1964-04-29; Saline Reporter

              VOLUME 14, NUMBER 33 - WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29, 1964
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PLAY CENTER TO MEET
New members are invited to
attend a meeting of Saline Play
Center, Inc., at 8:30 p.m. Monday at the home of Mrs. Allan
Grossman. It will be the organization's last meeting of the
season.
Cancer Benefits Geared
To Cancer Contributions
Gilbert and Sullivan was never better done than in the
"Mikado" performance here Friday night by seventh grade
vocal students, whose high spirits were matched by the enthusiasm of the audience. Above, a scene played by Jery Lake,
Debbie Wahl, and Mike Burke — who turned out to be an
accomplished show stealer. Below, "The Mikado", Dennis
Dicks, is backed by the whole colorful cast.
Circus to Set Up Sunday
For Monday Performance
The circus is coming- to town
- next Sunday.
Performances aren't scheduled until Monday, but all the
noisy confusion of tent-raising,
elephant watering, camel-exercising and setting up concessions will go on through Sunday
at the Farm Council grounds
on Saline-Ann Arbor Rd.
Kiwanians, who have sponsored the Mills Bros. Circus appearance here to raise funds
for a scholarship, aren't sure
what time the circus trucks will
arrive . . . some time in the
wee hours of the night, they
suppose. Neither does anyone
know what road it will come by.
But, on Sunday, it will be there.
Meanwhile, a door - to - door
sale of tickets hy local Kiwanians is still underway and will
continue through Saturday. Tickets are still on sale (with de-
Eight Volunteers
Take 4 a.m. Shift
At Blood Bank
Eight Saline women this week
became eligible for some kind
of heroism medal by accepting
the wee-small-hours shift in the
Blood Bank at the Ford Motor
Co. Ypsilanti plant.
Salinians have served as volunteer workers at out-of-town
blood banks before. But this
time, only the 4 a.m. to J8:30
a-m. shift was still unfilled
when the call went out. Nevertheless, a full contingent signed
up:
Mrs. George Austin, chairman
of the Saline Blood Bank, and
her assistants, Mrs. Hugh Austin, Mrs. Carl Bredernitz, Mrs.
Edwin Henes, Mrs. Robert H.
Smith, Mrs. Charles Finn, Mrs.
Norman Wiedmayer and 'Mrs.
Ray Davis.
The group will convene in
downtown Saline at 3:15 a.m.
Friday to leave for Ypsilanti.
The 4 a.m. shift at the Ford
Blood Bank has not been operated before, according to Wilfred St. Aubin, executive director of Washtenaw County Red
Cross, but the innovation was
arranged after employees on the
night shift there turned in 110
pledges of donations.
mand reported as "pretty good
and increasing") at four local
stores — the Saline Savings
Bank, where they may be purchased from any teller; Estes
Pharmacy; Carlton Shell Service; Walker's Bakery.
Tickets purchased in advance
will return 50 per cent of their
purchase price to fund a scholarship for a Saline student, Kiwanians emphasize. Those purchased later, at fhe time of performance, return only 10 per
cent.
Performances are scheduled
at 3:45 and 8 p.m. Monday, and
children wishing to attend the
matinee will be dismissed from
school early at their parents'
request.
The scholarship. will be the
first ever awarded by Saline Kiwanians, but it is hoped that
one can be given every year, in
the amount of approximately
$300.
Post Office
To Cut Back
Few Services
Saline and Bridgewater post
offices will reduce services only slightly, and only on Saturdays, as their part in the nationwide postal department cutback expected to save 12.7 million dollars.
The national adjustments
were announced March 10 in
Washington, D.C, by Postmaster General John A. Gronuski.
Services to be discontinued on
Saturday here are those that
involve transfer of money ~
with the exception of stamps
which will still be sold six days
a week.
But money orders will not
be issued and rural carriers
will not be able to accept money
order applications on Saturday,
since the applications could not
be processed until Monday.
No claims will be accepted on
Saturdays; and service for meter setting, trust funds deposit
for bulk mailing, and box rent
collections will be handled on a
five-day week basis. But all
other window service will be
available Saturdays as usual,
Postmaster Clarke Gordon said..
In Bridgewater, there will be
no Saturday window service for
■money orders or box rentals,
but mail and parcel post will go
out at the regular times and
stamps will be on sale, Postmaster Rusty Wilson said.
In the City of Saline, parcel
post delivery will be on the basis of a five-day week ... no
delivery of parcel post north of
Michigan Avenue on Wednesdays or south of Michigan Avenue on Thursdays. Rural parcel post will continue to be delivered six days a week.
Gordon emphasized that all
first class mail, first class parcels, air parcel post, special delivery letters and parcels, and
all perishable articles will continue to be delivered six days
a week, with the same priority
as before.
There will be no change in
home delivery of first class mail
and regular business mail deliveries will continue six days
a week.
Persons desiring further information are asked to call the
Saline Post Office, 429-7750.
Four cancer patients in the
Saline area are now receiving
care and assistance from Washtenaw County Chapter, American Cancer Society.
In recent years Saline Community Hospital has received
gifts of $400 annually from the
chapter, for purchase of equipment to diagnose and combat
cancer. In the same years, St.
Joseph Hospital and University
Hospital have received annual
$1,200 gifts each, also for purchase of cancer equipment available to patients from the Saline area and elsewhere.
The Washtenaw chapter's
yearly budget includes a $1,000
donation to American Cancer
Society for research work in the
fight against cancer.
Thus, on a limited budget determined by local contributions
in the annual Cancer Fund
Drive, the Washtenaw County
Chapter performs yearly -mira-
Local Woman's
Committee Work
To be Recognized
The Education Department of
the Michigan State Federation
of Women's Clubs will be honored at the General Federation
of Women's Clubs convention in
Atlantic City, it was announced
at a State Federation awards
luncheon Thursday in Mint.
The department to be citgd is
under the direction of Mrs. Meredith Bixby,   of  Saline.
The announcement was made
by Mrs. E. D. Pearce, second
vice president of the General
Federation, one of those attending the Michigan Federation
convention.
Under Mrs. Bixby's leadership, over $100,000.00 in scholarship funds have been awarded
this past term to worthy students throughout Michigan.
This includes not only funds for
the college-bound youth, but aid
to nursing, vocational, agriculture students as well as adults
who are re-training for new
skills; several thousand dollars
of this amount have been expended to aid the potential high
school drop-out.
Mrs. Bixby used as a theme
for her department a comment
from Dean William Haber, University of Michigan: "Color,
race and religion will soon cease
to be the basis for discrimination in our culture. The untrained and the uneducated will comprise the true minority of tomorrow."
cles in stretching their funds
to meet the needs.
By far the greatest item of
expense in the Chapter's budget
is "patient care". Taking over
when the patient leaves the hospital, "patient care" provides
regular house calls by visiting
nurses . . . dressings, medication . . . and loans of sickroom
equipment such as hospital beds
and wheelchairs.
On the basis of actual family
financial need, the chapter also
helps individual cases with cobalt-, radiation-, and chemotherapy. Funds for this purpose are administered on the
basis of hardship; thus, a needy
family, with the breadwinner
stricken by cancer, would tend
to get special emphasis from
the chapter.
Most of the work accomplished each year by the Washtenaw
Chapter is done by volunteers
doing their job without a cent
of pay.
The public is invited, once
each year, to do its part along
with the volunteer workers, by
contributing to the Cancer Fund
Drive. The '64 drive is now in
progress, and the invitation
stands, according to Lois Martin, chairman.
So far, benefit coffee hours
have brought in $128.25 for the
local drive.
Road Commission
To Rebuild Bridge
As part of a program to "upgrade" bridges in the county,
Washtenaw County Road Commission today closed Mohart
Road to begin rebuilding a
bridge there.
Estimated cost of the reconstruction is $9,500, including
new guard rail and asphalt surface. The bridge, which is now
posted for a load limit of six
tons, will be rebuilt to carry
legal loads, at least 15 tons, and
will not require posting.
Mohart Road, sometimes listed as Mohrhart Road, is in Saline Township, between Arkona
and Hack Roads. It will be
closed for two to three weeks,
a Road Commission spokesman
said.
Change Required to
Retain Penal Monies
Meha to Start
"4, Maybe 6"
Homes Here Soon
Meha plans now call for
"four, maybe six" private
homes to be started soon at the
site north of the High School,
with completion scheduled this
summer, according to Dr. Benjamin Rich, executive secretary
of the association.
No ground-breaking date has
been set, Dr. Rich said, but
"architects are working on it"
and Meha is still working with
the city on provisions for sewer
and water.
The educators who have decided to build under Meha's private home plan are "mostly
retired teachers, at least one
from Detroit", he said.
SALINE TOWNSHIP
TO HOLD PUBLIC
MEETING MAY 4
Saline Township will hold a
meeting, open to the public, at
8:30 p.m. Monday, May 4, at
the Township Hall located at
5731 Braun Rd.
The purpose of the meeting
is to discuss the forthcoming
Saline Area School Board election and, possibly, chose a candidate to place on the ballot.
All residents of the Saline
Area School District interested
in the Annual School Election
are invited to attend the meeting.
Officer Injured
In Collision
Police Officer Jack Measley
was treated at Saline Community Hospital Friday evening for
whiplash injuries, after the police car was struck from the
rear by a vehicle driven by Ray
Andres, of 106 E. Henry St.
The collision occurred on E.
Michigan Ave. at Hall St. Andres was ticketed with failure
to stop within the assured distance. Damage to the police car
was slight, but damage to the
Andres car was estimated at
$250 to $400.
We're Scooped!
Competion
First News
A competition newspaper has
gone into business here, put out
its first issue Saturday, and
scooped The Reporter with (to
add insult to injury) a story
about a Reporter employee.
The publisher is Carl Struble,
10, son of Mr. and Mrs. George
Malinczak, who decided to go
into the newspaper business after he toured the Reporter shop
recently with Peggy Livingstone's 4th-grade class.
He has some experience: he
and his younger brother, Chris,
used to keep written records of
their activities while playing.
But Chris has little interest in
the newspaper trade.
The first issue of "Carl's
News" is handwritten since, like
newspapers everywhere, he had
some mechanical difficulties.
His toy typewriter broke down.
The lead story reads: "Ray
works at the Saline Reporter.
He had a slight accident. He
wreck into a police car on Michigan Ave. last night about ten
to six."
Puts Out
Edition
Second lead story says: "About the first April there were a
bunch of grass fires, so try to
prevent fires. Pleas."
Advertising, the life blood of
any newspaper, is not lacking.
He has three ads already . . .
from George's Bar, The Corner
Drug, and "The dime store".
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Petitions Due
Next Week for
School Election
DEADLINE SAME DAY
FOR REGISTRATION
Nominating petitions must be
turned in by 4 p.m. Saturday,
May 9, for the two four-year
Board of Education terms to be
filled at the June 8 election..
The expiring terms are those
of Raymond Girbach and Harold Brown.
Petitions, available now at
the office of the Superintendent
of Schools, must contain the
names of at least 50 registered
electors, and must be filed with
the secretary of the board, Oliver Steiner. No petitions have
been taken out as yet.
The deadline for registration
to vote in the election is also
May 9, at 5 p.m. Electors must
register with their city or township clerk, although the election
itself will be held at the Intermediate School. The June >8 election will be the first since
Saline area became a registration school district.
Planners Set
Tentative R-l
Zone Areas
A zoning map under consideration by the Planning Commission would set aside two fairly
large areas of the city for "R-l-
A" zoning and two for "R-l-B",
leaving all the rest of the city
under "R-l-C".
But almost all of the areas
are zoned to agree with existing usage, or are not yet in
use at all.
An ordinance that would divide residential zones into separate areas has been under study by the Planning Commission,
with an "optimistic target date"
of July 1, according to Jack
Steeb, chairman. It would also
allow four types of commercial
zones and two for manufatur-
ing, which the planners have
not yet worked out.
The R-l-A areas cover land
now almost entirely open, one
behind Mills Road and across
the pond, the other behind E.
Michigan Avenue and a line extending Davenport Street south.
The proposed zoning ordinance,
modeled after one used in the
city of Warren (and other cities) specifies lot sizes with 100
foot frontage and up.
The R-l-B category requires
lots of 80 or 90 foot frontage
and is designated in one area
between W. Bennett Street and
the railroad track (existing usage) and another in Rolling
Meadows subdivision in the area not yet platted.
That part of the subdivision
which already falls under R-l-C
will be zoned as such, and the
commission will probably leave
more in that category, Steeb
said. All the rest of the city
will also be listed in "C". R-l-C
requires lots with 60 to 70 foot
frontage.
The ordinance also sets up
qualifications for size of buildings in the various divisions,
but leaves considerable leeway
as to placement of buildings and
shape of lots.
The Saline Library, which has
always been open to the public
without charge, has instituted
proceedings to become legally a
"public library" . . . that is,
tax-supported.
Unless the change Is made,
the local library can no longer
receive penal fine monies, which
constitute half its budget.
Mrs. Charles Kern, president
of the Library Association
board, appeared before Council Monday night to request an
ordinance making the library
city-supported, and City Attorney Allan Grossman was instructed to draft such an ordinance.
The change is necessary, Mrs.
Kern explained, in order to comply with pending state legislation under which penal fine monies can be used only by tax-
supported libraries. It is also
necessary if the Saline Library
is to continue its present association with the Washtenaw
County Library, which makes
books and films available.
If the local library becomes
a legally public library, it will
also be eligible for future state
and federal assistance.
In order to comply with the
new law, the change must be
made by June 15 if the library
is to receive penal fund money
distributed in August. Last year
the Saline Library received
$1,313.10 in penal fines, about
half of its budget, Mrs. Kern
said. The remainder of the budget is made up of contributions
from the city and surrounding
townships, whose residents also
use the library without charge.
A requirement of the new law
is that all library property must
be city-owned, and Grossman
was also instructed to investigate such a transfer. The present library building was deeded to the Library Association
by the William H. Davenport
family ... to the "Saline Library and its successors" . . .
but there is a reverter clause
providing that the property return to the estate if it should
ever cease to be used for library
purposes.
Some changes will NOT be
made by the library's altered
status: There will be no change
in the library's location and no
immediate change in size or
procedure, as far as the public
ROTARIANS TO HEAR
HS STUDENTS REPORT
A group of Saline High
School students will report on
their recent participation in the
annually conducted Mock UN
Assembly at Thursday's meeting of the Saline Rotary Club.
Arthur Heininger is program
chairman.
is conerned. Saline's books will
not become part of any county system; they will remain
here. Library cards will still be
free, and the library can continue to serve the townships and
receive contributions from
them.
The request to Council Mon-
day followed a meeting last
week of the library board with
Miss Helen Kramer, a member
of the State Library Board and
public library consultant for
this area. Mayor Jack Bennett
and Councilman George Johnson attended the conclave.
When the library first started here, its books were kept in
a room in the present City Hall
building. Then it was moved to
a little black building, behind
the present location and owned
by William Davenport, whose
wife, Ziltha, was a member of
the board.
When the library board asked
Mr. Davenport for a lease on
the building, they received a
warranty deed instead. Later,
the present building was constructed for the library's use
and a deed was presented to the
association.
PASTOR TO AID
IN STATE UF
BUDGET STUDY
The Rev. Donald C. Kraushaar will represent the Saline
Area United Fund, at the annual budget conference of the
Michigan United- Fund.
He will serve as a member of
the admissions and budget committee, comprised of more than
250 volunteers throughout Michigan, who will attend the annual budget conference May 5
and 6, at Kellogg Center in
East Lansing.
The volunteers hear the budget requests outlining the programs and financial needs of
the 36 state and national health
and welfare agencies included in
the Michigan United Fund.
Mrs. J. Arthur Mullen of
Grosse Pointe will serve as
chairman of the budgeting sessions, which annually determine
the financial needs of the state
and national agencies to be included in the Saline Area United Fund.
In 1963, the combined requests of the 36 agencies was
$4,321,962, but was reduced by
the budget committee to
$3,639,182. After the financial
needs of the 36 agencies are
determined, each community in
Michigan is asked to accept its
fair share of these needs and
inlude this amount in its United Fund campaign in the fall.
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Saline's newest publisher,
Carl Struble, holds up the first
issue of his small-but-mighty
"Carl's News", and a Reporter
for comparison of size.
BARRUS HEARING
POSTPONED TO MAY 4
Examination for Joseph Barrus of Saline, on a charge of attempted murder, has been postponed to 2 p.m. Monday, May 4,
in Municipal Court in Ann Arbor.
Barrus is held without bail in
Washtenaw County Jail pending the hearing; he was arrested April 15 after, he allegedly
attempted to strangle his wife
at their home at 492 Rosemont
St., here.
Intermediate
School Parents
To Meet Tuesday
The Intermediate Parents Association will hold a meeting
and reception for new room mothers at 8 p.m. Tuesday, May 5,
at the school.
Following a business meeting
and election of officers for the
coming year, the group will
hear Leo Jensen, School Super-
in ten dent, and Gerald Coe,
chairman of the Saline Area
Schools Advisory Council, discuss the school situation relative to a recent survey made
by the Advisory Council.
Intermediate School Principal Dwight Reynolds will speak
also, reviewing the Intermediate
School program.
The talks will be followed by
a question and answer period,
and a coffee hour will be held
at the close of the meeting.
All parents of students attending the Intermediate School
are invited and urged to attend.
Kay Gordon (above, right) and Cheryl Henes were
among more than 80 4-H girls from throughout the state
who studied the Michigan dairy industry during the 1884
4-H Dairy Foods Conference at Michigan State University's
KeUogg Center, April 19-21.
The program, the first of its kind in Michigan, was designed to teach young women the nutritive value of dairy
products and create an appreciation for the Michigan dairy
industry through knowledge of career oppoa-tnnities in
marketing and promotion of dairy products.
Major emphasis throughout the program was on giving
these young women a better understanding of dairy foods
and teaching them to serve as resource persons in their
respective home counties.