1962-04-04; Saline Reporter

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Thursday, April 5
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VOLUME 14, NUMBER 29 - WEDNESDAY, APRH. 4, 1962
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NIVERSAL TO LAUNCH PLASTICS PRODUCTION
Municipal League
Speakers Invited
Two speakers from the Michigan Municipal League are on
the program at the city meeting Thursday evening, set up to
discuss everything from tax
structure to shopping centers.
The public is invited to attend the session, at 8 p.m. at
Saline High School. Service club
members and merchants are also invited to the conclave, spon-
JCs to Air
Community
Survey Data
Results of the recent community survey by the Junior
Chamber of Commerce will be
announced at the city's meeting
Thursday on "downtown" problems, John Klein, Jaycee chairman of the survey analysis
committee,   said  today.
Jaycees have been at work
since early January on the survey, part of a nationwide JCC
program designed to aid local
communities by informing them
as to the adequacy of services,
shopping facilities, schools and
organizations.
The survey, to a large degree,
covers the same questions already suggested as subjects for
the "downtown" meeting, scheduled at the High School by
members of City Council and
the planning  commission.,
Further joint, study , of the
areas involved will be made Saturday, when Jaycees, Council
members and the planning commission will attend a workshop
session in Allen' Park, to . discuss what action can be taken
on the information gained in
the survey.
sored by the City Council and
planning commission, to "consider the future outlook of the
downtown area".
Subjects suggested for possible consideration have included, besides taxes and shopping
centers, the parking problem —
of any, the possible sale of the
city parking lot, incentives to
encourage downtown business,
and city services.
Councilman George Johnson
will moderate the meeting, and
Mayor Jack Bennett will^speak
for the city, and Jack Steeb
and Everett Wolfin for the
planning commission.
Featured speakers will be
John Osmer, staff engineer of
the Michigan Municipal League,
and Ray Eastman, a private
consultant on planning and zoning who works with the League
on special projects. The pair
are expected to arrive" in Saline
about 6 p.m. and will be given
a conducted tour of the city
before the meeting.
Open discussion on any or all
of the subjects will follow the
talks.
Dairy Support Cut
Hits Local Farmers
The cut in federal dairy price these reductions would be re-
supports may cost local farmers fleeted in lower retail prices of
as much as $300 a year, they es- dairy products such as butter,
timated this week, after Secre- cheese, nonfat dry milk and
tary of Agriculture Orville L. eventually fluid milk.
Freeman dropped supports Fri- The department's buying
day to the minimum level per- price of butter will be reduced
mitted by law. 2.5  cents a pound,  cheese 1.9
Whether or not the move cents a pound and nonfat dry
brings lower prices" to consum- milk, 2 cents a pound,
ers of dairy products, it will Freeman acted after the
hurt the dairymen, said Carl House and Senate agriculture
Seeger, president of Saline lo- committees had turned down
The Saline area oilfields (a cal of the Michigan Milk Pro- an adminstration appeal for au-
rig at the Jacob Marion farm) ducers association. "The local thority to continue the present
were going full blast this week, producers wfll have to take a P^ce supports the remainder of
Now down 1500 feet, the drill cut of abou 30 cents a hundred," thls year, pending development
was biting through limestone, Seeger said. "I don't think that °* a new program to cut milk
and Jake thought oil company is enough to put anybody out of production
men were "hopeful". Good & business, but nobody likes to
Good Drilling, of Bay City, are take a cut."
CITY  DUMP
TO BE FENCED
City Council Monday night
instructed DPW head Mike
Strait to erect a fence and gate
at the city dump site, to prevent residents from using it for
burning of trash. Such trash
burning has ignited damp brush
and created a hazard and nuisance to nearby residents, Strait
said.
'In Production Soon',
Brittain Tells C. off C.
Observers   believe   that   the
cut in supports may result in
doing  the^wU  for   Sun'Oil,     Acting  under what he _said ^^^^al   approval ^
Continental Oil, and Basin Oil. was a requirement of the farm
price   support   program,   Free-
Freeman's   production   control
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Band Parents
Plan Potluck,
Calendar Sale
Plans for a potluck dinner,
for all parents of band students
and their families, were begun
at a meeting of the.Band Parents club Sunday evening.
The potluck, tentatively set
for April 27, will launch the
annual sales drive for Community Calendars, in May. Mrs. Regis Wolfinger will be one of
two co-chairmen for the sale;
the second will be announced
later. Carl Seeger, Johnson
Quick and Hubert Beach will
work on advertising.
For the dinner, Mrs. S. J.
MacDonald, Mrs. Russell Richards and Mrs. Robert Harvjy
are in charge of table arrangements. Mrs. Harold Smith, the
chairman of last year's calendar drive, will speak. Men of
the club's executive board will
serve as clean-up committee:
Seeger, president; Beach, Emerson Haeussler, Weldon Emerson, Robert Harvey, Russell
Richards, Stanley MacDonald;
and Quick, who is presidentelect.
Local Clubs
To Entertain
Federation
The Federated Women's clubs
of Saline .will, entertain the"
Washtenaw county Federation
of Women's Clubs Monday, April 16, at St. Paul's Church. The
hostess clubs include the Saline
Woman's club, Child Study club,
Business and Professional Women's club and the Willing Workers.
The Willing Workers club is
in charge of registration, at
10 a.m. Chairmen are Mrs. Arthur Lutz and Mrs. Robert
Hammond. Tickets will be handled by Mrs. Carl Moehn and
Mrs. Charles Stehle.
The welcome will be given
by Mrs. Ruben Finkbeiner, president of the Saline Woman's
club, and the response by Mrs.
Carleton Heilbron of Milan, past
president of the federation. The
Salute to the Flag will be led
by the county Americanism
chairman, Mrs. Charles Kern.
Luncheon, at 12:30 p.m., will
be served by St. Paul's Guild,
of which Mrs. Everett Wolfin
is chairman.
The "Angel Choir" of the Intermediate School, under the direction of Miss Kit Johnson,
will entertain during luncheon.
Favors and programs will be
prepared by a committee from
the Child Study club; Mrs. Gordon Esch is chairman, with Mrs.
Harold Wilson, Mrs. Howard
Kuhl, Mrs. Paul Woods, Mrs.
Regis Wolfinger, Mrs. Edward
Komorowski, and Mrs. Carl
Rhoades.
Mrs. Edwin Hering is general
chairman of the meeting.
man set supports for milk sold
for manufacturing purposes at
$3.11 a hundred pounds or 75 -
per cent of the parity price
goal of farm •programs, effective Sunday. The rate has been
$3.40 or 83 per cent of parity.
Freeman also reduced supports for butterfat from 60.4
cer Crusade was "laun'cnld "this fnts *° 57.3 cents a pound, or
week with the announcement of from 83 to 75 ?er cent of Par"
scheduled coffee hours, by Mrs.     ^l, . ,    ,
Leo Jensen, chairman. ; The secretary estimated the
„ . ,   .      ,   .        ,     lower  price  props  would   cut
Primarily designed for edu- dai      farmers> -income 200  to
Coffee Hours
Planned for
Cancer Drive
The Saline area annual Can-
cational purposes, the events
will be utilized to distribute
literature and show films on
cancer. They will be held at the.
250 million dollars this year -
but the savings onfthe gpvern-
inent. support prograni 'Wall be
*" EARTHQUAKE? Hull's Grocery resembled the aftermath,
of a California tremblor last
week after a car driven by Mrs.
Jack Christian, of 610 Spring
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homes of JVfrs   ^cha** Warft* ...^eeman .Said Jip.hoped'inat:
Mrs. Howard McCann, Mrs. Ar- .±: __^	
thur Moehn, Mrs.- Walter Tow- _■_„     __     _     '   ' Y-y •
ler, Mrs. William Stoll, Mrs. G.  Will  Shed  Light
Merritf Martin Mrs. Harry Co-  Qn Mystery Street
gar, Mrs. David Cobb,- Mrs. Ed- * *
ward Hall, Mrs.  Carl Krause,      Saline's   elusive  Washington st«> crashed into the side of-the
Mrs.   Tom  Fisher,   Mrs.   Clem street  flared .briefly  into  the store adjacent to the parking
Corona, and Mrs. Jensen. limelight again Monday  when lot- Police said Mrs. Christian
Anyone interested in holding Council pondered (and approv- started the car while it was in
such a coffee hour is urged to ed) a request from Mrs. Ed gear; no-complaint was filed.
call Mrs Jensen Scully, its only resident, for a Clara Hull, who was standing
Literature   for   the   mailing street light. behind the «*™faar when all the
campaign  has  been  addressed     The street, though shown on stock cascaded onto her ankles,
by Saline area Girl Scouts. The maps, hasn't been precisely lo- escaped injury. Damage to the
committee hopes for a response cated by survey since 1844.        building and ruined stock was
equal to or surpassing that of      Said   Councilman   George estimated at abont $500.
last year, Mrs. Jensen said.        Johnson: "Since it is a dedicat- =
Members   of   the   committee ed street, and since somebody t,tt.    TWlAjrutpe
for  the 1962  Crusade include lives there, the city is obligated -TD-i*-  ueiegd-ies.
Mrs. Jensen, Mrs. Charles Finn,  to provide the same services as Attend   State  Meet
Mrs. Edwin Hering, Mrs. Ruben those provided for any other re-
Finkbeiner, Mrs. Charles Kern,  sident." Twelve members of the High
Mrs. G. Merritt Martin, Mrs. He added, deadpan, "It gets School's Future Homemakers'
William Stoll, Paul Tull, and dark up there ... at night, that association, who earned merit
Mrs. Meredith Bixby.
Dry Weather
Brings Rash
Of Blazes
Fire Chief Harold Armbruster today urged area residents
to use extreme care in burning
trash, or "better yet, don't burn
at all until it rains".
Exceptionally dry weather
has produced a rash of grass
fires — the fire department has
been called to seven blazes in
four days. Three of them occurred Tuesday.
One resident had a water
hose at hand and had drenched
the area he intended to burn,
Armbruster said — but the fire
still got out of control and the
department was called to put it
out.
Persons who must burn trash
during the dry spell were urged
to do so in a covered container.
The department was called
out twice within half an hour
Saturday, at 1 p.m. to Monroe
street, at 1:30 p.m. to Hartman
Rd. On the second call, the
fire siren developed a wiring
fault and had to be activated
by hand. ..
The" department was called
to the corner of Maple and Ellsworth roads on Sunday and
again at 5:15 p.m.. Monday.
On Tuesday, firemen fought
grass fires at Mills and Bennett
streets, at 3 p.m.; on Mooreville road where.approximately
six acres were burned off, at
5 p.m.; and at the city dump
at 6:30 p.m.
is.'
Hornet Baseball, Track
Squads Need to Rebuild
by Lanny Robbins
ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
PARENTS  TO  HEAR
YOUTH BUREAU DmECTOR
Lt. George Simmons, director
of the Ann Arbor Youth Bureau, will speak at 8 p.m. Monday, April 9, at a meeting of
Elementary School Parents, at
the school. His topic will be
"Juvenile Problems Which,
Might Confront Small Communities".
The speech will foUow.recog-
nition of the school safety patrol members, scheduled at 7:30
p.m.   .
In addition to the program
planned, officers for the coming year will be elected.
Homeless Trailer
Needs a Roof
The Boy Scout Troop of Saline is looking for a kind-hearted Salinian with a vacant garage in which to store its camping trailer. .
The trailer has been out in
the weather most of the winter, for lack of garage facilities..
and now needs considerable
work to restore it. If anyone
has garage facilities they would
liketo'.donate-to the Boy Scouts
for storage of the trailer, please
contact HoUis Carr, chairman
of the Boy Scout Troop committee, at 315 N. Harris St., or
call HA 9-9256.
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points for the trip by working
on activities throughout the
year, are attending the state
FHA meeting in Grand Rapids
this week.
The delegates, who left Wednesday   for  the   two-day   conclave, are Sandy Merritt, Carol
Killebrew,  Joe Compton,  Mike Guenther,   Doris   Herter,   Kat-
Rapp, and Kurt Fischer. rene Gall, Betty Roehm, Donna
As spring sports practice got     ^ & big meet of schools from Diuble, Alona Frey, Jo Jordan,
underway the past two weeks,  a   1&rge   srea   j^st   week,  the Lorna Hoeft, Wendy Wild, Mary
both Don Jaeger, Hornet base- jjornets  were  completely  out- Curtiss and Shirley Morton,
ball coach, and Mike Rotunno,  ciasse(j ^a failed to place. Miss  Diuble and  Miss  Wild
track   coach,   faced   rebuilding     Tlie regular. meet season for are the voting delegates; Miss
seasons with some optimism.      the jjornets starts the 17th. of Hoeft and Miss Gall will sing
With  nine  returning  letter- this month in a triangular meet with  the  All-State  Chorus  at
men on his 27-man team, Ro- ^151  Chelsea  and  U-High,   at the meeting.
tunno was hoping for rapid de-  wines Field in Ann Arbor and  —
velopment  of   some  promising ends May 22 with the confer-  Township Regulates
freshmen prospects. The loss by ence meet. jj f  Ttnnn   TJnll
graduation of Lyle Wahl, Dave Don Jaeger's defending cham- UiiK Vl A vwn nuiv
Hoeft, and Bob Yuhasz, consis- pion baseball team will have Electors at the annual Saline
tent point-getters last year, will the problem of developing a so- township meeting Saturday ad-
be hard to overcome. However, ii(j pitching force before their opted a resolution permitting
he does have a solid nucleus opener April 17 at Dexter, if the Township Hall caretaker to
in lettermen Rick Johnson, Ed ^gy hope to repeat their last refuse use of the hall for teen-
Strait, Brian LaRue, Tom Wag- year's performance. While the age parties unless they are pro-
ener, Howard Schrader, Mike diamond crew boasts good ex- perly chaperoned, or for any
Johnson, Roger Davis, Bruce perience returning, they will group which has violated the
Carr, and Bill Yuhasz, to build stm f^ it hard to replace mies of conduct posted at the
a good team. Mike Bixby and Jim Walters, hall..
Others on the squad are se- But they still have Wes Arm- With that exception, the pol-
nior Ray Andres, juniors Keith, bruster, Jerry McDonald, Jack icy of allowing township resi-
Armbruster, Gayle Finkbeiner, Kuebler, and Ron Tucker. Oth- dents use of the hall without
Bill Tefft, Bill Davis, Gene Gir- ers on the team are Mike Frey, charge was not changed,
bach, and Art Johnson. Sopho- Gary Lambarth, Gary Kind, in other action, the 20 elec-
mores but for track are Jim Dave HolTenback, Bruce Niet- tors present voted apprbpria-
Strait, Dale Flook, and Charles hammer, Jim Griffin, Jerry tions for -4-H clubs, FFA, the
Burkhartr Freshmen trying out Farrar, Gary Finkbeiner, Jim Saline Library, and the William
are John Harvey, Rick Larkin, Feldkainp, * John Harsh, and B. Liitz Post of the American
Steve Miller, Bruce Uphaus, Jim Gary Niethammer. Legion.
Pittsfield Man
Hurt In Accident
David F. Webb, 21, of 3043
Stone School Rd., Pittsfield
township, suffered minor lacerations early Tuesday morning
in a one-car crash in Lodi township.
Webb was taken to Saline
Community hospital following
the mishap. Sheriff's deputies
said he was driving south on
the Saline-Ann Arbor Rd. near
Weber Rd, when he lost control of his vehicle on a curve.
The car went off the road and
smashed into a fence. About
30 feet of the fence was damaged, deputies said.
An exciting new growth industry for Saline was announced Tuesday night by William L.
Brittain, vice chairman of the
board at Hoover Ball and Bearing Co. Speaking at the annual
dinner meeting of the Saline
Chamber of Commerce, Brittain disclosed details of a new
industrial blow-moulding plastics operation which has been
developed "under wraps" during recent months at the Universal Die Casting plant.
"We'll be in production in
June," he stated.
Typical products to be turned
out in this new industrial products operation: windshield washer bottles, already in use in
some General Motors cars . . .
and plastic parts for an all-
purpose chair for schools, hospitals,. churches and other such
institutions, which will be hitting the market soon.'
It's the all-purpose chair that
holds the greatest prospect for
growth at present. The Saline
facility will manufacture blow-
moulded plastic seats and backs
for the chairs.
The venture into- industrial,
plastics production was originally planned as a diversification
move to provide greater employment stability at U.D.C.,
and to offset a current decline
in business ^volume, in the die
casting overall.
Vernon Swan, well-known to
Salinians, is in charge of blow
moulding operations at the
plant . . . and Robert Seizert
is project engineer.   .
Brittain made yliis announcement during a talkvon the development of Saline both past
and future. He stated that the
Hoover organization considers
this community to be the most
desirable of all they have surveyed for the location of new
industry.
"There's no reason why Saline shouldn't be able to attract
even more manufacturing
plants, if you'll just let industry
all over the nation know what
advantages you have to offer,"
he said.
Chief of these advantages,
Brittain continued, is the type
of people who make up the
community. He cited Univer-
sal's happy experiences with
Saline people when the plant
first started operations here in
1944. "Men like Carl Curtiss,
Henry Schroen, Dr. Gordon
Prout, Clarence Haarer and a
host of others were wonderful.
When we needed help, they did
everything in their power to
give it to us. We'll never forget."
But Brittain  also  cautioned
the Chamber against over-emphasis on the importance of
industry to a community. He
cited statistics showing that a
so-called bedroom community,
made up largely of home-owners who are employed elsewhere, can be economically
healthy.
"Saline could use another industry, though," he said.
And then he announced that
Saline would have one.
The C-C dinner meeting was
held at the Saline Legion hall.
Al Grossman, outgoing president of the group, headed the
meet. The dinner was served
by members of the Legion Auxiliary.
Entertainment was furnished
by Sue Davis and Jane Ross,
dance pupils of Mary Lou Gall,
and by the Woods Sisters, well-
known local singing group.
More than sixty persons attended the annual meeting.
Carpentier
Named New
UDC Manager
Eugene Carpentier, of 224 W.
McKay, has been named general
manager of Universal Die Casting division, Hoover Ball and
Bearing Co. Announcement of
the promotion came thio "week
from William Meister, Hoover
vice president in charge of ail
die casting divisions.
.Carpentier has heen -associat-,.
ed with U.D.C.' since1950, first;-
as chief of engineering for the
firm, and more recently as chief-
of engineering for all Hoover's
die casting operations.
A Saline resident since* 1954,
Carpentier is married;'the father of five children. He is a
past member of the Saline
Chamber of Commerce, a member of St. Andrew Church here.
In 1961 he headed the Saline
area United Fund organization
after serving previous terms as
a member of the board.
Born in Detroit, Carpentier
is a graduate of Ford Trade
School.
AH Around Saline
A guest at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. John L. Finley, 111
Tower Dr., this week is their
daughter-in-law, Elaine, wife of
Lt. John C. Finley, who is stationed at Mather Air Force
Base at Sacramento^ Calif. After visiting here, the younger
Mrs. Finley will go to New
Jersey to spend a month with
her parents before returning to
the west coast. Lt. and Mrs.
Finley expect to be transferred
to Macon, Ga., next October.
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Tony Schild was discharged
from St. Joseph Mercy. Hospi1
tal in Ann Arbor last Thursday.
He had been under observation
and treatment for.possible internal injuriesv resulting figrai
his recent collision ^itha,train
near the Wnlow" Run Airport.
Tony still has'a badly bruised
leg and a bad elbow which requires more treatment.-.
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Patients at Saline Community Hospital this week include
Leland Dicks, who underwent
surgery Tuesday; Mrs. Thema
Layher, who has been under
medical treatment since last
Wednesday;    and   Mrs.    Billie
Still, who has been a medical chamber 0F COMMERCE
patient for the past two weeks. "    —
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EUGENE CARPENTIER
TO MEET EVENINGS
Watson Malocha is recuperating at home from surgery performed on him early last month.
He was released from Saline
Community Hospital Sunday after spending three weeks there.
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Herb Teaehout, who suffered
a heart attack last week--at his
place of business in Ypsilanti,
is reported to be improving.
He's still a patient at Beyer
Hospital but expects to be able,
to go home sometime this week.
The Chamber of Commerce,
which has previously held noon
meetings, will in the future
meet the first Tuesday evening
of each month, beginning May
1. Time and place will be designated on notification cards sent
to members.
PAST MATRONS TO MEET
The Past Matrons= club, OES,
will meet at 7:30 p.m. Monday,
at the home of Mrs. Charles
Schultz. Mrs. Herbert Teach-
out's birthday will be observed.
POND  TO  BLOOM
A Council resolution Monday
approved a requestfrom Frank
Brittain for permission to plant
•the entire east edge'of the millpond with flowering trees, to
beautify the western approach
to the city.
The landscaping will be done
without cost to the city, Brittain said, and small trees will
probably be planted this month.
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