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The Saline Reporter
VOLUME 18, NUMBER 9 ~ Wednesday, November 9, 1966
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Individual Donations
May .Double Goal
Saline Area United Fund
has reached nearly 200 per
cent of its goal!
- Aiming for $15,290, the,
campaign has brought in a
stunning $28,932.
And . . . "When all canvassing and reports are complete, it will be double 'over
the top'," Gerry Bahnmiller,
campaign chairman, predicted.
The sudden, startling rise
in United Fund contributions
came from individual pledges
at Ford Motor Co.'s General
Parts Division plant here,
which has the payroll deduction system for contributions.
Both hourly-rated and salaried employees are represented in the tally.
United Fund board members weren't caught by sur-
Walter V.
MacArth
Dies at 74
Walter Vernon MacArthur,
Sr., died Tuesday morning at
his home, 107 W. McKay St.,
after a Ions illness. He was
74 years old.
One of Saline's best known
elder statesmen, he had taken
an active interest in city affairs for many years. In 1961,
he was elected to the Charter
Commission to help write the
present City Charter, adopted in August of 1962. He also served on the festjplan-
ning eommlssioiT^ere.'^ffarn
LJune of 1961 to December of
T.962.
Born January 20. 1892. in
Charlottetown. Prince Edward Island, Canada, he was
the son of George a"d Elizabeth Martin MacArthur.  Sr.
He married S^rah Fall in
Isle La Motte, Vt., July 14,
1920.
Educated in Newton,
Mass., and the Vasselboro
Academy in Maine, he came
to Saline in 1936 after residing in Burlington, Vt., for
16 years.
Mr. MacArthur served with
the American Expeditionary
Force in France during
World War I as a Sergeant
in the Tank Corns. For "many
years he served as adjutant
of the William B. Lutz Post
No. 322 of the American Legion, was a member of World
War I Barracks No. 2150 of
Ann Arbor and the National
World Tank Corps Association.
Mr. MacArthur was also a
trustee emeritus of the Saline Methodist Church.
He is survived by his wife,
Sarah (Sally"): two daughters, Mrs. Robert (Claire)
Royal of Port Hueneme. Calif., and Mrs. Robert f Allison)
Wilson of Simi, Calif.; two
sons, Walter Jr. of Ann Arbor and Stephen M. of Saline; eight grandchildren, Suzanne and Robert Royal, Jr.,
Gordon. Allison and Eric Wilson, and Cam. Karen, and
Mark MacArthur.
Funeral services will be
held at 1:30 n.m. Thursday
from the Methodist Church,
the Rev. Donald C. Kraushaar officiating?. Burial will
be in South Cemetery, Isle
La Motte, Vt. Friends may
call at the Bahnmiller Funeral Home until 10:30 a.m. on
Thursday, and at the church
from noon until the time of
service.
" Memorial contributions
may be made to the Saline
Methodist Church building
fund.
prise when the windfall arrived . . . they had known it
could happen. "But," said one
board member, "it wasn't the
sort of thing you could plan
for."
The board "will have to
work out the matter of distribution" of the funds, said
Bahnmiller. "Every participating agency can be assured
of receiving; the amount budgeted for them. Beyond that
... it may seem wise to set
un a contingency fund, since
this area is changing and
growing in a way we can't
fu'Iv nredict."
With some reports still
missing in all areas, Bahnmiller divided the present total into three major sources:
From residential and individual contributions (including the hourlv and salaried
withholding pledges) . .. .
abnut 68 Der cent.
From industry (corporate
gifts) . . . about 24 tier cent.
From all other (business,
service clubs, schools, building and trades, and hospital)
. . . about eight per cent.
Residential reports are still
spotty, he said, though some
reports have been received
from all areas. Winter weather and bad roads last week
stalled rural canvassers. Canvassing may be complete but
not yet reported in some sections, he felt.
Reports from two residential sections are about 90 per
cent comDlete, he said. Business is 80 per cent reported;
and industrial reports are
about 90 per cent in, at this
time.
The sood news left Salinians with the happy problem
of showing 200 ner cent on
the official United Fund thermometer at City-Hall. Mike
Strait was studying on it, at
press time.
A lifelong search for a science of ethics this month
led Professor Eugenio Orlando to the Saline area . . \
he is collaborating with Willis Hunting on a doctoral
thesis on the subject. Above, left to right: Esther Ri?
vera Orlando, Mrs. Hunting, Professor Orlando, and
Hunting.
Professor Seeks
Science of Ethics ■
Jaycee^ Plan
Annual Sale
Of Fruit Cakes
Jaycees will launch their
annual fruit cake sale on
Thursday, November 17, with
plans to go door to door in
the city. The project helps to
finance Jaycee community
services.
Anyone wishing to place an
order bv phone may do so by
calling Dick Compton, chairman of the sale, at 429-7063.
The Benson's Old Home
Fruit Cakes are .available in
the IH pound sfee at $1.75
and the three pound size at
$3.25.
Card Pariies Will
Fund Sch^arshijj
A series ' of card parties,
every Wednesday night except Thanksgiving week, will
help to provide at scholarship
for a Saline High School senior girl.
The parties ar§ to be sponsored by the Business and
Professional Women's Club,
replacing their"jformer sale
of Christmas tr^es as a method of funding ,the scholarship.
All open to thfe public, the
weekly sessions Will be held
at 8 n.m. each Wednesday for
10 weeks, "or until further
notice", at the jfaline Township Hall. 1
it
^.KIWANIS MEETS OPEN
"   !0 NEWCOMERS HERE
j^embers of Saline Kiwanis
this week issued a standing invitation to new arrivals in the Saline area. M*m
interested in the aims of Kiwanis, a service club, are invited to attend meetings of
the club and to explore the
possibilities of joining the
group. Saline Kiwanis meets
each Monday evening at 6:30
for dinner at Walker's Bakery .
Salinians Cjited
Por Safe Driving
Fifty employees of the
Washtenaw County Road
Commission received certificates of merit 1 and safety
award pins, for {their established records ofIsafe driving
at the annual Safety Award
Dinner held in Dexter Friday.
Three Salinians were cited
for years of driving without
an at-fault accident: Russell
Widmaver, tw/o fyears; Arthur Zurlinden, rwtp years; and
Arthur Cuendet] one year.
Six employees! received certificates and phis for 15 to
25 years of driving without
an at-fault accident.
(. :
Eugenio Orlando is a man
who is looking for an ethic
... or better yet, a science
of ethics with "formative basic principles adapted to the
modern world of progress in
which we live".
He has devoted much of
his Ufe to the pursuit. A professor and "working sociologist" and a member of the
World Academy of Art and
JSciepcej „Ije. has.,_,sgught^ jn
'"marv umvefsities"- throughout the United States, in Italy, in Spain, all through
South America, in Mexico,
and in Cuba before the days
of Castro . . . and nowhere
did he fmd "ethics taurivt in
public schools for vouth or
the mass of the people".
Every society before our
own has had such an ethic,
he points out, from the Asiatic ethics of primitive times
through the philosophical
ethics of Greece,, dogmatic
ethics in Rome, lay ethics in
France, to pragmatism and
positivism in America. Now
he is hoping to see a rebirth
of "humanology" in America, an ethics science.
He raises a number of
thought-provoking questions.
Among the easiest are:
"What do we understand
by natural ethics?"
"Who must have the responsibility to educate the
citizens with basic principles
of conduct, the State or private organizations?"
"How are human acts classified considering the order
of values?"
The last one alone would
be good for several weeks of
heatpd discussion in any seminar . . . and there are many others.
There is, Professor Orlando points out, a "serious ethical decadence in all social
spheres of community living". Or, more briefly, he
calls it "social illness".
Professor Orlando and his
wife have spent the past
month here with Mr. and
Mrs. Willis B. Hunting ...
Hunting, now a counselor at
Saline High School, is work-
iner on his doctorate on the
subject "Science of the Values of Human Actions", with
the professor's collaboration.
Esther Rivera Orlando is
an outstanding educator, too.
She has been an official
member fbr 30 vears of the
Department of Education of
Puerto Rico, their home, and
she has been a teacher of all
grade levels. For the past 11
years, she has served as curriculum technician in the central office; she is the author
of a number of children's
books designed to teach ethics. Spanish, and health.
As a demonstration that
ethics can be taught. Professor Orlando has asked for,
and received, permission
from the Supreme Court of
Puerto Rico to attempt to
rehabilitate five criminals.
He will begin the project as
soon as he returns there.
Said Professor Orlandb:
"A group of researchers in
the free countries of the Western world have been actively studying this urgent problem for many years. They
have now arrived at the conclusion that the values of hu-
Fair Board
Leadership
Undecided
The" 1966 Saline Community Fair was a big success . . .
and "big" is the word that
created' some upset at the annual meeting Monday.
'The year-by-vear expansion pf the Fair has put continually growing pressure on
the working members of the
Fair Board-, all of them farmers.. The results, on Monday,
were a little confusing:
Ray Girbach, president of
the board for many years, declined another term of office
, . .but he was later talked
into'.accepting the job of corresponding secretary.
Don Wiedman. .who has
served as president before,
was re-elected to the post
. , . but "in absentia", since
he was unable to attend the
meeting. Wiedman had still
not decided, today, whether
he would be able to accept
the time-consumin? job, because of other work.
Alton Ealy, Fair manager
for 12 years and corresponding secretary for about 10.
years, resigned from the Fair
Board completely. His resignation was accepted with regret. .   -        .
Ealv also pointed out that
the FFA members, who have
been responsible * for setting
up, maintenance, and cleanup of the Fair, could not continue the amount of work de-
ets Fire
Johnson
TYM-Op.
Anderson
man actions must be adapted manded by those chores,
to our own era of progress^" «This growth has gotten out
In this area, anyone who of hand," said Ealv. "The
would like to know mose boyg have home and school
about the Science- of the VEO-^ties^too. They -simply argr
-ues of- -Human ■Acaons-'in^B^tB^EoiafiSffiafe""Ttv and'
write to Willis Hunting.
"Jaeger
Clark
Memorial
To Honor
War Pilot
dont, want to."
This  year  about 15  boys
contributed   more   than   600
man-hours of work ... last
year it was 700 'hours. The
work  is   voluntary,   not  re-
auired  by fhe  school vocational - agriculture  program.
"I don't think I should be riding them to "do that much,"
said Ealy, who teaches vo-ag.
A formal memorial service     He felt the FFA would be
will be conducted by William willing to continue to parti-
B. Lutz Post, American Le- cipate on a lesser scale, he
gion, for Capt. David Wage- said;   and   several   members
ner,   former  Saline  resident also said this week that they
who was killed in Viet Nam. would  continue to  volunteer
,   -.,,    ......    .-„„-, aid.
V|g The Saline Fair was start-
yill ed as an FFA fair, 29 years
ago."But"it is now set up as
an association so that state
premiums probably would not
be affected, even if the FFA
were not involved, a board
member said.
Officers re-elected Monday
were Albert Gall, vice president; Robert Tefft, recording
f\.    ^W     '' -«ag-»»- • -v  secretary;   and   Webb   Har-
&7H      sK. "YdlPs^^fctL' wood,  treasurer.
W) *    ; IwiPl^^^fc     The 1966 'Fair brought in
S       ^itfflliP^   ^^H a gross of $10,924, Harwood
reported, including gate receipts of $4,132.70; Happy-
land returns of $1,169.96;
1966 state aid payments,, $1,-
520; and merchants' booth
rental, $732.50. Total expenditures were $9,766.08, of
which the largest single amount was $3,943.25 paid in
The service is scheduled at premiums. <
2 p.m. Sunday, at the Legion     The $1,158.51 net was not
Hall, at the request of Saline the largest ever but was "one
High School class of 1957, of of the best", Harwood said,
which Capt. Wagener was a     The  board voted  to hold
member the 1967 Fair at the Farm
An Air Force pilot, he was g»™f * %?™ds- start^°n
shot down over eneiiy terri- *e *Lrst Wednesday after La-
tory in Viet Nam on October Dor ua^	
20,   after   serving   in   that _        _ __ ~
country since May. He had BOV LOSeS IhUmD
enlisted in the Air Force in _    V. -»«-•   1
1959 In Gun Mishap
The Legion service here jan Callison, 15, was treat-
will be conducted by the post ed at the galine hospital Fri-
commander, Robert Todd;. <jay, after he lost a thumb in
first and second vice com- a g^ accident.
man ders, Jack Moranville The youth, son of James
and Charles Uphaus; chap- Callison of Tipton, was hunt-
lain, Marvin Dimon; and pre- jng ^th a friend west of
sident of the Legion Auxili- Houghton School near the ri-
ary, Mrs. Ray Hunt. James ver> poiiee said, when he fell
Knight, Sr., will deliver the on the ice. As he stood up to
eulogy. It is open to the pub- brush himself off, his 20
lie- gauge shotgun went off while
Memorial contributions his thumb was over the bar-
may be made until December rel.
1 to the David R. Wagener The wounded, boy and his
Meiriorihl Fund at Everett companion made7 their way to
Junior College, in Everett, Houghton School and a main-
Wash., by sending them by tenahce worker drove them
way of Ralph Gross, of.'832 to the hospitaL Young Calli-
Lambkins Rd., whether or son attended school in Saline
not the "contributor is a mem- last -year but is now a stu-
ber of the class of 1957.       dent in Clinton.
Capt. Wagener
Jaeger
Wins Seat
In Council
Saline will have a new fire
station.   ■
Voters heartily approved it
Tuesday, passing the proposed $90,000 bond issue by
596-367.
In an even bigger vote
' (possibly because it wasn't
restricted to property owners) Salinians okayed liquor
by the glass, 678 to 428.
They re-elected Mayor
George G. Johnson, returned
// - fOG&K. tw0   ineurnbent   eouneilmen,
, if J!P*K ".      and    chose   Donald    Jaeger,
lifelong resident and high
school teacher, to fill the
third council post.
In one of the heaviest election turn-outs ever seen here,
voters stood in line for as
much as half an hour, starting early in the morning. Including 37 absentee ballots,
the total vote was 1,359, a
whopping 77.6 per cent of
those registered.
Mayor   Johnson   handilv
^.^H-'feSfSW&iierm-with 696 .
votes. as""compared to 387 for
his opponent, former mayor
Jackson T. Bennett. "My sincere congratulations," Bennett said.
For  Council.   George  Anderson out-polled everybody,
..m„„. .        _     .     with 827; Glenn Clark. 765;
«™PnfSiy v'g'Tr V1°: and Jae&r> 742- Hubert
?^ m ^ * hhzzald Beach, an unsuccessful can-
and  blocked  roads  was  the didate   for   council   f      the
annual Hospital Auxiliary third time,  drew 524 votes;
7ST1leTDOpUlarr" and Wednesday morning h4
ent Saturday at Jensen Ele- issued a "W^. statement:
mentary  School,   served 465 «in 1964i j had 32 per cent
A proposal to increase the people,  a noticeably smaller 0f the total voters in
millage , limit in Pittsfield crowd than last year's 650. 1965, 38 per cent . in 1966,
Township . . . for a fire hall A report on proceeds will 39 per cent. If I have to do it
. . . was sharply rejected by be made as soon as contribu-*a per cent a year I'll do it
voters in Tuesday's election, tions are totalled and all bills that way. Watch out for
But they approved liquor by are paid, the committee said. 1977!" Never say die. *
the glass. Fund* raised by the dinner     Said Jaeger: '"My thanks
Lodi Township voters also are used to obtain needed to those people who had con-
scotched a local proposition: equipment for Saline Com- fidence in me; I hope I can
"Shall the Township of Lodi munity Hospital. justify it."
employ private appraisers to The sm0rgasbord was as_ Firemen were delighted
re-appraise the real estate sisted b contributions from with the passage of the fire
property of Lodi Township?' virtually ^R area businesses. hall bonding proposal. Said-
Tt^ent ?own by 115 to 172   ^^  not  previously  listed Ray Alber,  assistant fire
The Pittsfield proposal include Richard Macomber chief, "Everybody's pretty
would have increased the tax (Sealtest), Marsh Monument happy, that's for sure!" An
limit by 1.5 mills, to_ make Co; R. G.'Wahl, Leutheuser's architect is already, at work
possible the construction of Restaurant, Nielsen's Flower on plans,' and construction •
V!?nn» »e.st^-?"; It„fai1- Shop & Greenhouses, Inc., can begin as soon as the
ed «19   no   to 447   yes .       Ford Motor Co., Uniloy Divi- bonds  are sold, probably in
Liquor by the glass; won by sion and Universal Die Cast- the spring, according to City ..
a narrower margin, 729 "yes" ing Division of Hoover Ball Administrator  Mike  Strait.
t0J?.3J? y°":       ,   t. and Bearing Co., William B.     In other issues:
Pittsfields election was Lutz post of American Le- Salinians gave Governor
marked   by   a heavy   voter gionj and Twin Pines Dairy. George Romney a top-heavy
Others are Harry's Stan- lead °ver his ^i1^ %°}r
dard Service, Sahne Lanes, t°n ^rency 1,119 to 224
Uphaus Electric, Detroit Edi- RT7,eZuS7\?l ^7^1 ^f,
son   Co.,   Webster   Machine
C-C MEET SET.
The Chamber of Commerce
members will meet at 8 aon.
Tuesday; November" 15, at
the Saline Savings Bank community room.
Draws Smaller
Crowd This Year
Tax Proposal
Turned Down
In Pittsfield
turn-out (1,640 went to the
polls) and a push for a wrijte-
in candidate, James Greenwood, opposing incumbent
Supervisor Melvin Hartman.
Hartman retained his office £°o1 Co., and LodHEown and
by 865 to 305. -     Country Furniture.
All other Republicans went
into   office without   opposition: Samuel Morgan, clerk:
James Reader, treasurer; and ?
William Perlman, trustee.
The only opposed candidate
in Lodi Township was Supervisor Erwin Frederick, Republican, who defeated Willie
Alberta Griffin by 494 to 95.
Elected were Rudolph Gross,
clerk; Walter Lindemann,
treasurer; and Alwin Wild,
trustee.
Voter turn-out was light in
both York and Saline townships, with no local propositions on the ballot and no
Democratic candidates opposing the incumbents.
In York, 1,556 votes were
cast to re-elect Supervisor
Thurlow Sanford, Clerk Russell Wanty, Treasurer Maynard Bird, and Trustee William Hayes.
'Saline Township's officials
remain: supervisor, Albert
Bredernitz; clerk, Eleanor
Ross; treasurer, Arnold
Wild; and trustee, Owen
Zahn.
For the U.S. Senate, they
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WEATHER CUT ATTENDANCE at the Smorgasbord last week, and as a result, the people who attended
got a super-filling of delicious food.;The heaping -platters were a real challenge to champs such as Eon Finkbeiner, assisted by wife Joann. With the George New-
tons waiting on him, Eon put away a monstrous meal,
then topped it off with apples from the centerpiece. The
annual feast was sponsored by Saline Hospital Auxiliary,.to raise funds for new hospital equiptiient.
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