1962-03-28; Saline Reporter

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VOLUME 14, NUMBER 28 - WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28, 1962
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Superintendent Visits
Airborne TV Classroom
School Superintendent Leo
Jensen was one of 100 midwest
school administrators to attend
an all-day meeting on airborne
television instruction Monday
at Purdue university in Lafayette, Ind.
The meeting is one of a series in which school administrators have been discussing the future of the Midwest Program
on Airborne Television Instruction.
Jensen, with educators Paul
Emrick of Ypsilanti and Wayne
Webb of Dexter, flew to Lafayette in a plane sent here by
Purdue university. The group
returned Monday night.
The airborne program telecasts video-taped lessons from
a high-flying aircraft to schools
in parts of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan Kentucky, Ohio and Wisconsin. The project is aimed at
upgrading the quality of education on a vast geographic
scale at a cost within reach of
school budgets.
MPATT currently is supported by grants from foundations
and private industry. A group
of prominent educators and laymen formed a non-profit educa-
Tony Schild
Back in Hospital
After Collision
Tony Schild, 610 S. Ann Arbor St., who was injured last
week when his car collided with
a slow-moving switch, engine on
the Willow Run Airport entrance road, was re-admitted to
St. Joseph Mercy Hospital in
Ann Arbor, Monday afternoon,
for observation and treatment
of possible internal injuries. ""*
The accident occurred about
11:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 20,
as Schild was oh his" way to
work at Willow Run. He was
travelling east toward the air-.
port when his station wagon?
collided with a New York Central Railroad diesel switch engine, operated by Paul Benson
of Rives Junction, which was
heading north just after leaving
the General Motors Corp. Chevrolet Division plant at Willow
Run.
Schild was taken to St. Joseph hospital for treatment and
remained there until Saturday.
He suffered a severely bruised
right arm and right leg. His
car was a total wreck.
tional organization in January
to enable schools, as members,
to take over the project's management, financing and further
development.
By 1965 MPATI may telecast
over four or six channels instead of the current two, cover
a greater area by flying at higher altitudes, and triple the number of courses offered, the visitors were told.
The school administrators
toured the MPATI plane, "a
very complicated affair" that
is kept in the air at a cost of
about $500 to $600 per hour,
Jensen said today. ,
At present, the amount of
available MPATI- instruction is
limited to about four hours a
day, including both elementary
and secondary school material,
he said. For elementary schools,
the program offers art for all
grades, science for fifth and
sixth grades, and Spanish and
French in third and fourth.
At the secondary level, courses include advanced • science
and math, primarily for High
School juniors and seniors; social studies for 10th and 11th
grades, and art. It is planned
to extend the courses next year.
The program has been in operation for only one year.
Jensen believes the airborne
TV instruction will come into
wide use within the next few
years. "I personally .think it's
going to be one of the coming
things, when they get all the
kinks worked out of it. We're
going to keep up to date on it,
and if it turns out to be an effective improvement in educa-
tionj then eventually we'll participate."
But the Saline, schools will
not join" the program immediately, he said, and the Dexter
and Ypsilanti administrators
appeared to share his belief
that "it's still in the experi-.
mental state and we're not going-to participate; in an experiment, at that cost."   -
Cost of the program includes
equipment — about $600 per
room equipped ~ ah enrollment
fee of $200, and $1 per pupil
per school district, whether or
not all the pupils can take part
in the instruction. "Because the
program is limited, many would
not be able to use it," Jensen
said.
Estimated total cost for Saline, for the first year, would
be about $15,000.
C. of C. Elects
New Officers;
Overshoots Budget
Paul Tull, publisher of the
Saline Reporter, was elected
president of the Chamber of
Commerce, at a noon meeting
Tuesday; and Harry Parsons
was named vice president.
Jack Steeb will act as secretary for the coming year, and
Gottlob -Walker as treasurer.
The Chamber in the past year
exceeded its budget and "dug
into the general fund", Steeb
reported, since expenses were
heavy for Christmas and Side-"
walk Sale promotions, membership and expenses of the US-12
association, and several educational  projects.
More members are needed to
help support projects lined up
for the coming year, Steeb said:
the group expects to refinish
both Saline marker signs at the
edge of town, overhaul and rewire the Christmas decorations,
and undertake promotions and
civic projects.
'Do
wrstewn Meet to
usiness Muenes
US-12 ASSOCIATION
PLANS DINNER MEET
The US-12 association, whose
members are merchants in communities along the Detroit-Chicago-"scenic route" will hold a
dinner meeting Wednesday, April 12, in Sturges-Young Auditorium, in Sturgis}-when'strip
maps and brochures promoting
the route will be available.
In Saline, tickets may be obtained from Eathern Roark and
Harry Parsons.
WHATZIT? Struts on a biplane wing? An oil-drilling
rig? Nope, it's the 55-foot scaffolding built around the
High School flag pole one foggy day this week, when the
rope got caught at the top and had to be unhooked. Earl
Bush and Orren Corl shinnied up the rig to loosen the rope.
Custodian Ruben Visel supervised the operation.
(Is the picture upside-down, downside-up, sideways, or
~ just maybe — right-side-up?)
All Around Saline
Mr. and-Mrs. Carl Sell plan
to move into their new home
on Hillcrest Drive this weekend.
They are moving from their
farm on Liberty Rd. which they
recently sold upon Mr. Sell's re-
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Three-year-old Neil Linde-
mann, son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul
Lindemann., of Dell Rd., underwent a tonsillectomy at Saline
Community  Hospital   Wednesr
day morning.
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Superintendent of Schools
Leo Jensen, and Bess Tefft,
president of the Board of Education, Tuesday attended a
convention of the Michigan association of School Boards, in
Ann Arbor.
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Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Ferguson
and their sons Larry and Garry
vacationed in North Carolina
last week where they visited
'Close on Sunday9 Legislation
Would Affect Local Merchants
At least two Saline merchants were concerned this
week about "Sunday closing"
legislation, passed Thursday by
a vote of 86-12 in the House
of Representatives, and sent to
the state Senate. \
The far-ranging bill, aimed
primarily at supermarkets,
would, in effect, stop most Sunday retail sales in counties with
more than 130,000 population ~
Berrien, Calhoun, Genesee, Ingham, Jackson, Kalamazoo, Kent,
Macomb, Muskegon, Oakland,
Saginaw, Washtenaw, and
Wayne.
The bill exempts groceries
with less than 4,000 feet of
floor space - but it would catch
both Saline grocery stores that
•remain open on Sundays. The
Saline Country Market has
10,000 square feet. Hull's Grocery has 4,160, after an expansion only two years ago.
The proposal, backed by the
Michigan Retailers association,
brought thousands of letters to
legislators from retailers and
their employees, and Rep.
James F. Warner heard "from
religious groups and store employees who don't want to work
Sundays", he said.
Warner voted ior the bill in
its final form, but feels it still
may be amended by the Senate.
It is "too discriminatory in its
present form," M~said.
One other.local store usually
open on Sunday, Lodi Hardware, would not be affected.
The store has less than 4000
feet of space.
Only two of the six-store
Country Market chain would be
affected by passage of the bill,
those in Saline and Manchester.
The market in Milan is in Monroe county; others are in Clinton, Tecumseh and Adrian, all
in Lenawee county, less than
130,000 in population.
The premise that employees
don't-want to work on Sunday
is given as part of the reason
for the bill. Said Ray Gretzner,
Country Market manager here:
"Nonsense. The girls get mad
at me if I leave them off the
Sunday schedule. They like the
time-and-a-half."
The bill gives merchants the
option of staying open Saturday or Sunday. This is an attempt to avoid any charge of
religious discrimination.
The large majority, however,
would be expected to close Sundays rather than Saturdays.
The bill was praised by the
Detroit Council of Churches, the
Jewish Community Council of
Metropolitan Detroit, and the
Food Industry Committee of
Detroit, which represents most
of the wholesalers and retailers
in that city*
Banned would be sales of clothing, furniture, home appliances, hardware, building mater
ials, jewelry, toys, house trailers, radios, televisions, most dry
goods and a long list of other
items.
A law already applies to auto sales.
- Exemptions include outdoor
furniture, camping equipment,
restaurant meals, drugs, beverages, perishable foods, newspapers, tobacco, gasoline, ammunition and infant supplies.
The law also exempts grocery stores with fewer than
three workers.
Stores which normally sell
both banned and exempted items can be open on both weekend days.
But on the day chosen for
theoretical closing, the banned
items must be removed or "covered from public view".
Once every six months the
retailer can be open for full
business*on both Saturday and
Sunday ("Big deal," said Gretzner.)
But for more than that he
would face arrest and fines of
$100 for the first offense and
$500 for others.
In addition, an enforcement
provision would allow purchasers of goods sold illegally on
the closing day to get their
money back any time within a
year..
Other counties may be included by a vote of their board
of supervisors. *
relatives and friends in and
around Leaksville. They returned home Friday, bringing with
them Mrs. Ferguson's mother,
Mrs. B. W. Marshall of Leaksville, who is spending this week
/as their guest.
Mr. and Mrs. Milton Finkbeiner and sons Bruce and
John spent the weekend at their
:;cabin near Higgins Lake. They
did some fishing on both ^Higgins and Houghton lakes where
they "caught quite a few and
had a lot of fun".
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Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Dawson
and daughter Nancy spent last
week at Columbia, Tenn., visiting relatives. Accompanying
them on the trip south, was Cecil's mother, Mrs. Will Bram-
lett, who had been visiting the
Dawsons in Saline for the past
month. Cecil, who has been ill
for the past 2% months, plans
to return to his job at General
Motors Corp. on Monday.
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Hilda Maeder, Doris Jedele
and Melvina Klager were first,
second and third prize winners
in the recently concluded
Bridgewater Women's Euchre
Tournament. The tourney ran
for a 10-week period, at the
end of which 32 of the women
taking part wound up the event
by going out for dinner at Gilberts in Jackson. '■
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Mr. and Mrs. Harold Wolver-
ton and Mr. and Mrs. Matthew
Katalinich attended the annual
Farm Bureau employees' dinner
and dance at the Jack Tar Hotel in Lansing Saturday night.
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Mrs. James Bradley and
daughter Betsey of Juneau, Alaska, are spending a few days
this week with the Russell D.
Smiths at their home on Saline-
Milan Rd. The Bradleys are former residents of Saline and
Bridgewater. Jim is now assistant Attorney General in Juneau, having passed the Alaska
bar examination last month.
Mrs. Bradley and Betsey will
be guests of the Smiths until.
Sunday, visiting with as many
friends in the area as possible
during their stay.
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Guests of the Eathern Roarks
Sunday for a barbecued chicken
dinner were Mrs. Roark's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Leroy Clis-
sold of Jackson. The chickens
were barbecued out-of-doors
(something Eathern has been
waiting to do for weeks), but
served inside the house where
it "was just a little cozier."
Churches to
Participate in
World 'Hour'
Local churches will participate Sunday in the 1962 One
Great Hour of Sharing, a worldwide effort to raise more than
$15 million for assistance to the
needy throughout the overseas
world.
In Saline area, congregations
of the Methodist, Federated
Baptist-Presbyterian, St. Paul's
E. &'R., and St. James E. & R.
churches, will be asked to contribute to the program. Bethel
E. & R. Church members have
already held an ingathering of
corn, .for the same cause, but
channeled this year through the
CROP program.
This will be the 14th annual
observance of One Great Hour
of Sharing,, the major effort of
the United Appeal for overseas
relief, rehabilitation and reconstruction through which funds
for their ministries to those in
distress are raised by major
Protestant arid Eastern Orthodox denominations and communions.
The contributions made by
tens of millions of Americans
in One Great Hour of Sharing
and related appeals will provide food, clothing, medicines
and shelter to victims of floods,
famine, hurricanes and other
natural disasters; help rehabilitate and resettle refugees; assist hospitals and orphanages;
furnish self-help and vocational
training, and make possible agricultural and community development projects that will help
break patterns of poverty.
Local Boys
Admit Window
Smashing Spree
Three local youths, two from
Bridgewater and one from Saline, Friday night admitted to
Ann Arbor police that they
broke windows at a number of
Ann Arbor homes by using
slingshots and ball bearings.
The boys told police they shot
at road signs on the way to
Ann Arbor, and then at house
windows when they reached the
city. They said they had broken
about 10 windows.
One report of a broken window was made by Boris Rapo-
port, of 516 Oswego St., Ann
Arbor, who said a ball bearing
made a hole in a screen and
window at his home. He estimated the damage at $40.
Two of the boys are 16 years
old; the third is 17.
Total damage estimated on
10 broken-window reports, received by Ann Arbor police is
about $110.
The three boys were scheduled f or interyiewSf by the Ann
Arbor Youth Bureau .Wednesday, to determine whether court*
action would bev taken, „ according to Lt, George Simmons, director of the bureau:  *      *
Mahogany
Farms Shows
Grand Champ
William Brittain's Mahogany
Farms had the grand champion
heifer at the Michigan Angus
association Futurity Show and
Sale, at the Livestock Judging
Pavilion of Michigan State university this week.
Mahogany Farms also had
champion "get of sire", a combination of three animals from
the same sire, in the show
Thursday. Clayton Jennings, of
Highmore, S. D., did the judging.
At the Friday sale, with Col.
Paul Good, of Van Wert, O., as
auctioneer, the grand champion
heifer brought $1800. Another
Mahogany farms heifer sold for
$1000, and a third for $600.
Brittain, president of the association, presided at an awards
banquet, serving an angus
round dinner, honoring the
champions of the show, Thursday evening. He was also Chairman of the committed.lotetne2
event; and one of the^committee
members serving as an advisory
board was Gerald Haarer, assistant manager of Mahogany
Fairms.
Twenty-three farms consign?
ed pure-bred stock: consisting
of 18 bulls and 51 females, for
the ev^nt. The farms are Anher
Farm of Plymouth, Roy Buck-
ham & Sons of Kalamazoo, Neal
Feikema of Evart, Good Angus
Farm of Charlotte, Harmony
Angus Farm of Schoolcraft, Holiday Farm of'Ada, Russell Mac
Farlane of Newport, Mahogany
Farms of Williamston, Merrie
Meadow Farm of South Lyon,
Michigan State University of
East Lansing; Roy C. Newton
of Three Rivers, Olsen Farm of
Milan, Carl Seiter & Son of
Rosebush, Someday Farm of
Sherwood, Richard Stuart of
Howell, Taylor Farms,of Decatur, Thistlemere Farms of
Holly, West Winds Farm of
Bath, Wozniak Angus Farm, of
Highland, Frederick E. Blum of
Romeo, Maple Grove Farms of
Okemos, Mr. and Mrs. Ragless
of Jasper and Sunset Bay Farm
of Forest, Ontario.
Saline Pilot Honored
By North Central
Foster O. Green, a co-pilot
with North Central Airlines and
a resident of Saline, was honored recently as a member of the
company's "Flight Crew of the
Year".
Special citations were presented to Green and other crew
membersat a banquet in Minne-
apolis-St. Paul, the airline's
headquarters.
Selection was made from among 300 pilots on the basis of
professional bearing, appearance, -personality, public contact, industry^ cooperation, loyalty, initiative^ and conduct.
First Officer Green, a World
War n army veteran, joined
North Central in" March, 1958.
He -is currently based at Detroit, one of the airline's three
flight crew dothiciles. *
He is.Jinarri|d and has three
children: Michael, 13; Charma,
11; and Brian, 2. The family
Uvks at 3612 Weber Rd.
North Central?'Airlihes'serves
91 cities in 10 -states-arid twa
; Canadian provinces.      *%
Shopping Centers,
City Tax Structure
To be Discussed
Merchants' views on parking,
shopping habits, tax structure
and city services will be aired at
a meeting Thursday, April 5,
with. City Council and the planning commission.
The joint discussion, at 8 p.m.
at Saline High School, is intended to clarify policies and
future needs of the city's downtown area, indicate growth
trends, and stir up local business interest, according to
Councilman George Anderson
and Planning Commissioner
Douglas Milhan, committee for
the event.
Possible subjects for discus-
Blood Bank
To be Here
Next Week
The Red Cross Bloodmobile
will be hv Saline, to collect donations for Saline area Blood
Bank, on the afternoon and evening of Thursday, April 5, Mrs.
George Austin, chairman of the
event, announced this week.
Collections will be made at
the Intermediate School. The
Saline area Blood Bank provides blood free of charge to
any area resident in need of it.
Th Bloodmobile staff handles
processing and storage, but all
other work is done by local
volunteers, inducing local doctors-and; nurses.     ......Tjrf;.
Doctors who wiu "be present
at the Blood Bank.include Dr.
Paul F. Gerigk, t>r. J. H. Davis,
and Dr. R. T. Douthat. all of
Saline, and Dr. Paul Taylor,- of
Ypsilanti. Nurses, all from Saline, will be Mrs. .Robert Mas-
"terka, Mrs. Clarence Johnson,
Mrs. Elwin Strait, and Mrs.
Christopher Young.
Volunteers for the donor
room include Mrs. Alwin Gross,
Mrs. Max Fosdick, Mrs. Hugh
Austin, Mrs. Charles Kern, Mrs.
Ray Davis, Mrs. Ian McPher-
son, Mrs. Ruben Finkbeiner and
Mrs. E. A. Sawall.
Registration will be handled
by Mrs. Charles Kern, Mrs. Alfred Schmid, Mrs. Arthur Heininger, Mrs: Charles Schultz,
Mrs. Everett Wolfin, and Mrs.
John Mader.
In charge of the canteen will
be Mrs. Chris Volz, with Mrs.
Sam Lambarth, Mrs. Otto Lindemann, Mrs. Herman Mama-
row, Mrs. Reuben Visel, Mrs.
Clara Bredernitz, and Mrs. Andrew Hartman.
The Saline High School Future Nurses' club will be in
charge of publicity and will
provide baby-sitting service if
requested. Kathie Reed is president. .   .
The evening meal for the Red
Cross unit will be furnished by
the WSCS, and refreshments for-
donors will be supplied by the
Rotary club of Saline and. served by the local Red Cross canteen.
sion, as listed by the committee,
include:
1. Does the downtown district need additional off-street
parking? Free or metered?
2. Should the city sell the
present parking lot with restriction that it be maintained
as free parking area; and use
the money from sale to acquire
additional parking facilities?
3. Should the street parking
meters remain? Are they helping or hurting downtown business?
4. As merchants, what are
you doing to stimulate business
in your own establishments?
Or, are you satisfied?
5. Do you believe new shopping centers on the perimeter
of Saline, with competitive businesses, will hurt your own business?
6. Do you think the present
city tax structure on commercial property is fair and equitable?
7. Do you think the current
method of tax assessment on
personal property is fair and
equitable?
8. Do you think the present
city services, such as police
and fire protection, street cleaning, snow and ice removal, lighting, etc., are adequate?
9. If you were planning on
improving your business, would
you remodel or improve your
present site, or relocate to another area in the city (shopping center)? *
10. Have you expressed your
opinions or recommendations to
the city planning commission or
to any of the individuals on the
commission?
11. What do you think the ci-;
ty should do to help your business?    -• ,v. ;-
"Other questions will ?be welcomed, Anderson said. The mee-v
ting is • open, tot the public.
Merte Named
To Head '62
UF Campaign
Dr. Herman Merte, professor,
of engineering mechanics at the
University of Michigan, will
serve as drive chairman for the
1962 Saline'area United Fund
campaign, it was decided at an
organization meeting of the UF
board this week.
Vice chairman will be Regis
Wolfinger, with a committee including Mrs, Warren Rentschler, Robert Estes, Douglas
Schuur, and Jameson Ford.
Dean Burkhardt will head the
budget committee for the second consecutive year; David
Gordon, Erwin Schmid, and
Howard Hill will work with
him on the committee.
. Daniel ISrones will act as
chairman of the annual "kick-
off" dinner, assisted by the Rev.
Donald Kraushaar.   .
Board members also voted to
file for incorporation of the
Saline area United Fund, and
incorporation articles and bylaws are being drawn up by a
committee headed by William
Delhey.
NORTH CENTRAL HONORS DETROIT BASED CBEW
'"■■'■ Hal N. Carr, right, president «f TSorQL Central Airlines,
presents "Flight Crew of the Year" awards to the company's
Detroit-based personnel. Honored for outstanding performance, during the year were, left to right, First Officer Foster O. Green, 3612 Weber Rd., Saline; Stewardess Dorothy
Korney, Dearborn; and Capt. James B." Hanson, Ypsilanti.
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