1967-05-31; Saline Reporter

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jVOLUME 18, NUMBER 38 - WEDNESDAY, MAY 31, 1967
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iStocir Fortunate Foliage:
Up for Discussion
A zoning change for Rolling Meadows #6 will be removed from the table for discussion at the June 5 regular meeting of City Council.
The developers have asked
for a change from R-l-A, under which the land was annexed, to R-l-C for most of
the area, and R-3-A for the
remainder. The latter allows
for "condominiums", attached houses owned by the occupants.
Other Rolling Meadows residents, in a public hearing
on the zoning early in May,
expressed concern as to an
increase in traffic, they felt
would come from "town-
houses" and asked how they
could be sure that the properties would be maintained.
Concerning maintenance,
City Attorney Allan Grossman advised Council that it
is covered in the "Michigan
Horizontal Real Property
Act", which provides that the
developer must obtain a permit from the State before
selling any apartment in a
condominium project; and
that the owner of each apartment is required by law to
contribute to the expenses of
administration and maintenance and repair; and if the
expenses are not paid, they
constitute a lien against the
unit.
The plat for Rolling Meadows #6 includes a park of
nearly 10 acres (for comparison, Curtiss Park, on the
east side of the river, is between three and four acres
in- size) and the extension of
arris St. from the railroad
tracks north.
(Harris St. won't he-a main.
™-aftery or "by-pass" route in
that section, City Administrator Mike Strait pointed
out, because the route to N.
Ann Arbor St. is not direct
— Harris to Wallace to Nichols to Tower to N. Ann Arbor — and strangers wouldn't find their way. "In fact,
I can't find my way up there
myself, sometimes," said
Mike.)
List all the advantages you can think of for shopping in Saline ..?.. and then
add one more: scenery. Marilyn Sibson found her spring day brightened by lilacs in bloom, right on the main drag, and she cut some to take homeiOf counse,
you have to look around . . . but Saline not only provides beauty to look at but
benches to sit on while you look at it. The fact that -Marilyn plugs Saline, and.
the fact that her husband, Paul, just HAPPENS to he president of the Chamber
of Commerce, are purely coincidental. f _
To Get Report
On Ambulances
The ways and means committee of the county Board
of Supervisors, at a meeting
set tentatively for June 7,
will hear a report on estimated cost of subsidizing a
professional ambulance service . . . about $75,000 a year.
Almost all funeral directors in Washtenaw County
and neighboring areas have
indicated they will discontinue ambulance service a-
round October 1, since new
and, pending legislation has
made it economically unfeasible for small concerns to operate ambulances.
The imminent county-wide
lack of ambulances triggered
a series of meetings of concerned officials with representatives of at least two professional ambulance firms.
Representatives of one of
these, Superior Ambulance
Service of Wyandotte, met
last week with County Ad-
ministrator Theodore
Strunck: Saline Supervisor
Robert Harrison, who is also chairman of the ways and
means committee: Sheriff
Douglas Harvey, whose de^
partment is most frequently
called on for ambulance service; and members of the
Supervisors' sheriff's com-
mittee.
Superior, which serves a
number of Wayne County
communities by contract, reported that there survey here
indicated that at least five
ambulances would be needed
in Washtenaw County, based
on volume of traffic and population figures. The total cost
would he about $300,000 a
year, they indicated. Most of
this would be paid by patients who used the ambulances;  the uncollected bills
would, be reimbursed by the k™.™.^ Trt meet
county, about $75,000 a year. KIWAJVIAINh xo JHJ_._i.A
Also under consideration     jim Riviera will be pro
is the possibility of backing
Representative Visits Saline/
Studies Population Growth
A six-hour visit by a Blue  construction   and   increased     As an acute care facility,
Cross representative here, on valuation. "the only thing we could do
Friday, may help to break the When Smith visited the Sa- by expanding would be to cut
• T.OCC- twiiac MnniroH <*p ^ne hospital, the medical- costs per patient day, said
impasse that has blocked Sa- su   ical Fwin'   was   full_   in_ Strawbridge. "National and
line Community Hospital's dmling one bed in the hall state figures show that the
needed expansion since 1963. On the day before his arriv- larger the hospital, the great-
Expansion plans, begun in al, there had -been four beds er its percentage of occupan-
1962 and torpedoed in 1963 in the hall. 9* and efficiency. But a na-
by the Greater Detroit Area Smith "showed a great ^"l1*^ slTf- ** a 50:
Hospital Council, would in- deal of interest and seemed t0J5;hld hospital is the most
crease the. Saline. hospital's very sympathetic", Straw- efficient, in most categories
medical-surgical wing from bridge .said. "He will confer topping even the larger hos-
26 .to 50 beds. Eventual need with the Blue Cross hospital P"als. ^	
for "70 or 80" beds is fore- affairs director . . . but he in-
seen   by   John   Strawbridge, cheated   that   their   greatest -pryr. AT)V _PIVit'Ql
hospital administrator . problem is that if they go liU±i\liI   ^IVllO,*-
The appeal to Blue Cross against  the recommendation (PrnA
is Saline hospital's last ave-  of the planning group   (the
nue of approach to expansion GDAHC) here, it,woiild. set _t QM^^fW'S?. -"<"
without (jeopardizing its Blue precedent throughout the ^X^:.:.j_C_{^_jAfcQZ>^-~
Cross   participation.   The state."               *                    ' ^'Ii,.j Rioa^eiub^of Saline
Greater Detroit Area Hospi-      A similar precedent is-4al-.^thiS" week  voted  to   donate
tal Council has no authority tering  on  a nationafscale, $500  toward the cost  of  a
to  forbid  expansion   of  any however. In the past, approv- permanent shelter which the
hospital . . . but, in practice,. al  of the regional  planning Jaycees plan to construct at
Blue  Cross  certification is  group   (if one exists in the Curtiss Park, as part of their
virtually never granted with- area)   has  been required  to continuing park-improvement
out the Council's approval.      obtain   federal   funds  under project.
Saline's hospital has been the Hill-Burton Act for hos- The 25 by 60 foot^.epment
certified by Blue Cross since pital expansion.  This, policy slab   shelter  is   expected   to
it opened and could not op- has recently been waived to cost  about  $700. It will be
erate economically if the cer- the extent that an-appeal can made  of  rough   cut lumber
tification were lost.                  be m^de.  (The Saline hospi- with a wood shake roof for a
.'/Repeated, efforts  to  gain tal board has not applied for rustic appearance.-In"making
GDAHC approval for expan- federal funds; Strawbridge their plans, Jaycees reviewed
' "sioh have failed; Last' sum- cited the Hill-Burton Act on- park plans drawn by Univer-
mer,  two GDAHC represen- ly as an example of changing sity of Michigan architectur-
tatives   toured  Saline   Com- policy, he said.) al students, in a Jaycee-spon-
munity Hospital and the Sa-      The Greater Detroit Area sored contest about two years
line  area  and  then  decreed Hospital  Council makes n o ago.
•that: ' decision on extended care The shelter will be erected
"The Saline hospital could beds. If the Sahne hospital on the west side of the river,
close its maternity wing and became an extended care un- according to Jim Ford, Jay-
use that space for medical- it, it could expand by any cee president. The club also
surgical patients." (All of the amount without imperiling plans to build a footbridge
eight maternity beds were in its' Blue Cross certification, across the river this summer,
use here today.) ! I ' '
•''The hospital could become ■•■
'a   'nursing  hpm'e'   affiliated   |T
"'"\viffi"St.' Joseph*jfer<^'Hbs-'~l
pital."   (The median  age  of
' A spiffy new look has come is ^oTunder 30.)C°mmUni * \JZ\\VZXZ&    &t    MOU^fltOil
to The Saline Reporter ; "No more hospital space is     •■-•■•
both on the front page ^and tv-"and WaShtenaW ^T"- .&™ temporary classrooms 18 rooms for ^ades five and
inside pages, too) and on the ^"No hospital smaller £han arrived this week at Hough- ^S'tS^mSt5^
front of the building. '200 beds should exist by the ton School, to be set into ce- mentary schoolg ^m be r'_
■:'*rie colonial^styles t o.r e 7^ 1980/' +     ,,.• ment piers-that were poured lieved.
frSnt. is-alhiost complete, lin| ^^JSty^o-sbi^I ^^ ' L     "   '" ;    : "  '' ' Burgeoning population "has
lackihg'fonly a few dressy de- E^^ELl* on   all   four      The four classrooms, com- forced use of such temporary
tans. £,•- ■-. ■5fi.a82£?™ipft^
Saline Reporter ._
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Pages and Shop
counts: they appealed.direct
ion tile front page and all ly to Blue Cross
haodate- approximately' 12 0 country. Ann Arbor now=has
students; it has not been-de- 42 in use and is considering
sition of a Fairchild Scania- Hi., hospital for 12'years,- ar-
Hintz said.
High School.
They are* equipped with     Their use is  considerably
Graver. Since it is no longer-rived Friday for a six-hour ....   -- -.   --■    ,   .. ■.    ,   „ „_,_,„„„-;„ +>,_,„ m..h.„P
necessary  to  send  pictures inspection tour ofthe afe£.. ^f?0^'^ ^°7\!fnd £rls> S'^T^_SfmT?X
out of town to be engraved,   • Besides the hospital'itself,- f*f™ h?at,^nS f°u£ *Zni T.^t^o.nted ou_ Ad
Sw^eSSvee^K: SF2ffl£S^^ l^'T^r^^t
^^S^-A  £f. ^^J°a* .. YS'fc-Ta* here-for at least two classrooms would cost an es-
penirig" and "reading''/From -this .area to the Ann, AJb&r   -  -- _   . d &9Qm whereas the
now on, you'll get today's pic- hospitals and discussed traf- J*9T?. Jf™aps 1„   ... _™. t_>mnn.pr.P. ran be leased for
tures today.
-. .       ui v. '*£.—_.£," the'new high school is con- temporaries can be leased for
fie problems-cm the route, ^^ ,^g ^ ^  ^ tm^yegrs-fot about $25i000>
.Thus, through improved pointed-out ^ushrooming ^ u h purchased for about $50,
picture    coverage,    Reporter  subdivisions; noted-the Ford ^. „. !1tA s._,m.™  >,,•„>..   t>,0 non
subscribers will find; they're plant and the Hoover plants;  1™^^™°^^ Te     furniture for the ter
getting a new look at Saline,  and provided figures on new, ^^^0  provide  about aries has been ordered.
"Prognosis guarded" is about all yon can get out of "Doc" Hubert Beach,
concerning his gigantic patient, the elm tree at Curtiss Park. The treej which!
state records show to be the second largest elm in Michigan, was afflicted „with
Dutch elm disease last year and was given np for lost when Beach ^Jlop^tt to.
the rescue -with a strange medication, previously tried" in other areas with reported success. He installed a funnel and poured turpentine into the tree,-as.
much as it would swallow.
The unusual treatment achieved, if not a cure, at least a remission . . i the
tree leafed out (here and there) this spring. Its future is stall in doubt. Pruning    »
would help, Beach believes . . . but he's not a tree surgeon and has no priming
equipment. •" ,
PACK 474 PLANS   - FLAGS.CAN BE BROUGHT'
PINEWOOD'DERBY Flags beyond repair'may
™SS£SS&S™S *»» chairmah at the 6:30     Cub Scout Pack 474 will J™ ^g^ X__?s55
^hXS-SSSo^ p.m. dinner meeting of the hold its annual Pinewood p.m.  d^y>  for the formal
ated by Superior and" based Kiwanis Club of Saline, at Derby at a picnic at 1 p.m. flag burning ceremony on
at Willow Run. Walker's Bakery, Monday.-     Sunday, at Curtiss Park. Sunday, June 11.
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Locol youngsters, who got to school^'before;th& "school" arrived, stayed to"-
watch installation of the new portable classrooms, at the Honghtotf School. Noel -
Bassett, of Ann Arbor, guest of Kevin and Ned Kraushaar, andXon Sibson, were
as impressed as any boys can ever be when you're talking about school"on a.
spring day. "• '-     .
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