1961-11-08; Saline Reporter

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The Saline Reporter
VOLUME 14, NUMBER 8 ~ WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1961
1First With All the Local News"
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ORS VOTE 28-7 FOR COUNTY LIBRARY
Anderson, Hemmye, MeKenzie Elected
Turnout Heavier
Than Predicted
In   a   heavier   turnout   than
predicted,  city voters Tuesday
chose George Anderson, Jerome
Hemmye, and Donald MeKenzie
,^    for two-year Council terms.
The only issue in the election
stemmed from the fact that
three of the four candidates
(including the one defeated)
were newcomers to the city.
Hemmye moved to Saline on
September 16 of this year; MeKenzie became a resident in
August, 1960; and Herman Radloff, the fourth candidate, moved to the city about a year ago.
Final tabulations gave the
lead to George Anderson, a resident since 1956, with 199 votes.
Hemmye ran second with 180;
MeKenzie received 178; and
Radloff traUed with 144.
About 20 per cent of the city's registered voters, 268 persons, turned out.
All three of the CouncUmen-
£ elect live in Golden Acres subdivision.
Anderson, 26, lives at 472
Canterbury Drive. He is employed in cost analysis at the
Ford Motor Co. RawsonviUe
plant and a graduate of Cleary
college.
MeKenzie, 26, of 275 Pleasant
Ridge, works in test and devel-
Yfc> opment at Chrysler Proving
Grounds. He has attended the
University of Michigan and
Wayne State university.
Hemmye, who is 34, moved
here from Holt, Mich., to Uve
at 587 Rosemont. He is a research engineer employed by
the University of Michigan;
during his eight, years at Holt
•0 he taught at Michigan State
university and spent two years
in Viet Nam, under MSU auspices, in an advisory capacity
to the government there.
The three will take office the
first of the year replacing Councilmen John Buck, Orren Corl,
and Arthur Heininger, whose
terms expire then.
George Anderson
Jerome Hemmye
Donald MeKenzie
DEFINITION OF THE WEEK:
Henry Leutheuser this week
defined "bureaucracy":
"Here's how it works ~ they
hire an expert, then the expert
hires another expert; then the
other expert gets an out-of-
town firm to do the job because
he's  afraid to do it himself."
SANDRA BROWN CHOSEN
FOR D.A.R. AWARD
Sandra Brown, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Dale Brown of
205 Lawson St., was named today as this year's D.A.R.-Good
Citizen Girl.
Miss Brown, a senior at Saline High School, was one of
three candidates chosen by her
class for the title. The final
selection was then made by the
teaching staff.
Local Women
To Attend
Guild Meet
A number of Washtenaw
county women wiU leave Monday to attend the fifth-and final quadrennial meeting of the
Women's Guild of the Evangelical and Reformed Church, in
Cleveland November 14 through
17.
After the conclave, the Women's GuUd wUl become a part
of the new organization of the
United Church of Christ, whose
constitution became effective in
July, and "wiU undoubtedly be
given a different name", according to Esther Landwehr, of Saline.
Miss Landwehr wiU attend
the quadrennial meeting as a
delegate and as president of
the Ann Arbor Regional Women's Guild. She wiU be accompanied by other delegates,
Mrs. Lewis Vogel, of Bethel E.
& R. Church, Freedom township, immediate past president
of the Ann Arbor group; Mrs.
Ernest Klaudt of Bethlehem
Church, Ann Arbor; Mrs. Paul
Schaible, of St. Paul's Church,
Chelsea; and Mrs. Ralph Kue-
ther, Emanuel Church, Manchester.
Some 600 Protestant church
women from aU parts of the
nation will attend the event.
Senior Play Staging Crews
Have Strange Set of Woes
Life is not all strawberry
shortcake for the staging crew
working on the forthcoming
Senior Play, Director Marilyn
VanderLugt pointed out this
week.
Their major problem: a house
that will fall down at the proper moment, faU in the right
direction so as not to mash the
cast, and stand up during the
-ijk * rest of the play feven though
people walk in it.f
The house is only one of the
unusual props required for "The
_ Great Big Doorstep", a three
9t act comedy to be ^presented by
the seniors November 16 and
17, in the Little Theater at the
High School. Other necessities
include the great, ibig doorstep
of the title, a teAter-totter, a
sycamore tree, and*) an oU stove
smaU enough to lbe carried.
Those are just abowt solved.
But has anybody «pt a spare
human skull? The oSly one the
committee  has  founm so  far
looks as though it probably belonged to a wolf (four-footed
type).
Gay Beck, as stage manager,
has made drawings of the entire set; and Tom Wagener is
losing sleep over the mechanics
of a coUapsible house. "About
aU I can suggest," said Mrs.
VanderLugt, "is that the audience should come and see whether it does coUapse . . . and
whether it falls down at the
right time."
The usual waU scenery can't
be used, either, Mrs. VanderLugt says, or "we'U lose the
effect of outdoorness." Instead,
canvass is under preparation,
with, the aid of sorghum, cattails, and slit cornstalks.
There is also a caU out for a
solo guitar recording of a jitterbug (not rock 'n roU) tune.
Anyone' with ideas,, skuUs, or
guitar recordings may caU Gay
Beck, or Bryan LaRue,. who is
in charge of setSa,
Charter Group Seeks
2- Year Residence Law
The city Charter Commission
this week recommended a two-
year residency requirement for
all city office-holders ... including those appointed to serve
on boards and commissions.
.The two-year requirement is
modeled after those in other
city charters which the Commission members have studied
during their work here . . .
charters from Bowling Green,
O. (up for voters' approval
there Tuesday), Northville,
Mich, (approved in 1955), ami
Southfield, Mich, (effective
since 1958).
The Saline Charter group also
recommended that Council be
given power to set up group
plans of life, hospital or accident insurance or a retirement
plan for city employees.
Secretary Esther Landwehr's
full report of the meeting follows:
The Saline City Charter Commission resumed regular meetings on Wednesday, October 18.
The first meeting was confined
675 Attend
FHA Meet
More than 675 Future Home-
makers of America and their
mothers, plus guests' and dozens
of bus drivers, miUed into town
Saturday for the regional meeting of FHA at the High School.
HighUghts of the meeting
were a SimpUcity Modern Miss
teen style show, featuring local
models, and election of regional
officers. SaUne member Alona
Frey was elected regional parliamentarian.
Models in the style show,
sponsored for the event by Faber Fabrics of Ann Arbor, were
Sandy Merritt, Katrene GaU,
Donna Richards, Carol Bennett,
Bonnie Cammet, Wendy WUd,
Marsha Roark, Carol Guenther,
Karen Lehtonen, and Mary Curtiss. A number of Dexter students also modeled.
The travelling prize for best
nametags went to the SaUne
chapter for tags on bracelets, a
paper keyhole and key with the
legend, "FHA Unlocks the Future". They were prepared by a
.committee headed by Donna
Diuble, with Louise Anderson,
LesUe Carman, and Cindy Martin.
Mrs. Leo Jensen, Mrs. Howard Hill, and last year's local
president Marilyn Wiedmayer
were, special guests. ■  ...
'Chapter- mothers Mrs. Herbert Diuble and Mrs. Walter
Herter assisted in arrangements; Bob Weisenreder and
FFA members assisted with
parking and setting up; and Ed
Strait and Key club members
aided in clean-up.
almost entirely to a review of
the information received from
the Michigan Municipal League
concerning their review of the
revised copy sent to them previously, and only a few minor
details were recommended for
correction by the Commission.
The second meeting.of the
Commission was held at the
Council Chambers on November
1; and matters which were held
over from the previous meeting, pending further information and advice, were consider^
*6d. It- has been the**'polkp* ,o£
the Saline City • Charier* Commission to review the charters
of other cities which are facing
the problems of growth that Saline is facing,^and ;to be guided
in their thinking by the .manner
in which those cities met sim-
Uar situations. Thus, we have
had at hand charters adopted in
recent years by such cities as
NorthviUe, Southfield, and others including that of Bowling
Green, Ohio.
It was recommended by the
Commission that:
"No person shall hold any
elective office of the city unless
he has been a resident of the
City for at least two years immediately prior to the last day
for filing petitions for such office and is also a qualified and
registered elector of the City
on such day and throughout
his tenure of office."
"No person shall be eligible
for any elective or appointive
city office who is in default to
the City or to any other gov-
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United Fund
MJust Might
Make Goal"
SaUne area's United Fund
drive "just might make its
goal", board president Bob Harrison reported today, as the
thermometer rose to 35 per
cent . . . $3,758.77. '
The quota is $10,750.
The amount turned in so far
represents only about half of
the residential areas, and no
business or industrial contributions, Harrison said. Residential
areas are "coming closer to the
^necessary $3.45 average than it
looked at first".
The actual solicitation period
of the drive has closed — except
for mop-up operations — Harrison said; but workers stiU have
a week in which to turn in
their reports. All cards, funds,
and reports must be in by November 15, he said.
"If the areas yet to come in
maintain the present average,
we'U make our goal," he concluded.
Trinity Lutheran
Ladies' Aid
Elects Officers
Mrs. Erwin Henes was elected
president of the Ladies' Aid
Society of Trinity Evangelical
Lutheran Church at the organization's annual meeting held
last week.
Mrs. Clara Bredernitz wiU
serve as vice president; with
Mrs. Raymond^ Klumpp, secretary; and Mrs/Edna Burkhardt,
treasurer.
The foUowing committee
chairmen were also named:
birthday, Mrs. WiUiam Wackenhut; flowers, Mrs. Reuben
Marion and Mrs. Norman Bohnett; cards, Mrs. Alice Hack
and Mrs. Herman Mamarow;
altar, Mrs. Edna Burkhardt and
Mrs. Luella Luckhardt; • Red
Cross, Mrs. John Kohler, Mrs.
Clara Bredernitz, Mrs. Alwin
Burkhardt, Mrs. Herman Mamarow, Mrs. WUUam Wackenhut
and Mrs. Otto Lindemann; visiting, Mrs. Otto Bredernitz, Mrs.
H. L. Engel, Mrs. Harry Steiner, sr., Mrs. Edna Burkhardt,
Mrs. John Kohler and Mrs. Alice Hack; program, Mrs. Johnson Quick and Mrs. Karl Theur-
er; and reporter, Mrs. H. L.
Engel.
EXTENSION   CLUB
ANNOUNCES MEETING
The Friendship Extension
club wUl meet on Monday, November 13, at 1:30 p.m. at the
home of Mrs. Melvina Klager.
EDITORIAL CORRECTION
If you're the type who reads
I a newspaper's editorial first of
j all, you probably were completely mystified by ours on Page
Two this week.
One misplaced line more or
less messed up the whole message . . . and we think it's important enough to warrant correction here.
So here's the missing sentence. You can insert it where
it'll do the most good.
"In numerous tests across the
country, Dr. Jay has seen the
number of dental cavities drop
dramatically among youngsters
of communities where the water supply has been fluoridated."
Parking Lot
Bonds to be
Redeemed
All the city's parking meter
bonds are* to be redeemed the
first of the year, City Council
decided  Monday  night.
The decision to caU in the remaining $8000 in bonds came
after a discussion as to whether
the move would leave the city
unable to purchase other land
for parking if it should become
necessary in the near future.
But — on the premise that
other funds would buUd up before new parking sites were
needed - Council voted 5 to 2
to redeem the present bonds on
the January 1 interest-due date.
The parking meters produce
an income of about $125 a week
for the parking fund, which was
set up* ~ separate from the general iund — to finance instaUation of the meters and purchase
of the city lot on north Ann
Arbor street. A study of the
city's parking needs is currently under way by the Planning
I Commission but — if the Commission decides' more parking
area is required ~ new bonds
could be floated with the approval of the Municipal Finance
Commission, Council pointed
out.
Interest due on the bonds
January 1 is $190. The first of
the bond series has already been
retired; the second would be
due next -July.
Purchase of another two-way
radio by the poUce department
was also approved. The portable
radio can be instaUed in any
car in a few minutes, and wUl
be used when the Saline car is
out of service or when more
than one car is needed. Half of
the $400 cost is to be borne by
J the city, half by the Saline PoUce association. It wUl belong
' to the city.
Hornets Crush Chelsea (or .500 Season
by Lanny  Robbins
It was a long six-year wait,
but Saline gridders were finally able to come up with a victory over Chelsea again. In the
seasons since the 1955 team
won the Huron Leagu^ title, the
Hornets had been unable to
come out on top of the Bulldogs on the gridiron.
Friday night the five straight
defeats from Chelsea were forgotten, as the Salinians avenged
themselves with a one-sided 35-
12 triumph.
Rick •Johnson capped his high
school grid play with the finest
night of his career. Marking up
a total of 245 yards, he scored
three of Saline's TD's and would
have had an additional 30 yards
and a fourth TD but for a holding penalty, which caUed back
his-longest run of* the evening.
**' Other seniors. t playing their
final game were ends Ed Strait,
Jerry .McDonald and Mike Frey,
tackles John Johnson and Bob
Weisenreder, guard Jerry Far-,
rar, fullback Jim Walters, and
guard-captain Gary Niethammer.
Taking a while to get into
high gear, the Hornets went only five yards after receiving
the kickoff and punted. Chelsea moved from their own 23
to 46, picking up a first down
along the way, but with 2nd and
five the BuUdogs fumbled and
a Hornet wound up on'top of
the pigskin.
On the first play from the 47,
Jim Walters powered through
left tackle, reversed his field
about the 20, and, picking up
good blocking, crossed the goal
line for the score. Walters ran
over the same position for the
conversion and a 7-0 lead.
Chelsea looked good as they
came back after the kickoff.
After returning to their 38,
they picked up eight yards in
three downs with strong running and gambled on fourth
down to break around right
end to Saline's 29. Two plays
later, quarterback Curt Farley
threw to end Don Brooks for
the six-pointer.' The kick was
blocked"
After the ensuing kickoff the
Hornets needed only three plays
to boost the score, when it was
Johnson again for 53 yards
around left tackle to the end
zone. Walters was tripped up on
the conversion attempt. The
score showed SaUne ahead 13-6.
A great break came to the
Salinians on the kickoff: Jack
Howard, after returning the
ball to Chelsea's 35, was hit
hard and fumbled to the Hornets. After a march downfield,
Ed Strait caught BUI Davis'
quick pass and stepped into the
end zone untouched, to put SaUne ahead 19-6 with only 41
seconds gone in :the i-fecond
quarter. This time Walters got
across the chalk line.for- the
conversion.
Chelsea ran into a stubborn
Hornet defense and had to punt
again. On the second play SaUne tried, Rick Johnson Jbroke
loose on his most spectacular
run of the evening ior 68 yards,
only to have if called;1Jkclc be-,
cause of ajhbldfag'uiftactiona   '
In the second half, Saline* got
its next TD when Rick Johnson
went off right  tacMe. for  22
(Continued on Page 5}
School Library to Lose
Penal Funds » $2,400
Saline supervisors Henry
Leutheuser and Bob Harrison
fought a three-hour battle Tuesday to oppose the County Library plan and save penal fund
money for the school library —
and went down with the ship.
By a vote of 28 to 7, the county Board of Supervisors approved the plan which wUl distribute the penal funds to public libraries within the county,
instead of to the schools.
Lodi township Supervisor Erwin Frederick also voted against the plan. Saline township
Supervisor Clarke Gordon favored it.
Under the plan a library staff
wUl be employed by the comity,
and space and facilities wiU be
provided by* contracting with
the Ann Arbor Public Library,
which is operated by the Ann
Arbor Board of Education.
The penal fund money previously used by the school libraries wUl — when the plan
goes into effect — be distributed to public Ubraries in the
county on a pupil-population
basis, according to Gordon. But
the Saline library is not legaUy
a "public library" since it is
not open fuU-time and is partially supported by an endowment rather than whoUy by tax
money.
The SaUne Board of Education had opposed the county
plan, since it wiU mean the
loss of nearly $2,500 for the
Saline school Ubraries. In' the
year ending June 30, 1961, the
local schools" received $2,456.62-
in penal funds. Their total library budget, including salaries,
was $14,103.61. The remainder
came  from  the general fund.
Supervisors who voted against the county plan included
Harrison, Leutheuser, Frederick, Sylvester Leonard of Augusta township, Leigh Beach of
Lima, George Bauer of Lyndon, and Maurice Hoffman of
Chelsea. Chelsea had opposed
the plan in a letter to the board.
Harrison said he opposed the
plan because "They weren't able
to teU me in any way, shape,
or form that the Saline area
schools or SaUne area would benefit in any way at all. . . not
at aU. It looks to me as if we're
out. And I didn't Uke their estimated budget; they were going to spend $10,000 for books
and $46,000 for administrative
costs."
But the state wUl also provide 10,000 books for circulation, under the plan. Also a
part of the plan is a bookmo-
bUe which would bring books
to Saline. An estimated cost for
the bookmobUe was $16,000.
Leutheuser voted against the
plan, he said, because "I think
we have aU the service we need,
and one Uttle thing after another disappears out of your
township or locaUty and goes
to Lansing. However, as long
as the county voted for it, au-
tomaticaUy we are a part of it.
The bookmobUe could bring
books that Saline students wanted."
The bookmobUe would also
visit townships that have no
library, he said.
Several supervisors said they
felt the Constitutional Convention might, in. writing the new
constitution, put penal money
into the general fund instead of
aUowing it for Ubrary use, in
any case..        . -
..Gordon said-he voted in favor of the plan because "I feel
there is a real need for this service? in the out-county area. We
pride ourselves on being the education center of the world.—
the- University of- Michigan is
"platted "here for Jjeople" to *cdm6'
to*"*     *    a=-      ,-»■**     ,- -   ■_
*He~ added: "It will affect tfit?
local schools but that is a selfish attitude; we should be in
terested in services for the
whole  county."
The SaUne Library, although
it serves the public without
charge, is the only one of 14 in
the county that cannot qualify
for funds as a "public Ubrary".
It is partially supported by the
city and townships, but it has
an endowment for maintenance
and upkeep and the building
was a gift from the WUUam H.
Davenport family.
Funds contributed by the
four surrounding townships
range from $50 to $200 apiece
— but members of the Library
board today said they feared
the township support might be
withdrawn after a county library was set up.
Said Harrison, after his long
argument at the Board of Supervisors' meeting: "They told
me I was being selfish if I didn't forget about the SaUne area and consider the welfare of
the county as a whole; but what
I say is, if I'm not interested
in Saline, who is?"
Saline Growth
Paces Cities
In S.E, Area
Saline boosters got some
fresh ammunition this week. It
came from the Detroit MetropoUtan Area Regional Planning
Commission and its annual report on population, trends.
~'Accbr"diH^*'t6**the--report covering AprU 1960 through July
1, 1961, Saline led Washtenaw
County in percentage population growth ... and with remarkably few exceptions SaUne
also led communities throughout southeast Michigan.
During this period, SaUne
grew 8.4 per cent in population
. . . from 2,334 to 2,530 . . . and
grew 8.8 per cent in number of
occupied dweUing units . . .
from 708 to 770.
Average growth in aU Washtenaw County for this period
was 2.1 per cent. Bridgewater
township was the only governmental unit to show a drop in
population . . . going from
1,002 down to 1,000, for a decrease of .2 per cent.
In contrast with SaUne's 8.4
growth figure, the entire area
covered by the report showed
an average increase of 1.2 per
cent in population. More than
175 governmental units of south
east Michigan were included in
the study.
Elementary
Parents Plan
Open House
Elementary School Room Parents wiU hold an Open House,
featuring • a 'reading panel by
Elementary School teachers, at
8 p.m. Monday at the school.
Also on the program wUl be a"
film, "Individual Reading Instruction in the Classroom",
produced by the staff of Columbia Teaching CoUege.
Parents at the Open House
may also view a display of
books, sent by Slaters' Book
Store and avaUable for purcase,
which wiU be on exhibit in the
aU-purpose room at the school
from 2 p:m. on, Monday. The
books are for chUdren from kindergarten through the fourth
grade.
GUEST NIGHT
The SaUne Woman's Club wUl
hold "Guest Night" on November. 14 at St. -Paul's E. & R.
Chttfch". Dihter'-snUbe served at
6:30 "_>.m.   * '"  '
•—-Ted Graban, state food inspector, wUl speak and show
pictures.