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The Saline Reporter
VOLUME 15, NUMBER 14-WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 16,1964
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ELEMENTAR
CHOOL APPROVED
'arm Council Site
fcked f or *65 Fair
The 1965 Saline Community vote on the hew location, a
Fair will be held at the Farm number of members voiced the
Council Grounds, north of town. ^°Pe that ^e^ Ffld and 1he
. , .. . , Intermediate School would con-
The change in location for at tinue tQ bg homg fcr ^ Fair
least one year was decided at r^^ principal objection to „the *
the annual meeting of the Fair Farm Council site: the fear that *
Association at the High School in time the Saline Fair would
Monday night.
The group also voted to hold
the '65 event September 8, 9,
10 and 11, the same week as
Labor Day.
And election of officers produced unanimous support for
Ray Girbach, re-elected president; Alton Ealy, re-elected recording secretary; and Webb
Harwood, re-elected treasurer.
Donald Wiedman, vice presi
lose its home-town character
and appeal, and would eventually be just a*- re-run of the old
county fair. They also questioned whether the change would
bring any growth, since admissions dropped more than 25 per
cent last time the Fair was held
out of town.
Those supporting a move offered these reasons:
Tent rentals and other expen-
UUlliXUl VV-lCU-LUClAi, V l^C £C1.170A-
dent, and Robert Tefft, business ses are Steadily increasing, and
secretary, decUned to run for Wlth n0 room to S^ow Physical-
re-election. Albert GaU received ^ at Henne F^'the Fair has
a unanimous vote to replace no way °* offsetting these high-
Wiedman, and Oral Bassett got er costs- "In the Past 25 years
full support as Tefft's replace- we'Ye probably spent $25,000
ment.
In discussion leading up to a
WHODUNIT:
Police Comb
River Area
For "Body"
Local police, in the best mys-
CHURCH ANNOUNCES
CHRISTMAS PLANS
The Assembly of God Church
will hold a family Christmas
vesper service at 7:30 p.m. on
Wednesday, December 23. The
Sunday school Christmas program will be presented at 7 p.m.
Sunday, December 20.
Blood Bank,
Election Set:
On Same Day
for tent rentals alone," Ray
Girbach declared. "And what do
we have to sRow for all that
money today? Nothing."
Girbach stated that no tents
would be needed at the Farm
CouncU grounds . . . that there
would be room for more events
and exhibits . . . that spectator
seating and car-parking facUities would be much better.....
that with plenty of shelter, fair
events would be far less at the
- -- *---—' r mercy of the weatiher . . . and
tery tradition, were tramping ^ ^ Farm .^^ si±e
through the underbrush along ^ ac be mQre
the river Tuesday morning, readied by fair.goers tteoug/_
looking for the "body. out ^ ^ ^ ^ He«ne
StUl unanswered are the eru- Field locati0n. "There'd be less
cial questions: Whose body? congestion and plenty of park-
and What body, if any? ing rigllt at the grounds," he
The ruckus brewed up when explained,
two young men reported at the Transportation between down
Clinton State Police Post that town Saline and the new fair.
they had seen a "man carrying grounds may be provided free
a body over his shoulder" at of c!harge t0 fair-goers, Girbach v«™.» - v—-«» ----- --- -
the bridge here and "walking indicated Board member ter from ^^ Campbell, who scares me. However, ouroffi
fast" along the river. The charles Torrey reported the Ci- has completed a tour of Egypt cial guardians from_^Minis
The expression on his face in another picture was
strange, Andy Campbell explained, because when it was taken he was saying "cheese" in Arabic. What he was saying in
this photo (above, right) is anybody's guess ..... . probably a
comment on the 10,000 pigeons in the loft in the background.
The picture was taken on an Egyptian farm called "The Pearl
of the Desert" . ... carved from the desert in 1939 and now a
show place of 259 acres of orchard operated by Andy's host,
shown with him above, and family. Practically every farm
has such a pigeon loft, made of mud brick . . . the 10,000 occupants provide manure. The other building in the background holds the farm's water supply, part of which comes
from deep wells, some from a three-acre storage lake, some
from canals. Andy, who has farmed for many years in Pittsfield Township, returned this week from a tep.gthjr exchange
farm tour in Egypt.
Andy Relates More
Adventures in Egypt
Voters OK $790,000
Bond Proposal 3 to f
Saline. School District voters structions to Architect Guido
Monday' heartUy approved a Binda for exact plans must
$790,000 bonding proposal for await final decisions by the
a new elementary school, by board,
exactly 3 to 1. Construction is expected to
The vote was light, but posi- beein *ext SV™S> and il is
tive: 519 "yes" to 173 "no", hoPed that bids ^^ te let in
clearing the way for final plan- March.
ning of the new school. But the Construction of the new 20-
earliest possible completion room school "will solve the im-
date is January, 1966. mediate situation" when it is
A special meeting of the completed "and help with long-
Board of Education, to map the range Plans > Mrs- Robert Tefft>
. - . -) president of the board, said today. "I am very pleased with
the result of the election; I
think it shows that people realize and understand the needs of
their school system."
But "there are a lot of things
to iron out yet," Superintendent
Harold Hintz said, and "you
can't buUd a school in six
months".
%' » Until the school is completed,
present overcrowded conditions
in the schools will continue and
probably increase. When the second elementary school goes into operation, however, the present Intermediate School wUl be
used as a junior high school;
included in the approved bond
issue was $35,000 for repair and
remodeling of the existing
schools, which would, among
other things, "upgrade" the Intermediate for junior high use.
Leon K. Vedder, above, man- Su* a steP W£f ™*£*
ager of Detroit Edison's local *&*.. g^de Vrom the High
So. , - , . ,, School, providing more room
off ice, was honored by the com- - . .,,„ . !„«„„
" ., ,. „._.., for growing student population
pany recently upon his 35th ser- ^
vice anniversary. Leon, who
'V
A scheduling coUision of com- next steps, has been schedule
munity events, at the Interme- tonight. Bonding procedures
diate School, has turned out to can begin immediately, - but in-
be, not a calamity, but a con- -----
venieiice. Salinians wiU be able
to attend both. ,
A visit of the Red Cross
BloodmobUe, to replenish stocks
of Saline Area Blood Bank, has
been scheduled at the Intermediate School for Friday, January 15. That date was set up
last summer and could not easily be changed, since the local
Blood Bank is in need of refill
and the Bloodmobile is booked
up months in advance.
Then a special election, on the
proposed Washtenaw County
Community CoUege was set for
January 15 . . . and elections
are always held at the Intermediate. School.
As it turns out, both are possible. The poUs for the special
election wUl be open from 7
a.m. to 8 p.m., as always, -with
voting to take place in the
front haU. . -
The Blood Bank wUl accept
of MUls Road and Bennett St.
donrtions7rom 2"to 5 ^.m, and £es It 6450 Saiine-A^n'Arbor ^ Plaf c*j &r lo™*on °f ^
6 to 8 p.mr, as always. In the^d.;.jollied the" Edison Co. in ^f^Sdn?^ corS
gymnasium. - December, 1929. t0 be P™3^ ^t_tne corner
A doorway from one to the , __•
other wffl be available, for the Marnn Chnrrh PJfin?
benefit of residents who want ^j10?1} VnUTCn rianb
to visit both, Dwight Reynolds, XshriSfmaS EveUVS
school principal, said.
(Here's a "coming home" let- Christmas, that sort of tape ytv„ "Vol 7
fast" along the river. The Charles Torrey reported the Ci- nas compierea a wur oi ntwv» >-— e~—.~ CoiTIXtieilded
youths said they were on their ty Bus Co of Ann Arbor woui,j with a "Farmers in World Af- try of Agriculture smoothed the Jl 1~
way to work in Clinton, at 5:30 furnish iarge school-type buses fairs" group. He returned this way. We contributed a.little of |r()j« LoR0" Service
fr. ___■,___ „7u_„ ...I, „,,. 0„„+_ , , . . m„ . hour for weekend, with pictures, almost, that paper stuff and I believe ° .
-■■-— =-■= «— —a "i""^ it wnc nut in the Drooer nalms " ~ *■"-—'- TT-1- —x~- u"~ -
The Couples Club and the
Youth FeUowship of the Macon
Methodist Church wUl go caroling Saturday, December 19.
On Sunday, at 7 p.m., Sunday
school children wUl present
their Christmas program.
A Christmas Eve cantata wiU
DRIVE REACHES 98.5%
UF Board
Names Three
New Members
As the Saline Area United
a.m. Tuesday, when tney spox- and drivers for $8 per hour for weca-cuu, .»™ V""»--~f - - . ' A Christmas Eve cantata win — —
ted this unusual situation. They eacll rig_ provi<iing bus service endless information, and plenty it was put in the proper palms Mrs. Uins Volz, who has re- bg presented at tlie church at Fund drive crept up to 98.5 per
- ti„+„,-i„74 7,Mw!rvtl-„„ nf ^ ^n , ^ Jnr ^^^^ 0f stories to teU:) because we breezed thru with- tired as chairman of the can ~ ■ , ^, ....^ ^ :j._ ^nc,A „„„, «,„ TTr,,-+i>-ri
gave a detailed description of for 10 hours each day, through of stories to teU:)
the behavior of the unknown ^g four days of the fgdr> would Ann Arbor, Mich.
man and his (male) burden. cost the Association about $320. Dec. 14, 1964
Notified by State Police, Sa- Providing a second bus during Hi Gang —
line officers Hugh Prince and peak hours each day might take Any thoughts of Egypt were
Joe Eisele called Police Chief the cost up to $500, board mem- blotted out bf my mind when we lanueu dt U1C ^^ H„itv. cname]
Jim Levleit at his home; the bers felt. But they agreed that we got back from the New Val- eariy ^ were out in no man's Cr0gS
^*,aa +v,m r.r,TT,hpH thP woods witvi hns service there would be lev and were headed home. We iand. between customs and the The
7:30 p.m. on December 24.
cent of its 1964 goal, the United
Fund board of directors, in a
regular meeting last week, ejected new directors.
Gerald Bahnmiller, Ray Anderson and Don Church were
because we breezed thru with'
out even a bag getting opened, teen of the Saline Area Blood
After aU, we were VIP's and Bank after 12 years' service in
guests, officially, of the minis- that post, was commended this PLANNING COMMISSION
try. week by W. de St. Aubin, exe- MEETING POSTPONED
cutive director of the county . _,_. , ,
oue c,i»«ac «u™ ,. -— —--- UK:„~o.. M±, *.„ .,„„„, „: „ We lanaed at the port quite banter of the American Red A meeting of the city plan npT.„nT1 „nll ,„,„ , ,
Jim Levleit at his home; the ,bers felt. But they agreed that we got back from the New Val- early ^ were out in no man's gSs A™ncan ^ ning commission scheduled for ™} f"U £™ XX ter^s'.
Indiums on^oth sde's TSe ffi ^ rSfn^SK? ^^ T ***? ^T *** ^ ^^ CUSt°mS ^ ^ ITie Saline Blood Bank, which Df cember^ has been postpon- a^lre^ toectoS WiSn
Sr near ?Se sluk Saif ImT hll transportation pro- had four days and sandwiched plane) in good order. We were ides ,blood free of 'ch ed until Tuesday, January 12. ^ j^ and Cecelia Ference
nver near the bauk ITaiilnn, blem. in a trip to the Holy Land - anxious to get out because we to anv resident 0f the area is were re-elected for additional
and throughout Curtiss Park Rental of ^ Farm council but for all practical purposes, were au in technical violation SD^y^loSl^S,S rnTmnrr ™ mit^ ' tos additions!
With the exception of several facffities would be $50 per ^ we were headed home; and I of the rules and wanted to see renreTentatives and ™«SSd T? ^ ^ * «, q Tetirin^ from the board are
footprints along the road, they Girbach said. The mov^ wou[d think We were at least slightly the Mediterranean as soon as XSf the Red Cross r nTn ? ?! g " ' !
found no fresh tracks, although also bring savings in such items hysterical. possible. Our veteran traveUng Bl0od^obUe
the ground was covered with as ^ectrical wiring, he said. On Dec. 8, we left behind the companion knew of a remedy st_ Aubin wrote, in a letter
light snow. PossibUity of holding the fair bright spot of Egypt - the Nile for jitters and ordered coffee to j^rs yolz.
The search lasted almost five at the High School grounds was HUton - it is "little America" and cokes for the gang and our j>ear jjrg> Vo'lz.
hours- discussed briefly, but brougM in that land of sharp contrasts waiter, in his long dress, dis- 0ur fr'ieil7j( M;ariail Hering,
As time dragged on, the two little support. - and we left it with Uttle appeared to get it for him. Ab- hag told me 'that otl .^^ ^
a regular meeting of the Sa- ^,
line City CouncU wiU be held at Howard HiU, Jameson Ford and
8 p.m. Monday, December 21.
WILLING WORKERS
CLUB WILL MEET
Members of the WiUing Wor
th e Rev. Donald Kraushaar,
who is a member of the Michigan United Fund board.
Contributions to the SaUne
1964 drive have reached
$12,829.63, or 98.5 per cent of
appeared lo get- ^ j^ «im. "« j^g tola me Tnat you wish to ™.""v"» — — ..—«e v,^-,- -, — .
out that time they caUed -Bie he relieved of your active lea- kers Club wffl gather at the the $13,025 goal, campaign
. .,..-,_ j. ^ ill,... nnd ." .. . „ , —, . V,^,w.n r*f TUTr-o A lav (~Lnr*i-a 10^7!=! rlhai-rman 'Rllfrvm Soden an-
voune- men were re-questioned In other discussion at the an- lumps in our throats
S sfateSoS at the Clinton nual meeting, Association mem- We were i^J^^ ™ ™S was Z^ndw n3*V^S w™" SZZ^^**^™ nouS: f^^unt repre-
Post. The witnesses, after while, bers voiced no support for the toms; these curtain countries Rome^ ^ back. ^ahne^ O f ^cour se wemuler December 17. Devo- sents all collections completed
became less sure of what they idea of taking Sahne Band SheU scare metojeat^ You can. depart»J^n «g£fe ^^ wift Jl^'^f ^71 tions wffl be led by Mrs. Archie and reported except those of
had seen, but one stiU insisted money and using it instead for bring anythingm or take.any waMIook a^ ^ balancing fhd 'Se SSn in Lott, and Mrs. Floyd Rhoades businesses, of which "about a
he had seen SO^nNGVOie band unifo^ Ejte this tinng:™*^£g£™£ ^"S of six drinks. It wal ^Ll^^cf ^the rS wffl be in charge of a Christmas dozen" are stffl not heard from,
^admitted he had, ^f^J^^^^Sl or no funny, for us. _ Cross. T^do have aspecial^ W^J^J* ^ ^^j^^.^ _ ^^^
State Police incline to the $1,250 toward ^proposed band
^SY^'rsSnS ^S^-SS-^ Jaycees to Judge
b„„s,1tiSs,mpiistea.werto- gX«\5iSS£ H?me Decorating
vesbgat'f^ spectator events during the fair DiSplaVS Monday
each year. Now, with the fair . r
Masonic Lodge,
OES Christmas
Party Planned
and fareweU as the jet took off i n g interest and keeping in
and began to plan for an over- touch with your fellow Red
night stop in Rome and a little Cross workers. We will turn to
sight-seeing. These jets are a yon for assistance from time
joy — they climb up to around to time.
30 to 35 thousand feet and saU May I express on behalf of
moving from the Henne Field Jaycees and AuxUiary mem- along at 600 plus mUes - like in our Chapter, its Volunteers and
site the suggestion had recent- bers wffl-go out in two groups an easy chair. This time, how- Staff, our sincere thanks for
ly been made^that Saline bands Monday evening to judge home ever, we seemed to be bumping your fine contributions through
need new uniforms more than decorations in their annual into solid clouds, not bad, but the years, especially in our
they need a sheU ... . and- that Christmas lighting contest. rough for a jet, and about 75 Blood Oinics. _
monies pledged or contributed The first winner will receive to 100 miles out the pUot no- Mrs. Volz, it is warm hearted
toward the sheU might be con- a plaque, and other homes wffl tiffed us we were turning ar- and dedicated people such as
verted to a uniform fund. be given honorable mention. An ound; No. 2 motor was too tern- yourself that have made Red
But this suggestion drew no innovation this year wiU be an peramental to be trusted. We Cross possible. Our voluntaiy
sunnort at the Monday meeting, honorable mention for the best landed back in Cairo. _ organization would be of little
- ^ -------- „,_ , r ^-e were informed that it importance in our county were
We heaved a sigh of relief vor to ask, and thafs -continn- mg- There will also be a gift "But we are now sure we can
- — ... . exchange. make our goal," Soden said.
The annual Masonic Lodge
and Eastern Star famUy Christmas party wffl begin with a potluck dinner*1 at 6:30 p.m. Friday
at the Masonic HaU. suppprt at tne monaay meeLing. nonoraDie meuuuu j.ui mc uc^c
Members are to bring their rphe Board indicated the money commercial display. Members of
Members are to bring tfteir r^e Board indicated the money commercial display. Members oi we were uuuimcu li^l ^ miporuwice m u
own table service and a 50 cent had been voted for a sheU and the Jaycees are eUgible for hon- would, take V2 hour and that it not for the splendid work
gift for each of their own chil- for nothing else, orable mention but not to re- we had better get back into carried on by people such as
oren. Coffee; milk and roUs wffl The ^names of several board ceive the plaque. the terminal, which we did, and yourself. For what you have-.gi
be furnished. members who have moved from Winners wffl be announced in we were informed that we were ven to our citizens in this area
Committee members for the Saline or are no longer-(active next week's. Reporter. Art Cuen- due for a 5-hour wait - and thus far, our sincere thanks.
event are Mr. and Mrs-. Earl were dropped from the direc- det is chairman of this year's almost immediately were told And we wish you every success
CulUton, Mr. and Mrs. Frank tors' roster. Added to the list contest, which is held each year that Rome passengers would be and good wish especiaUy for
Carter, Mr. and Mrs. Martin were Charles Torrey, Ray Al- as a civic service to encourage booked-for a fUght on a U.A.A. the hoUday season.
Blair, and Mr,' and Mrs. Ray ber, Harold Hintz and "Robert residents to "brighten1 the ci- Our trusty Arab plane that got Mrs. Alwin Burkhardt wffl
Carlton. Harvey. ty", a member said, (Continued on Page 3) replace Mrs. Volz.
To decorate your Christmas tree or please your palate,
a lot of Kiwanians have roUed a lot of brightly-colored popcorn lately. The popcorn baUs, a Kiwanian fund-raising project, are on sale at Walker's Bakery in bags of 12 for 50
cents ... or they may be ordered in bulk. Above, the whole
club gets into the preparations . ., without TOO much argument about siTie, shape, or color. About the ilavor, there
could be no argument at all.
Object Description
| Title | 1964-12-16; Saline Reporter |
| Date | 1964-12-16 |
| Publisher | Paul Tull |
| Description | An issue of a Saline, Michigan newspaper. Published weekly. Focused on Saline and the surrounding Washtenaw County area. Previously published in Ann Arbor with the title Reporter. In May 1958, the newspaper offices moved to Saline and the title of the publication changed to Saline Reporter. No longer published. |
| Subject/Keywords | Saline (Mich.) � Newspapers; Washtenaw County (Mich.) � Newspapers; |
| Copyright Permission | This material is in the public domain. |
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| Language | English |
