1963-02-13; Saline Reporter

              The Saline Reporter
VOLUME 14, NUMBER 22 - WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1963
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airy Farmers Take Price Cut
Local MMPA members and
their families, at the annual
dinner Thursday, got two doses
of sour news on their perpetual
supply-demand squeeze.
One was an explanation from
their county marketing representative on why negotiators had
accepted a lower premium price
for producers this year. The
other came in the form of U.S.
Department of Agriculture predictions that production wUl
continue to rise whUe demand
continues to faU.
The SaUne local also elected
delegates and officers: James
Hayes, president; Charles Trin-
kle, vice president; Albert GaU,
secretary-treasurer; Carl Seeger, Paul Herter, Ernest Girbach and Alwin Marion. Their
alternates wiU also attend all
meetings: Chester Yargert, Leon Schaible, John Davis, Karl
Bird, Lawrence Helber, Orrin
Girbach, and Lloyd Finkbeiner.
Washtenaw county marketing
representative Herman Koenn,
of Chelsea, lixplained the lower
premium price accepted by negotiators this year: $1.90 and
$1.65, ten cents below last year's
figure.
"We had to recognize the
price spread betwi2en the Detroit and Toledo markets and
the danger of competition," he
said. SaUne area farmers ship
to the Detroit market, but processors sometimes bring in the
lower-priced Toledo area milk.
The new pricing agreement,
which affectsvover 14,000 lower
Michigan dairy farmers, calls
for an average payment of $4.88
per hundred pounds of Class 1
milk (this includes the premium). ActuaUy, prices vary
slightly between winter and
summer.
But the price still averages
84 cents more per hundredweight than producers would
receive under the Federal Milk
Marketing Order effective in
this area. Moreover, the Class II
price is up slightly, Koenn pointed out; so farmers can make
up part of the loss by shipping
more milk for manufacturing.
The latter is sold on a competitive basis instead of negotiated.
Norman Peterson, state
MMPA representative, cited Department of Agriculture figures
indicating that milk production
was up 5 per cent this year and
is expected to continue to rise.
Another department projection
indicates that consumption wiU
continue to drop at the rate of
about two per cent each year.
"People in this country are
about 20 per cent overfed," said
Peterson.
At the same time, with production up and demand down,
the producers' costs go up about
three per cent each year. "Last
year, 162 Michigan dairy farmers went under," he said.
But the MMPA as a group
continues to reject the quota
idea. Said Peterson: "We haven't found the alternative. We're
still studying several plans, but
they're aU compUcated."
Delegates and officers from the Saline local of the Michigan Milk Producers association were elected at the annual
dinner meeting here Thursday. Above, front row and left to
right, are James Hayes, president; Alwin Marion; Albert GaU,
secretary-treasurer. Back row: Carl Seeger; Paul Herter; Ernest Girbach; and Charles Trinkle, vice president.
Committees
Listed for HS
Junior Play
Tentative committee Usts for
the forthcoming junior class
play were announced this week
by Larry Brown, director. There
wiU be later additions to aU the
groups, he said.
The class wUl present an old-
fashioned melodrama, "A Fate
Worse Than Death", or "Adrift
on Life's Sea", in the High
School auditorium March 28, 29
and 30.
Committees named so far include: sets, to be headed by
Dolores Faust as stage manager, with Janice Wiebusch, Jim
Feldkamp, Charles Burkhart,
Coby Livingstone, Rick ReiUy,
Doug Robirtetty George Reynolds, Tom Jensen, Larry Graban, John Blinn and Leslie Katz.
Properties wiU be arranged
by Betsy Smith, Sue Davis, Richard WUd, Jim Strait, Sharon
Feldkamp, Bonnie Camburn, Eric Rasmuson, Jim Wolfinger,
Kathy Burkhart, Rob Merchant,
Gary Kind, Bob Gula, John Emery, and George Settles.
Costuming and makeup are
in charge of Jo Jordan, Janice
Richards, Becky McPeake, Karen Riggs, Cheryl Furbush, and
Janet Weber.
The committee on advertising
includes Sharon Eberle, MarcUe
Bauknecht, LesUe Katz and Kitty Todd, and tickets and programs wiU be handled by Barbara Hehr, Sandy Frederick, Beverly GaU, and Dennis Young.
AU but the set committee wiU
elect their own chairmen, Brown
said.
UNDERGOES EYE SURGERY
Charles Schultz, of 7512 Saline-Ann Arbor Rd., Tuesday
underwent the second of two^op-
erations to remove cataracts
from both eyes. He is a patient
at St. Joseph Mercy hospital in
Ann Arbor (room 4019).
The first surgery was performed about a week ago. He
is reported in good condition,
but wiU remain at the hospital
for about another week.
Mercantile Co.
Reports Sales,
Income Gains
The SaUne MercantUe Co., for
the fiscal year 1962, chalked up
impressive gains in both sales
and net income — in both the
elevator and the Lumber Co.
divisions, according to the annual report released this week.
Net sales at the elevator rose
to $610,002.51, as compared
with $518,928.11 for 1961. Gross
income went up to $85,053.51,
over last year's $80,868.99.
Saline Lumber Co. division's
net sales almost doubled — to
$140,950.90 over the $70,009.59
reported in 1961. Gross income
more than doubled - $36,074.27,
as compared with last year's
$16,319.59.
Net income at the Lumber Co.
showed the sharpest rise, with
a profit of $675.13 (after taxes), as compared with a loss
last year, $3,261.03.
The elevator division's net income after taxes, rose from last
year's $6,477.98 to $7,841.20 in
1962.
RED CROSS FIRST ADD
CLASS MAY BE GIVEN
A Rp3d Cross basic first aid
class may be scheduled in Saline, if enough persons are interested, Mrs. MUton Sackett said
this week. A Red Cross instructor wiU schedule the course here
if approximately 20 are enroUed,
she said.
Interested persons are asked
to caU her, at 429-9247, to register. Time and place of the
classes wiU be announced if
they are scheduled.
Municipal Parkins Lot
To be Metered Again
Hornets Lose
To U High
By 53-40
STANDINGS
W
L
U-High
8
0
Dexter
7
2
Chelsea
5
2
SALINE
4
4
Manchester
3
5
Pinckney
0
9
Hoover Names New
Vice President
John F. Daly has been elected
vice president of Hoover BaU
and Bearing company, according
to an announcement by H. L.
Schrock, Jr., president.
In addition, Daly retains his
present position as president of
Hoover's Universal Wire Spring
division which operates plants
in Georgetown, Ky., and High
Point, N. C," and produces automotive and furniture seating
components.
Daly was previously executive vice president of the Universal Wire Spring division of
Universal Incorporated, which
became the Universal Wire
Spring division of Hoover in
May of 1960. Prior to that association, Daly was vice president of International Steel company, EvansviUe, Ind.
Hoover BaU and Bearing company is a highly diversified manufacturer operating 17 plants
and services a wide range of
industrial and consumer markets.
Girl Scouts
To Aid YSH
Bus Drive
Girl Scout Troop 176 wUl go
from door to door in Saline in
an effort to collect Gold BeU
gift stamps for the YpsUanti
State Hospital bus drive, as a
community service project.
Troop leaders are Mrs., Carl
Wilson, Mrs. Robert Lindemann
and Mrs. Charles Stratton. The
28 girls of the troop wUl make
their door-to-door campaign during the week of February 25
after, school and on Saturday.
Mrs. Thomas Buchanan is
chairman of the bus drive which
started last fall. The goal is
5,500 stamps, 1,800 of which
have been collected up to now.
This is-two-thirds of the stamps
needed to acquire one bus, but
two buses are needed to transport patients to recreation facilities. It is hoped that the
goal wiU be reached by summer.
"We feel certain that many
people have stamps to donate
to the drive, but just haven't
gotten around to maUing them
or dropping them off at collection points," Mrs. Buchanan
said.
f Ups and Downs f
Top Grange Euchre
Winners All Tied
Ties for both men's and women's first prizes, as weU as
men's second prize, marked the
Pittsfield Grange euchre tourney session Monday.
Mrs. Erwin Wiedmayer and
Lila Steeb tied for women's top
score. Florence Armbruster was
second, and Lorena Stein third.
In men's scoring, Jacob April! and Frank Heusel tied for
first, and Erwin Wiedmayer and
Norman Wiedmayer tied for second. Erwin Frederick placed
third.
The prize for lone hands went
to Elmer Schultz and the door
Prize to Oral Bassett.
Saline Township
Election Canceled
Saline township's first primary election has been caUed
off. The action was taken to
save the cost of an etection,
because there was no contest
for any office on either the
Republican or the Democratic
baUot, Township Clerk Warren
Finkbeiner said.
Saline township, which had
previously operated on the caucus system, changed to the primary system this year on the
premise that it would be "more
democratic" and "give the people a bigger voice in local government".
ASSEMBLY OF GOD CHURCH
TO HOLD ANNUAL MEETING
The annual congregational
business meeting of the Assem-
770f God Church wiU be held
at " :45 p.m. Wednesday, February 20, at the church. Officers
will be elected and annual reports wffl be made. A meeting
of the church board wffl precede
the annual meeting.
Euchre Winners
Announced
Winners of Friday night's session of the WiUing Workers euchre tournament are Melvina
Klager and Mrs. Russell
Hughes, who tied for women's
first prize and shared it; Marie
Herter, women's second prize;
and Laura Wahl, women's third.
In the men's division Albert
Faust was first; LesUe Robison,
second; and Paul Herter, third.
Mrs. Jacob Wahl won the galloper and Edwin Nissley the
taUy prize.
The tournament wUl be completed aftpsr two more evenings
of play, February 15 and 22. It
is being held at the SaUne township haU and Js open to the
pubUc.
Jim Griffin is out of commission this week ~ he received
a cut inside his mouth when he
was hit by a skate while playing hockey at Henne field Saturday afternoon. It required 12
stitches to close the gash and
Jim has a painfuUy swoUen face
to show for the accident.
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Mrs. Glenn Gordon recently
returned home from Saline
Community Hospital where she
had spent a week under medical
treatment for a heart condition.
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Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Austin are
expected home from Florida
this week. They've been visiting the WiUiam Austins in Clermont and also spent some time
in Englewood with Hugh's sister and her husband, the Frank
Scotts.
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Little Deborah Bachman, 6,
and her brother Daniel, 4, underwent tonsiUectomies Tuesday
morning at the Saline hospital.
They are the chUdren of Mr.
and Mrs.  Donald Bachman of
S. Ann Arbor St.
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Carl MiUer, who lives on Burmeister Rd., underwent minor
surgery  at ' SaUne  Community
Hospital last Saturday.
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FN(S.S.) Myron R. Anderson
has been home on leave from
the Navy the past week. He and
his wife, the former Shirley
Chantelois, make their home on
N. Harris St. in SaUne. Anderson recently returned from a 6-
months' Mediterranean cruise
and is scheduled to leave Thurs
day for New London, Conn.,
where he wiU report for duty
aboard the polaris missUe sub-
in a r i n e Alexander Hamilton
which wiU go into commission
in June. On Monday, Mr. and
Mrs. Carl Anderson, of Atlanta,
Mich., spent the day in Saline
with their son and daughter-in-
law.
* *      *
Albert GaU has been under
observation at Saline Community Hospital since he became suddenly iU Monday morning.
* #      *
Medical patients at the Saline
hospital this week include Mrs.
Edward Alber, Mrs. Norman
Taylor, Mrs. Gottlieb Finkbeiner, and John S. Dicks; Mrs. Gordon Flickinger entered the hospital Monday for surgery.
* *      *
Mrs. Edwin Hering was admitted to SaUne Community
Hospital Monday for medical
treatment and observation. Everyone is hoping that it wiU
turn out to be nothing sisrious
and that Marian wiU soon be
out and about.
* *      *
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Chantelois, of Lindemann Rd., have
received word that their son,
Joseph, a member of the Air
Force, has been promoted to
Airman First Class. He has been
stationed at a smaU air base in
Turkey since October.
* *      »
Miss Florence Armbruster visited Owen and Ruth Lambarth,
of Pleasant Lake Rd., and Ed
and EUa Gensley, of N. Ann Arbor St., Sunday afternoon*
by Lanny Robbins
Only two games with Chelsea
hold the hope of the Hornets
moving up in Washtenaw Conference standings for the remainder of the season. Presently at a .500 loop average, the
lowest in ye.ars for the local
quintet, this nacord could get a
boost Wednesday evening when
the SaUnians play host to the
third place BuUdogs.
Both teams came out on the
short end of Friday evening's
battles — the Hornets losing to
the U-High Cubs 53-40, and
Chelsea victims of an upset by
a rapidly-improving Dexter
squad, 67-63.
SaUne's five could place some
blame on a temperamental pair
of glasses, in their loss to the
high-riding Cubs. After zipping
off to a 5-2 lead in the opening
minutes of the contest, aU on
scores by Jim Feldkamp, the
Hornets were slowed down by
Feldkamp's loss of his glasses
in several plays in" succession.
That was all the faltering U-
High team needed to recover
from SaUne's opening onslaught.
With just over two minutes
left in the opening period, the
Cubs had clawed out an 8-5
lead whUe the Hornets had gone
scoreless for over four minutes.
By the end of the quarter, the
visiting team had a 13-10 advantage.
Second period action saw the
Hornets were again scoreless for
the first four minutes, whUe U-
High was forging ahead to a
20-10 lead. By half-time, the
Cubs were in a pretty secure
28-17 lead.
Through the second half the
Hornets were unable to close
the gap to less than eight points
and that margin came when
Mike Johnson whipped in a pair
of close jump shots; but, by
the time the period ended, the
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A Harlem Magician skates through a phalanx of Saline
faculty players in the Jaycee-sponsored exhibition game here
last week. The local team, faculty and alumni, put up a stiff
battle, had the Magicians tackisd down to a mere one-point
edge at half-time, but drifted farther behind in the second
half. The visiting team wound up with a slim 72-64 margin
. . . without really getting out of breath.
Department
Called for
Three Fires
SaUne volunteer firemen were
caUed out three times this week,
twice to assist other departments at rural blazes.
Three registered sows and
their litters were destroyed in
a fire in a Pittsfield township
shed early Thursday. Damage
was estimated at $6,000. The
blaze, on the Charles McCaUa
farm on Stone School road, was
fought by twenty men from the
Pittsfield and Saline departments. Cause of the fire was
believed to be an electric-light
bulb placed in the shed for
warmth.
Mrs. Audrey Farmer and her
family, of 108 N. Maple St.,
awakened early Saturday to
find the house fiUed with smoke
from a faulty blower in the furnace. The fire department was
caUed to the scene but there
was no damage to the house and
little blaze.
The old Lowry house on Sa-
lima-Ann Arbor road (once Cpall-
ed the Lambarth home, and before that the Blaess house) was
gutted Sunday night after a
furnace in the basement overheated. Firemen from the SaUne and Pittsfield departments
fought the fire for over two
hours.
The 15-room dweUing was unoccupied when the fire occurred.
The Dennis Engelberts, who managed the Lowry farm until its
riscent sale to developers, had
moved to their own farm in the
Chelsea area, the week before.
SOCIAL SERVICE
BOARD MEETING SET
The board of directors of
Saline Area Social Services, Inc.,
wiU meet at 8 p.m. February 18
at the home of Mrs. Lauren
WUd, 230 RusseU St.  -
Former Saline
Businessman Dies
Suddenly At Home
Funeral services wiU be held
at 2 p.m. Thursday at BahnmU-
ler Funeral Home for Jay W.
Harmon, 66, of 122 E. Michigan Ave., who died suddenly
Monday night at his home.
He was born November 2,
1896, in Macon, a son of Charles
and Annie Craig Harmon.
Mr. Harmon was a lifelong
resident of the Saline area. He
operated the Recreation Lunch,
known in later years as BiU's
Tavern, from 1933 until 1952,
when he retired. The business
was located on W. Michigan
Ave.
Mr. Harmon was a member
of Wffliam B. Lutz Post 322 of
the American Legion.-
He is survivied by an aunt,
Mrs. Lou GiUen of Pontiac; a
brother-in-law, Ben Uphaus of
Saline; and five nieces and nephews, Charles, Ralph and Dorothy Uphaus and Mrs. John
(Carol) Girbach, aU of Saline,
and Mrs. Carmelo (Shirley)
Crespo of Plymouth. One brother and one sister preceded
him in death.
The Rev. George B. Laurent
will officiate at the funeral services. Interment will be in
MooreviUe Cemetery.
Memorial contributions may
be made to the SaUne Community Hospital.
Susie Conquers Business World
Susie Still is six years old, a
kindergarten student at Saline
Elementary . . . and a hot prospect for SaUne's Business and
Professional Women's Club.
Susie turned six just last
month . . . yet for at least the
past two years she's been working as a part-time busings associate of her parents, L. Z. and
Arlene StiU, in the operation of
the famUy's hotel and coin-
operated laundry.
An afternoon-shift kindergartener, Susie rushes home from
school each day to take over the
hotel switchboard, to make
change for the coin-op customers, to fUl the pop machine in
the hotel lobby, and to seU candy over the hotel counter.
"She's quite a business woman," says one of her customers.
SHIFT BANQUET
SaUne Cub Scouts' annual
Blue and Gold banquet, origin-
aUy planned for the Elementary
School on Feburay 23, wffl be
held at the Intermediate School
instead.
And the Stills agree.
"We asked her to help out
once when we were quite busy,"
says Arlene. "She enjoyed the
job and asked for more.
"Now I don't know how we'd
get along without her. She needs
no supervision. Most of the time
we don't even know she's there.
She sees a job that needs doing
. . . and she goes ahead and
does it."
Susie takes to the job naturally. Her elder brother, Bob, was
king of the cash register at
StiU's old restaurant years ago,
when he was about Susie's age.
And what does she enjoy
most about the job?
"The people," says Susie. "I
enjoy meeting people the most
of aU."
Ted Spence, former state and
national archery champion, wUl
demonstrate his skffl at the
Pittsfield Grange father and son
banquet next Tuesday, February
19.
Some lO-Hour
Meters to be Put
On Michigan Ave.
Parking. meters wffl be put
back into the municipal lot Friday ~ but about half of them
wiU be "penny-starters" which
aUow two-hour parking only.
At the same time, some of
the two-hour meters at each
end of Michigan avenue wffl be
replaced with ten-hour ones.
CouncU's decision, to end the
free parking in the lot and rearrange the street meters, came
at the end of a two-hour session Monday night with local
merchants. But only five businessmen attended the conclave:'
George Burg, Marty Hemenway,
L.Z. Still, Ai Walker and Erwin
Schmid.
The session was called at the
end of a three-months trial period of free parking (with a two-
hour Umit) in the city lot, to
see if the arrangement would
stimulate downtown business in
SaUne.
Since the trial period crossed
the Christmas hoUday season,
both CouncU and merchants said
it was difficult to assess the
effects. Hemenway said he had
noticed no difference in his restaurant business. Walker said
his business had shown no detectable increase but "customers
have told me they are satisfied
with the arrangement."
The city's loss of revenue during the period was estimated by
CouncUman George Johnson at
about $437 .. . but this also covered a two-week period during
the hoUdays when street meters
were covered as weU. Only about
$60 of the loss could be attributed to the parking lot, he
estimated.
The decision to put some
"penny-starters" in the lot came
• after merchants' insistance that
customers objected to putting a
nickle into a meter if they only
intended to. stay a short whUe.
Said Hemenway: "I'm opposed
to giving away parking, but
that lot is taxed too heavUy.
The meter cost should be lower
to induce people to park there
instead of on the street.
L.Z. StiU opposed the resumption of metered parking in the
lot. 'We've got to have free
parking somewhere," he said.
"We can't keep on competing
with places that have adequate
parking. If you keep the meters
on the street, everything else
wiU take care of itself. You can
get another lot off those meters; they've already bought one;
they can buy another."
"The downtown area is deteriorating/' Still said. "It's going down aU the time and it's
going to take something to stimulate it."
A poUce count of cars in the
lot during the free period showed 14 to 20 in Noyember, 22" to
28 in December, and 23 to 25 in
January. But spot-checks during
peak hours and on Saturdays
"showed an average of 35. The
lot capacity is 45.
Net result of the discussion:
about 18 ten-hour meters wUl
be placed at the east end of the
metered area on Michigan avenue, and about 10 at the west
end, replacing existing two-hour
meters.
The north side of the city lot
wffl be set for ten-hour parking; the south side wffl contain
the two-hour meters.
Susie makes change for an amazed Mrs. Patsy SeUs.
Arithmetic is stiU mostly a mystery to the average kindergartener . . . but to young Miss Still ifs just part of the
day's work.
CYSTIC FIBROSIS
CHAPTER TO MEET
The Washtenaw county chapter of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation wffl meet February 20
at 8 p.m. The meeting wffl be
held in the Pediatrics Conference Room on the tenth floor of
University Hospital. Speakers
wffl be Dr. WiUiam Howatt and
Miss Teresa Tener.aUo.
Anyone interested in attending, but in need of transportation, may caU Mrs. MUon Hartman at 429-9989 or Mrs. Robert
Starling at 429-9372.