1963-04-17; Saline Reporter

              The Saline Reporter
VOLUME 14, NUMBER 31 - WEDNESDAY, APRDL 17, 1963
Saline Schools Seek
Mills Allocation
With, a preliminary budget of
8707,663, the Saline area Board
of Education has "submitted to
the County Allocation Board
that we need 12.9 mills", Superintendent Leo Jensen said today.
(Concerning the budget figure, the emphasis is on the
word "preliminary". Such a
budget is required by the County Board of Education on the
third Monday in April - two
days ago — and the Allocation
Board held a preliminary meeting on that day. A preliminary
allocation is due the third Monday in May, but the final alio-
Hornets Blank
anchester
Opener
A one-hit pitching performance by Dick Leidheiser here
Tuesday opened the 1963 baseball campaign for the Saline
Hornets and started them in
their quest for the Washtenaw
Conference crown. They shut
out the Manchester Dutchmen,
5 to 0.
Leidheiser whiffed 14 batsmen while walking five. Manchester's lone safety came in
the third inning after two were
out - pitcher Al Briggson hit
a sharp liner over second base
to break the famine.
Briggson held Saline to six
hits but ran into trouble on
walks, passed balls and wild
pitches. All of the Hornet runs
were unearned.
In the second frame, '.Gary
Kind made the first tally as he
walked, went to third on Hartman's single and came home on
a passed ball.
Jim Feldkamp struck out in
the fifth, but reached first safely as the ball slid past the
catcher. Jim Griffin laid down
a sacrifice bunt, but reached
first as Feldkamp beat out an
attempted force-play at second.
Gary Finkbeiner singled ~ scoring Feldkamp. Bob Armbruster
then walked and Pete Barnes
singled - scoring Griffin. Finkbeiner and Armbruster both
scored on passed balls.
Bruce Niethammer, Saline's
catcher, was hit in the neck by
a foul tip but was able to stay
in the game. Manchester's catcher, Mike Gehringer, didn't
fare so well. He collided with
the pitcher while chasing a foul
ball and had to be taken out
of the game with an injured
chin.
Thursday the Hornets will
engage the Bulldogs at Chelsea.
Coach Ed Dubats has chosen
Eon Tucker to take over the
pitching chores.
cation is not made until the
first Monday in June.
Meanwhile, the district's valuation is not determined by the
state equalization board until
June. No firm school budget can
be made until both valuation
and allocation are known.)
But the likelihood that Saline schools will receive an allocation of 12.9 is remote . . .
last year's was only 9.32, after
a request of 10. "We expect to
get at least 9.5 from the board
this year," said Jensen, "and
the remainder of our needs will
have to come from our extra
voted millage."
School district voters last fall
approved an extra millage of
3.5 for four years.
The preliminary budget includes funds for a 25 per cent
reduction in the district's deficit, Jensen said, plus $20,000
for new buses, and the usual
increases in salaries of school
personnel, as well as the regular instructional budget.
It also provides for one more
teacher in the Elementary
School, where all grades except
kindergarten will consist of five
sections next year. The kindergarten enrollment is not yet
known, but it is "highly possible" that it will also have five
sections.
It is also possible that two
additional teachers will be needed in the High School, Jensen
said.
The county has also indicated
it will seek a larger portion of
the available 15 mills . . . five
mills this year, as compared
with last year's allocated 4.75.
10c PER COPY — $3 PER YEAR
Firemen Offer to Donate
Labor for New
WIDENING HORIZONS: Soon to be world travellers
are the three above, all students at Saline High School, who
will spend their summers far from home.
At left, Leslie Katz, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur
Katz, and Pat Fischer, daughter of the Ed Fischers. Both
are juniors. They will leave June 20, flying to London to
start eight weeks of travel. In the first two weeks, they may
travel anywhere they wish in Europe; in the remaining six
weeks they will stay with four families in Munich, Germany.
Their experience will include work in a refugee camp and
a resort. The trip is to be made under the auspices of an
international fellowship organization.
At right is Kathie Reed, daughter of the Paul Reeds, a
graduating senior who has been awarded the Elks' Club
scholarship to the college of her choice. Kathie will leave
June 27 for New York, then to England for a seven-week
trip which will include all the Scandinavian countries — as
a member of the Michigan Youth Chorale.
Achilles' Heel?
Mayor Finds Wrinkle
In Sunday-closing Law
Band Calendar
Chairmen Named;
Potluck Planned
Mrs. Dwight "Reynolds and
Mrs. Ira Jump have been named
co-chairmen of the annual sale
of Community Calendars, conducted by the Band Parents
club to help finance the Band's
annual trip to Interlochen.
The sale will begin next week
with a- kickoff potluck dinner
at 6:30 p.m. Friday, April 26,
at the High School. Color slides
of the Band at Interlochen will
be shown.
Target date for completion of
the sales is May 15; the calendars will be delivered in the
fall. They contain dates of all
local sports and civic activities,
as well as birthdays and anniversaries listed by purchasers.
Sales captains for the sale will
be announced next week, Mrs.
Reynolds said.
The Band will enter the State
Festival in Battle Creek on Saturday, April 27.
Apres Moi, le Deluge
City Council Monday night
heard a letter from a disheartened constituent:
Dear Mayor Bennett:
The day, a few weeks ago,
the town of Barnegat went dry
will long Uve in my memory
since a broken water valve on
my property put city water
through my meter to the tune
of some 200 gallons per minute
for several hours.
Now I'm as civic minded as
the next fellow - but when my
water bill jumped from an average sixteen to eighteen dollars, to a total of $54.50 for the
last quarter, due to an act of
nature, I respectfully request
that your and our distinguish^
council consider the possiblility
°f a downward adjustment on
this bill.
It's true that the broken
valve was on my property and
Perhaps you'll feel the matter
should end there. However, isn't
it possible - since all that water
flowed out of the valve and
swept in a southerly direction
toward city park land, that
most of it found its way back
to the City of Saline and there
fore is back in your possession?
Or — since the old Ford Motor
Company well house has a basement that held some of that water and it's still in a frozen
state, could I possibly sell the
City of Saline some ice this
summer, to recoup some of this
loss? v
I'm at your mercy — and open
to suggestion. But I'll be most
appreciative if you and the
council would review this matter. Needless to say, my spirits
are somewhat dampened.
Very truly yours,
Thomas H. Doenges
Doenges is the owner of the
old Saline Mill, now named the
Sauk Trail Inn.
Council adjusted the bill.
A new imponderable in the
controversial "weekend closing
law" came to light this week
after Mayor Jack Bennett asked
the Michigan Municipal League
to determine "whether the
county can dictate to a Home
•Rule city".
Said Bennett: "Under Home
Rule, we can make our own ordinances, including the regulation of trade, providing it doesn't conflict with state law . . .
and the state hasn't told us our
stores have to close on Sunday."
The state hasn't. The legislature, in passing the law, left it
to the various county boards
of supervisors to determine
Saline, Watervliet
To Exchange Mayors
Saline city officials on Mayor's Exchange Day will visit
Watervliet, a community of
1,818 population in Berrien
county, while the Watervliet
mayor comes here.
The exchange was arranged
at a drawing held last Wednesday in Lansing, attended by
Saline's Mayor Jackson T. Bennett, and Supervisor Robert
Harrison. Bennett was also
asked to serve on a state committee for Michigan Week, but
does not yet know details.
Watervliet is in the heart of
the fruit belt in western Michigan, about 12 miles from Benton Harbor and only five miles
from the city with which Saline
exchanged mayors last year.
Mayor's Exchange Day, Monday, May 17, opens Michigan
Week, for which Tom Doenges
is the local chairman.
whether the law should be effective in their own counties.
Washtenaw county's board approved it. Jackson county rejected it.
The League is "still investigating the matter and they
think :'we may "have a case,"
Bennett said Tuesday after a
telephone conversation with a
League representative. He added: "They expect the matter
will be pursued and perhaps ultimately decided in court, but
not until after the judge's decision next week."
Washtenaw county, along
with a number of others, is under a court order preventing enforcement of the law until after a Wayne county Circuit
Court decision next week.
Three stores in Saline area
would be affected by the law,
but only two of them are inside the city limits . . . Hull's
Grocery and the Saline Country
Market. The latter is part of
the ch<ain of Country Markets,
Inc., one of the plaintiffs in the
test case in Wayne county.
Coe, Wild
To Run for
New Terms
School Board members Gerald Coe and Lauren Wild will
both be candidates for re-election in the June 10 election,
they said this week.
Both are completing three-
year terms; the posts to be
filled at the election will run
for four years.
Wild said he would "definitely be a candidate". "I have enjoyed the work — and there is
a lot of work I would like to
continue," he said.
Coe, in announcing he would
run again, said "I've had three
years of experience and that's
important and valuable."
Petitions for candidates for
the posts must be filed with
the secretary of the Board of
Education (Oliver Steiner) not
later than 4 p.m. on May 11.
They must contain the names
of not less than 25 qualified
electors, but these need not be
registered voters, since Saline
area is a non-registration school
district.
So far, no other candidates
have announced their intention
to run.
HOSPITAL HAS TWO
FAMOUS PATIENTS
Saline Community hospital
this week found itsialf with two
extremely famous patients —
Joe DiMaggio and Bob Hope.
Cost for Materials Would
Be Approximately $10,000
"Would the city be interested good feelings  about  a joint
in building a new fire station building," said Russell. "There
Joe, who was in for a ton- for only about $10,000?" would be congestion, which is
sillectomy Tuesday, is the son      Fire chief HaroM  Armbrus- jUSt what We're trying t0 aVOid
of  the  Samuel DiMaggios,   of + A 1 ?.      ™™     by ^""^ &WHy ^^ ^ m&"
Owen Ct. He is six years old.    er P°Pped fte ^uestl0n Mond£y four corners; and people would
Bob,  11,  is  a medical patient niSnt when he and Fireman Bob be  parking  in  the fire  drive.
Russell attended Council meet- We kinda would like to be left
who lives near Milan.
ing to explain how it could be alone-'
Bridgewater
Postmaster
Exams Open
An examination for the postmaster position at Bridgewater,
done.
Said   Councilman   George
Johnson: "We have felt that in
The $10,000 figure is for ma-  .. . . •«,-*.      -i,
,    . ,        ,     t>       n      -j        a the next few years the city wdl
terials  only,  Russell  said,  and ,      . .   .  „. , .> *      «•
n i i,     *     *i.   u -u; ,j need a -joint 24-hour duty offi-
all labor for the bunding would .    .J,    ,   ..      ,.       J, ..
,,      * j i.    ,     i„7     *   „ cer to take both ponce and fire
be donated by local contractors     ..  „ *
, .. J calls."
and firemen.
Said Russell: "I think Saline
The   contemplated   building, .       . .        ..   . „
, . ,     -• tj   ,.,      f„ is a long way from that,
which   firemen   would   like   to      _      .  , -, \. „t,
erect on city property at the
corner of Harris street and E.
paying $4,965 a year, will be op- Michigan avenue, would be 70
en for  acceptance  of applica- by 60 feet,  one story,  cement
Queried Johnson: "How firm
is this offer of volunteer help?"
Said Russell: "Well . . . when
a Dutchman tells you he'll do
tions  until  May  7,   1963,   the block   construction,   with   four something, he'll do it."
U.S.  Civil Service Commission jarge overhead doors,
announce today.
The big overhead doors for
the fire trucks would open on
The $10,000 does not include Harris gtceet> Russell said> The
The position was left vacant heating and plumbing, he add- Contemnlated'bmldine would al-
by the  death  of Mrs. Robert ^   4ut we>u  do  that  labor, contemPlated buU(hnS wouM al
Welch last_ August;  since that too» ^ roster of SaUne Vol- firemen now use the older build-
Regional
Women's Guild
RUBBISH PICKUP SET
BEFORE MAYOR'S DAY
The city's annual spring rubbish pick-up which precedes
Mayor's Exchange Day and Michigan Week, has been scheduled for Thursday and Friday,
May 16 and 17. Householders
are asked to place rubbish at
the curb for free pickup.
New Officers
Chosen By BPW
Mrs. Garner Farrell was elected president of the Saline Business and Professional Women's club at the organization's
annual meeting Monday night
at the home of Mrs. Frank D&3-
de on Tower Dr.
Also elected to two-year
terms of office were Mrs. J.
Kenneth Taylor, vice president,
and Miss Florence M. Armbruster, secretary. The club's treasurer, Mrs. Edwin Schmid, has
one more year to serve before
her term of office expires.
BOY SCOUT LEADERS
WILL MEET HERE
Boy Scout leaders from Milan, Chelsea, Dexter, Manchester, Whitmore Lake and Saline
will gather at the Saline Intermediate School on Wednesday,
April 24, for the Iroquois, District No. 4 Roundtable meeting.
The meeting will begin with a
potluck supper at 6:30 p.m.
MARIAN HERING
UNDERGOES SURGERY
Mrs. Edwin Hering underwent surgery Tuesday--^ University Hospital in Ann Arbor
and is reported to be "doing as
well as can be expected".
Marian, who has been ill for
about three months and in the
hospital a great share of that
time, has never failed to keep
up her good spirits. Her friends
say when they go to see her
and cheer her up, she invariably
ends by cheering them up. Her
good spirits, they say, are a
fine cure for the mopes.
Boy Scout District
Officers Named
Stanton Roesch, a local attorney, was elected a vice president of Iroquois District 4 of
the Portage Trails Council of
the Boy Scouts of America at
the District's annual meeting
held Tuesday night in Ann Arbor.
Newly elected as members at
large from Saline were James
Carman, Robert Tefft, Mike
Strait and-William Crim, Jr.
B. J. Ludwig, of Chelsea, is
chairman of the District and
Luther Klager, of Manchester,
was named a vice president, also. Max Kenyon, of Dexter, was
re-elected district commissioner.
Installation of the officers
was conducted by Council President Jack Doidge, of Ann Arbor.
The regular biennial meeting
of the Ann Arbor regional Women's Guild will be held on
Wednesday, April 24, at St.
James United Church of Christ,
Saline township. It will be attended by women representing
13 churches of the region, affiliated with the former Evangelical and Reformed Church,
now the United Church of
Christ.
The principal speaker will be
Solomon Chu, of Hong Kong,
a graduate student in sociology
at the University of Michigan,
a Christian in religion.
Devotions in the morning will
be conducted by women of St.
John's Church, Jackson, and led
by Mrs. Henry Kroehler. In the
afternoon a short play, "Island
of Babel", will be presented by
women of Bethlehem Church,
Ann Arbor, and ted by Mrs. Armin C. Bizer.
There will be the reguhu" biennial election of officers who
in this instance will have the
responsibility of leading, during the nisxt biennial period, the
organization into the Council
for Lay Life and Work under
the program of the United
Church of Christ.
Present officers are: Miss Esther Landwehr, Saline, president; Mrs. Armin C. Bizer, Ann
Arbor, first vice president; Mrs.
Arthur Koessel, Lansing, second vice president; Mrs. Willard
Mann, Manchester, secretary;
and Mrs. Herman Schlecht, Ann
Arbor, treasurer.
Six departmental chairmen
are also members of the executive committee.
ed,   "but we'U  do  that  labor, so ^^ a meeting room . .
too." The roster of Sahne Vol- - 	
time RusseU Wilson, proprietor unteer firemen includes an elec- ,      nn tha+ lnt f    ^^   __t.
of Rustys  General Store,  has triciail) a plumber, ^d a heat- "f™ that l0t ** ^ mGet
served as acting postmaster.      ing aqpert ^^ ^^ „We ^ ^
Competitors for the postmas-      The  firemen  have  already is the time to do it. You'U never
ter vacancy must have at least conferred   with   supervisors   of get a fire hall cheaper "
one year of experience (educa- Saline and Lodi townships and
tion   above   high   school   level reCeived  indications   that  the
m-ay  be  substituted  for   six townships would participate in
months of experience) showing the cost to some extent, Arm-
that they have the ability to bruster said,
maintain simple records of ac-      The   offer"  came   at  a   time
counts or that it has given them when CouncU had already sche-
a knowledge of postal proced- duled a meeting with a munici-
ures- pal   development   corporation
Competitors must also show from Kalamazoo to discuss the      _,,.      _, .,   ,,-,,       „;„^
that they are of good reputa- possibUity of a new city hall ^ £%£J^ ,£&
^ff  ^ftfeyhrnameet ^ fireJtation combined. The t^e^Ts^Z^t-
and deal with the public agree- firm   Municipal Deve opment stallation„  but added tMt th
ably and effectively. Associates,  Inc.,   specializes  m ^ gtffl ^      ]ati ^
AppUcants must take a writ- putting up municipal buddings
ten test. Those who pass wiU on a lease-purchase basis,
be assigned final ratings on the      The firemen were invited to
basis of this test and on their attend   the   meeting,   at   7:30
experience, and fitness for the p.m. Monday at City HaU.
position.  They  must have  re-      But:   "We   don't  have  very
sided within the dehvery of the :
City Drops
"Deadline"
n Sidewalks
office for one year immediately   Auxiliary PlaHS
preceding  the  closing  date  of
the   examination.   In   addition, Poppy Poster  lea
they must have reached their
18th birthday on the closing
date for acceptance of applica-
assessment   districts   for   sidewalks in some areas.
The subject was brought up
by property owners, who inquired whether the June 1 target date for special assessment
districts was still in eifi2ct.
They had been notified last year
that they could instaU their own
sidewalks if they  chose,  but
..        -n nn e duled by the American Legion
tions. Persons over 70 years of   A„„„.„„. c<„„j„„ ^^  Q +n K
age cannot be appointed.
Complete   information   about
the   examination   requirements
A "Poppy Poster. Tea", a new that the city would move to do
event in Saline, has been sche- so "subsequent to June 1".
Said CouncUman George
Auxiliary Sunday from 3 to 5 Johnson Monday: "I don't think
p.m., at the Legion haU. the city is in a position to do
ui*   e^uiuiutuou   iaJuucu^B      On display for-the event wUl a11 t1"8 work this year! 1 sug"
u«   e-vuimuiiiuii   iojuucu™.* no doddv Dosters en- Sest we postpone the date."
SLST^bfoliSffilTt S^^B^SSStS,      <****   a   property   owner,
ST^oSK £j£S£t£ by local studLts, and winners ^^^5^^^^
Application forms must be filed wUl be announced at that time, to ™ ahpad ™* spt ™ snecial
with the U.S. CivU Service Com- according to Mrs. Robert Har-
mission,  Washington  25,  D.C., vey> Poster chairman,
and must be received or post- The posters wiU also be dis-
marked not later than the clos- played in downtown store wining date.
dows before Poppy Days, May
24 and 25.
to. go ahead and set up special
assessment districts and make
people file protests in areas
where 51 per cent of the property owners have already indicated they don't want it?
Said Councilman Don Deth-
B.S. COMMITTEE
TO MEET MONDAY
A Boy Scout committee meeting wiU be held at 8 p.m. Monday, AprU 22, at the home of Douthat and Mrs. Martin VUa,
MUton Finkbeiner, 206 Mills Rd.  of YpsUanti.
ert: "If 51 per cent of the pro-
The tea is open to the public, perty owners in any area don>t
as weU as to the young artists want it „ j don.t want it»
and their parents. The posters      Said  Buek.   .^ laum for  a
^J*? ^y MJs:^Ru£fflz. fact that 100 per cent of those
on the west side of Mills road
FIRE DEPARTMENT
MAKES TWO RUNS
Saline Fire department was
caUed out twice Tuesday, in the
afternoon when a smaU wood-
pUe caught fire at 9008 Macon
Rd., and in the evening for a
grass fire behind Saline Community hospital.
WILLING WORKERS
TO MEET THURSDAY
Members of the Willing Workers Club wUl meet AprU 18 at
the home of Mrs. Raymond Girbach. The meeting is scheduted
for 8 p.m. Mrs. Hparold Hammond wUl lead devotions and
Mrs. Archie Lott is in chparge
of the program.
are opposed to sidewalk."
Said Councilman Robert
Strohl: "That happens to be one
area I'll be opposed to sidewalk
also, for the record."
Lengthy discussion of the
sidewalk problem in various
sections of the city culminated
in CouncUman Jerome Hem-
mye's motion to set aside the
deadline "but point out that
the city is contemplating special assessments for sidewalks
in certain areas." The vote was
4-2 . . . Mayor Jack Bennett was
absent; Councilmen Dechert
and George Anderson voted
"nay".
There were six grand prize winners in the annual Jaycee*-
sponsored Easter egg hunt last Saturday ... but four of the
winners were so fast afoot that the judges were unable to get
their names or round them up for a picture. The two champs
shown are Lynn Feldkamp and Jeff Erskine. Practically all
of Saline's young set was on hand for the big event at Curtiss
Park. Jaycees, headed by Bob Louden, did their usual fine job
of running the contest.
U.F. BOARD MEETING
SET FOR APRIL 22
The board of directors of Saline's 1963 United Fund drive
wUl meet at 8:30 p.m. Monday,
AprU 22, at the home of Mrs.
Cecelia Ference, 10789 Jordan
Rd. Preliminary plans wUl be
made for preparing the budget
and the campaign for next faU's
ilrive. Herman Merte is ch<air-
man of the board.