1963-03-27; Saline Reporter

              The Saline
VOLUME 14, NUMBER 28 - WEDNESDAY, MARCH 27,1963
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Prospects for Meha, proposed
retirement viUage for Michigan
educators, are "brighter today
than they were a year ago, in
more ways than one," T. B.
Southerland, chairman of the
board of governors, said Satui--
day.
The organization "still has
hopes" of being able to open
some of the facility in the fall
of 1965, the original target
date, Southerland said. He
spoke at a meeting at Salme
High School. A number of city
officials were present.
The project is "over the hump
as far as support is concerned",
according to Dr. Dwight Rich,
executive director of housing.
Approximately 3,500 educators
have signed up to support the
project, though not all of these
Bandsmen
Shine in
State Event
Fourteen members of the .Saline High School Band partici-
pated in the State Solo .and Ensemble Festival held Saturday
in Kalamazoo.
The students were judged and
rated by professional and college music teachers on their
solos or in their ensembles.
Eight students received first
division ratings; six came back
with second division ratings.
None were rated lower than second.
The contingent was the larg-'
est from Saline ever to attend
the state event. Last year, only
two participated.
In Saturday's Festival, Rob
Merchant was awarded a first
rating for a trumpet solo. He
studies with Robert Jones of
Detroit.
A first rating also went to
Katie Esch for an oboe solo.
A clarinet quartet — Linda
Lambarth, Susan Robison, Sandy Greenfield, and Terry Jedele
- was judged "first", as was a
horn duet by Elaine Schaible
and Sharon Eberle. The rating
is equivalent to "superior".
Second division ratings, equivalent to "excellent", were won
by Barb Hehr, bassoon solo;
Bob Austin, trumpet solo; and
Vicky Hill, Dean Losee, Harper
Gilbert, and Bill Clark for a
snare drum quartet.
plan to live there. The board
anticipates opening the village
with about 100 units, Dr. Rich
said, and some who have signed
up have indicated that they
wish to build homes on the site.
Since the organization's option on the property north of
town expires in May, "a number
of matters must be ironed out
before then," Southerland indicated. Among them are annexation, city services, and the
possibility of a period of local
tax forgiveness, during the project's early years of growth.
Annexation will present no
problem, except that the city
wants to annex the Lloyd Steiner residence along with the land
now optioned by Meha, Councilman George Johnson said. As
for tax forgiveness, Council has
"discussed it", Johnson said,
and "the board should come to
us with a proposal".
Sewer and water systems can
be ready when the village is,
City Superintendent Mike Strait
said, and the city's new well,
just finished, will provide sufficient water.
Meha representatives will
contact Council on those subjects in the near future, the
bo<ard indicated.
It is hoped that Meha will be
a part of the Saline community,
Southerland said. Not only
would residents of the village
expect to attend local churches
and events and shop locally,
but "we would hope Saline people would take advantage of
Meha facilities such as the golf
course,and swimming pool."
Southerland made another
suggestion: that a wing might
be built by Meha at Saline Community hospital which, would be
available for community use
but for which Meha residents
would have priority. Federal
statistics indicate that people
of retirement age average 14
days per person per year in the
hospital, he said. Meha will
have its own registered nurse
on duty at the village.
3 Loca
Closing Law
Fifteen Saline firemen fought for more
than three hours Thursday night in an effort
to save the blazing barn above, set alight
when a small heating lamp fell over. Lost in
the fire were 300 chickens, 28 pigs, quantities
of stored  grain,  a tractor  and equipment.
INTERMEDIATE ROOM
MOTHERS TO MEET
The Intermediate School
Room Mothers organization will
hold a business meeting at 8
p.m. Tuesday, April 2, in the
band room at the school. Members will turn in names of their
replacements for next year at
this meeting.
But Merchants Aren't Sure How
Livestock,
Grain Lost
In Barn Fire
Livestock, grain, and. farm
equipment were destroyed in a
fire that levelled a barn in Freedom township late Thursday.
The blaze, which apparently
started from a small heating
lamp in a pen for young pigs,
gave Sahne firemen more than
a three-hour battle, at the Herman Spiess farm at 8951 Spiess
road. A nearby milkhouse was
also partially destroyed.
Included in the loss, besides
the barn itself, were 300 chickens, 28 pigs, stored corn, wheat,
oats and straw, and farm equipment including a tractor.
Saline Fire department was
also called out this week to
fight a grass fire Saturday afternoon at Moon and Judd roads
and a shed fire early Monday
morning at the Lee Willis residence at 1888 Judd Rd.
Lightning was apparently the
cause of the blaze in the shed,
firemen said. Stored lumber inside the building was damaged,
but the shed and part of the
lumber were saved.
ROTARY TO HEAR
CON-CON SPEAKER
Saline Rotary Club members
will meet at 12:05 p.m. Thursday, March 28, at St. Paul's
Church. Guest speaker, Charles
W. Joiner of Ann Arbor, will
address the group on Con-Con.
Program chairman for the meeting is Alwin Gross.
♦YOU SAID IT ♦
QUESTION: How can Saline's newspaper be improved?
(Editor's note: We should have
sent out a spy to do this one.
Everyone was too polite to answer, at least at any length.
However, we did manage to
coax out a few good ideas, like
this:)
Merle Simonton - We don't
get enongh news out in the
country. You only have Bridge-
water News . . . there should be
Lodi Notes and York News, and
some from Pittsfield and other
areas.
Mrs. Warren Finkbeiner - I'd
like to see more personal items.
Mrs. Edith Cotton Smith -
It's a very good paper for a
town of this size. About the
only improvement would be to
put all the related items in one
place.
Gottlob Walker - There
should be more local advertising and more local news — farm
news, school news, business
news.
Jay Starkey - As far as I'm
concerned, it's been pretty good.
I think the town news is pretty
well covered ... I don't read
tte personals and family news.
At one time, I thought it would
°e nice to have more school
news, but now I think it's pretty well covered.
_ Jesse Deede - Having lived
in a small town most of my life,
I think news items about people
are important - we still take
a North Dakota paper though
we've been gone 20 years, because there are so many news
items about people we used to
know. I think the Reporter
should have more of these . . .
in the city, you can't keep track
of everybody, but here in Saline, people want to know where
other people ar going and what
they're. doing.
Erma Wolfin - Longer ago,
we had a lot of little newsy items about people in Saline area and I miss that. That's what
we used to have and we like the
things we've been accustomed
to. But we're a larger community now and maybe it would be
impossible to do that now.
Ray Carlton ~ Why not run
a comic strip for the kids? The
paper, as it is, is strictly for
adults, to the kids it means nothing. They'd like a comic strip.
Paul Tull ~ Our thanks to everyone who offered these helpful comments on Saline's newspaper. We'll try to put as many
as possible of your suggestions
into effect. As a member of the
newspaper staff, I myself have
a suggestion, too. It's aimed at
all our readers. It's this: A
newspaper's vitality and growth
depend on its advertisers. So
whenever you feel that your Reporter is doing a commendable
job for Saline, remember that
it's our consists, loyal, every-
week advertisers who deserve
much of the credit. Read their
ads every week in the paper .. .
buy from those ads . . . and
you'll be amazed at how your
paper and your community will
grow.
Siie Named
Delegate To
Youth Congress
Miss Sue Washburn, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. George Washburn, left Wednesday for Chicago, where she will serve as
one of Michigan's two FHA delegates to the National Youth
Power Congress Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
Besides the two from the
state's Future Homemakers' as-_
sociation, 12 Michigan delegates
from other youth organizations
will. attend the meet. Altogether, about 200 young people,
from most of the states in the
nation, will convene.
The Youth Congress, supported by the National Food Conference, is designed to give
teen-agers "a better understanding of good nutrition, dramatize national concern about
teen-age eating habits, and develop cooperation of youth-
serving organizations of parents and educators". The National Food Conference is made
up of companies of the food industry.
In Saline FHA chapter activities, 140 attended the chapter's Mother-Daughter Banquet
Monday at the school.
The invocation was given by
Mrs. Paul Woods, Sr., chapter
Miss Alona Frey, president. The
mother, and the welcome by
toast to mothers was given by
Miss Wendy Wild, and the toast
to daughters by Mrs. Lauren
Wild, chapter mother. Mrs.
Nancy Gates, chapter adviser,
presented the chapter degree to
Miss Wild.
The program included a humorous fashion show presented
by the girls, and a lighting demonstration, "See Your Home in
a New Light", by Miss Dorothy
Downer, electric living consultant for Detroit Edison Co.
Juniors rehearse an impassioned moment in their class
play, a melodrama and farce to be presented Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights at the school. Above, Ed Ross plays
the villain and Judy Alpha, a maid, in "Adrift on Life's
Sea" or "A Fate Worse Than Death". The actors above axe
not in costume; dress rehearsals started Tuesday afternoon.
Carman to Lead
Manufacturing for
Michigan Week
James Carman, vice president
and assistant general manager
of the Bearing division of Hoover Ball and Bearing Co., has
been named Region 15 chairman of manufacturing for Michigan Week 1963.
Carman, who lives at 9900
Mooreville Rd., Saline, was
named to the post by Raymond
S. Chase, vice president - marketing of the Dundee Cement
company and a member of the
state manufacturing committee.
Region 15 includes Washtenaw, Livingston, Lenawee and
Monroe counties.
RETURN  FROM TRIP
TO MISSOURI AND FLORIDA
Mr. and Mrs. Sam Lambarth
returned last week from their
first trip to Florida ~ a trip
they "really enjoyed" to a state
they found "just beautiful".
Their traveling companions on
the motor-trip, which covered
over 4,000 miles, were, Mrs. Lydia Lambarth and her son, Robert; Mr. and Mrs. Harold
Feldkamp; Mrs. Clarence Feldkamp; and Mrs. Lewis Blaisdell.
The group found the weather
warm and beautiful; they toured the entire state, took in all
the sights possible, and still
found time to visit a host of
friends.
Before going on to Florida,
Sam and Olga, along with Lydia and Robert, stopped off in
Columbia, Mo., to spend a few
days with their daughter, Helen, and her family. The Feld-
kamps and Mrs. Blaisdtall join-
i3d them there for the rest of
the journey.
Bill Bott
To Speak at
C-C Dinner
William Bott, whose talk before the Chamber of Commerce
several months ago is still echoing along Saline's main streets,
wttl return to town next Tuesday night to give C-C members
the second installment. Largely on the basis of his first talk,
Bott was persuaded to come
back for the annual dinner meeting of the organization, to give
his remarks the wider circulation which they deserve.
Bott, executive director of
the Ann Arbor Chamber of
Commerce, will address C-C
members and their guests on
some of the problems facing local businessmen today . . . and
will suggest some possible solutions.
The dinner meeting is scheduled to start at 6 p.m. at the
Sahne Legion Home. Reservations for the session can be
made by phoning 429-7380 this
week. All Saline-area businessmen and wives are urged to attend.
Board Hires
New Hospital
Administrator
A new administrator for Saline Community hospital has
been hired by the hospital board
to replace Robert Maurer,
whose resignation becomes effective next month.
The newcomer will be Raymond Anderson, 32, now administrative assistant at Mercy hospital in Benton Harbor. He will
assume duties as administrator
here on April 15.
Anderson, who is married and
the father of three children (including a set of twins) was born
in Detroit and received his B.A.
degree from Michigan State university in 1955. He spent two
years in the armed forces before his employment at Mercy
hospital, an establishment of
169 beds and 29 bassinets. He
is a member of the American
College of Hospital Administrators and the Exchange club, and
he served for two years also as
Mercy hospital's United Fund
Drive chairman.    '      ""-
Maurer, who has been with
Saline hospital as administrator since October, 1960, presented his resignation early this
year in order to accept a position with Lincoln hospital in
wpast Detroit. He will remain in
Saline "at least part of the
time", he said, until the administration change-over is completed.
REGISTRATION 1,341
FOR MONDAY VOTE
City registration of 1,341
qualified electors includes "not
very many new ones," City
Clerk E.r J .Muir announced this
week. He "hopes for" a heavy
turn-out on the Constitution issue, he said.
Voters will also select two Supreme Court Justices and a
number of state officials; but
there is no local issue on the
ballot in the city. Township elections feature a few contests.
Three Saline area stores will
be affected by the controversial
"Sunday closing law" approved
for Washtenaw county by the
Board of Supervisors this week.
But none of them are quite sure
how.
The law provides that no
store with more than 4,000
square feet of customer space
shall remain open on any consecutive Saturday and Sunday
(i.e., they must close one weekend day every week), and includes a long and sometimes
contradictory list of items that
may not be sold on Sunday.
Each county Board of Supervisors had the option of rejecting the law in its own county, or accepting it by taking no
action, or approving it. The
Washtenaw board approved it
with only four dissenting votes,
one of them from Saline Supervisor Robert "Harrison.
Stores in this area that have
formerly kept open on Sundays
include the Saline Country Market, Hull's Grocery, and Lodi
Hardware.
Of the three, only the Country Market comes under the
provision of "more than 4,008
feet of floor space"; it must
close unless the law is declared
unconstitutional.
The law becomes effective
Thursday . . . but Washtenaw
is one of 13 counties and 25 cities under a temporary restraining order, which will block enforcement until April 5.
One of the parties suing to
prevent enforcement is Country
Markets, Inc. But the Country
Markets are ja process of merging with the Vescio groceries
of Saginaw area, Saline manager Ray Gretzner said today —
and the Vescio stores have not
been open on Sundays in the
past. In the process of the
change-over, some policy changes have already been made at
the Adrian Country Market
(now called "Vescio's Country
Markrt) . . . including Sunday
closing.
No immediate changes are expected  in  store  policy here,
Gretzner said.
Hull's grocery, with only ab-
OES   COUNTY ASSOCIATION
OFFICERS HONORED
Mrs. Everett Wolfin was among officers of the Washtenaw
County Association, OES, who
were entertained Monday evening by the Ypsilanti chapter,
OES, and honored Wednesday
evening by Olive chapter, Chelsea. Mrs. Wolfin is president of
the county group.
GOODWILL PICK-UP
SCHEDULED APRIL 2
The Goodwill Industries will
make their regular semi-monthly pick-up in Saline on Tuesday,
April 2. For pick-ups, call the
organization's new representative, Mrs. Dorothy Hutzd, at
429-9828.
RETURNS HOME
AFTER HXNESS
Miss Juliette Stark has returned to her home on Ellsworth Rd. following a month-
long illness during which time
she was at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Ed Northrup in Clinton.
A visitor of Miss Stark on Sunday was Miss Margaret Miles
of Saline.
BE SURE TO VOTE!
Monday, April 1
15 SHS Exhibits
To Be Entered
In Science Fair
At least 15 Saline High
School students will i2nter projects in the Southeastern Michigan Science Fair in Ann Arbor,
April 19 to 21, Jay Starkey,
science instructor, said today.
The list may not be complete,
Starkey said, as other students
have prepared exhibits that
would be suitable for entry and
may decide to do so.
Those who expect to exhibit
their work at the event include
eighth-graders Dave Strait, Anita Larson, Sharon Sackett, Deborah Carr, Mary Scherdt, Janet Wild and Mike Carpentier;
Mary Kuyda and Teri Fojtik,
ninth grade; Sue Washburn and
Phil Bondie, 10th grade; Ed
Ross and Jim Lake, 11th grade;
and Bruce Carr and Shirley
Sheehan, 12th. grade.
out 3,000 square feet of customer space, escapes the necessity to close. But the owners
are not entirely certain what
items they are forbidden to sell
on Sundays. Hardware, dishes,
etc., are generally prohibited;
but most groceries are included
in a "permissable" list now
available to merchants.
The list available, however,
is contradictory. Example: in
schedule A (prohibited for sale)
is "pet supplies and equipment".
In schedule B (permissable for
sale) is "pet supplies and equipment".
Said Bob Hull: "We'll try to
go along by the book."
Lodi Hardware, also small
enough to remain open, may be
able to sell very few items. Said
Merle Simonton, owner: "I don't
know for sure where I am; I've
got a lawyer to find out. It's a
jingled-up mess, but we won't
close this coming Sunday."
The law received heavy support from individual merchants
and Chambers of Commerce
throughout the state, including
Washtenaw county. Said Bill
Bott, executive director of the
Ann Arbor organization: "I
think the Supervisors reflected
very basically the wishes of
their constituents. The audience
(at the Supervisors' hearing)
spoke overwhelmingly in favor
of retaining the law."
Although a number of ministers were among those who
spoke in favor of the law at the
hearing, the issue was mainly
economic, Saline Supervisor
Henry Leutheuser said. "This
is business. If this is what the
people want, let them have it.
But the stores aren't closed yet;
they have till April 5. Let's
wait and see what the court
says about it."
Asked if he thought the law
a good one, Leutheuser said,
"NO!"
Harrison's comments on his
opposition to it are contained in
a "Letter to the Editor" on
page two. Others who opposed
it were Rudy Schmerberg, Pittsfield township; Clayton Parr,
Manchester township; and
Freeman Weber, Northfield
township (including Whitmore
Lake).
Other Saline merchants and
Chamber of Commerce members heartily approved the law.
Said one: "People can do all
the shopping they need to do
in six days; Sunday should be
for other things."
Said another: "The Supervisors made a very sound drasion,
reflecting the wishes of those
they represent."
Said Harry Parsons, incoming president of the Saline C-C:
"It sounds to me as if it discriminates against some stores.
But they can't enforce it until
they know what they're doing."
Members of the Confirmation Class of 1913, of Trinity
Lutheran Church, met Sunday at the church in a 50th reunion. All but two of them are still living; and two-thinis
of them attended the Sunday celebration. Members of the
class, above, were: Back row, left to right: Fred Dieterle,
Carl Lambarth, Erwin Niethammer, Fred Braun. Middle row,
left to right: Elsie Meyer Haeussler, Minnie Hertler Korndor-
fer, Ruth Graf Richard, Ottilie Mayer Haeussler, Lillie Bar-
rieth Bonnewill, Raymond Graf. Front row, left to right: Florence Schaible Klager, Luella Braun Walz, Emma Steudle
Schweigert, Emma Seitz Frederick.
Other members of the class, not present, were Laura
Schleh Stinson, Natalie Schleh Warnhoff (deceased), Emma
Stierle Hilpiinger, Julia Hartman Frederick (deceased), Hulda
Layer Cecil, Ruth Layer Wolf, and Edith Hertler Naugel.
The Rev. C. A. Lederer was pastor at that time, and
Frieda Lederer the class's teacher.
Pat, Audrey        \ %
Lead Doubles
In Pin Tourney
Pat Estes and Audrey Feuerbacher moved into the doubles
division lead in the third week
of the Ann Arbor Women's
Bowling association tournament
this week with a thundering
1217 handicap total.
The tournament, at Milan's
Cloverleaf Lanes, will continue
into April.
Also high on the doubles list,
in ninth place, are Shirley Armbruster and Betty Hieber, with
an 1157 handicap total; Shirley
also won a corsage for high
game in her shift (231 actual)
Saturday evening.
In team events, a Saline Mercantile team stands fourth with
a 2865 handicap total.
Jaelyne Hoeft is on the board
in singles, in. ninth place with
a handicap score of 618.
Pat Estes is also in line for
a special prize for high game,
with an actual score of 239 and
handicap score of 271.