1964-02-05; Saline Reporter

              The Saline Reporter
VOLUME 14, NUMBER 21 ~ WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1964
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,ocal Dimes Drive
•rings in $1,391.24
Contributions to the 1964
New March of Dimes, from the
city campaign, have reached a
total of $1,391.24, Mrs. William
Lawrence, chairman, announced
today.
The amount does not include
any amounts from canisters,
which will remain out through
this week, or from the Boy
Scout peanut sale, for which no
report was available.
It does include $114 turned
in by Mrs. Jerome Lamb, special events chairman, for bridge
benefits and coffee hours.
Helping to swell the total was
s name
President of
PA Local
James Hayes was elected president of the Saline local, Michigan Milk Producers' Association, at the annual meeting here
Thursday; George Polzin was
named vice president, and Albert Gall will serve as secretary-treasurer.
Saline local delegates, elected
at the meeting, also include Ernest Girbach, Paul Herter, Carl
Seeger, Leon Schaible, and
Lloyd Finkbeiner.
Harold Blayloek, MMPA treasurer, was the speaker at the
banquet preceding the meeting.
Also on the projgram was a
film, "Hold High the Torch",
distributed by the American
Dairy Association.
Meanwhile, southern Michigan dairy farmers and milk
dealers have reached agreement
on a new one year premium
price contract.      "•'•'•-
The agreement came at the
third meeting of dairy spokesmen and negotiators for Michigan Milk Producers' Association
and other cooperatives early in
the morning of January 31, the
day the old contract expired.
The new pact guarantees farmers a fixed price of $4.97 per
hundred pounds of Class I
(drinking milk) sold in Detroit
during the next 12 months, and
that price less a zone differential in other southern Michigan cities. This is four cents
higher than the average paid
for Class I milk last year.
In recent years the prices
paid farmers varied during the
year on a long-standing belief
that it cost less to produce milk
in summer than in winter. Modern farming methods, under
which cows are often kept in
feed lots year around, have leveled production costs, however,
and have made the seasonal pricing concept obsolete.
Premium prices negotiated by
the cooperatives will average a
record 88 cents per hundred
pounds more than farmers
would get for Class I milk under the Federal Milk Marketing
Order.
Total value of this premium
to southern Michigan dairy farmers is estimated at S17 million — a million dollars more
than they got through negotiated premiums during 1963. Average premium payments to
producers are expected to exceed $1,200 during the year.
a whopping $170 from a faculty-alumni basketball game and
record hop, sponsored by the
Student Council at the High
School. A similar event last
year brought in $82.50.
New receipts received by Mrs.
Harold Wilson, chairman of the
Saline Mothers' March, brought
march contributions to $818.90,
believed to be the largest total
ever returned here.
This week's report included
contributions from business and
industry, and organizations: the
American Legion Auxiliary, St.
Paul's Women's Guild, Saline
Women's Club, Boy Scout Troop
46, and OES.
In a bridge 'benefit this week
at the home of Mrs. Wilford
Davis, Mrs. Dorothy Schieve
held high score, 2460. A coffee
hour was also given by Mrs.
Lamb.
No reports had been received
on contributions to Mothers"
Marchers in the rural areas.
Park Plans to be Tailored
    ity
Churches Join
Services for
'World [
JV's Trample
Pinckney 78-35
Saline's junior varsity team
trampled Pinckney 78-35 Tuesday, with Charley Niethammer
and Don Drake leading the junior hoopsters to victory by
scoring 14 and 13 points apiece.
In their previous game, against Dexter last Friday night,
the Hornets' JV squad lost 78-
61.
At the half-way mark in the
game Saline trailed by 16 points
but surged to within three
points of a tie score in the third
quarter. They were unable to
keep up, however, and their
loss was attributed to the high
percentage of Dexter hitting on
field goals.
Bob Armbruster, with 20,- and
Don Drake, with 17, led Saline
scoring, while Jerry Austin got
on the board with nine.
Hornets Crush
Pinckney Cagers
With 9849 Score
by Hal Ceronsky
The Saline Hornets crushed
the Pinckney Pirates Tuesday
night when the out scored them
almost two to one, with 96
points to  their  49.
Saline took the lead early in
the game and held it throughout the contest. At the end of
the first half, they were out in
front 44-22. Unlike the game at
Dexter Friday night, when the
Hornets lost on foul shots — the
Dreadnaughts made 20, while
the Hornets only made six ~
Saline held the edge Tuesday by
making T6~fouf shots :as* "compared to Pinckney's seven.
Ron Tucker was the Hornets'
high point man with a total of
17. Junior Al Hartman was second with 13 points; Gary Kind
tallied 12; and Harold Kuder,
11. Pinckney's high scorer was
Gary Hull, who netted 13.
Although Saline lost to Dexter 66-60 last week, it was actually a "moral victory" since
they proved they could keep up
with the undefeated Dread-
naughts. The Hornets even out
scored their opponents in the
second half of the game, 38-28,
and came to within three points
of tieing them in the fourth
quarter.
Saline varsity coach Don Jaeger feels the Hornets' "well-
executed" press in the last period is what put them close on
Dexter's heels.
At the end of the first period,
Saline trailed by only one point,
the score standing at 11-10.
"But," stated Jaeger, "their 22
points to our six in the second
period, along with their foul
shots, hurt us."
Tucker was also high scorer
in the Dexter game, with 14.
Jim Griffin contributed 11
points, and Kind added 10 to
the Hornets' tally.
Coach Jaeger looks for the
game against U-High, scheduled
for this Friday, to be a "tough
one" because of the Cub quintet's height. He feels, however,
that his squad can make it up
in speed and hustle. In the
meantime, his iboys will be working on fouls — the element that
lost them their first tilt with
the Cubs.
Boy Scouts of Troop 46, with a flag-
raising ceremony at the Intermediate School,
launch national Boy Scout Week observances
here. Raising the flag is Bruce Peterson with
(left to right) Mike Burke, Steve Bradley,
Sam Hanselman, Ron Barrett, Ron West,
and Ken Martin. All Saline Boy Scouts, Cubs,
and Explorers will attend services at the
Saline Baptist Church on Scout Sunday,
February 9.
SCOUTS PLAN BANQUET
The second annual Boy Scout
Banquet for Troop 46 will be a
potluck supper at 6:30 p.m. on
Tuesday at the Intermediate
School cafeteria. A Court of
Honor will be held at 7:30 p.m.
HS Band to Produce
Entire Musi-Comedy
New Lighting
To be Installed
Downtown Soon
Installation of new mercury
vapor lights throughout the
downtown area is tentatively
scheduled to begin Monday, Leon Vedder, manager of the local
Detroit Edison office, said today.
The modern lighting is part
of a business improvement plan
approved by the Chamber of
Commerce and city officials, for
which the city will foot the bill,
an estimated $3,000. It will involve setting all new light posts
with the exception of the four
at the main corner. On those, a
special arm will be attached, to
avoid the necessity of moving
traffic lights.
No date has been set for completion of the work, Vedder
said.
Another portion of the business improvement plan is a proposed new municipal parking
lot to be located behind the
southeast business block in the
downtown area.
COUNTY HOSPITAL
AUXHJARY BEGINS
MEMBERSHIP DRIVE
Washtenaw County Hospital
Auxiliary is beginning its annual campaign for membership,
both new and renewed, in order to continue its work in 1964.
Organizations may join for
$2 per year and individuals for
$1.
Service Station
Entered; $50 Taken
A thief who apparently gained entry through a back window at Bob's Marathon Service
Station Thursday night left
with $50 and a shotgun, the owner reported.
Bob Russell, owner of the station, said he had left the station locked at 9 p.m. Thursday,
with $51.43 in the cash register.
At 7:30 ajn. Friday, he discovered the cash register standing open, and $50 in bills missing. The $1.43, in small change,
was still in the cash drawer.
A 12 gauge shotgun in a
brown canvas case was also taken, he said. Police said the
thief had apparently entered by
breaking' a rear window and had
then left through a store room
and the back door.
LIBRARY TO SURVEY
CUSTOMERS' WANTS
Who uses libraries, what do
they want, and do they find it?
The Saline Public Library,
between February 10 and 18,
will ask its patrons to fill out
cards answering those questions, in cooperation with a
statewide survey launched by
the Michigan State Library.
Gas Station Burns
As Stove Explodes
A gas station at the corner
of State Rd. and US-12 was
burned out Saturday morning
after a heating stove exploded
inside the building.
Firemen of the Saline and
Pittsfield Township departments were able to keep the
fire from spreading to the gasoline pumps.
Saline High School Band's
annual "Band Frolics" this year
will be a lot'more" than that
... a full-scale musical comedy
is in the-making.
The project, a complete and
ambitious innovation here, has
been in the works for weeks,
with band members filling all
roles including those of cast,
stage screws, and propertied committees.
"It's entirely a student production," explains Band Director Art Katterjohn. "And it involves stepping out of character to some extent."
As a matter of fact, the only
ones entirely in character (as
band members) will be the 15-
piece band which appears on the
stage. Others will be involved
in everything from make-up
and lighting to dramatics and
vocal parts. (Said Art: "All of
them are talented musically.
But some of them are talented
vocally — and the rest just
sing.")
The musical comedy, "Get Up
and Go", in two acts, will be
presented in the High School
auditorium .on three nights —
Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, February 11, 13, and 15.
Curtain time is 8 p.m.
The story concerns a private
school which, through a misunderstanding between the owners, has been divided into a
boys' school and a girls' school.
A door joining the two schools
has not been opened for three
generations, and a hedge divides
the garden. Although the students are forbidden to associate, they have become acquainted by using a hole in the hedge.
This hole, and the antics surrounding it, provide the action
of the play.
Leading roles will be played
by Coby Livingstone, George
Reynolds, and Jon Reed. Other
members of the cast include Janet Richards, Katy Esch, Bob
Austin, Dennis Heina, Sandy
Greenfield, Gail Mittendorf, Dana Christner, Dave King, John
Harvey, and Bruce Uphaus.
Twenty-five band members will
sing in the chorus.
Bob Tefft is in charge of the
stage crew, and Bill Clark heads
the properties committee.
The production is a benefit
show to earn money for the
band's annual trip to summer
camp and the amount each band
member pays for camp fees can
be reduced by the number of
tickets sold. One student has al
ready sold enough tickets to eliminate her camp fee entirely.
Tickets, available from all
band members, are 75 cents for
adults, and 50 cents for students. Pre-schoolers will be admitted free. Tickets will also be
available at the dcor.
Since the band's camp week
can no longer be fitted in at
Interlochen, bands from this area are Peeking another site.
Katterjohn, with band directors
of Wayne, Plymouth, and Belleville will visit Torch Lake on
Saturday, February 22, to consider arrangements with a camp
there;
Saline area churchwomen will
observe "World Day of Prayer",
together with churchwomen around the globe, on Friday, February 14.
Two joint services are scheduled in the area:
Women of Bethel Church, in
Freedom Township, will host a
program from St. John's and
St. James churches, at 2 p.m.
on that day. Mrs. Fred Munson
will be the soloist.
The service this year was prepared by Dr. Madeleine Barot,
executive secretary of the Department on the Cooperation of
Men and Women in Church Family and Society of the World
Council of Churches, Geneva,
Switzerland.
A fellowship hour will be
held in the basement of Bethel
Church after the service.
A joint service will be held
in Saline at 8 p.m. at the Methodist Church, with the Federated
and St. Paul's churches. A noted speaker will be the Rev. Louis W. Foxwell, Sr., teacher and
minister to the deaf, who serves
five groups in the Maryland and
Washington, D.C, area.
CITY OFFICIALS
ATTEND LEAGUE MEET
Five Saline city officials attended the annual meeting of
Region H of the Michigan Municipal League, Thursday, in
Ypsilanti: Mayor Jackson T.
Bennett, Councilmen George
Johnson and James Knight, Assessor Robert Harrison, and City Clerk E. J. Muir.
11 Contestants
Meet Ao*ee on
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City Rejects
Land Offer:
rohsbitive
Sorority Plans
Style Show
To Benefit CF
A style show for the benefit
of the Washtenaw County
Chapter of the Cystic Fibrosis
Foundation will be held at 8
p.m. Friday, February 7, in the
auditorium under the mall at
Arborland Shopping Center.
The event is being sponsored
by the Epsilon Nu chapter of
Beta Sigma Phi siorority, in
conjunction with the Arborland
Merchants Association.
Among those modeling will
be ''Miss Beth Volz, Mrs. Neil
Haarer and Mrs. Robert Starling,  Jr.,   of Saline.
In addition to the style show,
there . will be! cards, refreshments and door prizes.
Tickets may be obtained in
Saline from Mrs. Robert Starling, Sr., president of the Washtenaw County Chapter.
Parents to Hear
Psychiatrist Speak
Here February 10
Dr. J. F. McDermott, University . of Michigan psychiatrist,
will be guest speaker "at "a meet-"
ing of the Saline Elementary
School Room Parents Association on Monday, February 10.
His topic will be "Should You
Say Yes or No?"
Dr. McDermott is assistant
director of the in-patient department of the Children's Psychiatric Hospital in Ann Arbor
and an instructor in the U-M
department of psychiatry. He
is also a diplomat on the American Board of Psychiatry and
Neurology.
A short business meeting will
be held at 8 p.m., with Dr. McDermott speaking at 8:30 p.m.
A coffee hour, with Mrs. Lee
Robison and Mrs. Gustav Linde-
mann as hostesses, will be held
at the close of the meeting.
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City Council Monday night
turned down a builder's offer to
donate 10 acres of land for park
use — providing the city undertake the grading.
The land, located in Crest-
wood Knolls subdivision, is too
low to be suitable for building
without additional drainage,
with banks "entirely too steep"
for easy maintenance, council-
men felt.
One of the builder's conditions was that the land should
be graded by the city to an incline of "one to three", which
Council agreed could only be
done at a cost that would be
"prohibitive".
The offer came from F. J.
Winton, of Detroit, who said he
would also donate $500 for
swings, slides, and "other recreational equipment" if his other conditions were met by next
July. He also asked the city to
assume responsibility for maintenance and erosion control.
, Said ;one Councilman^ "We
already have lots of park land,
some of it not even developed
yet, 40 acres of park. We're not
hurting for park room."
Grange Euchre
Winners Listed
Players at the fifth session
of the annual Grange euchre
tourney Monday filled 27 tables. First prize winners were
Edwin Nissley and (tied) Olga
Lambarth and Katherine Staeb-
ler.
Second and third ladies' prizes went to Sophie Knight and
Ruth Heusel. Norm Wenk and
Frank Heusel were in second
and third places for men. Simon
Girbach played the most lone
hands; Willard Mullreed received the door prize.
Form Intermediate
Parents' Association
An Intermediate Parents' Association, similar to the Elementary Parents' group, was
created at a meeting Tuesday
evening when the former Intermediate Room Mothers changed
the name and expanded the
membership of their organization.
They also set up a committee
to review the constitution and
by-laws to bring them into line
with the altered membership of
the group, which now seeks participation by both parents.
The group also invited the
Schools Advisory Council to
present a program at a March
3 meeting.
Circus is Coming —
First in Many Years
For the first time in many,
many years, the circus is coming to town.
Sponsored by the Kiwanis
Club of Saline, to raise funds
for community service projects,
the Mills Bros, circus will perform here on May 4.
(In the old days, circuses
came here "many, many times",
according to historian Bessie
Carven Collins. They used to be
held between Harris and Davenport streets, on Henry St., an
area filled with houses long
ago. But no circus has come
here for nearly 60 years.)
No site for the May circus
performance has been selected
yet, a Kiwanian said, but it
will be "in the Saline area somewhere".
Hi..
University of Michigan students, participating in the Saline Jaycees' development project for Curtiss Park, intend to
maintain "the same park personality as the personality of
the city itself".
They are also interested in
incorporating a "nature trail"
into their plans, and are "basically enthusiastic about the
job", according to David Cobb,
Jaycee chairman of the project.
Cobb met Tuesday evening
with the 11 students, of the
University department of landscape architecture, who have
entered the Jaycee contest for
park development plans. Prizes
are "saving's bonds of $100, $50,
and $25 denomination, and, in
addition, Jaycees have donated
$100 to a University scholarship fund.
The students, 10 men and one
woman, come from seven states
and four Michigan cities: Ken
Cunningham, Arlington, Mass.;
John Krueger, Addison, Mich.;
Dennis   Major,   Ottawa,   Ont.;
Tom    Robinson,   Lawrence,
Mich.;   Louise  Koe,  Dearborn;
Ken Bassett, Columbus, O.; Robert   Paris,   Manda,   N.   Dak.
Sherman Hollander,  Dearborn
Woody   Holman,   Ann   Arbor
Stan  Hunts,   Connecticut;  and
Walt Burge, Pittsburgh, Pa.
The students have already
shown their interest in designing Saline's park to fit Saline,
by visits to the park and the
town itself. Two of them called
on Historian Bessie Collins, and
stopped- in at The Reporter for
copies of a letter to the editor
(about nature trails) written by
Mrs. James Knight.
They also intend to retain the
ball diamond, for family recreation.
Although they have met and
discussed the project together,
each will present, his own plans
for the contest, - which ends
February 22. Judging will be
done at a meeting* open" to the
public, in Saline.'
Each contestant is to present
a scale model and reproduceable
detailed dtawing. Jaycees intend to begin work and seek
community participation in development of the winning plan,
next summer.
SCHOOL BOARD
MEETS WEDNESDAY
A regular meeting of the Saline Area Board of Education
will-foe held at 7.30 p.m. Wednesday, February 12, in the con-
ference room at the High
School.
All Around Saline
BANQUET PLANNED
The Women of the Church at
St. Johns' Lutheran Church will
hold a Father and Son banquet
on Sunday, February 16, at 7
p.m:
CUB SCOUT COMMITTEE
MEETING PLANNED
A committee meeting of Cub
Scout Pack 416 will be held at
8 p.m. Wednesday, February 12,
at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
George Johnson, 150 Pleasant
Ridge.
TO ELECT DmEGTORS
Members of the Saline American Legion Post will meet
af 8 p.m. Thursday, February
6, at the American Legion Hall.
New directors for the American
Legion Home Association will
be elected,.after which the newly chosen directors will meet to*
elect their officers.
ROTARLANS TO SEE
BOY SCOUT FILM
A program on Boy Scout
week and a film, "The Tooth
of Time", will highlight the
Thursday noon meeting of Rotary Club, at St. Paul United
Church of Christ.
The film was taken at Camp
Philmont, in New Mexico. Gerald Coe is program chairman.
HOBBY CLUB TO MEET
A meeting of the Hobby Club
will be held at 9 a.m. Tuesday,
February 11, at the home of
Mrs. Leo Jensen.
H.S. ROOM MOTHERS
MEETING SCHEDULED
Parents of High School students are invited to attend a
meeting of the High School
Room Mothers set for 8 p.m.
Tuesday, February 11. The program will be presented by the
Industrial Arts department and
will include a tour conducted
by Ronald Dubats and Dallas
Garrett, of that department.
Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Jewell
entertained Saturday at a birthday party for her niece, Miss
Marilyn Martin, a University of
Michigan student. Guests included her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
C. Robert Martin, and Miss
Elaine Martin, pf Muskegon;;
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Spitler,
of Trenton; and Mrs. Jewell's
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis
Ernst.
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Mr. and Mrs. Erwin Wild will
leave Sunday for a week's stay
in Florida.
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Dick   Leidheiser,   on   leave
CITY, TOWNSHIPS BUY
AUXILIARY UNTFORMS
City Council Monday night
authorized payment of $520.43,
to be shared equally by Lodi,
Pittsfield and Saline townships,
for uniforms and equipment for
the Saline detachment of the
Washtenaw Sheriff's Auxiliary
in Civil Defense zone four.
The purchase was approved
and budgetted last year. The
Washtenaw Auxiliary group,
which also has detachments in
Ann Arbor, Ypsilanti, Dexter,
and Chelsea, is part of the county Civil Defense organization.
from the Air Force, is visiting
his parents, Dr. and Mrs. Donald Leidheiser, at their home on
N. Ann Arhor St. He'll return
to duty February 15.
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Four-year-old Pamela Steiner, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Jack Steiner, underwent a tonsillectomy at Saline Community
Hospital Tuesday.
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The Bob Hulls, who have
been living at 302 N. Harris St.
for the past year, have moved
into the new home they built
just two doors down the street.
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Medical patients at the Saline
hospital this week included Julius Rothfuss, Delbert Schenk
and Edwin Stierle, all of Saline.
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Tlie Leonard Riemer family
has moved into their new home
on Weber Rd. They are former
Spring St. residents.
WOMAN'S CLUB TO MEET
The Saline Woman's Club will
meet February 11 at the home
o f Mrs. Chris Volz. The meeting is set for 2 p.m. Guest speaker will be Mrs. Oleon Wanty,
of Milan, who will give a talk
on Beaver Island. There will
also he a Valentine exchange.