been given by individuals and
families, the remainder by business and industry. Said Harrison: "With more families moving into the area all the time,
that amount should go up."
If families this year give 62
per cent of the amount needed,
they will provide $6,665.
Organization of the drive was
completed with the announcement of all area chairmen:
CITY:
Southeast area, Jim Ford;
northwest, Mrs. Everett Esch;
northeast, Mrs. Don Leidheiser.
^The southwest section will be
handled by the Business and
Professional Women's club as a
community project.
Schools, Paul Thibault; merchants,   Bob   Estes;   industry,
William   Meister;   building
trades, Ted Braun.
RURAL:
School districts: Union, Mrs.
Harold Feldkamp; Bridgewater,
Mrs. Eugene Braun; Dell, Mrs.
S. J. McDonald; Gleason, Lydia
and Nancy Robison; Schumacher, Mrs. Robert Hehr; Forbes,
Mrs. Clarence Kohler; Rentschler, Mrs. Leon Feldkamp;
Hammond, Mrs. David Gordon;
Fosdick, Mrs. Carl Seeger; Oak
Grove, Mrs. Clyde Desbrough;
Shaw, Mrs. Norman Bohnett;
Benton, Mrs. Leanor Roehm;
Judd, Mrs. Ernest Stemen.
Saline Valley Farms, John
Rule; Sutherland and Valentine,
Mrs. Warren Rentschler; Wood,
Mrs. John Loehey; Lodi Center,
Girbach, Jedele-and Blaess, Mrs.
Elmer Diuble; Hoyt, Mr. and
Mrs. Donald Church; and Lodi
Plains, Mrs. Jacob Bradley.
E. R. (BUMP) Richards is
chairman of the drive committee.
Speaking at the dinner, budget committee chairman Dean
Burkhardt pointed out that local agencies, this year, are to
receive a larger percentage of
the amount collected. Last year,
22.7 per cent went to the local
groups. This year they will receive 26.3 per cent. Two new
local agencies have. been admitted to the Saline area United Fund . . . the Washtenaw
county Retarded Children's association, and the Saline Area
Social  Services,   Inc.
Steve Filipiak, of radio station WOIA, was a featured
speaker at the dinner, which
was served by the American Legion Auxiliary. The invocation
and benediction were given by
the Rev. Donald Kraushaar and
dinner music was provided by
Catherine Beach at the organ.
CAMPAIGN PLANS
United Fund budget committee chairman Dean Burkhardt (left) and E. R. (Bump) Richards put heads together
in a last-minute consultation on the 1961 budget, just before the kicfooff dinner Tuesday.
SHS Honor Roll
Lists Announced
Saline High School Honor
Roll lists for the first marking
period were announced this
week.
The High School honor roll is
divided into two parts: the academic and the'general honor
roll. To lie eligible for the academic honor roll a student must
be in the academic section of
at least four academic classes
and must have at least a B average (numerical average of 5)
in those classes.
Such a student may fail to
make the academic honor roll
and be listed on the general
honor roll for that period if he
has a B average when all classes are considered. The general
honor roll lists all students who
have a B average in all classes
in which they are enrolled.
Classes not considered for
honor roll are library, cafeteria,
teacher assistants, remedial
work, etc. One grade of D in
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RICK JOHNSON PLEDGES
Richard, A. Johnson, son of
Mr. and Mrs, Clarence Johnson
of 319 N. Ann Arbor St., has
pledged to Phi Kappa Psi social
fraternity at the University of
Michigan, where he is a freshman.
Homecoming
Preparations
In Full Swing
Preparations for the High
School's Homecoming week-end
were in full swing this week,
with five floats under construction, and initial steps taken for
the selection of a Homecoming
Queen. ■'
Highlights of the week-end
will include a parade downtown
Friday at 2:30 p.m., the crowning of the queen at the Saline-
Pinckney football game here
Friday evening, and a Homecoming Dance on Saturday
night.
The parade will feature the
High School Band and floats
prepared by each class on a
"TV program" theme in a competition which the class of 1961
has won for the past two years.
All six members of the Homecoming Court, chosen this week
by student and faculty vote,
will also ride in the parade, but
no one will know which of the
two senior girls is to be named
as queen. The other classes —
this year including the eighth
grade — each have one representative in the Court.
The new Homecoming Queen
will Jbe crowned during* a ceremony at half-time of the game
-Alumni _u*e invited to attend
the semi-formal -"Homecoming
Dance, at the High School from
9 p.m. to midnight, Saturday
night. _ ,       t
any subject makes a student ineligible for either honor roll.
SENIOR
Academic
Gary Niethammer 7.8
Ed   Strait 7.8
Louise .Anderson  * 7.3
Elaine Ference 7.3
Ed   Korte 7.3
Sandra  Brown 7.0
Gay Beck                ,- 6.7
Carol  Thompson 6.7
Larry  Klumpp 6.5
Brian LaRue 6.3
Mary Sue Gordon 5.8
Rick Johnson 5.8
Sandra Merritt 5.8
James Bernard 5.7
Merrilie Harvey '5.5
Beverly Brown 5.3
Joyce Ehnis 5.0
General
Doris Herter 7.2
Babs Schmid 6.4
Tom Jeppesen 5,8
Carol Guenther 5.0
Sandra Johnson f 5.0
JUNIOR
Academic
Jerri Olson 7.8
Kathie Reed 7.6
Bruce Carr 7.2
Earl Klager 7.2
Lois Sutton 7.2
Shirley Sheehan 7.0
Ted Graban 7.0
Pam Kidwell 6.8
Keith Armbruster 6.6
Martha Esch 6.5
Gayle Finkbeiner 6.4
Diane Hamlin 6.4
Vicky Hill 6.3
Wendy Wild                '"        6.3
Dave Hallenbeck 6.0
Sherry Schaible 6.0
Alona Frey 5.8
Sandra Prather 5.6
Karen Hinderer 5.5
Mary Schumacher 5.0
Jean Schaible 5.0
Serge Vaisman 5.0
General
Steven Milkey 5.8
Mike Johnson 5.3
LEGION TO HOLD
MASQUERADE BALL
A "Masquerade Ball", featuring a "Costume Walk" and the
music of Ray Williams' Orchestra will be held at the American Legion Hall Saturday from
9:30 p.m. to 2 a.m. Members
are urged to bring guests.
Thieves Loot
Elementary
School of $55
Thieves who apparently hid
in the Elementary School until
! everyone had gone home Tuesday night looted the office and
teachers' desks of approximately $55, Police Chief Earl Kirby
said today.
; Eight rooms were ransacked
and littered with papers pulled
from the teachers' desks. Of the
estimated $55 taken, $36 was
from the office.
A lock was broken on the
door of one room, Kirby said,
but the other rooms had not
been locked. There was no evidence of forcible entry to the
school itself, he said.
A "good collection of fingerprints" indicates the culprits
were not small children, Kirby
said. They may have been teenagers or young adults.
The robbery was discovered
at 7 a.m. today by Maurice
Henderson, school custodian,
when he went to work. No vandalism occurred except that incidental to the search for money, Kirby-said.
Construction Slated
To Start in Fall of '63
SOPHOMORE
Academic
Karen Riggs       • 7.3
Sharon Feldkamp 7.2
Marcia Feldkamp       " 7.0
Elsie Klager   , 7.0
Joan LaRue 6.8
Rob Merchant 6.6
Dale Flook 6.4
Lorraine Myers 6.2
Sharon Eberle 5.8
Dolores Faust . 5.6
James Feldkamp 5.6
Joseph: Burkhart 5.3
Marcile Bauknecht 5.3
Gail Armbruster 5.2
Rhonda Maurer 5.2
Diane  Miller 5.2
James Strait 5.2
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SHS Debate
Team Opens
'61 Season
More than 200 Michigan high
schools, including Saline, have
entered debate teams in the
1961-62 competition sponsored
by the Michigan High School
Forensic Association and the
University of Michigan Bureau
of School Services.
A record number of debaters
are expected to match words
this season, according to William O. Gilsdorf, state forensic
manager.
The 1961-62 debate topic is:
"Resolved, That the federal
government should equalize educational opportunity by means
of grants to the states for pub-
he elementary and secondary
education."
After four rounds of preliminary debating, each school will
enter an elimination tournament in February ~ to be culminated with state finals April 28, at the U-M. Top debaters also will be competing for
$3,000 in college scholarship's
provided by the Detroit Free
Press. . -
The Saline debate team, organized and coached- by Mrs.
Margaret Baker, has scheduled
Monday evening practice meets,
and will attend an all-day workshop Saturday at Ann Arbor
High School with teams from
all over the state.
SHS members include seniors
Louise Anderson, Sandy Brown,
Beverly Brown, Mary Sue Gordon, and Sue Anthony; a junior,
Vickey Hill; a sophomore, Dale
Flook; and a freshman, Linda
Heiserman.
SCHOOL INSURANCE
BID. ACCEPTED
Tlie fire and extended coverage insurance contract for Saline area schools was awarded
to Melvin Hartman for Hs low
bid, on a five-year-plan, by Sa-
ine area Board of Education in
a meeting Monday evening.
Your UNITED FUND
Representative Will Call Soon.
GI VE !
Looking ahead, Saline Community hospital board ponders the building committee's recommendation that the hospital be expanded to 50 beds. Above, left to right, Leo Jensen, Everett Esch, Carl Schrandt, board president Ernest
Girbach, hospital administrator Boh Maurer, committee
chairman Pat Roesch, Art Heininger, Carl Curtiss, Marian
Hering, Bob Bredernitz.
Hornets Romp Past
Roosevelt by 34-19
by Lanny Robbins
Saturday evening S a 1 i n e' s
Hornets continued their rise in
Washtenaw Conference standings, climbing-to a fourth place
tie with Chelsea after defeating
Roosevelt 34-19.
Fired up for the contest, the
Hornets were never in real danger of losing after the first
quarter. Scoring each time they
had the ball, Saline had a pair
of TD's before Roosevelt pushed
the ball across the goal line,
and came back right after that
for another one.
Saline received the opening
kick and returned it to the 23.
On the first play from scrimmage, half back Jim Griffin
broke loose around right end
and scampered to the 40. A
pass from Bill Davis to Jerry
McDonald moved the ball to
Roosevelt's 42; an aerial from
Davis to Griffin advanced the
Hornets to the 21.
Dick Leidheiser made the carry over the goal line for the
first score, and Leidheiser made
the extra point with a run off
left tackle.
Roosevelt was held to nine
yardsjgained after the kick and
were forced to punt after a
fourth down offsides penalty.
The punt went out of bounds
at the Saline 47.
. A backfield in motion penalty
cost the Hornets five yards on
the first play of the series.
Griffin then made up part of
the distance with a left end run
of six yards. An incompleted
pass from Davis to Starit almost ended the drive at 3rd
and nine to go. But this time
the Griffin to quarterback Davis pass clicked and Davis pushed to the Roughriders' five and
passed to Mike Johnson for the
score; Leidheiser ran the conversion over left tackle.
Speedy Jim Herndon played
the major role in Roosevelt's
first scoring drive. After ten
plays he clipped off the distance
around right end for the tally,
but "was stopped on the conversion attempt.
After Gayle Finkbeiner's kick
return to Roosevelt's 44, Saline
needed only eight plays to cross
the goal line again. The key
play in the series was Gary
Kind's pass to Griffin for a gain
from the 25 to the three. Leidheiser rammed over center to
the oiie, and Griffin punched
out the remainder off right
tackle to hit paydirt with 8:51
left in the first half. Griffin
was stopped on the extra point
try; leaving Saline in a 20-6
lead.
The host Roughriders came
back from their own 47 with a
running attack into the line for
short gains that gave them
their second TD with 1:25 left
before half-time. Herndon ran
the conversion.
After half-time, a fumble recovery on Roosevelt's 43 put
the Hornets in scoring range.
On the second play, Griffin
.threw :to Davis-for a gain to the
15. A pair of short runs by
Griffin picked up the first down
on the four. Davis took the
ball over on a quarterback
sneak.
Roosevelt's next drive ground
to a stop on Saline's 27 with
an incomplete pass. Rick Johnson smashed off left tackle to
the 31, and from there Griffin
dashed the remaining distance
for 69 yards and the score. Griffin ran the PAT as well.
Roosevelt picked up the final
score of the evening with 1:28
left as Herndon scored around
left end from the three.
Saline
Roosevelt
14 6 14 0 - 34
67   0 6-19
Card Party,
Smorgasbord
Set Nov. 3
A fund-raising card party
and smorgasbord, which may
become an annual affair, has
been planned by Saline Community Hospital Auxiliary, al
8 p.m. Friday, November 3, at
the American Legion hall.
Auxiliary funds are used to
purchase needed equipment for
the hospital; the organization
last year paid for a urological
examining table.
Kitchen facilities and the use
of the hall have been donated
for the occasion by the Legion
and Legion Auxiliary. Food for
the smorgasbord will be prepared by members of the Hospital
Auxiliary.
Tickets for the event are $1
a person. Fish and cheese dishes, as well as meat dishes, are
included in the varied menu.
Members planning the card
party and smorgasbord include
Mrs. Robert Webster, clean-up.
and set-up; Mrs. Robert Estes,
prizes; Mrs. Ruben Finkbeiner,
tickets; Mrs. Robert Maurer,
foods; Mrs. William Brink, tables and chairs; Mrs. Fred Rieckhoff, publicity; all under general chairman Mrs". Robert
Barnes.* _  -
Tickets are available at Estes
Pharmacy and Wight Cleaners,
as well* as from any AuxUiary
member. ,«.' ■'•-
Saline Community Hospital
board Tuesday night approved
a building committee recommendation for expansion.
The "hospital building committee, headed by Stanton
Roesch, advised increasing facilities by 22 beds, on the premise that a 50-bed hospital is
the minimum size for economic
operation.
Actual construction is not
scheduled to begin until September, 1963, but the hospital
board expects to begin planning
immediately.
Said Ernest Girbach, president of the hospital board, "The
community is growing so fast
that we need the expansion so
that we can take care of the
people. It will take three years,
at least, if we get architectural
plans started now. It also will
take a year to build."
Girbach added: "We have a
need now for more rooms at
some times. We are not full at
all times, but there have been
times when we've been overflowing. Twenty-eight beds are
not sufficient for this community because it doesn't allow enough variation in rooms."
The present hospital has only
one ward, which means that ~
if it has one patient —' no other-
ward patients of the opposite
sex can be accepted. There is
no children's ward. Said Girbach: "We need three wards.
Even two would be better than
this."
He said: "We might have 20
or 25 patients for the general
ward (only 18 beds) and the OB
wing empty. You actually have
two hospitals , . . OB and general; one can overflow "but you
can't put patients in the other."
There would be more flexibility in, use of rooms in a 50-bed
hospital, he said. All of the additional 22 rooms would be for
general medical-surgical use.
Of his committee's recommendation, Roesch said: "The
hospital, now, is barely keeping
its head above water financially. Nationwide statistics show
that a 50-bed hospital is the
minimum hospital that makes
money. This year we did much
better than last year, but we
still lost money."
"In a rapidly expanding community, we will have an urgent
need for the added room by the
time it is completed," he said.
The committee recommended
that the expansion take the
form of an added wing on the
southwest of the present hospital, to include a basement as
well as ground floor. They also recommended that the addition be designed so as to permit its use as a maternity wing,
"at which time the present maternity facilities would be converted to use as a surgical
wing."
Cost estimates on the proposed expansion would not be possible until more concrete plans
were drawn, the board decided.
JAYCEE  AUXILIARY
ADDS THREE MEMBERS-^
Three new names were added
to the roster of the newly reorganized Junior Chamber of
Commerce Auxiliary at a membership meeting Tuesday night:
Mrs. William Meister, Jr., Mrs.
Phil Badour, and Mrs. Donald
MeKenzie.
The group also approved a.
budget, community service projects, and agenda for the coming year.
Local FHA
To be Host
To Region
Nearly 700 Future Homemakers of America are expected to
attend a four-county regional
FHA meeting here, Saturday,
November 4.
The Saline chapter will act
as hostesses for the event, scheduled from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30
p. m. at the High School. The
conclave precedes the state
FHA meeting in April and includes .election of regional officers for the coming year, and
reports from ; summer workshops and delegates to the national meeting.
Among the highlights of the
Saline-meet will be the national
Simplicity Style Show, brought
here for the event by Faber's
Fabrics, of Ann ■ Arbor. Ten
members of the local club, will
model; other models will be
Dexter FHA members. Clothes
to model, and commentators,
are sent in by Simplicity.
The major speaker of the day
has not- been chosen but will
be sent by International House
at the University of Michigan,
in line with one of the club's
purposes "to better international understanding", according to
Betty Washburn, faculty advisor to the club.
Nancy Gates also aids the-
group as faculty advisor. President of the Saline chapter is
Sandy Merritt; and Benna Jean.
Sawyer is a regional officer,
song-leader.     ' *-•■',_'.:
Another speaker will be Mrs.
Thelma Draper, of the Department of Public Instruction, consultant on homemaking and
family life education, and assistant state FHA advisor.
The counties in this region
are Washtenaw, Lenawee, Jackson, and Monroe.
PARTY PLANS
Hospital Auxiliary members met this week at the home
- of Mrs. William Brink, to complete plans for the Card Party
and Smorgasbord to be held Friday, November 3, at the
Legion. Above, top tow left to right, Mrs. Bob Barnes, Mrs.
Bob Estes, Mrs. Bob Webster, Mrs. Fred Rieckhoff. Front
row, left to right: Mrs. Bob Maurer, Mrs.' Brink, Mrs. Ruben
Finkbeiner, and Mrs. Jack Steeb.