1964-05-27; Saline Reporter

              VOLUME 14, NUMBER 37 - WEDNESDAY, MAY 27, 1964
The Saline Reporter
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ART KATTERJOHN ACCEPTS JOLIET, ILL., POST
Memorial Day Program Scheduled
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York Decision to Hike
Saline Schools1 Millage
A decision by York Township reassessment by a group of Mi-
to put a miUage request on the Ian viUage residents," Hayes
baUot, rather than accept an al- said. "This wiU give the tax-
lotment from the 15-miU limi- payers of York Township the
tation, wiU mean an additional right to decide fbr themselves
$11,707.68 for the Saline Area whether they want a reassess-
schools. ment of property in York Town-
Preliminary action by the ship by added taxation."
Washtenaw County Tax AUoca-     The board appointed a conation Board had given the town- mittee of six to investigate the
ship  .96 mills, which, by law, present assessments on proper-
had  to be  deducted from  the ty.
Saline schools' aUotment, since      ... ,.
York Township is in this dis- After spending a large am-
trict. The schools were slated ount of time with George Kosti-
for 9 16 miUs shak, county equalization advi-
To Join Championship
HS Band of Nation
The Township's  decision  is
'sure  to   mean  that   Saline
ser, in going over the assessment rolls of York Township,
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schools will get the additional the  c™ittee  rePf ted  a  r&
millage," County Treasurer Syl-
assessment was not necessary.
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vester Leonard said today, al-
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It was the opinion of the com-
l'~C"Z'~ .^"IT" ^^   A^VttJ,,4.-aJ'" mittee that Supervisor Thurlow
though  the   Tax  Allocation „    -    ,     ,     5 ...    .
t, , j..      ...       ... . . Sanford, who is responsible for
Board did not take official ac- „ „„„„   '   +    •     + i,     .•.„      vv«
,, .  .. .   assessments in the township,
tion on the matter at its meet- „. . ..      . . „ c
... .       _.    ,    1T was "doing a fine -job .
ing this morning. Final alloca- ,   • J
tions will be made Monday af-       Members   of  the committee
ternoon were Fa^ Ross> Guy MUler; and
The entire .96 mills will not Arthur Stevens, aU of MUan,
come to the local schools, how- and York Township Clerk Rus-
ever, since Saline Township, al- f11 Wanty Township Trustees
so in the district, is allocated Howard Wilkie and Hayes.
.57 mills. But the change wiU Hayes added' ™e cost °f th*
bring the school allotment to reassessment would have been
g 55 approximately $16,000 and. the
" (The AUocation Board at -96 "Ms would have been *add-
Monday's meeting wUl also deal ed*° York Township taxpayers
with changes in two other ^lthout Siv.mg the? *he Srm"
school allotments, those of Clin- le%e of votmS on the lssue<
Wm. B. Lutz Post No. 322 of with a potluck dinner at 1 p.m. ton and Manchester, both due 	
the American Legion wiU spon- for Legion members, their fa- to errors in the schools' original   «% ■
sor Memorial Day services here milies and guests at the Amer- calculations. Manchester is ex- C-ff^S^^A/QQa
on Saturday, May 30, Post Com- ican Legion Hall on MiUs Rd. pected to get a rise from the ^^ " VW\J
mander MUton  Finkbeiner an- Mr. and Mrs. Frank Deede will preliminary aUocation.) Ql.w>__±_m,La+   kl#*«i*
nounced today. be  special guests   of honor at     The York Township decision wIXCCCS   MOW
An invitation  has   been   ex- the dinner; which wiU also be was made at a special meeting  f> ■        | ■
tended by Commander Finkbei- a  farewell   gathering  for   the iast Wednesday night to avoid  R|clclcbODD@Cl
ner to aU residents of the Sa- couple, who plan to move from "creating   a   hardship   for   the »**»«>»»w|#|*«iiw
line area to attend these rites, Saline next month. ( Saline  schools by  depriving     Life suddenly got a lot brigh-
which wffl begin with a parade In addition to the formal ser- them of the almost $12,000," ter for residents of Crestwood
at 10 a.m. vices, the Legionnaires of Post according to WiUiam Hayes, KnoUs subdivision this week.
The traditional  commemora- No. 322 wUl see to the decora- Township Trustee. In one of the smaU miracles
tive ceremony will be held at tion of the graves of aU known As a result, York Township 0f modern construction, streets
Oakwood  Cemetery  with   the veterans with  flags. voters,  including  those  hi the were transformed in a matter
Rev. T. F. Gabler, interim pas- Commander Finkbeiner re- vmage of MUan, will decide at 0f days from chuckholed, un-
tor of St. Paul United Church minds local residents that the the next primary election whe- graded driving hazards (left ov-
of Christ, as principal speaker, observance of Memorial Day ther they want an independent er from winter settling, a wet
Walter MacArthur, Sr., wffl give should include the display of a firm to appraise property in the spring, and use by heavy con-
the invocation. United  States   Flag  by   every township for  tax  assessment struction  vehicles)    ...   to
The day's program wiU end home and business firm. purposes. streets.   Blacktopping   was   al-
A group of taxpayers in Mi- most completed today.
Ian, of which about half is in     The go-ahead on blacktopping
York Township, has been press- was given by CouncU last Wed-
ing the Township Board to or- nesday night to O. E. Gooding
A meeting of the Saline Com- der and pay for such a reas- Co.  A  cash performance bond
munity Hospital medical staff seSsment. covers the cost of the work.
will be held at 8 p.m. Wednes-     The date of the primary elec-     Repair  on   sidewalks  and
Saline police are on the look- day, June 3, in the Community tion has not been setj but may driveways was also nearly com-
* *- " new, blue four-door Room at the new Saline Sav- be in November. pieted, and several grading pro-
"There has been great pres- blems   were under   study   by
sure put on the board for a CouncU. The city stiU holds per-
£ 4.1. . .        »rai*Di»\ro Tum-Tunn formance bonds on all needed
of the approaches was seeming- ™TARL^S MEET KIWANIANS TO MEET repairs,
ly harmless, but puzzling. The THURSDAY NOON . The Kiwanis aub of Saline     In otiher   action   Wednesday,
Th" ™rS neither' .      .        Sam Lambarth wUl foe pro- will hold a dinner meeting at Council ordered that no more
ihe first report came in ab- gram chairman at this week's 6:30 p.m. Monday, June 1, at occupancy permits be issued
out 8:10 p.m. Friday. A 10- meeting Qf the Saline Rotary Walker's Bakery. Dr. Don Leid- without approval signatures
year-old boy said such a car Club Thursday noon at St. Paul heiser wUl be in charge of the from fouUdSng, electrical, and
nad  stopped  near  the  yard United church of Christ. program. plumbing inspectors,
where he was playing ball with
a group of boys. The driver,
described as "an older man, heavy set, and balding"; called the
boy to his car and told him to
Director Art Katterjohn, guest soloist Ron Attinger, and
Band soloist Bob Austin, above, were three of approximately
150 musicians who Sunday turned out one of the finest performances of their careers. Others who highlighted the
Spring Festival Concert were Lester McCoy, as guest conductor, the 14-member girls' flute section . . . and every
other section of the High School and Junior High bands. The
event, as always, drew a capacity crowd, and brought Michigan Week to a spectacular conclusion. Visitors to the school
were also much impressed by exhibits from the art and industrial arts departments.
Police on Lookout
For Car With
Different Drivers
out for a
Chevy n whose drivers (appar- ings Bank.
ently two separate ones) have
approached local chUdren. One
HOSPITAL STAFF
MEETING PLANNED
Committee
For Jensen
Dinner Listed
Committees were named today by Mrs. Everett Wolfin,
chairman of a testimonial dinner for Leo Jensen, retiring superintendent of schools.
The dinner is scheduled at
6:45 p.m. Saturday, June 20, at
the High School.
Jensen, who has served as
superintendent of SaUne schools
for 21 years, last week announced his resignation, effective
June 30. He intends to move to
Florida with his famUy shortly
after that.
Members of the program committee for the dinner are Mrs.
Max HasweU, Mrs. H. W. Kuebler, and Mrs. George Washburn,
aU teachers at the High School.
Tickets are in charge of Don
Ford, Mrs. Don Jaeger, Mrs.
Joe Bondie, and ~ at the school
— Steve MiUer and Katie Esch.
Mrs. H. L. Engel and her
staff will provide the dinner,
and decorations will be arranged by Mrs. Louis Bowen and
members of the Past Matrons
club. Dean Losee is in charge
of setting up, and Mrs. John
Flook in charge of pubUcity.
Tickets, $1.50 per person, wUl
also be available at both Saline
banks, The Reporter office, and
Estes Pharmacy.
Bank Move Turns Up Symbol of Past
open the back door. He did so,
and saw a softbaU bat in the
car.
The driver reportedly said,
"I don't want that. Do you want
it?" The youngster accepted the
bat, and the man drove away.
But on Saturday evening, at
approximately the same hour, a
car of the identical description
was parked at the main downtown corner when a 13-year-old
girl bicycled past. This time the
driver was described as "a
young man, 19 or 20, with long
light hair combed back".
The girl told poUce he asked
ber if she wanted a ride and,
when she ignored him and rode
north on her bike, he" started
the car and foUowed her. At the
corner of North Ann Arbor and
McKay streets he stopped the
car and started to get out, she
said.
She then rode as fast as she
could toward home, she said,
and the car foUowed her down
McKay St., "going very fast".
But when she turned north on
Lewis St., the driver turned
south.
An echo of the past came to
Ught this week when the Citizens Bank cleared out its old
building and moved across the
street into temporary quarters.
It was a large poster advertisement for a Saline general
store, which had been displayed
at the New York World's Fair
in 1853.
The poster, which was displayed at the Crystal Palace at
the Fair, 111 years ago, harks
aU the way back to the most
remote beginnings of the Citizens Bank. It was caUed to the
attention of Historian Bessie
Carven Collins, who added it to
her historical display in the Detroit Edison window and arranged that the display remain
up for the rest of this week so
that residents would have a
chance to see it.
It advertises "Spring and
summer goods . . . ladies dresses ... shawls, bonnets, ribbons,
parasols, gloves, hosiery, collars, etc." It is dated AprU 1,
1853, and signed "Davenport &
MUler".
The path from "shawls and
bonnets" to the present bank
isn't as indirect as it looks at
first glance. The Davenport of
the poster was W. H. Davenport, who owned and operated
the store with Henry J. MUler
for two years. Then Davenport
bought MUler out and continued
in business for himself.
But the store had the first
safe in town, in the-early 1880's,
and people grew into the habit
of keeping their valuables there
over night. This developed into
a private bank, which was incorporated as a state bank in
November, 1902. The first president was W. H. Davenport;
G. L. Hoyt and G. C. Townsend
were vice presidents; and Beverly P. Davenport was cashier.
Carl A. Curtiss, who has been
president of the Citizens Bank
for 34 years, started work in
January, 1909, as assistant cashier. 'In 1917, he became a cashier, and he was elected president at the death of B. P. Davenport in 1930.
The  three-story  buUding, to
be razed in the next few weeks,
has been a landmark since 1864.
At that time, it housed the general store and bank on the first
floor, a German organization,
Arbeiter Verein, on the second,
and the Masonic Lodge and OES
on the third. Later, the second
floor was used for a Christian
Science Church and reading
room, and there were dental
offices in front.
The back portion, used for
post office and the library, was
added in 1917-18 and the front
part was remodeled. The back
part of the buUding wiU not be
razed, since it is not owned by
the Citizens Bank. Offices there
are in a'building owned by O. D.
Hoffman, D.D.S., and the library buUding is owned by the Library Association.
The Citizens Bank opened
Monday morning for business
in the buUding recently vacated by the Savings Bank, which
recently moved to a new buUding down the street. After the
razing of the old buUding and
the Saline Hotel restaurant
buUding, modern drive-in faculties wiU be constructed for the
Citizens Bank.
YSH Volunteers
Receive Awards
Several SaUne persons and
organizations were among those
cited at the annual Volunteers'
Workshop and Awards luncheon
Wednesday noon at YpsUanti
State Hospital.
Certificates in recognition of
services during the past year
were presented to representatives of the Saline Jaycees and
Jaycee AuxUiary, Saline Woman's Club, the Trinity Lutheran
Church women's group and Federated Church women's association and the St. Paul United
Church of Christ women's guild,
and Free-Lo Extension group.
Mrs. Thomas Buchanan received a "300 hour" pin for her
work with the Volunteer Service Council.
The "Attendant of the Year"
award also came to a Saline woman, Mrs. Galen Criss, who received a $25 savings bond and
a certificate of recognition.
SCHOOLS TO CONVENE
FOR HALF DAYS
Saline area schools wiU convene for half days only next
week, Monday through Wednesday, June 1-3. There wUl be no
school on Thursday, June 4,
and only a brief morning session on Friday, June 5.
No lunches wUl be served on
those days.
Barbara Hehr
Barb Hehr
Wins Band
Sousa Award
Barbara Hehr, an honor student whose musical career began when she was in kindergarten, Sunday received the nation-
ally recognized "John PhUip
Sousa Band Award" for outstanding preparation, interest,
achievement, and quaUty of performance.
The award was made at the
Band's Spring Festival Concert
at the High School. It was first
presented here five years ago,
but is not given every year
Miss Hehr, a senior and the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hehr, of Kaiser Rd., was
"Band Mascot" when she was
in kindergarten and the first
grade. She plays saxaphone, piano, organ, and bassoon, and
holds first chair in the latter.
She has been a member of the
Youth Band, Youth Symphony,
and Chorus, attended a baton
twirling camp and gives twirling lessons. She is also head
majorette.
She has participated, with
distinction, in the Band- Frolics,
the Dance Band (as student director), the Senior Bassoon Recital, District Solo Festival, the
State Solo Festival, All State
Band Camp at Interlochen, the
summer session of the AU State
Honors Band at the University
of Michigan, the Honors Band
at Central Michigan University,
and the Woodwind Quintet,
Y.A.P.G. She takes bassoon lessons from Ronald Attinger.
She also plays the organ for
Sunday school at St. John's Lutheran Church.
Miss Hehr wUl enter Western
Michigan University in September, but she has already been
selected to play in the Western
Michigan Orchestra.
In High School, she has been
a member of the Student CouncU, G.A.A., Future Nurses Clubj
and Future Teachers Association, the Hornet staff and yearbook staff, of which she was assistant editor.
Band rooms in Saline schools,
ordinarUy swarming with happy young musicians, were fiUed
with gloom this week. Art Katterjohn, No. 1 Band Booster,
Pied Piper, Mr. K, brought tears
to students' eyes with his announcement that he is submitting his resignation to the Saline Area School Board Wednesday.
Events leading to the announcement started 12 days ago
when Katterjohn was advised
that he was being considered for
band director's position at West
High School, Joliet Township
Schools, Joliet, 111. He was one
of three men recommended for
the job by WiUiam D. Revelli,
U-M conductor of bands.
Katterjohn and his wife visited Joliet Monday ... he was
informed that the job was his
if he wanted it . . . and next
morning, when Joliet phoned for
his decision, he accepted.
The new job starts August 3.
The Katterjohns plan to leave
Saline late in July, after Art
has completed his full round of
Saline band summer activities.
"We're making this move
with a lot of regrets," Art said
this week. "But the Joliet job
is one of the top high school
band assignments in the nation.
ProfessionaUy, it's the biggest
step that could possibly be . . .
one I just couldn't refuse."
West High School, as Katterjohn describes it, is a brand-
new buUding, -with 2,000 enroU-
ment. It's the newest of three
prep schools serving the Joliet
area, a community rich in, musical tradition. "The JoUet Township High School band has
played for every inauguration
since President Harding's," Art
reported. "It has played at two
world's fairs. At the last National High School Band contest, Joliet placed first in the
U.S. It's recognized as being the
outstanding high school band
in the country, and has had this
reputation for 45 years.
"Music facUities at the new
school are fantastic. They're
part of a fine arts buUding
which is half the size of the entire Saline High structure. They
include a choir rehearsal room,
band rehearsal room, one orchestra rehearsal room, offices,
and both smaU and large auditoriums.
"Also fabulous- is the support
given the band by three local
booster and band parents clubs.
This year, for instance, parents
raised $13,000 to send the entire
group to the New York World's
Fair for performances there.
"Band work gets tremendous
emphasis in the JoUet system.
Boys start in the fourth grade,
and take private lessons during
their prep careers in order to
qualify for a position in the
high school concert band. As a
result, the group actuaUy beats
most coUege bands with the
quaUty of their music.
"Although the new school will
draw from only a fraction of the
students who formerly attended the original Joliet Township
High School, West High wiU
keep the cream of the group,
since it's located in an aU-resi-
dential area.
"The band is made up entirely of boys, many of whom wiU
go on to take first and second
chair positions in most university bands. JoUet bands are excellent talent 'feeders' for the
University of Michigan."
Katterjohn's position as West
High School band director wiU
involve teaching two band classes and leading sectional rehearsals. He wiU also work with the
music department of Joliet Junior College, oldest such institution in the country.
The Katterjohns wUl leave
Saline after 13 years of most
remarkable service to this community. Art came here as band
director in January, '52, after
graduating the previous June
from the U-M School of Music.
During his first year here, he
completed graduate requirements for a Master's Degree in
Music.
From his start in Saline, he
has been acclaimed the community's leading band-builder and
one of Saline's outstanding
youth-buUders. Many of his students, inspired by his example
and encouragement, have gone
on to musical careers themselves. Under his direction, SaUne bands have consistently
earned top honors in district,
regional and state festivals.
, __ (See K-MaU column on inside page for reactions to Art's
announcement.)
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Saline School Board also received the resignation of Larry
Smith, high school commercial
teacher, at Wednesday night's
meeting. Smith has accepted an
offer of a teaching position in
the high school at Taylor, Mich.
During his three years in the
Saline Area system, Smith
coached jayvee footbaU two
years, and freshman basketbaU
and jayvee basebaU three years.
He served as sponsor of the
Class of '66; was treasurer of
the local school employees' Credit Union; sponsored the Hornet, student publication, one
year; and taught summer school
two years.
Smith and his wife, parents of
two boys, hope to continue making their home here in Saline,
despite the 70 mUes of driving;
each day which this wiU necessitate.
"I hate to leave Saline
schools," Smith stated this
week. "But the Taylor position
is too good an opportunity for
me to miss."
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
WILL MEET TUESDAY
A meeting of the Saline
Chamber of Commerce wiU be
held at 1 p.m. Tuesday, June 2,
at Alexander's Dining. Room.
Grand opening festivities at the new Saline Savings Bank
Thursday wiU be a proud occasion for members of the board,
shown above, left to right: W. D. Crim, president; Fred
Braun; Ernest Girbach; F. O. Wiedman, vice president. Standing: W. D. Crim, Jr., vice president; Edward Redies; Wilson
Scott, executive vice president and cashier; Henry Leutheuser. The bank is host to the community Thursday, 9 a.m. to
7 p.m., giving everyone an opportunity to inspect the new
facility.