1964-09-23; Saline Reporter

              VOLUME 15, NUMBER ^--WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23,1964
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DRIVE F
a Ceremonies
nal Building
Construction activities   at and site committee,  supervised
MEHA Retirement Village offi- the digging operations. Every-
cially started   last   Thursday one present  for  the  ceremony
with   impressive   ground-break- had an opportunity to turn dirt.
ing ceremonies   at the   village for the first structure. A repre-
site north of Saline High. Saline sentative "of Michigan Education
Mayor Pro-tem George Johnson, Association  also spoke briefly.
the Rev. Donald Kraushaar, and	
They're Not Letting Go!
MEHA's president, Ted South-
erland. were among those who
wielded spades at the event.
Speakers included Souther-
land, who expressed the organi-
zation's happiness now that
their dream of five years ago
is approaching reality . . . Evart
Ardis, U-M director of placement, who invited MEHA resi-
2 'Kidnaps'
Liven Week
For Police
Two kidnap reports during
dents to participate in cultural the past week electrified Saline
activities at the campus, and Police headquarters. Both cases
"even to cross the football field turned- out to he false alarms,
at half-time, as long as you The first involved, a 15-year-
don't get in the way of presi- old Milan boy, apparently a run-
dential candidates taking the away. The youth came to Saline
same walk" . . . and Dwight Police attention when he was
Rich, MEHA's executive secre- reported hitch-hiking between
tary, who announced that first Milan and Saline.
building at the site will start The case really produced po-
momentarilyvand that the group lice attention Sunday when the
hopes to have the village's cen- boy's "father phoned Saline Po-
tral building under construction lice. He had received a phone
early next year. "Today we're call from the youth, the father
turning dirt,". said Dr. Rich, said, from a pay station in
"Next we're turning money!" Monroeville, Pa. The teen-ager
With this announcement, had told his father that he had
MEHA started'a state-wide been kidnapped in - Saline, had
fund-raising drive aimed at fi- been driven by his captors to
naneing the construction phase Pennsylvania . . . and had ma-
of the project. First buildings naged to break away from them
to be erected will be two du- in Monroeville.
plexes, each of them composing Chief Jim Levleit called po-
two living units. To be erected lice in the Pennsylvania town,
by Bridgewater Lumber Co., the and they in turn brought the
duplexes, when completed, will F.B.I. into the. case. In short
be occupied by  Dr.   and  Mrs. order, under F.B.I. questioning,
the youth admitted that his
story was a hoax. He's being
returned to Milan.
The second kidnap alarm involved a misplaced Saline five-
year-old. Being bussed home
from school, the youngster got
tirement village for educators off in front of the wrong home,
will be situated. The other du- A teacher following the bus no-
plex occupants are retired edu- ticed his fix, stopped and in-
cators or their spouses. vited him aboard. The child re-
The complete MEHA master fused. The teacher insisted, fi-
plan calls for more such du- nally got the youngster into the
plexes built around common car under protest, and delivered
dining, recreation and office him to his home,
buildings, plus high-rise apart- Meanwhile a bystander, no-
ment houses. As now planned, ticing the to-do, took down the
the community will eventually license number of the teacher's
be home for 600 persons. car and reported it to police.
At last. Thursday's ground- The child, still upset when he
breaking, the Rev. Donald Krau- reached home, told his mother
shaar spoke the invocation and of the experience . . . and she,
benediction, and Ward Estes, too, called the police.
chairman of MEHA's building Whetti the. teacher was in-
„ formed of the complaints,  the
WOlind - Breakers— full'story was revealed, and the
■case was promptly closed, to
everyone's relief.
ENTARY
irst Brochure Tells
Of Site Selection
Lloyd Steiner, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Voltmer, Miss Margaret
Stewart and Mr. and Mrs. Howard Parker. Dr. and Mrs. Steiner sold the land to MEHA
which comprises most of the
250-acre tract on which the re-
That's a personal message from the White House and
President Lyndon Johnson which Cindy Lou Hertler and
Lauri Struble hold. They aren't about to let go.
The White House letter came as an indirect result of an
attack of rheumatic fever which put Cindy Lou in bed for a
while, months ago. During her illness, the Carlton Hertlers''
daughter spent some time with the old western movies pn
TV. She started quite a study of cowboys, Indians, and frontier life; and somewhere along the line she got to wondering
what a Texas Rangers' badge loolts like. After inquiring of
numerous people here, with no answer resulting, Cindy Lou
decided to write to the best-known Texan of all. She and
Lauri composed the -letter.
Alas, Lyndon Baines Johnson was unable to help, either.
But the card sent his personal best wishes, aiid the letter offered some advice on how to get the information the girls
wanted.
With those two prizes, Cindy Lou and Lauri don't worry about Ranger questions any more. What they've got is
better than badges, they figure.
Vote Second Car
For Police Fleet
With election scheduled December 14 to determine the fate
of Saline Area School District's
proposed new elementary
school, Board of Education and
school personnel this week are
completing preparations of the
first of three brochures on the
issue, to be mailed to all residents of the district.
The first mailing, to go out
next week, discusses the School
Board's choice of site for the
proposed new building.
According to the brochure,
the current study of site possi-
b iii ties for rthe elementary
school started in 1963 when a
Citizens' Advisory Council was
formed to appraise current and
future needs of the. school dis-
trict> and to submit findings to
the School Board for consideration.
Many reports resulted . . .
and one of them was that prepared by the Additional Facilities Committee on SchooL Sites.
This committee listed possible
locations for the school, but
made no recommendations as to
which one the committee preferred.
After studying the report, the
School Board and Guido Binda,
architect retained for the project, selected the Ed Hering property near the corner of Mills
Rd. and Bennett St. as the best
available site for a second elementary school.
The brochure explains the
reasoning which went into their
decision:
Sauk Art Tour-
Development Group
Works To Attract
New Industry Here
Operating in a "hush-hush
but hopeful" atmosphere, directors of the Saline Area Business
Development Corporation met
Wednesday night last week to
discuss possible location of a
new industry in the city.
S.A.B.D.C. President Allan
Grossman called the meeting;
and the session produced a four-
pronged program to assist the
prospective new Saline industry
in locating here.
Jack Craigmile was instructed to prepare a. report on local
utilities for the firm; George
Anderson was given the job of
assembling a report on the community of Saline.; Everett Wol-
Proceeds of a "Coffee Day", fin and Allie Burkhardt are to
Planned for Wednesday," Sep- prepare a report on available
tember 30, at E.-Rad's Drive- plant sites; and Grossman will
In, will go to Cystic Fibrosis prepare a report on the possi-
fund drive now in progress-.        bility of financing utilities need-
Mrs. Robert Starling, Sr., pre- ed by the new industry.
sident of the Washtenaw Coun-      The   group  will  meet again
ty Cystic Fibrosis Chapter, re- next Wednesday night to hear
After weeks of study and investigation, City Council voted
Monday night to make Saline's
Police Department a two-car operation. Actually, the force has
been using two cars for quite
some time, since a rash of "citizens' complaints on speeding in
the city led Chief Jim Levleit
to volunteer his own car for
"unmarked" patrol duty.
Council's vote authorized Levleit to take bids on a second
car for the department, from
dealers in Saline and surrounding communities.
Monday night's meeting also
featured a further airing of difficulties in Crestwood Knolls
subdivision. £>PW Superintendent Mike Strait reported the
presence of sand and stone in
the sanitary sewer on Circle
Dr., indicating the possibility of
faulty drain tile materials and
installation in that area. Further indications of this condition came from reports of flooding basements from two home
owners in the vicinity. Strait
was instructed to make spot
checks in the subdivision,. to
find if drain installations by the
builder are proper. Said one
councilman: "If we're going to
be faced with the expense of
cleaning outxihose sewers periodically in the years ahead,
we'd better find out who's responsible now, before it's too
late."
Still deliberating Crestwood
Knolls affairs, Council judged
that the owner of the property
from which a section of sidewalk has disappeared should be
held responsible for its replacement. According to Superintendent Strait's findings in a lengthy investigation, the sidewalk
was broken by an excavation
contractor, who crossed it with
his trucks while dumping fill on
the property. Later, in a general clean-up of broken masonry
throughout the subdivision, the
section was apparently hauled
away.
Great Crew  of Diggers
"Coffee Day" Set
To Aid CF .Drive
Ports that over $300-has been
raised by the local Jaycee Auxil-
lary in their door-ito-door campaign, which will continue until the end of this week.
the reports and prepare them
for relay to the interested firm.
"At this point we can't identify tive proposed industry,"
said   Grossman Tuesday.  "But
Any residents not contacted we can definitely state that it
ttiay send their contributions to would be a real asset to the
Box CF, Saline, Michigan. community."
Visitors to the current show
at Sauk Art Gallery will notice
at once that it features the
work of two different artists —
though both of them happen to
be named Taylor Jacobsen.
One of these is a Very Conventional School Teacher (or
VCST). The other is an Individualist Who Wears a Beard
(IWWB). Or you might call
them Jake I and Jake H . . .
though students _ are advised
against it., ... ^
The first, VCST, .works often-
est in water colors, the 'best medium to produce the mellow colors and softened lines that are
ideal to express his fondness
for tradition and the established
order. He catches the flavor of
years of history in his "Old
Mill" and "Small Town Railroad Station". There is also a
painting of "Apples", and assorted studies of mushrooms in
assorted colors.
Texture is possible in water
colors; he achieves it with the
use of such diverse materials
as salt, gravel, and even coffee
grounds.
VCST is also fond of one-
color canvasses — witness "Observatory" in shades of" yellow,
"Farmer's Market" in blues,
and "Nude" in browns. But
IWWB may have been leaning
over his shoulder when he chose
purples for "Country Carnival".
VCST Is equally adept in other mediums, when they serve
his purpose. There is a black,
and white wood cut of a railway station, and a study of
mushrooms (what else?) in oils
on masonite.
IWWB prefers to paint in
oils, though he used water colors for "Formidable Falcon".
He, too, likes mushrooms, but
you won't have any trouble deciding which artist did whieh
. . . IWWB's have square corners.
IWWB's techniques are fairly standard, though accomplished; and the style is one he teaches for use in commercial art.
But the ideas are all his own.
This one accepts nobody's word
for anything; he is not taken in
by shibboleths. His "Inferno"
can be,studied either inside out
or outside in. You'll find the
mushroom motif . . ,- but after
that, you're on your own.
Some of IWWB's canvasses
fall into a "Knighthood series",
which starts with "Horses Armed for Battle Like . . ." and
goes on to "Jousting Time" (a
wood cut) and "The Knights in
Shining Armor Stood" (an oil).
The armor resembles mushrooms, and it's empty.
Whatever his medium, IWWB
likes positive colors and sharp
lines.
Then there is the dragon. It
is the first thing you see when
you enter the gallery; its cynical and somewhat dissipated
eye follows you up the steps.
It was originally done as an
exercise in commercial art techniques, Taylor explains, and it
hung that way for some time, a
conventional dragon except for
the ribald eye. Then IWWB
went overboard and added some
lettering.
The others may be art for
art's sake, or art for commercial purposes . . . but the dragon is for fun.
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Most of the paintings are available for sale. The gallery is
open from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. on
Saturdays, and from noon to
8 p.m. Sundays.
Miss Saline of 1965: Jennifer Camburn
Scholarship Winner
Awarded Diploma
At Summer U-M
John Parsons, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Bruce Parsons, W. Michigan Ave., was among 1,062 U-M
students who received degrees
at the end of the school's summer session.
Parsons was awarded a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics.
A 1960 graduate of Saline
High School, and a long-time
Dart-time Reporter staffer, Parsons took all his college studies
it the U-M, going through the
four-year course on a Ford
Motor Co. scholarship. He earn-
~d the full-tuition award (plus
■up to 80 per cent of his expenses) by compiling an outstanding record as a Saline student.
Parsons plans to continue advanced studies in mathematics
at the university, aiming for a
Master's Degree and a career
in computer programming.
Honored for 25
The Hering site was chosen
by the Board of Education and
architect for the following reasons:
1. Many children live in the area and can walk to and from
school.
2. There would be less transportation costs and less shuttling of children on buses.
3. Cost of the site is not prohibitive at this time but it
could be more expensive, if
available, in the future.
4. The site is not adjacent to a
traveled highway, thereby
adding to the safety of the
children attending.
5. Drainage for the site is excellent.
6. Sewer, water, and blacktop
roads are immediately available with little or no cost to
the school district.
7. A future third building,
placed in the Maple Rd. area, would strategically cover
the school area for elementary purposes.
Was the High School site considered?
Yes, the High School site on
Maple Rd. was considered, but
had certain disadvantages at
this time:
1. Not many children are in the
immediate area, making it
necessary to transport most
by bus.
2._The qostof sewerL water, and
blacktop Toad would be approximately as much as the
cost of the Hering property.
a. A blacktop road of about
900 feet would be required
at a cost of $18 per foot.
(Advisory Council Site
Committee estimated the
costs.)
b. Extension of sewer and
water lines about 1500
feet would cost $15,000 or
more. (William Eddy &
Son of Ann Arbor — contractors)
c. The cost to buy the Hering property is $32,000.
3. Property  in the Maple  Rd.
area  will  eventually be   developed, thereby making this
ideal as a future third site
for   an   elementary  building
with little or no cost to the
school district.
The second information brochure  to be  mailed  to  school
district residents will deal with
the building being planned, also
with the help and advice of the
Advisory Council. The third and
final mailing will be devoted to
costs and financing for the proposed new school.
And to make sure every voter has ah opportunity to study,
discuss, and question the proposed -building program, an op-
3n meeting for questions and
answers will be held December
2, at 8 p.m., in Saline High gym.
Meanwhile, members of the Advisory Council, the school administration, and the School
""Soard are available for information and discussion.
After a quarter-century of
service in Saline, the Rev. H. L.
Engel, above, was honored at a
recent reception by Ms congregation at the Trinity Lutheran
Church. He came here early in
September, 1939, from Chesaning, where he had served for 13
years.
Boy Scouts Plan
Court of Honor
A Court of Honor, for Saline
Boy Scouts who have earned
awards during the summer, will
be held at' the Intermediate
School gymnasium at 7:30 p.m.
Tuesday,  September 29.
All boys of Boy Scout age
who are not already in scout- ■
ing are urged to attend 'the
Court of Honor, along with
their parents, and find out about the scouting program for
the coming year. Registrations
will be taken at the meeting.
Think twice before you speak
and you'll find that your wife
has changed the- subject. -
It is said that many rise to
the occasion but few know when
to sit down.