1964-01-22; Saline Reporter

              The Saline Reporter
VOLUME 14, NUMBER 19 - WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 22, 1964
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AYOR URGES: SALINE NEEDS CITY MANAGE
Sight Unseen:
ervisors Back
nie Rule Bill
Washtenaw County Board of Supervisors has approved a
legislative program aimed toward county Home Rule.
With the exception of the chairman of the Board, none of
the Saline area supervisors had read a copy of the proposed legislation.
The proposed bill would allow a county under Home Rule to
levy and collect taxes up to 10 mills a year, and operate with a
debt ceiling up to 10 per cent of its state equalized valuation —
over 866,000,000 in Washtenaw.
It provides for the election of a charter commission of not
less than nine nor more than 38 members, to be elected either
from districts or at large, on either a partisan or non-partisan
basis,   according to   resolution —■ ■
by the Board  of  Supervisors, tion and was not present at the
Under its provisions, all pre- meelting  w!hen   tfhe   legislative
sent  county  offices   (including program was  adopted  by this
that of supervisor) could be dis- county.
continued, or made appointive, t^ sicc includes represen-
or altered as to duties. The tatives from Macomb, St. Clair,
wide choice given the charter Wayne, Oakland, Monroe, and
commission includes the possi- Washtenaw counlties - all have
bility of a county executive of- ad0pted the program except
ficer or executive body, and a Oakland, which is expected to
legislative  body   which   might do so soon> Frederick said.
districts °ffiCe ^ large ^ ^     ThebiU leaves the cll0ice of
Home   Rule   "optional   to   the
Re-apportionment Required county", Frederick pointed out.
If the district system is used, The Washtenaw Board "endors-
then the proposed bill specifies ed it in principle," he said, "on-
that the districts must be re- ty to set up ithe mechanics for
apportioned on a basis of popu- Home Rule. I don't say we need
lation. it here at the present time."
It calls for a county appro- Wayne county has actively
priation to pay for all necessary sought enabling legislation for
elections and - if the first Home Rule, especially the tax-
charter written should be de- ing authority, in the hope of
feated - procedure for trying reducing a huge deficit ~ but
again. Washtenaw county has a sur-
Ervvin Frederick, chairman Plus well overji million dollars,
of the Washtenaw County Except for* Wayne county,
Board, was familiar with the none °f the other SICC count-
proposed legislation, since he is ties are expected to go into
also a member of the Supervi- Home Rule "for .the time be-
sors Inter-County Committee, ing," Frederick said,
which prepared it. Other Washtenaw members, appointed by
Frederick,  are Emory   Mulhol-
land,  Superior township;   Curt ^^"w^^£ Bo^d with"
Will and John Rae, Ann Arbor; onl    one  ..      „  vot    tbat  of
fo^Tr, pWe?^N^ield Harold Williams, of Augusta
township; Roy Smith, Ypsdan- townsWp; who ^ted that Ws
HOSPITAL   STOCKHOLDERS'
MEETING SET TUESDAY
Five directors will be elected,
to fill five expiring terms on
the board, at the annual stockholders' meeting of Saline Community Hospital, at 8 p.m. on
Tuesday,  at   the High  School.
Financial and progress reports of the year will also be
Members of the Kallio-Berghall Rotary
Club, located at Helsingfors, Finland, will
shortly be getting a copy of this week's Reporter, first of a year's subscription being
sent to them as good-will gesture from their
brothers of Saline Rotary. To introduce
themselves to their friends in Finland, the
Saline members  submitted to  having their
picture snapped last week . . . and the photo, along with a local club banner, will be
mailed to Finland along with the paper.
The Saline and the Helsingfors clubs
were paired for exchanges of this kind in a
program of international brotherhood inaugurated recently by the world-wide Rotary
organization.
CITY TO ESTABLISH
CEMETERY  "BABYLAND"
City Council Monday night
approved a plan to set off a
specified area of Oakwood Cemetery as "Babyland", where
single burial lots will be converted to four baby burial sites
per adult site. Cost of the small
sites will .be $40 each.
Jaycees Name Jim Lev!eit
"Distinguished Young Man"
Votes "No"
The resolution adopting  the
SICC legislative program pass-
•ti township; and Thurlow Sanford, York township.
Sanford is currently on vaca-
Wolfinger
To Head
United Fund
"no" be incorporated in the minutes of the meeting.
Williams fought 'bitterly against the Board's endorsement.
He had not yet seen the SICC
proposal and objected: "There
isn't one out of ten here that
knows enough about this to
vote on it!"
"I'm not about to tell Lansing
to do or not to do anything un-
_    .   ,Tr , til I have a chance to under-
Kegis Wolfinger was elected stand at least some of it," he
nT^S °f the Saline Area said. He had studied several
united Fund board of directors, other Home Rule proposals, and
at an organization meeting on has read the one by SICC since
Monday, and Buford Soden was the vote was (taken. He opposes
named vice president. Soden _]_ of them.
will also serve as chairman of Said Williams: "There is no
the campaign committee, for Home Rule project that I would
the 1964 drive. stoop   so  low ^  to buy.  The
lie-elected to new terms were siCC one is a sell-out, too, gen-
^eceha Ference, secretary, and erally speaking, a dictatorial
Howard Hill, treasurer. set.Up  for  a  selected  few.  It
Serving with  Soden  on   the gives  you  an  alternative,   but
campaign  committee will  be ,the   aiternate   has   very   little
Nelson Watling, Al Burger, and chance of succeeding."
Mrs. Donald Leidheiser. He added: "I wasn't sent up
Robert Bredernitz will act as nere to liquidate Augusta town-
budget and finance chairman ship for the benefit of a few
for another year; also on the , . . that bill takes away from
committee are Hill, Jameson the grass roots any chance of
Ford, Alton Ealy, and Mrs. Ro- speiaking Gutf for or against
bert Merchant. tneir government."
Mrs. Ference will head  the     since 1908 county Home Rule
nominating   committee,    with has appeared on the ballot four
Donald Kraushaar  (also chair- times and been defeated each
man of publicity) and Wolfin- time, he pointed out.
&er- Saline   Supervisor   Robert
Herman Radloff was named Harrison neither voted nor ab-
chairman of the kick-off dinner stained. Said he: "The proposed
committee,  assisted  by  James legislation was not read to the
Hornets Trim
Roosevelt by
Wide Margin
In a high scoring contest here-
Friday night, the Hornets stung
Ypsilanti Roosevelt's Roughri-
ders 79-53.
Saline not only (played well
on defense, nabbing 24 rebounds
off the Roosevelt net, but also
did an outstanding job on offense. They had an average of
54 per cent on shots made, and
averaged .8 of a point each
time they got the ball. Coach
Don Jaeger praised ithe team
on their outstanding play, both
on attack and defense.
The Hornets had control of
the ball throughout the game,
time after time intercepting the
Roughriders' passes and holding control of the backboard.
High point man for Saline
was Jim Feldkamp with 19. Gary Kind was second with 14
points; Al Hartman netted nine
and Jim Griffin and Ron Tucker hit for eight apiece.
The Hornets will go to Chelsea this Friday for a bout with
the Bulldogs.
Saline's junior varsity squad
came through with another win
Friday night, downing Roosevelt 76-57.
Don Drake scored the healthy sum of 26 points as high
point man for the junior Hornets.
Levleit and Herman Merte,
board and I don't know what
it contains. I felt there was
more there than met the eye,
but it went pretty fast, and I
remained silent."
Two Salinians
deceive Degrees
Two   Saline   students    were
among 1,407 to whom the Uni- Copy Not Available
versity of Michigan awarded de- "A copy of the legislation was
grees at the end of its first tri- not made available and it seem-
mester: ed no  copy was  going to  be
Frederick R. Gehlbach, of 315 available," Harrison said. "The
N. Ann Arbor St., completed Board didn't have time to con-
requirements for and received a sider it. It's an item the legis-
Dootor of Philosophy degree; lative committee should consi-
and Carolyn Rose Carr Wild, of der ~ I presume they read it.
U977 Jordan Rd., received her "I don't think this county is
bachelor of science degree "in ready for home rule, he aaaea.
nursing. (Continued on Page 7)
Boy Hurt When
Car Rolls Away
A nine-year-old boy received
a forehead cut requiring 22 stitches Sunday, when the family
car, in which he was waiting
for his parents, rolled downhill
and crashed into a building.
Police said Dennis Maiftin,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Warren
Martin, Jr., of 185 Koasant
Ridge, was seated in the car
just after noon Sunday, waiting for his parents to get out
of church. The car, parked in
the Methodist Church lot, somehow slipped its brakes and rolled down the hill, crashing into
a corner of the R & B Tool Co.
building.
The boy was treated at Saline
Community Hospital. Damage
to the car was estimated at
$400.
Chief of Police James Levleit
was named the "Distinguished
Young Man of ithe Year", Wednesday evening at the "Bosses'
Night Banquet", which annually highlights Jaycee Week (here.
The award was based ori the
fact that "as Police Chief, he
has done an outstanding job of
executing his duties throughout the year", judges said. "He
has initiated cooperation between the police .force, local businessmen and school officials.
He has spent untold hours in
organizing and administering
the Auxiliary Police Force, one
of the finest in the county. He
has attended most city government functions 'throughout the
year, although it was not required of him."
Levleit is also a newly elected
member of the board of directors of the Saline Area United
Fund.
The award is made each year
to a young man "between 21
and 35, who has contributed the
most ito the community". Levleit, 30, lives at 207 Russell St.
He is married and the father of
two small children, a boy and a
girl.
At the banquet, Jaycees also
reviewed their activities during
the past year, including the election of one of itheir members,
Merritt Martin, as state president.
The group took their "Korn
Krib" to numerous events, held
a car wash for the cystic fibrosis drive, purchased new trash
cans soon to be installed in the
downtown area, and sponsored
a skating party for children,
fruit cake sale and Christmas
party for children, the "Miss
Saline" contest, home lighting
contest, and the Christmas tree
pick-up.
Now in progress is an extensive development project for
Curtiss Park.
Cited as "runners-up" for the
award were Councilman Robert
Strohl, former Councilman
George Anderson, Band Director Arthur Katterjohn, and Jaycee David Cobb, chairman of
the current Curtiss Park development project.
James Levleit
ROTARY MEETS THURSDAY
Gerald Bahnmiller is program chairman for this week's
Rotary Club meeting to be held
Thursday noon at St. Paul's
Church. The program will include a speaker from the Blue
Cross - Blue Shield insurance
program.
Local Student
To Enter U-M
Medical School
Brian Dudley Mohr, 20, of
6564 Michigan Ave., plans to
enroll in the University of Michigan Medical School in September, 1964.
Mohr, a June, 1961, graduate
of Garden City High School, is
now attending the U. of M. He
is the son of Jack Mohr, of Garden City.
The U. of M. Medical School
expects to admit about 200 persons next fall at its Medical
Center in Ann Arbor.
Blood Bank
Donors Give
91 Pints
Saline Area Blood Bank, at
the clinic here Thursday, received 91 pints from 117 volunteers (26 were deferred) and
noted five new "gallon donors".
"The turn-out was impressive, and we are very happy,"
said the co-chairmen, Mrs. Edwin Hering and Mrs. George
Austin.
New gallon donors, who receive a special pin, include Louis Schneider, Don D. Rapp, Herbert Farrar, Leonard Burmeister, and Rudy Feldkamp. Gallon donors recognized in the
past have included Martha Girbach, Ray Rosander, Virginia
Bassett, Jim Hering, Charles
Stratton, and Glenn W. Clark.
Although 117 volunteers registered at the clinic, the list
below contains only 116 names
~ one has been mislaid, and
Blood Bank personnel are anxious to find it. Said Mrs. Hering: "We are proud of our voir
unteers and feel they should
all receive recognition. We urge
that the person whose name is
left out should notify us or The
Saline Reporter."
The list follows:
James Hering, Wilma Armbruster, Marilyn Crosbie, Lucy
Turner, Melvin Hartman, Eleanor Wiedmayer, Martha Girbach, Marilyn Rentschler, Benito Segura, Mary Clampit, Doris
McCalla, Lyle Phillips, Don D.
Rapp, Louis Schneider.
Glen McCalla, Roberta Wede-
meyer, Glenn W. Clark, Ruth
Breidenthal, Mary Fern Cogar,
James Morley, Evan Nelson,
Waldo Gross, Margaret Hill,
Harold Armbruster, Dale Roth-
fuss, Beverley Bennett.
Virginia Bassett, Clarence
Wackenhut, Robert Heiserman,
John Bergey, Donald Feldkamp,
Herbert Farrar, James Aurand,
LeRoy Jedele, Jeddie Staley,
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Neighborhood
Protest Stalls
Apartments
A plan to erect a 26-unit apartment building on S. Harris
St. apparently was discarded
Monday night, after an army of
local residents protested that
it would create a traffic hazard
for children.
The proposed apartment
house was a project of Jerome
Builders, a Detroit area firm
represented by Mike Chernick
and his son at the meeting of
City Council, to whom they presented a plan of the building
and a lay-out for parking spaces.
An overflow audience listened while Council rejected the
plan for a minor (and probably
correctible) variation from the
city building code. Then Dean
Burkhardt, of 381 S. Harris St.,
rose as spokesman to present
two petitions and several letters of protest.
Cite Traffic Hazard
Petitioners objected to construction of such a large building in the 200sbloek of S.^Harris St. because:
"Harris Street is a main traffic thoroughfare to the Elementary School. The itraffic which
would be introduced to Harris
Street from such a facility (estimated in excess of one car
per unit) would be a definite
hazard to the life and limb of
the student pedestrians . . ."
and:
"The proposed off-street parking for this structure meets
only minimum building code requirements, and it can be safely assumed that such a facility
will also cause considerable parking on the streets in front and
nearby. As Harris Street is also
the School Bus [thoroughfare,
the street is too narrow to accommodate both."
The petitions, signed by 182
property owners and 28 Elementary School teachers and
employees, asked that any multiple dwelling on the site be limited to not more than four
units.
Council also received letters
from Marian Barclay, Elementary School principal, the Elementary School Parents' Association, and the Saline Area
Board of Education, all objecting on the same grounds.
Opposition Said General
Opposition  to an  apartment
building on that site "was pret-
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Coundlmen Favor
Plan -- Provisionally
Mayor Jackson T. Bennett this week urged Council to consider changing to the City Manager or City Administrator type
of government.
He made the recommendation in. his annual report, with the
notation: "There are a lot of problems that have to be decided
quickly, and under our governmental set up, the council makes
the decisions. A City Manager or Administrator could handle
everyday problems of government, and the council could be the
policy-makers."
He also suggested that operating millage be raised if necessary.
Every Councilman but one favored the City Manager idea,
though most of them added reservations. Only Robert Strohl said
he was "really undecided".
Said George Johnson: "The City Manager-Mayor-Couneil government is considered the most efficient and I have favored it for
years. The question is — would  —	
it be that much more efficient government to work" and urged
to make the amount spent on Council "to take steps to ob-
his (a City Manager's) salary tain a new Fire House and larger quarters ior our City Hall."
worthwhile?
Said L. Z. Still:   "I support
the  proposal  100  per  cent  —
providing the City Manager has
an   engineering   degree,
would be necessary."
Said Hugh  Keveling:   "I'm that   one block   of
kind of for it, and have been and East Henry St
The street building program
for the past few years has been
"slow",  Bennett  said,   "mostly
That due to the lack of monies to
carry out a program." He said
Davenport
should be
for some time."
Said Donald Dechert
in favor of it. I feel that there
included in this year's building
"I am program.
He   also  proposed   that  the
is too much administrative parks and recreation program
work that Council has to do and should be enlarged, and that
it takes up too much of their working conditions and bene-
time doing ithis, instead of do- fits for city employees should
ing the jobs they are supposed be improved, and a retirement
to do."
Said James Knight: "I agree.
I am in favor of it."
The possibility of returning
to the City Manager system
here has been discussed for the
last, three ^budget-years,- Johnson /pointed out. Saline did operate under that system — briefly — some years ago.
"Set Millage Accordingly"
Mayor Bennett, in his report,
also asked the Council to
plan be adopted.
Federal Aid
For Sewer
Disposal OK'd
A federal  grant  of $63,000
_ _ __ g^"^ has been approved by the U.S.
mit a.budget"with aU necessary Department of Health,  Educa-
programs m  it,  and  then  set
operating millage accordingly."
He said: "The past few councils have operated on a good
balanced budget. I feel this
practice should continue. How-
tion, and Welfare, for Saline's
planned sewage treatment plant
expansion, city officials learned
this week.
Total cost of the expansion
project is to be $210,000, part
ever, I feel very strongly that of a $380,000 capital improve-
we should not cut our budget ments program that also into a point that makes it impos- eludes extension of sewage
sible for us to get the jobs mains, extension of water
done that are necessary. Some mains, and a new elevated wa-
council in the future is going ter storage tank,
to find itself with a lot of 'got The expected grant, already
to be done now' problems. I approved at the state level, was
don't believe in cutting a bud- taken into consideration in forget to set a millage and leaving mation of the bonding proposals
necessary projects for someone for "up to $230,000"  and "up
else to handle."
to $150,000" which were passed
Bennett listed as a first or- by voters at a special election
der of business for the year in December,
"the administering of' the ex- Council Monday night auth-
pansion program" and — second orized the engineering firm,
— "the study and revision of Ayres, Lewis, Norris and May,
our ordinances." He pointed out to prepare plans and speeifica-
that "many of the old ordinan- tions on the water tank, water
ces have been revised, and just mains, and sewer; and decided
a weeding out is necessary", to advertise on February 1 and
and cited this as one of the ar- 8 for bids on the sewage treat-
eas in which a City Manager ment plant, to be- received on
could be of aid. March 2.
Need "Adequate Space" Word  of the final approval
He also repeated the need for of  the federal water pollution
"adequate  space  for  the city grant was received Friday.
Mothers9 Army to March Tuesday
Hundreds of Saline area women this week prepared to participate in the annual Mothers'
March for the New March of
Dimes, to be held Tuesday evening in the city, and over a period of several days in the rural
areas.
Meanwhile, a host of other
benefit events were under way
or in prospect:
Saline Boy Scouts of Troop
46 will sell peanuts for the
March of Dimes, in Saline .business areas, on Saturday, January 25, and Saturday, February 1. Will Bradley is in charge
of the project.
A coffee hour was given by
Mrs. Michael Pekrul, and another by Mrs. Regis Wolfinger
with Mrs. Edward Fisher as co-
hostess. Mrs. Kenneth Youngs
was holder of high score — 3720
—  at a bridge benefit at the
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Saline Mothers' March co-chairmen plan routes and assign areas for the drove of women who will take to the sidewalks Tuesday evening in behalf of the March of Dimes. Left
to right, above, are Mrs. William Meister, Jr., Mrs. Harold
Wilson, Mrs. Fred Korte, and Mrs. James Keeaer,