1964-06-24; Saline Reporter

              VOLUME 14, NUMBER 41 - WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24, 1964
The Saline Reporter
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DISTRICT SPRAWLS INTO THREE COUNTIES
Police Crackdown
Nets 30 Violators
Climactic event at Boy Scout Court of Honor Tuesday
night at the High School was the awarding of Eagle Scout
rank to Ron West. Saline's newest Eagle is shown flanked
by his parents as Mrs. West pins the badge, denoting the
highest rank to be attained in Scouting, on Ron's blouse.
Mrs. West herself was then pinned with an Eagle miniature,
and Scoutmaster Harold West received an Eagle certificate.
Earlier in the week, on Sunday, Scout Ron Barrett was
honored in special ceremonies at Saline Methodist Church.
For outstanding service as a Boy Scout, and for completing
all requirements for the rank, Ron received the coveted God
and Country award. The Rev. Donald Kraushaar conducted
the ceremony and pinned the badge, with Ron's parents and
young brother, Cub Joe, looking on.   -
Scouts Win
Eagle, Life
Star Awards
Besides the presentation of
the Eagle award to Ron* West,
the Troop 46 Court of Honor
Tuesday evening saw the advancement of three boys to Star
rank, and one to Life Scout.
West, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Harold West, joined a select
company - he is the 10th Saline
Scout to have attained the rank
of Eagle; others have been Bliss
Curtiss, Elmer Lange, Elwin
Armbruster, Ray Hunt, Edgar
Westphal, Warren Gross, Stanley Hartman, Charles Collins,
and Bruce Carr ~ in that order.
Advanced to Life rank Tuesday was Jim Schmok; and Sam
Hanselman, Ron Barrett, and
Ken Martin became Star Scouts.
(Barrett, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Edgar Barrett, also received the
infrequently given God and
Country award, in services Sunday at the Methodist Church.)
The Court of Honor included
induction ceremonies for three
Tenderfeet, Joe Mallory, Mike
Sharkey and Bruce Masterson.
Terry Stull was advanced to
second class rank, and Bruce
Fritts to first class.
Bruce Peterson received a
one-year service star, and Barrett had earned a three-year
star.
Merit badges were awarded
to Roger Braun, Tom Master-
son, Steve Bradley, Ron Barrett, Sam Hanselman, Ken Martin, Jim Schmok, and Ron West.
ADVISORY COUNCIL
TO ELECT NEW CHAIRMAN
The Saline area Schools Advisory Council, at its meeting
Wednesday, July 1, wiU elect a
new chairman to replace Gerald
Coe, who resigned after his election to the Board of Education.
The Advisory Council meeting, open to the pubUc, is scheduled at 8 p.m. in the High
School library.
THE COMPLEAT ANGLER:
LOCAL DOC
AUTHORS BOOK
ON ANGLING
The most exciting news ever
to hit the local sports scene is
the announcement by Dr. Gene
"Big Boy" Garrison that his
new book, which he has entitled
"The Art of Catching Big Bass",
will soon be avaUable to the
general public.
Some of the more interesting
chapters are caUed: "How to
Play the Big Weeds"; "Why
Spit on Your Night-Crawlers
Before Using Them"; "How to
Catch Tree Limbs Without Trying"; "Why I Weigh All Four-
Pounders on Baby Scales"; and
"Why Keep Night-Crawlers in
Your Mouth on Cold Days" -
(to keep them warm). He attributes his success at catching
the super-sized bass to his teacher, friend and weU-known fishing expert,   Art   Katterjohn.
All friends of "Dude" Garrison will want to ask for their
free, autographed copies of this
soon-to-best-seUing-book.
niPROMPTU CONCERT
Mainstreeters were treated to
an unexpected concert Wednesday morning when Director Art
Katterjohn pied-pipered a group
of summer band students (7th
grade) in a musical parade up
and down the main drag.
Just for fun.
A goggling truck driver nearly drove up a light post.
SALINE  TWP.  BOARD
MEETS JUNE 29
A meeting of the Saline
Township Board wffl be held at
8 p.m. Monday, June 29, at the
Saline Township HaU.
BOTAKIANS TO MEET
The Saline Rotary Club will
hold its regular dinner meeting
at 12:05 p.m. Thursday,  June
1:5, nt St. Paul United Church
of Christ.
Youth Tosses
Firecracker at
Wrong Car
The police crackdown on offenders and disorderly persons
has resulted in approximately
30 apprehensions, Chief of Police James Levleit said this
week.
Not all of the "apprehensions" were arrests, he pointed
out, since some are still under
investigation, and some were
juveniles, who wUl either be released in custody of their parents or turned over to juvenUe
authorities. Others wiU not appear in Justice of the Peace
Court since they received speeding tickets for only a few mUes
per hour over the limit, and
may pay their fines at the City
Hall.
But two youths, both from Pigeon, were released on bond to
appear Tuesday, June 30, after
one of them threw a firecracker
at the wrong car.
The car ~ his own and unmarked — was driven by Chief
Levleit. Apparently the young
men didn't see the uniform he
was wearing, untU it was too
late.
Wayne A. Dubs, 17, was
charged with possession of firecrackers, and Edward R. Bergman, 19, was charged with discharging firecrackers. After
Levleit discovered firecracker
debris in their vehicle, they said
they had been exploding the
crackers inside their own car
while driving from Wamplers
Lake to Saline.
Scheduled to appear in JP
Court within 10 .days on a reckless driving charge is Roger T.
Vasko, of Taylor, who was arrested here Saturday night.
Two Ann Arbor youths, Robert Moon and George William
Webber, both 18, were fined $15
each in JP Court here this week
on charges of being in possession of intoxicants. Police, who
stopped their car because of a
noisy muffler, noticed beer running out the front door onto
the street, and found a partly-
fuU bottle of whiskey in the car.
Richard Thomas Miles, of
YpsUanti, was fined $25 and
costs on a simple larceny
charge, and ordered to make
restitution of $15 to Paul
Woods, of Clark St., from whom
Miles and two other young men
stole copper tubing valued at
$80. One of the trio was sentenced last week; the third is to
appear later.
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Firecrackers Bring
Suspended Jail
Sentences for Six
Five local youths were each
sentenced to 10 days in jail,
suspended for 60 days, and $15
fines, on disorderly persons
charges arising from firecracker
incidents. They were Harry Fee-
man, WUliam Starling, James
Teal, Samuel Patterson, and
Ted Babcock. Another, WiUiam
Rogers, was sentenced to five
days, suspended for 30 days,
and  fined  $15.
Teal, Babcock and Patterson
were arrested by local poUce
last week along with three others, Peter Frank Barnes, 17,
and two juvenUes, both 16, who
were to appear in juvenUe court
Monday.
Starling pleaded not guUty
to a charge of driving through
a stop sign, and trial was set for
this week.
Complaints of excessive speed
and other traffic violations, especially in subdivisions, are
still being "received, Levleit
said, but they have "slowed
down considerably". He reminded residents that "any citizen
who   sees   an iUegal   act   can
swear   out  a complaint".
Five of the arrests that launched the police crackdown were
made on warrants authorized
from citizen complaints.
Deputized
Women May
Patrol Park
Authority to set up a women's police auxUiary, primarily to patrol Curtiss Park, has
been requested by PoUce Chief
James Levleit.
Levleit made the request at a
Council work meeting Monday
night, and Council has taken no
formal action on the suggestion.
He made the suggestion, Levleit said, because Ed Warner,
park custodian, has indicated
that "he can no longer provide
adequate protection there". Women in the proposed auxiliary
would be deputized as officers
of the city ~ but on a strictly
volunteer basis. Although there
is no suggestion that they be
paid, several have already expressed interest in the project,
Levleit said.
Members would be uniformed,
trained in first aid and protection techniques, and assigned
specific duties. But they would
work only during the daylight
hours . . . "I have no intention
of stationing any women there
at night", he said.
The suggestion was made for
the protection of children in the
park, he added. The women deputies would be instructed to
watch for any situation that
might require assistance, and
notify regular police or the proper agency. He would like to
sign up "about 30" during the
summer, so they could be assigned to shorty infrequent
shifts.
Such an auxUiary, plus
stepped-up patrols by regular
officers, should provide the adequate park protection necessary,
Levleit said. Since at least one
molesting case has occurred in
the past (not this year) he also
urged parents to warn their
chUdren to beware of strangers.
Howell Legislator
To Represent Saline
MEHA's Board of Governors, and members of the
Founding Fund, spent most of the day here Friday, capping
a bus tour of the city with a business meeting at the High
School. In the foreground above is Dr. John P. Everett, who
taught at Western Michigan University before his retirement
19 years ago. "I've never seen a home planned as well as this
one," he observed, "and I've seen lots of them across the
country. This will surpass them all."
Left to right behind him (as the group lunched at Five
Points Restaurant) are Herb Rhoades, of Flint; Mr. and Mrs.
Howard Kraft, Redford Township; and Mr. and Mrs. Ward
Estes, Redford Township.
Beetle Quarantine
Hits Saline Area
Alex McPhee,
Bill Brink, Jr.
Hurt in Crash
Alexander McPhee, of 1635
Bishop Rd., is a patient at Saline Community Hospital, under
treatment for five broken or
cracked ribs and a dislocated
shoulder, whieh he suffered in
a two-car coUision south of Milan Saturday morning.
McPhee was a passenger in a
car driven by WiUiam Brink,
Sr., of 1535 Wfflis Rd., when it
was struck broadside by a pickup truck, driven by J. T. Pos-
key, of Monroe County.
BiU Brink, Jr., 8, also a passenger in his father's car, suffered a bumped head and was
kept at Saline hospital overnight for observation. The elder
Brink was uninjured except for
a swoUen ankle, and another
son, John, 6, was not hurt.
The truck driver also escaped
injury. The accident occurred
in Monroe County, just beyond
the US-23 expressway.
TEEN CLUB PLANS
"BERMUDA HOP"
The Saline Teen Club will
hold a "Bermuda Hop" from
7:30 to 11 p.m. Friday, June
26, at the Intermediate School.
Discovery by survey crews of
the presence o f the harmful
pest has resulted in the addition of 13 more counties and
parts of two others to the list
of 17 southern Michigan counties under quarantine for cereal
leaf beetle. Much of Saline area
is included.'
The quarantine order was
signed Monday by Director G. S.
Mclntyre of the Michigan Department of Agriculture, which
has the responsibility of preventing spread of plant pests
and plant diseases within the
state.
$193,869
Budget OK'd
By Council
City CouncU this week approved a 1964-65 general fund
budget of $193,869, retaining
the tax rate at 20 miUs on an
assessed valuation of $5,048,116.
The amount represents a
$24,767 rise over last year's
budget, with the largest single
item of increase the $9,000 for
all new mercury vapor lighting
in the downtown area.
Separate from the general
fund is the $390,050 capital improvements program, for the
new water tower, sewage plant
addition, and extended sewer
and water lines.
The budget was formaUy approved by Council after a public hearing which no residents
attended, although it was advertised several weeks in advance. Neither did anyone ask
to see the budget during the
time it was avaUable for public
inspection, City Clerk E. J. Muir
said.
Major items include $26,802
for administration disbursements; $49,425 for other services and expense (library, recreation, planning .commission,
election expenses, etc.); $8,279
for fire department; $42,523 for
police department; $600 for civU defense; and $500 for auxUiary police.
Others are $42,065, public
works department; $3,225, for
park; $5,900, cemetery; the
$9,000 for street lighting, and
$5,550 for sanitation ~ rubbish
coUection.
The new Michigan counties
placed under quarantine and
regulation on June 22 are Clinton, Genesee, Gratiot, IsabeUa,
Lenawee, Livingston, Mecosta,
Monroe, Montcalm, Newaygo,
Oceana, Saginaw and Shiawassee.
Also included are the townships -of Bridgewater, Freedom,
Lyndon, Manchester, S a 1 i n e,
Sharon, Sylvan, and York in
Washtenaw County, and Lyon
Township in Oakland County.
Most grain men have been
aware that this was coming,
Lyle Phillips, manager of Saline MercantUe Co., said today.
But they are still not certain
of details. He and Elmer Cam-
met were to attend a meeting
of the Michigan Elevator Exchange tonight in Frankenmuth.
"Maybe we'll know more after
that," said PhiUips.
Since Lodi and Pittsfield
townships are not under quarantine, and the MercantUe elevator is in Lodi, some arrangements wUl have to be made to
allow it to continue to service
the rest of the area, PhiUips
explained. The probable method: a state Department of Agriculture action to place the el-
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Michigan's new districting
plan, accepted by the State Supreme Court this week, drops
SaUne into a sprawling Representative District that includes
portions of three counties.
Nearly all of rural Washtenaw County is sliced away from
the two major cities and lumped
into the 51st District with Livingston County and one township of Lenawee.
Opponents of the "one man,
one vote" plan have complained
that it cuts 17 county lines. It
cuts two of them here. The
"51st" is 60 mUes long and —
at one point — only five miles
wide, though it is 25 mUes wide
elsewhere. It includes the city
o f HoweU, which i s smaller
than YpsUanti, but somewhat
larger than Saline.
The new Senate District, designated the 18th, consists of
aU of Washtenaw County and
the Lenawee County townships
of Clinton, Macon, Raisin, Madison, Ridgeway, Palmyra, Og-
den, Deerfield, Fairfield, and
Riga . . . but not FrankUn
Township, the one which is in
our Representative District.
Rural Washtenaw and the City of Saline, represented since
1956 by James Warner (and for
many years before that by his
father, Joseph Warner), has
suddenly acquired a new legislator . . . Representative Thomas G. Sharpe, Republican, of
Howell. His district previously
consisted of Livingston and Shiawassee counties.
Eleven townships in western
and southern Washtenaw County that were in I Warner's district have been transferred to
the new 51st.. They are Lyndon,
Dexter, Sylvan, Lima, Sharon,
Freedom, Lodi, Pittsfield
(which an earlier districting
plan had lumped with Ann Arbor), Manchester, Bridgewater,
and Sali'-ne townships. Scio
Township, from the former "lst
district" is also added.
The City of Saline and the
villages of Manchester, Chelsea
and Dexter are in the 51st. Clinton is not ... it is two miles
outside Franklin Township in
Lenawee County.
Representative RoUo G. Conlin, R., of Tipton, lives in Franklin Township; but he has said
that he wUl change his residence
"to move back into my district"
... the 40th, aU the rest of
Lenawee County.
The re-districting leaves Warner's   new  52nd   District   with
Ypsilanti, Ypsilanti Township,
and the townships of Northfield,
Salem, Superior, Webster from
the former "1st", and Augusta
and York. With much of his
staunch rural support sliced
away, his formerly "safe" district may now be a "swing dis-
strict". Populous Ypsilanti
Township is largely Democratic,
and Superior Township is almost entirely so. Warner is a
Republican.
The composition of the new
53rd — Ann Arbor and Ann Arbor Township only — is expected to be of advantage to the only so-far announced candidate
for the Representative post
from that district: Marvin Esch.
He is a resident of Ann Arbor
and better known there than
in the rural townships.
State Representative GUbert
E. Bursley, R., Ann Arbor, announced in March that he is a
candidate for the State Senate,
and his plans have not changed,
he said. Since the Senate District now includes much of Lenawee County, Bursley faces a
possible primary electioA against Senator Elmer Porter, of
BUssfield.
Legislator
Plans Visit
Here Friday
Representative Thomas G.
Sharpe, Republican, of Howell,
expects to visit Saline Friday,
he said today.
He is the incumbent legislator o f the newly constituted
51st Representative District,
which runs through Livingston
and Washtenaw counties ahd
into Lenawee. The whole Saline
area, with the exception of
York Township, is now part of
his constituency.
Sharpe, 47, is in his first term
in the House and "definitely"
expects to run for re-election,
he said. He is a farmer, and
also operates a real estate business with his uncle. He is a for-
m e r president of Livingston •
County Farm Bureau. He is
married, and has four chUdren.
Sharpe declined to label himself as either a "moderate" or
"conservative" Republican. "I
don't know what the difference
is;  I   don't think  such   terms
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Sexton Retires After 14 Years
GOODWILL TO   COLLECT
A Goodwffl Industries truck
will make coUections in Saline
on Tuesday, July 7. To arrange
for pick-ups, caU Mrs. Dorothy Hutzel at 429-9828.
EVERYONE ENTITLED
TO PARK'S USE
In response to several recent
inquiries, City HaU this week
re-affirmed the pubUc status of
Curtiss Park. Everyone," CouncU declared, is entitled to use
the park's facUities, on a first-
come, first-served basis.
After 14 years as sexton of
Oakwood Cemetery in Saline,
Chris Volz retired this week . . .
and city crews discovered it
took a lot of manpower to replace him.
Serving as sexton isn't as
easy as it looks (the restaurant business was easier, says
Chris). In the summer, you may
mow lawns, trim edges, dig
graves, put in foundations, and
repiace and repair markers that
are damaged sometimes b y
thoughtless youngsters.
In the winter, you just dig
graves . . . but when the ground
is fvozen all the way down, you
have to do it with an air compressor. ("That's hard work . . .
knocks the dickens right out of
you!") At that, it's better than
the old pick-and-shovel system.
Thai part of the job must be
done rain or shine, blizzard or
hail storm.
Said City Clerk E. J. Muir:
"He is a rarity ... a man who
takes pride in his work. How
can we ever find anyone else
like him?"
Before he became sexton,
Chris operated Five Points Restaurant for 18 years, with the
help of his wife, .Lydia. She did
much of the cooking, and made
a specialty of barbecues.
As for what he'U do now . . .
Lydia wiU think of something.
"I haven't retired," she observed. "I'll have to keep him busy,
so I'U push some of my work
onto him." She has always
found plenty to do . . . she has
headed the canteen for Saline
Blood Bank for nine or ten
years, is an active member of
Saline Woman's Club and the
St. Paul Women's GuUd, and
used to do a lot of rug-hooking,
besides housework.
The Vblzes have a son, Kenneth Volz, leader of the orchestra so much in demand in this
area, and two grandchildren,
Kenneth, Jr., and Beth. Their
"famUy" also includes a cock-
ateel named "Jo-Jo" and the
seven famous scarecrows which
protect their strawberry patch
and startle MiUs Road passers-
by every year. The latter have
also retired ... -. into the garage
until next year.
Chris Volz points out for Lydia (as if she didn't know!)
the acres of work in Oakwood Cemetery that are now somebody else's problem. Chris retired this week after 14 years as
sexton.