1962-06-06; Saline Reporter

              VOTE
Board of Education Election
Monday, June 11
at Saline Intermediate  School
8 a.m.        to        8 p.m.
The Saline Reporter
VOLUME 14, NUMBER 38 - WEDNESDAY, JUNE 6, 1962
10c PER COPY — $3 PES YEAR
ity Budget $162,269, on 20 Mills
Seniors Honored
In Awards
Night
Honors, trophies, and schol- scholarships from Alma college
arships earned this.year were to   Beverly  Brown  and  Brian
presented Wednesday at the an- LaRue;   a  U.   of M.  Regents'
nual High School Awards Night Alumni scholarship to Ed
program,   part   of   the   Com- Strait; State Board of Eduea-
mencement Week activities. toin grants to Elaine Ference
American Legion Auxiliary and Doris Herter; Danforth
Essay awards were presented awards to Beverly Brown and
by Mrs. Dan Levleit for the Gary Niethammer; and a Na-
Auxiliary, to Carol Thompson, tional Merit Scholarship pro-
first; Gary Niethammer, sec- gram letter of commendation
ond; and Robert Smith, third for superior performance to
in the senior division — and to Beverly Brown.
Joan LaRue, first; Marcia Feld- An arc welding award of §320
kamp, second; and Robert Still, was presented by Mr. Wendell
third in the junior division. Dickinson to Earl Klager.
Dr. William H. Graves, presi- Superintendent  Leo   Jensen
"^Si^
dent of the Ann Arbor U. of M.
Club, presented the club's annual award to Ed Strait.
presented the Scholarship Cup
to the class of 1962; Assistant
Principal Howard Hill present-
Class oF
191 '
«*._«*
abe Ruth
Needs
ear-Olds
Scholarships and honors were ed the Sportsmanship Cup to
presented by High School Prin- the class of 1962; and Miss Es-
cipal Elmer Houghton: Honors ther Landwehr presented the
    Citizenship Cup for the Saline
Women's Club to the class of
1965.
Departmental awards, presented by the heads of the departments, went to Carol Thompson,
social studies; Gary Niethammer and Ed Strait, science; Gay
Beck and Sandra Brown, En-
Operating this year under a glish; Gary Niethammer and
new Babe Ruth charter, the Ed Strait, mathematics; Doris
baseball division of the Saline Herter, homemaking; Gary
Recreation department will post Niethammer, industrial arts;
a team in the league - only if Elaine Ference, business and
13-year-old boys turn out. commercial;    Betty    Roehm,
In order to be sanctioned in girls' physical education; and
the league, the team must in- Katrene Gall and Lydia Robi-
clude at least ten' 13-year-olds, sonf band. ■*.-  .   ...
Don Leidheiser, baseball chair- The Business and Profession-
man, said. All 13-year-old boys al Women's club scholarship
who would like to play on a was presented by BPW presi-
Babe Ruth team are urged to dent Jean Taylor to Elaine Fer-
contact either of the two nian- ence; Pat Bird was named as
agers, Clyde Griffin or D. C. alternate.
McCormick, or one of the Little The Unterkircher scholarship
League directors, Charles Up- was divided equally between Ed
haus or Loren Bersuder. Strait and Elaine Ference, and
The first Babe Ruth game is presented by Leo Jensen,
scheduled for Wednesday, June     Forensic awards were presen
Will Bend for Capital
Expansion as Needed
City Council Monday night yet have. These figures have
approved a total general fund nothing to do with our general
budget of §162,269, for the operating budget, and the ap-
1962-63 fiscal year. The bud- proval of this budget doesn't in-
get, based on 20 mills, is slight- itiate action for a bond issue."
ly lower than last year's, al- Said Mayor Jack Bennett: "I
though the actual assessed val- don't see how we can gain by
uation has increased by deleting such important things
§100,000. as a storm sewer, water tower,
Not included in the general and others. I would like to see
fund budget, but approved at it included and then start work-
the same time, was a §309,200 ing on how we can pay for it."
capital expansion program, for The prQposed pr0jeets and
which the city may bond, after ^ir estimated cost:
a current study is completed .to
determine which of the seven Expansion and Improvements:
included projects are urgently 1- Complete Clark & Depot Sts.
needed. 8" Water Main § 11,200
Last year's general fund bud- 2. East Belt Sewer 125,000
Water Tower 90,000
Expand Sewer plant 75,000
Extend Storm Sewer at Disposal Plant 4,900
Complete fence at Disposal
Plant 3,000
Cap Well 100
§309,200
"•an***     . jj<S-
City Buys
Park Land
With
'8
Step Taken
To Fifl Gaps
In Sidewalks
CITY TO  LEASE
VOTING  MACHINE
City Council has authorized
the lease of a third voting machine, with an option to purchase at $1,640, to be delivered
before the August primary el-
With   a   view   to   providing ection. The rental for the ma-
"continuous   sidewalks   for cbnie was included in the bud-
school children and adults who  get for the coming year.
want   to   walk   uptown,"   City	
Council this week requested 43
property owners to install side-
13, when the two Saline teams ted by Margaret Baker, teacher walks on their lots before Au-
will meet.  - 0f  speech.  Debate  certificates Sust 1, .
Also new this year is the T- from the Detroit Free Press If the work Is not completed
Ball league for 8 and 9-year- went to Louise Anderson, Ray hV that time> the city ^^ in"
olds. Thus far 48 boys have Andres, Beverly Brown, Vicky staU the walks by special assigned up for this league. T- Hill, Mary Sue Gordon, Linda sessment, Council decided in a
Ball, said Leidheiser, makes a Heiserman, and Sandra Brown. '"
fast game for young boys just Michigan   Forensic   association
starting out in baseball. pins  went  to  Beverly  Brown,
Some 140 boys are included Vicky Hill, Susan Anthony, Jain the Little League roster. Lit- net Richards, Marilyn Struble,
tie Leaguers  are  divided  into Ed Ross, Abbie Young, Lydia ea from every  section  of the
two leagues, the American and Robison, Mary Sue Gordon, Lin-
the National, with five teams da   Heiserman,   and   Sandra
in each league. This year 13- Brown,
year-olds who do not make the     Robert Weisenreder, presi-
Jack Measley
Joins Local
Police Force
School Candidates Speak
Both candidates for the TBoard of Ediicatioii"seat to?be -
filled at the Monday, June 11, election spoke Wednesday night
at a public meeting of the Saline Area Civic association, arid,
both — at the request of the association and The Reporter —
prepared statements for the press.
The candidates answered three questions presented by
SACA: 1. Why are you running for office? 2. What do you.
feel you can contribute? 3. Do you feel there are any particular problems facing the community in which we live?
Their statements follow:
OLIVER STEINER
DONALD WIEDMAN
unanimous vote.
Completion  of
sidewalks  on
Jack Measley, 31, a veteran
with nine years' experience in
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the  designated property will      .. /,      .    *        .      ,
., .. .       .     police work, has been employed
provide  continuous   routes   to e        . „   ' ,      % r,
fL        _    i        j  j      4. as a full time member of the
the schools and downtown ar-  ~ ..        . _, ..       _,
Saline force, Police Commissioner Glenn Clark reported to
City Council Monday.
Measley, who lives at 208 W.
McKay St., was selected from
city, Street Commissioner
George Anderson pointed out.
They include isolated lots in
Golden Acres (lot 66, to be in-
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Babe Ruth teams will play Lit- dent of the class of 1962, pre- stalled °y ™?      U'. T~en fj.    cy created when James Levleit
tie League baseball. In previous sented   Senior   scholarships   to res>   and  Saline ^fnts  aaai- wa£_ promoted to  the position
years, boys were eligible only Edward Korte,  Tom Wagener, tl0n> Plu,!r Slt*;s°n ^uus, Kusseu nf nl,._f Wo -c c^oH,l1oH m flnp
through age 12.                             Donna VanNest, and named Pat street   W   McKay,  HoUywood^
No boy who turned out for Bird as alternate. Bennett street, N. Maple  Mark
the   recreation    department's      Merit service honors, present- Hannah Ct., Mams, ana uetroit
baseball  program   was   turned ed by Howard Hill, went to Ed st-        . 	
away,   and,   according   to   the strait,   Donna   Diuble,   Sandra Not.included, although they
board  of  kirectors,   the  pro- Brown, Gary Niethammer, Ka- still lack sections of sidewalk
gram can actually accomodate trene GaU, Rick Johnson, Tom *™ s- Ann Arbor, the west side
get was §168,494.27 - but it 3.
included an expected bond is- 4.
sue of §3,800 for special assess- 5.
ment districts, which never became necessary, so that actual 6.
expenditures were about the
same. • 7.
The city's assessed valuation
for the 1962 tax roll is
§4,403,217, as compared with
last year's §4,302,560.
The 1962-63 budget includes
§18,150 under administration;
§36,430 for the police; §4,920,
fire department; and §68,290
for the department of public
works, including §22,810 for
street maintenance and con- The City of Saline has pur-
struction. Other major figures chased approximately 21 acres
in the DPW list are cemetery 0f additional park land, all west
and park maintenance, street of the river but adjacent to
lighting, and garbage collection the present park. The parcel in-
(§5,100). eludes 200 feet of frontage on
A sum of §1,000 is alloted for w. Michigan avenue,
the Saline Library; §2,225 for The entire purchase price,
the-" recreation prOgrami-ajidL .§4,000, was. a gift to the city
§3,000 for legal expenses. Total from Carl Curtiss, president of
budget for the water supply and the Citizens Bank,
sewage disposal plant is The new purchase brings the
§49,789. city's acquisitions in that area
The §309,200 capital expan- this year to a total of about
sion program was approved on- 73 acres, including the millpond,
ly after. lengthy discussion as all of it formerly part of the
to whether it was possible to Saline Mill property, owned by
budget at all for a project not the Hamel Bros. Chemical Co.,
yet out of the "proposed" stage. Inc., Mt. Pleasant.
A study now under way by the The new parcel was previous-
engineering firm Ayres, Lewis, ly owned by the city, but was
Norris & May is expected to sold to Ford Motor Co. in 1936
indicate which of the projects when the company purchased
are immediately needed, and property to make up the Saline
give a better estimate of their Mill site. It was later sold to
cost. It is expected to be com- Valley Chemical Co. before Ha-
pleted next month. mel Bros, acquired it.
But, said Budget Commission-	
er George Johnson: "How soon
is immediate?" and: "There is  ISudget il-CIUCieS
no  real basis  for  the  figures   ^^^ o-in 4?
given here; it's just an educat-  ^_J,olU LOT >
ed guess."
Said Councilman Milhan:
"We're just trying to outguess
an engineering report we don't
Street Work
Girls' Gym
of chief. He is scheduled on the
midnight shift, this week.
Measley  is   employed  for  a .,   (photo  b    wmiam Dobos)      «i am a candidate because _
90-day probationary period, to am interested in the progress Field  DaV
become permanent if his work      "I  enjoy  working  on  the of me Saline area as well as A «^u ^aJ
is   satisfactory,   Clark   pointed Board of Education. I am per- the progress of our county and  Wl linerS Named
out. The hiring procedure, new SQnally interested ta our sehools nation »
in the police department here, _ „   +_   ^.^   ^d      ,_. did nQt ^ as & candidate     Winners in a Field Day corn-
Bids on an estimated §22,810
worth of street maintenance
and construction were acknowledged by Council Monday, and
tabled until the June 18 meeting for study.
The planned work includes
sealcoating N. Lewis from Russell to Bennett, §970; Mills Rd.,
Michigan Ave. to Hollywood Dr.
u_o.t.*-     U.CUC   vjr_JJL,    Ai,iv~x   wj.a_.jv~,     — v.._ TV/T'll A +        -f    T^io+ynit —**-    jj^_.v-^_    _*.£._.. -__*.....    ._~-^, ^   ^	
more boys  if there are some Jeppesen   Donna Richards   Sa- ^J^^^^^ Eludes a written examination ~  ^^7 * " becaus7 of" an"y "c^anT"thing petition in High School girls' SKS^;^"^:
who would  still  like   to   take ra Schaible, Dons Herter, Lou- ™  ^^J^ „„^2„A1_ and a personal interview with school here. ^ my opposite hag don6; but gym classesi were announced^©-  coat   ^   £ewfa    tQ  '^
m y   three
..-u   „„._u  Buu  «_>=   «,   — xa Schaible, Doris Herter, Lou- ^   ctofand Sams Also and a perSOnal teterview w*h SCh°o1 h6re" that my opposite nas aone, our «™ *  coat   from   Lewis
part. Serving on the Board are ise  Anderson,  Elaine  Ference, road Clark ^ ^ams._A*o -.^  ^f Levleit   Commis-      «t feei I can contribute the : feel ^t  the public  should day  by  Miss  Sally   Stimpson,
^.-,„rT__ _._.. t_ „,__ m    „„.„-,-. b^™™   omitted was sidewaikless prop   sioner Clark>  Councilman Jer- experience of  having  been on have  a   choice  0^   tne  school physical education instructor. |'     «60o. rebuild H^ St
ome Hemmye,  and a psychia- the Board of Education as sec- board or ^y public office» In   the   eighth   grade   broad >      '^^  Maple  s^
trist, Dr. Thomas Buchanan of retary for the past six years.      ,.T have lived in  this  com- JumP. toP honors went to Sue from Michigan Ave to the end
Sahne. During   this   period   our   new munity au 0f my life. I have Dechert,   Sue  Guenther,   Terry Qf  curb   $355().   resurface  N
Measley   received   his   high mgh School was planned and watched the Saline school sys- Fojtik, Betty Judy Barb Fink- Harris ^^m^M       tQ Clar^
jchool   diploma   whole   serving added to the system."                 tem grow f-m the time some beiner, and Mildred Haeussler, surface N Ann Ar-
_ %SeirZlT:^oLT^      "^  W  ^  Saline  area's of the school board went from fj**^-™^™^ bor from McKay to the railroad,
Charles Uphaus, secretary, Lor- Tom Wagener, Beverly Brown, ^^^^T^ribe^oy
en Bersuder and Allan Gross- and Sandy Merritt. D^ead^MnS IStratt as "i^l
ttian. Pat Bird was named recipient D™ head Mike btrait as   ior
Rounding  out  the baseball 0f the Student Council scholar- gottenland .	
program is  the  Connie  Mack ship, with Michael Frey as al- # _ ,
League for boys 16, 17 and 18 ternate.  It  was  presented  by Police Make ItoU
Property Checks
years of age. Saline's Connie Gary Niethammer.
Mack team will play seven home Student Council officers for
games this year. Their games 1962-63 were installed: Gayle
are played on Saturdays and Finkbeiner, president; Robert
Sundays. In addition to their Merchant, vice president; Jean
home games, the schedule in- Schaible, secretary; and Bruce
eludes five more games to be Niethammer,   treasurer.
played away. The team will also ■ ——
play in the Ann Arbor High T0 ENTER MED SCHOOL
School League this season, with _      of 7784 Au- lations; nine other arrests, 102
__V Mondays "d w   a-W-IS&S-Si 5a^?_2_-_ *___
The Saline Connie Mack ro&
Saline police made 1,260 pro
perty  checks,   1,218   of  them the Ann Arbor pohce force from *
"routine", and 42 "special" dur- January,  1953,   to  May,  1956. industrial plants
ing
low  hurdles  included  Sandy
specific problem is its lack of rural school to rural school to ,      _>   .
whose eval- explain the needs of more edu- Burkhart, Mary Banks, Kathy
§5,000.
muustiiai pianis — wnusc even- ~»i- -~ >   -d,,^* „,.<. tt,..-, iwravrooii Rarh     -^ costs are estimates,  in-
uation   would   greatly   benefit cation than just 8th grade, and f™^' ***?n ^^1  ,'X. duded m *e 1962-63 budget.
thP r^tVof Mav'accord- Since that time he has been a "auon   WUU1U   e---uy   u_ii_i_l —-"----j—__---_—, ,      . ,   -   ,.     Living-
the month of May, accord   ^_.M,o /,Qr,„+„ qti#, OTI1_lnW(, the schools taxwise. H our com- ask the boys and girls to come l^ssmg,   and   Jackie   Laving-
-      --         -_    - ... CTAnfl
ing to Police Chief James Lev-
leit's monthly report.
The report also listed 38 traffic violations, 230 parking vio
Sheriff's deputy and employed
by the University of Michigan,
in police work.
_onme mac. x.-- seteVtea" by l_e" University of dents,  of which  two  involved
ter this year^ncludes^ Z- Michigan medical .hoo^to en- P-onal^unes-
lowfag boys: Rick Johnson, Milt ter  training in  Segteate  as mUeage of 4,247 mUes.
Stemen, Don Leidheiser,  John. Ae class of■ 1«H^^SSaS SOCIAL SERVICES OFFICE-
Thoss, Jim Walters, Bill Davis, Dr. Charles J. nipper, assouaie o«^ „___„__,„ „rtT_o_
ALUMNI BANQUET,
DANCE SCHEDULED
The annual SHS Alumni Ban-
and   patrol quet is scheduled at 6:30 p.m.
Saturday at the High School;
tickets are $2 a person.
stone.
we     In the ninth grade, Joan So- BUILDING PERMIT ISSUED
uation  (while our school pop- were in very bad need of equip- ^^^^hT^tX °N L°WERY FAKM
ulation doesl   school taxes will ment. We obtained some of our ^ Place ™ ™ Dr°?^ JumP' T
ulation does), school taxes will                  erience   at  the   Y si with Linda Labay thirf   and A Lodi township budding per-
F      F                                     Pat Hughes fourth. In the low nut has been issued to Daryel
hurdles, winners were Linda De- Rr Wisely, of 3545 Woodland,
chert,   Linda   Labay,   Bonny Ann  Arbor,  for  a  two-story
munity does not expand indus- to Saline to High School."
trially or increase in tax eval-     "When I came to SHS,
have to increase."
State  hospital  shop.  My  own
first year project was to repair
hall lockers. But over the years
_       . this has changed. I have watch-
The City Planning Commis- ^  the assessed  valuation in-
SUBDIVISION PLANS OK'D
Hack, and'Carol Michalke. brick and frame residence at a
Sue   Washburn,   Barbara cost of $25,000, to be built 1400
The annual Alumni Dance, sion and City Council this week    r_ase  ^ouj  $13 884,920   to Hou_htonr  and JVIarcia  Fritts feet from  Saline-Ann  Arbor
_   _- --- -     __ _ _. _ _ ja * 4-<-> _t** j-. Jl    4-Va^o   1>>k—•*   ImnJlnn    nn «m ■wv*-i4-5 T> J       ^v—_    4-_x«     ** T   __________     **
open to the public will follow approved preliminary plans for $27 862 466
the banquet, at 9 p.m. at the Hickory Grove subdivision, off     »My background includes ser-
Ed  S    •                   •               r   dean.   •                                      ~ SETS SUMMER HOURS
Mike   Johnson,   Jack   Kuebler',      More than 1000 s^dentsjip- T^^!?*-   be4id Wight Intermed'iate School. Ken Volz' Bennett  St.,   as  submitted  by ^ce  on   other   boards   -            -.„„,__„,
Bick Leidheiser,  Gary Kind, pUedJor the 200 avaiM,,^ spa- gj^*^ o^ from % Orchestra will play. Tickets, at MHM Co. Some of the homes in ^ty aS wen as my own town- f^^f' Sue ^^'^t t^T' \^y™dJ°hen
- Saline High School Cleaners, wm ue«^ ^ ^ ^ ^^a qto auail5,hlp at thp tho cmn1i «„hdiviRinn are alrea- * ly Quick, Kris Kuebler,  Katy Laughna, of 1735 Arlington, in
in
topped the low hurdles competi- Rd. on the former Lowery farm.
tion in the .fourth-hour class;      The 600-acre farm was pur-
'ZC   In the broad jump winners were chased last month from Joseph
->ave HoUenback, and Ron Tuc- ces. Wild, a
ker.
(See schedules on page five) Mrs. Arnold Wild.
£r_£__^*3_r= 5^__jE*c__sr- S^a*——^ rs'Sr^
only, during the summer.
(Continued from Page 4) Esch, and Dianna Johnson. Ann Arbor.