1963-11-13; Saline Reporter

              The Saline
VOLUME 15, NUMBER 9 ~ WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1963
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(This is the second of a series of articles prepared for the
City Council, which will appear
in The Reporter during the next
few weeks to familiarize the cit-:
izens of Saline "with the" background which led the City Council to propose a $380,009 bond
issue, to be voted on at a special election Di3cember 20.)
Saline, like most cities in Michigan, is dependent on ground
water wells for its water supply.
The city well field is located ad-.
jacent to the stream west of
the elevated tank on N. Ann Arbor St. There are three wells,
including one which was developed in 1963. Well capacities
are 275, 550 and 700 gallons per
minute. v
The quality of the water is
excellent except for a relatively
high mineral "hardness" content.
No treatment of the water is
now provided except for the addition of minor amounts  of a
Meha Meets
With City
On Expansion
City officials, and the Meha
board of directors, meeting at
the High School here Saturday,
reached an agreement "in principal" on Meha's share of the
water and sewer expansion necessary to serve the retirement
village.
Mayor Jackson T. Bennett,
Councilman George Anderson,
Councilman-elect James Knight,
and City Attorney Allan Grossman met with the group, and
the attorneys for both parties
were instructed to work out the
agreement in detail.
In effect, the board agreed
that Meha will pay the entire
cost of extension of sewer and
water lines from /the existing
terminal point to their chosen
site (now marked by a sign)
north of the city, plus a proportionate share of the cost of
expansion of the system, treatment plant, and water tower,
plus bookkeeping charges, and
interest on that portion of the
proposed bond issue.
The estimated cost of extending the sewer and water lines
is S35,000.
The $380,000 bond issue, to
come before city voters in a
special election December 20,
includes the amount necessary
to expand the sewage treatment
plant, for which a grant of
§63,000 in federal aid construction funds has been recommended.
Construction o f individual
homes for retired educators is
expected to begin at ithe Meha'
site next spring, but the village
will not be completed and fully
occupied for a number of years.
Boom in Christmas
Shopping Indicated
Salinians can look forward to
the biggest Christinas season in.
memory, judging by the amount
of Christmas club checks to go
out from both banks, soon.
Together, the two Christmas
clubs total nearly $9,000 more
than last year, which set a record by itself.
The Citizens Bank this week
will mail out cheeks to members who have saved $24,000 -
as compared with last year's
?20,000.
Christmas Clubbers at the Saline Savings Bank will receive
their checks after Saturday, November 16, when the last deposit is due. The total, approximately $5,000 higher than last
year's, will be in the neighborhood of $29,000.'
BANK DECLARES DIVIDEND
The directors of Saline Savings Bank, at a meeting on November 12, disclared a year end
dividend of $1 per share on capital stock, payable December 20
to shareholders of record as of
November 15.
phosphate compound, to control
the precipitation of certain minerals and .thus prevent the build
up of deposits of these minerals
within" the water mains."Fluoride treatment,will be initiated
by the end of this year.
From the well field, the water
is pumped directly east and
south to the city in cast iron
pipes, most of which are four-
inch and six-inch in size. A 12-
inch main now under contract
will shortly provide the security
of a second outlet from the well
field, south to Bennett St.
Storage for fire protection:
and equalization of high water
use periods is currently provided by a 60,000 gallon water
"tower" constructed in 1913.
The. storage capacity provided
by the present tank is no longer adequate. Former city councils have recognized this and
made the initial- step of acquiring a site for a new tank in
1957.
The new tank will lie on a
site between Henry and Lawson
streets just east of Ann Arbor
St. A "water spheroid" type of
tank, of 250,000 gallons capacity, is proposed. This tank would
be adequate to serve Saline for
many years.
To allow full utilization of
the new tank, it will be necessary to construct new, larger
capacity water mains from the
tank to outlying areas of the
city. A phased program of construction is planned, with increments to be added as the need
arises and funds become available. The initial larger mains
will be constructed in Henry St.
and are part of the project to
be financed by the proposed
bond issue.
Another main to be constructed with -the bond issue funds is
a main north from the high
school to the edge of the Meha
property, pending annexation of
that land to the city and pending satisfactory financial negotiations to insure that Meha will
contribute their share of the
cost of facilities required to
serve them.
The present sanitary sewer
system is generally adequate to
serve developed and undeveloped land within the city. An
extension of the west side trunk
sewer to the edge of the Meha
property would be provided for
in the bond issue, subject to a
satisfactory arrangement with
Meha as previously mentioned.
The existing sewa'ge treatment plant, although only a few
years old, is presently overloaded, according to the Michigan
Department of Health, which
agency regulates such facilities.
In order to spacure Health Department approval to construct
certain additions to the sewer
system this year, and also to
attain a higher priority rating
for a federal construction aid
grant, the City Council entered
into an agreement with the
Health Department to start construction of the necessary additions to the sewage plant- in
1964.
The proposed expansion of
the sewage plant will provide
treatment to 6,000 persons, with
some elements of the plant facilities being adequate to serve
up to 8,000 persons (a matter of
initial construction economy).
The construction of the sewage treatment plant expansion
under the proposed bond issue
is an absolute necessity. If the
city were not to begin construction in 1964, the Health Department could initiate court proceedings to require the construction and NO new sewers could
be constructed in the meantime.
Of no Uttle consequence is the
fact that the federal government will share 30 per cent of
the total cost of the plant expansion. Should the city default
and not be able to raise its.70
per cent share, the offer of the
federal government will not be
repeated. This would amount tQ
a loss of $60,000, more or less,
to the city. Your City CouncU
does not think the community
can afford such a loss!
Drive to End
Next Thursday
United Fund collections this
wpaek inched up to 35 per cent
of the 1964 goal of $11,950; ap-
prpxmately $4,200 was in.
Even though the drive had
only a week to run, its ohair-
mari, Regis Wolfinger, was optimistic. "It's going along all
right," he said today. "You can
tell, by talking to the captains,
whether things are progressing
as they should. We're going to
make our goal."
The local drive is scheduled
to end Thursday, Novpanber 21.
Amounts turned in, so far,
represent business and service
club contributions, and partial
residential contributions. No report is available as yet on industrial or school contributions,
Wolfinger said.
He urged solicitors to complete their rounds as quickly as
possible and to turn in reports
'and funds on hand without waiting for final collections.
Anyone who is not contacted
by solicitors may make contributions at either the Citizens
Bank or the Saline Savings
Bank.
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CREEPING UP: Saline area's United Fund total moved
up slowly this week . . ,. but it moved, reaching 35 per cent
of goal before the week was out. Above, Regis Wolfinger,
drive chairman, and Herman Merte, president of the United
Fund board, boost the "mercury" in the big thermometer
showing progress of the drive.
9-Weelis Honor
Announced by HS
High School honor rolls for
the first nine-weeks' marking
period were announced this
week.
The general honor roll includes grades in all subjects except office, library, laboratory
assistant, student teaching, and
a few others. The listing indicates an average of at least 'B"
with no grade of "D" or below.
The academic honor rolls include students who take at least
four academic subjects, in the
academic class sections. "With
Highest Honor" indicates an average of "A minus" or above in
academic subjects only; "With
Academic Honor" indicates an
average of "B" or above in all
academic subjects. The lists for
all five classes follow:
SENIORS
Academic
With Highest Honor
Sharon Feldkamp
Joan LaRue
With Honor
Marcile Bauknecht
Bonnie Camburn
Dolores Faust
James Feldkamp"'
Marcia Feldkamp
-     Dale Flook,
•Ann-Marie Gunnarsson
Barbara Hehr
James  Lake
Lorraine Myers
Janet Richards
Karen Riggs
Edward Ross
Betsy Smith'       -j1
Joan Tinker
General ~
Judy Alpha
Gail Armbruster
Laura Bialleau
Debbie Dechert
Albert Feldkamp
Elsie Klager
Coby Livirigstone
Diane Miller
Nancy Robison
JUNIORS
Academic
With Highest Honors
Katy Esch
Sue Washburn
With Honor
Jill Alber
Robert Austin
Jenny Camburn
Janis Coe
Diane Dickinson
Kay Gordon
Sandy Greenfield
John Harvey
Linda Heiserman
Cheryl Henes
Barbara Houghton
Sandy Jordan t
Judy Jump
Kris Kuebler
Steve Miller
Gail Mittendorf
Dan Morton
Sue Robison
John Scherdt
Charles Still
Marilyn  Struble
General
Diane Diuble
Pat Hughes
Linda Lambarth
Frank Merrill
Sharon Morrow
Bruce Niethammer
Pam Pease
Sally Quick
Elaine Schaible
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Senior Class
Plav Scheduled
November 21-23    .
The senior class will present
the comedy "You Can't Take It
With You" at the Little Theater
at the High School, on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, November 21 to 23.
Members of the cast include
Kitty Todd, Sue Davis, Jim
Lake, George Reynolds, Ron
Callison, Jane Ross, Jan Wiebusch, and Jim Strait.
Others are Bill Clark, Dennis
Heina, Dennis Young, Ed Ross,
Jo Jordan,-. Rich Wild, Sharon
Feldkamp, and Joan LaRue.
Miss Edna Spinks will direct
the play, assist«3d by- Dolores
Faust, student director.
Tickets are 75 cents for students and $1 for adults. Curtain
time is 8 p.m.
SOCIAL SERVICES, INC.,
ELECTS NEW OFFICERS
Officers for-the coming year
were elected at the annual mating of Saline Social Services,
Inc., this week; Mrs. Robert H.
Smith will serve as president.
Others are Mrs. Hugh Keveling, vice president and corresponding secretary; Mrs. LeRoy
Stierle, secretary; and Mrs.
Lauren Wild, treasurer.
The organization's third annual "Bundle Tea" has been
scheduled from 2 to 5 p.m. Wednesday, December 4, at the Lauren Wild home. Everyone is
welcome, and guests are asked
to include one new item for
Christmas giving, with their donations.
Coach Lists
Hornets as
'Dark Horse
by Hal  Ceronsky
Saline started its 1963-64 basketball season last Monday with
the varsity squad's first workout. Their opening game, against Milan, will be played here
on Tuesday, November 26.
After a week of practice,
Coach Don Jaeger feels "this
year's season will be quite similar to last year's". He believes
his team of 13 players will prove
to be a "dark horse candidate"
in the up-coming conference
race.
The varsity squad is made up
of seven seniors and six juniors.
The seniors include Gary Kind,
Ron Tucker, Harold Kuder, Jim
Feldkamp, Larry Hieber, Jim
Strait and Ron Callison. Juniors
on the team are Al Hartman,
Davis Toth, Jim Griffin, Bruce
Niethammer, Lawrny Steiner
.and John Harvey.
~~ According to Coach Jaeger,.
U-High, Chelsea and Dexter are
the teams to beat this year. He
believes the Hornets will find
out just how far they're going
"very soon" — they meet Milan,
Willow Run, U-High, Dexter,
Pinckney and Lincoln all before
Christmas.
When asked what he, personally, thinks the Hornets will do
this season, he replied, "It depends on the hustle the players
have and their desire to win."
Saline's first, game. prospects
appear to be good, but they
might run into some difficulty
with a couple of Milan juniors
who played on the varsity team
last year as sophomores.
The schedule, which includes
12  conference  games   (*)   and
four non-conference, follows:
Nov. 26 — Milan here
Dec. 6 - Dexter here *
Dec. 7 — Lincoln there
Dec". 13 — Pinckney (there *
Dec. 17 - Willow Run there
Dec. 20 - U-High here *
Jan. 7 — Manchester there *
Jan. 17 - Roosevelt here *
Jan. 24 — Chelsea there *
Jan. 31 — Dexter there *
Feb. 4 — Pinckney here *
Feb. 7 - U-High there *
Feb. 14 — Manchester here *
Feb. 18 ~ Stockbridge here
Feb. 21 — Roosevelt there *
Feb. 28 - Chelsea here *
Fifteen boys will be playing
on the JV squad this season.
Ten sophomores constitute the
body of the team with two juniors, Jerry Austin and Charles
NiethammpH", and three freshmen, Jim Carman, Dave Fdd-
kamp and Jack Starling, completing the rostisr. The team is
coached by Ed Dubats. They,
too, will open the season here
on the 26th, with play starting
at 6:45 p.m.
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"Miss Michigan Farm Bureau" was the coveted title bestowed this week on Susan Walker, above, whom judges described as "exceptionally talented and attractive". The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Walker, of Manchester Township,
the 17-yearrold- honor student competed in the state event as
"Miss Washtenaw Farm Bureau".
Two from County Cited
By State Farm Bureau
A Manchester girl was chosen
"Miss Michigan Farm Bureau"
and a Dexter man was elected
to serve on the Michigan Farm
Bureau board of directors, at
the annual meeting in Lansing
this week.
The statewide crown was bestowed on Susan Walker, 17,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jesse
Walker of Manchester Township. She was selected from a
group of 22 contestants on the
basis of beauty, poise, health,
charm, and public speaking ability.
She compett3d in the state event as "Miss Washtenaw County
Farm Bureau", a title awarded
at the county convention here
last, month.
Miss Walker, a senior at Manchester High School, is an honor student besides carrying nu-
New Child
Study Club
Holds Election
The second, as-yet-un-namp3d,
Child Study Club of Saline held
its second meeting at the home
of Mrs. Neil Haarer.
Guest speakers for the evening, were Mrs,. Paul Woods and
Mrs. Howard Hill of the original Saline Child Study Club, who
explained how to organize the
cliib, how to obtain affiliation
with the Michigan Child Study
Club Association and what committees would be necessary within the club.
The new club (concerned primarily with infants to adolescents ) elected officers for the
1963-64 year and established
committees-: Mrs. Neil Haarer
was iBlected as president; Mrs!
Richard Lehtonen will serve as
vice president; and Mrs. Larry
Smith will hold the office of
secgetary-treasurer. ■
Hostesses for the evening
were Mrs. Robert Starling and
Mrs. Larry Smith.
The club will meet on December 2 at the home of Mrs. Philip
Badour. Mrs. Richard Hoeft and
Mrs. Allen Rentschler will assist as hostesses.
merous extracurricular activities and a partntime job at a
Manchester store. She has also
received honors in 4-H work and
won a trip to Washington, D.C,
last spring. Her parents operate
a general farm on Lamb Rd.,
wesit of Manchester.
Miss Walker has been accepted by Michigan State University as a student for the 1964
fall term.
She will represent Michigan
at the National Farm Bureau
convention in Chicago in December, and will appear at major Farm Bureau funqtions
throughout the yepar.
Donald RuhBg, of Dexter, was
elected to represent this district on the board of directors
of Michigan Farm Bureau, replacing Allen Rush, of Oakland
County, who has held the post
for many years. The district includes Monroe, Livingston, Macomb, Wayne, Oakland, and
Washtenaw counties.
- Ruhlig hats served as Washtenaw County F'arm Bureau
chairman arid roll call chairman, and has served on the
state resolutions committee.
Also at the state meeting,
which was held Monday through
Wednesday, Robert Tefft, present Washtenaw County chairman, received a trophy citing
this county pas" second highest
in the state in maintaining
Farm  Bureau membership.
Approximately 20 Washtenaw
members were present at every
session in Lansing.
HOSPITAL BRINGS
800TH INTO WORLD
The 800th infant born at Saline Community Hospital arrived Tuesday morning, the husky
son of Dave and lona Reed, of
126 Pleasant Ridge Dr.
The youngster, who weighed
nine pounds 3% ounces, was
named Kent A. Reed. He has a
sister, Tena, and two brothers,
Joel and Jack.
Group to Study
Curriculum, Future
Building Needs
A skimpy crowd of barely 60
persons this week attended a
meeting to select a Citizens Advisory Council to work with the
Saline Area Board of Education
on school problems and planning.
Although the Council is expected to have 30 members, two
of these are still to be chosen,
since not enough willing Salinians turned up to fill the city's
allotment of 12 members. Tne
remaining two will be selected
by the newly-formed Council itself.
All of the townships in the
school district elected their quota of members, and one of them
— Saline Township — even listed
two alternates. The delegates
were chosen at individual area
meetings after brief talks by
Mrs. Robert Tefft, president of
the School Board, and Dean
Burkhardt, its treasurer.
In the Council's first meetings, the Board will be able to
suggest areas of discussion, Mrs.
Tefft said, "but, in the future,
we will be pleased if it produces
ideas of its own." Similar councils have worked with boards of
education in other communities,
including Manchester and Dexter, and one was operative in
Saline some years ago, when
the school district was consolidated.
Problems likely to come before the group include building
needs, vocational education, curriculum, and cooperative projects between the school and industry. Census figures indicate
that the Elementary School will
be over-crowded by the 1965-
1966 school year, and the Intermediate School will also begin
to be over-crowded at that time.
Said Burkhardt: "We should
be thinking of planning for a
new facility very shortly." But
1965 taxes will provide enough
money to retire the Elementary
School debt, he pointed out, so
that "we would be able to finance another school without
increasing the tax load."
The number of Advisory
Council members from each area was decided by the Board of
Education on a basis of school
population and state equalized
valuation. The organization can
serve as a "sounding board" for
the schools and the community,
Mrs. Tefft said, "but it cannot
be another Board of Education
or take over duties for which
the Board is responsible."
Council members from the city and townships include:
Saline city: Lauren Wild, Carl
Robinett, Daniel Lirones, Jameson Ford, Mrs. Rudenz Douthat,
Don Jaeger, Jay Starkey, Jackson Bennett, George Bonich, and
Mrs. Robert Mittendorf.
Saline Township: Ernest Girbach, Mrs. Max Ross, Allan
Grossman, and Albert Gall, with
alternates Clarke Gordon and
Albert Bredernitz.
Pittsfield Township: Robert
Tefft, Donald Wiedman, Kenneth Gates, Mrs. Rudy Layher,
Jr., and Mrs. Robert Merchant.
Lodi Township: Dr. John Larder, Paul Herter, David Myers,
Mrs. Alwin Wild.
York Township: Michael Mls-
na, Milton Sackett, and Carl
Seeger.
Bridgewater Township: Mrs.
Elwood Hansen.
Freedom Township: Leonard
Burmeister.
It is possible that Saline will
soon become a registration
school district, Mrs. Tefft said.
MEETING SET
A meeting of the Saline Li-
brary Board will be held at
7:30 p.m. Thursday, November
14, at the Library.
SALINE PLAY CENTER
PLANS OPEN HOUSE
Saline Play Center, Inc., will
hold Open House from 9:30 to
11:30 ajn. Wednesday, November 20, at the quarters in the
Federated Church.