1964-04-08; Saline Reporter

              The Saline Reporter
VOLUME 14, NUMBER 30 - WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8, 1964
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Double Session:
Council Studies Bids,
Tables Ordinance
Hardly a "library type" of day was last Saturday. Outdoors the sun was warm and shiny, inviting youngsters to
all kinds of fun in the open.
But the crowd could be found at the Saline Library.
Bookish belles such as Robin Morrow and Bev Wackenhut,
plus all the boys, packed the place throughout library "open"
hours.
The big attraction: Saline Library's handsome new
double-decker layout and bright new lighting, as designed
by Howard Kuhl, W. Henry St., and constructed by Braun
and Finkbeiner.
HS Honor Roll
Lists Announced
Honor roll lists for the next-
to-last marking period of- the
school year were announced tins
week at the High School:
SENIORS
With Highest Academic Honor
(A or A- Average)
Marcile Bauknecht
Dolores Faust
Mareia Feldkamp
Sharon Feldkamp
Joan LaRue
Lorraine Myers
Karen Riggs
With Academic Honor
(B or B+ Average)
Bonnie Camburn
James Feldkamp
1 Dale Flook
Ann-Marie Gunnarsson
Barbara Hehr
Leslie Katz
James Lake
Coby Livingstone
Diane Miller
Janet Richards
Edward Ross
Elizabeth Smith
i General
(A or A- Average)
Elsie Klager
(B or B+ Average)
Gail Armbruster
Laura Belleau
Debbie Dechert
Albert Feldkamp
Rob Merchant
Nancy Robison
Junior Child
Study Club
Names Officers
At its annual meeting Monday in the home of Mrs. James
Keller, the Saline Junior Child
Study Club elected officers for
the 1964-1965 year: president,
Mrs. James Keezer; vice president, Mrs. Richard Hoeft; recording secretary, Mrs. Jerry
Losee; treasurer, Mrs. Cofl
Clark; and reporting secretary,
Mrs. Barry Jacobsen.
Lee Hout, of the Michigan
Children's Aid Society, discussed child development and foster
homes.
Mrs. Philip Badour, Mrs. William Meister, Jr., Mrs. Richard
Lehtonen and Mrs. James Keezer will represent the club at
the annual meeting of the
Washtenaw County Federation
of Womens' Clubs, on April 20
in Ann Arbor.
Mrs. Joseph Graf and Mrs.
Jerry Losee were co-hostesses
for the evening.
The May 4 meeting will be
held at the home of Mrs. Philip
Badour. Hostesses will be Mrs.
Ralph Gross and Mrs. James
Keezer.
JUNIORS
With Highest Academic Honor
(A or A- Average)
Sandra Greenfield
Linda Heiserman
• Susan Washburn        "' "
With Academic Honor
(B or B+ Average)
Robert Austin
Jenny Camburn
Janis Coe
Diane Dickinson
Katy Esch
Mareia Fritts
Kay Gordon
Cheryl Henes
Connie Hepler
Barbara Houghton
Sandy Jordan
Kris Kuebler
Frank Merrill   v
Gail Mittendorf
Steve Miller
Sharon Morrow
Dan Morton
Mike Rapp
Susan Robison
John 'Scherdt
Karen Weber
General
(B or B+ Average)
Jill Alber
Jerry Austin
Harold Dechert
Linda Dechert
Barbara Fritz
Pat Hughes
Judy Jump
Pat Katz
Bruce Niethammer
Sally Quick
Elaine Schaible
Joan Socha
Lawrney Steiner
Audrey Thompson
SOPHOMORES
With Highest Academic Honor
(A or A- Average)
Margaret Beal
Susan Guenther
David Osborne
Gay Wedemeyer
With Academic Honor
(B or B+ Average)
Mary Beach
Sandra Burkhart
Charlene Deasy
Joyce Dieterle
Shelia Farmer
Barbara Finkbeiner
Arda Hoffman
Karla Hoffman
Doris Johnson
Mary Kuyda
Kalian Liston
Jackie Livingstone
Suzanne O'Connor
Coralee   Ransom
Kathy Snyder
Pamela Staley
Amy Uphaus
Linda Wolfinger
Jenny Young
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Despite a number of unexpected hitches, City Council in two
sessions made progress on several fronts this week.
First business at Monday
night's meeting: opening of bids
for construction of a new water tower at the Henry St. site.
Chicago Bridge and Iron Co.
was the lower of two bidders
and was awarded the job. Coun-
cil specified that the tank
should be the spherical model
rather than speroidal, for a
savings of $1,600. The winning
bid: $81,000.
Hitch No. 1 cropped up in
connection with the tower site.
Council found itself somewhat
in the dark as to where the
service access easement leading
into the tower site from E. Henry St. is located.
The group voted to have a
survey of the area to settle the
question.
Second item of business: Opening of bids for construction
of water mains and sanitary
sewers involved in Saline's planned expansion. Eleven construction firms submitted bids. Low
bidder was Selders Excavating
of Tecumseh. Selders' total bid,
$37,500, was $14,000 under the
second-low bid, and little more
than half the high bid. In view
of the wide spread between the
Selders bid and those of the
other contractors, engineer Don
Holley advised Council to table
the matter until the following
night, to give him time to study Selders' proposal.
At Tuesday night's meet, Holley reported several errors and
omissions in the Selders bid. He
stated his belief that the mistakes were honest. He recom-
■ mended that, if in the opinion
of the city attorney it could
legally be done, Council consider a corrected bid from Selders
tallying up to $39,818.42, still
more than $10,000 under the
next-lowest bidder.
Hitch No. 2 popped up at this
point.    Councilmen    questioned
Parsons Re-elected
C-C President
Harry Parsons has been unanimously re-elected president of
the Chamber of Commerce, for
the 1964-65 year, and William
Crim, Jr., will serve as vice president. Crim was also named
chairman of the 1964 membership drive.
Other officers are Allan
Grossman, secretary; Bob Diek-
. inson, treasurer; and Leon Vedder, Lyle Phillips, Paul Tull,
Troy Fant, and John Lake, directors.
The annual banquet will be
held in conjunction with the
Mayor's Exchange Program,
launching Michigan Week, in
May.
whether the other 10 contractors, who submitted their bids
in good faith, would accept City
action in awarding a job on the
basis of a corrected bid.
The group voted to table the
matter until next Monday, giv-
ing Allan Grossman time to
write a legal opinion on the issue.
Monday nignt's meeting also
featured second reading of Saline's proposed new Subdivision
Ordinance.
Hitch No. 3 developed after
the reading. It was noted that
passage of the ordinance at this
time would leave the City without sufficient safeguards in the
area of construction standards.
Some of, these standards are
now a part of the City's current Subdivision Ordinance. A
new City ordinance on construction standards is now being
written but is not yet ready for
passage. Enactment of the new
Subdivision Ordinance would
nullify the old one, and thus
would kill all standards provisions contained in it.
Council voted to table the
new Subdivision Ordinance, No.
173, until the Standards Ordinance, No. 174, is also ready for
enactment, or until a set of design standards can be adopted
to fill the gap.
In further action at the Monday meeting, Council accepted
the Police Department's monthly report, voted to pay current
bills, and voted to extend pay
arrangements with City Superintendent Mike Strait for another month.
The group also authorized
City Clerk E. J. Muir to attend
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Elementary School
Parents to Hold
Annual Meeting
The Elementary School Room
Parents Association will hold
its annual meeting and election
of officers on Monday, April
13, at the school. The group will
also make their final plans for
the school carnival to be held
May 1.
Guest speaker for the evening
will be Mrs. Maxine Soloway of
the Huron Valley Child Guidance Clinic, who will show a
film on "Fears of Children".
The meeting will open at 8
p.m.
REGISTRATION REQUIRED
FOR SCHOOL ELECTIONS
Saline area School District is
now a registration district, i.e.,
only registered electors may
vote in school elections, the
Board of Education announced
this week.
Compilation of records to
change the district to a registration area has been under way
for some months, but persons
not now registered may still do
so at the office of their township or city clerk.
Registration for the annual
school election scheduled June
8, 1964, will close at 5 p.m. on
Friday, May 8.
Telephone Co. to Expand
Base Rate Area, Services
Firm Manufactures
Fiberglass Campers
A new light manufacturing
firm, Merit Products Corp., is
established in Saline, manufacturing fiberglass campers and
pick-up covers in a building behind the Sauk Trail Inn.
The owners are James Merritt, Donald Geiger, Stanley
Baisch, all of Clinton, and Walter (Bud) Miller, of Ann Arbor.
They hire two other persons,
Joe Masterson and John Emery,
for their operation, which includes development of other fiberglass products besides their
main line. Although the firm is
new, Miller has been in this
type of work for about five
years.
Besides their pick-up covers
and campers, manufactured for
the wholesale trade, they also
furnish waterproof tents, luggage carriers, and other light
camping equipment.
Woman's Club
To Meet Tuesday
The Saline Woman's Club will
meet at 11:30 a.m. Tuesday,
April 14, at St. Paul United
Church of Christ.
A demonstration on floral arrangements will be given by
Goodhew Floral Co. of Ann Arbor, followed by a potluck luncheon. Each member of the club
is invited to bring a guest.
A business meeting and program will follow the luncheon,
with Mrs. Walter MacArthur as
program chairman. A film entitled "The Idea of Michigan"
will be shown.
All Bui 15
Teachers Will
Return in Fall
Saline school teachers this
week accepted or rejected contracts offered by the Board of
Education for the 1964-1965
school year: 15 will not return
next year, three have not yet
been heard from, and three replacements have already been
hired.
Teacher turnover, usually
highest in the Elementary
School, this year was largest in
the High School instead. Seven
teachers, all of them new this
year, will not return next fall.
In most cases, the teachers
not returning are women whose
husbands have graduated from
the University and moved away,
Superintendent Leo Jensen said.
A few have already accepted
positions elsewhere.
All teachers of long standing will return to the High
School: George Bonich, Jacque-
lyn Brady, Clem Corona, Julie
Crockett, Ronald Dubats, Alton
Ealy, Claire Franzway, Dallas
Garrett, Mildred Haswell, Donald Jaeger, Elizabeth Kuebler,
Nancy Kulenkamp, Hallie Meh-
ler, Marian Palmer, Leah Petersen and Larry Smith.
Also here next fall will be
Edna Spinks, Jay Starkey, Robert Via, Elizabeth Washburn,
Evelyn Campbell, Joan Husted,
Michael Rotunno, Bernice McCoy, and Art Katterjohn. One
teacher has not yet replied.
Teachers who will not return
are Dennis Baab, Sandra Ber-
ger, Nancy Grunemeyer, Louise
Hoden, Stanley Kasuda, Jane
Samuelson, and Judith Sheets.
The Intermediate School staff
will lose only two: Ronald Attinger and Helene Monaghan.
Mrs. Monaghan will retire this
spring after 40 years of teaching. One teacher has not replied
to the contract offer.
Six will not return to the Elementary School, an average
number for that school. They
are Louise Cicearelli, Marjorie
Elmy, Carol Geyer, Jean Had-
din, Mary Staal, and Shirley
Webster. One has  not replied.
Three replacements have already been hired for the Elementary School, Jensen announced: Margaret Pierson, of
Ann Arbor; Carol Tuls, of Holland, Mich.; and Pamela Healy,
Ann Arbor, now a student teacher in the first grade here.
All members of the administrative staff will return next
year.
General Telephone Co. workmen roll out a 3,000 foot
swath of cable, part of the $253,500 expansion program, now
under way, that will increase the size of the Saline exchange
base area, and provide upgraded service for rural subscribers. Target completion date is September 1; crews have been
at work in the area for several weeks.
School Council Considers
Value of 'Flexible Building'
experimental stages elsewhere
and not in use here). It also
centered in Principal Marian
Barclay's statement that "close
to three per cent of our elementary school children need special services, such as speech
therapy, aid from a visiting
teacher provided by the special
education program, psychologists, etc." The visiting teacher
and necessary equipment are
provided by the one-half -min
for special education, but the
school system must provide
a room. There is no room for
that purpose in the present Elementary School since the program was not in existence when
it was built.
But rooms for special purposes are not in full-time use and
could be provided when needed
by use of the flexible partition.
A good wooden partition costs
about $3,000, according to Binda Associates, the architects,
while a solid cement block wall
costs about $300. But the flexible partition is even better
sound-proofed than the solid
wall, he said.
In other areas of interest to
the group in school design, Binda advised against an elementary school with no windows,
but pointed out that the present
trend in design of schools is to
smaller window  space which
New Elementary
Can't Be Ready
By Fall of 1965
Members of the Saline Area
Schools Advisory Council, after a Thursday meeting, with
the architect chosen for the new
elementary school, seemed to be
leaning toward choice of a "flexible building" ... in which at
least some of the walls are sliding panels.
The movable panel Avails are
considerably more expensive
than permanent block walls.
But they could eliminate the
need for some special rooms,
for art, music, speech, etc., and
can thus cut down on over-all
floor space.
The Advisory Council members also learned that it would
be virtually impossible to have
the new building ready for occupancy by the fall of 1965,
since the bonding proposal cannot be ready for a vote before
the fall of 1964, and construction would then start in the
spring of 1965.
The new target date is February, 1966.
The group's interest in a flexible building stemmed partly
from the expected use of cooperative teaching methods
(not quite the same as "team
teaching", which is still only in
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$253,500 Project
Stated for Sept. I
Completion Date
General Telephone Co. in the
Saline area, is in the midst of
an expansion program that will
increase its present base area
to approximately five times its
present size, provide urban service and rates for 106 more
customers, and supply urban
types of service for a great
many more.
The $253,500 program is
scheduled fj&r completion by
September 1, but work is "going very well" and "ahead of
schedule", according to Kenneth
Conway,  district manager.
In the process, all rural lines
will be upgraded to a maximum
of five parties per line.
The company's present base
rate area, almost exactly bounded by Saline city limits, will be
expanded to encompass 11
square miles, as far north as
Pleasant Lake Rd., to a line
between Dell and Nobles roads
on the west, just east of Lohr
Rd., and a quarter mile south of
the city limits.
Customers inside that area
will no longer pay mileage
rates, Conway explained. Outside of that area, lines will still
be rural, but facilities will be
available for subscribers who
want urban types of service,
with a mileage rate. There will
be no change in rates in the
present urban area (inside the
city limits) and no customer's
rate will igo up.
Included in the program for
rural expansion will be new feeder cables for Ypsilanti State
Hospital, relief for the Willis
Rd. area, and new facilities to
supply better grades of service
to Saline Valley Farms.
Bridgewater is already a "locality rate area", a sort of "satellite exchangfe", Conway explained. Previous to February 1,
only rural service was available
there. Now, subscribers may
have urban services without a
mileage charge but at a slightly
higher rate than that paid inside the base area. Macon is a
"locality rate area" of the Tecumseh exchange.
The expansion program was
prompted by the population
growth on Saline-Ann Arbor
Rd., such as Lodi Estates, and
the proposed new subdivision at
Brassow Rd., plus the projected
M e h a development, Conway
said.
More Than a Million Miles;
Bus Driver Retires after 16 Years
Tour Still Scheduled Despite
Unrest: in South America
HOSPITAL MEETS SET
The operating committee of
Saline Community Hospital will
meet at 5 p.m. Wednesday, April 15, at the hospital. The board
of directors will meet at 8 p.m.
Wednesday, April 22, in the
board room at Universal Die
Casting.
The Michigan Chorale tour
through South America this
summer is still scheduled, despite political unrest there, but
members can't help wondering
about their reception.
Among the countries they are
slated to visit is Brazil, where a
government was just overturned by rebels . . . and Michigan
young people have trouble envisioning armed rebellion.
Two Salinians — Rob Merchant and John Reid — will join
the tour, sponsored by the
Youth for Understanding program, through Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay and Chile. But
Lester McCoy, former director,
will not be with them this year.
For reasons of health, and questioning the effect of high altitudes and winter season in
South  America, McCoy  has
turned the directorship over to
Robert Pratt, choral director of
Ann Arbor High School and
choir director at Zion Lutheran
Church. He will return to the
chorale next year if health permits, he said; meantime, he will
continue to lead the, Methodist
Church choir in Ann Arbor, and
expects to do extensive sunning
this summer.
McCoy founded the now-famous group in 1958 and he and
Mrs. McCoy have accompanied
them on annual tours since
then. Altogether, the chorale
has visited 15 countries in Europe and eight in South America.
PLANNERS TO MEET
City Planning Commission
will meet at 8 pan. Tuesday at
City Hall.-
After driving more than a
million miles with never an accident (and only three flat
tires), Charles Kruger turned
in the keys to his school bus
Friday and retired.
He was one of the first school
bus drivers Saline ever had, and
the first to reach retirement age
on the job. For 16 years, he had
safely transported Saline area
youngsters, including his own
children, his own grandchildren,
and children of the first children on his route.
All of them love him. The
little ones are likely to rush up
and give him a big hug when
they meet him on the street,
and they have never forgotten
him at Christmas time.
They also know he means
what he says ... he always ran
a "tight ship" and brooked no
nonsense. Once, many years
ago, he told a few obstreperous
boys to behave themselves or
get out and walk. When they
failed to quiet down, he stopped
the bus and evicted three of
them . . . including his own son.
Norman.
He has 'always driven the
school's longest route . . . the
Bridgewater route for nine
years, then tire Waterworks-
Bethel-Weber Rd. route for two
years, then the Pleasant Lake
Rd. - Ellsworth - Waters Rd.
route. Except.for this year and
one other, he has also driven
the team bus to and from out-
of-town games.
His bus never got stuck, in
either snow or mud, but one
year the roads were so bad that
he left it over nights at a neighbor's house, iy2 miles from his
own home, and walked to and
from for more than a week.
His first bus carried 48 passengers;   this  year he carried
65. He has driven bus 18 ever
since it was new, with the exception of one year, and when
he turned it in Friday, it had
101,082 miles on it. It was purchased eight years ago.
He remembers only one close
call . . . when the brakes gave
out suddenly one day on Waterworks Rd. He was able to stop
the bus, by using the emergency
brake, in time to avoid a crash.
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More than a million miles rolled under fhe wheels of his
school bus before Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kroger, above, decided enough's enough. He retired Friday.