1962-07-11; Saline Reporter

              It Won't Be Long Now! 1962 Saline Community Fair, Sept 12
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Final plans for the 1962 Saline Community Fair were put
in motion at the Monday evening meeting of the Fair board
at Saline High School.
The Fair book went to the printer (The Reporter), to
be out August 15; Fair posters were handed out for distribution; and Ray Girbach was elected assistant vice president «f
the board for the week of the Fair, replacing Albert Gall during the latter's tour in Europe.
WPAG's Howard Heath will be on the grounds to put the
Fair on the air. \
Wednesday, September 12, will open the Fair with the
annual Children's Day, with lower prices for youngsters bn
the W. G. Wade rides. A horse-pulling contest is scheduled
at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday evening.
Thursday is Farmers' Day at the Fair, the morning taken
up by livestock judging, and the afternoon highlighted by the
Steer Show and Pony Show. A free pony will be awarded at
4 p.m. to the child who wins the "Choose a Name" contest
sponsored by Weavie Pony Farms and Alber Pony Farms.
A Band Concert will open the Thursday evening events,
followed by the selection and crowning of "Miss Saline" in
the annual program sponsored by the Saline Jaycees.
Friday is the big day agriculturally, with the Lamb Club
show in the morning; the tractor-backing contest at 10 a.m.;
tractor-pulling contest at 1 p.m.; and the annual Livestock
Auction at 8 p.m.
On Saturday, American Legion Day and Old Settlers'
Day, the parade will begin at 2 p.m. The Horse Show is scheduled at 3 p.m.; and a new event this year — the Junior
League All-Star baseball game .— is also at 3 p.m. A pony-
pulling contest, also new this year, will highlight early evening at 6 p.m.; and the community stage show and awarding
of Old Settlers' prizes will take place at 8 p.m.
New divisions for entries have been added in nearly all
departments, and prizes in many have been increased.
SEE YOU AT THE FAIR ~ SOON!
The Saline Reporter
VOLUME 14, NUMBER 43 - WEDNESDAY, JULY 11, 1962
10c PER COPY — $3 PER YEAR
gain; Milhan Won't be
Ed Filsinger, Township CD
Director, Missile Expert, Dies
Edward A. Filsinger, Saline
township Civil Defense director
and employed by the University
of Michigan in engineering and
missile work, died Sunday morning at St. Joseph Mercy hospital after a brief illness. He
was 59 years old.
He had been admitted to the
hospital two weeks ago for
treatment of a heart condition.
He returned home last Tuesday,
but suffered a second attack on
Saturday and was readmitted to
the hospital. He died at 6 a.m.
Services Held
Monday for
Henry Ormsby
Funeral services were held
here Monday afternoon for Henry E. Ormsby, 67, affectionately known throughout the area
as "Heinie" during his many
years as a civic leader and businessman.
Mr. Ormsby, who lived at
410 N. Ann Arbor St., had operated a barbershop here since
1916, and had served as Fire
Chief for many years. He took
an active interest in city affairs and was one of those instrumental in bringing about
the change from a five- to a
seven-man Council, and the elective mayor system several years
ago.
He died Saturday morning at
the Veterans hospital in Ann
Arbor.
Mr. Ormsby was born Sept.
25, 1894, in Geneva, Mich., the
son of Henry and Allie Clark
Ormsby. On March 2, 1920, he
married Florine E. Ellis in Onsted, Mich. She survives.
In World War I, he served
overseas for two years with
the "Polar Bear" unit of the
310th Engineers, in Russia. He
was a charter member and past
commander of the American
Legion post here, and a member of the Color Guard in every
parade.
He was a member of the Tri-
County Sportmen's club, an ardent fisherman and hunter . . .
small game . . . and he was on
a fishing trip in the Upper Peninsula when he became ill last
month
Surviving in addition to his
wife are two sons, Robert D.
and Ted E., and two daughters, Mrs. Edward (Dorothy)
Hiser and Miss Betty Lou Ormsby, all of Saline, 12 grandchildren, and several cousins.
The Rev. Robert Richards officiated at funeral "services at
2 p.m. Monday at Bahnmiller
funeral Home, and burial was
m Oakwood cemetery. Memor-
Jal contributions may be made
B to the Saline Community hospital.
Sunday morning.
Mr. Filsinger, an aeronautical engineer, had been employed
by the university for the past
12 years. His work included
missile projects, and last summer he spent several weeks working on a major project at
Wallops Island, Va.
He was appointed Civil Defense director for Saline township in 1959. He also served as
a trustee and a member of the
township zoning board.
Always extremely active, at
the time of bis'aeath he was in
the process of remodeling a
house at his home at 9476 W.
Michigan Avenue. He also operated the farm there, and was a
member of Washtenaw county
Farm Bureau and the Tri-Town-
ship Farm Bureau group.
He was a member and trustee of the Methodist Church
here and was chairman of the
parsonage building committee
when it was first formed.
He was a member of the Saline Masonic Lodge No. 133, the
Valley of Detroit Consistory,
the Moslem Shrine, the Scottish
Rite Club of Washtenaw county,
and a member of the Washtenaw Shrine Club.
He was born January 24,1903
in Mildmay, Ont., Canada, a
son of Joseph and Mary Ann
Warner Filsinger. On June 18,
1927, he married Florence Garner of Walkerton, Ont. She survives.
After their marriage the couple lived in Detroit, Flat Rock,
Clinton, Ypsilanti and in Saline
since 1950. Mr. Filsinger was ■
employed by the Ford Motor
Co. for many years and at one
time was superintendent of the
United Stove Co. of Ypsilanti.
Surviving in addition to his
wife are one daughter, Mrs. Allan (Lillian) Conklin of Chelsea; a son, Vaughn of Ypsi--
lanti; five grandchildren; and
his mother of Mildmay, Ont.
Also surviving are five sisters, Mrs. Lillian Schnurr, Mrs.
Henry Pfohl, Mrs. Earl Young-
blood and Mrs. Alfred Eick-
mier, all of the Mildmay, Ont,
area, and Mrs. Robert Snel-
grove of California; three brothers, Alfred and Gordon, also
of Mildmay, and William of
Cayuga, Ont.; and many nieces,
nephews and cousins.
Funeral services were held at
2 p.m. Wednesday at the Saline
Methodist Church, the Rev. Donald C. Kraushaar and the Rev.
Robert Richards officiating. Burial was in Michigan Memorial
Park, Flat Rock, where Masonic
graveside services were held.
Memorial contributions may
be'made to the Methodist parsonage building fund.
Fluoride: Yes or No?
Council has announced that the possible fluoride treatment of the city water supply will come up for discussion
— and possible decision — at the Monday, July 16 meeting. They made the announcement two weeks in advance,'
in the hope that anyone with strong views on the subject
would come to the meeting and be heard FIRST — not
afterward, when it would be too late to do much about it.
Fluoridation has stirred up some active controversies
in other communities — sometimes before it was installed,
sometimes after. Its proponents point out that it is relatively inexpensive, both for equipment and operation, and
compare the cost to that of one pack of cigarettes per year
per person. They present statistics to show that it does
reduce dental cavities by a significant amount. It has been
endorsed by most dental associations.
Those who oppose it do so on two major counts. First,
they claim they are entitled to pure drinking water, unmixed with chemicals. Second, they point out that.only,, a
'■'very small percentage of any city's water — something like
one drop per pint — ever reaches the human mouth. The
rest goes for industrial uses, car washing, lawn watering,
and laundering — and why add fluoride to that?
Those, in the main, are the major arguments for and
against, and both sides can buttress their claims with more
statistics than we have room for, here. But Council has
deliberately set aside most of an evening to hear them; if
you're interested, better go up and get into the act.
All Around Saline
A pair of prescription glasses,
with grey frames, have been
left at the lost and found department at City Hall.
Mr. and Mrs. Leo Jensen are
back from a week-long vacation
in Bonita Springs, Fla., where,
Leo says, "it was kinda hot and
there were lots of mosquitoes,
but the swimming and fishing
were wonderful." While the Jensens were south, their son Tom
spent the week in Royal Oak
with his sister, Mrs. Darrel
(Marlene) Watson.
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Miss Barbara Hehr, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hehr
of Kaiser Rd., was one of 300
girls from all over the United
States and Canada who gathered at St. Louis, Mich., for the
Central Michigan Baton Twirling Contest held there on June
30. Barbara won a trophy by
taking fourth place in her division. Next week she and four
other Saline girls will attend
the Smith-Wallbridge twirling
camp at Syracuse, Ind. Accompanying Barbara will be Lois
Sutton, Sandy Greenfield, Janis Coe, and Louise Bush.
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A party was held Sunday at
the home of Mr. and Mrs. Mel-
vin Roehm in Clinton in celebration of the 50th birthday of his
mother, Mrs. Clarence Roehm.
The 53 dinner guests included
friends and relatives from Dexter, Ann Arbor, Manchester, Saline and Pleasant Lake.
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Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Phillips
and their daughter, Marilyn, of
Pleasant Lake, returned home
last week from a three-weeks'
trip to Seattle, where they attended  the World's Fair,  and
Canada.
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Miss Louise Anderson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Anderson of Detroit St., spent a
few days this week attending
University of Michigan summer
orientation for freshmen entering the university this fall. Louise and her mother spent last
week at the family cottage on
Lake Michigan, returning to Saline Monday night.
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Miss Suzy Englehart, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Claude
Englehart of N. Lewis St., left
Monday for Albuquerque, N.M.,
where she will visit her sister
and brother-in-law, Mr. and
Mrs. Arthur Guilfoil, for the
next month or so. Her parents
plan to drive to New Mexico
later in the summer and she'll
return home with them.
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Mrs. Irene Karpensky recently attended a workshop in Detroit sponsored by Hammond
Organ of Chicago. At noon, she
was a luncheon guest of Grinnell's.
Mrs. Margaret Jordan's home
on W Michigan Ave. has been
alive with activity this week;
Peg's daughters, Jerry and Judy, have been visiting with their
families. Jerry and her husband,
Ron Taylor, and their two little
sons, Ricky and Doug, are here
from Connecticut, and Judy and
her husband, Eugene Braun,
and their young son Mark are
here from Kalamazoo. They'll
all be leaving for home this
weekend and returning to Kalamazoo with the Brauns will be
Peg's youngest daughter, Jo.
She's been having a busy summer, having recently spent a
week in Connecticut with the
Taylors.
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Dick Dell, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Lloyd Dell of E. Michigan
Ave., returned to naval duty
aboard the U.S.S. Pickaway at
San Diego, Calif., this week.
SHS Takes
Pari in Pilot
Record Plan
Saline High School is one of
13 schools in Michigan participating in a pilot project designed to simplify student records for college admission. Ten
states are involved in the cooperative plan by which records
are to be channeled through a
New Jersey organization.
High School Principal Elmer
Houghton and Guidance Counsellor Dominick Pellegreno attended a workshop to launch
the program, at'the University
of Michigan in late June.
Intended to produce a uniform system of college transcripts, the project will provide
data to be processed by. Educational Testing Service, Princeton, N.J., a nonprofit service
organization that annually develops and administers tests for
several million students
throughout the United States
and abroad.
The program, partially financed by the Ford Foundation,
is carried out at no cost to local taxpayers.
The work is in progress at
Saline High School now, where
Mrs. Herman Mehler and Mrs.
Milton Finkbeiner are recopy-
ing all records of the class of
1963 on prepared forms. They
are employed by the Cooperative Plan for the work, not by
the local school system, Houghton emphasized.
The unified transcripts are
expected to reduce the time required for college admissions
and to be of value to potential
employers.
MAYOR TO ATTEND
LEAGUE CONVENTION
Mayor Jack Bennett was
named by City Council Monday
to serve as voting delegate to
the annual convention of the
Michigan Municipal League,
September 19-21, in Detroit.
Robert Strohl Takes
Petition for Council
Saline to Get
Direct Dial
Service Aug. 6
Saline area telephone subscribers will get Direct Distance
Dialing service at 8 a.m. Monday, August 6, General. Telephone Co. announced this week.
The area code number for the
Saline exchange will be 313.
The new service, which will
allow subscribers to dial their
own long distance calls to over
55,000,000 telephones across the
nation, will bring no rate increase, Kenneth Conway, district manager of the company,
said. It is part of General Telephone's $16 million expansion
and improvement program for
1962.
DDD instructions, in letter
form, and a DDD area code directory listing approximately
6,500 dialable points, will be
sent to local subscribers in the
near future, Conway said.
Calls to communities which
do not have DDD will continue
to be taken by operators.
MILHAN
SORRY . . .
Though our pictures were
sent out at the usual time this
week, they somehow became
lost en route. We will do double duty on pictures next week
to make up for this lack.
Stolen Car
Recovered Here
A 1961 Chevrolet registered
to Gerald Butters, of Dearborn,
was returned to its owner this
week after it was found abandoned at 439 Hollywood Dr.
Police are questioning two
boys who were seen and checked
by Saline police at 4:15 a.m.
Friday, the morning before the
stolen car was found here. The
boys, who were stopped as they
were walking on Mills Rd., said
at that time they were hitchhiking back to Jackson after
visiting girls in Detroit. Both
are from the Jackson area.
♦ YOU SAID IT ♦
QUESTION: How do you like
the new police uniforms?
Bill Schettenhelm ~ I like
them! I think they're real sharp
— especially the hats.
Mrs. Wayne Goble — I haven't
seen them up close, but from a
distance they look real nice.
Paul Thibault - I think they
are kind of nice. They add a lot
of color to the community.
Taylor Jaeobsen — They're
just the ticket! I think the
change is good for the town —
we need a little color.
Mrs. Gilbert Dicks - They're
real attractive and they look a
lot cooler for summer.
Fred Stephenson — I think
the new uniforms are very sensible and good looking. The
hats look like they're cool and
comfortable.
Bob Tower - They're all right.
Frank Harms — I don't like
them one bit, especially the
hats. They're awfully heavy.
John Larkin ~ I have only
seen the. officers while in the
police car, but what I could see
of the uniforms, I think they're
all right. They're different and
set the officers off.
Allie Burkhardt - They don't
appeal to me. Too much western.
Mrs. Clyde Griffin - I'm just
glad I'm not a policeman. I
don't think the new uniforms
add anything at all to their
looks.
Mrs. Dory Graf — Fine! I
think they look nice.
Phillip Seitz - I like them
O.K.
Mrs. Ormond Seitz — I think
they look pretty sharp — I really like them!-^
Miss Doris Herter — They're
O.K. The hats are sure different ~ they remind me of a
"Mountie".
Miss Marsha Roark ~ Well, I
think they're O.K., except that
I don't like the hats. That's my
only objection.
Miss Jo Jordan -1 think they
look very western and I like
them. The hats are the most
noticeable change and they're
sharp.
Principals Attend
"Chewing Mutch"
Intermediate School Principal
Dwight Reynolds and High
School Principal Elmer Houghton attended the "Principals'
Chewing Match" sponsored by
the Michigan Association of Secondary School Principals, June
29 - July 1, 1962, at Higgins
Lake Conservation School, Roscommon, Michigan. One hundred secondary school administrators spent the three day session discussing problems related
to secondary school education.
Dr. B. Frank Brown, princi-
pal, Malbourne High School,
Florida, was the featured speaker. Melbourne High School has
received nationwide attention
because of its unique non-graded high school program.
Clothes Closet
Gutted by Fire
Saline firemen were called to
the apartment of Mrs. Wilma
Whittman, of 209 Henry St.,
at 11:30 p.m. Tuesday, after a
fire started in a clothes closet
there.
The closet was gutted and all
contents destroyed by the blaze,
which also burned up through
the ceiling before it was put
out. No damage estimate was
available today.
Mayor Jack Bennett will be
a candidate for another term,
he announced today; but Councilman Douglas Milhan will not
run again.
Only one nominating petition
had been taken out, so far, for
the three Council seats to be
filled at the November election
~ Robert Strohl, 30, of Spring
street, obtained a petition at
City Hall on Saturday. But he
left almost immediately for a
week's vacation, without making any statement as to whether
the petition was for himself or
some other candidate.
Council terms expiring this
year are those of George Johnson and Glenn Clark, both of
whom have said they will announce their decisions later this
month, and Milhan. Bennett's
term also expires.
Milhan, 51, said this week he
had decided not to be a candidate for a second term because
of the extensive amount of time
involved in the job. He has also
served as Planning Commissioner during his two-year term. An
employe of the Ford Motor Co.
plant in Rawsonville, he lives at
676 W. Michigan Ave.
Strohl, who works at the
Strand Engineering Co. in Dexter, moved to Saline about six
years ago, from Lima, O. His
wife, Barbara, is a daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Dale Goble, of Saline. The Strohls live at 305
Spring St.
Bennett, who lives at 360
Highland Dr., served one term
as a councilman before his election to his present post, in Saline's first mayorality election.
In announcing his candidacy for
another term, he said:
"I am running again for
three reasons: First, my family
has given the okay on it. Second, I enjoy it and everything
connected with it, both the
work and the sociability; and,
third, I feel there are some
projects started but not yet
completed that I will try to
complete in the next two years.
These include a new City Hall
and fire station, more work by
the, Planning Commission, extension of city facilities, and
the proposed MEHA village. On
these, I have been on the ground
floor and I would like to see
them brought to successful conclusions."
Petitions for the November
city election must be filed with
the City Clerk prior to the August primary election, August 7.
TEEN CLUB PLANS
"FRIDAY 13th." DANCE
A "Friday the 13th" dance
is planned by the city recreation Teen Club at 7:30 p.m.
Friday at the Intermediate
School. Don Howe will be the
disk jockey.
Students from the 9 th grade
through 19 years of age, and
their guests, are welcome.