1963-07-17; Saline Reporter

              The Saline Reporter
VOLUME 14, NUMBER 44 - WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 1963
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C Pushes Council
>n Lights, Parking
Two Merchants
Get Temporary
Sign Approval
, 'The Chamber of Commerce in  the earlier proposed site, behind      ^ ^ mf£hants foUowed
H letter this week urged that Ci- W. Michigan avenue and S. Ann ^^ ^"lo The"
ty Council "accept its respon- Arbor street, and will study it S^hS^SS^ ab
sibility" for new street light-  further. e       *  u F    ""<="<-
ing, issued a reprimand on the      The letter from the Chamber
downtown street cleaning pro- of Commerce read:
gram, and inquired what was "Honorable Gentlemen:
being done to expand off-street      "Our committee for new
parking. street lighting has made a sur-
The letter reached Council vey of downtown merchants to
Monday evening, at the same determine the feasibility of
meeting at which a committee 'merchant participation in ab-
on off-street parking came up sorbing the balance of unrecov-
with a new suggestion: a city ered street lighting investment,
lot behind the City Hall. But It was the finding of this com-
the suggestion was tentative; mittee that the merchants
the committee has not contac- strongly feel that this needed
ted property owners in the ar- program should be totally a city -^ ^"ugh ^han^over
ea to learn whether sites are responsibility.   They   feel   that  to some d _ But he ^ be_
avaUable, or investigated whe-  further   charges   to   them   are    in looM     for SQme tQ rg_
ther alleys that would give ac- compounding tiieir cost of doing mQVe ^ infringement entirely
cess are dedicated public pro- business m Saline. The decreas- he said
perty. ed recognition caused by the en-      The other, Marty Hemenway,
The committee, Councilmen forced sign removal should be &und ^ „Marty,s Restaurant»
Don McKenzie, Don Dechert and offset by sufficient downtown si weU oyer m& permIssable
George Anderson, were asked to lighting, at no additional cost to 32.S(luare-foot size. He will have
investigate further and report those affected to rem£)ve ,the trim tQ make it
at the next regular meeting 'Therefore, the - Chamber of smaUer, and move the sign clos-
(August 5) to which interested Commerce urges that the Sahne er tQ ih& building He found the
merchants are invited. City Council accept its respon- state ^g^    department fair-
w"r Council also discussed again sibility  to local  business  tax- j    g       t0      t al       ^^   he
  payers and authorize sufficient said> (<A11 j did wag ask> and j
additional   funds   to   complete an ^^ It doesn,t take
thisprogram not later than this long tQ type a letter.»
faU-" All Saline merchants on Mi-
out their signs . . . and got results.
Both of them got temporary
permits, "revokable at any
time", to keep their signs up
providing they conform to a
list of regulations governing
signs on highway rights-of-way.
One of them, Jack Steeb of
Elmer Steeb & Sons, studied
the list of conditions and found
his present sign already in full
accordance with them. It is not
actually mounted on the right-
Council Deadlocked
On Payment of Bill
Bill Delhey
Promoted by
Prosecutor
BEDS FOR TWO NEW
SCHOOL BUSES APPROVED
Saline area Board of Education this week approved a bid * * »■       ■
from Elmer J.  Steeb  & Sons, ^^pj/rto|o
Tie Stalls
Action on
List
Last week Robert Estes took over the presidency of Saline Rotary Club. He's shown above receiving his president's
lapel button from outgoing prexy Howard Johnson. At the
same time Gerald Bahnmiller, shown below, assumed the job
of club secretary. Paul Tull is new vice president, and Ron
Shaffer will serve as club treasurer for another year.
Paul H. Woods
Dies Suddenly
In Ypsilanti
Paul H. Woods, 60, of 203
Clark St., died suddenly Tuesday afternoon in Ypsilanti; he
suffered a heart attack on the
'Tfc.V°.mm   ^ f£S°      W. ^igan avenue recently had re-
dissatisfaction with the current ceived notice that ^ si
downtown street cleaning pro- were either pgxtigSfy or entire_
gram, feeling that it is made- j    Qn stafe hi h ri ht.of.
quate, especially m view of the and would have to be re_
current construction program." moyed within a limited tfane-
"Lastly,   many   merchants     0ne other such notice was re-
Two Injured
In Accidents
At Same Spot
Dodge dealers, for two new 66
- passenger buses  at  a  cost  of      City   Council  Monday   night
^'William F. Delhey, a partner $13,553. Three old buses will be ran   into   another   deadlocking
the firm Roesch & Delhey traded in. , 3-3 vote - and this one pre-
vented   payment   of  the   June
bills.
It was the third deadlocked
vote since Council shrank to a
six-man group, with the resignation of Jerome Hemmye on
June 1. The first tie, at a June
meeting, prevented the tabling
of the appointment issue; the
second prevented the appointment of either of the two sug-
ln
here, has been appointed chief
assistant to the new county prosecutor, William D. Barense.
Delhey, who lives at 3874 Waterworks Rd., had served as
first assistant under Prosecutor
William Ager, Jr., who was
sworn in last week as Washte-
naw county's second Circuit
Court judge. Barense was then
Girl Knocked
Flat by Freak
Blast at Home
Two   Salinians  were  injured
this week in separate one-car
A 16-year-old girl was knock-
appointed to fill the unexpired ed down in her home Saturday
prosecutor's term. by   a   mystery   explosion  that gested  candidates  to  complete
"(Dther members of the prose- may have been a sonic boom. Hemmye's term. After that the
cutor's staff were moved up in jm Alber, daughter of Mr. appointment was tabled and has
the realignment: John R. Ha- and Mrs. Paul Alber, of 785 remained so.
thaway, of Ann Arbor, from Lambkins Rd., told police she Monday's impasse came over
second to first assistant, and had been thrown to the floor a disputed bill for $439 from
Casper H. Kast, Ann Arbor, by the blast, though she saw Lance Rogers, for brush cut-
accidents three hours apart and from third to second assistant, no sign of flash or fire ting and clean-up work done at
at the same spot, Saline-Ann An appointment of an assistant in an effort to trace the Curtiss Park last fall. The bill,
Arbor road at the corner of to head the Ypsilanti office of cause of the explosion, police however, was not presented un-
Textile road.                                department will be announced and firemen checked the house tu this spring.
Dennis Gransden, 17, of 100 jn the near future, Barense said, but found no trace of fire or Rogers has done work of as-
Saline-Ann Arbor road, suffered Delhey was appointed to the smoke; a gas company repre- sorted types for the city for 35
a fractured skull at 1 a.m. Sun- staff as s«3cxmd assistant by sentative reported no leaks and years> including the regular
day, when his speeding car went Prosecutor Edmond F. DeVine no evidence of escaping gas; an cleaning of the water tower. But
out of control, left the road,  jn  December,   1956.   He  was electrician found nothing to in- this time, Councilmen said they
didn't know who had hired him
auj.j.eicu  a  uran   ci.llcp.uiv   pjii   liic .   ,     . .     .    .- ...   _ 	
steps of his church where he ?*** !° ^T whf'lf any*hmf> ceived at that time . . . by Tri
is   being   done   to   expand  off nity Lutheran Church. The Rev.   0„|«    _  T>nnA
street parking facilities, as pro- w   T     w„to1   y,afl   nismnpri   tn  OcUMie OdllU
was attending the funeral of a
friend,
He had been a Saline resident
being   done   to   expand  off
„„_..„   H.  L.   Engel  had  planned   to
vided for in Ordinance No. 149, write to the department about  r£     Hold Fort
for the brush work in the park.
His bill was withdrawn from
since 1931, and had worked for *unds io?™h^ "* currently it  but  changed  his  mind,  he   *" ""iU A"Y
the city a number of years. He beu;* .col™d- .    .  . .     said, "because we decided they At Milan Fair
"This letter was adopted^ by couldn>t possibly mean the sign        ^ XfX"""
and  smashed  into  a fence,  a made first assistant by Ager dicate that the house might
mailbox, and two trees. He was on January 1,1959. have been struck by lightning,
taken to St. Joseph Mercy Hos-      Delhey, who was born in Chi-     But the noise was heard by a
Pltal- cago, HI., graduated from Ann number of Salinians, including the 'list before the early June
Three hours later, Loretta I. Arbor High School in 1943. He a police officer who believed it bills were paid at the regular
Carpenter, 39, of 3119 W. EUs- received a bachelor's degree in" might have been a' sonic boom. July 1 meeting; but Councilman
unanimous vote at our July
2nd, 1963 meeting for your urgent and immediate action."
"Bud" Hertler
city a number of years
was then employed by Uniloy
Division  of   Hoover  Ball   and
Bearing  Co.,   in  maintenance,
until his recent retirement.
Until  his  recent  illness,   he
was an extremely active man,
fond of fishing, fond of camping - he annually spent at least  "T|f pa   A"ftPT
a week at a church camp. He  -L'ie» -fVLLCl
was also an usher in his church,   T ^|*|o" TlltlPQQ
the Monroe  Street  Church  of -LA'll& -"AAW^QO
God in Ypsilanti, and had served many years  on  the  board
of directors.
He was born in Calhoun, Alabama, on February 14,1903, the
son of Samuel and Mary Graham Woods. On June 24, 1931,
he married Mary Morris in Saline. She survives.
at the church. They must have
The Saline High School Mar-
worth road, was admitted to the mathematics from the Univer- Miss Alber was not injured.
same hospital with a broken leg Sity 0f Michigan in 1947.
and fractured collar bone she      From 1948 to  1955 he was
meant-the one we have at"the chin& Band w*11 hold. the fort received at 4 a.m. when her car employed in the industrial re-
alone  in  the Milan :Free Fair  skidded on wet pavement and lations division of the Ford Mo-
Mi-
west edge of town."
Church members moved the
sign
• and then discovered the letter
must 'have referred to a sign at
the east edge of town . . . that
one has disappeared. "It's probably buried under a big pile
™ t,   ,-r, ^ -U-   «       * of dirt>" said Mr- Engel. "Any-
Clarence R. (Bud) Hertler of we can>t find it„
" * -  J  «  ■ —J Tl «<• ri i-prniYTm +-JPV** "
Parade   Tuesday   evening.
at the west edge of town lan's own band wm not aPPear,
since   the   defeat   of   a   school
8903 Austin Rd., Bridgewater,
died Tuesday morning at St. Jo-
millage request in a recent vote
resulted in cancellation of extra-curricular activities.
Saline's will be the only band
in the parade, scheduled at 7
p.m., the first night of the Fair.
The   Saline  band  will
struck a tree 15 feet from the tor Co. He received his law de-
road at the same corner. gree jn 1954 from the Univer-
Both cars were demolished in sity 0f Detroit,
the accidents. 	
Saline Artists
To Exhibit at
Ann Arbor Fair
Snatch Put on
Bucket Seats
The theft of two bucket seats,
INTERIM PASTOR
also valued at $400, and a gear shift
_ march in Clinton's i25th Anni- knob valued at $2, was reported
seph Mercy hospital, in Ann Ar- DAIVT)    PONflRRT   versary parade Saturday at 2 to police this week,
bor,
after   an  illness   of   Vfe
years.
ICE CREAM
Saline
Charles
He is also survived by three -1^+1^.
sons, Paul H. of Saline, Allen O. '
p.m. The parade will end at the The   equipment   was   taken
grandstands set up at the west from   a   sports   car  owned  by
end of Clinton. Meredith A. Morden, of Clinton,
Local students to march  in who was slightly injured when
the parades are reminded that the car was wrecked in an ac-
The  executive board of the buses leave Sahne one hour be- cident on June 27. It was towed
Mr. Hertler was a lifelong re- Saline area Band Parents' club fore ^e scheduled times of the to a service station at that time
He was born May 9, 1911, in  cif\nj A T     OT^rn
township,   the   son   of bULlAL   Oliil
and  Johanna  Seitz
serving in the Armed Forces in si(jent 0-f the Saline area and a met Monday at the home of parades; band rooms will be and the theft went unnoticed
Rhode Island, Silas S., also in li:£elonK member of St. James Director Arthur Katterjohn, to open for about an hour before until an insurance adjuster
service in Germany; five daugh- TTrn-tpH[Church of Christ Sahne complete plans for the summer the  buses   leave.   Parents   and came to inspect the car.
ters, Mrs. Nicholas (Nancy)
Whitfield of Albion, Mrs. Theodore (Mary) Baker of Detroit,
Sarah, Rachel and Naomi, all
at home; eight grandchildren;
one brother, John Woods of Albion; two sisters, Mrs. Rufus
Bell of Montgomery, Ala., Mrs.
Arthur Goldsmith of Fort Deposit, Ala.; and many nieces
and nephews.  Six sisters  and
township. band concert and ice cream so-
He had farmed in his early cial.
The event, a summer tradi-
life, and then worked as a carpenter until his retirement about two years ago.
He married Dorothy Finkbeiner in Saline township on June
26, 1940. She survives.
tion in Saline, will feature concert music by the Elementary,
Junior High, and the combined
Saline - Manchester Senior High
,t J.„^„.  summer bands, as well as cakes,
Surviving besides his wife are pies, coffee, pop, and ice cream,
six sisters, Mrs. Robert (Tillie) The social will be held on the
Finkbeiner, Mrs. Ldand (Viola)   front lawn of the Intermediate
three brothers preceded him in * "      b t_   f g^e, Mrs. Har-  School, on Friday, July 26, star-
rlpatVi LUCKS,  OOLU CU- »3«jju    ,   /-.„„™^+c!  «H11   hp
friends are invited to accom- Police are investigating re-
pany the band members on the ports of a number of persons
trips. seen in the area in the interval.
Planners Get Report
On Saline Housing
The Rev. Chester H. Loucks,
D.D., above, will fill the pulpit
of Federated Church here, while
the local pastor and his wife,
the Rev. and Mrs. George Laur-
George Anderson this week
moved that it be included with
the late June bills to be.approved Monday night. The motion passed, although Councilman George Johnson said he
would prefer to hold up pay-
^ ment until a talk with Rogers.
*YLocal artists Linda Heiser- When the bills were brought
man, Taylor Lee Jaeobsen, Juan Up for approval, at the end of
Moreno, David Myers, Ann Pel- a lengthy meeting, however, the
legreno and Lew J. Whitton will 3.3 tie occurred. Anderson, Robe among the 300 artists who bert Strohl, and Donald Dech-
will exhibit their wares at the ert voted in favor of approval;
Ann Arbor Street Art Fair this Mayor Jack Bennett, Johnson,
week. and   Donald   McKenzie   voted
""^Sponsored by the University "nay". The result: no action on
of Michigan, the Ann Arbor Art any of the bills.
Association, the Chamber of Council also discussed the
Commerce and the S. University summer sidewalk program; An-
Businessmen, the fair will run derson will contact property
from Wednesday July 17, owners on S. Ann Arbor street
through Saturday, July 20. (west side) and one individual
A carnival atmosphere pre- on W. McKay street to learn
vails among the canvas booths whether they would prefer to
stretched alon'g a two block sec- put in their own sidewalks ration of South University av- ther than have them construc-
enue, which is closed to traffic ted by the city,
for the duration. Demonstra- in other action, Council in-
tions in jewelry making, Japa- structed DPW Superintendent
nese Origama paper folding, Mike Strait to obtain bids on a
rock cutting, ceramics, copper ton of blacktopping for street
enameling, silk-screen printing, WOrk, including Detroit street
portraiture, glass-blowing, mo- and Owen court; invited a Mu-
saic-making, wood carving, wea- nicipal League bonding special-
ving and creative stitchery will ist to attend the August 5 meet-
death.
Funeral services will be held
at 1:00 p.m. Saturday at the
Bahnmiller Funeral Home with
old (Gertrude) Donegan, Mrs. ting at 7 p.m. Concerts will be
Otto (Ruth) Bredernitz, Mrs. held at 7:30, 8:00 and 8:30 p.m.
Warren (Leah) Cady, all of There is no admission charge
Ann  Arbor,   and  Mrs.  Melvin for the  concerts;   all  profits
week to aid in the Youth for
Among the headaches faced dwelling structures in Saline Understanding program, pri-
by the city Planning Commis- are almost 25 years old or older, marily to encourage cooperation
sion is the prize package, "What 83 per cent of them are classi- i n the program with French
type of subdivision development fied by the U.S. Census as being youths,
shall we encourage,"  or .  .  .in   sound  condition.   Several      Mr. Loucks, now associate di-
ent, are in Europe. .
The Laurents will leave this be g°mg on throughout the day, ing to discuss methods  of fi-
and  entertainment will be of- n,ancing   the   proposed   sewage
fered at various times. plant   .expansion,
Carmans to Welcome
the Rev. Roosevelt Williams of-   fHMa) Armbruster of Bridge- from the social will go to the how much homeSj 36 per cent) have been rector of ^ AmL Arbo^wash-  p/"*      ^^A   £^^^^     C--«^^/^ —
floating. Burial will toe in Oak- ^     JQne brother, Harold of High School Band's trip to In- ^ housef„ built since 1950 on up to the tenaw Council of Churches, has  1x11651    TYOTfi   tjUU€CleTl
wood cemetery.
Friends may call at the funeral home beginning Thursday
evening.
Some of the figures the com- time when the 1960 census was served as president of the Ann
mission will work with, in their taken. Arbor  Community Chest and
Otaton;"two half-brothers, Carl terlochen this summer,
Hertler of Saline and Herman      Bob Harvey is  presiaent or m~-.o' ^ wor^^^ ^ their taken. Arbor  Community Chest and      The James Carman family, of Sweden,
Guenther  of Bridgewater;  one the Band Fa^D^> ^^%' attempt to come up with an an-     Also, 59 per cent of all occu- the Ann Arbor CouncU of Social 9900 Mooreville Rd., is looking           17
aunt, and m<any nieces and ne- back is presiaent-eieci:, mrs. 01- ^ r^ quoted below.  They Pied  housing  units   in  Sahne Agencies.  He  holds   degrees forward to the arrival, in mid-
"                 phews.   He  was   preceded   in mon Girbach is treasurer; ana ^ ^^ ^        ^ prepared for h^e  been moved into in  the from   Denison  University,   the. August, of a house guest from
IAWN MOWER MISHAP death by his parents, two bro- Mrs. Warren Mayer is secre- ^ ^yaU-M student em- Past 10 years (since 1954). Andover Newton Theological
CAUSES FOOT INJURY thers and two sisters. tary. Other members ot tne ex b ^ an The market value of housing Semiliary> and Kalamazoa col-
John Hicks, 110 Tower Dr., Funeral services will be held ecutive board who ™JlhelP * ^t^g picture of housing units in Saline ranges from iege, and has served pastorates
suffered a serious foot injury at 2:30 p.m. Friday at the St. *e soci^ are^Mr^an * M*g gSa J^pared with that $5,000 to $25,000. Seventy per in settle Wash and the Urn-
late Saturday afternoon when James Church with the Rev. Ar- nest 0Chrf ^Y^3^, ^ ^ other communities in Wash- cent of the existing I960 units versity of Michigan. He wdl
his foot was caught in a rotary min H- Bizer officiating. Burial Dan Copland and Mr. and Mrs. m« ^ were ^^ ^OfiOO to p r e a ch here from July 21
lawn mower he was working will follow in the church ceme- Norman Hedger. $20j000 range. The median hou- through August 25, with the ex-
with at hjrhome His fe to! tlry Friends may call at the Band Parents who attend are as aJ™f sing unit value for Saline is ception of Sunday, August.18,
was brlkt fn^e plaSs5 and BaSimnier Funeral Home until urged to brmg a.cake or ^o J^^^g^X ^,600, approximately ?2,000 when Ian McPherson, of Saline,
the rest of his foot severely cut. noon on Friday. The body will pies, with plates clearly labeled. to the 19^     contained' 764 in value above the balance of wiU speak.
Hicks  was   taken  to   Saline lie in state at the church from               A]mlALS BTIE dwdlh?g units, 708 units (93%)   the county (excluding Ann Ar-                	
Community Hospital for treat- 1 p.m. until the hour  of the MORE ANDIAI^ Bix^ uw™^    ^ occupied at the bor> areas-           t      .           . PAINTING BEE POSTPONED
ment and "remained there until service.                   ..   ..            __  ..J^f? ^SfS,   L™5 °Ll £eveZl?^Zt of these   . ™^.medi?n„^™s^ ^!     A painting bee scheduled by
Ann-Marie   Gunnarr-
• tnere unm service. Frequent   incidents   of   local 01 wmen were ua-u^u « ^      _, housing  value
Monday. He's now able to get      Memorial  contributions   may  youngsters   bitten  by   annuals tune. Seventy per cent of these      ■^ .™*"?"   "ousin*L ™r~     * v^^b ucc »-»«» ^
v..* „.„_,.„ .,,„ wa^a tn St   James Church continued this month, with four units are owner occupied, typ- ior aaime 01 »■»?><>"" matches Kiwanians at the Girl Scout ca-
listed since July 1, police re- ical of a small community like 2Jf«f ctosely with toe current bin last week wag «rained out>.
ported. Saline.  This  percentage  also ^ national housmg figures and re.scheduled to next Slm_
Two of the victims were small matches the 66 per cent for the relating  family income with .,„„
around on crutches, but expects be made to St. James
to be laid up for at least two Memorial Fund,
weeks.
Se Volunteer Fire depart- boys, .bitten by ftwt«.«« balance oftte county area (ex- ^^ ^ ^ reas?nable val. ^.^ ^.^ & ^^ from
day.
At their Monday meeting, Ki-
KIWANIS MEETING Saline voiimw^^*""   ---• ----- -      -fe       ^ rf dudin   M Arbor).
The Kiwanis Club will meet ment  Saturday  afternoon was 8^ bitten oy
housing value.  FHA recommends that the : _ _
Most of the housing units in ue of a new house ttat can .be E. R. Richards" and Jack Leon-
Monday night at Marty's Dining called   to   figh^ a   g^   «d ^^S^%^^ ^ £7*7S£*1Z& ^*?^±Z™^L -^^^ Jo the ^cent na-
Room with dinner at 6:30 p.m.  woods fire on ^™™™™ ^ of.theychildren were treated type dwelling.
Piatt road near customary 10-day observation;
Regis Woif:^er"7s ihe'p'rog^am Bemis. The department was out all o^the tihdl-dren wr- —
chairman for the meeting. for about an hour and a half, by local physicians.
vel of $7,134 per year (median tional" convention  in
Although 55 per cent of the        (Continued on Page 4)        City.
Atlantic
Ann-Marie
The young woman will spend
the winter with the Carm.ans,
under the auspices of the Youth
for Understanding program,
and will attend Saline High
School with the senior class.
She is the daughter of a farmer, Guhnarr Johannson (Swi2-
dish names descend through the
father's given name). Her family have now completed their
harvest and are on a camping
trip in Italy. With them is another exchange student, a girl
from Sandusky, O.
The Carmans, who returned
Thursday from a month's visit
in California, also have with
them this summer Mrs. Carman's nephew, Curt Stimpson,
15. Said Mrs. Carman: "We're
practically running our own
teen club out here! The Hornet
club has nothing on us!"-