1967-03-01; Saline Reporter

              The Saline
VOLUME 18, NUMBER 25, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1, 1967
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SWER SCHO
Hornets Share League Gr own
Pandemonium
Breaks Loose
In Locker Room
Pandemonium exploded in
the High School locker room
Friday evening, when the
Hornets discovered that they
owned half of the conference
crown.
The jubilant co-champs
showered their coach . . .
which hasn't happened before in his eight years as
Hornet mentor . . . cut down
the basketball nets . . . and
poured back out onto the
floor to baffle the few remaining spectators. As far as
the audience knew, the Hornets had just done a work-
" manlike job of defeating the
Chelsea squad . . . but what
else was new?
The "new" was a round-
the-league upset that lifted
Saline from a tie for second
place to a tie for first: Dexter had defeated Lincoln and
Dundee had bowed to South
Lyon.
The results: Saline and
Lincoln each hold 7 wins, 3
losses; Dexter and Dundee
. tied for the season with 6
and 4. In effect, Dexter had
dumped Saline out of first
place earlier in the season,
only to dump them in again
by trouncing Lincoln.
Friday was   a  big   night,
anyway.   Parents   of  team
members   and   cheerleaders
were   introduced   before the
varsity  game,   and   mothers
_. -were presented with corsag-
d(fet.s-  Then  the Hornets  went
- jPfto work on Chelsea. -   -   -
^       They came out in a toueh,
moving defense that held the
Bulldogs to only four points
in   the   first   quarter, while
•Saline   stacked   up   19.   The
wide   lead   held   throughout
the -game,   and   Coach   Don
Jaeger fielded all players in
the last half. Of the 14 who
were dressed, 13 got into the
scoring  column.
Hitting hardest for Saline
were Bob Kirkpatrick with
16 points and Fred Franz
with 12. Top-scoring Bulldogs were Jeff Hitchingham,
12; and John Lixey, 10.
The final-score:  64-43.
In Jaeger's years as coach
here, the Hornets have captured the championship three
times before . . . but other
crowns were somewhat less
unexpected. Friday's triumph
was a matter of odds.
Nevertheless, said Jaeger,
"The kids earned it; it's not
a give-away. Dexter did have
something to do with it, but
we live right and were ready
for the break when it came.
This is doubly nice because
we went from the bottom of
the league to the top in one
year."
QUERIE
Responses Picture New
School Featuring No
Unnecessary 'Ed Frills'
The   Schools   Advisory population growth. swimming, year-round,
were'.Mrs. Gerald  Coe   Mrs. council this week answered      2.   As   the  population in- b. Adult  group  swimming
Howard Brown, Mrs. Robert  sorne of the most frequently- creases there will  b e  more       and teaching.
Groeb, Mrs. Robert Starling.  agked   questions   concerning taxpayers in the area (busi- c. Club and charity events.
Jr., and Miss iDeLyn Hoppe.  the proposed new high school ness as well as families), so      3.   There   are   few   really
All styles were from Billi.'s  an(j offered to answer, that   a   comparative  millage clean and good lakes in the
Dress" .Shop, and hair styles promptly any other questions will raise more income. area.
were by Cut and Curl. Miss the   ubiic might pose ,       H       fancy  is  the  new      4. Last year the area rec-
™tnt? mP   Wa Anyone   seeking   informa- school going to be? reation department paid $25
nariaior. ..on  Qn ^ schoo]  proposal      i. It -will not be fancy. per hour for use of Ann Ar-
2. It will be of adequate, bor pbols. This taught only
200 View Spring
Fashion Show
More than 200 attended a
spring fashion show, sponsored by the Jaycee Auxiliary Tuesday evening at Leutheuser's Restaurant.
Proceeds of the show and
card party are for a fund
for assistance to emotionally
disturbed children.
Showing a range from party dresses to shorts, models
Co., at the club's noon meeting Thursday at Leutheuser's Restaurant.
. ICIOIUOLS _IO__._\__T_.: "Half a league, halt a league, hall a league onward!"
Jayvees Finish Conference
ice In Second Position
The Hornet Jayvees, after
a close loss to Chelsea Friday, finished the season in
secc_id .place in .the .league*..
Their win-loss' record fpr
all games was 9 and 8; in
league play they won six and
lost four. But they were
topped only by Dundee, with
nine wins and one loss.
The final score for Chelsea, Friday, was 58-57. Leading Saline scorers were Tom
Burr with 15, Jerry Lake
with 14, and Bill Levleit with
12. Rick Berry captured the
most rebounds for the little
Hornets, 11 . . . but Chelsea
kept control of the ball during much of the game by
grabbing 48 rebounds to Sa-
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HORNETS TO PLAY
PINCKNEY FRIDAY
IN DISTRICT MEET
The Hornet varsity's first
district tournament tilt will
be against Pinckiiey, at 7
p.m. Friday, at Chelsea.
The 8:30 p.m. game on
Friday will match Willow
Run against Dexter, who defeated Chelsea in the Tuesday evening tourney opener.
Winners of the Friday games
will meet on Saturday evening.
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line's 35.
The Hornet Jayvees' shooting average of 50 per cent
-tpp^ed.^CheI'sea's. 40- per^cent
-. _ ; but the Bulldogs won at
the foul line, hitting 22 of
35 tries.
Later this week, the Jayvees elected Bill Levleit and
.Tom Burr as co-captains, and
named Toby Scudder as the
"most improved player" and
Tom Burr as "most valuable
player".
Coach Jim Bradley compiled season total statistics:
Leading scorers: Tom
Burr, 215; Rick Berrv, 157;
Chuck Wahl, 146; Bill Levleit, 127.
Rebounding: Chuck Wahl,
139; Mike Farrell, 121; Rick
Berry, 106.
Top shooter at the foul
line: Tom Burr, 66 per cent.
Tops in hits from the
floor: Burr, 40 per cent; Berry, 39 per cent; Levleit, .39
per cent.  ■
In team totals, --the Jayvees ....
. . . hit 332 of 901 attempts
from the floor, 37 per cent.
... hit 190 foul shots of
352 tries, 54. per cent.
. . . scored a total of 854
points, an average of 50 per
game.
.   .   .  were  out-rebounded
678 to 615 for the season.
Their, assorted opponents
hit 31 per cent from the
floor,- -48-per.-cent from *lh&'.
foul line,■' and averaged'52
points per game.
Surprise Party
Fetes Birthday
A surprise get-together
and birthday' card shower to-
d a y honored Mrs. Herman
Mehler, secretary to the principals at Saline High School
Teachers and office staff gathered after school for a
birthday cake and coffee.
Kay Guenther and Betty
Finkbeiner were hostesses.
Earlier, first-hour student
office workers had decorated Mrs. Mehler's office and
presented her with a corsage; the school cafeteria
made a cake for her to, take
home. Cake served at noon
in the school cafeteria was
decorated in her honor.
TfftTiRV to <ii.Tr  _?!_■__ may c3& Dr. Wilbur Vander
Tfrrt^an.  __ni   «_* _.   fn™ Yacht, chairman of the coun- but economical materials and very basic swimming.
nrSr_v  nptw_t  pmf.™ cil's publicity committee,  at will be similar in construe-      How did the School Board
provided   by  Detroit  Edison 429.4485       * tion arld design t0 the pre.  arrive at the co£t figure?
Question . and an .wpr. _rp-  sent   High   School   and   the Cost, figures were supplied
PaSr_y tie coStel S  Houghton School. by  the   architect .after   the
low:             '                                    3. It will be constructed of School  Board  indicated   the
REGISTRATION TO CLOSE      How far   ahead   have   we  Nock with brick veneer and ™™"a°fd S^Srio_?S_
FOR APRIL ELECTION          planned?   Are   we   going   to ^igne<i for low cost mam- ^^oms to beTcl_!deT[__
Registration will close at 8 run short of school space in  penance. ,j_e ngw bujiding   Fr0m this
p.m. Monday for the April 7 the near future?                           Why   are  we  planning   a list   the architect estimated
special  election  for Probate     1. It is difficult to estimate  one story building instead of the' total scmare footage ne-
Judge in Washtenaw County, potential growth, but if the a multi-storied school? cessary  to  be 225,000.  The
Saline Township residents area expands at no less than      1. If the land is available, «24 per square foot'is the es-
also have a special election the present rate we will have then it is as economical to timated cost of construction
on April 3; to renew a utility to build new schools regular- build a one story building. a     ^ from now
franchise.                                    ly in order to keep up with      2. We have adequate land 3        Proposition I
 ; — • f°r   building   a   new   high RemodeMng of ex-
school   and  enough  left  for isthig Junior High
a .future  elementary school, School   (Interme_
plus a nature study area. diate School)        $  no.000
3. A one story building is New mh  School
easier to maintain. and 0ffices
Why   are   we   planning   a Plannin„ Fee
high school which will cost pumjture and
$6.3 million when 1% years Equipment
ago it was contemplated we gite  Devei0pment
SS^-VT ■,U_"°r     f\'«_*   aija-'-Utilities arid
750 students^and remodel the  , Landscaping
^present one'^^W^SQ-a^Qjgg^^
__ "_* *?£ % C°S    °£ ar0Un    Attorneys, Ads, and
5 ,   S^-Vx. a v.        _.    '      Miscellaneous
1. If that had been ..done,
Cool
Si Nord Retires
After 35 Years
Silas Nord, of 522 Canterbury, has retired after 35
years as an employee of Ypsilanti State Hospital . . .
he began work there in 1932.
before the hospital was a
year old.
Nord, who had worked in
the hospital's nursing service
office for more than 20 years,
was honored at a retirement
tea at the hospital, Friday;
approximately 125 friends,
some of them retirees who
returned for the occasion,
feted him at a party at the
American Legion post in Milan Friday evening.
Nord was born in Sweden
and came to the United
States with his family when
he was 10 years old. He lived
in Minnesota for a time and
! .hen in Detroit. He and Mrs.
ord lived on Stony Creek
Rd. before moving to Saline
in 1948.
Mrs. Nord, a nursing ward
supervisor at Ypsilanti State
Hospital, will complete her
25th year there in November.
She also worked for five
years at a state hospital in
Kalamazoo before coming to
YSH.
Nord has some retirement
plans:' he's a bowling enthusiast, and he looks forward
to golfing and gardening,
when weather permits.
2 Half- Centuries
To End Sunday
FFA Team Places
High in Regional
A Saline FFA team, which
won first place in a district
leadership contest in Dexter,
has placed third in the regional event.
James Burmeister and Richard Schneider, members of
the local chapter, won the
award with their demonstration on dairy judging Thursday in Hillsdale. This is the
first year either youth has
entered competition.
5,164,000
276,910
600,000.
100,000
45,000
23.090
$6,319,000
Proposition H
(Swimming Pool)
Natatorium (Build
ing)
$   550,000
28,875
1,125
$   580,000
Sunday marks the end of
an era in the lives of two
men who began their quite
different occupations at the
time when, as young men,
their paths first crossed.
Each plans to retire after
the auction Sunday at the
George Day farm on Day Rd.,
south of Mooreville community center near Milan.
One of them is George
Day, who settled on this farm
at age 19, having come here
from Rising 'Sun, O., with
his parents. The other is Guy
Thompson, who assisted his
father in auctioning the farm
tools, at that time, of the
family who moved ,'off the
farm so the Days could move
on to it.
Sunday, Day will have fulfilled a desire to farm for
50 years in the same place.
His 70th birthday is Monday.
He will retire on the homestead that was his parents'
until they moved into -town
30 years ago and later died.
Day's brothers and sisters
have scattered to other
states.
Guy Thompson will auction the Day farm equipment
before he, too, retires. The
auction 50 years ago was one
of his first. The auction on
Sunday, he says, will be one
of his last.
George Day is the father
of Mrs. Don Jeppesen. Don,
a lifetime resident of Saline,
is cashier at Citizens Bank
of Saline. The couple lived
here until last July, -when
they moved to Milan. Day
has a son living in Ann Arbor.
The horse that drew the
wagon that moved Rita Jep-
pesen's grandparents from
Ohio is long gone, of course,
but the wagon itself has continued in use and now needs
only minor repairs. Like other of the original tools, it
won't be" up for auction. "In
fact," Don said, "I've hidden
it so no one will think it's
to go. We're 'going to keep
it for fun, such as hay rides."
FIREMEN PLAN BALL
The annual Firemen's Ball,
sponsored by Saline Volunteer Fire Department, wiE be
from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. Saturday, March 11, with music
by Ken Volz.
Plans Programs
x4bout Cancer
The Saline Child Study
Club will snonsor a program
made available by the American Cancer Society, Thurs-.
day, March 9, in the Saline
Savings Bank community
room.
The program will consist
of several films designed to
help individuals understand
and detect the early stages
of cancer. After the films,
there will be a auestion and
answer period with local-doc.
tors presiding to answer oral
or written questions from
the audience.
The afternoon program for
women will be from 1 -p___.
to 3 p.m. Baby-_itting will be
provided without charge in
the basement of the First
Presbyterian Church (across
the street from the Savings
Bank).* Two mothers, assisted by members of the Future
Nurses Club, will be in atten-"
dance. Juice will be served to
the children.
The evening program for
both men and women wilt be
from 8 pan. to 10 pjn. '
Unquestionably a record-setter' in Michigan, if not
everywhere, was the more than 200 per cent United
Fund campaign waged here last fall. Said Ron Bontse-
ma (right), Michigan United Fund field representative:
"It's not very often I get a chance to award a plaque for
a drive like that!" As a matter of fact, he couldn't recall
that it had ever happened before. He presented the complimentary plaque to Gerald Bahnmiller, Saline's campaign chairman.
f Ups and Downs^
_
Two of the three children been a patient at St. Joseph
of Mr. and Mrs. John Dwyer Hospital for four weeks, is
are still in St. Joseph Mercy walking now, with assistance,
Hospital with hope  of  get- and expects to return home
ting  home  this week.   Jeff, today or tomorrow.
6,.underwent plastic surgery *     *     *
and is recovering nicely, his      Discharged from the Saline
mother said. Steve, 4, is un- hospital this week were Mrs.
der treatment for osteomye- Paul Arms, who had been .
litis. patient for about two weeks,
* *     * and Johnson Quick, who was
Mrs. Robert Todd returned in traction for a week for an
home Sunday from a quick old back injury,
trip to Chicago where her Eric Grossman, son of Mr. ^ $%'■
daughter, Kitty, was hospi- and Mrs. Allan Grossman,
talized and "very ill". Kitty underwent a tonsillectomy at
is now improving and the Saline Community Hospital,
Todds hope to bring her this weekj and was discharg-
home about the end of this ed.
week, for a convalescent vis-  * Medical patients at the Salt, line  hospital this week in-
* *     * elude Mrs. Linzy Couch, Ro-
George Burg was trans- bert Lambarth, Mrs. Herman
ferred Monday evening to St. Finkbeiner, Amanda Wied-
Joseph Mercy Hospital   (in mayer, and Emma Bersuder.
room 306-1) from the Saline  —
hospital,  where he was ad- CUB SCOUT COMMITTEE
mitted last Tuesday. MEETINGS SLATED
Mrs. Minnie Dicks, High- The adult committee of
land Dr., was' reported by Cub Scout Pack 416 will meet
her family to be "just fine" at 8 p.m. Wednesday, March
after surgery Tuesday at St. 8, at the home of Deane Par-
Joseph Mercy Hospital. Her ker on Harper Dr.
TOOm number is 6.06. The  Pack  474. committee
Mrs. Wilford Davis is now will meet at the. home of Mrs.
at home after back. surgery James Martiny, of 278 Rose-
at St, Joseph. Hospital. mont,   on  Thursday,  March
Mrs. Roy _Dechert, who has 16.'
those schools would all have
been filled by 1970.
2. The cost of construction
has continued to rise.
3. The growth rate in this -p^'        -_,
school district has increased ™™f, _^_?
more rapidly in the last three AX32U££_
years.
4. A new high school will __-.	
other core facilities for con- J>j.|l<I^, 1.1JMvjro   >_____ A
tinued growth. Classrooms
are- easy and not expensive to Four meetings have been
add;   core   facilities   involve scheduled to   provide   infor-
major remodeling. mation and answer Questions
5. Remodeling the present on tv^ proposed new high
Junior High School and add- school.
ing a  new high school will Two of the "conclaves are
give  the 'needed  elementary sr,0nsored by parents'  asso-
level classroom space ~ hope- Nations, but the public is in-
fully ~ until 1975 (based on Vited to both. Two others are
the  expected  population in- 0r>en meetings planned bv the
creases). Schools Advisory Couneil.
Why do we need a pool in Board of Education mem-
Saline? bers   and   Advisory   Council
1. For school children ~ members  will  sneak  at  a
a. The   children  could learn meeting   of  the  Elementary
water   safety   as  well as-p^ents'   Association,   at   8
the proper swimming tech- p.m.  'Monday   at   Houghton
niques.
b. The pool could be available   for   youth   groups,
Scouts, and teen activities.
School, and at a High School
Parents' meet at 8 n.m. Tuesday at the-High School.
Advisory   Council - spon-
Another competitive sport' sored open meets are set.for
would   be   available,   this Tuesday, March 14. and Mon-
being a sport which both day, March 20, to discuss the
boys   and  girls   of many proposed hew school and an-
different   ages   and   sizes swer all related questions,
and   of  varied  physiques     School district electors will
could enjoy and compete go to the polls on Monday,
in.        ' March 27, to decide on a pro-
2. For the community —     posed bond issue of $6,319,-
a. Can be   used   for  family 000 for the new building.
*.
One way io improvfe-tlie winter scenery was^ discovered by the sculptors above.'. v Terry Sheats, Gstry _Mo_>
ton, Davia Fritz, and Bill Hill. . . who created the bustled and bonneted Centennial lady. The sculpture has
stood for some time in the central; court at the High
School, requiring only minor repairs after brief hoots
of sunshine.      w^gU*, ''^j, -J&:<£, ?