1967-03-08; Saline Reporter

              The Saline
VOLUME 18, NUMBER 26 - Wednesday, March 8, 1967
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TIVE POSITIO
SEA Backs School
Consti
With
ruciion
a Provision
The Saline Education As-  "up to the SEA", according out,   and   nothing has  been
sociation membership has ap-  to  School   Superintendent presented to the membership
proved  a resolution backing Harold   Hintz;   Alton   Ealy, as yet." The base this year
the proposed new high school  chairman of SEA's  commit- is $5,000 for degreed teach-
.  .   . providing  construction tee, has   said  the   group   is ers.
costs don't affect teachers' "not ready at all". SEA's salary committee in-
salaries. "There is no sense in rush- eludes Ealy, Jay Starkey,
A $6,319,000 bond issue for ing negotiations when we do George Bonich (who is also
the new school is on the bai- not know what is available," a member of the Schools Ad-
lot in a special March 27 said Ealy. He referred to the visory Council finance corn-
election. Also on the ballot, fact that the amount of state mittee), Howard McCann,
in a separate proposition, is aid per student is still un- Don Jaeger, Kitty Gayman.
a $580,000 issue for a nata- known, and the school dis-
torium. The SEA resolution trict valuation is not corn-
backs "the building program pletely certain until June . . .
recommended by the Saline though it can be more close-
Area Schools Advisory Coun- ly estimated after the city chairman of the Board of
cil", which includes both pro- valuation is settled, in early Education's negotiating team
positions. April. __ which this year will in-
The resolution, okayed at SEA several weeks ago ap- elude him, Hintz, and the
last Wednesday's SEA meet-  proved a resolution adopted school principals.
on  a regional  basis,   asking * . *     *
for a base salary of $7,000 In Ann Arbor, negotiations
for  degreed  teachers.   But, have started and have alrea-
said Ealy,  "the salary com- dy  moved through   "prelim-
mittee hasn't worked  this inaries".
and Dallas Garrett. Ealy,
Bonich, and Starkey are their
negotiators.
Gerald Coe last year was
Sixty years of marriage were celebrated Sunday by
)V_r. and Mrs. Owen H. "Cady. They were honored by
friends with an open house at their home at 316 N. Ann
Arbor St. The couple, now in-their late seventies* were
married March 5. 1907, in Ypsilanti and have lived in
Washtenaw County ever since; they moved to Saline in
November, 1965. He retired from farming in 1957.
ing, reads:
— "WHEREAS, crowded
classrooms cannot provide an
optimum learning situation
for the children of this area;
and
"WHEREAS, the members
of the Saline Education Association  cannot  fully  meet
their professional obligations
to the children of this area
under   crowded   and   inadequate classroom conditions;
-      "NOW   THEREFORE   BE
IT RESOLVED, that the Sa-
line Education  Association
^^^ -support the- building program
'Mp, recommended  by  the  Saline
^-'Area Schools Advisory Coun-
cil"
"PROVIDED, however,
that the cost of said building
program not be met by failing   to  staff  all   classrooms
Jaycees
Sign Up
29 More
"Local   Jaycees   this   week
were happily running up statistics on their own member^
ship explosion, which expanded the club roster by two-
thirds.
A membership  night  din-
with adequately paid teach- ner   on  March   1   was   pro-
ers, which would be the same claimed "a great success" af-
as sheltering the children of
this district while starving
them."
- The definition of "adequately paid" will come up in
SEA-Board of Education negotiations later in the spring.
ter 34 prospects attended and
29 signed up on the spot. After installation, total Jaycee
membership here will be 76,
Three Sentenced
For Arson Plot
Three men were sentenced
Friday in Circuit Court to
five years of probation, fines
of $100 and costs of $250
each, for conspiracy to commit arson.
"Phillip *R6*sln and ___y_rio're'
Fryman, both of Berkley, and
Bobby Lewis, of Madison
Heights, were arrested in August of 1965 on charges of
plotting to burn down an unoccupied house on Woodingham Ct. in Saline. They were
found guilty by a jury on
February 15, .1967.
D TAKERS
Fire Hall Bids Sought;
4 Construction to Begin
Last Week of April
Four city appointive posi- The three-member Board expired term ending June 30,
tions were filled by Council of Review, now complete, 1967. Weage lives at 189 Cir-
Monday night, after they had will hold an organization cle Ct. Other members of the
gone begging for weeks, for meeting next week to elect a Planning Commission are Dr.
lack of takers. chairman. Other members Gordon Prout, William Mei-
• Three of them were accept- are Douglas Milhan, in mid- ster, Sr., Jim Grossy Chaired' by Saline residents who term- a n d Jack Craigmile, man Bliss Charles, and Joe
volunteered their services af- appointed in January. Bondie.
ter a Reporter story revealed      Tax rolls will be open for To  represent  the  city on
that no one could be found to public  inspection   all  next the Regional Planning Com-
take   the posts.   Five   other week, and Board of Review mission, Ted Graban was ap-
persons also offered to serve;  hearings  will   commence   on pointed to fill a term expir-
they will be needed when oth- Monday, March 20. ing June 30- 1967.  Graban,
er city vacancies arise,  city      Another new appointee is who lives at 213 E. Michigan
officials   said.   (Example   - Ray Davis, of 113 W. McKay, Ave. and is employed by the
four Planning  Commission who will serve on the Ceme- State  Health Department,
terms will end in June.)          tery Board of Appeals with Will serve, with other Saline
One of the new appointees Mike Strait and Gerald Bahn- representatives Oliver Stein-
is a "first"; as far as is miller. Davis, a custodian but er and Mayor George John-
known,  she is the only wo- semi-retired, read of the need son.
man ever to serve on a Board while he was on vacation and City officials noted that
of Review here. Mrs. William volunteered by letter from those who offered their ser-
Reppenhagen, of 145 Linden Lakeland, Fla. He was ap- vices represent a variety of
Ct., was named to a term pointed for the 1967 year, types of employment and re-
ending December 31, 1968. The Cemetery Board will side in various areas of the
She is employed on the edi- meet in April. city . . . but hone of them
torial staff of the Depart- David Weage, an engineer were women,
ment of the Interior, Bureau employed by Atwell Hicks,
of Commercial Fisheries, in Inc., was named to the Plan-
Aim Arbor.                                ning Commission for an-un-
In other action, Council
authorized advertisement for
bids on the new fire hall,
with a view to starting construction in late April. Bid_-
are to be opened on April 3.
A  bond  issue of  $90,000
Linda   Brassow,   daughter Home;   and   Mrs.   Everett w _s approved on the Novem-
f Ups and Downs*!*
ber ballot for land and construction of the fire hall, to
be located at the corner of
^nnual Card Party
An^orientatTon "i7 sehed- Benefits   Hospital
uled   on   Wednesday,  March
15   with installation to fol-      Tickets are now available FIREMEN'S BALL SET
llftouih this"year;s "contract low on Wednesday, March 22.  for   the annual   card   party FOR THIS SATURDAY
lists a target date of April      Jack Keliey, club vice pre- sponsored by the Sahne Com-
An eagerness for spring was apparent in the overflow crowd attending a recent spring fashion show sponsored by the Jaycee Auxiliary; more than 200 guests
viewed the newest bright styles; frpm shorts to party
dresses. Fashions came from Billie's Dress Shop and
hair-do's were by Cut and Curl. Above, left to right,
are models, Mrs. Gerald Coe and Mrs. Harold Brown;
Billie Hoppe, owner of, the dress shop; and models Mrs.
Robert Groeb and Mrs. Robert Starling, Jr. Miss DeLyn
Hoppe, 16, modelled junior fashions, and Miss Nancy
Kulenkamp was the narrator. Proceeds, went to a fund
for emotionally disturbed children.
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sident,   was   director of   "M munity Hospital Auxiliary to
Band Battle"
The annual Firemen's Ball,   -*-0  la&e JrlaCe
rfonf irSP__SiTelvSheat0th_ NTght", with ____T_V____t___y as be "held Satoday," Ma_rch 18, sponsored by the Saline Vol-   U DanC_* Here
tions, it is unnj_eiy_tnat tne  _&_.,' „,,„.„, „. __,^u X™    a+ ...+__.._... f_r_.r__.__ T__m unteer Fire Department, will •rs-i' -"L'«i___.t_.C licic
rtef-p'will be "met   The time general chairman; Bob Cum- at Pittsfield Grange Hall.
£r sorting6 S_£t3Er_f£ -ings in charge of the wel-      Proceeds  will  be used  to ^ from 10 p^Sateday^o
&      & coming committee; George purchase needed new equip- A a.m., at tne American i_e-
ELECTRICIAN
DIES IN FALL
FROM BUCKET
• .An Ypsilanti .electrician
and motel owner was fatally
injured in a fall from a
"cberry-picker" bucket here,
Tuesday.
Russell Thomas Crocker,
59, was pronounced dead on
arrival at St. Joseph Mercy
Hospital, at 9:30 a.m. after
he was pitched from the
workman's bucket when a
stabilizer chain broke, at the
Ford Motor Co. plant parking  lot.   He . suffered   a de-
Kempf, call committee; and
Bob Briggson, dinner committee.
Membership is still open
to young men between the
ages of 21 and 35; and Jay-
ment for .the Saline hospital, gion Hall. Music will be by
Mrs. Jack Steeb is chairman Ken Volz.-
of the event.  —    -
*      *      * ■ KIWANIS MEET SET
Tickets  may  be   obtained     Raymond Girbaeh will be building.
A plentiful audience for
the coming Battle of the
Bands should be assured by
the simultaneously scheduled
dance, at 8 p.m. Saturday,
April 1, at the Farm Council
of Mr. and Mrs. George Bras- Munsell,  of 289 W. Bennett
sow, Braun Rd., underwent a *     *     *
tonsillectomy   at St.   Joseph      In a letter from Naperville, __,.__..            , T,     .
Mercy Hospital Friday.            ill., Kathie Reed advises us E- Michigan Ave. and Harris
Julius Schaible returned to that her sister, Linda Reed, S^^J^fflfl,,^
his home Friday after a four- was  among January  gradu- trucks,   w i ^ driy^through
' weSK^tay m~sejb__$_i- Hos- ates from Eastern-Michigan ^i^f TOS^„i^:
pital as a medical patient.        University.   She   received   a «J ^Jf^v *&**$£
Elizabeth (Kim) Drake, 6, second BS d_gree (having ^.^f*4^htJ| *>:gr™*
daughter of Mr. and Mrs! earlier taken a BA at Michi- kying quarters when the city
LayVern Drake of Bridgewa- gan State University) in oc- requires a full-time fire deter, has been a patient at cupational therapy. She also partment.
University Hospital with mo- completed a h "affiliation" Bids on a new fire truck,
nonucleosis ""since February (internship) at the Ypsiianti recommended by city and
23. She expects to come home State Hospital and is now at township-officials after a
this week. '                               Hines  Veterans Hospital  in study of needs, will be opened
Mid Haswell has returned Chicago until May, when she at the regular Council meet-
to work after a week at home will   go   to  Honolulu for   a ing ori March 20,
with flu.                                     third  internship   during the Council  also  set a public
Medical patients at the Sa- summer.              .                   .• hearing date of March 27, on
line hospital this  week  are      Shortly after we got the proposed rezoning of Rolling
Paul Tally, of 203 W. Michi- letter, Kathie herself arrived Meadows No. 6, from the pre-
gan;  Maurice Henderson, of in this area . . . but not for sent R-l-A (which was auto-
412 N. Ann Arbor St.; Mrs. fun. She is a medical patient matic  upon   annexation)  to
Herman Finkbeiner, of 13651 for observation at St. Joseph R-l-C, which allows smaller
Lindsley Rd.;  Mrs. Amanda Mercy Hospital; her room is lots. In a portion of the sub-
Wiedmayer, of 11295 Roehm 448. Her mother, Mrs. Paul division, 15.6 acres, a change
Rd.;   Miss  Emma Bersuder, Reed, has been visiting the to R-3-A (townhouses) is re-
of the Riverside Convalescent Ed Fischers in Saline. quested.
from any Auxiliary member the program* chairman ait the
cees will welcome calls from or at the door; refreshments, 6:30 p__i. meeting of the Ki-
eligible newcomers to the games, and prizes are includ- wanis Club, Monday at Wal-
community. ed. ker's Bakery.
Oh, By the Way!
Review
Has Ti
A veteran Board of Review perty owners should attempt eral, or are appealing an in-
member this  week  supplied to  understand the  methods crease in 'Taxes' as is appli-
broke, but he suffered only
slight injuries. Ralph Baker,
48, of South Lyon, attributed his narrow escape to a
nearby rope which he was
able to seize to break his
fall. He was treated at Saline Community Hospital for.;
lacerations.
The two men, both employees of Harlan Electric Co., of
Detroit, were repairing parking lot lighting fixtures at
the Ford plant when the accident occurred, at 9 a.m.
Crocker, a licensed electri-
jan, was also the owner and
iperator of the Your Motel,
Hta'cated on E. Michigan Ave.,
in Ypsilanti.
He is survived by his wife,
Georgia; a soil, Robert of
Ypsilanti; two daughters,,.
Mrs. John Warner and Mrs.
James North, both of Ypsilanti; two grandchildren; and
several brothers and sisters.
Funeral services will be at
2 p.m. Friday at the Moore
Funeral Home, with burial
in Highland Cemetery in Ypsilanti.
So far,' three area bands
have enrolled in the Jaycee-
sponsored "Battle", to compete for the $100 which will
go to the local winner. The
top band here will also enter
the  state contest  in  Grand
Rapids  on April  29,  where      	
first prize will be $500 and '{{^s j~? taxpayers for better or system used by the City cable to them."
Kitty Todd  is  here from a bit homesick, her mother gan   University:   Eleanor a trip to Boston to enter the understanding of the assess- Assessor in determining and      "The Board of Review, in
_______   __ -._   _r reportSi   and   iS   talking of Wild visited Heidi and Wen- national event. ment SyStem and the func-  computing  'Assessed Valua- my interpretation of the City
coming back to Saline, may- dy; Edith Wolfinger went to      The area sponsored by Sa- tion of the Board of Review,  tion' for tax purposes --' to Charter  and applicable   city
be in August. • '      see Linda; Woodie Merchant line Jaycees includes Ann Ar- know what 'State Equalized ordinances, has  the respon-
*     *     * stayed with Liz (and won se- bor,   Ypsilanti,   Milan,   Man-      Douglas Milhan, now in his Valuation'   represents '--   to sibility to hear appeals,  ei-
Among Salinians who have cond prize in a mothers' dan- Chester, Clinton, "and areas third term of service on the lmow what part the 'County ther written or in person; to
returned safely (and probab- cing contest by doing the between". Two of the bands board, answered some of the Equalization" Cortmittee or determine and decide (to the
ly regretfully) from Florida Charleston); and Peg Flook now entered are from Sahne; questions most frequently Boar(i> piayS jn the City As- best of their ability and in-
are Mr. and Mrs. Lyle Phil- visited Ann. Betty Washburn one is from Ypsilanti. asked   by   property   owners.  sessor's determination of As- formation "presented)   that
and her daughter, Sue, turn-      Entry blanks are available He pointed out that tax rolls sessed Valuation for proper- all property owners  are as-
ed things around .  .  .  Sue at music stores in Ann Arbor will be open-for inspection at t   in the Qty/> sessed on a fair and equal
  and Ypsilanti; Salinians may City Hall all next week; the      (<I   ]_eiieve   that   property basis to^assure that each pro-
call __ James Mullin, chairman, Board of Review hearings be- ovraers  who   ^   concerned, perty  owner  is  paying  his
_     *     _                .   429-7795,   or  Robert Biigg- gin on Monday, March 20.       or who have ^y questions fair and proportionate share
This should be THE word ^, 429-5025, J ayceesm      ™ «_^_    .-_.«__. ■_. .   .-        _.
on the last snow ... it comes  charge. Combos whose man-
bers  are age 12 to    under
20" are eligible.
The deadline for entries is
Wednesday, March 15.
Judges will be Bob Bart-
lett, newscaster on WPAG:
"Miss Saline of 1967", Karol
Engel; and one more yet to
Chicago for a couple of
weeks with her parents, the
Robert Todds, to rest and recuperate from an infection
that hospitalized her several
pressed skull fracture in the weeks ago.
fall. *
Another -workman,   irt   a      Kathy  Burkhart   is   now
companion bucket, was also working for an orthodontist lips.
dunmed out when the chain m Long Beach, Calif.,  days —    _,_ ...   — _ _
and going to school nights,      Saline was well represent- came home instead, -because.and Ypsilanti; Sahmans_may City Halljill next week; the
with a view to becoming a ed at a mother and daughter it was her birthday. """""" "'   "     1"r-11-     -1— ""      J   """ ' ~
dental technician. But she's weekend at Western Michi-
from Lydia Volz, who was
unanimously elected (by us)
as Saline's official weather
prophet last year, when she
predicated the first snow . . .
within a wink of the right
time and won all sorts of
prizes in our First Snow Con- , „v._._Qr>
test. Now, in our unofficial De-_^_0_le"
'Last Snow Contest", Lydia
Dance tickets, at $1 a per-
,       ,.,,..     .,. , son. will be available at the
has decided^ will happen on ^ ^  ^ ^  of  the
Easter Sunday, March 26.
She. says, "I remember a heavy* snow on an Easter Sunday morning in April, way
back when."
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dance.
CIVIC PROBLEMS STTJDIED —i Probleins affecting every-day operation of city goven_m_nt were under
study for two days this weelt dufing; the ______ legislative
conference of the Michigan MunicipaL_L£§p.e in Lan-
sing. In discussion here a«f=ti___ to right)?W. -Robert.
Semple, city -manager; Samuel R. Bass, councilman;.
Rep. Roy Smith (R); and Susaifc H. Sayre, mayor; all of
Ypsilanti; and Sen.. Gilbert" Bttrsley (R), Ann Arbor,
and Hugh Keveling, councilman, S_4i4cL
FAIR BOARD TO MEET
Saline Community Fair
Board will meet at 8:30 p.m.
Crystal Mapes, 19, of Port  Monday, in the High School
St. Joe, Fla., is visiting her"ag room-  .
sister, Mrs. Robert Beauchamp, here. Crystal recently spent four months in'Mex-
ico with her father and is
now awaiting acceptance to
-Sacred Heart College in Pen-
C-C MEET SET
The Chamber of Commercf
will nieet at 8:30 a.m. Tuesday at the Saline Savings.
Bank community room,  to
sacola. She hopes to become Hear a report f rom the nom-
_m X-ray technician. gating  eomprittee.
His   suggestions   and rec- regarding- their current 'As- of tax revenues required to
ommendations follow: sessed Valuation' should ~ if operate the local and county
"I believe that ^more pro- n£)t during the year, at the governments ~ as determined
*     * .     time   the   assessments   rolls by the 'Assessed Valuation'
are open for public inspec- of the properties involved."
tion - visit the City Hall to "For those property own-
question,' determine, and un- ers who plan to appeal their
derstand how their assessed 'Assessed Vajuation' to the
valuation was established by Board of Review, I would
the Assessor."^ • recommend that you do,e_-
,    "They  should ask:   What;'ther or all of the following:
portion of the total assessed If possible, put your appeal
valuation is  represented by     in writing,
real estate? What is the com- Document your arguments
parison with other - like   or     whenever possible,
equal properties? What was Identify all possible compar-
the method used in comput-      isons  with- other  like   or
ing and grading the proper-      equal properties and their
ty?   and  What   appreciation      'Assessed Valuation'."
vand/or   depreciation   factors     Milhan   added:    "I  would
were, used?" like to point out that these
"With respect to the func- views and recommendations
tion and responsibility of the are my own personal • opin-
Boarci of Review, it is my ions, and do not necessarily
personal opinion that many reflect the opinions or con-
property owners who have .currence • of the other mem-
previously' appealed their bers of the Board of Review
'Assessed Valuation! are r^al- or of any member of the city
ly appealing "faxes' in gen- government."
^,\/*>DELHAN
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