1964-07-08; Saline Reporter

              The Saline
IVOLlME 14, NUMBER 43 ~ WEDNESDAY, JULY 8, 1964
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APARTMENT BUILDING
PERMIT GRANTED
A building permit for a 20-
unit apartment building on S.
Harris St. has been granted to
Detroit builder Herb Chernick,
after repeated re-working of
the plans to bring them into
line with the city building code.
The permit was signed by
Mayor Jack Bennett, but Building Commissioner L. Z. Still
refused his signature ~ he has
maintained that the location
was not suitable for apartments.
Council Approves Streets,
Sidewalk, Curb and Gutter
Washtenaw County delegates on the first 4-H Interstate Exchange Trip will leave Friday for Jefferson County, Ky., where farming practices are similar to those here.
They will visit Kentucky families until July 18 . . . and next
year 4-H'ers from Kentucky will come here.    •
Among the county delegates are Salinians .above (front
row, left to right) Kay Gordon, Elaine Schaible.; (second
row) Dianne Diuble, Cheryl Henes, Janet Weber; (back row)
Gary Girbach, Ron Diuble, Mareia Fritts. Also a delegate,
not present when the picture was taken, is Susan Guenther.
They will be accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. Jim Wise; Mrs.
Wise is an extension agent here.
6,500 Expected to Attend
Manchester Chicken Broil
The citizens of Manchester
will undertake their annual
task of feeding charcoal broiled
chicken to nearly four times
the population of the town next,
Thursday, July 16.
Between the hours of 4:30
and 9:30, 200 chefs (no worn-
Sen), servers, hosts and cashiers
expect to serve plump Michigan
broiler halves plus all the trimmings, to more than 6,500-
guests. Last year, guests came
from 17 states and six foreign
countries.
The Manchester Broil, the
most famous event of its kind
in Michigan, is conducted under the general direction of the
Michigan State Poultry Department and the personal supervision of Howard'Zindel, head
of the department. The slow-
broil method, in which the chicken is basted with butter and
never burned or blistered, was
developed by Michigan State especially for community events.
The largest committee presides over the pits, where 60
men do the broiling and basting. There are subcommittees
to pre-heat a ton or more of
charcoal and deliver it to the
Pits, deliver the chicken from
truck to grid, turn and baste,
test the chicken for finish, and
deliver the cooked  chicken  to
[Jaycees Present
Awards, Install
[New Officers
Saline Jaycees installed new
I officers and presented  awards *
I to active members at a dinner
Imeeting  Wednesday,   July 1. ;
I Jaycee Auxiliary officers were ;;
Ialso installed   for  the   coming
I year.
Jaycee president is Charles
Lamberson; vice president,
I John Klein; secretary, JamQs
j -Ia r t i n y; treasurer, Ro) n*! i
I null; and new directors, Ricn-
|ai'd Semark, John Proctor, J.i-
| meson Ford, and Dan Larson.
Hull received the "cut the
j mustard" award; and Richard
I remark was cited "special assistant to the president". Lam-
l.teson was acclaimed "outstanding Jaycee of the year".
Auxiliary officers installed
\lT Helen Martiny. president;
|«"e Semark, vice president;
Hndra Meeks, secretary; Lois
l-lartin, treasurer. New directors are Beth Ford, Rosemary
letting, and one yet to be appointed.
the serving lines.
There are two ticket lines and
a special line for take-outs.
There is a large host committee
to show guests to tables seating
2,000 people at one time, and
to clean up places for newcomers. There are committees for
coffee-making, ice cream, soft
drinks, and breaking put potato'
chips, relishes, and buns, for
cutting slaw and bringing it to
the serving tables.
There is an "audio committee", to announce distinguished
guests and advise the waiting
diners of the chicken supply.
Side attractions this year will
be two softball or speedball
games, and the famous Paul
Bunyon seven-foot skillet, large
enough to scramble eggs for
500 people. Visitors agree,
though, that the main attraction is the broil itself, with
1,800 chicken halves at one
time slowly browning over 150
feet of charcoal pits.
There has not been a serious
threat of rain in the 10 years
the broil has been held. If there
is rain on July 16, guests may
take their dinners to nearby
shelters, school rooms, and to
their cars.
Sponsors are the Optimists
and Jaycees, and all proceeds go
to the youth activities in the
area. Prices are the same as
they were when the first broil
was held 11 years ago: §1.50 for
adults, $1 for children.
To Battle Beetle:
Mercantile
Equipped to
Treat Grain
Saline Mercantile Co. has installed equipment to treat grain
from areas quarantined against
the cereal leaf beetle, according to Lyle Phillips, manager.
It consists of a mechanism
with a high pressure attachment, which fastens to a five-
gallon drum and applies "Grain
Kote", designed to kill the insect in its adult stage.
• Up to 1,000 bushels an hour
can be treated with the mechanism, which the firm purchased for $98.50. "As of now,
we don't figure on any charge
to farmers for the service,"
Phillips said. There will be no
hold-up in unloading due to the
treatment, he added.
With use of the treating
equipment, the Mercantile can
now ship grain to either infected or "free" areas.
The city of Saline, together
with most townships in the
area, is currently under quarantine against the insect, which
has reduced grain production
by as much as two-thirds in
some European countries. It is
believed to have been imported
here through the St. Lawrence
Seaway.
Oats and wheat will not need
to be treated after December 1,
Phillips pointed out.
A state inspection of the
equipment is. expected this
week.
City Council Monday night
dealt with special assessment
districts, a long list of streets,
sidewalks, curb and gutter ...
and one fire hydrant.
The new hydrant is to be installed on the water line on E.
Henry St., toehind R & B Tool
Co.
Since hearings brought no
opposition to special assessment
districts 46 (water line on S.
Ann Arbor St.) and 47 (sidewalk on the same street), both
were approved.
Plans and specifications for
curb and gutter on E. Henry
St. (district 48) were approved,
at an estimated cost of
$6,476.98.
A petition from Dr. Paul
Gerigk resulted in setting up
special assessment district 49
for curb and gutter on S. Davenport St.
Council approved a resolution
to release $1,917.50 in escrow
to Washtenaw Asphalt Co. for
work in Hickory Grove subdivision, after DPW Superintendent Mike Strait inspects and
approves the work and obtains
a one-year guarantee.
Graveling, curb, and street
paving in Crestwood Knolls
subdivisions 1 and 2 was approved as being completed in
accordance with city requirements and accepted, upon receipt from the O. E. Gooding
Co. of a one-year guarantee on
the work.
A sum of $7,470 to the Wil-
iam F. Eddy & Son firm for
engineering work for the Henry
Street water main was approved, as was the payment of
$18,050.85 to John F. Sadler
for sewage plant construction.
The addition is now "approaching the 25 per cent stage" of
completion, according to Don
Holly, of the engineering firm
Ayres, Lewis, Norris & May,
and should be substantially
completed by the first of the
year.
Ifi other action, a small city-
township hassle developed over
thelegal cost ($96) of annexing three properties on Saline-
Milan Rd. Council resolved that
the city is not a party to this
liability.
WATEE TOWER STARTED
Work began today on Saline's
new water storage tank, on E.
Henry St. The 250,000 gallon
tank will tower 140 feet, at a
cost of $81,000 including installation. Completion is scheduled
for mid-October.
Band Shell Fund
Raised to $4,000
Karen Receives
Career Award
Karen Ann Riggs, 5601 Ellsworth Rd., has been given a
$500 1964 March of Dimes
Health Career Award.
She has enrolled at Michigan
State University, where she will
major in physical therapy. A
June graduate of Saline High
School, she also received a four-
year tuition Distinguished
jScholarship Award from MSU.
Miss Riggs is the daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Riggs.
Police Officer
Jack Measley
Leaves Force
City police officer Jack Measley has resigned, effective this
week, and City Council Monday
authorized hiring an additional
man to replace him, as well as
to fill in for officers who are
on vacation.
Measley, who has been with
the Saline force for two years,
has accepted a job in production control at the Ford Raw-
sonville plant. He intends to
continue living in Saline and
will also continue his studies in
business management at Cleary
College. He is on vacation this
week.
The addition of another officer to the force will aid in the
increased enforcement promised
.after citizens of a Saline subdivision petitioned for a crackdown against traffic violators,
Levleit said. Complaints of
speeding and reckless driving,
particularly in subdivisions, are
still frequent, he said.
Council Monday also tabled
bids for an additional police
car, since none of the three bidders was able to promise delivery in the  1964 model  year.
Meet to Cover
Ordinance,
Annexation
A special meeting of City
Council has been scheduled for
Monday on two weighty matters — the MEHA annexation
petition, and the new city zoning ordinance.
MEHA has expressed tentative plans for ground-breaking
in July for the first structures
in the retirement village for educators. The petition, for annexation of 253.91 acres north
of the high school, must also
be approved by Lodi and Pittsfield Township boards.
The petition was tabled for
further action by City Council
because the Oliver Steiner property was not included in the
description, as Council had expected it would be.
Also up for consideration at
the special meeting will be the
new city zoning ordinance,
which was adopted last week
by the Planning Commission
and forwarded to Council for
approval. Its primary effect is
the division of residential areas
into "R-l-A", "R-l-B", and "R-
1-C" districts, according to lot
size and construction variations.
A map of the proposed zoning
has been drawn up and copies
will be available for the public
as soon as printed, if Council
passes the ordinance.
FAIE BOARD TO MEET
The Saline Community Fair
Board will meet at 8:30 p.m.
Monday in the agriculture room
at the. High School.
Cherries and a classified ad
helped pay Jim Stockard's way
to the World's Fair this month.
The 12-year-old's parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Charles Stockard, S.
Ann Arbor St., offered Jim the
profit from their back yard
cherry crop if he picked and
sold   the fruit   himself.
Jim started picking. He also
started advertising, with a
small liner ad in The Reporter's
classified section.
He got heaps of cherries . . .
heaps of buyers through the ad
. . . and heaps of money for a
trip to the World's Fair.
Last Friday Jim left by jet
for yew Ydrk. Cherries and
classifieds helped pay his way.
Fn?K\lEX TO MEET
Members of the Saline Volunteer Fire Department will
«eet at 7 p.m. Monday, July 13,
at the Fire Hall.
This was Saline in 1897, a picture supplied by Grover
Burgan. Note Reporter and Observer buildings standing side
by side, though the latter has been somewhat refurbished in
the meantime. The Reporter wasn't in Saline at that time,
of course. Farther down the street, in the store extending
out to the sidewalk, was a furniture store operated by Fred
Wissinger, who was also an undertaker. The Saline Hotel,
now gone, was built before that time, though it doesn't show-
in the picture . . . the Hotel Restaurant, still standing, was
constructed some time later,  on* the lawn shown at right.
Idea: Wouldn't it be fun if people interested in local
history got together and constructed a table-sized model of
the Village of Saline as it' looked in those days? We have
enough old photos and long memories in town to york from.
Earl Culliton, Sr.
Recovering After
Fall from Tree
Earl Culliton, Sr., 67, is reported "doing fine" at his home
at 103 W. Bennett, after a fall
from a cherry tree Friday morning.
Culliton was released Sunday
from St. Joseph-Mercy Hospital
where he remained for two days
"under observation" following
the accident. He is still suffering from severe bruises but no
greater injuries.
Culliton -was picking cherries
in a small tree at the home of
his son, at 325 N. Ann Arbor
St., Friday, when the branch
on which he was standing
broke. He fell approximately 10
or 12 feet, a family member
estimated, and branch and ladder landed on top of him. He
does not remember the mishap.
Library Program
Keeps Many Young
Readers' Interest
The Saline Public Library is
a busy place these days. The
summer reading program for
young people is  in full swing.
At 10 a.m. each Wednesday
morning, up "to 27 pre-school
children meet to hear stories
told by a man story-teller from
the'Washtenaw County Library.
The next age group, 6 to 13,
numbers about 150 children,
who record the books they read.
Some of them are working out
reading problems of their own.
They pursue their own interests
and also make suggestions for
reading from lists of best books
for children.
The teen-age group, an innovation here, is particularly active.-A dozen young people meet
every two weeks to discuss the
book they have read, and they
have suggested that the program continue this next year.
They have finished VA Separate Peace" and ' "The Hidden
Persuaders", and have started
"Black Like Me". On hot evenings, they meet in Mrs. Robert
Todd's back yard, a couple of
blocks up the street, with Myron Shaw, moderator.
The library has bought and
■borrowed over 200 books especially  for  these  programs.
Department ...„    . .,..,
Fights Three Fires
Saline Fire Department was
called out three times this week
for grass fires Saturday afternoon (Monroe St.) and Monday
morning (E. Bennett St.), and
on Tuesday morning when a
combine caught fire at Willis
and Piatt Rds.
The burning index, explosive
last week, remains 'high, firemen pointed out, since Saline
area has had little more than
traces of rain in the past three
weeks.
While other areas of the
county were drenched with repeated heavy rains this week,
Saline area rain gauges registered less than a quarter of an
inch.
Definite commitments toward
the proposed permanent band
shell'for Henne Field now total
about $4,000, Art Katterjohn
announced this week, and he believes the drive for funds can
be completed this week.
It is hoped that work on the
shell will begin in August, and
Katterjohn and others interested in the project are seeking
persons who will donate both
skilled and unskilled work during the month of August. Needed are laborers, masons and
electricians; some electrical
work has already been volunteered by Hubert Beach, and
work on the public address system has been offered by Bob
Harrison.
Anyone willing to give either
money or labor is asked to contact Katterjohn, who will continue to work toward completion of the project until he
leaves July 28 for Joliet, Ul.,
where he has accepted a band
director's  position.
The band shell, proposed by
Katterjohn and designed b y
Howard Kuhl, would provide
about 90 to 100 seats for spectators at baseball games and
ice skating, when it was not
in   use   for   band   concerts.   It
Reporter's New
Press Goes Into
Action Next Week
The Reporter's new press will
be all set for action next week,
in a pressroom so altered we'll
hardly recognize it.
The old Miehle was removed
Friday, with the aid of Ted
and'Manny Hill;;and the new
press arrived the same day. But
it had to wait until its housing
was ready.
The Desbrough brothers crew
and Ed Schmid built the pit
this week (the old press had
not required one, being set on
level floor), while Reporter
staffers painted the pressroom
"eye-ease green".
After the concrete in the pit
had set, a press expert arrived
Wednesday to begin the job of
assembling the new machinery.
But since the job couldn't be
completed until the end of this
week, this issue of The Reporter was printed in the shop of
the Chelsea Standard in order
that your newspaper would
reach you at the regular time.
would also provide a permanent stage for the Saline Community Fair, and the Fair board
has voted to pay one fourth of
the cost, or $1,250. Other small
contributions plus a $2,500
pledge from Carl A. Curtiss
brought the amount to $4,000.
Katterjohn said he had hoped
for many years to see a permanent band shell erected for
Saline.
Sauk Gallery
Plans 2-Man
Art Show
A new show is scheduled to
open Saturday at the Sauk
Trail Art Gallery, Taylor Jacob-
sen announced today.
It is a "two-man show" (although one of them is a woman) featuring the works of
George Davis, a University of
Michigan student who was a
student teacher here last year,
and Nancy Gronemeyer, who
taught two art classes in Saline.
Davis will show ceramics;
Miss Gronemeyer has done both
paintings and sculpture. Virtually all of the work to be shown
will be available for purchase,
Jacobsen said.
At least two more shows are
scheduled at the gallery during the summer: a one-man
show by Jacobsen, who arranged for and manages the gallery;
and one featuring work by a
number of Saline area artists.
The gallery, open from noon
to 7 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays, -is-'located on the third-
floor of the Sauk Trail Inn, on
W. Michigan Ave. It has continued t o draw good crowds
since it opened early in June.
There is no  admission charge.
MASONIC-OES  PICNIC
PLANNED  ON JULY 19
Saline F&AM 133 and OES
311 will hold their annual picnic 'Sunday, July 19, at Austin
Orchards on Saline-Milan Rd.
Potluck dinner will be served
at 1 p.m. Those attending are
asked to bring their own table
service and dishes to pass. Coffee and lemonade will be furnished.
In case of rain, the picnic
will be held in the Austins' apple storage building.
Brothers Roam Europe via Thumb
CASE DISMISSED
A disorderly charge (stemming from a firecracker incident) against William Wiedmayer, of 11080 W. Michigan
Ave., was dismissed Monday by
Justice of the Peace Jefom*
Lamb, on a motion by the city
attorney.
PLANNING COMMISSION
WILL MEET TUESDAY
-A meeting of the City Planning Commission will be held
at 8 p.m. Tuesday7'July 14, at
the City Hall. *    "
MUNICIPAL LEAGUE.
MEETSSET
The' annual meeting of' the
Michigan Municipal League
will be held September "16 to
18, in Lansing.
Two Saline youths have' returned from a seven-month latter day Odyssey that took them
through most of Europe and
the Middle East ~ at a strictly
grass-roots level on a minimum
budget.
They ai*e Calvin and Randy
Karr, of Saline Valley Farms,
who, except for their passage
on the Queen Mary, spent only
$840 apiece on the trip. But it
wasn't the sort of tour recommended for family groups or retired school teachers.
The pair decided on the spur
of the moment to take a year
off from college and see the
world; they left last October
30 from New York,, and landed
in South Hampton in England
five days later.
They spent a month hitchhiking from South Hampton
north through Scotland and
Wales, then back to London.
They slept in youth'hostels . . .
or just along the road.
They crossed over to Belgium and went on to Amsterdam, and liked it so well they
stayed for five days. They
hitched north to Osterland, then
back to Amsterdam and Rotterdam and then to Brussels
for four dayss and through Cologne to Berlin. They stopped
in Munster to see Gary Wild,
who was then, a student at the
University 'of Munster, but they
missed him by one" day . . .he'd
gone on a trip to Greece, Yugoslavia, and Italy ... so the
Karrs   stayed   overnight   with
Gary's  "host  family".
The peripatetic pair then
hitched rides to the East German border and got stalled
their for two days . . . nobody
would pick them up. This was
the longest time it ever took
them to catch a ride. Altogether
they spent five days in West
Berlin.
When   they   walked   through
"Checkpoint Charlie", they
found East Berlin still in ruins
from World War n . . . buildings old and dilapidated and the
people dismal, expressionless,
without apparent interest in
life, and "very sad". The East
Germans were reluctant to talk
to Americans . . . they only
really spoke with one, a middle-
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A Karravan of wanderers got its picture taken in northern Greece: Randy is on top with the glasses and uncut
hair; Cal is second from the right. Their footloose friends
include two youths from Oregon and (second from the left)
an Australian sky-diver. The girls, from Switzerland, near
Zurich, were also traveling "by thumb".
The sky-diver and the Karr brothers bought the car,
a 1949 Lahci^, for $30 . . . $10 apiece, which they raised by
selling blopd.". The vehicle, broke dqwn the first day they
had it;, they slept in it one night, and drove it 150 miles the
next day before they abandoned it at the Yugoslav border.