1966-08-31; Saline Reporter

              VOLUME 16, NUMBER 51 — WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31, 196G
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Houghton Elementary School
will open on time "one way or
another," Superintendent Harold Hintz said today . . . but
staff and administrators were
nearly frantic over details to be
finished before then.
Eight days before the advent
of a stampede of small people,
the following work had yet to
be completed:
Desks were assembled, but
couldn't be installed until the
floors were cleaned and waxed.
Thousands of books had to be
put away in the library (which
wasn't quite ready for them) or,
if new, inspected, checked on
invoices, and stamped with the
school name. There were about
1,000 new ones, plus phonograph records to be filed.
Materials had to be distributed to teachers, including the
tons of paper needed by children in the lower grades.
Workmen were grading for
lawns, but sidewalks still had to
Rev. Engel
Plans Partial
Retirement
The Rev. H. L. Engel
The Rev. H. L. Engel, pastor
of Trinity Lutheran Church for
27 years, will begin semi-retirement on November 1. He will remain in part time service as
senior pastor at the church..
Junior pastor will be the Rev.
J. A. Westendorf, who has served a church in Brookfield,
Wise, for about four years but
is originally from Michigan and
was formerly a pastor in Livonia.
He and his family will move
to the parsonage here on September 6.
He will be installed as a pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church
in a special service at 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, September 11. One of
his brothers, the Rev. Rolfe
Westendorf, of Maumee, O., will
preach the sermon; and the
Rev. Mr. Engel will conduct the
liturgical service and rite of installation.
A reception at the church parlors will follow the installation
service. The new pastor is married and has two young children. He is a graduate of Northwestern College in Watertown,
Wise, and the Theological Seminary at Mequon, Wise.
The Rev. and Mrs. Engel will
move Thursday and Friday to
the "second parsonage" purchased by the congregation at
68 Tower Dr. On Thursday, September 1, Mr. Engel will observe two anniversaries, the beginning of his service in the-
ministry 40 years ago, and the
beginning of his service to Trinity Lutheran Church 27 yeafs
ago. He came here from Chesaning, Mich., his first charge,
where he served two congregations for 13 years.
be cleared of dirt.
The blacktop area behrnd the
school will be used.for a playground "until we get straightened out", Hintz said. The city
has been asked to arrange a
temporary block of Mills Rd.,
to provide play space . . . but
Council's next meeting isn't until September 12.
Telephones and the PA system haven't been installed at
the new school.
All four Saline schools will
open at 8:30 a.m. Thursday,
September 8, for full-day sessions Thursday and Friday.
New teachers this year in Saline schools (some have taught
in the system before and some
are long-time Saline residents)
are listed below:
Jensen Elementary
Kindergarten — Elizabeth Lennox.
1st Grade — Mary Seharp,
Cynthia Garland, Patricia Rit-
sema.
2nd Grade — Sharon Ruppal,
Barbara   Colwell.
3rd Grade — Jacquelyn Berg-
er,  Susan Green, Linda Doyle.
5th Grade — Janice Dyer.
6th Grade ~ Ernest Walline,
Marjorie   Quick.
Houghton Elementary
Kindergarten - - Dorothy
Dunn, Carol Burmeister.
lst Grade — Suzanne Sayre,
Lois Smith.
2nd Grade — Sharon Tuin-
stra, Nancy Hoeltzel, Sandra
Williams.
3rd Grade — Patricia Hub-
inger.
4th Grade — Stephanie Man-
asse.
6th Grade — Denton Seeger,
Barbara Wahl, Margaret Kor-
shoj.
Vocal  teacher:   Karen  Hard-
esty. Librarian, for both elementary   schools:   Ellen   Maurer
Johnson.
Junior High
Marlene Weintraub, 7th English; James O'Leary, 7th Sci-
Joseph Graf, Physical Education, boys; Judith Hegenauer,
Science and English; Michael
Makowsky, 7th History; Kathryn Scheidt, 8th English; Robert Howard, Shop.
High School
Linda Dunlap, Physical Education, girls; Dennis Brinker-
hoff, English; Margaret Mc-
Nally, Social Studies; Mary Esther Lee, English; Susan Lande,
Spanish; Mary Sue Wahl,
Speech; Arthur Taylor, Business; Dan Slee, English; Brian
LaRue, Math; Margaret Slee-
man, Business; Prindle Vaux,
.Science and Math; Malcolm A.
Danforth, Band.
Returning administrators and
teachers for the 1966-67 year,_
and their assignments are:
Jensen
Ruby Kuhl, principal; Margaret Livingstone, assistant;
Alice Tracy, Eva Osborn, Kit-
tie Gayman, Marjorie Scully,
Marianne Alpha, Jean Fick, Janet Schnierle, Jorun Jaeger, Be-
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TRAFFIC UPS
FOR HOUGHTON TOTS
A pre-season guide to Houghton Elementary School was cited
this week by Principal Marian
Barclay, in the hope of easing
confusion  when   school  opens:
Classrooms for kindergarten
and grades 1 and 2 are in the
south corridor, she said, and
children of those ages should
enter by the south door. Grades
3 and 4 face Mills Road; their
classrooms will be most easily
reached by entering the center
door. Grades 5 and 6 and the
special education room are most
accessible through the north
door.
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SALINE BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY
has given a strong boost to the Saline High
Job-Training Program, recently organized
to offer work experience and wages to Saline High seniors. Among the trainees are
the following, shown hard at work at the
shops which have- employed them under the
agreement: Jim Van Matre, now employed
at Graf's Gulf, under the tutelage of Jerry
Graf; Roger Hamlin, with Ted Hill, of Ted's
Service; Pete Settles with Mike Johnson.
of H. I. Johnson & Co.; and Larry Belleau,
with Harry Wackenhut, of Steeb Dodge
Sales, Inc.
Ford Plant
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The Saline Ford plant is now
about 95 per cent complete, and
transfer of men and equipment
from the ' Brooklyn plant has
begun.
Ford Motor Co. began last
week to move machinery from
its plastics division plant, but
transporting the large injection
molding machinery and transferring the 180-man staff is expected to take at least a month.
Manufacture of plastics has already  begun  here,   however.
About 1,300 people, hourly-
rated and salaried, are now employed at the Saline plant. The
number is expected to grow to
1,400 by the end of this year.
Still to be finished here are
the administrative offices and
interior work in manufacturing
■areas . . . partitions, wiring and
installation of more equipment.
The 25,000 square foot facility in Brooklyn will be closed;
no disposition has been determined for it, a company spokesman said.
Employees in the plastics departments of the Saline plant
come from Onsted, Napoleon,
Jackson, Grass Lake, and Manchester.
Manufacture of instrument
clusters has been under way
here since the General Parts
Division plant opened in the
spring.
The Rev. Charles E. Sturm
is the new rector of the Church
of the Holy Cross, Episcopal
Mission, of Saline, and St. John
Episcopal Church, Clinton.
Formerly a Pontiac man, he
replaces the Rev. Donald Hea-
cock who has been assigned to
Marguarita, in Panama Canal
Zone.
The pastor and his family
moved into the St. John's rectory in Clinton today; he will
conduct his first services at the
Church of the Holy Cross and
St. John's on Sunday.
Only Three
Vie for Title,
Miss Saline
House Vandalized
During Vacation
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Stoek-
ard, of 238 S. Ann Arbor St.,
returned Friday night from a
10-day vacation to find that
their house had suffered from
vandals during their absence.
Someone had broken into the
garage, smashed glass jars,
turned over oil cans to let oil
flow on the floor; painted the
back of the house with oil and
tar; broken a limb from a cherry
tree and put it in the Stockard
truck; and broken wires to the
spotlight in the truck.
Stockard uses the truck in
his. business, a tree-trimming
service.
Rev. Sturm attended Detroit
High School and Wayne State
University, receiving his B. A.
in 1958. He continued study at
Hall Divinity School of Kenyon,
Gambier, O., and received his
B.D. degree in 1961,
He was ordained as deacon in
June, 1961, and as priest in
January, 1962. He was rector
of Trinity Episcopal Church of
West Branch, and vicar of St.
Andrew's, Rose City, from July,
1961, through January, 1964. He
then became associate rector,
All Saints Episcopal Cuhrch, in
Pontiac, until August, 1966.
Before studying for Holy Orders, Mr. Sturm was employed
as an electronic technician by
Chrysler Corp. While attending
Wayne State, he worked at the
Mariner's Inn in 1958, and was
also lay minister at St. Thomas
Church,  Detroit.
He served in the U.S. Army
from October, 1946, through
April, 1948.
Only three entries have been
received so far, for the 1967
"Miss Saline" contest, Robert
H. Beauchamp, Jaycee chairman
of the event, announced today.
The new queen is to be named
Thursday, September 8, at the
Saline Fair, and to be crowned
by her predecessor, Miss Sue
Guenther.
The judging event, Which is
not open to the public, will be
held Wednesday, September 7,
in the banquet room of Leutheuser's. Refreshments at the
judging will be provided by the
Jaycee Auxiliary, Beauchamp
said.
On the Thursday night program, two runners-up will be
named to form the queen's
court; and one young woman,
selected by the contestants
themselves, will be proclaimed
"Miss Congeniality".
Before the crowning, the entire group will go to Leutheuser's for supper, which is being
sponsored by the auto dealers
of SaUne.
Each contestant will receive
an appropriately engraved trophy; in addition, the queen will
receive a S100 saVings bond, and
the two runners-up will be awarded a 525 bond. The bonds
will be gifts from the two banks
of  Saline.
The contest is open to unmarried women between 16 and 25
years of age who live in the
Saline Area School District or
within a 10 mile radius of Saline.
Entries must be postmarked
no later than midnight, Sunday, September 4, addressed to
Beauchamp, 47 Tower Dr., Saline.
The Saline area is in the grip
of a severe shortage of doctors
. . . and .nobody is more troubled by it than the doctors themselves.
Three general practitioners,
struggling to provide optimum
medical treatment for a growing population that used to be
served by five, now find themselves facing waiting lines that
overflow their waiting rooms,
turning away obstetrics patients, and groaning at the sight
of a new patient.
Two can no longer accept
"OB's" at all, and one has regretfully refused to accept any
new patients .
The difficulty compounds itself: unable to treat patients
in their offices and at the hospital at the same time, two Saline doctors now send some critically ill patients to Ann Arbor
hospitals where they can. be continuously watched by interns
and resident doctors. This then
means that the local GP must
either make the time-consuming
trip to Ann Arbor to see his
patients, or refer to a specialist.
Yet Saline Community Hospital, here in town, has excellent
facilities, and a large consulting
staff. *
Dr Paul Gerigk, Dr. Rudenz
Douthat, and Dr. Dennis Burke
all have ideas on how the problem MIGHT be solved . . . but
none of them is very hopeful;
and, so far, no effort to draw
other physicians to Saline has
been successful.
The difficulty, growing in the
past few years, suddenly snowballed when Dr. Eugene Garrison was drafted and Dr. Gordon
Prout closed his practice. That
left three GP's to provide medical treatment for an area of
about 7,000 population . . . and
the national A.M.A. recommendation is one for every 600 people, a statistic that indicates Saline should have 10 or 11 doctors.
But local medics generally
agree that the area could get
along with four or five ... if
the newcomers were willing to
work hard enough.
Dr. Gerigk, who feels that
Saline needs more than one additional doctor ("at least two")
now somehow sees 70 to 80 patients a day in his office. But
"this is too much', and, while
he does take OB's and new
patients, he cannot continue to
do so after January unless he
finds a partner.
The search for a partner has
been going on for months . . .
but the demand for doctors is
so high everywhere . . . "opportunities   are   so   numerous   and
so tempting" . . . that so far
none has decided to locate here.
Reasons are obvious: The population is mushrooming everywhere; and the draft has removed many doctors from civilian practice.
"Adrian needs four or five
more doctors; Clinton needs
two; Tecumseh needs at least
four . . . the whole area is in
great   need,"   reported   Gerigk.
The possibility of getting a
new doctor through ads in medical journals or placement services is "hopeless", he feels.
Some communities have made it
a civic project to attract doctors to their area; as yet, no
such project has been launced
here, but Rotarians are considering it.
Said Dr. Douthat: "Oh, yes,
we sure do need another doctor.
The present situation is so bad
that it's absurd." He no longer
accepts either OB's or new patients because his present patient load is "impossible to cover."
Dr. Burke, who is also team
physician for the University of
Michigan, finds himself dealing with up to 50 patients a day
on some occasions, but would
prefer about 30 or 40. "We certainly need another GP," he
said, "and I sure wish we could
get an obstetrician. I've had to
stop taking OB's and I've sent
at least -a dggen. tQ Ann Arbor."
If Saline mothers must go to
Aim Arbor for obstetrical care,
their babies will be born in the
larger hospitals' maternity sections . . . and Saline hospital's
fully equipped, modern 10-bed
maternity wing will go unused.
It is virtually never filled to
capacity now.
So far, Saline hospital's medical-surgical wing shows no
drop in use because of the doctor-shortage problem ... in
fact, it was 100 per cent full on
Wednesday, and patient load is
running about the same as last
summer's. Nevertheless, hospital officials and board members
are concerned.
Suggested solutions, in which
all three Saline physicians concurred :
Bring an obstetrician to Saline. That would take care of the
hospital's maternity wing vacancies.
Import a general practitioner
interested in taking emergency
coverage while building his own
practice. Said Dr. Burke: "Emergency work here can really
tie you up, but it's hit-or-miss
and it wouldn't support a practice. In some cities, the yhave
a man to cover emergencies,
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COUNCIL TO MEET
ON SEPTEMBER 12
The first city council meeting
in September will be held at
8 p.m. Monday, September 12,
because of the Labor Day holiday on Monday, September 5.
Council will continue to meet
in the old Gity Hall building.
GRAND CHAMPION STEER qf the State 4-H Show, as
well as the champion Angus,*: was the 950 pound animal
above, owned hy Gary Girbach, son of the Ernest Girbachs,
of Arkona Road. Since steers at the state £-H event were
not auctioned this year, "fhe prize Angus may be shown, at
other fairs, including Saline's. Gary also won the senior
fitting and showmanship award. The State 4-H "Show, at
the Michigan State Uigyersity campus, ended Friday.
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