1967-02-08; Saline Reporter

              VOLUME 18, NUMBER 2.2 ~ Wednesday, February 8, 1967
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ASSES
Varsity
Dave Calls It a "Berrible-Terrible" —
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In the rapidly shifting tides
of league standings, the Hornets Friday night bobbled a
game that may have cost
them first place.
They were upset by Dexter, 45-41.
Before th.e game, Saline
was on top of league competition, partly by default . . .
other schools have one game
to make up because of the
recent blizzard. But the nearest competitor, Dundee, also
dropped a. game Friday, to
Lincoln, which produced another three-way tie situation.
Saline and Lincoln both stand
at five wins and two losses
while Dundee, shy one game,
stands 4-2.
And the Hornets will face
Dundee this Friday, on Dundee's home court.
The Hornets started fast
against Dexter last Friday,
and accumulated a comfortable 15-7 lead in the first"
quarter. Then they began to
sag, and their lead at the
half was only four points,
26-22.
After the half, said Coach
Don Jaeger, "We went flat.
We came out flat." They managed only four points in the
:   third quarter. In the fourth,
jfe > Dexter pulled ahead and stay-
*?/_ed there.. Said-Jaeger. "There
were  some  defensive  lapses
by the Hornets- and some ineffective   shooting   and  re-
. •   bounding."
-Saline's overall shooting
average for the game was under 25 per cent, while. Dexter
. -. .in the second half . ...
"attained-44 per cent.-Neither,
team was hot . , .the game
. .    turned on which was. colder.
•High point man .for Saline
Was Art Haeussler, with 13-,-
the only Hornet in double figures. The Dreadnaughts had
only two respectable showings, by Dan Hoey with 12
and Bart Wall, 11.
With three more league
games to play, the Hornets  : —
"could still prove, they're the -^VrestlerS LiOSC
champs, if the guys get to- "        ,        ■  ™.' j."
gether and really work", said Match IO L-IlltOll
Jaeger. "They have the abil
ity."
JV?S SLIP
BY DEXTER
In their final dual match
of the season, Saline-wrestlers will compete at Lincoln
Tuesday.
The local team lost to Clinton this week, 29-17, despite
wins   by  Dal  Queenan,   7-5,
and  Dennis  MacDonald, Sa-
_,,    T    . ...       . line's only undefeated wrest-
The Junior Hornets slipped ler_ He defeated previously-
past Dexter Friday evening unbeaten  Tom Cey,   6-4,   at
in a game that was tight as 112 pounds.
a drum all alon^ the line. The      Brad  Brackney recorded
fl._?_. H ^:     ,    ■    ■ • . Saline's only fall, in the 120-
The Jayvees'winning point d   class    Mike   Sharkey
came m the last 28 seconds won at 127 p0Unds, 5-2; and
of the game, a jump shot by D a v e Feldkamp thoroughly
™_.   ,. .- •      ,   ,     _, d o m i n a t ed his 180-pound
The Salinians  shooting av- match b   winning 8.0.
erage from the field was fair _     .
... 44 per cent . . . and better from the foul line, 68 psr
cent. The Junior Dread-
naughts did less well, with
33 per cent from the floor
and only 58 per cent from the
foul line. They also out-rebounded the Hornets, but on,--
ly by one grab, 38-37,
The Hornet Jayvees were- Saline. An earlier post was in
n't up to snuff, remarked existence here for a number
Coach Jim Bradley . . . but of- years but then disbanded
Dexter was slightly less so.   '    Post 444 was. organized at
Leading   scoi*ers   for   the a January 30 meeting at the
■____t.__._s- -were- Levleit   ^.n4*.fe_:Pie-'_^^
Tom   Burr,.''each   with .13 six'youths   present:. Mike
points,'and Chuck .Wahl with Sharkey, David Estes,- John
12.  Dave.' Girbaeh  captured Christney, Joe Mallory, Tom
eight rebounds; Mike Fairell Masterson, and Ron "Barrett.
and Wahl'-'each- grabbed sev-      Regular meeting nights will
en.   '■"   •-..-' -     -    '■'*;■' be the "first and third Mon
•The win-'.placed* the U^cNdays   of   each  month;   thf
Hornfets'-in  second place  in Post's 'theme wj_L.be "avia-
th_; league,- with  five  wins, tion1', ""■  '".**   ' ' "   '
and- two- losses.   They trail      Any boys of Explorer age
Dundee, which'has a-5-1 rep-  (14 and over)  who are' in-
-ord-with' one make-up game terested in joining may con-
to come. tact Mike   Sharkey   at  the
-The Jayvees.will meet High School.
Dundee this Friday on Dun- . Fathers who will work with
dee's'court; a Saline victory the group include Joe Master-
could result in a tie for first son, Ernest Christner, Ed
place if Dundee wins its Barrett, Ed Schmok, and Ray
make-up game. Mallory.
CHANGES
Signers Seek 3
Basic Changes
New Explorer
Post to Study
Aviation Here
"•'A new Explorer Post
.444, has been organized in
A'new. depth in four-dimensional metal sculpture, a
stabile mobile, a continuous "happening" has been a-
chieved byi David Douthat, 14, who put that thing together in a-shop class. It's not a new kind of sailing vessel, nor art animal with ai wagging tail . . . the whole
thing wags, quivers, bends, and flutters with every passing breeze. It has.confounded the family cat, which approaches it with, caution and then "races aw£.y in all directions". David calls it a "Herrible Terrible" hut he
hasn't decided how to spell that. (For the picture at left,
a dark overcoat was borrowed briefly from the mayor,
because David's own school jacket was too vivid a background to Show ..off his creation.)
Bill's Service Gets Well-Deserved Recognition
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A jovial conclave of present and former city officials feted-Bill Muir, retiring city clerk-treasurer, last week. Conrgatulating the retiree above are former
mayors of Saline, Alwin Gross* Everett Wolfin, Henry Leutheuser, and Jack
Bennett, and present Mayor George Johnson. Muir holds a plaque presented to
him at the dinner, attended by about 50 friends. He served as clerk-treasure-1
here for 15 years. .
Petitions are being circulated in the city this week to
make the assessor's office elective, to "provide an experienced impartial appraiser,"
to represent taxpayers at the
Board of Revjew hearings,
and 'to place the' city assessor's office under the control
of a commissio.n.
The petitions were prepared and placed in circulation by Mr. and Mrs. Edward
Fischer, of 357 Pond View.
Each of the three points is
raised in a separate petition
and they are circulated in
sets. Fischer said he was not
sure how many sets were in
circulation, and the number
of signatures has not been
tabulated.
One downtown circulator
has 15 signatures on each of
the first two petitions in his
set, and two signatures on
-the third. He said he had
been told that 10 sets had
been sent out.
All three petitions are addressed to "Honorable Mayor
Johnson and City Council".
The first reads: "We, residents of the City of Saline,
respectfully petition to have
the City Assessor's office
made an elective office. We
respectfully request that necessary procedures be set up
without further delay to accomplish this, and if necessary, that "a special election
be held - as soon as legally
possible to, fill this office."
Creat-cra of  another  elec-
-tive oHicer _hat%fl ___§____*;
would require an amendment
to the City Charter..
The second petition reads:
"We, the undersigned taxpayers of the City of Saline, believe we need to be repre-.
sented before the City Asses,
sor and the Board of Review*
hearings by an impartial appraiser. We therefore respectfully request that you provide
us with an experienced, impartial appraiser to represent
the taxpayer,, with respect to
assessments, at the Board of
Review Hearings."
The City Charter gives the
Council the power to establish and fill by appointment
such offices "as are deemed
necessary"; but creation of
an elective office for the taxpayers' representative would
also require a chai'ter amendment. The petition does
not specify whether such an
office should be filled by appointment or election;' Fischer said that the requestsrep-
resented "general principles"
and that petitioners "have not
worked out details".
The third petition reads, in
part: "We residents and taxpayers of the City of Saline
firpily believe and advocate
local government -with local
controls. We,- therefore, do
hereby petition that the City
Assessor's office be under the
supervision and control of a
commission . . ."
The first and third petitions are mutually exclusive,
City Attorney Allan Grossman pointed out, because an
elected official derives his
mandate only from the people. He cannpt be placed under the control of any board
or commission.:
The appointed assessor,
however, is already completely supervised and controlled
by a commission, Grossman
said: "The Board of Review
is a commission and it exercises absolute control over
the assessor's office."
The Board of Review is also impartial, he added, and
"its impartiality -is assured
by Charter Section 9.2". That
section, of. the City Charter
T__trv_a'es^-__r-w_^_er__oard of
Review shall be composed of
three freeholders . . . who
during their term of office
shall not' be City officers or
employees or be nominees or
candidates for elective City
office . . -*•'
Taxpayers who want to
know their rights or information on assessment"-can obtain answers to their questions from any city official
at any time, Grossman said.
"As city attorney, my door
is open at all times to all
taxpayers, to answer-any sincere question. This is a service I perform, as city attorney, without 'any charge
to the taxpayer."
oreseesHike
City Services
A & P Confirms    DIMES DRIVE
Store in Saline      TOTAL CLIMBS
Mayor George Johnson, in
his semi-annual report to City Council this week, forecast an increase of size in
all city departments in the
next five years and listed
programs which he felt the
city must undertake this
year.
He said: "As. the city expands at a record rate, -we
will have to increase the size
of our police department, department of public works, water department and the building department. We may have
to give consideration to dividing departments and relocating employees."
Concerning the police department, the mayor said:
"The local increase of the
crime rate is and will con-'
tinue to have a direct effect
on the volume of comolaints
and, consequently, the size
of our police force. I can
J foresee a 12-officer police department in. the not too dis-
* j»\ant future." The city. now
litres six full time.
"We must give consideration to" increasiner the number, of officers this year so
that we can have two men on
the afternoon and midnight
shifts. Traffic control and
other problems such as a full
time dispatch service for the
fire arid police departments
should be investigated."
The addition of new personnel "in the public works
department,  plus  a depart
ment head, is "most urgently needed", he said. "If the
city administrator is to continue to do a good job, he
must be relieved of his DPW
duties."
The separation of the assessor's duties and the building inspector's duties is "one
of our more critical areas",
the mayor said. The two offices were combined for the
first time last year but, said
Johnson, "the job of building
inspector is one that ta_.es
many more hours than one
person can devote to it when
combined with other duties".
He recommended hiring a full
time building inspector.
. The city . administrator is
now investigating the cost of
a city operated garbage and
rubbish collection, the mayor
reported.
He did not discuss the upcoming street program in detail, but extension of Harris
St. and improvement of Clark
St. are the most important
items on the summer schedule, City Administrator Mike
Strait said.
The mayor recommended a
"vigorous program of improving existing parks and
location'of other parks within the city"; a meeting in the
near future with the Library
board to discuss "a broad
program fo.r future expansion"; and an analysis of the
recreation program "to prepare for the increases in the
number of people in the fu-^
ture".
On recreation, he added:
"I believe we must provide
for all age groups but some
emphasis should be placed on
the development of a community center to provide our
teen-agers with a meeting
place. Much can be done by
citizen participation ..."
He listed other areas of
city government to be discussed at budget preparation
meetings:
"Consideration of a water
treatment system", for water
softening and iron removal.
The city how adds polyphosphates and chlorine to control iron, and fluorine.
"Purchase, of a new. fire
truck." A committee of township supervisors and city officials has been appointed to
study the .needs; they will
meet on Tuesday.
"Continue our reforestation
program." Last year, 140 new
trees were planted throughout the city/
"Setting up a modern purchasing procedure."
COUNCIL OK'S 1 "CLASS C"-'
City Council Monday night
approved one request for a
transfer from a tavern license to a "Class C" (liquor
by the glass) license, but rejected another. The action
followed study of reports
from police and fire departments as required by statute.
Approval of the application
from Leutheuser's Restaurant was forwarded to the
Michigan Liquor Control
Commission.
An application from the
owners of Five Points Restaurant was turned down after an official measurement
showed that the restaurant is
located 424 feet from a
church, 76 feet short of the
500 required by state law.
The report also cited safety
factors and other construction features not in accordance with city and MLCC
specifications.
ROTARY TO HOST
SALINE BOY SCOUTS
Boy Scout TrOOp 446 will
be guests at the Thursday
noon dinner meeting of the
Rotary Club, at Leutheuser's
Restaurant, in observation Of
Boy Scout Week.
A & P Food Stores have
confirmed plans for construction of a large food department store in Saline.
First word of the planned
development -: came earlier
from the builder, who noted
that the parking area would
provide facilities for 220 cars
and that'other locations
would be available in the
shopping center for other
businesses.
The A & P store will contain approximately 12,500
square feet of floor space,
according to the company's
vice president, H. A. Ledford.
To be located on E. Michigan
Ave., on property, purchased
from the Leutheusers, it will
be of early American design
used in all recent A & P construction. Xt will include a
self-service meat department,
air conditioning, and automatic doors.
(City Council Monday
night authorized the engineering firm, Ayres, Lewis,
Norris and May. to prepare
plans and specifications for
sewer and water lines to serve
the Maple Rd. area; this
would serve the A & P store
and .other businesses, on that
site/the Hoover Plastaih-r
plant, and a proposed, new
high school building on school
owned property off Maple
Rd.)
TO $2,211,54
The local March of Dimes
campaign has now reached a
total of $2,211.54, the committee announced this week, and
approximately $300 is known
to he still coming.
The final total is expected to
run about $200 higher than last
year's contributions.
Of donations listed,' $304.50
came _ron_ mailers; $1,040.50
from the Mothers' March; $100
from canisters; $10 in a special
gift; $201 from-businesses and
corporations; $25 from clubs
and organizations; $128.28 from
bowling; and $387.55 from special events including numerous
coffee hours, a rummage sale,
a dance, and an OES card party. "Teen" events and proceeds
from, a Boy Scout peanut sale
have not yt been reported.
Expenses of conducting the
drve were deducted before the
$2,211.54 figure, the treasurer,
Mrs. Richard Lehtonen, pointed
out.
Jr. Brains Hit
Honor Roll
ABSENTEE BALLOTS
AVAILABLE NOW
Applications for absentee
ballots for the February .20
primary election for Probate
Court judge are available now
at City Hall. They must be
filed no later than February
18.
MEETING SLATED
The School Advisory Council will meet at 8 p.m. .Monday, February 20, at the'High
School library; .the public'is
invited.
A report will be given by
the council's financial committee.
LICENSE PLATES WILI.
BE  SOLD   SATURDAY
A representative of the
Ann Arbor .branch office of
the Secretary of State will
be in Saline on Saturday to
sell 1967 -veliicle license
plates.
Both truck and passenger
car plates will be available
from 2 to 5 p.m., at Steeb
Dodge Sales.
BPW MEET POSTEONED
TO FEBRUARY 21
The February meeting of
the Business and Professional Women's Club has been
postponed to Tuesday, February 21, at the home of Nina
Arend. Mrs. Robert Merchant
will talk on. the proposed
new high school.
Maxine Sheats will serve
as hostess.
Honor rolls for the third -
marking period were announced  this  week  at the
Junior High School:
8TH GRADE
Glen Adams
Patti Barland
Jim Bilyea
Barbara Braun
Keith Camburn
Sarah Christner
George Cogar
Liza Collins.
Jerry Dennison
Bill Glaze
Richard Hepler
Jean Herter
Karl Janovits
Kathie Johnston
Kathy Klein_
Mark Klein"
David Lancaster
Chris Lobbestael
Donna Luekhardt
Gwen Mann
Vicki Mann
David Martin
Pam Martin
Bruce Masterson
Mike Mida
Elaine Perkins
Keita Rieckhoff
Trudy Riggs
Ralph Riley
Ruth Riley
Linda Sells .
Judith Sharkey
Steve Sheldon
Roger Smead
Roxanne Smith
Keith Smith
Jane Steiner
Gwyn Teachout
Leslie Thomas
Susan Wackenhut  _,
David Wanty
' Wendy Wiedmayer
.TH GRADE
Becky Allison
Fred Beal
Elaine Berta
Dennis Bishop
Tom Bonich
Mike Brennan
Greg Brillhart^;-
Lynn Burke
Pam Burkhardt
:      Don Church
•    Susan Crim
Deanha Dennison
Sharon Dieterle
Sue Ann Dieterle
Beverly Drake
Don Esch
Marvin Feldkamp
Eunice Frey
Sharon Fritts
Daniel Garber
Sandy Gutekunst
.Sidni Heiserman
Susan Hollister
Gary Jahnke.
Anita Janich
Susan Johnson
Cynthia Jordan
Dennise Keeney
David-Kuhl
Gwen lainberg
Linda Livingstone
.    Kelly Ma.der
Krista Moser
Jessica Mutts ell
Earl Parker
Barbara Quick
*,  Brenda Rents chler
Beth Rogers
Scott Sackett
Betsy Schecdt
^Kathy 'Schneider
Terry Schumaier
Timmy Schumaier
Dawnaniley
Pam Smith
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