1962-05-09; Saline Reporter

              The Saline
TCSEIJME14, NUMBER 34 — WEDNESDAY, THSY % 1962
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PROPERTY FOR VILLAGE HERE
Parkins Lot Plan
Presented to City
In a first move toward the
possible .construction of a new
parking lot, City Council Monday authorized Jack Steeb to
obtain a six-months' option on
a piece of property in the proposed area for the lot.
Steeb and Everett Wolfin are
members of a Planning Commission committee assigned to
study the possibility of another
parking lot for the city.
The property to be optioned
is a house and lot in the south-
Hospital
To Hold
Open House
Saline Community hospital
will hold Open House Saturday
afternoon and evening, in conjunction with National Hospital
Week (May 6-12), Administrator Robert Maurer announced
today.
The hospital was cited by
MEHA officials as one of the
reasons for making Saline their
first choice of sites for their
proposed village for retired educators.
The public is invited to visit
between 1 and 4 :p.'m. and between 6 and, 8 p.m, -Saturday to
inspect the hospital and its
equipment. Members of the
Hospital-Auxiliary will conduct
tours through .the. establish-
ment, answer questions, and
serve refreshments.
Information pamphlets o n
community hospitals are also
available this week in the post
office and banks downtown, and
at the hospital.
For the quarter ending on
March 31, 1962, the hospital reported 326 adult admissions, 46
births, and 968 "patient days".
During the period, 85 operations
were performed there, 2228 laboratory tests were made, and
outpatient and emergency visits totaled 570.
The report for the quarter
also listed 34 consultations, and
689 x-ray procedures, including
fluoroscopy. Average occupancy
on medical-surgical service for
the quarter was 92 per cent.
west block of the four corners.
Parking behind the stores there
would be "directly diagonal" to
the present city parking lot and
would represent "the second
phase of a program eventually
to obtain four off-street parking sites, one in each of the
four corners of the town," Steeb
said.
Most of the land owners surrounding the optioned piece
have been contacted by his committee, he said, and they "seem
agreeable to giving rights of
way" to provide the required
parking space and access.
As a "tentative estimate", he
said, all the necessary land
might be acquired by the city
for about $25,000, "and we
might even be able to get in
some of the blacktop for that
price".
"The fact that we will have to
bond for it shouldn't shock anybody," he added. "We had to
bond for the other lot." Bonds
for the first lot were retired
this year.
The optioned property, described by Steeb as "a key
piece", is 28 by 200 feet. The
proposed lot might eventually
run the full length of the block
with access on three streets, he
added.
Fire Damage
Set at $1,000
Damage to the kitchen of the
Barry Jaeobsen home, at 323
.Spring St., was estimated at
.about $1,000, after grease on
the .stove burst into flames Friday noon.
Cupboards in the kitchen
were charred or burned through
and there was extensive smoke
damage to other furnishings
throughout the house, before
firemen put out the fire.
Intermediate i
School Sets
Open House
Open House for all parents
and friends will be held at the
Intermediate School on Friday,
May 18, from 7 p.m. The event
will include tours of the school,
a band and vocal concert, and
art displays.
All rooms of the school, including the shop area, will be
open for inspection from 7 to 8
p.m. The seventh-grade band
and school choral groups will
present a program from 8 to 9
p.m.
Art work done by all students
throughout the year will be on
view. Teachers will also be present, though the Open House
is not intended as a conference
time, Principal Dwight Reynolds said.
Plans Made
For Mayors'
Exchange Day
•' Plans for Mayors' Exchange
Day, launching Michigan Week
on Monday, May 21, were announced today by Mayor pro
tem George Johnson, who will
be in charge of the welcoming
group.
Saline's visitors this year will
be Mayor pro tem Maurice
Hampton, of Hartford, his wife,
and possibly other Hartford officials. Norb Nelson, mayor of
the village, will be unable to
make the visit.
Mayor Jack Bennett and
Councilman Glenn Clark and
their wives will visit Hartford,
a village of 2,305 population'in
Van Buren county in west Michigan.
* After a tour of local schools
and industries, the visitors will
be guests of "jhonor at-,& ■dinner
at 7 p.m. at* the American Legion Hall. Reservations, at
$2.25 a person, may be made at
City Hall.  .
In other plans for the week,
Michigan Week chairman Jack
Brookins announced, it is hoped
that the public will take advantage of a conducted tour of industries and farms to be held
on Wednesday, Livelihood Day;
and a program may be set up
at the schools for Education
Day.
CITY, TOWNSHIPS SET
FIRE PROTECTION MEET
The annual meeting of city
and township officials to arrange for fire protection for
townships has been scheduled
at 8 p.m. Friday, June 15. Cost
of Fire department calls in the
country is paid by the townships.
Kids Dazzled by Gift to Schools
C-C Urges
City to Buy
Park Land
Saline Chamber of Commerce
last week gave unanimous support to a proposal that the city
buy 17 acres of property in the
vicinity of the old Ford mill,
recently offered to City Council
at a price of $5,000. The C-C
resolution read: "The Saline
Chamber of Commerce urges
the City of Saline to take whatever steps may be deemed feasible to acquire further park property in the area of the mill."
In other action at last week's
meeting, the C-C announced
chairmen of the organization's
working committees for the
coming year: Fred Anderson,
retail merchants; Al Grossman,
industrial development; Bob
Harrison, civic affairs; Jack
Steeb, education.
The group agreed to a new
format for upcoming meetings.
Each of the Tuesday evening
sessions will, feature a guest
speaker, expert in his field,
talking on subjects of vital
concern to the C-C and Saline.
Already secured for the speaking schedule: Everett Esch, to
talk on what industry seeks in
a community when locating a
new plant site; and Joe Miller,
head of the sales organization
at Hoover Ball & Bearing Co.,
discussing sales motivation.
Later in the week, after: the
regular C-C session,. Al Grossman met with Robert Howard,
of Detroit Edison's industrial
development section, and reported that Saline is now ready to
accommodate any desirable industry interested in locating in
this area. "We have the vehicle,
in the form of our Saline Industrial Development Corporation,"
said he. "We get nibbles from
interested firms practically every week. We're ready for a
running start."
Howard emphasized that industry looks for a friendly attitude on the part of the entire
community, above all, in choosing a plant site. He also urged
that land be made available . . .
zoned right, and with price set
. . . for industrial use He offered the services of Detroit
Edison as a "Saline ambassador" in making contact with industrialists who might be interested in locating here.
KEY FIGURES AT M.E.H.A. MEET: Mayor Jack Bennett; Betty Gimesky, a Saginaw school teacher and secretary of the M.E.H.A. board; Bess Tefft, president of the Saline area School Board; Ted Sutherland, M.E.H.A. board
chairman; Roscoe Bonisteel, Jr., Ann Arbor attorney retained by the state educators' organization.
Petitions Out for 2
School Candidates
Facilities Planned for
1500 Retired Teacher j
Michigan Education Home Association, a non-profit corporation set up to create a community for retired Michigan educators, last Saturday took a one-year option to purchase the
210-aere Steiner farm just north of Saline. The group's plans
call, for development of the retirement community on this site,
and envision a population .of 1,500 for the community within
10 years of its start. •
In a meeting with Saline civic leaders at the high school
Saturday afternoon, M.E.H.A. officials spelled out their plans,
and asked for an expression of local sentiment regarding the
project.  Ted  Sutherland,  prin-	
cipal of Bay City High School According to the group's
and chairman of the M.E.H.A. timetable, groundwork on the
board of directors, headed the project should start within two
session. years .  .  .  and in the fall of
Sutherland stated that the 1965 M.E.H.A. Village should
option on the Steiner property °Pen> with facilities for 300-400
culminated three years of plan- residents
ning and searching for an ideal Expect 1,500 Residents
site for the community. The "By U.S. figures for such a
group wanted to locate near project," said Sutherland, "we
Ann Arbor and the U-M .cam- estimate that the village at this
pus, near Ypsilanti- and the staS& would represent about a
E.M.U. campus, near highway $3,000,000 investment. The ov-
trunk lines, near a major air erall project is planned for a
terminal, and adjacent to a four- °V five-stage development
pleasant small poTT.TmiT.ity_ •  • • but within 10 years we
would expect to reach the 1,500-
Looks Like First Choice
resident level for which the ar-
Wiedmon Urged
To be Candidate
Steiner to Run
For Re-election
"The 210 acres which we have ea js being laid out.'
optioned look like the No. 1 Sutherland stated that there
choice," said he. "But we still are about 10,000 retired educa-
want to know whether Saline tors in Michigan at present, and
will welcome  such  a develop- that this number will grow dur-
City Needs New
Voting Machine
By November
City Council Monday night
tabled until the next meeting
City Clerk Bill Muir's information that the city will need another voting machine, definitely
Band to Mark Anniversary;
Shop, Art Displays Planned
Youngsters who have seen it
are thrilled to the core - and
even School Board and faculty
members are a little dazzled by
a recent anonymous gift to the
Saline schools.
The windfall is a real, honest-
to-betsy, fully-equipped Link
Trainer.
Worth several thousand dollars (nobody around here has
priced one recently), the complicated machine is designed primarily to train pilots in instrument flying. All service pilots
and most civilian flyers have
spent hours in similar trainers.
The machine will duplicate
any maneuver possible to a
plane except actually leaving
the ground: once a trainee is
closed into it, he gets all the
sensations and sounds of a
Plane in actual flight, in a
stall, turn,, spin', climb, or -even
a loop.      ,.'*...     - \  '
The trainer comes with an
entire desk-full of gadgets%to
aid instruction, including^ to*
bot =tracker- that marks"?tjhV pfc
lot's "course" on a chart as he
"flies". Sounds of actual radio
range stations are simulated.
The trainer will be u^ed for
work at'the High Schooffevel,
but it is stored, at the moment,
at the Intermediate School,
where Principal Dwight Reynolds has been putting it into
shape. Dwight, a licensed instructor, is "the only one who
knows how to use it", said High
School Principal Elmer Houghton. "It Will be used at the
High School level, but Dwight
will operate it."
Plans for its use are not yet
jelled. It was gratefully accepted by the School Board on the
premise that it would be of use
in several possible ways, perhaps for teaching a basic course
in aviation or shop mechanics,
or to set up a Civil Air Patrol
group, or for study by such organizations as the Explorer
Scouts.
Or - if it should ever turn
out that way — "we wouldn't
be the first school to teach flying," said Reynolds.
JC Road-E-O
Set for May 27
The annual Jaycee-sponsored
Teen-age Road-E-O will be held
at the High School parking lot,
beginning at 12:30 p.m. Sunday, May 27. Ed Doll is chairman of the project.
Contestants must be between
16 and 25 years of age and have
a driver's license. The local winner will compete in the district
Road-E-O.
Baseball Meeting
Set For May 16
All persons interested in Saline's Little League and Babe
Ruth baseball programs are invited to attend a meeting to be
held Wednesday, .May 16, at the
American Legion Hall. The
meeting is scheduled to begin
at 7 p.m.
Delighted 7th-grader Roger Wiedmayer discovers he is
a pilot . . ...that is„ he can'-W^ the Link Trainer recently
donated to the Saline schools, probably to be used for High
School work but stored at the Intermediate School. The valuable and fully-equipped machine will bank, turn, dive, climb,
stall, even loop-the-loop ... in fact^ it will do anything an
airplane will do, except leave the ground.
RUBBISH PICK-UP    •
SET MAY 17, 18
-The annual*spring" free rubbish pick-up, preceding Michigan Week, has been set for
Thursday and Friday, May 17
and 18.--
Residents are asked to put all
rubbish at the curb in suitable
containers" for dumping. The
pick-up does not include garbage which will be collected at
the regular-times.
u t^°\ Ba^J&fiaD- ln* Incumbent School Board ment." ing the years ahead,
behalf of Donald Wiedman, of member Oliver Steiner will be Layout of the area, running «f want to emphasize that
7355 Warner Rd., was taken out a candidate for re-election, he from Saline-Ann Arbor Road these people will be by no means
by Norman Hedger Wednesday, announced this week. east to Maple Road, just north destitute " said he "They will
Wiedman, a farmer and life- Steiner, 42, will have complet- of the -high school property, have retirement income and sa-
long resident of the area, was a ed his second three-year term will be planned by a team of Vings There will be many mar-
candidate for a Board of Edu- in June. The post to be filled at Bloomfield Hills architects, ried couples from grade
cation post two years ago.          the June 11 election is. for a Jack Brown and Jack Begrow,  school through college levels
He "has served for the past four-year term: :       -       ,* > retahied^last -week for thepro-" arid I expect that taey would
two years as president of Saline      Steiner has been secretary of ject Buildings will include all- want to enter into'local corn-
Community Fair board, and has the Board of Education during electric,  air-conditioned homes, mUnity  life    and   would   have
been active in'4-H and recrea- all  six  years  he  has  been  a apartments,   and   cottages;   a much to contribute."
tion work.                                      member, and is now the only swimming pool;   a  small  golf will Need Utilities
He told supporters who urged member who has served contin- course;   no   commercial  build-      "We would feel it very de-
him to be a candidate that he uously on the board since the ings.                                                 sirable for this area to be an-
would be "available", he said beginning of the High School Residents of the area will be nexed to the city," he continued,
today.-                                             construction program. retired Michigan educators and "We will need such utilities as
Petitions   for   school   board      Steiner said,  in making his their spouses  or life  compan- sewer and water, and police and
candidates must be filed with announcement:  "I enjoy work- ions. All properties will be own- fire protection. We would wel-
the secretary of the board by ing on the board and hope to ed by the Michigan Education come whatever tax concessions
May 22, and must contain the be re-elected. I am interested Home   Association,   with   resi- which the city feels might be
signatures of 25 qualified elec- in providing the best possible dents occupying their quarters justified, especially during the
tors of the school district.          opportunities  in education for on a rental basis. Initial financ- years of development ... but
all out youth." ing  of the project is already we have no intention that this
He is employed by the Uni- under way through  voluntary should be a financial liability
versity of Michigan as a chem- contributions of teachers to the City of Saline."
istry demonstrator.  throughout Michigan.                       Sutherland urged that a de-
™ cision be made soon as to the
availability of water and sewer
for the project. Jack Craigmile,
chairman of Saline's planning
commission, said that the necessary information  would  be
^              Extensive  plans  are  under- Trainer (see story on this page) gathered in connection with an
before the November4 general way for a "10th Anniversary" during the afternoon. It will be overall study of the city's water
election and preferably in time Program,   the   10th   annual demonstrated by Dwight Reyn- and sewer needs' now in Pro"
for the August nrimarv              Spring Concert to be presented olds and Dominick Pellegreno. g^ss-
The   machine,   which   costs b? the Saline High School and   Craigmile   expressed   some
$1,640,   can   be   rented   on  an Junior m& bands-                       Villon W^il.l                 T"**  ***** r«fd«ttts  of
options-purchase basis The event- scheduled Smfday   Village   WOUlCl                the area might eventually con-
The new machine, the city's afternoon, May 20, will be held T»      rp         TJ-pj,],               f ^ a Pref ™ *""»?' Yot?g
third   will be needed to -void ^ conjunction with an art dis- W   IdA  Uiedtt.               for cost-producing projects for
the line-up that developed at play and a shop display of work pQr galine                          which  they  themselves  would
the last general election, Muir F"?"™* b? students-                       "     °a11"^                          *ot need t0 ?aY • • • ** Allan
said  Besides  with registration The  concert,  to  begin at  4      The proposed location of the Grossman, city attorney, coun-
now about 1300   it will soon Pm-> wiU feature Wayne High MEHA retirement village here tered with the statement that,
be  necessary''to'divide  Saline School   Band   Director  George would mean a tax break for the not being property-owners, the
into two precincts (required by BeU>   ^   ^est  conductor.   All city, officials pointed out this M.E.H.A.   Village   residents
law when registration reaches former  band  members   during week. The good fortune would would not vote on matters in-
1,400). the past 10 years have been in- come in the form of sales tax volving millage hikes or bond
  vited as special guests.                returns,  which  are  alloted  by issues. Grossman continued: '7,
JURY FINDS Band Director Arthur Katter- the state on the basis of popu- for one, -believe that this retire-
DRIVER GUILTY - J0*111 0omed ^e  Saline  school lation.                                              ment   community  would   be  a
system 10 years ago. The village is planned for an wonderful thing for Saline . . .
Richard Menapace, 31, of Ann Tickets for the concert are 75 ultimate population of 1500 re- and that Saline is an ideal
Arbor, was fined $100 and costs cents for adults and 50 cents for tired teachers, adding two- choice for-its location." Others
Tuesday in Justice Court, after students, with proceeds to go thirds to Saline's present popu- hi the Saline contingent ex-
he was found guilty by a six- to the Interlochen trip fund, lation, 2334. pressed similar feelings. And
man jury on a charge of driv- The High School will be open. A state check for $3,967.80, at meeting's end, Sutherland
ing under the influence of-li- at 2 p.m. on that day lor. dis- representing returns for the stated .that he was well-satis-
quor.           ' -      •:                 - plays.   Art  classes  taught "by first quarter of 1962, was re- fied with the reception which
Menapace wa.s  arrested 3by Taylor Jaeobsen have prepared ceived Wednesday by City Clerk the M.E.H.A.\plan received here.
Sheriffs  deputies" April 6, '.on printing, sculpture, oil painting, E. J. Muir. In 1961, the city re- More Meetings Planned
Saline-Ann Arbor Rd. in Lodi water colors,  and crayon  and_ ceived $17,182.34, but,the am-    .Other., such meetings will be
township.-He pleaded notjjuiity ink work in both conventional ount varies as tax receipts^are .held in the:future{-as plans for
to  the  charge., arid .asked "for and  abstract-* form,  to- be" on prorated by poplulation through- the project develop.
juryA.trialJ at- his arraignment view in the north halk of the out the state. -'   •            -.-,.    ""'-" Price of the 210-acre site was
April 7.   ' " ;'•      school.-..*• "•».•'' —"./ -\   '-  not announced.  The option to
 -——— Work  done  by   students in HOSPITAL' AUXILIARY            purchase includes aU farm pro-
NEIGHBORHOOD CLUB     J Clyde NiedfelcLfs. shop, classes PLANS ANNUAL-MEETING   Perty of Dr. L. G. Steiner, ex-
PLANS PICNIC                   * will be available for inspection.     The Saline Community. Hospi- cepting only the four acres on
.   The. .Friendly  Neighborhood Thed.60;stu(|eiits SaVei-prepared tal-Auxiliary'will jioldlits an- which liis. Safiiie^Ann Arbor Rd.
Club will, hold its annual picnic mechanical drawings "of several nual meeting and  installation home stands,
on May 10 at the home of Mrs. types,  wood  and  metal .work,, of officers at 8 p.m. on May 15      Several such projects are in
Kenneth Ernst. Dinner will be and   a  model  village  called at the home of Mrs. William operation in Detroit, for Detroit
served at 1 p.m. This will be "Clydesville".                                Brink, 435 Linden Ct Member- teachers only; but this will be
the group's last meeting until     The public will also be able ship dues are payable at the tne first available to all Michi-
October. to inspect the school's new Link meeting.                                             (Continued on Page 6)