1964-12-02; Saline Reporter

              VOLUME 15, NUMBER 12-WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1964
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Attend Meeting
reposed School
Five members of the general public Monday evening attend-
p& an informational meeting scheduled by the Board of Education to provide facts and answer questions on the proposed new
elementary school.
They got a lot of attention: present to answer their questions
■u-ere members of the Board of Education, the Saline Area Schools
Advisory Council, school administrators, and several teachers.
The meeting was one of two scheduled prior to the December 14 vote on a bond issue to finance construction of the new
school, to be. located on property at the corner of Mills Road and
Bennett Street. School Board members hoped that the second
meeting, to be held Wednesday night, would be better attended.
Color slides showing use of the present elementary school
were presented by Dan Lirones, a member of th Advisory Coun-
— eil,   who   emphasized   that  the
slides are available to any interested group' at any time.
They are part of a 20-minute
program on Saline schools prepared by Lirones.
School Superintendent Harold
Hintz discussed present crowded conditions in the schools:
"At present there are 175 to
200 more children than can properly be taken care of," he said.
"In the Jensen Elementary
School, some classes are held in
the teachers" room, about 10
feet by 20 feet, with tables
ber 5, 12 and 19 will be the shoved right together. In ano-
traditional spot at the rear of ther year, it will be worse."
The Citizens Bank, suitably de- , "This is also true of the In-
corated for the occasion by Sa- termediate School," he contin-
line Girl Scout Troop 440, led ued, "and of the High School,
by Mrs. Barbara Chase. Santa where next year we will have
will hold court here each of the to assign three students to a
three remaining Saturday af- locker or set up temporary lock-
ternoons, visiting with all Sa- ers in the halls."
line youngsters who come in to Predicted enrollments have
consult him . . . and passing turned out to be low by about
out candy favors to every one g0 to 100 students in each of
of them. the past tw0 years, he said. "At
His hours at headquarters the normal rate of population
this Saturday, and next week, increase, the school enrollment
will be 2 to 5 p.m. The follow- wm almost double in the next
ing Saturday, December 19, two years." A planning study
Santa will close his court an indicates that the entire area
hour early, and will head for wm increase in population by
the Intermediate School gym, 76 per cent by 1980.
where the annual free Christ- „Jt .sa>t ^ to get any bet.
mas program of movie cartoons teii"-said HintzY"At present, it
for youngsters will be present- fa- ^       ible   for   teachers   in
United Fund isrive
ow Stands at 93.8%
:a Claus
rrive
ere Saturday
Riding a bright red convertible to match hisv bright red
uniform and nose, Santa will
make his first '64 appearance
in Saline this Saturday, arriving downtown at 2 p.m.
His headquarters for Decem-
The Rev. Glenn Hagen (above, left) left Tuesday morning to assume his duties as pastor of the First United Church
of Christ, Pitcairn, Pa., after ordination ceremonies in his
home church here on November 22. Shown with him at the
ceremony above (left to right) are Lyle Phillips, chairman
of the council of St. Paul United Church of Christ; the Rev.
Henry Kroehler, associate conference minister, Michigan Conference, United Church of Christ; two former pastors of St.
Paul's, the Rev. Alfred Hardt and the Rev. Alvin Siemsen;
the Rev. Robin Butler, of the First Presbyterian Church of
Manitowoc, Wis.; and the Rev. John Michael, present pastor here.
The ceremony was preceded by a supper at the Hagen
home for about 50 out-of-town relatives and friends; arrangements were made by Mrs. Charles Kern, Sirs. Carl Moehn,
.Mrs. Ruben Finkbeiner, Mrs. Edwin Hering, Mrs. Hazel Weber, and Mrs. E. J. Muir. Mrs. Arthur Heininger was chairman of a public reception at the church after the ceremony.
The Rev. Mr. Hagen is the son of Mrs. Arthur Hagen
and the late Arthur Hagen.
ew Electronics Supply Firm
To Utilize Local Farm Site
ed by Saline Kiwanis Club starting at 4 p.m.
Other Christmas activities
mapped this week by the Saline
Chamber of Commerce at the
group's regular monthly meeting:
lower elementary grades to give
the time the children really
need in those important years
... yet it would be better to
give the time now than to hold
remedial   classes later."
"These youngsters are here,"
Santa's mailbox is to be lo- he sai<3. "They live in the Saline
cated   at   the   center   of   town school District and we have to
again, outside the Corner Drug provide for them. It's everybo-
Store, to take letters and cards <jy>s prohlem."
for Santa's prize drawing. Board  member   Gerald  Coe
Downtown   Yule   decorations discussed  the   proposed   Mills
are to go up as soon as special Road   gite  fQr  fte  elementary
wiring for the new poles  and gchooL He recalled a 1958 de_
new decorations has been completed.
Saline Girl Scouts and Brownies are again planning, tentatively to include downtown Saline in their caroling rounds,
singing Christmas songs outdoors and in the stores.
cision of the School Board (he
was then a member) to purchase the 96 acres for the High
School and "other schools in
the foreseeable future". Said
Coe: "It was a wise decision,
based on the population projection then used ... which wasn't
nearly high enough. But that
board intended the High School
property to serve as an educational center for grades beyond
the 6th."
The decision to put the proposed new school, now, on Mills
Joseph D. Barrus, 27, former Road was made after long stu-
Saline resident, was sentenced' dy, Coe said. Since no sewer or
to an indefinite term of 8y2 to water is available on Maple St.,
25 years in prison, by Circuit it would have to be brought in
Judge WiUiam Ager, Thursday, from Ann Arbor St., if the High
on a charge of attempted mur- School site were used. At pre-
der. sent, use of the Mills Road lo-
Barrus   admitted   a   planned cation costs no more than de-
Barrus Receives
814-25 Year
Prison Sentence
attempt to strangle his wife,
Jerre, at their home on Rosemont St. last summer. He left
her unconscious in the basement of the home and went to
work at the University of Michigan, where he was then employed. He was arrested at work
the same day. Under $15,000
bail, he has been liivng in Lansing since the arraignment.
■After pronouncement of sentence Thursday, he was remanded to the County Jail pending
transportation to a penal institution.
Mrs. Barrus has recovered.
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A local farm may soon become a manufacturing site fbr
electronics products for nation,
wide distribution.
The farm, on Fosdick Road
about 2% miles east of Saline,
is owned by Dr. V. A. (Vic)
Basman, an engineer with a
broad background in industrial
and .University research, owner
of Microtron Electronic Supply
Co.,-_and president of Microtron
Engineering Co.
Microtron Engineering, formed about a year agvo, has opened an Ann Arbor office which
includes on its roster about 30
consulting engineers and scientists, and a Detroit engineering
and development concern which
also acts as consultant. Most of
the consultants have full-time
industrial and U-M research positions, but Dr. Basman's work
is full-time for Microtron.
Microtron Engineering is seeking research and development
contracts covering military, industrial, commercial, medical,
and educational fields; and Microtron Eleetrbnie Supply Co.
might also include airborne instrumentation among its products, Basman said.
The house on Fosdick Road
is already beings remodeled for
use as laboratories, and Dr.
Basman has in mind "for future
consideration" refitting the two
story barn for manufacturing*
and construction of a third building, of concrete blocks. The
total would provide about
10,000 square feet of floor space
for manufacturing operations,
on his 80-acre. farm.
"Microtron will represent electronic product lines coast-to-
coast," he said. Production may
start "in four to six months".
He said that he expects to
represent up to 25 electronic
goods manufacturers after
franchising arrangements are
completed. He said ;he also represents locally a number of electronic goods distributors.
Basman, a • U-M Extension
Service and Ann Arbor public
evening schooF .lecturer, -has
published numerous technical
papers and holds patents on electronic components and sensory devices.
He was an associate research
engineer at the U-M, 1955-1960,
and was with the Bendix Systems Division, 1960-1963, serving -as assistant manager of the
Steer and Advent satellite communications systems.
Basman last year was with
the Burroughs Laboratories of
Dexter, serving as a department
head and manager of Burroughs
former Ann Arbor facilities.
Currently, he lectures before
U-M Medical School students on
medical electronics.
C-C Backs
Grossman for
Trustee Post
Petitions are in circulation
this week to nominate Allan W.
Grossman, of Saline, to one of
the six board of trustee posts
for the proposed Washtenaw
County Community College.
The proposal to bring the college into existence, and the
members of the board of trustees, will be decided at the same
election in January.
Grossman was urged to run
by members of the Saline
Chamber of Commerce; his candidacy is endorsed by that organization. A petition is being
circulated here; another is in
circulation in Ann Arbor b y
Miss Ada Inglis, representative
of Meha.
No salary or other reimbursement is provided for the board
of trustees, who will direct construction and operation of the
community college if the proposal is approved by the voters.
Grossman, who lives at 9279
Macon Rd., has lived in the Saline area since 1956, for a time
at Saline Valley Farms and
then inside the city until last
year. He received a BA degree
from Central Michigan University in 1951, spent three years
with the U.S. Army" Security
Agency, and received his T.1D
from the University of Michigan in 1957. ;
He taught mathematics. _ i n
the 7th and 8th grades in Yp-"
silanti for a year before opening his law practice here. He
has served as Saline city attorney for the past four years.
C-C ENDORSES
MRS. WOODS, TOO
Chamber of Commerce board
members, when they formally
endorsed Allan Grossman as a
candidate for the post of Community College trustee, were
not aware that a second Saline
candidate was available, C-C
President Harry Parsons said
today.
Although the board has not
met since Mrs. Paul Woods'
candidacy was announced, Parsons stated that he sees no reason why the local Chamber
should not endorse her also.
"There are six seats to be filled
on the college board," he said.
"Washtenaw could do well to
have the talents of both Saline
candidates' serving in this job."
OUTHOUSE DISMEMBERED
E. A. Sawall, New York Central freight agent, reported to
police this week that, sometime
during the Thanksgiving holiday, someone had torn apart an
outhouse at the railroad depot.
Investigation revealed the sides .
and interior structure had been"
removed. -
The building was no longer
in use. No monetary estimate
of its value was given.
Jerry McPeake
Elected to Head
Masonic Lodge
Jerry McPeake \^as elected
worshipful master of Masonic
Lodge No. -133, F. & A.M., on
Tuesday evening.
Other new officers include
senior warden, Walter W. Martin; junior warden, Harry L.
Cogar; treasurer, Everett D.
Wolfin; secretary, Carl D.
Kraus; senior deacon, Robert
M. Harrison; junior' deacon, Robert E. Johnson; and senior
steward, Harold.E. Smith. Two
junior steward posts Were not
filled.
Wayne Predmore, Sr., will
serve as tyler; Ronald W. Finkbeiner, marshal; and Robert H.
Desbrough, P.M., as chaplain.
The officers will be installed
at a public ceremony at 8 p.m.
Tuesday, December 8, at the
Masonic Temple.
Installing grand officer will
be Barney Wilson, of Ann Arbor; installing grand marshal,
Hugh Austin; installing grand
secretary, Kenneth Jeppesen;
and installing grand chaplain,
the Rev. Donald Kraushaar.
Summer isn't entirely gone . . . there's still some to be
. found at the Intermediate School, in the vicinity of a cage
of mounted birds and small animals presented by Mrs. Herbert Teachout. The attractive collection includes more color*
ftd, naturally mounted wildlife than the most ardent birdwatcher could spot in weeks of stalking outdoors .... one almost expects them to burst into song. Above, Jo Noye pauses
to study the collection.
DYNAMITE?
Mrs. Martin Welter, of 221
Monroe St., reported to police
last week that she had.received
an anonymous., phone call in
which a man's voice told her,
"There is dynamite under your
porch."
A police ^ search of the entire house revealed nothing, and
Mrs. Welter knew of nobody
who might make such a call for
any reason.
He is a past president of the
Saline Chamber of Commerce,
an originator and now president
of the Saline Area Industrial
Development Corp., and a member of the Saline Area Schools
Advisory Council. He is married and the father of five children.
He has been interested in the
possibility of a community college since its inception in this
country, serving first on the
citizens' survey committee and
then on the citizens' implementation committee.
He said today: "Although we
are naturally interested in what
it will cost to provide such an
educational opportunity, we
must also seriously consider
what it is costing not to provide this opportunity. It costs
dollars for education, but it
costs dollars and maybe more
than dollars not to educate people who could become productive in society."
It has been estimated that
1.25 mills on a county-wide basis would provide for tooth construction and operation of a
community college for 3,000
students.
Another announced candidate
for the six-member board of
trustees is Mrs. Florence Mayer,
of Chelsea, who has also served
on tlhe citizens' committees
since the subject first came un-
"der study.
Petitions, with no less than
50 signatures of electors, must
be filed with the County Clerk
no later than December 15 for
the January 15 election.
Mary Woods
Is Candidate
For Trustee
Mrs. Paul H. (Mary) Woods
will be a candidate for the post
of trustee for the proposed
Washtenaw County Community
College, it was announced today by Miss Jeannette Merriman, who is circulating petitions for Mrs. Woods.
Mrs. Woods is a former teacher with a long record of active community service, interest
in education, and church work.
Some of her teaching experience was in a' junior college
"somewhat similar" to the community college now under jcon-
.sideration, here.
Mrs. Woods was a charter
member of the Room Mothers'
organization when there was
only one school (in recent years
separate room parents' groups
have been set up for each
school). As president of the
Room Mothers, she was instrumental in launching the first
adult education program in Saline and was in full charge of
it for several years. It was preceded by a University of Michigan survey, requested by Mrs.
Woods, whieh indicated a need
for continued education for immediate post-high school students, who were not headed for
college, as well as. for older
persons.
She is an active member of
the Child Study Club, in which
she has served as secretary,
treasurer, and chairman; and
she is now president of the Saline Community Hospital Auxiliary.
She is treasurer of the board
of trustees of the Church .of
God, Ypsilanti, has'taught Sunday school for about 15 years,
and has served as Sunday
school superintendent and choir
director:
A Saline High School graduate, she also graduated from
Ypsilanti Normal College (now
Eastern Michigan University)
with a life teaching certificate,
and studied for three semesters
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Hope to Go
Over the T
By Jan. i
The Saline Area United Fund
campaign has reached 93,8 per
cent of its goal, Buford Soden,
drive chairman, announced today, "and we hope to go over
the top by Christmas."
The new figure, a big jump
from last week's 69 per cent,
represented total contributions
of §12,214.18, only $810.82
short of the needed $13,095.
Moreover, it did not include
$130 known to be forthcoming
(and included in last week's
count) but pledged by a business which always retains its
contributions until the first of
the year.
The sharp rise in present
contributions included $2,720 in
additional contributions from
industry, and $33 more from
service clubs.
"I think there is still more
to come in from industry," Soden said. "Also, business reports are not complete, and
there may be some residential
contributions still unreported."
Most residential area contacts
have been completed,  he said.
One section of the drive, the
building trades, has not yet
inade any report.
This year's budget is nine
per cent higher than last year's,
but it provides that all local
agencies shall receive the full
amount they requested, if the
goal is met. If the drive goes
"over the top", the additional
amount is divided evenly among
all participating agencies.
BPW to Sell
Christmas Trees
The Business and Professional Women's club will open their
annual sale of Christmas trees,
Saturday, at the corner of E.
Michigan Ave.  and Harris  St.
The operation will be "open
for business" afternoons and
evenings until Christmas. Proceeds of the sale will help to
provide a scholarship for a local young woman interested in
a business career, and a1 so to
raise the BPW's $300 pledged
contribution "to the proposed
band shell, or other worthwhile
use", said Jean Taylor, project
chairman.
The trees, of all sizes and all
varieties, are grown on the Arend farm.
SOCIAL SERVICES   INC.,
"BUNDLE TEA" PLANNED
The annual Christmas season
"Bundle Tea", open to the public and sponsored by Saline Area Social Services, Inc., will be
held from 2 to 5 p.m. Thursday
at the home of Mrs. Eugene
Garrison.
Guests are asked to bring clothing suitable for Christmas
giving. « ^
\A real prize, with a rack worth mounting, was the 16-
point buck brought down by Herb Westpha^ of 3696 Waterworks Rd., while hunting in Delta County in the Upper Peninsula. The deer, which weighed out at about 180 pounds, was
the biggest reported from this area. Herb dispatched it with
one shot.