1962-01-31; Saline Reporter

              VOLUME 14, NUMBER 20 - WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 31, 1962
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Saline's New March of Dimes
drive, now in mid-session, has
so far collected $843.06, including donations at coffee hours
and card benefits, and receipts
from the Mothers' March on
Tuesday evening.
The Mothers' March, under
co-chairmen Mrs. Joe Bondie
and Mrs. William Lawrence, for
the Child Study Club, and Mrs.
G. Merritt Martin for the Jaycee Auxiliary, brought in
§676.13.
Total from coffees and card
parties is $166.93.
In the townships, the annual
Mothers' March was slowed by
icy country roads, where driving was difficult and walking
was nearly impossible. A number of the mothers had not yet
completed their rounds today.
Partial reports for Saline
township's drive were given by
Mrs. David Gordon, chairman,
at $144.83. Mrs. William Spike,
chairman in Lodi township, said
a full report would be available
in a day or so.
In Saline, a euchre benefit at
the home of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Armbruster, attended by 16
guests, produced $15.10 for the
Dimes drive. High score for
men was LaVerne Armbruster's
81; Mrs. Jack Winkle's 79 was
high for women.
In bridge benefits, high score
DINNER TO BENEFIT
MARCH OF DIMES
The annual Jaycee-sponsored
"Dine for Dimes" event at Marty's Restaurant will be held
from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday.
Breakfast will be served until
11 a.m.; dinner, from 11 a.m.
to 6 p.m.
All proceeds of the event will
go to the New March of Dimes.
for this week and for the season was Mrs. James Carman's
3560 in 12 hands at a benefit
given by Mrs. Stanton Roesch.
Low score for the season was
Mrs. Norman Scherdt's, at a
benefit given by Mrs. Wilford
Davis.
Record Hop
To Benefit
Dimes Drive
A High School Record Hop,
for the benefit of the March of
Dimes drive, is scheduled in the
all-purpose room immediately
after a benefit basketball game
in the gym.
Tom Wight, WPAG disk jockey, will MC the event, and the
public is invited. Tickets for
game and hop together are 50
cents for students and 75 cents
for adults.
Mrs. Wesley Nielsen, chairman of the High School Room
Mothers is in charge of the
dance, and chaperones include
Mr. and Mrs. Ormond Breder-
nitz, Mr. and Mrs. Tom Bennett, Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Kid-
well, Mr. and Mrs. Glen Carter, Mr. and Mrs. Russell Hal-
lenback, Mr. and Mrs. Max
Hughes.
Sandy Brown and Tom Wag-
ener are Student Council representatives on the committee.
Posters to advertise the game
and dance were made by Babs
Schmid and Janice Nielsen.
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SACA TO HEAR
COUNCILMEN SPEAK
Hornet Jerry McDonald (25) drives in
for a lay-up in the first half of the Dexter
upset that dropped Saline hopes for the
conference crown. Behind McDonald are Ga
ry Niethammer (11) and Brian LaRue (33),
and Dexterites Mike Webb, Tom Crocker,
and Ed Wagner.
— Photo by Lanny Robbins
Dexter Upset Hobbles
Hornet Title Aspirations
Two Escapees
Leave Trail
Of Car Thefts
Two 16 - year - old escapees
from the Washtenaw county Juvenile Home Sunday gave Saline police a three-way stolen
car puzzle to untangle, before
they were apprehended in Van
Wert, O.
Police said the pair escaped
from the Juvenile Home Saturday night and stole a 1962 model car owned by John Haas,
of Ann Arbor, near the home.
They drove it to Saline and
abandoned it on Maple street.
Then, about 1 a.m. Sunday,
they took a 1955 model owned
by Robert Osterhout, of 204
McKay St., and abandoned it
on Pleasant Ridge drive, within 20 minutes.
Their final choice was a 1957 ■
model car owned by Merton1
Hershman, of Adrian, which'
the escapees took from the parking lot at the Plas-tainer plant
before heading south. They
were held in custody Monday
by Van Wert police.
More Players Needed
For Cage Benefit
More players are needed to
make up an alumni team for the
March of Dimes benefit basketball game Saturday evening,
Don Jaeger, chairman of the
event, said today.
The game, scheduled at 7:30
p.m. Saturday at the High
School gym, •will feature a galaxy of faculty stars: Paul Thi-
bault, Larry Smith, Taylor Jaeobsen, Joe Graf, Larry Brown
and Jaeger.
But so far the opposing alumni have only four players: Matt
Katalinich, John Thoss, Mike
Bixby and Jan Losee. College
alumni, home between semesters, are urgently invited to get
into the act, Jaeger hinted.
Minors Fined
For Possession
Of Liquor
Two local young men were
fined $20 apiece and sentenced
to 30 days in jail, suspended
for one year, in JP Court here
Tuesday on charges of possessing alcoholic beverages.
A warrant was issued for a
third youth, who failed to appear before Justice of the Peace
Jerome Lamb on the charge.
The three were arrested by
police officers Jim Levleit and
John Klumpp after they got
their car stuck near the Saline
Mill, about midnight Saturday.
Police said they found an empty whiskey bottle in the car
and the boys admitted having
another, three-fourths full, that
was found under a bush nearby.
Police said the trio also said
they had drunk "a bottle of
beer" at the home of one.
OES Card Party    ,
To Be Upstairs
The OES-sponsored card party for the benefit of the March
of Dimes will be held in the
Masonic Hall, upstairs, rather
than in the store below the
hall, the group announced today.
The party, scheduled at 8
p.m. Saturday, is under the
chairmanship of Mrs. Ed Fil-
singer; Mrs. Wayne Predmore
is in charge of tickets and refreshments. Tables will be provided for all types of card
games, and prizes will be given.
The regular meeting of the
OES will be held at the hall
Monday.
FIRE DAMAGES HOUSE
UNDER CONSTRUCTION
The south side of a house
under construction at 3737
Wagner Rd., in Lodi township,
was destroyed by a fire Saturday, sheriff's men reported.
Damage was estimated at
$1,000.
Deputies said a heating device inside the completed portion of the house apparently
tipped over, igniting the structure. The Dexter Volunteer Fire
Department put out the blaze.
hy  Lanny  Robbins
With crucial games looming
Friday and Tuesday, the local
basketeers were working feverishly to remedy errors and
weaknesses that cost them their
first defeat in league play last
Friday night at Dexter.
Having lost the game that
could have pretty well sewed
up a third consecutive title on
the court, the Hornets now face
the possibility of sharing the
top slot and having a tough
time taking the all-sports tro-
Pfey. ,or__even failing to make the
winners' circle and, settlingrfof
a tie,for second place.
The next two games will
mean almost everything to the
Salinians. Little doubt exists
that the local quintet will be
able to get by Pinckney, winner of one game in the conference, but more uncertainty
rests on the outcome of their
contest at U-High. Dexter was
able to win by only three points
on the cramped Cubs' gym,
and Saline has never fared exceptionally well in the small
confines.
LICENSE PLATES
TO BE SOLD HERE
1962 license plates of all
types will be on sale Saturday
from 1:30 to 4 p.m. at Community Ford, the Secretary of
State's branch office in Ann
Arbor has announced.
Persons wishing to purchase
their 1962 plates are reminded
to bring their car titles.
Kiwanians
List Movies
For Season
Kiwanians this week released
a list of films to be shown in
February, March, and April at
the "theater" at the Intermediate School on Saturday evenings.
All movies begin at 7:30 p.m.
and admission is 35 cents regardless of age. The movies,
shown on a wide screen, are a
Kiwanis public service project.
Scheduled in coming weeks are:
Feb. 3 ~ "The 27th Day", a
science fiction thriller with
Gene Barry.
Feb. 10 ~ "Jailhouse Rock",
in cinemascope, starring Elvis
Presley.
Feb. 17 -- "The Brave Bulls",
a bullfight thriller, with Mel
Ferrer and Anthony Quinn.
. Feb. 24 ~ "The 49th Man", a
spy thriller about a smuggled
A-bomb; John Ireland and Richard  Denning.
Mar. 3 - "The Flying Missile", a Navy submarine story,
starring Glenn Ford and Viveca
Lindfors.
Mar. 10 - "Bandit of Sherwood Forest" in color, about the
son of Robin Hood, with Cornel
Wilde and Anita Louise.
Mar. 17 - "Ma & Pa Kettle
at the Fair", a comedy starring
Marjorie Main and Percy Kilbride. •'
Mar. 24 ~ Mark Twain's "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"
in cinemascope and color, with
Eddie Hodges, Tony Randall
and Andy Devine.
Mar. 31 - "The Fuller Brush
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Two years ago, a U-High
press upset the Hornets and
almost ruined their chances at
the title, and the same thing
can happen again this year.
With two of the fastest guards
in the loop in Dixon and Fauri,
it's almost a sure bet that
U-High's Nels Lehstren will try
to counter the Hornets' under-
basket strength with a press.
It was a press that played a
large part in Dexter's upset of
Saline by a 55-48 score last
week. The local five managed
to put together and hold on to
a small l^ad; but, in .the-. dis>a§:
trous second half, the Hornets
just seemed to lose steam and
tire out, finally losing the lead.
They were never able to rally
back and close the gap.
In the opening minutes of
the game, the Hornets established the pattern — first gaining a good lead, and then almost losing it ~ that prevailed
throughout the game. After
Mike Webb had put Dexter on
the scoreboard with a free
throw, Brian LaRue popped in
his first bucket with just a
minute gone in the contest.
Webb and LaRue then exchanged scores as Saline pulled out
to a 5-3 lead.
Just before the midway mark
in the period, it was LaRue
again on a short one to put Saline in front 7-5. After Nick
Heller's two-pointer, LaRue hit
again to all but complete his
scoring with Saline's first nine
points of the game. Seconds later, Jerry McDonald sank a
pair of free throws for a six
point lead, but that almost disappeared during the next minute as Dexter poured in five
points in 22 seconds. Saline was
able to pull away to a 15-12
edge as the period ended.
Second period action showed
the same shape with Jeppesen,
McDonald and Niethammer all
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SOCIAL SERVICES
BOARD TO MEET
Board members of Saline Area Social Services, Inc., will
meet Monday, February 19, at
the home of Wayne Predmore,
corresponding secretary. Meanwhile, the organization's office
on N. Ann Arbor street is open
from 2 to 4 p.m. Mondays and
Thursdays, and by appointment
on Friday evenings. Persons
knowing of families who need
help are asked to report them
at the office or by calling Mrs.
Allan Grossman, HA 9-9625.
All seven Saline city coun-
cilmen will speak briefly and
answer questions at a meeting
of Saline Area Civic association
at the Elementary School at 8
p.m. Wednesday, February 7.
The meeting, open to the public, is designed to acquaint the
audience with the functions of
city government. Refreshments
will be served.
The March meeting of the
group will concern the history
of the Saline area; speaker will
be Bessie Carven Collins.
Wilber Brucker
To Speak at
GOP Dinner
Wilber M. Brucker, former
Governor of Michigan (1931-
33) and Secretary of the Army
in the Eisenhower cabinet (1955
-61) will be the speaker at the
Annual Lincoln Day Dinner to
be held Monday evening, February 12, in the University of
Michigan Union.
His topic will be "Michigan
and Our Nation — A Lincoln
Day Perspective". Among the
guests of honor at the dinner
sponsored by the Washtenaw
County Republican Committee,
will be federal and state officials, as well as civic leaders
from throughout  the  country.
Tickets for the Lincoln Day
Dinner are available in Saline
from Mrs. John Steeb, 257 Law-
son St.
C of C. Will
Participate
In Survey
The Chamber of Commerce,
under the auspices of its education committee, will participate in a county-wide survey
to learn if a "community college" is needed in the area, Allan Grossman, president, announced after a meeting Tuesday.
The cost of local participation in the survey, estimated
at "between $35 and $50" will
be paid from the education committee fund, and committee
chairman Jack Steeb will appoint four Salinians to act on
a "citizens' advisory committee" to assist in making the
survey.
In other communities in the
county, the survey is to be conducted and financed by school
boards. The chamber's decision
to take part came after the
Saline Board of Education declined to participate.
Purpose of the study is to
learn whether there is a need
in this county for a two-year
college for vocational training,
or for students who don't want,
or can't afford, four years of
college. The move originated
with the Washtenaw county
School Officers association,
which set up a "community college survey committee" headed
by Robert Harrington, a member of the Ann Arbor Board of
Education. Grossman is a member of Harrington's committee.
The "citizens' committee" is
now "virtually complete and
should be able to start work
without delay," Harrington
said. He said he "expected no
difficulty" in arranging that
Saline be represented by the
Chamber of Commerce, instead
of the school board. Pinckney
and South Lyon school districts
have also joined the project.
The "junior college" or "community college" is designed to
supplement existing state supported colleges and universities
in a two-year program. Total
cost of the survey is estimated
at $12,000, of which $9,000 is
to be paid by the University of
Michigan, and $3,000 is prorated among participating
school systems or other organizations.
School Board
Declines to
Join Survey
Saline area School Board this
week released "for use without
deletion or change" a statement explaining their decision
not to participate in a forthcoming Community College survey in this area. The statement said:
"The Saline Area Board of
Education has decided not to
use school district funds to help
finance a proposed Washtenaw
County Community College
Survey scheduled to be conducted by the University of Michigan,
"There's Toledo milk on the
grocery shelves here," said Gall.
Barnes, who was speaker at
the dinner meeting, pointed out
that milk surplus is a national
problem. A support program
has been under way for several
years, but establishment of quotas is "still a long ways from
ore
Disruption
Of Deliveries
Said Unlikely
Dairy farmers all over Michi-
gan - including those in the legislation and approval.
Saline area - began to breathe'    M3^ local members elected
more easily today,  as  two  of delegates  and  alternates  from
the  "big four"  dairies  in  the the   five   ar??s1JhereJ1   James
Detroit area, and most of the Hayes   and  Waldon   Emerson;
smaller  dealers,  fell  into  line Carl Seeger and Carl Bird; Al-
with the MMPA market com- bert Gall and Martin Hoelzer;
mittee's price demands. | Charles   ^   a*d ^Thomas
„ , „     __.,      Beckmgton;  Leonard Burmeis-
t t *ffly*!TTS^?y to ™d ^ Herter- Delegates
(attended  by  Albert  Gall  for at j        are Emest Girbach and
the Saline local) the commit- AMn Marion_
tee agreed to "hold the line". B d Ri secretary-manag-
prices, almost the same as last gr of ^ ADA of mchigan ^
year's Then since the dairies kg &t ^ b et attended
had refused to attend an earli- b approximately 300 local finer   negotiation    conclave,    the ^ and their femilies>
committee set up a February 1
deadline. I
Had the dairies failed to send
written agreement to the prices
by  tomorrow,   "the  machinery1
was   set   up  for   diversion   to
other outlets",  Gall explained.!
MMPA,   now   organized   on   a1
state-wide bargaining basis at
the dairies' own request, owns
a number of processing plants.      Competition in all  types  of
But diverting milk to the plants  skating, for all ages, is included
would mean that no producer in the Ice Rink "Field Day" to
would get Class I (bottled milk)   be sponsored here Saturday by
prices. the   City  Recreation  ice  corn-
By   noon   Wednesday,   price J™"** and the Jaycees.
agreements had  been received I    The events, to begin at 1 p.m.
Field Day
Planned for
All Ages
from  Twin Pines  and  Wilson at the Intermediate School site,
Dairy; but two other members will include a 50-yard race, a
"The Board is unanimous in1 of the "big four", Sealtest and1 one-lap ra«e of about 100 yards;
its opinion. We feel that even! Borden, were still hanging fire, I three-lap and and ten-lap races,
though the State has delegated j according to Jack Barnes, gen-. and a four-lap relay and back-
the 'right' to local'school boards j era! manager of the MMPA. A rward relay.. There will- also, be-
to participate in such proceed-1 "l^fge number" of the smaller; a mixed-doubles team race, flings, our chief responsibility { dairies had agreed, he said, and' gure skating competition, and
has been and will continue to i "at this moment it would ap- j barrel jumping,
be the needs of our children' pear unlikely there would be Age groups will be set up for
from Kindergarten through the' any widespread disruption of adults, ages 9-12; 6-8; 3-5; and
twelfth   grade,   with   facilities milk to dairies". j pre-kindergarten, ages one and
made available for self-sustain-]    ^ the Detroit market, dealing adult education programs.  ers y^ pay a premium of $2
"Survey proponents claim; a hundred over basic formula
that the project is designed for (COndensery milk) prices for
spotting needs and charting ne- Class j milk for eight months,
cessary direction. Along with and $1-75 over basic for April
the survey they propose a coun- through July. Last year, the
tywide steering committee to negotiated price agreement set
press action once the project j class- j premiums at $1.90 for
has revealed 'needs'. We feel eight months and $1.65 for four
by using district funds (even montns jn the Detroit market,
though the amount is negligi- sut ]ast year, an eight-cent
ble)  and especially by lending  bulk  premium  was   added,   in
our   name   to   the   effort,   we1 the Detroit market; this year's .™fwtc
would   be   giving   unwarranted .demands include it in the Class  ORGAN, PIANO  STUDENTS
support   to   goals   which  have j price.
two. All children who wish to
compete must bring notes from
their parents stating that neither the city nor the Jaycees
will be liable in case of accidents.
Free hot dogs and hot chocolate will be served; and the
Jaycee popcorn wagon will be
on the premises.
The program is expected to
last about 1% hours. Joe Graf
is chairman.
not been clearly defined.
TO   GIVE   RECITAL   FEB.
Pupils of Irene's Music Stij-
„,,    ,_ * ^   -r,     „ Local producers discussed the
in JS^e^TaSLirSE' fcrthcom^ negotiators at the dio ^ give an organ and piano
in their personal appraisals of gBawl meeting Thursday at the recital on February 7 at the
("ctLued oTpTo 5) °      Hi*h SchooL * Ws ^ &t Saline High SchocAittle The-
(Contmued on Page 5) ^ ^^  Gall told members atre The time has ^n set for
the committee would seek no 7.30 pm ^g redt^ is open to
price increase: "How can you
expect an increase when everything is full of milk?" All
MMPA storage facilities were
full   to   the   brim   on   several
TV Program
To Review Milan's
Histoplasmosis
A   program   of   interest   to
Washtenaw    County    residents days, he said, and some of the
and of special interest to Mi- j larger shippers had even sug-
lan area residents will be seen j gested a price cut.
on WXYZ-TV  (Channel 7)   at      But jf prices  were cut  too
9:30   a.m.   on  Thursday,   February 25.
At that time, Dr. Otto K.
Engelke, county health officer
and Dr. Horace J. Dodge, epidemiologist with the school of
public health, will be interviewed concerning the histoplasmosis study in Milan.
Dr. Engelke and Dr. Dodge
will summarize the activities:
and findings in the Milan study
which revealed that 98 per cent
of the senior class in the high
school in 1958 reacted to in-,
jections of histoplasmia.
The    study    included    three
' years  of  study  including  soil
j sampling,   skin   testing,   inter-
, viewing  and  x-ray studies  of
reactors. Late in 1960, Dr. Engelke announced to the Board of
, Education   in  Milan   that   the
source of the infection had been
traced to the playground in the j
rear of the old high school. It
was found that the fungus caus-
' ing. histoplasmosis grew there
and was fertilized by droppings
of  the  birds  roosting in   the
1 trees bordering the playground.
sharply, he added, "a lot of us
would go out of business."
Meanwhile, at least one dairy
had added to the tension by
buying from Toledo producers.
the public with  no  admission
charge.
Dance and comedy acts ~ all
pupil talent — will be presented
and guest musicians, the Or-
ganottes, will perform.
HAS  TONSILLECTOMY
Jane Marie Steiner, 8-year-
old daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Oliver Steiner, underwent a tonsillectomy at Saline Community
Hospital Tuesday morning.
Officers and directors of the Saline local, MMPA, discuss current milk price negotiations. Back row, left to right,
Charles Trinkle, Alwin Marion, Leonard Burmeister, Jim
Hayes. Front row: Carl Seeger, Ernest Girbach, and WPAG's
farm editor Howard Heath.