1962-10-31; Saline Reporter

              The Saline Reporter
VOLUME 15, NUMBER 7 - WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1962
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ive City Candidates on Ballot Tuesday
Saline, Chelsea to Collide
In Loop Title Bout Friday
IT.iAor •Luk^on Bennett
Unopposed for re-election for
his second term as mayor is
Jackson T. Bennett, 40, of 360
Highland Drive. Bennett, who
is employed at R & B Tool Co.,
has lived in Saline for 13 years.
Before his election as mayor in
1960, he served one term as
councilman.
CANDIDATES
ANSWER  QUERIES
The four city council candidates on the November 6
ballot have prepared for the
Reporter, in writing, their
answers to questions suggested by the Saline Area Civic
association. Their written answers are presented in this
issue, as a public service.
In line with a policy instituted by the Reporter some
months ago, the answers are
printed exactly as we got
them, without deletions or
changes of any kind.
The questions: 1. Why are
you running for office? 2.
What do you feel you can
contribute? and 3_;Are there
any particular problems facing this community in which
you are especially interested?
Applications
For Absentee
Ballots Soar
Local applications for absentee ballots have soared way beyond any previous record, City
Clerk Bill Muir announced this
week. "We've never had so many," Muir said. "I ran out of
one book and had to send for
another."
Voters have already taken
out twice as many absentee ballots as they did in 1960, a presidential election year, Muir said.
Only about a dozen were issued
in 1960.
By Wednesday morning, 30
absentee ballots were out; more
were expected by press-time.
Applications are increasing as
election nears, Muir said,
though last week's Cuban crisis
had no appreciable effect on
the number of requests.
Voters may still receive absentee ballots until 2 p.m. Saturday at the City Clerk's office.
They must be voted and turned
in to Muir no later than Monday.
The unusually large number
of absentee ballots will slow
election-counting procedures a
little, Muir pointed out, since
each must be voted on the machines by election officials before the totals can be counted.
Jensen to Speak
At Church Meet
School superintendent Leo
Jensen will be guest speaker
Sunday evening at the Federated Church Evening Fellowship
meeting. He will discuss "Saline
Afea Schools o f Tomorrow".
The meeting is scheduled for
8 p.m. and is open to the pub-
he This is the second, program
in the new series On "Great Social Issues of Today".
Another will be held on Wednesday, November 28, at 8 p.m.
Jhe topic of discussion will be
The Church in the World".
All Evening Fellowship meet-
ttgs are open to the public.
Glenn Clark
Glenn Clark, 48, lives at 110
Pleasant Ridge and is employed
in the security department of
the Ford Motor Co. plant in Ypsilanti. He has lived in Saline
for 5% years. A candidate for
a second term as councilman, he
has served as police commissioner for the past two years.
He wrote:
"I have served on the Sahne
City Council for the past 22
months. During that time there
have been many problems the
Council has had to solve. These
cannot be solved by one person.
It takes the knowledge of the
whole council working in the
best interest of the City and Citizens of Saline. We have been
accused of being a "do nothing"
Council. This is untrue. I think
that if the people of Saline will
first stop and think about what
has happened in the City in the
past two years they will agree
that the City could not have
progressed in the many areas
that it,has if^ it had. not been
through Council action. The"
Council used to meet twice a
month but in the past few
months we have met every Monday night. The first and third
Mond.ay's are regular council
meetings. The other meetings
are work sessions, and are held
to discuss and familiarize the
council members with the problems of the City so they can be
solved to the best interest of
all concerned. These meetings
are all open to the public. You,
the public, might ask what are
some of the problems that are
facing us today? There are many of them such as, Increasing
the size of the Sewer Disposal
Plant, New Well, Water Mains,
Sanitary Sewer Lines, Storm
Sewer Lines, and New Water
Tower. There are some streets
that need attention such as
Henry Street and North Ann
Arbor Street. These items will
have to be done if we intend
to keep up with the steady
growth of the City.
Speaking as PoUce and Fire
Commissioner, this City should
feel very proud of their Police
and Fire Departments. As you
know the Fire Department is a
volunteer group but they are always working to improve the
knowledge of fire fighting, trying to keep their equipment in
tip-top shape and always "Johnny on the spot" when the fire
siren blows. The Police Department is one of the best that you
will find in any city the size of
Saline. These officers are always on the alert to improve
the ways and means for better
protection for you and your property. They are also a conscientious group of officers who
spend a considerable amount of
time and effort improving the
department without pay, a fact
which you the public do not
realize. I meet with the Police
Department once a month. At
this meeting, w e discuss the
problems of the department and
other proposals that might benefit the city of Saline to make
it a safer place for you the citizens to live in. I think if you
will look at the Police report
that is published once a month
in this paper, you will agree
that they are doing a tremendous job.
All during my term of office,
I have worked for the better-
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Donald Dechert
Donald Dechert, 42, lives at
279 Willis, and is employed as
senior technician in the Ford
Research and Development
plant in Dearborn. He has been
a Saline resident since 1938 but
is a newcomer to public office.
He wrote:
"I have been asked by the
Saline Area Civic Association,
in a letter dated Oct. 4, 1962
three questions, the answers of
which I am to send to the news-,
paper before the 25th of October.
1) The reason why I am a
candidate for office is that I
believe everyone has the right
to criticize constructivly, the
right to hold unpopular beliefs
and the right to protest.
My candidacy is in the form
of a protest. I have protested
some of the decisions taken by
the city council, the last of
which was the sidewalk issue.
I disapprove of the way it is
being handled.
2). if eel that members of the*
city council should be representative of the will of the people,
and having lived in Saline for
twenty three years, I feel I can
better represent the older citizens of Saline than a man who
has lived here only a few years.
I also feel that the citizens
should have a surplus of candidates of diverse opinions to
choose from and not just one
slate where a candidate is automatically elected because of
lack of interest or opposition.
3) I am concerned with all
of the city's problems but the
dnejn particular that I am concerned about is the rapid expansion of housing with no accompanying industry to help pay
the taxes. I don't have a solution, but I think we should make
an effort to slow down the expansion until we can afford to
expand. Our problems are going to grow and multiply as
we expand and eventually we
are not going to be the friendly, homely city that everyone
professes to like, but will have
a large bedroom comunity with
inevitable accompanying higher
taxes and problems."
Hornets Trounce
Pinckney 31-6
STANDINGS
W  L
T
Pts.
SALINE
5
0
0 10
Chelsea
5
0
0 10
Dexter
2
2
2    6
U-High
1
2
1   3
Roosevelt
1
2
1   3
Pinckney
1
4
0    2
Manchester
0
6
0    0
George Johnson
George Johnson, 37, came to
Saline in 1959 and lives at 150
Pleasant Ridge. He is employed
on the administrative staff" of
the controller's department of
Henry Ford Museum in Greenfield Village. He was first elected to council in 1960 and has
served as commissioner of budget and finance. He wrote:
'T can answer question number one, why are you running
for office, in one brief sentence:
I have a sincere desire to serve
my community and all of the
people in the community to the
best of my ability.
Question number two: What
do you feel you can contribute?
My educational background
is in the fields of accounting,
business administration and
personnel. I am employed by
the Henry Ford Museum and
Greenfield Village, where I am
assigned to the administrative
staff in the controller's office.
I believe my educational training plus my work experience
Have been an asset to the' councils I have served on. In addition the experience gained over
the past year and ten months
while working with the council
is invaluable training that can
be obtained in no other way.
Question number three: Are
there any particular problems
facing this community in which
you are especially interested?
I am interested in all aspects
of our city government but because of my training I have a
particular interest in the financial operation of the city. As
commissioner of budget and finance, I have helped institute
a number of changes in the
handling of ctiy funds, among
these are sound budget program and regular financial reports. .''
The result of these changes
are reflected on our last annual
financial report as submitted
by our auditors. This report
showed a change from a deficit
to a point where we are staying
within our income.
I firmly believe that a community must live within its in-
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Robert  Strohl
Robert Strohl, 32, is employed at Strand Engineering Co.,
in Dexter, and lives at 305
Spring St. He moved to Saline
six years ago but has not previously been a candidate for office. He wrote:
"The main reason I am running for office is because I have
an interest in helping to make
Saline a town which people are
proud to be a part of, and all
the people who live here are a
part of it. This means all the
people should be aware of specific problems confronting the
city, and before final decisions
are made council members
should ask themselves if the decision and solution they are
about to make is really what
the majority want. No matter
how right anyone might think
he is, unless he can distinguish
between what he thinks is right
and what the people really
want, and act accordingly, he
is not a satisfactory representative of the people.
Although I have * no experience in city government and my
profession has little to offer
along these lines, I still feel I
am adequately qualified for this
job. I have lived in Saline for
six years and feel that I have
always lived here. I have become well acquainted with both
the young and old of Saline and
feel that I know what the people
want for the future of Saline.
I can not say that I have a solution for the problems facing
Saline but I do have the ability
and willingness to work and
find the satisfactory solution.
Probably the largest problem
facing Saline right now is one
of growth. There is little doubt
that Saline is going to grow and
it is our responsibility to see
that this is a balanced growth.
Unless we are cautious we will
be growing beyond our ability
to support ourselves without
considerable tax increases, and
too many tax increases could
be disastrous."
One man died and another was injured when the car
above, driven by Emil A. Damroze of Saline Valley Farms,
left the road and struck two trees on Willis road Friday
night. It was the driver who died, apparently thrown to the
left side of the car by the impact. Said a police officer bitterly: "A seat belt might have saved him."
Young Father Killed
When Car Hits Trees
'First Snow9 Contest
Still Open — Anyway
The first snow shower of the
season didn't snarl traffic or
force pedestrians onto snow-
shoes . . . but it certainly confused the Reporter's First Snow
contest by arriving just a little
ahead of our paper.
•After considerable thought —
and in view of the fact that entries for the contest are coming
in anyway — we have decided
to pretend that little snow never
happened.* Nobody could have
won the contest on it, since no
entries were in at the' time.
Consequently:
THE REPORTER "FIRST
SNOW" CONTEST IS STILL
OPEN!
Entry blanks are reprinted in
this issue . . . better get them
in fast, in case winter is' really
here to stay.
In the hope that the weather
man won't cross us up again,
we have amended the rules to
make it a little tougher . . . and
those who have . already submitted entries may send in new
ones in the light of the new
rules. Or they may let the entries stand; they will be valid.
We have given a great deal
of thought to the new specifications ... we considered saying
that ~ if the editor leaves to go
skiing and the publisher's car
gets stuck in the driveway — it
snowed. But that might not
happen till next January. So
here, below, are the requirements that will have to be filled
to convince us that this time-
the first snow has really fallen:
1. There must be at least a
two-inch blanket, on the level;
drifts don't count.
2. The two inches of snow
must accumulate right in the
center of town where everyone
can find it.
3. It must remain there for
at least three minutes.
4. If it happens in the middle
of the night, the word of our
night-staff judges is final - Le.,
the police department. They're
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Intermediate
Room Mothers
Set Open House
The Intermediate Room Mothers will sponsor an Open
House at the school Wednesday,
November 7, promptly at 8 p.m.
Guests are to asemble in the
gym.
All parents of Intermediate
School children are urged to attend. Dwight Reynolds, principal, will give a brief welcome
and explanation of the program
of the evening. Parents will receive the daily classroom schedules of their children and meet
all their teachers. Parents of
7th-graders . should know in
what section their children are,
and parents of.5th- and 6th-
graders should know thpair children's room numbers, a room
mother pointed out.
A coffee hour in the cafeteria will conclude the meeting.
The 23-year-old father of two
children was instantly killed
when his car went out of control and smashed into trees near
here Friday evening.
Emil A. Damroze, of Saline
Valley Farms, was pronounced
dead at the scene of the crash,
on Willis road near Bishop road.
A passenger in his car, Edsel
Bardell, 23, of Wayne, told police he had been sleeping in the
back seat and remembered nothing of the accident. Deputies
said the car, going "east on Willis, left the road and traveled
200 feet before striking two
trees and crushing the left side
of the vehicle.
Bardell was treated at Saline
Community hospital for severe
cuts and bruises, and released.
Mr. Damroze was born in Re-
j a, Latvia, on September 1,
1939, and came to this country
with his family in 1957. A machinist, he had been employed
at R & B Tool Co. since 1959.
On September 5, 1959, he
married Carol Ann Johnson,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Mil-
Meters Gone
From City
Parking Lot
Parking meters were removed
from the city lot this week, on
a three-months-trial plan recommended by the planning commission last week and approved
in council in a special meeting
Monday night.
But a two-hour parking time
limit will be put into effect in
the lot, council decided.
The recommendation to remove the meters for November,
December, and January, followed a joint meeting of council,
the planners, and local businessmen who sought the free parking facility as part of their effort to increase downtown business opportunities.
A study will follow the trial
period to learn how much revenue has been lost from removal
of the meters, and how much
advantage businessmen feel
they gained. Meters on the
street will be retained, to keep
parking places available for
transient traffic.
In other action, council rehired Robert Russell as city Civil Defense director at a salary
of $500 a year. Russell, who
served as CD director last year,
had resigned in the spring.
ton Johnson. The couple have
two sons, David, 2%, and Daniel William, not quite, two
months old.
Surviving besides his immediate family are his mother,
Mrs. Anna Damroze of Ann Arbor, and a sister, Riad Houry
of Ypsilanti; four sisters and
three brothers living in Germany and Latvia.
Funeral services were held
Monday at Bahnmiller Funeral
Home, conducted by the Rev.
George Laurent, pastor of Federated Church, with which Mi'.
Damroze was affiliated. Burial
was in Oakwood cemetery.
UF Drive
Hits 5 Pet.
In First Week
United Fund contributions, in
the first week of the Saline area drive, amounted to $558,
five per cent of the $11,209
goal, Herman Merte, the drive
chairman, announced today.
Solicitation of residential districts is just getting under way,
Merte said, and all homes
should be contacted within the
next week.
"It is recognized that in many households, contributions
are given at the place of employment," Merte said, "and solicitation at home may be duplication, to some extent. No
means exist for eliminating this
completely. All members of the
community should be given an
opportunity to contribute to the
United Fund, and some households may desire to make contributions in addition to those
made at the place of employment."
Contributions made through
payroll deductions will be returned to the Saline United
Fund ONLY if so requested by
the contributor when the pledge
is made, he pointed out.
HALLOWEEN DANCE SET
The American Legion and Legion Auxiliary will sponsor a
Halloween Jylasguerade Dance,
Saturday, ifovemfeer 3, from. 10
p.m.«. to* 2 a.mv at theiSLegion
hall. Music "will be provided *by
Ken Volz' orchestra.
SPEAK AT SACA
Only two of the four city
council candidate attended a
meeting of the Saline Area Civic association where all had
been invited to speak, last Wednesday. '15iey?-~weter R b-belSfs
Strohl and George Johnson.
Two Injured
In Auto Crash
Sandra Merritt, 18, of 10570
Burmeister Rd., arid Dale L.
Roberts, 22, of 102 McKay St.,
were injured in a two-car accident at 7:55 p.m. Saturday on
Piatt Rd. north of Textile Rd.
in Pittsfield township.
Troopers said a car being driven by Roberts was trailing
too close to the edge of the road
and hit a bridge abutment. His
car then spun into the path of
one being driven by Thomas H.
Wagener, 18, of 260 W, Textile
RdV,*"in"whii2h" Miss ISferntt rwas
a passenger, l§Sl©Cf$JI Sfll
bruises
Merritt a bruise of the left leg.
Something's got to give, when
two unbeaten giants clash Friday in an all-out battle for the
Washtenaw conference title.
Saline's Hornets have scythed
down all opponents in their finest season since 1955; Chelsea's
Bulldogs have chewed up every
adversary except non-loop Milan. The show-down match here
is expected to draw a record-
breaking crowd.
For Saline, this would be the
first home grid victory over the
Bulldogs in four years in the
Washtenaw Conference. For
Chelsea, it could be a sweet revenge for their one-sided defeat
by Saline last year.
This could be Chelsea's third
grid title in the Washtenaw
Conference, or Saline's first.
In top trim are Hornet star
halfbacks Jim Griffin and Gayle
Finkbeiner, quarterback and
pinpoint pass artist Bill Davis,
Rober Davis, Dick Leidheiser,
and Mike Johnson.
Chelsea hopes are on the running of halfback Jack Howard
and fullback Dick Lauhon, and
the passing combination of
quarterback Curt Farley to either Dudley Holmes or Mike
Schrader.
The Bulldogs warmed up for
the contest with a one-sided win
over Dexter, 48-12, with five
backs scoring the team's TD's:
Howard and Lauhon each took
two; Holmes, Gordon Carpenter and Schrader account for
the rest.
Saline tuned up for the battle with an easy 31-6 win over
the Pinckney Pirates.
Scoring the first time they
had the ball, the Hornets' passing attack began clicking again.
After Jim Griffin had returned
the opening kickoff from the
Saline 38 to the mid-field marker, he went over right tackle
on the first play from scrimmage to the 45. A short pass
from quarterback Bill Davis to
Griffin netted Saline a gain to
the 15. End Roger Davis snared
an over-the-line pass to the five
for another first down. Then
the Davis-to-Davis combination
clicked again for the first score
of; the" evening.   ~ * / —v
In the second quarter, the
Hornets took over on a punt
that rolled dead on the Pirates'
40. Griffin slashed inside right
end to the 35, and Gayle Finkbeiner cut inside the other end
.to the 18. They repeated the
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Sue Washburn
Named Region
FHA Chairman
Sue Washburn, of the Saline
chapter of the Future Home-
makers of America, was named
chairman of the FHA's Region
HI, at a conclave Saturday at
Dundee High School. Mrs. David
Gates and Mrs. George Washburn, Saline chapter advisors,
will serve as regional advisor
and regional mother, respectively.
Region III is made up of
chapters from Washtenaw, Lenawee, Monroe, and Jackson
counties. More than 500 members Iron 32 chapters attended
the meet, including 45 members
from Saline.     *
-The Rev. Rennex Van- Scay,
of Toledo, was the speaker.
"Measuring Up WitjyFHA" was
the theme of the x:6nyention._
carried out by name tags prepared ibyfthte|iiasl Wendy Wild,
IJttonnieuGammet, and Beverly
Grail made name tags for the
local chapter.