1967-03-29; Saline Reporter

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The Saline Reporter
VOLUME 18, NUMBER 29 ~ Wednesday, March 29, 1967
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PASSES
Board of Review
Has No Objection
To App
The city Board of Review
"has no objection" to the
employment of a professional appraisal firm, it indicated this week in a resolution
approved by all three of its
members. But two conditions
were attached.
The Board completed its
deliberations Friday on 48
appeals and adjourned until
the assessment rolls have
been totalled and reported to
the county; it will then meet
to sign a certificate of completion.
A petition signed by 30 Sahne taxpayers drew answering resolutions, .unanimously
adopted. The petition sought
an investigation of assessment methods in the city and
suggested employment of an
independent appraiser.
Said one resolution of the
Board: "... in reviewing and
approving the assessment
roll, (the Board of Review)
is thereby investigating the
methods and practices of the
city assessor; it deems no
further investigation necessary."
The other resolution reads:
"... . the Board of Review has
no objection to the employment of an independent appraisal firm to appraise all
real and personal property
in the City of Saline under
the-following conditions:
"1. that the City Council feels
Jit the people of the City
, Saline desire such an ap-
hysal and would benefit
'" •"therefrom, and
"2. that the City Council has
sufficient funds to pay for
such an appraisal."
Cost of such an appraisal
was estmiated by City Administrator Mike Strait at
"ibetween $10,000 and $15,-
000".
The Board of Review, however, is legally the final authority on all city assessments; it would not be bound
by the  results   of  such  an
C'est la Guerre:
Doctors Move —
And Move Again
As direct and indirect results of the war in Vietnam,
half the doctors in town this
week were moving or about
to move . . . either their
homes or their offices.
Dr. Ray Clark, who has
been in El Paso, Tex., with
the Army for a year, was at
home on leave to move his
family to a new home at 133
Nichols Dr. He is to be in
San Francisco by April 10
to take ship for Vietnam..
Dr. Clark, who was a resident at St.. Joseph Mercy
Hospital until he was drafted
last year, formerly lived on
Knollwood Ct. His .wife, Mary
Ann, and three children will
live-here while he is gone.
Dr. Glenn Groustra, who
has been living at 300 E.
Henry St. since last September, is seeking another home
for himself and his wife and
three children . . . because
Dr. Eugene Garrison, owner
of the house, is returning
from the service.
Dr. Groustra is a psychiatric resident at Ypsilanti
State Hospital; he was formerly in general practice in
South Haven for six years.
Dr. Garrison left last August for service in the U.S.
Navy; he and his wife, Ruth,
and three children, have been
in Brunswick, Ga. He has re-
i^'lved  a medical discharge,
y.^ppects final release papers
^\>mentarily, and will return
to Saline at once. He hopes
to resume his general practice here about April 15.
Dr. Wilbur Vander Yacht,
obstetrician and gynecologist,
heed not move his home, but
he will move his office, since
• his practice is now located in
the Davenport St. office that
Dr. Garrison will occupy.
In about mid-April, Dr.
Vander Yacht will move his
office to 104 W. Michigan
Ave.
appraisal, hor is it bound by
the appraisals of the present
assessor.
City Assessor Robert Harrison, "after receiving additional information from taxpayers at the Board hearings
or by-letter", had recommended reduction of 27, more
than half of those appealed.
The Board followed the recommendation in most of the
27. It also made. 13 other adjustments, 10 downward and
three upward, all on real property. The number of adjustments made last year was
approximately the same as
this year's, Harrison said.
Douglas Milhan is chairman of the Board of Review.
The other members are Jack
Craigmile and Mrs. William
Reppenhagen.
Ford Plant Layoffs
Continue to Rise
An additional 15 Ford
plant employees will be laid
off-at the end of the last
shift on Friday, bringing total layoffs here to 105.
Layoffs in the other Ford
plants in the area are expected to rise in comparable or
larger numbers. Most are also
on a short work-week, the result of cutbacks throughout
the' auto industry. The Saline
plant has maintained partial
operations on Fridays, but
about 700 of its employees
are affected by the short
work-week.
Layoffs at the Rawsonville,
Ypsilanti, and Plymouth
plants last week passed 700
and were expected to increase
at the end of this week. The
idled employees are those
with the lowest seniority.
Swimming Pool Proposal
ails by Small Margin
In a heavy turn-out that natatorium by a fairly slim
kept election officials stead- margin, only 65 votes.
ily busy throughout the day,
Saline School District voters
Monday approved a bond issue for a new high school.
They rejected  a  proposed
With 1,128 persons voting,
including nine absentee ballots, the $6,319,000 bond issue for the school was passed by 612 to 505. The $580,-
iren s.L'
Photos Slated
The Reporter's ever-pc-pu-
lar series of children's photos, pictures of the handsomest youngsters in the country, is coming up again.
An expert children's photographer with all the necessary equipment for this specialized work will be here on
Thursday, April 13. Pictures
will be taken at Still.Hotel
from 10-a.m. to 6 p.m.
There is ho charge to the
parents. Parents do not have
to be subscribers,, or even
readers, of this newspaper to
take advantage of this fea<
ture. Nor are they obligated
to purchase pictures aftei:
thev are taken.
Those who want additional
prints may obtain a limited
number by arrangement with
the studio representative
when they select the pose
they want printed in the paper. It is entirely up to them.
The Reporter simply wants
pictures of all the youngsters
and the more, the better. Appointments may be made by
calling Mrs. Jerry Losee, at
429-7602, in Saline.
TRAIN BELL FINDS NEW HOME: A chapel hell
is presented to Chaplain (Maj.) David McPeake and
Group Chaplain (Maj.) Ocie Courtney for installation irt
the steeple of the 500th Transportation. Group Chapel:
Making the presentation is Chaplain (LtC) Leonard Paz-
nonskas^and Chaplain (LtC) Walter Vrudny, Support -
Command Chaplains of Cam Ranh Bay. Although the
bell, originally from a locomotive, has passed through
many hands since it was brought into the busy port of
Cam Ranh, combat conditions have prevented its finding a chapel home until this time.
The chapel, with seating capacity of 125, was begun
in January, 1967, shortly after the 500th Transportation
Group arrived in Vietnam. Men from the 57th and 36th
Transportation Battalions erected and landscaped the
chapel through a self-help program. The interior of the
chapel has been so designed that the temporary canvas
could be replaced by permanent materials in keeping^ ^
with the growth-of Cam'Banh Bay.
The hell sounds church call before each Protestant
and Catholic service. The chapel and hell located on a
main highway in Cam Ranh, serves as an inspiration
aiid reminder of worship to all who pass that way.
Maj. McPeake is brother of Jerry McPeake, Saliine.
PARENTS' MEETINGS SET
Officers will be elected and
plans for the annual School
Carnival will be completed at
a meeting of the Elementary
School Parents Association,
at 8 p.m. Monday, April 10,
at Jensen School.
The Junior High Parents
Association will hold "a business meeting at 8 p.m. Tuesday, at the school.
Expect Light Vote
In Monday Election
An extremely light vote is
predicted for Monday's special election, to select a Probate Judge to fill a vacancy.
No absentee ballot applications have been taken out,
either in the City of Saline
or in surrounding townships,
even though Saline Township
also has a utility franchise
election on the same day.
Little interest has been
shown by township residents
in either election, Township
Clerk Eleanor Ross reported.
DEPARTMENT CALLED
Saline Fire Department
was called out at 2 p.m. Wednesday to fight an extensive
grass fire on the edge of the
US-23 expressway, between
Bemis Rd. and US-12. The
local trucks were out for
about half an hour.
Clinton Man Jailed
On Check Charge
Clyde Leroy Burleson, of
Clinton, was remanded to the
County Jail after he waived
examination Tuesday on a
charge of issuing a no-
account check. Burleson was
bound over to Circuit Court,
to appeal on April 7.
The examination Tuesday
in Municipal Court concerned
a check for $20 which was
cashed at a service station
in Saline. Police said a bench
warrant was issued after
Burleson was released on bail
and failed to appear in Circuit Court on March 24 on an
earlier   no-account   check
Polling Meadows Residents
Fight Townhouse Zoning
More than 50 residents of
Rolling Meadows subdivision
overflowed the meeting room,
at the old City Hall, Monday
night, to fight a zoning
change that would allow
townhouses in their subdivision.
The developer had asked
for a change from the present R-l-A (single family)
zoning to R-3-A (townhouses) on 15.6 acres in his plat
for Rolling Meadows #6. The
remainder of the plat was
slated for R-l-C, single family dwellings but with slightly smaller lots than those in
R-l-A.
The plat also shows a park
of about nine acres, and contains, the extension for Harris St. north ' from the railroad tracks.
Residents of Harper, Tower, and Nichols drives cited
their objections in a petition,
carrying 216 signatures. It
reads: "We object to multiple-family dwellings on this
property for the following
reasons: We purchased
homes in this area of Saline
in reliance upon the present
zoning, which is single-family; the increase, in density
will increase health and safety hazards; the erection of
multiple-family dwellings is
not being consistant with the
SMORGASBORD
SET NEXT WEEK
AT ST. PAUL'S
A mouth-watering menu is
listed by members of the St.
Paul Women's Fellowship for
their smorgasbord on Wednesday, April 5. The public
is invited.
Serving will begin at 5
p.m.: chicken pie, ham, meat
balls, tongue, scalloped potatoes, potato salad, German
potato salad, sauerkraut, many other salads and vegetables, rolls and butter> pie
and cake, and coffee, tea, or
milk.
Tickets, $2 for adults and
$1 for children under 12, are
available from the ticket
chairman or'. . . for the convenience of shoppers ... at
the Saline Savings Bank, the
Citizens Bank, Wight Cleaners, and Estes Rexall Pharmacy.
Mrs. Ruben Finkbeiner is
general chairman.
Thieves Break
Into Market,
Get $550
Thieves who broke into
Vescio's Country Market here
through the roof. Saturday,
got away with $550 in cash
and some merchandise.
Police believe the theft
took place between 9:30 p.m.
Saturday and 7:30 a.m. Sunday. It was discovered by a
Saline officer, who found a
door open in a routine check
at 6:30 p.m. Sunday. But a
previous check, at 4:30 in
the morning, had shown all
doors closed and locked, so
that the intruders must have
made their exit after that
time.
Entry was gained through
a vent in the roof, police
said. It is believed that at
least- - two^persoris«*were«» a**-*-'
volved; they ransacked the
store's office and broke open
a strong-box to obtain the
cash. A number of hams and
cartons of cigarettes were also taken, but inventory has
not been completed.
Almost anything can happen in a newspaper office.
But some happenings are better than others.
One of the best and most breath-taking was a visit
and brief private concert Tuesday by Ronald Thomas
Scollon, classical guitarist, owner of Estudio de la- Gui-
tarra of Detroit, and student for 2y2 years of Ramon
Dona Dio of Mexico.
A friend of Band Director Dave Wolter, Scollon
played Tuesday in all the Spanish classes at the High
School, and in other quick sessions here and there, so
that most of the band members had an opportunity to
hear him . . . and so did The Reporter staff. In our office, all of the machinery was shut down and, by a small
miracle, even the phones stopped ringing in deference
to fine music.
"""^•Scolloh's "guitar^ a JStfjierh. instrument valued" at
$1,000, was played recently By Segovia, wlien tne latter
was in Ann Arbor. Segovia approved it heartily. Scollon,
who practiced 10 hours a day when he was studying in
Mexico, still does so for at least eight hours each day,
even though he teaches at his studio and gives numerous performances.
ALL AROUND SALINE
BAKE SALE
A bake sale will be sponsored 'by the Altar Society of
St. Andrew's Church, from
9 a.m. to 12 noon, Saturday,
April 8, at Wight Cleaners.
Construction workers were
pouring foundations while
wreckers were still demolishing buildings -at the other
end of the same lot, at the
corner of Harris St. and E.
Michigan Ave., where the new
Marathon station is going in.
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Whether or not Saline is
over-organized, we're thinking of starting a club that
will never lack members. It
will be the TGTOOMTEW
Club ... initials stand for
"Thank goodness there's only
one Monday in each week!"
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Mrs. Roy Rogers and Mrs.
Louise Cotton were Easter
Sunday dinner guests at the
home of Mrs. Rogers' son and
family, the Paul Rogerses of
Ann Arbor. Also guests were
the Randall Coates family of
Flushing, Mich. In the afternoon they visited Mrs. Rog-
present type of dwellings in
the surrounding area."
Townhouses are one-unit
homes which share one common-wall. The 15.6 acres
proposed for them in Rolling
Meadows would house a maximum of 150 families ("in
theory," said City Administrator .Mike Strait, "but only
if the lay-out were absolutely perfect. Actually, it would
probably work out to less.")
In the lengthy and sometimes heated meeting Monday, residents said they were
particularly concerned, about
additional traffic and "guarantees that there would be
good maintenance on th>e
townhouses".
Council tabled the zoning
request pending a study of
traffic patterns and discussion of maintenance.
In other zoning action, ja.
variance on the size of two
MEHA houses was allowed
Although they are in an R-l-
A. area, both are one-bedroom
houses, each intended for occupancy of only one person,
and- each slightly smaller in
floor space than that required by R-l-A. Both lots fulfill R-l-A requirements. ■
Larry Carr (at the -right,
above)-, son o^ the Hollis
Carrs, is now a graduate
student in research at the
Institute of Biology and Medicine at Michigan State University, working with Dr.
Kenneth E. Moore and another student on the analysis
of chemicals extracted from
the brains of animals. He and
his wife, Jeanne, both of
whom graduated from Saline
High in 1960, 'are living hi
Spartan Village in East Lansing, while he works on his
doctorate- in pharmacology
and she is working in the
poultry department at MSU.
ers' husband, a patient at St.
Joseph Mercy Hospital.
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Weekend guests of Mr. and
Mrs. Andrew H. Andres were
their son and family, Mr.
and Mrs. LaVern Andres and
children, of Traverse City.
Guests of the Andreses for
dinner on Easter Sunday included their daughter and
family, the William Galligans
of Freeland; Mr. and Mrs.
Ray Andres and Kevin, of
Paw Paw; and Mr. and Mrs.
Melvin Hartman and their
son, David Fritz, of Saline.
The Ray Andreses were the
weekend guests at the Hartman home.
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Mrs. Amanda Meddaugh,
Ellsworth Koebbe and his
son, Ricky, went to Pellston
Friday night where they have
cabins . . . they planned to
stay a week but changed
their minds. They couldn't
even get in to hers, but "finally reached his. Amanda
reports: "Snow was up to
the window sills. The main
roads are all clear, but some
of the side roads haven't been
cleaned out. No wonder the
deer are starving; they couldn't get around. If you tried
to walk, you sank to your
knees.. So we came home. We
had had word from up there
. . . the lady wrote and said,
'Don't come up.' She said
there was six or seven feet
of snow, but we couldn't
hardly believe it. Bud (Ellsworth) said he'd been u p
there" a lot and never saw it
like this!"
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Every year, the guests at
the OES White Breakfast inadvertently provide our staff
with an impromptu fashion
show, as they troop upstairs
to the hall across the street.
But this year, somehow, the
hats seemed less spectacular,
less gay . . . more conservative. Of course, the weather
was bad, which may have
dimmed our outlook . . .or it
may have restricted the gals
to their winter hats while-
saving the new bonnets for
Easter.
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Bob Heiserman, has completed 25 years at the King-
Seeley Division, Ann Arbor
... he first worked in the
tin shop on nights, then transferred to maintenance, then
time-of-flight clocks and airspeed indicators during
World War H. Since 1944, he
has worked on die repair in
the tool room. Born in northern Wisconsin, he graduated
from high school in Iron
Mountain, Mich., and then
worked in the experimental
lab at U-M before going to
King-Seeley. His hobbies include cutting and polishing
stones, working on clocks,
bridge, and most sports. The
Heisermans live at 215 Russell St.
000 for the swimming pool
and attendant facilities went
down 589 to 524.
The Board of Education
will meet tpnight to launch
bonding procedures and architect's plans for the school,
which is to be located on the
school-owned property behind
the present High School. The
present building will then ber
come a junior high school.
The new school, planned to
accommodate 1,200 students,
with "core facilities" (library, gym, etc.) for 1,500, can
be ready for use by September of 1969, school officials
have said. Included in the
approved bond issue were
funds for administrative offices, to. be attached to the
new school.
The pool, if it had passed,
would also have been attached. But, said Ray Girbaeh,
president of the School
Board, "We can design this
school so that any time the
people want to build a pool
onto the high school, this can
be done without additional
design expense."
He added: "In my opinion,
the pool is not as necessary
as education; I'm glad the
school was approved. We can
still have a pool at a later
time."
"I'll be happier if we can
get the school built for less
than $20 a square foot," Girbaeh said. The $6,319,000 was
a high estimate, board members believed; it allowed for
about $24"a square foot The
new building will at least
double' all present facilities
and triple the vocational education area. It will include
61 teaching stations, as compared to the present 33.
Of the election results,
Mrs. Robert Merchant, chairman of the School Advisory
Council, said: "I'm glad! I
hope every young person in
the community will see this
as an expression of the community's faith in them and I
hope they will he wise enough
to use it to the very best advantage."
BOY SCOUTS SET PLANS
FOR SCRAP PAPER DRIVE
Saline Boy Scouts will conduct a scrap paper drive on
Saturday, April 8, and anyone "with' papers to donate
may call Harold West, 429-
9853, or Jack Moranville, 429-
5749, for piek-up.
Householders may also put
a few papers at the curb, on
that day, to indicate that
more paper is inside the
house. Boy Scouts will carry
it out.
Ypsilanti Savings & Loan
Association to Build
Branch Office Here
Ypsilanti Savings & Loan
Association, 77-year-old financial institution, will open
a Sahne office on E. Michigan Ave. "in the immediate
future".
The announcement today
came from Atwood R. Mc-
Andrew, Jr., managing officer and secretary-treasurer
of the Association.
The Association has purchased properties of Gerald
and Gari Wilde, at 179 E. Michigan, and Clyde and Helen
Griffin, at 181 E. Michigan,
as the site of the new office.
"The decision of the board
of directors of the Ypsilanti
Savings & Loan Association
to establish a Saline office
was based upon a comprehensive study and projection of
Saline's present economic situation and its growth potential," McAndrew said.
'We like Saline," he added.
"We like Saline because it is
an excellent community and
has a promising future."
In opening the Saline office, McAndrew said that the
Ypsilanti Savings & Loan
would be in a better position
to finance home building in'
the community and surround
ing area. "We plan to become
an integral part of the community, in giving the people
a  first-hand  opportunity to
participate in our thrift-savings   and investor   savings *
plans and  in  putting   their
money  to   work  in  helping^ v      >4
build   a   greater   Saline^'**     "-.
through home financing."
"We anticipate that the
site of the new office will be
cleared by the latter part of
May. We will initially offer
to sell the existing residential buildings now on the two
properties," McAndrews added.
Contemplated for the new
office is a 2,000 square foot
building- of early- American
design. The building will' be -»
on a setback from the sidewalk with landscaping in the
front.
The office building will include a drive-in window and
front and rear entrances to
enable pedestrian customers
to enter from tfie street. ,
There will be a parking lot
at the back of the4>uilding>
with the rear entrance making it convenient for them to
enter.
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