1964-02-19; Saline Reporter

              The Saline
VOLUME 14, NUMBER 23 ~ WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1964
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Construction Boom Gathers Steam     School Salary PollCV TlCS
Great Downtown Shuffle in Offing
Saline this week is well along
in an extensive building boom
that got an early start in unusually warm winter months,
and promises to continue into
one of the biggest construction
sprees in the city's history.
The end, probably several
years away, will find the entire
downtown area altered in appearance, with long-established
institutions occupying new addresses, or new buildings at the
same addresses.
Newest addition to the construction roster is Saline Public Library, where plans contributed by Howard Kuhl, designer, call for a new mezzanine
wide enough for a table and
chairs; a wider staircase, more
shelf space, more floor space,
and new lighting. Construction
©rnets Top
anchester,
tockbridge
by  Hal   Ceronsky
The Hornets brushed off the
Manchester Dutchmen 68-57
last Friday night behind the
high scoring of junior Al Hartman.
It was a good night for Hornet scoring — nearly all of their
cagemen were able to make
points. Hartman led his team
with 19 points and Harold Ku-
der came up with 11.
Saline had a good night on
the backboards, too, with 29 rebounds. Center Kuder nabbed
13 to boost the Hornets' control
of the ban.
Saline held a comfortable lead
of 36-21 at the half, and lengthened it to 55-33 at the end of
the third period. They scored
52 points on field goals to the
Dutchmen's  36.
As usual, the Hornets committed more than their share
of fouls and Manchester went
to the line for 42 shots. Saline
attempted only 32 foul shots;
both teams connected on 50 per
cent of their free throws.
The Hornet varsity c&gers
lost the use of guard Gary Kind
when he ran into the wall, after
missing a pass, and broke his
finger. Before the mishap, Kind
had picked up seven points.
Other scorers included Ron
Callison with nine, Jim Feldkamp with eight, and Lawrny
Steiner, who netted six points.
Saline also downed Stock-
bridge in a non-conference game
played here Tuesday. The Panthers were beaten by the slim
margin of six points. The final
score was 56-50.
The win was the result of
outstanding team play by the
Hornets. Jim Feldkamp led the
scoring with 17 points and his
alertness on defense led to many pass interceptions. Harold
Kuder tallied 11 points; Ron
Tucker got 10; and Jim Griffin
chalked up seven points.
Throughout the entire game
Stockbridge stayed on the heels
of the Hornets, the widest margin in the contest being only
seven points. The Panthers tried
desperately in the closing minutes to shorten the gap, but
the Hornets' ball control held
theni in check.
Part of the difference and a
deciding factor in the game was
that Saline actually committed
fewer fouls than the Panthers.
The Saline squad committed 14
fouls and Stockbridge capitalized on eight of them, while
Saline made 12 of their 24 free
throws.
With the improved team effort and concentration on making fewer fouls, the Hornets
are looking forward to Friday
when they will visit Ypsilanti
Roosevelt for the second time
this year.
will begin in about two weeks.
The firm of Braun and Finkbeiner has been chosen to do the
job.
Farthest along is the new Saline Savings Bank building, half
a block east of the present location, which should be ready
for occupancy about the end of
April. It will provide much-expanded quarters and facilities,
plus the area's first drive-in
banking window. Don Butcher
is the general contractor.
Also close to completion, at
the west edge of the city, is
the new showroom, parts room,
and service area at Ted's Service Station, expected to be finished "in four or five weeks",
according to Ted Hill, owner.
The new building will provide
6,500 square feet of floor space
on the first story, about 2,500
on the second.
At the opposite edge of the
city, the new Leutheuser building is going up, to accommodate
the restaurant that is now down
town and still fondly referred
to as the Saline Hotel . . . although the hotel part was torn
down last year.
The new restaurant will open
sometime in the spring. Bridge-
water Lumber Co. is the general contractor. Meanwhile, the
present building is up for sale,
to be moved from the W. Michigan Avenue location, which has
been purchased by the Citizens
Bank. This bank also has a new
building in prospect; sketches
have been prepared, but no final arrangements haye been decided upon.
The appearance of the downtown area will also be radically
changed, at least at night, by
the new mercury vapor lights
now being installed by the Detroit Edison Co.
With plans completed, Saline
Community Hospital is ready
to begin a fund-raising drive
for an addition, as soon as approval can be obtained from
all the necessary state and local  agencies.
A new Saline Baptist Church
is also in the near offing.
Meanwhile, city officials continue to eye all potential vacancies, or downtown property that
might become available, for a
possible site for a new City
Hall. Within a year, the downtown skyline will also include
a new water storage tower, to
be located on Henry St.
Other discussion centers on
the selection of a site for another elementary school, needed
in 1965.
Some downtown store fronts
have stood vacant for several
years, tied up by leases or estates . . . but they do not lack
for bidders. Every rumor that
they might become available
stirs up would-be occupants.
Pay Scale to Cost of Living
Approaching completion is the new Saline Savings Bank
building, above, into which the bank is expected to move
about the end of April.
Local Band
Students Win
Top Ratings
Ten students from the Saline
High School Band participated
in the Senior High Solo Festival Saturday at Willow Run
High School, and six received
coveted "first division" ratings.
Three received "second division" ratings, and one received
a "third".
Students receiving "first divisions" were: Katy Esch, Bob
Austin, Barb Hehr, George Reynolds, Gay Wedemeyer, and
Gary Johnson. "Seconds" went
to Coby Livingstone, Liz Merchant, and Rob Merchant.
"Third" was won by Gilda Wedemeyer.
The District Junior High Solo Festival will be held, again
at Willow Run High School, on
Saturday, February 22, with
Saline students participating:
Janice Austin, Wendy Livingstone, and Beth Volz.
Those receiving a "first" are
eligible to go to the State Solo
Festival, to be held in Grand
Rapids on Saturday, March 21.
PARENTS' GROUPS
PLAN JOINT MEET
The Intermediate Parents'
Association will hold a joint
meeting at 8 p.m. Tuesday,
March 3, at the Intermediate
School gymnasium. The Schools
Advisory Council will provide
tlie program, with coffee hour
to follow.
The Intermediate Parents'
group, growing out of the former Room Mothers' association,
is still in process of organization and officers have not yet
been chosen.
Board Adopts New Schedule
After Three-Year Study
Saline Library will look like this (above) when proposed remodeling is completed. Work is expected to start
in about two weeks.
SOCIAL  SERVICES
TO HOLD SALE
Saline Area Social Services,
Inc., will hold a sale Thursday
between 2 and 4 p.m. at their
headquarters on Mills Rd. Mrs.
Lauren Wild is chairman.
Hoover Earnings
Set New Record
Hoover Ball and Bearing
Company's second quarter, ended January 31, 1964, was the
ninth consecutive quarter in
which the Company has exceeded earnings and earnings per
share records established in
comparable periods of preceding years. These results combined with record first quarter
results made the six-month period the best first half in the
Company's history.
Net sales for the six months
ended January 31, 1964, amounted to §32,774,412 compared to
net sales of $30,956,935 for the
comparable six-month period
last year.
Net earnings for the first
half of the current fiscal year
amounted to $2,458,358, or 90
cents per share, compared to
net earnings of $1,904,992, or
71 cents per share for the first
half of the previous fiscal year.
This is a 26 per cent increase
in net earnings.
For the three months of the
second quarter, sales amounted
to $17,736,692. This is a record
high for the Company and exceeds by over a million dollars
the sales results for any previous three-month period. Net
earnings for the second quarter
were $1,428,372, or 52 cents per
share.
YSH Patients
To See Band's
"Get Up and Go"
The Band musical "Get Up
and Go", which was presented
this week at the High School
theater, will be duplicated for
patients at Ypsilanti State Hospital Thursday evening.
The 50 members of the cast,
stage crew, stage band, and the
chorus will leave the High
School here at 6:30 p.m. for the
performance, which is scheduled for 7:30.
Approximately 1,000 patients
will attend the musical. This is
the second consecutive year in
which the Band Frolics crew
has given a benefit performance
at the hospital.
With a larger than capacity
audience on Saturday night, the
attendance for the three performances in Saline neared the
1,000 mark. Gross receipts for
the week's performances totaled
$630, the highest in the seven
years of the programs. Profits
will go into the Band trip fund
which sends the Band to camp
each summer — this year tentatively planned for the week of
August 24 at Torch Lake in
northern Michigan.
Honor Society
Members Listed
At High School
New provisional members of
the National Honor Society
were announced this week at
the High School.
Students become eligible for
membership in the second semester of their sophomore year,
but remain provisional members until they are initiated du-
r i n g Commencement Week.
They must maintain a program
of at least four academic subjects with a cumulative B average; selection by the faculty
is also based on character, service, school citizenship and leadership.
Provisional members listed
this week include Margaret
Beal, Shelia Farmer, Barbara
Finkbeiner, Ann Flook, Susan
Guenther, Judy Jump (now a
junior), Mary Kayda, Kalian
Liston, Jackie Livingstone, Susanne O'Connor, David Osborne,
Sheryl Peterson, Jeanine Reed,
Kathy Snyder, Pamela Staley,
Amy Uphaus, and Gay Wedemeyer.
Active members who are still
in High School here include seniors: Marcile Bauknecht, Bonnie Camburn, Sharon Eberle,
Dolores Faust, James Feldkamp, Mareia Feldkamp, Sharon Feldkamp, Dale Flook, Joan
LaRue, James Lake, Rob Merchant, Lorraine Myers, Karen
Riggs, Edward Ross, and Elizabeth Smith.
Juniors are: Janis Coe, Katy
Esch, Kay Gordon, Sandy
Greenfield, Linda Heiserman,
Cheryl Henes, Kristine Kuebler, Gail Mittendorf, Dan Morton, Susan Robison, John
Scherdt, Charles Still, and Susan Washburn.
Saline Area Board of Education has adopted a new "professional category salary policy"
that ties raises to the cost-of-
living index, plus an annual
"base raise" and a possible addition for "exceptional contributions".
The salary schedule, worked
out after three years of study,
brings the minimum salary to
$4,450 in Saline schools, and
boosts the maximum to $7,100
for teachers with a bachelor's
degree, or $7,400 for those with
a master's.
The new policy will go into
effect with the contracts offered next spring. Salaries are
to be established each January
by using the BLS Cost-of-Liv-
ing Index for the preceding November, in a pre-set formula.
But "no teacher will receive less
than in the previous year,"
School Board President Bess
Tefft pointed out.
The new plan was adopted,
she said, "because we need a
schedule that is flexible with
the times   and   does   not  need
CITY FATHERS
IN HOSPITAL
City Clerk E. J. Muir was
admitted to Saline Community
Hospital early Monday morning
as a medical patient suffering
from lung congestion. He was
reported  "doing very well".
City Councilman Hugh Keveling, also a patient there, was
reported "doing better". He w'as
admitted Sunday, February 9,
a pneumonia patient.
constant revision."
It was worked out by a committee of which Dean Burkhardt, board treasurer, was
chairman, including Mrs. Tefft;
another board member, Harold
Brown; principals of all three
schools; and Superintendent
Leo Jensen. It has been adopted
for a two-year trial period.
But the schedule includes the
provision that it is "predicated
upon the ability of the Board of
Education and the Community
to provide the funds to meet
its provisions". It also specifies
that the total increase in salary
for any one year for any one
teacher shall be limited to a
maximum of 11 per cent of
"Minimum Annual BA Salary",
not counting increases for receiving master's degrees or for
extra-curricular activity.
The policy retains the $300
salary increase to teachers who
obtain  their   master's   degrees.
The three-year probationary
period for new teachers here is
also still in effect.
After serving for three years
at maximum salary, any teacher may request consideration
for up to a maximum of the
regular annual increment as
"merit above maximum salary".
A number of other schools in
the area have learned of the
plan and have asked for details,
for consideration in their own
districts, Mrs. Tefft said.
Construction is well under way on the Leutheuser restaurant, on East Michigan Ave., though no opening date has
been set. It will be new quarters for the one now in the downtown area, still known as the Saline Hotel Restaurant.
Cub Packs to Hold
Blue-Gold Banquets
Both Saline Cub Scout packs
will hold their annual Blue and
Gold Banquets next week. Both
are family potluck- dinners with
awards to follow.
The banquet for Pack 474 will
begin at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday,
February 26, at the Intermediate School. Pack 416 will meet
at 6:30 p.m. Saturday, February 29, at the Elementary
School; a movie on scouting
will be shown.
NEIGHBORHOOD MEETING
SET BY GIRL SCOUTS
A meeting of the Girl Scout
Neighborhood Association i s
scheduled at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday
at the Intermediate School. All
registered adults are urged to
attend; final plans will be made
for Girl Scout Week.
STOCKHOLDERS' DINNER
SCHEDULED FRIDAY
The annual stockholders' dinner meeting of Saline Mercantile Co. is scheduled at noon
Friday at the Masonic Hall, for
election of officers and reports.
Dinner will be served by the
OES.
PLAN FRIENDSHIP NIGHT
Saline chapter 311, OES, will
entertain county-OES officers
at a "Friendship Night" and
smorgasbord dinner, at 6 p.m.
Monday at the hall.
Intermediate School
To Teach Studying
A special class on how to
study, to be taught by Lawrence
Baker, will get under way at the
Intermediate School next week.
The class will be given to 7th-
graders, "beginning -with those
who need it most", but the
school is still in the process of
working out scheduling problems, Principal Dwight Reynolds said.
The instruction will clover
such techniques as how to read
for content, how to outline, and
hew to take notes.
KIWANIANS TO MEET
The Kiwanis Club of Saline
will meet at 6:30 p.m. Monday
at Walkers' Bakery.
Ralph Hammond
To Celebrate 90th
Birthday Feb. 27 .
Ralph Hammond, a lifelong
resident of the Saline area, will
celebrate his 90th birthday on
Thursday, February 27, at his
home at 4165 Willow Rd., just
down the road from the farm
where he was born.
A family dinner will commemorate the event; Mrs. Robert Hammond will serve turkey, as she always does at
birthday dinners. The elder Mr.
Hammond lives with his son,
Robert, and family.
A short way down Willow
Road is the homestead on which
Ralph Hammond's grandfather
was the first settler ... it is
still owned by the Hammonds.
Ralph attended Hammond
School and later married Grace
McMann, who was born and
raised a mile away and also
attended Hammond School. She
passed away in March, 1957.
The couple had two sons,
Harold, now dead, ahd Robert;
an^ five grandchildren and se-
vc '   v at grandchildren.
Mir. Hammond, who has been
a Farm Bureau member for
many years, has always raised
sheep, both as a hobby and as
a business, and he still gets
around enough to go out to the
barn and look them over.
Concert of Lenten
Music Scheduled
The public is cordially invited to attend a concert of Lenten music to be given Sunday
evening at the Methodist
Church here.
The Rhythmic Choir will open the concert at 7:30 p.m. by
interpreting "The Shepherd
Will Supply My Need", a traditional folk time. Members of
the choir are Anita Larson, Coby Livingstone, Wendy Livingstone, Heidi Wild, Darcy Brink,
Debby Carr and Jean Bondie.
The Rhythmic Choir is directed
by Mrs. Donald Kraushaar.
Other members of the church
taking part in the concert are
Mrs. Kraushaar, soprano; Miss
Katy Esch, oboist; Herman
Merte, violinist; and Ronald
Attinger, flutist.
Wilnella Bush, of Britton, will
be guest organist. Also taking
part.will be Mary Ellen Henkel,
alto; Mildred Gates, tenor; and
John L. Henkel, bass, all of
Ann Arbor.
The program will include solos from Bach's B-Minor Mass,
Mendelssohn's "St. Paul",
Graun's "Passion of Our Lord
and Savior"; soprano and alto
duets by Bach, Handel and
Graun; and quartets from Mozart's "Requiem", using flute,
oboe and violin obligatoes and
organ accompaniment.
The Rhythmic Choir' will
close the concert with "O Sacred Head Now Wounded" by
Bach-Hassler.
Post Office Holiday
To be Observed Sat.
Washington's birthday, Saturday, will be observed as a
legal holiday by the Saline Post
Office, Postmaster Clarke Gordon reminded patrons this
week.
There will be no deliveries by
city or rural carriers, and these
employees will not be scheduled
for duty to case mail for window delivery.
The lock box lobby will be
open, however, from 6 to 11
a.m. and from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m.
for those who wish to pick up
mail from boxes.
Business firms whose mail is
regularly handled as "holdouts"
on distribution cases may call
for it at the Post Office, and
special delivery and perishable
articles will be delivered
promptly.
Holiday schedules for collection, receipt and dispatch of
mail will be in effect Saturday.
Boy Scouts
Hold Bannuet,
f
ran
PLANNERS TO MEET
The City Planning Commission will meet at 8 p.m. Tuesday at the City Hall.
Boy Scouts of Troop 46, after their annual Scout Week
banquet last week, held a Court
of Honor to present awards.
The banquet, at the Intermediate School, was attended by
10 2 Scouts, family members,
and friends.
At the ceremony, Richard
D'Agostino, David Grossman,
and Paul Sells were invested as
Tenderfoot Scouts. Steve Bradley and Bill Roy received one-
year service stars. Duncan Fur-
bush advanced to Second Class.
Boys who received merit badges included Sam Hanselman
and Kenny Martin, first aid;
Ron West, public health, painting, and home repairs; and Jim
Schmok, art, reading, and home
repairs. Jim also received his
Star Scout badge.
Other Scout Week activities
included window displays in
downtown stores; raising and
lowering flags at Intermediate
and High School; and attendance by 144 Cubs, Boy Scouts
and Explorers at Saline Baptist
Church on Scout Sunday. Rotary Club entertained 20 Scouts
and leaders for dinner Thursday,
A God and Country award, the first ever made here,
according to record, was presented Sunday to Boy Scout Sam
Hanselman, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Hanselman. The presentation was made during the morning service at the Saline
Baptist Church. Above, left to right, are Pastor Robert Nelson, Scoutmaster Harold West, Mr. and Mrs. Hanselman, and
the honored Scout. The award recognizes service in church
work, and is always presented through the church of the recipient.