1963-10-23; Saline Reporter

              VOLUME 15, NUMBER 6 - WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1963
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Special Election Scheduled
i $380,000 Bond Issue
City Council Monday night
set December 30, 1963, as the
date for a special election on a
proposed $380,000 general obligation bond issue.
The amount includes $230,000
for expansion of the city sewage
system and treatment plant and
§150,000 for extended water
main's and new storage tower. .
The city has applied for federal aid for part of the capital
improvements program, which
could pay up to $60,000 toward
expansion of the treatment
plant - but applications are still
being processed, and recipients
will not be notified until November 1.
The $230,000 figure includes
the amount needed to install
services for Meha retirement
village, north of the city,
though Council has made no decision as to whether the city or
the village would stand that
cost.
Meanwhile, Council Monday
received requests for extension
of sanitary sewer and water
lines further out W. Michigan
avenue, and water line out E.
Michgan avenue, for new buildings under construction in both
locations. Both requests were
tabled until the November 4
meeting.
Council also took action to increase water rates for outside-
city users to three times the
normal city rates, effective January 1.
Council also adopted a resolution requiring the developer
of Crestwood Knolls subdivisions 1 and 2 to complete unfinished work or post bond for
it, before any further occupancy permits are issued. The work
includes extension of three
storm drains, installations of
some sidewalk on one side of" a
street, and support for sidewalks on a steep bank to prevent erosion.
Negative Rabies Test
Relieves 2 Families
A negative report from Lansing, after a rabies test on a
cat, relieved families of two Saline children who had been; bitten by the animal.
John Reid, 13, of 103 Russell
St., and Michael Rogers, 12, of
225 Monroe, both received bites
when they tried to catch' the.
stray black and white kitten
earlier this week ... it was the
Reid boy who finally coralled
it, and it was sent to the Animal
Shelter, where it died from unknown causes.
Another, similar kitten was
also caught and caged for observation.
Saline Hospital Completes
Payment of $80,000 Debt
Charter members of the Willing Workers club, Mrs.
Glenn Gordon (left) and Mrs. Ernest Gilbert, beam over the
club's 50th anniversary cake, in a celebration this week that
marked half a century of "Doing Something for Somebody",
the club's motto.
Farm Bureau Recommends
Flat Rate State Income Tax
SACA Plans Meet
For Candidates
All five city council candidates have been invited to speak
at a meeting of the Saline Area
Civic association, at 8 p.m. on
Tuesday, October 29, at the Elementary School. The meeting
is open to the public.
The candidates have been asked to answer three specific questions in their talks: 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 pespe-
cially interested?
Candidates for the three
council seats to be filled at the
November 5 election are L. Z.
Still, James Knight, Hugh Keveling, Regis Wolfinger, and Kenneth Youngs.
GRASS FIRE
Saline Volunteer Firemen
were called to the Karl Weavie
residence at 7301 Weber Rd. at
11:35 a.m. Wednesday "when a
grass fire spread to a woodpile
near the Weavies' house. The
fire was extinguished before
any damage resulted.
Saline Department
Fights Two Fires
While other surrounding communities were plagued by grass
&es this week, Saline firemen
were called out only twice,
One call, Friday afternoon,
was taken for the Milan department, which was fighting another fire at the time. Saline
firemen raced to a barn fire on
S- Ri(Jge road, near the corner
°f Lenawee and Monroe counties. A barn and shed were already in full flame before they
arrived, but a nearby building
|yas saved. A grass fire along
l"e road may have set the barn
ablaze, firemen said.
p!e second call, Monday ev-
*ni"g, was to Five Points Res-
-urant, where an overheated
water heater had set fire to a
Partition, firemen said. Damage
Was slight, mostly from smoke.
More than 200 members T>f
Washtenaw county Farm Bureau, at their annual meeting
this week, approved resolutions
calling for a flat rate income
tax, but opposing federal aid to
education and a federal "Medicare" program tied to Social
Security.
They tabled a suggestion for
a study on the feasibility of a
12-month school year.
The group also elected one
direotor-at-large, Glenn A. Feldkamp, and affirmed three directors elected by townships: Armin Haeussler, Freedom; John
Buss, Manchester; and Edgar
Gyde,  Jr.,  Northfield.
Delegates to the state Farm
Bureau meeting in Lansing, November 11-13, were named: delegates at large are Mrs. George
Elliott, Frank Haggard, Harold
Drake, Ferman Clements, Herman Howeisen, Walter Wright,
and Mrs. Joseph Valeneich.
• Those from townships are
William Van Riper, E. J. Hopkins, C. F. Grimes, David Gordon, Reno Feldkamp, George
Elliott, Paul Kleinschmidt, Theron Schnierle, Ormond Kapp,
Clyde, Breinig, Armin Weidmeyer, Don Ruhlig, Andrew
Luckhardt, Tom Carlton, Walter Sieloff, Don Wiedman, Walter •Breuniflger," Leonard Engel,
John P. Cook, and Karl Theurer.
Among  resolutions  approved
by the group were:
State Issues
We oppose an open season on
quail.
We favor discontinuing the
use of throw-away beer bottfes.
We request a review of the
Blue Cross Rates by MFB and
ask for a study of the possibility of MFB providing hospital
insurance  coverage.
We believe any fiscal reform
in Michigan should:
Repeal   the   business   activities
tax   and   the  intangibles  tax.
Repeal' or   significantly  lower
FIRE DANGER NOT
ENDED, SAYS CHIEF
The danger of grass fires,
from explosively dry conditions,
was not removed — or even alleviated - by the slight Satur-
day rain, Fire Chief Harold
Armbruster warned today.   -
No burning permits will be
issued until the condition improves, he said.
the personal property tax.
Return a portion of the present
sales tax to the counties on a
per capita basis, to be used to
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Bob Tefft to Head
Farm Bureau Again
Robert Tefft was elected
chairman of Washtenaw county
Farm Bureau, for the second
consecutive term, at a reorganization meeting of the board at
the Farm Bureau building Tuesday.
Jay Hopkins, of Dexter, was
named vice chairman; and Paul
Kleinschmidt, Dexter, will serve
as the third member of the executive committee.
Retiring directors, new directors, and their wives were entertained.
Manchester Girl
Crowned Queen
A Manchester girl, Susan
Walker, was named "Miss
Washtenaw Farm Bureau" at
the organization's annual meeting this week, and a Saline girl,
Janet Weber, was runner-up.
Miss Walker will represent
the county in competition for
the title "Miss Michigan Farm
Bureau" at the state meeting
in Lansing, November 11 to 13.
' The names of the nine contestants were entered in the county contest by local Farm Bureau groups: besides the winners,
Beverly Gall, Kay Gordon, Cynthia Klein, and Lydia Robison,
of Saline; Jeannene Rowe, of
Chelsea; Ann Ruhlig, Dexter;
and Martha Lutchka, South Lyon.
Farm Bureau Honors
Ejnma Howeisen
Mrs. 'Herman Howeisen, county Farm Bureau secretary who
retired September 1, was honored in a surprise ceremony
this week at the annual meeting of Washtenaw county Farm
Bureau. Before her retirement
she was associated with the
Farm Bureau for 19 years.
A ten-minute tribute in verse
by Mrs. Robert Tefft reviewed
Mrs. Howeisen's years with the
organization, and she was presented with a cash purse donat-
i3d by the various county Farm
Bureau groups.
Teachers Join \
MEA Drive
For Tenure
Local teachers and other residents are circulating petitions
this week for a statewide tea-
iher-tenure law.
The Saline Teachers' club, a
chapter of the Michigan Education association, has accepted a
quota of 240 signatures; MEA
hopes to collect 240,000 signatures in its statewide drive> petitioning the legislature to
write a mandatory tenure law
or amend the present law which
provides for tenure only in
school distircts which vote to
accept it.
The present law has been in
effect since 1937; Ann Arbor
voted for tenure in 1938.
"MEA feels (that tenure provides a teacher with protection
from arbitrary or unjustif'ed
dismissal, and that this job security will improve teacher morale and encourage teachers to
become more active in community affairs," Don .Jaeger, a local
teacher, said this week. "It is
the hope of 'this organization
that teacher tenure will be one
more step toward making teaching a better profession and making education more meaningful
to the student and the community."
Mandatory tenure is in operation in 27 states, covering 70
per cent of the teachers in the
nation.
While Saline school district
does not have tenure, as such,
it does have a system called
"continuing contract" under
which any teacher still employed here after a probationary
period is automatically guaranteed a- contract for the following year . . . but that year, with
notice, can become another probationary year.
The two systems are similar
in many respects. Tenure provides for a probationary period
ot two or three years; Saline's
is three years. Tenure provides
a procedure for appeal and review of dismissal; local administration,- local board of education, and then the state tenure
board. Only the last is unavailable under "continuing contract".
Saline teachers are not unanimous in the belief that tenure
is needed here . . . "but we do
approve of bringing it to the
attention of the legislature and
the people," said one. If the
legislature takes no action on
the completed petitions within
40 days, the issue will be placed
on ithe ballot.
Disadvantages of the tenure
system were cited by one Saline teacher: "First it is very
difficult to determine a teacher's lifelong competency on the
basis of two years' probation;
and, second, when a teacher is
older and less able, incompetency must be proved . . . which
is sometimes difficult."
Besides the probationary period, MEA lists other advantages
of the tenure system which are
identical to those of the continuing contract. Both "encourage
greater care in the initial selec-
ition of teachers . . . establish
definite orderly procedures for
dismissing a teacher who" has
given inferior service . . . and
provide for continued employment of teachers, after a successful probationary period, for
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Auxiliary Sets
Smorgasbord
For Hospital
The-Saline Community hospital Auxiliary's annual smorgasbord, to raise funds for needed
hospital equipment, will be held
at the Saline Elementary School
on November 8.
Several pieces of hospital
equipment have been purchased
in the past by the auxiliary
from similar fund-raising projects.
The smorgasbord will start
at 6 p.m. and serving will continue until 8 p.m.
Tickets for the event may be
purchased from Auxiliary members: $1.50 donation for adults,
75c for children. Tickets will
also be on sale at Wight Cleaners, Estes Pharmacy, and the
SaUne Savings Bank, from Mrs.
Waldo Gross.    ,
In the past, the Auxiliary has
held a card party in conjunction with the smorgasbord, but
this year the card party will be
at a later date, to be announced.
Mrs. Robert Barnes, Auxili- !
ary president, has appointed the I
following committees for the
smorgasbord: chairman, Mrs.
Paul Woods; co-chairman, Miss
Sue Cameron; food chairmen,
Mrs. Carl Moehn, Mrs. Sam
Lambarth; dining room chairman, Mrs. Everett Wolfin; coffee chairman, Robert Anderson,
hospital administrator; clean-up
chairman, Mrs. Bert Rasmuson;
ticket chairman, Mrs. WiUiam
Brink; publicity chairman, Mrs.
Robert Estes; and poster chairman, Miss Lola DeU.
Members of the Saline Community Hospital board gleefully watch a debt go up in smoke as Ernest Girbach, president of the board, burns the note for $80,000 that dates from
the hospital's construction. Other board members, left to
right, are Carl Schrandt, Arthur Heininger, Leo Jensen, Carl
Curtiss, and Hospital Administrator Ray Anderson.
Committees confer on plans for the annual Hospital
Auxiliary Smorgasbord, to raise funds for needed hospital
equipment. Above, first row left to right, are Mrs. Arthur
Heininger, Mrs. Carl Moehn, Mrs. Robert Barnes, and Mrs.
Paul Woods. In second row are Mrs. Bert Rasmuson, Mrs.
Mrs. William Brink, Mrs. Sam Lambarth, and Ray Anderson,
hospital administrator.
Hornets Shut Out
Ypsi Roosevelt
Dr. Gerigk
Dr. Gerigk
Named Chief
Of Staff
■ Paul Gerigk, M.D., was named
Chief of Staff of SaUne Community hospital, at an organization meeting of the medical
staff for the coming year. Robert Hartman, M.D., of MUan,
wiU serve as vice chief of staff,
and Fulton Taylor, M.D., of Ypsilanti, wiU act as siscretary-
treasurer.
Committees for 1964 include
the executive group, Dr. Gerigk,
chairman, with Drs. Taylor, Rudenz Douthat, and Hartman;
credentials, Dr. Taylor, • chairman, with Drs. Gerigk, Hartman, and Douthat; joint conference, Drs. Gerigk and Hart-
man; medical records, Barry
Breakey, M.D., chairman, with
Drs. Richard Ferrington and
Dennis Burke; and tissue, Henry Bryant, M.D., chairman, with
Drs. Scott Woods and Patrick
Doust.
CHURCH GROUP PLANS
COLLECTION FOR UNICEF
Members of the Junior Youth
FeUowship of the Federated
Church wiU make a HaUoween
coUection for U.NXC.E.F. on
Thursday, October 31. They wiU
make a door-to-door canvass of
the city from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m.
by Hal  Ceronsky
The Hornets held on to their
third place position in the
Washtenaw Conference by winning their third straight conference game Friday night when
they walked over Ypsilanti Roosevelt 26-0. SaUne's only conference loss was to Dexter.
Fullback Dave DettUng scor-
<3d the Hornets' first touchdown
early in the game. After John
Harvey had moved the ball into
Roosevelt territory and Jim
Griffin has secured a first down,
DettUng received the baU from
quarterback NeU StiU and sped
into the end zone for a 34-yard
TD; the Hornets failed to make
good their extra point.
Shortly after Dettling's taUy,
Griffin scored SaUne's next six
points when he literaUy crashed
through the Roughriders' defense, leaving a path of faUen
would-be taeklers in his wake.
Halfback Steve MiUer and Dettling had set up Griffin's TD on
a 71-yard drive.
Saline's third touchdown was
scored when Jim Wolfinger
plucked a Roosevelt pass from
the air and raced down the
side line for a 65-yard touchdown. As one of the Roosevelt
defensive players closed in on
Wolfinger, Hornet John Harvey
threw a weU-executed block on
the defenseman to let Wolfinger
go over the goal line unmolst-
p3d. StUl converted the extra
point, on a quarterback sneak,
to make the half-time score
19-0.
In .the fourth quarter, Gary
Johnson scored a 20-yard TD
for Saline's final taUy of the
game; MiUer made the conversion by running the extra point
for the Hornets.
Both Dave Dettling and John
Harvey played outstanding
games for Saline, both on offense and defense. One of Harvey's exceptional offensive
plays was receiving a pass from
Still for a gain of 40 yards.
Defensively, Harvey repeatedly
broke through the Roughriders'
line to throw them for sizeable
losses.
John Blinn was at his best in
the Saline-Roosevelt contest —
just as he is in every game.
Coach Mike Rotunno says "that
he fpaels BUnn is the most consistent player on the squad and
plays always "at his best".
The Hornets wiU mp3et Pinckney here this Friday and wiU
close the season away from
home on November 1 when they
go to Chelsea to meet their old
rivals of last year.
JV's Collect 1st
Win of Season
Saline's junior varsity footbaU squad won its first game
of the season last week when
they trounced Pinckney 33-0.
Coach Ed Dubats says his
team has "improved greatly"
since the opening game when
they were beaten 18-0 by Clinton.
His squad of 34 players (the
largest for quite some time) has
shown the most improvement
in team effort and blocking, he
says; if they can beat Roosevelt this week, he feels that he
will be "satisfied" with their
season.
The JV's lost their second
game, to Dundee by a close 7-6
score; they lost their third contest to Dexter to the tune of
19-0; and they were downed
12-7 by Manchester in their
fourth game.
Board Holds
Ceremony to
Burn Notes
Saline Community hospital,
which started life four years
ago with an $80,000 debt, this
week cleared the books — the
notes were burned at a meeting of the board Tuesday evening. '
The hospital, which has confounded the experts by making
ends meet at all, has been running in the black for the past
two years — enough to aUow
payments on the notes. Late
pledges, stiU coming in slowly,
also contributed to the $26,000
paid this year. So did other contributions and memorial funds.
Said Ernest Girbach, president of the board: "This is
reaUy wonderful, the greatest
thing that's ever happened. It's
pretty remarkable to get the
debt paid off on a hospital that
size. But a lot of people keep
on contributing, down through
the years. It's amazing how the
money stiU comes in from all
these sources, and we reaUy express our appreciation for such
memorials and contributions."
Present at the meeting besides Girbach were Art Heininger, vice president of the
board; WiUiam Brink, Gerald
Bahnmiller, Edwin Redies, Carl
Curtiss, Leo Jensen, Stanton
Roesch, Everett Esch, and Carl
Schrandt, all board members;
and Ray Anderson, hospital administrator.
The hospital opened in May,
1959, after the community had
pledged approximately $250,000
for the building and equipment.
A great deal of equipment has
been added since that time,
some purchased by the hospital
and much donated by the Hospital Auxiliary and individuals
in the area.
As of September 30, 1961, the
hospital debt was $58,000. It
operated in the black for the
first time last year, and has
continued to do so this year.
The hospital now has 28 adult
beds and 11 bassinets, a size
that hospital experts say cannot be profitably operated if
costs are kept within reason
and comparable to other hospitals. But Saline Community
hospital costs are in Une with,
those of other hospitals in the
area. "•
The hospital is now running
at about 90 per cent capacity
in the medical-surgical wing,
and about 70 per cent over-aU
capacity, including the obstetrical wing.
But because of the difficulties inherent in operation of
such a small hospital, and because of the rapidly increasing
occupancy (which grows with
the community population), the
hospital board this year announced plans for a $200,000
addition that would bring the
bed total to 53 and add other
needed faciUties.
Since that time, the board
has addi3d to the plans, a $20,000
space that would provide a large
patients' solarium on one floor,
and storage space below it . . .
1008 square feet on each level.
The solarium was planned,
Anderson said, because the pre-,
sent smaU waiting room would
be inadequate after the expansion; it seats only about six
persons and often overflows
now. Nor is there any place in
the present building where recuperating patients jnay spend
time outside their rooms though
modern medical practice often
emphasizes encouraging patients to become ambulatory as
soon as possible.
GROUP TO MEET
The Lodi Plains Extension
group wiU meet Monday, October 28, at the home of Mrs.
Merle Simonton, 6135 Saline-
Ann Arbor Rd.